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Alan Smithee Podcast 59: Escape from New York (1981, John Carpenter) / 2019: After the Fall of New York (1983, Sergio Martino)
In the 20th Century people were big into the idea of the post-apocalypse created by nuclear war, instead of by realistic causes like zombies. The apocalypse, it was presumed, would happen after the Soviet Union and the United States laid waste to the world and civilization was wrecked. A few films were made along this premise in the 1970s, like A Boy and His Dog and Damnation Alley, yet none of these fantasies struck a chord in the public imagination until 1981 when George Miller directed his masterpiece The Road Warrior and rising auteur John Carpenter made Escape From New York. Carpenter's conceptual masterstroke was combining what the new subgenre was getting at – that the future would be looking more like Lord of the Flies than The Jetsons or even Zardoz – with the assumption that New York City was so far gone to crime it may as well drop dead. Aside from Walter Hill's The Warriors, no sci-fi / action / adventure films had explored the fantasy of New York as a lawless playground for gangs and Carpenter's conception of Manhattan island as an inescapable prison colony captured the imagination of genre fans everywhere.
He also gave Kurt Russell a second career after years of Disney boy Bobby Driscoll roles, as Snake Plissken, a truly self centered and cynical antihero who perfectly matched the grim, bleak tone of his dystopic future adventure. Further rounding out the cast is possibly the best array of character actors ever assembled: Harry Dean Stanton, Adrienne Barbeau, Ernest Borgnine, Issac Hayes and Lee Van Cleef invest a sense of reality to the low budget landscape like no other cast ever has. As we discuss, this film truly shows off Carpenter's auteurist skills at their peak from the synthesizer score to impeccable cinematography by his best collaborator Dean Cundey. Escape From New York is one of Carpenter's greatest films and for the first time since our first episode we do our best to summarize its brilliance.
2019: After The Fall Of New York is by its title alone something of an admitted ripoff. What's delightful and oft-stupefying is how many other science fiction genre ideas Ernesto Gastaldi, Sergio Martino and Gabriel Rossini decide to borrow when the premise of a Kurt Russell lookalike going into an abandoned Manhattan island to get someone out isn't enough to sustain an entire movie without copying every single plot beat from Carpenter. Amongst these ideas are escape from Earth via spaceship, de-evolution of humans into ape-like creatures, infiltration of humanity by cybors, and a global infertility crisis threatening to wipe out humanity. This last idea may sound familiar to viewers and readers of Children of Men. 2019: After The Fall Of New York is a textbook case of Italian knockoff cinema complete with a totally overdubbed soundtrack and an exhilarating absence of narrative logic. Highly recommended to fans of Escape From New York and The Road Warrior who are also fans of every other sci-fi adventure ever made.
Episode 56: An American Werewolf in London (1981, John Landis) / An American Werewolf in Paris (1997, Anthony Waller)
Which is the more forgotten, John Landis or An American Werewolf In London? Which was the more important? The latter, his masterwork sole feature foray into horror. If everyone has one good story in them, perhaps every comedian has one jarring scary story. Before the Twilight Zone: The Movie debacle killed the legitimacy of a career, Landis introduced comedic horror into from the fringes of exploitation into 1980s big budget Hollywoodland and set the precedent for films like Ghostbusters (scored by American Werewolf composer Elmer Bernstein.) Besides genre blending innovations, Rick Baker's makeup special effects caused such a stir that the Oscars felt compelled to create a new award just to recognize them, right at the cusp of the decade's special effects renaissance.
However ahead of their time all technical or comedic aims achieved were, they'd be moot if the rest of the film weren't so meticulously empathic as the horror mounts. The story is deceptively simple in taking the audience along on the experience of being in denial about becoming a werewolf, transforming for the first time and coming to grips with the aftermath. The momentum builds up to and winds down from David Naughton's first night of lycanthropy as the fulcrum of the movie and this is a brilliant idea.
Praised at the time for giving a passe genre a "contemporary" take – costar Griffin Dunne was cast from a national Dr Pepper campaign – An American Werewolf In London retains a dry laconic wit and sympathetic story that hasn't aged a day. After a diminished legend in tandem with the industry's near-abandonment of practical special effects in favor of CGI, this film deserves renewed esteem as a modern classic of the newly humorous and splattery direction mainstream horror films took off into afterward.
The splatter boom of Freddy and Jason was long over and recently deconstructed by Scream when the ill-advised sequel An American Werewolf In Paris was finally released in 1997. Unlike the similarly belated but goofy and genial Escape From LA, Paris involved none of the original cast or crew. The film is barely even be recognizable as a sequel except for the clumsy mis-reuse of Landis' subplot about werewolf victims haunting people as undead corpses. In deference to diminished attention spans in the intervening 16 years, there are a lot of werewolves this time around. The only titular American werewolf, Tom Everett Scott, is an obnoxious bore compared to David Naughton. They transform constantly thanks to a special serum, and their transformations are CGI video game sequences of the totally cheap and gratuitous kind made possible by recent technology.
An American Werewolf In London has been slated for remake in 2011 through Dimension Films and penned by coincidentally British hack Fernley Phillips (an upperclass twit of the year name) whose only previous credit has been the Jim Carrey laughingstock The Number 23.
We assure you, we don't find this in the least bit amusing.
Episode 40: Gosford Park (2001, Robert Altman) / Piranha Part Two: The Spawning (1981, James Cameron)
With the Academy Awards once against swelling like a malignant infection, An Alan Smithee Podcast takes a completely inadvertently coincidental look this week at two films from frequent Oscar nominees: the late great Robert Altman and the not so great lately James Cameron. Altman's career began anonymously in television before graduating to film and earning the acclaim of the academy when it was fashionable for them to do so. Only by making a film about Hollywood years later did he fall back into their favor, receiving at least the courtesy of nomination for the remainder of his life and career while the honors ultimately were bestowed upon keepers of the middle brow like Robert Zemeckis and Ron Howard.
