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DETROIT - Teamwork. New skills. Sportsmanship.
Just some of the lessons we hope kids learn from sports.
"It's fun. I learn new moves, meet new people," said soccer player Lee Brandrup.
But not everyone is having fun. Some player are hating practice. Feeling stressed about games. Feeling too much pressure to perform from coaches or parents.
Max Trenerry is a Mayo Clinic psychologist and a youth soccer coach. He said he's seen many young players drop out of sports.
"That pressure may take the fun out of sports, and kids might play because of that pressure, not because of their own interest," said Trenerry.
Kari Drogosh is the athletic director at Chippewa Valley High School in Clinton Township, Mich.
"Sports takes up a lot of time in someone's daily routine. And if you don't enjoy it, it's not something that you want to be forced into every single day," said Drogosh.
Drogosh is also mom to two young sons, Brady, 7, and Dalton, 5.
She said participation should be the focus for younger kids, not performance.
"Even at 5 and 7, they know when don't perform or they know when they have a bad game. The important part my husband and I always stress to my children is, 'Did you have fun today, and did you try your hardest?' And those are the two things we're always asking after practice or games," said Drogosh.
She stressed it's also important to expose children to a variety of sports.
"My older one plays football, he plays basketball, he plays baseball. My younger one wants to try wrestling this year. So we're going to get him into wrestling," said Drogosh. "If they don't like it, they've had a chance to try it. Next year, maybe he doesn't do it, but at least he's had the exposure."
As children get older, Trenerry said there are three "C's" that can help keep kids interested in sports: choices, competence, and caring.
"These are basic human psychological needs. If we don't have those, we don't keep doing whatever it is," said Trenerry.
Children need to be able to choose the sports they want to play, even if that sometimes means quitting another sport.
The next "C" is competence. Kids need to feel a sense of success, regardless of winning or losing. That means focusing on their effort and personal improvement, something that can be challenging for some parents.
"It's difficult when your child may not be the starter, or may not be playing. But the enjoyment that child feels, just being a part of a team, and being able to experience the winning and the losing together with their peers is so vital to their growth," said Drogosh.
Athletes also need to feel cared for -- that parents and coaches care about their thoughts and feelings and will take them seriously.
Trenerry said one way to communicate caring is to ask constructive questions after practice or games. Instead of asking if the team won or your child scored a goal, Trenerry suggests -- "Did you have fun? What did you learn in practice? How did your team play? How were the guys?"
To avoid burnout and reduce the risk of injuries, Drogosh said playing multiple sports, instead of specializing in just one, is key.
"It helps their muscles. It helps keep them from injury. Exposes them to different student athletes, different peers. Also different styles of coaching, which I think is so important," said Drogosh.
Experts said it's critical for parents to model good sportsmanship and respect for other players, coaches and referees.
Parents should also watch for signs of burnout in your kids. If they seem to be dreading practice or losing interest in a sport they loved, talk to them about what's changed and help them come up with potential solutions.
Finally, remind kids that games will come and go, but the friendships with their teammates can last a lifetime.
"One of the things that a coach of our program here said to our athletes is, 'These are the kids that will come to your wedding. They'll be at your children's baptism. These are your lifelong friends that you build,'" said Drogosh.
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WITH so many dairy farmers in the Valleys and Vale, I have been deeply involved in the ongoing efforts to respond to the recent reductions in the price of milk off the farm.
As a measure of the concern of farmers, more than 2,500 - more than a fifth of all milk producers - filled Central Hall in London at incredibly short notice to appeal for support.
Locally, I have been contacted by individual farmers and I have met a group of farmers in Eastington.
As a former farmer myself - although never a dairy farmer - I completely understand the need for fair commodity prices and recognise the vulnerability of farmers in a fluctuating market with relatively fixed production costs.
These points were made forcefully in Parliament last week.
According to an independent consultancy, the situation on an average sized diary farm is very serious with production costs rising, milk process low and getting lower, and, as with most businesses, cash flow problems being exacerbated by uncooperative banks. In real figures, an average diary farmer is about £3,600 worse off per month since April.
Action is being taken to alleviate the pressure on farmers.
Already, legislation is going through Parliament to establish a grocery code adjudicator, designed to ensure that large retailers act in a fair way through upholding the Groceries Supply Code of Practice.
The current spotlight on milk prices has already encouraged some supermarkets to review their prices and contracts but more needs to be done.
In the autumn, the Coalition Government will provide £5 million for special projects to the sector.
Farmers will have opportunities to prepare bids to strengthen their position in the market, now increasingly sophisticated and fully open.
Two other issues must be examined. First, strong and well resourced producer groups can play a vital role in rebalancing the relationship between producers and processors, leading to improved contractual terms and increased power in the market.
The structure of these groups will largely determine their capacity so I will be working to ensure they are fit for purpose.
Second, UK milk producers need a stronger punch in the international market and I will explore how this might be achieved.


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She doesn't want oral from me
Q. How do I get my Fiancée to be comfortable receiving oral sex from me? She is a bit uncomfortable with her body, but I love her vagina! It is beautiful, it tastes and smells great ... and nothing turns me on more than pleasing her. So my question is how to I get her to let me give her oral sex more often?
A. Sadly, there are countless reasons why women don't want to receive oral sex. Many of these stem from, but are certainly not restricted to, a negative body image. Unrealistic expectations, disparaging comments, and judgemental attitudes - they are powerful enough to chip away at a woman's self confidence, and are a breeding ground for insecurities related to her desirability. Furthermore, they constantly call into question whether she is worthy enough to deserve love and attention.
It may be difficult for your fiancée to indulge in pleasurable acts, particularly oral sex. Why? Because many women feel it is more intimate than sexual intercourse. A common perception she may also have fallen victim to is, "It's dirty down there". This message can make a woman feel vulnerable, anxious, or ashamed to have you so up close and personal. She may also feel guilty enjoying cunnilingus, feeling like she has to return the favor.
Challenging one's assumptions and expectations of sex is not easy. However, you can play an important role in her growth. In order for her to experience her full sexual potential, she requires emotional security, and needs to feel loved and accepted; this requires patience and ongoing encouragement on your part. Fortunately for your fiancée you sound like a generous lover, so your positive attitude towards her satisfaction will support her development.
You didn't mention whether you tell your woman all of the things you adore about her. If you haven't, it is a great place to start; just remember to do it gently and with moderation. The reason for it is that your positive statements might be so at odds with the poor perception she has of herself that she won't fully be ready to accept them.
When it comes to Cunnilingus, your fiancée might not be comfortable being 'in the blow job spotlight' as the one way recipient of pleasure. Do you think she'd be comfortable receiving manual stimulation using Sex Toys or Fingering? What about mutual Masturbation or 69-ing? Because it will take time for her to get over her inhibitions, these methods may prove to be constructive forms of sexual activity, and are natural ways to transition into oral stimulation.


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Halloween is fast approaching with a crucifix in one hand, a bag of pestilent rodents in the other and a hockey mask stuck to its face. To prepare, we've summoned up with the ultimate list of the greatest, scariest and most spine-rippingly horrific horror movies in cinema's long history. From Dr. Caligari to It Follows, this is a compendium of scary movies to span the ages. Abandon all hope all ye who enter here...
