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Ian Clark's Pop Culture Club: 'The Walking Dead' returns tonight ... but at what cost?IAN CLARK
New Hampshire Union Leader
February 10. 2013 12:10AM
The return of "The Walking Dead" has me scared, but not just because of the zombies.
The breakout hit on AMC returns tonight at 9, and fans of the zombie apocalypse drama are excited to see how the second half of Season 3 opens up.
Count me among those who having been looking forward to the show since the mid-season finale last December. But it's the behind-the-scenes movements on the show that have me concerned.
For the second time in the show's short history, a major creative force has been removed from the equation. The first time out it was producer Frank Darabont, who helped shepherd "The Walking Dead" to television from its comic book roots. Darabont stepped down after the initial season.
That ended up being a blessing in disguise, as new showrunner Glenn Mazzara took the solid first season of the show and delivered an even better second season. His part one of the third season cranked the quality up another notch and the show continued to garner viewers and rave reviews.
But Mazzara is now in lame duck mode as it has been announced that he will be leaving after this season. The statement from AMC said the split was amicable, but sources have cited differences of opinions between Mazzara and comic book series creator Robert Kirkman (who is heavily involved in the TV show's production). Mazzara himself hinted that his "control" over the show was less than ideal.
My hope is that the quality of the show does not suffer this season. It should be just fine, but what of the future? Continued turnover will eventually lead to a drop in quality and spell the end of the line.
But that's something to worry about at another time. For now, tonight's season opener should start with a bang - based on the mid-season finale's cliffhanger ending.
Tensions between good guy leader Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and the leader of the Woodbury community, the Governor (David Morrisey) reached a boiling point in the mid-season finale, which also saw brothers Merle (Michael Rooker) and Daryl (Norman Reedus) finally reunited.
The mid-season finale also introduced viewers to a whole new crew of survivors, led by Tyreese, a fan favorite character in the comic book series. Tyreese is played by Chad Coleman, who was excellent on HBO's hit series "The Wire," so his addition to an already strong cast is welcome.
So while I may have concerns about the future of the show beyond this season, I remain optimistic that "The Walking Dead" will continue to shock and amaze me on television every week - just as much as the comic book series does every month.?
Ian Clark's Pop Culture Club appears weekly in the New Hampshire Sunday News. Check out his podcast "Nerdherders" on iTunes or at www.3nerds.us, and his books, "Prophecy of Shadows" and "Plains of the Past." His e-mail address is email@example.com.


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System administrators think we live in a world governed by Newtonian physics where, as Master Yoda would say, "a bit either a one or a zero is." The truth is that today's datacenter is becoming more and more a quantum reality where there are no certainties, just probabilities. Any time we write data to some medium or another, there's some probability that we won't be able to read that data back.
I came to this realization as one of my fellow delegates at Storage Field Day 5 asked the speaker describing EMC's XtremIO about how its deduplication scheme handled hash collisions. Having argued this point to what I thought was a logical conclusion when deduplication first arrived in the backup market four years ago, my first reaction is to haul out the math like I did in the now-seminal blog post When Hashes Collide.
I then realized that the problem wasn't just that people weren't worried about the probability that their data might get corrupted; they were worried about the possibility that their data might be corrupted as if that possibility didn't even exist with their current solutions. We have to stop thinking of data the way physicists thought about the universe before quantum mechanics raised its complex head. Newton, through his marvelous gravity equation, could calculate the orbits of the planets and predict eclipses. However, when we get to the quantum scale, things get a lot more complicated.
Those of you who remember any of your high school or college physics think of an atom as looking like a miniature solar system with electrons in circular orbits with discrete locations, like the planets.
Quantum mechanics, however, tells us that we can never actually know where any given sub-atomic particle is at any given time. At best, the Schrödinger equations let us create a map of the probabilities of an electron being in specific places. At the quantum level, basically all we know are probabilities -- a fact that so offended Albert Einstein that despite being an agnostic, he famously remarked, "God does not play dice with the universe."
