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Old England's Beowulf, put in the recent limelight by award- winning poet Seamus Heaney and the recent film by Robert Zemeckis, has been the domain, invisible to the public, of academia, wherein we find voluminous discussion of folklore material, teratology (study of monsters!), orality and literacy, historicity, gender, narrative, poetic technique, translation theory, and the volatile debates about dating it. This course will read this famous eleventh- (or seventh??) century epic in various modern renderings. For the poem itself and its story we will look at Howell Chickering with facing page original text and the acclaimed Seamus Heaney translation, newly presented by John Niles with illustrations of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and artifacts. We will make some excursions into Anglo-Saxon language, noted passages in the original Anglo-Saxon, related texts from Old Norse literature (notably Grettis Saga, Hrolfskraki Saga, and others). We will read prominent critical materials written of it, and view and discuss the four films made of it. I hope to explore the enigmatic quality of this one and only version (collected in the Nowell Codex, available on CD-ROM at the Robbins Library). Why does it elude us? Is its written form a late production of an earlier oral poem? What is its beauty and appeal? Why the digressions? What does it reveal about the people who produced it and why must we rewrite it, almost always giving the celibate and slightly monstrous hero some kind of love-interest that will make us able to relate to him? This course will fulfill the medieval as well as the Great Books/Authors clusters. For English majors, it fulfills the pre-1800 requirement.
This course focuses on drama written by Shakespeare's contemporaries. Classes center around careful study of individual plays. We consider, among other topics, the playwrights' emphases on their characters' psychological interiority, their staging of funeral pageants and madness, their use of props, their fascination with sensational and often violent events, their interest in memory, and their insistent references to contemporary performance practices (including the Renaissance tradition of boy actors playing women's roles). We also become familiar with descriptions of sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century theatrical spaces-- their geographical location and physical properties, the composition of their audiences, the training and performance practices of their actors, and the aesthetic, economic, and political contexts of their productions. And we sort through the plays' depiction of the proper relations between ruler and subject, husband and wife, parents and children, and European and non- European characters. Readings include plays by Beaumont and Fletcher, Cary, Dekker, Ford, Jonson, Kyd, Marlowe, Middleton, Shakespeare, and Webster. Fulfills the pre-1800 requirement for the English major. Applicable English Cluster: Plays, Playwrights, and Theater.
This course will survey the English Renaissance Lyric, from Wyatt to Marvell. Our authors will include Gascoigne, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Jonson, Herrick, Lovelace, Herbert, Traherne, and Vaughan. Although the majority of our class time will be spent close-reading individual poems, we will also pay attention to literary convention and historical context in order to learn to read and analyze the poems with as much comprehension and pleasure as possible. Course requirements: attendance, two papers, a midterm, and a non-cumulative final.
This course introduces students to some of the major novelists in nineteenth-century British literature. While the course provides broad coverage of the nineteenth-century British novel, our discussion of these select nineteenth-century novels will be guided by the theme of possession. What is the connection, this course asks, between marriage and romance and other forms of possession such as land, money, or things, in the nineteenth- century British novel? In addressing this question, we will discuss how narrative devices like the marriage-plot offer vehicles for novelists such as Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, and George Eliot to explore the linkages between romance, sexuality, property, and capitalism. While possession may be a major theme underlying the courses structure, we will also discuss other topics such as nationalism, the woman question and the problem of separate spheres, changes in class structure, and British imperialism. In addition to addressing thematic and political issues, students will also have an opportunity to analyze the aesthetic dimensions of literary texts, paying attention to the techniques writers employ as they shape and experiment with forms of the novel.
The course covers the period roughly between World War I and World War II, dealing with the rich creativity we associate with Modernism. We will read and discuss such writers as Eliot, Faulkner, Hemingway, Dos Passos, Steinbeck, etc., studying not only the works but some of the major trends in art, culture, and knowledge that make the modern period so important and exciting. The method will be a combination of close reading, lecture, and discussion with (probably) one short paper and one longish paper. Not open to freshmen. Applicable English Clusters: American and African American Studies; Modern and Contemporary Literature.
This course surveys the entire tradition of African-American drama, paying particular attention to the genre's formal characteristics. Plays will also be read and discussed with attention to specific historical and thematic contexts, such as the era of slavery, social protest, interracial relations, intra-racial differences of class, gender, and sexuality, and contemporary attitudes toward black history. Featured playwrights include James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Alice Childress, Charles Fuller, Lorraine Hansberry, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Suzan-Lori Parks, Ntozake Shange, Anna Deavere Smith, August Wilson, George C. Wolfe, and others. Required texts include "Black Theatre USA: Plays by African Americans 1847 to Today." Students will be evaluated on class participation, weekly reading responses, and two formal papers. Students will also be required to attend Wednesday evening screenings of video/film performances of (approximately) eight of the course's plays or to view these performances independently. Applicable English Clusters: American and African American Studies; Literature and Cultural Identity. May also be applied to the cluster on Plays, Playwrights, and Theater on an exceptional basis.
What is an author? This course begins with the premise that the answer to this question is anything but self-evident. How does the literary ideal of the author as solitary genius as sole creator of a unique, original work of art correspond to the actual practices of ordinary writers? And, for that matter, how does it correspond to the actual practice of even the great authors (Shakespeare, for example) it purportedly describes? Was such an ideal ever anything but a myth? What role do editors play in the practice of authorship? When does an editor count as a co-author? How do market factors and modes of publication affect what and how an author writes? How has our understanding of authorship changed in a world of virtual authors and virtual texts? How do we make sense of the journalistic scandals (involving authors, editors, and sources) that seem to have become so prevalent today? What happens when readers become authors, as in zines? For some time now, debates have raged, in both the academy and the popular media, about the nature and practice of authorship. Looking at examples drawn from both literature and journalism, this class will examine a number of sites of these debates: collaborative authorship; ghost writing; editorial theory and practice; forgeries and hoaxes; plagiarism; cult or celebrity authorship; pulp fiction, best-sellerdom, and popular authorship; authorial practices in media other than print (film, electronic and digital media, etc.); vanity presses and on-demand publishing; copyright law; readership and reception. Students will have the opportunity to do original research and pursue case studies of their own choosing. May be applied on an exception basis to the English cluster in Media, Culture and Communication.
