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The Open Society Archives (OSA) in Budapest has created a map of Budapest that shows the location and addresses of each "yellow star" house, so designated in 1944. They stretch out across Pest, but are concentrated in the historically Jewish areas of the seventh district (location of the world's second largest synagogue) and the thirteenth district, which lies along the Danube above the parliament--another historic Jewish area.
You can go to the website and search by address or browse the map to see which houses were designated "yellow star." One of my friends discovered that her flat is in one of these buildings, as is the flat I recently vacated on the corner of Wesselényi and Nagydiófa, in the heart of the (still today) Jewish district. The image of a yellow star affixed to one of the approximately 1,948 apartment buildings in Budapest that were designated Jewish dwellings. Starting on June 24, 1944, Budapest's entire Jewish population of nearly 250,000 was forced into these houses in the space of 8 days.
Hungary has a long history of anti-Semitism, which has ebbed and flowed over time. At the end of World War I, thousands of Jews were killed in a wave of anti-Semitic progroms known as the White Terror. In 1920, Hungary introduced the so-called "numerus clausus" laws that restricted the percentage of Jewish students in the university to six percent. The situation became somewhat better under the 1920s Count István Bethlen government, although the effects of the laws were not entirely erased. Still, the status of Jews in interwar Hungary were relatively good by regional standards. Hungary's version of the Nürnberg Laws laws came rather late. The government began to restrict the numbers of Jews in government, industry and universities in 1938, eventually prohibiting intermarriage between Jews and non-Jews in 1941.
The relative lack of open attacks against Jews stood in stark contrast to general anti-Semistism in society, which bubbled just below the surface. Hungary's Regent, Admiral Miklós Horthy, openly declared himself an anti-Semite, claiming,
"As regards the Jewish problem, I have been an anti-Semite throughout my life. I have never had contact with Jews. I have considered it intolerable that here in Hungary everything, every factory, bank, large fortune, business, theater, press, commerce, etc should be in Jewish hands, and that the Jew should be the image reflected of Hungary, especially abroad."
Indeed, many Hungarian Jews (particularly in Budapest, if not in the countryside) were highly successful, not to mention numerous and well-integrated into Hungarian society. At the turn of the twentieth century, 25 percent of the city's population was Jewish; they also made up 80-90 percent of the stock exchange and currency brokers and boasted between 50 and 90 percent control of industries. They were also highly assimilated--they had Hungarian names, intermarried with non-Jews, and (on the whole) were not particularly observant--some had even converted to Christianity.
Their wealth and connections of many Budapest Jews actually protected them from the fate that had already befallen Hungarian Jews in the countryside. The ghettoization and ultimate deportations of Jews in the countryside took place in the spring and early summer of 1944 when Nazi forces finally invaded the country; it wasn't until the fall of 1944 that the Jews of Budapest were ultimately ghettoized in preparation for deportation to concentration camps.
Horthy, although allied with Nazi Germany, had resisted orders to deport Budapest Jews to concentration camps (although he failed to protect countryside Jews from a similar fate). Plans to eliminate the Jews of Budapest escalated when German forces entered Hungary in March 1944. In a series of negotiations with German authorities, and partly in reaction to negative international publicity, the Horthy government prevented mass deportations of Jews from Budapest in July. It was not until late 1944 that the Jewish population of Budapest was finally ghettoized--in contrast to other European capitals. In October, Horthy resigned, and Ferenc Szálasi of the Arrow Cross Party assumed leadership of the country; at this point, plans to round up the city's Jewish population began in earnest.
Tim Cole writes about the removal of Jews to the ghetto as fulfilling the twin goals of "Jewish absence" (in areas that would become 100 percent non-Jew) as well as "Jewish presence" (in ghettos where Jews could be managed and contained--and, ultimately, eliminated--through a form of spatialized control).
It is clear that class helped many of the (wealthier) Budapest Jews escape the fate that would befall a much greater proportion of Hungarian Jews living outside Budapest and the poorer Jews who lived in Budapest. Without the means to buy their escape or concealment (which Tivadar Soros--father of George Soros--had acquired for his family members, who managed to pass for non-Jews in Budapest throughout the tense final months of the war), the countryside Hungarians were depopulated at a rate approaching 90 percent (as opposed to Budapest Jews, who were depopulated at a rate closer to 50 percent).
In 1944, the Jewish ghettos were finally created. In the process, the group was divided into "protected" Jews (those who had the support of neutral countries or other actors that had managed to procure passports and other documents for them) and "non-protected" Jews. There were further divisions into "Christian Jews" (those who had converted prior to 1941, in addition to other restrictions) versus non-convert Jews, and foreign Jews versus non-foreign Jews. The original idea was to segregate all populations, but the biggest divide emerged between the "protected Jews" who were placed in the International Ghetto (in what is now the 13th district in the fashionable Jewish middle class area on the Pest side) and the Jewish Ghetto of the seventh district, the other historically Jewish area. The occupants of the International Ghetto were slated for safe passage to neutral countries (with the help of certain diplomats, organizations and foreign governments), while those of the Jewish Ghetto were were slated for death.
In late 1944, the non-Jews and non-protected Jews of the International District were removed to make way for the protected Jews. The non-protected Jews, in turn, were sent on death marches to the Austrian border or the ill-fated Jewish Ghetto of the seventh district. In the struggle to save the Jews of Budapest, a veritable battle was waged between good and evil.
On the side of good, Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat working through the U.S. government, had been enlisted to go to Budapest as a cultural attache of the Swedish embassy--tasked with saving as many Jews as he could. He and others gave special passports to as many Jews as possible and is widely credited with having prevented the deaths of tens of thousands of Jews.
On the side of evil was Adolf Eichmann, a Nazi functionary charged with orchestrating the deportations of millions of Jews around Europe to the death camps. He had also decamped to Budapest to facilitate the Final Solution at the tail end of the war. Eichmann survived the war, but was ultimately captured in Argentina by the Mossad and tried and executed in Israel in 1962 for his Nazi crimes.
In December, the Jewish Ghetto was sealed off. There were four gates--one at either end of Wesselényi street and one at either end of Nagydiófa and Kisdiófa street. To get into the ghetto as a non-Jew, you needed a blue pass; to get out of the ghetto as a Jew you needed a green pass. No food was let in, leading to widespread starvation and malnourishment. No waste was collected, the dead lay piled in the streets and busted storefronts. Diseases spread through the Ghetto, leading to further deaths.
