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PS, part 2: I had a chance to coach in the NFL this season, but I turned it down. Did I mention that I love Wal*Mart and Perdue Chicken? Well, I do. Oh, and I also have a lot of red and white clothing. Again, great job in showing the will to hire a guy who was having an affair with the 26-year old help and lying to you about it. That takes guts!
There was also a blurb on BTN's The Pulse that at the end of an interview for a local rag down there that BB ended the interview by saying, "On..." and then abruptly caught himself and finished with "Go Hogs". The interviewer realized he was about to say On Wisconsin and corrected him, told him he needed to learn how to end his interviews since he's now a RB.Hide replies
That's pretty funny.
come on, do some work. what's going on? petersen in town today? any of the assistants have something lined up? bielema hire anyone?Hide replies
thinking need to get past peterson...all signs point to no show and no interest
BA to Peterson: "We run the ball alot at Wisconsin".
Peterson to BA: "I'm not interested!"
As I like to call Brett now: Brett Sqealima
One should always keep in mind that any coach who is mentioned in connection with the job, or talks to someone (BA) about the job, and who thinks they won't get it, will publicly announce "not interested."
"P.S. One thing I have learned through my time at UW is that today's society wants to win them all, but as Coaches and Administrators we need to balance the Big Picture for all our student-athletes!"
my guess is Long nearly rolled off his chair laughing when he saw this...Enjoy thinking anything other than W's matter anymore Bret
I wonder how many of these sorts of letters Bielema has written in the past couple of years...Hide replies
Now there's an interesting question!
Have no idea of whether the two knew each other but this points out something a lot of fans don't know or overlook. Like most industries, college coaches/AD's is a relatively small fraternity and a lot of guys know each other. They may have been on the same staffs or in the same programs at one time. For the most part they get along well, keep in touch, golf and schmooze together at conferences, etc. Bloggers and fans get all tied up in rivalries and in hating opponents, etc. but the coaching fraternity gets along. The proliferation of agents for HC's has expanded the contacts significantly as they can talk openly to AD's with AD and coach leaving no fingerprints.
Generally speaking perhaps, but not always for sure.
When can we get Arkansas on the schedule?Hide replies
Probably not before BB has departed, so it shouldn't be too long.
Why stoke Bielema's ego by scheduling them? It's best to just ignore Arkansas. Want to get under his skin? Win a national championship at Wisconsin.
The SEC will do the Badgers' dirty work. Sit back with a sweet tea or a cool beverage of your choice, and enjoy.
Arkansas' 2013 Schedule:
8/31 Louisiana Rajin Cajuns (BB's first loss at Ark.?)
9/7 Samford (Coached by Birmingham hero and Heisman winner Pat Sullivan;SoCon--Wofford, Appalachian St., and The Citadel's league)
9/14 Southern Miss (Always a tough out for SEC teams)
9/21 AT Rutgers (1-3 start?)
9/28 Texas A&M (Ouch! At home, no less)
10/5 AT (The Swamp) Florida (Mrs. Bielema's homecoming)
10/12 The Formerly Clean, But Self-Cleansed USC (schooled with a strap right across his back by the son of a preacher and dean of college coaches; Note from my very knowledgeable better 3/4s: "Even Bama fans respect him. Don't like him, but respect him.")
10/19 at Alabama
10/26 A Merciful Bye Week; Take a Head Count,and head for the whirlpool
11/3 The Newby Bowl vs. the Coach whose dream job was Ark.--Auburn with Gus Malzahn
11/10 at Ole Miss (A dangerous, emerging team)
11/16 Bye Week
11/23 Mississippi State (Doesn't get any easier)
11/30 at LSU (A Big 10 style smash mouth offense fashioned by one of Bo's (Schembechler's) boys will grind what's left into the Mike the Tiger logo at midfield)
12/7 SEC Championship Game (From the Couch)
Samford is winnable; and the faithful will be razorback ornery after losing to Auburn and native son Malzahn at home. 1-11, but the fans expect 11-1 out of Bielema. He did it at The UW, right? It's the stuff of which revolutions are made down here...
As an aside, I read where Michigan has added Ark. and BYU. BYU? The Badgers play them three out of four years. As an independent, is BYU positioning themselves to join the Big 10? Wouldn't that amount to a mighty slap at the Golden Domers?
Sounds like Bielema was laying the groundwork already then...to get out of Wisconsin.
Bielema quote: "Here at UW I have a great AD because he is a man of his word...."
How IRONIC is THAT?! We have seen - in spades! - from continual public utterances by Bielema from his first days as the UW head coach that he is anything BUT a "man of his word"! This dolt has shown time and time again he feels he can get away with saying anything - in pressers, interviews, etc. - however misleading or an outright lie(!) and not be held accountable or responsible.
So, from this long-time demonstration of weak character on Bielema's part, we could have seen all this coming - Bielema's jump to Arkansas despite his telling his Badgers to ignore all such rumors, his failure to do right by his mentor, Barry Alvarez, and his classless remarks about the UW program when he got to Arkansas.
So, Bielema says he wanted to go to Arkansas to have a better chance at a national title? What drivel!
Has he already forgotten UW was EXTREMELY close to a national title in 2011 when record-setting quarterback Russell Wilson out of the blue chose to transfer from N.C. State to Wisconsin? If Bielema had recruited any kind of pass rusher - plus another good cornerback - the Badgers would have had a good enough defense to win the national title that season, because the UW offense was about unstoppable and probably the best in the nation.
