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WSC to Host Fourth Annual Language Arts Festival
[updated 01-11-2008]
Wayne State College will host its fourth annual Language Arts Festival on April 11 for students in grades seven through 12. Carol Gorman, award-winning author of numerous books for young people, will be the featured author. The festival is organized by Dr. Janet Gilligan, professor of English at Wayne State.
The Nebraska Humanities Council (NHC) provides major funding for this program. The NHC receives support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Nebraska State Legislature, the Nebraska Cultural Endowment, and private donations. This event also receives funding through a WSC Service-Learning sub grant provided by the Midwest Consortium for Service-Learning.
Students are invited to submit original fiction and poetry to a writing contest and bring posters to an on-campus competition. In addition to the contests, students, teachers and parents are invited to come to the Wayne State College Student Center to participate in workshops on writing, literature, media and drama from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. There will be an awards banquet at noon. The five best stories and poems from each grade will be published in an anthology. First-place winners of all contests will receive medals.
Short Stories
Short stories may be original fiction of any genre—fantasy, realism, science fiction, historical fiction, and so on. The stories should be well written and carefully edited.
Individuals may submit only one entry in the short story contest but may submit poetry as well as a short story. Short stories must be no less than 1,000 words and no more than 5,000 words in length.
Poems must be original works on any subject, rhymed or free-verse, length not to exceed two typed double-spaced pages. Individuals may submit a short story and poetry or several poems.
Poster Competition
Students are invited to bring posters promoting the language arts. These may focus on reading, writing or other language skill, or celebrate a work of literature. These will be judged at the event and certificates will be awarded to the best entries.
How to Submit Your Work
Submissions should be written on a word processor, preferably in Microsoft Word, double-spaced, using a standard 12 point font, preferably Arial. Stories and poems must be submitted as attachments to an e-mail. No hard copies will be accepted. In the e-mail, give your name, grade, school, address, teacher, telephone number, and the title of your story. Attach a copy of your story to the e-mail. Give the file containing your story a title that consists of your last name followed by your grade in school. Example: Smith9
This is very important. Without this information it is very difficult to place your story or poem in the right grade category and to make sure no entries are lost. On the story itself, type the following information in the top left hand corner of the first page: Name, e-mail address, grade, school, and teacher.
All rights of the composition remain the property of the author. Permission by the author is given for one-time publications. Entries must be received by March 1, 2008.
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Evaluating Writing
Review of the submitted writings will begin March 1. Faculty members of the School of Humanities and English Education students will read and evaluate all entries. They will select the five best short stories and poems in each grade. Authors of the short stories and poems selected for the anthology will be notified via e-mail.
Each student whose work is selected as one of the best five in each grade will receive a complimentary copy of the Anthology in their category. If funds permit, a copy will be made available to each student attending the Festival. Additional copies of the anthologies will be available for $15 each.
No entry fee is required. All expenses for travel and meals are the responsibility of the student attending the Language Arts Festival. Lunch in the WSC cafeteria is about $5.50; the banquet is $8.25.
It is not necessary to submit an entry to attend the Festival. If you plan on attending, please copy and fill in the registration form below. Either mail or e-mail the form to:
Janet Gilligan
Language Arts Festival
Department of Literature and Language
Wayne State College
Wayne, NE 68787
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by Nancy Thayer
reviewed by Kelly Smith
When the lives of sisters Abbie and Emma Fox implode, they each return to their childhood home on Nantucket Island to lick their wounds and figure out their next move. Younger sister Lily has never left the island, taking care of their father Jim and the house which hasn't left her much time to figure out where her life is headed. Their mother committed suicide when they were young and changed each sister in very different ways. These differences become glaring when they're all under the same roof once again as each sister struggles with reconciling what's happened in their lives with the unknown of the future. Adding to girls' confusion is Marina, a woman who came to the island to recover from a terrible shock in her own life, winds up renting the cottage on the family property (Which I could totally see myself living in!), and catching their father's eye. Throughout the book, the women of Beachcombers learn to come to terms with each other, their faults, expectations and pasts and discover that despite everything, they're going to be okay and deserve the happiness each discovers from having come home.
Let me start by saying that I'm all in when it comes to anything having to do with Nantucket Island. It's a beautiful place to be and Nancy Thayer describes it wonderfully. That being said, I really enjoyed this book. The characters were well-written and dimensional enough to keep them interesting. The plot line, while on the surface may seem simple, becomes more complex as each character's internal struggles are met, challenged and resolved.
Beachcombers is a thoroughly enjoyable read and I fully intend on reading more from Nancy Thayer and hope you do too!
