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Today's college fans attending the 2015 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships in St. Louis may think they've traveled back in time, if proposals to commemorate the 85th edition of the national collegiate wrestling championships are implemented.
Among the possible changes which may be featured at next year's NCAA finals: a roped-off wrestling ring, wool tights or trunks instead of today's synthetic singlets, and reinstatement of many of the rules which governed college wrestling at the very first NCAA championships in 1928.
"The idea is to provide wrestlers, coaches and fans with a sense of what wrestling was like at those very first NCAAs, 85 years ago at Iowa State," said one source, who spoke off the record to College Wrestling Examiner. "Some of us feel it would give today's athletes and fans a new appreciation and respect for the challenges wrestlers of a bygone era faced."
Another individual who took part in ongoing discussions on possible retro-style wrestling next year said, "A number of us believe these changes would be truly attention-getting, thus generating additional media coverage, along with higher TV ratings, for college wrestling's premiere event."
Initially, the idea was floated that all Division I college wrestling events – dual meets, independent tournaments, conference championships, and the three-day NCAA tournament – would all be required to incorporate these turn-back-the-clock changes throughout the 2014-15 season, but a number of meeting participants were concerned about issues such as cost of implementation for each school, as well as difficulty in sourcing wrestling rings and old-time gear before this fall, not to mention instructing wrestlers, coaches and officials on 1920s rules.
Instead, the proposal now being discussed would be to have these changes instituted only for the finals matches at the 2015 NCAAs at Scottrade Center in St. Louis.
A familiar ring
Perhaps the most attention-getting proposal would be to conduct the ten championship matches not on a foam-core mat on a raised platform, but in a raised, roped-off wrestling ring with horsehair mat, somewhat similar to what present-day sports fans might associate with boxing or professional wrestling. A number of major college programs in the 1920s and 1930s used 20-foot-square wrestling rings, including Oklahoma State, University of Iowa, Indiana University, and Northwestern. Most of these schools had mats on the floor, surrounded by ropes on the edge of the mat. However, wrestlers at least one school -- Oklahoma State – along with their opponents climbed into a ring that was 3-4 feet up off the ground. (Wrestling rings were banned by the NCAA during World War II.)
"A number of participants in these discussions felt that, in addition to providing today's wrestlers and fans with a first-hand appreciation of the challenge of wrestling in a confined space, that the raised ring would force the action to the center of the mat, eliminating ongoing issues with wrestlers fleeing the mat," said one historian. "No wrestler is going to want to risk ring-rope burns, let alone potential career-ending injury from falling off the raised platform."
Uniform standards
In keeping with the attempt to make the 2015 NCAA finals resemble the 1928 NCAA championships at the Iowa State Armory, all wrestlers would be required to wear uniforms appropriate to the era: a choice of full-length tights or trunks, of wool fabric, shirts optional. Back then, most wrestlers from Midwestern and Western colleges wrestled bare-chested; shirts were more common on wrestlers from Eastern schools such as Penn State and Lehigh.
"Ohio State, with its tradition of having its finalists spend time in the tanning bed, may have an unfair advantage in preparing for wearing this old-style gear," joked one historian. "We also want to discourage manscaping. The only thing champs of the past like Dick Hutton, Gary Kurdelmeier and Phil Kinyon waxed were their cars." (See photos of these wrestlers below.)
Retro rules?
One aspect that has yet to be pinned down is rules. While some participants involved in planning an old-school 2015 NCAA finals have insisted on slavish adoption of the 1928 rulebook, others believe that only the basics should be incorporated, such as nine-minute matches (instead of today's seven), and the full three-second pin instead of one-second falls nowadays. As one participant in these planning meetings told College Wrestling Examiner, "If three-time NCAA heavyweight champ Earl McCready could hold all three of his finals rivals' shoulders to the mat for three seconds, surely today's studs can do the same." (See photo below.)
Another issue is whether modern-day technology might be banished from the retro-style 2015 NCAA finals. Some planners would like to see elimination of matside video review and electronic scoreboards just this once. However, sources indicate that there is close to universal agreement that the championships would continue to be shown live on ESPN and online, and that photographers and journalists would still be allowed to use present-day technology tools, all to help promote this uniquely historic event.
More than one source indicated that all these proposals are not set in stone; one went so far as to state he thought the chances of any of these changes being implemented were about as likely as "Logan Stieber moving up to 285 in pursuit of his fourth NCAA title." In other words, not very likely.
That said, a special commemoration of the 85th anniversary of NCAA mat championships has some precedence. For the 75th anniversary of the NCAA wrestling championships in St. Louis in 2005, the NCAA conducted an online poll to ask fans to select the fifteen greatest college wrestlers of all time. Among the honorees: Dan Hodge, Dan Gable, John Smith, and Cael Sanderson.
About the photo: Indiana University was one of the schools that wrestled in a raised, roped-off ring, as seen in this IU Archives photo from 1932.
Get a good look at what we could be seeing at the 2015 NCAA finals... along with photos of some of the wrestlers mentioned in this story by looking at the photo-list below...
Wrestling rings in college
A number of colleges, mostly in the heartland, used wrestling rings for their matches. The NCAA mandated the wrestling surface be 20-24 feet square, and had specific requirements about the number and type of ropes and other design features, all with an eye to wrestler safety. WWE-style theatrics such as jumping off the top rope – or throwing an opponent out of the ring – were automatic disqualifications back in the day.
Is it possible we could see this kind of ring in the middle of the floor at Scottrade Center in St. Louis for the 2015 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships finals?
About the photo: From the ring and the old-school gear worn by the wrestler, you might think it's a vintage pro wrestling image. Actually, it shows Oklahoma State's legendary coach Ed Gallagher instructing one of his Cowboy wrestlers in the ring at then-new Gallagher Hall (now Gallagher-Iba Arena). From the 1939 Redskin (Oklahoma State) yearbook.
Iowa State's Holding: One of the first NCAA champs
Arthur Holding was crowned the 135-pound champ at the very first NCAA wrestling championships, in his home gym, the Iowa State Armory, in March 1928.
About the photo: In this photo from the ISU Archives, Holding is shown here wearing the typical gear of the era: wool trunks over wool tights (with leather knee pads), stripped to waist. Is it possible we might see, say, Ohio State's Logan Stieber, go for his fourth title dressed this way at the 2015 NCAAs in St. Louis?
1928 NCAA heavyweight champ Earl McCready
Born in Canada, Oklahoma State's Earl Grey McCready owns the distinction of being the first NCAA heavyweight champ (called "unlimited" back then)… the first three-time NCAA champ at any weight (1928-30)… and one of only three, three-time NCAA heavyweight champs (the others being Dick Hutton in the late 1940s, and Jimmy Jackson in the late 1970s. All three wrestled for Oklahoma State.)
What's more, McCready is one of only two three-time champs to have pinned all three of his finals opponents. (The other: Oklahoma's Dan Hodge in the mid-1950s.)
Nicknamed "Moose", McCready stood 5'11" and tipped the scales at a trim 218 pounds. He sported a perfect 25-0 record in three seasons, winning 20 of those matches by fall. Realize that back then, McCready had to hold his opponent's shoulders to the mat for a full three seconds, not one second like today.
About the photo: Head-and-shoulders shot of a bare-chested Earl McCready in his team captain portrait in the 1929 Redskin yearbook.
Oklahoma State heavyweight Dick Hutton
Despite never having claimed an Oklahoma high school state title, Dick Hutton won the NCAA heavyweight title in 1947, 1948 and 1950… but was denied the championship at the 1949 NCAAs in a controversial referee call in the closing seconds of his title match (sound familiar?), missing out on the opportunity to become the first four-time NCAA champ decades before Pat Smith, Cael Sanderson or Kyle Dake.
A World War II veteran who competed all four years at Oklahoma State*, Hutton was well into his 20s when he wrestled for the Cowboys. Hutton stood 5'10" and weighed in at 245 pounds. In four seasons, Hutton compiled a near-perfect 42-1-1 record (the one loss was the 1949 NCAA finals), scoring 13 falls.