Mass executions began in late 1944, with the population of the ghetto reduced from around 200,000 to around 70,000 when it was finally liberated by the Soviets. Many were rounded up and shot. Others were taken to the banks of the Danube River, where they were lined up, tied together and every third person shot--falling into the river and dragging the others with them. This was done to save bullets. They were also forced to take off their shoes before the executions, as shoes were expensive. The monument below immortalizes the horror:
Adolf Eichmann, charged with the logistics of effecting the Final Solution across Europe, came to Hungary to help supervise the process. Nor were Hitler's henchmen acting alone; the Arrow Cross government were enthusiastic collaborators--there are accounts that the Hungarian gendarmes were highly motivated exterminators.
As the Soviet Army approached Budapest in 1945, the Szálasi government planned a massacre of the remaining Jews in the Ghetto. Wallenberg found out about it through a connection in the government and convinced the German general in charge that he would personally ensure that the general would be hanged as a war criminal were it carried out. The general, recognizing an imminent Allied victory (and fearing for his own skin), ultimately called off the massacre. With this action, Wallenberg saved literally tens of thousands of lives.
Wallenberg remained in Budapest as the Soviets approached, thinking to negotiate a good postwar peace for the residents. He scrambled to learn a few phrases in Russian in order to communicate with the Red Army commanders. Unfortunately, he was instead captured and imprisoned by the Soviets after they arrived in Budapest. His fate is still unknown, but he is believed to have perished in a Soviet gulag.
The story of the yellow star houses is remarkable for many things. For the rapidity a minority went from a manageable existence to being marked for segregation and ultimately death. For the calculating brutality of those who carried it out. For the fact that the process was speeded up, even as it became clear that the perpetrators would likely to be held responsible for heinous war crimes. One wonders at what point (and which) Jewish residents of Budapest began to comprehend the hopelessness of their situation. Today's Jewish district of Budapest is forever marked by this geography of violence.


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Chapter 16
I, Kravius
Kravius looked up from his lunch. Andrus, the arena manager, was standing in the doorway. He looked nervous which was entirely reasonable since he was interrupting Kravius's lunch.
"Whadda you want?" Kravius was a single-minded sort whose mind was currently focused on the ingestion of several thousand calories. He had a boar leg in one hand and a half-gallon jug of chilled govo juice in the other. He burped once, guzzled down a huge swig of juice, and glared at Andrus.
"There's a bit of a problem," said Andrus. "In the arena."
Kravius shrugged as he tore a chunk of meat the size of a man's fist off of the boar's leg. He chewed it noisily, then burped again.
"I was wondering," Andrus continued, "if you could maybe squeeze in a tiny match this afternoon?"
"I don't fight today," he said as he swallowed. "An' I don't do matinees. Them's for the noobs."
"Yes, well, you see, they're all a bit…dead."
Kravius broke the leg bone and sucked out the marrow, still glaring at Andrus.
"Whaddaya mean?"
"Well, I mean…they died," Andrus said. "Rather horribly, some of them."
"It's just convicts today," Kravius said simply. "Even noobs can slaughter convicts."
"Yes, well, not so much, as it turns out." Andrus shifted nervously in the doorway.
Kravius discarded the broken bones and looked down at the platter of food in front of him. The meat was all gone, although there were dollops of gravy left. Kravius dumped the vegetables off of the plate and picked it up, then licked it clean. He finished the last of his govo juice and rose from his bench. He was a massive individual, well over four-hundred pounds of muscle, sinew and bone. Kravius had been the undefeated champion of the arena for the past eight seasons, and had killed nearly one thousand opponents in that time. He had killed humanoids, Deloobians, crabmen, lizard creatures, ape-men, lion-men, Space Amazons, a living rock, fierce animals from every corner of the galaxy and, on one occasion, a squishy blob that was seemingly invulnerable to being cut, sliced or diced. It had been edible, however, so Kravius gorged on blob that day and congratulated himself on a clever solution to an annoying problem. The arena had long ago ceased pitting him against single adversaries, preferring to challenge him and keep the crowd entertained by pitting him against two, three or even four other trained gladiators.
It didn't matter. Kravius killed them all in brutal fashion while his fans cheered. He barely acknowledged the praise. He would give the crowd a nod, maybe, when he was feeling gregarious, but generally just swished his chainsword back and forth a few times to clean the blood off as he walked through the arena gates and back into his quarters, where he would eat, drink and fuck until his next match.
Andrus though that Kravius was much more focused and energetic about those activities than he was about his profession. He appreciated the man's skill, but in his managerial capacity wished that Kravius would show a bit more dedication to his craft. A bit more flair, perhaps.
Still, right at the moment he needed Kravius just as he was: an efficient if unimaginative killer.
The big man walked past Andrus and the manager followed, pleading his case.
"There are only four of them," he said. "It would be a nothing job for you. A quick jab here, a wicked slice there, and you'd be done!"
Kravius ignored Andrus as he walked into the mating chamber. A pair of bouncy concubines awaited him there, their giggles turning to cries of pleasure as he shed his plastisteel codpiece and got down to business. Andrus started to follow the gladiator into the chamber but quickly fled back out to the hallway again, his head spinning. He was no prude, but he also had not been prepared for the sight of Kravius's buttocks flexing like a pair of well-muscled beach balls as he screwed one concubine, while the other fed him pieces of fruit.
"You'd really be doing me a favor," Andrus said from the other side of the doorway. "Remember, it was me who gave you your first match in the arena."
The squealing and huffing and puffing from the mating chamber reached a crescendo and then everything went quiet. Kravius walked out of the chamber, refastening his codpiece. The gladiator gave him a passing glance.
"You still here? I told ya already, I don't do matinees. Get someone else."
"There is no one else," Andrus insisted. "Really. If there were, I wouldn't be bothering you."
Kravius walked into the bath chamber. Andrus heard a splash of water hitting the piss trough. It sounded like a hose was turned on full blast.
"Get Mordic," Kravius called out. "He loves killin' him some convicts."
"I did," replied Andrus. "He died."