5 Stars

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Two years isn't very long in the grand scheme of life, but it's enoughElmo Q. Shangnasterhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7479525.post-2398833520297938712008-11-27T04:52:00.005-05:002008-11-27T05:48:33.767-05:00Alice's Restaurant MassacreThat's pronounced "mass-a-cree" by Arlo Guthrie, if you happen not to be old enough to remember this schtick from the 60's. Seeing as how this is Thanksgiving I thought it appropriate. Enjoy...This song is called Alice's Restaurant, and it's about Alice, and the restaurant, but Alice's Restaurant is not the name of the restaurant, that's just the name of the song, and that's why I called the songElmo Q. Shangnasterhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7479525.post-31551901967829732732008-11-19T17:18:00.002-05:002008-11-19T17:23:09.523-05:00What are the chances...The California Supreme Court on Wednesday accepted three lawsuits seeking to overturn Proposition 8. The amendment passed this month with 52 percent of the vote....that the SCOCA will allow the voters of California to decide this issue? It ain't too good.Elmo Q. Shangnasterhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7479525.post-25044926149002333412008-11-13T22:32:00.000-05:002008-11-13T22:34:27.747-05:00Give it a little more timeElmo Q. Shangnasterhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7479525.post-33642995797281738482008-11-08T21:49:00.001-05:002008-11-08T21:50:48.847-05:00coComments addedLet's just try this and see how it works. Seems like most of the bugs/fixes have been ironed out...Elmo Q. Shangnasterhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7479525.post-67968018635779974802008-11-07T20:23:00.005-05:002008-11-07T20:37:36.095-05:00The "magic" has descendedI don't ever remember a new president-elect giving a press conference standing behind a podium with a sign reading "Office of the PRESIDENT-elect", and I've been through Nixon to Carter to Reagan to Bush to Clinton to Bush. It seems I'm not the only one who notices this bit of narcissism. His flair for the dramatic, combined with his mellifluous speeches, melts the hearts of the faithful. It's Elmo Q. Shangnasterhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7479525.post-42173483872431685832008-11-07T11:47:00.003-05:002008-11-07T12:18:07.894-05:00A future and a hopeOf all the things I've read and heard since the election of Tuesday, this is by far the most important and significant statement anyone's made...Since it's now far too late to salvage the USA in its present form, the important thing is to build for the future. If there's one thing certain about dysfunctional societies, it is that they are doomed to collapse. Therefore it is much more important toElmo Q. Shangnasterhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7479525.post-34436177865595675682008-11-05T22:24:00.002-05:002008-11-05T22:37:47.830-05:00Polling numbersPolling totals, 98% precincts reporting: Obama 62,945,914 52% McCain 55,753,790 46% Nader 646,933 1% Barr 483,973 1% Baldwin 172,635 0% McKinney 140,749 0% Keyes 34,498 0% Paul 19,285 0%Georgia unofficial polling, 96% Elmo Q. Shangnasterhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7479525.post-25392214672269378202008-11-04T22:10:00.005-05:002008-11-05T10:57:37.930-05:00And what was that about wasted votes?Fox News quoted a statistic from exit polling about Indiana white evangelical voters tonight. According to exit polling, and I know exit polling is somewhat unreliable, white evangelicals, and I know defining evangelicals is a challenge, voted for Obama, who's a Marxist who doesn't know an abortion technique he doesn't like, in the neighborhood of 31%...31%And idiotic Christians would try to lay Elmo Q. Shangnasterhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7479525.post-13166973326611663852008-11-04T10:00:00.000-05:002008-11-04T09:07:03.784-05:00Today's a good day to wave the flagAnother reason I won't be voting for McCain this time or any time.John McCain on Wednesday [January 16th] sharply defended his opposition eight years ago to the flying of the Confederate battle flag over the South Carolina state capitol in Columbia, brushing aside protests that dogged him at campaign events and suggesting most people in the state don't want the issue reopened.Several protesters Elmo Q. Shangnasterhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7479525.post-71419914231484654602008-11-04T09:10:00.000-05:002008-11-04T09:10:00.581-05:00Fairy tale electionsLet's just put an end to the charade that the law makes things fair.In Connecticut, state officials initially said the Barr campaign came up about 500 names short of the 7,500 signatures required to put Barr's name on the ballot. They later acknowledged that they had made an addition error. Barr was only 321 names shy of the minimum. The state then admitted that state officials had actually lost Elmo Q. Shangnasterhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7479525.post-7996145596911465522008-11-04T05:00:00.001-05:002008-11-04T09:13:49.742-05:00One party is as good as another Part 2Continued from Dan Phillips' "Biblical Christianity" blog:4. All third-party candidates are immature, fools, and/or liars. Which, I think, is a minus! At least, it's a fatal flaw in their leadership qualities. How can I make this claim? Because they either know they cannot win and are misleading and misdirecting their supporters and (already!) wasting their money; OR they do not know it, in whichElmo Q. Shangnasterhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7479525.post-28364329062495597012008-11-03T21:18:00.000-05:002008-11-03T21:21:45.301-05:00Vote Third PartySomething to remember, indeed.Elmo Q. Shangnasterhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7479525.post-28242250955825040742008-11-03T12:30:00.000-05:002008-11-03T12:30:00.281-05:00One party is as good as another Part 1Dan Phillips at the Biblical Christianity blog regurgitates the same old tired anti-third party voting arguments in his post, Biblical Christianity: Go third-party? Or don't vote?. I'll try to make this as clear again:1. I start with the most popular, and yet sadly most foolish and Biblically absurd argument: "lesser of two evils." It never ceases to astonish me that any Christian who has, and Elmo Q. Shangnasterhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7479525.post-7616164534886245512008-11-03T08:00:00.005-05:002008-11-03T08:00:03.813-05:00Georgians, remember this tomorrow and vote to heal."We commend those members of the U.S. House of Representatives who put their country first to vote for this important legislation. Make no mistake, none of us were happy to find our economy being assailed by the failed financial decisions of