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Maplerun is a European modern rock band. The group got together in 2007 in an effort to express emotions and feelings through music. A four piece band that combines music styles such as nu-metal, modern rock and alternative rock reflecting the various influences of the band members.
Maplerun's major influences are Metallica, System of a Down, Dream Theater, Porcupine Tree, Tool, Coldplay, Radiohead, Katatonia, Godsmack, Creed, Staind etc.
The band members are:
Nick – vocals, guitars
Orestis – guitars
Chris (Jo) – drums
Nick (the moor) – bass guitar
The band spent 4 months between September and December 2007, in order to record what would be their debut album called 'HOUSE ON FIRE'. The album, produced by the band itself, allowed Maplerun to appear live on Greek television (Mad Day Live on Mad TV and Radio Arvila on Ant1 TV) and also to sign two promotional agreements concerning promotion, touring and distribution in Belgium (Musicarena) and the United Kingdom (SLW Promotions, Two Side Moon). The band received significant radio play and toured Belgium in November 2009 as well as Greece in spring 2010 and winter 2011.
Since then, Maplerun's video for their single 'For You' is being broadcasted on MTV Greece and the band inked a management deal with the host of 'Headbanger's Ball' which is presented on MTV Greece.
The band embarked on a European tour in early October 2010, successfully supporting progressive metal legends SHADOW GALLERY. Furthermore, the band's single 'For You' is presented on Rock Band, a videogame developed by MTV Games and Harmonix, available for Playstation 3, Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii.
Maplerun's second album "Restless" is mastered by Ted Jensen (Metallica, Evanesence, Linkin Park etc.) and artwork done by Travis Smith (Opeth, Avenged Sevenfold, Nevermore). "Restless" is hosted in Metal Hammer magazine as a premium on the issue (334) of October 2012. Both of the band's albums will be promoted by Poison Tree Records in the USA in 2012.
The band members are exclusive owners of the copyrights of their material. Maplerun are ready to move abroad and tour at any given time, in order to play as many live shows as possible and present their music to different audiences around the world.
The members of Maplerun are devoted to the band and ready to take their music a step further.
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Carbon Auditing provides businesses with an opportunity to sell new, carbon efficient technologies to thier clients, backed up with details of what savings are possible over existing systems, but also how long it takes to get 'a return on investments' when switching to low carbon technologies.
Many still believe that carbon auditing is only for those committed to environmental change - but low carbon technologies sector is a fundamental business growth area supported by local authorities and the Government. The auditing process is part of this burgeoning business opportunity.
Understanding the process is not difficult - with the right training. To help with this, Suscon, a sustainable construction training and research centre based in Dartford Kent, is running a series of one day courses starting from June 21.
A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO CARBON AUDITING FOR BUSINESSES AND COMMUNITIES is a low cost (£55+VAT) one day course that aims to give learners an introduction to the principles and practices behind energy and carbon auditing. Although it is aimed at anyone who occupies a building - be it a school, office, community centre or your home, the information will be of particular interest to those working in the trades, so they are able to offer low carbon solutions to property owners or occupiers.
The course includes practical ways of reducing energy running costs whilst reducing environmental impact and covers:
* practical examples of monitoring, evaluating, re-representing and consolidating data;
* the collating of results and formulating the presentation of data;
* examples of energy and carbon audits;
* typical audit calculations;
* the completion of an outline carbon audit
The first of these one day courses is Tuesday, 21st June 2011 and then each month through to winter 2011. All the courses will run at the new, purpose built centre at The Bridge near Dartford, Kent.
More details are available on the course at the Suscon website ( www.suscon.org.uk ) or via the Eventbrite booking system ( http://carbonauditingsuscon.eventbrite.com )
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SusCon is a sustainable construction training and research centre that has been built at The Bridge in Dartford. Pioneering a new approach to sustainable construction learning that is designed to help people meet the challenges of a greener future; SusCon offers accredited courses for those already working in the construction industry as well as for those who are seeking new opportunities.
The curriculum is cross-disciplinary and can include everyone involved in the built environment from the local community through to the building trades and professions. The SusCon building reflects this pioneering approach. It is one of the most sustainable education facilities in the UK and a learning tool in its own right.
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Statistics and Homeless Students
Here are some samples from the mystifying patchwork that answers the question of how many children are experiencing homelessness in the United States. Some sentences just give numbers from various cities, while others include interesting details, and the sources for those are in the end notes.
● 2010, Pennsylvania — 31,386 homeless children, an increase of 46% (nearly double) from the previous year. Ralph da Costa Nunez wrote:
To put this number in context, that is more than the entire University of Pittsburgh student body…. HCEF [Homeless Children's Education Fund] has joined with U.S. Attorney David J. Hickton, and together they have made addressing the needs of homeless children a priority, shifting the conversation to rightly define childhood poverty and homelessness as a civil rights struggle.
● December 2010, Washington state — 22,000 homeless students, increased from around 14,000 just four years earlier.
● Mid-2012, Miami-Dade County, Fla. — 4,400 homeless students.
● October 2012, Philadelphia — 5,000 homeless students. The Students Without a Home summit identified available resources to increase youth opportunity in accordance with the federal McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Act of 1987.
● 2013, Baltimore — 2,800 homeless students, twice as many as five years before.
● 2013, Weld County, Colo. — 800 newly homeless students. After devastating floods, this number was added onto the number of students already homeless because of wildfires and because of the usual reasons that apply anywhere. Ann Schimke wrote:
[T]he district has been spending about $1,000 a day to transport displaced students from temporary quarters to their home schools, in some cases sending buses far afield to pick up students doubled up with relatives or staying in hotels.
● 2013, America — In 10 states, the number of homeless students increased by at least 20%.
● Early 2014, Springfield, Mo. — 727 homeless students.
● February 2014, Bryan Independent School District, Texas — 578 homeless students, up from 316 the previous year.
● February 2014, Washington state — 30,609 homeless students, increased for the sixth year in a row.
● March 2014, Williston, N.D. — 128 homeless students.
● March 2014, Alief Independent School District, Houston — 1,600 homeless students. Shern-Min Chow wrote about kids without an "adequate, stable night time residence":
Most are constantly moving between relatives and friends…. We have 79 that are in hotels, motels, 50 that are in shelters, around 22 that we do not know and there are roughly 10 that are sleeping in their car, under a tree, they are transient…. Those students still go to school. Free breakfast and lunch on campus, along with gym showers are big draws, but not real solutions…. Directly across the street from Alief Elsik High is one the local apartment complexes that donates or leases units at a discount to homeless students.
● March, 2014, Long Island, N.Y. — over 8,000 homeless students, up from about 2,600 only five years before. NBCNewYork.com quoted an education professional:
Some of the places where we tutor, they don't have electricity. They don't even have a light bulb where we can sit a tutor to read with them and do their homework. The problem is a lot more widespread than people understand.
Source: "Pittsburgh: A Model for Addressing Child Homelessness," HuffingtonPost.com, 05/15/12
Source: "Educational summit about homeless students to be held Friday," TheNotebook.org, 10/11/12
Source: "Flooding adds thousands of students to district homeless rolls…" chalkbeat.org, 10/04/13
Source: "HISD schools helping homeless students," KHOU.com, 03/13/14
Source: "Homelessness on Rise Among Long Island Students," NBCNewYork.com, 03/18/14
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Wage Adjustment
The Federal Minimum Wage has slipped into distinct disrepair. The historical one-size-fits-all approach, be it $7.25 per hour, or even the proposed $10.10 per hour, is antiquated. Our national economy has evolved into a thousand-plus economies. We've all traveled, and we all know that the cost of living in Washington, D.C., is different than it is Austin or in Harlingen, Texas, etc.
At long last, there is talk of indexing the Federal Minimum Wage (FMW) to the cost of living. This would make complete sense if the wage had enabled minimum-wage workers to afford life's necessities to begin with. But, until that piece of the puzzle is fixed, the proposed cost-of-living increase only addresses the inflation aspect of the wage. The core wage itself is still too little to enable people to afford the basics of life: food, clothing, and shelter.
