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James Cameron | |
Cameron in October 2012 | |
Born | James Francis Cameron August 16, 1954 Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canada |
Residence | Wairarapa, New Zealand |
Education | Brea Olinda High School |
Alma mater | Fullerton College |
Occupation | Film director, conceptual artist, producer, editor, screenwriter, environmentalist, explorer |
Years active | 1976–present |
Notable work(s) | Avatar, Titanic, Aliens, The Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgment Day |
Net worth | $900 million (2013 est.)[1] |
Religion | Atheist (None)[2] |
Spouse(s) | Sharon Williams (1978–1984) Gale Anne Hurd (1985–1989) Kathryn Bigelow (1989–1991) Linda Hamilton (1997–1999) Suzy Amis (2000–present) |
Awards | See below |
James Cameron | |
Cameron in October 2012 | |
Born | James Francis Cameron August 16, 1954 Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canada |
Residence | Wairarapa, New Zealand |
Education | Brea Olinda High School |
Alma mater | Fullerton College |
Occupation | Film director, conceptual artist, producer, editor, screenwriter, environmentalist, explorer |
Years active | 1976–present |
Notable work(s) | Avatar, Titanic, Aliens, The Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgment Day |
Net worth | $900 million (2013 est.)[1] |
Religion | Atheist (None)[2] |
Spouse(s) | Sharon Williams (1978–1984) Gale Anne Hurd (1985–1989) Kathryn Bigelow (1989–1991) Linda Hamilton (1997–1999) Suzy Amis (2000–present) |
Awards | See below |
James Francis Cameron[3] (born August 16, 1954) is a Canadian film director, film producer, screenwriter, editor, and deep-sea explorer who has directed the two biggest box office films of all time.[4][5][6][7][8] He first found success with the science-fiction hit The Terminator (1984). He then became a popular Hollywood director and was hired to write and direct Aliens (1986); three years later he followed up with The Abyss (1989).
He found further critical acclaim for his use of special effects in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991). After his film True Lies (1994) Cameron took on his biggest film at the time, Titanic (1997), which earned him Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director and Film Editing. After Titanic, Cameron began a project that took almost 10 years to make: his science-fiction epic Avatar (2009), for which he received nominations for the same three Academy Awards. In the time between making Titanic and Avatar, Cameron spent several years creating many documentary films (specifically underwater documentaries) and co-developed the digital 3D Fusion Camera System. Described by a biographer as part-scientist and part-artist,[9] Cameron has also contributed to underwater filming and remote vehicle technologies.[7][8][10] On March 26, 2012, Cameron reached the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the ocean, in the Deepsea Challenger submersible.[11][12][13] He is the first person to do this in a solo descent, and is only the third person to do so ever.
He has been nominated for six Academy Awards overall and won three for Titanic. In total, Cameron's directorial efforts have grossed approximately US$2 billion in North America and US$6 billion worldwide.[14] Not adjusted for inflation, Cameron's Titanic and Avatar are the two highest-grossing films of all time at $2.19 billion and $2.78 billion respectively.[15] In March 2011, he was named Hollywood's top earner by Vanity Fair, with estimated 2010 earnings of $257 million.[16] In October 2013, a new species of frog Pristimantis jamescameroni from Venezuela was named after him in recognition of his efforts in environmental awareness, in addition to his public promotion of veganism.[17][18][19]
Cameron was born in Kapuskasing, Ontario, in 1954, the son of Shirley (née Lowe), an artist and nurse, and Phillip Cameron.[20][21] His paternal great-great-great-grandfather emigrated from Balquhidder, Scotland, in 1825;[20] thus, he descends from Clan Cameron.
Cameron grew up in Chippawa, Ontario. He attended Stamford Collegiate School in Niagara Falls, Ontario. His family moved to Brea, California in 1971, when Cameron was 17 years old.[22] He dropped out of Sonora High School, then attended Brea Olinda High School to further his secondary education.
Cameron enrolled at Fullerton College, a two-year community college, in 1973 to study physics. He switched to English, then dropped out before the start of the fall 1974 semester.[23] Next, he worked several jobs, including as a truck driver, writing when he had time.[24] During this period he taught himself about special effects: "I'd go down to the USC library and pull any thesis that graduate students had written about optical printing, or front screen projection, or dye transfers, anything that related to film technology. That way I could sit down and read it, and if they'd let me photocopy it, I would. If not, I'd make notes."[25]
Cameron quit his job as a truck driver to enter the film industry after seeing the original Star Wars film in 1977.[26] When Cameron read Syd Field's book Screenplay, it occurred to him that integrating science and art was possible, and he wrote a 10-minute science-fiction script with two friends, titled Xenogenesis. They raised money, rented camera, lenses, film stock and studio then shot it in 35mm. They dismantled the camera to understand how to operate it and spent the first half-day of the shoot trying to figure out how to get it running.
His first film was called Xenogenesis (1978). He was the director, writer, producer, and production designer for Xenogenesis. He then became a production assistant on a film called Rock and Roll High School, though uncredited in 1979. While continuing to educate himself in film-making techniques, Cameron started working as a miniature-model maker at Roger Corman Studios.[24] Making rapidly produced, low-budget productions taught Cameron to work efficiently and effectively. He soon found employment as an art director in the sci-fi movie Battle Beyond the Stars (1980). He did special effects work design and direction on John Carpenter's Escape from New York (1981), acted as production designer on Galaxy of Terror (1981), and consulted on the design of Android (1982).[27]
Cameron was hired as the special effects director for the sequel to Piranha, entitled Piranha II: The Spawning in 1981. The original director, Miller Drake, left the project due to creative differences with producer Ovidio Assonitis, who then gave Cameron his first job as overall director. The interior scenes were filmed in Italy while the underwater sequences were shot at Grand Cayman Island.[28]
The movie was to be produced in Jamaica. On location, production slowed due to numerous problems and adverse weather. James Cameron was fired after failing to get a close up of Carole Davis in her opening scene. Ovidio ordered Cameron to do the close-up the next day before he started on that day's shooting. Cameron spent the entire day sailing around the resort to reproduce the lighting but still failed to get the close-up. After he was fired, Ovidio invited Cameron to stay on location and assist in the shooting. Once in Rome, Ovidio took over the editing when Cameron was stricken with food poisoning. During his illness, he had a nightmare about an invincible robot hitman sent from the future to kill him, giving him the idea for The Terminator, which later catapulted his film career.[28]
After completing a screenplay for The Terminator, Cameron decided to sell it so that he could direct the movie. However, the production companies he contacted, while expressing interest in the project, were unwilling to let a largely inexperienced feature film director make the movie. Finally, Cameron found a company called Hemdale Pictures, which was willing to let him direct. Gale Anne Hurd, who had started her own production company, Pacific Western Productions, had previously worked with Cameron in Roger Corman's company and agreed to buy Cameron's screenplay for one dollar, on the condition that Cameron direct the film. Hurd was signed on as producer, and Cameron finally got his first break as director. Orion Pictures distributed the film.[29]
For the role of the Terminator, Cameron envisioned a man who was not exceptionally muscular, who could "blend into" a crowd. Lance Henriksen, who had starred in Piranha II: The Spawning, was considered for the title role, but when Arnold Schwarzenegger and Cameron first met over lunch to discuss Schwarzenegger's playing the role of Kyle Reese, both came to the conclusion that the cyborg villain would be the more compelling role for the Austrian bodybuilder; Henriksen got the smaller part of LAPD detective Hal Vukovich and the role of Kyle Reese went to Michael Biehn. In addition, Linda Hamilton first appeared in this film in her iconic role of Sarah Connor, and later married Cameron.[21]
The Terminator was a box-office hit, breaking expectations by Orion Pictures executives that the film would be regarded as no more than a sci-fi film and only last a week in theaters. It was a low-budget film which cost $6.5 million to make, cutting expenses in such ways as recording the audio track in mono. However, The Terminator eventually earned over $78 million worldwide.[30]
During the early 1980s, Cameron wrote three screenplays simultaneously: The Terminator, Aliens, and the first draft of Rambo: First Blood Part II. While Cameron continued with The Terminator and Aliens, Sylvester Stallone eventually took over the script of Rambo: First Blood Part II, creating a final draft which differed radically from Cameron's initial vision.[31]
Cameron next began the sequel to Alien, the 1979 film by Ridley Scott. Cameron named the sequel Aliens and again cast Sigourney Weaver in the iconic role of Ellen Ripley. According to Cameron, the crew on Aliens was hostile to him, regarding him as a poor substitute for Ridley Scott. Cameron sought to show them The Terminator but the majority of the crew refused to watch it and remained skeptical of his direction throughout production. Despite this and other off-screen problems (such as clashing with an uncooperative camera man and having to replace one of the lead actors when Michael Biehn of Terminator took James Remar's place as Corporal Hicks), Aliens became a box-office success. It received Academy Award nominations for Best Actress in a Leading Role for Weaver, Best Art Direction, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, Best Sound, and won awards for Best Sound Effects Editing and Best Visual Effects. In addition, the film and its lead actress made the cover of TIME magazine as a result of its numerous and extensive scenes of women in combat; these were almost without precedent and expressed the feminist theme of the film very strongly.
