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"Shared Purpose" by James F. Moore
New eBook on Benefits of Shared Purpose in a Connected Community of Companies, Eight Lessons for Ecosystem Success
Over the course of the past few years a loosely-organized community of more than a thousand companies has overturned the tech industry. Their work is visible in smartphones, wearable sports and health monitors, thermostats that get to know our lives and cars that can prevent crashes.
The author, James F. Moore, former Fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Center, is an expert on leadership and strategy in large-scale businesses and social networks. He was given open access to the community, and chronicled the story through the voices of its people.
He discusses how collaboration and sharing are fueling successful multi-industry business ecosystems. Q&A with Segars.
"In the end [NVIDIA] might be helping our competitors to a certain extent. But we are also making it possible to create a product that is kind of amazing."
Phil Carmack, Head of Mobile, NVIDIA, on meeting with ARM CEO, Warren East, to discuss improvements to the Cortex™-A9
Shared Purpose can also be downloaded for Kindle
Lessons and summary in terms of who is mentioned in the book
- Lesson 1: Demand disruption - The story of how and why Facebook connected with AppliedMicro and Calxeda. Red Hat shares its opinion of open source ecosystems.
- Lesson 2: Explore beyond the edge - From Bill Gates' speech on world power efficiency to ARM power-efficient innovations in the server business with Dell. Includes views on ARM and Dell's joint collaboration in the server industry.
- Lesson 3: Reach to everyone - DIY Drones' revelations on technology development, Freescale shares their success story and the benefits from ecosystems.
- Lesson 4: Wrap an ecosystem around every product and service - Examines four distinct ecosystems: ARM's joint partnership with NVIDIA (product optimization); AMCC (secret project); Linaro (new open source); and, Xilinx (partnerships).
- Lesson 5: Draw deeply from science and engineering - Deeply involved in education and science research with Synopsys, SOI Consortium, Nanoelectronics Research, College of Nanoscale, and UC Berkeley EE..
- Lesson 6: Take just enough - Mentor Graphics CEO Wally Rhines reviews open ecosystems; an interview with ARM CEO designate Simon Segars about ARM partner-favorable policies and culture.
- Lesson 7: Open it - ARM CEO Warren East expresses about maintaining openness and independence in the community. Cadence shares its view on ecosystems while Samsung and Telecom discuss trends in ecosystems which highlight the third generation of business ecosystems are evolving together in the growth of the Connected Community.
- Lesson 8: I thou - ARM executives reveal how they see people as 'ARM shaped', the importance placed on work measurements and competency in the job.


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NC regulators uphold Duke Energy rate hike
Published: Thursday, October 24, 2013 at 11:31 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, October 24, 2013 at 11:31 a.m.
RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina regulators have upheld a 7 percent rate increase for Duke Energy customers.
The News & Observer of Raleigh reported (http://bit.ly/HdecAF) the North Carolina Utilities Commission said Wednesday it was right when it approved the increase in January 2012. The commission said it properly balanced the interests of investors and the Charlotte company's nearly 2 million customers in western North Carolina.
Duke customers have been paying about $7 a month on average since the increase was approved.
The North Carolina Supreme Court ordered the commission to review the increase after a challenge by Attorney General Roy Cooper.
Wednesday's decision does not affect Duke Energy Progress customers in eastern North Carolina. An increase that regulators approved for Duke Energy Progress customers also is being challenged by the attorney general's office.
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live 1
- In September 2000, she was diagnosed with bone cancer and given six months to live.
- He has been given a 20 per cent chance of survival and doctors say he might have three to six months to live.
- By the following morning doctors had told Lorraine that she had a rare form of cervical cancer and only six months to live.
- My tastes are definitely different from what I would have liked, if I had lived five centuries ago.
- It's not just about some guy who lived centuries ago.
- Great oaks and trees that lived centuries ago held their broken branches, still fashioned to the ground by decaying roots.
- He lived well and spent freely, renting flats in Chelsea and Brighton, employing servants, owning race horses and running a Rolls-Royce.
- Instead of enjoying the fact that we can live comfortably, we spend our time looking to see who is living just that little bit more comfortably than us.
- I, for one, would not produce a child that would have to live under these circumstances.
- We lived from subsistence farming, growing sweet potatoes, corn, some sugarcane, and ginger.
- He lived by gambling professionally for over a decade.
- They live by hunting and gathering.
- A local historian talked to pupils about his experience of living through the Second World War.
- Nobody has ever had the experience of living through this kind of hurricane, followed by this flood.
- Each of these photographers comments on the experience of living through war.
- Songwriter and singer Ollie Cole has an impeccable ear for a good melody and this one lives long in the mind.
- In any Championship is something that lives forever in the minds and hearts of every one involved.
- He will live on in our memories.
- Maybe you should start living instead of just watching everyone else.
- The voice is calling us to leave our foolish fears behind, to take risks, to trust, to begin to really live.
- Get out there and start living, you never know how much longer it is all going to last.
- Far from living for technology, the corporate world now lives for finance.
- It's a story about a man who hung out in the sewers for years living for opera.
- He lived for his family. What has he got now?
- We never expected the boat to live in such a fearful gale and sea, but she weathered it bravely.
- By some miracle of fate the boat lived through the storm.
- They had nothing more than a hope that, if the vessel lived, they might continue to earn their commissions and brokerage.
- He was just a divorced man living alone in a really big house.
- The lucky ones have grandparents living locally who are willing to help out on a regular basis.
- Did you or you parents ever live in a house of their own?
- He took the captain and his men to see where the shields lived.
- For the time being the vacuum cleaner lives at the end of the couch.
- I don't know where the plates live in their kitchen any more.
as I live and breathe
- Used to express surprise at encountering someone or something: good God, Jack Stone, as I live and breathe!More example sentences
- Dawn Tinsley, as I live and breathe…
- 'Well, well,' she said, 'Malak Harr, as I live and breathe.'
- 'Well, as I live and breathe… if it ain't Hallie Lennox, 'he said in an unmistakable Savannah drawl.
be living on borrowed time
- see borrow.
live and breathe something
- Devote a great deal of one's time to a particular subject or activity: they live and breathe Italy and all things ItalianMore example sentences
- When you're in this business you live and breathe it.
- When you live and breathe your product, it's hard to realize that customers aren't as passionate about it as you are.
- He lives and breathes pantomime and every year puts heart and soul into his productions.
live and let live
- proverb You should tolerate the opinions and behaviour of others so that they will similarly tolerate your own.Example sentences
- Our father always taught us live and let live.
- Whatever happened to the concept of live and let live?
- Stating that she was devastated by the arson attack, she said that all she wanted to do was live and let live and she hoped that she could do that in a different part of the city.
live by one's wits
- see wit1.
live dangerously
- Do something risky, especially on a habitual basis: she bit her lip, caught between natural caution and a desire to live dangerouslyMore example sentences
- Derby are still living dangerously, just four points ahead of third-bottom Manchester City, after losing 2-1 at home to Arsenal.
- This is one girl who likes living dangerously.
- And more and more Americans are living dangerously, moving to regions in this country highly vulnerable to natural disasters.
live for the moment
- see moment.
live in hope
- Be or remain optimistic about something: we live in hope that his mission will succeedMore example sentences
- We have been living in hope since she went missing and we were praying this was not Leanne.
- His mother still lives in hope of one day finding out what became of her 11-year-old son.
- However, one lives in hope that future years may actually witness some inspirational figures.
live in the past
- Have old-fashioned or outdated ideas and attitudes: we aren't here to cater to fringe elements who insist on living in the pastMore example sentences
- Those who wish to live in the past and apply outdated labels to all Northern Ireland fans are the real bigots.
- 'I say to those who want to live in the past - you stay in the past, we are moving on,' said Mr Duncan Smith.
- Mrs Barnie continued: 'I understand the parish council has their own rules, but I think they are living in the past.'
- 9.1Dwell on or reminisce at length about past events: why couldn't she stop living in the past and face the mess she was in now?More example sentences
- She needed to stop living in the past and stop wallowing in past sorrows.
- Many people live in the past, over and over again, and they never catch up with the present.
- Yet the greatest obstacles to achieving are a lack of self belief, living in the past and a desire to be perfect.
live in sin
- see sin1.
live it up
- informal Spend one's time in an extremely enjoyable way, typically by being extravagant or engaging in an exciting social life: they're living it up in HawaiiMore example sentences
live extravagantly, live in the lap of luxury, live in clover;carouse, revel, overindulge, party, enjoy oneself, celebrate, have a good time, roisterinformal go on a spree, push the boat out, paint the town red, have a ball, make whoopee, go overboard, make a pig of oneselfNorth American informal live high on/off the hogarchaic wassail
- I feel like I should be living it up, having an exciting life.
- They spent this week living it up in Cape Town instead of acclimatising to altitude.
- They have lived it up and spent their way all throughout the eighties, never saving a dime.
live off (or on) the fat of the land
- see fat.
live off the land
- see land.
live out of a suitcase
- Live or stay somewhere on a temporary basis and with only a limited selection of one's belongings: living out of a suitcase away from home has become one of the main causes of stress among businessmenMore example sentences
- At the end of the season we normally have a holiday, but to be honest it would be nice to have two weeks where we weren't living out of a suitcase.