James Cameron blossomed in the special effects boom of the 80s which drove directors like Altman into the darkness. He also did arguably more for the mainstreaming of special effects driven films than Steven Spielberg or George Lucas by making The Terminator and Aliens, blockbusters which established a permanent market for violent action films involving robots and/or aliens targeted at teenage boys instead of the entire family. Flash forward to the present day when serious Academy Award nominated dramatic actors vie to play villains in superhero movies and Cameron stands to sweep the industry's highest self-congratulatory accolades for directing a 3D aliens and robots movie. Male adulthood has been replaced by perpetual adolescence and Cameron is truly king of the world. Yet even kings have to start somewhere as big fish in little ponds, before they spread their wings.
Gosford Park contains many of Altman's trademarks, most prominently a sprawling cast with overlapping dialogue in the service of social satire. Ostensibly a murder mystery, the first half of this long story is spent establishing a myriad of ladies and gentlemen and their faithful servants gathering for a party in the countryside of England, 1932. Their social protocol is antiquated yet not so far in the past as to be unrecognizable, and the duality between the hosts and help is a fascinating look at the function and perception of privilege. The depiction of the servants behind the scenes is of particular interest to anyone wondering what the daily lives of maids, butlers et all were busy exchanging bon mots and stabbing each other in the back. Altman's roving camera and Julian Fellowes kaleidoscopic screenplay create an amazing tour through the waning days of the British empire's high society and one of the director's most transportive works.
Roger Corman is scheduled to receive a lifetime achievement award at this year's Oscars. The actors and directors he gave breaks to are legion and it will be interesting to see whom among them have enough self confidence to be associated with him, or even give their permission to be shown in the inevitable compilation reel alongside Jack Nicholson in The Little Shop of Horrors and Sylvester Stallone in Death Race 2000. Actually, Stallone will probably be too proud to OK the use of that clip.
Whether Cameron will give a tip of the hat to his earliest employer is a toss-up. Corman's 70s outfit New World Pictures not only gave Joe Dante his first directorial work on Hollywood Boulevard and Piranha, but Cameron's first special effects work on New World's Galaxy of Terror and Battle Beyond The Stars. Surely this got Cameron the recommendation for the non-Corman produced sequel Piranha Part Two: The Spawning. Whereas Dante's original spoofed Jaws while simultaneously making an exciting monster movie, Cameron's sequel rather straightforwardly takes itself seriously even with the idiotic premise that some of the killer piranha have learned to fly.
If nothing else – and there really is nothing else – at least Cameron got some more special effects expertise under his belt for the future, which was only looking up. There's a half-eaten Jamaican who looks remarkably similar to a battle damaged Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Episode 39: Psycho II (1983, Richard Franklin) / Psycho (1998, Gus Van Sant)
Leatherface. Michael Myers. Hannibal Lecter. These great men stand in the shadow of one forebear, and he wears a dress. His name was Norman, and this is his special.
Our movies this week are a bold venture for and cold, cruel experiment forced upon this legendary horror icon, and their results tell as much about the nature of film as the longevity of the genre's most unforgettable mama's boy. The Psycho series has a lineage unlike any horror movie franchise, born in the wane of mythical vampires and werewolves and shortly after the booming atomic age of giant spiders, giant grasshoppers – who could believe such nonsense? Inspired by the 1957 arrest of real life mama's boy grave robber transvestite Ed Gein, Robert Bloch's 1959 novel Psycho was quickly acquired and filmed on the cheap by Alfred Hitchcock. For better or worse, movies made on the cheap about pretty naked girls being stabbed by the mentally disturbed and/or sexually frustrated were forever in style.
That Halloween, John Carpenter's epochal renewal of this irrefutable truth starred the daughter of Psycho's most famous naked dead girl of all time is contrived providence but providence nonetheless.
What Psycho had that none of its spawn ever did was Anthony Perkins. With respect to all of horror's masked and unmasked psycho killer performances, Perkins coined the eponymous moniker for one singular reason. Qu'est-ce que c'est? Unlike Anthony Hopkins or even Robert Englund, actors who have owned the faces of their villains, Perkins made Norman Bates probably the most sympathetic villain in horror movie history – every bit as disarmingly human as alarmingly off-kilter.
Thus after 22 years, one chainsaw massacre, two Halloweens and three Friday the 13ths did Norman Bates finally come home. He had to, Mrs. Voorhees and her son Jason were practically stealing his bit.
Quentin Tarantino has said that Psycho II is superior to the original, and in his defense this facetious provocation might have had a point assuming he didn't actually mean it. Great sequels like Aliens or The Road Warrior tend to be praised so much that their predecessors are neglected, while Psycho II is neglected for merely being a worthy sequel to a film regarded as an immaculate all-time classic regardless of genre. To recapture even a little of that magic 22 years later with none of the same creative forces behind the camera is so extraordinary that the film's true accomplishment is really being one of the greatest sequels of all time – as in a Part II, a roman numeraled continuation which cannot stand alone the way The Road Warrior or Aliens entertain without requiring prior viewing.
After ruining the twists to not only part II but parts III and IV as well, we turn to an official ruination of not only beloved Norman Bates but the original masterpiece as well. Gus Van Sant's Psycho is probably the most reviled remake of all time, in a rare consensus where everyone is right. Despite being publicized as a "shot-for-shot" remake, Van Sant actually reworks 5 to 10 percent of them to arbitrarily insert pointless art house imagery and literal masturbation to accompany the metaphorical. Psycho II (great) III (great) and IV (not bad) proved that Norman Bates had a life beyond Alfred Hitchcock as long as Perkins was around to guard his character's integrity. Psycho the remake only proves that not only is Gus Van Sant an egomaniac who believes he can replicate someone else's classic movie in a science lab, but a trendy whore who will cast Vince freaking Vaughn as Norman Bates to be hip.
Go get lost in a desert and make a movie about it, Gus. The only good thing about this movie was the poster. You're the man now, dog!