Cameron's next project stemmed from an idea that had come up during a high school biology class. The story of oil-rig workers who discover otherworldly underwater creatures became the basis of Cameron's screenplay for The Abyss, which cast Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Michael Biehn. Initially budgeted at $41 million U.S. (though the production ran considerably over budget), it was considered to be one of the most expensive films of its time and required cutting-edge effects technology. Because much of the filming took place underwater and the technology wasn't advanced enough to digitally create an underwater environment, Cameron chose to shoot much of the movie "reel-for-real", at depths of up to 40 feet (12 m). For creation of the sets, the containment building of an unfinished nuclear power plant was converted, and two huge tanks were used.[32] The main tank was filled with 7,500,000 US gallons (28,000,000 L) of water and the second with 2,500,000 US gallons (9,500,000 L). The cast and crew resided there for much of the filming.
After the success of The Terminator, there had been talk about a sequel to continue the story of Sarah Connor and her struggle against machines from the future. Although Cameron had come up with a core idea for the sequel and Schwarzenegger expressed interest in continuing the story, there were still problems regarding who had the rights to the story, as well as the logistics of the special effects needed to make the sequel. Finally, in late-1980s, Mario Kassar of Carolco Pictures secured the rights to the sequel, allowing Cameron to greenlight production of the film, now called Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
For the film, Linda Hamilton reprised her iconic role of Sarah Connor.[33] In addition, Schwarzenegger also returned in his role as The Terminator, but this time as a protector. Unlike Schwarzenegger's character—the T-800 Terminator which is made of a metal endoskeleton—the new villain of the sequel, called the T-1000, is a more-advanced Terminator made of liquid metal, and with polymorphic abilities. The T-1000 would also be much less bulky than the T-800. For the role, Cameron cast Robert Patrick, a sharp contrast to Schwarzenegger. Cameron explained, "I wanted someone who was extremely fast and agile. If the T-800 is a human Panzer tank, then the T-1000 is a Porsche."
Cameron had originally wanted to incorporate this advanced-model Terminator into the first film, but the special effects at the time were not advanced enough. The ground-breaking effects used in The Abyss to digitally depict the water tentacle convinced Cameron that his liquid metal villain was now possible.
TriStar Pictures agreed to distribute the film, but under a locked release date only about one year after the start of shooting. The movie, co-written by Cameron and his longtime friend, William Wisher, Jr., had to go from screenplay to finished film in just that amount of time. Like Cameron's previous film, it was one of the most expensive films of its era, with a budget of about $100 million. The biggest challenge of the movie was the special effects used in creating the T-1000. Nevertheless, the film was finished on time and released to theaters on July 3, 1991.
Terminator 2, or T2, as it was abbreviated, broke box-office records (including the opening weekend record for an R-rated film), earning over $200 million in the United States and Canada, and over $300 million in other territories, and became the highest-grossing film of that year. It won four Academy Awards: Best Makeup, Best Sound, Best Sound Effects Editing, and Best Visual Effects. It was also nominated for Best Cinematography and Best Film Editing, but lost both Awards to JFK.
James Cameron announced a third Terminator film many times during the 1990s, but without coming out with any finished scripts. Kassar and Vajna purchased the rights to the Terminator franchise from a bankruptcy sale of Carolco's assets.[34] Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines was eventually made and released in July 2003 without Cameron's involvement. Jonathan Mostow directed the film and Schwarzenegger returned as the Terminator.
Cameron reunited with the main cast of Terminator 2 to film T2 3-D: Battle Across Time, an attraction at Universal Studios Florida, Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal Studios Japan. It was released in 1996 and was a mini-sequel to Terminator 2: Judgment Day. The show is in two parts: a prequel segment in which a spokesperson talks about Cyberdyne, and a main feature, in which the performers interact with a 3-D movie.
Before the release of T2, Schwarzenegger came to Cameron with the idea of remaking the French comedy La Totale! Titled True Lies, with filming beginning after T2's release, the story revolves around a secret-agent spy who leads a double life as a married man, whose wife believes he is a computer salesman. Schwarzenegger was cast as Harry Tasker, a spy charged with stopping a plan by a terrorist to use nuclear weapons against the United States. Jamie Lee Curtis and Eliza Dushku played the character's family, and Tom Arnold the sidekick.
Cameron's Lightstorm Entertainment signed on with Twentieth Century Fox for production of True Lies. Made on a budget of $115 million and released in 1994, the film earned $146 million in North America, and $232 million abroad. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Visual Effects.
American science fiction action thriller film directed by Kathryn Bigelow. Co-written and produced by her ex-husband James Cameron and co-written by Jay Cocks,
Cameron expressed interest in the famous sinking of the ship RMS Titanic. He decided to script and film his next project based on this event. The picture revolved around a fictional romance story between two young lovers from different social classes who meet on board. Before production began, he took dives to the bottom of the Atlantic and shot actual footage of the ship underwater, which he inserted into the final film. Much of the film's dialogue was also written during these dives.
Subsequently, Cameron cast Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher, Gloria Stuart, Bernard Hill, Jonathan Hyde, Victor Garber, Danny Nucci, David Warner, Suzy Amis, and Bill Paxton as the film's principal cast. Cameron's budget for the film reached about $200 million, making it the most expensive movie ever made at the time. Before its release, the film was widely ridiculed for its expense and protracted production schedule.