Electron probability maps look more like this:
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Well folks, all sorts of things -- from external electromagnetic waves to sympathetic vibrations from adjacent disk drives -- cause bits to randomly change in our storage media and as they're crossing our networks.
A near-line disk drive has an error rate of 1 in 10^15, which means once in every 10^15 times it reads a sector, it will either fail or return the wrong data in an undetected error. That's a 0.6% probability of an unrecoverable error for each full read or write of a 6TB drive. Now 0.6% isn't that big a probability of data loss, but it's big enough that networks and storage systems use checksums and other hash functions to detect errors and allow them to re-read, or recalculate, data from the other drives in the RAID set.
As I calculated in "When Hashes Collide," the odds of a hash collision in a 4PB dataset using 8KB blocks is 4.5x10^26. Since the MTBF (mean time between failures) of an enterprise hard drive is about 2 million hours, the odds of both drives in a RAID 1 set failing within the same hour is 2x10^6 squared or 4x10^12, which is 10^14 (100 billion for those in the US that need the translation) times more likely than data being corrupted due to a hash collision.
New technologies such as deduplication introduce new failure modes, like a hash collision. If you worry about the possibility of this new failure mode without taking the quantum mechanical view of weighing the probability of that failure mode compared to the risks you are already taking, and consider reasonable, the new technology will look dangerous when it's actually safer than what you're already doing.


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New Hampshire Open tennis event begins FridayBy JOHN KOZIOL
Union Leader Correspondent
July 16. 2014 10:50PM
WATERVILLE VALLEY — Some of the best male tennis players in the Granite State and beyond will compete in the 33rd New Hampshire Open, which begins Friday and offers a purse of $10,000 in cash and prizes.
Play on the 18 red-clay courts at the Waterville Valley Tennis Center (WVTC) begins at 4 p.m. Friday, continues at 9 a.m. Saturday and after semifinals at 9 a.m. Sunday, winds up with a 1 p.m. final. Admission is free and attendees are invited to bring their own chairs and beverages.
Tom Gross Jr., who is the WVTC's director and one of its owners, said the field is shaping up well for both the singles and doubles.
A co-founder of the tournament, Gross said it has changed over the past four decades but still retains the power to thrill.
He noted that past NH Open winners include Val Wilder III and Bud Schulz, who each won seven times and went on to turn pro. Both originally from Connecticut, Wilder and Schulz earned their highest ATP rankings in 1986; Wilder at No. 105, Schulz — who later coached the WTA Boston Lobsters — at No. 40.
This year's draw may also contain some future professionals, said Gross, who recalled that back when the tournament first began, it often did include professionals, some of whom had competed the week before in the Hall of Fame Championships in Newport, R.I.
As in the past, there were some calls from pros again this year, said Gross, who added, however, that while a five-figure purse and the opportunity to win a stay in Waterville Valley are attractive to many tennis players in the Northeast, they're less so to a pro from South Africa.
In its halcyon days, the NH Open drew not only some of the best players anywhere, but also a great number of them, Gross continued. He attributed the gradual decline in participation to the fact that the USTA offers a lot of opportunities for upper level, 5.0 and above-ranked players in year-round leagues and that college players — many of whom already play in the fall, winter and spring — cut back during the summer.
Nonetheless, Gross feels good about what the NH Open will offer this year.
"The weekend weather looks spectacular," he said, adding that even if it does rain on Sunday, the finals can be moved indoors to the nearby White Mountain Athletic Club.
"I believe that this year is going to be like the others," Gross summed up. "Once you get into the quarterfinals, the tennis has been outstanding and it's been really fun, spectating tennis, too."


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Press Release – Health Promotion Agency
A new tool for regulatory and hospitality bar and door staff to monitor intoxication on licensed premises was rolled out at a Hospitality New Zealand breakfast meeting in Wellington this week.
The tool has been developed by the Health Promotion Agency (HPA) in consultation with NZ Police, the New Zealand Institute of Licensing Inspectors (NZILLI) and the hospitality industry (Hospitality NZ and the Trinity Group).