- Her parents told her she had to think about buying a home instead of living out of a suitcase.
- Michael is living out of a suitcase at the moment.
live one's own life
- Follow one's own plans and principles independently of others: it's time you stood up to her and lived your own lifeMore example sentences
- A good rule to follow is to live your own life and let others do likewise.
- Just because you've hooked up with someone else doesn't mean you can't continue living your own life!
- On the whole, people are happy to let you get on with living your own life.
live rough
- Live and sleep outdoors as a consequence of having no proper home: hundreds of refugees have been living rough on the streetsMore example sentences
- She says up to 1,000 children are now living rough, sleeping under hedges and bridges and begging to survive, many of them glue sniffing.
- The new clinic is being built to aid the 500 homeless children living rough in the city.
- While homelessness is increasing nationally, Waterford has only a handful of people living rough on the streets, according to a number of charitable agencies.
live to fight another day
- Survive a particular experience or ordeal: MPs felt the chancellor's performance will ensure he lives to fight another dayMore example sentences
- Hopefully the club itself will survive and live to fight another day.
- If you are able to survive a bad or indifferent season, you live to fight another day.
- The boxers' relatives and friends pay the admission fees, buy food and gym apparel, and the gym lives to fight another day.
live to regret something
- Come to wish that one had not done something: those who put work before their family life often live to regret itMore example sentences
- It was thoroughly distasteful and I bet he is living to regret it now.
- Sadly, many women made the mistake of opting for the lower married woman's stamp and lived to regret it.
- If we don't let the police do their job we may all live to regret it.
live to tell the tale
- Survive a dangerous experience and be able to tell others about it.Example sentences
- Thankfully, people survive cancer and live to tell the tale.
- There are not many who can say they lived through the reign of Queen Victoria, World War I, the 1916 rising, the War of Independence, World War II and Hiroshima and lived to tell the tale.
- These days you're not a big wave surfer until you've climbed aboard a 60-footer and actually lived to tell the tale - which not everyone winds up doing.
live with oneself
- Be able to retain one's self-respect as a consequence of one's actions: taking money from children—how can you live with yourself?More example sentences
- What the world at large deems success might not feel like success deep in your heart, and you need to be able to live with yourself.
- I cringed through the entire twenty minutes, and I'm pretty sure the presenters are never going to be able to live with themselves, let alone admit to other people what they do for a living.
- I didn't really feel I would be able to live with myself if I'd gone into that broadcast and said nothing because I was frightened to say what I believe in.
long live ——!
- Said to express loyalty or support for a specified person or thing: long live the Queen!More example sentences
- Long live freedom - use your vote at the next Elections!
- I just want to say, long live India and long live Indian cricket.
- Industry is dead, long live the new information economy.
where one lives
- North American informal At, to, or in the right, vital, or most vulnerable spot: it gets me where I liveMore example sentences
- Our readership as a whole is extremely important, and once in a great while a reader reaches out and touches me right where I live.
- It is rare for me to encounter a criticism that hits me where I live.
- The decisions we make on these issues are going to affect you where you live.
you haven't lived!
- Said when enthusiastically recommending a particular experience or activity to someone unfamiliar with it: if you haven't been in a helicopter you haven't livedMore example sentences
- You haven't lived until you've had Japanese Ice Cream!
- I know that some people may find it hard to understand, but in my mind if you haven't been in a helicopter you haven't lived.
- However, you haven't lived until you have witnessed the New Year firework displays that Disney produces.
you (or we) live and learn
- Used to acknowledge that a fact is new to one.Example sentences
- Answering the suggestion that he would have landed at least one of the penalties, he added 'hindsight's a great thing… you live and learn'.
- I don't know… you live and learn, maybe there are people who go around just assaulting young fellas.
- There's a lot of things I wouldn't have done if I had to do it again, but you live and learn.
Phrasal verbs
live something down
- [usually with negative] Succeed in making others forget something embarrassing that has happened: I'd never live it down if Lily got wind of thisMore example sentences
- And yes, the situation is hilarious and I will never live it down… my sister won't let me forget!
- One guy left his house keys in my bedroom one Christmas Eve and never lived it down since.
- I was never, ever allowed to live the incident down by my housemates, who took great delight in reciting it to everyone who came round for the rest of the year.
live off (or on)
- Depend on as a source of income or support: if you think you're going to live off me for the rest of your life, you're mistakenMore example sentences
- Her days as a single mother living on income support must now seem like a distant memory.
- In 1988, he was taken to court for rates still owed on his last pub and revealed that he was living on dole money.
- It's tempting to spend all your money and live off the state, or simply emigrate.
- 2.1Have (a particular amount of money) with which to buy food and other necessities: how much money do you need to live on?More example sentences
- She told me the money she lives on isn't enough to cover the bills.
- Some people are simply not earning enough money to live on and must make stark choices between eating or heating.
- The scheme is administered by the health boards, who pay rent supplements to tenants living on low incomes in private rented accommodation, to help them with their weekly rent.
- 2.2Subsist on (a particular type of food): scavenging seabirds live off discarded fish and fish offalMore example sentences
subsist on, feed on/off, rely for nourishment on, thrive on, depend on;eat, consume, use
- For weeks they slept under banana trees and lived on scavenged food.
- There is some debate as to whether early hominids were scavengers living off the remains of animals brought down and killed by other beasts, or whether these groups were hunters in their own right.
- Maybe they caught fish, or perhaps lived on the animals on the mountain side.
- 2.3(Of a person) eat, or seem to eat, only (a particular type of food): she used to live on bacon and tomato sandwichesMore example sentences
- Some folks here at work tried low carb, living on bacon for several weeks.
- Exclusive reliance on the car is the equivalent of living on fast food burgers - there should be no surprise if we get sick.
- Being born and raised in California and living off of Mexican food was going to make my life a bit interesting over here.
live something out
- She's living out her dream.
- They can claim they are protecting the religion, when they are really living out their violent fantasies of revenge.
- I'm sure they would've been a lot happier if they were living out their dream onstage with a decent performer.
- I knew that the rest of my life would be lived out in group homes, or foster homes, or worse, staying at my grandmother's place.
- We've always had itchy feet but I can see us living our days out in Turkey.
- Down in Texas, at a shabby nursing home called Mud Creek Shady Rest, a fat wreck of a man is living out his final days.
live together
- (Especially of a couple not married to each other) share a home and have a sexual relationship: they eventually decided to tie the knot after living together for eight yearsMore example sentences
- The couple was living together and the girl wanted to continue the relationship.
- It's really important that couples living together get the legal protection they need.
- The couple had been living together for three years and were planning to buy a house.
live up to
- Fulfil (expectations): the food more than lived up to Luke's predictionsMore example sentences
measure up to, match up to, come up to, reach, satisfy, fulfil, achieve, meet, equal, be equal to, be on a level with, compare with, admit of comparison, bear comparison with;be good enough, fit/fill the billinformal hold a candle to
- When you have children, it becomes all about living up to their expectations.
- Did they find the country lived up to their expectations?
- When I was a kid, the circus never really lived up to my expectations.
- 5.1Fulfil (an undertaking): the president lived up to his promise to set America swiftly on a new pathMore example sentences
- He cites no international obligation that the U.S. has not lived up to.
- Of the ones I know, or know of, there's about ten who have actually lived up to what they said they'd do.
- He completed his Cabinet less than a month after he became president-elect and lived up to his diversity vow.
live with
- Barry knew of the relationship but continued to live with Amanda in the hope that the affair would end.
- He married four times, and at one stage was living with one woman in London and another in the country, at weekends.
- He said that he lived with his partner and her children, one of whom is disabled, and they treat him as their father.
- It is a problem he has learned to live with and rugby and the exercise involved has helped him cope.
- In the years since, Anne-Marie and her family have learned to live with epilepsy.
- The people of Fulford need to accept that their properties are near a road and learn to live with the traffic.
Old English libban, lifian, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch leven and German leben, also to life and leave1.
In the sense 'to be alive', live goes back to the same root as life. The other live, with a different pronunciation, is a mid16th-century shortening of alive (Old English). The proverb live and let live is identified as Dutch in the earliest known reference, from 1622. Live and Let Die, the 1954 James Bond book, filmed in 1973, subverted it. The rhyme 'He who fights and runs away / Lives to fight another day' gives us the phrase live to fight another day. The idea is found in the works of the Greek comic playwright Menander, who lived from around 342 to 292 bc.
Words that rhyme with liveforgive, give, misgive, outlive, shiv, sieve, spiv, Viv alive, arrive, chive, Clive, connive, contrive, deprive, dive, drive, five, gyve, hive, I've, jive, MI5, revive, rive, shrive, skive, strive, survive, swive, thrive
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- Is it better to be a live slave than a dead hero or heroine?
- For example, a dead tree is not an eyesore, it's a home - there's more life in a dead tree than a live tree.
- Several diseases cause rings of dead grass with live green grass in the center.
- The six victims inoculated with the attenuated live virus vaccine developed symptoms similar to those of yellow fever.
- These children show few adverse reactions to routine vaccinations, including live vaccines.
- A live weakened virus vaccine is effective in preventing some of these diseases.