50. The Devil's Backbone (2001)
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Cast: Fernando Tielve, Eduardo Noriega, Federico Luppi, Marisa Paredes
The "male" companion piece to Guillermo del Toro's later female-centric Pan's Labyrinth, The Devil's Backbone is a classic ghost story set in an orphanage during the Spanish Civil War. Like Pan it's explicitly political, and there's a clever metaphor at work comparing ghosts to unexploded bombs (an example of which sits ticking in the orphanage's courtyard). But it's also less fantastical than its successor: an elegant supernatural yarn that compares favourably to the classic likes of The Innocents and The Haunting.
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49. Kill List (2011)
Director: Ben Wheatley
Cast: Neil Maskell, Michael Smiley, MyAnna Buring
Kill List begins like a fairly straightforward thriller. Two hit men take on an assignment. They have the kill list. They have to kill them. Bish bash bosh. But as you watch, small hints of the film's true nature slowly appear. An odd symbol is scratched on a bathroom mirror. A doctor offers bizarre, medically dubious advice. The soundtrack broods like a rumbling storm cloud overhead. Ben Wheatley's masterful grip on slow-building tension – informed by his love of 1970s Brit folk-horror – crescendos to an almost unbearable, shocking finale. Wheatley has never been better.
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48. The Evil Dead (1981)
Director: Sam Raimi
Cast: Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Betsy Baker
"The ultimate experience in gruelling horror" proclaimed the end credits. Hubris? Not really. Some commenters believed the remake wasn't funny enough, but the laughs in the Evil Dead franchise only really arrive with the splatstick sequel. Here, first time out, what we have is an unrelenting and often genuinely frightening aural and visual assault, with only the occasional easy-to-miss quip to defuse the tension ("We can't bury Shelly, she's our friend," muses a shellshocked Bruce Campbell, surveying a still twitching, dismembered corpse). The miniscule budget and claymation effects only add to the unsettling atmosphere.
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47. Audition (1999)
Director: Takashi Miike
Cast: Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina
The film that broke director Takashi Miike internationally doesn't initially seem like a horror film at all. We follow a widower's attempts to get back in the dating game with a younger squeeze, via the rather dodgy and disingenuous audition process to which the title refers. And it's only when we realise the object of his desire has literally been waiting by the phone for days – apparently in an apartment empty apart from something ominous in a sack – that we begin to realise something is very, very amiss. And then there's the foot-sawing and the eye-needles. Kiri, kiri, kiri…
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46. The Devil Rides Out (1968)
Director: Terence Fisher
Cast: Christopher Lee, Paul Eddington, Charles Gray, Rosalyn Landor
The Devil Rides Out marked a new direction for Hammer, swapping classic gothic horror/fantasy for a Dennis Wheatley occult potboiler. Richard Matheson's cracking screenplay streamlines and improves the novel; the pacing and dialogue are sharp; and the performances, particularly from the incomparable Charles Gray and, as always, from Christopher Lee, are top notch. The studio would return to Wheatley with To The Devil A Daughter a couple of years later, but they missed a trick by never bringing back Lee's Duc de Richleau: the paranormal investigator – who brings hell down on his unsuspecting friends here – featured in 11 of the author's novels. His cases could have run and run.
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45. Cat People (1942)
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Cast: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Tom Conway
With Universal knocking out horror films like there was no tomorrow, RKO tasked producer Val Lewton with creating some similar action. The results were not what the studio expected. Far from the monster mash they'd asked for, Cat People – directed by Jacques Tourneur – opted for more psychological chills, and a still surprising concept centred on a woman who's afraid to consummate her marriage because of her belief that sexual climax will turn her into a panther. Paul Schrader's '80s remake took full advantage of the modern potential for FX and erotica, but Tourneur's more subtle scares are all about stalking and shadows.
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44. Day Of The Dead (1985)
Director: George A. Romero
Cast: Richard Liberty, Lori Cardille, Sherman Howard
George Romero originally conceived this as "the Gone With The Wind of horror movies" before slashed budgets swiftly torpedoed his dreams of a zombie epic. No matter, the doyen of the undead merely served up another chewy allegory for humanity's doom laden with gory moments enhanced by Tom Savini's majesterial make-up designs. Following on from Dawn Of The Dead with the world in the grip of a full-scale zombie infestation, the survivors head south (in practically every sense) to a bunker in a swampy corner of Florida. There, a crazed doctor tries to turn the shufflers ¬– including the iconic 'Bub' (Sherman Howard) – back into productive members of society. The subtext, again, is clear: the zombies are the least of our problems in a world driven by violence and greed.
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43. Drag Me To Hell (2009)
Director: Sam Raimi
Cast: Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Lorna Raver
"You shaaaamed me!" rasps Hungarian gypsy (Raver) at Alison Lohman's bank employee who's made the unfortunate mistake of not granting her another extension on her mortgage. Cue a curse to end all curses: visitations from a demon called the Lamia. While the punishment doesn't seem entirely proportionate, the results offer a wild, raw and wickedly entertaining ride with Sam Raimi at his funhouse best throughout. Justin Long, the loyal hubbie on the other side of Lohman's hellish bubble, takes on the horror staple role of disbelieving agnostic. You'll want to shake him by the end.
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42. The Skin I Live In (2011)
Director: Pedro Almodovar
Cast: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes, Jan Cornet
Something like a Frankenstein fable, The Skin I Live In is nevertheless fed through Pedro Almodovar's idiosyncratic filter to become… something else. Based on Thierry Jonquet's novel Tarantula, it's the story of a scientist's illegal human experiments, ostensibly into an artificial skin to be used for burn victims. The upshot is kidnap and sexual reassignment, in a disturbing two hours described by the director as a "horror without screams or scares". Plenty to keep you awake though. Also significant as the reunion of Almodovar with his frequent former star Antonio Banderas. The pair hadn't worked together since Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! 21 years earlier.
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41. Dracula (1958)
Director: Terence Fisher
Cast: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Michael Gough
Directed by the incomparable Terence Fisher, written by Jimmy Sangster, pairing Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee (with Lee getting actual lines for the first time), and going all out for colour, glamour, sex and blood, Hammer's Dracula aligns the elements and distils the formula that powered the studio for the next two decades. Sangster's bold screenplay at once eviscerates Bram Stoker's novel and sets the narrative free. With the locations transposed and limited to Romania and half the dramatis personae excised, we're left with a lean adventure. The Lugosi film is a creaky slow-burn, but Hammer's is a swashbuckler. Lee, of course, gets to be urbane and darkly seductive, but there's also genuine savagery to the moments when he gets to bare his teeth.
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40. The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Director: Eduardo Sánchez
Cast: Heather Donahue, Michael Williams, Josh Leonard
It wasn't the springboard its director and crew might have hoped after banking $250 million from their nano-budget horrow, but The Blair Witch Project's legacy continues apace. It's instructive to see how little Adam Wingard's surprise sequel deviates from the set-up and formula of the original (bunch of kids head into the Black Hills, record the results on the shakiest of shakycams) 17 years later. At the time, it sparked a revolution in the genre. Since then have come dozens of imitators, although even the best of them fall short of replicating Project's disorientating chills. Twigs and bits of foliage have never been so scary.