Episode 25: Blue Collar (1978, Paul Schrader/ The Hand (1981, Oliver Stone)
This week on An Alan Smithee Podcast we roll up our sleeves and git-r-dun Paul Schrader style with Blue Collar, his directorial debut after becoming a household name writing Taxi Driver. The leads are one part household name, one part Hollywood name and one part b-actor on the verge of breakout. Richard Pryor was in his prime and does a dramatic turn while still being funny. Harvey Keitel was still riding high on the Martin Scorcese train but was about to disappear for ten years. Yaphet Kotto had a bunch of blaxploitation movie credit before Roots but it looks like he'll always be remembered as the black guy in Alien. He's in this too – and he's awesome.
Schrader's direction was probably never better after this, and his first time success is all the more impressive considering the accounts that his three leads hated each other's guts. This is a very underappreciated movie, especially since Richard Pryor rapidly began his descent into lame movie mediocrity almost immediately after this unheralded serio-comic performance. Things kind of fall apart at the end but this odd mix of crime story, comedy and drama shows a ton of best effort from every talent involved.
To say The Hand is not the worst killer hand movie ever made is a backhanded compliment. You've got to hand it to Oliver Stone for having a career after this sophomore writing-directing effort (his debut was the even more forgotten Seizure.) Michael Caine is always handy for starring in crappy movies when he needs a new garage and gives Stone a performance just unpleasant enough to match the paranoid, misogynist and mean-spirited screenplay he wrote for him. Stone even gets hands-on and has himself killed in a cameo at one point. There's more than a handful of things to talk about as we manhandle this rightfully neglected piece of shoddy handiwork.
Also, someone should have lent Stone a hand directing the "scary" scenes. They're none too handsome.
Episode 22: Halloween II (1981, Rick Rosenthal) Commentary Track
In celebration (or acknowledgment) of Rob Zombie's Halloween 2 (or H2), the sequel to his remake of Halloween …or remake of the sequel to Halloween, it's a Very Special Alan Smithee Podcast.
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Don't forget to check out the Q&A with Rick Rosenthal, Gloria Gifford and Alan Howarth at a recent screening
and if you don't have a copy of this fine film … there's always Amazon


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CLAYTON - Brian Bylotas of Scott Township, Pa., weighed a two-day total of 10 bass totaling 48 pounds, 2 ounces to win the Walmart Bass Fishing League Northeast Division super tournament at 1000 Islands on Sunday. For his victory, Bylotas earned $5,817.
Three members of the Northern Nerw York Bassmasters Club: Chris Flint, Jordan Davis and Jesse Uppstrom all placed among the leaders.
Brian Bylotas of Scott Township, Pa., won the Northeast Division Super Tournament on 1000 Islands held Sept. 7-8 with a two-day total weight of 48 pounds, 2 ounces. He walked away with over $5,800 in prize money for his win. This was a really nice way to end the season, said Bylotas, who also wrapped up the BFL Northeast division points title with his victory. I own my own business, so I didnt get to really do much pre-fishing for this tournament. I was able to make it out a couple of weeks ago, and I think that was definitely a part of my success.
On the first day, I wanted to make the run and go fish Lake Ontario, but it was too windy, so I stayed in the St. Lawrence River, Bylotas continued. I found a nice area right near the mouth of the river and ended up staying all day. My first fish was a nice 6-pound smallmouth. I had a solid limit by 10:30 a.m., and I must have caught 20 to 30 fish throughout the day.
On day two I went back to the same area near the mouth of the river, but a strong northeast wind had shut them down, Bylotas said. After 45 minutes, I decided that I needed to change it up, and I went to Lake Ontario. I found a rock pile around 20 to 25 feet deep in Henderson Harbor and was able to catch my fish there. It really slowed down, though, and I only caught around 10 fish for the day.
Bylotas said that eight of the 10 fish that he weighed in came via drop-shotting a Berkley Gulp! Goby. He said that he moved to the shallow flats for a bit on day two and boated two keepers on a chartreuse-colored spinnerbait as well.
Making the right decisions on day two ended up being the key for me, Bylotas went on to say.
Rounding out the top 10 pros were:
Joseph Fonzi, Gasport, N.Y., 10 bass, 43-12, $2,909, Robert Reesey, Newfoundland, Pa., 10 bass, 43-5, $1,939, Cory Johnston, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, 10 bass, 42-3, $1,357, Michael Drumsta, Clarks Summit, Pa., 10 bass, 41-13, $1,163, Jamie Hartman, Newport, N.Y., 10 bass, 39-14, $1,066 and $300 Evinrude Bonus, Scott Silver, Dexter, N.Y., 10 bass, 38-10, $970, Christopher Panetta, Red Hook, N.Y., 10 bass, 38-4, $873, Chris Flint, Potsdam, N.Y., 10 bass, 38-3, $776,Jordon Davis, DeKalb Junction, N.Y., 10 bass, 38-2, $679
Complete results can be found at FLWOutdoors.com.
Greg Collins of Perth Road, Ontario, Canada, weighed in 10 bass totaling 43 pounds, 1 ounce Sunday to win $2,909 in the co-angler division.
Rounding out the top 10 co-anglers were:Corey Bechtel, Macungie, Pa., 10 bass, 36-14, $1,454, Wyatt Morris, Little Falls, N.Y., 10 bass, 36-0, $970, Roxanne Przelski, Poland, N.Y., 10 bass, 34-15, $679, Jesse Uppstrom, Madrid, N.Y., 10 bass, 31-12, $582, John Ciavaglia, Pittsford, N.Y., 10 bass, 31-8, $533, Terry Beck, Lock Haven, Pa., 10 bass, 31-8, $485, Troy Todd, Six Mile Run, Pa., 10 bass, 31-5, $436, Maurice Campbell, Leominster, Mass., eight bass, 29-13, $388, Richard Levesque, Swanton, Vt., 10 bass, 29-3, $339
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Suspect Steals Car, Crashes Driving Wrong Way Down Highway 24 In Lafayette
September 13, 2012 7:36 AM
LAFAYETTE (CBS SF) — A suspect crashed a stolen vehicle on state Highway 24 in Lafayette early Thursday morning, according to the California Highway Patrol.