To solve the failings of the FMW, we must index it to the local cost of housing, as it is the single most expensive item in the budget of every American. The failure of the FMW is that it is creating homeless people. But by indexing to the local cost of housing, we account for the nationwide variation in local economies without crushing small businesses in rural America. This will ensure that if a person works 40 hours in a week, be it from one job or more, they will be able to afford basic food, clothing, and shelter (including utilities) wherever that work is done throughout the U.S. This will end economic homelessness for over 1,000,000 minimum-wage workers.
– by Richard R. Troxell, from a recent letter to the editor at The Austin American-Statesman
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Homeless Families on the Rise
Imagine that you're a mother with two kids, one sleeping on a sofa with you, the baby on the floor next to you sleeping in a bureau drawer that your host emptied out for the purpose. You and your kids are taking up space and making noise, causing inconvenience by sharing the bathroom and using the kitchen. In determining eligibility for help, different agencies have their own definitions of what constitutes homelessness. On this topic Saki Knafo wrote for Huffington Post:
The problem is that HUD's definition leaves out thousands who lack permanent homes — people who sleep on the couches of friends and relatives, or many who live in cramped motel rooms. Before approving aid in these cases, HUD requires proof that their arrangements are very tentative: either documentation of a lack of funds to afford a hotel room for more than two weeks, or confirmation from the friend offering the couch that this setup can not be permanent.
So now, on top of everything else, you have to ask your friend to write a letter confirming that you and your kids will be kicked out soon. Imagine the humiliation involved in such a simple-sounding request. Maybe this is a subject you didn't really want to bring up, hoping that the kind person sharing the apartment will get used to having extra people around, and prolong the invitation. And about that documentation — a pay stub can show that you have some money, but what verifies that you're stone broke? How do you prove a negative?
A couple of years ago, the Department of Education guessed that about a million American kids were homeless, but the HUD definition only covered about one-third of them. Early in 2012, legislators in Washington considered H.R. 32, a bill that would expand HUD's definition — which sounds like a good thing, right? Or maybe not. If a family camping out in a relative's living room came under the homeless definition and got in line for help, then ultimately there would be less help available for a family in an even worse situation, like living in a car or a condemned building with no heat or water. (At any rate, the bill died.)
One small corner of America
Earlier this year, after the annual census, the total number of people experiencing homelessness in Bakersfield, Calif., was found to have decreased, but a larger proportion of the remaining homeless were children. (Granted, kids might be easier to count because they are supposed to show up for school.) An official told the press that the Bakersfield Homeless Shelter contained parents with as many as 10 offspring, and expressed despair at the challenge of finding permanent housing for such large families. Overall, the shelter was hosting 40 more children than it had in the previous year, and nearly half of those additional kids belonged to just two families.
Never enough
As in a game of musical chairs, someone is always left out. Poverty columnist Greg Kaufmann noted that a third of the Americans who use shelters are families — totaling about 500,000 parents and children each year. He listened to a speech given by Joe Volk, the CEO of Community Advocates in Milwaukee, and came away with the following quotation:
In 2000, we as a nation — and the Department of Housing and Urban Development — made the terrible decision to abandon homeless children and their families. Families for a decade have been ignored.
Supposedly, the underlying rationale was to first do something about the homeless people who are most noticeable and most annoying to downtown businesses, and the most expensive in terms of services — the single adults who run up huge hospital emergency room bills and take up the time of police and firefighting personnel. That's what the Housing First approach is all about, and it's a great idea as far as it goes.
Then, with the money saved, fiscal attention would theoretically be focused upon families with children. But apparently that hasn't worked out according to plan. There are still plenty of homeless single adults, and still plenty of homeless families with children who are, even as we speak, maturing into homeless single adults.
Source: "Homeless Advocates Divided Over Bill Aimed At Helping Kids," HuffingtonPost.com, 02/11/12
Source: "Survey finds increase in homeless children but overall drop in homelessness," BakersfieldCalifornian.com, 02/18/14
Source: "America is Ignoring Homeless Families," BillMoyers.com, 04/21/13
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Art for the Homeless
A parishioner left a bequest earmarked for art, and the other members decided on which art, and that's how "Jesus the Homeless" came to repose on a park bench on the grounds of St. Alban's Episcopal Church in Davidson, N.C. The congregation, partly composed of a nearby college's faculty, students, and staff, is described as liberal, gay-friendly, and embracing of the arts and sciences.
The piece is interactive, in the sense that when a contemplative viewer occupies the space invitingly left empty on the bench, that is the best vantage point for noticing the scars of brutal wounds in the figure's feet, clinching the identification.
The bronze sculpture is the work of Canadian artist Timothy P. Schmalz. As we see from the picture on this page, taken last November at the Vatican, Pope Francis very much liked a smaller version of it. The possibility exists that another iteration of the full-size sculpture will take up permanent residence outside St. Peter's Basilica. Another copy of the statue can be seen on the grounds of the University of Toronto's Jesuit School of Theology, and Catholic Charities of Chicago will soon have one, and maybe the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., as well.
At St. Alban's, the pushback originated with a local woman who called the police, believing that the statue was an actual slumbering homeless person, and probably a threat to the neighborhood's safety. Various other objections have been raised on both aesthetic and theological grounds. Some people feel that the sculpture is not only bad for the town's image, but an insult to Jesus. Others find it odd that Christians prefer their deity hanging from a cross (the execution method for common criminals) rather than sleeping on a bench. But Rev. Anne Vouga, an Episcopal priest, wrote:
At first I was surprised to notice that the picture of the homeless Jesus huddled in the sunshine did more to bring out a Good Friday spirit of contrition in me than did all of the pain and horrors of the Cross…. But a homeless man huddled on a park bench — that is a sight that I recognize only too well in my world. It easily conjures up connotations overflowing with sin and suffering: oppression, injustice, addiction, loneliness and despair.
"Jesus the Homeless" is supported by a Bible verse, Matthew 25:40, whose broadest interpretation is that when someone helps another person with a kind deed, it's just the same as doing a good turn for Jesus himself. TheMuslimTimes.org published a commentary on the controversy, and backed it up with a passage about poverty and charity from Al Quran.
RightWingNews.com, on the other hand, chastized St. Alban's for wasting $22,000. But the donor specified that the money should be spent on art, and it is the custom, in civilized societies, to honor such dictates — aside from being illegal not to. Also, it's not really bizarre or outlandish for a church to have a piece of religious statuary on its premises.
The financial objection is a bit disingenuous, considering that plenty of churches in America contain millions of dollars worth of accoutrements. An ecclesiastical supply catalogue reveals that somebody out there is willing and able to pay $28,000 for a Romanesque Tabernacle (an ornate safe made of precious metal, for storing the components of Holy Communion) — and that's only one item in the extensive furnishings of a church. Plus, unlike Homeless Jesus, it's locked up inside the building, where hardly anyone can enjoy the sight of it.
Shalom Community Center in Bloomington, Ind., is a nondenominational yet religiously inspired day shelter and resource center for the poor, hungry, and homeless. Its director, Rev. Forrest Gilmore says:
The brilliant subtlety of it all lets us know the homeless man that we have seen so many times, ignored, stepped over, crossed the street to avoid or perhaps put a coin in his cup, bought him a cup of coffee, or sat down to have a conversation with, that that man could actually be Jesus.
The rector of St. Alban's, Rev. Doctor David E. Buck, says, "You love it, you hate it, it makes you think."
Home Coming
As House the Homeless has discussed before, Richard R. Troxell conceived and began work on Home Coming, a sculpture with multiple figures. The soldier represents the military vets who make up a third of the homeless population. Accompanying him is his daughter, who at age 9 represents the average age of a person experiencing homelessness today. Just arriving on the scene is an elderly African-American woman, who stands in for the people of color who make up 65% of the homeless population. She also represents the disintegration of American families of all ethnicities, but the welcome that the other two extend to her signals the impromptu creation of a different kind of family.
Through a marvelous combination of circumstances, Timothy P. Schmalz has agreed to complete the work including the final casting, and it will eventually stand in Austin, Texas. In a YouTube video, Schmalz describes his process.
In a letter confirming his participation, Schmalz wrote:
The homeless project that Richard is planning will tell a much needed story at a glance to all that pass by. So many times public sculpture is erected to glorify only the certain top part of society, whether it is a famous politician, wartime hero or successful business man. The homeless sculpture proposed will take the least in our society and honor them with a public sculpture. This sculpture will show that ALL are valued in our democratic society and that ALL should be respected.