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39. The Babadook (2014)
Director: Jennifer Kent
Cast: Essie Davis, Noah Wiseman
Slightly mis-sold by a trailer that made it look like a standard – though impressive – monster movie, The Babadook's greatest trick is in not really being about the titular thing at all. Rather, it's a film about a mentally unravelling mother's difficult relationship with her young son. The 'dook itself is just another spanner in the works. Subverting expectations, the film seems to set up Amblin-style hijinks from a resourceful kid, but those elements never come to pass, and his backpack of tricks is ultimately useless. The rules are right there in creepy storybook: you can't get rid of the Babadook. The eventual solution for its defeat – but not eradication – is something like genius.
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38. Bride Of Frankenstein (1935)
Director: James Whale
Cast: Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Elsa Lanchester, Ernest Thesiger
James Whale's sequel to his own original Frankenstein reunites the director with Boris Karloff's classic monster and with Colin Clive's hapless scientist: this time tasked with creating a mate for the creature. As before, there's immense pathos in the monster's plight – ultimately rejected by his stunning, shock-haired "bride" Elsa Lanchester. But there's more mischievous wit in the second outing, largely thanks to Ernest Thesiger's cherishably waspish Doctor Pretorius. "Yes," he observes dryly at the reveal that the monster can now speak. "There have been developments…"
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37. Frankenstein (1931)
Director: James Whale
Cast: Boris Karloff, Colin Clive
Jack Pierce created several iconic make-ups for Universal in the '30s and '40s, but by far the most indelible is the flat-headed, bolt-necked (they're actually electrodes) Frankenstein's Monster of a thousand subsequent parodies. It took Boris Karloff, however, to inhabit the make-up as a tangible character, acting his way out from behind the greasepaint and mortician's wax to deliver a nuanced portrait of a child-like creature, prone to rage but also capable of great tenderness. You need only compare Karloff's monster to the later versions attempted by Lon Chaney Jr. and Bela Lugosi, to see the extent of Karloff's achievement. The clumsily lurching caricature of popular misconception owes everything to those performances, and nothing at all to Karloff's tragically bewildered victim.
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36. Dracula (1931)
Director: Tod Browning
Cast: Bela Lugosi, Dwight Frye, Edward Van Sloan
Creaky by today's standards, Tod Browning's Dracula remains seminal for its place in horror history, as well as for its eerie central performance by Bela Lugosi and the scene-stealing of Dwight Frye. The film is strongest in its opening stretch, as Frye's Renfield visits the stunning, colossal set of Dracula's castle, meets the sombre count – dwarfed by his cobwebbed surroundings – and falls foul of the vampire's ethereal brides: a sequence of exquisite beauty. Subsequently it's a bit more plodding, and the ending is oddly rushed. But there are still unforgettable elements along the way. Well worth watching with Philip Glass' 1999 score – unless you prefer the almost-silence of the orginal.
35. Poltergeist (1982)
Director: Tobe Hooper
Cast: Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams, Heather O'Rourke
Moving into a family home on an ancient burial ground presents the kind of real estate connundrum even Kirstie and Phil would be hard-pressed to help with. The problems faced by the Freeling clan in this much-mimicked Tobe Hooper/Steven Spielberg horror involve supernatural beasties, vortexes in the landing, floating objects and some major interdimensional childnapping. That's just about every supernatural domestic catastrophe in the handbook, short of finding the Dyson is haunted and the guinea pig is Satan. Despite the restriction of its PG rating (it was initially R-rated but changed on appeal), the result remains a refreshingly scary brew.
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Directors: Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza
Cast: Manuela Velasco, Pablo Rosso, Ferrán Terraza
Found footage as a concept was already feeling tired and gimmicky by the late noughties. Then [•REC] came along and gave it a hell of a jolt. Two documentary filmmakers find themselves on the night shift for the TV show While You're Sleeping, following a Barcelona fire brigade, when they sleepily stumble on an old lady infected with a zombie virus. Like many before it, [•REC]'s marked-down budget and indie sensibility works entirely in its favour: a fresh take on an old template that feels intimate, visceral, and real. As one character observes: ¡Qué rucus!
33. Don't Look Now (1973)
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Cast: Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland
Nic Roeg's hugely influential take on Daphne du Maurier's short story is more than just a simple horror movie. It's also a moving and insightful study of marriage, particularly the way it creaks like the hull of a ship under the duress of loss and grief. But, yes, ultimately it's scary in a way that's cranked up several notches by its eerie backdrop of Venice in off-season, weird encounters with seers and that red-coated hobgoblin. Julie Christie (lost in her grief for her drowned daughter) and Donald Sutherland (adrift in his) are note-perfect as the central couple, but Roeg's direction and editing – particularly in that central sex scene – lend the movie the feel of a beautiful but shattered mosaic.
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32. Let The Right One In (2008)
Director: Tomas Alfredson
Cast: Kåre Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson, Per Ragnar
We all know children are terrifying, but Let The Right One In takes spooky kids and made them almost too relatable for comfort. Simply trying to survive like countless vampires before her, Eli (Leandersson) strikes up a bittersweet friendship with social pariah Oskar (Hedebrant), offering him salvation from his less-than-ideal home situation. Based on John Ajvide Lindqvist's bestseller and set in Stockholm, it's not just the threat of being offed by a vampire that make this an incredibly effective Scandi scarefest, with themes of loneliness, anxiety and alcoholism helping it slip effortlessly into your bloodstream. It's no surprise Hollywood clamoured for a remake.
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31. The Innocents (1961)
Director: Jack Clayton
Cast: Deborah Kerr, Michael Redgrave, Martin Stephens, Pamela Franklin
The title's different, but The Innocents is otherwise an elegant and extremely faithful adaptation of Henry James' perennial classic The Turn Of The Screw. A governess takes charge of two creepy children who appear to be being haunted by previous incumbents of their rackety estate. But the film preserves James' crucial ambiguity: are the children really in danger from ghosts, or from a sort of supernatural Munchausen-by-proxy stemming from their hysterical guardian? The answer's up to you.
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30. It Follows (2014)
Director: David Robert Mitchell
Cast: Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist, Daniel Zovatto
A strong contender for the best horror film of 2014, It Follows runs with its brilliant central concept and never drops the ball. We never really learn what the 'It' is, except that it's a mysterious entity that's somehow sexually transmitted, manifesting as a variety of shuffling injured strangers, or sometimes as people known to the victims it inexorably pursues. It's an interesting twist on the slasher movie "promiscuous teens get killed" trope, with the wrinkle that if you find yourself affected, you can just shag someone else and get rid of it, like a chain letter. That rule takes the film to some very dark places.
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29. Night Of The Living Dead (1968)
Director: George A. Romero
Cast: Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea, Karl Hardman
Whenever you watch an episode of The Walking Dead or read a Max Brooks novel or even fiddle with your smartphone on Plants vs Zombies, you have George A. Romero to thank. Nobody else has contributed more to the modern conception of zombies than the bearded genius from the Bronx, and no film has kickstarted a subgenre so enduring or fruitful. Night Of The Living Dead is scary, sure (its violence caught audiences by surprise at the time) but it's also surprisingly witty: a socially cognisant satire from a politically loaded time. Little wonder that Quentin Tarantino once claimed the "A" in George A. Romero stood for "A Fucking Genius".
