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Perhaps not quite as funny as the previous Summer Wine collection I reviewed (maybe not as meaningful or as thoughtful, either)...but still worthwhile. The BBC and 2 | Entertain have released Last of the Summer Wine: Vintage 1985, a two-disc collection that includes not only the six episodes from that particular "series" ("season" in Brit-TV speak), but also the one-off 1983 and 1984 Christmas specials that substituted for season episodes those years. This is the last go-around for Foggy...until he comes back in 1990 for another seven-year stint on what was the longest-running sitcom in television history. No extras for this bare-bones presentation.
The basic premise of Last of the Summer Wine couldn't be simpler, nor more rich in comedic possibilities. Set in the small town of Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, three middle-aged-to-old men roam around town, discussing arcane subjects, contemplating the beauty of their surroundings, arguing with each other, and pulling childish pranks to keep themselves amused. And that's...it. Norman Clegg (Peter Sallis) is the philosopher of the bunch, a mild-mannered widower and redundant linoleum salesman who often goes off on obscure, frequently amusing reveries during his conversations, and who acts as a buffer between his two combative friends. "Foggy" Dewhurst (Brian Wilde) is the tall, imposing, yet utterly ineffectual former Army sign painter (retired) who never married, and who laments the loss of all things "British" as he sees the staid, orderly culture and society of his younger days irrevocably slipping away. And wildman Compo Simmonite (Bill Owen) is...well, he's Compo (British slang for "compensation"). Wearing his beloved Wellies, along with a disgusting, beat-up tweed jacket and a green wool cap (regardless of the weather), Compo often looks like's he's been living out in the woods--which matches his barnyard enthusiasm for sex, as well. In lust with married neighbor Nora Batty (Kathy Staff), who can't stand the sight of Compo, Compo also keeps an eye out for even the slightest suggestion of skin from Ivy (Jane Freeman), the large, shrewish wife of café owner Sid (John Comer). Oblivious to the niceties of society, Compo is the perfect thorn in the side of uptight, rigid, authoritarian Foggy. Both are prone to picking fights with each other (often at the sly instigation of jester Norman), while meek Norman snickers off to the side, enjoying the absurdities of life.
I haven't reviewed a Last of the Summer Wine DVD set since 2008, when I wrote about the 1977 season. We haven't seen any more releases of the series here at DVDTalk since then, so I was a little leery about checking out this 1985 "vintage" after losing so much ground. I needn't have worried. As I wrote in my first review, the uninitiated viewer can pretty much jump in wherever they might. The basic set-up of Last of the Summer Wine apparently didn't differ too terribly much over the 31 seasons (!) it was on the air--even with major cast changes--and at least by what I've seen of the series, nothing changed between the earlier 1977 season I reviewed and these 1983-1985 go-arounds. Of course, loyal fans of Last of the Summer Wine know that this past year, the BBC did finally succeed in deep-sixing the popular series after 37 years on the air, something they had wanted to do for a very long time (steady ratings are nice...but networks still cling to the outdated desire for younger demographics), so that distinct "timeless" feeling the series carried with it, both from within its repetitious framework and existential subtext, as well as from its pop culture context, is necessarily diminished now.
Looking back over my review for the 1977 season (and sneaking a peek at one of my favorite episodes on it), I raved about the gentle, magical tone of the series at that point in its timeline, an atmosphere that approximates an Ealing Studios' grasp of strange, quirky comic details coming out of solid characterizations, butted-up against broad slapstick and dirty-minded (yet subtle and "clean") double-entendres. Those elements are still present in these 1983-1985 efforts...but somehow, the deeper meaning of the piece--that sad, sad undertone of redundant men clinging to their friendship because they have nothing else in a world that has left them behind--seems muted now, perhaps even rote. 1983's Getting Sam Home, the first made-for-TV feature-length movie of the series, which filled in for the absence of any new episodes that year, is first up in this collection, and it starts off quite movingly (amid the generous laughs), as the boys' friend Sam leaves the hospital one last time, certain he's going to die. Locked tight in a loveless marriage to a horrible, uncaring wife, Sam wants only to spend one last night with his voluptuous mistress, Lily Bless Her (love that name)--an endeavor fraught with mortal risk to the sickly Ben, and one facilitated by the obliging boys ferrying the dangerously ill man to her bedroom. Up to this point in the story, Getting Sam Home is well-structured and written by the series' creator and only writer, Roy Clarke. The boys are sympathetic to their friend enjoying any kind of love he can find outside his hated marriage, and Sam's sad appraisal of his own situation is actually quite poignant (when you stop laughing at his hellish wife's awful put-downs). All well and good. But then the rest of the movie veers off into clunky, familiar farcical conventions of moving around the grinning dead body from shed to chip van to house to shed and back again, and while it's hard not to be amused by this, it goes on far too long, and even worse, it's never adequately connected up with the boys. We don't get a sense of how Sam's death effects them, or how their various philosophies deal with their own impending fate--themes that would have been made clear in the season I previously reviewed. The mechanics of the farce outshine the characterizations here.