About the photo: Although Dick Hutton later became a pro wrestling champ, this image is from his senior year at Oklahoma State. Here he's shown conferring with his college coach, Art Griffith, in the gear of his era, trunks over tights, no shirt. (Chest hair optional.)
Any chance we'll see a photo like this of 2014 NCAA heavyweight champ Nick Gwiazdowski standing with his North Carolina State head coach Pat Popolizio at the 2015 NCAAs?
* From the 1920s until the late 1960s, freshmen were not eligible to wrestle at the NCAAs. However, there was a brief time period immediately after World War II where freshmen like Hutton could compete.
Iowa mat champ, future coach Gary Kurdelmeier
Gary Kurdelmeier was not only a wrestler at the University of Iowa, but also as the school's head coach, set the foundation for the program that still ranks as one of the all-time best in college wrestling.
This hairy-chested Hawkeye was a two-time Iowa state champ from Cresco High School (1953-54) who then headed south to the University of Iowa, where he was a two-time NCAA All-American and Big Ten finalist. Kurdelmeier won the 1957 Big Ten title and 1958 NCAA championship at 177 pounds.
Kurdelmeier lost only a handful of matches at Iowa, two when he moved up a couple weight classes to take on NCAA heavyweight champs... and at least twice to Dan Hodge of the Oklahoma Sooners.
After graduation, Kurdelmeier launched his coaching career, eventually returning to Iowa, where he became head coach in 1972. In four short years, Kurdelmeier transformed the program into a winner... hiring Dan Gable from Iowa State as his assistant before Gable took the reins in 1977.
About the photo: Gary Kurdelmeier in the referee position as a Hawkeye wrestler in the late 1950s, stripped to the waist. From Dan Gable's "Coaching Wrestling Successfully" book.
Oklahoma State champ Phil Kinyon
Phil Kinyon was a two-time Oklahoma state champ from Stillwater High School (1953-54) who served in the U.S. Navy before enrolling at Oklahoma State in the early 1960s, where he was a three-time NCAA finalist, and 1961 champ, compiling a 39-3-4 overall record.
One of the most powerful and feared wrestlers of his era, Kinyon battled Doug Blubaugh in a dozen matches to try to make the 1960 U.S. Olympic team; Blubaugh won a place on the team over Kinyon… then brought home a gold medal from the Rome Olympics.
About the photo: Kinyon tries to escape from Lehigh's Kirk Pendleton in their 157-pound title bout at the 1963 NCAAs. From the photo, you can see why a college wrestler of Kinyon's era described the Cowboy as being "hairy as a bear and built like a brick ****house." Photo from 1963 Epitome (Lehigh) yearbook.
See Kinyon in action in the first match on a YouTube video of the 1962 NCAA finals.
Dan Hodge on Sports Illustrated
Unlike some pranks involving college wrestling, this cover was no April Fools' Day joke: University of Oklahoma 177-pounder Dan Hodge was featured on the front of the April 1, 1957 issue Sports Illustrated, the only amateur wrestler to be pictured on the cover as an amateur wrestler* in the magazine's 60-year history.
Hodge was 46-0 in college, winning three NCAA titles (1955-57) by pinning each of his three finals rivals. He pinned 78% of his opponents… including Iowa's Gary Kurdelmeier, who he wrestled a couple times in college.
And, yes, this is the guy whose name graces the Hodge Trophy, given each year to the nation's top college wrestler a week or so after the NCAAs.
About the photo: Dan Hodge of the cover of Sports Illustrated, in his Oklahoma Sooner uniform of the era – tights, trunks, no shirt.
* For instance, some NFL players who wrestled in high school or college have been on the SI cover, but, were shown in their football gear or in street clothes, not as wrestlers.


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According to a July 19 report from MMA Fighting, the results are in from UFC Fight Night 46. The event, which went down at The O2 in Dublin, Ireland, featured a headliner of Conor McGregor vs. Diego Brandao, plus an exciting co-main tilt pitting Gunnar Nelson against Zak Cummings. Elsewhere on the UFC Fight Night 46 main card, Brad Pickett takes on Ian McCall.
UFC Fight Night 46 got off to a rollicking start, as the preliminary card featured several explosive finishes. Patrick Holohan opened the card with a win over Josh Sampo via submission, as he earned the stoppage with a rear-naked choke at the 3:06-mark of the opening frame. Nikita Krylov kept the good times rolling by finishing Cody Donovan via first-round TKO.
Later on the UFC Fight Night 46 preliminary card, Trevor Smith defeated Tor Troeng via unanimous decision and Neil Seery also picked up a decision victory over Phil Harris. In other action, Cathal Pendred routed Mike King. For Pendred, the end came at the 3:33-mark of the second frame. Capping off the UFC Fight Night 46 preliminary card, Ilir Latifi knocked out Chris Dempsey at the 2:07-mark of the opening round.
Here's the thing: The UFC Fight Night 46 card featured plenty of intriguing fights, but most of the crowd on hand came to see McGregor. The 26-year-old is a huge star in Ireland, despite having won just two fights in the UFC. His popularity seems to be growing by the day, and the UFC would love nothing more than to see him keep winning.
Should fans hop on the McGregor bandwagon so soon into his career? Probably not. Sure he holds explosive one-punch knockout power and he always comes to fight, but he hasn't yet beaten anyone ranked in the top 30 in the world. If McGregor is able to slip past Brandao, it wouldn't gain him much momentum at featherweight.
McGregor still needs to beat someone ranked in the upper echelon of the division before being considered for a title shot. A win over Brandao would be a step in the right direction, but this fight is mostly just a check to test his drawing power. Obviously, McGregor passed with flying colors since the arena sold out in a matter of hours. If McGregor notches a win at UFC Fight Night 46, he'll likely earn a pay-per-view fight for his next appearance.
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"Bachelorette" star Jillian Harris has been following Juan Pablo's journey to find love for quite some time, but it sounds like people are losing faith in his journey to find love. It wasn't until Andi Dorfman's questions in regards to his process that made people question if he had been asking the right questions along the way. According to a new Wetpaint Entertainment report published on March 3, "Bachelorette" star Jillian Harris is now revealing that she doesn't think that Juan Pablo will find love and happiness with any of the remaining women.
"Despite having "signed up for something like this," nothing can prepare someone's heart for the hurt that comes with the backlash and opinions of the world, and for every 99 good things people say, that one comment will sit inside of you and eat you up. So, I am going to put myself in his shoes and reserve judgment," Jillian reveals, adding that she has nothing personally against him.
She also reveals that she understands why Andi Dorfman left the show. She adds that it is important for her to leave if she didn't feel the connection and it is important for her to ask the right questions. But it sounds like Jillian doesn't see a forever with Clare or Nikki. "Now, moving forward... who is the best for Juan? Well, I love Nikki and I think she is adorable. Sadly, I don't see a "forever and ever" fit with any of the remaining girls… but we shall see," she reveals.
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Senior officials of the Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) and Bank of America held a joint press conference on the fringes of the 2011 Jeddah Economic Forum yesterday to highlight joint projects in the field of electricity in the Kingdom. Ali bin Saleh Al-Barak, Deputy Executive Manager of the SEC, told reporters that power-related projects designed to meet the Kingdom's electricity needs over the next few years are expected to cost SR 80 billion [$21.33 billion]. The Saudi private sector will be asked to implement a number of them, he noted, adding that this year's projects alone are estimated to cost as much as SR 30 billion [$8 billion].


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AL-QUDS – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday voiced regret for the Monday murder of a Jordanian judge by Israeli forces near a border crossing.
"Israel regrets the death of Judge Raed Zeiter yesterday at the King Hussein Bridge [Allenby Bridge] and expresses its sympathies with the people and government of Jordan," Netanyahu's office said in a statement.
The Israeli army claims that Zeiter, 38, had attempted to grab the gun of an Israeli soldier manning the crossing, forcing the latter to shoot him.
The killing has triggered uproar in Jordan, prompting calls for the Israeli ambassador's expulsion from the kingdom.
On Monday, Amman called on Israel to launch an immediate investigation into Zeiter's murder.