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28. The Descent (2005)
Director: Neil Marshall
Cast: Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza, Alex Reid, MyAnna Buring
Somewhat like Aliens, Neil Marshall's masterstroke here is in keeping the monsters off screen for a good hour. And after the almost unendurable cave-bound claustrophobia of the first half, it's almost a relief when they finally show up to provide a more solid, familiar focus for the audience's fear. Before that, it's been an unbearably tense series of character clashes and potholing injuries: a pressure-cooker building to a head of steam that brutally climaxes with a shocking accident and the full reveal of FX guru Paul Hyett's blind, albino gollums. From then on it's intense action all the way to the devastating conclusion. American audiences got an upbeat ending from which the sequel continues. Here in the UK, the final moments are horrifyingly bleak.
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27. Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
Director: Tobe Hooper
Cast: Marilyn Burns, Gunnar Hansen, Jim Siedow
Five years after Scooby-Doo first aired, Tobe Hooper similarly put some teenagers in a van to endure a scary mystery. Their experience was rather different. Maybe they should've brought a dog, although it's doubtful it would have helped them. Actually quite light on gore, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre nevertheless remains a uniquely gnarly, punishing experience, from its grotesque production design to its family of cannibal freaks and its stand-out villain Leatherface. Some have suggested an intriguing Vietnam-era subtext about America eating its young, but the film functions perfectly well without it on a pure, primal level. Burns' screams ring in your ears long after the exhausting last act is over. The final shot of Leatherface dancing with his saw is an indelible image.
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26. The Others (2001)
Director: Alejandro Amenábar
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Alakina Mann, James Bentley
A classical ghost story in the, ahem, spirit of The Innocentsand Robert Wise's The Haunting, The Others is lent added poignancy for the relatable, touching presence at its heart. Protective mum (Kidman) just wants to shield her two photo-sensitive wee'uns from the bright, unforgiving world outside their creaking country pile. It's a task that's made increasingly difficult for all the eerie goings-on within it. Spanish director Alejandro Amenábar conjures icy atmospherics from the gothic scenario, proving that less is definitely more when it comes to scares.
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25. 28 Days Later (2002)
Director: Danny Boyle
Cast: Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Brendan Gleeson, Christopher Eccleston
Debates raged about whether the fast-moving "infected" were zombies or not, but that's not the meat of why Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland's tale of a destroyed society is so effective. Like all great horror movies, it's about us rather than "the other", and peers into the dark heart of humanity. How far would you go faced with such a situation? You may not love the answer. And there's so much to admire visually, with a Day Of The Triffids-esque emptied London, shot guerrilla-style in early mornings.
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24. The Omen (1976)
Director: Richard Donner
Cast: Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner, Harvey Spencer Stephens
Boys, eh? Muddy-kneed, conker-smashing little blighters... all running around and falling over and, in Richard Donner's timeless chiller, turning out to be the Antichrist. The unwitting adoption of devil child Damien (Harvey Spencer Stephens) has horrifying consequences for parents Gregory Peck and Lee Remick in one of the bleakest collisions of faith, religion and superstition in the genre. It's not held in quite the same critical esteem as The Exorcist or Rosemary's Baby these days, but make no mistake, The Omen is still a powerful potion.
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23. Suspiria (1977)
Director: Dario Argento
Cast: Jessica Harper, Stefania Casini, Flavio Bucci
Nobody makes horrors quite like Dario Argento. With Suspiria, the Italian genio set the Video Nasties era of censorship and moral panic ablaze, and set the template for his "Three Mothers" trilogy. All his hallmarks are there: dark supernatural elements at play; bravura camera acrobatics; bloody, extreme violence; themes of obsession and sexual aberration; and a vibrant, hyperreal technicolour palette. Think The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg, but with witch-demons instead of umbrellas.
22. Eyes Without A Face (1960)
Director: Georges Franju
Cast: Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli
Horror movies love a mad scientist and they don't come much madder than Pierre Brasseur's boffin, Dr. Génessier, in this quietly insidious spooker. He attempts to make amends for causing the car accident that's ruined his daughter's face by grafting the visages of other women onto it. You don't need to be au fait with the plot of Face/Off to see where this could go wrong. Georges Franju's capacity to eke pathos as well as icks from premise makes it an enduring classic and more than worthy of Pedro Almodóvar's 2011 homage, The Skin I Live In.
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21. The Fog (1980)
Director: John Carpenter
Cast: Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Atkins, John Houseman
A chilly yarn about ghost pirates exacting their revenge on a small coastal town, The Fog is so explicitly a campfire tale that it even begins with a scout troop sitting around a seaside blaze, with time for just one more story. Carpenter's follow-up to the classic Halloween saw some post-production tinkering to make the scares more explicit, and when you know that you can definitely spot the reshoot joins. But it doesn't affect what remains perhaps Carpenter's most purely atmospheric film.
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20. Psycho (1960)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles
Imagine a trip to see Psycho in 1960. Its deliberately oblique marketing, fronted by Hitchcock himself, would have prepared you for a motel to feature prominently but not much else. The opening 20-odd minutes must have seemed like a pretty standard noir set-up, with Janet Leigh eloping with a bunch of money and the tantalising possibility of a new life that lasts precisely as long as her next trip to the shower. Then came the full-bore shock of that brutal knifing, each stab driven home by Bernard Herrmann's jarring score, unexpected and almost entirely without precedent. Audiences must have wondered if it wasn't Hitch himself who, in the nicest possible way, was the real psycho here.
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19. An American Werewolf In London (1981)
Director: John Landis
Cast: David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Griffin Dunne, John Woodvine
A comedy-horror that skimps on neither, American Werewolf manages to be properly scary, blackly funny, and, in the relationship between lycanthrope Naughton and nurse Agutter, genuinely moving. It's a deft juggling act, confidently performed by director Landis who, while he remains immensely likeable, was arguably never this good again. An American director in England, his sense of the country never descends into twee American En-ger-land clichés, and even the stock lines and characters – "Stay off the moors"; "That's enough!" – are performed in such a way that they never grate. It's a loving homage to bygone scares that nevertheless feels entirely modern, even 35 years later.
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18. The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari (1920)
Director: Robert Wiene
Cast: Conrad Veidt, Werner Krauss, Friedrich Feher
Arguably the first great horror film, Robert Wiene's nightmarish German Expressionist vision is all sharp edges and jutting angles. It remains a towering benchmark for those that followed, setting its playful story structure against a shadowy backdrop of duplicity, red herrings and murder most foul. The story sees Werner Krauss' seemingly avuncular doc touting out a fortune-telling sleepwalker Cesare (Conrad Veidt) at a town fair, where the ensuing death count hints that his career as Germany's answer to Mystic Meg may be short-lived. Boasting the first twist ending in cinema history, what follows offers a dark glimpse into a country's soul.
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17. Ring 2 (1998)
Director: Hideo Nakata
Cast: Nanako Matsushuma, Hiroyuki Sanada, Rie Inō
Not the first adaptation of Kōji Suzuki's novel, but the one that brought the terrifying Sadako Yamamura to international attention. Suzuki's more sci-fi tinged material is jettisoned in favour of more horrifying ambiguity, and Nakata's film is an intriguing collision of Japanese folk horror (the well-dwelling, black-haired, chalk-skinned Sadako is clearly a descended from the onryō ghouls of Japanese tradition) and more modern concerns about viral media and moral panic. It's a slow burn, but worth the unsettling journey to its most famous setpiece.
