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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (303 votes).
In short: Excellent event. Brilliant atmosphere. Great running weatherIn full: Well, the Sunday weather couldn't have been better...cold and frosty when I arrived but warming up as the sun gained elevation. Just right to avoid overheating. In fact I ended up running without my hat and gloves.I agree that there could have been a staggered start for latecomers...the chip timing allows for that, but the half hour delay wasn't really *that* inconvenient.I found it less intimidating than I'd thought it would be. A lot of the wading could be avoided if you wanted to. Some of the frozen ruts were potential ankle snappers, but anyone doing this race really should expect the water, mud and ruts: the literature hardly hides it!I loved it. It made a real change from the road races I've done recently. The atmosphere was superb. They ought to have a go at sorting out the eccentric mile marker placements next year though...it's not rocket science these days!I'll definitely be back.Date of review: December 7, 2008
In short: Grimtastic fun!In full: My first Grim, done Sunday so freezing cold but blue skies and sunshine made for a glorious day. Great mix of puddles, knee deep porridgey mud, trails, tracks, open land and forest. People have commented not Grim enough, but probably serves as a good introduction for the masses to the more extreme stuff.Giggled all the way round - great fun, which is what its all about.Date of review: December 7, 2008
In short: Strange race, more wading than running - the last 3 miles made it worthwhileIn full: A cold and frosty start with glorious sunshine. The organisers made a bad decision to delay the race by half an hour for late-comers. This really spoilt the start, as we all got very cold. Should have dome a 10.30am start for the majority and an 11.00am start if they wanted for the late arrivals. Nice set of race officials and supporters; plenty of loos and baggage facilities.The first 5 miles was hideous - very wet and muddy; plenty of thigh-deep puddles. The last 3 miles were glorious running on tracks in lovely countryside. Would do it again Date of review: December 7, 2008
In short: Brilliant race well runDate of review: December 7, 2008
In short: You gotta love this race ....!!In full: Ran the Saturday race this year, my third outing and every bit as enjoyable as the last two. Nice t-shirt but goody bag?? Got a bottle of water that was very welcome but that was it. Don't mind as I enjoyed the race but if its in the literature ....? Atmosphere is great every year, marshalls always encourage everyone - even us back-markers - which makes us feel wanted. Keep it up guys, I WILL be back again .. maybe with my son next year ... Date of review: December 7, 2008
In short: Fantastic!Date of review: December 7, 2008
In short: Super day, Super Cold.In full: Arrived in plenty of time, directions spot on and parked next to start finish area so able to wait and change in car. Icy conditions meant for a slow start but I was soon splashing through the icy water with the rest. It was a 300 mile round trip for us but really enjoyed it although not as Grim As I thought. Beautiful sunny day to take your mind off the numb toes. Only Gripe is the T Shirt I would love to have worn it down the Pub but they had run out of Small size so its one for the nightshirt pile again. Hope to be back next year.Date of review: December 7, 2008
In short: Good fun but I expected much harderIn full: I expected something more on the lines of HellRunner but Grim is So much easier, prob so they can get so many people to do it. Could have made it harder by taping more route into the water rather than round it. Will be back to try again with more mud and water with luck next year, the ice made the mud hard so it was easier than expected today. Worth the 3 hour each way drive.Date of review: December 7, 2008
In short: Challenges novice and experienced runnersIn full: Lovely scenery and large number of runners.The only improvement would be more obstacles. Perhaps, bales to jump or similar as there was not enough mud to make it the ultimate trail race.Very satisfying and well worth going toThe cold made for hard ridges and high impact clearly, nothing could be done about that!Gripe with attitude of some runners who barged their way to the front of the start despite arriving late and also a comment made behind me that I was going to be the last female not his running partner! Very satisfying when I passed them as they walked having pushed to fast over the first part!A lot of people walked the last mile or so I pressed on I think they just went to fast!EnjoyableDate of review: December 7, 2008
In short: Cold, icy, freezing but great funIn full: Excellent race. Sunday was freezing cold, all the water was frozen and leg numbingly cold, the thick mud was great fun, nice couple of miles of flat track towards the end to really warm your self up after all the cold water - until you come to the giant freezing 2ft deep puddle 50 yards before the finish line.Great race and great fun too.Date of review: December 7, 2008
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Hi everyone. II'm new here and I'm a big Beatles fan and I love all the solo stuff too, well most of it as nobody's perfect (did someone say Ringo [8)]
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Fishing the Horseshoe
Fishing the horseshoe
A buddy and I are fishing the Smokies this weekend. One thing we are considering doing is fishing the horseshoe and the little horse shoe, and I had a couple of questions. I did a fair bit of searching on the forum, and couldnt find much on these questions. Any help would be appreciated.
1) What time does the gate open into Cades Cove? We are thinking we want to get there early and hike back a little before we start fishing. Since I hear it is going to take all day, I would rather get a quick start and skip ahead a third of the way.
2) How can I tell where to get out? Is the best thing to pre-scout the exit?
3) Can you see the entrance and exit to the horseshoe from the trail?
4) Is there a trail that follows the river, or do you pretty much just wade the river the whole way?
Again, thanks for any help you can provide.
1) it depends on what day you go as to when it opens. I believe that on saturdays it doesn't open until 10 or 11 to let the bikers enjoy it, but i think every other day it opens at 8
2) You should be able to see the trail when you enter and exit the horseshoe
3) see above
4) the trail follows the river the whole length pretty much except for the horseshoes.
From my understanding, it takes all day of really hustling fishing the big horseshoe. Due to the fact that the days length isn't at their peak just yet, i would think of maybe just hiking part of the horseshoe to make sure you are able to get back in time. If you have a gps, that would be good also that way you will know how much farther you have to go. Just be careful about the time, i believe i've heard that every year there is at least one fisherman who spends an unwanted night back in there. If you go, let us know how you do though.
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gz, Here is a report on my first trip to the 'shoe last Fall. You said you had done some searching on the forum, so if you had already seen this, I apologize. http://littleriveroutfitters.com/for...ead.php?t=9350
As for your questions:
Cades Cove Loop Road
Open all year from sunrise until sunset
This road will be closed to motor vehicles on Wednesday and Saturday mornings until 10:00 a.m. from May 7 through September 24, 2008 to allow bicyclists and pedestrians to enjoy the cove.
It is best to familiarize yourself with the exit point for the Big 'shoe, but its easier said than done. The exit point of the 'shoe is just before you cross over a ridge (Arbutus Ridge) and it will be the second "climb" of the trail at just over a mile into the hike. You'll probably be half way up the ridge before you realize it so it'll be hard to walk back down and find you exit point. It should take at least 6-8 hours to fish it if you hurry and don't spend too much time at any one pool. I think the middle 1/3 had better fishing, but the first 1/3 seemed to have more fish.
Depending on how late you get to the exit point you should see the ridge from the stream and people walking on the trail (especially on weekends). Don't even look for the trail until you have fished for 6 hours. Just keep fishing (and moving). At any point after crossing the ridge you can jump down to the stream and start fishing. you'll probably have to go about 200 yards (or more) to get to a point that "jumping" down to the stream is an option.
Like Craig said, the trail follows the stream for all but the 'shoe sections, so keep fishing and every once in awhile look up and to your left for the ridge. If you think you are near the trail, don't go more than 20 yds from the stream to look for it, and immediately return to the stream if you don't see it. I say that more to keep you from getting lost, than anything else. When you are actually near the trail, you will find it easily. If it takes any effort, then you are not there yet.
