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A SEA of blue swept the landscape of Royston on Sunday as hundreds of fundraisers gathered for an annual fun run.
The Royston in Blue family race saw more than 700 runners of all ages sweep across Therfield Heath to raise cash for the Teenage Cancer Trust ward at Addenbrooke's Hospital.
Dressed head to foot in various shades of blue, the runners were hoping to beat last year's fundraising total of £18,000.
Lisa Thompson, organiser, said: "It was wonderful.
"There were more than 700 entries and everyone who came said how much they enjoyed it.
"We had the perfect weather – it was sunny and warm, but not too hot to run in.
"We will not know how much we have raised until near September, but the hope is to bring it as close to last year's sum of £18,000 as possible."
She added: "It was great to see so many of the local schools lending their support to the event too."
Starting at 10.30am, the blue-clad runners and walkers swept along the 5k route over the heath to be greeted with medals and goody bags after crossing the line.
Meanwhile, canine companions were able to get in on the action as any mutts who were dressed up by their owners were able to enter a dog fancy dress competition.
The event was previously known as the Royston in Pink run but changed its name to reflect the current branding of the Teenage Cancer Trust.
Laura Woodcock, from the Trust, said: "I would like to thank everyone who took part in Royston in Blue this year.
"The day was incredible and is a real community focused event and everyone who participated will have raised vital funds to help Teenage and Young Adults from East Anglia who are diagnosed with cancer."


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Mes Sarcheshmeh remain bottom of the Iran Pro League after a 4-0 defeat by Foolad. Mehrdad Jamaati opened the scoring for the hosts three minutes before the break, while Soroush Rafiei added a second.
Ali Khanaki scored an own goal to make it 3-0 and Taleb Rikani completed the scoring with 17 minutes to go to seal Foolad victory.
Elsewhere, Perspolis overcame Shahin FC 4-1, taking a three-goal through Mohammad Ali Karimi Pashak, Gholamreza Rezaei and Mohammad Nouri before Mansour Tanhaei reduced the arrears. But it took Mehrdad Oladi just two minutes after half-time to find the back of the net and finish the scoring.
Vouria Ghafouri's strike secured Shahrdari Tabriz a 2-1 win at Saipa, while Morteza Hashemizadeh scored to ensure a 2-1 win over Sepahan.

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Yesterday, iOS hacker and jailbreaker I0n1c showed us that iOS 7.1.1 can be jailbroken. A few hours later, Winocm posted a video on YouTube demoing the iOS 7.1.1 jailbreak and yes, it is untethered. He showed his iPhone 4 running on iOS 7.1.1 fully jailbroken and untethered.
Winocm had also demoed an iOS 7.1 untethered jailbreak working on his iPhone 4. And now, he tweeted out saying "I was bored today, so I did this (again, in another way)" and posted a link to this video. This means that iOS 7.1.1 is very much possible and could see a public release soon. Apple is said to announce iOS 8 in the first week of June during WWDC 2014, so whoever is developing on this jailbreak could also release it once iOS 8 is out. The video description on YouTube reads:
This is the culmination of boredom, 3 hours of work and lots of masochism.
Oh yeah, this is iOS 7.1.1 untethered if you didn't notice earlier. (iPhone 4 GSM though, don't want to mess with any other devices that I have. Would work elsewhere… if you put in the effort. ジ)
Yay, poorest woman's untethered jailbreak.
This untethered jailbreak for iOS 7.1.1 currently works on the iPhone 4, but the hacker noted that if enough effort is put in, it should work with other/newer devices. Check out the video below:
Apple patched the Evasi0n7 jailbreak with the release of iOS 7.1, but Winocm also managed to jailbreak iOS 7.1. His method is different than that of I0n1c's as he stated in the tweet, which means there are still a lot of exploits.
Releasing a jailbreak with those exploits at this time will lead to Apple patching them in iOS 8, so we cannot guarantee a release. We sure hope for one though, as a lot of users want a jailbreak on iOS 7.1.1, including me. By the way, Winocm will be joining Apple later this year!
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Matt Harvey's over seven innings of work Friday night set the tone for the Mets' weekend. (Chris Swann: Flickr)
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Dellin Betances will play an even larger role in the Yankees bullpen now that Andrew Miller is hurt (Wikimedia Commons).
Abby Wambach and the US Women's National team look to win their first World Cup since 1999. (Photo Credit: Nicole Miller/Flickr)
Catcher Travis d'Arnaud is back with the Mets after missing 46 games with a broken right pinkie finger. (Flickr : slgckgc)
The Padres used their 11th round pick, #329 overall, to draft Fordham pitcher Brett Kennedy. Fordham catcher Charles Galiano was drafted in the 40th round by the Brewers with pick #1201. (Scott Kwiatkowski : Fordham Athletics)
Chris Heston's no-hitter was the third caught by San Francisco Giant catcher Buster Posey (Wikimedia Commons).
