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Jeremy FILSELL (b. 1964)
Tomorrow shall be my dancing day (2012)* [3:37]
Epitaph (Here shadow lie) (2012) [4:17]
If God build not the house (2006)* [8:14]
Magnificat (Windsor Service) (2001)* [4:38]
Nunc Dimittis (Windsor Service) (2001)* [3:52]
The Transfiguration (2011)* [5:28]
Te Deum (Windsor Service) (2001)* [9:25]
Jubilate (Windsor Service) (2001)* [2:21]
David BRIGGS (b. 1962)
Pange lingua (2012) [6:19]
Organ Improvisation on Tantum Ergo** [4:54]
Messe pour Saint-Sulpice (2011)** [26:55]
Vasari Singers/Jeremy Backhouse
*Jeremy Filsell (organ); ** David Briggs (organ)
rec. 15-17 February 2013, Tonbridge School Chapel, Tonbridge, Kent, UK. DDD
Texts and English translations included
This enterprising disc showcases the talents of two of the foremost organists of the current generation. Both Jeremy Filsell and David Briggs, who are almost exact contemporaries and have been friends and colleagues for many years, have attracted widespread acclaim as organists - and, in Filsell's case, as a pianist. However as this programme demonstrates, both of them are fine composers as well as performers. Both are now based in North America, Filsell in Washington D.C. and Briggs in Toronto. The Vasari Singers have had the very happy idea of bringing the two of them together for this project, commissioning them to write music for this disc and inviting each to accompany their respective pieces on the organ.
The recordings were made during what must have been a pretty busy and exciting weekend in the chapel of Tonbridge School in Kent. That's one of the Vasari Singers' favourite recording locations. We know from previous discs that one of its attractions is the Marcussen organ, which was built in 1995, I believe. The instrument was equal to the prodigious demands of Francis Pott's The Cloud of Unknowing, which the Vasaris and Filsell recorded there a few years ago (review) and its credentials are endorsed in the Naxos booklet by David Briggs, who rates the instrument as "magnificent" and describes it as "deliciously suave, Swedish and refined, but here with a believable French accent, saturated in not a little garlic." The organ, superbly captured by the recording team of Adrian Peacock and William Brown, makes a stellar contribution to this programme: only on two tracks is it silent.
Jeremy Filsell somewhat modestly describes his choral pieces as music that "embod[ies] the church musician at work'". Don't be led by that statement to underestimate the selection of his music that is presented here for these pieces are of genuine substance - firmly and productively rooted in the traditions of the music of the English church. Several of them were composed during the decade that Filsell spent as an alto lay clerk in the choir of St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle before he moved to the USA in 2008. Indeed, the Windsor Service was written specifically for that choir. These canticles are impressive. There's much vivid and dramatic music, both for choir and organ, in the Magnificat though there's a slower, more reflective section at 'He remembering His mercy', where the organ falls silent. The Nunc Dimittis begins in a mood of quiet prayerfulness, the tempo slow, but at 'To be a light to lighten the Gentiles' the music becomes powerful and majestic in a most imposing fashion. Perhaps the most commanding of these four Windsor Canticles is the Te Deum. When I first listened to the disc I hadn't read the notes and I was struck by the similarity between the opening of Filsell's setting and Walton's Coronation Te Deum. When later I read his notes I read his comment that he had "failed to banish" Walton's setting from his mind. Well, if you're going to have a model for a Te Deum Walton's magnificent setting is not a bad precedent. In truth, though Waltonian fingerprints are all over the opening and reappear at 'We believe that Thou shalt come to be our Judge', Filsell goes his own way for most of the piece. Not surprisingly, there's an excitingly virtuosic organ part and it sounds to me as if the choral parts must be exhilarating to sing, especially as the mood of the music frequently changes to match the sentiments of the text. This is a tremendous setting and it's thrillingly performed here.
Jeremy Filsell has written not one but two pieces for this programme. Tomorrow shall be my dancing day is mainly joyful and light on its feet though there's a slower, more thoughtful section at 'In a manger laid and wrapped I was.' This is an effective and enjoyable piece. Epitaph (Here shadow lie) [yes. shadow] offers a strong contrast. It's an a cappella setting of a seventeenth century epitaph. Filsell describes this as "harmonically static but prayerful". The harmonies may be as he describes them but the harmonic language is anything but uninteresting. He's composed a lovely piece and the Vasari Singers make a splendid job of it.
I heard some pieces by David Briggs during his time as Director of Music at Gloucester Cathedral (1994-2002) and my most recent encounter with his music came in the shape of the very fine Hyperion disc by Trinity College, Cambridge (review). That CD had as its centrepiece the thrilling Messe de Notre Dame (2002). The Mass setting on this new disc is also named after an important Parisian church, Saint-Sulpice. It was an Anglo-Canadian commission which was inspired, Briggs tells us, by the huge acoustic of that church, which is where it was first performed. Though he doesn't say so I wonder if the Mass is also a homage to the great French organist, Louis Vierne, who was assistant organist (to his teacher, Widor) at the church in the last few years of the nineteenth century. Vierne's excellent Messe solenelle in C sharp minor, which Briggs recorded during his time at Gloucester, was composed during Vierne's time at Saint-Sulpice. Like the Vierne Mass, and several others by French composers, the setting by Briggs is for SATB choir with accompaniment by two organs - the Grand Orgue, which plays independently, and the smaller Orgue de Choeur, which accompanies the singing. Briggs' work can be accompanied by a single instrument, as is done here, though I should love to hear a performance with two organs to experience the spatial effects.
The Kyrie opens, as it does in the Vierne setting, with a dramatic, imposing organ introduction. After this the choir's contribution takes the form of a quieter supplication, though the 'Christe' is more urgent in tone. The Gloria is surprisingly subdued at first. Most settings of the Gloria begin joyfully and loudly; relatively few in my experience start quietly and reverently - Gounod's St. Cecilia Mass is one such. However, things get cracking at 'Laudamus te', with the organ well to the fore. There's an expressive, lyrical section at 'Domine Deus' but at 'Quoniam tu solus Sanctus' the music becomes powerful and exciting, leading to a full-on ending; hereabouts the sound of the organ is truly thrilling and the choir's contribution is no less stirring. The Sanctus has another majestic organ introduction which leads to joyfully pealing choir parts and the 'Hosanna' is jubilant. In contrast the mood of the Benedictus is aptly described by the composer as one of "intimate serenity." Here Briggs' music is founded on lovely, delicate textures. The Agnus Dei contains arguably the deepest music. There's a tone of subdued urgency in this beautiful prayer for peace. This is a very fine Mass setting and I hope its appearance on CD will encourage other choirs to take it up. It is showcased splendidly in this performance by the Vasari Singers with the composer presiding in the organ loft.
