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HOUSTON - A Red Flag Warning and Wind Advisory are in effect today. Strong, northerly winds around 20-30 mph with higher gusts are expected throughout the day. Low relative humidity levels along with windy conditions will bring a high fire danger to our area. The Red Flag Warning and Wind Advisory will be in place until 7 p.m.
Daytime highs will top out in the mid 60s under sunny skies this afternoon. The normal high temperature for this time of year is 75.
The cold front has now pushed off the coast and is in the Gulf. With clear and calm conditions, Radiational Cooling will help to drop morning lows down to the mid 30s on Monday and Tuesday. Our northern communities and rural areas will see a light freeze for an hour or two Monday and Tuesday mornings. If you live in those areas, you might want to cover your sensitive, tropical plants.
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How can you ensure you have a green Christmas without your gas and electricity bills going through the roof in the bleak midwinter.
Stourbridge energy expert Colin Priest gives some festive advice to parents and tips to children to ensure their home is Santa friendly next week.
Colin, who lives in Quarry Bank and work for Noreus Ltd, says firstly to help Father Christmas the roof needs to be well insulated so snow stays on the roof. Rudolph can then land the sleigh or pull it across the roof. Double glazed the windows keep your home free of Jack Frost so Santa can check he's at the right house.
He said that as 60 per cent of a home's heat is lost through the walls and roof he suggests spray foaming the attic with the environmentally friendly Icynene Insulation System, which reduces heating bills by up to 50 per cent and stops the heat escaping into the winter air. It also prevents most of the frost and condensation from collecting on the windows.
A reminder for householders who have blocked up their chimney with a Heatsaver transparent Perspex fireplace shield to stop money literally going up the chimney is that they need to remove it on Christmas Eve to ensure Santa Claus can pay a visit.
If you are waiting for a letter from Father Christmas and cards from friends it is worth investing in the British-invented Ecoflap which replaces the brush, seal and gravity flap and uses the wind to blow the letterbox shut, so saving energy.
Parents can often blow a fuse in the spring when their electricity bills arrive, particularly if they have decorated a large tree and the inside and outside of the house for the festive season. Replacing each bulb now with an eco one will save around £3 per bulb a year and if you have solar panels on your roof your bills will be even cheaper.
Through the Feed-in Tariffs scheme, which is the payment given for electricity generated from solar panels, residents receive 15.44p per kilowatt hour (Kwh) for the average home. This is topped up with the Export Tariff, which adds an extra 4.5p per KWh for electricity exported to the Grid, giving householders a return of more than 10 per cent on their capital.
Parents who have bought a halogen oven will benefit this yuletide as it uses 75 per cent less electricity than a conventional one and can roast a Christmas turkey in less than an hour.
Even the post Christmas dinner washing up will be cheaper for those who have installed a Thermodynamic system or solar thermal system on their roof for hot water.
For those who want a Christmas present so they can reduce their bills in 2013 Colin is offering a free thermal imaging survey which shows where energy in the home is being lost.
"May I wish everyone a green Christmas and an energy saving New Year," said Colin.
To find out more call him on 0845 474 6641.

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Q & A — March 2003
By Capt. Ken Kreisler
Clean Air
| Servicing Walker Airseps and keeping Sunbrella material clean.
I just switched from gasoline power to a pair of diesel engines equipped with Airsep air/oil separators. How do they work, and what is the required maintenance? L.B., via e-mail
During engine operation, the Walker Airsep separates the oil from the fuel-rich blowby gases and returns the oil to the crankcase while sending the remaining combustible gases and water vapor into the air-intake system so they can be burned in the combustion chambers. This latter feature is particularly important on turbocharged and aftercooled engines as it helps prevent buildup on the turbine blades and the internal passages of the aftercooler. In addition, the water vapor reportedly reduces combustion temperatures, resulting in increased engine life. According to Walker, the Airsep also creates a slight vacuum in the crankcase, reducing or eliminating most seal leaks and reducing the amount of oil forced past the rings into the cylinders.
Maintenance is easy, although since Walker warns that failure to follow the required regimen can lead to engine damage, it recommends that you use only the company's Cleaning and Re-oiling Kit, available at any Walker dealer.
Clean the air filter element every 250 engine hours or once a year, whichever comes first. First pre-clean the filter by removing the element from the Airsep unit and tapping it to dislodge any large particles or dirt and cleaning the element with a soft-bristle brush. Next, spray the cleaning solution supplied in the kit onto the filter element and let it stand for about ten minutes. Rinse the element with low-pressure fresh water; Walker cautions against using gasoline, steam, caustic solutions, high-pressure water, air, or solvents. Shake off the excess water and let the filter air-dry. Again, do not use compressed air, an open flame, heat gun, or dryer.
Once dry, the filter is ready for oiling. Using the air filter oil also supplied in the kit, squeeze small amounts across the top of each pleat, allowing the oil to wick into the filter element. Allow about 20 minutes for the oil to saturate the element. If you notice any white spots, re-oil them until the entire element is soaked through. And remember, any time the Airsep's restriction gauge turns red, it is time to service the main element.
You can clean the vacuum regulator/limiter the same way, except that it will not be necessary to remove the filter element; remove and clean the entire unit. According to Walker, if you keep the main filter element clean, a yearly inspection of the smaller vacuum regulator/limiter will suffice. However, since the regulator operation is directly dependent on having a clean main-filter element, cleaning both at the same time is good preventive maintenance.
A new main air-filter element should be installed after three cleanings. For more information, visit www.walkerairsep.com or call (818) 252-7788.
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COLDPLAY FACTS: Members: Chris Martin, Jonny Buckland, Guy Berryman, Will Champion Genre: Rock, Alternative Hometown: London, England Albums: Parachutes (2000); A Rush of Blood to the Head (2002); X&Y (2005); Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends (2008); Mylo Xyloto (2011) Awards: 7 Grammy Awards Hits: "Yellow," "Clocks," "Speed of Sound," "Viva la Vida" Other: Have sold over 50 million records.
Ever since they made waves with their debut album more than 10 years ago, Coldplay has firmly cemented itself as one of the premier bands in the world. Thanks in large part to a sound that is both radio friendly and musically complex, Coldplay has sold more than 50 million albums worldwide and shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon.
The popular British band got its start in 1996, but it would not be until 2000 that they would get their big break. That year, Coldplay released Parachutes, its first full-length album, and it was an immediate hit. Paced by lead singer Chris Martin's vocals "Yellow," the record went on to go seven times platinum in the United Kingdom and double platinum in the United States. It also included a number of popular tracks including "Trouble" and "Don't Panic."
While many bands fall victim to the so-called sophomore slump with their second album, such was not the case for Coldplay. The band released A Rush of Blood to the Head in 2002, and it was a popular as its predecessor. The record cracked the top five on the Billboard 200, and spawned a number of popular songs including "Clocks," "The Scientist" and "In My Place," all of which were hits among a wide swath of music listeners.
Coldplay was able to keep the string of hits going in 2005 when they released X&Y. Much like Parachutes and A Rush of Blood to the Head, the album featured a slew of hits including the contemplative "Fix You" and "Speed of Sound," both of which earned considerable airplay soon in the UK and the U.S.
Though Coldplay's first three albums were undeniably popular, 2008's Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends proved to push them over the edge. Thanks to the tunes "Viva la Vida," "Violet Hill" and "Lovers in Japan," the album was considered one of the best of the year and won the Grammy for Best Rock Album.
