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'Oldest' Picture House in Campbeltown celebrates 100th birthday
Scotland's oldest purpose built, continuously operating cinema has celebrated its 100th birthday.
The Picture House in Campbeltown in Argyll and Bute opened in May 1913.
Relatives of the founders and original staff were among those taking part in anniversary celebrations.
A new fundraising initiative, the Centenary Project, is under way to renovate and revive the interior of the art deco building.
One of only two category A listed picture houses in Scotland, it opened to the public at a time when Campbeltown was particularly renowned for its vibrant community and thriving fishing and whisky industries.
The local people, after travelling to Glasgow to visit the cinema there, decided that their town needed a picture house and Albert V Gardner was approached to design the building in 1912 and subsequently renovated it in 1934.
In the mid-1980s the cinema was taken over by Campbeltown Community Business, a charitable organisation, and has since survived on local support.
Several projects have taken place to restore The Picture House, with the help of grants from Historic Scotland and The Heritage Lottery Fund.
Jane Mayo, chairwoman of The Picture House said: "We are very proud to be celebrating The Picture House's centenary.
"The Picture House is one of the earliest surviving cinemas still showing films in the UK and it attracts as many visitors for its striking architecture as for the films it shows."
Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop said: "The Centenary Project will breathe new life into this historic building.
"The unique interior will not only be restored to its former glory but also thoroughly modernised to provide an exceptional night out.
"The magic of a night at the cinema is all too often lost but The Picture House is a great example of how investment in local cinema is not only helping to regenerate town centres like Campbeltown but is also contributing to a vibrant cultural scene."
It is hoped funds raised during the Centenary Project will be used to provide more comfortable seating and an expanded kiosk.


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Lechery in Motion
In London during the summer of 1894, Thomas Edison unveiled the wonders of motion pictures with his Kinetoscope. The earliest footage included horses galloping with a fire engine in tow, some doofus sneezing, and even Annebelle Whitford's spicy Serpentine Dance. This was brand new; it didn't take much to impress the rubes. So when nudity and sexuality became subjects of this new medium, the rubes went nuts. Photographs were amazing enough, but actually watching naked people move, frolic, and cavort?
Now that was entirely too cool.
America's self-appointed guardians of decency had these new moving pictures under a magnifying glass from their first screenings. The local censorship boards that sprung up throughout America in the 1900s and the rigid, inflexible restriction of film content mandated by the Hays Code, established in 1930, ensured there was never a chance that sexually explicit cinema was going to be readily available to the public at large. Public outrage and the likelihood of getting busted on a morals charge meant that the makers of stags were forced to distribute their products through underground channels from the moment their footage was in the can.
None of these hurdles prevented the stags from thriving. Erotica is a staple of every artistic medium and creators in the new film medium were bound to explore it, coming up with surprisingly explicit and freewheeling works. These filmmakers had a weird and glorious mojo working for them. Their technique was abysmal, their production values non-existent, and they still managed to lay the foundations for the multi-billion porn industry existing today.
The Meat Shots Heard Round the World
Stags had a typical running time of 10 to 12 minutes, were almost always silent, even after the advent of sound in movies, and the filmmakers usually didn't bother to give titles to their films. Viewers wouldn't find recognizable performers from theater or early mainstream movie releases on view; as far as the performers involved, stags were strictly amateur night. That was part of their considerable charm. The giggles, blushes, and awkwardness of the actresses were real. Their product is remarkably similar to today's amateur sex videos in that regard. Viewers never got anything slick and polished from the stags. Prostitutes were often recruited as talent, and it was common for performers to wear masks during filming.
In addition to providing a talent pool, brothels also provided a venue for stag screenings. The stags were good for business; they kept the clients entertained while they waited for an available lady, and they'd get good and randy in the process. By the 1920s, most brothels in America and Europe had well-stocked stag libraries. Stag producers were very aware of this, and often riffed on that in their films. The conclusion of Le Télègraphiste (ca. 1921) featured big, bold text that read: "After seeing this picture, rush over to some nice girl and get taken care of." Many viewers didn't need much more of a nudge than that.
Early stags often featured striptease artists who recreated their routines for the camera. The most prominent example of this is the 1896 film Fatima's Coochie-Coochie Dance, featuring famed burlesque artist Fatima (a.k.a. Little Egypt) performing the dance she made famous at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. When burlesque houses relied more heavily on their striptease performers than their comics and jugglers to fill the seats, exporting the acts to stag films seemed like a reasonable way to make a few more bucks.
The earliest known surviving hardcore stag film is the 1907 Argentinean import El Sartorio. A three-way lesbian frolic in a river is interrupted by Satan himself, who abducts one of the nymphs and whisks her away for his carnal amusement. Astonished and delighted viewers were treated to explicit footage of oral sex, penetration, and finally, a big glob of ejaculate dripping out of the woman's vagina at the film's conclusion.
El Sartorio is demonstrative of what would become a major stag convention—the absence of 'come shots'. For stag viewers, the "meat shot"—close-up footage of penetration—was the glorious moment of truth. This was the image that really made the stag connoisseur's monkey jump, and stag filmmakers were more than willing to provide their loyal viewers with plenty of them.
American filmmakers entered the stag arena with 1915's A Free Ride. Like El Sartorio, the film took the flimsiest of set-ups (a man and a woman go for a rollicking ride in the country in one of those newfangled horseless carriages), then launched into the hardcore action.
The Virgin With the Hot Pants (ca. 1923) exemplifies another common quality of the stag oeuvre—fractured narratives and continuity that rendered the hardcore scenes nigh incoherent. The film presents front and rear views of spread labia, cunnilingus, and penetration with a beer bottle. Only the intertitles give anything resembling context for the activity onscreen. Not that anybody cared. The viewers got the nudity and explicit sex that they bargained for, and that was all that mattered. If they had wanted art, they would have gone to a museum. Filmmakers knew this and never troubled themselves with shot-to-shot continuity. It was common for stags to have footage spliced into the reels from older stag flicks. Copyright and intellectual property litigation wasn't something stag creators had to worry about, so why the hell not? None of the viewers gave a rat's ass that the brunette had suddenly become a blonde between shots. As long as they got their recommended USDA daily allowance of meat shots, they went home happy.
Hetero and lesbian action were the name of the game; stags that depicted gay sex were very rare and most of the stags that presented it did so in the context of freewheeling, anything-goes bisexual encounters. That's not to say that gay stags were non-existent, though. Bernard Natan, future mover and shaker of the French film industry as the owner of Pathe, produced around 20 stag films between 1920 and 1927, many of which featured hardcore gay action. 1920's Le Ménàge Moderne Du Madame Butterfly (Madame Butterfly's Modern Entourage) is his best known gay stag, with explicit fellatio scenes as its draw. 1929's The Surprise of a Knight represents America's entry (so to speak) into gay hardcore with fellatio footage and non-explicit anal sex. Still, these releases made up a miniscule percentage of stag output.
Tits 'N' Titters
Stags were never big on story and characterization, but they often had a whimsical sense of humor that's absent from today's porn. The filmmakers' sensibilities were informed by the ribald songs and dirty jokes circulating behind closed doors and at the burlesque houses of the early Edwardian era, and while none of the stags' humor was particularly sophisticated, they still had a winsome sense of frolic and mischief to them.
Stags almost never had credits; producers and performers didn't want to risk drawing the attention of law enforcement or bearing the social stigma of being associated with stags. Yet, A Free Ride had them, though they were a bit skewed. The opening intertitles proudly proclaimed:
Calling this sophomoric gives it too much credit, but give the filmmakers credit for having a spirit of fun. On the Beach (a.k.a. Getting His Goat ca. 1922) integrated ribald humor into its plotline. A roving gentleman tries to seduce three beach bunnies who finally succumb to his advances on one condition: all of the sex will be performed through a hole in a fence. The gentleman agrees and thoroughly enjoys himself, only to find that those rascally nymphs have set him up, and he's been ravishing a goat the whole time.
When animators got into the stag business, they brought their outré visual and comedic sensibilities with them. Buried Treasure (ca. 1928) was a film that several of the era's top animators created as a birthday present for cartoonist and animator Windsor McKay, creator of Little Nemo and Gertie the Dinosaur. In this picture, the hapless Everready Hardon's penis detaches and runs off on its own, engaging in a wild series of misadventures including accidentally plunging itself into a man's ass and having a really unfortunate run-in with a cactus. "The Penis With A Mind of Its Own" was a recurring riff in animated stags, as was wildly exaggerated genitalia that had to be coiled or slung over its owner's shoulder to prevent the poor guy from tripping over it.
Fame—What You Like Is In the Limo
As far as acting, stags were the province of amateurs, prostitutes, and strippers; though throughout the 20th century, rumors flew about famous actors and actresses who bore the dirty little secret of having performed in stags prior to their rise to fame. Most of these urban legends don't have any truth to them. For example, claims that Barbara Streisand starred in a stag film are pretty dubious—the alleged reel features a young woman with a prominent nose, but the quality of the film is so dismal that there's no way of telling who's onscreen. Marilyn Monroe is often named in these rumors—the truth is that a lookalike named Arline Hunter, a.k.a. "the poor man's Marilyn Monroe" stars in most of the reels that get singled out, most notably The Apple-Knockers and the Coke Bottle. So you can safely consign most of these stories to the wishful thinking file.
Marilyn Monroe was widely known throughout Hollywood for her easy willingness to trade sex for favors and at least two stags known to have featured her have surfaced. One, ca. 1948, presents a very young Marilyn gleefully engaging in hardcore action on a couch. Another film, thought to date from the mid-1950s, features Marilyn in hardcore action. The only known print sold to a collector for $1.5 million in 2008. Hardcore sex reels featuring her with Bobby Kennedy, as well as one purportedly of her servicing Frank Sinatra, are said to have been shot, but nobody knows if any prints survive. NOTHING exists for it—titles weren't given and certainly no code number—no stag producer would ever submit films to the Hays Office. Around the Net, referring it to as "Marilyn Monroe 1948 Stag" is the easiest way to get linked to a downloadable file.
Additionally, a gay stag from the late 1940s purportedly shows a young Chuck Connors going down on a sailor. Doesn't appear to be any footage or stills on the Net from any of the stags purported to be of Connors. While not conclusive, the general consensus holds that it's Connors in the reel. Hollywood Babylon scandalmonger Kenneth Anger claims that Joan Crawford did several stags during the 1920s while she worked in a cathouse. Bosom Buddies is the most famous, featuring extended lesbian action.
Of course, the better-known striptease artists were still exporting their acts to the stags. Malibu Mermaid features Adele Coleman letting the pounding surf do most of the work for her. Sally Rand, self-titled Queen of Burlesque, had many of her stage routines enshrined on celluloid in the 1930s. Betty Page circulated on many a reel in shorts that are tame by today's standards but still showcased the raw sensuality that would ignite the ardor of a hardcore fan base that would grow with each passing decade.
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The steady trickle of stags prior to the 1920s became a raging torrent during that decade thanks chiefly to the introduction of inexpensive 16mm movie cameras and film by Kodak. This innovation spurred a groundswell of amateur filmmakers and made stag production cheaper and easier than ever before.
Clandestine viewings in the basements of private clubs, lodges, and frat houses became common during this decade. If you knew the right folks, you could hire an exhibitor who'd show up with a projector, a screen, and a library of stag reels. For $50 to $100, you and your buddies would be treated to an evening of grainy, badly shot porno. It was a fairly safe evening of entertainment; as long as these flicks were kept out of view of women and children, law enforcement usually turned a blind eye to stag parties. Watching stags with a group of friends had become a rite of passage and a weirdly venerated social ritual.
By the 1950s, stags had spawned an infant home video market. In the back pages of lurid, salacious pulp magazines, ads from outfits like The Hollywood Color Club and The Movie Club Guild of Burbank would entice readers with "frisky, sophisticated" entertainment. That basically meant that for five or six bucks, you could get a stag reel mailed to you in the perennial plain brown wrapper. Hell, for another five or six bucks, most of these vendors would set you up with a cheapo projector, too. Sure, it wasn't as sleek and streamlined as the VCR setups awaiting a quarter of a century down the road, but now anyone could build a stag film collection and enjoy them with friends in their own rumpus room.
Fade To Black
By the late 1950s, the stags were dying out. Court rulings giving films First Amendment protection and allowing limited nudity gave independent filmmakers the chance to bring more overt sexual content into theaters, and after the Hays Code was scrapped in 1968, hardcore action could be viewed in almost any city in the country. Watching hardcore action in an actual theater was all the rage now. Stags survived after a fashion in the peep-show booths that became fixtures in X-Rated bookstores, but they'd been effectively hip-checked from contemporary stag parties by porn videotapes.
Porn would thrive like no stag producer of the 1920s could ever envision, but it would never again have the delightful taste of forbidden fruit. Thankfully, online archives and torrent files keep these films alive, allowing you to revisit that golden era of cheap thrills at your pleasure. Just don't blame me if you end up watching your grandparents hanging from a trapeze while doing a DP scene.