How do we account for the fact that innocent people die untimely deaths due to circumstances beyond their control? This course will examine some compelling responses to that question in the form of canonical tragedies of the western tradition, ranging from Sophocles to Beckett. (We will read at least three plays by Shakespeare so that you may use this course to satisfy your pre-1800 requirement.) To help focus our discussions, we will also read what philosophers such as Aristotle, Hegel, Kirkegaard, and Nietzsche have had to say about tragedy and what it represents. We will approach the topic both as literary critics, studying the aesthetic strategies that enable plays to move audiences to grieve over fictional people, and as cultural critics, asking how and why "tragedy" mediates historical events such as 9/11 or Katrina. Course Requirements: class attendance, two papers, and two exams composed of textual identifications.
Theater in its cultural and political context. Plays by: Catherine II, Pushkin, Gogol, Ostrovsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Kharms, Bulgakov, and others.
Theater in England will be conducted in London from Saturday, December 29, 2008, through Saturday, January 10, 2009. Students should arrive in London no later than the evening of December 28. They may return on Sunday, January 11. We will see and have classes on approximately 20 plays. At the end of the course, students will submit a journal that discusses all the plays seen. The journal is due at the beginning of the third week of classes after we get back. I do not yet know what plays we will be seeing, but you can be certain that we will see the best of what is available in the world's theater Mecca. Last year we saw such productions as Ian McKellen in Shakespeare's King Lear, Simon Russell Beale and Zoe Wanemaker in a legendary production of Much Ado About Nothing, and Chiwetel Ejiofor's definitive performance in the title role of Othello. As an out of town break, we went to Stratford-upon-Avon to do homage to Shakespeare, and see David Warner's Falstaff in Henry IV, Parts I and II. The range of the offerings was terrific, from Nick Stafford's War Horse (with its amazing larger than life puppetry) and a fascinating adaptation of Euripides' Women of Troy to a brilliant example of in-yer-face theater in Anthony Nielson's God in Ruins. We saw big musicals like Billy Elliot and Mary Poppins and fringe productions like Fletcher's Custom of the Country and Neil Labute's Bash. For information about the course over the past sixteen years go to www.courses.rochester.edu/peck/theatre/ The course is restricted to 23 students and carries 4 credits. The fee is $2550.00, which includes tickets to all plays and housing. Students must obtain passports and make their own travel arrangements. You may obtain the application from the English Department or Professor Peck. You need permission of the instructor to register. Contact Professor Russell Peck (firstname.lastname@example.com, phone 275-0110 or 585-473-7354).
An introduction to the history, technology, and cultural significance of motion pictures of the pre-sound era, with screenings of 35mm prints accompanied by live music in the Dryden Theatre. Special attention will be paid to the major pioneers, Dickson, Porter, Lumiere, Melies, and Griffith, but the course will include a variety of internationally produced films selected from the world famous archival film collection of the George Eastman House. Discussion sessions will cover the origins and development of the motion picture industry and its leading genres up to the general introduction of movies with pre-recorded music, sound and dialog, beginning in 1927. Broad issues relating to the transformation of American and world popular entertainment forms and traditions, in relation to the established performing arts of the period, will also be covered. Relevant connections to preserving the worlds film heritage will be highlighted and the film restoration facilities of the Motion Picture Department will be visited in the course of the semester. Students will be expected to take a mid-term exam and write one paper. Meets at George Eastman House. Applicable English Cluster: Media, Culture, and Communication.
The course would examine these two genres of film that both purport to have a direct effect upon the spectator's body - provoking laughter, screams, or, often, a combination of both. It would explore each genre's history and defining characteristics, while also emphasizing moments of intersect6ion between the two, as in the increasingly campy slasher films of the 80s and 90s, or horror film parodies.
Recently the large-scale dissemination of erotic and pornographic literature and film has begun to affect the majority of the population in the West. There are two main issues in the course:1) the history of the changing genres of erotica and the social changes taking place because of its wide dissemination; and 2) the proposition that if societies were different little harm and much good would come from the inclusion of erotica in peoples reading and viewing habits: erotic materials, by removing sex from the realm of the forbidden and viewing it as a species of everyday life, can contribute to the education of both sexes and people of all sexual tastes and preferences. Readings in the course will concentrate on classical, early modern, enlightenment, and contemporary erotica, with attention to the contemporary debates about pornography begun by the activism of MacKinnon and Dworkin. Of particular interest in this critique is the claim that erotic materials encourage the practice of violence against women and children, and help to promote a culture dependent on the use of force and violence. The course reviews the current debate on pornography and sexually explicit language as a context for viewing the history of the more familiar erotic materials from classical times, to the Renaissance and 18th century, to D.H.Lawrence, and Erica Jong. Film showings Thursday evenings 7-10.
This workshop is for advanced fiction writers who have completed ENG 121 or have permission from the instructor. The course emphasizes the development of each student's individual style and imagination, as well as the practical and technical concerns of a fiction writer's craft. Readings will be drawn from a wide variety of modern and contemporary writers. Students will be expected to write three original short stories as well as to revise extensively in order to explore the full range of the story's potential. Applicable English Cluster: Creative Writing.
This course will introduce students to the theoretical backgrounds, practical challenges, and creative activity of literary translation. We will survey appropriate theories of language and communication including semiotics, post-structuralism, pragmatics, discourse analysis, and cognitive linguistics. We will consider varied and conflicting descriptions by translators of what it is they believe they are doing and what they hope to accomplish by doing it; and we will study specific translations into English from a variety of sources in order to investigate the strategies and choices translators make and the implication of those choices for our developing sense of what kinds of texts translations actually are. Finally, students will, in consultation with the instructor or with another qualified faculty member, undertake exercises in translation of their own. By the end of this class each student should have a working knowledge of both the critical backgrounds and the artistic potentials of translation.