unscrupulous Wall Street executives and none of us wanted this rescue proposal to cost so much. However, this financial crisis has cost people their jobs Elmo Q. Shangnasterhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7479525.post-17017095968408692212008-11-01T19:11:00.003-04:002008-11-01T19:11:00.965-04:00Not so subtle hintsAhead in the national polls, Obama made his charge as he campaigned in a traditionally Republican state where he has invested heavily in hopes of collecting 13 electoral votes. He is spending far more on television advertising in Virginia than McCain and has 50 offices statewide. The trip was his seventh here since wrapping up the Democratic nomination in June.Still, in a state that once boasted Elmo Q. Shangnasterhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7479525.post-76670530750576972402008-11-01T07:22:00.006-04:002008-11-01T08:42:09.279-04:00"A Church Too Smart By Half" - a reviewThat's the conclusion I've come to after reading "Pagan Christianity?" by Frank Viola and George Barna. I'm sure there's a place in the world for theologians in their halls of christian academia, but Viola/Barna make a sound case that the institutional church has become too smart for its own good, relying more upon its own cleverness rather than God's spirit to change the world. To quote the bookElmo Q. Shangnasterhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7479525.post-67289792759544438822008-10-31T20:15:00.001-04:002008-10-31T20:15:00.734-04:00Remember this? It's just a shell gameEarlier this year, when Ron Paul was still a presidential candidate and few in the MSM (megalomaniacal sadistic media) took him seriously, he posed a question to McCain, to which McCain responded as if he were without a clue.REP. PAUL: My -- my question is for Senator McCain.This is an economic question that I wanted to ask. It has to do with the President's Working Group on Financial Markets.I'dElmo Q. Shangnasterhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7479525.post-60630501617803546022008-10-30T12:07:00.004-04:002008-10-30T12:10:54.174-04:00Reaction to early election returns...Scattered vandalism was reported as revelry continued into the early morning hours Thursday before police began breaking up the thinning crowds.Windows were smashed at a bank and luggage store in the downtown shopping district and at least either of businesses Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey said Thursday. At least three cars were overturned, the windows of a TV van were smashed, dozens of Elmo Q. Shangnasterhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7479525.post-48325530068432936142008-10-17T07:40:00.002-04:002008-10-17T07:45:55.628-04:00Third Party DebateIf you haven't gotten your fill of presidential debates after watching the McCain-Obama match-up this evening, mark your calendar for Sunday night.That's when Free and Equal.Org, a group formed to encourage third-party candidacies, is promoting a debate at the Columbia Political Union at Columbia University in New York for all six candidates seeking the presidency. The group is pretty much Elmo Q. Shangnasterhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7479525.post-27381340489830750222008-10-16T22:14:00.002-04:002008-10-16T22:52:37.535-04:00Caldwell/Kelsey '08I witnessed one of the most remarkable speeches today on a local college campus. There are political campaigns with stump speeches which drone on with mundane promises stirring nothing but bowel movements, and then there's Michael Caldwell, unlikely candidate for President of these United States, promising to build a fence around Oklahoma and raise their tax rate to 85% while giving the rest of Elmo Q. Shangnasterhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7479525.post-29323037836061161802008-10-16T18:48:00.013-04:002008-10-16T19:32:05.108-04:00The sound you hear is the chambering of a round"We're not just going to win an election, but we're going to transform a nation" - ObamaI don't care about Obama's race. He's a Marxist and he shows it every time he opens his mouth, whatever color it is. Confederacy fought to keep slaves? The Battle Flag is racist? The War of Southron Independence is a "lost cause"?"The right to secede may be a revolutionary one, but it exists nevertheless; and Elmo Q. Shangnasterhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7479525.post-62602183580232382472008-10-16T07:49:00.003-04:002008-10-16T07:56:22.002-04:00Simple cause and effectSarah Palin makes a stop on the campaign bus at a Wal-Mart in Gallipolis, OH with her son trig in mind..."It was so exciting," said Pat Miller of Patriot, accompanied by her daughter Amber, a student at South Gallia High School. "She seemed to be very sweet, and if she could stop and take the time to buy some diapers for her son, it tells you that for her, family is first."Curious how everything Elmo Q. Shangnasterhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7479525.post-69675093001888395022008-10-15T07:32:00.002-04:002008-10-16T17:51:29.814-04:00Only God canFollowing the financial gesticulations of the Bush administration have become a daily affair of late. Bailout after bailout for the last few months and now this:Big banks started falling in line Tuesday behind a rejiggered bailout plan that will have the government forking over as much as $250 billion in exchange for partial ownership—putting the world's bastion of capitalism and free markets Elmo Q. Shangnasterhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7479525.post-42583053970074912572008-10-13T10:41:00.015-04:002008-10-15T01:54:34.743-04:00Shangmail: Violating intelligenceYears ago, when I first gave my life to Christ and became born again, I received bible training through a charismatic fellowship in New Orleans. In the intervening years since my initial salvation, my theology has changed. Anyone devoted to serious bible study or inquiry of God should hardly expect not to have some of their theological concepts at least challenged if not overturned. The Elmo Q. Shangnasterhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com


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Extreme, morbid, obesity can cause many health problems and it is expressed differently in men than in is in women. The difference between the sexes is preserved even after weight loss and is characterized by the strength and different body composition. Will adopting a healthy lifestyle will end the phenomenon?
Low self-esteem, difficulty in day to day mobility, pain without clinical findings, decreased metabolism, various types of problems, sociological and more, are only a partial list of problems related to extreme obesity. These are people characterized by BMI level of 41 and above, as such they are in an especially big health risk.
