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Rights group: Prosecute anti-Israel protesters (JERUSALEM POST) By JOANNA PARASZCZUK 04/11/12)
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A US civil rights legal group called on Tuesday for pro-Palestinian student protesters who interrupted a pro-Israel event at University of California Davis last month to be prosecuted.
The Global Frontier Justice Center in Brooklyn, New York, has sent a letter to Jeff Reisig, the district attorney for Yolo County, California, asking him to open criminal proceedings against the protesters, who the rights group say violated California law.
In their letter to Reisig, the GFJC cite article 403 of the California Penal Code, which prohibits protesters from deliberately disturbing a lawful assembly or meeting.
Two Israelis - an IDF reservist and a Druze woman whose father and brother served in the IDF - were due to speak at the UC Davis event, organized by StandWithUs, Chabad of Davis and the Chai-Life Club.
However, activists from campus-based pro-Palestinian and Islamic groups, including Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and the Muslim Student Association became hostile and heckled the speakers, attorney Kenneth Leitner, GFJC´s director said.
According to GFJC´s letter, one protester interrupted the speakers to ask "how many women have you raped? How many children have you raped?"
When the speaker asked that protester if he wanted to talk, he replied that he wanted the Israelis to "shut up and get out", adding that "youre going to have to kill me to shut me up [you] rapist, child molester, [and] murderer," GFJC allege in their letter to Reisig.
That protester also said he had come to the event to shut it down, because the speakers had "turned Palestine into a land of prostitutes, rapists and child molesters," the GFJC said.
Its not simply offensive to the free speech and association rights of the speakers and their sponsors, said Leitner. Its a crime and it should be prosecuted.
The GFJC note that while the protesters themselves also have a constitutional right to free speech, that "does not include a right to prevent others from speaking."
In their letter to the district attorney, the GFJC refer to a previous case involving students at UC Irvine who disrupted a speech by Israel´s Ambassador to the US, Michael Oren.
According to the LA Times, in February last year, the Orange County district attorney´s office charged 11 of those UC Irvine protesters with conspiring to disrupt a meeting and speech by the Israeli Ambassador.
That case also used article 403 of the California Penal Code.
"We encourage you to prosecute these protesters just as your colleagues did in Orange County," the GFJC´s letter adds. "By doing so, you will be working to ensure that speecheven controversial speechremains possible on college campuses such as UC Davis."
The GFJC director described the California law against disrupting lawful events as "a good law" that "ensures the freedom of speech and association."
Leitner added that the request to prosecute the students was made to "protect the marketplace of ideas on college campuses around the country."
Pro-Israel groups, just like pro-Palestinian groups and environmental groups and the chess club, need to be able to organize and communicate with their constituents without having to shout over someone whose only objective is to end discussion," he said.
Rather than try to shut down the pro-Israel event, the protesters could have chosen to hold their own counter-lecture or even to sit-in on the Israeli lectures as a peaceful protest, without interrupting it, Leitner noted.
GFJC attorney Meir Katz added that a similar problem is prevalent on other campuses.
Similar groups around the country have adopted similar illegal tactics, which makes it important that prosecutors take swift and clear action," Katz said.
"The First Amendment protects the speech of protesters just like it protects the speech of the speakers and their sponsors," added Katz. "But freedom of speech doesnt give you the right to stifle someone elses speech. Just like you cant yell fire in a crowded theater, you cant yell at all during someones speech if the reason youre doing it is to get that person to stop speaking.
The GFJC have requested that the District Attorney respond to their request by the end of April. (© 1995-2011, The Jerusalem Post 04/11/12)
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I am Gin, and I collect Raichu. I have collected Raichu since I first saw him and Lt. Surge together in Electric Shock Showdown when it aired in America in 1998. I quickly fell in love with electric types because of Lt. Surge. Yes, the electric type thing has been going on since day one. But back then, I only had Raichu, Pikachu, Magnemite, Magneton, Voltorb, Electrode, Jolteon and Zapdos to deal with!