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16. Carrie (1976)
Director: Brian De Palma
Cast: Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Nancy Allen
Carrie was among the first films to utilise that most terrifying supernatural force: puberty. Stephen King's novel recognised the trials of adolescence as ripe ground for horror, and found a worthy suitor for his first cinematic adaptation in director Brian De Palma, who brings the tale to life with sadistic relish and intelligent, daring camerawork. Sissy Spacek, meanwhile, imbues Carrie with childlike innocence and genuine pathos, blotted only by mild bouts of, erm, telekinetic murder. It's a testament to her range that, come that prom finale, you find yourself feeling simultaneously sympathetic and scared shitless.
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15. Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Director: Roman Polanski
Cast: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon
Like a twisted cross between The Exorcist and What To Expect When You're Expecting, this occult classic is no movie to watch when you're considering settling down to family life or planning a foray into the property market. Neighbours, quite literally, are a hellish proposition for Farrow and Cassavetes' newly-weds as they settle into their new Manhattan brownstone. Outside their four walls, dark forces swirl – and we're not talking about the velour furniture. Polanski's command of tight interior scenes and a mood of slowly building paranoia make what follows claustrophobic and endlessly creepy.
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14. The Wicker Man (1973)
Director: Robin Hardy
Cast: Edward Woodward, Britt Ekland, Christopher Lee
The Wicker Man shouldn't really work. An outsider's view of a mythical Scotland, written and directed by Englishmen and scored by an American, and replete with songs to the extent that it's practically a musical, it's a minefield of elements that could all have gone horribly wrong. And yet, it's all so right: that weirdness a crucial part of the unsettling whole; Woodward's hapless investigations leading inexorably to that final, devastating reveal. There's plenty of humour, but it never feels like Woodward isn't in real, frightening trouble. The climax is as inevitable as it's horrifying. It's easy to laugh at the remake but even Hardy himself failed to recapture the dark magic with his belated Wicker Tree. The Wicker Man is unrepeatable.
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13. The Cabin In The Woods (2012)
Director: Drew Goddard
Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Kristen Connolly, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz
A "loving hate letter" to the genre, as co-writer Joss Whedon called it, The Cabin In The Woods successfully manages to skewer every conceivable horror trope even as it utilises them for its own narrative gains. The fiendishly clever twist and self-reflexive perspective might dampen the scares for some, but this is still the most ingenious meta-horror ever created. Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford's desk-jockeys-of-the-damned are a particular highlight, while the final showdown, playing like a Horror Hall of Fame, quite literally bursts with pause-or-you'll-miss-it moments of gory glee.
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12. A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)
Director: Wes Craven
Cast: John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Robert Englund, Johnny Depp
There have been, at time of writing, nine entries in the Nightmare On Elm Street series, including a reboot, a crossover, and a sequel rather prematurely titled The Final Nightmare. (It was not, obviously.) None quite compare to Wes Craven's remarkable original. Taut, witty, and nightmarish (clue's in the title), Elm Street stands out on the map during a decade hardly short of horror hits, and, in Freddy Krueger, presented the most terrifying boogeyman ever to wear knitwear.
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11. The Exorcist (1973)
Director: William Friedkin
Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Linda Blair
There are horror movies with infamous reputations. And then there's The Exorcist. This is a film which prompted cinema exhibitors to routinely offer 'barf bags' for queasy patrons; which had St John's Ambulance on standby at screenings to aid the regular fainters; which was accused of corrupting young minds with subliminal imagery. Amid the noise and furore, William Friedkin's achievements were almost ignored – how he deftly blended the religious and psychological with themes of unconditional faith and maternal love. And yes, it's head-spinningly scary. Don't forget your barf bag.
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10. Jaws (1975)
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss
It followed his shorts work, TV movie Duel and The Sugarland Express, but Jaws truly announced the arrival of Steven Spielberg as a major talent. Massive production issues became the mother of real invention and needing to keep the toothy villain off screen as much as possible just ratcheted up the tension that much more. Primal fears fuel a thriller that also feels human thanks to Scheider, Shaw, Dreyfuss and the rest. Not forgetting John Williams' iconic, simple and terrifying score. Jaws sticks in the brain and makes the heart beat that much faster.
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9. Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Cast: Ivana Baquero, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú, Doug Jones
Still Guillermo del Toro's deepest and most personal work, his "feminine" companion piece to The Devil's Backbone is a fairy tale that doesn't stint on the grim(m). Set in early Francoist Spain in 1944, it's as much about the after-effects of the Spanish Civil War and the continuing nightmare of World War II as it is about our heroine's heroic underworld questing, and, crucially, most of the real horror is above ground. But there are nightmarish encounters with a giant toad and an eyeless Pale Man to make the point that Ofelia's escape into fantasy is anything but safe. The ingratiating, twitchy Faun too (the Pan of the English title) is clearly not her friend.
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8. Nosferatu (1922)
Director: F.W. Murnau
Cast: Max Schreck
Roger Ebert once said, "To watch Nosferatu is to see the vampire movie before it had really seen itself." This is Dracula before it became cinematic legend; before Christopher Lee, before Gary Oldman, before Count Duckula. Though technically not Dracula at all – Bram Stoker's estate refused to grant the production rights – it's perhaps the quintessential incarnation of the Transylvanian vampire. But its influence, from technical innovations to Expressionistic lighting style, spreads far beyond the horror genre. The imposing shadow of Max Schreck – whose surname means "fright" in German – is as iconic as movies are ever likely to get.
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7. Shaun Of The Dead (2004)
Director: Edgar Wright
Cast: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield, Lucy Davis
You can argue until you're zombiefied with exhaustion as to whether Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg's first cinematic collaboration is a true horror. It is: the laughs are balanced by a keen understanding of the fear aesthetic, and it doesn't skimp on either the scares or the gore. You only have to look to the Night Of The Living Dead-homaging final siege to understand that. Plus, Wright and his cast add such real emotional depth to the characters that they come across as more nuanced than many a scary movie can boast.
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6. Evil Dead II (1987)
Director: Sam Raimi
Cast: Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry, Dan Hicks
Sam Raimi's eternally groovy cult favourite has an energy and a spirit that is entirely its own. After a reported rights kerfuffle from his original film, Raimi set about to half-retell the 'Book of the Dead' legend, revisiting Ash (Campbell) and his cabin in the woods – this time with a sparkier tone and more opportunity for Raimi's hyper-kinetic camera-gymnastics. The tightrope between supernatural horror, badass action and genuine spooks has never been walked so confidently, and it forever cemented Campbell as a cult hero. Good...bad...he's the guy with the chainsaw for a hand.
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5. Halloween (1978)
Director: John Carpenter
Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasance, Nancy Kyes, P.J. Soles
Many have tried to imitate John Carpenter's style and mood in the years since he carved his way into the horror pantheon, but few, if any, can match him. Inspired by Hitchcock, he found the scares lurking within suburbia, making them instantly relatable to the audience. And he's helped by a combination of the simple horror of Michael Myers and the naive-yet-tough charm of Jamie Lee Curtis' heroine. You can largely ignore the sequels (we've a soft spot for the third) and reboot: stick to the original to see a true master of the creepy, tension-building story at work.
