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My Rockboxed Fuze "crash" when I start to transfer music from PC
I have recently buy a SansaDisk Fuze V1. I have also put RockBox on it.
As first, when I connect to the PC, sometimes I see the window with somethings like "Device have some error. Do you want to analyse and correct them?".
I try correct them, and it says there are no errors (???).
Now, when I start to move files from pc to fuze, after some minuts the device looks like "it is not connected". The transfer fails, and I also cannot remove the device as "safe" (on Computer, if I click on the device, I open a empty folder). It looks like the DAP shutdown when is connected to my computer :O
I have windows professional 7 32bit.
Also, when the Fuze "crash", for start it I need to press the Power button for many seconds (4-5), I see a black text (somethings like loading firmware; it's too fast to read what is written. Is there an error log on Rockbox?) and then It start...
When is connected I say a USB photo and a text "USB Keypad Mode : Multimedia" (but this shouldnt matter)
I also see that, when I connect on PC, I see (on Computer) two new device : SANSA FUZE (I:) and another Removable Device (J:) (which I can't open)
What's happening? How can I solve this problems?
I've also think about hardware problems (maybe the memory or the device are damaged), but its not my case : I've removed RockBox and I'm returned to the original Sansa OS; Tried to transfer file from PC to Device and there aren't any problems.
So, the troubles are with RockBox : where am I wrong?
Also notice that transfer on RockBox is very Slow than Original firmware. Maybe it is going as MSC instead of MTP? How can I swap to it?
EDIT : seems that this is a common problem for this DAP. Damn, hope in a solution! Do you know?
Even with Rockbox installed there's still a way to use the original Sansa firmware for the USB transfer:
When using Rockbox: Have the left directional button (on the wheel) pressed down when connecting. Wait until you can see the Sansa USB-connection screen and release the button. When disconnection it will still have the sansa firmware loaded, since it has to refresh the file database.
You can then switch off the fuze and restart it with Rockbox running.
Yeah I found this tip some days ago! It works, but I'd like to transfer my files with rockbox "interface"! Hope in a "bug-fix" sooner :)
Do you have the same problem? Thanks for the answer.
I have the same problem. I think I saw a patch at rockbox.org. But I'd wait for the next full firmware releast. I believe it will certainly be fixed with the coming version.
Nice! Can you let me know when the firmware is out? :)
I doubt waiting for a release version is going to make much difference. I can't know what any of the developers are working on but considering USB is working on the V1 Fuze I doubt there's much going into that.
It may not be working properly for you but I just tested both the release version, 3.9.1, and the current build, r30740, on my V1 Fuze and they both connect, stay connected and transfer files in both directions with no problems for me. I boot it, connect it, it's recognized and I'm able to transfer files. Nothing crashes and it doesn't disconnect on it's own.
If the developers are having the same results it wouldn't seem likely they're reworking anything. That would mean it's doubtful that whatever problem you have will be fixed in the release. If there was a fix it would go into the current build not be held until a release.
The Rockbox forum thread you added onto seems to be a months old bug report involving release 3.9. The current release is 3.9.1 so adding a report onto there will most likely be ignored. It's like reporting a bug in Win95 to Microsoft.
I meant this patch:
But it has some problems, so I would refrain from using it atm. There's also already a bug report:
If you want to have someone take a look at what's going on you would need to deal with what's current, not old releases or patches that don't apply to the target being discussed here, the V1 fuze.
FS#11664 is the patch that enables USB support in AMS V2 targets where USB support is currently disabled. Doesn't have anything to do with the V1 Fuze.
That bug report is for release 3.8.1 and 3.9. I had the same problems with builds around that time. 3.9.1 has since been released. I see one other report that was added a few days ago. That was after no one else reported that same issue in couple of months. Just a guess but if a developer sees that report and has a V1 Fuze or asks to someone check theirs and no problems are reported they would probably assume user error.
My results with that are just what I said here. If you are having repeatable problems you need to report it as a bug. Nobody works on unreported problems. I don't know what could be done if others aren't experiencing the same problems. I don't think they would be able to work on a bug if everyone else connects reliably and you don't.
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The Liberation of St. Peter, 1618
Hendrick van Steenwijck the YoungerDutch, 1580-c.1648
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Hendrick van Steenwijck was known by his contemporaries as a painter of architectural motifs. Gothic church interiors, palace terraces and prison interiors formed the subjects of much of his work. The dimly lit, vaulted prison interior with deep perspectival space and sleeping guards is completely characteristic of paintings by Steenwijck, who used geometry and mathematical formulas in his compositions. St. Peter's liberation by the angel after being imprisoned by King Herod is just one of several focal points in the composition. Steenwijck painted more than 25 versions of this subject, each of them slightly different from the others.
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The way it works in NorthfieldAugust 05,2014
The way it works in Northfield
Thanks to The Times Argus for the timely article on National Night Out taking place in Northfield today with a community photo planned for 7 p.m. on Depot Square.
Having said that, I have to protest the linking of two separate bits of information I provided to reporter Eric Blaisdell producing one statement that is simply not true.
The article reports that I said that the proposed construction of a new medical office building at the base of the Norwich ski area will likely require an extension of water and sewer lines, pieces that were controlled solely by the village but are now part of the town.
Since the location of the proposed medical office building has been served by the village (now town) water and sewer systems for as long as I can remember (60-plus years), there is no way on earth I would have made that statement.
I mentioned the proposed medical office building in a news release I sent to Eric as evidence of a newsworthy event in Northfield (in addition to merger of the town and village and reconstruction of our downtown Depot Square area).
And, in response to a question he asked me over the telephone about the benefits of merger, I did say that merger will make it simpler to coordinate the extension of municipal water and sewer lines in order to accommodate development.
But there is no linkage between these two separate facts because the utilities already serve the proposed location of the medical office building.
Except for crediting me with this error, I thought the article was timely, perceptive and well-written. I hope The Times Argus continues to regard Northfield as sufficiently important to warrant coverage.
But, crediting me with linking the medical office building and sewer and water extension risks my being judged by my fellow townspeople as having already passed into my dotage despite having spent only 73 years as a Northfield resident.
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Click, 43, was indicted by a Refugio grand jury on two counts of criminally negligent homicide and five counts of injury to a child. He was tried in District Judge Jack Marr's court Wednesday, July 30, and pleaded guilty to the charges. However, one count of injury to a child was dropped because of the plea bargain.
District Attorney Michael Sheppard described the trial as a "long proceeding" because the families involved were allowed to address the court and Click.