The Mets did not have a first round draft pick, the last time that happened in 2009 they took Steven Matz in the second round (Wikimedia Commons).
American Pharoah's connections celebrate horse racing's 12th Triple Crown winner and first in 37 years. (Drew Casey: WFUV Sports)


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For the third straight year, the New Hampshire/Maine Chapter of the Percussive Arts Society is presenting a Day of Percussion (DoP) at Keene State College. This year's visiting artists include Robert Paterson (composer, Director of the American Modern Ensemble), Matt Ward (Talujon Percussion Quartet, Queens College), Amy Williams (composer, University of Pittsburg), and Jan Williams (Professor Emeritus, SUNY-Buffalo). A PAS information session by Chapter President Christopher Swist will take place at 11:30PM, followed immediately by master classes by Robert Paterson and Matt Ward. At 2:00PM, a panel discussion on "American Percussion Music: History and Influence" will take place with the 4 distinguished guests and KSC faculty member's Murray Mast, Heather Gilligan, James Chesebrough, Joseph Darby, and Christopher Swist.
The Day of Percussion will conclude with an evening concert in the Main Theater by the Keene State College Percussion Ensemble, directed by Murray Mast and Christopher Swist. The program will include compositions by Amy Williams, Robert Paterson, and Christopher Swist. In addition KSC faculty member Marcia Lehninger will be the soloist in Lou Harrison's epic Concerto for Violin with Percussion Orchestra. The concerto features the solo violin backed by an orchestra of pipes, brake drums, flower pots, wash tubs, clock coils, an inverted contrabass played with triangle beaters, and some more typical percussion instruments. Robert Paterson's Stealing Thunder will feature a sextet of KSC student percussionists accompanied by recorded thunder. Robert Paterson and Amy Williams will also be performing their own compositions on the show, a piano solo and a marimba duet.
The schedule for Thursday, December 5th is:
11:00AM - Registration
11:30AM – PAS information session, NH/ME Chapter President Christopher Swist
12PM – Robert Paterson, six-mallet marimba masterclass
1PM – Matt Ward, percussion quartet coaching/masterclass
2PM – Panel Discussion on "American Percussion Music; History and Influence"
Jan Williams (percussionist, Professor Emeritus, SUNY-Buffalo)
Amy Williams (composer, University of Pittsburg)
Matt Ward (percussionist, Talujon Quartet, Queens College)
Robert Paterson (composer, American Modern Ensemble)
Ertan Sener (conductor, historian, The Hartt School)
Murray Mast (percussionist, Keene State College)
Heather Gilligan (composer, Keene State College)
James Chesebrough (conductor, Keene State College)
Joseph Darby (music historian, Keene State College)
Christopher Swist, moderator
7:30PM - Concert of the Keene State College Percussion Ensemble directed by Christopher Swist and Murray Mast. Compositions by Robert Paterson, Amy Williams, and Christopher Swist as well as featuring KSC faculty member Marcia Lehninger soloing in Lou Harrison's Concerto for Violin with Percussion Orchestra.
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Kerry to speak on Syria
Secretary of State John Kerry is set to speak on Syria on Monday afternoon, the State Department said.
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White House press secretary Jay Carney will follow Kerry with his daily briefing at 3 p.m., pushed back from its originally scheduled 12:30 p.m. start time.
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For me, snow in the South triggers memories of family stories. Perhaps, when we think about it, two of the most important words in a family are "remember when." Those two words remind us of stories that tie generations together. I can imagine some stories that might emerge from the recent "snow crisis" in Atlanta. Perhaps a family legend might develop such as, "remember when grandma was born in the back of great grandpa's car when they were stuck in the snow on the way to the hospital back in 2014?"
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Thursday, January 17, 2013
Electing a New Executive Committee
• The House Democratic Caucus held leadership elections this week. The new officers include: New House Minority Leader Rep. Todd Rutherford (D-Columbia), Assistant Leader Rep. Walt McLeod (D-Little Mountain), Deputy Leader Rep. James Smith (D-Columbia), Parliamentarian Rep. David Weeks (D-Sumter), Treasurer Rep. Laurie Funderburk (D-Camden), Secretary Rep. Mia McLeod (D-Columbia), and Chaplain Rep. Kenneth Hodges (D-Green Pond).
• Guarding Against Identity Theft
A bill, H. 3248, relating to financial transaction card crime, received second reading on Thursday. This bill adds language that "it is not a defense when some of the acts of the crime did not occur in this state or within a city, county, or local jurisdiction."