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HOUSTON - Jessica Tata has a history of setting fires, witnesses testified in the punishment phase of Tata's murder trial. One of them told jurors that Tata told her she didn't care if her actions killed people.
The day-care owner was found guilty of murder Tuesday after a fatal fire that left four children dead.
Tata, 24, was charged with felony murder. Prosecutors said she left children home alone with a pan of grease heating on a stove while she went shopping. When she got home, the house was on fire.
Tata's murder conviction carries a possible maximum sentence of life in prison. Each juror was polled and each said they found that Tata used a deadly weapon, fire, in the crime.
The punishment phase began about two hours after the verdict was read and could last up to two weeks. Prosecutors said they had 25 witnesses to call.
On Wednesday, one of Tata's former classmates told jurors about Tata's time as a student at Taylor High School in Katy. Krystal Batts said she had horrible memories when she heard about the fire at Tata's day care.
"I'm still a little shaken up about it," Batts said.
Batts testified that her friendship with Tata ended the day in 2002 that Tata went up to her at school, showed her matches and said, "'I think I'm going to do something crazy.'"
Batts said a short time later, she heard the fire alarm and 3,000 students were evacuated from the school. She said she was then terrified of Tata.
On Tuesday, a school official told jurors that Tata set two fires, one in the main building and another in the ninth-grade building, that caused about $2,000 worth of damage.
Tata has admitted to setting the fires because she was angry about being disciplined. She received probation and was required to undergo a counseling course called "Fire Stoppers," which is taught by the Houston Fire Department.
Houston Fire Department counselor Lisa Hayes testified that she warned Tata to think about her actions because she could kill people.
Tata's response was, according to Hayes, "I don't care."
Tata's former juvenile detention supervisor, Richard Sizemore, told the jury that Tata was written up 13 times, mostly for refusing to follow directions and disruptive outbursts, while she was in the Juvenile Detention Center for three months.
Tata later attended Mayde Creek High School. Sandra Wilson, an assistant principal, testified that Tata had several problems there. Wilson said Tata threw a carton of milk off a building, splashing another assistant principal. Wilson also said that Tata forged her grades so she could be in a school play. Wilson testified that she disciplined Tata for that and Tata later followed her car after school. Wilson said she had to take evasive action because she did not want Tata to know where she lived.
"The state is building, brick by brick, just as they do in a capital case, that this defendant is not just negligent but someone who is dangerous," KPRC Local 2 legal analyst Brian Wice said.
Susan Lahmeyer, formerly with the Texas Department of Protective and Family Services, told the jury that Tata did not reveal her juvenile arson case when she applied for a day care permit, which was required by state law. Laymeyer said Tata may have been denied a permit if the state knew about that case.
Shomari Dickerson, 3, Elizabeth Kojah, 20 months, Kendyll Stradford, 20 months, and Elias Castillo, 16 months, died in the fire at Jackie's Child Care on Crest Park at Waypark Drive shortly before 1:30 p.m. on Feb. 24, 2011. Three other children were injured. Tata stood trial for felony murder first for the youngest of the victims -- Elias Castillo. Elias' family cried during closing arguments and was emotional after the verdict was read.
Jurors will hear from Elias' family during the punishment phase.
"Certainly the most powerful card the state will get to play is what we call victim impact testimony," Wice said. "We are going to hear from little Elias Castillo's relatives, who will tell this jury, in graphic terms, I'm sure, the effect on their lives that little Elias' death had on them. I'm telling you, in 30 years of being in this building, there is no evidence that is more powerful in the punishment stage of any trial."
Tata did not take the stand in her defense. Jurors were given the option of convicting her of a lesser charge.
"She's never lost sight of the real victims. The real people to have concern for are the families that lost their children. She hasn't forgotten that. It's not all about her. It's about a lot more than her," defense attorney Mike DeGeurin said.
DeGeurin said he has not decided if Tata will testify in the punishment phase.
Tata faces three additional counts of murder, three counts of abandoning a child and two counts of reckless injury to a child. Trials on those charges have not yet been scheduled.
Prosecutors said Tata put the children in harm's way by leaving them alone and going shopping at a Target store. Tata's attorneys said she didn't intend to hurt the children. Defense attorneys said murder charges were excessive and that when the fire broke out, she tried to save the children.
Under Texas law, a person can be convicted of felony murder if he or she committed an underlying felony that led to the death.
During the two-week trial, prosecutors presented about 30 witnesses, including neighbors who testified about hearing the children crying during their unsuccessful attempts to rescue them during the blaze. Parents of the children who died or were injured testified that they had trusted Tata, believing she was qualified.
After the fire, Tata fled to Nigeria but was captured after about a month and returned to the U.S. in March 2011. She has remained jailed since then. Tata was born in the U.S. but has Nigerian citizenship. She was not charged with a crime at the time she left the country.
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Last PT appointment this morning. I'll see how I feel when we return from Florida at end of month.
Up to 2 miles today-slow and easy-no pain but no speed. I'm trying to run every other day until I feel more comfortable running and until my 5K next Saturday. We're leaving for Miami next Thursday and Marj will run the half on Sunday. Looking forward to the warmth more than the races.
Hello everybody!
Thanks for all the well wishes, hugs, and prayers! I really appreciate them all...and need every one of them. It was another, long, tough day. Although, I just spent a couple hours with two ladies who worked with my sister for the last three years. It was so nice talking to them and listening to their stories and their genuine love for Bonnie. It is really comforting to know that--with all the crap going on in her life--she loved her work and these two people she worked with.
I really have to go--I have a ton of stuff to prepare before the funeral services.
No run--but I did my planks.
See ya!
No run again today...took the day off work...bleah...
Lance is a cheater and a liar...And I believed a lot of it...grrrr
We ended up closing our office at 3 pm today (didn't find out til about 12:00 that we were going to close early, so I skipped my RAL so I could run with the dogs when i got home. Only a couple miles on the trails though.
then I signed up for another relay - the Inaugural Wild Rogue Relay. it's practically my backyard. Starts about 25 miles from my house, goes through the town I live in, and heads out to the coast. should be a lot of fun and I'll see areas of the Rogue Wilderness that I've never seen before. it's towards the end of June.
then I signed up for another relay - the Inaugural Wild Rogue Relay.
then I signed up for another relay - the Inaugural Wild Rogue Relay.
Lucky girl! I did not run any relay last year and I really, really missed it.
Well, I survived the day at work, when I got home I proclaimed myself "Queen of the Weekend" and announced to my DH that I will be sitting on my "throne" all weekend long and not to expect much from me as far as cooking and cleaning is concerned . Fever is starting to settle in, which I am OK with because I have wonderful books to finish and some trip pictures to upload! Actually I have not have a long weekend on "my throne" for years...hum...I could really, really milk it
Good luck to Marj on her half marathon in Florida! Anyone else is racing this weekend?
"Champions are everywhere; all you need is to train them properly..." ~Arthur Lydiard
MikeE. I'm very sorry for your loss.
Tag and I tore up some trails for an hour then went to visit my friend in Hospice.
My new favorite picture
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Home > Patients & Visitors > Health Library > Heart Problems: Living With an ICD
An implantable
cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) helps protect you against dangerous heart
rhythms. It's important to know how this device works and how to keep it
working right. Learning a few important facts about ICDs can
help you get the best results from your device.
You may have a device that combines an ICD with a pacemaker, which keeps your heart from beating too slowly. To learn more about pacemakers, see Heart Problems: Living With a Pacemaker.