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Click received two 16- year sentences to run concurrently, part of the plea bargaining.
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Sheppard pointed out that Click was on parole for drug offenses out of Jackson County when he was arrested.
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North Palm Beach, FL – MacArthur Beach State Park and Palm Beach County Environmental Resource Management (ERM) are partnering up for NatureScaping and Dark Skies Festival on March 16, 2013 from 10:00 am until 3:00 PM. NatureScaping is an established event at MacArthur Beach State Park with an average of 2000 attendees annually. The event was developed 18 years ago to promote environmental education, support the planting of native species, and to provide an enjoyable day at the Park for all ages.
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Information technology companies today have a hidden resource that they have barely started to exploit. IT companies have, over the years, spent a considerable amount of money equipping themselves with strong relational database expertise. But these relational teams are traditionally isolated and kept behind the glass doors, primarily supporting the development teams that churn out end-user applications. This practice largely continues even today as the programming face of IT moves to the Web.
There are alternatives to this picture. Thanks to the openness and simplicity of Java, innovation in the Web programming space is bursting at the seams. As a result, developing enterprise systems has never been easier, cheaper, faster, or more robust. In this article, I want to show you how your IT relational teams can make use of two products in the J2EE/XML space and expose their relational business expertise to the outside world.
Tomcat, the first of the two suggested products, is an open source implementation of the servlet standard (a part of J2EE) in a very small accessible package (four to five megabytes). The second product is a declarative data access tool called Aspire that allows your relational developers to write business logic in stored procedures while using such front-end tools as Dreamweaver and FrontPage. Aspire provides the declarative middle tier that ties predesigned Web pages to SQL and stored procedures. Using these two products, relational developers will be able to write comprehensive interactive Web sites that can also include charts, graphs, reports, XML, etc.
You have nurtured them.
IT departments have nurtured relational talent for years. Universities have programs that are constantly teaching database skills at the graduate level. Relational talent is becoming increasingly common, due to the increasing availability of relational tools such as Microsoft Access, MySQL, etc.
They know your data.
Relational teams are the closest to your data model. They know the tables well. They know how these tables are inter-related. They know how to retrieve queries for a given question. They are the ones that typically generate reports, run batch programs, find data inconsistencies, and optimize for performance. There is a treasure trove that is waiting to be given more responsibilities and higher status, and hence higher pay, in IT.
They know your business and know how to implement business logic.
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These qualifications of relational teams position them to be your greatest assets in the transactional Web programming world. As I have said, they have the third tier, the business tier, down. I want to suggest here that with minimal training:
The truth of the matter is that it is trivial to get there with Tomcat and Aspire. I know, based on my experience at a large company, that this will save considerable amount of time and money to IT. Here is my reasoning:
The developers will start out understanding off-the-shelf HTML design tools such as FrontPage and Dreamweaver. These tools allow you to mock up your entire Web site, including the navigation between pages and frames. Except for the basics of HTML, the developer will be able to do this and be proficient in less than a week. In this phase, the developer will have to hone the following skills:
Guess what? The developers have done 90% of the work. If you were to use J2EE without the help of any tools, there is still a lot of work left to do, such as:
But if you were to use Aspire along with J2EE, all of the above would be taken care of. The developer will combine the page with the stored procedures through a declarative configuration file. In other words, all of the steps above are accomplished by a configuration section for that page. Essentially Aspire is allowing you to join your pages to your stored procedures through a declarative middle tier. It's as if there is a "transparent data pipeline" between your stored procedures and your Web pages.
So how is this different from other RAD tools or JSP tags where you can execute these SQL and stored procedures in your HTML page itself? There is a crucial similarity and a crucial difference; both are equally powerful and equally important. Aspire is designed with a clear separation of GUI and data access. A lot of tools and technologies seem to advertise this fact quite prominently. Aspire does separate the tiers cleanly; as a result, the SQL and stored procedures are kept in a configuration file.
Aspire also allows this data access via an abstraction so that you can migrate your stored procedures to other means of writing business logic, such as Java or EJBs, or COM+, for that matter. At the same time, Aspire recognizes the need for keeping the stored procedures as close to the front end as possible. So you get the best of both worlds: faster development from the RAD world and flexible architecture from the J2EE world.
Here is a list of tools that you will need:
Tomcat is an application server that works with a Web servers like Apache. Tomcat is written in Java and implements the Java Servlet API. To work with Tomcat, you need to know a couple of things:
All of these can be taught in a day or two to any reasonably industrious programmer. The key is not to focus on the details; you only need the concepts. Tomcat comes with documentation to install and set it up. I will be more than happy to help anyone with this process -- email me at email@example.com
At the end of this exercise you will need to:
Aspire has been field-tested on multiple applications to make sure as much development as possible can be done with relational developers, while always preserving the ability to write in Java. So it is especially easy for relational developers to be productive from day one. The first step is to set up Aspire. Here are the things that you will need to do:
This process should take about half a day. More importantly, let us see how Aspire can help in connecting your business procedures to screen design.
As I have identified, you already have a screen mockup and a set of stored procedures for that screen. That is, a screen may have more than one stored procedure necessary to retrieve all of the data. For example, you may have in a screen a list box whose data may come from a flat file, a table whose data may come from a stored procedure, and yet another table from SQL. Aspire allows you to write a configuration file where the page name is linked to these multiple data access schemes.
Conceptually, this looks like the following:
PROC1 through
PROC4 are defined as follows:
PROC1.stmt=call pkg.sp_procedure1 arg1, arg2, arg3
PROC2.stmt=call pkg.sp_procedure2 arg1, arg2, arg3
PROC3.stmt=select * from table1 where arg1 = {arg1-value} and arg2 = {arg2-value.quote}
When you do this in the configuration file, Aspire will execute all of the above and return an XML-like data set to your front-end design page. Here is what that conceptual XML infoset looks like:
The above example just gets the point across. The details of the configuration may differ when you actually start the development process. The details are a bit more involved, as they cover more ground to give the developer lots of options. Having thrown that caution in, let me see what you can do with this data on your predesigned page. The goal is to merge this data with your predesigned page. There are three alternatives for doing this:
The goal here is not to be detailed but to give you an understanding of the complexity (really, the simplicity) involved. In this case, the merging is accomplished through a replacement tag pair that looks like
{{ and
Here is an example:
Hello my first name is {{arg1}} and my last name is {{arg2}}
Aspire will replace
arg1 and
arg2 from the
maindata data set. Here is how you can use the data from the
list1-data set.