No, Bielema has NOT been any kind of superior recruiter - opposed to what many believe - and it is recognized he makes too many bad in-game coaching decisions. Bielema has failed to recruit and develop any kind of quarterback or pass rusher, nor any effective wide receiver outside of Nick Toon, who was a recruiting slam dunk. Russell Wilson picked UW, not vice versa. Scott Tolzien was not a Bielema recruit. J.J. Watt, Jared Abbrederis and Ricky Wagner were walk-ons and Wisconsin natives.
Bielema, who continually overrates himself, was just LUCKY Tolzien and Wilson
emerged as they did. Now he hopes to prevail vs. Bama, LSU, Florida, etc.? HO!HO!HO!Hide replies
Ouch LoneStar!!!!!!!!!!!! To think J.J. was a walk-on. Amazing indeed!
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Philip Schuyler Green (Gregory Peck) is a widowed journalist who has just moved to New York City with his son Tommy (Dean Stockwell) and mother (Anne Revere). Green meets with magazine publisher John Minify (Albert Dekker), who asks Green to write an article on antisemitism. After initially struggling with how to approach the topic in a fresh way, Green is inspired to adopt a Jewish identity ("Phil Green") and write about his own first-hand experiences. Green and Minify agree to keep it secret that Phil is not actually Jewish; since he and his family are new to New York and know almost no one, it should be easy to hide.
At a dinner party, Phil meets Minify's divorced niece Kathy Lacey (Dorothy McGuire), who turns out to be the person who originally suggested the story idea. Phil and Kathy begin dating. Though she seems to have liberal views, when he reveals what he intends to do, she is taken aback and asks him if he actually is Jewish. The strain on their relationship due to Kathy's subtle acquiescence to bigotry becomes a key theme in the film.
At the magazine, Phil is assigned a secretary, Elaine Wales (June Havoc), who discloses to him that she too is Jewish. She changed her name in order to get the job (her application under her Jewish-sounding name, Estelle Wilovsky, was rejected). Later, after Phil informs Minify about the prejudice Wales encountered, Minify orders the magazine to adopt hiring policies that are open to Jews. Wales has reservations about the new policy, fearing that the "wrong Jews" will be hired and ruin things for the few Jews working there now. Phil also befriends fashion editor Anne Dettrey (Celeste Holm) who becomes a good friend and potential romantic partner, particularly as strains develop in Phil and Kathy's relationship.
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Kathy's attitudes are revealed further when she and Phil announce their engagement. Her sister Jane (Jane Wyatt) invites them to a celebration in her home in Darien, Connecticut, which is known to be a "restricted" community where Jews are not welcome. Fearing an awkward scene, Kathy wants to tell her family and friends that Phil is only pretending to be a Jew, but Phil prevails on Kathy to tell only Jane. At the party, everyone is very friendly to Phil, though many people are "unable" to attend at the last minute.
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Kathy meets with Dave and asks him for help. Dave tells her that she is not antisemitic, but confronts her about times she has been offended by antisemitic slurs, but kept silent. That conversation seems to be the turning point for Kathy. The next day, Dave tells Phil that he and his family will be moving into the cottage in Darien and Kathy will be moving in with her sister next door to make sure they are treated well by their neighbors. When Phil hears this, he reconciles with Kathy.
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It was hailed as a breakthrough in the fight to cut carbon emissions. In 2007, researchers found that heavy electricity users cut their consumption after being told that they used more energy than their neighbours. Almost a million US households have since received similar feedback and have cut electricity use by an average of 2.5 per cent.
But a new study has identified a wrinkle in the plan: the feedback only seems to work with liberals. Conservatives tend to ignore it. Some even respond by using more energy.
The findings come from a study of over 80,000 Californian households, just under half of which received feedback on energy use. Overall, the technique worked: households who got the feedback cut electricity by around 2 per cent, say Dora Costa and Matthew Kahn at the University of California, Los Angeles.
But important difference emerged when Costa and Kahn looked at the political leanings of those in the survey. Homeowners who identified themselves as Republicans cut energy use by just 0.4 per cent on average. And those Republicans who showed no practical interest in environmental causes – people who did not donate to environmental groups and did not choose to pay extra for renewable energy – even increased electricity use by 0.75 per cent.
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Wesley Schultz at California State University in San Marcos, one of the researchers behind the 2007 finding, is not surprised by the result. He says that some Republicans have a negative view of the environmental movement and so might want to distance themselves from a green-themed campaign. Using more electricity could be an act of defiance, whether conscious or subconscious.
The result does not negate the usefulness of such psychological "nudges", adds Schultz. But it does suggest that feedback needs to be tailored to specific groups. "No one is immune to social pressure," says Schultz. "Even among those that increased electricity use there is a nudge that would work."
It is not clear what that nudge would be, however. It could be a focus on the financial savings that come with reduced electricity use, suggests Costa. Or it could be a pitch that equated less energy use with increased self-sufficiency, says Robert Gifford at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada.
But such nudges simply may not work in conservative parts of the US, Costa concludes. She says that other energy-saving schemes will need to implemented as well, such as tougher building codes. Unlike nudges, which do not place a financial burden on homeowners and buyers, these other approaches can drive up the price of homes and so are not always popular. "It may be that we have to do other politically difficult things," she warns.
Costa and Kahn's paper was published last month on the website of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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The Israeli Shin Bet security service foiled a suicide terrorist attack last month in Jerusalem, it emerged Wednesday. An explosive belt was seized only 24 hours before the planned attack, after it was already smuggled into Jerusalem.
The interception of the planned attack was part of a large-scale operation by the Shin Bet, the IDF and the police against the Hamas military infrastructure in the West Bank and Jerusalem. During the operation, dozens of Hamas militants – operating in alleged 13 separate cells – were arrested.
