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But loneliness set in at home. In addition to coping with two deaths, Williams was apart from older brother Jordan and younger sister Natalie, both of whom left Florida to live with their father (Williams' stepfather) in Alabama.
"I had someone at home, but no one can replace your parents," Williams said. "No one puts in the same amount of effort."
In retrospect, Williams takes a share of the blame for his academic troubles.
"I could have done more myself," he said. "I didn't have anyone telling me every day to work out, but I still did."
As a sophomore, Williams again took all-state honors by placing ninth in the 100. But his junior year ended with a thud. Williams admits now he "was being more of a Terrell Owens," the brash, selfish former NFL wide receiver.
Moore cut Williams from the team, his first such move in 12 years of coaching. Moore, unsure how Williams would respond, called it the scariest moment of his career.
"It hurt," Williams said. "I was ticked off at him. I could've switched schools and ran, but it was time to be a team player."
Moore's next contact with Williams came via text message in December. It read, "Merry Christmas. Just thinking about you and your family."
"I was glad he reached out," Moore said. "I read into his message that he had matured."
Moore welcomed Williams back to the track team this spring, though both agreed that past drama might make being a captain not an ideal fit. Williams understood.
"I always wanted to be a captain, but that doesn't mean you're a leader," Williams said. "All my life I was told I was a natural born leader."
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Those closest to him are seeing a difference in Williams this school year. Lisa Jensen, dean of Washburn students in the 10th and 12th grades, helped Williams get back on track academically. He spent two hours per day in her office making up school work.
Jensen remembered Williams as a freshman who "stood out as a student full of energy, warmth and life. I felt he had a bright future," she said, one "that's starting to come out again." Jensen wrote Williams a letter of recommendation to college, touting him as "one of the most trustworthy students I've ever known."
"He had everything taken from him," Jensen said. "The resiliency required for him to get to this point is phenomenal."
Looking ahead to Friday's graduation ceremony, Williams envisions both his mother and grandmother cheering when he receives his diploma. Catherine Williams was the first black probation office in Hennepin County and a community leader who enjoyed working with youth.
With four years' worth of lessons to draw from and opportunity ahead, Williams feels closer to finding his own path in life.
"As I get older I feel like I'm making better sense of everything." Williams said. "Life doesn't pity anybody. Life will care about you, but only if you care about yourself."


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I don't think methycel is the best. Most of the colors sink. Essentially you can only do one color marbling because the second usually sinks.
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I put in a rating for this but basically the paints do not spread well except for red which absolutely takes over and scrunches the other colors to nothing. I tried marbling with other materials and it is great fun. This kit gives an unfortunate misrepresentation to the art.
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The paints where very hard to squeeze to get any to come out. They did not work good at all. We luckily had acrylic paint we cut with water that worked a thousand times better.
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I bought this set as an easy way to start to learn marbling. Happily I used other materials first. I like methylcellulose
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Not very good for the money. Not exactly cheap and alot of stuffing around to get it set up. The red colour took over every time so we had to stop using it. Some colours kept sinking and others didn't. Out of about 12 pages of paper there is only 2 that really worked and look good the rest just look like water paint spilled all over the page.
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This is a fun kit. Read the directions!!!
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The kit is great for paper and fabric. Directions are easy to follow and I have been able to keep the marbling surface mixture over a week to use off and on.
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Sure wish I'd read the reviews before purchasing! Red was out of control!!! It went everywhere. Two of the colors worked fairly well the others sink. I know I can thin out the thick ones but how on earth do you fix the red???? Not a good producet at all! Very frustrating. Can anyone suggest better paints?
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paints were thicker and seemed older than other kits in my class like they had been on the shelf awhile. Another woman in my class had the same problem.
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The paints did not work as should. Black would not float other colors sank to bottom fairly quickly most would not diffuse out. I tried a friends Dharma marble paints and they worked much better.
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The S.E.M. Ensemble, led by Petr Kotik, will perform its annual concert at Paul Cooper Gallery on December 20 at 8PM. (Please note that the concert will take place at the upstairs space at 521 West 21, not in the ground floor gallery.) The program features a Vivaldi concerto, a premiere by Sam Hillner, a Xenakis violin piece and Petr Kotik's own Spheres and Attraction, with text by R. Buckminster Fuller – inventor, architect, engineer, mathematician, poet and cosmologist who said in 1980: "For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. Only ten years ago the 'more with less' technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.†This optimism matches that of philosopher and sociologist Herbert Marcuse, who, in his 1964 popular work One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society envisioned reduced work time and increased leisure for the industrial society in the future. And I guess at that time, things looked kind of good… little did either of them know of the negative effects of global economy.
EL: What is your interest in R. Buckminster Fuller, and how did this new piece of yours take shape?
PK: Towards the end of 1971, Julius Eastman became the core member of the S.E.M. Ensemble. I was composing a piece for the group, There Is Singularly Nothing and I was faced for the first time with the task of composing for voice (I have not stopped composing for the voice since). In 1971, it was very fashionable to use the voice without words as a coloring device. I hated that, so the first order of business was to find the text. I chose Gertrude Stein, and continued to work with Stein's texts until 1978. At that time I became more and more concerned with the text's content (my interest in Stein was mainly the form, the language, the rhythm, etc.) and since, at that time I practically read nothing other than Buckminster Fuller, the choice was a given. In 1981 Fuller visited Buffalo to give a commencement speech at the university. I attended the ceremony and was so impressed with the speech that I got the recording, transcribed it and sent it to Fuller with a request for permission to use it in my new piece. Fuller edited the text and sent it back with his permission. In fact, he gave me a blank permission to use any of his texts in any way I saw fit. Last summer, in thinking about our Christmas concert at the Paula Cooper Gallery, I came up with the idea to revive this old piece (The title of the 1981 composition is Commencement, for two voices, and it is about two and half hours long). Commencement was last performed in 1982, in Buffalo and NYC, and I have not seen the score since.
I remembered ideas from it but had long forgotten that they were a part of that particular text. After looking through Commencement, I decided to create a new piece by editing the already composed part for voices, and adding a string quartet and percussion. In my estimate the new composition, Spheres & Attraction will be about 1 hour long.
Why I am interested in Fuller's texts is a hard question to answer. It is difficult to justify or explain a decision based on intuition and other non-rational considerations. I could only say, without being presumptuous that, to some extent, Fuller's way of thinking corresponds to my own and his intellectual brilliance has always been a great source of inspiration for me. Fuller, without being a revolutionary, always based all his conclusions on his own thinking, paying no attention to the accepted conventions. His ideas have always been derived from his own experiences, rather than beliefs. This aspect of his approach, especially, corresponds to the way I proceed with my own way of looking at things (which may be the reason why, on occasion, some people get so irritated with me).