Obesity originates from neglect at various times in life or even in all spheres of life. However, we note that morbid obese people generally have a significantly larger number of fat cells compared with those who do not suffer from obesity, which increases significantly the chance of becoming obese during most spheres of life.
Today many medical problems are linked to obesity and the a negative effect it can have on the brain.
Aesthetic aspect obesity in men and women is not the same (in most cases). Women who are obese are characterized by an obesity in the pelvic area ("pear shaped") and men are characterized by an abdominal obesity ("apple shaped"). An important point to note is that one of the problems with this extreme obesity is particularly poor metabolism and therefore even a not very large consumption of food can lead to obesity.
Strength training speeds up the metabolism at rest and provide many other benefits, so it is a fantastic way to combat obesity
The effect of adopting a healthy lifestyle in general (diet, exercise, avoiding smoking and alcohol consumption, low stress) is not the same between the sexes in the parameters. For example, how the body functions hormonally during effort. The potential to develop strength and muscle mass in men, how the fat is being distributed in the body and more.
However, recall that during strength training the presence of a catabolic hormone – cortisol, rises as well. After training, during the stages of recovery, this catabolic hormone level in men decreases more rapidly than the rate of decline compared with women which is another existing difference in response to strength-training in women.
In order to achieve results and improve the various body systems is very important to start adopting a healthy lifestyle as early as possible.
Study: Women lose more fat mass than men, but men lose more weight.
A study conducted in the Department of Metabolic Diseases Research at Fiankaoolo Italy tested the differences between extremely fat men and women, in their strength and body composition after the weight loss process.
The present study examined the changes in body composition, strength and power production of men and women with extreme obesity in experimental acute after weight loss, and tested the hypothesis that changes in body composition are related to movement dysfunction. According to the study, morbidly obese men and women have an entirely different body composition than other people, which is causing various mobility problems.
95 men and women who suffer from morbid obesity at age 30 on average (BMI = 42) participated in short-term experiment: For three weeks, they performed aerobic exercises and strength exercises five days a week and keep a strict diet.
Body weight and body composition, strength isotonic (dynamic) maximum and maximum leg strength were measured before and after the experiment.
After the experiment, body weight decreased significantly among men and women, but more in men who lost an average of 5 kg from an average of 4 kg for women. In men, loss of body weight was composed of identical amounts of fat mass and lean body mass, while women have lost almost exclusively fat mass.
Women and men have both significantly improved with isotonic force from the beginning the experiment but did not seem to improve strength isotonic difference between men and women. In contrast, the strength of the legs increased significantly among women and there was no change in this index in men after the experiment.
This experiment resulted in a significant change in body composition and improved the isotonic (dynamic) power and the strength of men and women, with differences between the genders.
In summary, it is highly important to treat obesity in depth and professionally in the earliest stages possible in order not to exacerbate existing problems. However, one must take into account the differences between men and women in life and build a training plan accordingly.


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Can We Tell People Not to Wear Jeans At Our Wedding?
Your wedding is your opportunity to throw the most fabulous party of your life. With that in mind, you're probably carefully creating a color scheme, deliberately deciding about your decor and, of course, picking a ridiculously gorgeous gown to seriously wow your guests. But one thing that's harder to control are what others will wear. Unfortunately,... read more


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Samsung Focus Flash review: Flashing around
Windows Phone 7.5 Mango has hit the market with much fanfare and a slew of new devices. The Samsung Focus Flash for AT&T is part of the aforementioned group. The American sibling of the Samsung Omnia W, together with its upscale partner, the Focus S has the difficult task of swaying people away from the established players, which Android and iOS devices are, by packing solid hardware, spanking new OS, and a budget price tag.
Samsung Focus Flash official photos
After a quick look at the phones metal clad, all black body, and Super AMOLED screen however, the term budget gets quickly pushed to the back of your mind. One might even argue, that the Focus Flash look more upscale than its bigger brother the Focus S.
On the inside, the two Windows Phone siblings from Samsung have a lot in common. Both devices are featuring a 1.4GHz Scorpion CPU, and a Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset. This can be attributed to the stringent hardware requirements which Microsoft has toward the devices, running its mobile OS. In short it is difficult to divide the Windows Phone handsets into budget and high-end. The Samsung Focus Flash surely doesnt mind this.
Key Features
- 3.7" 16M-color Super AMOLED screen with WVGA resolution (480 x 800 pixels)
- Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support
- 3G with HSDPA (14.4 Mbps) and HSUPA (5.76Mbps)
- Windows Phone 7.5 operating system
- Ability to uninstall wireless providers proprietary apps out of the box
- 1.4 GHz Scorpion CPU, 512MB RAM, Snapdragon chipset
- 5 megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash and geo-tagging; 1.3MP front unit
- 720p video recording
- A number of Samsung proprietary apps, including a capable photo editor
- Bing Maps with free navigation
- 8GB of built-in storage
- Standard 3.5mm audio jack
- Standard microUSB port (charging)
- Wi-Fi b/g/n; DLNA support; Wi-Fi hotspot capable
- Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP
- Accelerometer for screen auto rotation
- Landscape on-screen QWERTY keyboard
- FM radio with RDS
- Office document editor
- Built-in A-GPS receiver
- Voice-to-text functionality
Main disadvantages
- No system-wide file manager
- Only 5.5GB of built-in memory available to the user and no option to expand it
- No Bluetooth file transfers
- No USB mass storage mode
- Limited third-party apps availability
- No Flash (nor Silverlight) support in the browser
- Too dependent on Zune software for file management and syncing
- No DivX/XviD video support (automatic transcoding provided by Zune software, but lowers quality)
While Windows Phone 7 was clearly a work in progress when released, the latest Mango update has firmly put the OS on the path of credibility. App support is still quite limited, but Microsoft is working really hard in this direction by courting the top developers from the other OS ecosystems. All in all, given the financial power of the Redmond based software giant, we can reasonably expect the gap between Windows Phone and the top dogs to grow narrower as time progresses.
