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Killers, clowns and retro found footage abounds on the second day of this year's FrightFest.
For here, the victims are seven volunteers trialling a new pharmaceutical product (called PRO-9) in an isolated clinic, and over one long, very dark night, all will succumb to its deleterious side-effects (nausea, disorientation, inflammation, psychotic violence) according to the precise order in which the drug was administered to each of them. Save for those 'controls' lucky enough to have received placebos, these 'guinea pigs, injected at precise one-hour intervals, will all transform, one by one, into rampaging trippers, a danger as much to themselves as to others.
If, in being the first feature to have been produced through the micro-budget Vertigo School Project (designed to launch the careers of National Film & Television School graduates), Guinea Pigs is something of a pioneering experiment not unlike the prototype drug at its centre, its release history also mirrors the PRO-9's delayed onset. For Ian Clark's film, originally scheduled to premiere at FrightFest 2011 but pulled owing to its incompletion, has been a long time coming to the horror festival – and whether the wait has proven salutary is debatable.
What with the obnoxious behaviour of several of the trial subjects, it perhaps takes a while to come into focus, but the real villain here is Big Pharma, whose duty of care is found to be in conflict with the need for profit. Accordingly, we are shown a slick, secretive operation, kept far away from public scrutiny, that is all too happy to exploit the "weak and vulnerable" for a little cash, and to cover up any fallout or even fatalities that might ensue.
These are weighty themes if set on a global scale, as in The Constant Gardener, but when they are confined to a facility in the English countryside, and reduced to the slash and dash of genre, they become a little harder to take seriously, especially when the somewhat trite message "corporations are bad" becomes implausibly embodied in an individual named Toby (Jack Doolan). The issue is bigger and more complex than the film can properly accommodate.
The performances here are fine, and the odd thorny moral dilemma is thrown up along with the contents of the patients' stomachs, but amidst all that running about in the dark, very little real light is cast on the film's putative subject matter. Everything else is strictly by numbers.
*And ReDiscovery Screen 13:50 Monday 27
It may have been written and directed by the man whom none other than Stephen King called "the future of horror", but it is still okay not to like the original Nightbreed. Sure, Clive Barker came to it fresh from his transcendent feature debut Hellraiser, and sure, it may still occupy a warm and fuzzy place in the memories of those who were impressionable adolescents when it came out back in 1990. Yet both its 'beefcake' protagonist Aaron Boone and the actor who played him (Craig Sheffer) fail spectacularly to engage despite being on screen for most of its 102 minutes – and, in what has now become horror legend, producers Morgan Creek, nervous about the film's commercial prospects, required the director to do extensive reshoots and then, much like villain Dr Philip K. Decker (David Cronenberg, in scene-stealing minimalist form), took a knife to Barker's deviant vision and slashed its bleeding heart out. Barker never liked the final cut that hit cinemas, so what remains is a sort of palimpsest: a compromised piece that allows us to reconstruct – and idealise – what might have been.
Until now – sort of. For Russell Cherrington has managed to unearth much of Barker's original footage, long thought lost, in two VHS (yes, VHS) workprints, and has devoted painstaking effort to remixing all this material into various versions that came closer to Barker's original conception. It is Cherrington's fifth version, the so-called 'Cabal Cut', that had its European premiere at FrightFest, with a relatively restrained running time of two and a half hours (vers. 1 was a whopping three hours, and included several key characters dying more than once!). Still, two and a half hours is more or less an hour longer than most genre movies can sustain, and while the original Nightbreed's emphases are tweaked a little here, and the ending is rather different, the improvements are insufficient to make up for what Cherrington calls the "porno quality" of the new footage (although actually, porn looks and sounds better).
Cherrington is so keen to get his new-found footage on the screen that he replaces entire, perfectly good sequences from the original with rankly inferior alternate takes that, paradoxically, leave you yearning to watch the 1990 version again instead. Certainly for its first half the 'Cabal cut' seems like redux for the sake of redux (apart from one touching nightclub sequence) – a showcase of Cherrington's curatorial fervour, but with little reward for anyone interested in just watching the movie.
The second half is different – various characters are more developed and nuanced, there are genuine shifts from the original's plot, and the monstrous Nightbreed are painted more as victimised, misunderstood X-Men (although this theme was already present in 1990). We get a little more Decker, and a quite a bit more redneck rampaging – but there is also, inevitably, a whole lot more Boone. Longer does not equal better, especially in horror, and all this extra stuffing does not stop a turkey being a turkey. So perhaps this is best watched as a different kind of palimpsest: a study in the obsessiveness of its restorer, always returning to Midian in search of the immortality buried deep below the world of the visible. The 'Cabal cut' is strictly for angst archivists and nostalgia nuts – but then, that is probably half the audience for horror.
The directorial debut of Eron Sheean (who scripted Xavier Gens' apocalyptic The Divide), Errors of the Human Body crossbreeds the speculative trajectory of genetic research with the eternal complexities of interpersonal relations to create a coolly sombre tragedy with a hint of Cronenberg (body horror and 'new flesh' in a clinical setting). Shot in part at Dresden's Planck Institute, the film perfectly matches its wintry locations to Geoff's sense of alienation and isolation, contrasting these to a series of much more warmly lit flashbacks, before hybridising past and present in a horrifying dream sequence. Yet for the most part the film's greatest strength is its understatement, as grand 'theological' themes of transformation and miraculous transcendence are cultivated within the secular petri dish of science, engendering a very human story of loss and harrowingly belated redemption. This chilling drama of flaws as much psychological and spiritual as corporeal was one of the Discovery Screen's genuine highlights.
It is a suspicion that has already been confirmed by the title sequence, a juddery montage of newspaper clippings, missing persons files and photos that openly mimics the beginning of Se7en (right down to the accompanying industrial soundtrack); by the familiar subtitle "based on a true story", with the word "not" materialising in front of it in self-conscious breach of the po-faced spell; and by an opening scene in which stripper Mary (Danielle Harris) is first shown unenthusiastically allowing herself to be taken from behind over a woodland rock, and then having her neck snapped by her dissatisfied suitor Harrison (Ryan Honey).
As Mary's friend (and fellow-stripper) Annie (Jennifer Blanc) flees the murderous Harrison and his reluctant accomplice Cooger (Dennny Kirkwood), and seeks refuges in the cabin of retiring loner Kyle (Biehn), all five characters will have their loyalty and trust challenged as lies compound and civility clashes with bestiality in the middle of nowhere.
All this tells us, loud and clear, that we are in a world of pure, tawdry entertainment that is detached from any kind of (non-cinematic) reality. Crooked cops, serial killings, moral chaos – The Victim has all the right ingredients in place to be the next Surveillance, but unfortunately Biehn has neither the directing nor writing skills of Jennifer Lynch, let alone of Quentin Tarantino (whose Pulp Fiction is also expressly referenced), and so material that might have really got cooking is allowed merely to sputter and die out.
Even that sequence, near the film's beginning, of Kyle's SUV traversing the endless hinterlands, plays out at such an aimless pace that, for all its inherent mobility, it brings the narrative to a shuddering halt – and this is long before we have seen the same plodding journey made for the fourth or fifth time in the film.
By the film's second half, despite the supposed nocturnal setting and the precarious quality of the roads, no-one seems to drive with their headlights on – and when Annie and Kyle are left in a car (with the keys in the ignition) by their clearly ill-intentioned captors, they do not think just to drive off. Of course these are merely quibbling details in a film that makes no real claims on verisimilitude, but with so many longueurs, meandering repetitions and futile flashbacks, you will easily find yourself drifting, no longer seeing the trees for all the wood – and wooden acting.
The biggest draw here is Biehn himself, yesterdecade's star of James Cameron blockbusters The Terminator, Aliens and The Abyss – and while there is no doubt that The Victim is something of a vanity project, there is also a strange, nostalgia-tinged melancholy to be found in the scene where young, buxom Annie (apparently no longer traumatised by her BFF's very recent death) beds Biehn's Kyle every which way in a softcore-graphic manner harking straight back to Biehn's Eighties heyday (complete with rocking score).