And the second Christmas special doesn't fare much better. The Loxley Lozenge, a brief 30-minute Christmas special broadcast in 1984 (again, as a substitute for a season of episodes that year), is certainly amusing, particularly when you get to the episode's laugh-out-loud final sight gag. However, it's difficult to find those subtle subtexts of sadness or longing or philosophical wonderings that always underpinned the laughs in previous seasons. The boys are asked to perform a secret mission: help tow a vintage "Loxley Lozenge" racing car for grimy mechanic Wesley. And that's pretty much all there is to the episode, minus an awkward section in the pub where a would-be pub brawler engages the boys in some meaningless fracas. Once the car-towing sequence comes, you expect some funny physical bits, and there is one priceless shot of the men, seated on a couch, sliding off the ruined chassis as it turns left and they shoot out to the right. But then...the episode comes to an abrupt end, and we wonder what that was all about.
Once we get to a proper "series" of six episodes for the 1985 season (on disc two), there's no question that Roy Clarke is still more than capable of fashioning beautifully strange little stories that build on the thinnest of premises (Compo wants to know if Nora has big feet; the boys want to help lasso a donkey). However, the balance seems to fall smartly on the side of emphasizing humor this go-around, while the more philosophical musings of the characters have been toned down. And that's just fine; Clarke's jokes can be both deliciously subtle and more ribald through implied wordplay, and all filtered through a distinctive black British reserve. In The Mysterious Feet of Nora Batty, Nora's beleaguered husband Wally somehow gets around to the subject of men kissing each other, asserting agreeably that "Italians do it all the time, kissing each other at train stations," to which a startled Clegg replies, "I usually just buy a paper," which is then topped by fuzzy Wally gravely intoning, "You see some terrible things at wartime." In Keeping Britain Tidy, Foggy, overly-correct in his emergency aid procedures for a fallen bicyclist, demands slowly, "Can...you...understand...me?" to which the annoyed cyclist responds in kind, "You...great...dozy...Mary," a line-reading that killed me. And in Catching Digby's Donkey, Compo, ruminating on whether or not he and the boys should have helped a neighbor chase a renegade donkey, offers, "They [his beloved ferrets] get into places where a bloke has to be very careful before he starts asking for help," to which Foggy replies, "Yes, but a donkey's not likely to get there, is it?" topped by an alarmed Clegg who replies, "Heavens' forbid!"
And the physical gags--a big one seems to wrap up each episode--are always amusing, too. The Mysterious Feet of Nora Batty probably has the most elaborate one, where the boys finally figure out a way to measure her feet: a stolen shoe store foot measure, placed on a large pole and extended underneath her feet as she hangs washing (the gag is topped when they fall a large distance into the canal...only to be seen standing, alive and well, in ankle-deep water). And the final episode has Compo comically riding around on the top of a Land Rover, taking time to ogle Nora as she undresses in her second-story bedroom window. I don't want to be dismissive of those jokes and moments of slapstick from Clarke and the talented cast. This is funny stuff, and it's beautifully structured and executed. But something seems to be missing at the center of the episodes, some essential yet ephemeral tone that had originally elevated the humor to a different level in previous seasons. Maybe it'll come back in the remaining 25 years of shows
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Fairly typical for this kind of show, from this country. The 16mm elements (location shooting) are muddy and damaged for these full-screen, 1.33:1 transfers, while the video segments actually fare a little better, with brighter images and a bit more picture detail. Video noise is inevitable. If you've seen one British TV show from this time period, you won't be surprised by these transfers.
The Audio:
The English mono audio tracks do fluctuate (likely do to the original recording elements), but dialogue is clear enough (hiss is noticeable), and English subtitles will help anyone who's having trouble with those Northern dialects.
The Extras:
No extras, unfortunately, for Last of the Summer Wine: Vintage 1985.