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It's a tough job in any sport to build a successful franchise but the lucky ones, the ones that keep consistently winning, usually do it through a rare combination of getting lucky with some picks and a front office that knows when to pull the trigger and when not to. Two of the best in the NBA at it the last decade has been the Los Angeles Lakers and the San Antonio Spurs.
Both the Lakers and the Spurs have been perennial winners for many, many years. For the Lakers, it's been a more flashy run that has netted NBA Finals appearances in what amounts to almost every other year. For the Spurs, it's been the occasional Finals combined with consistent winning and excellence.
Both squads are competitive as Hell, field Hall of Fame players and both squads also share the one single dilemma that plagues even the best of teams, they are getting old.
Age is inevitable, it happens to everybody, but what does that mean for these two teams.
Heading into the All-Star break, the one team that is showing it's age is the Lakers. Outside of Andrew Bynum, whose best years is ahead of him, this team fields quite a few players long in the tooth and it's beginning to show. The Lakers aren't the team they were even last year and as the trade deadline approaches, they might not even be the team they are right this second come middle of March. It's a trying process, the swapping of older players for younger ones, and one that will inevitably cause you to fall out of the lead pack.
That's the reality of the Lakers right now, one that even former great Jerry West agrees with.
"I don't think the Lakers will be good for much longer, " West said. "You can keep a car running for a long time by changing the tires, etc. You can't change a player's tires."
West went on to say many of the Lakers' current players are "getting long in the tooth." and added
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While the Lakers are heading in a downward trend, the Spurs inexplicably just keep chugging along at the same consistent pace they have done for a decade. Heading into the All-Star break, the Spurs are 24-10, winning 9 out of their last 10, and look as if they can again contend for a NBA title. When you consider that the core of the team probably remember the faces being chiseled in Mount Rushmore, that's some pretty impressive play.
Overall, it's only a matter of time before the Spurs join the Lakers into the retirement home but for now, they have a much brighter future ahead of them, one that just keeps chugging along, denying fate and inevitability., one win at a time.
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In US, UC is legal in every state. Your birth attendants are who may be illegal, as some states will punish any non-medical birth attendant you have. The solution? Just don't tell the state they were there!
The only way I'd decide not to do it because of CPS is if I had someone who was like...really CPS-happy in my life or if I felt my risks were just very high with that particular pregnancy. There's always that small fear that someone won't understand your UC, that CPS will become involved. Like for me, someone called base family advocacy, but the nurse called, I didn't even call her back, and I never heard from her again. I was so worried about it and then it didn't even wind up being that big of a deal.
Can you have a UC and just tell people a midwife was there? Or hire a midwife to be on call? Can you have a UC, be open about it, and just make sure you've got all your ducks in a row if CPS is called? (I mean like, lawyer, good information to explain your choice, clean house, etc.)
I'm so sorry you're in an anti-breastfeeding area. :( I'm a Pagan mama so, being right here on the Belt of the Bible Belt, I know how you feel to be the different one. I've become a very private person so only those closest to me even know I'm Pagan, except for most of my coworkers I've known a long time. Since it is a religious community... maybe you could quote them some Biblical quotes that back up UC? There are a LOT of Christian UCing mamas here that could probably help you out with that. You could "beat them at their own game" so to speak? lol
I hope you get that UC you want. :)
Oh how I miss the days of
The nearest (legal homebirth) midwife to me is three hours away, and she and I just...didn't click. If I was comfortable with her, I'd gladly hire her, expect her not to be here in time (I've had three kids and between them, a total of less than ten hours in labor, last two were under two hours) and know I was covered if anyone griped.
I only worry because some past stories have shown you don't actually have to do anything illegal for them to actually take the kid. Heck, by brother had a girlfriend's ex accuse him of abusing a kid (the girlfriend and the ex's kid) and CPS came and TOOK MY BROTHER'S THREE KIDS and kept them til they completed their investigation- which concluded that it was almost certainly the dad (the girl's ex) who had abused the kid. (Someone shook this girl's toddler, and apparently they can tentatively date when it happened by looking at the bruising of the brain.)
My brother has the kids back now, but there's not so much as an apology, and if that was a newborn, that kinda slams the breastfeeding relationship. Not that CPS here would care.
There has been disagreement about this in the past. MY take is that CPS is unlikely to take the kid, especially long-term, if you haven't done anything illegal. It CAN happen, but I think it's uncommon. CPS intervened after one of Laura Shanley's births, but she got it all straightened out and I believe that most of us could too unless something else was going on.
Since a midwife is out of the question, I would either UC and just tell everyone a midwife was there... I mean, it's none of their business, right? Or I'd check out the nearby birth centers, before checking into a hospital for sure
Oh how I miss the days of
The nearest birth center is two hours away, if there's no traffic, and there's always traffic. The nearest hospital is at least forty minutes, and I've had a bad experience there before. next nearest is about an hour. I *think* the plan, right now, is to let things happen and then just say they happened fast and it was too late to go to the hospital.
I think that's a good plan.
Oh how I miss the days of
omg! it is things like that that scare me about going to the hospital. unbelievable, really. it seems to me that as soon as you walk through those hospital doors you sign your rights away or else. there doesn't seem to be much in between. i really hope that the instance described below is only an anomaly and not the rule. how sad for that family to still be dealing with this 3 years later. i can't imagine...
Apparently even going to the hospital doesn't keep you safe from CPS. I just found this article about a woman who refused to pre-consent to a c-section. She gave birth without complication and then had her child taken away because she refused to sign a consent form for a procedure she didn't need. http://news.change.org/stories/mother-loses-baby-for-three-years-due-to-refusing-c-section-pre-consent
I recently read that a state was, indeed, making it illegal for ANY non-medical personnel to attend a birth. I believe it was in Oregon or maybe Utah? Somewhere in that region. Thus, the mother could birth alone, but if her husband or anyone attended, they would be prosecuted. :( Anyone else know about this?
Yes, I do, but I have no links or anything to refer you to, so you'd have to double check and cross reference me on your own if you feel so inclined.
I know states have their varying positions on birth law, but from what I have gathered it only applies to medical personnel or someone who is there in a medical attendant capacity, and yes they would extend this to doulas as some kind of technicality.
*If I am not mistaken* you cannot prosecute husbands or just anybody else who happens to be there for the same reason you cannot prosecute moms-- the OOPS. Sometimes labor and birth just happens and sometimes you don't make it to the hospital.
This is the same loophole that supposedly allows for medical pros to actually attend home births wherever illegal, as long as they state that they are not there in a medical capacity, but just as a "friend".
Isn't it funny how at the scene of an accident or other emergency, nurses and doctors have this oath that requires them to act to help someone? Yet at birth, it has to be *just so*, in accordance with some kind of weird set of rules and regulations. If birth were such an emergency, wouldn't we let anyone of any medical nature in the vicinity come to the woman's aid?
Unboxable, your kids sound AWESOME! :) Where are you that you are amongst such uptight people? BTW, in your case I would def try to keep the UC on the DL. I'm with Heather on using the Bible to back UC. I would also try to use it to back breastfeeding!!! What could be more pure than that? Why did God make breasts, anyway?
There has been huge debate here recently about CPS and how much they should be feared or not feared. My take is that it is so individual. It's based on the region you live in and what the people there are like, how you relate to those people, and the particular individual who is assigned to your case. It could be anybody's guess. I wouldn't just say you are in danger or NOT in danger of getting them to interfere in your life. Each one of us would probably be the best judge of that threat in our lives.
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My book about what I learned from my experiences with childbirth was published April 2011.
That's all I've been trying to say this whole time
Oh how I miss the days of
Unboxable, your kids sound AWESOME! :) Where are you that you are amongst such uptight people? BTW, in your case I would def try to keep the UC on the DL. I'm with Heather on using the Bible to back UC. I would also try to use it to back breastfeeding!!! What could be more pure than that? Why did God make breasts, anyway?
I'm in a very small town in eastern NC. The laws here are already really tight for midwives. It's just that this is a small town that's small-minded, they have their prejudices and they use religion to back them up. I really doubt that anything from the bible would make a difference, since I imagine the only people in town who've actually read it are the atheist population (I think there are three here who are openly atheist, and two of those three are my husband and myself.) It's really a town full of the kind of 'christian' for whom religion means 'an excuse to look down on everyone else'.
I've brought out biblical quotes before, and basically been told that things are different now, or I'm misunderstanding it, or that I'm just picking and choosing, or whatever.
Here's one question though- in such a small community, and where everything is everyone's business (teens here sneak out of town to get birth control because when they get it at the local clinic, their moms WILL find out, regardless of law, just for instance. For another example- I got pulled over this afternoon and had my tags taken for 'lapsed insurance'. Turned out that our new insurance company transposed a couple of digits in my VIN number. By the time I got home- four blocks away- my mom knew about it.) it's very likely that someone will know that I wasn't preregistered at the hospital.
So I wonder, should I preregister, and then not only am I on the books for a 'just in case' transfer, but I'm also covered in claiming 'oops'?
I would totally preregister
Oh how I miss the days of
Unboxable, I think that preregistering sounds like a pretty smart plan.
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We at Unbound Worlds are sad to report that legendary science fiction author Frederik Pohl died today. He was 93 years-old.
Pohl's career stretched over seventy-five years, and included poems, novels, articles, short stories, works of literary criticism, science and much more. He won four Hugo Awards, plus the Campbell, Nebula and a National Book Award. Some of his best known works include Jem, The Boy Who Would Life Forever, and Man Plus. His last novel, All the Lives He Led, was published by TOR in 2011.
Pohl was not only a talented writer, but also an accomplished editor who oversaw several magazines, including "Galaxy", "Astonishing Stories", and "If", where he worked with celebrated editor Judy-Lynn del Rey. (Judy along with her husband Lester, went on to be the guiding force behind Ballantine's Del Rey mprint.) Later, Pohl acquired titles for Ballantine Books' "Frederik Pohl Selections" line. Among those titles was Samuel Delaney's groundbreaking novel Dhalgren and Joanna Russ' feminist science fiction novel The Female Man.
As a vital and active force in science fiction for decades, Pohl's influence in his field cannot be overstated. He will be missed.
A Unbound Worlds Exclusive: Frederik Pohl on L. Sprague de Camp's Lest Darkness Fall.