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My fuzzy little yellow cheeked curly eared darlings made it safely through the move. Ah, what would I do without them?
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This is my latest custom... which is an understatement, I got it in fall! Alas, my camera with the photos of it was stolen, and the update never happened. Here you are, beautiful Raichu! About him, from my site: "This gorgeous painted Raichu by my wonderfully talented friend Growly is based on the Raichu painted in gouche by the insanely amazing Becky. Growly managed to capture his spirit perfectly, down to his little ears and head floof! Painted Raichu loves to pose with his actual real life painting! :D"
Finally, and it really is finally, I mentioned Production Art, did I not? Yes! I have it here! Some of which I should have posted oh so long ago!! I have Raichus from Episode 14.... and Raichus from DIAMOND AND PEARL!! Along with some other wacky stuff.... whatever it is....
For those unawares, I have the biggest, if not only, collection of actual artist drawings used in Episode 14, the episode that changed my life! And no, I do not mean just because I love Pokemon a whole lot, it is not quite that lonely a story! But I digress!
The details of these hand-drawn sketches, including matching anime screenshots, are here! But now for some highlights!
Classic Ep 14 hungry Ash!
Absolutely beautiful huge sketch.
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Also new! Twin sketches!
Now a mega kick!!!!!!!!!!!
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And this.
Hold that thought-- this is hilarious.
As for DP, I really do have some amazing sketches! Four entire sketches! Of Raichu and Ash getting pelted with painful fire!
See, fire.
Too easy to animate flailing.
Did I ever show off Lt. Surge settei? No? Look how afraid Ash is of Americans!
Here's the weird thing... a Raichu... piece of film? All the info I know and have guessed are here from my site: "It's a piece of film - original film from 1997 used during the production of Episode 14. In what way are pieces of film like this used, I am still not certain enough to write about here. Based on the "famous" scenes that are always on these pieces of film, I will say my best guess is they were used for promotion or enhancement of some kind.
Whether you buy that or not, here's cute confused Raichu film."
Whew....that was a ton of things. And I am still not done, but that's good enough for now. Next is non electrics, if I can get the photos ready before new electrics come in... one week! Yikes!!
Until then..............thanks to all who read to this point! My comrades!


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LAMPASAS — It wasn't the start Jimmy Randolph was looking for from his inexperienced Lampasas Badger football team.
Although the Badgers showed resilience and toughness in Friday night's 14-7 loss to Smithville, they also displayed a penchant for mental mistakes that killed drives.
The two biggest were miscues in the red zone that were both returned for Tiger touchdowns — with one being called back due to a Smithville penalty.
"Too many turnovers," said Randolph. "Lack of focus and immaturity from not playing enough varsity football games."
Smithville (1-0) opened the game with a five-minute drive that culminated in a 15-yard Denton Cooper touchdown run that gave the Tigers a 6-0 lead with 7:17 left in the first quarter following a missed extra point.
The Badgers (0-1) first possession ate up the rest of the opening quarter and continued into the second as they drove down to the Tigers' 6-yard line. Junior tailback Steven Jazdyk attempted to score on an outside run but was stripped of the ball and the Tigers' Jimmie Gonzales scooped it up and returned it 96 yards for the score and a 14-0 lead after a successful two-point conversion.
On the following drive, Lampasas started at its own 31-yard line and used three Jazdyk runs to move the ball to the 46. The Badgers would get inside the redzone, but a personal foul pushed them out of scoring position and the drive stalled after a Kleg Kennedy incomplete pass on fourth down.
"We can get a lot better," Randolph said. "We found a whole lot of things we can improve on."
The turnover bug struck Lampasas again on the second half's opening drive. After Beau Webb returned the kick-off to the Badgers' 35-yard line, he received the handoff on a sweep to the right and ran for a 20-yard gain but was hit hard at the sideline and fumbled.
"(That was) sideline mismanagement (and it was) my fault but it won't happen again," Randolph said.
The Tigers recovered and managed to get two first downs on the drive but two unsportsmanlike conduct penalties cost Smithville 30 yards and the drive end on a failed fourth down attempt.