Released to theaters on December 19, 1997, Titanic grossed less in its first weekend ($28.6 million) than in its second ($35.4 million), an increase of 23.8%. This is unheard of for a widely released film, which is a testament to the movie's appeal. This was especially noteworthy, considering that the film's running time of more than three hours limited the number of showings each theater could schedule. It held the No. 1 spot on the box-office charts for months, eventually grossing a total of $600.8 million in the United States and Canada and more than $1.84 billion worldwide. Titanic became the highest-grossing film of all time, both worldwide and in the United States and Canada, and was also the first film to gross more than $1 billion worldwide. It remained the highest-grossing film since 1998, until Cameron's 2009 film Avatar surpassed its gross in 2010.[35]
The CG visuals surrounding the sinking and destruction of the ship were considered spectacular.[36] Despite criticism during production of the film, it received a record-tying 14 Oscar nominations (tied with All About Eve) at the 1998 Academy Awards. It won 11 Oscars (also tying the record for most Oscar wins with Ben-Hur and later The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King), including: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Visual Effects, Best Film Editing, Best Costume Design, Best Sound, Best Sound Effects Editing, Best Original Dramatic Score, Best Original Song.[37] Upon receiving the Best Director Oscar, Cameron exclaimed, "I'm king of the world!", in reference to one of the main characters' lines from the film. After receiving the Best Picture Oscar along with Jon Landau, Cameron asked for a moment of silence for the 1,500 men, women, and children who died when the ship sank.
In March 2010, Cameron revealed that Titanic would be re-released in 3D in April 2012, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the real ship.[38] On March 27, 2012, Cameron attended the world première with Kate Winslet at the Royal Albert Hall in London.[39] Following the re-release, Titanic's domestic total was pushed to $658.6 million and more than $2.18 billion worldwide. It became the second film to gross more than $2 billion worldwide (the first being Avatar).
Cameron had initially next planned to do a film of the comic-book character Spider-Man, a project developed by Menahem Golan of Cannon Films. Columbia hired David Koepp to adapt Cameron's treatment into a screenplay, and Koepp's first draft is taken often word-for-word from Cameron's story,[40] though later drafts were heavily rewritten by Koepp himself, Scott Rosenberg, and Alvin Sargent. Columbia preferred to credit David Koepp solely, and none of the scripts before or after his were ever examined by the Writers Guild of America, East to determine proper credit attribution.[citation needed] Cameron and other writers objected, but Columbia and the WGA prevailed. In its release in 2002, Spider-Man had its screenplay credited solely to Koepp.[41]
Unable to make Spider-Man, Cameron moved to television and created Dark Angel, a superheroine-centered series influenced by cyberpunk, biopunk, contemporary superhero franchises, and third-wave feminism. Co-produced with Charles H. Eglee, Dark Angel starred Jessica Alba as Max Guevara, a genetically enhanced super-soldier created by a secretive organization. Cameron's work was said to "bring empowered female warriors back to television screens[...] by mixing the sober feminism of his The Terminator and Aliens characters with the sexed-up Girl Power of a Britney Spears concert."[42] While a success in its first season, low ratings in the second led to its cancellation. Cameron himself directed the series finale, a two-hour episode wrapping up many of the series' loose ends.
In 1998 James and John David Cameron formed a digital media company, earthship.tv, which became Earthship Productions.[43] The company produced live multimedia documentaries from the depths of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. With Earthship Productions, John Cameron's recent projects have included undersea documentaries on the Bismarck (Expedition: Bismarck, 2002) and the Titanic (Ghosts of the Abyss (2003, in IMAX 3D) and Tony Robinson's Titanic Adventure (2005)).[44] He was a producer on the 2002 film Solaris, and narrated The Exodus Decoded.
Cameron is an advocate for stereoscopic digital 3-D films. In a 2003 interview about his IMAX 2D documentary Ghosts of the Abyss, he mentioned that he is "going to do everything in 3D now".[45] He has made similar statements in other interviews. Ghosts of the Abyss and Aliens of the Deep (also an IMAX documentary) were both shot in 3-D and released by Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media, and Cameron did the same for his new project, Avatar for 20th Century Fox & Sony Pictures' Columbia Pictures. He intends to use the same technology for The Dive, Sanctum and an adaptation of the manga series Battle Angel Alita.
Cameron was the founder and CEO of Digital Domain, a visual-effects production and technology company.
In addition, he plans to create a 3-D project about the first trip to Mars. ("I've been very interested in the Humans to Mars movement—the 'Mars Underground'—and I've done a tremendous amount of personal research for a novel, a miniseries, and a 3-D film.")[46] He is on the science team for the 2011 Mars Science Laboratory.[47]
Cameron announced on February 26, 2007, that he, along with his director, Simcha Jacobovici, have documented the unearthing of the Talpiot Tomb, which is alleged to be the tomb of Jesus. Unearthed in 1981 by Israeli construction workers, the names on the tomb are claimed, in the documentary, to correlate with the names of Jesus and several individuals closely associated with him. The documentary, named The Lost Tomb of Jesus, was broadcast on the Discovery Channel on March 4, 2007.
As a National Geographic explorer-in-residence,[48] Cameron re-investigated the sinking of the Titanic with eight experts in 2012. The investigation was featured in the TV documentary special Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron, which premiered on April 8 on the National Geographic Channel.[49] In the conclusion of the analysis, the consensus revised the CGI animation of the sinking conceived in 1995.[50][51]
In June 2005, Cameron was announced to be working on a project tentatively titled "Project 880" (now known to be Avatar) in parallel with another project, Battle Angel (an adaptation of the manga series Battle Angel Alita).[52] Both movies were to be shot in 3D. By December, Cameron stated that he wanted to film Battle Angel first, followed by Avatar. However in February 2006, he switched goals for the two film projects and decided to film Avatar first. He mentioned that if both films were successful, he would be interested in seeing a trilogy being made for both.[53]
Avatar had an estimated budget of over $300 million and was released on December 18, 2009.[54] This marked his first feature film since 1997's Titanic. It is composed almost entirely of computer-generated animation, using a more-advanced version of the "performance capture" technique used by director Robert Zemeckis in The Polar Express.[55] James Cameron had written an 80-page scriptment for Avatar in 1995[56] and announced in 1996 that he would make the film after completing Titanic. In December 2006, Cameron explained that the delay in producing the film since the 1990s had been to wait until the technology necessary to create his project was advanced enough, since at the time no studio would finance for the development of the visual effects.[57] The film was originally scheduled to be released in May 2009 but was pushed back to December 2009 to allow more time for post-production on the complex CGI and to give more time for theatres worldwide to install 3D projectors.[58] Cameron originally intended Avatar to be 3D-only.[59]
Avatar broke several box office records during its initial theatrical run. It grossed $749.7 million in the United States and Canada and more than $2.74 billion worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing film of all time in the United States and Canada, surpassing Cameron's Titanic.[60] Avatar also became the first movie to ever earn more than $2 billion worldwide. Including revenue from the re-release of Avatar featuring extended footage, it grossed $760.5 million in the U.S. and Canada and more than $2.78 billion worldwide. It was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director,[61] and won three for Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography and Best Visual Effects.