Netanyahu said Israel remains committed to its 1994 peace treaty with Jordan, adding that a joint Israeli-Jordanian team would be set up to look into the incident.
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Barton: 'Hate is a Virtue' and 'We're Going to be Intolerant of Liberalism'
On yesterday's broadcast of "WallBuilders Live," David Barton and Rick Green were discussing a column by right-wing blogger John Hawkins titled "5 Ways Liberalism Destroys Virtue" and it prompted Barton to lay out a rambling and rather incoherent theory about how hate is a virtue while tolerance is a sin, eventually culminating in the declaration that Christians have got to be "intolerant of liberalism":
I wrote this down recently and I'm thinking about it as a name for a book; if not the name for a book, this is definitely something that we have to at least get in our thinking. So let me throw out the thought that I had here, this is just throwing out the title for a book:
When tolerance is a sin and hate is a virtue.
I throw that out because we're getting to the point where tolerance is a bad thing and hate is a good thing. And let me define that: we're told in, I believe it's Proverbs 4:13, it says "the fear of the Lord is to hate evil." Which means that if I'm going to stand for what God stands for, there's some certain things I have to hate: I have to hate evil, I have to hate murder - well no, you can't hate, that's a bad thing ... no, hate is a good thing!
I mean hating Nazis, that's a good thing. And people say "well, you hate their philosophy, you don't hate the people." No, I hate people who want to kill other people and I'm sorry that they're killing others but the guys who were on the Nazi trials at the end, I'm sorry, I just hate what they did. Alright, I love them as a person, yes Jesus died for them, I understand, but I hate certain things.
So we've got to get to the point where tolerance is seen as a sin because we're tolerating a lot stuff that destroys our families, that destroys our own character and we can't tolerate that stuff. We have to get back to the point where hate is a virtue, at least certain kinds of hate. The fear of the Lord is to hate evil and we need to have a hatred of things and get off this fence of having no passion about anything. You know, I tolerate anything, I'm not going to have a passion good or bad, I'm not going to hate anything ... We just can't do that and we've got to get back to that same type of intolerance, that we're going to be intolerant of liberalism.
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TC TO [JEAN CARLYLE AITKEN] ; 29 October 1842; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18421029-TC-JCA-01; CL 15: 151
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two neighbours, felt still farther alarm at the Prize judgeship; and, after a little meditation,—"declined from eet."1 Their prize-essays, I have no doubt, are going on; but will turn out to be one and all of them duds;—and whatever hope the foolish public embarked on the business will turn into disappointment. People expect that some kind of Morrison's Pill could be devised, some Act of Parlt or the like, by which the whole rotten dying System of Society could be made whole again, and then all go well.2 They are great blockheads.———
I am a fool to sit here scribbling, while my own poor sheet is lying without a word on it! The Picture-framers, and then also a Shoemaker put me out. An hour or two of work—ah me!—may perhaps still remain! There is but one man blessed: he that can do his work.3
Adieu, dear Jean
Yours ever
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Swan Lake is such a classic ballet that we are "over-spoiled" with how many times many of us have seen it re-done over and over throughout the years. Each performance becomes a benchmark to each other and on the rare occasion that the dancers can execute it correctly we are reminded about how big this ballet score is. I mean it is the Burger KING of ballets. The May 30th performance of Swan Lake at Bass Hall continues into this evening with two performances today. Performed by the Texas Ballet Theater and accompanied by the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra audiences are in for a real treat as both groups continue to support each other and boost the arts and music in North Texas.
What do you know about Swan Lake?
The original score was created in the 1870's by Tchaikovsky and was performed in Moscow under the title, "The Lake of the Swans." It tells the story of a princess named Odette who is turned into a swan by the evil sorcerer, Von Rothbart. At night Odette turns back into a beautiful young woman where Prince Siegfried sees her and falls in love with her. Odette tells the Prince that in order to break the spell, a man pure of heart must pledge his love for her. As the story continues, Rothbart finds out about their love and tricks the young prince at formal celebration. Rothbart casts a spell on his daughter Odile, making her look like Odette. Prince Siegfried sees Odile and professes his love for her as Odette watches from a window. All the elements of a love story with heroes and heroines and antagonists and secondary antagonists. The performances we see today are due to some revisions of the original score by Ricardo Driggo as well as music and choreography changes by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov in 1895. Both have distinct dance styles that have created one of the most difficult and yet coveted ballerina roles: Odette/Odile. At the end Odette chooses to kill herself and soon after the prince realizes his mistake and follows suit.
Act 1
In Friday night's performance, audiences were opened with how Odette (danced by Carolyn Judson) gets turned into a swan by Rothbart. As we head into scene 1 it's the opening party scene introducing the now 21 year old Prince Siegfried portrayed by Lucas Priolo. Priolo never misses a beat from beginning to end entering onto the stage with a lot of energy and effectively securing his spot as hero. The dancers during scene 1 especially the Pas de Trois including Katelyn Clenaghan, Robing Bangert and Simon Wexler showed extreme fortitude and control. Wexler executes his jumps with such dexterity and technical efficiency. It created a very vibrant scene and set the energy to relax into the mellow second scene as the plot line is formed.
Scene 2 is where we have the young prince with his new crossbow watching swans in a lake when he sees one of the swans turn into a beautiful maiden. Priolo and Judson have wonderful chemistry together and Priolo is subtle yet commanding and his effortless partnering skills are what make this duo so brilliant in form. As the story goes on this pair just gets better and better together. Judson is exquisite and ethereal and has the face for the swan. I must also say that the costuming for the Odette and Odile are wonderful contrasts and intimate details that audiences will love.
Act II
As we head into Act II and the first scene, the cast of dancers have to portray a grand ballroom of sorts with princesses from around the world by which the young prince must choose a bride even if his thoughts are with Odette. This scene is difficult as it can appear busy with so many dancers on stage and so the transitions need to be smooth and on point. Not an easy task with the live music accompaniment of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra. I can't say enough about how well the FWSO played in tonight's evening and at most parts I forgot we were listening to live music. The score itself is a challenge and can be overpowering and the FWSO made sure not to overpower the scenes playing out on stage. The solos were on point and you could infinitely hear even in the top decks the beautiful flutes and woodwind solos with ease. During scene 1 of this act you get an international treat with dancing styles and choreography represented by the contrasting styles of Petipa and Ivanov. The dancers representing Spain were very much in synch with Robin Bangert, Max Caro and Joamanuel Velazquez. I thought their performance was power and especially enjoyed Bangert's style - very alluring. With each of the princesses representing different parts of the world the dancers have the difficult task of remaining in synch through each performance. This is the battle that plagues Swan Lake as uniformity is necessary without it, the sequence is thrown off. I think the dancers got better each time and it is not easy to do. I don't even know how they managed to catch a breath. The arrival of Rothbart and Odile show Priolo's performance in expressing his undying love to who he believes is Odette. Scene 2 of Act 2 is the most emotionally gripping for the two dancers. Priolo and Judson draw the crowd in and when Rothbart arrives (danced by Tim O'Keefe) and raises a storm at the two lovers and you see the dramatic and final conclusion.
Supporting both the arts in North Texas with both live performances from the Texas Ballet Theater and the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, audiences were in for a real treat. Texas Ballet Theater under the art direction of Ben Stevenson has been bringing fantastic shows and has closed out this season on a high note with such a wonderful production of Swan Lake.
Today and tonight are the last performances for Swan Lake at Bass Hall. In the 2014-15 season, Texas Ballet Theater will have two productions with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra: The Sleeping Beauty and The Merry Widow. To purchase tickets in advance just visit Texas Ballet Theater.


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$2 Million Winner, Taking Winning Calmly (Would You?)
Tawanna Turner of Hartsdale, Westchester CountyNew York plays Powerball every week and opts for the Power Play option that would increase her prize amount should she hit a winning combination.
She did just that, recently.
Turner hit a life changing combination from the December 22 drawing when she matched the first five numbers from that night's drawing. By choosing the Power Play option for an additional dollar, Turner turned a $1,000,000 win into a $2,000,000 payday.