The main cell charged with carrying out the attack was based in Hebron. The cell was in touch with the Hamas headquarters in Syria, and the date of the attack was set for August 21. The planned attack involved a fire extinguisher which contained six kilograms of explosives. The device was supposed to be carried by a suicide bomber in a bus or a mall in the Pisgat Ze'ev neighborhood in Jerusalem.
The same cell was responsible for the March 23 attack in the central bus station in Jerusalem, where Mary Jean Gardner, a British tourist, was killed, and 47 other people were injured.
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An Accra Fast Track Court (FTC) has ordered the New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary candidate for the Madina Constituency in the December 2012 parliamentary election to pay a security cost of GH¢1, 000 for an election petition he filed before it.
The court, presided over by Justice Nicholas Mensah Cudjoe Abodakpi, asked the election petitioner, Mr. James Amoah to pay the security cost in accordance with election petition law, which indicates that the court was mandated to determine security cost to be paid by the petitioner.
The decision of the court followed a motion ex-parte, filed before the court by the petitioner, after he had filed an election petition against the Electoral Commission (EC) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament (MP) for Madina Constituency, Alhaji Amadu Sorogho.
According to the court, after weighing the issues before it, it had realized that the case required the payment of a security cost by the petitioner.
The Election Petitioner, Mr. Amoah, is challenging the validity of the election of the NDC candidate, Alhaji Amadu Sorogho, as MP for the constituency. In his petition, Mr. Amoah is claiming to be the winner of the just-ended December 2012 parliamentary election, conducted in the Madina Constituency.
According to him, there had been irregularities during the voting exercise in the constituency for which he was denied the winner of the parliamentary polls. Further hearing was slated for January 29, this year.
Mr. Amoah filed his petition through his counsel, Mr. Ayikoi Otoo, in pursuant to the 1992 Constitution and the Representation of the People Act 1992, PNDCL 284, and requesting the court to declare him the duly elected MP for the Madina Constituency.
In his grounds of action, Mr. Amoah noted that the provisions of the 1992 Constitution, the Representation of the Peoples Act (PNDCL 284) as amended, as well as the Public Elections Regulations C.I 75, which governs elections in the country, were flouted during the conduct of the December 2012 elections in the Madina Constituency.
According to Mr. Amoah, over-voting took place at several polling stations in the constituency, making the total valid and rejected votes exceeding the number of ballots issued to voters.
The petitioner also asserted that contrary to the Public Elections Regulations C.I 75, voters in several polling stations in the Madina Constituency voted without biometric verification.
It is his contention that figures on the blue/pink electoral sheets were amended several times over doubts raised against figures recorded for the polling stations.
Subsequently, the petitioner noted that there was need to scrutinize the collated figures that declared the NDC candidate, Alhaji Sorogho, winner, a process, which would clearly show that the gazetted MP was not the winner of the recently conducted election in the Constituency.
The petitioner pointed out that the failure of complying with the regulations that guided the elections, indicated that the election conducted at the Madina Constituency was not done in accordance with the law, and as such, affected the final results of the election.
Mr. Amoah is further asking the court to nullify over 12,000 votes, and deduct same from the total votes credited to the NDC candidate, Alhaji Sorogho, to pave the way for him to be declared winner of the election at the Madina Constituency.


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I downloaded and enjoyed it once they got started but they could have cut out a good part of it for the Internet audience as a whole. I didn't really need to hear about the class room set up, the grad assistant or their e-mail list. The first episode was over 700 megs. I watch Photoshop User TV each week and the download is significantly smaller and the quality is better. I am however looking forward to future sessions as I am new to cocoa programming but the intro was good in making it easier to understand.
iTunes U: Stanford Releases iPhone Application Programming
iTunes U has posted the first in what promises to be a series of video lectures on iPhone Application Programming [iTunes link] from Stanford University. Led by Evan Doll and Alan Cannistaro, it's recommended for people with previous C, UNIX, object oriented programming languages, and graphics tookit experience, but will likely prove of value to anyone interested to in coding the next great iPhone app. Ars Technica says:
Videos of all the lectures, lead by Apple engineers, will be posted on iTunes U two days after each class meeting [...] The slides from the lectures will be available to download as well. The school notes that the material will be the same that enrolled students get, but unfortunately, following the lessons via iTunes U won't make you eligible for college credit.
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Might have a bit of a look. I decided a long time ago, that computer programming is WAAAAAY beyond me... Like honestly, I've read books and the introductory chapter baffles me - much less when they start actual coding!
Great work on Apple's behalf, assuming their partly behind this, as it's a rather good way for people who may be interested/capable to get a look-in!
hmmm. I'm tempted! But I'm scared it's something that pull me away from MY school :) I'll probably hold off til summer.
@Patrick My guess is that they feel as though they are already being generous by providing the lectures for free and don't feel obligated to edit them. You have to jump through a LOT of hoops to sit in a class (for no credit) at a university, so Stanford is being very kind by allowing this.
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Colchester have allowed defender Pat Baldwin to join League One rivals Bristol Rovers in a one-month loan deal.
Us boss Aidy Boothroyd has decided to loan out the 27-year-old to improve his match fitness as he recovers from an injury picked up at the end of August.
Baldwin has only just returned to action with the reserves in recent weeks and Boothroyd hopes the loan move will help him complete his recovery.
"Pat is going out to get match fit, because reserve team football can only get you so far," Boothroyd told the club's official website.