<!RLF_TAG BGN_LOOP list1-data -->
Any repeatable html section such as {{col1}} and {{col2}} and if needed {{arg1}}
<!RLF_TAG BGN_LOOP list1-data -->
The same thing goes for
table1-data and
The tags are
designed with two important goals. The first is to preserve the design of the
page with the tags present. That is, the tags should not impede the ability of
the designer to see the page in the design tool with minimal impact. For this
reason, the tags are embedded either in comments or directly exposed to the
designer. The second goal is to allow the designer to directly identify the
dynamic elements while in the design tool itself. In the case above,
{{arg1}} can
be directly typed in FrontPage with out switching back to the HTML view. To
allow for conditional inclusion of a page based on a certain matching criteria,
there is a programmable
IF tag available as well.
When the page is too difficult to handle with the simple tags documented above, you can use JSP instead. Here is an example of using JSP for merging data and the screen:
//Get the data object
IFormHandler pageData = request.getAttribute("Aspire.Dataset");
Hello my first name is <%=pageData.getValue("arg1") %>
and my last name <%=pageData.getValue("arg2")%>
At the top of your HTML page (or JSP page) you receive the object into a
local variable called
pageData. This object and the available methods on that
object are used to retrieve data and place on the page. Basic JSP is very simple
to teach -- it takes perhaps less than an hour. JSPs can get complicated, but the goal of
the tool is to make this process trivial and easy.
See how the values for
arg1 and
arg2 are retrieved from
pageData and
substituted onto the HTML page just like the
{{arg1}} in the tags scenario.
The next example of JSP shows how one can populate repetitive structures, such
as list boxes and tables. Data for each repetitive structure is also available
pageData, albeit with a name identifying it. This is necessary because on a
given page, you may have more than one repetitive structure. Each structure is
identified by a name. Once you know the name, you can access the data for the
repetitive structure using its name.
Here is how you can use the data from
list1-data set:
IControlHandler list1Data = pageData.getControlHandler("list1-data");
while (list1Data.gotoNext()) {
Any repeatable html section such as <%=list1Data.getValue("col1") %>
and <%=list1Data.getValue("col2") %>
and if needed <%=list1Data.getValue("arg1")%>
<% }%>
The data for
list1-data is retrieved from
pageData into a variable called
list1Data and, using a simple while loop, all of the rows are traversed. See
the similarities of
list1Data.getValue() and
pageData.getValue(). In essence,
the number of APIs that the developer needs to know is very minimal. It is this
simplicity that makes the JSP merging easy and powerful.
For the sake of brevity, I will not go into the details of the XSLT, but it is very similar to the JSP section, except that you are using XPATH expressions for
substitute and
loop through. The example of this can be seen at the
demo site.
In the cases of both JSP and XSLT we are using a very minimal set of their respective facilities; in both cases we are limiting ourselves to the control flow statements of a language. You are basically using assignment, if/else, and loops. These should be very familiar to the relational developers, as they use these structures in writing stored procedures.
Performing updates based on HTML forms is quite intuitive and flexible using Aspire. Let us consider a URL that is coming from the browser as a result of form posting:
The above invocation implies that you want to call a business logic called
update-employee with two arguments
arg1 and
arg2. How can you facilitate this so that your stored procedure,
mypkg.sp_update_employee arg1, arg2, is called? Here is the configuration to do this (we've had to add some line breaks for formatting purposes here):
Request.update-employee.stmt=call mypkg.sp_update_employee {arg1}, {arg2}
Aspire will pass the arguments to your proc and if the proc doesn't throw any exceptions, the user is redirected to the URL identified by
redirectURL; if the exception has an error code,
EMPLOYEE-DOESN'T-EXIST, the user gets redirected to that URL. If the error code doesn't match, the user is redirected to general
Here is a toolset that can seamlessly transform your relational developers to Web developers in about a week. The toolset is firmly rooted in architecture and J2EE and provides a gradual learning path for the development teams into the complex areas of J2EE, while providing simple solutions to simple problems. Being a no-cost alternative should be attractive as well.
This could also work as a career-enhancement proposition to the database developers, as they can directly impact the business processes utilizing their superior knowledge of corporate data. The goal is to make the relational developers take on the role of architects in enterprises and thereby provide a well-rounded career path.
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I'm using Debian(jessie). I created a database(Cars) using phpMyAdmin's Create database function. I'm following along a book "The Joy of php". After the table is created the author wants to create a table (INVENTORY) using SQL commands. Well, phpMyAdmin will not let me enter any text in the SQL query text area. I created the table using the Create table function(buttons). If I click on the INVENTORY table in the left window-pane or the tab above I get the following error message:
SELECT 'prefs' FROM 'phpmyadmin' . 'pma__table_uiprefs' WHERE 'username' = 'jeff' AND 'db_name' = 'Cars' AND 'table_name' = 'INVENTORY'
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Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather
By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 1:41 PM GMT on September 16, 2011
Hurricane Maria is bearing down on Newfoundland, Canada, as a Category 1 hurricane with 80 mph winds. The wind shear over Maria turned out to be much lower than was predicted yesterday, allowing the storm to organize into the season's third hurricane. Latest satellite imagery shows that Maria is steadily degrading, with a hole in the storm's southwest eyewall, and the cloud pattern distorted by 30 - 50 knots of wind shear. The eyewall has collapsed, as seen on recent microwave satellite imagery. Maria's very fast forward speed of 45 mph means that only locations on the right (strong) side will experience hurricane force winds. With the center of Maria expected to pass over the extreme southeast tip of Newfoundland, only a small region of the island near Cape Race will see the powerful right-front quadrant of the storm. Winds at Sagona Island on the south shore of Newfoundland were sustained at 50 mph at 7:30 am local time, but have dropped to 37 mph at 9:10 am. Winds in the capital of St. John's have been rising steadily this morning, and were sustained at 37 mph, gusting to 46 mph, at 10:30 am local time. Winds will probably reach sustained speeds of 55 - 65 mph between 1 pm and 5 pm today in St. Johns, causing considerable tree damage and power failures. Radar out of Newfoundland shows the hurricane has been dumping heavy rains over the southeastern portion of the island this morning; rainfall has been under a half inch thus far at most locations, though. Along with wind damage, heavy rains leading to flash flooding are the main threat from Maria; last year, heavy rains of up to 8 inches from Hurricane Igor caused major damage in Newfoundland. Fortunately, Maria's rains are not expected to be as heavy as Igor's. According to the Canadian Hurricane Center, rivers in eastern Newfoundland are currently at average to below average levels, which will limit the amount of flooding. Maria's storm surge will arrive when the normal astronomical tide will be going out, limiting the damage the expected 3-foot storm surge will do.