Source: "Homeless Jesus Statue Makes Some Uncomfortable, but Not Pope Francis," ArtNet.com, 04/16/14
Source: "Good Friday Reflection on the 'Homeless Jesus,' " Blogspot.com, 04/16/14
Source: "'Homeless Jesus' Statue Gets New North Carolina Home, But Controversy Follows," TheMuslimTimes.org, March 2014
Source: "Church Wastes $22K On Metal 'Homeless Jesus' Statue Instead of Homeless," RightWingNews.com, 04/14/2014
Source: "Homeless Jesus," ShalomCommunityCenter.org, April 2014
Source: "'Homeless Jesus' provokes debate on what it means to be Christian," ReligionNews.com, 03/12/14
Image by Timothy P. Schmalz
Are Homeless Parents Paranoid?
In the 2011-12 school year, in America, an estimated 1.2 million school kids (kindergarten through grade 12) were homeless. As House the Homeless has discussed, counting the people experiencing homelessness is not an exact science. The number of homeless children is assumed to be underreported for several reasons, one of which is that such families tend to keep a low profile, to the point where they have been called the "invisible homeless." Parents don't go out of their way to flaunt their homeless-with-kids status in public places. You don't often see them panhandling in the business district. The last thing they want is to attract the wrong kind of attention — the kind that leads to losing custody of their children.
Apparently it becomes easier every day for a parent to get into deep trouble, as the world saw recently with the arrest of Shanesha Taylor, who left her two children in a car in Scottsdale, Ariz., so she could go to a job interview. Taylor faces a prison term of at least four years, and her children were removed by the authorities.
On paper, according to the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, a homeless child can choose to keep attending the school appropriate to her or his last permanent residence. In reality, the logistics of allowing this to happen can be daunting for both money-starved school districts and parents who are already dealing with all the details of catastrophe.
Another homeless American mother made news within recent memory by using a friend's address to enroll her 6-year-old son in a better-quality school where he technically didn't belong. Tanya (or Tonya) McDowell was convicted of stealing educational services and sentenced to a long spell in prison.
Huffington Post writer Mary Ann West made an interesting point:
If the police, prosecutor, or really anyone of authority had shared their concerns with the school board, cooler heads would have prevailed, McDowell's son's rights as a homeless child would have been protected under the Federal McKinney-Vento Act, and perhaps a resolution would have been found.
It costs a lot of money per year to keep an adult incarcerated. If a child is placed in foster care, which is where McDowell's son could easily end up, that costs a lot, too. The amount varies wildly according to the state, the level of care needed, the available funding, and other factors, but it's a bunch of money. Here is an interesting question. Instead of taking kids away from homeless women and paying foster parents to take care of them, why not just pay the natural mothers enough to maintain homes and raise their own children? It might save the taxpayers a lot of money, and would certainly be cheaper in long-term consequences to society.
Cap City
In the District of Columbia, the Family Resources Center is where homeless families go for help. But that agency tells the Child and Family Services Agency everything, and CFSA had shown a pattern of taking kids away from parents who are characterized as neglectful just for being homeless. Kathryn Baer of Poverty Insights says it starts with intimidating investigations and interrogations that add to the burdens of already-stressed parents, and frighten already-insecure kids. She learned from the Washington Legal Clinic that, according to local law, "deprivation due to the lack of financial means … is not considered neglect." However, Baer says:
CFSA has taken many children from their parents without getting a court order first. And, in more than half the cases, the precipitous removals were not justified. We also know, from CFSA's own report, that "inadequate housing" was the primary reason it placed 35 children in foster care in 2010.
When Baer did her research, 308 families were on the waiting list of the Family Resources Center. How many parents stop renewing their applications for shelter space when they learn that they might be accused of not only neglect, but abuse, just for being poor? How many already know about the agency's track record and never apply in the first place, preferring to take their chances in more tenuous surroundings? This achieves the exact opposite of what the law was supposed to accomplish, and makes children less safe, rather than more.
In the comments appended to Baer's piece, two different readers warned of the truly horrifying possibility that some social service agencies may enter into an unholy alliance with private adoption agencies. Apparently, the bounty paid for a healthy, adoptable child, especially if white, can earn an agency thousands of dollars.
With all these things going on, how much anxiety is a homeless parent justified in feeling?
Source: "'Stealing Education' Case Round II: Petition to Drop Case, Mom Still Homeless," HuffingtonPost.com, 05/12/11
Source: "Homeless DC Parents Fear Loss of Children … And They're Right," Poverty Insights, 05/24/12
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Homeless Kids and Education
All the news stories say the same thing — there are more homeless kids and less available money to do anything about them. Even with the occasional statistical fluke that brings the numbers down here or there, the overall picture is still far from optimal. By 2012, 1.3 million American children were homeless, and families with young children accounted for 40% of the people experiencing homelessness.
A year ago, Greg Kaufmann reported on a congressional briefing given by Joe Volk, the CEO of Milwaukee's Community Advocates. The subject was the American Almanac of Family Homelessness. He recounted the story of how in 2000 the Department of Housing and Urban Development decided to focus on chronically homeless adults.
It's a wonderful thing to remove anybody from streets, and recently the Housing First principle has been getting a lot of attention. Single adults who are chronically homeless tend to have serious problems with mental illness, physical disability, and addiction, and when they hang around downtown, it's bad for business. Housing them saves cities (meaning taxpayers) money that would have otherwise gone to massive medical costs and jail rent, and there is nothing wrong with that.
Meanwhile, homeless families with kids have been relatively ignored. They tend to keep a low profile, eking out bare and crowded existences in sheds, storage units, cars, motels, shelters, and the garages and basements of relatives. Homeless kids are poorly nourished, don't have access to quality health care, and suffer more from both acute and chronic illnesses. They also have learning disabilities at twice the rate of their housed counterparts, and have more emotional problems, which they act out in the form of behavioral problems. They score lower in reading and math. Sometimes these children can't even get to school.
In Baltimore, the Public Justice Center, acting on behalf of three homeless families, filed a federal class action lawsuit to try and get their kids transportation to and from school. There were at least 2,800 homeless children in the city's school system at the time, and the number had doubled since five years before.
One of the plaintiffs, a single mother with two sons, enrolled the younger one in a school near the shelter where they lived. But the older boy needed to stay in his old school for the special education offered there. Often, the mother didn't have money for gas to drive him. In addition, to keep the benefits she and the children needed to survive, she was obligated to do a certain amount of job searching, which was seriously impacted by the amount of time used up in taking the kids to school.
Need for change
Last fall the National Center for Homeless Education issued a report stating that during the 2011-12 school year, 1.2 million school-age kids were homeless in America. The numbers had decreased in only eight states, and in 10 states there were increases of 20% or greater. At around the same time, the U.S. Census Bureau reported that nearly one-fourth of American children were living below the poverty line, and the Southern Education Foundation revealed that nearly half of all the kids in the country qualified for reduced-price or free meals at their schools. Kaufmann wrote, "The federal government's plan was to use the savings gained by reducing homelessness among single adults to fight family homelessness. But that hasn't happened."
But it needs to happen. The same great cities that are making advances by housing single adults need to realize that kids are the future. Sure, keeping chronically homeless adults out of jails and hospitals saves money. But fewer than one homeless kid in four graduates from high school. What is the societal price of that grim fact, and how much will it cost society in five years, in 10 years, when the bills really start to come in?
Source: "America is Ignoring Homeless Families," BillMoyers.com, 04/21/13
Source: "How Little Things Add Up to Keep Homeless Kids From School," TheAtlanticCities.com, 09/30/13
Source: "Youth homelessness at all-time high, says report," AlJazeera.com, 10/25/13
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Some Obscure Homeless Facts
A lot of Americans who are well past middle age grew up with Mad magazine parodies as their source of honest political education. Mad had an imitator called Cracked, a print publication that over the decades metamorphosed into a website that's both entertaining and tuned in to the reality of the times. Strange as it seems, a Cracked.com piece titled "7 Things No One Tells You About Being Homeless" has exposed nearly 1,800,000 visitors to some hard truths that hopefully they will not have the opportunity to find out for themselves.