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4. The Thing (1982)
Director: John Carpenter
Cast: Kurt Russell, Keith David, David Clennon, T.K. Carter
Who can you trust? And when you rely on other people to survive, what does that do to the paranoia levels? That's the key to John Carpenter's chilly chiller, set at a remote Antarctic research station. An otherworldly discovery brings blood, guts, body horror and twisty storytelling, all anchored by Kurt Russell's charisma and Rob Bottin's exemplary effects work. It'll make you itch with suspicion and recoil at the more gruesome scenes. The Thing deserved a fairer shot on release ¬– thank goodness it has long since earned cult status.
3. Scream (1996)
Director: Wes Craven
Cast: Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Skeet Ulrich, Rose McGowan
Genre deconstruction had been done before but Kevin Williamson's canny, clever, extra-meta screenplay in the hands of Wes Craven made Scream that much more special. Taking the slasher film apart didn't stop the bloody tide of rip-offs and spoofs that followed, but it gave audiences a fresh eye with which to view them. Added to that, great work from the likes of Campbell, Cox, David Arquette and scary phone voice maestro Roger L. Jackson means that it functions as an effective chiller within its own self-referential trappings.
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2. Alien (1979)
Director: Ridley Scott
Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skeritt, Ian Holm, Veronica Cartwright
It's not easy to make a film that can rank among the best in both the horror genre and the world of science fiction, but Scott and writers Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett make it look easy. It wasn't simple to wrangle everything together on a relatively tight budget, but the results are all up there on the screen. The sterile environment of the Nostromo might not seem like the most inviting place for terror, but space is dark, cold and horrifying and H.R. Giger's icky creation upped the fright levels. And then there's that cast, topped by Weaver as Ellen Ripley, one of the best creations in cinema history. In the cinema, or at home, everyone will hear you scream.
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1. The Shining (1980)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Scatman Crothers, Danny Lloyd
Stephen King hates it, of course. Contemporary critics were lukewarm. Initial box-office returns were middling. The Academy Awards flatly ignored it. Stanley Kubrick, unbelievably, was even nominated for a 'Worst Director' award at the inaugural Razzies. (He 'lost' to Xanadu's Robert Greenwald.)
It wasn't a fun shoot either, by all accounts. Kubrick forced Shelley Duvall to do 127 takes of one scene, a record according to The Guinness Book Of Records. Jack Nicholson was made to eat his least favourite food – cheese sandwiches – to keep him in an "agitated state". The infamous "Here's Johnny!" scene took three days and 60 doors. Both lead actors left the shoot exhausted and resentful.
What a difference a bit of hindsight makes. As with a lot of Kubrick's work, time has been kind, and it now seems blindingly obvious that The Shining is a masterpiece without parallel: precise, meticulous, surreal, visually astonishing, a shimmering study of a descent into madness. The ultimate horror movie.
King continues to grumble, but it's his blind spot. His novel was too on-the-nose for the director's metaphysical sensibilities. The book is slashed, cruelly but correctly, into a leaner script. With Kubrick, it's always about reading between the lines – or in this case, the corridors. The imposing Overlook Hotel – its labyrinthine interiors built entirely in London's Elstree Studios – serve as the physical embodiment of Jack's psychological degeneration. The newly-invented steadicam gives it an extra geographical depth.
It might not be a conventional horror – Kubrick was hardly going to lump for genre tropes, was he? – but that undercurrent of menace throughout is far scarier than any jump cut or shadowy ghoul. It's all about that bubbling sense of unease under the surface, an unease that could infect any one of us. "Some places are like people," as Scatman Crothers' cook, Dick Hallorann, puts it. "Some shine... and some don't."


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MMA fighter War Machine faces attempted murder charge
MMA fighter War Machine, also known as Jonathan Koppenhaver, made his first appearance in a Las Vegas courtroom on Wednesday, pleading not guilty to 32 felony charges, including attempted murder.
Koppenhaver was arrested on Aug. 15 on nine felony counts in connection to the beating of his ex-girlfriend, adult film actress Christy Mack.
However, prosecutors added several new charges on Wednesday, which stretch over the course of over one year, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The charges now include attempted murder, sexual assault, battery, coercion, preventing or dissuading a witness or victim from reporting a crime, and first-degree kidnapping resulting in substantial bodily harm.
The charges involve Mack and her friend Corey Thomas as the victims, reports the Review-Journal.
According to the police report, Koppenhaver attacked Mack and Thomas in her home on Aug. 8, choking and punching Thomas for nearly 10 minutes until he left. He then turned his attention to Mack, who had called 911, and punched, groped, and threatened to rape her before threatening her with a kitchen knife.
According to the Review-Journal, Mack's eyes were swollen shut after the assault and she sustained a blowout fracture of her left eye and several other broken bones in her face, two missing teeth, a lacerated liver, broken ribs and serious bruising in several places.
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- Released: Jul 22, 2013
- Sound: 8
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- Overall Impression: 8
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Sound — 8
It was a cold, rainy night in southern England when Baroness' tour bus plunged 30 feet off a motorway viaduct. It was last summer, and the American sludge merchants were touring their fantastically ambitious double album "Yellow & Green" at the time. It left nine injured and two were rushed to hospital with serious injuries. The prompted vocalist John Baizley to write a poignant, gripping piece on the crash, his near-death experience and the greater forces which drive musicians to do what they do. Two of the band's four members left the band. Just a few weeks earlier, they had recorded four songs from "Yellow & Green" at the BBC's legendary Maida Vale Studios, where the late John Peel recorded bands including Led Zeppelin, AC/DC and David Bowie. This little piece of history, which finally sees a proper vinyl release, is essential listening for the fanatical and the curious, but even newcomers will find the chemistry rather enthralling.
These are unlike the tapes Peel used to make with his favourite grindcore bands: sonic obliteration at 300 BPM which felt more like riots than sessions. Baroness' approach is rather more patient, laying down four tracks from last year's "Yellow & Green" album with the emphasis firmly on musicality. The context of the recording and the history of the building offer this a timelessness that eludes most metal bands, and besides, much of what Baroness do is informed by the softer side of rock. The hostile fuzz and gruff vocals on their studio albums conceal a time-learnt appreciation for indie, rock and pop songwriting. The rounded, bassy mix here allows those elements to shine. "The Line Between" is warmer as a live track, while "Cocainium" reimagines their sludge sound as '80s post-punk thickset, but aired out by gloomy, clean touches of guitar.
Lyrics — 8
The band's biggest improvement on "Yellow & Green" was in their lyrics, which took on a new anthemic quality without compromising the ornate language which embellished their verse. Peter Adams' backing vocals are enriching too, providing "Take My Bones Away" with its central hook and adding urgency at all the right moments, when lesser bands may succumb to what they perceive to be genre conventions. Note the relatively low gain across this EP, and the album its material comes from.
Overall Impression — 8
Forgetting the circumstances surrounding the period of time, Maida Vale sessions generally mark a high point for a rock 'n' roll band. This one captures Baroness at the top of their game, thunderously powerful but refreshingly soulful. They may feel they have a point to prove when they return to the UK in October, but they'll never sound better than live and British fans would do well to bear that in mind.