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The seminar has several goals: First, the close reading of two major poems of the late fourteenth century, John Gower's Confessio Amantis and William Langland's Piers Plowman, within their cultural environment, whether that be ethical polemics, theory of literary compilation, theory of rhetoric, social and political structures, or, especially, the developing of psychological structures that define concepts such as self, soul, and time. Second, we will explore the development of the use sophisticated first person narrators to develop fictional "autobiography" as a means of examineing epistemological as well as philosophical matters. Third, the seminar will be a phenomenological study in "being there," not so much in terms of our effort to historicise the material (though we will, of course, be doing that) as it will be a consideration of how medieval writers attempt to access themselves, i.e., to place themselves and their progressive enlightenments and frustrations within some kind of metaphysical relationship with imagined conditions of being. We will be concerned with several disciplines as the personas attempt to educate themselves amidst what Langland calls "a field full of folk" located between a tower and a pit, an image that suits well with Gower's wandering "middel-weie" amidst an existential desert. Seminar work will include two reports (one about 30 minutes in length, and another of about 15 minutes; a couple of one-page position papers, designed to lead to discussion; and a research paper ca. 15-20 pages in length.
In 1967, Roland Barthes famously proclaimed the Death of the Author. Yet the Life of the Author has long occupied, and continues to occupy, a central place in both the popular and scholarly imagination; as we scrutinize the biographies behind creative minds, what is it we hope to discover? the key to their works? to their artistic power? to the nature of "genius"? This already-fraught enterprise is made only more difficult by authors themselves, whose imaginative renderings of reality nearly always extend to their own lives as well, thus eluding and deluding future assessors. This course will work to theorize and historicize our culture's attempts to separate "Author" from "Self," "Representation" from "Reality," "Public" from "Private," by examining instances of biographical criticism, literary biography, and writerly self-fashioning. Authors and (auto-)biographers will include Shakespeare, Milton, Pope, Johnson, Boswell, Keats, Gaskell, Proust, and Nabokov, among others; we will also read texts by theorists such as Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Roger Chartier, Adrian Johns, Mark Rose, and Martha Woodmansee.
This course takes as its point of departure the so-called subculture of the Victorians—what, referring to the underworld of Victorian sexuality, Steven Marcus first named in 1966 the "Other Victorians." Extending and critiquing Marcus's formulation, this course examines a number of sites of cultural conflict in the Victorian period, including Victorian pornography and sexuality, prostitution, working class identity, the colonial empire, Jewish nationhood, madness and hysteria, "new women," criminality. We will look at a number of literary texts by both canonical and noncanonical writers, with attention to the question of what authors and works defined Victorian identity for the Victorians and for subsequent generations of academic and common readers. Literary texts considered will include such works as George Eliot's Daniel Deronda, Alfred, Lord Tennyson's The Princess, Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh, and Bram Stoker's Dracula. We will also look at recent trends and developments in Victorian studies to consider how these "other" Victorians may have now become the Victorian mainstream.
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Weight (g)
With lens cap, strap, battery and memory card.
Test programme
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All cameras have an LCD screen at the back. Only some have a viewfinder though (the little eyepiece you look through). Electronic viewfinders are more accurate than optical viewfinders.
Direct Link to TV
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Compatible memory cards
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Video recording
Camcorders are much better than digital cameras for video, but a good video mode on a camera can be a bonus.
Video resolution
Whether the camera can record high definition (HD) or standard definition videos.
Image stabilisation
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Shutter speed priority
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Whether you can adjust the aperture, with the camera simulataneously adjusting shutter speed so you get a good exposure. A camera shows "Yes" only if it has a wide range of adjustment. Sometimes aperture priority is represented as "Av" on a camera.
Max manually selectable ISO
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Flash strength adjustable
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Start-up time (s)
Switch on - time from camera off, until camera ready for taking pictures, monitor enabled, in seconds
Shutter delay (s)
Shutter delay in automatic mode, with the auto focus enabled and set to a subject 10 metres away. For cameras with both a viewfinder and a monitor the time listed is the quickest of the two.
Shot-to-shot time (s)
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When you turn to this issue's cover story, you'll be struck by the acuteness of author Steve Bornfeld's memory, not only of the grand public events of November 22, 1963—a president slain, a nation in mourning—but of the textures of the workaday world where those events were experienced. Bornfeld was just 6 years old Read More
A Salute to Professor Green
Vegas Seven's Michael Green, a professor at the College of Southern Nevada, recently took The American Historical Association's 2013 Eugene Asher Distinguished Teaching Read More
High Honors for Vegas Seven
One of the pleasures of walking into the Vegas Seven office each day is crossing paths with a creative team that sees the world from idiosyncratic angles and shares its visions with style and joy. Read More
Drawing the City
Among the highlights of the the American Institute of Architects' recent Nevada Designs Conference was a Downtown sketching class led by Eric Roberts of SH Architecture and Matt Brehm, an art professor at the University of Idaho and a key player in the international Urban Sketchers movement. Read More
The Construction of Creativity
Not long after the architect Bill Snyder moved to Las Vegas in 1978, he ran into some unpleasantness with the contractors on a library he was building. There were threats, veiled and unveiled, and it was unclear how, exactly, a young designer on unfamiliar ground in the still-rough-hewn Southern Nevada of the cowboys-and-mobsters era was going to make the threats go away. Read More
Training Day
It's an annual rite of (almost) autumn: Before donning the helmet and pads, kids prepare for battle with some serious late-summer football conditioning. This squad, chugging up the lakeside rocks at Henderson's Cornerstone Park, certainly knows that the road to victory is never Read More
What I Learned
The dream begins innocently enough. A book, an endless lawn, a metal globe that spins without my spinning it. In shades of yellow and pink and azure blue, it bears the shapes of nonexistent nations. The block type swings by too quickly for me to read—Czejikistanzhetz—a swirl of impossible consonants painted upon impossible continents. Faster, faster. I reach out, touch the equator. The earth grabs me, spins me, hurls me at once outward and inward, and I wake up in a cathedral in the north of England at the tomb of a Saxon historian named Bede. It is very Read More
At the District in Green Valley, Wheels Win Again
Since it opened in 2004, the District at Green Valley Ranch has been a popular spot to stroll in the late-capitalist, New Urbanist village square—the kind of place that merges the aesthetic of the courthouse clock tower and the suburban Pottery Barn. Read More
The Gift and Burden of Anniversaries
In a nation that looks relentlessly forward—Is that an iPhone4 you've got there, loser?—anniversaries are both necessary and oddly popular. They give us an excuse, a sort of temporal safe zone, to think a bit at the world we've left behind. It doesn't take the media-entertainment complex (that's us!) long to occupy such safe zones with our own meditations, spins, stories and souvenirs. We're fast approaching perhaps the mother of all ghoulishly market-friendly anniversaries. On November 22, 1963, President John Read More


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- Bacterial cells in the body outnumber human cells by a factor of 10 to 1. Yet only recently have researchers begun to elucidate the beneficial roles these microbes play in fostering health.