Remember...look for the ridge...look for the ridge...look for the ridge...
don't get out beforehand...
Most importantly, be safe (the rocks are covered with silt and are very, very slippery), have fun and take pictures!
"Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if he kept his mouth shut."
heres a map of the horseshoe. Maybe it will help some
Is that software or something online? It looks like it would be much more useful than the online stuff I have used.
"Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if he kept his mouth shut."
fished the big shoe on Thursday, April 10
I had intended to post a report then, but turned out to have a very busy weekend and never got around to it. Also I didn't have a lot to report. I arrived late and really had to fish fast. I caught a small rainbow on my first cast with a parachute adams and thought "all right this is going to be a great day". Turns out if you really enjoy catching shiners on a dry fly it was a good day. Don't get me wrong those shiners can be pretty and they apparently have a healthy appetite, I caught one that was less than 2" long on a size 14 PA. I know this happens a lot on Abrams, so I finally added a dropper. Somebody tell Hugh those shiners really like the smoky mountain blackbird soft hackle. I did catch some rainbows, but nothing over 8 inches. There were a lot of March Browns coming off, but I never saw one fish rise to one. The creek is full of shiners, maybe I should have tried a streamer.
As far as getting in and out goes, remember that you go above the creek one time and then back down to it before crossing Arbutus Ridge. I was running late and was in such a hurry and kept telling myself "cross first ridge and start fishin" that I actually jumped in the creek after this first little up and down and fished a little ways before realizing "I'm not in the horseshoe". Crossing Arbutus is very obvious after that. I noticed a tree that was down on the opposite side as the trail just before climbing Arbutus, I used that as a land mark to get out. There is a perfect exit poin just above this tree or you can keep fishing up to the next ledge which also provides a good exit point. As far as the shoe itself, I prefer to concentrate on the lower portions. Keep an eye out for Law Branch which enters on the right as you are making your way up the creek. It's not big but should be noticeable. I think this marks roughly 3/4 of the trip. If you have allowed 8 hours and you haven't seen Law Branch in 6 hours you need to pick up the pace. The creek had more water than I remembered and there is one section of the creek above Law Branch that takes a few minutes to wade through, the water was pretty pushy in this section and there are a lot of ledges running down the creek at an angle. The water was a perfect 58 degrees while I was there. I normally fish on Friday's but was worried about fishing behind someone so I took Thursday off to go. Only saw 2 other fisherman who were exiting the creek in front of me up near the trailhead as I was coming out. I don't believe they had been in the horseshoe, but I din't get to talk with them. Hope this helps.
let me clarify
In case that didn't sound the way I intended it. The Trout also like Hugh's SMBBSH. That's why I tied it on as a dropper. When the shiners are eating the dry, it seems that the trout will eat the dropper and the shiners will leave it alone. I think I just found some real aggressive shiners. I love Hugh's fly. I prefer to fish dries in the mountain streams. I get plenty of dry dropper fishing on the SoHo. But, if I need a dropper in the smokys it will almost always be the SMBBSH, it has caught plenty of trout for me. Just wanted to set the record straight on that one.
Here are two images of the horseshoe in relation to the trailhead. The topo is the same scale as the aerial. I don't have photo-editing software available to me now, but if you know how to handle it, you might want to make one of the two photos somewhat transparent and overlay it on the other, then combine them. It will give you a better idea of the terrain in the area.
As one of the posters mentioned, you might consider scoping the upstream section of the horseshoe before climbing the ridge to put in so you know where to get out. You could even consider "creating" a landmark (on the other side of the creek so it doesn't get disturbed), such as a pile of rocks or a stick jammed into the ground in a recognizable way, etc.
You may notice on the topo a black dashed line leading from the trailhead along the creek, then up over the ridge. This is the trail.
Please bear in mind that I have no idea what I am talking about.
Just out curiosity gzollinger, what day this weekend were you planning on fishing the big horseshoe because I was planning on doing the same and I dont want to jump in front of you and ruin the holes?
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Devour Borders: Mexican food as revolutionary praxis
From Jeffrey M. Pilcher, The Rise and Fall of the Chili Queens, in Planet Taco: A Global History of Mexican Food (2012):
Mexican food [from worker-owned street vendors] was also seen as a threat to white workers, both through unfair competition and labor radicalism. Nativist opponents of immigrant workers claimed that the Mexican diet of tortillas and chili, like the Chinese staple rice, undermined the nation's standard of living. Mexican food was also associated with anarchism and union organizing. Tamale vendors were blamed for the Christmas Day Riot of 1913, when police raided a labor rally in Los Angeles Plaza. Milam Plaza in San Antonio, where the chili queens worked in the 1920s, was a prominent recruiting ground for migrant workers. Customers could eat their chili while listening to impassioned speeches by anarcho-syndicalists of the [Industrial] Workers of the World[1] and the Partido Liberal Mexicano.[2]
— Jeffrey M. Pilcher, The Rise and Fall of the Chili Queens
in Planet Taco: A Global History of Mexican Food (2012), p. 113
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Microsoft Corp. has finally revealed official details about Windows 8 operating system for ARM-based system-on-chips (SoCs). The software giant clearly wants end-users to have fully-fledged Windows experience on devices - primarily tablets at first - running ARM chips, but at the same time imposes restrictions that substantially limit third-party applications on Windows-on-ARM (WOA) platform.
"Using WOA 'out of the box' will feel just like using Windows 8 on x86/64. You will sign in the same way. You will start and launch apps the same way. You will use the new Windows Store the same way. You will have access to the intrinsic capabilities of Windows, from the new Start screen and Metro style apps and Internet Explorer, to peripherals, and if you wish, the Windows desktop with tools like Windows File Explorer and desktop Internet Explorer," wrote Steven Sinofsky, the president of the Windows division at Microsoft, in a blog post dedicated to the new Windows platform.
Windows on ARM can support all new Metro style apps, including apps from Microsoft for mail, calendaring, contacts, photos, and storage. WOA also includes support for hardware-accelerated HTML5 with Internet Explorer 10. WOA also includes desktop versions of the new "Office 15" Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote, the applications which have have been significantly architected for both touch and minimized power/resource consumption, while also being fully-featured for consumers and providing complete document compatibility. Moreover, WOA fully supports the Windows desktop experience, File Explorer, Internet Explorer 10, Windows desktop features and so on.
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Hollywoodnews.com: There's a slew of fresh faces in season 3 of "True Blood."
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Alcide Heveraux (Joe Manganiello). He's been the most talked about werewolf character leading up to season 3. Who is Manganiello? He's a 33-year old actor who has cut his teeth in acting, initially as Peter Parker's (Tobey Maguire) nemesis Flash Thompson in "Spider-Man." Also, Manganiello, played the best friend, Brad, to Jason Segel's character in "How I Met Your Mother." His alter-ego on "True Blood" is apparently the gentle werewolf who assists Sookie in her quest to find Bill. Apparently, he really gives her a tour of his hairy-moonlit world. Alcide also looks out for her. No word if a Bella-Jacob affair a la "Twilight" is in the works here. Alcide is also a member of the werewolf biker gang.
Coot (Grant Bowler) is the new leader of the new werewolf biker gang, Fuck You Crew.
Debbie Pelt (Brit Morgan) is a Werelynx and use to date Alcide. She doesn't really like that Sookie's in the picture. She's seeing Coot now, but has enough cajones to kill, just like a vampire.
Russell Edgington (Denis O'Hare) is the King of Mississippi in the southern vampire clan. He's, oh, 3,000 years old. He is suppose host Bill in a future episode. He has money, class, but is evil through and through.