Samsung Focus Flash in our office
The Samsung Focus Flash has the luxury of packing a fairly upmarket hardware (for a Windows Phone device), while being priced like an entry-level smartphone. Is it going to make it in a world of free iPhone and Android devices? This is what we are going to try and answer with this review. As always, well kick things off with unboxing and a hardware inspection.
Editorial: You might notice that this review is shorter than usual and doesn't include all of our proprietary tests. The reason is it has been prepared and written far away from our office and test lab. The Samsung Focus Flash is a US-only phone, so it will probably never get to the shores of the Old Continent. Still, we think we've captured the essence of the phone in the same precise, informative and detailed way that's become our trademark. Enjoy the good read!
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Jay's fandom borders on soccer-like hysteria. Doesn't mix well with my Midwest "act like you've been there before" boring fan act.
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The Reds are about 1 run less for the season than the average team in the NL on a per game basis.
That didn't take long, and all it took was a healthy return of Votto and Bruce.
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I sometimes share the visiting team's news article about the game, but I meant to highlight the Enquirer's story from yesterday's paper. Written by John Erardi, it really is an exquisite narrative of a good game.
In particular, these two paragraphs jumped out at me as just excellent, but again the whole article is good read.
There was probably a little more hangover Saturday from Friday among the fans than the players, only because the fans tend to live and die over each game whereas the players are more 162-oriented. On the other hand, the embarrassment level for players is a lot more real the most fans imagine.
The past two games Friday with the Reds up 8-0 after two, Saturday with them up 8-0 after four made for strange out-of-body experiences in both, the former watching the lead evaporate, the latter watching the lead build, the eeriness of it heightened by the déjà vu potential.
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One term is too long, IMO.
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Tintinology (formally Tintin Movie .org) is an independent news and analysis service on the Tintin movie and the works of Herge. (c) Chris Tregenza, Tintinology.poosk.com
Tintin, Tintin & Snowy, Captain Haddock, Thomson & Thompson, Professor Calculus and Herge are all trademarks of Moulinsart S.A. The text and images of the 24 Tintin albums (c) Herge / Moulinsart S.A.
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Jamie Bell on Tintin 2: Filming May Start Late 2016.
We've seen Jamie Bell on-screen as everything from boy reporter to Roman soldier, but I never thought I'd see him as "The Thing" from the Fantastic Four. I'm sure he's been pressed with loads of questions about his role in the next big Marvel blockbuster-but the main thing French folks from Premiere want to know, of course, is when (or even if) Tintin 2 is going to happen. Jamie Bell was hesitant to give a definite answer:
"I'm crossing my fingers that filming will start towards the end of next year. But that's not 100 percent confirmed."
Still, he was confident that the film is still going to happen:
"The project is still current."
The projects that were clogging Jackson's schedule are finally out of the way, so hopefully Jamie's projected timeframe comes true. If it does though, that 2016 IMDB date will have to be pushed back at least a year, in the very best of scenarios.
This means that at least 6 years will pass between the first film's release and Tintin 2. I can't speak for the rest of the world, but I hope they do a much better job marketing the film in the US this time around-what's left of the film's memory in the States is quickly fading.
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In the German translation of the Tintin movie, Captain Haddock, while chasing down the parchment in Morocco, calls out "Mein Schatz," which means "my precious," a nod to Andy Serkis' famous role as Gollum.
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When Spielberg was planning "Tintin" back in 1984, he had considered Jack Nicholson for the part of Captain Haddock.
Tintin wins "Art of 3D" Award!
Tintin has one more trophy to put up on his shelf, this time from the Empire awards, who gave the film the "Art of 3D" award over such other nominees as Hugo, Thor and the final Harry Potter film. You can watch the video of Harry Hill's very brief acceptance speech (Spielberg couldn't make it to the event) here.
Last Monday I started posting scans of original Tintin magazine covers from a wonderful site Thierry found. However, in honor of the day of the week every Tintin magazine issue used to come out, I will be posting them each Thursday. Thierry pointed out the interesting fact that in Belgium, at least back then, kids got Thursday off of school as a sort of break in the middle of the school week, but went to school on Saturday. So Thursday was a great day to come out with Tintin Magazine. I don't know about Belgians, but I know at least in France they still go by a weird schedule…
So make sure to check back on Thursday!