"The tool which is available in a pocket card size and as a poster describes the various signs of speech, coordination, appearance and behaviour displayed by someone who is sober, someone who is affected by alcohol and someone who is intoxicated," said HPA Principal Advisor Drinking Environments Mark Lyne.
"The tool will assist bar staff in their management of intoxicated patrons in their bars and also the regulatory agencies in their monitoring and enforcement roles," he said. "This is the first time the same tool was available for both the hospitality industry and the regulatory agencies, and should improve consistency in both their approaches, as well as reduce intoxication in licensed premises."
Bruce Robertson Hospitality New Zealand CEO said the tool was a great example of the good practical solutions that could come out of collaborative work between the regulators and the industry.
"Dealing with issues of intoxication is increasingly important to licensed premises as the authorities step up the pressure in this area on licensees and managers,' he said.
"The general public don't realise the severe penalties that arise for licensees if an intoxicated person is found on their premises. Even if that person has pre-loaded at home and not purchased one drink the licensee can still be prosecuted because they are intoxicated on their premises," he explained.
"Therefore it's important all staff are trained to identify and deal with these issues."
Murray Clearwater, President of NZILLI said the organisation was very pleased that licensees, managers, police and inspectors now had a common terminology and an agreed template to assess intoxication.
"It will also provide clarity for the industry as patrons will be assessed as either sober, affected by alcohol, or intoxicated with clear directions on how each category is to be managed," he said.
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"Hey kids, what would you think about a movie in which pizza and ice cream were voiced by your mom and Selena Gomez and had sleepovers and fought crime? Would you like that?"
That kind of foolish, focus-grouped approach theoretically inspired the 3-D animated "Rise of the Guardians," in which tattooed and/or snarky versions of commercialized icons associated with religious holidays (Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny), inclusive children's figures (the Tooth Fairy, the Sandman) and a character that barely figures into childhood at all (Jack Frost) combine to defend the world's kids. Actually, they only protect kids who believe in them, so that wipes out a large, unrecognized-by-the-film percentage of the planet right there. These beings operate vaguely in service of hope and wonder and other generalized concepts but also in their own self-interest; much of their desire to make kids believe is so Jack Frost (voiced by Chris Pine) and the others feel validated.
The group's enemy is Pitch (Jude Law, effectively menacing), a bogeyman who haunts dreams with demon horses as if that's the only thing kids have nightmares about. Some details worth mentioning: Santa (known as North and voiced by Alec Baldwin) is Eastern European, Jack Frost experiences a Jesus-like resurrection and the Man in the Moon is the one who recruits guardians to their posts.
There's imagination-driven suspension of disbelief and there's total, shameless garbage. Those annoying birds in "Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole" were boring; the characters in "Rise of the Guardians" are flat-out offensive, corrupting the curiosities of young viewers into a toxic soup of bland earnestness and hectic action. The script by David Lindsay-Abaire, adapted from William Joyce's "The Guardians of Childhood" and Joyce's short film "Man in the Moon," seems to have "forced, whimsical laugh" written on every page.
David, just because characters yell "Wahoo!" and cackle while flying through the air doesn't mean a movie's fun.
All kids lose teeth. Not all kids love freezing weather or recognize Santa. Without identifying what this fantasy ensemble means to children, "Rise" cares much more about its irritating characters than the youngsters they supposedly live to protect. Director Peter Ramsey, whose previous directing credit is the TV movie "Monsters vs. Aliens: Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space," delivers a film as vapid and false as "The Polar Express," "Hop" and the tale of Dwayne Johnson becoming the Tooth Fairy. Combined.
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The Canadian dollar (FOREX:CADUSD) advanced for a second day as Alcoa Inc. started the U.S. earnings season with results that exceeded analysts' estimates, boosting demand for riskier assets.