Franklin Mott (James Frain) is the supposed new love interest of broken-hearted Tara, who watched her demon-possessed b.f. Eggs get gunned down last season. Mott supposedly isn't playing with a full deck.
Talbot (Theo Alexander) is Edgington's vampire companion and lover. Originally, he was portrayed as human in the books. We're not sure how Alan Ball will paint him on TV.
Melinda Mickens Tommy (J. Smith-Cameron) plays Sam Merlotte's Momma. For non-watchers, Merlotte runs the local bar in Bon Temps where a lot of stuff goes down. It's not entirely clear if she shifts or not, but we'll put her here since shifting runs in the Mickens family. Sam is her adopted son.
Tommy Mickens (Marshall Allman) is Sam's poor half brother. Shifters change into different animals.
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Yesterday's poll revealed almost 80% of responders experienced changes in their TeaTastes since last Spring. The discussion was very interesting as so many changes in tea tastes were revealed. I found it to be great conversation, over tea of course. You may still respond to the poll and topic.
Half way through the week...shincha is approaching fast, but never fast enough.
Welcome to TeaDay, fill a pot and share what is in your cup with everyone. Stop by through out the day and share updates. If you must, check in later in the day to reflect back on your TeaDay. Of course, while you are here, check out what everyone is drinking, that is a TeaBlast.
Today's TeaPoll and discussion topic...since yesterday was so interesting, let's go back to the future. Do you anticipate changes in your TeaTastes over the next year? Major, minor, a constant state of flux? Do you know the changes already. Share with us. I think this will be very interesting!!!
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Emily Ann Bruski and Mark Andrew Rysberg exchanged their wedding vows Sept. 29, 2012 at Reeds Lake in East Grand Rapids. The ceremony was officiated by the Honorable James Fisher.
The bride is the daughter of Dan and Sally Bruski of Alpena. The groom is the son of Brian and Linda Rysberg of Traverse City.
Attending the bride as maids of honor were her cousin, Lindsay Fitzpatrick, and her friend, Meghann Mikluscak. Bridesmaids were Stephany Ferder, Diana Miers, Aimee Chrzan, Erica Senchuk, Chelsey Bruski, Bonnie Prevette and Cari Campbell.
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Emily is a 2000 graduate of Alpena High School, a 2004 graduate of the University of Michigan, a 2007 graduate of Walden University, and a 2010 graduate of the Thomas M. Cooley Law School. She is currently employed as a litigation attorney with Law Weathers in Grand Rapids.
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An old friend informs me (and he would know – he swam the 10K at the 2008 Olympics) that the dehydration I experienced in Miami may have been more perceived than actual. Saltwater in the mouth and throat can induce craving for fresh water even when your body is adequately hydrated. More important, he suggests, is energy. While I did stash a gel pack in my suit (and consumed it at the 5K mark), he says he'd actually take 3 or 4 during a 10K.
In any case, don't drink the saltwater!
One important issue I didn't mention in my race report is chafing. I didn't mention it because, I suppose, it's one of the few things I did right that day.
Saltwater is highly abrasive, and without preventive measures you can develop some nasty irritation – even on a short, half-hour swim. Anywhere your skin rubs together – especially in the armpit region – is vulnerable.
The solution? A liberal application, with rubber gloves, of a mixture of 50% anhydrous lanolin, 50% vaseline. Vaseline has good consistency and is easy to remove, but less staying power in a long swim. Lanolin has great staying power but a wax-like consistency, and is difficult to remove (even with soap). Combine the two and you get the best of both worlds.
Rubber gloves are essential – you don't want to get that sh** on your goggles!
Credit for this grease recipe goes to 'chaos', who writes a great blog at usms.org.


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As a Buccaneers' fan, you may or may not be capable of rooting for the Falcons, who will be hosting the 49ers in the NFC Championship Game next week. We can understand either decision here in the Captain's Blog, but one thing is undeniable: The NFC South has been the NFL's most competitive division, across the board, since it was created during the 2002 realignment.
Atlanta's advancement to the NFC title game didn't really change that. The Bucs' division was already the only one of the eight that had already sent all four of its teams to a conference championship game. Tampa Bay went en route to capturing the title in 2002, and New Orleans did the same in 2009. Carolina went to the NFC Championship Game in both 2003 and 2005, making it to the Super Bowl in '03 before losing to New England. Atlanta was there in 2004, losing to Philly.
No other division can match that this year. San Francisco is the third NFC West team to make it to the conference title team, but St. Louis is still left out. New England, obviously, has been there multiple times, as has Baltimore.
Again, whether or not you can stand to root for Atlanta is your business, but it's worth noting that the South could also be the first division since realignment to get all four of its teams into the Super Bowl. The Bucs' division is already the only one that has crowned two different Super Bowl champions, and there's a chance, of course, that could become three this year.
The Buccaneers kicked off the NFL's newest division in grand fashion in 2002, winning Super Bowl XXXVII. Since then, no other division has consistently been in the running for the title as the NFC South. Whether or not you root for other teams in the division, it's clear that winning in the NFC South really means something, and that is good for the Buccaneers.


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Dan's appeal to me is his turning toward what is alive, pleasurable, and ethical -- as you said. This is indeed a great social movement that could move through all our sad, unhappy systems -- could change how we define productivity and prosperity, just to name two. Thank you!

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Liverpool on Film
As part of Movie City Liverpool, David Parkinson provides a fascinating and thorough history of Merseyside's multifaceted relationship with the movies.
Part 1: Silent Beginnings
For the last half century, Liverpool has been synonymous with pop music and football. Yet it's been quite some time since a Mersey beat band has dominated the charts, while rival teams Liverpool and Everton are currently going through a trophyless phase. In the midst of this decline, however, Liverpool has emerged as Britain's second busiest film location after London.
Indeed, the cityscape has been a familiar sight for moviegoers since 1896 when Lumière cameraman Alexandre Promio filmed milling pedestrians and horse-drawn trams beside St George's Hall. The following year, a travelling shot taken aboard the Overhead Railway (nicknamed "The Docker's Umbrella") depicted tall-masted ships at anchor and the port's comings and goings captured the public imagination.
Many landmark images around this period were recorded by documentary cameramen, including several visits by King George V. But Liverpool was also responsible for fostering screen royalty. The 11 year-old Charlie Chaplin attended St Francis Xavier's primary school from October 1900, while his family was playing the region's music halls that would later be the proving ground for both Chaplin and Stan Laurel, as members of the Fred Karno comedy troupe that also launched the career of Jimmy Aubrey.
This pugnacious character became such a key figure in the nascent slapstick community that not only did he get his wish to be paid in gold coins, but he also persuaded Vitagraph's star clown Larry Semon to fire sidekick Oliver Hardy for hogging his limelight. Stan Laurel supervised several Aubrey shorts before his fortunes dipped in the mid-1920s and he ended his career taking bit parts in B movies.
One of the founders of Hollywood also had Liverpudlian roots, as Cecil B. DeMille's mother, Beatrice, was born here in 1853. She was 18 when the Samuel family sailed for New York and was making her name on the stage when she married playwright Henry De Mille in 1876. Her first son, William, became an actor of some note. But Cecil struggled to find a niche before she encouraged him to try his hand at motion pictures and within his first two years on the West Coast he had directed 20 films. Beatrice followed in his wake and, having penned scenarios for directors George Melford and Frank Reicher, produced the storyline for Cecil's 1917 melodrama, The Devil-Stone.