A vehicle traveling on Highway 24 just east of the Oak Hill Road off-ramp went off the roadway at approximately 12:36 a.m., according to the CHP.
No other details about the crash were immediately available.
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I'm here in Austin hanging out at SXSW until Wednesday, then going straight to Memphis for the IA Summit. Tomorrow, Saturday, March 14, at 3:30pm, I'll be on a panel with Jeffrey Zeldman, Roger Black and Kristina Halvorson called "From Freelance to Agency: Start Small, Stay Small." I told you all about it in December. [Keep Reading…]
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I have joined the UXnet board of directors
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Basketball team quizzes Highlands School Board on practice space
Controversy over where the elementary boys basketball practice will be held was settled for the time being by Highlands School Board Monday night.
Organizers from the boys elementary team came to the board meeting to ask about conflicting information they received about the practice area available for students.
About 100 boys are enrolled in the program, which is normally held in Grandview Upper Elementary School gymnasium.
Because board member Ronald Lang is organizing a girls basketball team, the boys basketball program must share that space with the girls organization. So far, the girls team has about 20 students signed up.
The boys program organizers were told to use the school's cafeteria to practice, but found out that the tables in the cafeteria could not be stored in their regular spaces because reams of paper for the district are being stored there.
"We keep getting sent around in a circle," said organizer and elementary school mother Liz Thimons. "Now we don't know where to go."
Acting Superintendent Patrick Graczyk told parents to use the cafeteria, as long as that is a safe option.
He added that they could also use their assigned hours at the gym, which the organizers said were too late for elementary students. The hours run until about 10 p.m.
Dan Thimons said that the boys' group will have to move cafeteria tables before every practice.
Two high school students came before the board to ask about rumors that the wrestling team would be disbanded.
Nolan Wise, an 11th-grader who is on the varsity wrestling team, said that his teammates were told to find six or seven additions to the five-person varsity team or the program would be canceled.
Board members and administrators said they had not heard about that request.
Graczyk said that a decision is being made about whether to continue the program.
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"We have a very qualified coach," Wise said.
The boys were assured that the program would not be canceled, but could be suspended, and they would still be able to compete on their own.
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Where does your child's district rank?
Where does your child's district rank?
Not just math, but reading too.
There's a lot of pressure on graduates, what with all those people watching. And sometimes, people buckle under that strain.
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Business First's Guide to Western New York Schools ranked local schools by administrative efficiency.
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Niagara Wheatfield has to make $1 million worth of cuts in order to make the upcoming budget. The school district is considering the option to modify or cut Kindergarten completely.
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Pacifica surges past Channel Islands, 42-28
Davis throws five touchdowns
It's not too often Pacifica High generates more total offense through the air than on the ground. That's what happened during the Tritons' game against Channel Islands and it turned out a big problem for the host Raiders.
Nick Davis threw five touchdown passes, three of them to senior Tauran Nixon, as surging Pacifica defeated Channel Islands 42-28 on Friday night to improve to 3-0 in the Pacific View League. The victory sets up a crucial battle next week against Camarillo, the other 3-0 team in the PVL.
Pacifica, which outgained Channel Islands 482-245 in total yardage and had 26 first downs, was very efficient running the ball with 227 yards on the ground. However, Davis (14 of 23) finished with 255 yards in the air and nearly doubled his season total of six touchdown passes.
"Our line blocked great and my running backs, too," said Davis, who compiled 195 of his 255 yards passing in the first half. "They were in one-on-one coverage. ... My receivers ran great routes."
After struggling for most of its nonleague schedule, Pacifica (4-4 overall)is gathering momentum at the right time. Coach Donnie Rea thought the Tritons were able to adjust well to Channel Islands' defensive approach.
"We kept trying to pound away at it and we did get bogged down a bit," Rea said. "We hit a couple of big passes. That was predicated on man-to-man coverage."
Rea is seeing a lot of positives with the way his team has played in its first three PVL games.
"We're running the ball well," he said. "Our defense has came a long way. We've struggled in that area the past few years. But the kids are playing better. We changed our scheme. ... We made it simple. The kids are playing smarter, too."
Channel Islands (3-5, 0-3) took the opening kickoff and drove 73 yards in nine plays to take an early 7-0 lead on Ricky Estrada's 2-yard quarterback sneak. Davis led Pacifica to the tying touchdown on its second possession as the 6-foot senior connected with Nixon for a 13-yard scoring strike with 2:02 left in the opening period.
That set the stage for a dazzling 35-point second quarter as both teams rapidly exchanged touchdowns. Adam Maciel, who led the Pacifica rushing attack with 170 yards on 32 carries, scored on a 6-yard run and Davis added a 12-yard TD pass to Nixon.
Trailing 21-7, Channel Islands responded immediately with a thrilling kickoff return for a touchdown. The Raiders' Joshua Faagogo fielded the ensuing kickoff at his own 12-yard line, returned it near his own 35 and while fighting for extra yardage made a 5-yard lateral to Rolandon Marigny, who carried the ball the remaining 68 yards to the end zone.
After Pacifica fumbled on its next offensive play, Channel Islands quickly scored the tying touchdown as A.J. Oto scored on a 10-yard run with 2:09 left.
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Pacifica scored two quick third-quarter touchdowns — the first on a Davis 10-yard pass to Maciel and the second a 16-yard toss to Derien Fallejo. The second TD was set up by Andrew Ortiz's second interception of the game.
Oto led Channel Islands with 81 yards rushing on 14 carries. Estrada completed 11 of 23 passes for 133 yards.
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Nokia has announced that Klepon Stack, a game developed by Affath Firdausi, a student of University of Indonesia, is the winner of the Nokia Asha Aps Challenge competition. As a reward, Firdausi will be sent to Rovio's headquarters in Finland for a week to learn further about creating and marketing mobile apps through an internship program at Rovio.
Nokia Asha Apps Challenge is a competition to expand the idea of Angry Birds with an Indonesian character. This challenge came from Rovio, makers of Angry Birds, in collaboration with Nokia at the launch of Nokia Asha 300 back in January.