"Bristol Rovers asked if they could take him for a period of time, but this is very much a temporary measure and I hope that he can go there and get ready to go for the second half of the season."
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Ben McLemore is having an incredible year. First, he broke onto the scene with his dancing phenomenon, "The McLemore". Then he began to showcase insane basketball skills on the hardwood and put himself in National Player of the Year discussions. He even led the Jayhawks in their own version of the Harlem Shake. On Saturday, he was at it again, this time adding to his considerable basketball resume. Against the West Virginia Mountaineers, McLemore broke the Kansas single-game scoring record for a freshman. McLemore dropped 36 points on 12-15 shooting, to go along with 7 rebounds and 4 assists. The old record was held by Danny Manning, who scored 35 points on this same day 28 years ago. Ben McLemore just broke Danny Manning's freshman scoring record (35 points on 3/2/1985). #kubball #AirMcLemore #Flight23 — RockChalkBlog.com (@RockChalkBlog) March 2, 2013 Ben McLemore's three 30-point gms this season: 30 on 13 shots, 33 on 12 shots, 36 on 15 shots. Can you say efficient? #kubball — Scott T. Miller (@miller_scottt) March 2, 2013 I love Ben McLemore. Please don't leave us — Casey Sader (@CaseySader) March 2, 2013
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He has used a chain saw to carve intricate wooden sculptures for years, but when Mark Acton won a commission to hew two big new statues by the reservoir in Druid Hill Park, he wasn't sure he could pull it off.
His material would be two tree stumps, each more than 12 feet tall and 20 feet around. Both were red oaks, which have especially tough wood. And when he first inspected them, he saw that each had lots of termite damage — the reason the city had cut them down.
"'I thought, 'What in the world have I gotten myself into?' " said Acton, a Severna Park resident who has plied his sawdust-spewing trade since 2006.
Baltimoreans can get an answer Friday night when the city dedicates the towering end results as part of the second annual Solstice Celebration put on by the Friends of Druid Hill Park.
Visitors will encounter The Druid, a 10-foot-tall bust of a bearded man with a mythical air, and The Green Man, a grizzled gent who seems to be emerging from a bed of vines and leaves.
The Druid looks down from a hill north of the reservoir. The Green Man guards the water's western end.
As Acton added final touches with a power sander one recent morning, joggers shouted approval, drivers rolled down their windows to give a thumbs-up and passersby stopped to take pictures.
"I can't say I mind being paid for this work," the artist said, pausing to remove his safety goggles, "but what I really enjoy is seeing the looks on people's faces. In that way, this has been a success so far."
Acton, 51, got the job last year after officials at the Baltimore Recreation and Parks Department decided to repurpose the stumps in a creative way.
"They said, 'Wouldn't it be cool to find someone who could make art out of them, rather than just throw them away?' " said Tom Orth, a member of Friends of Druid Hill Park, a nonprofit that helps the city preserve and promote the 745-acre site.
Baltimore's Office of Promotions & the Arts sent out a call for applications. Acton sent in drawings of woodland faces that "captured the soul of the tree," Orth says, and a panel of judges approved. Orth's group raised a $2,000 artist fee.
A printing-company salesman by day, Acton was already finding his groove as a power-saw Degas.
His sideline began six years ago, when his daughter was about to graduate from high school. She wanted to throw a backyard party with a Polynesian theme.
Acton, an amateur cartoonist, decided to order some tiki sculptures, but they were so expensive he decided to try making one himself. He got a chunk of free wood, bought his first chain saw and fired it up.
"I found that if you have any artistic ability at all, it's easier than it looks," he said. "But the sculptures were a big hit. Daddy was pretty cool that week."
It all grew with surprising speed. Friends bought a few of the sculptures. Others stopped by to request more. Next thing he knew, he was carving tiki men for bar owners, pirate heads for restaurants, cats swatting at birdhouses in private yards and more.
He has made 350 sculptures, each at least 3 feet high. Six gardening centers now sell his work. And over the years, he has learned a few things: how wood type matters (he prefers the relatively soft poplar and white pine); how grain and cracking patterns can force changes in plan; and how saws with narrower tips can be used for sharper detail.
"I look back at those first pieces and can't believe I thought they were as good as I did," he said.
Sawdust flew as he took a circular sander to The Druid, softening rough edges and smoothing cheeks. The wizened face grew sharper. As he worked, Acton recalled how he brought the pieces to life.
He started out, he said, with two drawings. One was of a full-size gnome holding a sign reading "Welcome to Druid Hill Park." The other was of The Green Man, an iconic figure from pagan lore whose face is made of leaves, twigs and vines.


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In his second year as the Penn State Head football coach, Bill O'Brien has a lot of focus on the offensive side of the ball, inparticular the quarterback position. The competition has heated up between sophomore Steven Bench and fromer College of the Sequoias signal caller Tyler Ferguson. Both quarterbacks are competing this spring to prove they are worthy of being the starting quarterback once the season starts.
In order for the young quarterbacks to be successful, O'Brien will look to have veteran wide receiver Allen Robinson to contribute more this season after leading the Nittany Lions in targets. This season O'Brien has expanded the playbook and will look to do more creative things with the tight ends and wide receivers since they are more experienced in the offense.


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- "In a few hours it's gonna burst through your ribcage, and you're gonna die. Any questions?"