- Some of these bacteria possess genes that encode for beneficial compounds that the body cannot make on its own. Other bacteria seem to train the body not to overreact to outside threats.
- Advances in computing and gene sequencing are allowing investigators to create a detailed catalogue of all the bacterial genes that make up this so-called microbiome.
- Unfortunately, the inadvertent destruction of beneficial microbes by the use of antibiotics, among other things, may be leading to an increase in autoimmune disorders and obesity.
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Biologists once thought that human beings were physiological islands, entirely capable of regulating their own internal workings. Our bodies made all the enzymes needed for breaking down food and using its nutrients to power and repair our tissues and organs. Signals from our own tissues dictated body states such as hunger or satiety. The specialized cells of our immune system taught themselves how to recognize and attack dangerous microbes—pathogens—while at the same time sparing our own tissues.
Over the past 10 years or so, however, researchers have demonstrated that the human body is not such a neatly self-sufficient island after all. It is more like a complex ecosystem—a social network—containing trillions of bacteria and other microorganisms that inhabit our skin, genital areas, mouth and especially intestines. In fact, most of the cells in the human body are not human at all. Bacterial cells in the human body outnumber human cells 10 to one. Moreover, this mixed community of microbial cells and the genes they contain, collectively known as the microbiome, does not threaten us but offers vital help with basic physiological processes—from digestion to growth to self-defense.
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Our pants come in four different fits across our GANT and GANT Rugger range. We've had more than 60 years to perfect our designs and have even invented several signature features. Each fit that you discover brings to life a pair of pants that just gets better with time. You can choose among a range from our slimmest Hugger fit from GANT Rugger to a more generous Regular fit from GANT.
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Even love can be found out in the Wastes.
Even love can be found out in the Wastes.
Last edited by ANGRY MrBUBBLES; 10-09-2013 at 09:09 PM.
War, war never changes. The wastes have been ravaged by both the NCR and Caeser's Legion during their mindless battles. With devastation and raiding occurring during this time of aftermath. A strange occurrence was unfolding out inside the land of radiation. A tale of betrayal, infatuation, and perseverance. However, much struggle is ahead of every sorry soul in the wasteland. The beginning of every story always starts out with some guy staring out into the sunset like some cliche tool. The wind was picking up again, and dust was thrown into the face of Valence. His rebreather filtering the air, but still leaving a sour taste in his mouth. He always enjoyed the silence of the wastes. The shining sun, and his ranger helmet to block out said sun. However, the last few weeks had been anything but silent. The constant Legion attacks have left the NCR border patrols ragged and exhsuasted. Their attempts at taking both banks of the river were certainly admirable, but annoying. He already had two ammo boxes full of legion ears. Some nasty game made up by a corporal. The sick fuck. Valence was still a little shaken from the events from seven days ago. His squad had repeatedly run into legion scouts on their patrol routes. He had taken them out, of course, but not before they had taken the life of two of his comrades. With his team-mates dead, he ransacked an entire legion outpost in a bloodthirsty rage with nothing but a silenced rifle and a combat knife. This earned him the title of "Valence the Undertaker". Now everybody, including command, just called him the Undertaker. His extremely violent nature was also well known throughout Caesar's legion. With a bounty of over a thousand caps, he was constantly targeted by assassins. The last attempt on his life left him with about seven new trophies. The third ammo box was getting pretty full. The day-to-day trials were becoming more of an escape from the attacks. His demeanor led many to believe that he actually enjoyed the attention. His blood-drenched mask was dyed a permanent crimson, and he never took it off. When in fact, he loathed it. He wanted an escape from the orders. An escape from danger. Something to ease his burden. Anything would do. A freaking dog would help at this point. There was one thing that made his thoughts wander though. There were a shit ton of new legion slaves being transferred to the camps over the past few days. He picked off a few of the guards for fun of course, but the fact still remained that the legion was obtaining a massive work force. However, today was actually extremely quiet. Too quiet. The routine patrol for the legion should have passed the other side of the dam by now, but he couldn't see a single legionnaire. Something wasn't right. He raised his trusty silenced .308 rifle, and peered through the scope. Searching for any signs of life across the river.
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Annabelle had been a slave to the legion since she was 7 and had constantly made escape attempts. The only thing that kept her alive at this point was how beautiful she was. She had mousy brown hair, tan colored skin and wore slave rags. Today was the day she figured, the day that she would finally escape. She had waited, had planned, everything and when she thought she'd be able to escape she did. She made a run for it, having managed to get the slave collar off.
She was a few yards away from the legion camp before there were legionnaires chasing her. She looked back and mentally she was cussing.
They were gaining on her, and it wouldn't be long before they caught her again. Or that's what she thought until they started shooting at her.
"Fuck!" She screamed as she managed to dodge the bullets. She looked forward again, trying to outspeed them.
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The sound of gunshots could be clearly heard, echoing out over the dam. Another attack? No, this was something else. No soldiers were in sight, but there was clearly a firefight somewhere. Valence kept scanning the landscape and eventually found the muzzle flares from the guns. He followed their line of sight to see what they were shooting at. A runaway slave. Well that explained a lot. It was a woman, fair height, and brown hair. He could tell by her rags that she was either new and abused, or a veteran slave. Either way, she was still trying to escape, futile as it was. What the hell? He thought he would give her a little bit of help. Going back to the firing legionnaires, he started to pick them off one by one. The shot was extremely easy, since they weren't exactly hiding. They were panicking as their comrades were suddenly suffering from lobotomy. Valence chuckled a little bit. Okay, maybe he did enjoy it a little bit.