EL: You have presented a number of European and American women composers on your program with S.E.M. Can you summarize this experience?
PK: My programming is never done from an ideological or social point of view, and the inclusion of women composers has been based on the merit of the music, not on gender. It is true in our world that female artists are somewhat handicapped by gender. I myself find such handicaps in general not overly tragic, and in some way even beneficial. All my life I have been under one handicap or another, especially after arriving in the U.S. at the age of 27 without speaking English, without having any influential friends, or attending schools which would have given me access to environment of similarly interested people. My handicap itself meant working harder than my colleagues, which in turn resulted in my being more productive than some of them.
I have observed the same in the case of my wife, the curator Charlotta Kotik. So there are no absolute negatives or absolute positives.
There is another aspect that I would like to mention. It has to do with my own personal delight in proving conventional beliefs wrong (applying this attitude to my own person I can tell you that it also gives me great satisfaction to prove myself wrong). I like to present women composers who defy the conventional wisdom (or the conventional stupidity) of not being 'up to it'.
EL: I agree with you that programming should not be gender-based. In fact, I have sometimes had second thoughts about participating in a women-only program. But what I am doing here in Music Underground is evaluating whether women's music is given a fair share of programming. Many programs do not present women's music at all. Yours on the other hand has been supportive of women's music, and for the right reasons: not because they are women but because certain works interested you, regardless of gender. Do you plan to present any music by women in 2006?
PK: We have not yet fully finalized our upcoming season's program, but it is most likely that, among the composers we program in our season, there will be women composers as well. At the moment, we have plans for pieces by Maria de Alvear and Olga Neuwirth.
EL: What was your experience in Europe like in the past couple of years? Do you find that you can do more in Europe than in New York?
PK: We are living in this wretched time of rational thinking run amok. I sometimes find it depressing, losing much hope that I will ever live to see it changed. The situation in Europe is somewhat different than the one in New York. Each carries its own problems and difficulties. At the moment I can neither see myself living full time in Europe nor here in New York. Years ago, my friend Frederic Rzewski suggested that the best place for all of us would be to live in Iceland, to be as close to Europe as to the US, now I think Mongolia might be better.
EL: Lithuania might be the ticket. Frank Oteri had a wonderful production there last summer. Apparently the president himself is a music aficionado.
Following is a list of the pieces by women composers presented by S.E.M. Ensemble in the past few years.
1992-95 – Alison Knowles: Nivea Cream Piece; Anne Tardos: Among Men
1995-96 – Martha Mooke: Raindance, Winds of Arden, Off Limits, News, Dream Catcher, Wreckless; Pauline Oliveros: Pauline's Solo
1996-97 – Annea Lockwood: Shapeshifter; Maria de Alvear: World; Pauline Oliveros: From Unknown Silences
Marilys Ernst: Mirror/Wedding; Yoko Ono: Wall Piece for Orchestra, Sky Piece for Jesus Christ
1998-99 – Akemi Naito: An Island in the Moon; Anne Tardos/Jackson Mac Low: For Dick Higgins; Meiko Shiomi: Music for Disappearing Face
000-01 – Rain Worthington: January, Yet Still Night; E
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2002-03: Elisabeth-Claude J. de la Guerre: Triosonata in D Major, Triosonata in G Minor: Maria de Alvear: As Far As We Know; Sabrina Schroeder: Simple Machines; Olga Neuwirth: Locus…Dublure…Solus 2004-05 – Annea Lockwood: Luminesence: Olga Neuwirth: Anaptyxis


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Afghan warlord Hekmatyar has sent delegates to Kabul for more preliminary peace talks. But his Hizb-e-Islami group lacks teeth on the battlefield and is unlikely to sway more powerful insurgent factions, the Taliban and the Haqqani network.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai is holding peace talks with a top envoy from one of the three main insurgent groups, but analysts caution that any deal may not dramatically change the course of the war.
The group, Hizb-e-Islami, has made more overtures toward reconciling with the Afghan government than its allies, the Taliban and the Haqqani network, have. It has held occasional meetings with the Kabul government for at least the past few months.
But Hizb-e-Islami, whose forces are focused in northeastern Afghanistan, has also become the least active of the three on the battlefield. And the group's leader, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, has been fighting more for power than ideological reasons. These factors blunt the persuasion value of any peace settlement with Hizb-e-Islami on the other two factions fighting the Afghan government, the United States, and their allies.
"I don't think a peace deal would make a difference either on the insurgency or on peace in different areas of Afghanistan," says Waliullah Rahmani, head of the Kabul Center for Strategic Studies. "It's the Taliban who are the main drivers of insurgency in Afghanistan and they have some specific preconditions, and it is hard to contact them in a manner that the government is approaching Hizb-e-Islami."


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Twi: Hello Doctor, it's been quite along time.
10th Doctor: Yes it has. 140 years since we spoke.
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Originally an open air theater that was part of F.H. Merten's Photo-Play Theatres. Located on the corner of Jackson Avenue and Wilkonsen Avenue, this theater closed in the mid-1950's.
A picture post card can be found on page 111 of the Arcadia Publishing book "Jersey City".
It has been demolished and the site is now a parking lot.
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Listed in the 1944 and 1956 FDYs. No seat total in the 1956 FDY, which indicates that it might be closed by this time.
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Why a duck? The playwright goes to a lot of trouble to have several characters ask this very question. But instead of conjuring the inane silliness the Marx Brothers produced when they delivered this line, Berger's jokes are as forced and synthetic as his hero's invention. Duck elements, however, deviously work their way into a recurring motif. De Vaucanson's unique webbed toes are passed on to the next generation, for example.
Berger seems to be going for an effect akin to that of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia, an intelligent and delicately constructed play in which love, landscape architecture, and calculus are combined to reveal new ideas about history. At the end of Great Men, however, all we're left with is the ridiculous specter of a mechanical duck. Indeed this machine may be designed to eat and defecate on command, but it's not the real thing. The same can be said of Berger's overcalculated drama.


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"First gurka"
Okay, the templar reception was the very first gurka made cigar I ever had.
It came in a sampler and I looked forward to trying it as I read a lot about the brand being good.
I will say the taste was decent for the first third which was all I got because the darn thing split to the nub leaving an unsmokable mess.
Wrapper and binder both!
I later found a number of reviews from folks who had the same problem of the cigar basically exploding apart from about a third down to the nub.