• Veterans Treatment Court
A bill, H. 3014, was introduced that would create a separate and specialized court pipeline for veterans struggling to find equal justice under the law. This bill, which was referred to the Judiciary Committee, is entitled the "Veterans Treatment Court Program Act."
• Improving Access to the Polls
A bill, H. 3003, was introduced that would improve the current system of voter identification by allowing college and university identification to be accepted as one additional allowable form of identification while voting. The bill was referred to the Judiciary Committee.
• Investing in Our Communities
A bill, H. 3241, also known as the "South Carolina Community Investment Tax Credit Act," was introduced this week providing a tax credit to financial institutions that make investments, loans, and contributions for activities creating or preserving low-income housing for low-income residents. This bill was referred to the Ways and Means Committee.
• Giving Time Off for Voting
A bill, H. 3226 was introduced a bill to require employers to provide workers adequate time off from work to allow for voting. This bill was referred to the Judiciary Committee.
• Preventing Cancer
A bill, H. 3236, also known as the "Cervical Cancer Prevention Act," was introduced this week. This bill provides voluntary vaccinations to any seventh grade student in any public or private school administered by DHEC. It was referred to the 3M Committee.
• Protecting Our Children
A bill, H. 3237, was introduced that requires a school resource officer in every public school in South Carolina. It was referred to the Education Committee.
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CIRCLEVILLE, OH - The OCU Women's Volleyball team hosted the OCU Invitational Tournament on Friday and Saturday and came away with three big wins.
Women's Volleyball Goes All Out vs KCU
CIRCLEVILLE, OH - The OCU women's volleyball team faced defending region champion Kentucky Christian on Tuesday night and gave them all they could handle in the first two games.
OCU Sweeps Tri-Match with Crown and Appalachian
CIRCLEVILLE, OH - The OCU women's volleyball program hosted an NCCAA Mid-East region tri-match over the weekend and came away with two big region wins.
Trailblazers Sweep OSU Marion 3-0 on the Road
MARION, OH - The OCU women's volleyball team traveled to Ohio State Marion on Monday night and came away with a convincing 3-0 win.
Blazers Sweep Clark State to Remain Undefeated
CIRCLEVILLE. OH - The OCU women's volleyball team took on OCAC rival Clark State Community College on Friday night and came away with their 2nd consecutive win.
Women's Volleyball Wins Season Opener
CIRCLEVILLE, OH - The OCU women's volleyball team faced a much improved Southern State squad on Wednesday night in their season opener.
OCU Volleyball Announces 2011 Season Schedule
CIRCLEVILLE, OH - The OCU athletic department has released the 2011 season schedule for the women's volleyball team.
Trailblazer Volleyball Signs Libero
Ashley Stiltner has signed a letter of intent to play volleyball at Ohio Christian University for the 2011 season.
OCU Volleyball 2010 Regular Season Recap
Coming off of a 4-21 2009 season that was full of ups and downs, Ohio Christian came into the 2010 season poised to build a stronger foundation. The Trailblazers brought in Tiffany Mosher, Ashley Southard, and Rachel Briggs who helped raise the serve receive percentage of the team from 78% in the 2009 season to 90% in 2010.
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NEW YORK — A blizzard named Nemo and delays at customs may have delayed Marc Jacobs' fall presentation and pushed up by one day the runway show for his secondary line, but he didn't need any more time or fuss for Marc by Marc Jacobs.
Marc by Marc Jacobs nods to 1960s for a prim fall
The younger, trendier line previewed its fall collection Monday night at New York Fashion Week in a polished and quiet throwback to the 1960s. Jacobs stuck mostly with pant suits, wool shift or trapeze dresses and coats in solids, accented with a sprinkling of white-and-black stripes and large leaf prints in autumnal red, orange-red, green, purple and a rich deep blue.
The female models, with fluffy curled hair and bright red lips, looked like they were ready to get on an airline flight to mix a little business with pleasure, while the men in plaid wool blazers could have been running off to a campus club meeting.
Trousers for both genders provided an updated look to the mod-style dresses and coats. Women's pantsuits in wool or satin matched lean, tailored blazers with full, wide legs but were cropped to capri length. Men's pants were slouchy, wide and decidedly longer than necessary.
A younger take on a woman's pantsuit worked the tone-on-tone trend by pairing a green-and-blue printed top with matching cigarette pants in a sturdy fabric, made professional with chunky green loafer-style pumps.
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"I would say job security was the number-one issue," says a newsroom source who spoke on the condition that her name not be published. "Until we get job security, we're not going to change our minds, we're not going to agree to a contract."