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During an archaeological dig, a hidden chamber filled with the skulls of children is discovered. At first glance they seem to have been there for thousands of years but closer examination reveals a more shocking secret.
The opening of the chamber triggers a series of horrific murders, each victim mutilated and their entrails used to form a different letter of the alphabet. Who is behind this outrage? And how is it linked to a subterranean chamber thousands of years old?
Inspector Stephen Wallace must unmask this crazed killer. Is it the sadistic thug responsible for organising a series of barbaric dog fights? The mysterious recluse who holds Black Mass orgies for drug addicted teenagers? Or is it, in fact, something much worse?
An evil so old, so vile and so powerful that it threatens to engulf everyone who comes near it. For Wallace, and possibly for the whole human race, time is running out fast. Something evil is waiting. Something monstrous is loose...
Shaun Hutson is one of the UK's best known horror writers and author of over 50 books. He made his name with best-sellers such as Spawn and Relics - acquiring the nicknames 'The Godfather of Gore' and 'The Shakespeare of Gore' in the process – and has since written a number of dark urban thrillers as well. He has also written for radio, magazines, television and novelized a couple of Hammer Horror films.
©1986 Shaun Hutson (P)2013 Audible Ltd
"Britain's greatest living horror author" (Dark Side)
"An expert in the art of keeping the reader turning the pages" (Time Out)
"Hutson writes grippingly" (SFX Magazine)
"Disappointing gore-fest."
I have no problem with using graphic descriptions to enhance fear and horror in a story, but this book was one gore-fest after another. Fine for the first couple of murder/sacrifice depictions, but it just became boring. I believe more attention to the main characters and story line would have brought the book up a few notches from low budget, B-movie, horror show.
Mr. Holdbrook-Smith's performance was superb as usual. Transition from character to character to narration was smooth, in particular, the female and child voices are not jarring or overdone as I often find is the case with other actors.
The beginning of the book was promising. I could see the skeleton of a truly frightening story, but it seemed to me that the author didn't take the time to flesh it out. I did listen to the complete book because I kept thinking it would get better.
I can easily imagine this book as a graphic novel/comic. I would have enjoyed that more that listening to it.
"Absolute crap"
Can't imagine who. I bought it mainly because the narrator is top drawer.
It lacks just about everything one looks for in the genre ..or any genre.
Yes. Mr Holbrook-Smith's performance was very good but the material was awful
Just awful.
"Badly edited"
This has the feel of a short story that had gone on a bit longer than expected.
If you've read/listened to other Hutson books then it will come as no surprise that there's lots of sex and even more graphic violence.
It's not the best horror out there, but something like those TV versions of hammer horror, that seemed scary when you were 10.
The narration isn't bad really but let down by poor editing down by poor editing.
;-) (did you see what I did there???)
Well you'll hear lots more like that in the book
Like that in the book (ok sorry I'll stop now)
It's very annoying though isn't it. And when you pay for something that isn't made correctly you would take it back and ask for one that's made correctly.
So sort it out audible.
"A nasty piece of work."
Stock characters, cliched phrases & school-yard intent to shock.
I didn't care enough to finish it.
No. even he didn't sound as though he liked it much.
Yes, thanks to Audible I can get my money back
This book was filled with unnecessary violence and distustingly detailed depictions of it. Especially the descriptions of dog fights were totally useless, even though the author may have written them as allegories for the attacks on humans.
Performance was good, but it did not save the poor content.
Not really, I was mostly annoyed in wasting my money on it.
Might be willing to try another Shaun Hutson...will read the reviews first though. Kobna Holdbrook-Smith was the reason for listening to this as he's so good on the Rivers Of London series...
a little - although it does feel very dated.
I think he's the reason I listened to the end...with another narrator I might have thrown in the towel earlier.
there were some interesting ideas but overall it felt abridged
"One horrific murder to another, yawn"
I think there is the basis of a good horror story but for me it seemed to just be one grisly murder leading to another with little to engage with around the plot.
More plot less gore
I find Kobna very engaging to listen to, shame there isn't more substance to the story
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Syngenta announced that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has granted registration of its Agrisure Duracade trait (Event 5307 Corn). This follows the completion of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) consultation process in February, which determined that the trait is as safe for human and animal consumption as conventional corn.
The Agrisure Duracade trait expresses a unique protein (eCry3.1Ab) for control of corn rootworm. The proprietary technology has a different mode of action to the Agrisure RW trait (Event MIR604) against rootworm and will serve as another tool for managing this very damaging pest.
"We are excited to announce the achievement of two important milestones in the process of introducing the next generation of corn rootworm control," said David Morgan, president of Syngenta Seeds, Inc. and Syngenta North America region director. "Pending full USDA deregulation, the Agrisure Duracade trait will be stacked with the Agrisure RW trait (Event MIR604) to provide growers with dual modes of action against the destructive corn rootworm, allowing them to grow more corn while also countering the development of insect resistance in fields and sustaining insect control solutions."
The Agrisure Duracade trait will be used to create refuge in a bag product offerings from Syngenta featuring two new trait stacks for corn rootworm control. The Agrisure Duracade 5122 trait stack will combine the Agrisure Duracade trait with the Agrisure RW trait (Event MIR604) for an additional mode of action on corn rootworm, Agrisure CB/LL trait for control of corn borer, the Herculex I trait for a second mode of action on corn borer and for broad lepidopteran control, and the GA21 trait for glyphosate tolerance. The Agrisure Duracade 5222 trait stack will include the same traits as the Agrisure Duracade 5122 trait stack plus the Agrisure Viptera trait for breakthrough control of the multi-pest complex. The Agrisure Duracade 5122 and Agrisure Duracade 5222 trait stacks received approval from the EPA concurrent with the Agrisure Duracade trait.