Gurka needs to switch to machine made cigars in my opinion as the blends I have had several others in samplers I actually was able to smoke were decent tasting but nearly every other cigar had flaws making them either unsmokable or so bad in flavor I wanted to stop smoking them.
Bad burn, bad construction, but decent tobacco blends. Considering what I read about them they may have a skills gap once you get past the folks making the HMR line?
My opinion is they need a machine roller setup or stop making cigars in lower price ranges.
Try these if you must as they are not too bad tasting if you get the 2 out of 10 that are rolled properly. As for the rest I think leaves rolled in gasoline and newspaper was how I described my very last Gurka made cigar. I do not like writing a bad review as I love cigar smoking and we all have different tastes but I gave Gurka cigars a fair chance and found little value for the money spent.
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These suck as do many of the Ghukhas do. Who smokes these things and who sets Gurkhas MSRPs? Ridiculous!
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These suck as do many of the Ghukhas do. Who smokes these things and who sets Gurkhas MSRPs? Ridiculous!
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This has become my "everyday" cigar. Burns smooth and pleases the tongue down to the end.
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a friend of mine gave me my first gurkha i have been hooked ever since these templars are a great value and there is no skimping on quality if you are on a cigar allowance like me these are the best cigars for your money nice slow even burn with a taste that is out of this world enjoy
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Sensors 2011, 11(1), 1078-1087; doi:10.3390/s110101078
A Miniature Fiber Optic Refractive Index Sensor Built in a MEMS-Based Microchannel
Received: 23 December 2010 / Revised: 10 January 2011 / Accepted: 12 January 2011 / Published: 19 January 2011
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optical Resonant Microsensors)
Abstract: A small, highly sensitive, and electromagnetic interference (EMI)-immune refractive index (RI) sensor based on the Fabry-Perot (FP) interferometer is presented. The sensor's FP cavity was fabricated by aligning two metal-deposited, single-mode optical fiber endfaces inside a microchannel on a silicon chip. The mirrors on the fiber endfaces were made of thermal-deposited metal films, which provided the high finesse necessary to produce a highly sensitive sensor. Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) fabrication techniques, specifically photolithography and deep dry etching, were used to precisely control the profile and depth of the microchannel on the silicon chip with an accuracy of 2 μm. The RI change within the FP cavity was determined by demodulating the transmission spectrum phase shift. The sensitivity and finesse of the transmission spectrum were controlled by adjusting the cavity length and the thickness of the deposited metal. Our experimental results showed that the sensor's sensitivity was 665.90 nm/RIU (RI Unit), and the limit of detection was 6 × 10−6 RIU. Using MEMS fabrication techniques to fabricate these sensors could make high yield mass production a real possibility. Multiple sensors could be integrated on a single small silicon chip to simultaneously measure RI, temperature, and biomolecule targets.
Fabry-Perot; optical fiber sensor; refractive index; MEMS
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In response to a 75 percent cut in e-government funds for the current fiscal year, the White House is terminating the FedSpace social media network for federal employees and scaling back or stopping further improvements to other high-profile online programs, Federal CIO Vivek Kundra said.
Congress has reduced the E-Government Fund budget to $8 million for fiscal 2011 from $34 million the previous year. Therefore, the Obama administration has decided it will continue operating transparency websites — including USAspending.gov, Data.gov, Performance.gov and the IT Dashboard — but will not make further improvements or developments, Kundra wrote in a May 24 letter to Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee's Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services and International Security Subcommittee.
Data.gov, the IT Dashboard and Performance.gov are at the core of the administration's open-government efforts. Kundra has credited the dashboard with identifying $3 billion in budget savings through the termination of underperforming programs.
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FedSpace, launched in November 2010 as a pilot program, was designed to be a collaborative social platform that allows federal employees to more easily communicate with one another and set up workgroups.
Plans for a Citizen Services Dashboard have also been canceled, and the implementation of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act, in which contractors and grant recipients enter data on federal spending into a Web portal, might be slower because there will be less technical support available, Kundra wrote.
In addition, the administration will be unable to fund efforts to improve data accuracy or increase transparency, he said. For example, plans to enhance the IT Dashboard to better integrate it with agency systems have been postponed.
The budget reduction has forced a reconsideration of all online programs, Kundra added.
"As a result, we have revisited our plans for the [E-Government] Fund for [fiscal] 2011 and altered the scope of several projects," Kundra wrote. "While we believe that we can make progress on several important initiatives, several projects will experience a sharp decline given the limited amount of funding. No project will go unaffected."
Congress drastically reduced the E-Government Fund as part of its drawn-out debate over the fiscal 2011 budget. Initially, the fund was to be pared down to $2 million, but supporters got the amount increased to $8 million. Advocates such as Carper and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, had pushed to keep the websites operating.
"It is a prudent decision to keep as many of the E-Gov Fund websites operational as possible," Carper said in a statement. "These websites are an important resource and a critical part of the effort to make the government more open and transparent, while at the same time cutting wasteful and duplicative spending throughout federal agencies."
In a related development, officials recently announced that Data.gov is shifting to an open-source platform and becoming Data.gov Next Generation. A General Services Administration spokesman said the government used funding left over from fiscal 2010 to pay for the transition, and open-data company Socrata provided some additional services.
"We augmented Data.gov with the services of Socrata with 2010 funding to make Data.gov even more robust, accessible and to provide displays of the raw data in ways the public can use it," said Steven Hoffman, a GSA spokesman. The amount of fiscal 2010 money used was not immediately available.
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Unless I'm mistaken, the information on these sites was/is already available to Mr. Kundra et al, just not publicized on the web. If that is true, the $3 billion in budget savings and the associated ROI would have to have arisen from someone (citizen or civil servant) who would otherwise not have seen the data. Based on the article, the transparency websites will remain, so in effect their potential ROI will also remain. Finally, the $34 million probably covered a lot of one-time development and implementation costs, and is not necessarily a representative sustainability level. Admittedly, there is apparently not enough in the new funding for "further improvements or developments", but a lot of the negative impact depends on what those intended but now abandoned improvements were going to be.