Yesterday, Maria brought a brief 8-minute period of sustained winds of tropical storm force, 39 mph, to the Bermuda airport. Bermuda picked up 0.20" of rain from Maria.
Figure 1. Radar image of Tropical Storm Maria taken at 10:13 am EDT September 15, 2011. Image credit: Bermuda Weather Service.
Newfoundland's second consecutive year with a hurricane
If Maria strikes Newfoundland as a hurricane, this will be the province's second consecutive year with a hurricane strike, something that has never occurred since hurricane record keeping began in 1851. Last year, Hurricane Igor killed one person on Newfoundland, and damage exceeded $100 million, making Igor the most damaging tropical cyclone in Newfoundland history. A summary of the impact of Igor prepared by Environment Canada put it this way:
"Hurricane Igor and its severe impacts certainly represent a rare event in Newfoundland history which has been described as the worst in memory. In statistical terms, this was effectively a 50 - 100 year event depending on how one chooses to define it. There are no hurricanes/post tropical events of this magnitude striking Newfoundland in the modern era. Hurricane Juan in Nova Scotia was the last Atlantic Canadian hurricane to cause extreme damage. Prior to the naming of hurricanes, the 1935 Newfoundland Hurricane 75 years ago was of similar intensity."
Figure 2. A ravine carved by Hurricane Igor's flood waters washed out the Trans-Canada Highway, isolating Southeast Newfoundland from the rest of the province. Image credit: CBC News.
Elsewhere in the tropics
All of the models have been sporadically predicting development of a tropical wave 5 - 7 days from now between Africa and the Lesser Antilles. The location and timing of the hypothetical storm have been inconsistent, and there is at present no signs of anything brewing. The NOGAPS model continues to predict a strong tropical disturbance or tropical depression could form in the Caribbean 6 - 7 days from now, near Jamaica. None of the other models is supporting this idea, so the NOGAPS model is probably wrong on this scenario. I'll have an update Saturday afternoon.
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Google and China continue to spar over Internet freedom in the Communist nation. Google is trying to stay as clear of government censorship as possible; China wants to control information flow with a heavy hand.
The two could be reaching a pivotal moment, and the outcome could have lasting implications for the global Internet, which in just 15 years has become the equivalent of the nervous system of the global economy and lifeblood of political discourse.
It facilitates trade, relationships and individual freedom. But, will it become Balkanized by nation or region, as some governments take steps to confront this challenge to their monopoly on information?
The biggest threat is in China, with the world's most populous nation at 1.3 billion people and the world's biggest market for the Internet.
The standoff began earlier this year when Google gave up its deal with China to filter Internet searches after what it called a "cyberattack" by the Chinese, and, instead, "automatically redirected Chinese users to google.com.hk, which is maintained on the company's servers in Hong Kong," reported the New York Times. Chinese officials responded to the redirect by threatening to cancel Google's Internet operating license.
On Monday, Google said it would no longer automatically redirect Chinese users to an uncensored search site in Hong Kong but would instead add a link on its main Chinese Web page to direct users to its Hong Kong search engine, the Wall Street Journal reported.
China devotes "enormous manpower to censorship, filtering out material based on keywords," said Eddan Katz, international affairs director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Other countries do so as well, he said, such as Thailand, Turkey, Malaysia and Afghanistan. They also advance censorship by "pressuring third parties, Internet service providers (ISPs) and search engines, to do the work."
He pointed out that, because the Internet is decentralized, even in the most repressive societies "there are people on the edges who use proxy servers" — an intermediary device — "and anonymization to circumvent censorship, even though they take some risks doing so," if the authorities locate them.
Google is in a "tit for tat" game with China's government, he said. "It remains to be seen if China relents."
The immediate effect could bear on an upcoming visit by Chinese President Hu Jintao to the Obama White House. Because Google has close ties to Obama, the visit could be difficult if the censorship issue isn't yet resolved.
In the meantime, America needs to watch its leaders regarding Internet freedom: Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., told CCN on June 20: "Right now, China, the government, can disconnect parts of its Internet in a case of war. We need to have that here, too." No, we don't. The Internet is so integral to our lives today that shutting it down would be like blocking every road in the country.
Whatever happens elsewhere, here Internet always should remain just the way it grew up — free.


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Honesty demands that I start with a personal anecdote: I first saw The Exorcist in 2000, carrying with it all the baggage that anyone born after the film's 1973 release would tend to carry: for as far back as I could remember, I'd only ever heard that it was just absolutely the most damn scary movie ever made in history (except from my mother, who adored William Peter Blatty's novel and considered the film a wholly underwhelming adaptation). When I saw it, it was in the hopes of getting a good blast of unmitigated terror - then as now, one of my great goals was to find anything truly frightening in the thicket of generally idiotic and routine horror picture - and I was, to put it bluntly, hugely disappointed. While recognising the artistry, I found not one instant of the film to be at all scary, though some scenes had enough of a guttural punch to get a cheater's kind of disturbing intensity, not at all unlike some of the more aggressively violent slashers or torture films.
Over time, I came up with a theory as to why I responded so coldly to the most damn scary movie ever made: I do not take the threat of demonic possession at all seriously. This has always left me a touch unsatisfied as an explanation: I also don't take the threat of a haunted hotel at all seriously, and take the threat of a chainsaw-wielding cannibalistic maniac so slightly seriously it doesn't count, yet those films certainly got under my skin. Back in 2000, of course, I was a very self-serious, intensely atheistic young man, and perhaps considered myself duty-bound to dislike a film whose horrifying elements are based so resolutely and intractably within Catholicism. Nowadays, I'm much more of a jovial, frivolous atheist, and have learned to love a great many films intractably yoked to a particular religious tradition; and moreover, I've fallen head over heels for a great many horror films that don't scare me even a tiny bit, and it seemed absolutely fair to at long last revisit the hugely iconic film that I've only rarely thought of in the intervening ten years.
I still find that The Exorcist fails entirely to be scary in the slightest degree. Now, however, I'm not terribly bothered by this.