"You look good for 54", Annie asserts post-coitally, "and you fuck good for 54." Yet if Biehn is determined to show us he has still got it, perhaps he might do better than trying to keep his film's many shortcomings afloat under the 'grindhouse' flag of convenience. This is a relatively low-budget, independent film whose cast and crew clearly had a lot of fun – but that never quite translates into fun for the viewer. Still, even Biehn's mentor Cameron started his directing career on Piranha Part Two: The Spawning, so the only way for Biehn is up.
*And Discovery Screen 21:35pm Sunday 26
Cramming into a single, sweaty space a multi-millionaire investments executive (John Getz), his bratty granddaughter (played by Amanda & Rachel Pace), two ambitious underlings (Christopher Backus, Devin Ratray), a retired stakeholder with a heart condition (Shirley Knight), a reporter (Tehnina Sunny), a pregnant office worker (Anita Brien), an Iranian security guard (Waleed Zuaiter) and a neurotic Jewish comedian (Joey Slotnik), Elevator feels not unlike one of the old-school jokes that this last-named passenger might tell in his unreconstructed stand-up act – although before any of them has even stepped into the lift, an impressionistic prologue shows the acquisition of a small but lethal explosive device, ensuring that all the film's dark comedy is headed, whether up or down, to a story of deadly seriousness. And, as even the 1960s Batman knows, "Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb."
In fact, stuck-in-a-lift flicks form their very own subgenre, from the 1974 telemovie The Elevator through Abwärts to Devil. So while Elevator's relatively brief duration (84 minutes) and near unity of time and place keep its ensemble drama ticking over tautly, there remains the sense that it is just running through routines seen many times before. What is more interesting, however, is the way that it merges the suspense inherent in its set-up with tensions of a more contemporary geopolitical variety, ringing the changes on our post-millennial anxieties.
If the bombmaking prologue, the title montage of the New York highrise, and the comedian's immediate, prejudicial 'joke' reference to 'Bin Laden' from the moment he first meets the Middle-Eastern security guard, all point to the early Noughties' obsession with 9/11 and al-Qaeda-style terrorism, then the focus of Elevator will gradually shift towards the aftermath of the 2007 Credit Crunch and a more general preoccupation with questionable corporate conduct.
Suspended on the 47th floor, this lift will stage an uneasily volatile collision of the higher-ups and lower-downs, all caught in the glare of a sensationalised, uncaring media. Which is to say that, clichés and all, Elevator is about us today, going down.
*And Discovery Screen 18:35pm Monday 27
"The following story is based on actual events," announces the all-too-familiar title at the beginning of Patricio Valladares' Hidden in the Woods (aka En las afueras de la ciudad) - and on stage at FrightFest, the director confirmed in person that about "70%" of it comes from a true Chilean story. If it really is a true story (and significantly, Valladares failed to provide any detail), it is nonetheless written in the language of pure genre, with its realities deriving entirely from the closed grindhouse of cinema rather than from any world beyond.
Within just the first few minutes there is domestic murder, drug-dealing, child rape, incestuous birth, a flesh-eating mutant and "hillbilly" chainsaw deaths, before the film moves on to cannibalism, a prison shower scene, trigger-happy badass thugs and an iconic 'cabin in the woods'. And if the plot, in which a trio of siblings are left to feed themselves in the absence of their abusive bearded father, is strongly reminiscent of Jorge Michel Grau's We Are What We Are, it defiantly lacks even a hint of the Mexican film's allegorical engagement with sociopolitical realities. All the misogyny and bestiality on display here are in the service of nothing but themselves and exploitation thrills, and are shot in a jarring mode of inconsistently lit handheld and rough-and-ready Seventies stylings. creating a claustrophobic world that entraps viewers as much as characters in a labyrinthine forest of cinematic references.
Every man here is a violent or treacherous pig, every woman a receptacle for cum or bullets – and if the characters and themes are not unpleasant enough, the film is also riddled with a sly humour that maximises our discomfort precisely by concealing itself. When the older (but still teenaged) sister's entry into roadside prostitution is presented as a mechanical montage of fellatio and follow-up spits, it is difficult to know whether to turn away in horror, or howl with laughter – and the latter option can only come with extreme unease. Indeed, Valladares' whole strategy is to throw one grittily outrageous depravity after another at us, while challenging us to take any of it at all seriously (and keeping his own smile well-hidden in the woods). The result, though not exactly (or even at all) fun, is certainly disorienting.
Of course, the independent horror directors contributing to this portmanteau film would all have been weaned on the genre back in the VHS era, and so the artificial incorporation of tracking problems, poor resolution, stretched tape and in-camcorder crash edits reflects a formative way of seeing horror, dripping with nostalgia, that ironically brings new, postmodern life to the otherwise increasingly moribund trope of 'found footage'.
The sheer variety of the stories on offer here is part of their appeal. In 'Amateur Night', directed by David Bruckner, three young men hoping to make their own covert pornography via a tiny camera hidden in a pair of glasses bite off more than they can chew when they pick up wide-eyed Lily (Hannah Fierman) in a club and take her back to their motel room for a midnight feast of flesh.
There is similar feminist table-turning in 'Second Honeymoon' (dir. Ti West), albeit without even a hint of the supernatural, as cleanfreak couple Sam (Joe Swanberg) and Stephanie (Sophia Takal), on a road trip to the Grand Canyon to revitalise their flagging relationship, are filmed as they sleep by a knife-wielding stalker with an agenda that you are unlikely to see coming.
'Tuesday the 17th' (dir. Glenn McQuaid) introduces an evil avatar of VHS glitchiness to the classic 'co-eds in the woods' formula, ambiguously negotiating a lakeside path between paranormal phenomena and schizoid murderousness, where, as in Lovely Molly, the camera is either recording an uncanny reality or merely reflecting a fractured psyche.
'The Sick Thing That Happened to Emily When She Was Younger' (dir. Joe Swanberg) plays a similarly schizophrenic game with his its form, as self-harming student Emily (Helen Rogers) Skypes her long-distance boyfriend James (Daniel Kaufman) in the hope of getting him to witness the strange goings-on in her apartment at night. Merging the webcam alienation of The Collingswood Story and the spectral invasions of Paranormal Activity, before deviating in a different direction entirely, this is the film's creepiest, slipperiest episode.
'10/31/98', made by the four-director collective Radio Silence (Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Justin Martinez, Tyler Gillett, Chad Villela), manages to combine a haunted house, cultish torture porn, ghostly witchery and 'Owl Creek Bridge' motifs into a Halloween cracker, with some hauntingly surreal imagery.
Each of these short films has something striking and twisted to offer, yet unfortunately they are all linked together by a frame story – 'Tape 56' by Adam Wingard – that fails either to satisfy in itself, or to provide a satisfying shape, leaving the overall film with a flawed, artificial structure. So in the end, the bloody parts of V/H/S are better than the whole – but still, with the many talents at work here, this may just be the retro-future of horror.
"We were terrorised by spirits," adds Ginger (Elissa Dowling), seated beside Mark on the sofa, "The dead owners Cliff and Ruth Tanner. Hopefully when you find our bodies we won't be partially eaten."
Although we do not yet know who Mark and Ginger (let alone Phil, Cliff and Ruth) are, there is something about the combination of this couple's bizarre, ominous words and their strangely relaxed delivery that feels unhinged, crazy even – and crazy is exactly what, one way or another, director/co-writer Buddy Giovinazzo will deliver over one long, dark (and darkly funny) night of the soul.