Even using good quality noise reduction headphones I find that I can't while away a plane journey by listening to music; there's too much surrounding noise to permit a satisfactory listening experience. David Briggs, it seems, is able to compose music during a flight! Pange lingua, he tells us, was largely written "at 38,000 feet on an American Airlines Boeing 767, en route from London to Boston in September 2012." This is his commissioned work for the present CD. He sets three verses of the old hymn by St. Thomas Aquinas; the first verse and the last two. The piece is for unaccompanied choir. The tempo is slow and the mood devotional. The harmonic language is rich and sensuous - I love, for example, the harmonic shift right at the end of the first stanza. In the second verse, 'Tantum ergo', the music starts to move forward slightly and it grows in intensity. The harmonies become even more interesting; I was put in mind of Howells but there's also evidence of Briggs' love of French music. At the end Briggs reverts to the opening words, 'Pange lingua gloriosi', which we hear to gorgeous, quiet music. This is a very fine piece, demanding to sing, I should think, but it seems to have fired the imagination of Jeremy Backhouse and his fine choir who give it a rapt performance. Afterwards, David Briggs plays a subdued, reflective improvisation on the plainchant Tantum ergo, his approach to the melody reminding us that this is a hymn of adoration and that adoration is perhaps best expressed quietly and with humility. The improvisation is a perfect foil to his Pange lingua and in the context of this programme it provides an ideal bridge to the Mass; one can almost imagine the clergy processing to the altar.
This is a very fine disc indeed and one that I've enjoyed greatly. The music of both featured composers is of the highest quality and the performances are surely definitive. The Vasari Singers are on top form, singing with incisiveness and great commitment. There are several opportunities for short solos which are taken by choir members and all acquit themselves very well. I should imagine that all this music presents challenges to the singers but the choir is equal to every demand made by the respective composers. In Jeremy Backhouse they have a conductor who is renowned for his expertise with contemporary choral music. As for the organ parts these sound hugely demanding but we have two players on hand who, without exaggeration, can be said to be among the world's finest organists: they live up to expectations. The recorded sound is excellent: the organ is superbly reported with the choir balanced expertly against it. Each composer provides good notes about their respective pieces.
At first sight this may seem like a disc with specialist appeal but I hope that won't be the case. None of this music, with the exception of Jeremy Filsell's Jubilate, has been recorded before, and at the Naxos price this disc affords an excellent opportunity to sample first rate music which is firmly in the tradition of English church music. It moves that tradition forward in a most stimulating, accessible and inspiring way. I do urge you to try it: I think you'll be excited by what you hear.
John Quinn
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EDMONTON - Veteran Edmonton politician Thomas Lukaszuk announced Thursday he will run for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party, casting himself as an anti-establishment underdog working for everyday Albertans.
At his long-awaited campaign launch, the four-time MLA for Edmonton-Castle Downs set out to establish a David-versus-Goliath narrative, pitting his own grassroots campaign against that of lawyer and banker Jim Prentice, the front-runner and former federal cabinet minister with nearly four dozen elected MLAs in his corner.
"I'm am not an establishment candidate; that simply never has been and never will be my style — it is not the size of the dog in the fight, it is the size of the fight in the dog," Lukaszuk said Thursday outside the Credo Coffee shop in Edmonton's tiny hipster enclave along 104th Street downtown.
Lukaszuk, 45, said he met with Premier Dave Hancock Thursday morning to tender his resignation as minister of Jobs, Skills Training and Labour. He said he will pick up his nomination forms Thursday, collect the required 500 signatures and submit them by the May 30 deadline. The entry fee is $50,000.
He will also be running against Ric McIver, longtime Calgary alderman and first-time MLA for Calgary-Hays, who worked as transportation minister before resigning to run in the race.
Lukaszuk is the first Tory from Edmonton to enter the race.
First elected in 2001, Lukaszuk has held some of the highest-profile positions in government, including a stint as deputy premier to ousted premier Alison Redford. He has come under heavy fire for some of his decisions, including a move in 2013 to cut $147 million from post-secondary institutions.
"It's not lost on Albertans that there's a pattern that whenever tough decisions had to be made in government throughout the last number of years, I was put in those (departments) to deliver," he said.
"The fact is that I am capable of making difficult decisions. … I will own up to what I believed in, and I will own up to what I have done, but I will also clarify in this campaign what my personal vision would have been," he said.
He said he routinely stood up when he disagreed with steps the Redford government was taking.
"I was the first one to come out and say there was an issue with entitlement, I was the first one to say that this government has lost its moral authority to govern," Lukaszuk said.
Lukaszuk played up his working-class roots, noting he immigrated from Poland with his family and came to Edmonton in the back of a 1972 Plymouth Valiant. "We started with nothing," he said.
"You will not see any of the perennial consultants or others hanging around my campaign," Lukaszuk said in an obvious attack on Prentice, whose campaign has been tied to Calgary communications firm Navigator, which has deep connections with the long-governing Tories. The firm is helmed by Jaime Watt and Randy Dawson, both of whom worked on the 2012 election campaign that made Alison Redford premier.
"You will see me running a very independent, grassroots campaign," Lukaszuk said. "You will see Albertans of all profiles and backgrounds volunteering on my campaign."
He said he will release his platform in stages after filing his paperwork.
Observers said none of the candidates — neither Lukaszuk, Prentice nor McIver — can legitimately claim to be outsiders, and questioned whether Lukaszuk's anti-establishment narrative will stand up under public scrutiny.
"Anti-establishment? My God, he's on executive council, he's in the thick of things. He has been deputy premier — in no way does that fit the usual description of an outsider," Mount Royal political scientist Keith Brownsey said. "There's a populist element to the party, and he's trying to appeal to that, and he's setting himself up in opposition to someone he considers a very inside candidate, Jim Prentice."
Brownsey said all three candidates are simply working to distance themselves from former Tory premiers Ed Stelmach and Alison Redford.
"People are running away from Alison Redford, they're trying to change the narrative, to show they will bring something new to Alberta politics.
"We don't know what happened to Alison Redford yet ... but that was a spectacular fail, we've seen nothing like it in Canadian history."
Premier Dave Hancock said he is pleased to see candidates debating but won't take part in the leadership race.
"I think it's exciting that we have candidates talking about the future of the party and the future of the province. My job is to work on government in the meantime," Hancock said.
"My job is to be premier for the next four months, I'm going to enjoy doing that, I'm going to do that exclusively, and I'm not going to be engaged in the leadership process."
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NORTH MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. – Tornado Men's and Women's Golf finished the first round of the Myrtle Beach Intercollegiate tournament, held at the Sea Trail Golf Club, on Monday afternoon. After the first 18 holes of play, Ross Maietta and Richard Powell's share for sixth place helped the men's team to a third place overall finish. Elizabeth Swallow served up King's third top-10 finish and has the women in seventh place.