When you have an ICD, it's important to avoid strong magnetic
and electrical fields. The lists below give some safety guidelines for pacemakers and ICDs. They show some electrical and magnetic sources and
how they may affect your ICD. For best results, follow these
guidelines. These safety tips also apply to devices that combine an ICD and a pacemaker. If you have questions, check with your doctor.
Your doctor or the manufacturer of your ICD can give you a full list of things that you need to avoid and
things that are safe to use.
If you get a shock from your ICD, follow the plan you set up with your doctor. In general, your plan depends on how you feel after you get a shock and how many times you get a shock.
After one shock:
After a second shock within 24 hours:
Most medical tests and procedures won't affect your ICD,
except for MRI, which uses strong magnets. To be safe:
You can travel safely with a cardiac device. But you'll want to be prepared before you go.
If you have an arrhythmia or an ICD that makes it dangerous for you to drive, your doctor might suggest that you stop driving, at least for a short time. You probably don't have to stop or limit driving if your arrhythmia doesn't cause bad symptoms.
To learn more, see Heart Rhythm Problems and Driving.
If you think you have an infection near your device, call your doctor right away. Signs of an infection include:
Ask your doctor what sort of activity and intensity is safe for you. ICDs are set to shock at a specific heart rate.
So your target heart rate during exercise will probably be at least 10 to 15
beats below the ICD discharge heart rate.
You doctor can help you learn how to use a rating of perceived exertion (RPE) as a way to tell how hard you are exercising. This can help you keep your heart rate at a safe level during exercise.
Stop exercising and call your doctor if you have:
Most people who have an ICD (implantable cardioverter-defibrillator) can have an active sex life. If your doctor says that you can exercise and be active, then it's probably safe for you to have sex.
After you get the device implanted, you'll let your chest heal for a short time before resuming sex. If you or your partner is worried about resuming sex, talk with your doctor about your concerns. Your doctor or another health professional can give you support and advice.
What if I get shocked? Many people with ICDs worry that the ICD might shock them during sex. The risk of getting a shock during sex seems to be the same as during any other similar level of exercise. If you get a shock during sex, you will follow your plan about when to call your doctor.
Will my partner get shocked? Some people worry that if they get shocked during sex, their partner might be hurt. But your partner will not be shocked or feel any pain if you get shocked.
You may feel nervous about living with an ICD, and you may worry about getting shocked.
The shock can be uncomfortable. It may feel like you are being kicked in the chest. For many people, getting a shock can cause anxiety and depression.
It's common to be worried about living with an ICD. After all, you don't know when a shock might occur, and a shock could be a reminder that your heart is not as healthy as it could be. But if you take a few simple steps, you can feel better about having an ICD.
As you plan for your future and your end of life, include plans for your ICD. You can make the decision to turn off your ICD as part of the medical treatment you want at the end of life. You can put this information in your advance directive.
Other Works Consulted
Lampert R, et al. (2010). HRS Expert Consensus Statement on the Management of Cardiovascular Implantable Electronic Devices (CIEDs) in patients nearing end of life or requesting withdrawal of therapy. Heart Rhythm, 7(7): 1008–1026. Available online: http://www.hrsonline.org/Policy/ClinicalGuidelines/upload/ceids_mgmt_eol.pdf.
Sears SF, et al. (2005). How to respond to an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator shock. Circulation, 111(23): e380–e382.
Vasquez LD, et al. (2010). Sexual health for patients with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator. Circulation, 122(13): e465–e467.
Wilkoff BL, et al. (2008). HRS/EHRA expert consensus on the monitoring of cardiovascular implantable electronic devices (CIEDS): Description of techniques, indications, personnel, frequency, and ethical considerations. Heart Rhythm, 5(6): 907–925. Available online: http://www.hrsonline.org/Practice-Guidance/Clinical-Guidelines-Documents/HRS-EHRA-Expert-Consensus-on-the-Monitoring-of-Cardiovascular-Implantable-Electronic-Devices/2008-Monitoring-of-CIEDs.
ByHealthwise StaffPrimary Medical ReviewerRakesh K. Pai, MD, FACC - Cardiology, ElectrophysiologySpecialist Medical ReviewerStephen Fort, MD, MRCP, FRCPC - Interventional Cardiology
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Hopefully March Madness will be over by April 1st and everything will start on time.
Anyway, according to the TV Guide, TAR leg 7 and leg 8 will be shown Sunday, April 1st, at 8pm EST.
PS: Now that I think about it, that's 2 hours of Mirna shrieking, oh my poor ears.


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30 — By Capt. Bill Pike
— July 2002
Picnic Passage
|Epic voyage? Oceans to cross? Monster seas? Nah!
It all began pleasantly enough. My wife called from her office in the Big Apple one afternoon while I sat in my big blue recliner at Mullet Mansion, on the northern Gulf Coast of Florida, writing one thing or another. The grandfather clock tick-tocked in the hall. The cats lay on their backs on the porch, their big white paws stuck imperiously in the air. The Sopchoppy River gleamed in the sunlight. Domestic tranquility reigned supreme, or as supreme as it can get for a guy who's eight months into a year of living in one place while his wife works and lives in another, with periodic get-togethers along the way.
"Bill, Bill," B.J. enthused, "you've got to see the Duffy-Herreshoff 30. It's gorgeous! Can you do a story? It's in California. I can meet you there."
I logged on to the Internet to take a look. The teaky, day-cruising classic was indeed a gorgeous piece of work, a fiberglass version of a classic 30-foot steam launch designed and built a century ago by Nathaniel Herreshoff and his brother John in Bristol, Rhode Island. But more important, Duffy, arguably the preeminent builder of electric vessels in the United States today, was offering the boat with a trendy and intriguing diesel-electric hybrid powerplant and proposing to market a version in the near future with a powerplant even more trendy and intriguing, a hydrogen fuel-cell system like the ones automobile manufacturers are getting so much public relations mileage out of these days.
I formed a plan. My wife and I would both zip out to Duffyland--Newport Beach, California--pick up a picnic lunch worthy of Gourmet magazine from a local catering service, jump on a Duffy 30 (with the lunch, of course), and spend a romantic day cruising Newport Harbor, a spectacularly beautiful place. Sure, there'd be distractions, like posing for photographs and coordinating with a photo boat. And we'd have to forsake romance for journalism at some point, if only briefly, while we stopped by the Duffy plant to check out the essentials of diesel-electric technology (see "The Duffy-Herreshoff 30," this story), as well as the basics of hydrogen fuel-cell propulsion (see "Passagemaker of The Future?," this story). But such minor issues were hardly worth getting worked-up about.
I even had a title in mind for the story I'd write about the experience: Picnic Passage. Its theme was simple, almost poetic. Since the early 1960's, when Robert Beebe built and voyaged his bluewater motorboat Passagemaker across oceans, thereby launching a cruising phenomenon that's more popular today than ever before, just about everybody has agreed that any real passage must entail an honest-to-gosh voyage to some far-off place, preferably with a far-out name. But what about those of us who don't have the time to cross the Pacific? Or round Cape Horn? Or visit the shores of Borneo? Shouldn't some of our cruises, which typically have less to do with epic travels than squeezing a little serenity from a stressed-out lifestyle, qualify as passages of sort? Especially when they include a couple of nifty touches, like a high-end picnic lunch, a stunningly quiet, elegant, and well-mannered little vessel upon which to dine, and a nifty undercurrent of romance?