- The labeling is voluntary, so a container of yogurt could have live cultures but not show the seal.
- A plain live yoghurt with some added fresh fruit would be a better option.
- Although she has a preference for live music and performance Caroline has a very successful recording career on the Scorpus label.
- Though it took many years to establish the technique of sound on film, live music accompanied public performances.
- Do you attach any importance to what the press say about your music and your live performances?
- Traditional broadcasters, with a live webcast of their output, were joined by new internet based stations.
- It may not be very long before we will be able to watch anything via live webcast, though likely for a price.
- Crowded round a radio listening to the live broadcast from Parliament, we all felt that a change was going to come, something old was dying.
- He died as a live electric wire fell down into river.
- Meanwhile, Antony, the thinker, had cleverly skewered a piece of Cheddar onto the end of a bare live electrical wire.
- The base housed the live electrical wires.
- Nothing replaces live training with live ammunition with the whole unit in the field.
- The stove was located two rooms away from the ammunition room, which had plenty of live ammo.
- A loaded Smith and Wesson revolver and four live rounds of ammunition were found hidden in a box under a bed.
- Nobody wished to retain money, everybody dropped it like a live coal.
- A live coal from the altar has touched his lips, and they are purified.
- The rice wine felt like live coal slipping down my throat.
- The joss stick had been stuck in a box of live matches.
- One Mum who was playing with live matches with her toddler daughter!
- Well it's American and it's got a live axle so it's bound to be no good, right?
- Most lay the blame for its lack of handling on the live rear axle.
- Burress then picks up the ball and drops it again, and the Falcons proceed to pick up what should be a live ball.
- Now for the coup de grace: a pair of Offaly hands would wrap themselves around the next live ball.
- The ball becomes live when it leaves the referee's or umpire's hands on a jump ball.
- Here is a chance at least for the younger generation to make known its views on this live subject.
- There is a question of trust and it is a live issue and we have to deal with it.
- That is a live question because of the proposed abolition of the Compensation Court of New South Wales.
- Kian described it as the moment the band has all been waiting for, getting up on stage and performing live.
- We just can't wait to be back on-stage performing live and especially at home in Ireland.
- I also remember watching his resignation speech live, another great performance.
go live
- (Of a computer system) become operational: the new system went live earlier this yearMore example sentences
- The new Cambridge Journals Online system went live in October 2000.
- The University of Liverpool today unveiled a new supercomputer cluster which is expected to be one of the World's 100 most powerful systems when it goes live next month.
- After the system has gone live, the consultants continue to train the users while they're doing their jobs.
Mid 16th century: shortening of alive.
In the sense 'to be alive', live goes back to the same root as life. The other live, with a different pronunciation, is a mid16th-century shortening of alive (Old English). The proverb live and let live is identified as Dutch in the earliest known reference, from 1622. Live and Let Die, the 1954 James Bond book, filmed in 1973, subverted it. The rhyme 'He who fights and runs away / Lives to fight another day' gives us the phrase live to fight another day. The idea is found in the works of the Greek comic playwright Menander, who lived from around 342 to 292 bc.
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- Jan 10:
- 49ers' kicker Phil Dawson doesn't get free advice
- 49ers' tips for beating the flu
- Flu fight: 49ers' playoff run counts on vitamin C to dodge swine flu
- 49ers cornerback Carlos Rogers unlikely to play against Carolina Panthers
- San Jose delicatessen helps fuel 49ers' appetite for winning on the road
SANTA CLARA -- If Jim Harbaugh thinks Michael Crabtree is great at catching passes, the 49ers coach ought to see him snagging tennis balls.
Back in college, Texas Tech players built up their hand strength by cranking up a tennis machine, standing at close range and trying to catch fuzzy yellow bullets blasting out at 50 mph.
Players would start from 10 to 15 yards away, then creep closer ... and closer ... until only Crabtree was left standing.
"Crabtree would just walk up there and catch them one-handed and laugh at the other guys," former Texas Tech quarterback Graham Harrell recalled in a phone interview Thursday. "For everybody else, it was dodge ball -- they'd be jumping out of the way."
This week, Crabtree's hands are creating a racket again. After a playoff victory last Sunday, Harbaugh said that if his life depended on somebody making a catch, "I'd enlist Michael Crabtree to do it."
The actual stakes are only slightly lower this Sunday: If the 49ers beat the Carolina Panthers in Charlotte, N.C., they would advance to the NFC Championship game, the prelude to a second consecutive Super Bowl.
And the 49ers' chances might indeed rest in the palm of Crabtree's size-XXXL Nike Vapor Jet gloves. An injury sidelined the receiver for the first 11 games of the season, including the first meeting between the teams, when Carolina stifled Colin Kaepernick and the rest of the 49ers' offense in a 10-9 victory on Nov. 10.
But now that Crabtree, 26, is healthy again, the mood around the locker room is optimistic. "Having Crabtree makes a huge difference," tight end Vernon Davis said. "We're just on a different level right now."
In the 49ers' playoff victory over the Green Bay Packers last weekend, Crabtree had eight catches for 125 yards, plucking balls out of the frigid air as if Lambeau Field were a Hawaiian beach.
On the 49ers' final drive alone, Crabtree made catches of 11 and 17 yards to help set up Phil Dawson's winning field goal.
"People talk about cold weather and how it would be tough to catch balls, but greatest catcher of all time, Michael Crabtree, catches everything. It's unbelievable," Harbaugh gushed after the game.
"In the northern snow lands, down to the tropics' sunny scenes, he's catching the football. Where they throw the football, he'll be catching it."
Harbaugh's life-insurance policy would have been tough to justify early in Crabtree's career, when the first-round pick dropped seven passes in each of his first three seasons. But he has dropped only six passes in his 21 games since, according to sportingcharts.com.
The men who've seen Crabtree's wondrous feats echo Harbaugh's choice. They'd use him as a lifeline, too.
"Those aren't little slender basketball hands he has,'' former Texas Tech coach Mike Leach said. "He's got a couple of first baseman's mitts at the end of each arm."
Crabtree's hand size is nothing beyond the norm for a top-flight NFL receiver. His hands were measured at 91/4 inches shortly before he was drafted.
Former Cal star Keenan Allen, now of the San Diego Chargers, was among the rookies to check in this season with a 10-inch hand span. Arizona Cardinals star Larry Fitzgerald once had his hands measured at 101/2 inches -- "hands the size of Frisbees and arms like fire hoses," as the Chicago Tribune put it.
Heck, even A.J. Jenkins -- the 49ers' disappointing first-rounder of 2012 -- had bigger hands, at 93/8.
Leach, now the head coach at Washington State, said that what separated Crabtree's hands from the rest of the pack was the strength, not the size. The receiver spoiled his quarterback because they could throw the ball into a thicket of defenders and trust that Crabtree would do the rest. "He might be flat-out covered,'' Leach said, "but he's got the hands to pull the ball in anyway."
Harrell, the former quarterback, agreed.
"He has the strongest hands of anyone I've ever seen," Harrell said. "I don't know how to measure that, but if a ball came near him he would catch it, even if he was covered. His hands, his grip, his whatever was always stronger than somebody else's."
It seems that the more important the games, the better he plays. Crabtree has three career 100-yard games in only six career playoff games. The only 49ers with more 100-yard playoff games are Jerry Rice (seven), and Vernon Davis and Dwight Clark (tied with four).
Where do such mighty hands come from? Some of it is God-given. Some of it is big-brother induced.
Keiron Stevenson, who was six years older, used to fire a football at little Michael when they were growing up in Dallas. And Keiron didn't go easy. He fired it hard -- like a tennis ball machine with feet.
"And I got tired of catching it with my chest because it was hurting me," Crabtree explained shortly after the 49ers selected him with the No. 10 pick in the 2009 draft. "I started using my hands."
His hands, though, nearly lost their footing over the years as Crabtree's athletic road took him everywhere but receiver. Now listed at 6-foot-1, 214 pounds, he was a star basketball player in high school and considered a future in that sport (he was recruited hard by no less an authority than Bob Knight, then at Texas Tech).
As a high school football player, he caught only one pass while at David W. Carter High School. That's because coaches always used their best athlete at quarterback, and their best athlete was Crabtree.
Still, offensive coordinator Scott Jackson noticed a peculiar habit whenever his starting QB warmed up with the other passers. Crabtree would catch the return throw one-handed.
"I used to tell him, 'Two hands!' But he would catch it with one for the heck of it -- just because he could," Jackson recalled this week.
Those who know Crabtree best are quick to point out that there's a person attached to those hands. And they say the rest of him doesn't get enough credit, including Crabtree's grasp of the game.
"I guarantee you right now he's someplace thinking about football," Leach said, out of nowhere, in the middle of an interview. "You and I are talking right now and maybe thinking about the variety of things in our lives. But he's thinking about football. That's what he's about.
"When games were over, Crabtree would be mad that they're over. He wanted to keep playing."
Crabtree is famously elusive with the media. It's tough to talk to The Hands. He made an exception this week, when a PR staffer all but dragged him out and promised reporters 2 minutes of questioning. "One minute," Crabtree corrected, smiling wide.