Richard Powell (Hixson, Tenn.) and Ross Maietta (Bexley, England) each finished with first round 70s after day one of the Myrtle Beach Intercollegiate, earning them a share of sixth place overall. Powell shot 35 on both the front and back nine to tally his 70. Maietta was one shot off the pace of his senior teammate but made up for it on the back nine with a 34 to pull back level with Powell.
Maeitta led the field in par-4 scoring at two-under par and averaged 3.80 strokes per hole. Both Powell and Maietta registered 14 pars, finishing among eight players with the second-most pars after day one.
Sophomore Taylor Gouge (Elizabethton, Tenn.) finished in a tie for 15th position with a one-over par 71 (36-35). Also with a top-20 finish was sophomore John Scott (Glasgow, Scotland) with a two-over 72 (37-35).
King finished third overall out of 15 teams at the tournament with a first round 283 among its starting five. Only three strokes separate them from tournament leader Mount Olive College (280) and only one stroke behind Newberry College (282).
The Lady Tornado finished seventh overall out of 15 teams, led by freshman Elizabeth Swallow. The Berkshire, England native posted her third round finishing inside the top-10 with a share of ninth place behind a 75 (39-36) through 18 holes.
Cortnee Young (Cleveland, Tenn.) finished inside the top-25 with a first round 80 (41-39) on the par-72 course. Behind Young was Anna Walker (Marion, Va.) who concluded with a 82 (49-43) followed by Esther Gandarias and Kerby Jones who both posted an 83 scorecard.
Day two of the Myrtle Beach Intercollegiate will begin Tuesday morning at 8 a.m. from Sea Trails Golf Club (72-5,988) in North Myrtle Beach, S.C.


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One of two official packages of photos of Iran's famed simian space traveler depicted the wrong monkey, but a primate really did fly into space and return safely to Earth, a senior Iranian space official confirmed Saturday.
The two different monkeys shown in the photos released by Iran's state media caused some international observers to wonder whether the monkey had died in space or that the launch didn't go well.
One set of pictures showed a relatively dark-haired monkey. Another showed a different monkey — strapped in a pod — that had light gray hair and a distinctive red mole over its right eye (image on right).
Mohammad Ebrahimi told the The Associated Press that the monkey who traveled in space was named "Pishgam," the Farsi word for pioneer. Initially, the Iranian media said "Pishgam" was the rocket that took him on a 20-minute journey into space on Monday.
Ebrahimi said one set of pictures showed an archive photo of one of the alternate monkeys. He said three to five monkeys are simultaneously tested for such a flight and two or three are chosen for the launch. Finally, the one that is best suited for the mission and isn't stressed is chosen for the voyage.
State TV pictures seen by AP show the dark-haired monkey before and after the space flight, but a package of still pictures released by authorities showed the other monkey with the mole.
"I say this with certainty that the monkey is in good health and the space flight didn't have any physical effect on Pishgam," Ebrahimi said. "Some of the photos released by one of news agencies were not related to the time of flight. They were archive photos of the monkeys being prepared for the launch."
Jonathan McDowell, a Harvard astronomer who tracks rocket launchings and space activity, also said this week's monkey space flight was real, but he had a slightly different explanation for the photo mix-up. He claimed the light gray monkey with the mole died during a failed space mission in 2011.
"The monkey with the mole was the one launched in 2011 that died. The rocket failed. It did not get into space," McDowell said. "They just mixed that footage with the footage of the 2013 successful launch."
Iran has never confirmed that a monkey died in 2011, or that there was a failed mission that year.
If Iran was trying to fool the world with a doctored photo, it wouldn't be the first time. In 2008, Agence France-Presse released a photo, issued by Iran, of a salvo of four missiles being test-launched by the Revolutionary Guard. But sharp-eyed newshounds noticed that two of the rockets and their exhaust trails looked suspiciously similar. Upon further inspection – and when another photo of the same event came to light – it became clear that Iran had added an extra rocket and exhaust to cover up an apparently failed launch.
Iran's space officials said sending the monkey into space was a step toward Tehran's goal of a manned space flight. However, the U.S. and its allies worry that the same technology used to launch rockets into space could also be used to develop long-range missiles.
With its ambitious aerospace program, Iran has said it wants to become a technological powerhouse for the Islamic world by 2026.
It's not the first time Iran has announced it had rocketed a live creature out of the Earth's atmosphere. The country sent a mouse, a turtle and some worms into space in 2010, officials said.
Pishgam was sent aboard an Explorer rocket and traveled to a height of 120 kilometers (72 miles), pushing into the threshold of space.
Ebrahimi said Iran plans to launch its first manned space mission within the next five to six years. He said it will be the first manned suborbital flight.
Hamid Fazeli, director of Iran's space agency, said this week that Iran will launch a bigger rocket carrying a larger animal to obtain greater safety assurances before sending a man into space.
Iran says it wants to put its own satellites into orbit to monitor natural disasters in the earthquake-prone nation, improve telecommunications and expand military surveillance in the region.
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Our country is being eaten and digested from the inside out, very much as an aggressive form of cancer decimates the human body.
The attacks against us come in numerous forms, on many fronts, and all at once. They have been so strong and so many that we have started to accept the results as unavoidable. We�ve shown our willingness to give in to the assaults and have our nation die a terrible death.
Just to name the position of a few of the attacks, not necessarily in order of significance, I will list them here as follows:
1. Our economy due to government spending more than income.
2. Our religious rights by our government and special interest groups.
3. Our morality by deviant groups and immoral government representatives.
4. Our second amendment rights by individual groups and liberal government officials.
5. Our justice system by the people appointed by our President.
6. Our entire system of government by our President and liberal Senate.
7. Our constitution and bill of rights, some of which are already listed.
8. Our national defense.
The damage has been so bad that efforts from the individuals we�ve placed in positions of trust appear to be too few, too weak and too late.
Unlike other nations in turmoil, the citizens of the U.S. have no other country to look to for assistance. We�re still looked upon, however brief it may be, as a strong nation in a strong republic and for monetary assistance by other countries in civil conflicts.
The only hope then for a cure, aside from intervention by God, is to raise our voices in unison, so loud and so strong that the world will hear the resistance. We can�t do that one person at a time. All the Rand Pauls, the Ben Carsons, the Huckabees and Rush Limbaughs in the country are not enough.
Someone or something has to bring those persons together, along with the conservative masses in order to create enough noise. Those we currently look to for direction should ban together in order to create more strength. It�s obvious that the liberal Democrats have figured out how to get 47 percent of the voters through government programs. The rest of us, Republicans, Tea Party members, Independents, Conservatives, true Christians, Jews and supporters of our Constitution have to come up with a group platform we can all support for the remaining 53 percent. The platform needs to be brief and simply worded so that the average high school student can understand.
An example might be:
1. A balanced budget. Stop funding all items not immediately essential to the masses of the U.S.
2. At home priorities-stop all monies going to foreign governments except those necessary to protect our most allegiant allies.