So now that you know my entirely un-worshipful relationship to one of the most beloved horror films of all time, let us consider the movie itself, non? You almost certainly know the essentials of the plot, whether you've seen it or not: in Georgetown, an actress and divorcée by the name of Chris MacNeil (Ellen Burstyn) finds that her daughter Regan (Linda Blair) is acting a bit peculiar, thrashing around and urinating on the floor at dinner parties and cursing like a sailor with Tourette's and all. Meanwhile, a Catholic priest and lecturer at Georgetown University, Father Damien Karras (John Miller), is suffering from a crisis of faith. These two plots come together when Chris, having tried every possible scientific cure for her daughter, approaches Karras (a trained psychiatrist) about performing an exorcism. After some reluctance, Karras is convinced that something very wrong is happening in the MacNeil home, and agrees to help - but he can't do it alone, which is when the archdiocese calls in Father Lankester Merrin (Max von Sydow), one of the few living priests to have ever performed an exorcism, who we first met in the film's opening sequence, at an archaeological dig in Iraq.
If you haven't seen the film, or haven't seen it recently, you might be surprised by how long it takes for that nice little plot synopsis to actually show up. In its original 1973 theatrical cut, The Exorcist is 122 minutes long, and more than half of that time is gone before Chris MacNeil even hears the word "exorcism". Merrin's arrival in Georgetown occurs with less than 30 minutes to go, including the credits. Which isn't to say that the film is structurally dysfunctional - it is, but not because the pacing is off. The first hour is devoted entirely to setting things up, and particularly to establishing the MacNeil's living situation, which is a rather good choice altogether. One can easily imagine a modern day version of The Exorcist (titled, say, The Unborn) that revs up so abruptly as to verge on incoherence, privileging thrills over any sort of human element that gives those thrills meaningful context.
If anything, it's the long warm up that makes The Exorcist anything other than a grubby shocker. We know a lot about Chris and Regan MacNeil before it becomes apparent that the girl's odd behavior is the result of something paranormal, and this investment in exploring them as characters, not just as cogs in a scream machine, lends the film significant depth. Much of the credit for this goes straight to Burstyn, in the role that made her a full-blown star after The Last Picture Show made her a New Actress to Look Out For. Her performance, easily the best in the film, is a magnificent portrait of a concerned mother, tormented by the almost complete ignorance in which she finds herself, helpless to do anything but watch: whether Regan is having convulsive fits in bed, strapped to a mercilessly austere device in a hospital, or being prayed over by a confused priest, all that Chris can ever do is stare miserably, and Burstyn captures the ragged desperation of her character with painfully raw verisimilitude. If it failed on all other levels (which it doesn't), The Exorcist would nevertheless be an excellent family horror story, with its depiction of a woman desperate to provide her little girl with the sturdiness of a "normal" existence in the face of daunting challenges (divorce, Hollywood), thrust face to face with the most abnormal situation imaginable.
Even so, the script - which Blatty adapted himself - is at times colossally messy, and one of the clearest ways lies in the fact that there are two distinct narrative arcs which have virtually nothing to do with Chris MacNeil's maternal trauma. We also have the story of Karras's crisis of faith to deal with, and buried deep in the screenplay, Merrin's struggle with the demon. The integration of the Karras and MacNeil material is more inelegant than anything else: a lot of cross-cutting in the first hour that only vaguely promises to go anywhere in particular. It's in the Merrin subplot that most of the really broken storytelling is found, beginning with the fact that in the movie itself, the whole Iraq sequence at the beginning doesn't really make any damn sense. What we know from the book (which I've never read firsthand) is that Merrin, years ago, struggled with the demon Pazuzu over the soul of a boy, that his excavations in Iraq reveal a Pazuzu statue and a totem which he understands to be the demon's challenge to a rematch - hence his decision immediately after finding the artifacts to fly to America - and it is none other than Pazuzu currently residing inside poor Regan. Of all this, only the offhand comment that about a dozen years back, he performed a tough exorcism, along with the ReganDemon's obvious knowledge of Merrin's history, makes it into the movie. If you know what it's all about (as Blatty did), the connections leap off the screen. If not - as I didn't ten years ago - it makes no damn sense whatsoever, and Merrin's entire function in the movie seems to be a cynical attempt to get a classy actor like von Sydow in on the fun.
The tripartite emphasis on each of three different character arcs has another negative effect on the story: once the exorcism properly begins, Chris MacNeil is shuffled offscreen for all but a couple of tossed-away scenes, and the movie loses its emotional throughline, becoming a very noisy, profanity-filled religious exploitation film. A good religious exploitation film, if that's your cup of tea. But it rather feels - to me anyway - that the conflict resolved at the end of The Exorcist isn't the conflict present in the first, better half of the movie.
Whatever story problems it has, it can't be said that it's not a gorgeous piece of work, though. Director William Friedkin was an unconventional choice (as though there was a conventional choice for this kind of material), whom Blatty insisted upon after Warner's choices (including Arthur Penn, Mike Nichols, and the singularly unprepossessing Mark Rydell) all fell through, but he worked out every bit as well as the writer-producer hoped. Friedkin didn't have too many projects under his belt in 1972, but he'd just completed - and won an Oscar for - The French Connection, one of the best of the decade's many "gritty crime on the gritty streets of New York" thrillers, and he brought to The Exorcist a similarly on-the-ground depiction of Georgetown that isn't at all what you'd expect from a horror movie (the only explicitly "moody" image in the whole film is the Expressionist foggy night when Merrin arrives at the MacNeil home, used as the poster and pretty much every home video cover - and the fact that it's the only such image gives it that much more force when it occurs). The best way to describe Friedkin's direction of the material is "no-nonsense", which gives the Georgetown and Iraq scenes a simplicity that allows us to better engage with the characters, and gives the possession and exorcism scenes a physical grounding that plays well against the impossibility of the events being filmed - anybody can photograph a girl floating in mid-air, but not every filmmaker can make it look so ontologically wrong as Friedkin does, aided mightily by cinematographer Owen Roizman and his brilliant ability to capture an unstressed realism.
Friedkin, admittedly, made no friends on set; The Exorcist was an unusually acrimonious production, including something close to psychological torture inflicted on the actors for more "realistic" responses, significant physical damage to both Burstyn and Blair as a result of the effects work, and a good amount of bitter struggling for recognition on the parts of Eileen Dietz (who performed a good deal of ReganDemon, though Blair got all the praise), and Mercedes McCambridge (who had to fight for an onscreen credit, having provided every second of the possessed Regan's voice). But as contentious as the shoot may have been, the results are what matter; and they are fine results indeed.