"I couldn't believe what I saw when I checked the New York Lottery's website and saw that I matched the first five numbers," explained Turner.
"I checked a couple other state websites to make sure my numbers matched. That's when I truly believed that I had won."
Turner purchased her $2,000,000 winning Powerball ticket in Nanuet.
Turner will receive her $2,000,000 Powerball prize in one lump sum totaling $1,323,600 after required withholdings.
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As part of its 30th birthday celebration the spa at Ritz-Carlton Laguna Niguel has created a dreamy Iridescent Pearl Facial designed to make faces glimmer and glow.
"It is believed that the pearl symbolizes beauty, wisdom and balance, and our Pearl Facial will help guests nurture their skin, as well as inspire inner harmony," says Kristin Pellerin, spa manager. "For centuries, pearls have been worn to symbolize beauty, wisdom and purity and for 30 years, guests have been arriving to our resort to experience iconic elegance, and our Pearl Facial brings this magic to a spa treatment," she added.
The hour-long, $195 multi-functional treatment acts as both a gentle exfoliant and a refining mask with pearl extracts sloughing away dull epidermal cells and a blend of fruit acids and enzymes digging deeply and gingerly to improve clarity, balance and radiance. The result is a revitalized, newfound freshness that appears supple and pure.
Whether you opt for this facial or other treatment, the spa at the Ritz provides a peaceful seaside sanctuary with 12 treatment rooms bathed in soft hues of aqua and beige and ocean breezes. For Valentine's Day ideas consider a couples massage in the oversized treatment room. There's also an outdoor gazebo hosting morning yoga and Pilates classes as well as hikes up and down the 150-foot bluff that houses the 396-room hotel that's located halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego.
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The Intermot motorcycle and bicycle fair rolled around in Cologne earlier this month with a lot of focus clearly beginning to shine on the area of electric bikes, scooters, bicycles and even smaller devices. Gizmag looks at the 10 kg Yikebike, the world's fastest electric scooter, Kawasaki's 210 bhp ZX10R, BMW's six cylinder masterpiece, Horex's V6 and one of the most astounding engines we've yet seen - the Ducati 868cc V8 of German engineer Dieter Hartmann-Wirthwein. The layout of his engine (pictured) enables a compact four cylinder engine to be built on a single cylinder crankcase.Read More
Britain held its first free eco-car show last month on London's famous royal driveway, The Mall. The event was held as part of HRH Prince Charles's latest sustainability initiative "Start", which aims to promote positive steps to leading a sustainable lifestyle, and was opened by his "Garden Party to Make a Difference". The Start Eco-Car Spectacular aimed to showcase the future of green transport with a variety of bicycles, cars and other environmental transport solutions.Read More
The world is crying out for some decent folding electric bike designs and predictably, given its two-wheeled heritage, Robrady Design has delivered one of the best we've seen so far. Secondary transport solutions that are light and electric and can fold into small spaces are naturally an important part of the transportation equation of the future – Robrady designed the db0 for Taiwanese company DK City and it'll be on the market within two months.Read More
When BMW released their original C1 scooter in 2000 nobody had seen anything like it on the road. And not many C1s were seen on the road after it was released either. In the three years that BMW produced the scooter-with-a-roll-cage, only about 12000 were made. The riding public didn't quite know what to make of the C1 and BMW never sold as many as it had hoped. Now BMW has brought the urban runabout back as the C1-E concept vehicle with an electric drivetrain. Could it be the C1's time has come?Read More
We've long argued that electric motorbikes make sense - low-emissions, quiet operation, instant torque and hardly any maintenance compared with their gas-guzzling cousins. The sluggish reaction of the established industry players to this e-revolution has created an opportunity for names like Brammo, Vectrix and Zero to try their hand, and now a brand that dares to put the words "electric" and "superbike" in the same sentence. Launched last week in Las Vegas, the 130+ mph, GBP25,000 Mavizen TTX02 is based around a KTM RC8 frame, ships with two Agni motors and boasts a hot-swappable battery and drivetrain architecture. Born from, and bred for, the world's first electric GP, the bike is a "laptop on wheels" that runs on the Linux OS, comes with with integrated IP connectivity and a USB based system bus for open source engine management, and although it's not being sold as a street legal machine, TTXGP founder Azhar Hussain says the package can still provide a pathway from the racetrack to the road.Read More
November 23, 2007 Hot on the heels of its excellent electric maxi-scooter, Vectrix has finally delivered on its promise of an electric superbike, and it's amazingly close to the concept drawings we saw a couple of years back. Unveiled at the Milan motorcycle show, the Vectrix Electric Superbike has a top speed of around 125mph, a range of around 70 miles and it'll eat up the quarter mile in around 12 seconds, so it's clearly got some punch behind the throttle. It'll go into production if interest is high enough - can this be the first true production electric performance motorcycle? And if so - how long 'til they start racing it?Read More
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Washington State Department of Transportation is asking drivers to plan ahead tomorrow, as crews work on the Knapps Hill Tunnel – prompting its closure.
WSDOT Communications Director, Jeff Adamson, told KOZI that the tunnel will be closed tomorrow only from 9AM until 3PM.
Tomorrow's repairs are not unusual as vibration from truck traffic and the regularity of minor earthquakes take a toll on the tunnel's fixtures.
In addition to drivers- anyone planning to travel by way of Link Transit, will also be affected by the Knapps Hill Tunnel Closure- although according to Link's Marketing Coordinator, Eric West, it will only influence a few routes between Chelan and Wenatchee.
The Knapps Hill Tunnel is included on the WSDOT Structure Preservation project list for future funding to complete the fourth and final section of an ongoing tunnel lining projects which will also update the illumination system for the entire tunnel.
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Feb 11, 2012 10:00 AM
Caitlin writes: Love you guys! HELP HELP HELP - what do i get my awesome boyfriend of 5 years for Valentines day. I am kinda over chocolates, lingerie and all that cliche nonsense. He's a guy's guys so I was thinking whiskey, a cool pair of shoes...I don't know HELP! forever your faithful follower...
Oooh, girl. Have I got the gift suggestions for you. My personal hunk of man meat is also a scotch and whiskey man. And he would suggest the following bottles to entice your boy toy with. Also, whiskey stones are an investment piece of barware. You freeze them as you would ice but they won't dilute the purity of your drink by melting. As for shoes and such, a classy yet casual pair of boots is a good gift. But so is a sweet pair of house slippers. I'm all about tie bars this instant so of course I threw one of those in as well. And if all else fails, hop on over to your local Ray-Ban retailer and pick him up a collector's edition pair of Wayfarers. (All these items can be shipped to you in time for Valentine's if you buy them RIGHT MEOW or can be picked up at a store near you...hopefully.)
1. Glenmorangie 12 Year Old Lasanta Extra Matured Range Sherry Cask ($46) You could pick up a bottle of Glenmorangie (I'd suggest 12 years and older) at any good liquor store.
2. Glenlivet 18 Year Old Single Malt Whisky ($60) Should also be available at a quality liquor store. Any bottle of Glenlivet will be worth the money.
3. Teroforma Whisky Stones ($20)
4. Calibrate Tie Bar ($30)
5. Ray-Ban Original Wayfarers RB2140-72 ($160)
6. UGG Australia 'Ascot' Slippers for Men ($100)
7. Franklin Black Waxed Suede with Black Sole ($130)
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Magzilla here: When I'm not busy eating my way to the bottom of a ginger candy bag, I'm tweezing my eyebrows. I prefer the hard core body modification scene but can also appreciate a ruffle or bow when I see one. Beauty and barrels of maternity/kid crap are my specialties. When you need help finding the right shade of eyeliner to match that new shade of "I haven't slept in days" tint your skin gets after a baby or four, call on me. Loudly.
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Black cats pilot a squadron of flying jack-o'-lanterns in this fairly unscary Halloween postcard – a young fellow in Lewiston, Maine named Charles sent it to his Aunt Nettie ninety-nine years ago. Beyond postcards, balloons have inspired artists of all sorts since they first took to the skies – have a look at some of the Air and Space Museum's other superb works of balloon art, and have a happy Halloween.