Wind the clock back, and we discover that Mark Lighthouse is a geeky LA vlogger specialising in "alt high-risk undiscovered music", and that Ginger is the latest obscure singer to be interviewed by him for his online show 'Mind Mutations'. Ginger is really 'out there': not just because she lives in the middle of nowhere, in a desert cabin rented from old widower Cliff Tanner (who regularly calls Ginger's cellphone with homely advice); but also because she is wackily eccentric.
In particular she sends out wildly mixed sexual messages to her guest. For while she drops an early, pointed reference to a 'boyfriend' who "might stop by later", she also casually declares that she found Mark's website while "surfing for porn", she laces her conversation with racy innuendo, and she even exhibits her 'secret mole'.
Mark may reckon Ginger's isolated cabin to be "very Chain Saw Massacre-y", but persuaded by Ginger that the only nearby motel is a place where you "wouldn't let Janet Leigh stay", he agrees to spend the night in Ginger's spare room. The two quickly hit it off, bantering like a couple in "a bad sit-com" – but things gradually, inexorably start going bump in the advancing night.
The "weird stuff" in New York that had led Ginger to flee to the California hinterlands re-emerges violently from the shadows in the menacing form of Phil (Jason London). Then, as Mark and Ginger wait for the police to arrive, an increasingly inexplicable scenario (despite Mark's persistent attempts to rationalise) takes shape around and within the couple, haunted as they are by their own – and others' – pasts.
Stating anything more about the plot would spoil the expert way in which Giovinazzo constantly wrongfoots viewers with one uncanny twist after another. For this is a sinuous, disorienting narrative that turns on a dime – or, more accurately, on a penny, like the ones that Cliff has over the years collected in a tin for small change. Suffice it to say that A Night of Nightmares is one of those modestly budgeted films that, like the recent works of Ti West, always keeps its (maybe) supernatural mechanics secondary to strong characterisation and nuanced dialogue.
Far from being a tiresome, shock-a-minute showcase of (rapidly dating) FX, this is an intimate, exploratory two-hander that builds slowly towards its freaky intrusions, along the way getting us fully on side with its amiably goofy leads (who are obviously made for each other). Meanwhile even the most innocuously casual-seeming lines ("Somebody is trying to fuck with us!", etc.) come to resonate in unexpected ways.
The fact that Mark's broadcasting surname Lighthouse is a pseudonym, that Ginger's name too is an alias, and that they both share for dessert a resold cake inscribed to 'Irving', might seem like no more than incidental detail – but taken together they point to a fluidity of identity that will prove important thematically in a film where psychosis and metempsychosis make strange bedfellows. On top of all this, A Night of Nightmares is that rare thing, a horror movie with real charm, well earned by its two principals – yet just when you are smiling along at the development of Mark and Ginger's weird romance, Giovinazzo throws a creepy curveball, and another penny drops...
A Night of Nightmares is indeed alt, high-risk, undiscovered – and well worth tracking down. One of the best films in this year's Discovery Screen strand.
*And Discovery Screen 15.20pm Monday 27
We then see the wedding itself as it is being recorded, not only by professional – and absurdly pretentious – cameraman Atún (Sr. B), but also by Koldo's cousin Adrian (Àlex Monner) and even by Claire's little sister Tito. "I'm going to film everything, I swear," declares Adrian, practically announcing this film's continuing fidelity to the 'first-person digicam' aesthetic that, along with clever subgenre blending and multi-story tension, elevated the first two [Rec] films way above your average zombie flick.
Yet once, some 28 minutes into the film's duration, jolly Uncle Victor (Emilio Mencheta) has started rapidly spreading his dog-bite virus, and all hell breaks loose amongst the drunken wedding party, Atún's camera is both literally and symbolically smashed, marking the point at which Génesis breaks away from shakicam verité for an altogether more 'objective' – and conventional – mode of filmmaking.
In terms of the [Rec] franchise, this represents a bold departure – as does the change in setting from the previous two films' claustrophobic apartment building – but in terms of the horror genre as a whole, this apparent innovation is in fact just a reversion to tired old tropes, stripping the franchise of precisely what once made it seem so distinctive.
There is a children's entertainer in Génesis who, though dressed (more or less) as SpongeBob Squarepants, insists instead on being called 'John Sponge'. "Well, you see, there was a copyright problem," he explains. "We are talking about a character that's got nothing to do with the one you're talking about." Génesis itself suffers a similar anxiety over its identity.
Through its title, its use (early on) of handheld footage, and a few oblique nods to its predecessors' plot features, this third instalment happily dons a guise associated with the [Rec] brand, but is in fact its own, essentially standalone zombie movie, resembling a little too closely too many other, bogstandard zombie movies to establish its own individuality within the genre. Génesis acknowledges the increasing stalenesss of 'found footage', but fails to find anything new with which to replace this format, while also jettisoning the genuine frights of the earlier [REC] films for a not altogether successful blend of black comedy, Eighties-style gore and, yes, romance.
Romance? Well, Génesis never quite forgets its initial promise to be "A Wonderful Love Story", tracing its marital pair's undying love (amidst the undead), and even allowing Koldo to transform into a chivalrous knight (complete with shield, sword and full suit of armour) while Claire becomes a wrathful, chainsaw-wielding bride ("This is my day!", she repeats furiously, bloodily dispatching yet another shuffling wedding crasher). Yet this too merely reduces the film to rom-zom-com, which is a long way from [Rec] and [Rec]2, but not so very far from Return of the Living Dead III, My Boyfriend's Back and Boy Eats Girl.
Meanwhile, Koldo and Clara's dilemma as a couple – stay or split? – is reflected in the fact that this is the first film in the franchise to be directed only by Paco Plaza, while his regular co-director Jaume Balagueró will return to helm solo the franchise's fourth and final entry, [Rec] Apocalypse. Still, judging by this tepid outing, there may not be so many keen viewers left to see the franchise through to its end time.
When, however, we first meet Richard 'Stitches' Grindle (Ross Noble), he is in the process of drunkenly taking a woman from behind in a dingy, cliff-top caravan as she cries, "Fuck me, clown!" This lecherous, foul-mouthed jester comes straight out of Shakes the Clown – but when he arrives late and the worse for wear at a hellish children's birthday party, a sequence of unfortunate events will lead to his bloody demise, as well as the ongoing trauma of birthday boy Tom.
Six years later, teenaged Tom (Tommy Knight) is still taking anxiety pills and quietly mooning over his emo neighbour Kate (Gemma-Leah Devereux), when his sixteenth birthday party attracts an unwelcome guest, rising from the grave and out for vengeance in outsized shoes and a fright wig.
"It ain't '92," comments Tom's camp, corpulent friend Bulger, bitching about the beardy outmodedness of one of his fellow partygoers. There's a double-irony here: first, because the object of Bulger's derision is played by none other than director/co-writer Conor McMahon in cameo; and second, because Stitches is a supernatural slasher so stuck in the kill-count aesthetics of the Eighties that 1992 seems less behind the times than way, way ahead. 'Stitches' refuses to die like Jason Voorhees or Michael Myers, and quips away like Freddy Krueger, while dispatching his adolescent victims in suitably clownish ways (rabbits down the throat, eye-skewering umbrellas and balloon pumps to the brain) that push the limits of defiantly pre-CG splatter.
Indeed, it is for the over-the-top inventiveness of its latex gore effects that Stitches is most memorable. Unfortunately, though, despite the best efforts of its young cast, the film is more crude and mean-spirited than ever actually scary or funny. The level of humour here is typified by the sequence in which a kid is seen using a social networking site called 'MyFace', as a set-up for the line, "You invited everybody to come on MyFace."
It is a contrived gag that might just work for viewers as adolescent as the principal characters (i.e. viewers prevented from seeing the film by a likely 18 certificate), but will be less amusing to anyone older. Perhaps that is the intended effect: for Stitches, with all its retro Eighties sensibilities, seems designed to appeal more to the teenagers that we once were than to the adults that we have since become. Meanwhile the Irish setting brings a new accent to an otherwise rather old and tired mode of horror.