In an announcement held at Nokia Developers Programon last Thursday in Jakarta, Klepon Stack won over other finalists. Among them are Tap Tap Ghost, Wago Warrior, Save Komo, Mad Fish, Kite Knight, Cari Kata, Pocong to the Moon, 1000 Temples for Roro, and Make Me a Princess. All the finalists' games can be downloaded from Nokia Store.
According to Narenda Wicaksono, Developer Experience Lead, Nokia Southeast Asia, as cited from detiknet, Klepon Stack was picked as the winner because it was favored by Rovio and has the potential to be the next Angry Birds. Other than having the taste of Indonesia in Klepon, authentic Indonesian food, Klepon Stack also uses the principles of physics that applied in the Angry Birds. The physics principle used in principles of gravity and balance that make objects fall.
Aside from the circular Klepon, this game also presents other shapes; triangle which represents wajik – Indonesian snack made of palm sugar and sticky rice, and square depicting breadfruit. Each player must stack these shapes but also keep them in balance. Currently, Klepon only consists of nine levels but Firdausi promised to develop the game so the levels can be increased. Interested in trying? This game, intended for Nokia S40, can be downloaded from Nokia Store on this link.


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The investigators hypothesized that the group of patients receiving the medication interventions and CBT would show significant changes in their behavior, such as remission or reduction in anxiety, panic attacks, anticipatory anxiety, fear of body sensations, loss of control, and agoraphobia avoidance. And also, in the general evaluation of well-being, in the beginning and end of the treatment, in comparison to the control group (medication without CBT), during the same period.
Panic Disorder
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|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Case Control
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|Effectiveness of Specific Model of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in Panic Disorder Patients With Agoraphobia
- Beck anxiety inventory Sheehan disability scale fear and phobia questionnaire agoraphobia cognitions questionnaire panic and agoraphobia scale mobility inventory [ Time Frame: for observational studies ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
- Beck anxiety inventory Sheehan disability scale fear and phobia questionnaire agoraphobia cognitions questionnaire panic and agoraphobia scale mobility inventory [ Time Frame: for observational studies ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
Biospecimen Retention: None Retained
None retained
|Study Start Date:
|March 2006
|Study Completion Date:
|March 2007
|Primary Completion Date:
|March 2007 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Respiratory and cognitive exercises in panic disorder patients.
Detailed Description:
This trial consisted in tracing the profile and evaluating their response to cognitive-behavioral techniques in a sample of 50 panic disorder patients with agoraphobia treated at the Psychiatric Institute of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro/Brazil. Objective: To test a specific model of cognitive-behavioral therapy through instruments applied in the beginning and end of the procedures. Two groups of 25 patients were formed, the first one with medication and therapy and the second one with medication and without therapy, as the control group. Methods: The cognitive-behavioral therapy sessions were held weekly and individually, with one-hour sessions. The work focused on physiological, cognitive and behavioral aspects with techniques of cognitive reorganization, exercises of induction of symptoms, "in vivo" exposure, breathing and relaxation exercises. The prescribed medication consists of tricyclic antidepressants (TCA) or selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI). Results: There was a significant difference between the initial and final evaluation of the group with the specific therapy, such as, reduction in panic attacks, anticipatory anxiety, agoraphobia avoidance, and fear of body sensations. In the global assessment functioning scale, global well-being increased from 60.8% to 72.5% among patients in the first group with therapy, differently from the group without therapy. We observed that 77.6% of the sample in both groups presented the respiratory subtype and 22.4% the non-respiratory subtype. Conclusion: The association of specific cognitive-behavioral therapy focusing on somatic complaints associated with pharmacologic treatment in the first group was effective in this sample, in comparison to pharmacological treatment alone in panic disorder patients with agoraphobia.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 70 Years
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
panic disoder patients over 18 years old
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients over 18 years old
- Both genders with a diagnosis of panic disorder and agoraphobia without severe comorbidities.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients showing alcohol or drug dependence
- Mental retardation
- Any other severe mental disorder.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00772746
|Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
|Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil, 22291-140
|Principal Investigator:
|Antonio E Nardi, MD
|Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
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|Responsible Party:
|Antonio Egidio Nardi, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00772746 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|October 14, 2008
|Last Updated:
|October 14, 2008
|Health Authority:
|Brazil: National Committee of Ethics in Research
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Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Panic Disorder
Anxiety Disorders
Mental Disorders
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WWER RPV Embrittlement Knowledge Preservation using Multimedia TechnologiesIntroduction
Knowledge related to construction, modernisation and operation of WWER type reactors has been recognised as critically important and actions related to an appropriate management of the knowledge are required. IAEA has undertaken the initiative in facilitating work in the field mentioned above.
There is a huge amount of information and knowledge in WWER Reactor Pressure Vessel (RPV) embrittlement available, either published or easily available, but there are also publications that are difficult to trace. Especially those were at risk of being dispersed or lost due to a series of factors, including:
- retirement of Senior Experts who were present at the time when most WWER Nuclear Power Plants were designed and put into operation,
- generational gap (due to years of decline in new constructions, only a limited number of people started their career in that area)
- non-electronic publishing in the past
- limited dissemination possibilities
- language (many non-English publications from Eastern countries)
The Institute of Energy and Transport of Joint Research Centre (JRC) - European Commission - also recognises the criticality and need for WWER reactor knowledge preservation. That is why an initiative on "Preserving WWER PVR Embrittlement Knowledge using Multi Media Technologies" has been launched.
This initiative is part of the Practical Arrangement signed between the IAEA the EC-JRC where a closer cooperation in the development of Multi Media Material for Nuclear Knowledge Dissemination and Education is indicated.