3. Defend our Constitution and Bill of Rights and clarify the language so it cannot be challenged in courts.
4. Strengthen our national defense.
5. Disallow lobbying by special interest groups.
6. Change congressional, justices and presidential pay so it cannot be raised until it is more in line with public jobs and then only by cost of living increases.
7. Disallow piggy backing of legislation.
Conservative citizens are supposedly the wealthiest people in the U.S. Although I am not one of the wealthy, I have to assume that many of our job creators and business owners are. Why then, should we not be able to get those with the ability to reach the masses and those with the money to finance the political fight to reclaim our country?
The damage being done to us from our own government is far worse than any physical attack from terrorist groups. Sure, terrorists can kill large numbers of people, but the internal cancer we have will destroy the entire nation if it is left to grow.
We all know what things need to be changed and we know that change is needed now. What we don�t know is how to make the changes.
Does anyone still care enough to stop the lunacy?
Burton is a resident of Kings Mountain.


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Livermore molestation defendant accused of trying to hire hit man
A well-known Livermore golf coach charged with 75 felony counts alleging that he molested children is now facing accusations that he tried from jail to hire a hit man to kill three alleged victims.
Andrew Michael Nisbet, 32, wrote letters from Santa Rita Jail in Dublin expressing his interest in having the victims "taken care of," Alameda County district attorney's Inspector Jeff McCort wrote in a court affidavit.
Those letters, which included information about the alleged victims, ended up in the hands of a confidential informant, who in turn brought them to the attention of a sheriff's deputy in February, authorities said.
The informant later received more letters from Nisbet "agreeing on a price for each victim and that Nisbet can get the (informant) money," McCort wrote.
In March, a district attorney's inspector, posing undercover as a hit man, visited Nisbet in jail during a secretly recorded meeting, authorities said.
The inspector described himself as a "mechanic and could fix a car for him and made a pistol-shooting motion with his hand," McCort wrote, noting that the term "mechanic" is often used to mean hit man or contract killer.
Nisbet said that there were two "cars," one in Pleasanton and another in Santa Barbara, where one alleged victim attends college, authorities said.
The inspector asked Nisbet for the name of the person in Santa Barbara, and Nisbet "mouthed" the name and said the "car" was 21 years old, McCort wrote.
Nisbet allegedly agreed to pay his visitor money up front "to prove he was serious." The undercover inspector told Nisbet that he'd make it look like "someone got robbed for a cell phone and it wouldn't come back to Nisbet," the affidavit said.
A search of Nisbet's jail cell uncovered driving directions to the home of the alleged victim in Pleasanton and "many other letters" from Nisbet to the informant discussing the murder-for-hire plot, according to McCort.
Nisbet was arrested in December and charged with 65 felonies, including lewd acts with a child, oral copulation with a child, sending harmful matter and arranging a sexual meeting with a minor. Authorities said Nisbet sexually assaulted several boys between the ages of 12 and 17 between 2009 and 2012.
Prosecutors later added 10 more felony charges, including allegations that he possessed child pornography.
He now faces three additional felony counts of solicitation of murder.
Nisbet, who had worked at Las Positas Golf Course in Livermore since 2006 and was director of instruction, also trained students in Michigan, North Carolina, Mississippi and Alabama, authorities said.
Henry K. Lee is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Twitter: @henryklee


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Paramount Uses 'World War Z' to Experiment with a New Kind of Theatrical Experience for Fans
Steven Spielberg and George Lucas predicted that the movie-ticket pricing structure would change in the not-too-distant future; that huge, expensive movies would demand a more expensive ticket price, while smaller movies would charge a smaller price. This isn't quite that, but it arriving the day after their prediction is certainly amusing timing: Paramount is introducing a $50 "Mega Ticket" for World War Z.
Here's what your $50 gets you:
- A ticket to see the movie in 3D two days before its nationwide release.
- A pair of limited-edition WWZ 3D glasses.
- An HD digital copy of the film when available.
- A limited-edition poster.
- A small popcorn.
The studio estimates all of that as having a $75 value, though obviously the true value of this package is going to vary from fan to fan. World War Z is a perfectly acceptable, big-budget summer movie on its own, though we're not sure it has the prebuilt fanbase that this summer's other movies have. However, this is certainly testing out an interesting premise.
Will fans pay an extra $30 to see The Avengers 2 before everyone else? Yes, yes they would. Without a doubt. Die-hard fans would gladly pay it, even if it didn't net them anything other than the opportunity of seeing it as soon as possible. We just hope other studios don't start exploiting that fact. If this experiment proves succesful and this becomes a thing, we just hope studios up the ante with what that ticket actually buys you.
3D glasses and posters are cool and all, but they also give away that stuff for free at most promo screenings for big movies. But if a studio designs some stuff exclusively for this kind of a Mega Ticket -- and if the advanced window is greater than just two days early -- we can see this becoming a very symbiotic relationship between fans and studios. The most hard-core fans get to see their most anticipated movies early and take home some collectibles in the process; the studios get to build hype and pocket a bit more cash.
It's really not all that different from DVD and Blu-ray collector's editions, only it's starting that process at the theater instead of at retail. And it's not diminishing anything from those of us who just want to see the movie and nothing else. Done right, this could be a win-win.
As for World War Z's Mega Ticket, Paramount is doing this as a sort of trial in just a handful of theaters around the country. If you're dying to see Brad Pitt face off against zombie hordes around the world, and you happen to live near one of these theaters, you can grab your Mega Ticket through Fandango:
Regal Atlantic Station 16 IMAX & RPX – Atlanta, GA
Edwards Greenway Grand Palace Stadium 24 & RPX – Houston, TX
UA King Of Prussia Stadium 16 & IMAX – King of Prussia, PA
Edwards Irvine Spectrum 21 IMAX & RPX – Los Angeles, CA
Edwards Mira Mesa Stadium 18 IMAX & RPX – San Diego, CA
So what do you think? Is this a cool idea? Is there a movie you wish there was a Mega Ticket for?
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Obscenity: One More Shot in February
Thanks to a mistrial at the Ninth Circuit in 2008, there may be one more chance for a nationwide thawing of the Court's nearly forty-year-old obscenity jurisprudence.
The government's prosecution of Ira Isaacs in 2008 centered around Isaacs's distribution of bestial and scatological pornography. But in June of that year, as the trial was pending, the LA Times reported that Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the Ninth Circuit, sitting by designation as the district court judge for Isaacs's case, maintained a porn server of sorts on his computer. Although the content on Kozinski's server was a far cry from the extreme nature of Isaacs's material on trial (NSFW), the public controversy compelled Kozinski to declare a mistrial.
The Isaacs case is now set for a February 2011 trial in the Central District of California. But the legal landscape for obscenity has changed since 2008 in a way that makes Supreme Court review of this case far more likely than it would have been had no mistrial been declared in the first place.