The currency remained higher after a report showed June housing starts exceeded forecasts. Stocks rose and crude oil, Canada's biggest export, traded at almost its highest level in 14 months before data forecast to show U.S. crude supplies fell for a second week and as bloodshed in Egypt stoked concern that Middle Eastern exports may be disrupted.
"Given the fact that this risk-on move is sustained, we could end up slightly more positive for the Canadian dollar," said David Tulk, chief macro strategist at Toronto-Dominion Bank's TD securities unit, by phone from Toronto. "We'll probably end up in the current range, but probably biased to see a bit more strength for today."
The loonie, as the Canadian dollar is known for the image of the aquatic bird on the C$1 coin, rose 0.3% to C$1.0527 per U.S. dollar at 9:54 a.m. in Toronto. One loonie buys 94.99 U.S. cents.
Options Data
The cost to insure against declines in the loonie versus its U.S. peer fell to its lowest point in three weeks. The three-month so-called 25-delta risk reversal rate fell to 1.4950, the least since June 18. Risk reversals measure the premium on options contracts to sell Canadian dollars versus buying U.S. contracts that do the opposite.
Canada's benchmark 10-year bonds fell, pushing yields up one basis point, or 0.01 percentage point, to 2.48%. The 1.5% security maturing in June 2023 lost seven cents to C$91.43.
The Bank of Canada will auction C$3.4 billion ($3.2 billion) of five-year notes with a coupon of 1.25% tomorrow.
Housing starts were 199,586 at a seasonally adjusted annual pace in June, Ottawa-based Canada Mortgage & Housing Corp. said on its website today. Economists forecasted a reading of 187,500 according to the median of 22 responses to a Bloomberg News survey.
Futures on crude oil fell 0.1% to $103.02 per barrel in New York after reaching $104.12 yesterday, the highest level since May 2012. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index of U.S. stocks added 0.5%, while the S&P/TSX Composite Index, the benchmark Canadian equity gauge, increased 0.2%.
Risk Bid
"There is a vague appetite for risk as we're seeing equities slightly higher, volatility is slightly lower," Camilla Sutton, head of currency strategy at Bank of Nova Scotia, said by phone.
Aluminum producer Alcoa's profit excluding expenses related to output cuts and a legal settlement were 7 cents a share in the second quarter, Alcoa said yesterday, topping the 6-cent average of 15 estimates compiled by Bloomberg. Sales fell 1.9% to $5.85 billion, surpassing the $5.79 billion average of nine estimates.
Hedge funds and other large speculators increased their bets last week the Canadian dollar will decline against the greenback, figures from the Washington-based Commodity Futures Trading Commission show. The difference in the number of wagers on a decline in the Canadian dollar compared with those on a gain -- so-called net shorts -- was 16,250 on July 2, compared with net shorts of 10,638 a week earlier.
The Canadian dollar has risen 1.3% in the past three months against nine developed nations currencies tracked by the Bloomberg Correlation Weighted Index. The U.S. dollar has gained 5.4%.
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United States Representative Mike Rogers (R-Dist. 3) is taking part in Auburn's tradition of rolling trees with toilet paper after a big athletic win, even though he's a thousand miles from Toomer's Corner.
Rep. Rogers posted a photo of himself rolling a small tree Tuesday with a message saying "War Eagle from the Toomer's Oak here on the Capitol lawn!"
The No. 3 Auburn Tigers (11-1) beat the No. 1 ranked Alabama Crimson Tide in a historic Iron Bowl last Saturday night.
They're now preparing for the SEC Championship game against No. 5 Missouri (11-1) in Atlanta this weekend.
Rogers graduated from Jacksonville State University and has served Alabama's 3rd District in the U.S. House since 2002. The district covers a large portion of Eastern Alabama including Auburn and Opelika.
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A New Leader in the Oregon House
February 05, 2010
Jules Kopel Bailey canvassed Portland neighborhoods seven days a week during his 2008 bid for state representative of Oregon House District 42. He estimates he knocked on 10,000 doors in the space of five months, ratcheting up his efforts to 100 visits a day during the final leg of the campaign—all while holding down a full-time consulting job and hustling to raise money for the race. "Being on the campaign trail was literally the hardest thing I've ever done," says Bailey, who lost 35 pounds in the process.