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CAIRO – Allegations by a Republican representative that the Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated the administration of President Barack Obama are inviting a storm of rebukes as the latest sign of growing Islamophobia in the United States, The Washington Post reported Thursday, July 19.
Michele Bachmann's accusations "reflect a general pattern of Islamophobia that touches too many areas of our society," Rabbi David Saperstein, director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, said.
"Allegations such as these by members of Congress add legitimacy to this distressing trend."
Republican representative Bachmann has claimed that the Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated the Obama administration.
She cited Huma Abedin, an American Muslim who is a close aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, as an example of the Brotherhood infiltration into the US government.
Bachmann argued that Abedin is part of a conspiracy by the Muslim Brotherhood to influence US foreign policy to advance Islamist causes.
She joined four other fellow Republicans in sending letters to five government agencies about deep Islamist penetration in the US government.
"The intention of the letters was to outline the serious national security concerns I had and ask for answers to questions regarding the Muslim Brotherhood and other radical group's access to top Obama administration officials," Bachmann said in a statement.
She cited a recent visit by an Egyptian lawmaker from Al-Gamaa Islamiya, which Washington classifies as a "terrorist group", to the United States and his talks with US officials as a sign of the Islamist infiltration into the government.
"This is just the latest example of the dangerous national security decisions made by the Obama administration," Bachmann said.
"I will not be silent as this administration appeases our enemies instead of telling the truth about the threats our country faces."
Established in 1928 in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood is the most powerful political force in Egypt.
The group has emerged as the most powerful group after last year's revolution that ousted autocratic president Hosni Mubarak.
Brotherhood's candidate Mohamed Morsi was elected Egypt's president last month in the country's first free democratic election.
American lawmakers criticized the Republican representative for fuelling anti-Muslim sentiments without substantial evidence.
"Your response simply rehashes claims that have existed for years on anti-Muslim websites and contains no reliable information that the Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated the US government," Democratic Representative Keith Ellison wrote in a letter to Bachmann.
Ellison, the first Muslim Congressman, stressed that the Republican representative was using the accusations for "political gains".
Christina Warner, director of the interfaith organization Shoulder-to-Shoulder, was also critical.
The Bachmann letters "asking for investigations of American Muslims are cause for concern and give an undeserved and harmful platform to fringe accusations."
Since 9/11, Muslims, estimated between six to seven million, have become sensitized to an erosion of their civil rights, with a prevailing belief that America was stigmatizing their faith.
Anti-Muslim sentiments sharply grew in the United States over plans to build a mosque near the 9/11 site in New York, resulting in attacks on Muslims and their property.
A recent report by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the University of California said that Islamophobia is on the rise in the US.
A US survey has also revealed that the majority of Americans know very little about Muslims and their faith.
Republican Senator John McCain also dismissed accusations against Clinton's Muslim aide and allegations of Islamist infiltration into the US government.
"These sinister accusations rest solely on a few unspecified and unsubstantiated associations of members of Huma's family, none of which have been shown to harm or threaten the United States in any way," McCain said.
"These attacks on Huma have no logic, no basis and no merit. And they need to stop now.
McCain said that Huma is a success story of Muslim immigrants in the United States.
"Put simply, Huma represents what is best about America: the daughter of immigrants, who has risen to the highest levels of our government on the basis of her substantial personal merit and her abiding commitment to the American ideals that she embodies so fully," he said.
"I am proud to know Huma and to call her my friend."
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Some of the top Section II girls basketball players proved they are among the nation's best players.
The Saratoga Sparks 16-and-under team placed second at last week's AAU National Championships in Orlando. The Sparks reached the finals before losing to the LA Angels of Louisiana 53-46.
"The girls have worked hard, and they've played together for three years now," said Sparks head coach Carlin DeMarinis. "It was time for them to make that run."
The Sparks feature a who's who of junior talent in the Capital District. Sydnie Rosales and Jaclyn Welch represented Section II Class AA champion Colonie on the 12-player roster, while Class B champion Watervliet had Ailayia Demand, Mikayle Deguire and Lashana Tolliver on the team.
"I think we really enjoy the summers playing together," said Rosales. "We've grown to love playing together, and our level of play has expanded as a result."
"When we first came together in our freshman year, we weren't sure of each other and we didn't talk much," said Welch. "Now, we get along great."
Other players on the team include Bethlehem's Bridget Murphy, Scotia-Glenville's Cassie Broadhead, Shaker's Madison Rowland, Shenendehowa's Alyssia Marsal and Ballston Spa's Sydney Hansen.
"It's almost like a coach's dream to have all these all-stars from Section II on one team," said DeMarinis.
The Sparks didn't have Broadhead for the championship game against the LA Angels because her Mormon religion forbids physical activity on Sundays, but Murphy stepped up and scored 20 points to lead the way.
"It's unfortunate that we didn't have Cassie, but it was time for some of the other girls to step up. That's what Bridget Murphy did," said DeMarinis. "She played like Cassie out there."
"We tried to pick up our play as much as we could without Cassie," said Rosales.
The Sparks began the five-day tournament in style by beating their three opponents in pool play. They defeated Girls Got Game from Florida 56-52 in last Tuesday's opener, and they followed up with a 50-29 victory over Team Reign from North Carolina and a 51-44 win against the Region Lady Bulldogs from Indiana.
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NEW YORK (USA TODAY) - On Monday, the iconic Empire State Building no longer will be king of the Big Apple's skyline.
The rising steel frame of One World Trade Center is expected to surpass 1,250 feet in height, overtaking the roof of the observation deck of the 1930s vintage skyscraper and claiming the title of New York City's tallest building, says Patrick Foye, executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
The title of tallest building in New York City was held by the World Trade Center's twin towers from the early 1970s until they were destroyed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
When completed at a patriotic 1,776 feet and 104 floors, the so-called Freedom Tower will be 408 feet taller than the twin towers, according to the Chicago-based Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, a not-for-profit group that tracks the building industry.
One World Trade Center would surpass the 1,451-foot Willis Tower (former Sears Tower) in Chicago to become the tallest in the Western Hemisphere, says council spokesman Kevin Brass. The world's tallest building is the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, at 2,717 feet.
One World Trade Center's ultimate height doesn't come without controversy: its 1,776 feet includes a 408-foot-tall needle on the roof. Experts disagree on where to stop measuring monoliths outfitted with antennas, spires and masts. Purists say anything that can be removed, such as an antenna, should not be counted.
The Empire State Building has an antenna, too, added in 1952. Counting the antenna, the granddaddy of super-tall skyscrapers stands 1,454 feet, well above the mark being surpassed by One World Trade Center on Monday.
Construction of One World Trade Center won't be completed until fourth quarter 2013 or first quarter 2014, Foye says. He says the structure is about 55% leased and is "poised to be a commercial success."
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Contrary to my previous predictions, Fox edged CBS for the average viewer crown for the week of April 7-13, although by a mere 20,000 average viewers. I figured, with most of its regular shows back with new episodes, that CBS was untouchable for the rest of the season weekly average viewer and adults 25-54 crowns. I obviously was too hasty, as Fox gained a little over half a million average viewers from the previous week, and CBS, with only a single NCAA primetime game on April 7, fell back more than 1 million average viewers from the previous week
Fox also won all the age demographic categories; winning the weekly races for adults 18-49, adults 18-34 and adults 25-54 pretty comfortably over CBS which was second in each race. This week's results cause me to reassess my earlier prediction that "CBS seems assured of total viewer and 25-54 wins for the remainder of the season." It just might be a horse race for weekly viewers and not so close for adults 25-54. All CBS has left to bring back this season is Rules of Engagement (April 14) and Moonlight (April 25), hardly powerhouses. While Fox still has Bones (April 14), Back to You (April 16) which together should balance the new CBS adds, and the blockbuster House (April 28) which should sweep away the competition.