As Rhett Pardon of XBIZ Newswire reported yesterday:
The introduction of national community standards were put in play after an appeals panel last year found it more logical for obscenity prosecutions.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a CAN-SPAM case — U.S. vs. Kilbride, 584 F. 3d 1240(9th Cir. 2009) — that a national community standard to define Internet obscenity is more appropriate than a local one.
Attorney Roger Jon Diamond, Isaacs' attorney, said that it's to his advantage to be open to a national community standard using the Miller test, despite the fact that local community standards of the Central District of California would be beneficial.
U.S. prosecutors are advocating a local community standards instruction.
Isaacs was charged with two counts of using a common carrier and interactive computer service for interstate commerce in obscene films.
"Because the videos were from the Central District, you are looking at jurors from the Los Angeles, Orange and Ventura counties who typically are liberally minded," Diamond told XBIZ.
But Diamond noted that using a national community standards could create a legal maneuver that could benefit Isaacs.
"If the government were to press for a national community standard, they might have a problem finding an expert witness on the matter, because there are none," he said. "And we could move for a dismissal."
Some months ago, I wrote about the circuit split created when the Eleventh Circuit refused to follow the Ninth Circuit away from local community standards, and suggested that this split made the issue ripe for Supreme Court review. No party, however, petitioned the Court over either judgment. Then, in a case in the D.C. District Court this summer, a deeper split looked possible–the judge had refused to follow Kilbride in a published denial of defendant's motion to dismiss [693 F.Supp.2d 25]–but the judge ultimately threw the case out before it went to the jury.
Isaacs's case, then, may be the last Bush-era obscenity prosecution that can lead to a relaxation of the Court's 1973 Miller test to determine what speech may be classified criminally obscene and therefore left unprotected by the First Amendment. Although it is not entirely clear whether Kilbride will govern the Isaacs case–Kilbride applied only to Internet obscenity, whereas Isaacs is being prosecuted for Internet and common carrier transmission of obscenity–if the district court decides Kilbride applies to the mails as well as the Internet, then that will be an even stronger blow against Miller than Kilbride itself was.
Still, it's hard to believe that any jury will not find Isaacs's movies to be plainly patently offensive and crystal-clear appeals to the prurient interest, whether the jury uses national or local community standards. To get a sense of the content of the material on trial, just read their titles: "Gang Bang Horse — 'Pony Sex Game,'" "Mako's First Time Scat," "Hollywood Scat Amateurs No. 7."
In Kilbride, neither the defense nor the prosecution had incentive to appeal: the prosecutors got their conviction (albeit under the federal anti-spam statute rather than anti-obscenity statutes) and the defense successfully chipped away at the Miller test. In the Isaacs case, however, I see no way Isaacs avoids conviction unless the judge declares obscenity laws altogether unconstitutional or, as in the D.C. trial, throws the case out. With a conviction comes incentive to appeal. With an appeal comes a Ninth Circuit judgment affirming, if not broadening, Kilbride's deviation from Miller, further reinforcing the circuit split, while upholding Isaacs's conviction. And with an affirmation comes a petition for certiorari to the Supreme Court asking for reversal by questioning the ability of any community standards, whether national or local, are sufficient First Amendment safeguards against the criminalization of protected speech.
I can't imagine the current Court bringing all obscenity within First Amendment protection, let alone letting Isaacs walk. But I can imagine the Court affirming the use of national standards as perfectly clear enough to gain a conviction in line with contemporary standards patently offended by bestiality or scatological porn. That way, the Court can have it both ways: a more lenient standard of determining obscenity less susceptible to prosecutors' unjust forum-shopping, but a standard not so lenient as to provoke headlines that the Court sympathizes with peddlers of uber-extreme pornography.
DC Obscenity Case Thrown Out
Judge Richard J. Leon of the federal district court here in DC just threw out the government's obscenity prosecution I wrote about a few days ago. Via Mike Scarcella of the Legal Times:
Leon today ruled that the prosecution, led by Criminal Division trial attorneys Pamela Satterfield and Bonnie Hannan, failed to give enough evidence to jurors to prove that any one defendant, including Stagliano, violated the law. On the original indictment, Stagliano faced up to 32 years in prison.
By granting the defendant's motion to dismiss the case for lack of evidence, Leon likely short-circuited any future Supreme Court case resolving the circuit split over internet obscenity. The Stagliano case may be the last live Bush-era obscenity prosecution, and neither sets of counsel from the Ninth or Eleventh Circuit cases sought certiorari to hash out whether national or local community standards should apply in a jury's assessment of obscenity sent over the internet.
Meanwhile, the grounds for appeal in the Stagliano case to the DC Circuit would appear to rest not on any First Amendment issue, but rather on Leon's procedural and evidentiary judgment. However, I question whether there would even be an appeal in this case, given the Obama administration's apparent return to more lax Clinton-era enforcement of federal obscenity law.
UPDATE: The Washington Post provides some stats:
"The government said, 'We have been getting convictions on the most extreme stuff, so we can be a little more aggressive and put pressure on the entire industry,' " Richards said. "This case was the tail end of Bush administration obscenity prosecutions. Now it remains to be seen whether the Obama administration makes enforcement a priority."
Justice Department statistics show prosecutors charged 361 defendants with obscenity violations during President George W. Bush's years in office, nearly twice as many as under President Bill Clinton. In 2009, 20 defendants were charged, compared with 54 the previous year.
UPDATE II: Politico's Josh Gerstein notes that "the judge's ruling cannot be appealed."
Capital Obscenity!
Back in February I wrote about the circuit split between the Ninth and Eleventh Circuits over the application of federal obscenity laws in the Internet age. This is a major issue of law that a majority of the Court, in concurring and dissenting opinions of 2002's Ashcroft v. ACLU, first telegraphed its interest in updating, revisiting, or outright abandoning.
This week, another obscenity trial begins in Judge Leon's federal district courtroom here in DC. Via Mike Scarcella of the National Law Journal:
Stagliano and two of his companies were indicted in federal district court in Washington in April 2008 on seven counts of distributing obscene, sexually graphic videos that U.S. Justice Department prosecutors allege have no artistic or scientific value and cut against the community standard of what is acceptable. He faces up to 32 years behind bars if convicted.
Jury selection is under way and opening arguments are expected to begin this week in the first adult porn obscenity case in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in more than 20 years. "There won't be any falling asleep in this courtroom," Judge Richard Leon said at a hearing in the case June 14. "I can assure you of that." […]
[Stagliano's lawyers are] arguing that Stagliano has a right to possess and to distribute sexually explicit material. The lawyers contend federal obscenity standards are too vague to govern Internet speech. The sexual acts in the movies were lawful, the lawyers said, and the participants were consenting adults. "The right of sexual privacy has evolved as society's attitudes about sexuality have evolved," Corn-Revere said in court papers in July 2008. "Liberty now gives substantial protection to adult persons in deciding how to conduct their private lives in matters pertaining to sex. This protection is broad enough to encompass a right to buy and sell obscene materials."