It was also one of the most rewarding.
"I represent the heart of inner eastside Portland, a hub of political and social advocacy and activism," he says. "I made some lifelong friends on those doorsteps."
He also fleshed out the core of his signature piece of legislation. In his first term, Bailey was co-chief sponsor of HB 2626, the Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Technology Act, which passed with strong bipartisan support and was signed into law by Governor Ted Kulongoski in July 2009.
The bill allows homeowners and businesses to secure long-term low-interest loans for energy efficiency and renewable energy projects, such as upgrading insulation and adding triple-pane windows and solar panels.
"One of my co-chief sponsors on HB 2626 was Tim Freeman of Roseburg," says Bailey. "He's a great guy who owns a gas station and isn't concerned about climate change. But because he knew the bill would help people in his district economically, he worked with me to make it happen."
That spirit of bipartisanship, civility, intelligent debate, and compromise in Salem has impressed Bailey.
"I can't conceive of dealing with the power struggles I've seen over health care in Washington and at town hall meetings," he says.
Bailey has been appointed vice chair of the House Revenue Committee. During the 2009 session, he served on four other committees: Transportation, Sustainability and Economic Development, Environment and Water, and Oregon Fujian Sister State.
A typical day for Bailey moves at breakneck speed.
When the legislature is in session, it goes something like this: up at 5 a.m., carpool to Salem to arrive by 7:30, start meetings at 7:45, go to morning committees, vote for bills on the floor at 10, take a 15-minute lunch at noon or eat during caucus, and then return for afternoon meetings and committees at 1 p.m. Most of Bailey's meetings last about 15 minutes, so he can squeeze eight into two hours. He carpools back to Portland at 5:30, arriving at 7 p.m. At home, he responds to about 100 e-mails.
"The next morning, I get up and do it all over again," he says. "It's very intense, and there's no room for error."
When he's not in Salem, Bailey juggles three jobs: he's assistant majority leader for policy for the House Democratic caucus; he's chief strategist for his reelection campaign; and he's the principal consultant for Pareto Global, a company that assists clients with energy issues, land use, transportation, and economic impact analyses.
Bailey credits his rising career trajectory to the mentoring relationships he formed with professors while at Lewis & Clark, including Curtis Johnson, Pamplin Professor of Government; Cyrus Partovi B.A.'67, senior lecturer in social sciences; and the late Evan Williams, founder of the interdisciplinary Environmental Studies Program.
"I learned that there is more to environmental policy than just biology and chemistry," he says. "People also need to be well versed in economics, politics, philosophy, and mathematics."
Energized by his successful first year in office, Bailey says he intends to stay in state politics for the long term. On his future wish list are fostering world-class educational opportunities in Oregon and ending the state's budget roller coaster.
"My best days are ones when I get a clear, tangible victory on a key piece of legislation," he says. "The most challenging part of being a young representative is realizing that I can't accomplish everything I want immediately. I'm learning to recognize the value of incremental victories and compromise."
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SportingSights (dead link removed)
SportingSights has a huge collection of geo-tagged sports stadium. The site seems to have collections for most major sports. Each stadium is shown on Google Maps but there is also the option to view the stadium in Virtual Earth, Yahoo Maps and Multimap.
MapGameday is a website aimed at college football fans to help them share special places around their favourite school with other fans. Users are able to share their favourite hotels, restaurants and tailgate locations.
The site includes a number of Google Maps, such as the college football recruiting map and team travel maps. The team travel maps show the distance that College Football Teams travel for road games, both in and out of conference. Whilst the college recruiting map shows every division one school and their recruits.
MapGameDay also allows you to view the college football stadiums in 3D via the new Google Earth browser plug-in.
Golf Nation
Golf Nation has added Google Earth Browser plug-in views to their comprehensive list of golf courses. They have also added the option to embed any of the golf course maps in your own website or blog. Each course has all eighteen holes tagged and each tag contains information about the hole's par and length.