Asked about how he refined his catching technique, the receiver said he works mostly on focus. For example, he'll walk around the house with a football in hand, squeezing it from time to time and rehearsing his grip.
At precisely 2 minutes, 39 seconds, Crabtree was gone.
After all, he has bigger things to think about. Against the Panthers, he'll have his hands full.
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This is not the place to provide a full treatment of the impressive science of quantum bioholography. Rather, I wish to emphasize that according to this model that is attracting many proponents as more and more of its precepts are confirmed, it is becoming apparent that DNA directs cellular metabolism and replication not just biochemically but electromagnetically through a chromosomal mechanism that translates sound into light waves, and vice versa. According to the holographic model of genetic expression, sound and light, or phonons and photons, establish a sophisticated communication network throughout the physical organism that extends into the bioenergy fields and back to the cellular and subcellular levels.
Sol Luckman
Source: Conscious Healing: Book One on the Regenetics Method, Pages: 49..50
Contributed by: Celena
Copyright © 2016 Gaiam, Inc.


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This week I finally learned how to use Bit Torrent, and I downloaded two free-licensed open-source movies: Elephants Dream by the Orange Project and The Boy Who Never Slept by Solomon Rothmon (who is credited as Producer, Writer, Director, and who plays the title role). Both are interesting as first ventures into free-licensed open-source filmmaking, but the contrasts are more striking than the similarities, both technically and aesthetically.
The Boy Who Never Slept
I think you should realize that as an early venture into FLOS filmmaking, I really wanted to like this film. So when I say "It sucked", I really, really mean it!
In almost every aesthetic way, the film was just awful. I really suffered to sit through the whole thing. Right up to the voice over the final credits that notes (quite rightly) that if you didn't enjoy it, well, at least it was free.
Seriously, though, the mere existence of this film, the fact that I can download and watch it, and the fact that all of the source material is there in case I wanted to try to improve on it, is all amazing stuff. It's also true that this was shot on a $200 budget, which puts it well below the league of such illustrious filmmakers as Ed Wood (famous for Plan 9 from Outer Space, which is widely regarded as "the worst film ever released").
Given these kinds of limitations, making comparisons to "real" films is somewhat unfair. It's almost like criticizing a child's drawings because they fall short of Leonardo da Vinci. I know this, and I apologize up front. But releasing the film the way Rothman has done implies opening it up to direct and uncompromising criticism, and that's what I'm going to do. But I want you to know that I feel empathy for the filmmaker and I respect what he's trying to do by releasing the film in this way.
Certainly, the problems with the film, apart from those directly attributable to the budget, do not stem from the nature of the licensing. Indeed, many bad (probably worse) proprietary films have been made. The miracle is that such an unreviewed, unvetted film could even get onto my hard drive to view. That's for two reasons here: 1) the nature of free-licensed distribution makes it relatively easy and makes it so I have little to lose by acquiring it and 2) the rarity of such films makes it stand out for novelty value.
The sordid and offensive plot
The film really ought to be called "Portrait of a Pathetic Internet Predator", since, in the end, it comes off as slightly incoherent advocacy for sexual irresponsibility and sleeping with underage girls. That would be the "offensive" part: the main character, who is presented in a sympathetic light and has all the earmarks of an "author avatar" is a criminal and immoral sex offender. By the end of this film, he belongs in jail. The fact that he is let off the hook strikes me as a miscarriage of justice, and a case of wish-fulfillment for the would-be offender. I seriously hope that, despite various autobiographical overtones, this story is fictional!
Fortunately, the film is so poorly written, directed, filmed, and acted that the apparent intent of the film as an apology for statutory rape is highly diluted.
It claims to be a "Sexy Dramatic Comedy" about "an unlikely love affair", but it contains neither real drama nor real comedy, being instead a dreary depiction of mediocre and unconvincing characters meeting in an "internet chat room" and having a purely superficial relationship, apparently because the man is a totally irresponsible loser who no adult woman would give the time of day to and the equally irresponsible girl is too young to know any better (and has very lax parents). Technically there is sex, but it's not very sexy.
The parents do find out in the storyline, which is something of a relief. But only after we've already been through the sex and the close call with pregnancy. Daniel breaks through his writers block by writing a film script about the relationship and trying to get it approved. He doesn't even bother to change the names though, and the script falls into the hands of Melissa's father. Nevermind the implausibility of this coincidence, the real kicker is that after unmasking this, Daniel shows up and attempts to convince Melissa's parents that it's really "true love" and that they shouldn't prosecute him for his crimes. He's successful, and the film ends with Daniel in a business suit continuing his IRC relationship with Melissa.
La Nuit Americain ... NOT!
Now we come to the actual filmmaking.
This "film" is actually a video, apparently shot on a consumer CCD digital video camera. Now, if you've ever used one of these, you know that the CCD chip has a somewhat limited dynamic range—you can't film very well in low light. The CCD response gets very slow and noisy, and you get artifacts.
Rothman doesn't let this faze him, however—he just keeps on filming in the dark. So, I'm going to suggest to all you budding video filmmakers out there that you learn one of the oldest tricks in the book, called "La Nuit Americain" or "Day for Night". It's really very simple: you shoot in sufficient light for your camera, then you either stop-down (as in the original technique) or you digitally tone the result (which is likely to be both more effective and easier with digital video). I haven't actually investigated how to do digital toning on a PC editing system, but I'm sure this is well within the capabilities of CinePaint (a free-licensed GIMP variant designed for film work).
Had he done this, his night and darkened room scenes might have been comprehensible. As it is, however, they involve a lot of vague, possibly-human shapes milling about amidst static and MPEG artifacts.
Post-dubbing would be nice
Much of the original video sound was actually unusable. But Rothman uses it anyway.
When this happens on real movies, they "post-dub" the lines: you either play the original sound into the actor's earphones or you let them watch the video, and they re-deliver the lines, synchronizing as much as possible with their lips (or the original delivery). It's sometimes called "mickey-mousing" because it's how cartoon voices are recorded (ironically, Disney usually does it the other way around, these days in order to capture actors' ad lib performances better, although post-dubbing is still the prefered technique in Japan).
This would be a relatively easy thing for Rothman to fix if he can find the actors, since it's post-production work. It wouldn't be easy for anyone else, though, because they wouldn't match the actors' voices. You'd have to dub the entire movie if you wanted to fix this. This is one of many technical reasons why open-source doesn't work as well for filmmaking as it does in software.
More substantial problems
Aside from these merely technical foibles, however, there are bigger problems. The script is poorly written. There is little characterization, and many character questions remain not only unanswered, but apparently unconsidered: who are Daniel's parents? What does he do for a living? He can't possibly be what he claims to be, which is a "writer", because he obviously can't write. I find it highly implausible that he can be the kind of person who chats on IRC for entertainment, but prints in a spiral notebook when he wants to write.
I've met people like this, but they aren't writers. They're people who want to think of themselves as writers because they think it impresses girls. Now if Rothman were to play that angle up, he might've had something, but it's all too obvious that this irony was not intentional.
The directing is better than the writing, but the cinematography is singularly unimaginative. It does manage to communicate the plot, but with no panache, nothing interesting to hold your eye. It might as well be an instructional video. In particular, it is mind-numbingly explicit in detail. Daniel and Melissa have an IRC conversation in essentially realtime, with each line voiced over as the character thinks about it, and then displayed by the cunning film technique of videoing the monitor in an oblique close-up. This would be less painful if the conversation itself held any interest, but it actually manages to be lower content than most randomly-selected IRC conversations between teenagers who have nothing of interest to say to each other. Daniel immediately steers the conversation to sexual issues, and Melissa totally fails to be alarmed by this, giving out her home address and phone number as if that were a perfectly normal thing to do with a stranger online.
I was somewhat relieved that there was no actual "sex scene" in the film, that might've been a bit too much to take. It is of course, a resort of some filmmakers to play up the prurient aspects of their film if they can't actually make the film any good. Rothman thankfully avoids this pitfall.
Melissa is obviously a complete wish-fulfillment character. The story makes no sense from her point of view. Daniel is supposed to woo her with poetry, but it's pretty unconvincing. And it's quite hard to understand what she's getting out of this relationship. Certainly if Daniel really liked her all that much, he ought to be willing to sustain the relationship until she reaches the minimum legal age of consent. You'd think so if this is "true love" as he keeps trying to convince us.
Ah... but it's open source
Then, there's the interesting part. This film is open-source (not just free-licensed!), so there is a download of the entire film footage, audio voiceovers, and music that was used in making the film. That means that anything that can be done in the editing and post-production phase can be re-visited by others. I could, if I have so many complaints about the film, fix it.
Several ideas did occur to me. The first was that the cut is extremely loose and boring. Maybe the subject matter could be made interesting just by cutting it down to 10 or 15 minutes of film?
As direct storyline, this script is both unconvincing and pretty creepy. You could turn that on its head by using it ironically. For example, what would this look like if re-cut with an ominous over-dubbed voice talking about the "evils of internet chat rooms"? Done that way, you could go "too far" to the other extreme and wind up with a pretty funny remix, along the lines of "Reckless Youth" skit in Amazon Women on the Moon (Carrie Fisher plays a young woman who falls into "bad company", in 50's educational film style with ominous narrator warning about the dangers of "wild parties" and "social diseases").