The Multimedia Training Course on WWER Reactor Pressure Vessel Embrittlement
Starting from March 2010, video recordings of key experts were conducted, main papers and documents were reviewed, and materials from key conferences were preserved. A Pilot module on WWER Reactor Pressure Vessel (RPV) Surveillance Programmes was successfully developed and by today the following 10 modules were successfully completed:
- Surveillance Programmes
- RPV Design Features
- Annealing and Re-irradiation
- Microstructure Changes due to Neutron Irradiation
- Material Factors
- Environmental Factors
- Irradiation Shift Prediction
- Start-of-Life Properties
- Property-property Correlation
- Cladding
As the course can be accesses online from the web page of The Institute of Energy and Transport of Joint Research Centre (JRC) http://capture.jrc.ec.europa.eu/wwer/ ,
Or can be accessed and downloaded via the IAEA's Open Learning Management System. The download requires a simple self-registration and acceptance of a license agreement. If you are experiencing problems with accessing the material, please contact: [email protected]
For potential feedback and comment, please contact Ms.Tatiana Karseka ([email protected])
Each Module contains a quiz at the end has reference recourses attached.
Methodology applied for developing the training course:
The Institute for Energy and Transport had developed a methodology for consolidation of nuclear knowledge (fig.1).
The method relies on the mobilisation of all identified leading experts in the EU or beyond, re-evaluating old knowledge and consolidating what is necessary to create training and education material for new generations of nuclear engineers.
These experts were asked to provide the papers in their possession related to a specific nuclear expert field. Furthermore, they are asked to identify still more key-experts in that area.
All papers are collected centrally and stored in a protected database DoMa, which is a document database located within ODIN, managed by the Institute for Energy and Transport. The papers are stored in PdF format and additionally have information about the title, authors, keywords and abstracts stored separately in MS Word for an easy search function implementation.
After the identification of some possible reviewers amongst the expert group, the subject was subdivided in subfields, in order to reduce the heavy work of review, summary and preliminary consolidation.
When the reviewers had finished their work, they prepared a summary report for their subfield, which was sent to all experts participating to the upcoming consolidation workshop. At the workshop the reviewers presented their summary and conclusion on the subfield reviewed, which was discussed between the experts afterwards. The task of the chairman was to lead the experts to an as agreed as possible consolidation of the knowledge in each particular subfield. Finally, recommendations were made at the end of the workshop, which lead to further consolidation efforts in certain subfields or to a final consolidation document in others.
An additionally very important item in the consolidation process is the identification of commonly agreed (consolidated) open issues in the subfields. They complement the final goal of a State-of-the-Art report in the specific expert area.
The above described methodology applied to the knowledge of WWER RPV embrittlement has proven to be a right step in the right direction. The experts themselves, mostly working in the field already from the beginning of the nuclear area are proud of their work. They contributed in a very idealistic and positive way to this first circle of knowledge consolidation. Some even did the reviewing work in their spare time at home. The atmosphere during the discussions of the proposed consolidated conclusions per subfield was relaxed and constructive, as were the discussions on the consolidated open issues per subfield. The outcome was preserved in several summary records (to be found at http://capture.jrc.ec.europa.eu). It was interesting to notice that the experts were agreeing on their consolidated conclusions and open issues on the basis of a limited number of papers per subfield. It was clear, that the complete (tacit) knowledge and experience of the experts were taken into consideration making such a judgement and not only the knowledge by reviewing the limited amount of papers. This may be a very powerful tool in order to save time in the consolidation process.
As further advantage of this consolidation methodology can be seen that the summary reports of the subfields can be published openly, pointing to all reference papers, but not violating intellectual property rights (IPR). A wide dissemination to the interested public is guaranteed free of charge and to the benefit of engineers entering the nuclear field.
It seems promising to continue applying this consolidation methodology to other fields of possible nuclear knowledge loss. This could be done not only for materials, but also for technologies, components, systems, etc.
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- Locate the directory for the app that you wish to hide.
- Some system apps like Phone, Email, PDF Viewer are usually in the /usr/palm/applications folder, while installed apps are in /media/cryptofs/apps/usr/palm/applications/.
- However, with the latest webOS 3.0.5 update for the TouchPad, many of those stock system apps may also be found in /media/cryptofs/apps/usr/palm/applications/
- Open the app folder and find the appinfo.json file. Tap on the file and select "Open"
- Find the line of text that starts with "icon" (it will look like "icon":"icon.png").
- Insert a new line below that and type in:
- "visible": false,
- Of course, if there is already a "visible" line with "true" you can just change the "true" to "false"
- Be sure that you have that comma at the end of the line!
- Access the Internalz Pro preferences again and turn off Master Mode
- After the next time you reboot your phone or TouchPad, the app will no longer appear on your App Launcher but will still be installed on your device
Thanks to drewksparks in our forums for this tip
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Nice tip, thanks! I am going to be setting up a couple of TouchPads for the sole purpose of running an employee time/job/activity tracking app (via Splashtop Remote Desktop connecting to a VM). The employees using these aren't supposed to use them for anything else. The firewall will keep them off the internet, so most of the apps will be non-functional anyway, but if I can hide the bulk of the apps then so much the better.
wouldn't an app for this be great? :)
Will this need to be undone before the next update?
For some reason my .json file does not open as an editable text file. Any suggestions??
Thanks for the tip. This is great. However, I'm trying to kill Voice Dialing and not having any luck. I inserted the line "visible": false, which didn't work. Then I edited the line "removable": from false to true and the app still works. I hate the Voice Dialing app because it starts of its own volition sometimes and I never use it (intentionally). Any ideas? Thanks.
That's a life saver. My 26 month old daughter somehow likes to go to "device info" then eventually go to "erase device" following the red buttons. I have been wondering if there is a way to hide the icon for a while now.
Much preferable to installing separate patches for each icon. Thanks!
NOW, how to eliminate that annoying Sprint portal icon?! usr/palm/applications/com.palm.app.sprintportal/12022008 This method doesn't work for the Sprint portal icon even when I change "com.palm.app.browser", "removable": false to true. ???