The water sound stopped and Kravius stepped out, adjusting his codpiece once again. He glared at Andrus.
"Dey killed Mordic?"
The arena manger nodded unhappily. "He ate his own vibro-blade. I only wish that I was being metaphorical."
"How 'bout Hirkle? Or Duz?"
"Both dead," said Andrus with a shake of his head. "Hirkle lost his head…again, not metaphorically…and Duz got his…you know, his…"
Andrus pointed down at Kravius's codpiece. The gladiator followed the gesture, then looked up quizzically.
"Dey nut-shotted Duz?"
"I'm afraid so," Andrus said. "The cyborg grabbed his codpiece and cracked it like an egg."
"Cyborg? Dere's a cyborg?" Kravius asked.
"I mean, even if he'd lived, he wouldn't have wanted to. Not with his twig and berries turning into jelly surprise, as it were."
Kravius reached down and put a massive hand around Andrus' neck. He picked up the smaller man and looked him in the eye.
"Dere's. A. Cyborg?" He punctuated each word with a powerful finger poke to the chest. Andrus felt like he was being held in a vise while someone banged on his sternum with a hammer. He gave out an indignant squeak and Kravius loosened his grip.
"Yes," he said frantically. "There's a cyborg! A tough one, too! She twisted poor Apoko's head round and round and round until it just popped off! And she's not even the mean one…"
Kravius ignored Andrus as he mentally recounted his kills. It took several minutes, during which time his expression turned blank . Andrus didn't notice, and continued to babble on.
"I never killed a cyborg," the gladiator finally said.
"Yes, well, here's your chance then!" Andrus gave Kravius a hesitant smile. The gladiator nodded, dropping the smaller man.
"I'll kill 'em for ya," he said, a small grin pulling at the corner of his mouth. "I'll kill 'em all real dead."

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Here's the funny thing about blogging… The less often you do it, the less often you feel like doing it, if that makes any sense. I've been blogging for going on 6 years now and I've always been that 2-3 times a week blogger. That is, until these past couple of months. I used to run to my computer following trips and big events because I just couldn't wait to share. Now I'm like, hmmm, maybe I'll clean out my closet instead. I mean, our Disney trip was a month ago and for some reason I can't make myself sit down and share what an amazing trip it was and that's just crazy!
I had decided that Thursday night would be the night. I had all of these thoughts at work about a video I would make to share our vacation pictures and pictures of my mom's wedding and then on my way home, I stopped to pick up a prescription and noticed an adorable pink baseball glove begging to be purchased. So I bought it, of course. That turned into an evening in the backyard practicing catch with Grace (who starts T-ball in just a few weeks, ekkk!) and playing with the hose and water table. See… excuses, excuses.
I'm going to keep trying to stay invested because I'm honestly not ready to retire this blog quite yet. I've met some AMAZING friends here and you all have been there for me through some of the most wonderful and difficult times in my adult, married life. So how could I just disappear?!
Project 52 is honestly what keeps me coming back. I'll go a few weeks without posting and think, I need to catch up on my Project 52 pics and then I'll just start writing. That's what happened with my post about not feeling like my old self. Had I thought too much about sharing those feelings, I never would have and you all would have thought that I handled my failed IVF cycle like a damn champ. I obviously didn't and I'm glad you know that because that's the thing about life. Sometimes it sucks, but you get through it and things get better. With that being said, I want to say thank you for all of the kind words and support you all have shown me during this period of trying to conceive. I'm sure there are a lot of you out there who read and don't comment, so I don't really know who you are but that's ok because I appreciate that you're sharing in our lives. For those of you who do follow and leave words of encouragement, you have no idea how much they mean to me. I've always felt safe and supported here and I'm just so thankful for that.
And with that being said, let's talk wedding shall we?
My mama's officially a married woman! We love her husband and now Gracie has another Grandpa, I have a stepdad (still weird to say that) AND a new step-brother. Our family grew over night and we couldn't be happier about it.
My ma's been a single lady for the past 22 years and in that time she has kissed her share of frogs. There were definitely periods of sadness and worry that she would never find her forever person and while she worried, I never really did. I knew Kevin was out there and that they would find their way to each other when the timing was right.
See mom... This is why you should just listen to everything I say. ;)
The wedding was beyond beautiful! It was held on a little island at a gorgeous resort in San Diego where we all stayed for several days. The place was seriously amazing and it quickly made sense why the word Paradise was in the resort name. There were more pools than I could count. The resort was lined by the ocean and there were plush walking paths, waterfalls and lakes everywhere.
This picture was taken on our first morning there. We woke up, threw our dirty hair in ponytails and headed out to discover. We ended up climbing this ridiculously high lookout point that gave us a view of the entire resort. Grace led the walk the whole way up and was amazed once we arrived at the top. She just kept saying, "look Mommy, look Mama!" as she pointed at everything.
Every morning a family of ducks, who quickly became Gracie's best friends, visited us. We would spend our mornings on our private patio having coffee while Gracie fed the ducks and when we weren't doing wedding stuff, we were swimming. By day two my fair-skinned little lady had a bit of a sun burn even though she wore a hat and sunscreen 24/7. We just couldn't keep ourselves inside with all the beautiful outdoor adventures to be had!
I was very proud of my mom because she was a total Bride-chilla the weekend of her ceremony. The wedding rehearsal was super laid back and consisted of about 15 minutes of ceremony practice and a whole lot of playing in the sun and taking in the views.
Grace and our Niece, Mia were the flower girls and my Lord, they were so stinkin' cute! We didn't talk to Grace a whole lot about what she would need to do on the day of, so the rehearsal was really the first time the girls were instructed to walk across the bridge and up the path with Devin. They did awesome and looked just precious walking arm in arm with our cutie little nephew.
Me and the beautiful bride-to-be!
The oldest of the grandkids, our nephew Rudy, was given the honor of walking Nani down the aisle and he took his role very seriously. I'm so happy that my mom decided to have a wedding party made up of just her grandkids. It made the ceremony all that more special.
This picture kills me! I mean, could she get any cuter?!
After the ceremony we headed to the cocktail party and reception and spent the remainder of the evening dancing the night away. My mom looked happier than I've ever seen her and because my niece passed out very early, Grace was the showstopper at the reception dancing and being her normal, adorable self. She was in super-hyper active mode and was still going strong when we took her to bed late that night.