Avatar's success made Cameron the highest earner in Hollywood for 2010, netting him $257 million as reported by Vanity Fair.[62]
Disney announced in September 2011 that it would adapt James Cameron's film Avatar into Avatar Land,[63] a themed area at Disney's Animal Kingdom in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.
Cameron served as the executive producer of Sanctum, a film detailing the expedition of a team of underwater cave divers who find themselves trapped in a cave, their exit blocked and with no known way to reach the surface either in person or by radio contact.
In August 2013, Cameron announced his intention to film three sequels to Avatar simultaneously, to be released in December 2016, 2017 and 2018.[64] His original plans were to do Battle Angel next, but he changed his mind due to Avatar's success; "My intention when I made Avatar was to do Battle Angel next. However, the positive feedback for Avatar and the support of the message of Avatar, encouraged me to do more of those films."[65] Cameron's Lightstorm Entertainment bought the film rights to the Taylor Stevens novel The Informationist in October 2012 with plans for Cameron to direct it. A screenwriter will be hired to adapt the novel while Cameron works on the Avatar sequels.[66] Another project Cameron has announced is a personal commitment to shoot a film on the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as told through the story of Tsutomu Yamaguchi, a man who survived both attacks. Cameron met with Yamaguchi just days before he died in 2010.[67]
In 2012, Cameron and his wife and children adopted a vegan diet.[68][69] Cameron explains that "By changing what you eat, you will change the entire contract between the human species and the natural world".[70]
When asked what's the best thing an individual can do to fight climate change, Cameron said, "Stop eating animals."
This may surprise you, because it surprised me when I found out, but the single biggest thing that an individual can do to combat climate change is to stop eating animals. Because of the huge, huge carbon footprint of animal agriculture. I was shocked to find out that animal agriculture directly or indirectly accounts for 14.5% of all greenhouse gas emissions, compared to all transportation – every ship, car, truck, plane on the planet only accounts for 13%. Less than animal agriculture. So most people think that buying a Prius is the answer, and it's certainly not wrong, but it's not the biggest agent of climate change.[19]
Cameron received the inaugural Bradbury Award from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 1992 for Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Avatar would be a finalist in 2010).[71]
Cameron did not receive any major mainstream filmmaking awards prior to Titanic. For Titanic he won several including Academy Awards for Best Picture (shared with Jon Landau), Best Director and Best Film Editing (shared with Conrad Buff and Richard A. Harris). Cameron is one of the few filmmakers to win three Oscars in a single evening and Golden Globes for Best Motion Picture – Drama and Best Director.
In recognition of "a distinguished career as a Canadian filmmaker", Carleton University, Ottawa, awarded Cameron the honorary degree of Doctor of Fine Arts on June 13, 1998. Cameron accepted the degree in person and gave the Convocation Address.[citation needed]
He also received an honorary doctorate in October 1998 from Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, for his accomplishments in the international film industry.
In 1998, Cameron attended convocation to receive an honorary doctorate of Laws from Ryerson University, Toronto. The university awards its highest honor to those who have made extraordinary contributions in Canada, or internationally.
In 1999, Cameron received the honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree[72] from California State University, Fullerton, where he had been a student in the 1970s. He received the degree at the university's annual Commencement exercises that year, where he gave the keynote speech.
In recognition of his contributions to underwater filming and remote vehicle technology, the University of Southampton awarded Cameron the honorary degree of Doctor of the University. Cameron did not attend the Engineering Sciences graduation ceremony in July 2004 where the degree was awarded but instead received it in person at the National Oceanography Centre.[73]
On June 3, 2008, it was announced that he would be inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame.[74] On December 18, 2009, the same day Avatar was released worldwide, Cameron received the 2,396th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[75] After the release of Avatar, on February 28, 2010, Cameron was also honored with a Visual Effects Society (VES) Lifetime Achievement Award.
For Avatar, Cameron won numerous awards as well, including: Golden Globes for Best Motion Picture – Drama (shared with Jon Landau) and Best Director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director and Best Film Editing (shared with John Refoua and Stephen E. Rivkin).[76] However, Cameron and Avatar lost to his former wife[77] Kathryn Bigelow and her film, The Hurt Locker.
On September 24, 2010, James Cameron was named Number 1 in The 2010 Guardian Film Power 100 list.[78] In a list compiled by the British magazine New Statesman in September 2010, he was listed 30th in the list of "The World's 50 Most Influential Figures 2010".[79]
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame inducted Cameron in June 2012.[80]
Cameron has received numerous awards; mainly for Titanic and Avatar.
Cameron often casts certain actors more than once in his films. Cameron has consistently worked with Bill Paxton, Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen, Jenette Goldstein and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
1 Although Wisher Jr. has written some of Cameron's works, he is listed in the above table as an actor.
2 His reprised role of Reese was cut from the theatrical release, but restored in the DVD's Special Edition Version.
Cameron's films have recurring themes and subtexts. These include the conflicts between humanity and technology,[82] the dangers of corporate greed,[83] strong female characters,[84] and a strong romance subplot.[84] In almost all films, the main characters usually get into dramatic crisis situations with significant threats to their own life or even the threat of an impending apocalypse. While The Abyss dealt with deep sea exploration (shot in an unfinished nuclear reactor filled with water) and Cameron himself became an expert in the field of deep-sea wreckage exploration, exploring the wreckage of the Titanic and the Bismarck.[85] Cameron will return to this theme with The Dive, shooting from a minisub.
Cameron has contributed to many projects as a writer, director, and producer, or as a combination of the three.
Cameron's first film was the 1978 science fiction short film Xenogenesis, which he directed, wrote and produced. Cameron's films have grossed a total of over $7 billion worldwide.