Ah, the best-layed plans. Due to the unpredictability of modern air travel, I arrived from Florida at our hotel at approximately three o'clock in the morning, eight hours late and roughly six hours after my wife had arrived from New York. She was asleep when I creaked open the door, bumping into the hotel's "Romance Package," which consisted of a chilled bottle of champagne (now warm) in a silver ice bucket (now filled with tepid water), a cheese and fruit basket (untouched), and a bouquet of flowers (wilted). Our picnic passage was getting off to a rocky start, I said to myself. Then a terrifying thought toodled through the ol' noodle: Good Lord! We were supposed to rendezvous with photographer Martin Fine and Duffy sales manager Kevin Kearns at Duffy's docks in Newport Beach at seven o'clock, less than four short hours away.
"Kevin left you a message...problem with the boat," B.J. said as I crawled on my hands and knees around the room in the dark, plugging in chargers for the radar gun, laptop computer, digital camera, and other tools of my trade.
"Problem?" I asked, ramming my head into a solid-bronze floor lamp.
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Well feel free to grab me on steam if you need a quick fill in ;)
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Ok, my application for Div 7 is in. My apologies for the delay. Time zone wonkiness + other errands eating up my morning prevented me from having an opportunity to check the online listings again until just now. I shall endeavor to be more timely in the future!
Go with whatever is on the spreadsheet - if it incorrect then please post here (like you did!) and we'll fix it ;)
/edit - and Div F fixed.
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Div 7 Started, I think. Duke was listed as being in and Deesno was listed as missing out. But Deesno was in the Div and Duke not...
I've started it with Deesno and fixed the fixtures, GC can shout at me later if it is wrong.
/edit - thx all for the kind words :)
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Just wanted to pop in and say 'grats to the combined admin awesomeness that's at force here.
And, as Nick Faldo most memorably said, "Thanks. From the heart of my bottom. Thanks."
I will now interrupt all the organising (we're still missing Des from div 3, Meatloaf and mobiushibashi from 5!!) to put in the first match report of the new season....
Last night, me and Phil played the opening game of season 10 of the Divisions of Death, division 4. A nice normal fine day as my brand new humans faced off against his lightly levelled lizards (couple with block, ag4 skink, another with side step). The TV difference bought me a wandering apothecary (to make up for the fact i was starting without one!) and a bloodweiser babe (to get up any guys who've gone toe to toe with a saurus). Phil has 6 saurii, one krox, and 4 skinks. I'm facing that with an ogre, 4 blitzers, one thrower, one catcher and 4 linemen. I have 3 rerolls to Phil's 2. Phil wins the toss and opts to receive. I put blitzers and my ogre on the line to get knocked down, then kick to him. Phil goes to work, knocking down a lineman to create a hole and running a skink through, bashing my line (2 turn stuns on both my blitzers, great!), picking the ball up and getting it onto the line. My turn, I get bashy right back at him, which is where it goes wrong.... for Phil. First hit sees a saurus go off, badly hurt, then another get KO'd. My MA7 blitzer runs around behind his saurus and hits the skink, knocking the ball free.
Following turn, Phil (still in shock from his Saurii going down!) bashes back and picks up the ball. Over a couple of turns, I keep bashing to get the ball bak, but Phil's moving Saurii over to make life hard. I KO at least one skink during this exchange. Eventually, he gets away with his skink to the other side of the field. I bash him again but he eventually gets the ball, runs into my half and dodges away on turn 6 for the touchdown. I have 2 turns to return the favour.
Phil's KO'd saurus stays down, as does my catcher. My other Ko'd player returns. Phil kicks to me and I get an extra reroll. It's fairly deep to my right, where I'd set up strong. I bash his wall a bit, protect the ball, then blitz into his half to attack his skinks. I badly hurt one, then finish with my blitzer into his half. I follow up with a lineman there as a scoring threat. Phil proceeds to bash back, approaching my semi-cage with a lizard after blitzing downfield. Most of his other guys are tied up on the line. It my turn 7, so need to get upfield. I push one saurus back with a blitz onto the sideline, one dice knockdown another lizard with another blitzer. My thrower runs upfield, makes a perfect pass, the blitzer catches it and runs to within one square of the touchline (didn't want to use the goforit, or give phil another chance to get his KOs back). My blitzer is entirely out of range of his team, as he'd moved his skinks into my half to try to steal another TD, presumably. Phil's turn, he goes to bash. He hits my thrower (who annoyed him!) and gets the kill. Luckily my wandering apothecary is on good form and remediates that to badly hurt, meaning he's back on next half. He then gets a both down result, ending the turn. I run in on turn 8 to level the scores. All my KO's get back up, apart from my badly hurt blitzer, Phil's still down one KO'd skink, one badly hurt skink and one badly hurt saurus. His KO'd saurus returns.
Phil kicks back to me, and the ball goes deep. I bash his line, with the intention of getting through to blitz his 2 remaining skinks, I need this half to take a while to score so his skinks can't run one back in against me. I blitz into his AG4 skink with a lineman, get a both down and choose to take it, KOing the skink. Only one left for Phil now :-). Phil pushes at least one saurus down the flank towards the ball which is on my touchline, surrounded by a lineman and my catcher. He then bashes up my line, but to no great gain. I stand up my linemen up there again and continue to tie up his saurii. His skink has run out onto the right flank, so I get a blitzer free and perform his task, blitzing into his skink and KOing him as well. No skinks on the field should make this task easier...
My thrower finally picks up the ball, my blitzer after his blitz steps in to tie up the saurus on that side. Another is approaching too now. There's no way of running clear. The saurii knock down their marking blitzer and approach the 'cage' (its a pretty sorry cage :-)). I need a way out of the corner. The following turn, I blitz into the marking saurus, push him onto the line, where my catcher (!) pushes the saurus off the pitch. Leading to the second badly hurt saurus of the day.I mark up the other threats to stop them approaching, then continue bashing the linelizards, where we've been at a stalemate all half.
The Kroxigor has broken free and is approaching now, assisting the other saurus to try and get free, but only gets a push in the right direction. Phil is running out of players, with only the Krox and 4 saurii left on the field. I decide to go for it with a saurus breathing down my neck. I hand off to the catcher, who then runs across the pitch, makes his 8, then makes both goforits (one at a time, with a reroll - carefully!) to get 10 squares away and almost safe. My linemen gang up on the one saurus on that side to knock him down and get him marked up. My ogre blitzes into the middle of my half to knock down a saurus and make life hard for phil to get across.
From this point its a foregone conclusion. I'v tied up the saurii and have numbers on the field. After 2 turns of his Krox finally boneheading (after a very reliable match so far!), along with his other saurii being entirely marked and unable to get away, my catcher is standing on his touchline, waiting out for turn 16 (As I explain to Phil, there could be a riot on kickoff, causing him to get 2 turns. And with a skink, he can still score!). I score turn 16. And what do you know, we get a riot. The clock goes back to 15. Phil has 2 turns to score. He had to set up with his one returned skink back to pick up the ball, so his skink can't score in 2 turns, so he needs a saurus to get in and score. He runs downfield with a saurus whilst all my guys are pretty much standing on my line. He then passes downfield with the skink, which scatters and misses the saurus. I move my guys back upfield, get 2 on the ball and the saurus, manoeuvre others in close and blitz the saurus down. It's all over. I try a pass/catch for points (fails) and Phil spends his last turn making a couple of hits and then a cynical foul on one of my linemen, which gets his returned skink sent off to end the game.