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Enjoy these classics from world cinema on the big screen in Brown Auditorium Theater!
River of Grass
Kelly Reichhardt
Sun, Jul 31 5 p.m.
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Kelly Reichardt's darkly funny debut feature—screening in a new digital restoration—is set in southern Florida, where she grew up with a detective father and narcotics-agent mother. Shot on 16mm, the story follows the misadventures of disaffected housewife Cozy (Lisa Bowman) and aimless layabout Lee (Larry Fessenden, also producer and editor of this film). "[In terms of its] funky tenor and deadpan humor . . . the film is a wry, appealingly raggedy look at the impossibility of conjuring up excitement ...
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A Clockwork Orange
Stanley Kubrick
Fri, Aug 5 7 p.m.
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Following his major success with 2001: A Space Odyssey, filmmaker Stanley Kubrick adapted Anthony Burgess's futuristic novel A Clockwork Orange, set in a London where gangs of teenage "droogs" commit acts of violence while an iron-fisted state exerts power. When vicious yet charismatic droog Alex DeLarge (Malcolm McDowell) is sentenced to prison after committing murder, he becomes a guinea pig in an experimental aversion therapy designed to recondition him. "As with nearly all of Kubrick's work, outrage has given way to admiration, ...
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Past Films in This Series
On the Bowery
Directed by Lionel Rogosin
Restored 35mm print! This Oscar-nominated film uses a cinema verité style to chronicle three days on New York's skid row, the Bowery. Noted for offering the flip side of the 1950s "American dream," the film's stark realism is evoked by a combination of documentary and scripted footage. The storyline follows railroad worker Ray as he visits bars, sleeps on the streets, and is victimized by a thief, with whom he ends up bonding. "A milestone in American cinema. . . ...
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1985 (multiple languages with English subtitles)
Directed by Claude Lanzmann
Screenings cosponsored by Holocaust Museum Houston *Part I & II: Thursday, July 7, 10 am (636 min.) Part I: Saturday, July 9, 2 pm (291 min.) Part II: Sunday, July 10, 2 pm (345 min.) New 35mm print! Special ticket prices apply! General admission is $10 for one part; $15 for both parts. MFAH Members and HMH Members, students with ID, seniors, and members of Film Buffs receive a $2 discount. Twelve years in the making and re-released for its ...
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The Man Who Fell to Earth
Directed by Nicholas Roeg
Uncut 35th Anniversary Edition David Bowie stars as an alien who visits Earth to find a cure for his dying race on another planet. Shortly after he arrives, the alien hires an attorney (Buck Henry) to patent ten groundbreaking inventions. The alien is homesick and devises his own space program to return home, but his plans are sabotaged by jealousy, suspicion, and greed. This new 35mm print of the uncut director's version allows viewers to experience the dazzling visuals of ...
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The Mummy
Directed by Karl Freund
A 1921 British field expedition to Egypt uncovers the mummy of Prince Imhotep, who was condemned and buried alive 3,700 years ago, along with the Scroll of Thoth, which can bring the dead back to life. When a young member of the expedition reads the Scroll out loud, Imhotep (Boris Karloff) is reawakened. Eleven years later, the ageless mummy, disguised as a modern Egyptian, attempts to reunite with his lost love, an ancient princess who has been reincarnated as a beautiful young woman (Zita Johann).
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Come Back, Africa
Directed by Lionel Rogosin
Lionel Rogosin's Come Back, Africa is a historical wonder and an honest glimpse into the harsh reality of life under the now-abolished South African apartheid government. (Rogosin's On the Bowery screened at the MFAH last year.) After witnessing firsthand the terrors of fascism as a soldier in World War II, Rogosin vowed to fight against it wherever and whenever he saw its threats reemerging. Rogosin traveled to South Africa and secretly filmed Come Back, Africa, which revealed the cruelty and injustice with which ...
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Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Directed by Paul Mazursky
Click here for the related Artful Thursday* event on May 10. The cathartic decade of the 1960s culminated in a prolific year of moviemaking in 1969, with Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice as one of the leading American success stories. "Consider the possibilities," read the ads for writer-director Paul Mazursky's satirically comic second feature about what happens when the sexual revolution meets the bourgeoisie. After Bob (Robert Culp) and Carol (Natalie Wood) return to Los Angeles from a retreat, resolved to pursue ...
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Reality Bites
Directed by Ben Stiller
Written by Houstonian Helen Childress and filmed in Houston, Reality Bites was the first "Gen X" comedy based on recent graduates facing life and love after college. Winona Ryder stars as a valedictorian searching for a meaningful job and relationship while bouncing between two interested men (Ben Stiller and Ethan Hawke), and her group of friends including Steve Zahn and Janeane Garofalo.
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Children of Paradise
Les enfants du paradis
1945 in French with English subtitles
Directed by Marcel Carné
Restored print Poetic realism reaches sublime heights in this 1945 classic. Repeatedly declared the greatest French film of all time, Children of Paradise (Les enfants du paradis) is a tragic tale of ill-fated love between a theater mime (Jean-Louis Barrault) and an actress (Arletty) loved by three other men. Deftly entwining theater, literature, music, and design, director Marcel Carné and screenwriter Jacques Prévert resurrect the tumultuous world of 19th-century Paris, teeming with hucksters and aristocrats, thieves and courtesans, pimps and seers. "From ...
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Directed by Miloš Forman
Celebrate the 80th birthday of Czech-born filmmaker Miloš Forman with an adaptation of the counterculture musical Hair. Based on the Broadway musical of the 1960s, Hair relates the story of Claude (John Savage), a young Oklahoman who leaves his family ranch for New York City. He quickly becomes involved with the hippie subculture and falls in love with a girl (Beverly D'Angelo). However, their happiness is short-lived when Claude is subsequently drafted. The musical also stars Treat Williams. Forman studied ...
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1966, in Czech with English subtitles
Directed by Vera Chytilová
A touchstone of the Czech New Wave that is best described as a feminist, psychedelic, surreal Eastern European answer to Howard Hawks's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum calls this film "one of the most exhilarating stylistic and psychedelic eruptions of the 60s." Two young women, each named Marie, decide to behave outrageously in response to the world: they consume as much as possible, devouring expensive food paid for by rich men, setting in motion a series of pranks ...
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The Shining
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
In conjunction with this revival of The Shining, the MFAH presents several screenings of the documentary Room 237 (April 11–14). Click here for more information. Loosely based on the Stephen King novel, The Shining follows a writer (Jack Nicholson), his wife (Shelley Duvall), and son as they become caretakers of the Overlook resort hotel during the winter off-season. Isolated and snowbound, the family experiences an evil presence that encourages the father to commit violence, while his psychic son sees frightening visions from the ...
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Holy Motors
2012 in French with English subtitles
Directed by Léos Carax
Numerous U.S. film critics—including the Houston Film Critics Society—voted Holy Motors the best foreign film of 2012. Join the shadowy Monsieur Oscar (Denis Lavant) on his rollicking, soulful journey by limousine through the streets of Paris as he transforms into multiple characters for a series of mysterious "appointments" as a captain of industry, assassin, beggar, monster, and family man. Léos Carax's mirthful, mind-bending masterwork is a ravishing fever dream of becoming, unraveling, and starting all over again. ". . . an exhilarating hybrid of ...
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1981, in Arabic with English subtitles
Directed by Ahmed El Maanouni
A concert film unlike any other, Trances presents extraordinary footage of Nass El Ghiwane—known as the Rolling Stones of Africa—whose legendary performances combined music, poetry, and theater. "We eavesdrop on the group, whose troubadour style has won them a large and rapturous following in their home country of Morocco. The debt owed to the musical traditions of their faith and land is freely acknowledged, and vividly brought to mind by the trance-like state their compelling, percussive music induces in their ...