I find this article disturbing. Congress has reduced the E-Government Fund budget to $8 million for fiscal 2011 from $34 million the previous year. This funding amount is a drop in the bucket and Kundra has credited the Data.gov IT dashboard and Performance.gov with identifying $3 billion in budget savings through the termination of underperforming programs. If that isn't an ROI you can celebrate I don't know what is. As a KM professional and one who believes that we must improve and change HOW business is done I find this extremely short cited. Access to government data/information/knowledge is more important than ever, and by reducing the effectiveness and impact of these sites and tools the government will fall further behind the private sector in E2.0 practices. And what about the transparancy we the people have been promised? Going back to the "old ways of doing business" will further reduce governments effectiveness. I hope this is not a trend that will eventually impact HHS and the FDA in our efforts to modernize our business model, strive for more collaboration and transparency, and bring more efficiencies and effectiveness to our staff and constituients through the use of E2.0 approaches and the impact of a good KM practices.


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Doctor Dolittle | |
Theatrical release poster by Tom Chantrell | |
Directed by | Richard Fleischer |
Produced by | Arthur P. Jacobs |
Screenplay by | Leslie Bricusse |
Based on | Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting |
Starring | Rex Harrison Samantha Eggar Anthony Newley Richard Attenborough |
Music by | Leslie Bricusse Lionel Newman, Alexander Courage |
Cinematography | Robert L. Surtees |
Edited by | Samuel E. Beetley Marjorie Fowler |
Production company | |
Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
Release dates |
Running time | 152 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $17,015,000[1] |
Box office | $9,000,000[2] |
Doctor Dolittle | |
Theatrical release poster by Tom Chantrell | |
Directed by | Richard Fleischer |
Produced by | Arthur P. Jacobs |
Screenplay by | Leslie Bricusse |
Based on | Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting |
Starring | Rex Harrison Samantha Eggar Anthony Newley Richard Attenborough |
Music by | Leslie Bricusse Lionel Newman, Alexander Courage |
Cinematography | Robert L. Surtees |
Edited by | Samuel E. Beetley Marjorie Fowler |
Production company | |
Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
Release dates |
Running time | 152 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $17,015,000[1] |
Box office | $9,000,000[2] |
Doctor Dolittle is a 1967 American musical film directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Rex Harrison, Samantha Eggar, Anthony Newley and Richard Attenborough. It was adapted by Leslie Bricusse from the novel series by Hugh Lofting. It primarily fuses three of the books "The Story of Doctor Dolittle", "The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle", and "Doctor Dolittle's Circus".
The film had a notoriously protracted production with numerous setbacks along the way such as complications from poorly chosen shooting locations and the numerous technical difficulties inherent with the large number of animals required for the story. The film exceeded its original budget of $6 million by three times, and recouped $9 million upon release in 1967,[2] earning only $6.2 million in theatrical rentals.[3]
The film received generally mixed critical reviews, but through the studio's intense lobbying, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and won awards for Best Original Song and Best Visual Effects.
A comedy film of a similar title, Dr. Dolittle, loosely based on the character, was later released in 1998.
During the early Victorian period, in the town of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh, England, Irishman Matthew Mugg (Anthony Newley) takes his young friend Tommy Stubbins (William Dix) to visit eccentric Doctor John Dolittle. It is Matthew's wish that the Doctor tend to an injured duck Tommy has found and upon arrival, Tommy finds that Dolittle, a former people's physician, lives with a houseful of animals - pigs, including a feisty one named Grunt-Grunt, sheep, goats, ducks, horses, cows, a chimpanzee named Chee-Chee (Cheeta), a dog named Jip, and a talking parrot named Polynesia (the uncredited voice of Ginny Tyler) among them. The night is stormy, so Tommy and Matthew stay with Dolittle. They find Dolittle blowing bubbles into a fish tank, but says that because he can only blow large bubles the fish think he is yelling at them. Dolittle indicates he is learning how to communicate with snails and fish by first learning the basic fish languages of "halibut, mackerel, and goldfish." During dinner (sausages and bacon for Matthew and Tommy, a vegetarian meal for the doctor), Dolittle explains he is a vegetarian to avoid upsetting the animals by eating meat.
Dolittle tells them, in a flashback, why he first learned to speak animal languages: He was once an established doctor, but he kept so many animals in his home that they causing havoc and made him lose his patients. After a particularly harrowing day, when a patient screams when a mouse crawls up on her, a patient who sat accidentally on a hedgehog, and a chase involving a dog and a car, causing a statue to fall on one of the male patients, his sister, who acts as his housekeeper, gives him a stark choice, either keep the animals or she would depart forever. Because he much preferred the company of animals, a casual comment by Polynesia revealed that animals can talk to each other, prompting Dolittle to study the languages of the animals so that he could become an animal doctor instead. Polynesia informs him that animals will come from all the surrounding areas if he is an animal doctor.
The following day as the doctor attends to his animal patients, a short sighted horse named Toggle seeks Dolittle's assistance, but the horse's owner - General Bellowes (Peter Bull) - takes offense to Dolittle's notions of protecting animals, particularly a vixen (whom Bellowes had been intending to chase in a fox hunt), however, a group of skunks, whom the Doctor says that they travel with the fox for protection, infuriates the General, as well as his bloodhounds, who are frightened by the smell and the sight of the skunks. Bellowes' niece Emma Fairfax (Samantha Eggar) chides Dolittle for his irresponsibility and rudeness to her uncle. Dr. Dolittle is unmoved, however, and she storms off in a huff. For Matthew, by contrast, it is love at first sight. He nicknames her Fred on the spot, due to her wishing she were a man with the power to punish Dr. Dolittle. When she has gone, Dolittle admits he also finds her attractive.
A Red Indian friend of Dolittle's sends him the rare two-headed Tibetan Pushmi-pullyu, a creature that looks like a llama with a head on each end of its body. Matthew, Tommy and Dolittle take the creature to a nearby circus, run by the greedy yet lovable Albert Blossom (Richard Attenborough), who makes the Pushmi-Pullyu the star attraction. The doctor befriends a circus seal named Sophie who longs to return to her husband in the North Pole. He disguises her in women's clothing, sneaks her away, and then throws her into the ocean from some cliffs. However, two fishermen mistake the seal for a woman, and have Doctor Dolittle arrested on a charge of murder. Dolittle is horrified to learn that General Bellowes is the magistrate in his case, but proves he can converse with animals by talking with Bellowes' dog. Though Dr. Dolittle is acquitted of murder, the vindictive judge sentences him to imprisonment in a lunatic asylum. Dolittle's animal friends break him out of prison, and he, Matthew, Tommy, Polynesia, Chee-Chee and Jip take the doctor's ship, the Flounder, out onto the ocean to search for the legendary Great Pink Sea Snail. Emma sneaks aboard (thanks to Matthew conveniently turning a blind eye) as well. After sticking a hatpin at random into an atlas to determine their destination, they set their course for Sea-Star Island, a floating island currently in the Atlantic Ocean. Emma, who insists on being treated as a man with no special privileges, finds herself doing all of the cleaning, cooking and hard work while Dolittle is questioning various sea creatures about the Great Pink Sea-Snail, and Matthew finds his attraction for her growing stronger.