Another exile who made good at this time was Al Hart, who ranked among the stalwarts of the fledgling Western. And outlaws were also beginning to figure in some innovative thrillers back on Merseyside, including The Arrest of Goudie (1901), a prototype crime reconstruction that was screened just three days after Thomas Goudie was apprehended for embezzling £170,000. A decade later, George Pearson demonstrated the growing sophistication of British cinema with the Sherlock Holmes case, A Study in Scarlet (1914), and the Fantômas-like serial, Ultus, the Man from the Dead (1916).
Liverpool's famous waterfront featured even more prominently in A.V. Bramble's take on Silas Hocking's bestselling Dickensian yarn, Her Benny (1920), as Victorian waifs Sydney Wood and Babs Reynolds sold matches and carried luggage at the Pier Head to support their work shy parents. But the most valuable screen record of the period is Anson Dyer's travelogue, A Day in Liverpool (1929), which adopted the `city symphony' style perfected by Walter Ruttmann in Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (1927) and Dziga Vertov in The Man With a Movie Camera (1929).
Part 2: Hollywood on the Mersey
Several low-budget British pictures boasted Scouse settings as silents gave way to talkies, among them Arthur Rooke's The Blue Peter (1928) and Carol Reed's Penny Paradise (1938). But Hollywood also exploited Merseyside's maritime heritage in Alfred E. Green's George Arliss melodrama, Old English (1930), and Henry Hathaway's slave-trading adventure Souls at Sea (1937), which teamed Gary Cooper and George Raft.
The Swiss thinker Carl Jung once described Liverpool as "the pool of life." But the city's unique ambience depends as much on the personality of the people, as much its exceptional architecture and erstwhile status as the gateway to the British Empire. Given the natural wit and ebullience of the average Wacker, it's hardly surprising that so many have become celebrated screen actors since sound transformed cinema in 1927.
The clipped tones of Leslie Banks might only have been heard from a pulpit if he hadn't become involved with amateur dramatics. The Great War disrupted his stage career and left him with the facial injury that prevented him from becoming a matinee idol. But he excelled on his Hollywood debut, as the demented hunter Count Zaroff in Ernest B. Schoedsack and Irving Pichel's horror classic, The Most Dangerous Game (1932), and returned to Britain to work with Alfred Hitchcock on The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) and Jamaica Inn (1939). In 1937, he co-starred with Henry Fonda in the UK's first Technicolor feature, Harold Schuster's Wings of the Morning, and held his own against Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh in William K. Howard's Tudor flagwaver, Fire Over England. Banks reunited with Olivier as The Chorus in the epic colour adaptation of Shakespeare's Henry V (1945). But his finest role was as the quisling squire in Alberto Cavalcanti's wartime thriller, Went the Day Well? (1942), which was based on a short story by Graham Greene.
Dame May Whitty was another character player of genuine prowess. The daughter of the editor of the Liverpool Post, she earned plaudits on both sides of the Atlantic for her stage work. Yet despite making her screen debut in Christy Cabanne's Enoch Arden in 1915, the 72 year-old only returned to the screen in 1937 to receive a Best Supporting Oscar nomination for her performance as the testy hypochondriac being menaced by Robert Montgomery in Richard Thorpe's Night Must Fall. She also shone as the eponymous spy in Alfred Hitchcock's train-board classic, The Lady Vanishes (1938), before being nominated for a second time as Teresa Wright's blue-blooded grandmother in William Wyler's Home Front soap, Mrs Miniver (1942). However, Whitty was never wildly impressed by the Hollywood fame game and when asked about glamour by one reporter, she replied, `I've got everything Betty Grable has...only I've had it longer.'
Three Liverpudlian directors also made their mark during cinema's Golden Age.
Charles J. Brabin started out as an actor, but he proved himself a cine-innovator by producing America's first serial, the 12-part What Happened to Mary (1912). Having scored a hit with his Edgar Allan Poe adaptation, The Raven (1915), Brabin met and married Theda Bara, whose performances as an exotic vamp had made her one of the biggest stars in the world. In 1923, he invested his own money in Driven, an experiment in social realism that drew rave reviews, but so alienated studio moguls suspicious of independent production that Louis B. Mayer had him fired from MGM's version of Lew Wallace's Roman blockbuster Ben-Hur (1925) for supposedly losing control of the Italian shoot. Undeterred, Brabin sued for damages and so successfully restored his reputation during the late silent era that Mayer rehired him and he proved himself a master of malevolent morbidity with the Boris Karloff vehicle, The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932). MGM had the last word, however, as wünderkind producer Irving G. Thalberg removed Brabin from Rasputin and the Empress (1932) for failing to bring the best out of its stars, Ethel, John and Lionel Barrymore.
Leslie Fenton arrived Stateside as a child and began acting as a teenager. He had a penchant for playing charming lowlifes like Shakespeare in Josef von Sternberg's prototype gangster picture, The Dragnet (1928), Samuel `Nails' Nathan opposite James Cagney in The Public Enemy (1931) and Harry En Hai alongside Edward G. Robinson in The Hatchet Man (1932), which were both directed by William A. Wellman. But, by the end of the decade, Fenton had retreated behind the camera for the tense MGM programmers, Tell No Tales and Stronger Than Desire (both 1939). However, he was soon relegated to series entries like The Saint's Vacation (1943) for RKO, although he made more of an impression with the Third Reich drama, Tomorrow the World (1944), and the 1948 Alan Ladd outings, Saigon and Whispering Smith.
The last of this triumvirate had the most talent. Arthur B. Woods quit his Cambridge medical studies to work in repertory theatre. Having cut his teeth as an editor with a documentary unit, he became the youngest director at British International Pictures with On Secret Service (1933). Over the next eight years, he made 27 features across the generic range. But he came into his own with They Drive By Night (1938), a quota quickie made for Warner Bros. at Teddington Studios that presaged both social realism and film noir with its brooding tale of a recently released criminal who is wrongly accused of murder. Co-directed with Tim Whelan and starring Laurence Olivier and Ralph Richardson, the espionage gem Q Planes (1939) further bolstered Woods's growing reputation, as did Busman's Holiday (1940), which paired Robert Montgomery and Constance Cummings as Dorothy L. Sayers's sleuths Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane. However, it proved to be his last assignment, as Woods became the only British director to volunteer for active duty during the Second World War and he was killed while serving as a fighter pilot with the Royal Air Force.
Part 3: Wartime Liverpool
Some of Hollywood's finest were billeted at the RAF base at Burtonwood on the outskirts of Liverpool between 1942-45, chief among them James Stewart, who flew B-24 Liberation bombers on missions over occupied Europe. At various times during this period, Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Irving Berlin and Glenn Miller dropped in to entertain the enlisted personnel. Yet because Merseyside was so frequently targeted by the Luftwaffe, location shooting all-but ceased. Nevertheless, John Paddy Carstairs' George Formby farce Spare a Copper (1940), Walter Forde's penny dreadful Atlantic Ferry (1941) and Carl Lamac's domestic drama It Happened One Sunday (1944) all had Liverpool connections.
More significantly, Pat Jackson recruited local seamen for his adrift in the Atlantic masterpiece, Western Approaches (1944), in which the crew of a lifeboat attempts to warn the vessel coming to its rescue of the proximity of the U-boat that torpedoed its convoy supply ship. Commissioned by the Crown Film Unit and photographed in Technicolor in often hazardous conditions by Jack Cardiff, this audacious blend of human drama and combat thriller proved much more effective propaganda than the more gung-ho actioners produced in wartime Hollywood. Moreover, Jackson (who is now in his 90s) anticipated neo-realism in his insistence on authentic situations and the use of non-professional performers and it's high time that this remarkable achievement was recognised as one of the most important British films ever made.