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SOUTHAMPTON'S premier singing export has had to pull out of the Sainsbury's Sport Relief Mile tomorrow.
Thousands of fans will be left disappointed after he was forced to withdraw from the event because he was needed for work abroad.
The R 'n' B star had been set to complete the six mile run for charity, the longest possible on the day.
Management for the star apologised to fans who were excited about seeing him at the event saying that Craig had an "incredibly hectic" schedule and wished all the runners the best of luck.
Thousands of mums, dads, sons and daughters are expected to descend on the city tomorrow hoping to add to the £26m raised through last night's Sport Relief broadcast on television.


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- Autism and Asperger's disorder: are they movement disorders involving the cerebellum and/or basal ganglia?Ashwini Nayate
Department of Psychological Medicine, Monash University, Clayton, Vic, Australia
Brain Res Bull 67:327-34. 2005..This review examines the role of the frontostriatal and cerebellar motor systems in the behavioural features of autism and AD, with gait as a proxy, and discusses difficulties with their diagnosis and their possible pathogenesis...
- Differentiation of high-functioning autism and Asperger's disorder based on neuromotor behaviourAshwini Nayate
Centre for Developmental Psychiatry and Psychology, School of Psychology and Psychiatry, Monash University, 270 Ferntree Gully Road, Notting Hill, VIC 3168, Australia
J Autism Dev Disord 42:707-17. 2012..Distinctions in gait patterns implicating perhaps unique motor circuit disturbances support the hypothesis that autism and AD may have unique neurodevelopmental trajectories...