Google Earth Hacks and Google Earth Blog have teamed up to create a web site that allows people to share and view 3D locations using the Google Earth plugin. Combining Google Earth Blog's vast knowledge of Google Earth and the thousands of kml files in existence with Google Earth Hack's experience of creating Google Earth and Google Maps collections is an inspired idea. This site should prove to be very popular
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SatelliteSights.com is a new community-driven satellite image sightseeing project. Users can submit interesting views they have found on Google Maps. The site already has thousands of interesting satellite images from around the world, submitted, researched, and maintained by its users.
Again SatelliteSights is not devoted to just mapping sports stadium but it does include a big 'sports' section of satellite views.
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Believe it or not, there could be a new holy grail for investors.
"Great ideas come along maybe once every 20 years or so," David Booth, chairman of Dimensional Fund Advisors in Austin, Texas, which manages more than $262 billion, told me this week.
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CHICAGO, Ill. (Friday, Dec. 13, 2013) – The Chicago Fire Soccer Club announced Friday that the club has acquired defender/midfielder Lovel Palmer from 2013 MLS Cup finalists Real Salt Lake in exchange for allocation money. Per MLS and team policy, terms of the deal were not disclosed.
"We're pleased to welcome Lovel to the Fire," said Fire Head Coach and Director of Soccer Frank Yallop. "He is a versatile, experienced player who will be instrumental in building a deep squad to compete in 2014."
Palmer joins the Fire after one season with Real Salt Lake. Selected in Stage 2 of the MLS Re-Entry Draft on Dec. 14, 2012, Palmer made 17 appearances and tallied one assist in regular season play, and made three post-season appearances as RSL reached the 2013 MLS Cup.
The Mandeville, Jamaica product began his professional career with Jamaican First Division side Harbour View FC in 1999, appearing in 143 matches. Palmer joined MLS in March 2010 when he was signed by the Houston Dynamo. In one-and-a-half seasons with the Dynamo, Palmer scored three goals and tallied one assist across 45 appearances. On July 21, 2011, Palmer was traded to the Portland Timbers where he would appear 34 times and tally one assist.
A Jamaican youth international, Palmer made his senior national team debut in 2005 and has since earned 24 caps.
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Judge denies work release, home confinement requests for former Dover school board chairmanBy MIKE LAWRENCE
Union Leader Correspondent
June 13. 2014 1:07PM
DOVER – Judge Tina Nadeau this week denied a Department of Correction request for home confinement or work release for former Dover School Board chairman Nick Skaltsis, who pleaded guilty last year to defrauding friends and neighbors of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
A hearing was held Monday after the department requested administrative home confinement for Skaltsis, who was sentenced in July 2013 to serve at least 18 months in prison and pay nearly $278,000 in restitution after he was convicted of scamming a dozen victims.
Skaltsis had pleaded guilty to three counts of theft by deception and one count of theft by misappropriation of property.
Judge Nadeau of Strafford County Superior Court, wrote in her decision, issued Wednesday, that Monday's hearing addressed both the department's request for home confinement and a previous approval for Skaltsis' participation in a work-release program.
Nadeau denied both in her Wednesday decision.
Nadeau wrote that Skaltsis should serve "nothing less" than his original sentence.
She wrote that the work-release approval had been "unfortunately" signed by the county attorney's office, although the Attorney General's Office was the prosecuting entity in the case.
Skaltsis was originally charged with 15 counts of theft by deception and four counts of theft by misappropriation of property for falsely accepting about $327,500 in loans from 13 area residents to rehabilitate distressed real estate properties for resale.
Skaltsis never used the money to buy, renovate or sell any properties, and instead used it for his own benefit, according to Assistant Attorney General Robert Adams.
He was chairman of Dover's school board in 2002.