source: http://www.empireonline.com/awards2012/winners/3d.asp
News on Tintin 2
Very good find Britto! An important piece of news has been hiding on a French site the past few days and, while I admit I do occasionally check google.fr, I almost certainly would have missed it. While in Paris for the release of "War Horse", Spielberg did an interview with "Figaro". The big "scoop" the article was trying to push was what Spielberg thought of the Tintin movie's "failure" in the USA. The movie was no mega flop, but within the USA it was certainly no hit either. Spielberg said he didn't want to blame anybody, and that he thinks the the movies bad reception in the USA was due mainly to the decision to use performance capture rather than a problem with the movie itself. Mainly, and I think I'd agree with him most here, he said that what people most rejected were the television commercials. They didn't give them enough of a chance to go and see Tintin in the cinemas. I personally believe that, even though they used performance capture, the movie would have done much better if they had advertised it better. An American friend of mine told me all he saw related to the Tintin movie most of the time he watched TV this winter were short TV spots that didn't tell him very much about the movie and left him wondering "who's Tintin?" I bet a lot of people saw the motion capture and thought the film was an expensive animated movie for kids. They needed more than occasional TV spots…they needed giant billboards, advertisements everywhere you looked, they needed to play the second trailer more on TV, a good line of action figures and other toys to get kids and families interested. The movie didn't even get McDonald's toys in the US. I also suspect that part of the movie's failure to make as much as they hoped was because it came out right alongside Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (I couldn't turn a corner in the US without seeing an ad for this one), Happy Feet 2 and The Muppets, all of which stole away a large part of the families going to the movies over the holidays. And anybody who wanted to see action and adventure was going to see Mission Impossible 4 in 3D. When given the choice between going to pay and see something new, especially when it's been poorly marketed, and something old they are familiar with and know they like, American's will choose the latter. It makes sense. Nonetheless I'm interested in seeing how many DVDs the movie sells, and I think that with a bit more luck and more work to let the USA know who Tintin is, Tintin 2 could be a really big hit. Regardless of American interest in Tintin, the film still made 76 million dollars in the US and about 300 million dollars worldwide. Spielberg reminded those in the interview that the film only cost about 142 million dollars to make, so he's really pretty happy with how well the film did and a sequel is certainly underway.
However the most interesting part of the interview for me was the end, where they ask whether or not Calculus will "finally show up in the film." Spielberg answered yes, because he shows up in Red Rackham's Treasure and they plan to pick up the second movie around where the first one left off. Then he told them that as of yet they still don't know what books they will be combining in the new movie, and that Peter will be looking more into that this year…If this is true it's quite something! Elsewhere they've told us that a script is already being written, so I really doubt that they are as clueless as Spielberg told Figaro. In any case, it does suggest that the beginning of Red Rackham's treasure will make it into the next movie. And if what Spielberg told us before is true and the movie is "more than one book, but less than two books", all we're missing is the name of one album. We'll see…I'm interested in finding out whether or not Calculus' shark submarine will make it into the film. If not, I wonder why Calculus will be interested in meeting Tintin…
Source: http://blog.lefigaro.fr/bd/2012/02/spielberg-parle-du-prochain-ti.html
On a side note, I got Williams' Tintin 1 soundtrack and have been listening to it over and over…It has grown on me a lot, and I sincerely hope that Williams wins an Oscar this Sunday for his superb work.
New Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg Interview: Jackson will start working on Tintin 2 as soon as he's done with The Hobbit
In a recent interview with Total Film, Spielberg and Jackson revealed some information regarding the sequel to "Tintin," . . . which is really not much information at all.
"Peter [Jackson]'s doing it. I wanted to do it, but Peter has to because we made a deal. I said, 'I'll direct the first one, you direct the second one.'
"And Peter, of course, is going to do it right after he finishes photography on The Hobbit. He'll go right into the 31, 21 days of performance capture.
"We're not telling the world what books we're basing the second movie on yet."
But didn't producer Kathleen Kennedy say it's going to be The Calculus Affair?
"We haven't decided that yet. She's throwing a monkey wrench into your story! It could be that. I like The Calculus Affair. So it could be.
"We have completed a story outline now. We have a writer on it. I'm just not declaring what it is. It will be more than one book, but no more than two."
Why wouldn't he go right to Tintin 2? It only takes a month or less on set to shoot!I see the wisdom of their choice of not revealing the stories just yet…Apparently it's not Prisoners of the Sun, and it may or may not be the moon books (a long time ago that was considered as a better Tintin 3). That leaves no more two part stories, which means another combination of stories that is bound to receive mixed reactions. I was amazed at how well the two they blended last time worked, and especially after recently having read Horowitz's "The House of Silk", I am firmly confident that he can write an adventurous story while respecting to the best degree Tintin's original albums. So long as people understand they will not BE the original albums, the movie should be very enjoyable, like the first one was. However, if they wait too much longer I think I am going to explode. I have made little effort in concealing the fact that my vote definitely goes to The Calculus Affair. But what story would it go with? Maybe just the a small section of Red Rackham's treasure to introduce Calculus, or do they plan on grafting in more than just that from one album into another? Jackson, I would really appreciate it if you don't wait TOO long to reveal the albums to the world.
Tintin wins the Golden Globe award for best animated film of 2011!!!
The Golden Globe award for best animated film first appeared at the 64th Golden Globe Awards in 2007, given to the 2006 film "Cars". Every year since then a Pixar film has won, with awards going to Ratatouille, WALL-E, Up and Toy Story 3. However, this year the award has gone to the controversial film that the Oscars weren't even going to recognize as an animated film: "The Adventures of Tintin: the Secret of the Unicorn". I'm a huge Pixar fan, but after having followed this movie for so many years, it's great to see it win such a great award. Spielberg, Jackson, the actors, the animators, and every single person that worked on the movie did an absolutely great job and the work paid off. Hergé would be proud that after so many low quality Tintin movies, the world has seen a Tintin movie that actually won a Golden Globe Award. Congratulations!