Final Thoughts:
Not on the same level as previous Summer Wine seasons I've watched...but still funny. Philosophizing has been deemphasized while slapstick and double entendres have been amped up here in Last of the Summer Wine: Vintage 1985, and that's okay, because writer/creator Roy Clarke can still take this simple premise and ring comedy gold out of his quirky characters. However...something seems...missing here, something from the heart. I'm recommending Last of the Summer Wine: Vintage 1985 for lovers of vintage British TV sitcoms.


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THE PROBLEM: Even as most of San Diego was drying out from Monday's big rain, a patch of Sorrento Valley looked like the storm never stopped. Then again, it had looked that way for a couple weeks.
Tim Tallarida, whose office overlooks Morehouse Drive and Scranton Road, wrote in last week before a drop of rain had fallen to say water had been bubbling to the surface for several days. The city Water Department had been notified, he said, but there seemed to be no urgency to stop the flow.
"It's damaging the asphalt," Tallarida said.
Sunday, when the accompanying photograph was taken, there was indeed a steady trickle across Morehouse, much of it appearing to emerge from covers to a water-utilities box and an opening to the storm-drain system. But a slew freshly painted arrows and other markings on the pavement, one reading "STANDBY NEEDED 400 LBS-P.S.I." seemed to suggest some sort of work was imminent.
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The leak was from a line that conveys recycled water only, used mainly for irrigation, Collins said, so there was no waste of the city's potable water supply. Recycled water lines have a separate repair crew, and the trouble in Sorrento Valley came to its attention late last week, Collins said.
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To paraphrase that one Joni Mitchell song that everyone thinks is by Counting Crows, oftentimes you don't know what you've got till it's gone—and nowhere is that more true than in romance. T-Dot representative Kid The Traveler, however, is in no danger of taking his girl for granted. Judging by his latest promo single, premiering in the Booth along with Daniel Wilson's official visuals, he knows precisely what he stands to lose if they part ways. Over his and Christian Walker's moody, ethereal synth grooves, the singer/songwriter and beatsmith mourns the love that's falling to pieces around him, asking, "Where would I be Without You?." This melancholy selection isn't part of a larger project, but those who like what they're hearing should stay tuned. We'll keep you posted on Kid The Traveler's 2014 plans as further details emerge.


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Around 700 Hair Balls blog readers responded to "Police Get the Wrong House in Galveston, Allegedly Assault the Wrong Girl," by Chris Vogel, December 17. Here's a selection of the response.
Sue the city: Those "lawmen" are probably lucky they didn't get shot kidnapping a young girl like that. I hope Dymond sues the city of Galveston for enough money to pay for eight years at Harvard, so she can get a law degree and embark on a career of suing the pants off of cities that don't keep their police under control.
The officers in question should be charged with kidnapping in the second degree, and then given the maximum sentence behind bars, and also be required to register as sex offenders for the rest of their lives. Maybe that would stop the madness.
Galveston Police Department
Jesus: So basically this boils down to, "We couldn't be bothered to identify ourselves as police, or even pick up the right suspect, or care about how bad it looks when three un-uniformed men assault a 12-year-old girl, but we don't want to get in any trouble for that, so we'll blame everyone else." Niiiice.
Also: "The father basically attacked police officers as they were trying to take the daughter into custody after she ran off." Well, yeah. I'd say anyone who didn't attack some unidentified guys in street clothes who were trying to drag a screaming kid into a van would be the lowest kind of scum.
Charging a father with protecting his kid, and the kid for trying to defend herself.
Pretty unbelievable story: What I don't get is why they are pressing charges against the girl and her father. Makes no sense whatsoever.
Stupid: What sort of moron can't tell the difference between a 12-year-old girl and a fully grown, white female prostitute? Add in the fact that they were a couple of blocks off on the address, and it's clear we are dealing with borderline mentally challenged thugs. When you combine that level of intelligence with the legal right to use force, you are asking for trouble. These men should be drummed out of the police force. Why do we have zero tolerance for everything but stupid, violent cops?
One-sided: But keep in mind we're only getting the details of one side of the story. A plaintiff's initial court filings, even if basically honest, only present the information that makes the defendants look bad.
No freedom: This is what makes me, a Canadian, nervous about visiting your country. You are like a frog in a bowl of water over a Bunsen burner. You just don't feel the heat increasing. You're no longer in the land of the free, home of the brave. Your freedom has been taken away, and the brave are abusing your children, justifying it by using the very law that was to protect the citizens, against them.