In declining to dismiss the indictment earlier this year, Leon said the federal obscenity statutes are not unconstitutionally vague as applied to Internet speech. "Although public morality may be an insufficient justification for regulating private conduct in some cases, it is certainly a sufficient justification for regulating the sort of public conduct at issue here," Leon wrote.
Beyond the racy subject matter and evidence to be presented to the district court this week, we will also witness some scintillating constitutional law discussions. The above passage points to Stagliano's use of Lawrence to argue invalidation of federal obscenity laws under the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment's right to privacy.* This argument worked in the Western District of Pennsylvania in 2005, but ever since the Third Circuit rebuked and reversed the district court and the Supreme Court denied certiorari, appeals to Lawrence have gone unheeded.
So to further push the issue of federal obscenity laws before the Supreme Court, expect also to see attacks on the "community standards" prong of the Miller test, which courts use to determine whether material is obscene:
Lawrence Walters, a First Amendment lawyer who specializes in representing clients in adult entertainment, said obscenity cases have historically been filed in districts that are generally viewed as conservative. "It may result in one of the first cases where a more cosmopolitan jury has made a determination of obscenity with regard to adult material," said Walters of Walters Law Group in Altamonte Springs, Fla.
Although the Supreme Court and lower courts ultimately came to implicitly interpret "community standards" to be those of the location in which the material was sent, the Ninth Circuit in late 2009 stated that national community standards should apply in a jury's determining Internet obscenity.
Depending on how this jury rules, the inevitable appeal will likely feature an attack on local community standards – either as too permissive in a big city should Stagliano get acquitted or too arbitrary should he get convicted. Either way, however, the recent circuit split over the community standards prong will be made more ripe for Supreme Court review.
The question, then, becomes whether the Court will conform to its opinions in Ashcroft I or not. Thomas, Scalia, and Rehnquist were perfectly satisfied with local standards. Might Roberts, given his First Amendment protectiveness this term, deviate from his predecessor's vote? In refusing to extend the Court's obscenity jurisprudence to dogfighting in United States v. Stevens, Roberts said nothing of material that actually does fall within the Court's sex-tethered definition of obscenity. But in siding with the government in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project for national security concerns, the Chief showed himself willing to favor traditionally conservative concerns–of which the protection of morals-based laws have long figured–over First Amendment absolutism.
Meanwhile, O'Connor wrote in favor of a national standard, but her successor, Alito, will likely go with local standards, given his lone Stevens dissent this term.
Kennedy wrote for Ginsburg and Souter suggesting that the local standards should be reconsidered, but didn't tip his hand on what side upon which he'd come down until he had more evidence to make such a determination. Adding uncertainty upon that concurrence's uncertainty, we don't know how Sotomayor would have voted then or now, and Ginsburg may not even be on the Court by the time this case may make it up there.
And finally, Justice Stevens, the lone dissenter in Ashcroft arguing to toss community standards altogether as applied to the Internet, may not have as zealous of a successor in Elena Kagan.
This trial, and its aftermath, will surely be something worth watching.
*Lawrence concerned state laws, so the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause governed; this case tests federal obscenity laws, which implicate the Fifth Amendment's analogous language securing against deprivation of liberty without due process of law.
UPDATE: 7/13 – Scarcella provides a report from today's introduction of evidence to the jurors.
Supreme Court bar, start your search engines and take off the SafeSearch: the Ninth and Eleventh Circuits have split over how prudish First Amendment law must be towards Internet obscenity.
The Court's obscenity jurisprudence has stood largely frozen and rigid since 1973, when, in Miller v. California, it resolved its previous fifteen years of doctrinal disarray into a three part test to determine whether material is obscene:
The basic guidelines for the trier of fact must be: (a) whether "the average person, applying contemporary community standards" would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest [citation omitted]; (b) whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by the applicable state law; and (c) whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.
The Miller test's first prong has since been interpreted as requiring juries to apply local community standards. Although this test was more conservative than the Court's pre-1973 obscenity jurisprudence–see, e.g., Justice Potter Stewart's "I know it when I see it" test–it was tailored to the times: a pornographer would send a film reel or a magazine by the mails to a particular recipient in a particular district.
Problem is, in the Internet age, speakers post their thoughts on the Web and then relinquish control over where the material is delivered. Yet under Miller's extant local community standards prong, prosecutors may charge Internet pornographers in federal courts in districts where communities are more likely to rule indecent material criminally obscene.
The Bush Administration took full advantage of such forum selection when it chose to resurrect federal obscenity prosecutions after two terms of Clinton-era desuetude. There have been four big cases to rise out of the Bush-era prosecutions. One recently yielded a guilty plea after protracted litigation in the Third Circuit. Another may be coming to trial in the D.C. Circuit. The Ninth and Eleventh Circuits, however, have made their decisions, forcing a circuit split over community standards for the Internet–a topic to which the Supreme Court in 2002 signaled its receptivity.
In late October, the Ninth Circuit, in United States v. Kilbride, held that juries must apply national standards when assessing Internet obscenity, even for the sexually explicit spam emails sent by the defendants. To reach this determination, the panel relied on the separate opinions of six justices in the Supreme Court's 2002 Ashcroft v. ACLU decision. In dicta, Justices O'Connor, Breyer, Kennedy (joined by Souter and Ginsburg), and Stevens all took turns expressing their doubts about the constitutionality of requiring juries to apply local community standards. O'Connor and Breyer went so far as to endorse the use of national standards. Here's O'Connor:
To be sure, the Court in Miller also stated that a national standard might be "unascertainable," 413 U.S., at 31, and "[un]realistic," id., at 32. But where speech on the Internet is concerned, I do not share that skepticism. It is true that our Nation is diverse, but many local communities encompass a similar diversity. For instance, in Miller itself, the jury was instructed to consider the standards of the entire State of California, a large (today, it has a population of greater than 33 million people, see U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of Census, Statistical Abstract of the United States 23 (120th ed. 2000) (Table 20)) and diverse State that includes both Berkeley and Bakersfield. If the Miller Court believed generalizations about the standards of the people of California were possible, and that jurors would be capable of assessing them, it is difficult to believe that similar generalizations are not also possible for the Nation as a whole. Moreover, the existence of the Internet, and its facilitation of national dialogue, has itself made jurors more aware of the views of adults in other parts of the United States. Although jurors asked to evaluate the obscenity of speech based on a national standard will inevitably base their assessments to some extent on their experience of their local communities, I agree with Justice Breyer that the lesser degree of variation that would result is inherent in the jury system and does not necessarily pose a First Amendment problem. See post, at 2. In my view, a national standard is not only constitutionally permissible, but also reasonable.
The Ninth Circuit determined that Ashcroft's concurring and dissenting justices' dicta on community standards were enough guidance to blaze new constitutional ground.