Audiences in 1973 didn't know what hit them: till then, movies that wore their religion so openly (as opposed to movies with hugely religious characters) were generally turgid epics and sanctimonious fables, nothing at all like the soul-rending nastiness of this film, one of the flat-out ickiest movies of its generation, with all the pre-teen cursing, an infamous moment of sexualised violence, and stunning visual effects, nearly seamless, and still absolutely convincing in almost every respect. The film briefly took the record as the highest-grossing film in American box office history and became the first horror movie ever nominated for the Best Picture Oscar.* It inspired more direct and indirect rip-offs than just about any other movie ever made, almost all of which found some way to crib from its iconography. Even if I don't love the film (though I admire it), I have to respect that kind of impact.
Eventually, the film got brushed-up and decked out with an extended edition: The Version You've Never Seen, they called it, and I guess a number of people have already figured out, from the dates, that this was the one I saw for the first time, and maybe that had to do with why I didn't really get off on it. Because, frankly, the 2000 re-cut, supervised by Blatty, is absolutely misjudged. Not a single one of the changes works better than the original: the curiously unnecessary opening shot of a dark Georgetown street serves only to dampen the impact of the stark red titles that are the "real" opening, the end is a disastrous mood-killer, and most of the additions in the middle are just needless padding that briefly stretch out moments that were perfectly tight before. Only two elements really deserve consideration: first is the addition to several scenes of images of the demon, or of the Pazuzu statue, lurking in the background of the MacNeil home. These aren't altogether bad: certainly, Dietz's face in makeup is eerie as hell, and gives a little extra jolt whenever we see it. But there's a certain cheesiness to it as well. The other part is half of a scene, the infamous "spider walk" in which Regan sidles down the stairs in a grotesque crablike way: it's shocking and terrifying, but it breaks the narrative flow terribly. I'm glad I was finally able to see the film as Friedkin - a pretty damn good director - wanted it to be, not as Blatty - who seems, from everything I know about him - to be kind of a dick - though it should be. The Exorcist, in its original form, is tight and controlled, not flawless, but certainly better than the dross that was added to it, years after the fact, for no apparent reason other than marketing.
Reviews in this series
The Exorcist (Friedkin, 1973)
Exorcist II: The Heretic (Boorman, 1977)
The Exorcist III (Blatty, 1990)
The Exorcist Prequels:
-Exorcist: The Beginning (Harlin, 2004)
-Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist (Schrader, 2005)
12 comments:
- Danny F. said...
What would you consider to be the scariest movie you've ever seen, then?
- JPK said...
Last time I saw this (on video, in a clean well-lighted room) I didn't find it particularly scary either, but it practically traumatized me in 1973. "Audiences in 1973 didn't know what hit them" is exactly right. But that last time I did notice a few small things that I think contribute to its overall effect. So many scenes, such as the long hospital sequence, practically wallow in uncomfortable, unpleasant imagery, however mundane. Even more effective, I think, is how gratuitously jarring the sound design can be. There are scenes so quiet it's hard to make out what people are saying, alternating with loud scenes and grating noises from insects or machines (hospital scene is also a good example of that). Also, there's something unnerving that I can't quite put my finger on about shooting the spectacle of the exorcism in below-freezing conditions. It seems to put the cast on edge in very interesting ways, which seems to me to translate through.
- The Caustic Ignostic said...
I have to disagree with the assertion that the film's two and a half narratives don't play well together. It's hard for me to put my finger on exactly *how* it works; something about those savage cuts across the MacNeil / Karras storylines for the first half of the picture lends the whole enterprise a creepy, off-kilter aura that gets right under my skin. Friedkin establishes a sense of discord and looming crisis for both the MacNeils and Karras. It reminds me of the way that the The Shining (since you brought it up) works for me, even though the films are stylistically worlds apart. There's just some kind of synchronicity between subject and aesthetic that seems perfect, for my money. It's difficult for me to look at the film with fresh eyes (I was born in 1976 and can't remember not having seen it), but I did see the film before I read the book, and the Merrin plot always seemed perfectly obvious to me. There's a lot that's implied, but even as a kid I thought it was a fairly straightforward "Hello, My Old Foe, We Meet Again" sort of situation. The three main adult characters also neatly represent three responses to the supernatural: absolute acceptance and conviction (Merrin); tortured doubt and attempted syncretism with rationality (Karras); denial with a dose of "Just Fix It" pragmatism (MacNeil). The characters' ages also suggest the progression from Medieval to Renaissance to Enlightenment.
You're dead right about the realism in the film's environments making the supernatural elements that much more impactful and uncanny. I'm an atheist, and what makes the film so effective in my mind is that Friedkin and his performers convince me that these events are actually happening and this poor little girl is actually in mortal peril from the spiritual attacks of a fallen angel. It's ridiculous, but I believe it while I'm watching it.
- Daniel Silberberg said...
I thought the Iraq scene was spectacular. Since you brought up Jurassic Park, I'd compare it to the opening of that movie. Some kind of horrific violence is going on, then some weird mining expedition with oblique references to a park, and then we meet our main characters doing something completely unrelated. Granted, those scenes are tied together a lot more clearly than in The Exorcist, but JP is much more about overt, direct threat that implied, hidden evil. The Iraq scene makes you wonder what's going on, never saying anything outright, but hinting at something amiss. The dogs fighting while Max looks at the statue is one of the most foreboding film moments I've seen. It sets you up to be paranoid when we cut to a day in the life in Georgetown. It makes you paranoid, which is just what the story needs.
- KingKubrick said...
Hands down this is in my top five favourite films of all time. Without hyperbole, I've watched this film over 100xs. Encountering it at 11, with no preconceived notion of what it would contain, broke my goddamn mind. It gave me horrific nightmares for years and its probably one of the major reasons I'm writing a horror novel at the moment. And, the above posters beat me to the punch, I never found the opening sequence to be confusing in any respect, and I view the three stories lines not as disjointed, but running concurrently with each narrative arc culminating in the scene of the exorcism. Far and away the scariest film ever made...I've seen it all, the grimiest of the grimiest, nothing was this affecting, not even the beloved kubrick's the shining. I just can't argue with the results
- Faster, Harder, More Challenging GeoX said...
All I really remember about this movie is that the actually exorcism just went on and on and on and fucking ON. I'm sure it has merit in other ways, but crikey--it just went on. AND ON AND Ozzzzzz...
- Brigdh said...
I have to admit my undying love for this film; like KingKubrick, I also saw it for the first time as a little kid, never having heard of it before. I'm a jolly atheist now, but at the time I attended a Catholic school, and so I and the rest of my friends at the sleepover that showed The Exorcist had plenty of rosaries and bibles to clutch as we refused to sleep all night. It pretty much set my standard for what counts as 'scary'.