So a 2-1 grind victory against lizards without using any cages. An interesting match. Phil was rightfully annoyed by his early loss of 2 saurii, from which he never really recovered. With only 5 big guys on the field, i was able to tie them up more effectively and get into his skinks, delaying his first touchdown (probably more than i should have done, to be honest), then smashing into the skinks for the rest of the game to try to disable his ball handling. Apart from those armour rolls, the dice were reasonably well distributed. Both of us had a few both down/skull results. I had to make a fair number of one dice blocks throughout, but most of the key ones were at least with a blitzer to gain some reliability. They still probably went better than I usually expect them to. I also didn't suffer many injuries myself, with only 2 all match (one which the apothecary fixed). I did receive a couple of KOs, but all the other armour breaks led to 2 turn stuns, of which I had about 7/8 during the game. So maybe I was a bit lucky there. I was certainly getting stuck in :-).
Nonetheless, a good opening match for my humans, gaining one level on my catcher (who gained a defensive 'wrestle'), and enough cash to buy myself a permanent apothecary (rather than relying on a wandering one to fix up my players!). Onto the next match against Elesium's Chaos Ravagers...
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Just waving the 'I exist' flag - have already chatted with groovy and if a spot opens that's fine, otherwise I'll join up next season with my new (slightly less crippled) team ;)
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Hey guys,
Guessing I got confused. Didn't realise the league was restarting so soon. So had not been checking due to friends visiting.
Will sort the game asap, and if will not be quick enough, am happy for you to award the win to Jaytee. Also a little confused as I thought I was staying in division D.
Apologies again,
Division F saw its opening match with my orcs, the Skullsmashin' Greens, against Screwie's Bloody Gobbos. Right from the kick-off, hilarity ensued as Screwie's chainsaw dude and a ball-and-chains fanatic mowed through my defensive lines. On turn 4, I had 3 of my orcs injured and three more K.o.'ed, so the goblins had no problem scoring the 1-0. I didn't get any of my downed orcs back, so I had problems moving the ball forwards after receiving the subsequent kick-off. Screwie took advantage of that and had a quick 2-0 touchdown before the end of the first half.
After his secret weapons got banned during half-time, it became a bit easier for me to get some proper game going, but I have to admit that Screwie's goblins simply outplayed me. They stalled me quite well, rerolls were unlucky for both of us, and so the match ended in a 2-0 victory for the Bloody Gobbos and it was a well-deserved one.
Congratz to Screwie for a great first match and I'm looking forward to the next round.
Thanks for the game Schaulustiger!
The second half was much more evenly paced, as I'd failed to cause any more injuries to the Greens while they were systematically eliminating the Gobbos' goblins.
My looney got the MVP and he definitely earned it, taking out 2 blitzers and 2 black orcs (1 KO and 1 casualty of each!). The fanatic meanwhile caused a lot of chaos, but not even a solitary KO.
And there was that moment in the second half where our trolls stood all alone on the pitch, gazing into each other's eyes, with yellow question marks above their heads... was it love?
The Seaside Sirens met the "Mice to see u"-rats of KayD on a sunny Sunday afternoon.
Moral was high among both teams, and the fans cheered lustily several time, providing ample rerolls to both teams that proved to be quite necessary.
The Amazons won the toss and elected to practice their kicking. Much needed, it seemed, as the kick went short and into their own half by a single tile.
The Mice began an offense on the right side, but after much scuffling, the Sirens managed to break the ball free and into the hands of their Thrower, who securely passed it on to Lyxana the Catcher. A counter-touchdown in turn 5 for the Sirens led to much jubilation and high moral. So much that the Sirens stole the Mice's offence with a well-timed Blitz!
A blitzer positoned herself under the ball, ready to intercept the Sirens' own kick - but failed to catch the ball.
Some clever scuffling later saw a desperate Gutter Runner make a few dodges, an inspired grab and an even more inspired pass, followed by an impressive catch (and an impressive failed interception), another dodge... and an unlikey Touchdown for the Mice in Turn 7.
With two moves left, the Amazons set up a beautiful play. A simple shove, a simple dodge and a hand-off to the Catcher would have sufficed for a 2-1 in Turn 8... but the only failed dodge of the entire game (on the Sirens' side) ruined the beautiful execution quite drastically.
After an energetic first half, the second half continued to see a lot of action.
While the ball was still in the air from the Mice's kick, the rats rearranged their defensive lines quite efficiently.
By now, the Amazons had numerical superiourity and were intent to use it. Slowly moving two cages forward (one around the catcher, another around their thrower), the Sirens made the single most important mistake in the entire match by attempting a difficult pass to clear the ball safe. Which failed, obviously, and in the worst way possible - landing in front of a gutter runner.
A quick grab and a hand-off saw the ball deep within the Siren's home turn, but a sprinting Blitzer stopped the lone Runner. But where there's one rat, there's many rats, as the saying goes, and a second Runner showed up from the sewers and scored the Mice's second touchdown in Turn 12.
An angry scuffle ensured on the left flank, producing the rat's only casualty. Unless counting a certain Stormvermin which remained asleep for the entire duration of the match.
Some hearty shoving, blitzing and blocking later saw the ball again in Lyxana's capable hands, and scoring the equalizing 2-2 in the Siren's turn 16, followed by a brief revenge scuffle from the rats, in which they managed to slightly bruise a linewoman.
2 - 2 in a highly energetic match with a lot of movements, a lot of scuffles and no serious injuries at all - a wonder, considering our AVs!
Cheers for the match, KayD, and go and kill those orcs!
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What you needed to do quickly was just reapply to division 3. You were moved from D because some others didn't show up in time, leaving gaps in the divisions. I've started the division now that you have. There's still 10 days left for actually playing the game.
I think division 5 is the only one not started properly, that one is still missing Meatloaf and mombiushibachi.
Yeah, those guys have until tonight to get their applications in before a rebooting Khryses and Rakysh sneak in to complete division 5...
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Great game VV! Thanks very much for the entertaining write up also :) I think you probably deserved to win but Skaven are good when you are lucky I suppose.
Thanks to all the admins for their efforts as well, much appreciated
Given the lack of in game entry from Meatloaf and mombiushibachi, do me and Khryses move into div 5?
I've had a message from Meatloaf so he should be in tonight. I'll be accepting his application then. As Khryses is an existing player, he'll have first dibs on the remaining free slot, but if you apply too Rakysh, then whoever has their application in tonight when I go in to division 5 will get the slot. Division 5 will be starting tonight, to complete all the divisions :-).
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Police who raided a flat above a barber's shop in Liscard found a cannabis factory with a crop worth £43,000, a court heard.
Officers found the three rooms had been converted in a sophisticated operation with an array of specialised growing equipment installed.
Police attended at the premises in Liscard Road on January 10 after smelling cannabis.
When they called, curtains were seen moving, but after their forcing their way in, there was nobody there, said Kim Egerton, prosecuting.
As well as 54 cannabis plants they discovered 32 high-intensity lighting units, 21 transformers, two air pumps and two carbon filters.
A fingerprint on a timer box led to the arrest of pub manager Richard McDonough, who admitted helping set up the equipment for £50 a day for a man he knew.
47-year-old McDonough, of Croft Close, Prenton, pleaded guilty at Liverpool Crown Court to producing cannabis.
Sentencing him to 14 months' imprisonment suspended for two years, Judge Robert Warnock queried: "What on earth did you think you were getting into?"
He pointed out he has serious responsibility in the licensed victuallers trade as he now manages three pubs and also has a young daughter.
McDonough was also ordered to carry out 240 hours of unpaid work and to pay £350 prosecution costs.