It was such a beautiful day! Here's a few more pictures of the festivities ~
I did my mom's wedding hair! Turned out pretty darn good if I do say so myself. ;)
Flight #9 and #10 for this little traveler!
On the flight out she drew a picture for the pilot. He was the nicest guy and even let us in the cockpit!
And that about wraps up the first 3 days of our trip!
Holy picture-heavy post Batman! If you're still reading, I must warn you that this is just the beginning, haha! I still have San Diego Zoo pictures + pics of our beach day with Gracie's uncles + Disney mania posts with Gaga and Papa, so stay tuned. Even with me intentionally putting my camera away so that I could truly be in the moment during our trip, I still managed to take over a thousand pictures. My name is Kristin and I'm a picture-oholic!


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Amrita Rao has claimed that she loves being described as a "girl next door" type.
The actress is to receive an award for her performance in Love U...Mr. Kalakaar!
Rao told The Times of India: "I'll never kiss or do love-making scenes on screen. As far as it comes to sporting a bikini in films, let me clarify that I'm not against the trend. But I speak for myself. It is subject to individual discretion. And as long as you are happy doing what you do, everything else is secondary.
"I want to be India's girl next door, not the prototype but one who is smart, intelligent, has a sense of humour and is the life of a party. I want to show that the girl next door can be desirable too."
The 30-year-old has previously said that she is against plastic surgery of any kind and believes in natural beauty.
In 2010, Rao denied that she was in a romantic relationship with fellow Bollywood star Tusshar Kapoor.


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ST. GEORGE, Staten Island (WABC) -- There has been an outpouring of generosity from New Yorkers trying to help those displaced in Thursday's massive fire on Staten Island that destroyed seven homes.
Many people donated clothes, toiletries, diapers and toys to the victims. The 6-alarm fire broke out on Benzinger Avenue, leaving 42 homeless, half of them children. From the heap of ashes and despair rises an even larger outpouring of compassion.
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I know I haven't written in a while but life gets hectic. One thing is for sure, writing a newsletter or blog are both very time consuming. Just to catch you up, I continue to teach my classes weekly and train my own material. Like all things, my material started to degrade from lack of practice. So I follow my own advice and began hitting a practice routine with more vigor. Of course, that means writing time diminishes.
Then there are the other projects I'm working on and having children on Summer Vacation. Now that school started again, I find myself still without a lot of spare time. My advice is to schedule all your activities as if they were job related tasks. If you want to accomplish something, you need to chip away at it one hour at a time if necessary.
So I hope my lack of availability and posting inspires you to keep working. It may remind you that "Yes, I'm a regular dude" too. As always, if you have a topic idea or question, please submit it to me either by email or comments. I read both often.
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NAPERVILLE, Ill. -- Investigators are looking into what caused a fire that destroyed a home in Naperville.
The fire started around 6 p.m. Wednesday in the 500 block of Springhill Circle.
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Leaves can be requested and approved online through automated leave application
Beginning in April 2011, an automated, online leave application was successfully tested through pilot programs in the ITaP, Vice President for Human Resources and Comptroller areas.
The automated leave application enables exempt administrative/professional (A/P) staff to use Employee Self-Service (ESS) in the OnePurdue portal to request leave electronically for their own illness or the illness of a family member and for vacation, personal business, jury duty and bereavement.
Supervisors are then able to approve leave requests in ESS for the exempt A/P staff they supervise. The automated leave application also gives staff and supervisors the capability to see how many days of leave by type the employee has used and when the leave was taken.
Currently, the automated leave application is available to administrative areas of campus that are aligned with the Organizational Management Project, initiated in the spring of 2011. This project identifies employee/supervisor reporting relationships for exempt A/P staff and enters these relationships into the OnePurdue system. This enables automated, electronic workflows via OnePurdue - in this case, leave requests and approvals.
As the Organizational Management Project is completed for a given administrative unit, automated leave application training is provided to the unit's staff and supervisors. It's important for the areas having access to the new application to remember that they must adhere to existing processes for leaves that are not included in the online application (i.e., military, FMLA, unpaid leave, etc.).
It's projected that the automated leave application will be fully implemented across all administrative areas of campus by December 2011. In addition, an assessment is underway to determine the feasibility of using the automated leave application in the academic areas of campus. The project team is also considering any system changes that may be required to address unique requirements and/or limitations for using the application in academic departments.
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The last installment of Blood Ties has Boba on a mission to uphold his father's honor. Jedi Knight Kerra Holt is the newest hero in the brand new Knight Errant series. And it's Sith vs. Sith in Old Republic #5!
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A Novelette and Other Prose (1921-1931).
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Friday, 06 September 2013 04:48 PM
An Arizona woman who spent more than 22 years on death row was expected to be released on bail on Friday to await a new trial on accusations she conspired to kill her 4-year-old son a few days before Christmas in 1989.
Maricopa County sheriff's officials said Debra Milke, now 49, was expected to walk out of a Phoenix jail and into a waiting car once lawyers post bond of $250,000, in the latest twist in a sensational murder case.
In March, a federal appeals court tossed out Milke's conviction and on Thursday a county judge set bail for her.
Testimony in her original trial suggested she dressed her son, Christopher, in his best outfit, told him he was going to see Santa Claus at a mall and had her roommate take the boy, in a plot that ended with the man killing Christopher.
Milke's roommate, James Styers, picked up his friend, Roger Scott, and instead of heading to the mall, the two men drove to a secluded ravine where Styers shot Christopher three times in the head. Both men were separately convicted of first degree murder and remain on death row.
Milke was convicted of murder, conspiracy to commit murder, child abuse and kidnapping in 1990. But in March, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals found prosecutors failed to disclose a history of misconduct, included lying under oath, by the detective who solicited a purported confession by Milke.
Testimony by Phoenix police detective Armando Saldate, who said Milke confessed to her role in the crime, was considered to be the singular key to her conviction.
During the trial, Saldate said Milke told him she had contemplated having an abortion while pregnant with Christopher, had complained to Styers about her son, and confessed to conspiring to the murder.