Again Lampasas built an extended drive that put them inside the redzone and again a turnover killed the drive.
Facing second down and nine yards to go, Kennedy fumbled the snap in the shotgun formation. Cooper picked it for the Tigers and ran it back for what looked like a touchdown, but an illegal block in the back erased the score.
The Badgers finally crossed the goal line in the fourth quarter.
Due to a Tigers' muffed snap on a punt attempt and a 15-yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty, Lampasas started at the Smithville 26-yard line and five plays later Jazdyk scored on a 15-yard scamper. The score was 14-7 after a Josh Barbero extra point.
The Badgers had one more opportunity to tie the game but a dropped pass on 4th-and-6 with 1:06 remaining seased their fate, and Smithville kneeled three times to run the clock.
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M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Date: January 25, 2009
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Lorenzo Cohen, Ph.D., director, and Kay Garcia, LAc, Dr.P.H., clinical nurse specialist, both in M. D. Anderson's Integrative Medicine discuss how acupuncture can be used to help relieve some of the side effects accompanying cancer treatment.
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Welcome to Cancer Newsline, a weekly podcast series from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Cancer Newsline helps you stay current with the news on cancer research, diagnosis, treatment and prevention providing the latest information on reducing your family's cancer risk. I am your host Lisa Garvin. Today, we have two guests Dr. Lorenzo Cohen who is the director of MD Anderson's Integrative Medicine Program, and Kay Garcia who is a doctor of public health also with the Integrative Medicine Program at MD Anderson. Welcome to you both and today we are going to be talking about acupuncture and its uses for xerostomia, which is a fancy word for dry mouth which is a fairly common side effect of cancer treatment. I guess I will start with you Dr. Garcia. First of all, let us talk about xerostomia, how common is it, it is a fairly common side effect of cancer treatment and how serious can it be?
Dr. Kay Garcia:
It is a fairly common treatment of radiation to the head and neck area. Patients who have oropharyngeal cancers or cancers of the head and neck area that receive radiation often suffer from the destruction of the salivary glands which can result in problems from a variety of areas. They often get into nutritional deficits, they suffer from dry mouth, they suffer from dental problems that are sometimes irreversible.
Lisa Garvin:
What is the most common treatment for xerostomia today? I know a lot of its health care like blending your foods and eating only soft foods and sucking on candies or so, are there any medical treatments for xerostomia?
Dr. Kay Garcia:
There have been studies looking at particular medications, pilocarpine, amifostine to help stimulate salivary glands. And sometimes patients suffer from side effects related to those medications and sometimes patients then aren't compliant with the medication regimen. There are other procedures with IMRT which is a specific form of radiation, Intensity Modulated Radiation Treatment that specifically targets only the area of the tumor to help preserve salivary glands. But, again all patients are not able to receive IMRT and so there are still a very great difficulty and many patients still suffer from radiation-induced xerostomia that often ends up in long term chronic problems that may be irreversible.
How did we make the leap to acupuncture for treating xerostomia and either one of you can answer this, was there a literature before or was this just a bright idea or how did it come about?
There are original studies conducted in Europe looking at acupuncture to reverse the effects of radiation-induced xerostomia that got positive effects. Follow-up studies then in the United States also got positive effects, but these are for the most part small nonrandomized trials. At MD Anderson then we conducted a small nonrandomized pilot study a few years ago that also got positive results and interestingly, most of the patients who participated in that study had received IMRT, had received the Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy, yet still suffered from xerostomia. This was a treatment trial and patients received two treatments a week for four weeks, so a maximum of eight treatments and we did see a positive result from that trial. And so, as a result then we have developed placebo controlled randomized trials and are looking both at treatment, acupuncture to treat xerostomia, as well as acupuncture to prevent xerostomia.
And Dr. Cohen, you said that there was a randomized trial going on with our sister institution in Shanghai?