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Carl Sagan: The Lonely Pale Blue Dots?
Part III
An interview with Planetary Scientist David Grinspoon about his newest book, "Lonely Planets: The Natural Philosophy of Alien Life"
Visit Lonely Planets, Parts A: Introduction * 1 * 2 * 3 * 4 * B: Encore
Astrobiology Magazine (AM): On the one hand, you say the recent popularity of astrobiology has allowed many scientists to "come clean" about their underlying motivation – the search for life elsewhere. Yet you also state that a lot of other scientists resent this trend, since planets perceived to have less biologic potential – like Venus and Pluto – aren't given as much attention or funding.
David Grinspoon (DG): Just last week I was at an astrobiology colloquium at the University of Colorado. It was a very ambitious and wide-ranging talk connecting atmospheric evolution with biological evolution. At the end an astronomer asked the speaker, "We astronomers have derived universal laws of stellar and galactic evolution which form the backbone of our field. What comparable laws do you astrobiologists have?" The speaker became flustered, and couldn't give an adequate answer.
|The Earth is our only example of planetary life. This makes it difficult to unravel what is universal and what is accidental about the nature and history of life.
The astrobiology movement is still new, but it represents a fundamental re-alignment of NASA's focus, making our scientific approach toward the universe more "biocentric." I welcome this, because the question of how life and consciousness emerged from the physical universe, and how unique these processes are to Earth, is the most exciting, fundamental, and widely accessible way to encapsulate the motivation behind so much of what NASA does.
Yet whenever you have a major shift in priorities within a large organization that so many of us depend upon for support, of course people will be concerned and feel threatened. Astrobiology forces us to be much more interdisciplinary than our training or culture has prepared us for. This is one of the best and most promising parts of the whole movement, yet understandably this is challenging for people.
You do hear some cynical grumbling about astrobiology out here in the scientific trenches. People think it lacks rigor, or is mostly hype. Part of this comes from some exaggerated claims made about some aspects of astrobiology. People talk about it as a brand new field, not acknowledging that some brave folks were doing exobiology for decades when it was considered a "fringe" field of science, before astrobiology was anointed in the late '90s. And there is a bit too much talk of it as a "scientific revolution," which invites unflattering comparisons to real scientific revolutions that fundamentally changed our worldview, like plate tectonics or quantum mechanics. Astrobiology could lead to a revolution, especially if we do find other life, or really nail down how Earth came to life, but so far the progress has been incremental.
Some of the concern and criticism about astrobiology also has been fueled by narrow interpretations of how we should realign our planetary exploration program to be more "biocentric." When I was on SSES – NASA's Solar System Exploration Subcommittee, which I served on from 1998 through 2001 – some people seemed to think that this meant, "explore Mars and Europa, and to hell with everywhere else." The Pluto mission was threatened at times by a false dichotomy that pitted it against a possible Europa orbiter, and therefore cast it as "anti-astrobiology." Fortunately, as a community we seem to have come to our senses, and realized that even if we are being "biocentric" in mindset, we need to explore broadly. We don't know enough yet about life or about planets to narrow our search too much. Pluto holds unique and indispensable secrets about the evolution of the solar system. It is part of the story of how we got to be where we are today.
Similarly, while Venus may seem a less obvious target of "biocentric" exploration, NASA recently has included Venus on a short-list of highest priority near-future exploration goals. Venus can provide context for understanding Earth and its path to life that we can find nowhere else. I also think that there could be life in the Venusian clouds, but that's another story.
|Venus up-close, as photographed by the Soviet Venera 13 lander, which parachuted to the Venusian surface on March 1, 1982
Credit: Venera
AM: Carl Sagan obviously had a huge impact on your personal and professional life. His name permeates your book, and your philosophy of alien life has parallels to his. You note that Sagan was often treated with scorn from his peers for popularizing science. Your book is full of many references to popular culture, such as cartoons, science fiction, movies, and music. Do you find you are smeared with the same paintbrush of "trivializing science" that Sagan was, or do you think such attitudes among scientists have changed?
DG: The mind-set in the scientific community has changed. Carl had a lot to do with this. He got a lot of crap for being a "popularizer," yet over time people in the field came to appreciate the connection between his efforts and continued public support for our research and our planetary exploration missions. The Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society acknowledged this by establishing the annual Sagan Medal, which is awarded to a scientist who has effectively communicated with the public. NASA also has encouraged scientists in this direction by adding more funding for education and public outreach to all of our research programs.
Yet some of our institutions have not changed. There is a huge amount of mistrust of "popularizers," and even of good teachers in American research universities. Scientists who win teaching awards or literary prizes need to hide these stains from promotion and tenure committees. That is pathetic. What kind of moron would think that "pop science" is an insult? Some university administrators do.
Personally, I love reading good pop science books. I learn a lot that way. And many "popular" books contain new ideas that scientists find useful in their research. I love it when I see my book "Venus Revealed" cited in papers or research proposals, and there are a few ideas in "Lonely Planets" that somebody might pick up on in a research paper some day, be it on this or some other planet.
|Much of the surface of Venus is covered by lava flows (shown above).
Credit: BNSC
I'm sure some people don't like my writing style, because it's personal, but nobody in any pop medium does anything really great if they're trying to please everybody and offend nobody. One reviewer of "Venus Revealed" called me "the Hunter S. Thompson of planetary science," which some people seemed to see as a smear, but I consider it high praise.
If I re-read something I've written and it seems to be in a generic science voice, I usually throw it out or take another stab at it. I get the impression that other scientists appreciate the effort. The feedback I get from my peers in the planetary science and astrobiology communities is mostly positive.
|Ultraviolet image of Venus obtained by Pioneer-1.
Image Credit: BNSC
AM: I thought I detected a note of bitterness when you describe how people once "would giggle" at meetings whenever extraterrestrial life was mentioned, and now, seven years after Carl Sagan's death, astrobiology is a major concern of NASA and every scientist is leaping on the astrobiology bandwagon to get funding. This situation reminds me of the character David Drumlin in Sagan's book, "Contact," who thwarts Ellie's efforts for years only to step in and take credit when the aliens finally do come calling. I would think it would be hard not to harbor resentment for those who once laughed but now reap the benefits.
DG: Uh oh, did I say something bitter? I guess if there is any resentment it would be connected with a couple of times when somebody's work was belittled in a way that might have been hurtful – work that would be more celebrated in the current climate. But resentment isn't a very useful emotion is it?
My point in mentioning these kinds of conversions was to provide an illustration of the remarkable, dramatic, and sudden sea-change that has recently occurred in official and community attitudes about the scientific study of alien life. People were dabbling in "exobiology" before this, and a few people worked at it full time. NASA supported this at some level all along, but it was not considered mainstream planetary science. All that changed over the last five years. And some people who once dissed exobiology are now known as astrobiologists. But so what? I see the transition as a wonderful development. What's wrong with people changing their minds? I like the new attitude. Life belongs in the center of our thoughts about the universe.
David H. Grinspoon is a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder Colorado. His book Lonely Planets: The Natural Philosophy of Alien Life was published in November 2003. All rights reserved.
Related Web Pages
The Great Debate: Is Complex Life Common in the Universe?
Space Invaders
Cause for Optimism: Part III : The Drake Equation Revisited
Mighty Aphrodite
Venusian Cloud Colonies
Lonely Planets
David H. Grinspoon
Long, Strange Trips
PBS: Is Science Fiction Science? Michael Crichton, David Brin, Octavia Butler