The ship is torn apart during a fierce storm, but everyone makes it to what turns out to be Sea-Star Island. Emma had arrived ahead of them, and when she and Dolittle are alone briefly, they admit they have grown to like each other. There is implication Emma has begun to fall in love with him, and the doctor seems to be beginning to feel something for her. The party is met first, fiercely, by the natives, who first use bows and arrows for their protection, who are highly educated and cultured due to all the flotsam and jetsam that have floated ashore from shipwrecks over the centuries. At first, the Doctor and his crew are imprisoned in a hut, until one of the natives agree to talk to them. Their leader is William Shakespeare the Tenth (Geoffrey Holder): his name comes from the tribe's tradition of naming children after favorite authors. William explains that they also fear the use of strangers coming on the island, in fear that their ways of life would be taken away. The tropical Sea-Star Island is endangered because it is drifting further north than usual into colder waters, and the local tradition causes the islanders to blame the doctor and his party. When Dolittle persuades a friendly whale to help push the island south, the vibration causes a balancing rock to drop into a volcano, fulfilling another local tradition that dooms Dolittle and party to be burned at the stake. However, the whale also causes the island to rejoin the mainland, fulfilling another prophecy that dictates that the doctor and his friends be heralded as heroes, and they are freed. While treating the animals on the island, Dolittle encounters a surprise patient - the Great Pink Sea Snail itself, who has caught a severe cold. Dolittle cures him and discovers that the snail's shell is watertight and can carry passengers. Dolittle sends Matthew, Tommy, Emma, Polynesia, Chee-Chee, and Jip back to England with the snail. Emma expresses a wish to stay on the island with him and accompany him on his planned voyage to the moon, but the Doctor is adamant that a relationship would never work, though he does wish to stay in touch. She finally admits her feelings for the Doctor, and kisses him goodbye.
Doctor Dolittle himself cannot go back, since he is still a wanted man; furthermore, he wishes to investigate the natives' stories of the Giant Lunar Moth. However, after his friends leave, Dolittle finds he is not so impervious to feelings as he thought, particularly his feelings for Emma. Sophie the seal turns up, accompanied by her husband, with a message: the animals of England have gone on strike in protest against his sentence, the people have changed their views towards him, and even Bellowes has agreed to pardon him if he returns home. Dolittle and the tribesfolk then construct a saddle for the Giant Lunar Moth, and he flies back to England, eager to be there when his friends arrive.
In the original cut of the movie, Dr. Dolittle and Emma did eventually begin a relationship. He sang Where Are the Words?, when he realised he was falling in love with her, but in a revised version, it's actually Matthew who falls for Emma and it is his recording of the song which is featured on the soundtrack album.
Both versions were filmed and both actors recorded their respective versions, but the footage for both, as well as the vocal track by Rex Harrison have been lost to history.
In both scenarioes, Something In Your Smile, is sung by Dolittle when he realizes he himself has fallen for Emma, however, although Harrison's vocal for the song survives, the footage does not.
As a result, in an upcoming Special Anniversary Blu-ray deluxe box-set release, 20th Century Fox intends to play audio from both Newley's version of the former as well as Harrison's version of the latter against production stills taken at the time of shooting to give the viewer an idea of how the missing footage might have originally appeared.
The film's 1967 release was accompanied by an enormous media blitz, with over a million copies of the soundtrack issued to stores. The advertising campaign failed, and soundtracks from the original release could be found in "bargain bins" for decades after the film's theatrical run.
20th Century Fox had originally intended the film to reunite Rex Harrison and Lerner & Loewe, following the success of My Fair Lady, but Loewe had retired from writing musicals. Alan Jay Lerner was originally chosen to write the script, but was fired by producer Arthur P. Jacobs on May 7, 1965 for his endless procrastination stretching over a year.[4] Jacobs then tried to get the Sherman Brothers, but they were tied to Walt Disney. Instead, Lerner was replaced by Leslie Bricusse, who was in high demand after his success with the musical Stop the World - I Want to Get Off. Determined to make a good impression for his first screenplay commission, Bricusse proved agreeably productive from the start for Jacobs, suggesting numerous story ideas at their first meeting on May 6, 1965 and followed up just two months later with a full treatment that included various song suggestions while effectively blunting the book's racist content in an adaptation that met with Hugh Lofting's widow's approval.[5] Lerner's replacement by Bricusse gave Harrison the chance to sit out his contract, while making unreasonable demands such as having the proposed actor for the role of Bumpo, Sammy Davis Jr., replaced by Sidney Poitier, despite the fact that Poitier was not a musical performer.[6] Eventually, the part of Bumpo was cut out altogether, and Harrison taxed the patience of the producers with more counter-productive demands to the point where he was to be replaced by Christopher Plummer, but when Harrison agreed to stay, the producers paid Plummer his total agreed-upon salary to leave the production. The film was originally budgeted at $6 million, but the budget eventually tripled.
The village scenes were filmed in the village of Castle Combe in Wiltshire. Unfortunately, the producers did not anticipate that the necessary trained animals for the production would all have to quarantined upon entering the UK, forcing them all to be replaced with other animals at considerable and redundant expense to meet regulations. Furthermore, the producers chose to ignore climate reports of the area's frequently rainy summers and were frustrated with the resulting weather continually interfering with shooting, while also caused health problems with the animals. In addition, the producers' arbitrary set design decisions such as removing TV aerials from personal residences in town irritated the population. This antipathy went to as far as an artificial dam built by the production on the Castle Combe set being blown up by British Army officer (and future explorer) Ranulph Fiennes, using explosives he obtained from being in the service, because he believed it ruined the village.[7] Eventually, the producers decided to rebuild relevant sets back in California for costly reshoots.
The film was also shot in Marigot Bay, Saint Lucia; this location was equally problematic, with considerable problems with insects and frequent tropical storms halting production. Furthermore, the finale scene of the characters sailing home on a giant snail was complicated not only by the poor design of the large prop, but because the island's children had recently been struck by a gastrointestinal illness epidemic caused by freshwater snails, and mobs of angry locals threw rocks at it.[8] The Marigot Bay Hotel, now located there, has the Pink Snail Champagne Bar in honor of Dr. Dolittle. The walls of the bar are adorned with original pictures from the film.