Dr. Lorenzo Cohen:
Yes, we actually recently completed a study with our colleagues at the Fudan University Cancer Hospital, which was focused on prevention of xerostomia. So, patients were recruited for the study who is going to be undergoing head and neck radiation, prior to starting radiation and either receive acupuncture three days a week, throughout the 7-week course of their radiation treatment or they were assigned to a group that did not receive acupuncture. So, we did not have a placebo control group, but the usual care comparison group, and we collected data across the course of their radiation, as well as one month after the end of radiation. And we see differences from their self reported measures on xerostomia related symptoms, as well as actually their overall general quality of life. Group differences emerged as early as three weeks into radiation showing that there was less severe development of xerostomia if they were receiving acupuncture. And the effects became stronger over time and in fact, remain significant even one month after radiation had ended. And we also measured a more objective outcome where we actually looked at saliva flow and this is a very standardized technique for measuring saliva flow over a five minute period of time. Saliva flow was dramatically higher in the patients who were receiving the acupuncture throughout their radiation. They all developed xerostomia to some degree, but much lesser if they were receiving the acupuncture.
Was this a surprising finding? I do not know much about acupuncture as a whole, as a preventative therapy. Is this something new in the field of acupuncture as far as using it to prevent things before they happen?
Dr. Lorenzo Cohen:
Well, certainly in the world of xerostomia research, and as you heard there has been a fair number of trials now looking at acupuncture for xerostomia, nobody has looked at it for preventing the development of xerostomia and due to radiation of the head and neck. It has been focused on treating it after it develops. So, it is an important first step at looking at the benefits of acupuncture to prevent the development of that particular syndrome. What is going to be interesting and important to do is two things, one is how long will the effect last because there is the concern that some of the damage will continue even beyond one month. So, we are collecting data on that initial study six months out, but we also have proposed this study and hopefully we will receive funding to do a much larger version of the same study which would also include a placebo control group. So, we would really know, is it something unique to the use of those acupuncture points, which is the critical next step to really document authoritatively that acupuncture can help to prevent xerostomia.
So this next study will be with you, with MD Anderson and Fudan University, it will be a multi-center trial?
Exactly, so what will be interesting about the study is in one sense to look at some of the cultural differences, but also to compare different types of head and neck cancers. So, in Shanghai they have mainly nasopharyngeal carcinoma, almost a hundred percent and so we will just be recruiting nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients in Shanghai. And then at MD Anderson other head and neck cancer patients, so to be able to see if there is also differences along those lines. And the other study that we are doing and will hopefully be starting soon is the one that Dr. Garcia mentioned where we will be looking at the treatment of xerostomia and of course including the all important placebo control group as well.
Dr. Garcia as a licensed acupuncturist, where are the pressure points for xerostomia prevention and or treatment?
The points that we are using for our trial are primarily on the ear, although we do have points in the arms and points in the legs. Most of the ones for this trial are based on a study that was conducted by the Navy many years ago showing a positive effect with ear points, and so, out of I think there are 13 points, then six of those around the ears and then there is one point on each arm and then points on each leg.
And how long does a typical treatment last? How long do the needles stay in?
The needle stay in for about 20 minutes, 20 to 25 minutes and that is standard in most acupuncture clinical settings.
That sounds like the benefits could be huge. I think as Dr. Cohen was saying earlier up to 80-percent of cancer patients will suffer through xerostomia?
That is correct.
Well it sounds like the potential benefit is huge for these studies both here at MD Anderson and at Shanghai, our sister institution. Do you have any final thoughts Dr. Garcia about acupuncture and xerostomia?
The only final thought would be that if patients are considering it and have concerns that acupuncture and particularly this particular protocol is very, very safe. And so, certainly this is something that they would want to discuss with their physician, but the risks associated with this particular treatment are minimal as long as it is provided by a qualified licensed acupuncturist.
And Dr. Cohen you sound like you are very excited about the potential benefits of acupuncture.