It's interesting to note that every movie that has ever won this award also won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, with the exception of Cars, which of all films lost to Happy Feet, a film that, like Tintin, used motion capture. So far Tintin has received 6 nominations from the Directors Guild in the four categories devoted to animated film, with three of the five in the Outstanding Created Environment in an Animated Motion Picture category. Tintin stands a very good chance of winning an award this February.
As Spielberg took the award, he made sure to recognize all of the main actors as more than just the voices of Tintin and his friends. He finished recognizing Andy Serkis as "the man of a thousand digital faces".
Here's the video of Spielberg receiving the award.
Sources: http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/culture/6265469/Tintin-wins-Golden-Globe-for-best-animated-feature-film http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Globe_Award_for_Best_Animated_Feature_Film
I just realized…
I was sitting looking at Tintin stuff on the internet and suddenly realized that the fat lady in the phone booth that takes shelter from the rain never made it in the movie! I guess she wasn't really needed if she wasn't missed until now, and I'm not sure were it would have fit in since Tintin never needs to "call the captain", but I still kind of hope that it's a deleted scene somewhere on the DVD. If not, I would really appreciate it Jackson and Horowitz if you would please include that section somewhere in Tintin 2…
I wonder if the scene was deliberately cut out because there is really only a couple females in the whole movie with a name, and while that is completely true to Herge's works it still might have bothered some people for the only other girl in the whole movie that Tintin talks to after Mrs Finch to be a stereotypical fat lady with her dog "Fifi".
Anyway, I guarantee I will laugh hard if it makes it into the next script…
The Adventures of Tintin Movie Review
For those of you who may have found this through google or some other way and are not a regular follower of this site, I can assure you that while you will find many, many reviews of "The Adventures of Tintin" on the internet, you will find very few written by somebody who has been an avid Tintin fan for years to the extent that he has been following every last piece of information available about the progress of this movie since it was first announced almost five years ago that Spielberg was going to pick up his old project and finally make a Tintin movie. Here you will find two such reviews. One is Chris' review, the guy who started this blog and wrote everything until his schedule got busy and allowed me to write posts. Shortly after the movie premiered over in Europe he wrote a great review for both the Tintin fan and the man who's never heard of him until now alike. I recommend you check it out here
The other such review of course is mine. I'm probably the biggest American Tintin fan you'll ever meet. For those of you clueless people out there, Tintin is a very well known comic the Belgian George Remi (pen name Herge) drew from the late 1920s to the 70s. Tintin is a reporter that always finds himself on incredible adventures with his faithful white fox terrier, Snowy. He's never been popular in the USA, but just about every other country in the world has heard of him. If you think that's an exaggeration, check out how well Tintin did in the box offices over seas. I've been looking forward to seeing this movie much more than I've ever looked forward to see any other movie in my life. Did it live up to my expectations? In a world where movie tickets are expensive, is it worth your cash? What if you're not a Tintin fan? Will you enjoy it?
I hate spoilers as much as you do so need not worry about reading any here. First of all, if you are new to Tintin you will not be lost. The movie does a terrific job of introducing the movie's main characters. If you are a fan, you will recognise all of them as the characters you know, not as some horribly distorted version of them Hollywood threw together. Everybody making this movie went to great lengths to make sure that the original stories and artwork were respected as much as possible. The movie actually combines two Tintin albums, "The crab with the golden claws" and "The Secret of the Unicorn (there's also a little bit of "Red Rackhams treasure" in there, but not much), but you'd never know they weren't one fluent storyline if you've never read the books because they are so magnificently blended together. As a matter of fact, while there are certain things that surely only a Tintin fan will appreciate when they watch the film, there are some things only somebody who is not at all familiar with the storyline will experience fully. I had very few problems while I was watching the movie, but one of them was really my own fault: I know the story of "The Secret of the Unicorn" like the back of my hand. As a result I already knew almost everything that Tintin discovers little by little throughout the film. At some points I thought that the mystery side of the movie had been a bit overdramatized and that Tintin was taking just a little too long to put all the pieces together (quite literally), but again, the answer to the mystery is obvious once you already know the secret. But even when I knew what was coming, I still thoroughly enjoyed the film. There are lots of hilarious lines in the film, many straight from the books but most just clever new lines the excellent writers came up with. Don't let yourself be fooled into thinking that actors only did the voices in this film: every movement from their bodies and faces has captured by computer, and the animators then did an excellent job of putting "digital makeup" on. Jamie Bell did a very good job as Tintin. Some people have complained in other reviews that the movie is so action packed there is little time for Tintin's character to be really developed. But the truth is that we know very little about Tintin, and Jamie Bell did a great job at not answering those questions for us. We don't know who his boss is or who his parents are. We don't really care. What we do know is that once he sets his mind to do something, he heroicly keeps going against all odds no matter where in the world danger takes him. And the movie does a wonderful job at taking us on the adventure with him.Pretty much every frame of the movie is a piece of art…You could get a sense of what I'm talking about by checking out some of the movie stills or watching the trailers, but you really won't understand just how great it looks until you see it in the movies. Especially the city of Brussels and the port in Morocco are bright,colorful and incredibly detailed. As far as the people go, they look wonderful to me. They still look like the cartoon characters from the comics, but when you see each individual hair on their heads and the sand and the sweat on their faces as they trod through the desert, you have to remind yourself it isn't real and congrutalute Weta for their great job. The movie is in a number of formats, but I recommend you go see it in IMAX 3D like I did (if you can find one that doesn't have all of it's showtimes filled up with "Mission Impossible 4"). Chris didn't particularly like the 3D, but I've always been a big fan of IMAX 3D and really enjoyed certain sections when it looked like the dust Tintin's flashlight was hitting or the woodchips that were exploding or even Captain Haddock's nose were really in front of my face. Aside from a few moments when the camera pans so quickly a few things seem out of focus, this is a movie that the 3D really works well in, especially on the enormous screen. However I'd say that if you see it in 2D you shouldn't feel like you're missing too much because the 3D is more of a fun added bonus to the movie experience.