While Western Approaches aroused patriotic pride in domestic audiences, the comedies of Liverpudlian funnymen Arthur Askey and Tommy Handley helped maintain spirits during some of the darkest days of the conflict. In tandem with Richard "Stinker" Murdoch, "Big-Hearted Arthur" enjoyed his biggest success with Val Guest's 1939 screen version of the hit radio show, Band Waggon, while Handley also reprised his airwaves success as the mayor of Foaming-at-the-Mouth in Walter Forde's It's That Man Again (1943). Handley reunited with Forde for Time Flies (1944), in which he travelled back to the Elizabethan era in inventor Felix Aylmer's time machine. But although he died of a cerebral haemorrhage in 1949, the genius of ITMA will be forever commemorated on the cover of Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967), as Handley is the man in the flat cap next to Marilyn Monroe.
Part 4: Wit and Grit
The tone of British comedy changed after the war and one of the prime movers was born a ferry ride across the water in Wallasey. On leaving Oxford, Charles Crichton worked as an editor on several prestigious Alexander Korda productions before joining Ealing Studios in 1940. His directorial debut, For Those in Peril (1944), was a docudramatic tribute to the Fleet Air Arm's air-sea rescue teams. But its scenarist, TEB Clarke, was an even keener observer of the foibles of the British character and, together with Crichton, he developed the Ealing Comedy template with Hue and Cry (1947), The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) and The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953). Although he went on to prove a versatile filmmaker, Crichton was always associated with lighter entertainments. So, having made several business training videos with John Cleese, he signed up for the Ealingesque A Fish Called Wanda (1988), which earned Crichton Oscar nods as both director and co-writer.
Tibby Clarke continued to alternate between gentle farce and gritty realism and his script for Charles Frend's The Magnet (1950) combines comic-strip fantasy with rough verism, as 10 year-old James Fox (billed here as William) cons a boy into swapping his prized magnet for an invisible watch. This is essentially a bourgeois parable. But it bears a passing resemblance to the `rubble films' being made at the time in the divided Germany and not only were Scouse accents audible, but Chinese kid Geoffrey Yin provided a rare screen example of Britain's growing multiculturalism.
As a thriving port, Liverpool was exposed to overseas influence more consistently than the remainder of the rather insular island. But the peripatetic lifestyle of the mercantile crews led to much domestic instability, as Michael Anderson revealed in Waterfront (1950), in which embittered mariner Robert Newton returns home 14 years after abandoning wife Kathleen Harrison to find himself ostracised by daughters Avis Scott and Susan Shaw.
Despite Newton's grandstanding as the soused salt who winds up behind bars for killing a shipmate, this slum saga brought an edge to Liverpool movies that has since become their leitmotif. The influence of American problem pictures and rock 'n' roll also impinged upon Mersey movies as post-war conformity and consensus began to crumble.
In Herbert Wilcox's These Dangerous Years (1957), gang leader and wannabe rocker Frankie Vaughan kicks against army discipline when he is called up for National Service. And just as George Baker's padre tries to help Vaughan, so priest Peter Cushing and juvenile liaison officer Stanley Baker seek to put pyromaniac David McCallum back on the straight and narrow in Basil Dearden's Violent Playground (1958).
Even Hollywood stars were tempted to Liverpool in the 1950s, with Abbott and Costello, Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, Danny Kaye, Laurel and Hardy, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Betty Hutton, Donald O'Connor and Jimmy Durante among those to play the famous Empire Theatre.
In 1959, Van Johnson headlined Jack Cardiff's 1959 adaptation of the AJ Cronin novel, Beyond This Place (known as Web of Evidence in the U.S.), as a wartime evacuee who returns from the States for the first time in 20 years to discover that the father he thought died a war hero is actually languishing in prison for murder. And Susan Hayward similarly endures injustice in Robert Stevens' I Thank a Fool (1962), as her Canadian medic is jailed for the mercy killing of her married lover and then framed by prosecuting attorney Peter Finch for the death of his mentally unstable wife, Diane Cilento.
Part 5: Scouse Oscar Winners
Few Liverpudlian performers made a commensurate impact on Tinseltown during the 40s and 50s, although Patricia Medina co-starred with Gene Kelly in George Sidney's The Three Musketeers (1948) before forging swashbuckling partnerships with Louis Hayward and Alan Ladd. Yet while she remained in demand, the likes of Orson Welles' Mr Arkadin (1955) were outnumbered by such B-Hive fodder as Walter Lang's Snow White and the Three Stooges (1961).
Medina briefly made a comeback alongside Beryl Reid and Susannah York in Robert Aldrich's lesbian drama, The Killing of Sister George (1968). But there were no second chances for Gia Scala. Born in Liverpool, but raised in Sicily, Scala studied at the Actors Studio and made such a solid impression opposite Robert Mitchum in Robert Aldrich's The Angry Hills (1959) that she was cast as a Greek resistance fighter beside Gregory Peck, David Niven and Anthony Quinn in J. Lee Thompson's The Guns of Navarone (1961). However, a combination of alcohol and deep-rooted insecurity made her increasingly erratic. With the studios unwilling to risk her unpredictability after a series of arrests, Scala tried her luck in television and gaudy European actioners before committing suicide in April 1972.
John Gregson's big-screen career had ended the previous year in Peter Collison's chiller, Fright. However, he left an enduring legacy, whose undoubted high point was Henry Cornelius's vintage car classic, Genevieve (1953), in which Gregson and wife Dinah Sheridan raced from Brighton to London against spiky Kenneth More and his trumpet-playing girlfriend, Kay Kendall. But while Gregson occasionally returned to comedy, it tended to be in minor outings like Ken Annakin's Value for Money (1955) and Jack Lee's The Captain's Table (1959), as he alternated between military types in George More O'Ferrall's Angels One Five (1952) and Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Battle of the River Plate (1956), and rough diamonds in Roy Ward Baker's Jacqueline (1956) and George Pollock's Rooney (1958). However, Gregson's easy-going style felt from favour in an age of angry young men.
By contrast, Rex Harrison didn't just manage to survive the rise of kitchen sink realism, it heralded an upturn in his filmic fortunes. He had become something of a matinee idol in such diverse features as King Vidor's medical drama The Citadel (1938), Carol Reed's thriller Night Train to Munich (1940), David Lean's take on Noël Coward's spectral romance Blithe Spirit and Sidney Gilliat's class comedy, The Rake's Progress (both 1945). But his seven-year contract with Twentieth Century-Fox was cancelled after John Cromwell's Anna and the King of Siam (1946), Joseph L. Mankiewicz's The Ghost and Mrs Muir (1947) and Preston Sturges' Unfaithfully Yours (1948) disappointed at the box-office. Worse still, Harrison became mired in scandal when actress lover Carole Landis killed herself.
Licking his wounds on Broadway, he was cast as Professor Higgins in My Fair Lady and when George Cukor came to film the show, producer Jack Warner wanted Cary Grant to co-star with Audrey Hepburn. However, he refused saying, `not only will I not play in it, but if Rex Harrison doesn't do it, I won't even go to see it'.