Well, and this is something that is really important for patients to know is, one, that it is safe. And although it does not work for everybody, it is something important to consider and to speak to the healthcare provider about incorporating because you know and particularly these patients who have had xerostomia chronically for years, three years, four years, five years. And some of these patients were in the initial study that we did, the single arm trial they have enhanced saliva flow for years. They had to take a sip of water or eat a candy on a regular basis. They can't go for more than half an hour without taking a sip of water because of discomfort. They have a hard time eating. And they were so thankful of participating in this trial and in some of them the effect was long lasting and there are of course a lot of people who are skeptical about the benefits of acupuncture and in some sense rightly so, because we do not quite understand why it is working. But, when you see these examples and you see some of the data that is starting to come out, there is a real physiological change that is happening in the person. And at the end of the day if that physiological change is due to a placebo, it is still quite remarkable and the person has regained their quality of life that had deteriorated dramatically. And whether that is for nausea or for dry mouth, or for pain or some other symptom, it is really important to give acupuncture a good try because it can help transform somebody's life.
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Mandy Moore's A Heartbreaker (And A Ball-Buster)
Mandy Moore is a whole new woman these days. Not only is she a newlywed (her husband is musician Ryan Adams), but she has an album coming out May 26. The video for her first single, "I Could Break Your Heart Any Day of The Week," is out, and after watching it, we'll be very interested in hear her other new songs. While Mandy was über pop-tastic back in her early days, her last album, Wild Hope, was very folksy and more our speed. Has she gone back to a more "Candy"-like style, or has Ryan had an influence on her sound? I guess we'll find out when Amanda Leigh hits stores next month.


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Rihanna to Star in U.K. Reality Series 'Styled to Rock' — Watch Preview (VIDEO)
The series will launch in August, and will run for 10 weeks on Sky Living HD. Along for the ride: Rihanna's stylist, Lisa Cooper; fashion designer Henry Holland; and Girls Aloud singer Nicola Roberts.
In a preview clip released Thursday, fans are able to get a closer look at how things will run down — specifically Rihanna's role on the series as it moves toward the big payoff: designing an outfit for one of the Grammy-winning artist's live performances.
"I've always loved fashion," she says in the clip. "Fashion has helped shape me into the artist that I am today."
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Maybe so, but it's also common. "I've never been to a company that didn't have multiple critical servers unpatched, even though they always say, 'Oh yeah, we've got them patched and taken care of, don't you worry about it,'" Roger says. They also fail to keep patches up to date for routers, security appliances, third-party browser plug-ins, and on and on.
A big problem is the level of effort to patch everything. The responsible thing to do is to test before you patch, which takes time. Meanwhile, according to Roger, here is what happens:
If I'm a bad guy trying to break in, all I have to do is find out what you run -- Apache, Windows, and so on -- and then I wait until I hear about the patch coming out. Usually the exploits are there within a couple of hours or less than that, and then I break in. The best a company can do is [take] days, if not weeks, to test, approve, and deploy patches. So if I'm a guy who's going to break into a company I can just take my time and learn your environment, learn who your partners are, learn who you have services with, find out what you're running, and then ... bada-bing, bada-boom. I mean, give me a month. What doesn't have a patch in a given month?
Some of the problem is lack of time or in some cases sheer laziness in the face of lax accountability. But even in the best case, patching can make the most dogged admin feel like Sisyphus.
Here's where the discussion gets even more difficult. While changing user behavior and keeping patches as up to date as possible would prevent a huge percentage of exploits, traditional remedies, such as antivirus software and firewalls, simply "don't work," says Roger. If they did, they would have worked already. Nothing can keep up with the proliferation of malware, which amounts to an estimated 63,000 new malicious programs per day, according to a recent report by Panda Security.
So what can be done?
Facing the security future
If you're a regular reader of Roger's blog, you know that he advocates default persistent identity as the only ultimate solution to the security mess. That's a controversial position because some think it spells the end of anonymity on the Internet. But Roger sees it as the only way criminal hackers will be forced to pay a penalty. Until then, "it's almost guaranteed they get away with it."