- ―Ripley 8, to Larry Purvis regarding the Chestburster (from Alien Resurrection)
The Chestburster (variously: Chest Burster,[1] Chest-Burster[1] or chestbuster[2]) is the infant (or nymph, because it resembles the adult and does not form a cocoon to reach maturity) form of the species Xenomorph XX121. It is most well known for its horrific method of gestation — as an embryo it is implanted into a host lifeform's chest cavity by a Facehugger, and upon maturing it will erupt violently from the host's chest, killing them in an incredibly bloody and traumatic fashion. Chestbursters are small, generally not more than a foot tall and around two feet long including their tails, although larger examples have been seen.[3]
Chestbursters resemble large worms, beige or brown in color and with a mouth of metallic teeth and a tail capable of propelling the creature at considerable speed. Some Chestbursters have been seen to possess arms,[4] but this is not always the case, with others merely having small stubs where presumably the arms will eventually develop. It is possible a longer gestation period may determine the presence of arms at birth; notably, Queen Chestbursters (which have a considerably longer gestation period) have been known to birth with all four of their arms present, as well as legs and a partially developed head crest.[5] In Alien3, the Chestburster seen at the beginning of the movie births fully formed, with arms and legs, essentially just a smaller version of the Runner that it subsequently developed into. The reason for this is not explained in the theatrical cut, although the extended Assembly Cut seems to imply the Chestburster was unable to escape its host's body (an ox) at the usual time, presumably due to the animal's stronger ribcage and chest structure, resulting in the premature death of the host and further development of the Xenomorph within.
During development, the Chestburster is attached to the host via a small umbilical cord, through which it presumably gathers the nutrients it needs to grow.[6] Owing to the Xenomorph's tendency to assimilate a degree of its host's DNA as it develops, Chestbursters will also vary widely depending on the lifeform in which they gestate. For example, Xenomorphs born from Yautja will feature the mandibles of their host at birth.
If born away the Hive, a Chestburster will actively search for a safe location to hide and a food source on which it can develop. It may also attack and kill humans and feed on them,[7] although its proficiency in this regard is limited in the early stages of its growth. They will consume any part of the human victim (such as facial extremities or genitals), but prefer internal organs such as the brain, liver, or heart. Growth is rapid, and Chestbursters can mature into a full-grown Drone within a few hours.[8] It will repeatedly shed its skin like a reptile as it grows, and these skins are often the most visible sign that a Xenomorph is nearby.[8][9] Aliens: Steel Egg also shows that they do have regular body processes when one of the crew discovers a pile of excrement containing a human tooth while exploring the ventilation system. However, Chestbursters are adept at hiding and as such, immature Xenomorphs are rarely seen, remaining hidden until fully grown.
A Chestburster is generally implanted into its host by a Facehugger, although in Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem the Predalien was shown to be capable of inserting embryos directly into a host without the need for a Facehugger. It is speculated that Chestbursters develop in a manner similar to that of the immature heartworm (Dirofilaria immitis), which migrates through the host body absorbing nutrients before establishing itself. It's unknown if the embryo travels to the host's stomach or to the bronchial tubes. Another theory is that the Alien begins its life in the host body not as an embryo but as a tumor that later takes the shape of an immature Alien. In this theory, what the Facehugger injects in the host is not an infant Xenomorph but a small egg that inserts its proteins in the host's DNA and commands its cells to "create" the Chestburster which has both Xenomorph proteins and those of the host.
The host's characteristics determine the Chestburster's features — embryos are thought to copy 10-15% of the host's genetic code. This genetic absorption is designed to help Xenomorphs adapt to the environment in which they are born and leads to variations in the resultant creature. The Predalien Chestburster, for example, sports the signature mandibles of the Yautja (and grows dreadlocks upon reaching maturity), while quadrupedal hosts produce quadrupedal Chestbursters.
Certain physical defects in the host are known to adversely affect Chestburster development. For example, Larry Purvis, one of the civilians impregnated by scientists aboard the USM Auriga, suffered from a thyroid deficiency which dramatically slowed the growth rate of the embryo inside him.[10] As a result, birth did not take place until several hours after would normally be expected.
When fully developed, the Chestburster releases enzymes that softens the bone and surrounding tissues of the host's chest cavity before finally forcing its way through the sternum. While the host may experience some discomfort in the minutes and hours leading up to the event, including mild chest pain and nausea, the actual birth itself is rapid, with the Chestburster exiting within seconds of the onset of severe pain upon the host.[8] The process begins with cramp-like pains in the victim's chest[11] but rapidly progresses to debilitating agony and uncontrollable convulsions. When the Chestburster finally emerges it induces severe shock, organ rupture/puncture and massive blood loss; death is almost instantaneous, but excruciatingly painful.
The Chestburster is arguably the most vulnerable stage of the Xenomorph's life cycle. While it grows rapidly, in the early stages the infant is almost defenseless, save for its acidic blood. If born in a populated area a Chestburster will immediately seek escape, preferably via a means that will not allow easy pursuit (e.g. through air ducts or vents, possibly going as far as burning a hole in a wall or floor with its own blood). Additionally, the extreme psychological impact of the birth mechanism has actually been known to have an adverse effect on the survival of other embryos — witnesses to the gory spectacle who discover they are impregnated themselves often seek to end their life before enduring such an agonizing end, whether through their own actions or assisted suicide. This can be fatal for the Chestburster, although depending on the manner of death it is possible for it to survive even after the host has died and emerge later.[3]
Stasis is known to halt Chestburster development and prevent birth, as seen when Corporal Tequila was placed into hypersleep to prevent the embryo inside her from hatching.[12]
While the birthing of a Chestburster is inherently fatal, in Alien3 it is claimed that removing a Chestburster before it emerges with no long-term residual effects to the host is possible. This procedure is later shown at the beginning of Alien Resurrection, when a Xenomorph is successfully removed from Ripley 8, who then goes on to make a full recovery. However, it is debatable whether a normal human would be capable of surviving; Ripley 8, owing to her altered genetic structure, was essentially part-Alien and therefore a unique case.