In addition to works of fiction, Cameron has directed and appeared in several documentaries including Ghosts of the Abyss and Aliens of the Deep. He also contributed to a number of television series including Dark Angel and Entourage. He plans to shoot a small drama film after the Avatar trilogy, just to prove that 3D works even for domestic dramas.[86]
Cameron has been married five times to the following spouses: Sharon Williams (1978–1984), Gale Anne Hurd (1985–1989), director Kathryn Bigelow (1989–1991), Linda Hamilton (1997–1999, daughter Josephine born in 1993), and Suzy Amis (2000–present). Cameron had dated Hamilton since 1991. Eight months after the marriage, however, they separated, and within days of Cameron's Oscar victory with Titanic, the couple announced their divorce. As part of the divorce settlement, Cameron was ordered to pay Hamilton $50 million.[87] Hamilton later revealed that the reason for their divorce was not only Cameron's blind devotion to his work to the exclusion of almost everything else, but also that he had been having an affair with Suzy Amis, an actress he cast as Lizzy Calvert in Titanic.[88] He married Amis in 2000, and they have one son and two daughters. Cameron lives in New Zealand, a country he fell in love with when he was filming Avatar.[89] Hurd was the producer of Cameron's The Terminator, Aliens, and The Abyss, and the executive producer of Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Hamilton played the role of Sarah Connor in both Terminator films. Amis played the part of Lizzy Calvert, Rose's granddaughter, in Titanic. Both Cameron (Avatar) and Bigelow (The Hurt Locker) were nominated for the Oscar, the Golden Globe, and the BAFTA Award for Best Director for films released in 2009. Cameron won the Golden Globe, while Bigelow won the Oscar and the BAFTA for Best Director, becoming the first woman to win either. [90] [91]
Cameron is a member of the NASA Advisory Council and is working on the project to put cameras on an upcoming manned Mars mission.[92] Cameron has also given speeches and raised money for the Mars Society, a non-profit organization lobbying for the colonization of Mars.[93][94]
Cameron became an expert on deep-sea exploration in conjunction with his research and underwater filming for The Abyss (1989) and Titanic (1997).[95] In June 2010, Cameron met in Washington with the EPA to discuss possible solutions to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon (BP) oil spill. Later that week at the All Things Digital Conference, he attracted some notoriety when he stated, "Over the last few weeks I've watched...and been thinking, 'Those morons don't know what they're doing'." Reportedly, Cameron had offered BP help to plug the oil well, but it declined.[95][96][97] The oil spill was eventually stopped using techniques similar to those Cameron recommended.[98]
Although Cameron had resided in the United States since 1971, he remains a Canadian citizen. Cameron applied for American citizenship but withdrew his application after George W. Bush won the presidential election in 2004.[99]
Cameron calls himself "Converted Agnostic", and says "I've sworn off agnosticism, which I now call cowardly atheism". As a child he described the Lord's Prayer as being a "tribal chant".[100]
In June 2013, British artist Roger Dean filed a legal action at a court in New York against Cameron. Dean accused Cameron of "wilful and deliberate copying, dissemination and exploitation" of his original images, relating to Cameron's 2009 film Avatar and sought damages of $50m.[101]
Early in 2014, Cameron purchased the Beaufort Vineyard and Estate Winery in Courtenay, BC, at a price of $2.7 million, as well as a number of other businesses in the area, including cattle ranching operations, to pursue his passion for sustainable agribusiness.[102] Three months prior, Cameron made the local news when he was caught on camera purchasing quality wine at a local liquor store.[103]
On March 7, 2012, Cameron took the Deepsea Challenger submersible to the bottom of the New Britain Trench in a five-mile-deep solo dive.[104] On March 26, 2012, Cameron reached the Challenger Deep, the deepest part of the Mariana Trench.[11] He spent more than three hours exploring the ocean floor before returning to the surface.[105] Cameron is the first person to accomplish the trip solo.[11] He was preceded by unmanned dives in 1995 and 2009 and by Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh, who were the first men to reach the bottom of the Mariana Trench aboard the Bathyscaphe Trieste in 1960.[106] Cameron is making a three-dimensional film of his dive.[107] During his dive to the Challenger Deep, the data he collected resulted in interesting new finds in the field of marine biology, including new species of sea cucumber, squid worm, and giant single-celled amoeba, which are exciting finds due to the harshness of the environment.[108]
Cameron's directorial style has provided great influence throughout the film industry. Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly creator Joss Whedon stated that Cameron's approach to action scenes was influential to those in The Avengers. He also cited Cameron as "the leader and the teacher and the Yoda".[109] Michael Bay considers Cameron an idol and was convinced by him to use 3D in Transformers: Dark of the Moon.[110] Cameron's approach to 3D also inspired Baz Luhrmann to utilize it in The Great Gatsby.[111] Other directors that have drawn inspiration from Cameron include Peter Jackson.[112]
In 1999, Cameron was labeled selfish and cruel by one collaborator, author Orson Scott Card, who had been hired a decade earlier to work with Cameron on the novelization of The Abyss. Card said the experience was "hell on wheels. He was very nice to me, because I could afford to walk away. But he made everyone around him miserable, and his unkindness did nothing to improve the film in any way. Nor did it motivate people to work faster or better. And unless he changes his way of working with people, I hope he never directs anything of mine. In fact, now that this is in print, I can fairly guarantee that he will never direct anything of mine. Life is too short to collaborate with selfish, cruel people."[113] He later alluded to Cameron in his review of Me and Orson Welles, where he described witnessing a famous director chew out an assistant for his own error.[114]
After working with Cameron on Titanic, Kate Winslet decided she would not work with Cameron again unless she earned "a lot of money". She said that Cameron was a nice man, but she found his temper difficult to deal with.[115] In an editorial, the British newspaper The Independent said that Cameron "is a nightmare to work with. Studios have come to fear his habit of straying way over schedule and over budget. He is notorious on set for his uncompromising and dictatorial manner, as well as his flaming temper."[115]
Sam Worthington, who worked with Cameron, stated on The Jay Leno Show that Cameron had very high expectations from everyone: he would use a nail gun to nail the film crew's cell phones to a wall above an exit door in retaliation for unwanted ringing during production.[116] Other actors, such as Bill Paxton and Sigourney Weaver, have praised Cameron's perfectionism. Weaver said of Cameron: "He really does want us to risk our lives and limbs for the shot, but he doesn't mind risking his own."[117] Michael Biehn has also praised Cameron, claiming "Jim is a really passionate person. He cares more about his movies than other directors care about their movies", but added "I've never seen him yell at anybody." However, Biehn did claim Cameron is "not real sensitive when it comes to actors."[118]
Composer James Horner refused to work with Cameron for a decade following their strained working relationship on 1986's Aliens;[citation needed] they eventually settled their differences, and Horner went on to score both Titanic and Avatar.
An episode of South Park from its 16th season depicted the director as being self-obsessed. He is seen going deep sea diving while playing his own theme song and appearing oblivious to his overtly bored ship's crew. However, the episode also credits him for "raising the bar" on entertainment.[citation needed]
During the 70th Golden Globe Awards ceremony, co-host Amy Poehler prompted laughter and audible gasps[119] when she joked about a controversy around the depiction of torture in Zero Dark Thirty, a film co-produced and directed by Cameron's ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow. According to Poehler, "when it comes to torture, I trust the lady who spent three years married to James Cameron."[119]
In 2014, Cameron was the keynote speaker at the first annual Fame and Philanthropy, a charity fundraiser which raised money for several high profile celebrity charities. Cameron was one of several guest speakers at the event along with Charlize Theron and Halle Berry. [120]
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HOW in the hell is getting the following teamates over and over possible, just listen to these descriptions of the past few losses in order of most recent. Game 1: I'm yorick top vs rumble and right of the back our bot lane MF gets a double kill. Sounds good right? Next thing I know hecarim ganks for me on half health and Tower dives a full health rumble only to die. Then he goes bot lane 2 times in a row EACH time causing him and out support to die. While this is going on our ryze is getting dominated mid and I kill rumble top. Next thing I know hecarim does the same damn thing and tower dives rumble when Im NOT there and sure enough dies again. Soon enough hecarim and our support both have 12 deaths with ryze being close making the score 19-40 or something close. AKA a loss. Game 2: I'm kassadin mid vs lux and sure enough get 2 kills on her. Jayce is doing pretty well top as well. Bot lane however.....their tristana gets so rediculously fed that she kills all of us in just 3-5 shots. I try roaming but their support does an amazing job of warding and their jungle is always guarding them as well. I carry the team into late game but that's when my team just DOES NOT group up. Jayce decides hes never going to leave top lane and gets caught top multiple times and our jarvan uses his ult in the most horrible ways possible making it so we can never kill their tristana in fights and I go from 11-2 to 11-7. We lose again. Game 3: This was an easy win as I was carrying rediculously hard as swain, but because of the fact that zed was AFK for such a long time we couldn't win direct fights. We still almost won because of how well I did in team fights but it wasn't quite enough. Yet another loss from afk's. Game 4: Lol...if any of you ever get a team like this god help you. In champion select these 2 dummies argue over top and it ends up where we have to get a darius support (elise top). The game starts and darius immediately starts trolling by pretending to be the enemy jungler and ends up getting WAY behind in level. Elise is getting crushed top and meanwhile I get 1 kill mid. Maokai realizes all he has to do is stop me from getting more kills mid so he camps me and the game turns into hell as elise and bot lane feed non stop. I myself end up being useless and start dieing a lot after they don't surrender. Yay another loss. Game 5: I'm kassadin mid vs akali and kill her 2 times once we reach 6+. Olaf dies about 5 times top even though I roamed and gave him a kill. Bot lane is also getting beat after this WW tower dives and feeds vayne. I get a couple more kills from roaming but wukong completely dominates fights after olaf uber fed him. Loss. Game 6: Perhaps one of the worst adc's I've ever had ended up being in this game. Starting at 2 minutes he/she went on a spree of dieing every time he entered the lane. Not to mention our jungler went AFK. 4v5 Loss again. The 2 losses before the one above were BOTH because of afk's resulting in 4v5's (and of course bot lane lost in both as well). In my past 20-30 games my bot lane has only won maybe 2-3 of them, its getting kind of ridiculous. To make it worse i've dodged 3 games between my past 10 games due to having 2 people get so angry at each other that we end up getting a garen support or something else like that. All I want is some normal games without afk's, troll champion picks, and teamates who think they can TD someone on full health when they are on half.