It might make a halfway decent music video.
The girl playing Melissa doesn't actually look 16. We could just snip that detail right out of the story and make Daniel not quite so creepy. Sure the "hard-hitting dialog" with Melissa's parents at the end would be lost. But it wasn't any good anyway (As a father myself, I can assure you that Daniel would've needed severe reconstructive surgery by about 15 seconds into this scene. He's just not as charming as he obviously thinks he is—the scene as written is completely unrealistic!).
One of the problems with "fixing" the film, though is that, unlike a textual work such as a program or a book, a live-action films is composed of performances by live actors. As such, the recipient of the work is already at an immediate disadvantage. No matter how good a director I am, I can't get Rothman to re-do any of his lines. I can't fix bad writing or bad acting or even most of the directing (the part that happens during production). The kind of thing you can do is more like "sampling" than improvement of the work.
Brilliant production and marketing, though!
For US$200, though, this is a pretty well-done production. There's a number of different locations. Indoor and outdoor shooting, and some difficult subject matter to shoot (such as the video screens). He had to convince people to act in his film for free.
All of that considered, it doesn't really look that bad. And there is a very nicely prepared movie "poster", titles, and a fairly nifty (if slightly ad hoc) website for distribution of the film. Rothman may not be much of a screenwriter or director, but he's obviously a pretty capable guerrilla producer.
Rothman decided not only to release the film under a Creative Commons By-NC-SA license, but also to release all of the source material under the CC-By license. That makes the work meaningfully open-source, which is the reason I feel so obligated to give it every chance it can remotely deserve.
It's a shame that the film takes a morally suspect stance and that it is executed with such poor aesthetic values, but then again, Birth of a Nation, the world's first feature length film was a pretty suspect piece of work too (for those unfamiliar with film history, the film is one of the most racist ever made, as the nation in question is the Confederacy, and the heroes of the film are the Ku Klux Klan. Nevertheless, the film is important because of its technical and artistic (or craft) advances).
Elephants Dream
After watching The Boy Who Never Slept (BWNS), watching Elephants Dream (ED) was a fantastic experience. They are opposite in almost every way but their distribution. Both are free-licensed, open-source films. Elephants Dream, along with all of the files used to create it is released under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-By) license. The only exception is the complete tracks of music which are available under a separate CC-By-NC license.
Elephants Dream, is of course complete 3D animated, using the free software 3D editing and animation application Blender. While BWNS is a classic loner guerrilla film, ED resulted from large-scale internet collaboration (although the actual production staff was pretty small in order to maintain a more intimate creative environment).
While BWNS is arguable too long, ED is too short: a mere 10 minutes in length. Every second of ED counts, because the imagery moves by so quickly. While BWNS is mired in a poorly scripted and far too explicit story, ED's story is far too laconic, and as a result, ultimately rather incomprehensible.
My interpretation of what happened in ED is that Eemo and Proog are actually just slightly deranged street people, and that Proog, controlling, manic, paranoid, and delusional is dragging his friend Eemo through his fantasy world. Eemo consistantly says he can't see anything, but Proog (and we) can.
Alternatively, Eemo and Proog are experiencing an alternate fantastic reality which they collectively create through their own thought processes. Proog is trying to convince Eemo to come to some consensus with him over the shared reality, but Eemo doesn't cooperate (although he seems to be very efffectively altering that reality.
All of this is pretty incomprehensible, though, and not very much of a story. It also doesn't strike me as a powerful insight or metaphor, so the script itself is not impressive. I still can't figure out why it's called Elephants Dream (nor whether that should really be Elephant's Dream) unless it's a reference to the story about the blind men who encounter an elephant and each draw different and conflicting interpretations of the "nature" of elephants based on the bit of the elephant that they touched.
Fortunately, however, the visual experience more than makes up for this lack. The production values of Elephants Dream are extremely high. The renderings are really excellent, as are the 3D creature and character designs.
One thing that probably could be better is the character movement. I have the impression that with motion-capture or reference-frame technique, it would be possible to achieve smoother, more natural movement. However, since the sources are provided, anyone wishing to try can go ahead and to improve the animation appropriately.
Visually, the film which moves through a fantasy environment, is like a demo reel of Blender 3D artwork and animation. It really is quite impressive, and the result is fun to watch, even if it isn't clear what the heck Proog and Eemo are talking about.
Free filmmaking
Taken together, these two films represent a vast gamut of possible free filmmaking, precisely because they are so different. One is a guerrilla, small-scale, feature-length, live-action film, the other is a slick, animated film short. Both are shaking the assumptions that we have about the expense and organization of the filmmaking endeavor.
I hope we'll see a lot more free-licensed open-source movies like these, even if I don't always approve of them aesthetically.
Elephants Dream name...
I'm also quite excited about Open Movies and recently there showed up some derivatives of 'Elephants Dream'!
About the title of the film 'Elephants Dream' was said in the making-of that they first wanted to name it 'Machina' but couldn't agree on the pronunciation. Later-on they were talking about a dutch tradition where when a mother tells her child a bedtime story and can't come up with an ending, by the end of each story an elephant would suddenly appear out of nothing and with his long trunk, he blows the story away. Then someone in the animation-team said suddenly "elephants dream". Well, you know the rest. I guess the ending of the film is quite similar to the ending of such a bedtime story...
Derivatives ...
Wow, that's pretty quick. I'll have to see if I can find those.
I deliberately reviewed both films before looking at any of the extras or director's notes: I wanted to review them as delivered, rather than through the lens of the director's intent.
However, now that I've written it, I'm going to have to go get the "extras" on Elephants Dream so I can read this stuff. Thanks for the explanation about the title: that really does make sense.
Response from Solomon Rothman (Filmmaker of Boy Who Never Slept)
Thank for very much for reviewing Boy Who Never Slept and for both the harsh and kind words.
Unfortunately I think you completely missed what I was trying to say, considering you're well outside my target audience, that's expected. You seem to get seriously upset about the moral stance you believe this movie took.
FIrst, the story in this movie may not be ideal, but the theme reflects reality. Also you'll be glad to know that the story isn't autobiographical. I would also like to send a clear message to anyone reading this: PLEASE use common sense in your relationships, and I absolutely don't advocate sleeping with underage girls. I'm releasing the full script this week, I invite you to read it, and you may pick up on some of the subtleties you may miss in the movie.
Ideally I didn't want to have to explain why I made this or that decision and leave it open to artistic interpretation and just welcome the controversy, but when my film is being mentioned next to Birth of a Nationand described as an advocacy for sleeping with underage girls, I think it's important to explicitly state what this movie means and what some parts of it represent.
Watch any modern chick flick with a teenage girl target demographic (one by Hillary Duff or Lindsay Lohan will do). You'll find it filled with "fate� "soul mates� and "meant to be� philosophy. These are very popular movies and represent the beliefs embraced by lots of teenage girls. I would even say the majority of teenage girls, but I don't have the data to back up that strong of a claim.
There are many accounts of relationships, (some ending in marriage and children) where the girl met the guy and become "involved� before she was the current "official� age of 18 (or 17 if you're in Las Vegas). That is NOT a show of a support, just a note or social comment.
"Love conquers all� as long as you're both within the right ages, so if one of you is 17 and the other just turned 18, then it doesn't apply.
It's interesting how people often try to reconcile beliefs that, in practice, contradict eachother. If you believe in "true love" it's obviously not bound by minor age differences. If it makes you enjoy the movie more, think of Daniel as 19. Very little in the script would have to change. 23 was chosen arbitrarily. I just needed an age over 18.
"Fate brought us together�, but if everything else doesn't coincide perfectly, then it's not fate just ignorance.
We're "Soul Mates� destined to be together; of course we could just be in a superficial relationship
One of the greatest love fantasies in movies, novels, and other artistic works is the "love conquers all� theme. Where two people meet by fate and come together despite social constructs, taboos etc. I gave you what this would really look like, not a beautiful fantasy story with a superfluously happy ending, but a lonely young man who lacked common sense and a normal teenage girl, both lonely and desperately wanting to find "love". Not just any love ,but the magical "love that conquers all" they see in the movies and read about in novels. If you ask an average teenage girl if she thinks "true love� between a 23 year old and a 16 year old is possible, I bet she'll answer with a resounding yes.
One of the biggest points of my story that unfortunately didn't come through strong enough for many people to pick up on was this:
I believe fiction highly influences reality, the philosophy ingrained in movies, novels, books etc, affects how people think and influences their character (I'm not saying this is bad or good; I'm just stating my belief). With this stated, I find it very interesting how people embrace, even love fiction that perpetrates philosophies completely opposed and in direct disagreement with their personal beliefs, and see no irony or hypocrisy in this. This is not in reference to "reality� or hyper realistic movies that are a reflection of real life, but fantasy based fiction.
Melissa's father loved Daniel's script, liked the sexuality and the uncompromising emotions and power of the "love conquers all� theme, but absolutely went crazy when he found out it was about his daughter.
It was a great script when it was about someone else, but when it's about his daughter, it automatically becomes disgusting, and Daniel automatically becomes a sexual predator deserving of statutory rape. Notice that decision was made before he ever spoke to Daniel or even considered how they met, etc. So in fiction he endorses that philosophy, but in reality he is automatically opposed to the very idea and instantly labels Daniel a criminal. I find this somewhat hypocritical.