But a persistent identity scheme would require the kind of global consensus and commitment that seems unimaginable right now. Despite the dramatic events of the past few weeks, Roger believes the current sorry state of security will persist for the next 5 to 10 years. He says, "If one-third of adults in the country had their identity stolen last year -- and they did, for the fourth or fifth year in a row -- exactly what would it take for people to care more?"
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Seoul (AFP) Jan 27, 2010
South Korea's spy agency said Wednesday it had issued an alert against cyberattacks aimed at stealing data from government networks.
The National Intelligence Service (NIS) did not say whether North Korea was responsible.
Open Radio for North Korea, a Seoul-based group specialising in the North, said the latest attack was led by Pyongyang, which runs elite hacker units.
The NIS said its alert was heightened "from normal to concern" on Monday after a massive inflow of overseas hacking attacks.
The attacks were aimed at stealing data from government and other state networks, it said in a statement on its website.
The spy agency last year blamed the North for cyberattacks that briefly crippled unclassified US and South Korean government and commercial websites in July that year.
In 2004 hackers based in China used information-stealing viruses to break into the computer systems of Seoul government agencies.
Last December hackers using an Internet Protocol address in China gained access to parts of a secret US-South Korean plan to defend the peninsula in case of war.
South Korea, one of the world's most wired societies, this month launched a cyber warfare command centre manned by some 200 specialists.
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South Sydney centre Lee Hookey stunned his teammates yesterday by announcing he was quitting at the age of 25 to spend more time with his family.
Hookey, who has two young children, said he did not enjoy the week-to-week rigours of the NRL and was retiring from the game just a month after the resumption of pre-season training.
The Rabbitohs granted him a release from his one-year contract, signed in September, and are looking for a replacement.
"I've enjoyed my time playing football but I just don't have the desire to train and play on," he said. "I've been playing rugby league at the top level for seven years and it's just wearing me down. I want to be there for my kids and spend time with them."
Rabbitohs international Adam MacDougall said there had been talk at training that Hookey might be taking some time off but he was shocked to learn he was giving the game away.
"Lee was a really good fella and a good footballer, too, so it's going to be a big blow for the club," MacDougall said.
"Besides myself and Shannon Hegarty, he was really the only other experienced back we had, but if that's what he wants to do, I don't think you can hold it against him. It's a brave decision and I just hope it's not something he comes to regret later on."
Souths football manager Tony Henderson said he was also surprised by Hookey's sudden departure. "We tried to tell him that it wasn't a decision he should rush into but he said he had made up his mind," Henderson said.


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Libraries glitch still not fixed after two weeks
By Adrian Colley in Local People
LIBRARIES in Barnet are still being plagued by an IT glitch two weeks after it was first identified.
The server problem means borrowers are unable to renew books in person at 14 libraries, or online.
Barnet Council said last week it could be losing £200 a day in unpaid fines, which have been waived. The bug struck on March 2.
Councillor Reuben Thompstone, chairman of the children, education, libraries and safeguarding committee, said today: "We are currently fully focused on restoring all elements of the library service.
"We are of course working to determine the cause of the failure and what lessons can be learned, and steps are being taken to make the system more robust for the future, but our top priority at the moment is getting the service fully up and running.
"In the meantime, our libraries remain open and people are still able to borrow books as normal."


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A RESPECTED York estate agent who set up his business in the city more than half a century ago has died at the age of 79.
Arthur Morton, one half of Robinson & Morton Estate Agents, died in York Hospital six days before his 80th birthday.
Mr Morton, who was from the Fulford Road area of the city, was born and went to school in Huddersfield but moved to York to pursue a career as a chartered surveyor.
Lifelong friend Edward Sheard, also 79, paid tribute to Mr Morton.
He said: "We were at primary school together in Huddersfield and have been friends ever since.
"He was taught at a Halifax firm of auctioneers and estate agents and went on to become a chartered surveyor.
"He moved to York to take up a job with a company called Bernard Thorpe, then, after he had done his national service, he formed a partnership and opened Robinson & Morton Estate Agents. The first shop was in Coney Street and I believe it opened some time in the late 1950s."