What was that sound? Fuck! Hounds! There was no way she could outrun them, and they were particularly difficult to hit. She was in real trouble now. Valence took his rifle and an ammo box, then ran down to the cliff to get a better shot. He set up on a rock and put his bipod out of his rifle, steadying himself. Once he was done, he peered out back at the perils of this unfortunate girl.
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She heard the barking and she started to panic. She knew that her escape was in vein. She didn't stop running though, hoping to find a place that would keep her from being bitten by the dogs. She let out a yelp as she tripped over a rock. That wasn't helping her progress one bit. She scrambled to her feet before a hound pushed her over. She blocked her face at its advances, it trying to tear out her jugular.
She wrestled with the dog as the other dogs started to join in its attacks on the slave girl. Well now they were stationary, but he had a chance of hitting the slave girl too.
No longer interested in Roleplayerguild, will not be on ever again!
if you want to find me and roleplay with me I'm on here, though considering I'm posting another roleplaying site on my signature, chances are I won't be on RPG for much longer.
=) Happy Roleplaying!
The dogs had caught up to the girl and were piling all around her. He could barely see the girl herself. Slowly releasing his breath, he aimed. This shot was a gamble at best, but it would have to do. He fired, hoping to hit nothing but hound. His bullets zipped across the empty expanse and tore through the flesh of the legion hounds. His desperation fueling his shots. For some reason, Valence felt that he just had to save this girl. He couldn't pinpoint why, but he spent no time pondering about it. His last shot rang out of the barrel and a click indicated that the magazine was empty. Valence shot a hand into the ammo box, looking for more ammunition. What he found sent his stomach into flips. FUCK!!! He had hastily grabbed one of the prize boxes with legion ears instead of the real one. The dogs were gone, but the legionnaires were closing in fast.
Valence desperately searched for any form of ammo on his self and only found one incendiary round. He had been saving this for a special occasion. Guess this counted. He quickly loaded the round and took aim. How the hell could this make the most impact, he thought to himself. If only he could tell her to duck, then he could light the whole group on fire, but that was out of the picture. This was a gamble at best, but he took aim and fired. The bullet streaked across the gap of the valley. Small streams of fire were trailing behind the bullet. It zoomed by about an inch past the girl's head and embedded itself into one of the legionnaire's hip. The bullet sprayed its contents and lit three of them aflame. Come on girl, use this chance while they're distracted, he yelled across the river. As if she could hear him. Using the fire to his advantage, Valence quickly ran back up to his post and grabbed more loaded magazines. He reloaded his sniper and looked back over at the chaos he had mainly caused.
Annabelle managed to have gotten back on her feet and started towards the direction of where the firing was coming from. She didn't know why she thought it was a good idea but maybe something would come of it. She could at the very least thank the person who helped free her. She ran, and continued to run for a while. Now there was no one chasing her now. She was home free. She had finally managed to make her way towards the man that had saved her and she stopped, taking in a deep breath before looking at him. She looked him over before she sighed.
"Thank you… You're the one who was shooting at them right? That killed them? I couldn't have gotten out of there alive without you. I thought that they'd catch me again so they could put that damned collar back on or something… but when they started shooting at me I knew they had finally gotten tired of my escape attempts. My name is Annabelle."
No longer interested in Roleplayerguild, will not be on ever again!
if you want to find me and roleplay with me I'm on here, though considering I'm posting another roleplaying site on my signature, chances are I won't be on RPG for much longer.
=) Happy Roleplaying!
"Oh, umm, no problem. I, uh, guess it's okay now, you're safe."
Valence could feel himself blushing underneath his mask. Why? This had never happened before. This girl had so casually greeted and thanked him, which had drawn him aback. He was fumbling for words, and his palms were starting to sweat. Why was this happening to him? He looked the girl over. She was very beautiful young woman, for having been a Legion slave.
Then, something happened. He couldn't breath. His mask rebreather was working fine, but he was hyper-ventilating. He desperately scrambled for the helmet controls. With a twist of a valve, his helmet made a subtle hiss as the seal came undone. Valence lifted it off of his head his hair unfurled out, stopping just past shoulder level. He had a thin, clean complexion. His hair was straight, black. He dropped his rifle and clutched his chest. Asthma, now of all times. He had t had an attack since he was nine. He leaned against the table under the awning cover and desperately tried to calm his breathing.
He gasped words out saying, "I'm sorry. *cough* This normally doesn't happen."
Her brows furrowed as he started to have problems breathing. She had heard of asthma attacks before but she had never seen them. She moved closer to him before she looked down at her bag that was tied to her waste. She pulled something out of it before handing it to him. It looked like a chewy piece of candy.
"Start chewing this, chew it once then breath out slowly… chew it once again and breath out slowly, repeat this a few times until you stop hyperventilating," She stated.
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if you want to find me and roleplay with me I'm on here, though considering I'm posting another roleplaying site on my signature, chances are I won't be on RPG for much longer.
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He did as she told him, chewing the strange candy. It actually worked, he started to gain his composure. When his breathing got under control, he stood up and said, "Thank you. I'm sorry, that hasn't happened in a long time. But enough about me, you're still injured. Come sit down, I have a first aid kit."
Valence motioned to a lone chair at the table before rummaging through his duffel bag. "Those hound bites can easily get infected if not treated properly. With them being feral and whatnot." he said. He returned to her and kneeled in front of her. He lifted the super stimpak up to her arm, fastening the leather band. "I'm sorry, but this is gonna sting a bit, but just bear with it." He said as the injector activated. "Now, you'll be a little weak after it takes effect, so just rest in the chair for a while." The entire time he did this, he kept his head down with his hair covering most of his face. However, she caught a glimpse as he got up to walk away. His face was beat red from blushing. He went and sat down on the bedroll about seven feet away. His side was to her and he was fiddling with his helmet controls, still chewing on the remedy she had given him.