Why would Melissa like a "loser" like Daniel?
It is difficult to apply all their romantic ideals and notions of love they're inundated with to the average, immature teenage guy. Referencing Hillary Duff and Lindsay Lohan movies, for example, you'll notice that the male actors who ususally play the love intereste are all relatively mature compared to real teenage boys. In fact, the actors themselves are often quite a bit older than the actresses, further cementing the idea that an "older man" is more capable of "romantic" love.
Why did Daniel even start talking to Melissa?
If you have ever been in an internet chat room, you'll notice that people chat with all kinds of different people and it's not uncommon for individuals of all ages to be in the same regional chat room; thus Daniel meeting Melissa online was very probable.
You also mention a lack of substance in Daniel and Melissa's conversations in your review. Please check out an internet chat room and you'll see people talking about very normal stuff. Most people in there are not having award winning intellectual chats - this is about real life, and people are lonely and mainly just want someone else to talk to. The subject of their conversations is of less importance then the emotional connection of having someone to vent to, to share their thoughts with and who appears to understand them. That's all it takes to inspire steps towards meeting and seeing if they connect in person.
I made Daniel a would-be writer not to "impress chicks,� but for the following reasons:
People fantasize about stronger than reality emotions. Perfect relationships, perfect people, perfect jobs, perfect etc. It seems like a normal part of life "fantasizing� about the ideal. Read any romance novel or watch any recent romantic movie. I find this to be especially true in the case of would-be artists like Daniel.
Despite the complex drama contained in their everyday life, they continually look to romanticized accounts and stories for inspiration. Like I said before, they fantasize about the ideal.
Daniel wants to be a writer, because he wants to experience this super emotional even "magical� view of life. The dark and dreary scenes are on purpose Daniel is stuck in a rut, and going nowhere, because he's looking for something "magical� – his fantasy version of "love.�
He's lonely and drinks a lot; it makes perfect sense that he would be intrigued by Melissa and what she represents. He's not looking for reality, but wants to find something amazing, to be "blown away.� Many people don't look for reality when searching for love, but hold off, at least secretly, for a super mate, or some kind of unstoppable love slike that so often portrayed in cinema.
Additionaly, Daniel was NOT trying to meet a younger girl; it simply happened, as it does every day.
You call their relationship purely superficial and that bring up two questions from me.
1. Can a teenage girl have a non-superficial relationship? I don't think most parents tell their children, "all your relationships will be meaningless until you're 21�
2. What's the difference between a real relationship and a superficial one and who should judge that ?
Many thousands of people have already seen the movie, and they range in all age/gender demographics. I generally receive responses in two categories:
1) Those that endorse the love conquers all philosophy and bought the characters, meaning they liked the movie and were glad Melissa and Daniel met each other (note that many in this category are female).
2) Those that don't believe in true love, bought the characters, and enjoyed the movie as a story of someone with no common sense and for its comedic value.
Out of the thousands of people who've already seen it, this is the first response I've found that so misinterpreted the intention and moral stance of the movie. It is the most completely negative response I've received, and the first negative response in regards to the story line.
Because of this, I wonder how much your own world view, your philosophy on love and morality, and the fact that you have a daughter played into the extremely negative response to the story line of the movie.
As for what I believe, I won't say. film is the art of storytelling. I want people to be able to enjoy the story without any more direct influence on my part than I've already given (again, I didn't want to write this article, but it is important to clarify when someone so wrongly interprets the moral stance of your movie).
I invite you all to comment on the movie directly on my website.
Just click on the comments link from the main site and please be respectful!!!
As for me, more movies are coming soon and some will contain slightly more traditional themes. I love screenwriting and filmmaking, it's my life's passion. I have 2 completed scripts and 10 more drafts ( I just worked all night on polishing up a horror script that should be really fun and very scary). So far I've received a very positive response to Boy Who Never Slept.
Last Note: Boy Who Never Slept was designed to be a movie anyone could made ($200 dollar budget all amateurs, etc). I wanted to inspire would-be filmmakers and to some degree I have from the comments I've received thus far. My next films will be of superior technical quality as I progress in my filmmaking abilities.
Love != Sex
I'm not aware of any law in the world that prohibits "true love" between a man and a young woman, even if he's 23 and she's 16.
If a man actually loves a girl, it follows that he wants what's best for her (that's what love is -- that other thing has a different name), and it is very unlikely that that includes sex under any circumstances, and absolutely under the ones depicted. That immediately puts the lie to Daniel's claim of "true love", as far as I am concerned.
Your objections to young girls' fantasies about love actually underscore the reason why we have the legal idea that minors are not truly capable of "consent" to sex. That doesn't mean they can't say "yes" -- it means that even if they do say "yes", they are not mature enough for their judgement to be trusted. Up to a certain age, we rely on the parents' judgement instead.
If Daniel actually loved Melissa, then he has two perfectly valid options: 1) he can maintain a solid relationship with her for the 2 years it's going to take for her to become "legal", before attempting to seduce her (if that's a problem, then once again, it ain't "true love"), OR 2) he can make the case to her Dad BEFORE acting irresponsibly, and get permission to MARRY her (and if that's a problem...). That is also legal.
You argue that it makes no difference if Daniel is 19 or 23, but that isn't quite true. We might argue that he might be forgiven for his transgression on the basis that he too has only lately reached the age of consent if he's 19 (as a matter of fact, I've learned that Texas law recognizes this as a defense). However, at 23, he's toast if he hasn't figured that out yet: he's definitely old enough to know better.
More to the point, the film itself makes it entirely clear that Daniel knows exactly what he's doing. He knows it's wrong, and he does it anyway. Rather than letting him take the fall, though, you arrange a serious of miracles to get him off the hook, so the film actually does have a "fairy tale" unrealistic ending.
That's why I say that the film comes off as advocacy. You, as the writer have manipulated events into an unrealistic outcome in which the offender receives no consequences for his actions. It's as if you want to reward him for his behavior.
However, this isn't actually the problem. One could still tell a very convincing story about the idea, and my Birth of a Nation reference was to make the point that a film can be significant even if the ideas of the film are disturbing or offensive.
Unfortunately, BWNS falls short of that goal. It's characters are not well-enough developed, nor the situations well-enough conceived to pull off this kind of story. You're attempting a heavy dramatic weight, but the result has little impact. This is ultimately because of weak characterization (which in turn is largely due to a lack of context: we don't know enough about the characters or their situations in life for the images presented of them to have much meaning), poor detailed writing (the IRC chat, for instance, is unconvincing -- oh sure, I've seen online conversations this pointless, but I don't think they end in
anyone feeling they've found their "soul mate"), weak camera direction, and limited performances (due to amateur actors and director).
Please recognize that it is these problems (and not my mismatch to your target demographics!) that make the film fall short of communicating your intentions.
Now, of course, I'm very conscious of the fact that many of these problems are due to you being a new filmmaker and due to the extremely limited budget, and therefore limited casting possibilities. I have myself been involved in some pretty bad movies for similar reasons (movies which, with any luck, will never see the light of day -- there is actually a silent student film out there with me as an actor. Thankfully, I have never actually seen it, though the director did tell me that I should seriously consider keeping my career behind the camera!).
That's why it's not entirely fair to criticize the film on a "major league" basis. But on the other hand, publishing your work as an actual film release is asking for legitimate artistic recognition: you're stepping out of the zone of fan-fics and ego-petting and into the harsh light of day. It's no favor to a real artist to flatter them.
I hope that doesn't discourage you -- you probably just haven't quite "found your voice" yet, and that's nothing to be concerned about at this point. As Barbara Sher (Wishcraft) would tell you, you should start with the ambition of making "bad movies", and reserve making good ones as a later step. Or as they say, "most overnight successes were 20 years in the making".
The remarkable thing is that we even get to see what you've done at this level. I hope we do get to see more and better things from you.
I have some more comments on a more technical level, but I think I'll save that for a later opportunity. It's been suggest to me that I should do a follow-up on free filmmaking -- that may be the time.
Renaissance period
Wow with the fervent energy shown within this page open source movies can only be gaining momentum rapidly. What a nice renaissance period to have an Internet connection
Yes it is rather lively isn't it?
I think it's pretty cool that two such different films have been made, because that really demonstrates that there is enormous territory to explore.
There's also the point that as more material gets released in this way, a new type of "remixed" cinema will become more viable. One of the things that immediately struck me about both films as an artistic experience is that they invite you to take the pieces and improve upon (or adapt from) the work. You don't really get that feeling from mainstream, proprietary cinema.
Now I really am going to have to get around to upgrading that video card and installing a video editor. ;-)
Having tried both Jahshaka and Avidemux extensively
Having tried both Jahshaka and Avidemux extensively, I can safely say neither comes anywhere close replacing After Effects or Final Cut Pro. Avidemux is essentially iMovie or a powerful Windows Movie Maker and Jahshaka is just filled cool gadgets with bugs and empty promises. Cinepaint, however, is a fantastic tool for a very specialized niche. I'd love to see an open source alternative to the big NLE's but so far the closest is Cinelerra which is a LONG way to go.