Mr Sheard said his friend stayed with the business through to his retirement 25 years ago.
During his career, Mr Morton became an active member of the York & District Association of Auctioneers, Valuers and Estate Agents, eventually becoming president in 1977. He used the position to become a champion of the self-employed and small business owners.
Mr Sheard said when his friend was not busy with his career, he enjoyed boating on the River Ouse, and spent a lot of time working on and improving properties belonging to his family in West Yorkshire. He was not married and had no children.
His funeral will take place at 11.40am on Wednesday, February 13. His family have asked for any donations to be made to the Stroke Unit at York Hospital.


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Director's Cut - Special Edition
- 1984/2002 - (2002) - Orion (Warner Bros)
review by Graham Greenlee of
The Digital Bits
Film Rating: A
Disc Ratings (Video/Audio/Extras): B/B+/B
Specs and Features
Disc One: The Film
180 mins, R, letterboxed widescreen (2.35:1), 16x9 enhanced, single-sided, RSDL dual-layered (layer switch at ???), audio commentary (with director Milos Forman and writer Peter Shaffer), filmographies, awards listing, film-themed menu screens, scene access (46 chapters), languages: English (DD 5.1 & 2.0) and French (DD 5.1), subtitles: English, French and Spanish, Closed Captioned
Disc Two: Supplemental Material
NR, widescreen (1.78:1), 16x9 enhanced,
The Making of Amadeus
documentary, theatrical trailer, film-themed menu screens, scene access (15 chapters), languages: English (DD 2.0), subtitles: none
"Your work is ingenious. There are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few and it will be perfect."
Told in flashback,
follows the dual storylines of both Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri, two composers trying to win the favor of Emperor Joseph (Jeffery Jones) in 18th Century Vienna. Salieri is basically a musical hack, desiring to be a famous composer since he was a child. It's not that he doesn't try, but he just does not possess the talent that Mozart does. Mozart, on the other hand, is a musical genius who can tear apart another composer work without effort, yet he doesn't even have enough discipline to earn a living doing what he's best at.
Salieri is immediately infuriated with Mozart, who feels as if every time Mozart laughs his childish laugh that it is God laughing, taunting Salieri for his lack of talent. Thus, Salieri conceives a plan to undermine Mozart and to destroy every ounce of humanity that Mozart can cling to. Nobody, except Mozart's wife, Constanze (Elizabeth Berridge), has the slightest idea of the evil underpinnings of Salieri.
At the heart of this entire spectacle is an excellent, compelling study of envy. Of course, an interesting question that can be brought up is that if we are raised in poverty or no skill in a particular area, is that your fate? Are you doomed to the situation that you're born in? Of course, the film doesn't answer this, but it does creep into your skin, and you'll find yourself asking many questions that you would not normally.
is a very physiological film, but thanks to great performances, as well as excellent writing and directing, it's easy to follow, and it's clear why it won the 1984 Best Picture Oscar.
It's quite amazing how well
has held up over the last 18 years. It is a film that could have been made fifty years ago or today (albeit as an independent film, most likely.) The excellent attention to detail crafts some of the most gorgeous sets and costume to grace the screen, and not only do they look good, but they feel lived in.
And of course, one can't mention the film with mentioning the score, which, as an adaptation of Mozart's music, is some of the best work you'll hear in a film score. It was promoted that none of Mozart's original work was in any way modified for use in the film, which in and of itself is an impressive feat. But those who are familiar with classical music will notice that early in the film, where Salieri imagines one of his own operas, the final note of the piece has been changed to be a more dramatic finale. So while the filmmakers held true to their promise about Mozart, they did modify Salieri's work. God continues to laugh, I suppose.
was first released on DVD back in 1997, the format's inaugural year. At that time, Warner was forced to release this film, as well as others (such as
The Color Purple
) as "flippers." They were called that because the technology of RSDL (Reverse Spiral Dual Layer) was a little costly to mass-produce, and the format was stuck with single layered discs. Instead of forcing a two-and-a-half-hour movie onto a single layer, and thus losing image quality, many of these films were split on different sides of one disc, forcing the viewer to eject the disc and flip it over to continue watching the film. This was one of the reasons laserdisc didn't take with mainstream home enthusiasts, and certainly was a problem that was corrected when it became cheaper to produce RSDL discs.