But the admission was not recorded, nor was anyone else in the room when it was purportedly made. Milke denied making any confessions and has continued to maintain her innocence.
On Thursday, Judge Rosa Mroz of Maricopa County Superior Court set bail for Milke and said Saldate's history "casts serious doubts on the validity of the defendant's alleged confession."
A hearing was scheduled for Sept. 23 to determine if evidence of Milke's confession was "valid and admissible." It was unclear if Saldate will testify in the retrial. A lawyer for Milke could not immediately be reached on Friday and a spokesman for prosecutors declined comment. (Editing by Cynthia Johnston and Grant McCool)
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***DISCLAIMER*** The following review is entirely my opinion. If you comment (which I encourage you to do) be respectful. If you don't agree with my opinion, that's fine. To each their own. I am just sharing my opinions and perspective. Finally, the reviews are given on a scale of 1-5. 1, of course, being terrible. 2, being not great. 3, being okay. 4, being good and 5, being epic!
Bobby - 3 out of 5
In 2006, Emilio Estevez (the son of Martin Sheen that didn't go nuts, walk-out on a high paying gig on a unfunny sitcom and provide us with some mild amusement about Tiger Blood and the concept of winning) wrote and directed a dramatization about the real life events of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination at the Ambassador Hotel in L.A. in 1968. The film is shot from the perspective of fictional characters within the hotel, most of whom are based on real-life individuals who were there that fateful day but, for the most part, they are complete works of fiction. Each character has their story to tell as they ready themselves for the moment when the future president hopefully comes to grace them with his presence. We get to see a retired doorman who loves chess hanging out in the lobby, a young girl marrying a friend of hers in order to protect him from being sent to Vietnam, two men who forgo knocking on doors for Bobby and decide to engage in a acid trip instead, a hotel manager sleeping with one of the phone operators for the establishment and who is also married to the woman who runs the beauty parlor, and a Yoda-like wise chef who doles out wisdom to his kitchen staff.
|Boy Hopkins, you look like you just seen your parents having sex...and I'm sure your parents are dead.
Actually, that probably explains the look of horror.
The fact this film is based on real events and the fact it uses real archive footage within the film's running time makes it interesting and the amount of characters (all played by big, recognizable names) made for a very ambitious project for Estevez--especially considering the fact he hasn't been a household name since the Mighty Ducks franchise dried up (if that franchise was ever ripe is still under evaluation). However, the project may have proven to be too much for the man as the movie ended up being a sloppy mess that ultimate landed in the middle of the highway that is entertainment.
|"Tiger Blood...why didn't I think of that?"
The two things that kept this movie from running smoothly and being a contender (contender for what, I don't know) is the two things that could have made the movie amazing. While the film is filled with excellent and interesting characters, the fact that the only thing that connects them is the fact they are in the hotel doesn't really make the film too engaging. Other than the fact that they all end up in the ballroom to see RFK give his victory speech over winning California, most of the characters don't interact with each other. At the beginning of the film, it's hinted that the characters will all cross paths in meaningful (and well written ways) but Estevez never truly achieves this and all the stories come together in a mangled mess and creates a slightly chaotic film as we are thrown from story to story...and thrown in a violent way as one second we will be seeing a brilliantly crafted sequence as Laurence Fishburne's character (the Yoda-like chef) is delivering some excellent advice and throwing out a terrific monologue before we are suddenly catapulted into a dry, pretentious sequence trying to imitate the previous one by being deep and meaningful but looking more like the equivalent of emo-tween high school poetry. After that uncomfortable display, we are shot out of a canon into poorly created comic relief sequence as we must watch Ashton Kutcher and Shia LaBeouf on a acid trip. That's right, Ashton and Shia share scenes together. We must consider ourselves lucky that this combination of awful didn't tear a whole in the fabric of reality--then, as if we weren't in enough danger, Lindsay Lohan was in this one, too. The fact the world didn't end with their combined lack of talent in one film is a bloody miracle on a level that nearly made an atheist like myself find God.
|Fishburne doesn't have a large part but his scenes steal the movie.
|Seriously, HOW did she get into this project?!?
This brings me to the second thing that kept this movie from working...the cast. The talent used in this film is all over the place and ranges from great to "how the hell did they get into this movie." For every Fishburne, Anthony Hopkins, Elijah Wood, Martin Sheen and William H. Macy, we must pay for it with a Kutcher, a LeBeouf, a Lohan and a Nick Cannon. The greats in this film are so good I'm willing to ignore the fact that the film is trying too hard to be "60's" by reminded us every two minutes how it takes place in 1968 by having a character state the fact but having Shia do his stuttering routine, Ashton plays a cliche hippie character that you think he took a community college course on how to play a perfect hippie stereotype and Lohan actually trying to play a sweetheart innocent girl nearly makes the film fail all by itself. Seriously, how did Lohan get into the cast? The others I can slightly understand but Lohan? I can only imagine that she had some dirt on Estevez--but, in fairness, I believe blackmail is how she has gotten every role she's ever had. Thankfully, the talented individuals that take up a majority of the roster are geysers of expertise that are oozing acting abilities and are quick to make you forget you had to see Shia's ass in the drug trip scene. Also, Mary Elizabeth Winstead has a small part and I'm totally in love with that girl. So much so, I believe I would fight seven evil ex's to be with her.
|Can we give Elijah Wood a medal for this role?
He had to kiss Lindsay Lohan and that's the bravest thing I've ever seen a man do.
Bobby was a unique project that may have been just too big for Emilio Estevez. I give the man points for trying, especially since the movie was a labor of love for him but the defects the film contains keeps this movie from being as good as it should have been.


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One of the most popular camps is run by Tom Shaw out of Disney's Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando.
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Over15 years have elapsed since Amy Ray and Emily Saliers – the Indigo Girls, to their fans – have released a concert album. That's some kind of wait considering the folk-based duo (and sometimes trio and sometimes dutifully rocking band) has long made its reputationw from the inviting, familial intimacy of their performances. What better way to let at least a sliver of that charm loose than with a live album?
Thus we have the new Staring Down the Brilliant Dream, the Indigos' first concert record since 1995's 1200 Curfews. Pulled from performances given between 2006 and 2009, the record covers not only music from the duo's full career (from the 1989 breakthrough hit Closer to Fine through to 2009's Second Time Around) but offers three distinct artist settings: an unaccompanied duo (which is how the Indigos will perform tonight at the Kentucky Theatre) a trio augmented by keyboardist Julie Wolf and a full band.