I disagree with Mr. Hancock.
This movie was realistic in many ways. If that offended T.H. he doesn't live in the real world but in an isolated box!
I have a real life example that I will compare to this film. My sister was 15 years old when she met a 24-year-old guy. When asked how old she was, she lied. She said she was 17 and a half. The guy called her all the time, they developed a relationship and then he learned her real age….too late he said, he was in love, she confessed her love to him, and sure enough she got pregnant. Yes, my parents considered throwing him in jail. But what good would that have done? He had good intentions; he said his love was real. So the two got married. No surprise that after the second child they divorced but the real surprise came IN REAL LIFE when they got back together two years later and had 3 more children. They have been together since. I wouldn't judge Rothman's film as being anything but a portrayal of living in a society where people's thoughts and dreams and expectations have been grossly shaped by the media and unrealistic romantic films.
Now I'll really shock you Mr. Hancock. I am a Christian and I write Christian romance novels. I keep them clean and real. I've read far too many that have the same old cliches, the same old plots, the same unrealistic expectations, because that's what sells; the Cinderella story or Sleeping Beauty.
Have you seen the movie "10 things I Hate about You?� Now that was realistic, and was certainly exploiting young women, but done in Hollywood fashion so as to make it a "comedy.�Visit sites like MySpace. Young people today are recreating themselves and representing themselves extremely sexually.
The real world that Daniel lives in is a world where young people are starting relationships on the Internet everyday…. and while some do become genuine friends, many have put themselves at risk, and others have developed relationships.
Daniel is not a predator; if he was 30 or 40 than I could understand that assumption…but he's college age, and most college campuses have 16, 17, and 18 year old girls walking through campus, going to football games and dating freshman. That's the real world. And people like you tend to blame the guy and let the girl off the hook, saying she's the victim. Melissa knew what she was getting into. She made the choice to pursue the relationship; she bared her chest on the net, so get off your soap box and visit the real world!!!
This film is one that ought to be viewed by parents who are out of touch with their kids…so they can better grasp an understanding of how powerful emotional feelings of "love� can overtake ones objectivity, and common sense. And I hope young people age 16 – 23 will watch this film; they could learn something from it.
As for maturity, most men/women don't grow up until they are 25 and up; some take even longer!!
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This movie was realistic in many ways. If that offended T.H. he doesn't live in the real world but in an isolated box!
What you are arguing here is that the premise of the film is realistic, with which I concur. It's certainly possible for this kind of situation to happen.
I've definitely let this slide too far into discussing the moral dimensions of the plot, but that was really just a side point.
Does the film tell the story well? Are the characters believably presented? I know I don't think so.
'Why not' is complicated. As I've mentioned below, it's mostly lack of context, which is a problem with the script-writing. There are also problems with the acting -- the actors are self-conscious and as a result, the viewer is constantly thrown out of the story. There are also a lot problems with video and audio quality which renders some lines incomprehensible. Some of these things can be fixed in post-production. As I suggested, it might be possible to cut it down to a much shorter film and make it more watchable. However, quite a bit of the problems go right down into the writing and would require re-shooting to fix.
Since my purpose here is to look at the implications of these works for free-licensed open-source filmmaking, I find that an important point. A work of text can be edited by anyone and thus even such fundamental problems can be fixed. Not so with live-action film. This is a severe artistic limitation, and I've run into it with audio production before: if you want to do a cast performance of something, you've got to have the writing nailed beforehand, or you have to have a long-term commitment from the actors. Because it's going to be a real pain if you rewrite after the fact and then have to get somebody else to do the lines. You're kind of stuck.
Even "realistic" drama is about more than simply "capturing life as it is", or we'd all watch security cameras for entertainment. So, there's a lot of craft that needs to be done right in order to make a story understandable and believable on film.
awesome, loved this film (the boy who never sleeps)
ok, i think this is perhaps the worst movie review i've ever read as i absolutely loved this film. i'll qualify that by saying that i rate it at 8/10 taking into account the budget and the inability of all the actors to fully carry off their roles ie - if you read between the lines and allow yourself to imagine it as the scenes were intended, rather than listening to the words and moaning that they are too shallow.
i'll put into context the kind of movies i find interesting. the most recent few listed below.
a scanner darkly (can't wait for the release in the uk)
the final cut
eternal sunshine of the spotless minds
donnie darko
the butterfly effect
garden state (prob my fav film of 2004)
this film is very real. some of the 'guy' dialogue made me laugh as i've heard so many similar conversations in real life. perhaps the age difference is more important than you realise terry - although i don't for one minute want to imply that i can match your experience.
it's interesting to view this film from the perspective of an englishman. here sex with a 16 year old is actually legal. i must admit i was uncomfortable the only time i dated a girl that young as an 'older guy' (at only 19) and wanted to wait (because of her age, i was not a virgin at the time), she didn't so we split up, so i'm not supporting the guy in the film from personal experience. however i really don't feel that criticism of this film on the basis that the plot is 'sordid and offensive' is reasonable at all. in fact such comments suggest to me a lack of emotional maturity to some degree. although i fully understand the 'it's my daughter' feelings you have. but if you think what girls are often really like... the 16 year old i referred to earlier was so sexually aware it was scary to me at 19 then it puts a different perspective on things.
in the past i've had a girl send me semi naked images of herself and various similar events on the net. i'm definitely not a sick sexual preditor... but unfortunately it's something that actually 16+ girls seem pretty comfortable with in real life, and i'm going back 10 years to when i was that age, who knows how much further it's come since then as media and the continuing change in 'morality' in society futher changes things. imagine she's 17 which would be legal in some parts of the usa. i don't really see how you can justify such a pedantic application of age to classify him as an 'offender' who needs to receive some sort of punishment. i think he is too old for the case i remember reading about but similar cases have not been prosecuted despite the parents wishes in the usa so clearly there is some judicial support for a view of some common sense of consent from 'children' of an age where they can after all jump in a car, drive round the corner and kill someone in an 'accident' but heaven forbid they do something like make love to someone they have feelings for.
as for the lack of violence in the film... i'm sorry you're disappointed that the parents aren't a couple of common thugs. can't you hear the daughter crying for the guy she clearly has feelings for? how does lowering yourself to the level of a street criminal make you better than the guy in the film who falls in love? i don't even fully agree that the dialogue isn't fully convincing. it's carefree and fun like a lot of young ppls conversations. would you prefer they discuss the latest book by pilger (freedom next time) and the horrendous oppression of the palestine??
i liked the way the father loves the story until he realises it's his daughter. i think that's a clever and very true insight into the human mind. perhaps i wouldn't agree with the 'love' angle if it was my 15 y/o daughter and a 19 y/o guy. but one thing i'll definitely say is that prison is no place for someone in that situation, too youngsters in love.
apologies for being so sharp, but i was really expecting an awful film after your review, and gave it a chance after reading the directors rebuttal of your comments and i really was surprised with what i saw. looking forward to more of his work.
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Reedit it
I think that opensource movies are a cool idea, but I do wonder if they will really take off.
Movies are generally very director-driven. They have to be written and filmed. Now I can see someone taking open-source work from a writer and filming it, but I think that reediting a work is limited by what scenes are available.
Actually, I am curious to see where this artform will go. I've watched movies that I wanted to reedit. I remember wanting to take Star Wars Episode II and put back in the characterization scenes that Lucus cut out. I also wanted to reedit The Lord of the Rings to make special Frodo quest, Aragorn quest, and Arwen+Aragorn versions that were short enough to watch in one night. These were fantasies of mine, but with open source movies and a will, such things may be possible.
My first impression of the movies was that Elephant's dream looked cool, but was too short and artsy. I thought the boy who never slept was annoying to watch because I couldn't hear what they were saying. It also wasn't my genre.
But when I think of reediting it, I'm limited. I'd have to re-dub the entire thing with new voice actors to make up for the bad sound. I'd want to tighten up the editing because despite its short size, it felt too long.
If I did re-do this film, I'd probably make it an opera.
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User Generated Revolution in Show Business?
A new revolution is taking shape in the movie industry that challenges traditional filmmaking to the core. Spurred by a newfound passion amongst movie lovers to create their own content, thousands are coming together to form communities that will create movies via collaboration over the web. There's no stopping this wave, as community film budgets get bigger and bigger; an ostensible threat to filmmakers, who are already struggling to get their share at the box office.
There is no business like show business. There's definitely no arguing that. But what happens when show business is not merely the prerogative of the elite, but calls for participation by "regular" folks like you and me, who—lets face it—would probably never get a chance to play any kind of a role in the entertainment business in a lifetime?
Welcome to the new world of User Generated Filmmaking – An exploding community of thousands of movie lovers who do not merely carry a license to "watch" movies, but rather, to make what they want to see, when they want it. Sounds too good to be true? Not really.
In a way, these communities are performing a role reversal, if you will, on filmmakers and traditional filmmaking. The output of their collaboration results in a movie, much like any other; but the way that these movies are made is where the difference lies. The community does everything. They call scriptwriters (a heady mix, ranging from professional scriptwriters who simply love collaborating, to housewives, hobbyists and the odd nana, all united by a common passion for movies and filmmaking). A moderator, or the "alpha male" is swiftly appointed and the collaborative scriptwriting process begins with frenzied and fanatic discussions on online forums: "You write the first scene and I'll follow your lead. May be you are being a tad too adventurous here with the central character. This is NOT a sci-fi thriller so lighten up!"