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A big, big war is just what the administration needs to really screw things up. Go to war with Syria and you get Iran, Russia and Israel in the mix. China will probably throw its hat in the ring, too.This article could just be the beginning of a media propaganda frenzy providing Americans with a pretext to go to war w/ Syria. Beware.
We should be able to clean this up from 40,000 feet. But no ground troops, ever again, anywhere but in defense of our homeland.
I´m sure Obama will get to the bottom of this, will pursue the perpetrators and bring them to justice, just like in Benghazi. Meanwhile, he´ll give Assad another warning, and by gosh, this time he means it!
Let the ragheads fight it out among themselves. The AH in the WH screwed it up by getting involved in the "Arab Spring", and look what happened there! We don´t need to support either side in Syria, because they will stab us in the back anyway. We don´t need any more Benghazi type killings in Damascus.
Obama the Behind will lead us into a war only after he has depleted our remaining military strength. At moment, we have enough combat ready divisions, aircraft and carrier groups to project sufficient force to prevent a conflict. But by 2015-2016, we will be a shadow power, like the UK, Germany and France. That will be when Obama decides to stop moving his red line and commits us to a war of attrition. Could be Syria, post Assad, North Korea, or back to Iraq or Afghanistan. History repeats, but we never know when or where.
Chemical weapons that were transported there from Iraq.Clearly the Bush administration felt it best not to reveal the fact that Syria had those WMD.Al qaeda is now about to bring down the Assad regime and the entire middle east is in jeopardy.
You know what? I can´t get past the headline since I don´t believe anything the State Department says since Clinton´s drunken spree began.
It doesn´t matter. This syria kerfuffle is just a distraction to assure iran has more time to arm itself and destroy first Israel and then the USA. Everything is in place. And obama is making sure this happens.
And our genius media has no questions about how a backward little country like Syria has so many chemical weapons....´cause Bush lied and people died, dontchyaknow?......
Noooo . . . Assad wouldn´t dare! Obama said he couldn´t! Do not believe your lyin´ eyes, surely no chemicals were used.
The State Department Believes a lot of Crazyassed things.That does not make them true.
If we were supposed to believe that bush lied about WMD, then why should i believe the Ø about WMD?


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MarcusFlaviusAquila wrote:Stuart wrote:I love seeing those emails, you do get quite excited, although lately and this is even better, I'll order something say midday and get the usual "processing" email, it then arrives the following morning, (fantastic service BTW), and then later that day get an email that says "sent"
You lucky devil, living so close to them. My Romans had to hitch a ride on Royal Air (Pardon me for not knowing the exact name) all the way to the Pacific.... But I bet it was a load of fun for them.
I bet it was a bit awkward for them, having to get the folk they conquered all those years ago to get them from A to B


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The French Connection [Blu-Ray]
Director : William Friedkin
Screenplay : Ernest Tidyman (based on the book by Robin Moore)
MPAA Rating : R
Year of Release : 1971
Stars : Gene Hackman (Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle), Fernando Rey (Alain Charnier), Roy Scheider (Buddy "Cloudy" Russo), Tony Lo Bianco (Sal Boca), Marcel Bozzuffi (Pierre Nicoli), Frédéric de Pasquale (Devereaux), Bill Hickman (Mulderig)
Prior to its release in late 1971 and subsequent winning of five of that year's Academy Awards, including best picture, director, and actor, there had never been a movie quite like The French Connection. There have been dozens and dozens since--most of what we associate with police-themed TV shows, especially Hill Street Blues and NYPD Blue, owe a direct debt to the film--which is what makes it all the more impressive that it still stands up so well nearly 40 years later. Viewers and critics alike knew they were seeing something different and daring on-screen in 1971. The French Connection riveted them in their seats even if they were somewhat wary of the brutality of its images and the coarseness of its methods.
The French Connection is a deeply New York movie, shot entirely on location during the freezing winter of 1970. The location photography lends a distinct authenticity to the movie's texture, as director William Friedkin and cinematographer Owen Roizman, who also worked together on The Exorcist (1973), get their jittery, handheld cameras deep into the rotten underbelly of America's greatest city. Most of the movie takes place in dingy alleyways, cheap watering holes, and backstreets in Brooklyn. There are a few fleeting glimpses of the fabled New York skyline, with its shining skyscapers of steel and glass. But, that is just to establish the fact that most of the story will take place beneath those symbols of capitalist enterprise, in a seedy world that is both the antithesis and a perverted mirror reflection of American society.
The story is a thinly fictionalized account of one of the biggest narcotics busts in U.S. history by two New York detectives, Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso (who have cameos in the movie). Egan and Gross become Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle (Gene Hackman) and Buddy "Cloudy" Russo (Roy Scheider), their nicknames coming directly from Egan and Grosso's. Popeye and Cloudy are hardened, experienced narcotics detectives who work their jobs like a game that never ends; even when they're off-duty they're still sniffing around for dirt.
One night they happen to spot some known dope peddlers lavishing large amounts of money at a restaurant, which catches Popeye's attention and leads to an investigation that eventually culminates in the capture of some $32 million in heroin imported from France. The French connection of the title refers to Alain Charnier (Fernando Rey), the wily and aristocratic French crime lord responsible for the importation of the heroin via a well-known, but struggling French actor (Frédéric de Pasquale) who is desperate for cash.
The French Connection probably couldn't be made today, relying as it does on a borderline repulsive central protagonist and ending as it does in hard-edged frustration, a single, hollow gunshot in an abandoned warehouse still echoing in our minds as we find out that the villain escaped justice. The screenplay by Ernest Tidyman (who wrote the screenplay for Shaft that same year), taken from the factual book by Robin Moore, plays somewhat loose with the plot, and the film's overall tone and structure suggest the influence of European art cinema on American films of the early '70s, even in the action-thriller genre.
Much of Doyle and Russo's investigation relies on coincidence and luck, and we don't attribute this to lousy screenwriting, but to the fact that much police work progresses by exactly those means. The pacing is so quick and intensive that it becomes easy to overlook when the script does leave gaping holes, such as the scene in which the police strip a car to its frame in order to find the smuggled drugs and then manage to get it all put back together in a few hours so that the smugglers don't notice it's been tampered with.