Cast and crew relationship were tense such as with Anthony Newley who was continually insulted with antisemitic comments by Harrison. Furthermore, Harrison was so jealous of his Jewish co-star's participation that he continually demanded Newely's role be reduced and even purposefully disrupted shootings focusing on Newley. [9] Geoffrey Holder faced similar abuse from Harrison's entourage with racist comments that tested his patience.[10] For their part, the young castmembers grew to loath Harrision for this abuse and they retaliated by antagonizing him.[11] It was photographed in 70 mm Todd-AO by Robert Surtees.
Some of the animals did bite Rex Harrison during the filming.
Just prior to release, 20th Century Fox was sued for $4.5 million by Helen Winston, a previous would-be producer, when she discovered an original plot point from her own rejected screenplay written by Larry Watkin, of animals threatening to go on strike on Dolittle's behalf, was used in the film. It turns out Bricusse, who had read Winston's script, assumed it was from the books and included it in his own treatment by mistake. Since the producers only had rights to the content of the original books, they had no legal defence and were forced to settle out of court. The animals strike is mentioned in the movie, but not shown in detail.[12]
A remake starring Eddie Murphy, entitled Dr. Dolittle, was released in 1998. The remake was directed by Betty Thomas. It bore little resemblance to the original film or the Hugh Lofting books. It also inspired four sequels, one of which was theatrical and three direct-to-video.
The film's first sneak preview in September, 1967 at the Mann Theatre in Minneapolis proved to be an alarming failure: for instance, the audience had few children, indicating little interest in the source material with its intended primary audience. Furthermore, the general audience response was muted during the screening while comment cards rated it poorly with frequent complaints about the film's excessive length. A shortened edit of the film previewed in San Francisco was no more successful while a still shorter edit previewed in San Jose was marginally better received enough to be approved as the final cut.[13]
Reviewing the film for The New York Times, Bosley Crowther said: "The music is not exceptional, the rendering of the songs lacks variety, and the pace, under Richard Fleischer's direction, is slow and without surprise."[14] In his annual Movie Guide, critic and historian Leonard Maltin called the film a "colossal dud". Maltin admired the film's photography, but was quick to point out how it nearly bankrupted 20th Century Fox Studios. He admitted, however, that "The movie has one merit: If you have unruly children, it may put them to sleep."[15]
Furthermore, the film also faced strong competition with the Walt Disney animated feature film, The Jungle Book, opening on the same week to considerable critical acclaim and children's audience enthusiasm. To make matters worse, Doctor Dolittle's appeal as family fare was seriously undermined as the film's publicity drew attention to the original books and its virulent racist content, which drew calls to have them removed from public schools.[16]
When Oscar nomination time came around, according to the book Behind the Oscar, Fox mounted an unparalleled nomination campaign at which Academy members were wined and dined. As a result, the film was nominated for nine Oscars, including Best Picture.
The film currently holds a 32% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.[17]
The resulting poor sales of related merchandise significantly discouraged enthusiasm for similar forms of marketing until George Lucas took advantage of the attitude to gain those rights and profited spectacularly with his 1977 film, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.
In 1998, the film was adapted into a stage musical, starring Phillip Schofield as Doctor Dolittle, a pre-recorded Julie Andrews as the voice of Dolittle's parrot Polynesia, and the animatronic wizardry of Jim Henson's Creature Shop. The show ran for 400 performances in London's West End and at the time was one of the most expensive musicals ever produced. The musical also starred Bryan Smyth, a former milkman and full-time actor and singer who then went on to host his own TV game show for RTE.[18]
Bobby Darin Sings Doctor Dolittle was released on Atlantic Records in August, 1967.[19] Darin's recording of "Beautiful Things" from this LP was featured in a 2013 TV commercial for Etihad Airways.[20][21][22] A cover version of the same song by The Shiny Lapel Trio was used in a Christmas 2008 TV commercial campaign for the United States retail chain Kohl's.[23][24]
The film won Academy Awards for Best Effects, Special Effects (L.B. Abbott) and Best Music, Song (Leslie Bricusse for "Talk to the Animals").[25]
It was nominated for Best Picture, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Mario Chiari, Jack Martin Smith, Ed Graves, Walter M. Scott, Stuart A. Reiss), Best Cinematography (Robert L. Surtees), Best Film Editing {Samuel E. Beetley, Marjorie Fowler), Best Music, Original Music Score (Leslie Bricusse), Best Music, Scoring of Music, Adaptation or Treatment (Lionel Newman, Alexander Courage} and Best Sound (20th Century Fox).[26]
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Bounties offered to Pop Warner team in California
Check out this awesomely hideous youth sports news. Think of all the ring pops those 10- and 11-year-old players could buy with 50 bucks simply for knocking an opponent out of the game.
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Mom time/dad time: How do you catch a break?
For this week's Parent to Parent section in Unwind, we're talking about making time for Mom or Dad to get some "me" time. We're asking you to share how you make that time for yourself and what you like to do with it. Also, how does it help you be a better parent and when […]
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A needed laugh
OK, threats are not funny, even ones made in stick-figure drawings. But this weird news item, where the FBI describes the forensics on a threatening note depicting violence between stick figures made me laugh: Prosecutors say that in 2010, Lakes mailed a drawing that apparently depicted a battered stick figure alongside threatening phrases such as […]
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Drive yourself!!
Did I ever say on this blog that I didn't want my daughter to get her license? If I did, I can admit to you now, I was crazy. She is scheduled to take her driving test Oct. 10 and I don't know what I'll do if she doesn't pass. I'm leaving work today to […]
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When is the right time to leave home? 24 seems right.
There's an interesting Reader Asks on Kristi's blog today. A 24-year-old is living with her parents to save money, but now has an opportunity to move in with two girlfriends. Mom and Dad won't hear of it and are offering all kinds of crazy-desperate reasons she shouldn't leave — one of which is that she […]
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High school prank turned around
This story was on the Today show this morning. Some high school kids in Michigan voted a shy, quiet girl onto the homecoming court as a joke. Then told her so and made fun of her. Read about it here. Here's the good part: People in the town were so disgusted by the prank, hairdressers, […]
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Peanut butter recall
Trader Joe's Creamy Valencia salted Peanut Butter made with Sea Salt has been voluntarily removed from shelves after reported cases of salmonella. Read more here. And check the list of other recalled peanut butters made by the parent company, Sunland Inc.