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About the Book
This is a monograph of the artist/printmaker Aine Scannell. The pieces featured are mainly from 2005 - the present. Some of the works have been especially created for this book. Her pieces are mainly "one offs", as creating editions is of no interest. The momentum is rather, in seeking expression to what it is, to be human. Finding the graphical means, to somehow express those fleeting moments, our affinities with other beings and our relationship with ourselves.
Aine is originally from Ireland and spent her formative years as a fine artist in London. She is an International award winning artist - and has widely exhibited internationally - most recently in Krakow, China and Lithuania.
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Small Square, 7×7 in, 18×18 cm
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- Publish Date Sep 25, 2012
- Tags contemporary art, graphic art, tradigital art, combined printmaking techniques, chine colle, printmaking, drawing, figurative, human, etching, intaglio, collagraph
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|Mark Dunkerley, CEO of Hawaiian Airlines
HONOLULU ( TheStreet) -- In November, Hawaiian ( HA) began service between Honolulu and Tokyo's Haneda Airport, using a Boeing ( BA) 767 seating 260 passengers. Eight months later, it upgraded to a bigger, newer airplane, an Airbus A330 with 294 seats. While replacing an aircraft with a bigger aircraft generally denotes strong demand, Hawaiian's capacity increase has a second dimension: The vast majority of passengers between Tokyo and Honolulu are Japanese tourists who buy tickets with yen, while Hawaiian pays most bills in dollars. Hence, currency exchange is benefitting the carrier, not just on routes to Japan, but also to Australia and Korea, whose currencies are also strong.
"The strong yen is spurring traffic to the U.S.," said Hawaiian CEO Mark Dunkerley, in an interview with TheStreet. "It's hard to quantify exactly, but you only have to visit Japan and buy things with dollars to appreciate how expensive it is, or to see how Japanese customers in Hawaii, to understand how affordable it is." He said Asia flights account for about 10% to 12% of revenue -- and that's growing. Hawaiian began Honolulu-Osaka service in July. It is scheduled to take delivery of a new A330 in October and four more early in 2012, bringing the total to nine. Dunkerley indicated some of the new aircraft will fly to Asia, although he declined to specify destinations. "We are seeing very strong demand for our services in Japan, and we are looking at Asia in general for further expansion in 2012, in large part due to the strength of the Asian currencies versus the dollar," he said. "As the fleet of A330s grows, you can expect to see A330s flying to Asia." Lucrative Mainland Flights At the moment, however, with just four A330s, it makes sense to use some on mainland U.S. routes, which are shorter and lend themselves to higher utilization of the aircraft, he said. Hawaiian gets more than half of its revenue from flights to ten U.S. cities, with about a third derived from inter-Hawaii flying. The mainland market is intensely competitive, with all of the major U.S. carriers involved. United ( UAL) and Hawaiian each have about 30% of the market, while Delta ( DAL) has about 18%. Dunkerley said capacity is flat compared to a year ago.


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Researchers Prove Photo 'Orbs' Are Ghost Farts
Fecalogical Foundations Fractured From Flatulence Findings
By Chris McKerracher via The Sage News
(SNN) – Scientists from Harvard University's Faculty of Fringe Research have published a paper in the esteemed scientific journal, "Esteemed Scientific Journal" that appears to provide concrete evidence that orbs that appear in photographs are actually ghostly gas. Lead Researcher, Dr. Pedro M'Kumba-Nordstrom claims in the report that the results of their studies are not only reproducible, but unassailable.
"Our team has managed to account for every variable that may have unintentionally affected the test results, as well as conducted simultaneous blind experiments alongside the monitored ones so none of the research team members could know which were controls and which were the actual samples," outlined M'Kumba-Nordstrom. "The data is there for any competent scientist to review and critique but so far, no individual or group has challenged our findings or our methodology."
One experiment conducted by the Harvard group was to shrink-wrap an abandoned pre-civil war building located just outside of Boston; the First Church of the Holy Rastafarian. Locals have long claimed the dusty stone structure was haunted. The plastic film was applied to contain any gasses that might be present but unaccounted for.
After using an electro-mass-spectrometry analyzer to catalogue every molecule of gas in the room, M'Kumba-Nordstrom's group was astounded to find methane-based gaseous emissions not ever before observed. Using the other eight elements of the experimental programs that were involved, which can be found in the group's final report, the data was clear that these new methane compounds could only be spirit fluffs. It has also given scientists in related fields what may be the basis for finding the constituents of 'ectoplasm', the material ghosts are made of that up until now remained largely regarded as imaginary.
"Our findings open the doors for more amazing discoveries ahead in many different disciplines," said the professor who is already being considered as a Nobel Prize recipient. "It is wonderful to be on the ground floor of this exciting field and want to thank our private corporate sponsor, the Beano Company, for their long-standing financial support and encouragement."
[END] The Sage News
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The Hollow Earth Theory
via skeptoid.com
Today we're going to point the skeptical eye at yet another alternative science that has managed to hang around for centuries despite being obviously wrong, the hollow Earth. There are many different models of hollow Earth theory, and support from equally diverse communities. It is a mind-bending example of how people can mold their world views to fit their beliefs, and then mold science itself to fit the world view.
Today, the prevailing hollow Earth theory states that the Earth is a hollow shell, with its inner surface being much like the outer surface where we live. It has oceans, mountain ranges, and clouds; and hovering at the very center of this hollow ball is a miniature sun that warms the inner-surface residents. Slightly offset from the North Pole and the South Pole are holes that allow travel between the outer and inner worlds. The civilization that lives on the inner surface is more advanced than ours, and they fly in and out through the polar openings in flying saucers, which explains UFO sightings by the outer surface civilization. Only the government knows about the polar openings and the inner civilization, and they suppress this information; ostensibly to prevent other governments from finding out about it and claiming the territory.
To most of us, this sounds like a pretty far-out concept; so many applications of various sciences prove it wrong. Nevertheless, even today, it has its supporters. Many books are available earnestly promoting the theory. Websites such as OurHollowEarth.com, HollowEarthNetwork.com, and HollowEarthTheory.com provide only a starting point for active communities who firmly believe this.
Conspiracy mongering is a big part of most of today's hollow Earth writings: familiar assertions that the government is covering it up, the proverbial "they" don't want you to know about it, and that we should all "wake up" and see the truth. But this is the least interesting part of hollow Earth theory, and only its most recently introduced aspect. There is a rich and surprising history behind how this all came to be
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Firewalk Mishap
According to reports, 21 people had to be treated for burns from walking over hot coals at a Tony Robbins inspirational event.
Robbins is a successful self-help guru with a schtick that depends upon the scientific illiteracy of his audience. After a session of telling people how to "unleash the power within" he demonstrates their new-found power by inviting them to walk barefoot over hot burning coals while thinking about cool moss. This is meant to demonstrate the power of mind over matter. This is, of course, nonsense.
The Hot Coal Deception
Many physicists have used the hot coal demonstration to teach a bit of elementary physics, as there is a very simple explanation for how people can walk over hot coals in their bare feet.
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Americans whose health insurance plans were canceled this year will be granted temporary relief from the Obamacare "individual mandate," the administration announced Thursday night. The mandate requires most Americans to carry health insurance in 2014 or pay a fine.