The author, William Bonnie, who had a job and paid his rent, explains how he came to endure a spell of homelessness anyway. He counts himself as one of the lucky ones, because his life has improved since. He didn't particularly want to learn these things, but passes along something we all need to know: "The line between where you are now and sleeping in your car is much, much thinner than you think." In fact, nearly a third of all people experiencing homelessness are actually employed.
Their chances of ever owning a home? Slim to none. The likelihood of saving enough to move into a rental is almost equally nonexistent. First and last month's rent, plus security deposit, plus enough for minimal furniture, add up to a sizeable chunk of change.
Bonnie goes into considerable detail about the conflicts between shelter rules and the needs of an employed person or someone who's looking for a job. At the very simplest level, shelters are designed to have people sleep at night and vacate the premises during the day, which makes it impossible to live in a shelter and hold a second- or third-shift job.
Car camping
Since sleeping within sight of any citizens in town is usually quickly punished, the car resident will need to spend a considerable amount on fuel to go back and forth to some remote area, if one can be found. Keeping warm can be an expensive proposition, and once in a while you need a night in a cheap motel in order to catch a shower.
If you are suddenly homeless, and lucky enough to have a car, you'll need to invest about $150 in outdoor cooking equipment and, since you don't have a refrigerator, an ice chest. If you're lucky enough to get food stamps, the grocery store is only supposed to sell foods that require from-scratch preparation. Food stamps are not supposed to be used for prepared foods such as deli items, and only four states allow their use in restaurants. It's possible to avoid the cooking problem by subsisting on snack crackers and soda pop, in which case you'll be not only homeless but fat and malnourished.
The author was indeed one of the lucky ones, being white, personable, able-bodied, capable of inspiring trust, and equipped with at least one skill (gourmet cooking) with which to recompense helpful friends. He elaborates on how he was a member of the "hidden homeless" class, composed of people who have enough of a support system to avail themselves of some of the benefits of housed existence and avoid looking like a "stereotypical homeless guy."
A foreign thought
One aspect of homelessness does not become apparent until a person is in that situation — the problem of how to fill up massive amounts of free time when there is no job to go to. It costs money to hang out in even the cheapest diner or café, and few businesses want customers who sit around for hours nursing a single cup of coffee. There are places to hang out for free, but it might get you arrested. So, what happens? Sometimes, Bonnie says, even the person who never had a substance abuse problem before can develop one:
What often comes first is having nothing else to do (an especially big problem for people staying in shelters), and the boredom literally drives them crazy. I finally understood, in a very immediate way, why people who've been living on the street for a long time tend to be addicts: Drugs not only get you high, but also give you a schedule and a routine. And once again we see how a short-term problem can turn into a cycle that threatens to suck the rest of your life into it.
Another important thing he asks us to keep in mind is that nearly 40% of the homeless are younger than 18, and that includes a huge number of children who never did anything to deserve such a harried and tenuous existence. Millions of Americans spend more than half their paychecks on just staying inside walls. We used to be told that a quarter of our income was a reasonable amount, and then it became a third, and now we're not supposed to balk at any outlandish proportion of our income going for rent, because we're darn fortunate not to be sleeping in a dumpster.
Homeowners fare no better, unless they are already wealthy enough not to really need the help they get through the mortgage interest deduction. More than 10 million homeowners are barely hanging on, paying more than half their income for housing. In 2012, homeowners with annual incomes below $50,000 only got 3% of the benefits conveyed by this deduction, while homeowners making more than $100,000 per year reaped 77% of its benefits. But that's a topic for another day.
Source: "7 Things No One Tells You About Being Homeless," Cracked.com, 11/12/13
Source: "Mortgage Interest Deduction Is Ripe for Reform," CPBB.org, 06/25/13
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What Else Is Salt Lake City Doing for the Homeless?
Last time, House the Homeless looked at how things are working out in Salt Lake City, Utah. Getting every military veteran off the street is a big priority there, as both the city and the state want to continue to lead the way toward the Veterans Administration's goal of eliminating veteran homelessness by next year.
Freedom Landing is owned and administered by the municipal Housing Authority. The 110-unit transitional housing facility provides not only a roof but several case managers to help individuals focus on stability and re-entry into both the job market and society in general. At any given time, close to half the residents are already employed and preparing to launch out on their own.
The veterans who live in the repurposed hotel contribute to their rent, and the VA pays part of it. It appears that meals are catered in, but up until a year ago, the only way for a resident to prepare food was to keep an electric skillet or rice-cooker in his or her room. Last March, an underutilized TV room was remodeled into the Freedom Diner and stocked with food donated by the Mormon Church.
Two stoves were installed, one of them wheelchair-accessible, as are some of the tables and counters. People who like to cook are welcome to, not only for themselves but for sharing as well. The idea is to reduce isolation, provide a hangout for morning coffee drinking, and generally foster a sense of camaraderie.
Just two months ago, the Fourth Street Clinic announced its expansion plans, including a dental care center for the homeless, which hopefully will be fully functional by the end of 2015. The Salt Lake Tribune reported:
Dental care has been a major service gap for uninsured Utahns, as decayed or missing teeth erode self-confidence, contribute to unemployment and perpetuate homelessness…. Oral health care will be fully integrated into Fourth Street Clinic's primary care services and delivered by a combination of paid staff, students, and volunteers. Fourth Street Clinic is currently engaged in a broad-based community fundraising campaign to raise the $450,000 needed to annually operate the dental clinic.
LGBT Youth
Salt Lake Tribune reporter Peggy Fletcher Stack wrote earlier this week about the Family Acceptance Project, designed to alleviate the isolation and despair experienced by teens and young adults who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender.
Research led by Caitlin Ryan of San Francisco State University has shown that in any given year more than 5,000 young people experience homelessness in Utah. About 40% of them are LGBT, mostly from homes characterized as socially and religiously conservative. The Mormon Church is collaborating with other churches and organizations to prevent homelessness among young people by educating families and urging them not to react judgmentally to the news that a teenager is gay, bisexual, or transgender.
'Support Salt Lake Street News Vendors, Not Panhandlers'
The slogan quoted above refers to the Salt Lake City Mission's newspaper vending program which was launched last fall to help hundreds of people experiencing homelessness to make honest money as independent marketing agents of the Street Newspaper. The available information is confusing. Reader comments to the Salt Lake Tribune story about the program included this one: "I thought I'd get writing and news from the local homeless population but instead I read nationally syndicated opinions."
Apparently this was not a true launch but a revival of an earlier version of the publication. The Mission's website includes issues dated from May/June 2010 up until February 2012, with no indication of what happened between then and last October. But back in the early days, there was plenty of local material. Volume 1 Number 1 contained such stories as "Life of a Katrina Evacuee" and "Dying Boy's Last Wish is to Help Homeless," and the rest of the pages were all pretty much about street life. Sadly, less than two years later, almost every page included a "your ad could be here" type of space filler. May the newest incarnation of the Street Newspaper prove more successful for all involved.
Source: "New 'diner' will help Utah's homeless veterans share a meal," SLTrib.com, 03/04/13
Source: "Clinic opening to fill dental-care gaps for homeless," SLTrib.com, 01/18/14
Source: "New program aims to prevent suicide, homelessness in LGBT Mormon youth," SLTrib.com, 03/14/14
Source: "Homeless sell "Street Newspaper" rather than panhandling," SLTrib.com, 10/02/13
Source: "Salt Lake Street News," SaltLakeCityMission.org
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Dollars and Sense in Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City, Utah, has boarded the Housing First train in a very promising way. To calculate how economical the solution is, the founders contrasted the cost of housing people in apartments with the cost of incarcerating them and the cost of emergency room treatment for all the various illnesses and injuries that can befall a person who lives on the streets. Cory Doctorow writes:
The "Housing First" program's goal was to end chronic homelessness in Utah within 10 years. Through 2012, it had helped reduce the 2,000 people in that category when it began by 74 percent. Lloyd Pendleton, director of Utah's Homeless Task Force, said the state is on track to meet its goal by 2015, and become the first state in the nation to do so.
2015! That's next year! Salt Lake's commitment to the Housing First ideal began to flower back in 2005, when research showed that the state spent $16,670 a year on jailing and/or providing emergency medical services for each chronically homeless individual. These were people who had experienced homelessness for an average of 25 years.