This is a movie you can take your kids to (they'll LOVE Snowy), but it's not just a movie for kids. I fear that many people will go to action packed Mission Impossible 4 and miss one of the best movies that came out this year. What really made the movie for me was Andy Serkis' brilliant performance as Captain Haddock. Haddock is absolutely hilarious. When you're not laughing at what he's doing, you're laughing at his lines, and when you're not laughing at his lines you're probably laughing at his face. He has a Scottish accent in the film (most of us didn't see him that way in the books) but I fell in love with this version of Haddock immediately as Serkis brought it to life before my eyes. There were times when shots Haddock and a flashback of Sir Francis alternate with a fluency that could only really be acchieved using motion capture.The Thompsons also have a great part in the film, and the only thing I regret about their parts is that I wish they had appeared more in the movie! "Tintin 2", which has been officially confirmed, is said to give them a larger role. Daniel Craig did an awesome job as the villain Sakharine, and it's funny to recognise James Bond playing a villain's part. He is not the most evil of villains, but he certainly beats (in my mind anyway) the "Bird Brothers" that were the somewhat pathetic villains in the original stories. I disliked to some degree how Allan, who was a main villain in "The crab with the golden claws" became more of a wimpy sidekick to Sakharine, but it did work well in the story.
For Tintin Fans (the only spoilers here will be spoilers to non-Tintin fans)
If you are a Tintin fan worried that they've taken the stories and thrown in too many pointless action scenes, don't worry about it. There were really very few sections that I didn't instantly recognise from one of the books,even when the trailers sometimes make it seem like there are more, and they were anything but annoying. Actually I was very pleased that finally Tintin was doing something new because much of the fun for me in watching the movie was seeing what fun new things the writers could come up with for Tintin to do without insulting the fans. As I said before, the storyline was very familiar to me, and it was good to see some changes to it to make the movie more exciting. The scene in Bagghar with a brilliant cameo appearance of Castafiore and the chaos that follows is actually one of my favorite parts. If Herge could see it today, I think he'd laugh. And the other new scene at the end,a final clash between Haddock and the villain,is a great way to finish their side of the story. Never once do the new scenes seem to make the characters do something against their personality, and if they slow down the story at all it's only so you can take a moment to enjoy yourself and laugh at what's going on.
Tintin DOES use a gun (just like he does in the books) but as far as I could tell he never once killed anybody and hardly if ever wounds somebody. He shoots at motors or ropes to get what he wants or protect himself.
Any Tintin fan would be a fool not to go see this in theaters while they still can! Herge's artwork is apparent from the first 3 seconds of the movie, and both the style and music of the intro feels like you're watching the beginning of "Catch me if you can" with about 14 million tributes to the different Tintin albums thrown in. It's fun to watch moments throughout the movie that have elements thrown in from different books. There are more easter eggs in this movie that any I've ever seen, and if you have a good Tintin fan that can go with you to watch the movie you'll enjoy yourself that much more, because you'll both be the only people in the theater that know why you're laughing at what's on the screen. I won't say what it is, but there's a magnificent tribute to "Explorers on the moon" that I really enjoyed. I can't wait to own this movie on blu-ray and watch it with all the pizza and popcorn I couldn't afford when I watched it in IMAX, this time with the remote control to pause the image and read newspaper clippings, compare character's faces with the albums or look for more references.
You really have to see this movie. Europe loved it for good reasons. If you don't know who Tintin is, you don't know what you're missing. If you DO know who Tintin is, you would make a grave error to not watch this because you are worried about "what they've done to Tintin". Don't worry about it, trust me. No matter who you are, this is a must see. It's the biggest installment in Tintin's history since Alpha-Art was published.
If I could make a suggestion for the next film it would only be that the next story not revolve as much around a mystery and more around whether or not Tintin will be able to complete his clearly defined objective at all (i.e save Calculus from the Bordurians…hint hint…) I love that heroic side of Tintin that will do anything to save a friend, and I hope to see that developed more in the next film.
Go out America, and enjoy the film. Spielberg, Jackson, Weta, and the whole massive team in the credits, I applaud your hard work. The wait was worth it.
I've got my ticket!
I almost lived out one of my worst nightmares…I looked online to find The Adventures of Tintin:The Imax Experience 3D and almost every theatre in my state wasn't showing it. The few IMAX theatres that were showing anything are playing Mission Impossible 4…But at the last moment I found a place 30 minutes away that's showing it on Thursday. I am SO excited. I've been waiting so terribly long, just like the rest of you. Honestly, it's been a lot of fun to have something worth looking forward to. I would say I can't wait to see the movie but…I can wait a little more.
I'm debating about whether or not to buy popcorn. Sure, I've waited years and years for this, but is any popcorn, no matter how good, worth ten bucks??? Wow…
By the way, here's an awesome new TV spot. My favorite part is the beginning. Honestly, I never liked it much when Tintin said "Great Snakes!"…but I absolutely love how Jamie Bell pulled it off.