Now, in 2002, it's obviously easier and cheaper to press dual layered discs, and for this special edition of
, the entire three-hour director's cut is provided on one disc without flipping. I was a bit hesitant that the image would still appear compressed, but to my surprise this is a surprisingly vibrant transfer, devoid of any visible compression artifacts. Presented in anamorphic widescreen (in the film's original 2.35:1 aspect ratio), the detailing on the sets and costumes is just amazing and completely devoid of artifacts. The colors are bright, and despite a great deal of red in the cinematography, I didn't notice any bleed. There is a fair amount of edge enhancement, with noticeable haloing, although it is unobtrusive.
Another jewel in this release's crown is the Dolby Digital 5.1 mix created specifically for the director's cut, which fully immerses you into the concert experience in many of the opera scenes. The surrounds are used wonderfully for sound effects that simulate the acoustics of the huge halls, and also to engulf you in applause. Even in non-performance scenes, the surrounds are used for the score, and while the score doesn't have an incredibly large dynamic range (the lows aren't that low and the highs aren't that high), it still has great fidelity. As does the dialogue, which is always intelligible, however booming the score is. (Just of note, the volume on this release is recorded at a higher level than on most DVDs, similar to the
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
release. Just a warning, the first note will give you quiet a shock.)
What this release lacks in number of extras, it makes up for in the sheer wealth of information, making this more of a special edition than a lot of day-and-date releases that seem to earn the name simply by having a lot of two-minute featurettes. First up on Disc One is the audio commentary with Milos Forman and Peter Shaffer. Both won Oscars for their work here, Forman for Directing and Schaffer for Writing, and nearly twenty years later, are still quite familiar and knowledgeable about the subject. They do a bit of back patting and repeating of what's on screen, but a lot of their comments, oddly enough due to the film's length, do not repeat very much from the
The Making of Amadeus
documentary on Disc Two. They include a great wealth of research and gossip about the locations and figures. Both make great banter between each other, and the track is informative and entertaining without becoming boring (given that you like the film.) Disc One also includes filmographies for many of the filmmakers and a full listing of the awards given to the production.
On Disc Two,
The Making of Amadeus
The Beginning
Godfather: A Look Back
as one of my favorite documentary extras on a DVD release. While
The Beginning
gave a fly-on-the-wall experience for
The Phantom Menace
, and
Godfather: A Look Back
made you feel like you were part of the large filmmaking family,
The Making of Amadeus
puts you right into the middle of the making of the film, and impressively does so without a lot of behind-the-scenes footage. Told mainly with pictures and interviews with several members of the cast and crew,
Making of...
pulls you through their experiences from adapting the stage play to the film to the premiere. The material covering the problems with the Red Police while shooting in communist Czechoslovakia is particularly interesting. While it may sound like your run-of-the-mill promotional featurette, there is a sense of importance to the production, unlike your "Ho-hum, another movie" featurettes that we've been seeing lately. This is especially good if you've become somewhat jaded with DVD extras. Disc Two also includes the theatrical trailer for the recent re-release.
There may not be a great wealth of extras here, but the quality of the hour-long documentary and the full-length commentary are above average, and the transfers are quite nice. Many "older" films don't seem to hold up very well anymore, but
is a timeless, engaging drama, and is still very much recommended.
Graham Greenlee
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VIDEO: Man Films Self Baking In Hot Car To Demonstrate Danger To Kids
This is a very simple, but powerful message, by a North Carolina father of three. If you do the same thing, the same way, at the same time, every day for 1,000 straight days...it's easy to see how someone might forget what they're doing.
Hopefully this resonates with a lot of parents. - Chuck