Plus, as an archaeologist, I support movies that show us as the ones with The Power to Fight the Darkness.
I also want to know what your 'scariest movie of all time' is!
- Tim said...
I think that scary, like funny, is such a personal response, it's hard to really quantify why a film does or doesn't do it. Like I said, though, I got more out of The Exorcist this time than I did before.
Anyway, my pick for scariest of all time is, no contest, The Shining. Only movie that I've seen that freaked me out so much that just thinking of the first scene with the little girls literally makes me shudder.
- Meg said...
I haven't seen this movie and now that I live within walking distance of those steps, I'm not sure that I want to, and in fact ran away from a viewing my first weekend at college (to be followed by a trip there). I want to be able to go to parties at Georgetown at night without carrying a crucifix out of superstition.
Then again, I spook easily. I watched Psycho at the age of 17 and was so terrified I cried.
- RickR said...
"The Exorcist" (the original 1973 version) is in my top five best movies ever made.
I read the novel, but was forbidden from seeing the movie until I was 17. Like others have said, I didn't find it scary per se. But it is absolutely riveting, and the power and ingenuity of its cinema is undeniable.
The cinematography is marvelous, the editing is brilliant, and the sound design is legendary. I really lucked out by first seeing the movie in a 70MM presentation at the Chinese theatre, with pristine picture and sound.
"The Exorcist" broke all the rules of horror moviemaking, including setting its most shocking scene in broad daylight, something I had never seen done before. There's just something about the way the movie looks.....
One of my favorite moments comes directly after the harrowing medical procedure on Regan. The grinding motorized Xray viewer brings up Regan's skull images, then stops. DEAD SILENCE as the camera just stares at them. I never could figure out exactly why this was so unnerving....until I found out that Friedkin had his sound editor cut in blank leader for this moment. There is no ambience, no room tone...just nothing. Brilliant.
Brilliant is a word that could easily get overused when discussing this movie, but it absolutely should be reserved for Dick Smith's makeup designs for the film. The self-inflicted scratch design for Regan's is a perfect illustration of how much thought and consideration went into all the decisions on this film, and it all flows from the story rather than being imposed on it.
- RickR said...
^Should read "the self-inflicted scratch design for Regan's face"
- RickR said...
Tim wrote- "Eileen Dietz (who performed a good deal of ReganDemon, though Blair got all the praise)"
I would disagree. From what I can tell, there are only 3 brief cuts in the movie that aren't Linda Blair. Two involve Dietz in the black and white Kabuki demon makeup, and one quick shot of her vomiting pea soup. Even made up, Dietz really bears no resemblance to Blair at all, so shots of her really stand out, which is why I think they came to rely almost exclusively on Blair's performance.
(I suppose the quick shot of Regan's fist plunging the crucifix into her crotch was also presumably Dietz. Though the rest of that shocking scene is performed by Blair.)


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PRINCESS ANNE, MD – (Oct. 1, 2013) POW! Action characters come to life on the pages of books by indie comic publishers on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Their epic tales in sci-fi, fantasy, adventure, romance, horror and drama genres will be featured in an exhibit at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.
The exhibit opens on Oct. 11 with a reception from 4-6 p.m. in the Mosely Gallery. Eight local artists will be on hand to meet visitors and hold a panel discussion from 3-4 p.m. prior to the official opening.
Each of the artists discovered a passion for drawing in childhood and have been producing art and published work since, according to Susan Holt, the newly named director of the Mosely Gallery. "Comic book art is a form of sequential art which refers to a series of images done in sequence to tell a story." Holt said the term can also be applied to other media such as film, animation and storyboards.
The unique aspect of the show, she said, is a wall outlining the process of sequential art "from beginning ideas that could be drawn on a napkin to pencil drawings, inking and the final product done with computer graphics and ready for publication."
Works from Coldstream Studios, home to Draxx and the action-girl character Rocket Girl, founded by Brad Hudson, an assistant professor in UMES' Department of Fine Arts, will be in the show. Hudson is also the director of the sequential arts program in graphic illustration within the department.
"Since coming to UMES, I found that many of the art students shared an interest in comics," Hudson said. "They wanted to study and learn the processes of sequential arts, so I initiated classes and continued the program's growth until it was approved in 2009." Since then, Hudson said, the concentration has expanded considerably. Student-artists accompanied by Hudson also attend Comic Cons (events for artists and fans of comics) to network and sell their works.
Michael Carmean of MC Comics, whose works will be on exhibit, defines his passion in the following statement: "I not only give my characters lines, colors and environments—I give them life. It's not enough to create characters in the nature of good and evil, you have to take a piece of yourself and breathe life into them."
Brothers Josh and Mathew Shockley (UMES alums), together with James Dufendach, all Snow Hill natives, comprise PLB Comics. This local trio exhibits at many comic book events, such as Baltimore Comic Con, First State Comic Con, Collector's Con and Underground Comic Con, Holt said. They also help the student A.C.T.I.O.N Anime Society present the Eastern Shore Fan Con at UMES each spring. PLB, with 11 books in print, participates in local events such as Salisbury 3rd Fridays and Salisbury Roller Girls bouts.
Doug Draper, a widely published, award-winning artist who graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, will display his art in UMES' show. Draper is currently the lead artist for a community project creating a 30 x 5 foot mural for the Wicomico County Public Library, Holt said.
Two other artists round out the event. Jason McKee of Salisbury is a free-lance artist specializing in many mediums, although his favorite is still pencil and paper, he said. Ryan Thompson of Cailean Works, draws comics "all day, all the time" and is influenced by Japanese and European cartooning.
Artists will display their portfolios and have comic books, art prints and commissions available for purchase during the reception. The exhibit is on display through Nov. 8. Call 410-651-7770 or visit www.moselygallery.com for more information.
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Gundersen Health System is teaming up with Hamilton Elementary and SOTA 1 to offer a weekly pediatric clinic in the school.
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School administrators hope it will be an added convenience for parents, especially for those juggling parenting and multiple jobs. "At the end of the day it's a good thing for our families, it's a great thing for our kids, the healthier our kids are the better they're going to do in school, the more they're going to be here," said principal Steve Michaels.