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its a bad streak, but youre also not climbing because you are blaming your teammates all the time There is no way you played perfectly. Focus on your own mistakes and you will climb the ladder. you said i started 11-2 then ended 11-7 because team would not surrender. You died 5 times in a row as kassadin. you can't really blame your team for that one.
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i honestly dont want this to be a yaoi. but im just wondering who does?
*raises hand* Hai?
Well, it'd be great if it was shonen-ai... or it stayed shonen-ai???? I'm not sure if being a yaoi'd ruin it... so Shonen-ai ish good
hell yeah! that would be AWESOME! ah-hem.....just sayin..
Yes yes i would! I want the one with black hair and the little animal guy together!! ( sorry im bad with names)
as a yaoi fan i wish to... but as a fan of this manga it doesnt fit this manga very well...
I definitely don't want this to be yaoi.
yeah it would defenitly be good if they just added a bit more shonen ai~
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Peasant Agroecology, the key for humankind and the planet
Agroecology has existed for many years, and much has been written about it already. It is a multidimensional approach, founded on knowledge, know-how and peasants' ways of life, grounded in their respective natural, social and cultural environment. For many years it was considered as archaic and not really adapted to "modern progress". Agroecology was banished, but is now making a big comeback. But who will reap the benefits?
Agroecological farming ensures soil, peasant seeds and farmers' knowledge is valued and sustained. It is the symbol of the diversity of production and practice that exists, of the diversity of food and its cultural identities adapted to their social and natural environment. Yet today it is being taken over by industrial agriculture. Industrial agriculture is the opposite of agroecology, as it is based on profit, uniformity, specialisation, and concentration, with all the deadly consequences that this implies.
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Speech by La Via Campesina delegation in the closing ceremony of International Year of Family Farming, Manila, Philippines
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Dear Madam/ Chair and respected dignitaries
I take the floor on behalf of La Via Campesina, the world's largest movement of family farmers, Indigenous people, fisher folks and small scale food producers. All over the world peasants, small scale producers continue to grow and distribute healthy food in their communities and feeding the world. They are indeed the family farmers that feed over 75% of the world population. And it is very important that the International Year of family farming allowed us to increase the attention to this important and crucial sector.
This is in stark contrast to the commercial food industry, whose priorities are profit and speculation and whose strategy is to make agriculture increasingly dependent on agro-toxics and inputs controlled by the corporates, increasing their profits through the sale of toxic chemicals and inputs which is responsible for the destruction of natural resources and peasant based food production and family farming.
Position Paper of La Vía Campesina:Environmental and Climate Justice Now!
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We continue organizing, mobilizing, and building alternatives to redress the climate crisis and defend Mother Earth.
We, La Vía Campesina, indigenous people, small farmers, youth, migrants, rural workers, agricultural day laborers, fisherfolk, artisans, alongside our allies in the struggle for profound social transformations, are coming together in Lima for the COP 20 to reiterate once again our commitment to feeding the people of the world, to organizing, mobilizing, struggling and building alternatives that cool down the planet, not just for our own benefit but for all those who share Mother Earth.
Very recently, civil society witnessed again how the people of the world continue defending ourselves and rejecting the false solutions of capital and its institutions who claim to take us into account. With 2014 being International Year of Family Farming, the World Bank and its allies in the United Nations (UN) tried selling the world what they termed "Climate-Smart Agriculture" as some sort of new product that would put the brakes on the climate crisis once and for all. However, on the streets of New York and within the Climate Summit itself, we unmasked this fallacy and informed public opinion what "Climate-Smart Agriculture" is all about: more industrial agriculture, more World Bank financing and support for the capital of the few, more contamination and plundering of natural resources, more exploitation of lands, territories, peoples and workers. Above all else, it is part of the same green economy proposal based on less justice and less ecology.
Protests by Farmers And Trade Unions Against The Mega FTA RCEP
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Press Release: Indian Coordination Committee of Farmers' Movement
(India, New Delhi, December 1, 2014) As negotiators from 16 nations met today in New Delhi for 5 day consultations on the Regional Cooperation Economic Partnership (RCEP), Farmers, Trade unions, retailers groups, and civil society organizations protested outside the India Expo Mart in Greater Noida.
Amidst a large police presence, protestors, raised slogans such as 'Protect Indian Agriculture: Say No to RCEP FTA', 'Stop Undemocratic RCEP FTA' , ' Protect Indian Dairy Sector', 'If FTAs benefits people why are texts kept secret' , ' No secrecy - We Want Transparency'. Later, a delegation submitted a memorandum (attached letter) to the Government officials negotiating the RCEP.


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Four Victorian yachts are expected to enter The Good Guys Launceston to Hobart Yacht Race this year, including the champion yacht Audi Penfold Sports from the Royal Yacht Club of Victoria. Derwent Sailing Squadron Commodore Ron Bugg announced the interstate interest in this 285 nautical mile race around the north and east coastline of Tasmania at today's launch of the sixth annual L2H.
Minister for Sport and Recreation Michelle O'Byrne, in officially launching the race, described the L2H as a highly competitive alternative in time, cost and experience for yacht owners and their crews to the longer ocean races to Hobart from Sydney and Melbourne.
Commodore Bugg predicted a fleet of forty boats for this year's L2H, which starts from Beauty Point on the Tamar River at 11am on December 27, also welcoming aboard as new naming rights sponsor, electric retailers The Good Guys.
Commodore Bugg said interest in the L2H had spread across Bass Strait with at least four Victorian yachts expected to join the fleet of boats from the Derwent and the Tamar in setting sail from Beauty Point to Hobart.
Melbourne-based yachtsman and Port Phillip ship's pilot Captain David Ellis, who flew over especially for the launch, announced he planned to again enter his yacht, Audi Penfold Sports.