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Snow Peas with a Hint of Pork
- Active Time 20m
- Total Time 50m
Serves 4
The bright-green pea pods should retain a little crispness when stir-fried. To prepare, wash them thoroughly, then work your way through the pile one by one, snapping off the stem end and pulling off the string that runs along the edge. WINE RECOMMENDATION: Stir-fried pork and scallions add a rich flavor to this dish that's easily balanced by the round, fruity smoothness of a California Chardonnay.
- 1 tablespoon Chinese cooking wine, dry white wine or dry sherry
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- 1/4 pound boneless pork tenderloin, shoulder or butt, thinly sliced
- 1/2 pound snow peas
- 1 tablespoon peanut oil or vegetable oil
- 3 scallions, cut into 1/2-inch lengths
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1/2 cup chicken broth
- 1/2 teaspoon sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon cornstarch mixed with 1 teaspoon cold water
In a small bowl, combine the wine and soy sauce. Add the pork and stir to
coat. Let stand at room temperature for at least 30 minutes and up to 1 hour.
In a medium saucepan of boiling water, cook the snow peas until bright
green, about 1 minute. Drain, refresh under cold running water and drain again
Set a large wok over high heat until very hot. Add the oil and swirl to coat.
When the oil is hot, add the scallions and garlic and stir-fry for 30 seconds. Add the pork and any remaining marinade and stir-fry until the meat changes color, 1 to 2 minutes. Add the snow peas and stir-fry for 30 seconds, then add the broth, sugar and salt. Cover and cook for 1 minute. Add the cornstarch mixture and cook, stirring occasionally, until the sauce thickens, 1 to 2 minutes.
Remove from the heat, transfer to a platter and serve hot.
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120 calories; 5g total fat; 18mg cholesterol; 588mg sodium; 11g carbohydrates; 3g fiber; 10g protein
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Happy Canada day!
Wheee!! Yippy!! Today, as everything is closed (bank holiday and all) we decided to visit the Niagara vineyards. Now, now, stifle those titters. Canadians are making good wines...at least they are much better than British "stuff"! Ick! The tours around the vineyards were informative and the tastings were, erm...fun. (don't remember much of it except something to do with a pinot noir...). Interesting wine which thrives in the Niagara cool winters = Ice wine.
Here's how it's made:
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and concentrates the sugars, acids, and extracts in the berries, thereby
intensifying the flavours and adding complexity to the wine made from
it.Genuine icewine must follow VQA (Vintners Quality Alliance) regulations
that prohibit any artificial freezing of grapes. The grapes are painstakingly
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of the temperature. Yields are very low, often as little as 5-10 percent of
normal.The frozen grapes are pressed in the extreme cold. The water in the
juice remains frozen as ice crystals, and only a few drops of sweet concentrated
juice is obtained. This juice is then fermented very slowly for several months,
stopping naturally.The finished icewine is intensely sweet and flavorful in
the initial mouth sensation. The balance is achieved by the acidity, which gives
a clean, dry finish. The nose of icewine recalls lychee nuts. The wine tastes of
tropical fruits, with shadings of peach nectar and mango.
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Pall Canada Limited, a subsidiary of Pall Corporation, has chosen ChemAction to represent Palls advanced membrane filtration systems for the municipal water market in Quebec. ChemAction will bring Palls growing line of high performance filtration systems to water suppliers in Quebec enabling them to reliably and economically meet increasingly stringent drinking water standards.
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COVERAGE> Formula Drift Road Atlanta Main Event
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VIDEO> Formula D at Wall Speedway New Jersey
This year was Joe's and my first trip to Formula Drift at Wall Speedway in New Jersey. Super bummed that I couldn't make it out last season, I was very excited to see this awesome track. I know it may not look like much to most people, but as a videographer, Wall Speedway is what dreams are made of. There is so much texture and color and grit. The trees, asphalt, and guardrail all make it very fun to shoot. (more…)
COVERAGE> Pacific Grand Prix Open Event
In addition to the great American pros in attendance, it was an international affair as well. The Drift Union drift team from Canada came down again to show us how to have fun with style in their textbook tandem sessions.
Large crowds of spectators arrived, filling the stands and lining the fences en masse to catch a view of the great driving presented that day. NOS Energy Drink and (for the first time) Greg Young from Northwest Riders clothing, set up shop to talk to people and to hand out prizes. If you missed it, don't feel too bad - here's the next best thing to being there! Read more...
STOLEN> Justin Pawlak's Green FC/Truck/Trailer!
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COVERAGE> Big Guns at Formula D New Jersey
Thanks to our friends at YoParts and Belle 1 Communications, we were able to watch Formula D live; the DriftStream live feed was really fun and entertaining! It was like an old school AOL chat room with tons of drifting fans blurting out information and opinions; I was impressed at how many people got involved in the live chat, cheering for (and sometimes clowning) drivers and teams! All in all, it was super fun - and I quite honestly was pretty disappointed that I had to shut down my computer in the middle of the Top 16 so that I could drive to my friend's house for a party/bbq (it was my fault - I should have just driven over there early so I could watch the entire thing at his house).
Wall Speedway is a pretty interesting track. It was originally built for circle track cars, but somehow was able to re-purpose itself for drifting, thanks to a lot of phone calls, legwork, and planning by the Formula Drift staff. Wall Speedway is also the most extreme banking that Formula Drift competition cars run on, with the most extreme sections of the track being 30 degrees - a really big difference in comparison to Irwindale Speedway's 18 degrees of incline. Read more...
NEWSWORTHY> Formula Drifting on Hollywood Blvd
There were actually several rotary powered vehicles in attendance for the drift demo, but by far, the best looking car (in our opinion) was certainly Justin Pawlak's mean green FC3S RX7. Read more...
NEWSWORTHY> The Mighty FC Returns to FD
Yes, the rumors are true. The green FC3S RX7 that we all know and love is returning to Formula D competition!
A lot of our Facebook friends have been talking about this for a couple days already… but I just figured I should probably post this on the website too, since there are a lot of people out there who read our blog, but aren't necessarily in the know about the latest news in the world of Formula Drift. Yes again… contrary to popular belief, there are still people out there who aren't checking Facebook every five seconds. It suddenly dawned on me when I casually mentioned the FC's return to a friend of mine today, and he was like, "Whaaaaaaat?! No wayyyyy!"