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conducted my feasibility study and statistical surveys during my final year at Evergreen to enlighten me as to whether necessity existed for a resource tool which allowed someone to locate the spelling of their word by the way it sounds. Evergreen State College, as a interdisciplinary school, allowed me full and complete access to equipment, internet, scholars, foreign students, marketing avenues and the world in general, with free reign yet under the guidance of caring and knowledgeable professors. Having access to the world via the large and diverse foreign student population alone was of great asset. Employing the use of a statistics class enabled me to design an unbiased survey which would elicit honest answers, therefore honest results from a large diverse geographical, economic and cultural population. Posing as a student allowed me access to interviews and leaders of companies and organizations who would have been challenging to approach if I had not been a student. As a student, to be able to locate and access linguist specialists, lexicographers, librarians, business professors, typesetters, graphic designers, book binders, leaders in public administration, language specialists, teachers of many schools across the world and students new to this country learning English as a Foreign Language (ESL) was absolutely invaluable! Having access to the computers and software alone to design the interior of the dictionary, web pages, maneuver around on the internet for research allowed me access to penetrate a world which became my playground. The more I learned, the less I feared. My passion for my project grew enormously as I gained confidence that my undertaking would not be in vain and may actually succeed if I persevered. My access to students with various learning disabilities as well as those who were learning English as a first and second language combined well with my previous experience as a tutor of literacy within community colleges at four various states over the years. I designed the methodology for the book while at Evergreen and did not deviate from this design nary once in the 10 years of growing this phonetic dictionary to a 35,000 word base. As much as I tried, my thorough research and development which I originated as a student could not have been designed any better. The original design is thorough and fully functional. Not a one person has come up with a better idea to change the algorithm. "Gabby's Wordspeller & Phonetic Dictionary" is the first, only. true American English Phonetic Dictionary which invites you to 'find your word by the way it sounds'. My favorite responses from those who have purchased it are, "Awesome Book!" and "This is the bridge we have needed to enable people access standard dictionaries!". Within two months by 'word of mouth' marketing, this dictionary has already captured the attention and acceptance of the Texas Department of Education, Dylsexia.com, Dyslexia.org, Tacoma School District, Thurston County WorkSource Learning Disabilities, U of W Bookstore, National Association of Secondary School Principals, Colima University, Colima, Mexico, public libraries across the country as well as teachers, literacy centers, people in the trades, librarians and especially students of ESL. The genre' this dictionary has already penetrated incorporates the nation and any country who speaks ESL. Becoming a self-publisher and forming my own publishing company, DaMeFRANK Publishing has definitely had its rewards. I studied the publishing market while at TESC and had resolved to self-publish then and there. Knowledge provides comfort. And experiential knowledge is now my wisdom. I have created a FIRST and an original. By having studied my market I was enlightened as to why there has not and will not exist a phonetic dictionary for a long time coming. My research and book was invited to become part of a committee by the International Phonetic Association (IPA). This association designs ISO codes which digital spell checkers and dictionaries use today. I also became aware, while conducting my feasibility study at TESC, that this style of resource tool would be a bit of a hard sell at the beginning. Not only was I introducing to the world a 'new concept' but would also be educating them to the efficiency and speed this tool would lend to those who could not find their word within seconds with digital spell checkers and dictionaries. There are today, forums full of people airing their complaints about the inadequacies of spell checkers. And although I am not allowed to promote commercially my book on a large percentage of these sites, I am quietly humbled that I have created a tool which will help millions once they catch wind that "Gabby's" exists. This is going to be a fun ride!


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Ben Dotson, from the Office of Public Affairs, and Suzanne Nawrot, from Office of the Chief Information Officer, have been instrumental leading the award winning Energy.gov digital reform efforts, helping to save the Department $10 million annually. Many other talented individuals across the Department have also driven website reform work in their own offices, including Louise Fickel, from the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability; Kelly Knopf, from the Office of Environmental Management; and Lee Blackard, from the Office of Hearings and Appeals.
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This special edition will focus on assessment and instruction.
2013 ACCESS for ELLs® Score Posting
The release of the 2013 ACCESS results is delayed due to the fact that some anomalous patterns have been discovered in the data:
- An inappropriate reference table was used for scoring the Kindergarten reading portion of the test, which may have led to inflated results, affecting all students at that grade level.
- Other unusual shifts in data patterns, from 2012 to 2013, have been observed in additional domains and grade levels, but there are no confirmed inaccurate results other than for the Kindergarten reading domain.
ISBE is working with the test developer, publisher, and scoring vendor to investigate more closely.
ISBE received a new data file with corrected 2013 ACCESS Kindergarten on Thursday, May 2nd. If, after careful examination, the results are accurate, we will release results the week of May 6, 2013.
Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC)
Local district administrators and bilingual program directors are encouraged to review the draft PARCC Accommodations Manual and complete the feedback survey. For more information, see http://www.parcconline.org/parcc-draft-accommodations-manual . The deadline to respond is May 13, 2013.
National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition Webinar
The National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition is hosting a webinar entitled, "Teaching and Learning for Students with Interrupted Formal Education & Refugee Backgrounds" on May 15, 2013 from 12:00-1:00 p.m. EST. Dr. Myrna Ann Adkins and Dr. Andrea DeCapua will be the presenters. To register, see: http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/webinars/preevent/39. A summary description has been provided as a preview along with important technical requirements.
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As a follow up to the March 20 webinar Meeting the Needs of Students with Interrupted Formal Education & Refugee Backgrounds, our next webinar will focus on classroom practices and strategies which support refugee students and students with interrupted formal education (SIFE), aged 13-16. Dr. Myrna Ann Adkins, President and CEO of the Spring Institute for Intercultural Learning, will focus on background pedagogical knowledge that equips teachers to work effectively with this population of students, including ways to increase sensitivity to the specific backgrounds of diverse students, as well as looking at behavioral and other signs which might indicate a history of trauma survivorship. Dr. Andrea DeCapua, Educational Consultant and Adjunct Assistant Professor at New York University, will continue the discussion by examining different ways of learning and assumptions about teaching and learning. This will be followed by considering how to best transition students with limited or interrupted formal education to U.S. educational settings and by providing examples of successful strategies and classroom practices. Both presenters will provide resources for further learning and exploration.
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- the importance of language objectives.
- a step-by-step process for crafting powerful language objectives.
- how to use WIDA's resources (CAN DO Descriptors, MPIs, etc.) to inform the development of language objectives.
- examples of language objectives and use in a classroom.
In Illinois, there's a strong priority on helping English Language Learners (ELLs) develop academic language. To do this, we know that effective instruction for ELLs requires both content and language instruction. However, crafting effective language objectives for ELLs may require some support. ESL and bilingual educators are asking a variety of questions, including:
- What does an effective language objective look like?
- How do I use World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment (WIDA) to help craft language objectives?
- Who can I learn from and are there best practices?
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