The Archambault 31, the first Victorian entrant in the L2H, sailed a most competitive race last year, placing third in the IRC handicap category.
Ellis has since scored an impressive win at the Sydney Harbour Regatta and a respectable second place at Hamilton Island Race Week, and loaned the boat to a Tasmanian crew which went on to win the Australian women's keelboat championship on Melbourne's Port Phillip.
In addition, the DSS has received expressions of interest from three other Victorian yachts: Bernard Allard's Elan 410, Saltaire, Rick Pacey's Beneteau 36.7 and Kathy McFarlane's Elliott 10.5, Running Bare, also from the RYCV.
Heading a strong local fleet will be Gary Smith's Bakewell-White 45, The Fork in the Road, which last weekend won the premier AMS handicap category of the 190 nautical mile Maria Island Race around Tasmania's rugged south-east coast.
Smith has returned to offshore racing this summer with his fast, Tasmanian-built yacht which took line honours in the 2008 Launceston to Hobart Race and is aiming at line honours again, plus a major handicap win.
'I am aiming at a double victory in the L2H – line honours and first place overall on corrected time,' Smith said at the launch. 'I have a very strong crew this year, including sailmaker Steve Walker and Alex Norton, who has recently returned from being involved in the Spanish Telefonica challenge for the Volvo Race.'
Last year's Overall Winner, Masquerade, Tony Harmsen's Morgan 35, will be lining up again, along with past handicap division winners Host Plus Executive (Jeff Cordell), Pisces (David Taylor) and Footloose (Stewart Geeves).
Several entries are expected from Tamar River clubs, including Advantedge. Andrew Jones' fast Inglis 14.3 from the Port Dalrymple Yacht Club.
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Building frame structure US 2234960 A Abstract available in Claims available in Description (OCR text may contain errors) 1M 1%, 19-41. H. W. BUELOW BUILDING FRAME smuc'wum Original Filed Sept. 20, 1935 Patented Mar. 18, 1941 UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE No. 41,364. Divided and this application Octoher 3, 1933, Serial No. 233,613 6 Claims. The present invention relates to building frame structures and particularly to the provision of a metal building frame structure embodying improved structural shapes and improved constructions of attaching elements for such shapes; and is a division of applicants co-pending application, Serial No. 41,364, filed September 20, 1935. A principal object of the present invention is to provide a metal framing structure for build lugs and an improved method of erecting the same. It is also an object of the present invention to provide a metal framing structure embodying members which may be assembled to produce a variety of desired architectural features. It is also an object of the present invention to provide a framing structure embodying structural members formed of one or more standard structural shapes and arranged for connection by attaching elements formed in one or more standard shapes. It is also an object of the present invention to provide improved structural member sections for use in metal framing and to provide improved attaching elements for use therewith. It is also an object of the present invention to provide for use in a metal framing structure or the like an improved method andstructure for assembling structural members together utilizing brackets having clamping portions adapted to fit over a structural member which structural member may thereafter be expanded to form a tight t thereof within the bracket. .t is a further and more specific object of the present invention to provide improved methods of and means for forming connections between the rafters and associated parts of a building structure, including the provision of improved attaching elements for forming such connection. With the above as well as other and more detailed objects in view, which appear in the following description and in the appended claims, preferred but illustrative embodiments of the invention are shown in the accompanying drawing, ' throughout the several views of which corresponding reference characters are used to designate corresponding parts. Figure 1 is a view in perspective of a framing structure embodying the present invention and illustrating several of the architectural features available in the practice thereof; Fig. 2 is a detailed view of an illustrative ridge connection, based upon Fig, 1; Fig. 3 is a detailed view of a connecting ele ment, hereinafter called a rafter plate; (Cl. 1(i81) Fig. 4 is a detailed view of an illustrative valley rafter connection, based upon Fig. 1; Fig. 5 is a detailed view of a connecting element, hereinafter called a rafter sleeve; Fig. 6 is a detailed view of an illustrative hip rafter connection based upon Fig. 1; Fig. 7 is a detailed View of an illustrative hinged rafter and channel plate connection based upon Fig. 1; Fig. 8 is a detailed view of a connecting hinge, and, Fig. 9 is a detail view of an illustrative rafter and gable jack stud connection. In accordance with the invention disclosed in the above identified patent application Serial No. 41,364, a complete framing structure for homes, as well as for a wide variety of other structures, may comprise a relatively few standard shapes. These structural shapes may be erected through use of a relatively few, economically formed attaching elements. The main structural members, which may be of I, T, or channel section, are preferably of the type disclosed in Patent No. 1,900,541, granted March 7, 1933, on application Serial No. 548,134, filed July 1, 1931, by the present applicant and George Buelow. As described and claimed in that patent, these members, which may be formed of either single or double web construction, are characterized as being formed of two angle or channel members arranged in back to-back relation and rigidly secured together with the opposed and adjacent faces in spaced relation. These opposed and ajacent faces are corrugated in the direction of their length, the corrugations of one being complementary to the corrugations of the other. These portions of members which opposed and adjacent each other are of rigid and self-supportlng character and they are so spaced with respect to each other as to form be tween them a sinuous slot of such character that when a nail or similar fastener of the character intended for use therewith is driven into the slot between the members in a direction transverse to the slot, the nail or fastener is caused to b nd and to approximately follow the sinuosity of the slot to thereby positively fix the nail or fastener in position with respect to the members. With this construction, a substantial portion of the erection may be accomplished by simply nailing r parts together in the manner now customary in the erection of wooden frame structures. The improvements of the present application are directed primarily to the roofing features although certain of the improvements herein claimed are applicable elsewhere throughout a framing structure, such for example, as in connection with stair stringers or the like. The disclosure of the present improvements in connection with roofing features is, therefore, to be regarded in an illustrative and not in a limiting sense. Referring generally to Fig. 1, in accordance with the illustrated embodiment of the present invention, the roofing features include two gable roofs intersecting in a valley, and a hip roof. As illustrated, the rafters II2 are preferably constructed of I-section in accordance with said Patent No. 1,900,541 and are hingedly connected to the upper story channel plates I28. This form of connection is advantageous in that it permits flexibility in the course of the erection, and, with a single type of connecting hinge, enables the erection of structures having any desired roof pitch. It will be understood that roofing material may be either nailed or otherwise secured directly to the rafters in the usual manner. Referring particularly to Fig. 8, an illustrative hinge element 2T3, comprises the two plates 212, pivotally connected together by a conventional pin 274. To provide an enlarged connecting surface, the hinge elements 212 are secured in any desired manner to plates 216, which are suitably apertured at a number of points, to provide for connection to channel plates of various dimensions. Referring more particularly to Fig. '7, hinges 210 are screwed to channel plates I28 by screws 28B, and are correspondingly bolted to the flanges of rafter II2 by screws 282. The rafter hinges are preferably taken apart before erection, one part being bolted to the rafters while supported on horses, the other half of the hinge being bolted to a rafter plate. The erection may then be completed in a simple and speedy manner by driving pins through the hinge sections. Referring particularly to Figs. 1, 2 and 3, the other ends of certain of the rafters II2 are connected to a ridge piece I2ll by rafter plates 290. Rafter plates 