Now that you mention it, the 574-word opus contains a passing reference to "job security" and "work rules" about halfway through, but no one quoted on either side discusses whether the issues had an impact on the vote.
According to our source, the contract offer would have made it easier for management to outsource work, potentially leaving some staffers out in the cold. Changes in disciplinary procedures were also key. "There would be a one-strike-you're-out instead of a graduated-step program to get rid of employees," the source reveals. Finally, management wants to reduce how much notice employees are given when their shifts change.
"What the vote showed us, especially in the newsroom, is we're stronger than we've ever been," the source says. "The problem is, for more than a year, management didn't really go to the negotiating table to negotiate anything," the source says. "We have just now started real negotiations. At this time, it's hard to say what will really happen."
Barbershop 2 pulled in $24 million at the box office during its debut weekend, shoving the aptly named You Got Served from the top slot. Many were surprised with the success of the sequel to the 2002 hit, but Eric Rhone, manager of Barbershop star Cedric the Entertainer, was not one of them. Like Cedric, Rhone grew up in the Lou and now divides his time between the Central West End and LA. He was present for the filming of the comedy, which was set in Chicago.
Unreal: Where do you get your hair cut?
Eric Rhone: I go to Leroy's, which is at Natural Bridge and Jennings Station Road. That's the same barbershop where Nelly's tour manager worked and where Nelly used to go. It's very similar to the one featured in the movie -- that same type of atmosphere.
How much of St. Louis is in the Barbershop movies?
A lot of St. Louis was in there, a lot of Chicago and Milwaukee. That movie is indicative of what happens in barbershops across the nation in the urban community. Barbershops tend to be a place where people are able to let down their guards and speak their minds free of ramifications of any kind.
Will Barbershop 3 be set in St. Louis?
I have no idea, wouldn't that be great? [Laughs] Cedric and I and our production company definitely plan to come to St. Louis and shoot some films soon, to bring those marketing and production dollars into our community.
Who do you think is hotter, Queen Latifah or Eve?
They're both very attractive women. In my opinion, Eve looks better, but Queen just has such an attractive personality. That depends on what you like -- the external or the internal. That's a dangerous question; I'm married. My wife is hotter than both of them!
Who do you think is hotter, Ice Cube or Cedric?
That's even more dangerous. I live in the Central West End, so that's even more dangerous.
Can Cedric eat a lot?
Not like he used to. Back in school we all were having a good time. But he doesn't really eat a lot these days.
Correction published 2/25/04: In the original version of this story, we mischaracterized the minimum salary for Post-Dispatch reporters. The above version reflects the corrected text.
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This is an amazing site if you need help with linear comparisons and linear equalities and inequalities. I learned about...
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This is an amazing site if you need help with linear comparisons and linear equalities and inequalities. I learned about graph transformation operations which change a function by changing it's graph. There can be one function or more than one function, the site calls it a family function. The site described the 10 parts of quadratic functions and then explained each of the 10 in detail. There was an exercise on how to write an essay on transformations which I didn't do but I looked at the steps and it seemed very applicable. For example,it gavefeatures of quadratic equations like symmetry, intersections with the axes, and vertexes. I liked learning about linear and non linear comparisons since that is what we are studying in math class right now.Technical Remarks:This site is set up really clever. There is a total of 10 parts to the quadratic functions. Within each part there are sets of activities tools, tasks and exercises that help navigate you around the site. At the bottom of each page there is a suggested activity that can help you apply what you have learned. It is either in the form of writting a report or writing an essay. I think out of all the sites I have visited so far, this one looks like it would be most helpful to students and teachers.
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It is frustrating for players, coaches and — most vociferously — fans to watch it happen time after time.
More important is that it's also costly in terms of achieving success.
It is the on-going, bewildering state of the University of Vermont power play, particularly in potentially game-changing situations.
Never was it more evident than in the Catamounts' 6-2 loss to Boston University on Friday.
Let's make one thing clear: Even had the UVM power play been more effective early in the game, that doesn't guarantee success against a team with the talent BU puts on the ice. At best, the Catamounts might have used a quick goal or two as the springboard to a win, but it's just as likely the Terriers could have overcome an early deficit.
That said, Vermont's inability to do anything during a two-man advantage of 1 minute, 46 seconds seven minutes into the game certainly made a UVM win much more unlikely. The Catamounts cannot afford to squander opportunities against any team but it's more critical against the league's elite tier, the BUs, UNHs, BCs. Those chances are just too rare.
In the postgame media conference, BU coach Jack Parker cited his team's successful kill of that situation as pivotal. He also credited his goalie, Sean Maguire, with being instrumental in getting his team back to full strength without allowing a goal. It was a diplomatic statement.
It's true that Maguire made some nice saves. Not one of them came during UVM's 5-on-3.