The announcement comes after some people, while shopping on the Obamacare exchanges, found that the coverage options available to them were significantly more expensive than their canceled plans.
"Even though the Affordable Care Act will offer more coverage choices and protections for millions of Americans, we are committed to ensuring the smoothest transition possible for those who need to find a new health plan," said Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in a letter to Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va. He had written to Sebelius asking about the options available to constituents with canceled health plans.
How to get the exemption
To qualify for a "hardship exemption" from the insurance requirement, you must indicate that your policy was canceled and that you believe the plans on the exchanges are not affordable. You also must fill out a hardship exemption form, according to HealthCare.gov. Then, your options would be to either enroll in a lower-cost and substandard catastrophic health plan, or simply disregard the individual mandate penalty.
In her letter, Sebelius also points out that the catastrophic health plans, which are typically reserved for Americans younger than 30, are 20 percent lower -- on average -- than other plans on the exchanges.
More head-shaking from insurers
Insurers aren't pleased with this latest in a series of changes in the Obamacare rules.
This new exemption "could cause significant instability in (the) marketplace and lead to further confusion and disruption for consumers," Karen Ignagni, president of America's Health Insurance Plans, an industry trade group, says in a statement.
Nearly half of the cases HHS has received regarding canceled plans have been resolved and another third are in progress, Sebelius says.
What are your thoughts on the latest tweaks to the implementation of the Affordable Care Act?
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Comments about PBS FRONTLINE: The Released DVD:
This film has motivated me to educate my students about the serious necessity to address this critical issue in our society, today. A "Must See!"
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Mental health professionals know that the stories presented in this video are all too true and all too common. There are many individuals acoss the country with serious mental illness who, like the ones highlighted, have no better options for their care than homeless shelters and prisons. What this video does an excellent job of is showing the real people who are "inside" the symptoms of their mental illness. It makes a compelling case that our present systems are broken and need a complete overhaul in order to better provide for these people.
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We all need to be made aware of the conditions of the, at times, defenseless men and women that become caught up in the jails of our country. Surely
they all, we all....deserve a more humane course of
This is a must see for anyone concerned with the way our mentally ill are treated and looked upon.


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No matter how hard you try, sometimes things just don't go the way you plan. Be it family, work, or education, we're not perfect. Things happen.
Heather Huhman, writing for Glassdoor, points out that "the reality is, nearly every professional has had an experience where they made a mistake or missed a deadline." These flaws can make securing employment more difficult, but by showing how you've improved as a professional and what you've learned from each experience, it is possible to keep past mistakes from ruining your chances for success.
The point of a job interview is to assess your capabilities, as well as your potential. Explaining how you've overcome and moved beyond past difficulties can show a hiring manager that you might be just the right person for the job. In this slideshow, Huhman has identified common flaws job candidates might face and ways to explain them during a job interview.
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A FAIRFORD man has plans to get at least one person on every street in the town trained in CPR.
Town councillor Trevor Hing voiced his idea at the most recent council meeting, and the idea was met with support from other members.
The 63-year-old recently suffered cardiac arrest in the High Street and believes he is only here today thanks to the quick-thinking and the first aid skills of 25-year-old Beth Davies, who happened to be driving past.
"I had a long discussion with Rohit and Veronica Sethi and we have had the idea to be the first town of our size to get one person on every street trained in CPR," said Cllr Hing.
Doctors Rohit and Veronica also rushed to the scene when they saw Cllr Hing had collapsed in the street, and were there shortly before an ambulance arrived.
"If we can get this initiative off the ground it would be a huge boost for Fairford," added Cllr Hing, who said he is feeling remarkably better since the incident in June. "Is this something the council would support?"
Cllr Stephen Boulton asked what the cost of the scheme would be and Cllr Hing said this would have to be explored first.
"It sounds like a really cool idea," added Cllr Boulton.
The idea is still in its early stages and that the council has only given its agreement in principle. Cllr Hing must first present a plan for approval.


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CHARLES ADDAMS, creator of the Addams Family and other delightfully creepy characters who populated the pages of The New Yorker magazine for 55 years, had a genius for the Gothic. But instead of inhabiting some far-off realm of ancient myth, his ogres, ghouls and goblins migrated to 20th-century America: They stroll in Central Park, lurk along the highway and live down the block. A contingent of them has even taken up residence at East Hampton's Guild Hall Museum, where ''Charles Addams: American Gothic,'' an exhibition of artworks and memorabilia from the Tee and Charles Addams Foundation, is on view.
Organized by H. Kevin Miserocchi, the foundation's director, the show surveys more than four decades of Mr. Addams's New Yorker contributions, from a 1941 ink drawing of the quiz show from hell to a full-color cover of a pumpkin patch with a twist, painted in 1988, the year of his death. Sadly, the show also serves as a memorial tribute to his widow, Marilyn Addams, known as Tee, who died on Thanksgiving. She established the foundation two years ago to conserve her late husband's legacy and perpetuate his work through publications and exhibitions such as this one.
In addition to 37 finished cartoons and watercolors, the show includes eight preliminary sketches that illustrate how Mr. Addams painstakingly worked out his ideas. A drawing board and furniture from his studios in New York City and Wainscott, as well as some of the objects he collected, suggest that his everyday surroundings were as quirky as his art. A formidable German executioner's axe, a Saxon ceremonial axe and a knob-headed mace were among his prize possessions.
Although his best-known characters are the Addams Family, the macabre menagerie that spawned a television series and two feature films, Mr. Addams's cartoons include many other bizarre characters and situations. He specialized in the double take, as personified by a startled tourist on a 1954 New Yorker cover. Standing on a parapet at Notre Dame cathedral, she notices that one of the quintessentially Gothic gargoyles has apparently come to life. Her astonishment is just the reaction Mr. Addams hoped to provoke in the magazine's readers as they spotted the disconcerting details and figured out the sinister implications lurking in his imagery.
''If I have haunted you,'' Mr. Addams remarked in a 1981 television interview that is also part of the exhibition, ''I have done my job.''
''Charles Addams: American Gothic'' is at the Guild Hall Museum, 158 Main Street, East Hampton, through Jan. 5. Information: (631) 324-0806.Continue reading the main story


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New Trailer For 47 Ronin Arrives
'The world will know who we are... And what we did'
With several trailers already out there for the new Keanu-Fu adventure film 47 Ronin, there's a danger that all the promo footage might feel overly familiar. Still, this latest effort manages, thanks to freshly-finished effects shots, to dig up plenty of new moments.
Based, with plenty of mystical embellishment, on a true Japanese story, 47 Ronin finds a group of warriors in disarray.
After a treacherous warlord kills their master and banishes their kind, the leaderless samurai vow to seek vengeance and restore honour to their people. Driven from their homes and dispersed across the land, this band of Ronin must seek the help of Neo Kai (Reeves), a half-breed they once rejected, as they fight their way across a savage world of mythic beasts, shape-shifting witchcraft and wondrous terrors.
As this exiled, enslaved outcast becomes their most deadly weapon, he will transform into the hero who inspires the band of outnumbered rebels to seize eternity.
Following delays, re-shoots and production quibbles aplenty for director Carl Rinsch, we're finally about to see 47 Ronin, which arrives in UK cinemas on December 26.