On the other hand, it would cost the taxpayers only $11,000 per capita and per annum to provide not only an apartment but the attention of a caseworker. We couldn't find a suitable graphic for Salt Lake City, but the chart on this page illustrates the same type of comparison for Los Angeles in a 2008 study. The revolutionary part of the Housing First plan is to attach no strings. People are offered the resources and encouragement to make positive changes, but the deal is unconditional.
Mayor Ralph Becker announced in January that Salt Lake City had "ended veterans' homelessness" except for eight individuals who did not want homes but who were still being contacted by social workers in hopes that they would change their minds.
There may be some confusion, however. Not all homeless vets are in the "chronic homeless" category, which is defined as experiencing homelessness for at least a year or four times within three years while coping with a disability. Indeed, some online comments reacting to an MSNBC story indicate that either miscommunication or misunderstanding is in effect.
One commenter's veteran son ended up living in a truck because he did not receive the help he was entitled to, a situation the commenter blamed on caseworker incompetence. A cab driver wrote in to offer a specialized tour of the city to "anyone who wants to see the real situation." Another commenter served up a description that by no means resembles "no strings attached":
Salt Lake & Phoenix have thousands of homeless veterans on the streets; and the veterans they are calling 'HOUSED' are in prison-like & all-controlling insane asylum complexes, where the veterans are baby-sat 24/7 & threatened with being thrown to the streets if they have ONE BEER while watching a football game!
Still, there is no doubt that many, many people experiencing homelessness have been helped. But despite all the good news, conditions are not idyllic in Utah's capital city.
Only a few weeks before the mayor's speech, Marjorie Cortez, writing for Deseret News, reported that in the previous year only five new units of permanent supportive housing had been added, and no transitional housing units. She interviewed Matt Minkevitch, who serves as executive director of private nonprofit social service agency The Road Home, about food insecurity and learned that during that year emergency food requests had increased by 15%.
In December, the city bureaucracy flexed its muscles and reminded distributors of food to the homeless of the necessity for papers, including a "free expression" permit, a waste management permit, and a food-safety temporary event permit from the Health Department, which must be in hand at least a couple weeks before the event. On the surface, they seem easy enough to get and not outlandishly expensive. Yet this has created big problems for The Road Home. After interviewing the organization's community relations director, Celeste Eggert, journalist Amy McDonald reported:
A bill that passed the House and awaits final action in the Senate would exempt volunteers from the requirement to have a food handler's permit to dish out meals to the homeless…. When the homeless shelter and aid organization learned of the health rules and informed volunteer groups, it lost 39 volunteer groups. As a result, the organization missed out on an estimated 5,850 donated meals…. Eggert says the organization's winter-overflow shelter in Midvale received no donated meals in January and February.
The ironic thing is, 30 years of volunteer food preparation have not resulted in one instance of food poisoning or the finding of foreign objects in any meals.
Source: "Fighting homelessness by giving homeless people houses," BoingBoing.net, 01/22/14
Source: "Second American City Ends Chronic Homelessness Among Veterans," ThinkProgress.org, 01/06/14
Source: "Salt Lake City joins Phoenix in ending veteran homelessness," MSNBC.com, 01/06/14
Source: "Report: Salt Lake City's homelessness efforts making gains but food needs still unmet," DeseretNews.com, 12/12/13
Source: "SLC city officials: Must have a permit to hand out food to the homeless," 4Utah.com, 12/24/2013
Source: "Food safety rules block thousands of meals to homeless in SLC," SLTrib.com, 03/11/14
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The Cost of Outlawing Homelessness
House the Homeless has looked at the costs involved in putting homeless people through the court system and warehousing them in jails, hospitals, and shelters. When pointing out the logic and fiscal responsibility that characterize the Housing First philosophy, those institutional expenses are the easiest to tally up.
It also costs money to run the ambulances and fire department vehicles that so often respond to emergencies involving people experiencing homelessness. Many more seldom-mentioned expenses pull tax money away from places in our society where it is desperately needed. For instance, how much does the federal government pay the contractor in charge of counting the homeless? How much money would it save if there were no homeless to count? How much is it costing society to disqualify so many people from future employment possibilities because of petty charges connected with homelessness? Journalist Barbara Ehrenreich puts the criminalization of the homeless in perspective:
Once you have been deemed a criminal, you can pretty much kiss your remaining assets goodbye. Not only will you face the aforementioned court costs, but you'll have a hard time ever finding a job again once you've acquired a criminal record. And then of course, the poorer you become, the more likely you are to get in fresh trouble with the law, making this less like a "cycle" and more like the waterslide to hell.
There is a whole constellation of crimes that we, with dark humor, call "breathing while homeless." Here are a few headlines illustrating the often-overlooked ways in which cities and counties hemorrhage money while prosecuting those crimes and waging a de facto war on the poor.
'City to pay homeless man $200,000 in police beating'
Michael Allen Mallicoat suffered broken ribs and a punctured lung after being handcuffed and beaten by three police officers. Three cops pleaded guilty to felony official misconduct and resigned. Four other cops were suspended, and three supervisors reprimanded. The $200,000 is a settlement, in return for which the victim agreed not to sue Knoxville, Tenn., for a much larger amount.
'LA ordered to pay $700K to lawyers for homeless in lawsuit'
A U.S. appeals court ordered Los Angeles to pay $700,000 to lawyers for homeless people in a lawsuit resulting in overturning a ban on sleeping in the streets…. A 2006 court ruling held clearing people from streets without providing beds is cruel and unusual punishment.
'Innocent Homeless Family's Wooden Shack Raided By Police'
In the fall of 2010, two L.A. County sheriff's deputies, unequipped with a warrant and without identifying themselves as police — indeed, with no verbal exchange or warning at all — broke into a wooden shack where Angel and Jennifer Mendez slept. Apparently police opened fire before even seeing the BB gun rifle which was all Angel Mendez had to protect his pregnant wife from ill-intentioned intruders. The deputies fired 15 times, hitting the husband 10 times and the wife once.
Mendez ended up losing a leg. The sheriff's department conducted an internal review which found, of course, that the shooting was justified. But a federal judge decided that the cops had violated the couple's Fourth Amendment rights, and awarded the husband $3.8 million and the wife $222,000. Writer Bobby Caselnova asked, quite reasonably:
Why is it that if an ordinary citizen had broken into a home and started firing at the occupants, they would be thrown in prison, but when law enforcement officers do the same thing — and are found by a judge to be wrong — only the taxpayers are punished, not the officers themselves?
'Homeless food case costs Albuquerque $120,000′
In Albuquerque, N.M., three people were arrested and charged with "inciting a riot, refusing to obey an officer, resisting arrest and failure to have a required permit." What on earth were they doing? Giving food to people experiencing homelessness. A lengthy legal battle ensued, and eventually the charges were dismissed. But the three men filed civil rights lawsuits against the city, claiming that their First and Fourth Amendment rights had been violated. The settlement they were awarded cost the city more than $120,000.
'City must pay $134K for targeting the homeless'
Ninety-nine criminal citations were dismissed thanks to the intervention of the San Luis Obispo Homeless Alliance. Dozens of people in the California city had been accused of the crime of sleeping in their cars, but a judge found the city's law against vehicular sleeping to be unconstitutional, and awarded a payout of $134,000, which all went to the lawyers.
Sgt. Theresa Skinner, a senior lead officer in the Venice, Calif., police force, said in a recent interview that about 75% of the complaints she deals with concern transients, which is a rather rude term for people experiencing homelessness. Sgt. Skinner is quoted as saying, "Sometimes I wish I had crime that was more police-related. We'll never make enough arrests or write enough tickets to get rid of homelessness."
The bronze sculpture "Home Coming" is closer to becoming reality. See the three short videos about its creation.
"Home Coming"
"I Used to Be Your Neighbor"
"What's the Buzz?"
Source: "Tomgram: Barbara Ehrenreich, Looting the Lives of the Poor," TomDispatch.com, 05/17/12
Source: "City to pay homeless man $200,000 in police beating," KnoxNews.com, 01/22/14
Source: "LA ordered to pay $700K to lawyers for homeless in lawsuit," UPI.com, 01/31/14
Source: "Innocent Homeless Family's Wooden Shack Raided By Police," PoliceStateUSA.com, 08/20/13
Source: "Homeless food case costs Albuquerque $120,000," ABQJournal.com. 08/12/13
Source: "City must pay $134K for targeting homeless," MercuryNews.com, 01/18/13
Source: "Venice's famed tolerance is being tested by the homeless," LATimes.com, 02/03/14
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1. Merlin (2008– )
45 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
The adventures of the legendary sorcerer as a young man.