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I was the oldest person at Pearl Palooza
So I did, in fact, take my daughters to see Matt & Kim at Pearl Palooza this weekend, which was both a miserable and exhilarating experience. It was really not my scene. But my daughters were so happy it made it all worthwhile. They thanked me the entire way home. "Thank" and "you" are two […]
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School lessons: You will fundraise like crazy, and photos aren't cheap
I was giving my careful attention to the pile of paperwork the kids have been bringing home from Pre-K all week. (They go to a full-day Pre-K program in my school district). In it was the fundraising packet from the PTA. Essentially, my kids are now selling everything you could ever need: Grandma's pies, cookies, […]
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I guess I'm just 'Mom' now.
Sometime in the last few weeks, Andrew started making the switch. No longer would he chirp "Mommy" when I walked in the door or say, "Mommy, may I have some milk, please?" with pleading eyes. Now, he calls me "Mom." It makes me sad. Big kids call their mothers "Mom." When did my little guy […]
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HYDERABAD: Congress leaders from Andhra and Rayalaseema regions plan to put up a united show and make a strong and united pitch for integrated State, when the Justice Srikrishna Committee members meet them sometime this month.
The Andhra-Rayalasema Congress Legislators Forum plans to take advantage of the contradictions among their Telangana counterparts who are grappling as to how they should put forth their views before the panel in view of separate reports presented by the legislators, Ministers, MPs and the Telangana Regional Congress Coordination Committee (TRCCC). The Forum is very clear that it would depose before the Srikrishna Committee as a team and make a forceful presentation to support their stand. It to rope in Congress MPs and senior Ministers from the region, who can articulate their view points with clarity.
Endowments Minister Gade Venkat Reddy, who has consistently spoken against bifurcation of the State, may be requested to make a presentation and K. S. Rao and Rayapati Sambasiva Rao, both MPs, may also be urged to accompany them.


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Downton Abbey is the British period drama set in the early 1900's in England that has taken America by storm. It seems an unlikely hit here in the States but discerning viewers have gravitated to it's rich characters, compelling stories and of course it's gorgeous setting.
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Violated: Why the Supreme Court Desperately Needs to Draw a Line on Strip Searches
October 14, 2011
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court confronted the latest frontier in the battle over strip searches: Does the Constitution allow prison officials to conduct a strip search of everyone arrested for a minor offense, no matter how trivial? And instead of focusing on high principles, the arguments took a surprisingly graphic turn.
What the Failed Christie Bid Teaches Us About the GOP
October 05, 2011
As soon as news leaked that Chris Christie was going to say (again) that he wasn't running for president, the press immediately began beating itself up for paying any attention to the drama in New Jersey.
Chris Christie and the Ghosts of Madison
October 04, 2011
I'll leave it to the pundits to decide what will happen in the Republican primary now that Chris Christie has decided to keep his talents in Trenton. What does seem worth some thought, though, is what we won't see happen that we likely would have if Christie had gotten in: a full rekindling of the war over public employee unions. The issue has receded somewhat in the public consciousness since the showdowns in Wisconsin, Ohio and elsewhere earlier this year, even as the fight carries on in several states.
This Was Christie's One Shot to Become President—And He Missed It
October 04, 2011
And so it ends—not with a bang, but a wimp-out. Chris Christie, who had become the most courted reluctant Republican since Dwight Eisenhower, permanently closed the door Tuesday afternoon on a 2012 White House run: "Now is not my time. I have a commitment to New Jersey that I just can't abandon." A self-described "regular guy from New Jersey," Christie exudes more self-confidence than even Rick Perry out shooting coyotes.
Why Christie Is the New Giuliani
October 04, 2011
A little over four years ago, a pair of wealthy businessmen made a foray into presidential politics on behalf of a charismatic, tough-talking, blue state Republican. Home Depot co-founder Ken Langone volunteered his considerable talents as fundraising chair of the candidate's leadership PAC, while hedge fund billionaire Paul E. Singer served as the campaign's east coast chairman. Charmed by the politician's law and order bona fides, pro-business conservatism, and swing state appeal, the two billionaires helped raise an impressive $60.9 million dollars for their candidate in 2007.
Would Chris Christie's Weight Have A Real Impact?
October 03, 2011
Dissatisfaction with a subpar field of presidential candidates has turned Republican eyes towards a potential new savior: Chris Christie, the governor of New Jersey. The growing speculation has been accompanied by discussion of Christie's considerable girth.
Chris Christie's Crowd-Sourced Weight Is ...
September 30, 2011
The people have spoken. Averaging the 19 estimates offered by readers in TNR's comment section for this blog--including one that, annoyingly, required me to convert from kilograms to pounds--I arrive at a crowd-sourced weight estimate for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie: 334 pounds. I initially planned to lower the mean figure by 10 points to correct for liberal bias. But on reflection I think there are probably two biases at work here. One is the liberal one, which would drive the estimates up. The other is a demographic one, which would drive the estimates down.
Lay Off Chris Christie's Weight! It Might Just Help his Chances.
September 29, 2011
Is Chris Christie too fat to be elected president? Amid reports that the New Jersey governor has become the latest choice of the anybody-but-Romney movement to try to derail the remarkably tenacious Mormon, Christie's waistline has once again become a national news story. All the anxieties currently being attached to the governor's weight, however, are likely overblown.
Why Christie Makes GOP Hearts Go Pitter-Patter
September 28, 2011
The longing for a Chris Christie presidential run is baffling for many reasons. Among them is the fact that, ideologically, he actually isn't that conservative. As old friend Jonathan Chait writes today at his blog -- which, by now, you should have bookmarked -- Christie on Tuesday endorsed the Bowles-Simpson fiscal plan. As you may recall, Bowles-Simpson calls for reducing the deficit with a mix of spending cuts and, yes, tax increases. The ratio is roughly three-to-one, which makes it pretty conservative by my standards.
Capital Tracks
September 28, 2011
Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern AmericaBy Richard White (W.W. Norton, 660 pp., $35) I. The scene is iconic, known to many Americans even casually acquainted with their history. Locomotives of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads come engine grate to engine grate, separated by a mere railroad tie, at Promontory Summit, Utah, on May 10, 1869, commemorating the completion of the first transcontinental railroad.


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Samuel Wesley Brackeen, 34, of Duncan, was charged in Stephens County District Court with two felony counts related to pornography.
Brackeen was originally arrested on both counts.
According to the affidavit filed in district court on June 14, count 1 was possession of child pornography, AFCF, from Jan. 23 to Jan. 30; and count 2 was manufacturing child pornography, on or about Jan. 3, at a Comanche residence.
Count 1 involves allegations that Brackeen downloaded on a digital tablet, pornography of children under the age of 18. Count 2, is that he allegedly manufactured pornography by recording himself approaching a child while she was sleeping and recording her private areas while she was asleep.