For over 1:30 of that advantage, the Catamounts simply threw the puck around the perimeter while BU's defensive triangle merely held position in front of Maguire. It ended with one easy save. The only substantive action occurred in the stands, from where pleas of "Shoot! Shoot!" went unheeded. The consequence: No goals and no positive momentum for Vermont; no worries and plenty of residual energy for the Terriers.
"I thought we played pretty well early on and we lost a lot of energy when we didn't score on that 5-on-3. We had just practiced it and we just completely froze. We didn't execute anything that we had practiced," said UVM coach Kevin Sneddon.
That's the perplexing part. Everyone — coaches, players, fans — knows that no team practices 5-on-4s or especially 5-on-3s with the intention of simply retaining puck possession. The object is to score and to score someone has to shoot the puck.
Somewhere there is a disconnect, from coaches to players or from players to execution. The "Selfless" component of UVM's "Pride, Selfless, Tough" mantra does not extend to always expecting the other guy to shoot.
Of course the glaringly bad shot, the high-zone blast into the shins of a defender that can set up a short-handed breakaway, must be avoided. But the way things have been going for UVM, there are few other exceptions to the notion that any shot is a good shot and that's certainly better than no shot.
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Mark Rappaport is an American independent director who has been highly acclaimed over his 30 year career. His film From the Journals of Jean Seberg as been mentioned a few times on this site. Except for FTJOJS, Rock Hudson's Home Movies, and The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender, none of his previous features are readily available on any format. Here are a few descriptions of this work from Ray Carney's website:
Casual Relations
What do vampires, Hollywood melodramas, porn films, the countdown of golden oldies, and drives down the highway with Mick Jagger on the radio have in common? Casual Relations knows. In Rappaport's dazzling and bizarre feature-length debut, he focuses on states of imaginative possession and dispossession, demonstrating how impossible it is to separate fantasies, dreams, and realities. The point is that we are all vampires–or being vampirized. We are all obsessed–or the object of someone else's obsession. We are all under somebody's thumb–to quote the Jagger lyric Rappaport uses–if we're not thumb-wrestling ourselves and pinning ourselves down. The short film within a film, A Vampire's Love, is one of the most brilliant (and hilarious) brief sequences in all of Rappaport's work.
Mozart in Love
Mozart in Love is a deadpan, lip-synch, parody opera. Scored with the music of Mozart and loosely based on events in the composer's life, the movie plays with illusions and reality to the point of utter confusion. Rappaport is not knocking the nuttiness–but celebrating it. He reminds us that the clogging of the imaginative arteries we associate with the twentieth-century was as present in Mozart's day as today. In other words, the self has always been an onion or a pearl. There is no essential center, no heart, no core, no reality to get to–only layer after layer of processing, packaging, and costuming. As Gertrud Stein said, there is no there there. There is only the assembly line that manufactures our emotional experiences. There are more things in Rappaport's heaven and earth than Milli Vanilli ever dreamt of.
Local Color
Though we imagine ourselves on the cutting edge of the future, Local Color shows what a creaky old house we live in, haunted by melodramatic ghosts, reverberating with imaginative echoes. There is (in Rappaport's own description) enough plot to choke a horse, but the real subject is how unimportant actions and events are. Everything that matters happens inside. Local Color has the ironclad logic not of life, but a dream. Everything means something. Everyone is connected to everyone else. Fantasies migrate from one person to another. Characters think each others' thoughts. They think with other people's brains, feel with each others' hearts. For Rappaport, we are all tuning forks vibrating to dog-frequencies we can't even hear. The song plays us; we dance to its rhythm even when we think we're conducting the orchestra. At the very moment we imagine ourselves to be most unique and original, we're revealed to be whistling an old familiar tune.
The Scenic Route
The Scenic Route is a bizarre dream film of a movie that tells the story of two sisters who share the same lover without realizing it. Rappaport crafts a zany anti-melodrama about female imprisonment in romantic dreams, delusions, and anxieties. He reminds us that raw experience is a myth. We live in a culture where our food is processed, our possessions manufactured, and our entertainment market-tested. Why should our fantasies be any different? They are as mass-produced as our automobiles; our emotions as synthetic as designer fabrics. And as quickly in or out of fashion. Run, run, as fast as you can; you can't keep up with the Gingerbread Man. In Rappaport's power-saturated vision of life, individualism has gone the way of the vacuum tube radio. We are antennas resonating to a surging force field of cultural energies. Our identities are as artificial as our art, our love affairs as elaborately conjugated as a Latin verb.