Creators: Johnny Capps, Julian Jones, Jake Michie, Julian Murphy | Stars: John Hurt, Colin Morgan, Bradley James, Richard Wilson
2. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
PG | 91 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
King Arthur and his knights embark on a low-budget search for the Grail, encountering many very silly obstacles.
Writers: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Michael Palin | Directors: Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones | Stars: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam
3. Camelot (1967)
G | 179 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
The story of the marriage of England's King Arthur to Guinevere. The plot of illegitimate Modred to gain the throne and Guinevere's growing attachment to Sir Lancelot, threaten to topple Arthur and destroy his "round table" of knights.
Writers: Alan Jay Lerner, T.H. White | Director: Joshua Logan | Stars: Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, Franco Nero, David Hemmings
4. Shrek the Third (2007)
PG | 93 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
When his new father-in-law, King Harold falls ill, Shrek is looked at as the heir to the land of Far, Far Away. Not one to give up his beloved swamp, Shrek recruits his friends Donkey and Puss in Boots to install the rebellious Artie as the new king. Princess Fiona, however, rallies a band of royal girlfriends to fend off a coup d'etat by the jilted Prince Charming.
Writers: William Steig, Andrew Adamson, Jeffrey Price, Peter S. Seaman, Chris Miller, Aron Warner, Jeff Snow | Directors: Chris Miller, Raman Hui | Stars: Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy, Antonio Banderas
5. DragonHeart (1996)
PG-13 | 103 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The last dragon and a disillusioned dragonslaying knight must cooperate to stop an evil king who was given partial immortality.
Writers: Patrick Read Johnson, Charles Edward Pogue | Director: Rob Cohen | Stars: Dennis Quaid, Sean Connery, Dina Meyer, Pete Postlethwaite
6. Camelot (2011 TV Mini-Series)
45 min | Drama, Fantasy
King Uther dies suddenly. Britain is facing chaos. The sorcerer Merlin appoints the not so known son and heir Arthur as the king who was raised as a commoner, but his half sister has other ... See full summary »
Creators: Chris Chibnall, Michael Hirst | Stars: Joseph Fiennes, Jamie Campbell Bower, Tamsin Egerton, Peter Mooney
7. The Last Legion (2007)
PG-13 | 102 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
As the Roman empire crumbles, young Romulus Augustus flees the city and embarks on a perilous voyage to Britain to track down a legion of supporters.
Writers: Jez Butterworth, Tom Butterworth, Carlo Carlei, Peter Rader, Valerio Manfredi | Director: Doug Lefler | Stars: Colin Firth, Ben Kingsley, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Peter Mullan
8. Excalibur (1981)
R | 140 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Merlin the magician helps Arthur Pendragon unite the Britons around the round table of Camelot even as forces conspire to tear it apart
Writers: Thomas Malory, Rospo Pallenberg, John Boorman | Director: John Boorman | Stars: Nigel Terry, Helen Mirren, Nicholas Clay, Cherie Lunghi
9. First Knight (1995)
PG-13 | 134 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
Lancelot falls in love with Guinevere, who is due to be married to King Arthur. Meanwhile, a violent warlord tries to seize power from Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table.
Writers: Lorne Cameron, David Hoselton, William Nicholson | Director: Jerry Zucker | Stars: Sean Connery, Richard Gere, Julia Ormond, Ben Cross
10. The Sword in the Stone (1963)
G | 79 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
The wizard Merlin teaches a young boy who is destined to be King Arthur.
Writers: Bill Peet, T.H. White | Director: Wolfgang Reitherman | Stars: Rickie Sorensen, Sebastian Cabot, Karl Swenson, Junius Matthews
11. Merlin (1998 TV Mini-Series)
Not Rated | 182 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
The legendary wizard tells his story of his war against Queen Mab of the Sidhe and his creation of Camelot.
Stars: Sam Neill, Helena Bonham Carter, John Gielgud, Rutger Hauer
12. Avalon High (2010 TV Movie)
Drama, Family, Fantasy
A teenage girl moves to a new high school where she slowly discovers herself involved in the reincarnation of King Arthur.
Writers: Julie Sherman Wolfe, Amy Talkington, Meg Cabot | Director: Stuart Gillard | Stars: Britt Robertson, Samuel Levi, Gregg Sulkin, Joey Pollari
13. A Kid in King Arthur's Court (1995)
PG | 89 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Young Calvin Fuller is pulled into King Arthur's court by Merlin. His mission: to save Camelot. To do this he must overcome the villain known as Lord Belascoe, train to become a knight, and... See full summary »
Writers: Michael Part, Robert L. Levy | Director: Michael Gottlieb | Stars: Thomas Ian Nicholas, Joss Ackland, Art Malik, Paloma Baeza
14. The Mists of Avalon (2001 TV Movie)
Unrated | 183 min | Drama, Fantasy
Based on the bestseller by Marion Zimmer Bradley It tells the story of the women behind King Arthur; including his mother, Igraine; his half-sister, Morgaine; his aunt Viviane, the Lady of ... See full summary »
Writers: Marion Zimmer Bradley, Gavin Scott | Director: Uli Edel | Stars: Anjelica Huston, Julianna Margulies, Joan Allen, Samantha Mathis
15. Prince Valiant (1954)
Approved | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A young Viking prince strives to become a knight in King Arthur's Court and restore his exiled father to his rightful throne.
Writers: Hal Foster, Dudley Nichols | Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: James Mason, Janet Leigh, Robert Wagner, Debra Paget
16. Prince Valiant (1997)
PG-13 | 91 min | Adventure, Fantasy
In a time now lost in the mists of memory, the great King Arthur rules in the legendary citadel that is Camelot. His Knights of the Round Table commit acts of derring-do and spend their ... See full summary »
Writers: Hal Foster, Michael Frost Beckner, Anthony Hickox, Carsten H.W. Lorenz | Director: Anthony Hickox | Stars: Stephen Moyer, Katherine Heigl, Thomas Kretschmann, Edward Fox
17. Siege of the Saxons (1963)
Approved | 85 min | Adventure, History
King Arthur learns one of his knights is plotting to take over and marry his daughter. After the King's death, the Knight wishing to marry the princess is ordered by the great wizard Merlin... See full summary »
Writers: John Kohn, Jud Kinberg | Director: Nathan Juran | Stars: Janette Scott, Ronald Lewis, Ronald Howard, John Laurie
18. Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1984)
PG | 102 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Gawain was a squire in King Arthur's court when the Green Knight burst in and offered to play a game with a brave knight. No knights stand to defend their king's honor. Except for the ... See full summary »
Writers: Stephen Weeks, Howard C. Pen, Philip M. Breen, Rosemary Sutcliff, Therese Burdon | Director: Stephen Weeks | Stars: Miles O'Keeffe, Cyrielle Clair, Leigh Lawson, Sean Connery
19. Camelot (1982 TV Movie)
150 min | Musical
Part of the cable series "HBO Theatre", this is a videotaped presentation of the 1980 Broadway revival of the musical.
Writer: Alan Jay Lerner | Director: Marty Callner | Stars: Richard Harris, Meg Bussert, Richard Muenz, Barrie Ingham
20. The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2002)
86 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
When his new neighbour turns out to be the wizard merlin young Ben Clark is enlisted in an ancient battle to save the world
Writer: Brett Morris | Director: David Lister | Stars: Robert Davi, Kelly LeBrock, Byron Taylor, Greg Melvill-Smith
21. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949)
106 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
A singing mechanic from 1912 finds himself in Arthurian Britain.
Writers: Mark Twain, Edmund Beloin | Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Bing Crosby, Rhonda Fleming, Cedric Hardwicke, William Bendix
22. Waxwork II: Lost in Time (1992)
R | 104 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
In this sequel, a couple must use a portal through time to defeat evil.