Gerald Pachter, defending, said McDonough has no previous convictions for drugs offences and does not use them. He admitted in interview: "I'm stupid, I have done wrong."
He had had massive debts, perhaps linked to illness, and had been asked to helped set up the equipment.
But had not realised the extent of the operation. He had made a total of £400 after being approached to help.
Mr Pachter said his client was now turning his life around and his debts are under control: "He greatly regrets what he has done," he said.


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Topic: Daughter's thyroidectomy
hello cc family,
Let me lead off with ...everything is fine now.
My daughter Megan had a lobectomy on her thyroid on Monday and had two serious complications after what should have been a routine surgery. First she had an arterial rupture and bled into her neck which required them to reopen her incision in the hospital room to allow blood to drain and then they rushed her to the OR for another surgery where they found and cauterized the bleeding vessels. Then when they took her to the recovery room she stopped breathing. Her vocal cords had closed shut and her lungs had taken on fluid, so they put a breathing tube down her throat and she went on a ventilator. She was on that overnight and then they removed it yesterday morning.
She came home this morning and is doing very very well. It was just a really scary thing for all of us to go thru. Apparently this kind of bleed happens in less than 1% of all surgeries of this kind. go figure.
Good news is that the nodule they removed was benign and mostly fluid filled and she should recover fully (with a bit of a neck scar).
Thanx for listening my cc family!
My comments, suggestions, and opinions are based only on my personal experience as a cancer survivor. Please consult a physician for professional guidance.


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Wounded at Midway
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Wounded at Midway
John Ford and John Wayne — a friendship and professional collaboration that spanned 50 years, changed each others' lives, changed the movies, and in the process, changed the way America saw itself. It was a relationship that reflected all the elements and all the paradoxes of 20th century America — generosity of spirit, abuse of power, a sense of loyalty, and a restless nationalism that didn't quite know what to do with itself.
Ford had been a successful director for over a decade when he met Marion Morrison, at the time a young USC student working a summer job on the Fox lot as an assistant property man. He saw something in Morrison and gave the "kid" a few walk-ons in his films. Within two years Morrison had changed his name to John Wayne and Ford, very pleased with the young man's work, recommended him to Raoul Walsh, another director on the lot.
Walsh was about to start one of the biggest films Fox had produced to date, THE BIG TRAIL, and the director gave Wayne the lead. The film ultimately flopped and Wayne's career was quickly relegated to grade C westerns on poverty row. This was a situation many felt Ford could have stepped in to remedy, but over the next decade all the struggling young actor heard was that "Pappy was keeping an eye out for a script that would best suit the Duke," his affectionate nickname for Wayne.
As Wayne's career stalled Ford's roared ahead; he was now one of the biggest directors in Hollywood. But the two men stayed friends — as long as it was clear who was boss.
During these years, Ford (contrary to popular myth, which portrays him as a simple-minded, flag-waving conservative,) gained a reputation inside Hollywood political circles as a staunch Roosevelt Democrat. Wayne on the other hand had virtually no political opinions — his focus was on his career and family. The bond between the two men was largely the result of long cruises to Mexico and the Pacific Island chains on Ford's yacht "Araner." These jaunts, where Ford was accompanied by Wayne, Henry Fonda, Ward Bond, and others looked like nothing more than drunken pleasure trips, and for Wayne and the others that's what they were. Unbeknownst to his passengers however, director Ford was spying. Since the mid-thirties Ford had been covertly photographing shorelines and shipping lanes for the American military in preparation for a war many in the War Department felt was inevitable.
It was after one of these voyages in 1938 that Ford teasingly asked Wayne to read the script of his next picture. Could Duke give him "some advice on what young actor might play the role of the Ringo Kid?"
The script was STAGECOACH and Ford, after finally giving the part to the hungry actor, proceeded to taunt and belittle him throughout weeks of filming. Whether it was Ford's infamously sadistic personality or a clever ploy to have the other actors support Wayne, the end result brought forth the persona that would come to be known as The Duke. The picture would make John Wayne a star overnight and bring the Western back to the forefront of American cinema.
Wayne would never forget it — not that there was any danger of Ford letting him.
When the war started almost two years later, Ford was already in uniform and had finished five pictures in the year and a half since STAGECOACH. Amongst them were YOUNG MR. LINCOLN, THE GRAPES OF WRATH, THE LONG VOYAGE HOME, and HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY. But for Ford these were just movies. The war would be the greatest adventure of his life — a call to arms by the country he loved that had given him everything. It also set up a conflict between Wayne and Ford that would ultimately push Wayne into politics in a major way.
John Wayne was thirty-one-years old, married, and supporting three children when the war began. His newfound stardom was a realization of a dream he was not in a hurry to relinquish to a uniform. Throughout the war, Ford urged the young actor "to get in it," and each time Wayne would beg off until he finished "just one more picture." Ford was disappointed to say the least, and he let Wayne know it. Wayne was growing richer as other men died. As the war continued, Ford's strong disappointment fueled a growing conflict between the men and fostered a sense of guilt within Wayne. Wayne's decision to stay out of the service would haunt him for the rest of his life.
In the years following the war, Ford's films grew increasingly nostalgic as his disillusionment with post-war America grew. Injustice, racism, and greed seemed to be replacing the values he felt he and others had fought for. On the other hand, as Ford grew more introspective, Wayne saw the world open up in front of him with each new movie triumph. As their perspectives changed so did their relationship.
Between the end of the war in 1945 and Ford's death in 1972, the two men made twelve films together. Those films helped define how we saw ourselves, or put another way, how John Ford wished us to be as Americans. From, THEY WERE EXPENDABLE, through the cavalry series — FORT APACHE, SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON, and RIO GRANDE — Ford made U.S. history both poetic and heroic. He also made John Wayne the personification of that history as well as the American male. Wayne the actor and star brought a reluctant power to those roles. That reluctant power was Ford's principal and cherished idea of America's greatness.
Being a symbol of America was a responsibility that ate away at Wayne. It was that sense of responsibility combined with his continuing guilt over not serving during the war that drove Wayne deeply into politics.
As the Cold War heated up and the Iron Curtain fell, Wayne began to merge his personal commitment to defending America with his screen persona. And from behind the camera, Ford's vision of his country and his part in how it saw itself was shifting. With THE SEARCHERS, THE HORSE SOLDIERS, and THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE, Ford would use the iconic image he'd helped Wayne create to cast light into the shadows of the country he loved. While Ford's perspective may have grown darker, his love of America, its people and its landscape, never dimmed.
The growing difference of political opinion between the two men can be seen in two events. In late 1948, John Wayne became president of The Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals. Including the actors Ward Bond and Adolphe Menjou, producers like Metro's James McGuiness, and director Sam Wood, the organization saw its principle goal as hunting down subversive elements within the American film industry.
While Wayne was lending his star power to the anti-Communist forces, Ford was standing up at a historic Directors Guild meeting to stop the red hunters, led by C.B. DeMille, from firing the president of the Guild, Joe Mankiewicz, who they had come to view as dangerous. Ford famously rose after several hours of debate amongst the various factions and introduced himself humbly and ironically, "My name is John Ford and I make Westerns." By the time he finished saying what he thought of DeMille for his sneak attack on Mankiewicz the tide had turned and DeMille and his followers had to do the resigning.
For the two friends politics became a topic that was left out of their conversations.
By the time the fifties ended John Wayne was the biggest star in the Western world. For Ford, who was pushing into his sixties, it was another story. His pictures were not the successes they once were and he found himself increasingly reliant on Wayne to get films done.