Gene Hackman deservedly won an Oscar for his portrayal of Popeye Doyle, a complex, antiheroic protagonist. Ironically, it is his most questionable personality characteristics--his bitterness, his vanity, his ruthlessness--that make him such an effective cop. He is given to racist remarks and quick-tempered brutality, but we never get the sense that he is a truly bad human being, even when he shoots an unarmed man in the back. Rather, he is someone who has seen the worst aspects of society and feels that certain liberties must be taken in order to combat them. Liberal-minded viewers of the movie are appalled by Popeye's behavior, and it is often appalling. Yet, there is a stark reality to his circumstances that, even if they don't justify what he does, they at least explain it. His actions are never fully gratuitous because they are always contextualized within his desperate plight as a police officer battling an urban malaise that is overwhelming.
The film was helmed by first-time feature director William Friedkin, whose experience in documentaries was precisely what the cops-and-criminals genre needed at the time. Using a style he terms "induced documentary," he gave The French Connection an immediacy and depth that is lacking in most highly polished Hollywood product. The photography is sometimes shaky, the images a bit grainy, mostly taken in long and medium shots. The film's raw visual aesthetic gives the rushing sensation of actually being there, right in the middle of the action, as if the cameraman just happened to be in the right place at the right time and was trying to keep up with the action.
Of course, this does not describe the movie as a whole. While The French Connection has been hailed as masterpiece of documentary-like realism grafted onto a crime thriller, there are moments of stylized action, most notably the famed car chase in which Popeye pursues a would-be assassin who is riding above him on an elevated train. Friedkin, working under pressure to top the much-celebrated car chase sequence in Bullitt (1968), which was also produced by The French Connection producer Phil D'Antoni, pulls no punches as he puts us in the middle of the hurtling action, literally on the car's grill as it rips around support poles and narrowly avoids dozens of collisions. There have been bigger and grander car chase sequences since The French Connection, but it would be hard to come up with one that is more raw and intense, uncluttered and primal in its single-minded relentlessness--much like Popeye Doyle himself and the film as a whole.
The French Connection Two-Disc Blu-Ray Set | |
Aspect Ratio | 1.85:1 |
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Subtitles | English, Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese |
Supplements | |
Distributor | 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment |
Release Date | February 24, 2009 |
The French Connection is presented in a new high-definition 1080p transfer on a 50GB dual-layer disc that improves on the previously available THX-certified DVD. The film was shot in a gritty, semi-documentary style on actual locations in the dingiest sections of New York City, thus it has an intentionally rough, unpolished look, and the high-def image does wonders in bringing out the detail of the images but also downplaying some of the noise on the standard-res DVD. The film's muted color scheme, which is dominated by drab shades of brown and gray, and dark tones look excellent. As Friedkin explains in one of the supplements, the film was color-timed during the transfer to achieve a more desaturated look with a slightly cooler color temperature, which is quite apparent when comparing the Blu-Ray to the DVD. The soundtrack is available in either the original monaural or a new DTS-HD 5.1-channel surround mix. Don Ellis's blaring, in-your-face music sounds better than ever: rich, full, and nearly pitch perfect (for fans of the score, it is also available as an isolated track). Similar to the DVD, the 5.1-channel soundtrack is also particularly good at utilizing the surround channels to expand the ambient noises of New York--cars honking, the wind blowing, the rustle and murmur of crowds--to create an intensely enveloping environment, just as Friedkin intended. | |
The Blu-Ray of The French Connection has a strong mixture of supplements new and old, all of which are worth perusing for maximum enjoyment of this tough, landmark film. Held over from the Five-Star Collection DVD released back in 2001 we have two audio commentaries, one by director William Friedkin and one by stars Gene Hackman and Roy Scheider. Friedkin's commentary is informative, but a bit dry at times because he tends to spend a lot of time recounting plot details and essentially narrating what is on-screen (it is definitely worth listening to his commentary during the chase scene just to hear him point out how much of it was unintentional). Hackman and Scheider's commentary is not screen-specific, and the two actors were recorded separately, with Hackman talking for the first half of the movie and Scheider picking up for the second half. Thankfully, neither actor limits himself to discussing only acting, and each goes into some depth about other aspects of the production. Also from the DVD are two excellent documentaries, both of which are worth watching, even if much of the information contained in each is also in the other. The first doc, Making the Connection: The Untold Stories, was produced to celebrate the movie's 30th anniversary for the Fox Movie Channel. Running a solid hour in length, it is structured around Sonny Grosso retracing the steps he and Eddie Egan followed when making their historic drug bust in the early '60s. The documentary has a dual focus on covering the factual basis of the case and the production of the movie. It includes face time with virtually every person involved with the movie who is still alive: Grosso, director William Friedkin, producer Phil D'Antoni, executive producers David Brown and Richard Zanuck, stars Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, and Tony Lo Bianco, writer Robin Moore, cinematographer Owen Roizman, and editor Jerry Greenberg, among others. The other documentary, Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Following the French Connection, was produced around the same time for the BBC. Running just shy of an hour in length, it covers much of the same ground as the Fox Movie Channel documentary and features interviews with most of the same people, but from a somewhat different angle in that it focuses more on the movie's production and less on the connections between the movie and the real-life story on which it's based. The last holdovers from the DVD are seven deleted sequences that can be viewed individually or they can be viewed interspersed with video commentary by Friedkin. During his commentary, Friedkin jokingly refers to these deleted scenes as having sat in his garage for the 30 years, and that's exactly what they look like. Dull, washed out, and hazy, they almost border on the unwatchable except that they are so fascinating as a near-perfect example of extraneous material that needed to be cut out (the S&M sequence with the assassin is an early indicator of the kind of pointless, sadistic excess that would eventually ruin Friedkin's Hollywood career). And now, on to the new stuff. The first disc opens with a brief, one-minute introduction to the film by Friedkin. This disc also includes a new trivia track and an isolated score track so you can enjoy Don Ellis's innovative, discordant jazz score on its own. On the second disc we have a host of new featurettes that in some instances expand on, and in other instances replicate, the previously available supplements. In "Anatomy of a Chase" (20 min.) Friedkin, producer Phil D'Antoni, and former NYPD detective and technical advisor Randy Jurgensen return to the locations in Brooklyn where the infamous chase sequence was shot to reminisce about the production. "Hackman on Doyle" (11 min.) is a new interview with Gene Hackman about his iconic role, and listening to him discuss his discomfort with the character underscores just how brilliant his performance is. "Friedkin and Grosso Remember the Real French Connection" (19 min.) is a sit-down discussion between Friedkin and Sonny Grosso in Grosso's office about the actual case that inspired the film. In "Scene of the Crime" (5 min.), Friedkin interviews Sonny Jurgensen about how he helped the production essentially shut down the Brooklyn Bridge for a crucial sequence in the film. In "Color Timing The French Connection" (13 min.), Fredkin shows how the film was color timed for its new high-definition transfer, which he says brings it closer to his original intention than any film print ever has. "Cop Jazz: The Music of Don Ellis" (10 min.) features an interview with music historian Jon Burlingame about Ellis's innovative musical score, and "Rogue Cop: The Noir Connection" (14 min.) features film historians Alain Silver and James Ursini discussing the film's connection to classic film noir (it also includes some great clips from Fox noir films). Finally, this Blu-Ray is equipped with information for D-Box Motion Control Systems, which synchronizes your home theater seating with the action on-screen to create real-life motion. |
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Stock Futures Rise on Strong Apple Results
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- U.S. stock futures were pointing higher early Wednesday after Apple(AAPL) far exceeded Wall Street's expectations in its latest quarter, selling more than 35 million iPhones.