"Because it's been 15 years since 1200 Curfews, we had a buildup of tapes and hard drives," said Ray. "We had played a significant number of shows with the band, a lot with Julie and a bit by ourselves. That was the ground we wanted to cover.
"We also felt it would be awhile until we did a new record – probably another year. And we knew we wanted to do a holiday record, which we just recorded. So we kind of wanted to document what we had done up to this point that was original in our shows and move from there."
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Why use PROs with new devices or digital therapeutics?
Healthcare is rapidly shifting from volume to value and conscious healthcare consumers are increasingly demanding to see the evidence. This puts increasing pressure on companies to collect data around the efficacy of their device or service, particularly from the patient's perspective. Patient-reported outcomes represent a scientific means to collect patient centered data to help validate your product and win over payers and consumers.
What measures are available?
There are hundreds of patient-reported outcome measures out there – some that measure general quality of life and others that dive in to condition-specific symptoms and function. It's important to choose measures that align with the outcomes that are important to your patients and successfully treating their condition. For example, if your product is a knee support for athletes after ACL tears then it might be worth using a measure like the Knee injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score. If your intervention is a coaching platform for employees you might consider using a measure such as the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale.
How to start start capturing data
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3 April 2013
1960 Ford Fairlane 500 Club Sedan - Rolling Revival
Another 'new' quality 60's custom; it's a real treat to see cars of this quality being built again, but if you're squinting at the screen trying to work out what it is, let us put you out of your misery.
It's a 1960 Ford Fairlane Club 500, the base trim model in FoMoCo's mainstream full-sized line of cars that ran from 1960 to 1964. For all of the work done on this beauty, that body is near-standard, save for some trim details, fender skirts, bellflower tip exhausts - until you see the boot lid,which in a cunning piece of cross-marque inspiration, has a Lincoln-style continental wheel hump fashioned into it; factory looking too. Rolling stock is the ever-popular 48 series Supreme wheel, cut with Hercules MRX whitewalls. Driving that dynamic rolling combo is the original 292ci Y-block, rebuilt and warmed-up with traditional goodies. Going back to the subject of what is standard on this car, that interior is effectively standard spec, albeit completely new; why change something for the sake of it when it looks this good?
And we save the best 'til last: the paint. We're not going to spoil Street Rodder's prowse on that one as you should really drink in the words, then take a deep breath and take a good old swig of the pictures. A plethora of traditional-style paint tricks have been performed on that body; they'll keep you coming back to the pictures.
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Prepping for Spring Races: Training Tips
by acac Downtown Personal Trainer Ann M. Dunn, MS, CPT
Want to run your first half-marathon? Do you want to improve your 5k time? Here are a few things to think about for your next race:
Specificity: Specificity refers to how similar your training reflects the event you are set to compete in. Are you running very long runs (in excess of 16 miles?) if you want to improve your 5k time? Most likely, your efforts are probably best spent spending more time at your 5k pace and faster.
Balanced Training: Are you mixing up your running speeds? It's important to hit different energy systems in a week or cycle of training. Different types of quality work include: tempo runs/cruise intervals, intervals, repetitions, hill repeats, and speed and technique drills.
Components of Training: Outside of running, there are equally important aspects for achieving your peak performance. Strength training improves running economy and can reduce the likelihood of overuse injuries. Proper nutrition can help fuel you through hard workouts and long runs and also improve cardiovascular wellness. Stretching, rolling, and self-therapy techniques help you stay nimble and keep your fascia happy.
Rest, recovery, cross training: Most people can benefit from a day off each week or at least every 2 weeks. Make sure the 2 days leading up to important races are recovery runs and at an easy pace. Cross training (pool, bike, elliptical) are other forms of cardio that can give your running body a rest while still getting your blood pumping!
10% rule: Try not to exceed adding more than 10% to a long run or total volume each week. Adding too much too quickly is not best for long-term success.
Interested in hearing more or training with Ann? Email her at email@example.com.
List of local area races (From Ragged Mountain Running Shop)
March 2017
18 — Charlottesville Ten Miler
18 — Gator 5K Shamrock Shuffle in Louisa
25 — Orange County Lacrosse Country 5K
26 — Fix A Leak 5K
April 2017
1 — Camp Holiday Trails 5K
8 — Zeta Run For Life 5K
8 — Kid's Track & Field Clinic at the UVA Track. FREE! 8:30AM
15 — Big Brothers Big Sisters Relay Race
15 — Nelson County 5K Run/Walk
15 — Paint the Playground: One Mile Color Run at Burnley-Moran
22 — Run For Autism 5K
28 — Grand Caverns Split Medal 5K in Grottoes
29 — Montalto 5K
29 — CHS Band on The Run 5K
29 — Jaida's Joy 5K
29 — Piedmont Region FosterWalk
30 — Hoos Heal 5K
6— Batesville 10K
6— Discovery Dash at Monticello HS
13 — Hospice 5K in Keswick
20 — Xterra Charlottesville Trail Run/Duathlon/Triathlon
20 — Gordonsville 5K Chicken Run
27 — Ramblin' Rabbit 5K
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Someone shoot me now. I feel like I'm on some sort of bad reality show and I'm hoping they come out and say "punked" soon. Please, someone say it soon so I can continue on with my life. Here's a recap and I'll try to be brief.
Thanksgiving. The husband is hunting with the guys. He's been gone since Friday. He's ready to come home. Kids and I do our own Turkey Trot and have a blast. No really…. it was so much fun with just us!! Husband asks 20 questions about our day and as I expected he surprises the kids by coming home a day early. I'm excited b/c I can now go Black Friday shopping 🙂
Friday – get up early & hit the stores with my Mom. We have a great day and I ended up getting a shit ton of stuff for my husband. Completely unintentional b/c none of it is Christmas gifts but it was a really good deal and he REALLY needed some stuff. He's crabby when I get home b/c our daughter is having some "bathroom" issues. Fast forward to our conversation after his shitty attitude and he thinks I'm lying to him about how I've been dealing with our daughter's issues. Now this is all my fault. He also took it upon himself to clean out our refridgertor. I come home, exhausted and he leaves me with a counter full of crap. He complains about EVERYTHING I bought for him and continues to flip out on me over daughter's bathroom problem. Now, it was pretty bad and we debated on going to the doctor that night but decided to wait it out until the morning. I'm pissed off so I just go to bed.