Collaboration tools like MediaWiki (the same technology that powers the amazingly popular user generated encyclopedia Wikipedia) and the new gun in town, Basecamp, provide the perfect solution to help these communities thrive. Their simplicity allows even technophobes to participate without hesitation.
Once the script reaches a stage where characters have been sketched and dialogues written, casting for the film begins – again over the web! Anyone from anywhere in the world can audition online by uploading their talent audios and videos, which the community swiftly begins sifting through. Performances are rated, feedback is given, and the new stars of tomorrow are born.
Then, traditional filmmaking processes takeover – locations are decided, cast and crew grouped together and shooting begins!
A perfect example of such a revolutionary filmmaking project is the aptly titled "Lets Film" project (www.LetsFilm.com). The project aims to create an ambitious action-packed, high intensity movie (that would understandably need a big budget for special effects and stunts!) completely online. Although it is not clear who is investing in and backing the project, the site has already raced to forming a neat little community online that's buzzing with excitement.
So, if you have dropped off the kids at school and have some time on your hands, why not make a movie in your free time?
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The nice thing about this is when you order you get everything they used to make the movie right there in the package(minus the artists). A lot of other open-source projects require searching around for hours to find everything you need just to play with it.


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The fate of the Keystone XL pipeline was one of the main items on the agenda when new U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry hosted his Canadian counterpart in Washington on Friday. While Mr. Kerry declined to discuss the merits of the project, which would ship Canadian tar sands oil from Alberta to the U.S. Gulf Coast, he said the State Department would "hopefully" have its environmental review of the project done in the "near term."
He praised the "energy relationship" with Canada that includes the desire for "a secure, clean-energy future" in North America. "We have a legitimate process that's under way, and I intend to honor that," Mr. Kerry said.
Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird said Canada's "No. 1 priority" is job creation and economic growth, and he called Keystone "a huge priority."
But Mr. Baird's subdued expression didn't suggest he had received direct assurances from Mr. Kerry that Washington was ready to make Canada's priority a reality.
"I appreciate the dialogue we had, what we could do to tackle the environmental challenges together," Mr. Baird said, citing commitments by both national governments to cut greenhouse-gas emissions by 17%. "We spoke about making this decision based on science and based on facts. Obviously when it comes to the environment, we have like-minded objectives."
The fate of the pipeline has been a flashpoint in both cross-border and U.S. domestic politics for more than a year after President Barack Obama nixed it. The Canadian government has spoken of finding consumers for its abundant energy resources elsewhere if the pipeline is blocked again—nodding to China's voracious appetite for foreign oil.
During the U.S. presidential campaign, Republican nominee Mitt Romney at one point promised to approve the pipeline on "day one" in office. The Obama administration is currently reviewing a revised proposal for the pipeline that skirts the most environmentally sensitive parts of Nebraska.
Environmentalists have urged the administration to block the pipeline again, saying it would contribute to greenhouse-gas emissions the president has pledged to curb. The oil industry and some labor groups want to see the pipeline built, since it would make it easier to bring Canadian crude to U.S. refineries and would create thousands of jobs according to their calculations.


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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) -- Hector Sanchez looks back on the past year fondly.
After becoming the youngest member of the San Francisco Giants' World Series roster, the 23-year-old catcher wants to show improvement.
"You have to show something better every year. Nothing's assured in baseball," Sanchez said. "What is certain is that you have to work hard every day and it's their decision. I just want to make that decision easy for them and be here every day."
As Buster Posey's backup, Sanchez got 48 starts behind the plate when the All-Star was given days off or shifted to first base. Sanchez hit .280 in 227 at-bats with three homers and 34 RBIs, catching many of Barry Zito's starts.
Sanchez also struck out 52 times -- nearly a quarter of his a-bats.
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- Great gun for beginner!This gun is great, I have had one of these for about 3 mo and I love it. The realism on this gun is great for a shot gun and the weight is perfect. Also, what you may not know with a gun like this is that the range on it is great for the size and style(shotgun). I have had other shotguns, and I like this one the best for all reasons but one....... It has no top rails for a red dot sight or some quick targeting sight like that. Other than that one thing this gun is the bomb and would recommend to anyone that needs a starter primary or a more powerful secondary for longer ranges. One other thing I would like to mention, I would recommend you getting a scabbard for this because it has no good way to carry it if you have more than one gun in your loadout. Just to highlight the wonderful features of this gun, It has a great finish, very accurate for a shotty, good hop up system. overall, this is the greatest shotgun you can buy for under 40 dollars.
For those of you that base you decisions on Pros and Cons this is for you :)
Perfect weight ( not that realistic but good for a shotty)
Awesome hopup system
Mag Capacity
Looks great and kinda scary
full size
Price (can't beat 30 bucks)
No top rail
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- surprisingly good!I just got this gun and was shooting around with it. It has a hard shot! If you want a gun that will put a mark on your body, this is one.
effective range
slam fire
only 30 bucks!?
there isn't a RIS rail.
- Amazing!Pros:
Effective Range
Slam Fire
The hop up system
Magazine capacity
Amazing Look
No Rail
Such an amazing gun, good for anyone!
- I <3 THIS GUN!OK, so I got this gun today and it was love at first sight. It came in a little box in two pieces that are easily assembled in minutes with the provided screws and screwdriver. The box also contains a HORRIBLE manual, some great quality bb's, a speed loader, a magazine, and a cleaning rod. The magazine can fit more like 18 rounds, not 14. The speed loader is fine and very useful in the field. The cleaning rod is a bit flimsy and seems like it will break if i sit on it or something easy like that (I'm not fat). I suggest going with the .25 Echo 1 match grade high polish bb's on the bb's and gas page for $2.99. They are the perfect weight and give this gun great range when the hop up is used correctly. Getting to that, this switch is great, it helps you dial in on a perfect straight line. The bb's fly out the end with stupendous accuracy. The magazine is built well but can sometimes get stuck a little the first few times trying to pull it out of the gun, but no biggie. The metal parts on this thing are the heat shield and upper barrel, that's it. The safety is above the left side of the trigger. It looks like about 340 FPS to me with the perfect .25s. (BTW, I think that the included ones are .23 or .25, but I'm not sure.) Ok, what you have been waiting for! PROS AND CONS!
Great Accuracy
Hop Up
Metal Parts
Rubber end on stock
No RIS rail for flashlights or lasers or stuff
No actual sights on top
Cheapish pump
Mag Cap
Orange tip
Hope this helped
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- AwesomeI got this gun the other day and it's quite amazing. In the box the gun comes in 2 pieces but is easily assembled with the screws and screwdriver that comes with it. In the box you also get some bbs, an awesome speed reloader, a magazine (of course) and a plastic cleaning rod. This gun has amazing fps, well over 300. If you're reading this, I highly recommend you get this gun AND it's a mere $30!
Awesome power
Awesome look, some parts are metal, extremely realistic
Great Price
Hop Up
Pretty good magazine capacity
None except there is no RIS rail (which does not bother me but might bother some).
- Great Gun For The PriceI bought this gun as my primary weapon in battles. The gun is very well built mostly of metal and some parts in plastic. I have never had a jam or malfunction with the gun. It's a great gun for the price only $30 and it does hurt if you're just wearing a T-Shirt.
- Best Gun Ever!!This gun is amazing.
it is so accurate and is the perfect weight to carry around!
The only bad things is that the mag capacity is way to low and no top rail!
Overall this gun is great You should buy it Thanks Shortyusa
- Pretty Good ShotgunI bought this a couple of weeks ago to use as my secondary to back up my ECHO 1 Troy. This shotgun performs extremely well compared to other shotguns I've bought in the past. It hits hard, shoots accurately, and has that intimidating classic shotgun look to it. I use .23g bbs and they are perfect for the gun.
Okay, onto the Pros and Cons!
-lightweight, but doesn't feel like it's all plastic
-310 FPS is good for a spring shotgun
-with .23g bbs, I can hit a human-sized target @ 100 feet almost every shot
-comes with a speed loader and cleaning rod
-easy to assemble
-perfect for budget-minded folks
-pump is kinda wobbly (it's not too bad though, manageable)
-mag capacity is kinda low, 14 shots can be put down range very quickly
-nothing else!
I do want to mention that the magazine my gun came with fed faster than the gun could shoot. What I mean by that is that every time I pumped it, 2-3 bbs would go in and jam the gun. When it was jammed, it wouldn't fire at all. I fixed this by simply loading the magazine and letting it sit with the bbs in the mag for 24 hours. Sounds weird, but it did loosen up the spring in the mag and now it feeds perfectly into the gun. This little incident is why I gave it 4 stars. Other than that, this is a truly 5 star shotgun.


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Housing is short in the oil patch, and many people live in RVs. But living in the vehicles is illegal in city limits, so the owner of an RV camp in the newly annexed area is shutting it down. Kenny Willard tells The Forum (http://bit.ly/VUnuSP ) that he fears he'll be subject to fines.
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