This poor family was traumatized by an attack by the Galveston version of the Gestapo.
Hmmmm: So how do real hookers get treated? Since they thought she was one, this must be it. Great, I guess COPS is showing the real police in action.
John Hardina
Mediation? I would not compromise for anything less than a public apology. What a horrible story. Lawyers like the scum who are representing the city should be ashamed. They are simply continuing the abuse of power shown in the first place.
Huh! Which country do we live in?
Mad as Hell
She's lucky: These days police say, "Do this," and if they have to tell you twice, they torture you with a Taser until you comply. Welcome to the new America!
No surprise here: I hope this police department gets hit with a huge lawsuit by this family, and the officers behind this bungling and corruption lose theirbadges.
Really is a shame: The police knew they were in a losing position. Instead of admitting guilt and quietly settling, they dug in their heels and claimed resisting arrest and assault against a police officer. Not only is this going to be a big deal, but I hope the local NAACP and ACLU get involved. We are all accountable for our actions, even the police. Have any shown remorse and apologized to the innocent child? The rule of law is all we have, folks. If the police don't respect our rights, it is time to find some who will.
Sickened: As the mother of a police officer, this makes me sick. The vast majority of police officers are good, hardworking, law-abiding people who are out there to protect and serve...and they do it well. It's a shame that officers like the ones in this article give all the rest a bad name!
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Gun owner: If my daughter yelled "Daddy, Daddy" outside of my house, I would exit the house with my .45 locked and loaded. If I then saw three men assaulting her, I would kill them. There are no two ways about this situation.
ID, please: They were plainclothes officers who didn't identify themselves as police officers. I guess if somebody tries to kidnap you, you should go along with it just in case they're police officers.


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Taipei, Feb. 10 (CNA) The United States is not opposed to Taiwan's planned referendum on March 20, although it will continue to observe what Taiwan does after the nationwide vote, a legislator of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) said Tuesday upon returning from a trip to the United States.
Legislator Parris Chang held a press conference on the results of his U.S. mission, undertaken with members of the Legislature's Foreign Affairs Committee, to better understand the sentiments of U.S. officials regarding the upcoming referendum in Taiwan.
Chang said that recent remarks by Republic of China representative to the U.S. Chen Chien-jen to the Legislative Yuan had been misreported by Taiwan media. Reports had said that Chen had said that relations with the United States were in unprecedentedly bad shape, when in fact what he only said that relations were "unprecedented." Chang said that no U.S. officials he spoke with felt that relations were in bad shape. 'The U.S. did have some questions about Taiwan's referendum at first, although the overall relationship is good," Chang said. "After weeks of bilateral communications and the announcement of the questions to be on the referendum, the U.S. response has been very positive," he added.
The U.S. feels that the referendum is an internal affair for Taiwan, Chang said.
Chang said that the United States is concerned about the referendum mainly because it will surely have to intervene if mainland China uses forces against Taiwan.
He also criticized the "pan-blue alliance" for claiming that the United States will punish Taiwan for holding the referendum, asking why the United States would oppose the referendum.
He said that the U.S. is concerned about Taiwan's referendum, but believes that it is a democratic country and will decide by itself what to do. "The U.S. will continue to observe Taiwan, listen to what it says and observe its deeds and will not oppose the referendum, " Chang said.
He said that what the United States cares about is not the two questions on the referendum, but what President Chen will do after winning re-election, including whether his inaugural speech will continue to mention the "four noes plus one" -- which include no referendum regarding the nation's future status as to whether to declare independence or unification with mainland China -- and the writing of a new constitution.
After President Chen wins re-election, he will continue to communicate with the United States, Chang said.
Meanwhile, other legislators, including John Chang and Sun Kuo-hua of the Kuomintang, who went with Chang to call on U.S. State Department officials, congressmen and scholars in the United States, said that the United States still is seriously concerned about Taiwan's planned referendum, and has not accepted or endorsed the referendum.
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The University of Texas' Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs is apologizing for an embarrassing typo on a commencement program.
Guests to the ceremony on Saturday where handed a program that read, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Pubic Affairs.
"Obviously, we are mortified. It's beyond embarrassing," said Susan Binford, the school's assistant dean for communications, on TheBlaze.com.