2% are preferably stamped from a plane piece of metal, and comprise a flat central section 292, and two flanged sections 294. The main section 232 is provided with an elongated slot 2%, and relatively short arcuate slots 293 are provided in the end sections. One end section 309 is disposed to be bent along any of a plurality of dotted lines 302 to accommodate the rafters to different pitches. Preferably, this bending is accomplished in the course of the erection process, and as will be understood, the degree of bending between the illustrated position and a position ninety degrees therefrom, is determined by the use to which the bracket is put. In connecting a rafter to a ridge piece, as shown in Fig. 2, a ninety degree bending of end section 330 is'required. Referring further to Fig. 2, rafter plate 290 is secured to rafter I I2 by one or more bolts 304, which pass through the elongated slot 296 and through corresponding openings formed in the web of rafter II2. The connection thus afforded is adjustable, to compensate for any slight inaccuracy which may occur in the rafter lengths. Plate 230 is secured to ridge piece I2Il by a bolt 3%, which passes through a slot 238, which is made arcuate to adapt the plate to different pitches, and through a corresponding opening in piece I20. It will be understood that a single connecting bolt 396 serves to connect corresponding plates 2% on each side of piece I 20. The spacing between the rafter plate flanges 294 conform to the spacing between the flanges of the rafters IIZ, so that, if desired, plates 2% may be further secured to the rafters II2 by screws 3m, which pass through the flanges of each rafter H2 and plate 298, respectively, and by a screw 3I2, which passes through the web of rafter H2, and through the corresponding arcuate slot 298 in plate 290. The openings for screws 3H) may be made after the parts are adjusted. It will be noted that plates 29!! are symmetrical and so may be used either right or left handed, or stated in another way either end of each plate may be bent over for connection to the associated ridge plate, depending upon which side of the associated rafter it is desired to secure to the body of the rafter plate. As shown in Figs. 4 and 6, jack rafters H4 are connected to hip and valley rafters H6 and H8, respectively, by rafter plates 230 as described in connection with Fig. 2 and by rafter sleeves 340, shown in detail in Fig. 5. Referring to the latter figure, each rafter sleeve 340 is formed in the shape of a rectangle, from a plane sheet of metal, and is provided with suitably spaced openings 342 in the side thereof, and 344 and 345 in the ends thereof. Referring more particularly to Fig. 4, sleeve 340 is slid over the end of valley rafter H8, and is secured in place thereon, either by screws 348 which pass through the end openings 344 and through the flange of rafter H8, or, and preferably, by nailing through the openings 344 into the sinuous slot in the rafter flange. The latter action spreads the rafter flanges and locks the sleeve in place thereon. Rafter plate 230 is in turn secured to sleeve 340 by a bolt 350 which passes through the arcuate slot 298 in the end section of plate 293. In making connections of this character, it will be noted that the end section 330 of each plate 293 is not bent to the full ninety degree position shown in Fig. 2. Referring particularly to Fig. 6, jack rafters H4 are similarly connected to hip rafters II6, through sleeves 343 and plates 293. Referring again particularly to Fig. 4, valley rafter IIB is mitred along the line 363 to accommodate it to the horizontal surface of the cap plate I 28, and is secured to the latter by one or more angle clips 362. As will be understood, the connection of hip rafters to the cap plates is accomplished in a similar manner, and as shown in Fig. 1 such angle clips are also employed to connect the intersecting ends of ridge plate I and of hip rafter IIB. Referring particularly to Figs. 1 and 9, it will be noticed that gable jack studs I38 extend between the sill member I28 and the rafters I I2. The gable pack studs are suitably secured to the member I28 in the manner described in more detail in the above identified parent application, and are secured to the rafters by means of rafter clips 320. Rafter clips 320 are preferably stamped from plane blanks, and include a U-shaped portion having legs 322 and a back 324; and an angularly disposed section 326 which extends upwardly from the back 324,, and is provided with ears 328. Nailing openings 339 are provided in the legs 322 and in the extension 326. In erecting gable studs IE8, the rafter clips 32B are somewhat loosely applied thereto by bending the ears 328 around the flanges of stud I 08. After the studs I38 are secured to the member I28, each rafter clip 320 is nailed to a rafter IIZ, the nails passing through openings 330 and into the flange slots, as described in connection with the other figures. Thereafter, legs 322 are nailed to studs IUB, the nails passing through the corresponding openings 330 into the slots in the flanges of the studs, separating the flanges and tightening the joint. Prior to the nailing the clip may be slid along stud I08 to compensate for any inaccuracy in the length thereof. It will be appreciated that the herein described construction is extremely simple in construction and in erection. It will also be understood that various modifications may be made in the form and arrangement of the various parts without departing from the invention. What I claim is: 1. A connection between a ridge piece and a channel shaped rafter which utilizes a rafter plate com-prising a channel shaped bracket hav ing a parallel sided mid section and an integrally formed bent over end section, a connection between said end section and said ridge piece, and a connection bringing said mid section parallel to and in nested relation within said rafter. 2. A connection between a channel shaped rafter and a channel shaped hip or valley rafter comprising a rectangular sleeve disposed to surround said hip or valley rafter and connected to the flanges thereof, a rafter plate connected to the web of said first mentioned rafter, and a connection between said sleeve and said rafter plate. 3. A connection between two structural members each having flanges separated by webs, the flange of one of said members being expansible, comprising a sleeve disposed to surround said one member, a bracket connected to the web of the other member and secured to the sleeve, and a fastening device passed through the sleeve into the flange of said one member to expand the same into gripping engagement with the sleeve. 4. A connecting bracket for use with a channel shaped structural member, comprising a channel shaped mid-section having flanges and a web and an end section integral with and projecting from one end of the web of the mid-section, said midsection having a width dimension such that it may be freely but snugly nested within the channel shaped structural member, and said end section being bent with respect to the web of said mid-section along a line forming acute angles with the sides of said mid-section. 5. A connection between a ridge piece and a channel shaped rafter, comprising a channel shaped rafter plate having a channel shaped midsection, and an end section integral with and projecting from the end of the web of said midsection, said end section being bent over with respect to said web of said mid-section, said midsection being nested within and secured to said channel shaped rafter, and said end section being secured to said ridge piece. 6. A connection between two structural members, each having flanges interconnected by a web, comprising a rectangular sleeve disposed to surround one of said structural members, a rafter plate having a portion disposed to be nested within the other structural member, and means forming a connection between said sleeve and said rafter plate. HENRY W. BUELOW. Referenced by
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Posted: 11/12/2008 - Officials with the attorney general's office say John Cornett was indicted on 13 counts of unlawfully obtaining prescriptions, commonly known as "doctor shopping".
Updated: 11/13/2008 - Kentucky's high school graduation rates are always below national averages.
Updated: 11/12/2008 - The 4-year-old girl was left alone on the bus for about 3-5 minutes Wednesday morning, after the bus had made its runs. Clark County school officials say they're taking this incident seriously.
Updated: 11/12/2008 - Bluegrass Crime Stoppers is keeping up with the latest technology by adding text messaging and email as ways to send tips.
Updated: 11/12/2008 - Because of the struggling economy, some dealerships say they've had to lay off employees and cut pay.
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Posted: 11/12/2008 - Thomas Bartley, Jordon Holbrook, Christopher McPeek, and Janelle Ratliff appeared in court on Wednesday, they were indicted last month.
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