Chain Letters
Chain Letters is Rappaport's most deliciously lush and Byzantine work, It poses a mystery, but while most mysteries want us to dive down and excavate secrets, Rappaport insists that we ice skate the fractured, opaque surfaces. Strange puzzles, symmetries, and coincidences abound. Doppelg"ngers and mirror-image anti-types lurk around every corner. But you would have to be paranoid to try to connect the dots. Or would you? Could there be a key that unlocks the mysteries of life? Or is that the real mystery? Can you break the chains of code? One character in the film believes all of life is a plot orchestrated by a vast government bureaucracy, but Rappaport tells us that the bureaucracy of the imagination puts that of the Pentagon to shame. The real plots are in our brains–the plots that form the haunted graveyard of Western civilization.
These films, which are acclaimed as some of the most original cinema ever by many critics (Scenic Route is on Jonathan Rosenbaum's top 100 American movies list) don't seem to be out there. Does anyone know of a source for finding these potential gems? Does anyone know if there are plans for any company to release them? Does anyone know if Rappaport is still directing? Any information would be greatly appreciated.
Bump. Anyone?
I just watched Chain Letters and it was a rich and rewarding experience. In terms of style it somewhat reminded me of what would happen if Dario Argento were to remake a Jacques Rivette film. It would be easy to call it Lynchian, but as Ray Carney correctly states, Rappaport is more interested in exploring the way our obsession with conspiracy and connection fucks with our minds and our relationships than with whether they really exist. The film has been criticized by Dave Kehr as not coming together but I don't think it was supposed to. Somewhat wrote a book about Nicholas Roeg a wile back called Fragile Geometry. In Chain Letters, Rappaport creates a kind of Fragile Calculus wherein the couples, triangles, and social squares don't add up to a solution but rather to a greater question.
I need more of this guys films.
I've seen "Chain Letters", which I loved, and "Casual Relations", which I was lukewarm on. It seemed rather incomplete, like a segment of half baked ideas. Unfortunately I don't remember much specific about either film, as I saw them a while back and I don't even own a vhs anymore, the only format which they can be found today.
Mark's been a friend for 40 years. Glad to see SOMEONE talking about his films. "The Scene Route" and "Imposters" are my faves form the first period. "From the Journals of Jean Seberg" is the best of his essay films.
Fragile Geometry is by Joseph Lanza. It's very useful.
David, what's Rappaport been up to? It would be great to see him working again.
I haven't seen From the Journals of Jean Seberg as it costs a fortune right now but i caught Rock Hudson's home movies and thought it was excellent. Hopefully some company like Milestone is thinking about his films because it seems his profile is too low for a Criterion to care.
Mark's moved to Europe with his boyfriend and hasn't made films for some time. Have to drop him a line to find out what's up. I hope he can find a way to make work again but it's been very discouraging.
Rappaport is due for a rediscovery. The thought that someone with so much formal ability and talent is not producing is terrifying.
Not familiar enough with his work to say anything intelligent, but the little I've seen is very impressive.
I've read about Rappaport on Carney's website but never gotten a chance to check out any of his films. How did you guys find them? And if I were to find them, what is a good place to start?
The ones I saw, I saw in a theater. Imagine that. I couldn't hazard a guess where you might go to find them now.
Chain Letters is available Here:
It's a great site in general but CL is the only Rappaport they carry.
Rock Hudson's home movies is available and cheap on Amazon. The others discusses by Carney are either unavailable or overpriced.
Oh I am going to spend a lot of money on this site. Thank you.
yeah thanks for that link Spence. I think I might have to pick up "Chain Letters". I actually own the VHS (got it cheap on ebay) I no longer have a VHS!! 10$ is a good deal even if all you get is;
7 – Maybe two or three generations away from the original. Colors have shifted a bit from their original places due to NTSC (Which stands for Never Twice the Same Color). Still very watchable.
I saw "Seberg" for a class a few years ago. Too bad it's overpriced, it's one of the better essay films out there. I normally can't stand "feminist" films (hope I don't catch heat for that remark) but that one was extremely interesting.
Once you get used to the vhs quality it looks fine for something you can't get any other way. I had problems using their cart system to pay but I e-mailed the guy and he worked it out.
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It's kind of sad that this thread is the 10th site listed when you search "Mark Rappaport Films" on Yahoo. Does anyone know if Local Color. Mozart in Love, and Casual Relations were ever actually released on VHS?