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Its OK For Girls To Poop Their Pants On Their Wedding Day. In Fact, Most Women Do!
And I just found out something about you girls that I never knew before! It might be the best kept secret you girls have ever kept from us guys! But now,…sorry girls…I'm gonna blow it out of the water……I never knew so many of you girls poop your pants on the day of your wedding! While you're wearing your wedding dress! I never knew you were walking around looking so beautiful on the outside….but you were all poopy on the inside! Gross! But girls….as always…..I got your backs…..and I help ya out…….
Ok, girls….so according to Marie Clair magazine…..sometimes on your wedding day….you girls poop and pee your pants….while your walking around in your wedding dress! I guess they say that chicks wedding dresses are so hard to get in and out of that sometimes if a chicks gotta blast out a power pee, or she eats something that doesn't sit right and she's gotta take an emergency big lumpy chunky, that sometimes……she'll just let it rip….right inside her cute little wedding day underpants, underneath her beautiful, flowing wedding dress! Hey….I guess a girls gotta do what a girls gotta do sometimes huh? Well no worries future brides…..they days of pooping your underpants on the day of your wedding is over! Cuz now girls….you can poop your wedding day bridal diapers instead! Yep……they now make specially made bridal diapers…..and wedding experts are suggesting that if it takes you 20 minutes or more to get in and out of your wedding dress…..that you wear these on the day of your wedding…….Experts say its nothing to be embarrassed about….sometimes on a chicks big special day….theres just no stopping explosive diarrhea…..however, these new bridal diapers will…….so girls…..if you've got a wedding planned anytime soon….or maybe one of your chick friends is getting married….you might want to suggest she wear diapers under her wedding dress…..that way she can poop her brains out and never even have to leave the room! Wedding day bridal diapers are available at all your favorite bridal shops…….good luck girls…..and again….whos got your back?


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"Dana just offered me a deal I can't refuse. pretty sure I'm still fighting on Oct. 29th"
BJ Penn has posted via his Twitter account that the UFC has made him an offer for a new opponent, and one he just can't turn down. With Condit now fighting for the title, Jon Fitch out with an injury, and the status of Diaz still unknown, who could the opponent be?


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We originally got Sasha in August of 2008 at my work
(I work at an animal shelter) as her owner was in poor health and had to go to a nursing home. The son just let her run. We adopted her out in November/December of 2008 to what we thought was the 'perfect' home for Sasha.. we did a home check, everything under the sun and it turned out not to be great. They never hurt Sasha but they let her get killed by a car on Monday and came in Tuesday to tell us and were looking for another dog.
They are not getting another dog from us. I told them I was sorry and the guy said oh she had a good run.. that made me fume. I had a strong bond with Sasha. She was a sensitive sweet girl. She would wiggle her body low to the ground in her kennel like she was dancing. She did it nervously but it was so endearing.
I fell in love with her, she was an awesome APBT girl. I know they must have loved her but they let her get killed by a car because she was off-leash. I don't feel sorry for them as much as it may sound blunt but how they let her die by being ignorant and irresponsible I only feel sorry for Sasha having to die like that. I bought her a nice frame tonight and I will put her in it. RIP sweet gorgeous Sasha.
You touched my heart in so many ways. You were a special sweet soul and I loved you and I am sure you loved me too. Until we meet again...


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due my policy no critical bugs in current stable, there is a new patchlevel. the new improvements in eventtable from head trunk had to go in because on of the bugs was caused by event triggered callbacks that executed upon nonexisting toolbar buttons. all this is hidden behind the Kephra::App::ToolBar API, so if you call their destray all tools will disconnected from their events before.
After making the CommandList so far feature complete (maybe export on command to Kephra::Config::Tree) we are two steps closer to sane and mighty extension API shich will see daylight before next stable I hope.


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Videogames and advertising
Tom Hespos wrote yesterday about advergame, maybe not exactly about advergames but, more in general, about the potentials of videogames for advertisers. He comes up with a new perspective on the matter, which I believe is rather interesting. He takes the issue a step further, not considering only advergames and product placement (remember Intel and the Sims?), but suggests brands to think about full game sponsorships. In his excellent analysis, Tom says:


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A man who was wanted for an attempted rape in Twentynine Palms has turned himself in, sheriff's officials announced.
Lynel Serek Roduk, 29, a transient known to frequent locations in Twentynine Palms, has been wanted since Aug. 16 when sheriff's officials say he pulled a kife on a woman as she waited for a friend in her front yard in the 7000 block of Estrella Avenue.
Roduk walked her to a location about a block away, forced her to the ground and tried to rape her while holding the knife to her throat, a sheriff's news release stated.
The woman escaped when her friend came looking for her, momentarily distracting her assailant. She kicked the man in the face and ran away, and he too fled the scene, the release stated.
He turned himself in to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's officials on Tuesday, Sept. 2, and he was booked on Thursday, Sept. 4, into the West Valley Detention Center on suspicion of attempted rape. He was held in lieu of $250,000 bail, booking logs show.
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by J.R. Miller
"Do not be amazed that I said to you: You must be born again!" John 3:7
That which makes one a Christian, is not . . . the agreeing with Christ's teachings, the uniting with His Church, the adoption of His morals, the espousing of His cause–but the receiving of Him as our personal Lord and Savior, and entering into a covenant of eternal friendship with Him. We are not saved by believing a creed which gathers up in a few golden sentences, the essence of the truth about Christ's person and work–we must have the Christ Himself, whom the creed holds forth, in His radiant beauty and grace!
Many people think that being a Christian is . . . to pray a few moments morning and evening, to read a daily chapter or two in the Bible, and to attend church on Sundays.
These duties are important as means of grace–but they are not true religion. Real religion is living out the principles of Christianity in one's ordinary week-day life. It is getting the Bible and the prayers and the services–into our thoughts and acts and character.
We must not cut our lives in two, and call one part secular, governing it by one set of principles–and regarding the other part as sacred, to be controlled by another set of rules. All of life is to be made sacred in the sense that everything is to be done in such a way as to please God, under the direction of His counsel. We have just as much true religion as we get into our week-day life, and not a whit more!
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College Students Invited to Join Virtual Choir for New Bartram and Hill Musical, 6/24-26
Music theatre practitioners from around the world will gather at Sheridan College June 24-26, 2014 for Song, Stage and Screen IX an international conference of papers, talks and practical demonstrations designed to bring together leaders to discuss music theatre. To celebrate the conference theme, "The Art of Collaboration in Musical Theatre", The Theory of Relativity by Drama Desk Award nominated writers Neil Bartram and Brian Hill will have a one-time, live performance upon the opening of the conference featuring a global virtual choir.
In 2012, the Canadian Music Theatre Project at Sheridan College commissioned Bartram and Hill to create something specifically for and about college age students based on student's actual experiences. What emerged was a musical theatre piece unlike any other that celebrates the profound effect of our intersecting lives. The Theory of Relativity has now been seen globally including productions at Sheridan College, Penn State, Goodspeed Musicals and The Iris Theatre in London, UK.
College students are invited to be a part of The Theory of Relativity Virtual Choir. "What better way to present a show about human connection than to connect people from around the world through this exciting collaboration," said composer and lyricist Neil Bartram. Through the magic of technology, voice and video submissions will be virtually combined with others to become the thrilling finale of the live performance of the show performed by alumni and students from The Boston Conservatory, The Hartt School at the University of Hartford, Penn State and Sheridan College.
Visit http://virtualchoir.sheridancollege.ca for details on how to record and upload your video. The deadline for submissions is May 31, 2014.
Neil is the composer and lyricist of Broadway's The Story of My Life with book writer Brian Hill (four Drama Desk Award nominations including two for Neil - Outstanding Music and Outstanding Lyrics). Prior to Broadway, The Story of My Life played at Canadian Stage Company in Toronto and Goodspeed's Norma Terris Theatre. Neil has also written music and lyrics for Clara's Piano (Stratford Festival), Somewhere in the World (five seasons at the Charlottetown Festival) and The Nightingale and the Rose, and scored productions of Romeo and Juliet, Timon of Athens and A Midsummer Night's Dream. His adaptation of Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio was commissioned by Chicago Shakespeare Theater for their 2011 season. Neil and Brian's musical Not Wanted On The Voyage received a developmental production at Northwestern University's Barber Theatre as part of the American Music Theatre Project and was part of Goodspeed Musicals' 2012 New Works Festival. His musical The Theory of Relativity, commissioned by Toronto's Sheridan College and written specifically for and about college age students, was part of Goodspeed's 2014 New Works Festival and had its London, UK premiere in May of 2014.
Current projects include Spin directed by Eric Schaeffer (premiered at the Signature Theatre, Arlington, VA), an adaptation of Michel Tremblay's Les Belles-Soeurs, a musical based on Ray Bradbury's classic novel Something Wicked This Way Comes, and the stage adaptation of Disney's beloved film Bedknobs & Broomsticks, all with book writer Brian Hill. Neil's awards include a Jonathan Larson Foundation Award, a Dramatists Guild Fellowship, and a Dora Award. Cast albums include Somewhere in the World and The Story of My Life (PS Classics). Neil is a member of the Dramatists Guild, ASCAP, and is an alumnus of the BMI Lehman Engel Music Theatre Workshop.
Brian's work as an actor, director and writer has taken him across Canada and the United States. As an actor, he spent three seasons with the Shaw Festival, appeared as Raoul in the Toronto production of Phantom of the Opera, performed the role of Joe Gillis in Sunset Boulevard and won a Dora Award for outstanding performance as Frankie in the original Canadian cast of Forever Plaid. For the Stratford Festival he directed Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience and was associate director of Susan H. Schulman's acclaimed productions of Man of La Mancha and Fiddler On The Roof. For four seasons he was artistic director of the Confederation Centre Young Company and served as the Charlottetown Festival's associate director of new play development. He was resident director of the Toronto, Vancouver and national companies of Forever Plaid and served as associate director to Susan H. Schulman for the U.S. national tour of Sunset Boulevard and the first national tour of The Sound of Music. For Disney Theatrical Productions he directed the reading of High School Musical 2, was resident director of the Toronto and Broadway companies of The Lion King, and associate director of Broadway's The Little Mermaid.
With composer and lyricist Neil Bartram he has written the book for Not Wanted on the Voyage (Goodspeed's New Works Festival 2012), The Nightingale and the Rose, Clara's Piano, Somewhere in the World, The Theory of Relativity and The Adventures of Pinocchio, which was commissioned for the 2011 Chicago Shakespeare Theater season. Current Bartram and Hill projects include Spin with director Eric Schaeffer, which premiered at the Signature Theatre in 2013, an adaptation of Michel Tremblay's Les Belles-Soeurs, a musical adaptation of Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes, and the stage adaptation of Disney's Bedknobs and Broomsticks. Brian is best known as the book writer for The Story of My Life, which was developed at Goodspeed's Norma Terris Theatre, premiered on Broadway in 2009 and earned four Drama Desk Award nominations for outstanding musical, music, lyrics, and book.
Under the leadership of producer and associate dean Michael Rubinoff, The Canadian Music Theatre Project ("CMTP") at Sheridan College was launched in 2011 and is Canada's first incubator for the development of new musical theatre works by Canadian and international composers, lyricists and book-writers and serves to create a permanent headquarters for the development of new musicals. As Canada's largest art school, Sheridan made it a priority to create an environment that fosters creativity and provides a stimulating environment to help generate new work. The CMTP facilitates development through the participation of the graduating students of Sheridan's celebrated Music Theatre Performance Program, and guest artists. Emphasis is placed on providing authors with a meaningful developmental creative experience.
Sheridan's Music Theatre Performance Program has a forty-one year history and is Canada's leading program of its kind. Recently, the program transitioned from a three-year diploma to a four year Bachelor of Music Theatre Performance degree. Students receive theoretical and practical training in three core disciplines of acting, singing (musical theatre and commercial repertoire) and dance (tap, jazz, ballet). Alumni work on stages across Canada and around the world including in local productions of mega musicals, U.S. national tours, the Stratford and Shaw Festivals, on Broadway and in the West End.


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Carol Bray
Isanti County Master Gardener
"Promote Pumpkin Awareness" continues to be the message Adam Schutte and Bob Ricke broadcast. Adam and Bob of Crown have learned a lot and are satisfied with their first endeavor of growing a giant pumpkin. They have conversed with other pumpkin growers and gone on giant pumpkin tours.
Adam and Bob have two great pumpkins—one's estimated weight is about 500 pounds and the other one weighs about 650 pounds. Pumpkin growers have an "estimator" that will estimate, with fair accuracy, weight by taking a few measurements. Their original "great pumpkin" died due to vine rot. So, they turned their attention to two pumpkins that were growing from another plant. (Typically, a grower will remove all but one pumpkin, but they decided to let both backup pumpkins stay on the vine).
Consistent watering and weekly fertilization are required to grow large pumpkins: one day, one pumpkin grew 37 pounds. However, typical growth in August was in the 20-30 pounds range. The weekly fertilization stopped the middle of September.
These gardeners did have some challenges such as vine borer and frosts. During the early fall frost, the sprinkler was turned on during the wee hours of the morning to prevent frost. The frost has taken care of the leaves, but the vines are still green so some growth is still occurring. The pumpkins are covered with quilts in early October during cold temps until they were loaded up for their official weigh-in held Oct. 13 at the Stillwater Harvest Fest.
Adam and Bob concur that most of the work was simply getting the plant going, the feeding and watering. Next year, they plan to have some sort of automated watering system.
Adam and Bob already have their pumpkin seeds for next year. And these gardeners will save the seeds from their largest pumpkin. Adam and Bob will give anyone interested in growing giant pumpkins some seeds. You can contact Adam at 783-856-0191.
For more information, visit the U of Minnesota Extension website at www.extension.umn.edu or call Isanti County Master Gardeners at 763-689-8254. You can also visit us on Facebook: Isanti County Master Gardeners.


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Gosselin: 'I was shocked' by Robert Griffin's Heisman win; Baylor QB 'overwhelmed' voters
Catch SportsDay On Air twice per week on Fox Sports Southwest, when Dallas Morning News experts discuss hot sports topics from the Cowboys, Mavericks, Stars, Rangers and colleges (check our TV listings for air times). Here are a few highlights from Monday's episode featuring Rick Gosselin and David Moore:
On whether there was surprise over Robert Griffin III's Heisman win:
Moore: This was really under the radar for a lot of the season. I think a lot of people assumed that it would be a Richardson or a Luck or a guy with a bigger-name program. But as you saw some things that didn't work out there, whether not winning the games you thought they would win, or in Luck's case, having very good numbers but not outrageous numbers, slowly it kind of came back around and you started noticing Griffin more and more. And you talk about peaking at the right time, I think his candidacy peaked at the right time.
Gosselin: I was shocked. You don't see Robert Griffin and the Baylor Bears on television. A lot of the voters, they see their one game, they watched the rest of the games on TV. Baylor is not a national TV fixture. Alabama is on every week, Stanford's on every week. Houston's Case Keenum was the quarterback in Texas that was being pushed for the longest time. Like David said, [Griffin] was under the radar, but what a great finish. You go and beat Oklahoma and everybody sees it on TV, and then you go and beat Texas, and you have the TCU win under your belt. I think he had such a strong finish, it kind of overwhelmed the others candidates.