Today, however, in United States v. Little, the 11th Circuit disagreed:
Appellants argue that the district court should have applied a national or Internet community standard rather than the local community standard of the Middle District of Florida. In support of this argument, Appellants rely heavily on the concurrences and dissent in Ashcroft, 535 U.S. 564, 586-612, 122 S. Ct. 1700, 1714-1728 (2002). Recently, the Ninth Circuit interpreted Ashcroft in such a way as to mandate a national community standard for Internet-based material. United States v. Kilbride, 584 F.3d 1240, 1252-54 (9th Cir. 2009). We decline to follow the reasoning of Kilbride in this Circuit. The portions of the Ashcroft opinion and concurrences that advocated a national community standard were dicta, not the ruling of the Court.
As a result, the Miller contemporary community standard remains the standard by which the Supreme Court has directed us to judge obscenity, on the Internet and elsewhere. The district court did not err when it instructed the jury to judge the materials on the basis of how "the average person of the community as a whole—the Middle District of Florida—would view the material."
With the split now wide open, one could safely assume that at least four of the still-sitting, separately-writing Ashcroft justices would vote to grant certiorari so to align the Court's obscenity doctrine with the times. Still, even if the Court would grant certiorari and resolve the split in favor of the Ninth Circuit's national community standards for Internet obscenity, it is not at all fait accompli that the Court will endorse the Ninth Circuit's reasoning. The panel employed what may be considered overzealous methodology in gleaning conclusive guidance out of concurring and dissenting dicta. Further, the panel lumped email, which is sent by specific distribution analogous to that of Miller's time, into Ashcroft's concern about the Web's indiscriminate dissemination.
Nevertheless, I predict that these cases are ripe for Supreme Court review. Now which one of you Supreme Court advocates needs help with the cert petition?
UPDATE: Aw shucks. The Eleventh Circuit's opinion possesses the header that "This case was not selected for publication in the Federal Reporter." Boooo! If the Eleventh Circuit was trying to dodge the cert process, there still remains hope. The Ninth Circuit may still find itself sufficiently split with 2005's Extreme Associates in the Third Circuit, 1996's United States v. Thomas in the Sixth Circuit, or perhaps the pending case at the D.C. District Court if it makes its way up to the D.C. Circuit.
UPDATE II: Prof. Eugene Volokh wonders why the Eleventh Circuit chose to keep Little unpublished and whether it or Kilbride may still go up to the Court:
[I]t seems odd that the Eleventh Circuit's opinion — which apparently considered this argument for the first time in that circuit, and which expressly rejected the reasoning of the one precedent on the subject from another circuit — was unpublished.
Unpublished opinions deliberately lack binding precedential value, and are generally intended to limit their own value as persuasive precedent as well (though the ultimate estimation of such persuasive value is of course in the eyes of a future court). It seems to me that they should be reserved for areas where more precedent is unhelpful, chiefly because there already is plenty of precedent in the jurisdiction on the subject. So it's hard for me to see why this opinion, which is certainly quite detailed should be unpublished.
Note that there won't be a cert petition from the government challenging the Ninth Circuit's national-standard holding in Kilbride, since the conviction there was affirmed on harmless error grounds. The government won on the bottom line, and thus can't petition for certiorari, even if it dislikes the court's reasoning. (It could have petitioned for rehearing en banc, but despite two requests for extension of time to file a petition for rehearing, the government ultimately decided not to petition.)
There might well be a cert petition in the Eleventh Circuit case, though. I wonder to what extent the Court will see this case as practically involving a circuit split, even though technically there is no disagreement between the precedent in the two cases. Supreme Court Rule 10(a), for what it's worth, notes that one important factor in favor of granting certiorari is that "a United States court of appeals has entered a decision in conflict with the decision of another United States court of appeals on the same important matter."
UPDATE III: Scott Gant, partner at Boies Schiller and author of We're All Journalists Now: The Transformation of the Press and Reshaping of the Law in the Internet Age, passed along a 2006 Boston College Law Review article he wrote on unpublished circuit court opinions. On page 729, he writes of Supreme Court review:
One might also expect unpublished opinions rarely, if ever, to be the subject of Supreme Court review. Yet the Court has elected to review dozens of unpublished appeals court opinions, in many cases reversing the court's decision. Still other cases involve circuit splits, where at least one of the court of appeals decisions addressing the disputed issue was unpublished.
In his footnotes to the above text, he lists twelve cases, many of which from the past ten years, to support his assertion. So my offer is back on: any Supreme Court advocates want some help writing a killer cert petition?


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Where would a world cup forum be without a betting thread?
The best available odds for the winner courtesy of oddschecker:
New Zealand: 1/2
France: 9/1
South Africa: 10/1
Ireland: 16/1
Australia: 20/1
England: 39/1
Wales: 94/1
Argentina: 99/1
Scotland: 679/1
Samoa, Fiji, Italy: 1000/1
Namibia, Romania, Georgia, Portugal, Tonga, Japan, Canada, USA: 5000/1
We won't win it, but we're clearly the value bet there. Some bookies are paying 1/3 odds on a final appearance, which is distinctly within our capabilities. NZ practically unbackable, Ireland are terrible value with their group but France, Oz or SA all decent value for each-way punts.


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Re: An analytical solution to an integral not currently in Mathematica?
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If I take the answer the "other system" produces: f[x_] = -Sqrt[\[Pi]] I E^(-a x - b) Erf[I Sqrt[Log[x] + a x + b]] and compare f'[x] with the integrand for some choices of a,b,x, I do not get agreement. Kevin On 7/14/2013 1:44 AM, Sean McBride wrote: > Question: Integral dx of 1/sqrt(Log[x] + a*x + b) > (sorry if my notation is off; I just used the online integrator and don't have Mathematica proper, http://integrals.wolfram.com/index.jsp?expr=1%2Fsqrt%28Log%5Bx%5D+%2B+a*x+%2B+b%29) > (the online integrator returned this as of the time of writing this (2013-07-13): "Mathematica could not find a formula for your integral. Most likely this means that no formula exists." ) > > > Another system's unconfirmed answer (in that notation; sorry) (version 5.27.0): -sqrt(%pi)*%i*%e^(-a*x-b)*erf(%i*sqrt(log(x)+a*x+b)) > > Strangely, the other system only produces this result when given, say, x(t) in all places for x (including variable of integration). > > I can't seem to get the other system to verify its result symbolically, but when I try random numerical sampling, it does seem to agree, albeit horribly plagued by floating point errors for large x. > > > Can anyone offer insight, or possibly prove it's correctness or incorrectness? :) > > > (P.S. I just joined this group, so apologies if it's the wrong one or I'm not following guidelines) >


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REVIEW: There are reasons to see "Django Unchained." Christoph Waltz is excellent as a pre-Civil War bounty hunter who buys and frees slave Django (Jamie Foxx) and teams up with him to find his sold-off wife. Leonardo DiCaprio, as a disturbing plantation owner who stages forced fights between muscular slaves, is creepy in a way that would've horrified sweet Jack from "Titanic." Writer and director Quentin Tarantino has not lost one bit of his ability to deliver compelling, smart dialogue and set up situations where you simply have to see what's lurking around the next corner.