Nadeau wrote that while the court "generally supports the Department of Corrections' efforts to enhance rehabilitation" through programs such as home confinement, such a program wouldn't be appropriate for Skaltsis, whom she said doesn't need assistance finding employment or housing.
"This is a defendant who needs to serve his minimum sentence, which the court originally was reluctant to accept in light of its leniency, as retribution for his outrageous conduct," Nadeau wrote. "He victimized at least 11 separate victims by conning them into turning over their retirement funds with a promise of sizable returns on their investments. Instead of delivering on his promises, he used deceit and manipulation to permanently deprive them of their life savings."


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Texas, for those not from around here, has a bit of a different feel from Oklahoma. It's bigger, busier, but it's also a state of contrasts; It has sprawling cities and vast swaths of desolate countryside (think "No Country For Old Men"), a strange blend of modern American cosmopolitanism and backwater secessionist crackpottery. This is the home, after all, of both the Kimball Art Museum and Rick Perry.
But what makes such a place worth driving through hours of repetitive scenery laden with casinos and adult bookstores? Naturally, my friend Sarah and I drove to Ft. Worth and back one fine Saturday for one thing: a meal. Yes, one lunch and even one dish at Ol' South Pancake House is well worth a 200 mile drive both ways. Don't believe me? Read on.
I would be loath to ignore all of the fun sight-seeing attractions on a road trip like this, and especially all of the cool things to do in Ft. Worth and Dallas. Just because we came for or food and left without so much as a museum visit doesn't mean you should! I couldn't recommend the Kimbell and the Ft. Worth Modern highly enough. The former is an architectural masterwork by Louis Kahn (if you're into that sort of thing) which is probably the closest thing to hallowed space this side of the Red River. The museum is small, but that means every single piece, ranging from ancient to modern, is a stand-out. The light and materials of the space give intimate and beautiful respect to the works displayed within. Much larger is the Ft. Worth Modern, another masterpiece, plain and simple, by Japanese architect Tadao Ando. It contains pieces by such names as Ed Rousha, Gerhard Richter, Francis Bacon, Mark Rothko, and that Andy Warhol guy you may have heard of.
The best part? These museums are right across the street from one another! And only a short drive from our destined pancake house. Not into art? Well I-35 has plenty of diverse and exciting sights to offer! There's the action figure museum in Paul's Valley, Ardmore's bustling Starbucks, even the world's only osteology museum! The town of Moore, home to Toby Keith and a big movie theater should also top your list! You can even stop off at the monstrosity that is Winstar Casino, an amalgam of reconstructions of famous buildings from around the world which looks like a pile of greeting cards were willed into terrible, monumental reality by the same evil force that gave us Branson, Missouri. As if this weren't enough Americana for one day, you'll even get to see the NASCAR Texas Motor Speedway rising up alongside the highway like an ancient temple of beer, fried food and men in tank-tops.
But if you're like me, you'd like to go straight through without any stops and cut the 4-hour drive down to 3 with careful observance of posted speed limits. The highway didn't have an abundance of broken heroes on a last chance power drive during our trip, so we made pretty good time. And suddenly, there it was: right alongside downtown Ft. Worth Ol' South Pancake House sits with a full parking lot, enormous as you'd expect a themed restaurant in Texas to be (Medieval Times is nearby). I'll admit this restaurant is unusual for my blog. By that I mean it is really down-home. Desserts are displayed up front, and the wooden booths, old-timey lamps and murals of Southern Plantation vistas give the place a folksy, cracker barrel feel. There is no hint of the exotic quaintness of the foreign restaurants I usually seek out. There are no pillows to sit on, no hookahs, no ducks hanging in plain sight. It doesn't even have organ meats on the menu! But our meal was phenomenal nonetheless.