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VICHY (Jun. 24)
The Government today issued a decree restricting the proportion of Jews in universities to three per cent and in liberal professions to two per cent. Exemptions were provided for members of Jewish families long settled in France and priority rights for children of front-fighters.
The decree is part of an anti-Jewish legislative program announced by Xavier Vallat, Commissioner for Jewish Affairs, on June 13.
Pierre Mendes-France, Finance Undersecretary in the Blum government, who was sentenced to three years' imprisonment by the Vichy authorities on a charge of "desertion behind the lines," has escaped from a hospital where he was held under guard, it was announced.


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A small Big Ten contingent reduced by several injuries had a quiet week of practice at the Senior Bowl, but several players shined brightly on game day.
Purdue defensive tackle Kawann Short was named Most Outstanding Player for the North squad, which fell 21-16 to the South in Mobile, Ala. Short recorded three tackles, including a tackle for loss and another stop for no gain. He helped limit the North team to 105 rush yards and just seven points in the final three and a half quarters.
Short drew mixed reviews during the practice week, as observers noted his tremendous ability but also pointed out that he would take plays off. The comparisons between Short and Michigan State defensive end Jerel Worthy from last year are undeniable. Worthy also had first-round talent but also a reputation of taking some plays off. Ultimately, Worthy was a second-round pick of the Green Bay Packers last April. Whether Short works his way into the first round remains to be seen, but he certainly helped his cause Saturday.
Another Big Ten defensive tackle, Penn State's Jordan Hill, delivered a good performance in the game, recording three tackles, including 1.5 for loss and half a sack.
Other Big Ten notables:
Illinois DE Michael Buchanan recorded four tackles and blocked a 52-yard field goal attempt by Florida State standout Dustin Hopkins in the second quarter.
Michigan's Denard Robinson played wide receiver and recorded two receptions for 21 yards and one rush for minus-3 yards. Robinson's transition from quarterback to receiver is off to a rocky start, but he set the baseline this week and can make strides before the draft.
Wisconsin tackle Ricky Wagner and Illinois guard Hugh Thornton both started along the offensive line for the North team, which rushed for only 45 yards but found a rhythm in the second half.


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Safe schools breed less violence
Program encourages community involvement in student activities
December 5, 2000
The Columbine shooting in 1999 spawned a new awareness across America. Violence among youth, especially in schools, has become one of this country's most pressing concerns.
It is also a source of controversy.
While no recent nationwide study of the real extent of youth violence is available, small-scale and regional studies indicate that youth violence is increasing, at least slightly. Recent surveys indicate the most prevalent type of youth crime is theft, and the most common types of violence are fist fights, bullying and shoving matches.
In an effort to ensure that Moffat County schools have guidelines to address youth violence, the Board of Education, in consultation with the School Improvement Committee, is developing a safe schools plan.
According to Gary Ellgen, president of the school board, the Colorado Association of School Boards earlier this year handed down recommendations to create policies for safe schools. The move was sparked by a law passed last legislative session requiring all Colorado schools to undergo safe school planning.
"It grew out of Columbine and what happened there," Ellgen said. "Basically, we'll look at attitude, atmosphere, and methods of dealing with violations."
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According to Ellgen and other school board members, a safe, secure and welcoming environment in schools not only encourages effective learning and teaching, but also contributes to improved attendance, increased student achievement and community support.
"The hope is that the School Improvement Committee will develop a policy out of this recommendation," Ellgen said. "It's a continuing process, and they will come back to the Board with recommendations and ideas throughout the year."
Each school principal will be responsible for implementing final safe school policies. Several items will be addressed in creating the new school program, including training programs for teachers and students in how to recognize and respond to behavior that may indicate impending violence; training and support for students that helps relieve the fear, embarrassment and peer pressure associated with reporting any behavior that may indicate violence; procedures to provide regular communication between school officials and law enforcement officers to discuss crisis prevention and management strategies; procedures for reporting criminal activity in schools to law enforcement; student and teacher training for fire prevention and safety and procedures and training programs for school safety and security.
Rob Sanders, Moffat County High School principal, said there are very few problems at the high school. "The kids here are some of the best in the state," he said. "If there are any problems, counseling services are available for our students. We're trying to be proactive in terms of harassment we offer sexual harassment seminars for the students and we have lock-down procedures in case of a Columbine situation."
"We're very fortunate in this area, for we have good kids and good teachers," Ellgen said.
But good students and good teachers aren't a guarantee.
"There's a potential problem in every school," Craig Middle School Counselor Kathy Bockelman said. "We haven't had any big problems at the middle school, but I think we have a lot of kids who need anger management and training in conflict resolution," she said.
According to Bockelman, middle school students participated in a survey two years ago to assess their assets.
"Only 24 percent of the kids said they felt the school had a safe and caring environment. I'm concerned about that," she said.
Last year, Attorney General Ken Salazar and Delbert Elliott, Director of the University of Colorado's Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV), met with students and community members in a statewide tour to collect input on issues surrounding youth violence.
"We wanted to find out how communities across Colorado are dealing with youth violence, and to find out specifically what communities and schools need to help them address the issues such as drug use bullying, and the unsupervised time period after school," Assistant Attorney General Joan Padilla said.
According to Padilla, there are some innovative programs around the state, such as in Gilbert High School where the seniors have initiated a zero-tolerance to violence program by acting as positive examples for younger students.
Many students are more aware than ever before of the importance of reporting acts of violence, Padilla said, but for those fearful of peer pressure, a central toll free number has been set up statewide for young people to make anonymous reports. That number is 1-877-542-7233.
"Students say bullying has been around for a long time," Padilla said. "But we know bullying has changed because it is more severe and students tend to react to it in a more severe and aggressive way than they used to. And we now know there are things people can do to prevent violence."
In an effort to address concerns of the Colorado education community, the CSPV introduced the Safe Communities Safe Schools Initiative in the fall of 1999. This Initiative was made possible by the support of several key Colorado educational and political agencies that serve as partners of the Initiative.
As a result of the Initiative, Colorado schools were offered the opportunity to receive in-depth training and technical assistance for safe school planning. CSPV selected 20 sites throughout Colorado to receive assistance in developing a Safe School Plan, using the Safe Communities Safe Schools model. The application deadline was Jan. 31 and the Hayden school district was one of those selected.
Mari Mahanna, teacher and health and safe schools coordinator in Hayden, said her school district had begun work on safe school issues before applying for assistance. Since being selected, CSPV has provided training on how to implement the Safe Communities – Safe Schools model in the Hayden community.
"The Hayden schools are in a critical area," Mahanna said. "They sit right on Highway 40, right in the middle of lots of traffic including drugs and alcohol. And there's higher access to guns in this area because of hunters."
According to Mahanna, CSPV will track Hayden's progress over the next three years in implementing the plan.
"They trained us in how to work together, and assigned a police officer to the school. We have an inter-agency group that meets once a month and a program in place for the police and schools to share information on student acts of violence that was never possible before," she said. "We're working on the school atmosphere right now, making it a warmer, more inviting place like Tiger Pride night and building activities that include the community."
Even though CSPV has selected the communities for model plans, the agency is available to provide limited training and technical assistance with safe school planning on request to all Colorado schools and communities.
"There are lots of different factors that cause violence in schools," Mahanna said. "There's not a magic pill that will work for every community or school. Basically, each community has to look at their own makeup first."
Bockelman believes attitudes are pervasive in our culture. "To make a difference in the schools, we have to go out into the communities and make a difference," she said.