The school also issued an apology on Twitter that said, "Our deepest apologies to our 2012 graduates for the egregious typo in our commencement program. We are working to distribute new programs."
Media blogger Jim Romenesko also mentioned that the school misspelled egregious as "eggregious" in their apology tweet. That tweet has since been corrected.
The LBJ school said the error has been corrected and new programs are being printed and sent to graduates.


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Who is the single largest user of energy in the United States? Gold stars for everybody who knows that it's the Department of Defense. Accordingly, the Pentagon's progressive policy on energy independence should be a matter of great pride: The military has been marching as quickly as possible to expand its use of clean energy.
Now the House of Representatives is doing all it can to block the Pentagon's investment in more efficient alternative fuels. It is an astonishingly bad direction, and it's up to the Senate to make it right.
This isn't just a matter of being environmentally responsible, or even of encouraging Silicon Valley's growing clean energy industries. It's a matter of national security.
The House Armed Services Committee earlier this year repealed a key legislative provision encouraging the Department of Defense to wean itself from oil. The provision had been signed into law not by President Barack Obama but by his predecessor, President George W. Bush. No sympathizer with purely environmental causes, Bush recognized the wisdom of having the military research and develop clean energy alternatives to make the Pentagon, and by extension the nation, more energy independent.
The Senate is expected to take this up any day now. It needs to soundly reject the House's action. Valley corporate leaders should be on the phone now encouraging senators to take a strong stand supporting clean energy.
Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., spoke at length Wednesday on the threat to the United States, and the world, if energy production doesn't change.
The Department of Defense uses about 360,000 barrels of oil a day, costing taxpayers $15 billion a year. Prior to the House's action, the Pentagon had pledged to obtain 25 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2025, a laudable goal, and committed to investing $1.2 billion in meeting it. No institution better understands the importance of the United States' weaning itself from foreign oil.
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What's Your Learning Style?Posted on 30/08/2012 by admin
Everyone has a unique learning style. Some people learn best with visual diagrams, while others enjoy taking lots of notes and talking through ideas. It's important to be aware of how you learn. Once you have an understanding how you learn, you can put strategies in place to study more effectively.
There are many different ways of learning. You might identify with ones of the learning styles listed below, or you might use a combination. Some of these draw upon the "Index of Learning Styles" developed by Richard Felder and Linda Silverman.
- Sensory vs. Intuitive. Sensory learners prefer concrete facts and bits of information, while intuitive learners look for the concept, the overarching theory, the "big picture", or the meaning behind things.
- Active vs. Reflective. Active learners like to learn by doing, such as through an experiment, case study, or equation. They tend to prefer group work. Reflective learners like analysis, and thinking things through. They often prefer working alone.
- Sequential vs. Global. Sequential learners like to have information presented in an orderly way, while global learners look for the big picture first, before taking in the details.
- Social vs. Solitary. Social learners learn effectively in groups, while solitary learners do best when learning alone.
- Visual. Visual learners tend to prefer using pictures, diagrams, and images in their learning. They're attracted to spatial concepts.
- Verbal or Linguistic. Verbal learners like words, and they learn by talking, listening to verbal discussion, and through writing and reading.
- Logical. Logical learners are good at learning through logic, reasoning, and systems.
How to Improve the Way You Learn
You can improve the way you learn by simply trying out other styles of learning. For example, if you find that you tend to be a solitary learner, join a study group to exercise new "learning muscles".
- If you are a sensory learner, try looking for the theory and the underlying ideas before filling in the details.
- If you're an intuitive learner, you might be rushing through problems without paying sufficient attention to the details. If you slow down, and memorise data, it might help you retain more of what you need to learn.
- If you're a visual learner, a focus on verbal learning techniques might be the answer to more successful studying. Practice by taking notes, and speaking with others on the subject. This will help you make use of words in your learning.
- Verbal learners need to do the opposite to visual learners. If you're a visual learner, practice absorbing information through diagrams, graphs, and other visual representations. If you're a verbal learner, create a flow chart to develop your visual learning ability.
- If you are an active learner, try to slow down to better digest information. If you're a reflective learner, practice applying what you learn in practical ways. Sequential learners can benefit from slowing down, stepping back, and trying to understand the overall picture.
- Global learners, like intuitive learners, often miss important details. If this is your learning style, it's important to make sure you understand each vital detail and take every learning step before coming to a conclusion.
Being aware of how you learn, and working on developing a different learning style, just might be the key to a more effective and fulfilling study method.
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