Brackeen had his first appearance Monday, based on court records, and bond was set at $500,000. He is scheduled to appear in court for a preliminary hearing conference at 2 p.m. July 19.
The charges were brought forth after investigation by Duncan Police Department and investigators. Court documents indicated that an individual had purchased the digital tablet, a Nextbook, from EZ Pawn and discovered photos on the tablet, including a video allegedly of Brackeen, identified by a greenish colored tattoo of the sun on his left hand with writing on the knuckles.
After contacting first the pawn shop, and then further investigation of the digital device, it was discovered there were more than 200 pictures of child pornography, adult pornography and videos, including the one of the juvenile asleep.
Brackeen also allegedly attempted suicide, according to the affidavit.
According to the On Demand Court Records online, Brackeen has several previous offenses, including a burglary in the second degree charge dating back to 2008, which was a suspended sentence that a request for revocation was filed Monday. On that charge, he is to reappear in court at 1:30 p.m. July 2, and bond was set at $6,000. He originally had entered a plea of guilty to that charge and received 7 years suspended except for the first year and credit for time served.
The minor child in the video has also been interviewed at the Mary Abbott House in Norman. A forensic interview was conducted on the child but she did not disclose any information of the incident, noted the affidavit.


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Hewlett-Packard's Autonomy accusations just cover for a bad deal: Accounting experts
Hewlett-Packard's accusations of financial impropriety at Autonomy are an attempt to cover up another bad deal, say accounting experts.
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Hewlett-Packard Co.'s claims of financial improprieties at Autonomy Corp. have accounting experts questioning whether the allegations are an attempt to divert attention from yet another bad acquisition.
Hewlett-Packard said Monday it recorded an $8.8 billion writedown related to its purchase last year of Autonomy, the U.K. software maker. More than $5 billion of that impairment charge was the result of accounting practices at Autonomy, Hewlett-Packard said in a statement. About $200 million of Autonomy's revenue had been recorded prematurely or improperly, according to Hewlett-Packard's general counsel.
"How does that translate into a $5 billion writeoff?" said Lynn E. Turner, former chief accountant of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and a managing director at LitiNomics Inc., an economic and forensic consulting firm. "The big issue isn't the fraud they're talking about. The big issue is that HP has made acquisitions that have turned out to be a disaster."
The writedown follows Hewlett-Packard's August announcement that it would take a charge of $9.2 billion, largely related to its purchase of Electronic Data Systems Corp. When companies make an acquisition, the difference between the value of the target's hard assets and the purchase price is known as goodwill. That gets carried on the company's balance sheet as an asset and is reviewed periodically by public companies.
The Autonomy and EDS writedowns together total $18 billion, while Hewlett-Packard's balance sheet as of April showed almost $45 billion in goodwill.
"Those were decisions approved by the board and they raise serious questions about the competency of the board and management team," Turner said.
Former Hewlett-Packard chief executive officer Leo Apotheker agreed to buy Autonomy in August 2011 for $10.3 billion to expand into data-search software for corporations and then left in September 2011 after less than a year on the job. Current CEO Meg Whitman and Chairman Ray Lane served on the board when it signed off on the deal.
Michael Thacker, a spokesman for Hewlett-Packard, didn't return calls seeking comment.
Hewlett-Packard alleges Autonomy mischaracterized some revenue from "negative margin" hardware sales and improperly included it as "license revenue," according to a company statement. The hardware comprised an estimated 10 per cent to 15 per cent of Autonomy's revenue, Hewlett-Packard said.
Hewlett-Packard also said in its statement that Autonomy used licensing transactions with resellers to inappropriately accelerate revenue recognition "or worse, create revenue where no end-user customer existed at the time of sale."
Autonomy accelerated, miscategorized and "created" more than $200 million in revenue over a two-year period beginning in 2009, said John Schultz, Hewlett-Packard's general counsel in an interview. That would equate to about 12 per cent of Autonomy's $1.61 billion in revenue for 2009 and 2010, based on the company's 2010 annual report.
Autonomy resold Dell Inc. desktop and laptop computers, and computer mice, and recorded those sales so they appeared to be software revenue, Schultz said. He also said Autonomy fabricated some sales through resellers.
Deloitte, Autonomy's auditor, "obviously didn't catch these issues at the time" Schultz said.
Deloitte "categorically denies" any knowledge of improper accounting or misrepresentations in Autonomy's financial reports, it said in a statement Wednesday. The firm said it didn't provide due diligence related to the takeover by Hewlett-Packard and its most recent audit opinion was for 2010.
Autonomy generated most of its sales in 2010 through more than 400 resellers, including Accenture Plc, International Business Machines Corp., Cap Gemini SA and Wipro Ltd., according to the 2010 annual report.
Hewlett-Packard became aware of the situation after an executive who still works there stepped forward after former Autonomy CEO and founder Mike Lynch departed in May. Autonomy's former top management team "flatly rejects" the allegations, according to Vanessa Colomar, a spokeswoman for Lynch. Autonomy has been mismanaged by Hewlett-Packard, she said.
Lynch said in an interview on CNBC that he wasn't contacted by Hewlett-Packard before the company made its allegations public.
The world's biggest technology companies often stumble in acquisitions because they fail to understand what they're buying, said Stephen E. Arnold, president of Harrod's Creek, Kentucky-based Arnold Information Technology, which advises clients on search and content processing.
"The arrogance of the buying company is they believe they are smarter and can do a better job," he said. "For that big a deal, you don't do this kind of detail after you've owned them. You take your time and do it first."
Hewlett-Packard's allegations of aggressive revenue recognition echo accounting scandals of the late 1990s and early 2000s, said Jack T. Ciesielski, publisher of The Analyst's Accounting Observer and former adviser to the Financial Accounting Standards Board.
Back then, companies including Computer Associates International Inc. and Lucent Technologies Inc. were investigated over their revenue recognition practices.
Turner, the former SEC accountant, said that while there have been specific rules governing software revenue recognition since 1997, Silicon Valley companies have a track record of trying to make themselves look more profitable.
Deloitte last December issued a 208-page "road map" devoted to navigating the various accounting standards governing the recognition of software revenue.
Calculating when to book revenue at software companies is complex, Ciesielski said.
"It's not like somebody just shipped a bunch of cans of lima beans to a store and they're ready to go," he said. That's because the contracts typically include physically delivering products and also providing services, maintenance and customization.
As a result, "it's not a hard thing to obfuscate, let's put it that way," he said. "There are tons of ways to make it difficult for the accountants."
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