Harrison won the Academy Award for Best Actor and was hurriedly signed to play Pope Julius II to Charlton Heston's Michelangelo in Carol Reed's Sistine Chapel epic The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965) and the veterinarian who could talk to the animals in Richard Fleischer's musical, Doctor Dolittle (1967). However, this misfire came as close to bankrupting Fox as Joe Mankiewicz's Cleopatra (1963), in which Harrison had played Caesar, and he largely devoted himself to the stage after shocking fans and critics alike by essaying a gay Brixton hairdresser opposite Richard Burton in Stanley Donen's Staircase (1969).
Sexy Rexy wasn't Merseyside's only Oscar winner in this period, as Birkenhead-born Glenda Jackson won the Best Actress statuette twice, for Ken Russell's Women in Love (1969) and Melvin Frank's A Touch of Class (1973). She was also nominated for John Schlesinger's Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) and Trevor Nunn's Hedda (1975). But Jackson was never one to court approval or take easy options and, having returned to Merseyside to play a boutique owner fighting for her rights in Lezli-An Barrett's anti-Thatcherite drama Business As Usual (1987), she was elected to parliament as a Labour MP in 1992.
Part 6: The Swinging Sixties
Tom Bell, Rita Tushingham, Leonard Rossiter, Norman Rossington and scream queen Barbara Steele all made their mark during the 1960s, as the world's attention was focused on Liverpool by the cultural phenomenon that was The Beatles. But while Merseybeat rivals like Gerry and the Pacemakers laboured in Jerry Summers's Ferry Cross the Mersey (1964), the Fab Four acted naturally in the Richard Lester showcases A Hard Day's Night (1964) and Help! (1965), appeared in cartoon form in George Dunning's psychedelic Yellow Submarine (1968) and allowed their break-up to be chronicled by Michael Lindsay-Hogg in the documentary Let It Be (1970). The latter won the band the Oscar for Best Song. But each Beatle has made a separate contribution to the moving image.
Having become the first Fab to go solo in order to take a supporting role in Dick Lester's How I Won the War (1966), John Lennon produced a series of avant-garde shorts with Yoko Ono, with Rape (1969) shockingly exposing the objectification of women by having a cameraman relentlessly pursue Eva Majlata through a city's streets before assaulting her. Paul McCartney composed the charming score for Roy Boulting's The Family Way (1966) and earned Best Song nominations for Live and Let Die (1973) and Vanilla Sky (2001). He has also shown a keen interest in animation, writing the song that inspired Oscar Grillo's Palme d'or-winning short Seaside Woman (1980) and voicing the part of Rumpelstiltskin in DreamWorks's forthcoming Shrek Forever After.
Despite an indifferent display in McCartney's vanity vehicle, Give My Regards to Broad Street (1984), Ringo Starr has proved himself to be a more than competent actor, most notably opposite Peter Sellers in Joseph McGrath's The Magic Christian (1969) and David Essex in Claude Whatham's rite of 50s passage, That'll Be the Day (1973). However, it was George Harrison who turned out to be the combo's movie mogul, as his HandMade Films not only rescued the cash-strapped production of Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979), but also helped revive the British film industry by sponsoring such modern classics as John Mackenzie's The Long Good Friday (1980), Neil Jordan's Mona Lisa (1986) and Bruce Robinson's Withnail & I (1987).
The Swinging Sixties took their toll on Liverpool, as the city went into serious social, economic and cultural decline. Of the few films to be made on Merseyside over the next 15 years, the only standouts were Jack Gold's The Reckoning (1969), in which Nicol Williamson returns home to avenge his father's death at the hands of some local thugs, and Stephen Frears's Gumshoe (1971), in which Albert Finney excels as the bingo caller whose love of pulp fiction prompts him to set up a detective agency.
Although Alan Bridges twice won the Palme d'or at Cannes with The Hireling (1973) and The Shooting Party (1985), other established directors like Peter Whitehead (Tonite Let's All Make Love in London, 1967) and Ken Hughes (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, 1968) discovered their best days were behind them. Indeed, just as producer Phil Redmond was putting Liverpool back on the dramatic map with the Channel 4 soap opera Brookside (1982-2003) and Chris Barnard was drawing plaudits for the Cold War romcom Letter to Brezhnev (1985), the balance of creative power was shifting decisively towards the city's writers.
Part 7: Scouse Scribes
Identical twins Anthony and Peter Shaffer each had their moments of triumph, with the former enjoying a run of hits that included Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy (1971), Joseph L. Mankiewicz's Sleuth (1972) and Robin Hardy's The Wicker Man (1973), as well as the Agatha Christie whodunits Death on the Nile (1978), Evil Under the Sun (1982) and Appointment with Death (1988). By the release of the latter, however, Peter had followed an Oscar nomination for adapting his theatrical succès de scandale Equus (1977) by winning the Academy Award for Milos Forman's Amadeus (1984).
Having become a familiar face in the TV cop show Z Cars (1962-65) and made an estimable screenwriting bow with John Schlesinger's Yanks (1979), Colin Welland also won an Oscar for Hugh Hudson's Chariots of Fire (1981). He famously closed his acceptance speech by averring that the British were coming. But it proved to be a false boast, with Welland's own career lurching between Bud Yorkin's Twice in a Lifetime (1985), Euzhan Palcy's A Dry White Season (1989) and John Roberts's War of the Buttons (1994).
Like many before him, horror specialist Clive Barker (Hellraiser, 1987 & Candyman, 1992) left Liverpool as his star rose. But Alan Bleasdale set such epochal teleplays as The Boys from the Blackstuff (1982) in his own backyard and caught the mood of a nation suffering the consequences of Margaret Thatcher's draconian economic reforms. Bleasdale ventured on to the big screen for No Surrender (1985), but his niche remained disconcerting armchair audiences with his incisive social critique and genius for street argot.
While Bleasdale started out writing for the Liverpool Playhouse, Willy Russell found his voice at the nearby Everyman Theatre before making his small-screen mark with Our Day Out (1978). His great strength has always been penning memorable roles for women and he earned both Julie Walters and Pauline Collins Oscar nominations in Lewis Gilbert's respective adaptations of Educating Rita (1983) and Shirley Valentine (1989).
Even more combative than Bleasdale, Jimmy McGovern has also done his best work for television. Unable to speak until he was seven years old, McGovern job hopped before joining the Brookside writing team in 1982. Having learned his craft, he scripted acclaimed series like Cracker (1993-95), as well as such powerful and politically committed TV-movies as Hillsborough (1996), Dockers (1999) and Sunday (2002). However, his inability to rein in a tendency towards emotional excess has undermined such feature efforts as Antonia Bird's Priest (1994), Charles McDougall's Heart (1998) and Stephen Frears's Liam (2000), which was particularly frustrating in the latter instance, as it explored the potentially fascinating subject of anti-Semitism in Depression-era Liverpool.
Another Brookside alumnus, Frank Cottrell Boyce, has made a much smoother transition to cinema. His partnership with director Michael Winterbottom has been particularly fruitful, with original features like Butterfly Kiss (1995), Welcome to Sarajevo (1997) and 24 Hour Party People (2002) being complemented by The Claim (2000) and A Cock and Bull Story (2005), which were respectively based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge and Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy. Cottrell Boyce's Jacqueline du Pré biopic, Hilary and Jackie (1998), was also admired, as was his adaptation of his own children's novel, Millions (2004), which was charmingly directed by Danny Boyle.