Saturday – daughter is having major pain and issues so we decide to go in. He suggests I stay home with the other kids. Ummm…. no. I find a babysitter b/c that is not an option for me and I'm not about to take perfectly healthy kids into the sick ward if I don't have to. He's pissed off b/c I didn't ask him Mom to help out. (She's ditched me and the kids, last minute so many times I can't depend on her for anything. Not to mention she needs an instruction manual every time she watches the kids.) I explain to him why I'm not dealing with her and that I've already taken care of it. He's pissed off even more now. Fast fwd to an better feeling daughter and some very relieved parents. I bust out the wine that evening to break the tension and it works. Head to bed, do a little dance under the sheets and call it a night. I decide to just let it go.
Sunday – He takes it upon himself to make plans to go get our Christmas tree (a very big tradition for me) and decides we are not going to church, but instead heading to his parents to get our tree. Not that big of a deal, but perhaps he could have let me know about this so I can make sure the people that are expecting us to be there, know we aren't able to make it. Fine whatever. Drop it and move on. I'm so annoyed with him at this point and most times my MIL drives me batty crazy. I try and put on my big girl face and have a good time. I fail miserably when he's so rude to me and kids. I bring it up on the way home and he says he's trying to make our little guy tougher b/c he's such a mamma's boy. WTF???? I"m OK with wanting the kid to grow a set b/c sometimes he is whiny but what does rudeness have anything to do with it? Our kids learn from us and when we are rude, they will be rude. It's that simple. Christmas time is a very fun and special time for me. I remember it being so much fun as a kid. I want to create new traditions with our kids and make some wonderful memories with them. It's very, very important to me. But he turned it into a very stressful, chaotic disaster. Not entirely his fault but my little guy was being awful and not allowing me to do anything. He's been like this for a week or so. I don't get anything done. Kids decide to play nicely, I get through my stuff. Bedtime turned horrible in an instant and he just sat on the damn couch looking at his computer. Daughter had an accident in the tub, son was bring sassy and miserable and everyone was crying and screaming. He just sat there. After the kids were in bed I get blamed for turning them into a-holes and he never heard that I needed help. OK… you're right. I suck as a parent.
To top it all off, I'm trying get some photobooks created for Christmas and f'n Shutterfly didn't save it and I spent hours getting stuff done last night for nothing. And tonight when I went to start recreating my masterpiece the damn site was down.
I popped some popcorn, grabbed a beer and turned on some football. And now my team is getting their butts kicked.
So again… someone please say "You've been punked". Please.


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Tonight, I am watching the newest version of Beauty and the Beast, with my nearly 27-year-old daughter. It was always her favorite when she was growing up.
While watching, it struck me how many similarities the story has with the story of Pride and Prejudice.
If you think of it, Mr Darcy is much like Beast. He is awkward around people, has difficulties with speaking to others outside his closest circle. He owns a large home, with servants who are devoted to him, knowing that deep inside he is a good and caring. And as Beast tries to show Belle his home, he is thrilled to see her love of reading, showing her the library which thrilled her to know end. As he lets her into his heart, he becomes unselfish, allowing Belle her freedom when she learns her father is in trouble. Darcy does the same when he finds Elizabeth weeping at the inn in Lambton. Darcy allows her to return home with the Gardiners after they learn of the trouble the Bennet family is in. Both men were willing to live the rest of their lives alone, suffering the loss of their love, if there was a way to make their lady loves happy. Both men are dark and appear unapproachable.
Belle, like Elizabeth Bennet, is looked down on for her thirst for learning and reading. Her intelligence was considered a blemish. She is a determined and strong young lady, and both Belle and Elizabeth refuse to accept an offer of marriage that would have given security to their families, as they did not want a marriage of convenience. Though both Belle and Elizabeth started out disliking Beast and Darcy, once they saw beneath the façade, they lost their hearts to their men. Both of the ladies were wishing for better lives than was expected of them.
You also have Gaston, who, in my opinion is a combination of Wickham and Collins. Gaston, like Wickham with Darcy, thinks himself to be superior to Beast, trying to turn the village against Beast. Gaston attempts to force Belle to marry him by threatening her father's security. Wickham is similar when he takes Lydia Bennet, as she does not have any connections or wealth, only Elizabeth's change of heart towards Darcy. By ruining Lydia, the family was ruined. Neither Gaston or Wickham care that what they were doing was wrong, they wanted something and would do what was needed to get their way.
Belle's father is even like Mr Bennet, eccentric in many ways. And Belle, like Elizabeth, is devoted to her father.
There is also LeFou, Gaston's devoted lackey, who is as much a boot licker as Mr Collins is to Lady Catherine. Treating someone who is undeserving of such adoration was only giving the arrogant people bigger heads.
In the ballroom scene of Beauty and the Beast, Belle is wearing a yellow, silk gown. Many variations I have read have Elizabeth always wishing for a pale yellow gown.
Mrs Potts is similar in nature of what I think of Mrs Reynolds. Both kind and caring, making their guests comfortable. And the way they speak of their masters, it is easy to see their motherly affections for their employer.
So, what do you think? Am I off my rocker and see Pride and Prejudice in everything?
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Rebecca T. Wilson
Rebecca Suzanne Thomas Wilson, 52, of Covington, died early Sunday morning (Jan. 11, 2015) at Sacred Journey Hospice in McDonough, following an extended illness.
Born Aug. 13, 1962 in Waycross, she was raised in Patterson and was a 1980 graduate of Patterson High School. She was a 1984 graduate of Georgia Southern University earning a bachelor of business administration in information systems. She moved to the Atlanta area in 1989 and worked as a domestic engineer and computer programmer. In 1993, she received her Georgia Teaching Certification from Mercer University Atlanta. She was a member of the Covington Athletic Club and Fitness Center, where she was an aerobics instructor and was also a member of the Church At Covington.