And there are reasons not to see "Django Unchained." Blood falls like snow, pours like rain, wraps scenes like a blanket. It hangs in drippy, nasty gobbets, it takes flight like a flock of seagulls. There are whipping scenes, a near castration, and other tortures inflicted on the slaves. Yes, the N-word is used 100+ times, but it's hard to argue that usage isn't historically accurate. The forced slave fighting, dubbed "Mandingo fighting" in the film, is horrific -- if you've ever wondered how a pure one-on-one, mano-a-mano beating can kill a man, here is your visual evidence.
"Django" shares some elements with Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds." There's the satisfaction in both films of seeing the oppressed rise up against horrible historical tormentors. Waltz's German bounty hunter finds American slavery disgusting, so he stands in for the audience as the horrors unfold. When he strikes out for justice, we're satisfied. Another scene portrays a pre-KKK group as a bunch of bumblers who can't even see out of their hastily hand-sewn masks, nicely crumbling their would-be terror plan.
You can take "Django" as a romance, as Django fights to get back to wife Broomhilda (Kerry Washington). You can take it as a reminder of the horrors of slavery, writ bloodily and brutally by the hand of a filmmaker who knows how to present violence in a most cinematic way. You can simply appreciate the performances of Waltz, Foxx, DiCaprio, Samuel L. Jackson as a cruel house slave, and, in a goofy little cameo, Tarantino himself.
But when all's over, and the ending blows up in typical big Tarantino style, the three-hour film doesn't really hold together as a cinematic experience. Revenge and reunion don't mean a happy ending, not for former slaves in the pre-Civil War South. Elements of the film remind viewers of better Tarantino films, but big fans would be better off renting "Pulp Fiction" for the zillionth time, to remember when Tarantino put together pulpy violence and pop culture dialogue in a fresher, more complete way.
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|Type I diabetes mellitus - Ursus arctos horribilis
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Installed ubuntu on a separate HDD
It still detected Windows 7 installed on another HDD and messed up its bootloader
So thank god i did full HDD Image backup before that and was able to restore, so i can boot to Windows 7 or Ubuntu by selecting which HDD to boot from instead of having bootloader to pop with the menu. That way i can keep one OS on its own hard drive and not to worry about it effecting the other (Ubuntu seemed to ignore this even by being on a totaly separate hard drive).
Ubuntu loader pops everytime and asking me which OS i want to boot and i dont want that.
Anyway to edit its settings so it wont even know Windows 7 exist ?
Thanks in advance.


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I'm still alive and kicking but I've discovered the most addicting video game on the planet: Guitar Hero III – Legends Of Rock. I have a Playstation 2, it's the original one that I bought in 2000, and I haven't upgraded to the new generation of Wii, PS3, and Xbox 360. I play only a few games now: Madden Football (I have every year stored away), Medal Of Honor, and SpongeBob games. Laugh if you must but I like Spongebob!
So I promised myself a present when my income tax return came in the mail. I wanted something different from the usual CD/DVD shopping spree I usually give myself but I didn't want it to be overly expensive. I have been looking at the Guitar Hero Series for a while now but I always used the price tag and the time needed to play as reasons NOT to buy it. With the announcement of the Aerosmith version last week, I decided to finally buy into the hype and buy Guitar Hero III.
Bought it at 6 o'clock last night, plugged it in at 7, and played it until somewhere just before 10pm. Watched a little TV with my wife, she fell asleep on the couch, so I plugged back in around 11:30pm and played two more hours. Obviously, I'm still a rookie to the whole thing…..I'm not hitting every note on Dragonforce – 'Through The Fire And Flames' on Expert level…..
…..but I did manage to unlock almost all of the songs on the Easy level and I had enough gig money to buy a Flying V!
So the posts will resume soon. I have some shopping trips to tell everyone about, some reviews to post, and a few playlists but they will all have to wait…..I'm trying to get my chops up on this game!


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Artists M. River and T. Whid formed MTAA in 1996 and soon after began to explore the internet, video, software and sculpture as mediums for their conceptually-based art. The duo's exhibition history includes group shows and screenings at The New Museum of Contemporary Art, Postmasters Gallery and Artists Space, all in New York City, and at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. In "New Media Art" (Taschen, 2006), authors Mark Tribe and Reena Jana describe MTAA's "One Year Performance Video (aka samHsiehUpdate)" as "a deftly transparent demonstration of new media's ability to manipulate our perceptions of time." The collaboration has earned grants and awards from Creative Capital, Rhizome.org, Eyebeam, New Radio & Performing Arts, Inc. and The Whitney Museum of American Art.
LACE Announces New Director
Today LACE announced (click continue reading to read the whole press release) their new Executive Director, Carol Stakenas. Ms. Stakenas officially begins her new position on September 1st.
Ms. Stakenas was the Deputy Director and Curator of Creative Time, New York City's adventurous public arts presenter. Throughout her tenure, she worked with a broad range of artists including Asymptote, Antenna Design, Haluk Akakçe, Natalie Bookchin, Cai Guo-Qiang, Granular Synthesis, Julian LaVerdiere and Paul Myoda, Shu Lea Cheang, Vik Muniz, Takashi Murakami, Marjetica Potrç, Toshi Reagon, and Erwin Redl. She curated and produced multidisciplinary public art at sites such as Massless Medium and Music in the Anchorage in the Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage; Consuming Places in DUMBO Brooklyn; the DNA Deli Cups and the DNAid Billboards; PDPal, a mobile mapping project commission in Times Square; and Shimon Attie's Between Dreams and History on Manhattan's Lower East Side.
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Portable iPod / Discman Speakers with LoVid at Eyebeam
Portable iPod / Discman Speakers
Lovid / Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus
July 28, 2005
Drinks and discussion 8:30-9:00pm
Reverse the intimate, individual experience of listening to music on an iPod or Discman by creating a shared communal experience with wearable speaker pins that plug into headphone jack outputs. This workshop will include technical tasks of building the attachment cables and a visual component during which the participants will accessorize their speakers with tape, fabric, paper laminates, etc. Participants may make their own designs or respond to the theme of Merit badges and other elements of Boy Scouts uniforms. Parts of this project will be included in a group show at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts opening in October 2005.
Workshops fees are $25 ($20 for Eyebeam members) with participation limited and available on a first come, first served basis. All workshops take place at Eyebeam, 540 W. 21st Street, between 10th & 11th Avenues in Chelsea. For more information and online registration please visit http://www.eyebeam.org/learning/learning.php?page=workshops
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I'm back from Ohio just in time to do some own-horn-tootin' for MTAA.
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