There have been brickbats, however, with both Pandaemonium (2000), Julien Temple's revisionist take on Wordsworth's friendship with Coleridge, and Richard Laxton's Liverpool allotments comedy Grow Your Own (2007) being coolly received. Cottrell Boyce similarly stumbled with his 2002 reworking of Thomas Middleton's Revengers Tragedy for Alex Cox. However, the maverick auteur has bounced back from bigger setbacks than this.
Part 8: Contrasting Auteurs
Cox began impressively, debuting with Repo Man (1984), whose mix of sci-fi, social satire and punk attitude made it an instant cult classic. He was also commended for Sid and Nancy (1986), which charted Sex Pistol Sid Vicious's tempestuous relationship with groupie Nancy Spungen. But he rejected offers to direct ¡Three Amigos! (1986), Robocop and The Running Man (both 1987) and his stock dipped sharply after the pseudo-spaghetti Western Straight to Hell and the self-consciously anachronistic biopic Walker (both 1987) were trashed in the US press.
Struggling to greenlight another project, Cox eventually made the Spanish-language docudrama Highway Patrolman (1991). But his adaptation of Jorge Luis Borges's Death and the Compass (1992) drew mixed notices and his well-publicised creative differences with the suits producing Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) led to his replacement by Terry Gilliam.
Cox returned to Liverpool for both Three Businessmen (1998), a Buñuelian satire in which he also co-starred, and his aforementioned dystopic update of Middleton's Jacobean melodrama. But, even though neither was particularly admired, Cox continues to go his own sweet way, following the Western road movie Searchers 2.0 (2007), which was co-financed by Roger Corman, with Repo Chick (2009), in which disinherited heiress Jaclyn Jonet falls in with a gang of golf-hating vegan terrorists.
Despite being markedly less nonconformist and much more a darling of the critics, Terence Davies has also had difficulty funding films. Abandoning a fitful acting career, Davies established himself as a directorial talent with a shorts trilogy comprising Children (1976), Madonna and Child (1980) and Death and Transfiguration (1983). He drew again on his childhood experiences within a working-class family for Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) and The Long Day Closes (1992), which expertly combined nostalgia for the communality of Liverpudlian life in the 1940s and 50s with fear of belligerent masculinity and guilt at burgeoning homosexuality. The latter was lauded at Cannes, as was The Neon Bible (1994), Davies's adaptation of John Kennedy Toole's teenage account of growing up among doughty women and violent men in the southern state of Georgia in the immediate post-war era.
However, Davies departed from previous preoccupations with The House of Mirth (2000), Edith Wharton's study of conformity, hypocrisy, passion and regret amidst polite New York society at the turn of the last century. Yet, despite it garnering international acclaim, Davies failed to find funding for further projects until he embarked upon the mellifluous memoir Of Time and the City (2008) under the auspices of the Digital Departures initiative that was established to mark Liverpool's year as European Capital of Culture. With its blend of found footage and waspish commentary, this bittersweet paean to a bygone age restored Davies to the British screen pantheon and it will be interesting to see what this irrepressible sixtysomething does next.
Part 9: The Mersey Boom
As for Liverpool itself, the movie boom that began in the early 1990s continues to gather momentum. Local actors like Alison Steadman, Paul McGann, Ian Hart, Jason Isaacs, Pete Postlethwaite, David Morrissey and Daniel Craig remain very much in demand for local and major studio pictures alike, while the city's landscape keeps decorating titles as diverse as Yentl (1983), The Hunt For Red October (1989), In The Name of the Father (1993), The Dark Knight (2008) and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I (2010).
Recognisable Liverpool genres are also starting to emerge, with Jim Doyle's Going Off Big Time (2000), Ronny Yu's Formula 51, Don Boyd's My Kingdom (both 2001) and James Marquand's Dead Man's Cards (2005) providing northern variations on the BritCrime formula, while Lawrence Gough's Salvage and Pat Holden's Awaydays (both 2009) chimed in with the current UK vogues for movies about zombies and football hooligans.
With Scousers being famed for their sense of humour, there has been no shortage of feel-good offerings like James Cellan Jones's Married 2 Malcolm (1998), Lee Donaldson's The Virgin of Liverpool (2003) and Sol Papadopoulos's Under the Mud (2006). Celebrations of the city's cultural heritage have also abounded, among them Mike Newell's An Awfully Big Adventure (1995), Bryan Izzard's Julie and the Cadillacs (1997) and Nick Mead's Swing (1999).
The most bankable standby, however, is the Beatle biopic. The finest examples to date are Christopher Munch's The Hours and Times (1991) and Iain Softley's Backbeat (1994). But Sam Taylor Wood's reconstruction of John Lennon's adolescence, Nowhere Boy (2009), is soon to be followed by Tony Gittelson's Brian Epstein tribute, A Life in the Day, and there are even rumours that Robert Zemeckis will supervise a 3-D reworking of Yellow Submarine.
Despite what the tabloid press might say, there's much more to Liverpool than scallies, soft lads and singers although Peter Chelsom managed to shoehorn all three into Hear My Song (1992). Strong women are one of the city's specialities, as can be seen from Jim O'Brien's The Dressmaker (1988), Frank Clarke's Blonde Fist (1991), Carine Adler's Under the Skin and Frances-Anne Solomon's Peggy Su! (both 1996).
The latter was set in the bustling Chinatown district and it would be good to see more movies embracing Liverpool's ethnic diversity. A few more dramas reflecting its passionate political past, like Ken Loach's Land and Freedom (1995), would also be welcome. And it's high time somebody examined the shameful profiteering from the slave trade that underwrote the city's architectural glories.
For now, however, let's just be grateful that Liverpool is producing such imaginative, if imperfect pictures as Nicola Scott's Fated (2004), Lindy Heymann's Kicks and David Morrissey's Don't Worry About Me (both 2009) – although there's no harm in hoping that Mike Myers (whose father Eric was a Scouser) can find the cash to adapt Nicky Allt's play, One Night in Istanbul, and further immortalise Liverpool's against-all-odds victory over AC Milan in the 2005 Champions League Final.


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One year after three offensive tackles were selected within the top five—Eric Fisher to Kansas City, Luke Joeckel to Jacksonville and Lane Johnson to Philadelphia—we're blessed with another fantastic offensive tackle crop in 2014. In fact, give me this year's group over the heavily lauded 2013 class.
With a group headlined by Greg Robinson (Auburn) and Jake Matthews (Texas A&M), who is the best of the bunch? That's what the NFL Draft 100 aims to find out.
The goal of the NFL Draft 100 series is to identify the best players at each position based purely on film study and analysis.
The B/R NFL Draft 100 metric is based on scouting each player and grading the key criteria for each position. The criteria are weighted according to importance on a 100-point scale. Unlike our NFL 1000 series, this project factors in upside for each player, as the NFL draft is as much about upside as it is about past production.
Offensive tackles are judged on run-blocking (40 points), pass-blocking (40 points), upside (20) and all of the technique, athletic ability and football intelligence needed to play the position.
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Since its introduction to the general public in late 2008, the SHARE Tolerance program has been experienced by thousands of middle school and high school students throughout Los Angeles County. The program's initial focus of educating teens on the subject of Hate Crime Education and Tolerance had an extremely positive impact wherever it was taught.
Following its great success with students, the program was considered for inclusion in the custody environment as part of Sheriff Baca's vision for Education Based Incarceration. In early 2010, a special classroom was designed and built inside the walls of Men's Central Jail that would allow facilitation of the SHARE Tolerance program to inmate students.