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Little Fugitive
Directed by Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin
60th Anniversary Rerelease / New 35mm print In this utterly charming fable that poetically captures the joys and wonders of childhood, 7-year-old Joey (Richie Andrusco) is tricked into believing he killed his brother and flees to New York's Coney Island, where he experiences a day and night filled with adventures. With a concealed, custom-made 35mm camera, legendary photographer Morris Engel—whose collaborators included future wife Ruth Orkin, herself a photography titan—captured a perfect time capsule of Coney in the waning years ...
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Far from Vietnam
1967/2013; in English and French with English subtitles
Directed by Various directors
This epic collaboration between cinema greats Jean-Luc Godard, Joris Ivens, William Klein, Claude Lelouch, Alain Resnais, and Agnés Varda in protest of American military involvement in Vietnam was made—in the words of editor Chris Marker— "to affirm, by the exercise of their craft, their solidarity with the Vietnamese people in struggle against aggression." The elements include documentary footage shot in North and South Vietnam and at antiwar demonstrations in the United States; a fictional vignette dramatizing the self-interrogation of European ...
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Candy Mountain
Directed by Robert Frank and Rudy Wurlitzer
As the distributor and archive for the films of photographer/filmmaker Robert Frank, the MFAH is pleased to showcase titles from the Robert Frank Collection. Candy Mountain, Robert Frank's collaboration with novelist Rudy Wurlitzer, follows a struggling musician (Kevin J. O'Connor) who sets out to find legendary guitar maker Elmore Silk (Harris Yulin) in hopes of striking a deal to make himself rich and famous. The film also stars Bulle Ogier (Celine & Julie Go Boating) and features cameos by iconic ...
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Un Flic
A Cop
1972, in French with English subtitles
Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville
Released in the United States as Dirty Money, the final film by Jean-Pierre Melville (1917–1973) features Alain Delon as a burned-out police detective, Richard Crenna as a nightclub owner and bank robber, and Catherine Deneuve as the icy woman they both love. The film showcases two trademark heists: a near-wordless bank job on a deserted, seaside street; and a nerve-racking, 20-minute drug snatch done via helicopter-to-train transfer—and back again.
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Le Petit Soldat
1960-63, in French with English subtitles
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
Set in France during the Algerian war for independence, a right-wing secret agent (Michel Subor) for a French terrorist group has deserted the army. When he continually fails to assassinate a woman (Anna Karina in her debut) who is a member of the left-wing Algerian liberation movement, the young man is suspected of being a double agent. Complications arise when the two fall in love. "One of Godard's starkest and most serious works, shot in infinite tones of gray via ...
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Max and the Junkmen
Max et les ferrailleurs
1971, in French with English subtitles
Directed by Claude Sautet
Independently wealthy Paris detective Max (Michel Piccoli) infiltrates a gang of bank robbers by becoming involved with the leader's girlfriend (Romy Schneider). Working undercover, Max mentions how easy it would be to knock over a certain bank in the hopes that the gang attempts a robbery – so Max, the detective, can catch them red-handed. Never released in U.S. theaters, this taut thriller with a heart of a great melodrama makes its American debut in a restored 35mm print featuring ...
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Phase IV
Directed by Saul Bass
Introduced by Peter Lucas, independent curator Acclaimed graphic designer and master of film-title sequences (Anatomy of a Murder; Man with the Golden Arm; Vertigo; Psycho) Saul Bass directed this unique sci-fi film in which scientists study the patterns of cosmically altered ants that are rapidly evolving to develop a hive mind. The only feature film by Bass, Phase IV boasts stunning photography, art direction, and visual effects. This special screening of a new 35mm print is shown with a digital reconstruction ...
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Daughters of the Dust
Directed by Julie Dash
Introduced by Dr. Alvia J. Wardlaw, Director, University Art Museum, Texas Southern University The first film directed by an African American woman to be theatrically distributed, Julie Dash's feature film debut is considered a masterpiece. Five women of a Gullah family living on the Sea Islands off the Georgia coast in 1902 contemplate moving to the mainland in this emotional tale of change. The Gullah are descendants of West African slaves and their isolation has kept their superstitions and native ...
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1960, in Italian with English subtitles
Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
A woman mysteriously disappears on a yachting trip. While her lover and her best friend search for her across Italy, they begin an affair. Antonioni's penetrating study of the idle upper class offers stinging observations on spiritual isolation and the many meanings of love. Initially greeted with jeers and confusion, L'Avventura was then awarded a Cannes Special Jury Prize "for the beauty of its images, and for seeking to create a new film language." It is now established as a ...
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Godzilla: The Japanese Original
1954, in Japanese with English subtitles
Directed by Ishirô Honda
Widely considered the best monster movie of the sci-fi loving 1950s, Godzilla: The Japanese Original returns! This 60th-anniversary restoration features scenes deleted from versions previously screened in the United States and coincides with a new Hollywood remake. H-bomb testing stirs a 400-foot sea dragon who terrorizes Tokyo like a fire-breathing King Kong, crushing trains and swatting down fighter planes. The monster is rendered in "suitmation" by special-effects wizard Eiji Tsuburaya, and the added scenes showcase the performance of the monster's ...
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All That Jazz
Directed by Bob Fosse
Introduced by author Sam Wasson ("Fosse") In this autobiographical masterpiece, director/dancer/choreographer extraordinaire Bob Fosse (1927–1987) tells his life story through the manic character of Joe Gideon (Roy Scheider), a workaholic theater director fueled by all manner of substances to keep up with his hectic schedule of projects and romantic entanglements. All That Jazz becomes a confessional of sorts as Joe confides in an Angel of Death (Jessica Lange), and the film is punctuated by hallucinatory production numbers and much melodrama. ...
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Je t'aime, je t'aime
1968, in French with English subtitles
Directed by Alain Resnais
Recovering from an attempted suicide, a writer (Claude Rich) agrees to participate in a time-travel experiment that has been tested only on mice, but a malfunction causes him to relive moments from his past in random order. This screening of director Alain Resnais's Je t'aime, je t'aime is presented in homage to the filmmaker, who died on March 1. Watch for the Museum to show his landmark Hiroshima mon amour in the fall. "It's a science-fiction tragedy in comic strip ...
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Queen Margot
La reine Margot
1994, in French and Italian with English subtitles
Directed by Patrice Chéreau
Based on a novel by Alexandre Dumas and the memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen Margot takes place in the late 16th century during a religious war between the ruling Catholics and the Protestant Huguenots. The young Margot (Isabelle Adjani), heiress to the French throne, finds herself trapped in an arranged marriage to the leader of the Huguenots (Daniel Auteuil). She hopes to escape with a new lover (Vincent Perez) but finds herself imprisoned by her powerful and ruthless family. ...
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Nosferatu the Vampyre
Phantom der Nacht
1979, in German, English, and Romany with English subtitles
Directed by Werner Herzog
The legendary Werner Herzog interprets Dracula with frequent collaborator Klaus Kinski as the vampire. Isabelle Adjani and Bruno Ganz costar in the remarkable homage to F. W. Murnau's 1922 classic Nosferatu. In this version, Dracula is a melancholy man suffering from general malaise, experiencing more existential crises than bloodlust. Kinski creates a brooding, world-weary figure cursed with the loneliness of eternal life who is drawn to the ethereal beauty of Adjani. New 35mm restoration! "No matter what we have seen ...
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A Hard Day's Night
Directed by Richard Lester
Back by popular demand! During the first worldwide flush of Beatlemania in 1964, United Artists wanted to ship out a movie with The Beatles before their vogue was over. Working within a tight $500,000 budget, director Richard Lester turned out A Hard Day's Night in a fast 6 1/2 weeks. Using a variety of techniques cribbed from Hollywood slapstick comedies, the French New Wave movement, and his own experiences as a TV-commercial director, Lester fashioned an exhilarating study of a ...
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Don't Look Now
Directed by Nicolas Roeg
Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie mesmerize as a married couple on an extended trip to Venice following a family tragedy. While in that elegantly decaying city, they have a series of inexplicable, terrifying, and increasingly dangerous experiences. A masterpiece from Nicolas Roeg, Don't Look Now, adapted from a story by Daphne du Maurier, is a brilliantly disturbing tale of the supernatural, as renowned for its innovative editing and haunting cinematography as its explicit eroticism and unforgettable denouement, one of the ...