The politics, their careers, and the changing dynamics of their relationship would become clear on THE ALAMO.
THE ALAMO was John Wayne's "vision of America's greatness" — a simpler, more heroic America. He had been trying to get it made with himself as the director for years. Now at the height of his fame he was able to finally secure financing as long as he also starred. Under great pressure to prove himself he began production. He was barely a third of the way through when Ford showed up in Texas to "lend a hand." Wayne was beside himself, he couldn't just turn his mentor away. Finally Duke's cameraman suggested they give Ford a second unit to shoot pick-up shots far away from the first unit. So Wayne, out of his own pocket, financed Ford to shoot a second unit. Very little was used in the finished film, but the rumors that Ford had to "save" Wayne were humiliating for the star.
By now it must have been clear to Ford that the son, so to speak, had surpassed the father. While THE ALAMO was hardly a huge success, it was now Wayne who wielded the power in the industry.
In later years as Ford struggled to get pictures made Wayne was always there for him, even on LIBERTY VALANCE, when the Duke had serious reservations about his part. If Pappy wanted him, that was it, the Duke showed up.
As one of the most influential directors in Hollywood history, John Ford was as famous for defining the Western genre as he was for his collaborations with screen icon John Wayne. Having started his career in the silent era, Ford honed his craft making scores of short films before become one of Hollywood's most decorated directors, winning a total of four Best Director Academy Awards. His first came with "The Informer" (1935), but it was his second for the seminal "Stagecoach" (1939) that cemented his place in cinema history. The film marked the true beginning of his collaboration with Wayne, even though the actor had appeared in uncredited roles in a number of his silent movies. By this time, Ford had developed a reputation as being harsh with his actors and was once accused of being "the only person who could make Wayne cry." But his ability to blend art and commerce in films like "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940), "How Green Was My Valley" (1941), "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" (1949) and "The Quiet Man" (1952) assured performers of a platform for displaying their finest work. Ford was also a pioneer of location shooting and often shot in Utah's Monument Valley, a virtually prehistoric landscape that he helped make famous in "The Searchers" (1956), widely considered the best Western ever made. With "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" (1962), his last great film, Ford capped a career that influenced generations of directors while offering audiences some of cinema's most important films.
Born John Martin Feeney on Feb. 1, 1895 in Cape Elizabeth, ME, Ford was raised by his Irish immigrant parents, John Augustine, a saloon owner and odd-job laborer, and Barbara, who birthed 11 children, three of whom died as infants. After attending Portland High School, he moved to Los Angeles in 1914, following in the footsteps of his older brother, Francis, who was working in Hollywood as an actor and director. Ford changed his name to his more famous moniker and began appearing as a bit player in his brother's movies, as well as performing a number of jobs behind the scenes including assistant director, laborer, prop assistant, stuntman and camera operator. He made his onscreen debut in Francis' silent short "The Mysterious Rose" (1914) and the following year played an unnamed Klansman in D.W. Griffith's notorious "Birth of a Nation" (1915). It was only a matter of time that Ford began to direct his own features, though argument would remain as to what movie was his true debut. Most consider the two-reel Western, "The Tornado" (1917), as his first official film as a director.
Throughout the silent era, Ford was an incredibly prolific director who made some 60-odd films, most of which were lost to time. After "The Tornado," he moved swiftly to make a number of silent shorts, including "The Trial of Hate" (1917), "The Scrapper" (1917) and "Cheyenne's Pal" (1917), all while under contract at Universal Pictures. That same year, he began a brief, but fruitful collaboration with veteran actor, Harry Carey, which spanned four years and 25 films, starting with "The Soul Herder" (1917) and included Ford's first feature-length film, "Straight Shooting" (1917). After some three dozen more films for Universal, Ford left the studio to join the Fox Film Corporation - later to become 20th Century Fox - where he made his debut for the studio with another Western, "Just Pals" (1920), and had his first major success with "The Iron Horse" (1924), a spectacular, albeit idealized epic centered around the building of the transcontinental railroad. Ford waged constant battle with the studio throughout production and faced numerous threats of shut down, due largely to uncertainty brought on by him writing the script as he shot the film. In the end, Fox stuck with him and "The Iron Horse" became one of the highest-grossing pictures of the decade.
In his silent films, Ford composed images with a formality and a symmetry that valued order; even at this stage, he had acquired the mantle of a Hollywood master. Most of his work to that point had been in Westerns, the genre for which he was indelibly tied, but in the late 1920s, Hollywood began losing interest in making them. After making "3 Bad Men" (1926), Ford left the Western behind and would not make another for 13 years. He was a pioneering director when the sound era came into bloom, helming the silent drama, "Mother Machree" (1928), which featured the first-ever song sung on camera in a Fox film. The movie was also notable for being the first collaboration with actor John Wayne, who had uncredited role. He went on to make several more partial-sound pictures like "Four Sons" (1928) and "The Black Witch" (1929), both of which again featured Wayne in uncredited roles. Ford made his first entry into full-fledged talkies with "Napoleon's Brother" (1928), a short-subject drama that was later lost, and finished out the decade with "Strong Boy" (1929) and "Salute" (1929).
Having forgone the Western, Ford opened up his palette to include comedies, dramas, crime thrillers and action films. He maintained his prolific output with "Men Without Women" (1930) and the comedy "Up the River" (1930), which marked the film debuts of both Spencer Tracy and Humphrey Bogart. With his adaptation of Sinclair Lewis' novel, "Arrowsmith" (1931), starring Ronald Colman and Helen Hayes, Ford earned his first Academy Award recognition when the movie received a nod for Best Picture. In the early 1930s, he was rapidly developing as one of Hollywood's most sought-after directors, whose ability to craft artful pictures that were also commercial successes earned him a strong reputation and a staggeringly high salary. Ford directed Will Rogers in the well-received comedy "Doctor Bull" (1933), steered Victor McLaglen and Boris Karloff through "The Lost Patrol" (1934), and helmed the comedy "The Whole Town's Talking" (1935), which starred Edward G. Robinson as a law-abiding citizen who looks just like a wanted killer. After "Steamboat Around the Bend" (1935), his third and final film with Will Rogers, Ford won the Academy Award for Best Director for "The Informer" (1935), which starred McLaglen as an Irishman who, after informing on his best friend who is a member of the IRA, suffers from the weight on his conscience.
After directing "The Prisoner of Shark Island" (1936), a film loosely based on John Wilkes Booth conspirator Samuel Mudd (Warner Baxter), Ford shifted gears to helm the South Seas-based melodrama "The Hurricane' (1937), the lighthearted Shirley Temple adventure "Wee Willie Winkle" (1937), and the costly adventure "The Adventures of Marco Polo" (1938), starring Gary Cooper. Thirteen years after making his last Western, Ford returned to the genre with "Stagecoach" (1939), one of most imitated and influential movies of all time. The film starred John Wayne in his breakthrough role, in which he played a falsely accused outlaw who climbs aboard a stagecoach that heads deep into dangerous Apache territory with thoughts of settling a score. At the time, Hollywood had fallen out of love with Westerns and considered them to be nothing more than cheap B-pictures at best. But Ford's artful and thrilling film revitalized the genre and proved that they could indeed be profitable. "Stagecoach" was also notable for being the first of numerous movies that he shot at Monument Valley in Utah, an awe-inspiring landscape to which Ford returned on many occasions for the rest of his career. The film earned a number of Academy Award nominations, including for Best Picture and Best Director.