I just posted this a few minutes ago and it seems to have disappeared. Well, here goes, take two. Hi, Mike Spence, I was just wasting a little time on Google, looking myself up. But I don't have to make excuses. I'm sick today so it's OK. Anyway, found myself on your site and here I am. Yes, I moved to Paris over four years ago and I love every minute of it. I write and, as one of your posters noted, pieces are occasionally in ROUGE, an on-line Australian film journal. Lots of pieces have appeared in Trafic, a fairly toney French film journal (translation: small circulation) and last year, here in France, a collection of some of my writings was published. Le spectateur qui en savait trop. (How oo-la-la is that???) The Moviegoer Who Knew Too Much. And don't worry. It was written in mere English and THEN translated into French. It got some very good reviews but I don't think anything much happened with it. I also do, thanks to Photoshop, photomontages. I had a show last year at Lincoln Center in New York in conjunction with the New York Film Festival. And a very limited edition, self-published book of some of my photomontages will be ready later this week. It's called "Blind Dates." In answer to your unasked question, "No," there are no more movies in this dude's future. Plenty to watch but not to make. And, yes, Local Color and Casual Relations were released on VHS but are out-of-print, as are all VHSs, I guess. But the good news is that George Eastman House just recently restored the negative of Local Color. And maybe, maybe, maybe will strike a new print, in the not-too-distant future, of Mozart in Love. Well, it's kinda heartwarming to know that some people somewhere still remember that I not-too-long ago made some movies… Keep the flame alive (and I'm not talking about myself here. I'm doing just fine)…
It's great to see this post and to know that you're well. It's unfortunate, however, that you're no longer making films. For those of us who knew your work, if it helps to know that it mattered, know that it did. All the best to you, Mark Rappaport.
Hi Mark!
Thanks Mark! I echo KJ's sadness over your no longer making films. I am glad you are writing and the restoration news is extremely exciting! Your response alone justifies the existence of this forum. Thanks again!
I just figured i wold repeat what Mark already told us:
Mark Rappaport's Local Color Among Six Films
Receiving Preservation Funds
San Francisco, CA (April 23, 2009)—Mark Rappaport's Local Color
(1977), a deadpan melodrama about hopelessly interconnected lives, and
five other landmark experimental films will soon be saved thanks to
Avant-Garde Masters Grants from the National Film Preservation
Foundation and The Film Foundation. Recipients of the $50,000 award
are George Eastman House, Anthology Film Archives, Center for Visual
Music, and the Harry Ransom Center of the University of Texas at
Heralded by film critic Roger Ebert as a "strange and wonderful
movie," Local Color spins a mordant tale about eight individuals
trapped in a web of intertangled relationships and dreams. As
complications beget complications, the line between "real" and
"surreal" grows increasingly hard to draw. George Eastman House will
collaborate with the filmmaker to preserve the 16mm feature from the
original source materials..
Great to hear from you, Mark.
I recently saw The Scenic Route a couple of days ago and I gotta say it was just terrific.I really need to see more of his films.
Will, how did you see it? VHS or what? If it's hush hush, i'd appreciate you sending me a message.
haha check your messages ;]
I came into this thread to give praise to the always likable Michael Rappaport :D
Having now seen The Scenic Route, Local Color and Imposter, along with the previously seen Chain Letters, I can easily say that Rappaport is one of the greatest filmmakers whose work I've had the privilege to see. These films are outstanding and their general lack of availability is a crime.
For those who care, the Imposters VHS is going for an insanely cheap price on Amazon right now. Does anyone know whether Casual Relations and Mozart in Love were ever actually released on VHS? I've never seen them available anywhere
I realize it's hard to muster up much enthusiasm for films that are so hard to see that no one is talking about but, if these films will ever get out of the ghetto some people have to start getting interested. For those of you who think this guy's opinion is important, check out Ebert's review of The Scenic Route:
"Mark Rappaport makes movies that look, sound and feel like nobody else's movies. He is an original. He has discovered and recorded his own universe in the same sense that William Blake, Lewis Carroll, J. R. R. Tolkein or Charles Addams have. You enter it on his terms, because it's his fantasy, but you get caught up in it immediately.
It's a universe in which a handful of central characters adapt postures and attitudes towards each other in the midst of the broadest possible melodramatic structures. Their stories are bizarre or sad or overwhelmingly banal, but their visual universe is meticulously controlled: The art direction on a Rappaport film (by Lilly Kilvert this time) is as important as the script or direction.
In his new "The Scenic Route" (which arrives at Chicago Filmmakers on Saturday straight from the Directors' Fortnight at Cannes), he gives us three primary characters: Two sisters, Estelle and Lena, and a young man named Paul who lives first with Estelle, then with Lena, and then with both. Lest this sound like a steamy scenario, I should point out that Rappaport's characters rarely move very much, and tend to find themselves in formal tableaux
They do talk occasionally, but the main weight of the story is carried by voices on the sound track. Estelle begins the story by describing a 19th Century engraving on a wall: It shows a man behind bars looking down at the prone naked body of a woman whose bed is borne on the ocean. What does the picture mean? Nothing much… until Lena comes to visit and has a print of the same engraving… or when Estelle duplicates the scene in the engraving with Paul behind the bars. Images double back upon themselves, suggest hidden meanings, create a sinister undercurrent by refusing to "stand" for anything except the characters' obsession with them.