ABC again finished third in average viewers, adults 18-49 and adults 25-54 and fourth in adults 18-34, behind the Hispanic youth power of Univision. The return of Desperate Housewives helped ABC gain about a half million average viewers from the previous week, but with Fox adding a million they lost ground. The return of Grey's Anatomy (April 24) will help boost ABC, but the other returning shows According to Jim, Brothers & Sisters and Ugly Betty aren't likely to make a big dent. ABC continues to settle into being the third/fourth place finisher on a weekly basis from here on out.
NBC again finished fourth in average viewers, adults 18-49 and adults 25-54 and fifth in adults 18-34. NBC's Thursday night line up (30 Rock, The Office, Scrubs, ER) filled out last week yet it only added about 300,000 average viewers. Forget my prediction they might be competitive with ABC before Grey's Anatomy returns. Jeff Zucker and his folks are in a world of hurt. Law & Order (April 23) and Law & Order: SVU (April 15) should mute the pain a bit, but my thought that NBC would be fighting ABC for third/fourth place finishes for the rest of the season might have been a bit too hopeful.
CW lost almost 150,000 average viewers from the previous week, threatening to vanish from the radar screen entirely. They still await the return of both Gossip Girl (April 21) and Supernatural (April 24) to join their train wreck of a season.
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An Observational Study Evaluating Anti-Idursulfase Serum Antibody Response in Hunter Syndrome Patients
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The objective of this study is to evaluate the effect of anti-idursulfase antibodies on idursulfase safety (measured by infusion related adverse events) between patients who develop anti-idursulfase antibodies and patients who do not after long-term idursulfase enzyme replacement therapy (ERT).
Hunter Syndrome
Biological: Idursulfase
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Cohort
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|A Multi-Center Observational Study Evaluating Anti-Idursulfase Serum Antibody Response in Hunter Syndrome Patients Enrolled in the Hunter Outcome Survey (HOS) Receiving Idursulfase Enzyme Replacement Therapy
- Infusion-Related Adverse Event (IRAE) Rates Between IgG Anti-idursulfase Antibody Positive (Ab+) and Anti-idursulfase IgG Antibody Negative (Ab-) Patients [ Time Frame: Baseline to 109 Weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]The primary analysis of how presence of antibodies affected IRAE rates was performed based on a negative binomial regression model. This was done to account for potentially differential follow-up time between antibody groups.
- Change From Baseline in uGAG Levels to 109 Weeks [ Time Frame: Baseline to 109 Weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Urine GAG
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|Study Start Date:
|October 2008
|Study Completion Date:
|February 2013
|Primary Completion Date:
|February 2013 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Idursulfase 0.5 mg/kg Weekly
Biological: Idursulfase
Patients received idursulfase as prescribed by their physician following locally approved prescribing information. Patients will not be provided idursulfase by Shire Human Genetic Therapies, Inc. or the HOS.
Other Name: Elaprase
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This study is being conducted to satisfy post-marketing commitments to monitor anti-idursulfase antibody development in Hunter syndrome patients after long-term idursulfase enzyme replacement therapy. The study will be conducted as a sub-study within the Hunter Outcome Survey (HOS). Hunter syndrome patients in the HOS who have previously received idursulfase as well as treatment-naive patients who will begin idursulfase treatment within 30 days of study enrollment will be included.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
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|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
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Patients with Hunter syndrome
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Patients must meet all of the following criteria to be considered eligible for enrollment:
- The patient is male and enrolled in the HOS (i.e., meets the entry criteria of a documented diagnosis of Hunter syndrome)
- The patient is ≥ 5 years-old
- The patient is on idursulfase treatment or scheduled to begin idursulfase treatment within 30 days of study enrollment
- The patient, patient's parent(s), or patient's legally authorized guardian must have voluntarily signed an Institutional Review Board (IRB)/Independent Ethics Committee (IEC)-approved informed consent form after all relevant aspects of the study have been explained and discussed with the patient, patient's parent(s), or patient's legally authorized guardian.
Exclusion Criteria:
Patients who meet any of the following criteria are not eligible for this study:
- The patient has received biologic/ERT products other than idursulfase, or other investigational product(s) for any reason within 30 days prior to study entry.
- The patient has a life expectancy of < 2 years
- The patient is unable to comply with the protocol, e.g., has a clinically relevant medical condition making implementation of the protocol difficult; has an uncooperative attitude; is unable to return for safety evaluations; or is otherwise unlikely to complete the study, as determined by the Investigator.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00882921
|United States, California
|Children's Hospital & Research Center Oakland
|Oakland, California, United States, 94609
|United States, Minnesota
|Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota, Division of Genetics
|Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, 55404
|Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, Servico de Genetica Medica
|Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, 90035-903
|United Kingdom
|Birmingham Children's Hospital
|Birmingham, United Kingdom, B46NH
|Great Ormond Street Hospital
|London, United Kingdom, WC1N 3JH
|Central Manchester University Hospitals, St. Mary's Hospital
|Manchester, United Kingdom, M139WL
|Principal Investigator:
|Paul R Harmatz, MD
|Children's Hospital & Research Center Oakland
|Principal Investigator:
|James E Wraith, MD
|Central Manchester University Hospitals, St. Mary's Hospital
|Principal Investigator:
|Suresh Vijay, MD
|Birmingham Children's Hospital
|Principal Investigator:
|Roberto Giugliani, MD, PhD
|Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre
|Principal Investigator:
|Nancy J Mendelsohn, MD
|Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota
|Principal Investigator:
|Ashok Vellodi, MD
|Great Ormond Street Hospital
|Study Director:
|Arian Pano, MD, MPH
|Shire Human Genetic Therapies, Inc.
No publications provided
|Responsible Party:
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00882921 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|April 16, 2009
|Results First Received:
|June 23, 2014
|Last Updated:
|August 4, 2014
|Health Authority:
|United States: Food and Drug Administration
Keywords provided by Shire:
Hunter syndrome
hunters syndrome
hunter's syndrome
hunter disease
hunters disease
hunter's disease
mps 2
mps ii
mps ii therapy
MPS II therapy
MPS II treatment
iduronate 2 sulfatase
hunter syndrome treatment
hunter's syndrome treatment
hunter syndrome therapy
hunter's disease treatment
lysosomal storage disease
lysosomal storage disorder
chronic ear infection
enlarged adenoids
mps symptoms
mps diagnosis
ert treatment
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Mucopolysaccharidosis II
Carbohydrate Metabolism, Inborn Errors
Connective Tissue Diseases
Genetic Diseases, Inborn
Genetic Diseases, X-Linked
Heredodegenerative Disorders, Nervous System
Intellectual Disability
Lysosomal Storage Diseases
Mental Retardation, X-Linked
Metabolic Diseases
Metabolism, Inborn Errors
Nervous System Diseases
Neurobehavioral Manifestations
Neurologic Manifestations
Pathologic Processes
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Police say the thieves could be part of a group stealing expensive liquor and selling it for well-below market value to buy drugs.
Some vigilant employees have helped lead to the identification of two suspects.
"We started noticing stuff a couple of weeks ago," said Capt. Mark Bennett of the Ottawa County Sheriff's Department.
Area grocery stores such as Leppink's in Ferrysburg and Meijer in Grand Haven Township reported shoplifters taking liquor such as Patron tequila, a fifth of which sells for $52.99 a bottle.
Through cooperation with other police agencies, it was learned the D&W Fresh Market store in Grand Haven was also targeted, Bennett said.
"We're working with other agencies to see if they had similar incidents," he added.
Police questioned two women from Muskegon and Muskegon Heights after officials at one of the grocery stores identified them as liquor thieves.
Police responded to Leppink's in Ferrysburg at about noon July 23 when store employees recognized some women as being in the store the previous day when several hundred dollars worth of liquor was stolen.
A Leppink's spokesperson said clerks found empty boxes shoved back in the shelves two nights in a row. They reviewed surveillance film and saw the women pulling bottles out of boxes and shoving them into their purses.