Preceding her in death was her mother, the Rev. Norma Jean Thomas, a brother, Kelvin Thomas, and her grandparents, Aaron and Virginia Thomas and Bill and Mattie Cochran.
Survivors include her husband of 25 years, David Wilson, of Covington; her son, Rusty Kevin Wilson, of Covington; her daughter, Rebecca Wilson, of Covington; her grandson, Nathan Craft, of Covington; her father, Rudolph Thomas, of Patterson; sister, Lou Mincey, of Jacksonville, Fla.; a brother, Curtis Thomas (wife, Angela), of Knoxville, Tenn.; and several nieces, nephews and other relatives and friends.
A funeral will take place Wednesday morning at 11 in the chapel of Hart Funeral Home.
Burial will follow in Waters Cemetery in Blackshear.
The family will receive friends this evening from 6 until 8 at the funeral home.
Sympathy may be expressed by signing the online registry at www.hartfh.com
Hart Funeral Home of Blackshear is in charge of arrangements.
Dorothy Walker Sapp
Dorothy Lee Walker Sapp, 83, of Patterson, passed away Monday (Jan. 12, 2015) at Mayo Clinic Health System in Waycross.
Born in Blackshear, Jan. 10, 1932, she lived in Pierce County all of her life. She was retired from the former Pierce County Hospital where she worked as a surgical technologist for many years. She also helped her husband on the family farm throughout the years and was a member of Pleasant Hill Baptist Church.
She was a daughter of the late James L. and Agnes Peacock Walker, and was also preceded in death by three sisters, Dolly Kimbrell, Lois Pearson and Thelma Ward.
Survivors include her husband of 63 years, John A. Sapp Jr., of Patterson; two sons, Gary Sapp and Michelle Tootle, of Ludowici, and Robin Lee Sapp, of Chipley, Fla.; a sister, Hazel Brown, of Greenville, Tenn.; two grandchildren, Kimber and PeWee Fowler and Weyman and Amanda Chapman Jr.; two great-grandchildren, Kinslee Chapman and Max Chapman; and several nieces, nephews and other relatives.
The funeral will be held Thursday morning at 11 o'clock at Pleasant Hill Baptist Church.
Interment will be in the Patterson Cemetery.
Visitation will be held at the church one hour prior to the service.
Sympathy may be expressed by signing the online registry at www.pearsondial.com
Pearson-Dial Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Louise J. Jones
BLACKSHEAR — Louise J. Jones, 83, of Blackshear, passed away Monday evening (Jan. 12, 2015) at the Pierce County Nursing Home following an extended illness.
Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by Pearson-Dial Funeral Home, Inc., of Blackshear.
Martha H. Mason
Martha Hopkins Mason, 91, of Waycross, died early Monday morning (Jan. 12, 2015) at Mayo Clinic Health System in Waycross.
Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by Miles-Odum Funeral Home.
Lily Walker Gibson
A graveside service for Lily Walker Gibson was held Saturday afternoon at Oakland Cemetery with the Rev. Barry Giddens officiating.
Miles-Odum Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.


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2013 Hollywood Black Film Festival
The Hollywood Black Film Festival (dubbed "The Black Sundance") provided a panoply of inspiration, education and imagination with five days (October 2-6, 2013) of film screenings, panels, talks, workshops, pitchathons and live-readings.
Wrapping up it's 13th year, HBFF was launched by Founder and Executive Director, Tanya Kersey, to "showcase the most innovative and inspiring work being created by black filmmakers and to provide them with a platform to have their works seen by the industry, media and general public."
The festival's vision is simple: to serve as a beacon of light for master filmmaking, storytelling and acting, grounded in humanism, innovation and diversity.
Held at the W Hollywood Hotel in Los Angeles, with screenings at the adjacent Ricardo Montalban Theatre, the festival edified attendees with its stellar line-up of speakers, covering every aspect of filmmaking, from budgeting and pitching, to writing and negotiating, to producing and directing:
- Adam Lebovitz (@Lebovitz81) showed filmmakers how to efficiently budget their films with his web-based tool Quick Film Budget, the first budgeting technology to automate the process by asking key questions and instantly delivering a professional customized film budget.
- Austyn Biggers (@Austyn), Sr. Director of Development for BET, in his workshop, ELEVATOR PITCHING THAT FLOORS, emphasized, "The three keys to a knock-out personal pitch is being able to clearly communicate: 1) Who you are? 2) Why you're different? and 3) Why you're memorable?"
- Jeffrey Gordon (@WritersBootCamp), Founder and Director of Writers Boot Camp, shared, "One of the easiest ways for screenwriters to tighten up dialogue is to read your script and cover the names of the characters delivering dialogue" — if the lines all sound/look the same, more effort needs to be applied in distinguishing each character's voice.
- Stephen Barnes, entertainment attorney, in "One-on-One with Power Broker Stephen Barnes" advocated that a willingness to walk away from a deal is the most effective way for a filmmaker to maintain control of his/her content.
- At the Masters Class: Producers Prospective, every producer agreed great films start with great material. A producer's job is to find the exceptional script with compelling characters and build from there.
- During the Directors Chair panel, legendary filmmaker John Singleton (@SHAFT6816) confessed the most paramount aspect of good filmmaking is: putting your soul down. And perhaps the most moving moment of the festival came during this session when director Sheldon Candis (@sheldoncandis), whose sensitively raw film LUV garnered him acclaim at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, teared up when sharing his own personal journal of making it into the director's chair.
With more than 75 screenings, including short films, documentaries, features and web series, the festival concluded with its Closing Night Film, The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete, featuring Jennifer Hudson, Jeffrey Wright, Jordin Sparks, Anthony Mackie and standout newcomers Skylan Brooks and Ethan Dizon. A gripping, poignant tale of two coming-of-age boys on a journey to conquer the harsh realities of the Brooklyn projects, Brooks, Dizon and Hudson all delivered out-of-the-park performances. The film will be in select theaters on October 11, with information and updates available at www.MisterandPeteMovie.com.
Amy Senger is an L.A. transplant by way of Washington, DC, and co-founder of 1X57, named to Washingtonian's Tech Titans list with her partner Steven Mandzik. Follow her on twitter @sengseng and follow the Pacific Punch @ThePacificPunch or email amy@1×57.com.