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Stop Making Sense
Directed by Jonathan Demme
Stop Making Sense showcases David Byrne and the Talking Heads at the band's peak. Infectious renditions of "Take Me to the River," "Burning Down the House," and "Life during Wartime," along with surprise appearances by guest musicians, have had audiences dancing in the aisles during the film's 30th-anniversary celebration. Stop Making Sense was artistically conceived by Byrne and filmmaker Jonathan Demme. "A rock concert film that looks and sounds like no other." —Janet Maslin, New York Times "A dose of happiness from beginning to ...
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Hiroshima mon amour
1959, in French and Japanese with English subtitles
Directed by Alain Resnais
The first feature film by Alain Resnais (1922–2014), Hiroshima mon amour is a masterpiece that chronicles a brief relationship in post-World War II Japan between a French actress, played by Emmanuelle Riva (Oscar nominee for the 2012 film Amour), and a Japanese architect, played by Eiji Okada (Woman in the Dunes). Considered one of the most beautiful and influential movies ever made, Hiroshima mon amour is based on a screenplay by influential writer Marguerite Duras. This engagement is presented in a ...
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The Babadook
Directed by Jennifer Kent
PLEASE NOTE THAT FRIDAY'S SCREENING BEGINS AT 7:30 P.M. The Babadook is a creepy, expertly crafted debut Australian feature that has been a critical and audience favorite. A single mother (Essie Davis), whose husband died in a car crash while she was on the way to the delivery room, is left to raise their son on her own. Now 6 years old, Samuel has behavioral issues, including constantly fearing monsters in the closet. "The presence grows when, one evening, Samuel ...
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Song of the Sea
Directed by Tomm Moore
From the filmmakers who made 2009's highly regarded The Secret of Kells comes the animated tale of selkies from Irish and Scottish legends. Ben lives with his widowed father, Conner, and mute baby sister, Saoirse, in a lighthouse on the coast. Saoirse is the last of the selkies—shape-shifting women who transform from seals into people—and has the ability to aid mythical creatures trapped in the modern world. The children's own mother is a selkie who has gone missing, but in ...
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Pather Panchali
1955, in Bengali with English subtitles
Directed by Satyajit Ray
Satyajit Ray's feature-film debut, based on a best-selling 1930s novel about a family in West Bengal, focuses on the precocious Apu. The little boy learns his place in the world from a young age, watching his family struggle with poverty and illness. Ray said he aspired to reflect the novel's strengths: humanism, lyricism, and the ring of truth. Pather Panchali ranks alongside other renowned films about childhood such as The 400 Blows, Shoeshine, and Spirit of the Beehive. Read a New ...
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Losing Ground
Directed by Kathleen Collins
A young philosophy professor (Seret Scott) and her painter husband (Bill Gunn) are at personal and professional crossroads.When they leave New York City for a summer in the country, they experience a reawakening, both together and separately. This 1982 film by Kathleen Collins is one of the first independent features written and directed by a black woman. Twenty-five years after her death, Collins's daughter, Nina, rescued the original negative and created a new digital master of her mother's film. Losing ...
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The Sound of Music
Directed by Robert Wise
Each screening includes an intermission Presented in conjunction with "Habsburg Splendor: Masterpieces from Vienna's Imperial Collections" Julie Andrews stars as Maria in Rodgers and Hammerstein's movie musical—celebrating its 50th anniversary!—about a nun who leaves the convent to become governess to the seven mischievous children of a widowed Navy captain (Christopher Plummer). Blending into a family doesn't come easily, and it all unfolds with iconic songs and characters. Comedy, romance, and drama combine in this heartwarming tale set against the majestic Austrian ...
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Grey Gardens
Directed by Albert and David Maysles, Ellen Hovde, and Muffie Meyer
Immediately after a 1971 National Enquirer article revealed that a cousin and an aunt of Jackie Kennedy's were living in near-poverty in a dilapidated Hamptons mansion, the American public became curious about the two reclusive socialites named "Big" and "Little" Edie Beale. This documentary by Albert and David Maysles indeed captures an estate—Grey Gardens—that's just as messy as reported. But more important, the film shows a mother-daughter relationship so intimate that the surroundings hardly matter. Both Edies are quirky and outspoken—nostalgic for ...
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Miracle of the White Stallions
Directed by Arthur Hiller
Presented in conjunction with "Habsburg Splendor: Masterpieces from Vienna's Imperial Collections" This lively historical drama opens in Vienna during the conflict-ridden final months of World War II. Robert Taylor stars as Austrian Colonel Alois Podhajsky, a former Olympic equestrian. As director of the legendary Spanish Riding School, Podhajsky must devise a plan to transport the majestic Lipizzaner stallions to safety. U.S. General George S. Patton, also an accomplished equestrian, agrees to help—but not until after a command performance by the ...
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The Third Man
Directed by Carol Reed
Presented in conjunction with "Habsburg Splendor: Masterpieces from Vienna's Imperial Collections" Often listed among the greatest movies of all time, director Carol Reed's film noir set in post-World War II Vienna is a moody, atmospheric triumph filled with magnificent performances. The Third Man stars Joseph Cotten as pulp-fiction writer Holly Martins, who smells something suspicious in the supposedly accidental death of his friend Harry Lime (the legendary Orson Welles). Tensions rise as secrets are revealed and Lime's girlfriend, Anna (Alida Valli), ...
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From Mayerling to Sarajevo
De Mayerling à Sarajevo
1940, in French with English subtitles
Directed by Max Ophüls
Coinciding with the Habsburg Splendor exhibition (on view through September 13), this lavish, historically inspired period drama was directed by the great Max Ophüls (Lola Montès; The Earrings of Madame de . . .). The film investigates the circumstances around the infamous incident that set off World War I: How did Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Habsburg throne, end up in Sarajevo on the fateful day in 1914? "In Max Ophüls's telling, Franz Ferdinand's liberal plans to transform ...
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The Tales of Hoffmann
Directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
There are few better ways to celebrate this year's Technicolor centennial than with Powell and Pressburger's lush interpretation of Offenbach's 1881 opera, The Tales of Hoffmann. A tour-de-force of dance, music, color, and pioneering special effects, the story unfolds in three tales and follows a poet's fantastic and romantic adventures. The cast includes Moira Shearer, the ballerina from The Red Shoes. This stunning, new 4K restoration was made possible by a partnership that includes The Film Foundation and the British ...
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Beauty and the Beast
La belle et la bête
1946, in French with English subtitles
Directed by Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau's sublime adaptation of Marie Leprince de Beaumont's fairy-tale masterpiece—in which the pure love of a beautiful girl melts the heart of a feral but gentle beast—is a landmark of motion picture fantasy, with unforgettably romantic performances by Jean Marais and Josette Day. The spectacular visions of enchantment, desire, and death in Beauty and the Beast have become timeless icons of cinematic wonder. Legendary New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael says, "Perhaps the most sensuously elegant of all filmed ...
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1988, in French with English subtitles
Directed by Claire Denis
Claire Denis's debut feature film follows a woman (Mireille Perrier) returning to her childhood home in Cameroon. She recalls memories of her government official father during the final years of French control, and her heartfelt friendship with Protée (Isaach de Bankolé), the family's manservant. Protée's relationship with the mother, however, is contentious and raging with sexual tension. Chocolat is loosely based on Denis's memories of living in Africa as a child, and depicts the effects of colonialism without preaching or ...
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Chimes at Midnight
Directed by Orson Welles
"If I wanted to get into heaven on the basis of one movie, [Chimes at Midnight] is the one I would offer up . . . I think I succeeded more completely with that than with anything else." —Orson Welles The 2015 celebration of Orson Welles's centennial continues, thanks to this new digital restoration of Chimes at Midnight, unavailable for decades. The film is the culmination of a lifelong obsession for Welles (1915–1985) with Shakespeare's rapscallion, Sir John Falstaff. Appearing in ...