From there, Ford entered into a highly fruitful period that saw the direct produce some of his best work. He followed "Stagecoach" with "Young Mr. Lincoln" (1939), starring Henry Fonda as the titular future president, and "Drums Along the Mohawk" (1939), his first movie shot in Technicolor and a big box office success. He went on to make one of his best films, an adaptation of John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940), a critical and financial hit that starred Fonda as the moralistic Tom Joad who helps his impoverished family escape the dust bowl and find new life in California. Though some critics were afraid that it would be nothing more than pro-Communist propaganda, "The Grapes of Wrath" struck a chord with audiences and earned Ford his second Oscar for Best Director. Following lesser works like "The Long Voyage Home" (1940) and "Tobacco Road" (1941), Ford helmed "How Green Was My Valley" (1941), a decades-spanning epic that focused on generations of a hard-working Welch mining family that starred Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara and a young Roddy McDowall. The film was another giant hit for Ford and was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, winning five including statues for Best Picture and Best Director.
"How Green Was My Valley" was the last movie Ford made before the end of World War II, during which time he directed a number of acclaimed propaganda documentaries as part of his contributions to the war effort. He served in the United States Navy under the rank of commander and headed the photographic unit for the Office of Strategic Services, for whom he made documentaries for the Navy. The first two were the short-subjects "Torpedo Squadron" (1942) and "Sex Hygiene" (1942), which demonstrated how to avoid contracting syphilis. He next directed "The Battle of Midway" (1942), which Ford shot on 16mm himself while present for the battle. Ford was wounded in the arm by shrapnel - an injury that brought about complications for the remainder of his life - and later won an Academy Award for Best Documentary. He went on to win another Oscar, this time for Best Documentary Short Subject, for "December 7th" (1943), a propaganda film about the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941. Ford was also at Omaha Beach for the Invasion of Normandy with camera in hand, but the color footage he shot of the first wave of the landing was deemed to be too gruesome for audiences to see and was put into storage, only to become lost decades later.
Wrapping up his wartime efforts, Ford directed Robert Montgomery and John Wayne in "They Were Expendable" (1945), a stirringly patriotic look at two PT boat officers rebounding from America's defeat in the Philippines. He returned to his regular Hollywood duties with "My Darling Clementine" (1946), a highly fictional portrayal of Wyatt Earp (Henry Fonda), and his adventures with his brothers and Doc Holliday (Victor Mature). After teaming with Fonda again for "The Fugitive" (1947), Ford directed Wayne in the first of the so-called cavalry trilogy, "Fort Apache" (1948), which continued with the stirring "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" (1949) - widely considered to be one of Wayne's finest performances - and "Rio Grande" (1950). Following the workman-like Western "Wagon Master" (1950) and the dismissible comedy "When Willie Comes Marching Home" (1950), Ford directed Wayne in his most uncharacteristic role in "The Quiet Man." In the director's affecting romantic comedy, the Duke played an American boxer who accidentally kills a man in the ring and flees to Ireland to escape the trauma, where he meets and falls for a spirited Irish woman (Maureen O'Hara) whose father refuses to consent to their marriage. Understated and underappreciated, "The Quiet Man" was a pet project of Ford's decades in the making, and earned him his fourth and final Academy Award for Best Director.
Following the rather poorly received Western comedy "The Sun Shines Bright" (1953), Ford had one of the biggest commercial hits of his career with "Mogambo" (1953), a lavish romantic adventure that followed a big game hunter (Clark Gable), a good-time playgirl (Ava Gardner) and a sheltered English couple (Donald Sinden and Grace Kelly) as they go on safari in Africa, only to face dissention among their ranks born from unrequited lust. Ford next directed "Mister Roberts" (1955), his masterful comedy about a cargo officer (Hendry Fonda) forced to deal with a tyrannical ship captain and a zany crew of misfits while awaiting a reassignment. The film marked a return to the screen for Fonda after an eight-year absence, as well as the last film he made with Ford, who became so irate with the actor for questioning his work, he punched him in the jaw. Ford and Fonda never worked together again. The event triggered Ford to embark on a serious drinking binge that shut down production for days. He eventually returned, only to suffer a ruptured gallbladder that required emergency surgery. Ford was replaced by Mervyn LeRoy, who received shared credit for finishing the film.
Having recovered from his surgery, Ford went about directing his most famous film, "The Searchers" (1956), wide considered to be one of the best - if not the best - Westerns ever made. Highly regarded by critics, historians, and such contemporary directors as Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese and George Lucas, "The Searchers" was not only a rousing adventure tale, but also a melancholy examination of the contradictions of settling the Old West. At the center was Ethan Edwards (John Wayne), a ruthless and bitter veteran of the Civil War who engages in an obsessive quest to retrieve an orphaned niece (Natalie Wood) abducted by a Comanche raiding party. Shot entirely in Monument Valley, which was on fine display in vivid Technicolor, "The Searchers" was later a major influence on filmmakers throughout the decades. David Lean repeatedly watched it while preparing to shoot "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962), while Sam Peckinpah paid homage to the film in several of his own works. But despite its widespread influence and its commercial success, "The Searchers" received zero Academy Award nominations.
Ford departed from his previous films over the next couple of years, starting with "The Wings of Eagles" (1957), a fictionalized biopic on the director's own friend, Frank "Spig" Wead (Wayne), a Navy man and World War II veteran who breaks his neck in a fall down the stairs and overcomes his depression by becoming a screenwriter. He followed with the Irish-set anthology "The Rising of the Moon" (1957) and the British-made crime drama, "Gideon's Day" (1958), before making "The Last Hurrah" (1958) with Spencer Tracy, who starred as a tough Irish-American mayor of an unnamed city who will do whatever is necessary to win re-election. After directing Wayne in the Civil War-era Western "The Horse Soldiers" (1959) and Jeffrey Hunter in "Sergeant Rutledge" (1960), Ford had a brief and rocky working relationship with James Stewart, starting with "Two Rode Together" (1962), one of the director's least favorite films. His second film with Stewart, "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" (1962), was a return to form as well as his last truly great film. Filmed in stark black and white, "Valance" starred Stewart as a powerful U.S. Senator who recounts his tale of vengeance for being robbed as a young lawyer by a ruthless outlaw (Lee Marvin) with the help of a local cowboy (Wayne). Ford's dark vision of a West plagued by lies and deceit was hailed by critics and became an instant hit based on the popularity of its two stars.
From there, Ford directed the Civil War segment of the anthology Western, "How the West Was Won" (1962), and moved on to make his last film with Wayne, "Donovan's Reef" (1963), an easily dismissed comedy about two buddies (Wayne and Marvin) on leave in the South Pacific that was an unworthy end point to the pair's highly successful collaboration. By this time, Ford's health was in serious decline from decades of heavy drinking, smoking and the residual effects of the wounds he suffered at the Battle of Midway. He directed only a few more films - the epic Western "Cheyenne Autumn" (1964) with James Stewart and Edward G. Robinson, the fictionalized biopic "Young Cassidy" (1965), and the period drama "Seven Women" (1966), starring Anne Bancroft and Margaret Leighton - before succumbing to his various ailments. In 1970, he suffered a broken hip that required moving about in a wheelchair and moving out of his Bel Air home. He received a number of honors in his final years, including a promotion to full admiral by President Richard Nixon, before he died on Aug. 31, 1973 after being treated for cancer. Ford left behind an incalculable legacy that included influencing countless filmmakers - everyone from Sergio Leone and Akira Kurosawa to Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese counted him as their inspiration.
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