"You can see them in the surveillance video grabbing bottles off the shelf left and right," the store spokesperson said. "They left the store with their purses bulging."
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Hide captionAtlanta Symphony Orchestra Music Director Robert Spano takes Benjamin Britten's massive and moving War Requiem to Carnegie Hall. Britten, a staunch pacifist, wrote the piece in 1961 for the re-consecration of England's 14th-century Coventry Cathedral after it was bombed in World War II.Melanie Burford/for NPR Music
Hide captionMoments before the music begins, Robert Spano greets the Atlanta Symphony Concertmaster David Coucheron (left) and soloists, tenor Thomas Cooley and baritone Stephen Powell (right).Melanie Burford/for NPR Music
Hide captionWith a full orchestra and 160-voice chorus, plus the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, every inch of Carnegie Hall's huge stage is filled.Melanie Burford/for NPR Music
Hide captionIn this Requiem, Spano says "Britten invites us to contemplate, with him, both our humanity and our capacity for compassion and our need to grieve and mourn and honor our dead; along with the opportunity to self-scrutinize and to reflect on our capacity to be inhuman."Melanie Burford/for NPR Music
Hide captionThe Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus, nurtured for so many years by ASO Music Director Robert Shaw, plays an important role in Britten's War Requiem, singing the words of the traditional Latin mass for the dead.Melanie Burford/for NPR Music
Hide captionChoristers sing with the memory of Robert Shaw in mind, as he would have celebrated his 90th birthday on the day of this performance.Melanie Burford/for NPR Music
Hide captionTenor Thomas Cooley, who sang evocatively with great clarity, was called upon to fill in with just 48 hours notice. He sings the clear-eyed poetry of Wilfred Owen, an English poet and soldier who died in World War I just a few days before the armistice.Melanie Burford/for NPR Music
Hide captionBaritone Stephen Powell also sings Owen's poetry. Much of the Requiem's power lies in the contrast between the old and impersonal language of the Latin mass and the shocking directness of Owen's non-sentimental English language poetry.Melanie Burford/for NPR Music
Hide captionSoprano Evelina Dobraceva also sings the music from the traditional Latin mass.Melanie Burford /for NPR Music
Hide captionNear the end of the Requiem the tenor and baritone voices intertwine. In Owen's poetry, two soldiers who were enemies in battle become friends in hell.Melanie Burford/for NPR Music
Hide captionFinal bows taken after the ethereal ending to Britten's 80-minute War Requiem.Melanie Burford/for NPR Music
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The most successful polemical art succeeds first as art. Benjamin Britten proved that with his War Requiem.
Robert Spano will make the case on Wednesday, April 30 at Carnegie Hall when he conducts the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus at 8 p.m. ET. NPR Music and WQXR will broadcast the concert, which also features soprano Evelina Dobračeva, tenor Anthony Dean Griffey, baritone Stephen Powell and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus.
Britten composed his War Requiem for the 1962 rededication of the cathedral in Coventry, England, destroyed in a 1940 air raid. The selection of Britten to write and conduct the work was both ironic and appropriate. As a pacifist, he had endured intense criticism during the war for registering as a conscientious objector. His Requiem's great innovation lies in the blending of the traditional Latin Mass for the Dead and nine poems by Wilfred Owen about World War I.
Owen was an English soldier who died in 1918, one week before the armistice that ended the war. He had taken a medical leave because of the stress of the war. While convalescing, he had begun writing poems that didn't concern heroes or deeds but rather drew on the horrors he'd experienced as a soldier.
"Britten was aggressively pacifistic and taking the text of the Latin Mass for the Dead and refracting it through this poetry speaks eloquently to the ravages and horrors of war," Spano told WQXR's Jeff Spurgeon. Over 85 minutes, bold gestures of collective mourning are seamlessly mixed with intimate, song-like passages.
The Atlanta Symphony's Carnegie Hall show happens to fall on the birthday of Robert Shaw, who was the orchestra's hugely influential music director from 1967 to 1988. Under Shaw's direction, the orchestra and chorus became the gold standard for symphonic choral works by Berlioz, Brahms, Verdi and Britten, winning a clutch of Grammy Awards in the process. "Sometimes we refer to ourselves as Requiems 'R' Us," Spano jokes.
Directed by Norman Mackenzie, the ASO Chorus remains an all-volunteer organization, whose members are said to come from across Atlanta's spectrum of jobs and backgrounds. "Mr. Shaw was adamant that it was important to have an amateur aspect to the institution because of the word itself, which means 'the lover of something,'" Spano said. "So rather than meaning not good enough to be professional, [it means] so good as to be in love with one's work."
Britten: War Requiem
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Thomas Cooley, tenor
Stephen Powell, baritone
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text: The Elephant Man | IBDB: The official source for Broadway Information IBDB: The official source for Broadway Information Official Broadway League sites: - sites - broadway.org broadwayleague.com broadwayfanclub.com kidsnightonbroadway.com stagespecs.org tonyawards.com Quick Search For: In This Category: All Show People/Org. Theatre Season The Elephant Man Booth Theatre, (4/19/1979 - 6/28/1981) First Preview: Apr 12, 1979 Total Previews: 8 Opening Date: Apr 19, 1979 Closing Date: Jun 28, 1981 Total Performances: 916 Category: Play, Drama, Original, Broadway Setting: Victorian London. Comments: Production cost $350,000 Opening Night CreditsAwards Production Staff [See More] Theatre Owned / Operated by The Shubert Organization (Gerald Schoenfeld: Chairman; Bernard B. Jacobs: President) Produced by Richmond Crinkley, Elizabeth I. McCann and Nelle Nugent; Associate Producer: Ray Larsen and Ted Snowdon Originally produced by The American National Theatre and Academy; Originally produced in London by Foco Novo Productions and The Hampstead Theatre; Originally produced in New York by ANTA at St. Peter's Church Written by Bernard Pomerance; Incidental music by J. S. Bach, Sammartini, Camille Saint Saëns, Gabriel Fauré, Sir Edward Elgar and Heiss; Music arranged by David Heiss Directed by Jack Hofsiss Scenic Design by David Jenkins; Costume Design by Julie Weiss; Lighting Design by Beverly Emmons; Sound Consultant: Erskine-Shapiro, Theatre Technology, Inc.; Wig Design by Paul Huntley Company Manager: Susan Gustafson Production Supervisor: Brent Peek; Production Stage Manager: Pat DeRousie General Press Representative: Solters / Roskin / Friedman, Inc.; Advertising: Serino, Coyne & Nappi; Casting Consultant: Johnson-Liff Associates; Graphics by Gilbert Lesser Cast Philip AnglimJohn MerrickKevin ConwayFrederick TrevesBelgian PolicemanCarole ShelleyMrs. KendalPinheadRichard ClarkeCarr GommConductorDennis CreaghanOrderlyCordis HeardPinheadMiss SandwichCountessPrincess AlexandraDavid HeissCellistI. M. HobsonRossBishop Walsham HowSnorkJohn Neville-AndrewsPinhead ManagerLondon PolicemanWillEarlLord John Standby: Michael Goldschlager (Cellist) and Jack Wetherall (John Merrick) Understudies: JoAnne Belanger (Countess, Miss Sandwich, Orderly, Pinhead, Princess Alexandra), Dennis Creaghan (Earl, London Policeman, Lord John, Pinhead Manager, Will), Cordis Heard (Mrs. Kendal) and John Neville-Andrews (Belgian Policeman, Frederick Treves) Theatre World 1979 Award [recipient] Philip Anglim Tony Award® 1979 Best Play [winner] Written by Bernard Pomerance ; Produced by Richmond Crinkley , Elizabeth I. McCann and Nelle Nugent 1979 Best Actor in Play [nominee] Philip Anglim 1979 Best Actress in a Play [winner] Carole Shelley 1979 Best Scenic Design [nominee] David Jenkins 1979 Best Costume Design [nominee] Julie Weiss 1979 Best Lighting Design [nominee] Beverly Emmons 1979 Best Direction of a Play [winner] Jack Hofsiss Drama Desk Award 1979 Outstanding New Play [winner] Produced by Richmond Crinkley , Elizabeth I. McCann and Nelle Nugent ; Written by Bernard Pomerance 1979 Outstanding Actor in a Play [winner] Philip Anglim 1979 Outstanding Actress in a Play [nominee] Carole Shelley 1979 Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play [nominee] I. M. Hobson 1979 Outstanding Director of a Play [winner] Directed by Jack Hofsiss 1979 Outstanding Costume Design [nominee] Julie Weiss 1979 Outstanding Lighting Design [nominee] Beverly Emmons © 2001-2015, The Broadway League, All Rights Reserved. (Copyright and Disclaimer)


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Dáil Eireann Debate
148. Deputy Finian McGrath asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide funding for anti-flood measures in areas (details supplied) in County Dublin. [28685/09]
Minister of State at the Department of Finance (Deputy Martin Mansergh): The Office of Public Works are aware that the areas of Clanmoyle Road, Donnycarney, Dublin 5, Elm Mount Avenue, Beaumont, Dublin 3, Lower Fairview Avenue, Dublin 3 and Clontarf, Dublin 3 were affected by the stormwaters of 2 July of this year, having been previously affected last August.