On the other hand (and possibly supporting the theory that Ripley 8 survived because of her genetically engineered structure), Aliens: Colonial Marines claims that even if a Chestburster is successfully removed from a host, the host will later die anyway as the placenta the Xenomorph creates during development is highly cancerous and quickly fatal. It is not elaborated upon whether removing an embryo at an incredibly early stage would prevent this.
Prior to Aliens: Colonial Marines, the successful removal of a Chestburster from its host was often shown in many comics, including Superman/Aliens, Dredd vs. Aliens and Batman/Aliens II. However, these comics are not canon. An attempt to remove an embryo is also shown in the 2010 video game Aliens vs. Predator, when the android Katya uses some equipment to stabilize Corporal Tequila, however, Karl Bishop Weyland shuts down the device's power before the removal operation can be completed.
A noncanon example exists in the Alien: Resurrection video game in the form of the Auto-Doc item, which kills and removes a developing Chestburster from the host body using targeted radiation. Whether this is an effective treatment for impregnation is unknown, as it is only shown in this game in response to the fact that the player can be facehugged.
Another non-canon theory about a survival from an embryo was shown in the Batman/Aliens II comic. The female antagonist Dr. Fortune was impregnated by a Facehugger but the chestburster was unable burst out from her body because by the time she got impregnated, she was suffering from leprosy which resulted in a stunted embryo (later revealed to be a Queen) As a side effect, it granted Dr. Fortune enhanced strength (similar to Ripley 8). Later the Xenomorph embryo seemed to have become deformed and the outline is visible on her stomach.
Non-canon DepictionsEdit
Alien 2: On EarthEdit
- Main article: Alien 2: On Earth
In the non-canon film Alien 2: On Earth, the Xenomorph Chestbursters are shown to erupt from the host's face instead of their chest, earning them the colloquial name "Facebursters" among fans. At first glance, the Faceburster resembles the typical Chestburster, but when fully exposed they are considerably longer and more worm-like in proportion and appearance. They are also seen to use their long tails to slice off victims' heads.
While Alien 2: On Earth has nothing to do with the official franchise, the idea of an Alien erupting from someone's face was later used in Alien Resurrection, when a Chestburster emerges from Larry Purvis and bursts through Dr. Wren's head, erupting from his face, as the two struggle. The particular Chestburster responsible has been referred to as the "Faceburster" by the film's crew and fans, although anatomically it is no different from a standard Chestburster.
Behind the ScenesEdit
The entire concept of the Chestburster was intended as the ultimate perversion of joyful birth — the wonder of new life tainted by the horrific death of the person giving birth to it.[13] Intended to be Alien's big shocker moment, the Chestburster was perhaps, next to the physical form of the fully grown Alien, the most important design to be made. The crew acknowledged that, if the Chestbursting scene lacked punch, then the entire film would likely be sunk as the audience may not take further events and dangers seriously.[14] For the infant creature's design, H. R. Giger was pointed towards the art of Francis Bacon by Alien's director, Ridley Scott. Bacon, already a favourite artist of Giger's, served as the inspiration for the first incarnation of the Chestburster. "I think when you want to be really scared," Ridley Scott said to Cinefantastique, "you've got to think about what it is that makes you very physically uneasy, that upsets you in a primal way. And I'm not easily upset, but we looked at various painters' works, and the one that caught us was by Francis Bacon, the three flesh necks with the jaws on the end. The primality, if there is such a word, was what interested me."
- "Ridley Scott asked me to do something based on a crucifixion painting by Francis Bacon, in which the only thing of the figure you see is a mouth and some flesh behind. He wanted something like that which could go into the stomach or come out of it. First it was designed as a little dinosaur and I didn't like it at all, but finally we gave him a worm-like shape with no legs... I believe the strongest, scariest feeling is to see an alien-worm inside a person's body moving under his skin."
- ―H. R. Giger on his initial design concept for the Chestburster.
Giger's first Chestburster design was received with reservation and ridicule. "To me, it looked like a plucked turkey," said Roger Dicken, "a veined, repulsive-looking thing with fangs... Obviously, you couldn't get something the size of a large turkey out of a human chest, but they were going to cheat it somehow." Despite his incredulity at the design, Dicken crafted a workable prop from the design. "Dicken reproduced it very faithfully," Ridley told Cinefex. "The problem was that what looked great on paper didn't in actuality." Dicken had brought the prop to the studio and operated it like a hand puppet. The effect looked "entirely comical – it looked like some kind of plucked, demented turkey."
Frightened of the Chestburster eliciting laughs rather than screams, Ridley went back to the drawing board. "We went back and re-examined various illustrations and ideas, and tried to come up with something we thought would be the most frightening," he told Cinefantastique. "I wanted more of a biological link between the baby, which is what we were really designing, and what the final creature would look like. And I wanted it to be a very smooth object. The other was all wrinkled and ancient-looking, like some malevolent muppet. And when it came out, I wanted it to look very rude – and totally carnivorous. So to be honest, that beast was very much the product of several people – Giger and Dicken and me, and even a bit of Gordon Carroll."
- "We worked for weeks on the baby [Chestburster]. I knew I didn't want something with bumps and warts and claws. You know, I find that most horror films have never really frightened me; and I tend not to be convinced by a lot of science-fiction films specifically because of the effects. So I knew it had to be good, this baby. We decided that the big chap, in embryo form, would have a head either tilted down or tilted back. We tilted it back because it seemed more obscene that way, more reptilian, more phallic."