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1955, in French with English subtitles
Directed by Jules Dassin
After making such American noir classics as Brute Force and The Naked City, blacklisted director Jules Dassin went to Paris to film what the Los Angeles Times called "one of the great crime thrillers, the benchmark all succeeding heist films have been measured against." A gang of master thieves concocts an almost impossible plan to rob a jewelry store on the Rue de Rivoli. Even though the wordless 30-minute robbery scene is delightfully low-tech, it provides white-knuckle suspense. "The underworld equivalent ...
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Spiritual rebirth: Brandywine Community Church Pastors Mark Wright (right) and Mark Tabb (left) help with the baptism of Julie and Ashjiah Lopez at Greenfield-Central High School natatorium Sunday afternoon. More than 30 members were baptized during the hour-long celebration. Many friends and family members attended the event to lend their support.(Tom Russo/Daily Reporter)
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This artist's proof medal commemorates the third crew to live and work aboard Skylab, a U.S. space station launched into earth orbit in May 1973. Commander Gerald P. Carr, Science Pilot Edward G. Gibson, and Pilot William R. Pogue spent 84 days in space, from November 16, 1973 through February 8, 1974. During their mission, they accomplished four spacewalks and conducted a variety of experiments and investigations. Although they were the third Skylab crew, their mission was formally designated Skylab 4 (the space station's launch was Skylab 1). One of a set of three medallions designed to honor the three Skylab crews, this medal became a part of the National Collection in 1974.
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Vote for a park that you think is in need of a make-over and if it wins, the park gets money for a serious spruce-up. Under a new scheme introduced by the Mayor of London, ten parks will get big money to " make them
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The Earth Awards held their ceremonies and announced the winning contestant for their search for the best future-crucial design idea.
Big Apple is Big Winner for Its Transit Improvements
New York City's sustainability efforts under its comprehensive PlaNYC 2030 boosted it above Beijing, which scrambled to clean up its air before hosting the Olympics, and three other international
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The Weblog Awards are a fairly big deal in the blogosphere, and when green blogs beat out others for prime finalist spots, it's a good sign that blog readers are catching on.
California Safe Schools Org Hosts Environmental Health Summit
To celebrate its 10th anniversary, the California Safe Schools organization gathered luminaries of the environmental health and children's education world together for a program called "Your Life is Now." The
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Middlebury College Produces Its First Green Newspaper
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Winners of the Rolex Awards for Enterprise Named
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Western-inspired looks were everywhere around the office this week. Sprinkled throughout, I picked up on notes of fringe, brass, and hide. People were tying handkerchiefs around their necks and throwing on boots like the old cattle ranchers. Others interpreted a more feminine side, piling their heads high with braids and showing off lace-up stockings. my (…) Read more
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Democrat Ed FitzGerald's campaign sent out a fundraising email today with an interesting accusation. The gubernatorial candidate's campaign accused Republican Governor John Kasich of cheating.
The message was sent in response to a pair of elections laws aimed at reducing voter fraud. One provision reduces the time frame of early voting while the other limits the distribution of unsolicited absentee ballots.
In the email, the campaign states, "Your elementary school teacher has a word for it: CHEATING." Just below is a graphic noting, "John Kasich says" just to the left of a "DO NOT VOTE" sign.
Hyperbole aside, the charge is quite ironic.
The basic breakdown of Democrat-GOP elections reform debate harkens down to two rather boiler plate positions. Starting backward, Republicans, concerned with voter fraud and the sanctity of the American democratic process, often propose and pass laws aimed at eliminating voter fraud. These come in the typical forms of voter ID laws and limiting early voting.
Democrats, on the other hand, respond in kind with accusations of voter suppression. Such reforms, they charge, disproportionately affect minorities, women, and the elderly, and amount to nothing more than a GOP attempt to steal elections by limiting votes from Democratic constituency groups.
Where the Democrats run into irony is in that early voting, absentee balloting, and the absence of voter ID requirements are the foundation of voter fraud.
It should make sense to any logical person: afforded the opportunity to vote without proving one's identity, either in person or in advance of Election Day, provides an opening to submit fraudulent votes.
The so-called "Golden Week," during which voters can both register and vote on the same day, gives an early shot at fraud. Bogus voters can register illegitimately and vote on the same day, so there is a chance that their fraudulent votes might county, anyway.
Early voting also provides a chance for both fraudulent and double votes. One could vote early under one name—or variation of one's name—and then turn around and do so again on Election Day. Absentee ballots afford the same opportunities.
Democrats might call this paranoia, but 2012 alone provided said scenarios here in Ohio, particularly in the Cincinnati area. Several voters were convicted of voter fraud for voting in the names of others or of voting under multiple derivatives of their given names. One case had a nun voting for herself and her deceased colleague while another woman voted under several different names.
The 2008 election cycle was similar. A Florida city commissioner and his campaign manager were charged with completing more than 90 fraudulent absentee ballots. A vacant lot was the return address of more than 250 Connecticut absentee ballots that year. Poll workers in Texas asked voters if they would like to a vote a straight party-line ticket. Even back in 2002, a South Dakota Senate race was likely decided by fraudulent votes, largely ballots cast by deceased voters. Each case benefited Democrats.
In recent years, a conservative film maker demonstrated that he quite plausibly could have voted as US Attorney General Eric Holder without providing identification.
In other words, voter fraud is real. Parties might disagree with intellectual honesty as to the severity of voter fraud, but examples abound. The logical conclusion one could draw from the battle lines is that Republicans are fighting voter fraud while Democrats are fighting to protect it.
Put another way, both sides are jockeying for an edge on the fringes. Assuming both sides' sentiments are sincere, then Republicans are aiming at an edge by eliminating fraudulent votes while Democrats are protecting votes that may be fraudulent.
Of course, there are certainly instances of GOP voter fraud—it's just that the public examples happen to come from, typically, the Democratic side of the aisle. Thus, it is quite ironic that Ohio Democrats are accusing Ohio Republicans of cheating when it is they who seek to protect the "right" to cheat.


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Red Bull Stratos Update: Felix Baumgartner Jump Postponed, Why He Should Not Give Up On His Mission
Baumgartner has had to cancel two dives, so a third attempt may be the charm that helps him break the skydive record. (Photo: Reuters)
For the second consecutive day, extreme sports athlete Felix Baumgartner had to cancel his death-defying free-fall jump mission for Red Bull Stratos because of gusty winds.
According to reports, Baumgartner is seeking to break the sound barrier upon jumping from a balloon more than 22 miles above the earth near Roswell's airport in New Mexico. Baumgartner expects to hit 690 mph if and when the wind cooperates enough to give him the opportunity to jump.
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Baumgartner's original plan was to accomplish the feat on Tuesday at 6:30 a.m. But, as Baumgartner sat in his pressurized capsule waiting for the 55-story, ultra-thin helium balloon to fill and carry him into the stratosphere, a 25 mph gust rushed across a field near the airport. The gusts were so strong that the still-inflating balloon spun and concerns emerged if the balloon was damaged.
Baumgartner cancelled, and mission technical director Art Thompson said that the earliest the Red Bull Stratos team could try again would be Thursday, weather permitting. However, even though Baumgartner's team said that he has a second balloon and intends to try again, his meteorologist ruled out a Thursday jump on Wednesday morning.
It would seem that the jump isn't meant to be, but given the resilient nature of many of those who participate in extreme sports, Baumgartner will most likely still get it done. His tweet after aborting the mission jump yesterday also suggest as much:
"It's all about what we do now and accomplish now," he said. "We've made it so far, there's no way turning back."
The risks, most notably the possibility of death, are great. Any contact with his capsule upon exiting could tear his pressurized suit, which would expose him to extreme temperatures as low as 70 below zero and a lack of oxygen. It could also cause lethal bubbles to form in his bodily fluids, a condition known as 'boiling blood.'" He could also spin out of control in the air.
Nevertheless, Baumgartner has a chance to set four new world records if he jumps, marking one of the most historical moments in the history of extreme sports. The jump can provide scientists with valuable information for future spacesuits and techniques that could help astronauts survive accidents, too.
The risks are numerous, but the rewards may be what drives Baumgartner to make the jump as soon as he is able.
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