Writer: Anthony Hickox | Director: Anthony Hickox | Stars: Zach Galligan, Monika Schnarre, Martin Kemp, Bruce Campbell
23. Stuck on You! (1982)
R | 88 min | Comedy, Romance
A couple with marriage problems goes to Family Court, where a judge takes them back in time to view lovers through the ages.
Writers: Jeffrey Delman, Tony Gittelson, Michael Herz, Lloyd Kaufman, Darren Kloomok, Warren Leight, Duffy Caesar Magesis, Melanie Mintz, Don Perman, Stuart Strutin | Directors: Michael Herz, Lloyd Kaufman | Stars: Irwin Corey, Virginia Penta, Mark Mikulski, Albert Pia
24. A Knight in Camelot (1998 TV Movie)
90 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi, Adventure
A computer malfunction causes a science researcher to be sent back in time with her laptop, which she uses to amaze the court.
Writers: Mark Twain, Joe Wiesenfeld | Director: Roger Young | Stars: Whoopi Goldberg, Michael York, Paloma Baeza, Simon Fenton
25. The Black Knight (1954)
Approved | 85 min | Adventure
As a blacksmith John can't hope to win the hand of Linet, daughter of the Earl of Yeonil. Off he goes to prove himself a noble knight. He makes himself a suit of armor with a winged chicken... See full summary »
Writers: Alec Coppel, Dennis O'Keefe, Bryan Forbes | Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Alan Ladd, Patricia Medina, André Morell, Harry Andrews
26. Arthur the King (1985 TV Movie)
180 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery
Classic tale of King Arthur and how his wife is kidnapped by his evil sister. Lancelot is sent out to try and retrieve the lost queen and unfortunately falls in love with her. Forbidden ... See full summary »
Writers: David Wyles, John Smith | Director: Clive Donner | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Candice Bergen, Edward Woodward, Dyan Cannon
27. Unidentified Flying Oddball (1979)
G | 93 min | Comedy, Family, Adventure
An astronaut and his android double travel back to the time of King Arthur.
Writers: Don Tait, Mark Twain | Director: Russ Mayberry | Stars: Dennis Dugan, Jim Dale, Ron Moody, Kenneth More
28. Knights of the Round Table (1953)
Approved | 115 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
King Arthur's rule is threatened by the adulterous love between Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere, a relationship the king's enemies hope to exploit.
Writers: Talbot Jennings, Jan Lustig, Noel Langley, Thomas Malory | Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Mel Ferrer, Anne Crawford
29. Perceval (1978)
140 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Writers: Eric Rohmer, Chrétien de Troyes | Director: Eric Rohmer | Stars: Fabrice Luchini, André Dussollier, Solange Boulanger, Catherine Schroeder
30. Sword of Lancelot (1963)
116 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
This period action classic features Cornel Wilde, who also co-produced and directed this film, as Lancelot, the bravest knight of the Round Table.
Writers: Richard Schayer, Cornel Wilde | Director: Cornel Wilde | Stars: Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace, Brian Aherne, George Baker
31. Arthur of the Britons (1972–1973)
30 min | Adventure
This series strips away the elaborate medieval view of Camelot, and presents Arthur as the chief of a small Celt tribe in Dark-Ages Britain, a century or two after the withdrawal of Rome. ... See full summary »
Stars: Oliver Tobias, Michael Gothard, Jack Watson, Brian Blessed
32. Guinevere (1994 TV Movie)
96 min | Adventure, Fantasy
The legend of King Arthur, Sir Lancelot and Guinevere, told from a somewhat more feminist perspective.
Writers: Persia Woolley, Ronni Kern | Director: Jud Taylor | Stars: Sheryl Lee, Sean Patrick Flanery, Noah Wyle, Brid Brennan
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34. Little Miss Marker (1934)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Family, Drama
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Writers: Damon Runyon, William R. Lipman, Sam Hellman, Gladys Lehman | Director: Alexander Hall | Stars: Adolphe Menjou, Dorothy Dell, Charles Bickford, Shirley Temple
35. Camelot (I) (1998 Video)
G | 48 min | Animation, Family
Director: Diane Eskenazi
36. Arthur's Quest (1999 TV Movie)
PG | 87 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
To escape the clutches of the evil warrior and sorceress Morgana, Merlin transports young King Arthur into modern day America. When Merlin comes back ten years later to retrieve him, he ... See full summary »
Writers: Lance W. Dreesen, Clint Hutchison, Gregory Poppen | Director: Neil Mandt | Stars: Eric Christian Olsen, Catherine Oxenberg, Alexandra Paul, Clint Howard
37. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1989 TV Movie)
95 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
After a horse accident, Karen wakes up to find herself in past Britain, close to Camelot, the famous castle of King Arthur.
Writers: Mark Twain, Paul Zindel | Director: Mel Damski | Stars: Keshia Knight Pulliam, Jean Marsh, Rene Auberjonois, Emma Samms
38. The Adventures of Sir Lancelot (1956–1957)
30 min | Adventure, Family
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39. A Young Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1995)
95 min | Adventure
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40. Gawain and the Green Knight (1973)
93 min | Adventure, Fantasy
The medieval legend of a supernatural knight who challenges the king's men to kill him.
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Writer: Neal Marshall Stevens | Director: Jeff Burr | Stars: Toran Caudell, Russ Tamblyn, Michael Ansara, Amber Tamblyn
42. A Connecticut Yankee (1931)
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44. Knighty Knight Bugs (1958)
Approved | 6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
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45. Lancelot: Guardian of Time (1997)
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46. King Arthur, the Young Warlord (1975)
PG | 95 min | Adventure, Drama
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Directors: Sidney Hayers, Pat Jackson, Peter Sasdy | Stars: Oliver Tobias, John Watson, Michael Gothard, Brian Blessed
47. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2002 TV Movie)
25 min | Animation
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Writers: Martin Lamb, Penélope Middleboe | Director: Tim Fernee | Stars: James D'Arcy, Anton Lesser, Samantha Spiro, Ronan Vibert
48. The Excalibur Kid (1999 Video)
PG | 88 min | Adventure, Fantasy
Zack doesn't have your ordinary adolescent problems. Transported back in time to medieval England, he lands in the middle of a vicious battle between an evil witch and Merlin, the master ... See full summary »
Writer: Antony Anderson | Director: James Head | Stars: Jason McSkimming, François Klanfer, Mac Fyfe, Francesca Scorsone
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15 min | Fantasy
Writer: Andrew McCaldon | Director: Oliver Smyth | Stars: Eddie Wells, Isabelle Allen, Gareth Hale, Kayci Hamill
50. Merlin and the Dragons (1991 TV Movie)
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NFL Preview - New England (6-2) at Indianapolis (8-0)
By Scott Garbarini, Associate NFL Editor
(Sports Network) - The Indianapolis Colts are halfway towards achieving a goal the New England Patriots know a little something about. The AFC South leaders will put their spotless 2009 record on the line when the two conference heavyweights go toe-to-toe this Sunday at Lucas Oil Stadium in the marquee matchup of the Week 10 slate.
Winners of their first eight games, the Colts are one of two teams still unbeaten at the midway point of this campaign and have an opportunity to join the 2007 Patriots as the only club to complete a 16-game regular-season with a perfect record. Indianapolis has also won an astounding 17 straight non- playoff tests dating back to last year, a streak that began with an 18-15 decision over the Tom Brady-less Pats at Lucas Oil Stadium. The winning points were provided by former New England Super Bowl hero Adam Vinatieri, with the veteran kicker booting a tie-breaking 52-yard field goal midway through the fourth quarter.
If Indianapolis is able to knock off the Patriots, who have prevailed in their last three outings and stand atop the AFC East with a 6-2 record, it will have tied the second-longest regular-season win streak in NFL history. That place happens to be held by New England, which ripped off 18 consecutive victories spanning the 2003 and 2004 seasons behind the highly-successful duo of Brady and head coach Bill Belichick.
The Colts had to work for their most recent triumph, utilizing a short touchdown run from running back Joseph Addai in the fourth quarter to best a game Houston squad by a 20-17 score last Sunday at Lucas Oil Stadium. Indianapolis squandered an early 13-0 lead before embarking on an eight-play, 61-yard drive to move back ahead, then survived a Texans comeback bid that came up short when kicker Kris Brown missed a 42-yard field goal try as time expired.