The OPW are awaiting the completion of the report by Dublin City Council, which will outline some options for dealing with the flood risk in this area. A meeting has been scheduled between the OPW and DCC to plan how best to proceed.
Question No. 149 answered with Question No. 145.
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U2 Set To Release New Album In Early 2014
Conspiracy Theorist Takes Aim At Seahawks' Victory Over 49ers In NFC Championship
Will Ferrell Reveals That He's Actually Red Hot Chili Peppers Drummer Chad Smith
Phantogram Reveals Gauzy New Single 'Bill Murray'
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U2 have been hinting that their follow-up to 2009's No Line on the Horizon would be out soon and it seems they are now close to revealing an actual release date.
Billboard reports that the band is looking to release their new album in April with plans to announce the official date in a commercial at this year's Super Bowl, which will air February 2.
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Earlier this year, Bono and the guys were spotted at New York City's Electric Lady Studios with Brian Burton, aka Danger Mouse, sparking rumors that the album, which has been in the works since the band's 2009-2011 tour, would be ready for release in 2013. Coldplay frontman Chris Martin was also reportedly seen at the studio, though there is no word yet whether it was for work or for play.
In a recent interview with Irish radio station, 98FM (via NME), bass player Adam Clayton hinted at what fans can expect from the upcoming record.
— Shannon Carlin, Radio.com


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Infor's recent acquisition of Orbis Global "extends Infor's cloud capabilities and further strengthens Infor's Epiphany CRM suite," reports Nucleus Research. "… Customers are likely to benefit."
In a just-published Research Note, "Infor acquires Orbis Global," Nucleus analyzes the acquisition and how it might benefit businesses using customer relationship management tools. Nucleus reports:
"Nucleus has also seen Infor invest in modernizing its approach to CRM and focus on usability and user productivity – key areas for marketing professionals, who are often only occasional users of marketing automation software. Orbis Global's capabilities address areas in the 'last mile' of marketing automation that are traditionally handled either manually, with custom applications, or with spreadsheets today.
"Orbis provides additional areas for improvement, including greater productivity by automating manual processes; accelerated time-to-campaign by streamlining review, localization, and budgeting; and reduced overall cost of campaigns through greater visibility into overall cost and budgeting."
"Orbis customers are likely to benefit from this acquisition as well, as Infor is likely to increase the overall investment in research and development as well as integration of the Orbis technologies into Infor's evolving cloud marketing automation offer."
Nucleus concludes: "Infor may have not been broadly perceived as a player in 2012, but this gives it a significant step ahead and a reason for decision makers in the marketing space to take notice."
Read the full Research Note on NucleusResearch.com.


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BackgroundThe Sims Medieval is a new series currently in development that places the popular Sims characters from The Sims game into the Middle Ages and brings players robust, compelling gameplay never seen before in the history of The Sims. For the first time, players can create heroes, venture on quests, build and control a kingdom, and play every Hero Sim character in the land. Creativity will soar as players tell stories like never before full of drama, romance, conflict, and comedy.
Game PlayThe Sims Medieval offers players a chance to build up a medieval kingdom, controlling characters from all walks of life, from Kings and Queens, to Knights and Wizards, Blacksmiths and Bards. It provides a host of storytelling possibilities in the form of quests, from crafting a legendary sword to arranging a royal wedding, to protecting the kingdom from an evil sorcerer, to finding the fountain of youth. Every quest plays out differently depending on which Hero Sim the player is controlling.
The destiny of the kingdom rests in the players' hands. Will players build up their kingdom through internal expansion, or perhaps look for a more imperial type of domination, expanding their rule by conquering territories? Will they take on quests in pursuit of fame, or focus on the health and wellbeing of their people? The choice is theirs! With the start of every new game, players will be able to select a new ambition for their kingdom, and embark on a new set of stories.
Everything in The Sims Medieval is crafted to create an immersive medieval world, from the quest-based gameplay, to the medieval objects such as swords and stocks and thrones, right down to the warm look of the characters, and the painterly approach to the world itself. Players can choose to customize every new Hero that comes to the kingdom, including selecting their traits and their fatal flaw. Players get close to their characters, not only sending them on epic quests, but also making sure they carry out their daily responsibilities such as healing the sick, trading for exotic goods, or forging armor. From having a baby to competing in a royal tournament, what happens to their Sims is up to the player. The time of romance and chivalry is back with The Sims Medieval.
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WOONSOCKET — The state fire marshal has concluded that arson was the cause of a three-alarm fire that heavily damaged a vacant six-family house at 368 East School St. Monday night.
Deputy State Fire Marshal Lt. Michael Morin of the Woonsocket Fire Department said a $5,000 reward is now offered for information leading to the arrest of the perpetrator.
The arson conclusion was based, in part, on where the fire started, evidence of prior illegal entry, and the fact that all utilities had been cut off, said Morin.
"We can't go into details right now, but we're going with the state fire marshal on this one," said Morin. "The cause was arson and the house is now posted for a reward."
A Woonsocket police officer spotted smoke coming from the basement about 10 p.m., said Morin.
The house is owned by Jennifer Carter of Massachusetts, according to Morin.
He said there are active fire code violations against the property, including citations for failure to have an alarm system or fire-rated doors.
He said the fire department was unable to locate Carter after the fire. The house has been vacant for some time and may be for sale or in foreclosure, he said.
There is evidence that thieves were in the process of stripping the plumbing and other metal fixtures from the residence for their value as scrap, he said.
"Someone's been in there because the copper pipes have been stripped out and it looks like they were getting ready to strip the wire," said Morin.
When firefighters arrived, they found that a bulkhead leading to the basement, where the fire began, had been forced open.
Partly because one of the city's ladder trucks is sidelined for repairs, the department pulled three alarms for the fire, calling in backup from Blackstone and Cumberland. He said the fire, largely confined to the basement, was extinguished in about an hour.
The fire probably burned vigorously for at least a half-hour before it was discovered, using mattresses, old clothes and other combustibles stored in the basement for fuel, the deputy fire marshal said.
Despite the intensity of the fire, Morin said there was little visible damage from the exterior of the house.
"You might see some smokestained windows from the side," Morin said, "but that's about it. It was a pretty quick knockdown."
Anyone with information about who may have set the fire is urged to call the state fire marshal at 462-4200.
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European govts embracing openness
Openness is the key to innovation, and innovation is the key to future growth and development. So it is hardly surprising to see that governments all over the European Union -- in Norway, the Netherlands, and Germany -- are now moving to support both open standards as well as open source.