I just got off the phone with Justin Pawlak, the driver of this awesome green rotary monster. Even though he and Bergenholtz Racing have parted ways in the professional drifting world, Justin is quick to dispel any rumors in the mill by saying, "Ron and I are definitely still cool. In fact, I just spoke to him on the phone earlier today. We just have different ideas and figured it would be best to go split the team up."
While their timing is certainly less than perfect, with the 2010 Formula D season approaching very, very quickly… I'm sure both JTP and Ron B will make it happen for both of their respective drift teams. Justin says, "Ya know what? I just realized I had more qualifying points than anyone else in the 2009 Formula D season." He's sure to make a strong statement this year, whether he has solid financial backing or not.
And Ron Bergenholtz? Well, if anyone has any doubts about Bergenholtz Racing's ability to have a strong presence in Formula D this year, let me just remind you that he (and his brother Ed) didn't win all those NHRA Wally awards and get inducted into the NHRA Museum for nothing. In professional drag racing, Bergenholtz Racing proved that an underdog actually can compete against (and beat) competitors with big dollar corporate funding. As long as there's a will, there's a way.
Bergenholtz Racing will be revealing their official plans for 2010 on Thursday, along with publicly announcing the new driver they've signed to pilot their blue Mazdaspeed RX8.
If you're a fan of JTP and his FC3S, and you want to help him find sponsors for the 2010 season, please visit Justin Pawlak's Official Blog by clicking this link. Justin says, "Please don't mind the ghetto GoDaddy banner, cause my webpage was FREE. haha. I might have a ghetto banner on my blog, but at least I got REAL VOLKS on my car."
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Fall in Berlin has always been about art and music. In 2012, the city introduces the first Berlin Art Week, a major city-wide show case and market place featuring the best in contemporary art. From the classics to the Cold War to street art, new exhibitions will open their door, and the 3rd Berlin Music Week will heat up the clubs and stages in trendy Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district.
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Poised to become a new highlight of the international art scene, the first Berlin Art Week is bringing the city's major September art events under one heading, and underscores the German capital's importance as an emerging center for high quality art. Succeeding ArtForum Berlin, Berlin Art week will present the 8th Preview Berlin Art Fair, which showcases international newcomers as well as established galleries at the historic Tempelhof Airport. Concurrently, abc – art berlin contemporary will be artist-centered, featuring more than 150 individual presentations of the most promising contemporary artists, and providing a platform for around 30 international creative organizations, including publishers, film, architecture, music and urban planning.
Numerous Berlin art institutions, including the New National Gallery, KW Institute for Contemporary Art and the Academy of the Arts, as well as local galleries, will stage special exhibitions when this major art spectacle plays out to thousands of local and international collectors and art enthusiasts. Sep 11-16, 2012, www.berlinartweek.de.
Spotlighting the designs of every day city street scapes, the STROKE URBAN ART FAIR will present the best of urban art, including graffiti, tags and tattoos, at the Postfuhramt location in Berlin. The fair deliberately sets itself apart from the traditional, commercial art market and features the diversity of urban art and culture in all its dynamic facets, forms and colors. The various events will be staged by the di?erent exhibiting galleries, projects and live performers. In 2011, some 60,000 attended this unique event. September 13-16, 2012, www.stroke-artfair.com.
For the third time this fall, Berlin's Friedrichhains-Kreuzberg district will become the epicenter of the Music Week, when musicians, DJs, producers and promoters present a week of the best and newest of today's music scene, covering various genres and nationalities. The many live acts at the city's best-known hotspots include The Killers, Franz Ferdinand, Kraftklub and Paul Kalkbrenner. More than 40 clubs will open their doors to partiers and night owls. September 5-9, 2012, program, event tickets and line-up information at www.berlin-music-week.de.
Artist Yadegar Asisi, well-known for his monumental 360° panorama of the ancient city of Pergamon at Berlin's Pergamon Museum, has done it again: Starting September 22, Asisi will take Berliners and visitors back to the days before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Displayed in a cylindrical steel rotunda at Checkpoint Charlie, a 360° panorama will show an East Berlin autumn day in the 1980s, complete with ramshackle house facades, playing children, and GDR guards patrolling the border between the two German states. For Yadegar Asisi, the experience was personal: "In the Eighties, I lived in Kreuzberg at and with the Wall. The panorama bundles my experiences and tells the viewer very detailed stories." From September 22, 2012 (press.visitberlin.de/en/article/360-berlin-wall), (www.asisi.de)
From the Neue Wache guardhouse on Unter den Linden, to Museum Island's Old Museum and the Schauspielhaus theater on Gendarmenmarkt, the buildings designed by classicist architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel are among the most famous in Berlin. Schinkel, however, did not only work as an architect; he devoted himself to painting and drawing as well as designing stage sets. Well-known and lesser-known works by this universal artist will be on view at the Culture Forum from September 7, 2012 through January 6, 2013. (www.smb.museum/smb/kalender/details.php?objID=26787&typeId=10&lang=de)
Regarded as the most beautiful woman in Berlin, the bust of Egyptian queen Nefertiti is celebrating her 100th anniversary this year. Discovered during excavations by the German Oriental Society in Tell Amarna on December 6, 1912, the bust has been on display at the museum since 1913. In celebration of the anniversary, the Neues Museum is staging a special exhibition on the Amarna period that characterized both Nefertiti and the mysterious pharaohs Akhenaten and Tutankhamon. December 7, 2012 through April 4, 2013.
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In the L.A. Times, actor Hayden Christensen explains that he was terrible in the Star Wars prequels because that's what George Lucas wanted him to be: George came up to me on the set one day during my first 'Star Wars' and said something that I never fully understood until after we were done filming. He said, 'As an actor, you have to think of yourself as a ditch digger.' . . . What he was implying was that on his movie, I needed to think of myself as a ditch digger, because it wasn't the proper arena for actual creative expression. This was his thing.