While the Colts come into Sunday's showdown with the glossier record, New England may be the team playing the best football in the AFC at the moment. After obliterating Tennessee and Tampa Bay by a combined 94-7 overall margin to close out October, the Patriots returned from a bye week to post a 27-17 home win over defending AFC East champion Miami this past Sunday.
New England also had to earn its latest victory with a second-half rally. Trailing 17-16 late in the third quarter, the Pats pulled in front on a 71- yard connection from Brady to Randy Moss followed by a successful two-point attempt, then kept the determined Dolphins off the scoreboard in the final period.
This highly-anticipated clash will not only be featuring a pair of division front-runners and probable AFC playoff participants. It will also pit the top two passing offenses and scoring defenses in the NFL at the moment, not to mention the always-intriguing head-to-head battle between two legendary quarterbacks in Brady and the Colts' Peyton Manning.
The future Hall of Famers have opposed one another nine times over the course of this decade, three of which have come in the postseason. Brady's Patriots have come out on top in six of those occasions, but Manning and the Colts have won three of the past four meetings, including a 38-34 verdict in the 2006 AFC Championship.
The Patriots hold a 42-27 edge in their all-time regular season series with the Colts, but as previously mentioned, were 18-15 road losers when they visited Indianapolis in Week 9 of last season. New England won the previous meeting, a 24-20 decision at the RCA Dome in 2007. The teams were a combined 15-0 heading into that matchup.
The Patriots and Colts have met three times in the postseason, with New England taking a 24-14 decision in the 2003 AFC Championship and a 20-3 triumph in a 2004 AFC Divisional Playoff prior to the Colts' 38-34 home win in the 2006 AFC Championship.
The Patriots are 32-13, including playoffs, against Indianapolis since the Colts moved from Baltimore following the 1983 season.
Belichick is 10-7 against the Colts all-time, including 8-5 while with the Patriots. Indianapolis' Jim Caldwell will be meeting both Belichick and New England for the first time as a head coach.
Brady (2364 passing yards, 16 TD, 5 INT) has shaken off some early rust from the serious knee injury that sidelined the three-time Super Bowl champion for nearly all of 2008, as he's thrown for over 300 yards in each of New England's last three victories and heaved six touchdown passes in the team's 59-0 shellacking of Tennessee back in Week 6. The standout signal-caller is backed by one of the league's premier receiving tandems in Moss (49 receptions, 712 yards, 5 TD), who delivered a season-best 147 yards on six grabs against the Dolphins last week, and super slotman Wes Welker (55 receptions, 568 yards, 4 TD). Rookie Julian Edelman (21 receptions) had been developing into a capable third option, but the former college quarterback is out indefinitely with a forearm fracture sustained in the Tennessee game. The Patriots' potent offense has been even tougher to stop lately due to the re-emergence of 2006 first- round pick Laurence Maroney (347 rushing yards, 3 TD, 6 receptions) as an effective running back. The talented 24-year-old has scored in three straight games and is averaging over five yards per carry during that time period. The front line has been without two-time Pro Bowl left tackle Matt Light for the last three tilts because of a knee sprain, but youngster Sebastian Vollmer has done a good job filling in. Steady center Dan Koppen left the Miami game with a knee problem of his own, and the always-secretive Pats have been tight- lipped about his availability for Sunday.
The Colts have managed to play solid defense despite a number of key players having been saddled with injuries, but those health issues could be catching up with the team. The Texans' Matt Schaub put up 311 passing yards last week on a secondary that started a pair of rookies, Jerraud Powers (40 tackles, 1 INT, 5 PD) and Jacob Lacey (35 tackles, 1 INT, 6 PD) at the cornerback spots. Top coverman Kelvin Hayden (18 tackles, 1 INT) will miss at least one more week with a sprained knee, while game-changer Bob Sanders lasted just two games before the brittle strong safety was forced to injured reserve with a biceps tear. Indianapolis is at full strength on the defensive line, however, and will do its best to attempt to neutralize New England's dangerous passing attack with the fearsome pass-rush combo of ends Dwight Freeney (19 tackles, 9.5 sacks) and Robert Mathis (26 tackles, 6.5 sacks). The pair has produced 16 of the club's healthy total of 22 sacks, and Freeney has gotten to the quarterback at least once in every game this year.
It's fair to say the Colts wouldn't have gotten to this point unscathed without the commanding presence of Manning (2545 passing yards, 16 TD, 5 INT), who may be in the midst of the greatest season of a career that's been full of exceptional moments. The perennial All-Pro has eclipsed 300 passing yards in all but one of the team's eight games and is completing an incredible 70.6 percent of his throws, while having taken a mere seven sacks due to his quick release and sharp decision-making skills. He's not the only Indianapolis player having a banner year for the NFL's top-ranked passing offense (315.0 ypg), however. Tight end Dallas Clark (60 receptions, 703 yards, 3 TD) leads the league in catches per game and hauled in a career-best 14 Manning strikes totaling 119 yards in last week's win, while star wideout Reggie Wayne's (59 receptions, 6 TD) 753 receiving yards is the second-highest individual total this season. Youngsters Austin Collie (32 receptions, 4 TD) and Pierre Garcon (23 receptions, 2 TD) have also made notable contributions, with Addai (399 rushing yards, 34 receptions, 7 total TD) serving as a reliable receiver out of the backfield as well. The fourth-year back has had to take on more of the rushing load with rookie Donald Brown (212 rushing yards, 2 TD, 7 receptions) out the last two games with a shoulder contusion, but the 2009 first-round choice is ready to resume his role after practicing without limitations this week.
A revamped New England defense has managed to remain at a high level even after undergoing a host of significant offseason changes. The Pats have yielded the second-fewest points in the league (14.4 ppg) and stand fourth overall versus the pass (179.4 ypg), with opposing quarterbacks having completed only 56 percent of their attempts. The new-look group is headlined by inside linebacker Jerod Mayo (33 tackles), the 2008 NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year, while ex-Chicago castoff Brandon McGowan (54 tackles, 3 forced fumbles) has made quite an impact upon seizing the starting strong safety job early in September. Veteran corner Leigh Bodden (31 tackles, 1 INT, 7 PD), brought in from Detroit during the spring, has also helped solidify a secondary that should get counterpart Jonathan Wilhite (16 tackles) back in action after the sophomore sat out the Miami game due to illness. Right end Jarvis Green (18 tackles) probably won't return from a recent knee scope this week, but valued reserve Mike Wright (17 tackles), the team's leader with four sacks, is an adequate substitute. The Patriots have only generated 15 sacks through eight games and will be taking on an Indianapolis club that's given up the fewest in the NFL.
Fantasy enthusiasts will have plenty of reasons to tune in for this nationally-televised primetime affair, with both rosters sporting a wealth of high-caliber performers. Manning, Wayne and Clark are every-week starting locks for the Colts, with Brady, Moss and Welker owning the same status on the New England side. The Patriots' Maroney and Indianapolis' Addai have been able to reward their owners in recent weeks, and with the possibility of a high- scoring matchup on tap, there's obvious potential for both backs on Sunday. Keep Donald Brown on the bench for this week, as the rookie will likely be eased in off an injury, but Collie has some upside as a flex player as the third receiver in a pass-heavy offense. Both kickers have value, as New England's Stephen Gostkowski is second in the league in field goals and Indy's Matt Stover has gone 6-for-6 in three-pointers in three games since replacing an injured Vinatieri.
Even though it's never wise to bet against Manning, there are a few factors which could play in the Patriots' favor here. The first regards the shaky depth of an Indianapolis secondary that has gotten surprisingly good play out of a pair of untested rookies, ones who struggled at times against Houston's outstanding duo of Schaub and Andre Johnson last week and have yet to face a trio of the caliber of Brady, Moss and Welker. Secondly, New England has shown better offensive balance among the two teams as of late and should be able to keep Indianapolis' excellent pass rushers from teeing off if it can run the ball as effectively as in past weeks. And finally, there's the law of averages. The Colts are going to lose at some point this season, and they've had to scrape and claw their way past teams that aren't as good as the Patriots on a few occasions this year. In a game that clearly has the chance to live up to its advance billing, New England's advantages on defense and ability to run the football give the visitors an ever-so slight edge.
Sports Network Predicted Outcome: Patriots 27, Colts 24


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