Estelle has not been lucky in love. Early in the film, her former husband visits and attacks her. Paul double-crosses her with her sister. There is a perfect street scene in which the husband, Estelle and Paul meet, and the two men "size each other up like professional boxers," Estelle says on the sound track, while she stands between them.
Meaning is carried by body language, by posture, by small shifts in expression in faces and eyes. Paul, for example, is almost totally silent and immobile socially. Estelle fantasizes about what he must be thinking. His silence is actually aggression, and perhaps the movie is finally about Estelle's inability to find anybody to whom she can communicate except in the most simplistic terms.
The movie's jammed with images, fantasies, symbols and stunning visuals (as when a visit to the country is presented by having the characters stand in front of the movie's characteristic paneled wallpaper — and then having the "wall" slowly levitate to reveal the country behind them).
Yet despite this richness, the things the people actually manage to say to one another are usually barren and lifeless. (And yet, paradoxically, the movie is often very funny.)
"The Scenic Route" is Rappaport's first feature in color (his "Local Color," in black and white, naturally, played earlier this year at the Film Center). It's a movie of great, grave, tightly controlled visual daring, and you have never seen anything like it before. It never reveals its mysteries… and I never wanted it to.
I can't find his review of Local Color but he raved about it as well. If only Ebert would forget about Dark City and whatever other nonsense he's raving about today and start up a campaign to get the films of Mark Rappaport back in circulation. These films matter.
Thanks to, I believe, an Ebert mention back on his and Siskel's show, I watched Imposters years ago and loved it. I might have to check out Amazon since my memory of it is a little foggy now and I haven't even so much as heard it mentioned in years, but, damn, now that you've brought it up, I have a real urge to see it again.
(This also reminds me not to be too hard on Ebert since, back in the late seventies and early eighties, that show was a major influence on how I learned about films.)


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Providing Veterinary Services to Rural America
In the last 25 years, many farms that produced food animals have gone out of business which resulted in food-animal practitioners being unable to survive. This difficulty is not new; in 1982, a National Research Council committee report Specialized Veterinary Manpower Needs Through 1990 (NRC, 1982) noted that "the problem is in large part a matter of the economics of food-animal veterinary practice, [and] areas with perceived shortages commonly do not provide satisfactory remuneration." The report raises a question that is as salient today as it was in 1982: Are there unmet needs for food-animal veterinarians in rural America because of economic circumstances, or are there real shortages with adequate compensation but inadequate numbers of food-animal veterinarians? (NRC, 1982).
The changing circumstances of food-animal veterinarians in rural America should not be viewed in isolation but in the broad context of the changing demographics of small-town America and the impact of concentrated-feeding operations on these societies. These once flourishing rural communities are described as suffering from "a slow acting wasting disease" being transformed by the flight of so many young people (Carr and Kefalas, 2009a, b; see also Artz, 2003; Romer and Wolverton, 2010). Appendix C, Figure C-2 illustrates changes in population in the United States between 1990 and 2000. Carr and Kefalas (2009a) describe local ownership as suffocated by the rise of CAFOs and large box-stores with the result that the rural middle-class of merchants, bankers, and professionals has left. Moreover, as farming operations increase in size, the American-born workforce is progressively replaced by migrant labor (WisconsinWatch.org, 11/21/11). Carr and Kefalas (2009b) further report that 42% of Mid-western farmers now earn less than $20,000 per year making it difficult for them to afford professional veterinary services and highlighting the need for a different system of food-animal care.
To attract more students into rural practice, several state legislatures have passed or are considering legislation to provide educational-loan forgiveness to graduates who move into rural and underserved areas. The federal Veterinary Medicine Loan Repayment Program has also made awards to veterinarians willing to practice for at least three years in areas designated by the Secretary of Agriculture as having shortages in food-animal or public practice veterinarians. The average award size (to cover federal and commercial loans taken to attend an AVMA-accredited college of veterinary medicine) was $96,582 (USDANIFA, 2010). In the present economic climate, those initiatives are important as they will immediately help debt-burdened graduates to accept positions in underserved areas of America. In the longer-term however, additional solutions are needed as half of the graduates entering food-animal practice are reported to leave within 5 years (Remsberg et al., 2007; Jelinski et al., 2009).
To change these demographics, the veterinary profession has to make a concerted effort to recruit and retain more students in food-animal veterinary medicine. In the past, most students who went into food-animal practice have