The news was setting an optimistic tone for trading ahead of the Federal Reserve's upcoming policy announcement, which is due at 12:30 p.m. ET. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke will meet the press after the announcement, adding to the drama of the day.
Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average were up by 35 points, or 51.4 points above fair value, at 12,994. Futures for the S&P 500 were 8.1 points higher, or 10.5 points above fair value, at 1378, and futures for the Nasdaq were ahead by 50.5 points, or 48.7 points above fair value, at 2683.
Futures hardly reacted to a weak report on durable goods orders in March. The Commerce Department said orders fell 4.2% last month following a downwardly-revised gain of 1.9% in February. The reading was the biggest decline in durable goods orders since January 2009 and much worse than the 1.7% decline expected by economists surveyed by Thomson Reuters . Excluding the transportation component, orders were down 1.1%.
Wall Street finished mixed on Tuesday with the Dow pushed higher by positive earnings reports and a dividend hike from IBM(IBM) . Nasdaq was tripped up by a 2% decline in Apple ahead of its report. The stock had fallen in 10 of the previous 11 sessions, losing roughly 10% along the way, with the weakness in part stemming from sell-side concerns about the iPhone.
That weakness was forgotten Wednesday morning with Apple shares gaining nearly 10% in pre-market action to easily regain the $600 level. The company's fiscal second-quarter profit soared 93% year-over-year with heavy iPhone demand leading the way.
Apple earned $12.30 a share in the March-ended period on revenue of $39.2 billion. Analysts were expecting earnings of $10.02 a share on revenue of $36.69 billion. About $22.7 billion of revenue was from sales of the iPhone. The company sold 35.1 million iPhones, 11.8 million iPads, 4 million Macs and 7.7 million iPods in the quarter.
Wednesday brings the outcome of the Federal Reserve's two-day policy meeting. A change on rates isn't expected, but the Federal Open Market Committee is expected to stick to its promise to keep interest rates at historic lows until at least late 2014. The Fed will announce its decision on rates at 12:30 p.m. EDT.


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Can you distinguish four patches in each of the above images? If not then you need to calibrate your monitor. If the patches have a color tint, you can correct problem by calibrating monitor gamma for each color channel individually.
Stand ten feet from your monitor and examine the above figure. If the smooth patch is darker or lighter than the background then you need to calibrate monitor gamma.
Many computer monitors come from the factory preset for an office working environment which may not be ideal for viewing and editing photographic images. For color accuracy and consistency work in a darkened environment.
You can calibrate black and white points without any special software. To adjust monitor gamma you'll need special software such as QuickGamma. QuickGamma is free software based on Norman Koren's gamma and black level chart.
It takes just a few minutes to make these adjustments. As a reward you will view images on the web as they were designed to be viewed. If you're a web designer, or share images with others, then it's imperative that you calibrate your system to a standard. For the web or email use the sRGB standard.
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Charles Joseph Florio, 89, of Longboat Key, died Jan. 31.
Born Oct. 26, 1920, in New York City, he graduated from Fordham University in New York City at 19. During his time at Fordham, he served as student football manager for the university's football team. He subsequently qualified for his master's degree at New York University's Graduate School of Business Administration. He served in the U.S. Army Finance Corps in north Africa and France during World War II.
Mr. Florio worked for Caltex Petroleum Corp. for more than 32 years coordinating worldwide payrolls and administrating company-benefit plans. In 1980, he retired to Hilton Head Island, S.C., where he lived until 1998, when he moved to Sun City Center. In 2004, he moved to Longboat Key.
Mr. Florio enjoyed sports and managed Little League teams for nine years. He participated in table tennis, billiards and poker clubs and was a frequent visitor to the Sarasota Kennel Club.
Mr. Florio was preceded in death by his wife of 56 years, Ann Marie. He is survived by sons Nicholas, Michael and Charles Jr.; daughters Ann Marie Bilhar and Catherine Revellese; and 11 grandchildren.
A service took place Friday, Feb. 5, at St. Mary, Star of the Sea, Catholic Church. Memorial contributions can be made to the building fund of St. Mary, Star of the Sea, Catholic Church, 4280 Gulf of Mexico Drive, Longboat Key, Fla. 34228.
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Schools, and society in general, would be safer if the bad guys don't know is armed and who is not. Like air marshals on a plane. Not every teacher should be armed, however, some may be comfortable enough and have the desire. Like in Texas, teachers can take training, use special bullets, and arm themselves. We can only imagine how many lives would have been saved at Sandy Hook if Vicki Soto was armed.
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