The classroom at Men's Central Jail was created to essentially mirror the "street" version of the SHARE Tolerance program. The same vivid graphics that were used for the mobile learning trailer were installed on the walls of the jail classroom and the room was also equipped with state-of-the-art audio/visual equipment, including surround sound and a ceiling mounted projector. The resulting visual effect of the room has literally been stunning. Inmates who have participated in the program have remarked on the extremely "positive learning atmosphere" that has been created by the room design.
As is the case with the street version of the SHARE Tolerance program, the specially made SHARE Tolerance video remains the mainstay of the facilitation process. The classes, which are all facilitated by trained deputy and custody assistant personnel, begin with a brief overview of the current status of hate crimes being committed in Los Angeles County. After the video presentation, the Department personnel skillfully facilitate a follow up discussion with the inmates participating in the class. A simple pre/post test tool is administered to measure the level of understanding about hate crimes and to poll participants as to whether or not they had ever been victims of a hate crime. The test results consistently showed a gain in knowledge about hate crimes and intolerance, but also dramatically demonstrated that over 75% of participants had either been directly or indirectly victimized by hate crimes.
Since the inception of the Custody Program, hundreds of SHARE Tolerance classes have been presented to 3,244 inmate students within the walls of Men's Central Jail. Participants in the program have heaped praise on the curriculum not only for its ability to foster greater insight, understanding, and self-reflection regarding the issues of hate and intolerance in our communities, but within the jail as well. We are particularly proud of having brought together inmates of different classifications that have been traditionally segregated for their own safety.
Following their participation in the SHARE Tolerance classes, members from both the general population and self-identified gay inmates have literally reached across the table and shaken hands, acknowledging the positive impact of the program and their respect for one another. This is a literal demonstration of newfound tolerance within the custody environment. The impact of this training has been so successful that at the suggestion of inmates who have participating in the program, the curriculum will be facilitated by the staff at the Community Transition Unit to all inmates prior to release as part of their re-entry into general society.
It goes without saying that the custody presentations of the program are "grittier" than those generally discussed in the high school version of the program. Inmates participating in the classes are in a much different "place" than the kids who go through the school version. Many of them are experiencing this type of exposure to the issues of hate and intolerance in a classroom setting for the first time in their lives. By presenting this topic in an academic setting,
We have been able to objectively educate and influence inmates on hate crimes. Inmates have expressed not only that the program has had a positive impact on their outlook and perception, but that they also see the value in offering this class to others as well. Many have commented on the fact that all inmates should participate in the SHARE Tolerance program as a requirement for release back in to the community, and that it should be presented to female inmates as well. Since then, we have successfully launched SHARE at the Century Regional Detention Facility (CRDF) for women in Lynwood. It has been generally acknowledged that is important to educate the "matriarchs" of the family on this issue because they have a great level of influence on their children and other youth in their communities despite being incarcerated. Initial response from CRDF participants has been overwhelmingly positive.
Because outreach to youth has been a core goal of the SHARE Tolerance program, we have also facilitated this curriculum to at-risk youth who come through the facility on tours or visits. Participants have included over 700 youth from VIDA (Vital Intervention and Directional Alternatives), PICO PRIDE (Personal Responsibility in Development and Ethics), the Youth Activities League, and START (Sheriff's Teaching At Risk Teens). Without exception, teen participants have expressed that they recognize the destructive force of intolerance and its negative impact on their community.
Currently the Education Based Incarceration Bureau is working on expanding the custody version of the SHARE Tolerance program to include all Los Angeles County custody facilities as well as incorporating the SHARE Tolerance Program into the Community Transition Unit's pre-release process for inmates who will be reentering the community.
The SHARE Tolerance program has proven itself to be a valuable tool in the Department's efforts to educate people regarding the issues of hate, intolerance, and bigotry in our communities. The custody version of the program has also proven itself to be the next logical step in the development of this exciting educational effort that continues to grow and educate those in our communities. The program has been an outstanding addition to the Education Based Incarceration concept for our Department, and is paving the way for even greater successes in the years to come.
There have been unanticipated developments in the program design model as well. Inmates have taken ownership of the curriculum because they can see the actual and potential positive impact of the message, and they have begun to co-facilitate the program with custody personnel.
The Education Based Incarceration Bureau, is are very proud of the recognition the SHARE Tolerance Program has received in both our internal publications (STAR News, Year in Review) and in the local television news, but our greatest pride comes from the knowledge that this program is facilitated by our custody personnel on a voluntary basis. Men and women throughout the department have either witnessed the power of the program first-hand or have heard about the positive impact it is having, and more and more staff members are coming forward to support this endeavor as facilitators.
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Is it sprinkled on after or baked in?
I put it on before baking.As MaximusTG mentioned, MSG occurs naturally in many foods. It is present in everyone's body. Mother's milk even has MSG in it! Many people that are sensitive to MSG, are actually vitamin B6 deficient which makes them unable to process the MSG.
Very interesting Don,I usually spice my pizza's individually...lay sauce down and then pinch the spices on top of that. If using MSG, would you recommend I apply it instead of my salt and should I use the same amount in the swap?Thanks!Bob
I'll try it then. How much MSG do you add to the sauce? I'm making 2 16inch pizzas (using 1.33 kg flour)..
I ordered this one:https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001OCP02Q/?tag=pmak-20It's probably all the same though? I'll post back my thoughts here on this product.
FYI; MSG is also naturally found in a lot of foods, especially things like meat, cheese etc.
Many people that are sensitive to MSG, are actually vitamin B6 deficient which makes them unable to process the MSG.
If MSG was such a problem, our friends down under should know about it. Vegemite and Marmite are pretty much glutamate paste.
Interesting. Do you have a reference for that?
I'm sure if you Google "msg vitamin b6" you will find references to it. Just watch out for all of the BS that you will undoubtedly find too.


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Wolf hunts don't address problem
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The Wolf Plan is the wildlife management equivalent of trying to put lipstick on a pig. No matter how they dress it up, it's still a pig.
According to the apparachiks in the DNR, they will only consider public wolf hunts for conflict resolution, not for recreation. I guess they don't want hunters and trappers to have any fun.
The problem is they are trying to reconcile science with emotion. It cannot be done. The limited wolf hunts scheduled for this fall are meaningless because they fail to address the overall problem. These hunts are an admission, that their policy of using non-lethal control measures and responding to depredation complaints as substitutes for active management, is not working.
That constitutes management malfeasance because the Plan conflicts with provisions of the constitutional amendment approved by the voters in 1996. It mandates that game species be managed using sound science to the greatest extent practicable.
Potentially, that could be grounds for a legal challenge by disaffected stakeholder groups.
This politically motivated decision making ignores the fact that sportsmen and women pay for wildlife programs and we are entitled to reap the benefits. They are spending our money on this program whether we like it or not. They never asked us if we approve of doing so or if this is an appropriate use of our license dollars. It's Big Brother knows best.
Like coyotes, wolves are prolific and intelligent and are all but immune to over-harvest. Ontario, Canada has long wolf seasons and liberal regulations. Most of their harvest is taken in the winter months with the use of snares. Michigan could learn from them.
Last, but not least, it is simply amazing how much unsolicited advice we are getting from all over the country. The letter writers, particularly from urban areas, think they have the right to tell us what to do. These folks reach into their vast fund of ignorance to expound authoritatively on a subject they know little or nothing about.
I have news for them. We Yoopers are perfectly capable of handling our affairs without interference from outsiders. We recognize that the Grey Wolf is here to stay and that it's imperative for us to figure out a way to live with them. As for the know-it-all outsiders, we understand that wolves are best appreciated from a distance.
John Hongisto