- ―Ridley Scott on the Chestburster's redesign.
According to Dicken, "The overall look of the Chestburster was this long banana-shaped thing with a head on it from the Giger drawing. I made various models of it. One afternoon, Ridley Scott came over here and over cups of tea we literally constructed the thing by trying on different tails and so on, and it was finally agreed that that was what it would finally look like." The creature originally featured arms, but these were ultimately removed from the final creation.[15]
The original ChestburstingEdit
The creature's birth in Alien was shot using an artificial torso filled with blood and viscera, with actor John Hurt's head and arms coming through from underneath the table.[16] The production crew acquired animal innards from a local butcher's shop to dress the prosthetic chest. Bar Hurt, Ridley Scott kept the design of the Chestburster hidden from the cast. While the actors knew that the creature would be bursting out of Hurt, they had not been told that a large amount of fake blood would also be squirting out in every direction from high-pressure pumps and squibs, and their horrified reactions in the film are genuine. The Chestburster was shoved up through the torso by a puppeteer who held it on a stick; initial takes failed because the puppet would not penetrate Hurt's shirt, and so the clothing was thinned with acid and scored with razor blades to weaken it.[16] Producer and co-writer David Giler told Cinefantastique, "The 'Chest Birth' was simulated for the actors by surprising them with a shower of animal entrails. That's why their looks of disgust and horror are so real. They had no idea what we were going to shoot that day."
- "I was there, and they had three cameras set up 'cause they wanted to catch it from all angles and all the cameras were covered in clear plastic tarps. The lenses were covered with flat optical class like underwater cameras and Ridley and the D.P. and all of the technicians were all wearing overalls up to their necks. It took them three to four hours to get the actor doing to do the stunt rigged because there was mechanical stuff involved. Meanwhile the other actors didn't come on set, I don't know where they were, they had a room where the actors could hang out and talk to each other. Then they brought them in when they were ready for it, they hadn't seen all the preparation. All they did was they walked on, they saw all these tarps, and they saw huge hydraulic machines with hoses leading to this rigged man, and they saw everybody wearing coveralls. I looked at Sigourney Weaver, who's the lead. I saw her face as she looked at the tarp, coveralls and camera, and she seemed to go a little shaky. The actors looked real uneasy when they saw the set-up because it looked like they were trying to prepare for Vesuvius."
- ―Dan O'Bannon regarding the day of filming.
- "I knew that the special effects men were trying to rig the blood so that it would hit me. I was absolutely green. There had been a huge vat of kidneys and livers and intestines floating around on the set for two days and the stench was awful."
- ―Sigourney Weaver.
- "I noticed Sigourney really looking scared. I said, 'You're really getting into character.' She said, 'No, I have a feeling I really feel I'm going to be pretty repulsed right now.' A couple years later, I read an interview where she said, 'The reason I knew it was I saw Dan O'Bannon and Ron Shusett over in the corner, and they were putting on rubber raincoats and laughing like little kids on Christmas morning. So I knew it was going to be a blood-bath!' It worked so great. Veronica Cartwright – when the blood hit her in the fact, she totally passed out. I heard from Yaphet Kotto's wife that after that scene he would go to his room every night and not talk to anybody."
- ―Ronald Shusett.
- "The amount of blood was just unparalleled. I saw Veronica Cartwright get drenched from head to toe in blood and scream her fool head off and fall backwards over a table and brain herself... Then afterwards these two people pick Veronica Cartwright up and she was weak-kneed and they had to help her off the set. She was drenched, all her clothes sticking to her, and her hair sticking to her with this red dye and she was near hysterics. And twenty minutes later they come back and they had showered her and fixed her up and put a duplicate costume on her and she looked the same, but a little spooked, and I went up to her and I said, 'That was really terrific. Was that all acting?' And she looked at and said in a kind of spooked voice, 'Well, I was a little freaked-out.'""
- ―Dan O'Bannon.
- "John Hurt had been lying there for about four hours while they fixed him up. By the time I got there I was thinking, 'uh oh.' They had three cameras so they could get all our first reactions – our gut reactions. That's what you see in the film. Those reactions are totally raw. Nobody quite anticipate what was going to happen. I was told I'd get some blood on me. I had no idea the hose was pointed at my face. I felt very queasy afterwards.""
- ―Veronica Cartwright.
After reviewing the footage of the scene, many of the film's crew became concerned that the sequence was simply too graphic and would be rejected by Fox executives. While Fox was indeed nervous about the bloodshed, they eventually allowed the scene to stay.[14] It has since become an iconic moment not just in the film itself, but in cinema in general. Film critic Mark Kermode later summarized, "This compellingly grotesque spectacle has become as shockingly iconic as the head spinning sequence in The Exorcist, or the shower scene in Psycho."[13]
According to Matt Winston, "No sequel to ALIEN would have been complete without paying homage to the infamous 'Chestburster' scene, so director James Cameron memorably included the grotesque parasites in ALIENS as well."[17]
For Aliens, the design of the Chestburster from the first film remained practically unchanged by the special effects team at Stan Winston's studio, apart from adding two tiny arms to create consistency between the infant creature and the anatomy of the fully-grown Warrior. Cameron and Winston decided that the addition of arms also made sense on a purely functional level, allowing the Chestburster to pull itself free from its victim's chest.[17]
To achieve the effect of the Chestburster emerging from Mary (Barbara Coles), Winston and his crew created two Chestburster puppets. The first was a simple glove puppet, built to be tough enough to rip through Coles' artificial foam latex chest and clothing.[18] The second, "post-burst" puppet was a more delicate animatronic, incorporating cable-controlled mechanisms that allowed a wide-range of fluid movements.[18]
- The Chestburster scene is said to be the sole reason Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett's script was originally picked up by 20th Century Fox, such was it's perceived impact.[15]
- The time it takes for a Chestburster to develop and emerge from its victim varies wildly throughout the Alien series. Following the death of the Facehugger attached to Kane in Alien, it takes only a few hours for the embryo inside him to emerge. However, in Alien3 the Chestburster inside Ripley takes several days to develop (although this particular embryo was that of a Queen, and can therefore be assumed to have a longer gestation period, due to it's greater size and complexity). In Alien vs. Predator and Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem, Chestburster development was accelerated rapidly, to the point where the creatures would emerge only 5 to 10 minutes after implantation. In the more recent video games featuring the Xenomorph, a gestation period of several hours is once again typical.