The Norweigan ICT minister Heidi Grande Røys just recently advertised a large national push for open source and open standards projects all over Norway. A national competence center for open source was also recently founded by a group of trade associations, municipalities and national government agencies. The objective of the center is to promote openness in projects as well as to make sure that institutions and support exists to sustain long-term development for open source. The Norweigan government also recently declared that they will only use open standards for government information, with the Open Document Format identified as the main alternative.
In September the Dutch Secretary of State of Economic Affairs, Frank Heemskerk, and the Dutch Secretary of State of Internal Affairs, Ank Bijleveld-Schouten, published the Action Plan Open Standards and Open Source Software. This plan, which sets the agenda for the public sector to use open source software from 2008 and a requirement to apply a "comply-or-explain and commit" principle for open standards, is a follow-up of the national competence center that was founded a couple of years ago.
When the plan was discussed in the Dutch Parliament on December 12, some political parties went beyond simply declaring their support and stated that the price of hardware and software should be unbundled and requested a legal obligation to use open source software. Heemskerk did not favour a legal obligation, but promised to set-up a hotline where complaints can be filed. On that same date Heemskerk also published a letter in the Financiele Dagblad that reiterated the commitment of the Dutch government to open standards and open source software, also based on the notion that this will reduce administrative burdens.
Germany has also had a long-standing involvement in open standards and free software. Prodded by a very active developer base and the oldest and largest industry association for free software, the Linux-Verband, the German government was the first to fund free software development with its support for GnuPG as early as 1999. Free software is recommended by the German Agency for Security in Information Technology (BSI) and adoption ranges from the German Foreign Ministry, which introduced free software to secure its lines of communication with all embassies around the world in 2003 and started using GNU/Linux on the desktop in 2006, over municipalities like Munich to regions like Friesland. Much of this adoption is driven by strategic considerations and security by transparency. Control of infrastructures, freedom of choice, markets and political independence are other driving factors of this evolution. It is hardly surprising then, that the German Foreign Ministry recently came out in strong support of the Open Document Format.
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The limp phase that the IT sector and the software industry is going through in the present times can be gauged from the fact that the pay of the employees in these two fields all over the world no longer remain lucrative. In many countries, software companies are also chucking out employees, especially those employees who have been "sitting on the bench". This was an unheard of concept a few years back. There are chances that the software companies take more such radical steps to fight the damp phase. http://www.infysolutions.comReplyDelete
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Piracy in the UK rose in the three months to the end of January 2013 according to a new Ofcom study, which suggests that almost 400 million music, TV programmes and/or film files were streamed or downloaded illegally in the quarter.
The report said that around 18%, or one in six, of internet users aged 12 and over accessed digital entertainment illegally – up from 16% in Ofcom's previous quarterly report.
The rise in piracy comes alongside a boost in the proportion of internet users accessing digital media content in general (from 57% to 60% over the period).
Ofcom's report points out that many internet users do not access music films and TV shows regularly and piracy levels amongst those that do via download or streaming hits 30%.
For those who watch films online, the digital piracy rate is 33%, according to the report and 26% for online music consumers.
Over the three month period to the end of January, music content accounted for 280 million of the 386 million files acquired illegally.
TV programming accounted for 52 million files; film 29 million; e-books 18 million and computer software and video games at 7 million.
Those figures are in line with another Ofcom report released in March this year, which showed that more music was pirated in Q3 2012 than TV, film and video games combined.
Ofcom reported that of the 18% of UK internet users engaging in online piracy over the period, 5% only ever use illegal services.
59% were male and 68% were under 34 years of age.
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Congress candidate Mohammad Azharuddin said there are no safe seats in Lok Sabha elections 2014. It may be one of the reasons why some Congress senior leaders avoiding contesting. Apart from this many have chosen Rajya Sabha route to enter in Parliament while some have got other responsibility. We bring to you 5 veteran leaders who will not contest 16th Lok Sabha elections.
1- P Chidambaram: Finance Minister P Chidambaram recently announced that he won't contest Lok Sabha election. He has put his son Karti in his Sivaganaga constituency. Chidambaram started as the finance minister during UPA1 and then sifted to home ministry after 26/11 terror attack replacing Shivraj Patil. He again got the responsibility of finance ministry when Paranab Mukharjee moved to President's House. However, opposition saying that Chidambaram is sacred of losing election, his son said that he just wanted to take break.
2- Pranab Mukharjee: Former finance minister and the trouble-shooter of Congress party will not be seen with Congress in this battle of 2014. Pranab Muharjee would be only untainted figure of the UPA government. He used to play key role while making coalition with other parties. But now he has moved to Rashtrapati Bhavan. He had won two Lok Sabha elections from Bengal's Jangipur in 2004 and 2009.
3- Sharad Pawar: Nationalist Congress party chief and agriculture minister Sharad Pawar last year announced that he won't be contesting upcoming Lok Sabha polls. The Maratha heavyweight has already come to Rajya Sabha after taking retirement from his record holding political career spread over decades.
4- AK Antony: Side-stepping the suggestions to contest from Thriuvanthapuram, defence minister AK Antony has decided to keep himself out of the fray. He has been presided defence ministry most of the UPA tenure. Known for his clean image, Antony face sensitive allegations over corruption and coup drama but came out without blot. He has never contested general elections and this time too he will continue his innings in Rajya Sabha.
5- Dr. Manmohan Singh: Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh preferred Rajya Sabha nomination during his stay as PM for ten years. People would have expected that he would contest polls but he announced retirement ending the speculations of entering the Lok Sabha fray. Dr. Manmohan Singh had contested only on general election in 1999 from south Delhi but could not win.
However the veteran leaders are keeping themselves away from Lok Sabha battle but this is also a good sign that young leaders will get opportunity to show their leadership skills.


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By KEVIN SCANNELLSun Advocate sports reporter
After enduring two close losses in the regular season, the Carbon High Dinos baseball team was hoping the third meeting with Spanish Fork would be the charm with a win and a ticket to the 3A semifinals.
However Spanish Fork had other ideas. The Dons used a five-run fifth inning to retake the lead from the Dinos on their way to an 8-4 victory in the 3A quarterfinal matchup.
In their two previous games, Carbon hung tough with Spanish Fork before falling victim to late game heroics from a seasoned and veteran Dons roster.
Spanish Fork put pressure on the Dinos in the bottom of the first inning as Carbon High pitcher Dakota Cisneros allowed the first two batters to reach base. Kayden Porter, the leader in home runs across all levels, hit the first pitch he saw from Cisneros sending it high over the left field fence for a quick 3-0 lead.
Despite the shaky start and some nail biting moments that followed, Cisneros held the Dons scoreless over the next three innings.
The Carbon High offense finally broke through in the third inning against Spanish Fork starter Hayden Nielsen. Dylan Vogrinec and Kris Murdoch led off the inning with back-to-back singles and two batters later Julian Tamllos reached base on a single. Jaren McCourt followed with a blast over the right centerfield wall to give the Dinos a 4-3 lead.
However the lead wouldn't last. Porter led off the bottom of the fifth inning with a double for Spanish Fork that started the five-run rally which was aided by a hit batter and a dropped fly ball by Seth Tryon that allowed more runs to cross the plate.
Nielsen finished off the complete game victory for the Dons.
With the win, Spanish Fork advanced to the 3A semifinals and will face Snow Canyon in the winner's bracket.
For the Dinos, the road to a 3A championship became a little rougher. The loss sent the Dinos to the consolation bracket where they will face a familiar foe in Delta in an elimination game scheduled for 1:30 p.m. at Kearns High School. The two teams split their two regular season meetings with the Dinos taking the first game 12-4 and losing 5-0 in the second game.
If the Dinos defeat Delta, they would advance to face the winner of Canyon View/Juan Diego at 7 p.m.