- Despite being so integral to the Xenomorph's lifecycle, the Chestburster is conspicuously absent from Alien: Isolation. However, the bodies of people who died giving birth to a Chestburster are found on Sevastopol.
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- Aliens versus Predator 2/Primal Hunt
- Aliens vs. Predator (2010 video game)
- Aliens: Infestation
- Aliens: Colonial Marines/Stasis Interrupted (video game)
- AVP: Evolution
- Alien: Out of the Shadows
See Also Edit
- Bellybursters — Another embryonic Xenomorph form that differs in its gestation and birth characteristics.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Warren Presents the Officially Authorized Magazine of the Movie Alien Collector's Edition
- ↑ Alien Anthology - Disc 2: Aliens - commentary
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Vincent Ward (writer) and David Fincher (director). Alien3 Assembly Cut [DVD]. 20th Century Fox.
- ↑ James Cameron (writer and director). Aliens [DVD]. 20th Century Fox.
- ↑ "Weyland-Yutani Archives - Alien Queen Chestburster Alien 3". Retrieved on 2013-04-25.
- ↑ Joss Whedon (writer) and Jean-Pierre Jeunet (director). Alien Resurrection [DVD]. 20th Century Fox.
- ↑ Steve Perry. (1992). Aliens: Earth Hive. Bantam Books, 126.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett (writers) and Ridley Scott (director). Alien [DVD]. 20th Century Fox.
- ↑ Vincent Ward (writer) and David Fincher (director). Alien3 [DVD]. 20th Century Fox.
- ↑ A. C. Crispin. (1997). Alien Resurrection novelization. Warner Books, Inc., 91.
- ↑ Alan Dean Foster. (1979). Alien novelization. Warner Books, Inc., 136.
- ↑ Aliens vs. Predator [Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360]. Rebellion.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Mark Kermode, Ridley Scott, Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett, James Cameron, Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Alien Evolution [DVD]. Nobles Gate Scotland.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Ridley Scott, Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett, H. R. Giger. The Alien Legacy [DVD]. Sharpline Arts.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 John Hurt, Ridley Scott, James Cameron, H. R. Giger, Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett. The Alien Saga [DVD]. Prometheus Entertainment.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Ridley Scott, David Giler, Walter Hill, H. R. Giger, Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett. The Beast Within: The Making of 'Alien' [DVD]. 20th Century Fox.
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 Matt Winston (September 5, 2013). "ALIENS Behind-the-Scenes - How the alien 'chestburster' mechanism was made. | Stan Winston School of Character Arts". Retrieved on January 22, 2014.
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 Jody Duncan. (2006). The Winston Effect: The Art and History of Stan Winston Studio. Titan Books, 88.


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The Hawkeyes return their top four running backs, facing a challenge of actually getting all four backs on the field. Coach Kirk Ferentz said it's a good problem to have.
I think Mark's a good runner and a good football player, and it might be better for us to have him fresh in the fourth quarter. We have to be careful about that.
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That's exactly what happened to Brett LeMaster last season, who missed all of last with an injury.
The toughest part of it was it took me four different surgeries to get through, LeMaster said. I had to really push it every single day because I didn't have any time to lose.
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From Here To Eternity DVD
Price: $14.99
- Technical Specs
- Format: DVD
- Rating: Not Rated
- Number of Discs: 1
- Run Time: 118 Minutes
- Region: 1
- Aspect Ratio: Fullscreen
- Studio: Sony Pictures
- DVD Release Date: October 23, 2001
- Subtitles: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Thai
ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Mono [CC]
SPANISH: Dolby Digital Mono
FRENCH: Dolby Digital Mono
PORTUGUESE: Dolby Digital Mono
- Color: Black & White
Audio Commentary from Tim Zinnemann and Alvin Sargent
Featurette: The Making Of From Here To Eternity
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In this landmark film, passion and tragedy collide on a military base as a fateful day in December 1941 draws near. Private Prewitt (Montgomery Clift) is a soldier and former boxer being manipulated by his superior and peers. His friend Maggio (Frank Sinatra) tries to help him but has his own troubles. Sergeant Warden (Burt Lancaster) and Karen Holmes (Deborahh Kerr) tread on dangerous ground as lovers in an illicit affair. Each of their lives will be changed when their stories culminate in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Winner of eight Oscars®, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Supporting awards for Sinatra in a career-defining role and for Donna Reed as a not-so-wholesome "club hostess."
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- DirectorFred Zinnemann
- Primary CastBurt Lancaster Montgomery Clift Deborah Kerr More
- GenreDrama
- Release Date1953