I say meal, but really there's one big reason to come to Ol' South. When we let our waiter know we had come all the way from Oklahoma City, he instinctively replied "Ah, German pancakes then." He understands. Yes, iHop claims to be the "International" house of pancakes, and this place also offers several international twists on the traditional breakfast pastry (Swedish Crepes, Belgian Waffles, Blintzes, etc.). But I promise, you have never had anything like these German pancakes. The cake itself is like an egg-based crepe: rich and fluffy like a soufflé but cooked nearly crispy on the flat-top. It arrives at the table flat, like an edible plate holding a gleaming dollop of melting butter and snowy coating of powdered sugar. But then the show starts. Your waiter carefully pours a bowl of fresh-squeezed lemon juice over the pancake until it's steeped in the buttery nectar. Then he folds it over, making it a sweet, juicy present with a pancake wrapper.
Now are these pancakes really just like those eaten in Germany? I don't know. Somehow I doubt it. But it is one of the sweetest, richest foods you'll ever eat. After cutting into the mound of pancake, your plate will be swimming in the butter and lemon. Each bite will be just as explosive, the hot, porous cake soaked in the magical liquid. Now my German pancake was actually what they call a "Dutch Baby," the small version. The standard size is huge, as in hanging off the plate before they wrap it up huge. Should you be brave enough to try the full pancake, that's a meal in itself. But in the interest of exploring more of the menu, my Dutch Baby was complimented nicely by eggs, bacon and Cheese Blintzes. You have the choice of strawberries or sour cream on the Blintzes, the latter of which I chose because I was already close to a sugar overdose. The pancake may be a hard act to follow, but the Blintzes were like hot cheesecake wrapped in a crepe (with packets of sour cream administered by yours truly). Need I say more?
So we left Ol' South and Ft. Worth sated and filled with the food of the gods. There was no room for the pies and cheesecake beckoning to us from their glass case on our way out, but I have no doubt they would have been just as divine. This pilgrimage is one I would recommend all my Oklahoma friends take at least once. The German pancake may not be like anything you've eaten, but like everything else on the menu, it's just great comfort food. Maybe the drive there is a little kitschy, a blend of Las Vegas and the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but it should put you in the right state of mind for a good southern meal. And Ol' South is just that: Proof that Southern cooking, at least, isn't gone with the wind (sorry about that one).
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Getting around Berlin
With the completion of the inner-city-encircling Ringbahn in 2002, the former East and West Berlin transport systems were finally sewn back together, though it can still sometimes be complicated travelling between Eastern and Western neighbourhoods. Even within one half of the city, journeys can involve several changes of route or mode of transport. But services are usually regular and frequent, timetables can be trusted, and one ticket can be used for two hours on all legs of a journey and all forms of transport.
Arriving and leaving
By air
The new Berlin Brandenburg Willy Brandt Airport (BER) should have opened some years ago. But, following years of confusion and controversy, no-one seems to know exactly when it will open, with current estimates stretching to 2018 and beyond. Until then, Berlin remains served by two airports: Tegel and Schönefeld.
Information in English on all airports (including live departures and arrivals) can be found at www.berlin-airport.de. Both Tegel and Schönefeld are likely to close as soon as BER opens, just south of the Schönefeld site.
Flughafen Tegel (TXL)
Airport information 0180 5000 186, www.berlin-airport.de. Open 4am-midnight daily. The more upmarket scheduled flights from the likes of BA and Lufthansa use the compact Tegel airport, just 8km (5 miles) north-west of Mitte.
Buses 109 and X9 (the express version) run via Luisenplatz and the Kurfürstendamm to Zoologischer Garten (also known as Zoo Station, Bahnof Zoo or just Zoo) in western Berlin. Buses run every 5-15 minutes, and the journey takes 30-40 minutes. Tickets cost €2.70 (and can also be used on U-Bahn and S-Bahn services). At Zoo you can connect to anywhere in the city.
From the airport, you can also take bus 109 to Jacob-Kaiser-Platz U-Bahn (U7), or bus 128 to Kurt-Schumacher-Platz U-Bahn (U6), and proceed on the underground from there. One ticket (€2.70) can be used for the combined journey.
The JetExpressBusTXL is the direct link to Berlin Hauptbahnhof and Mitte. It runs from Tegel to Alexanderplatz, with useful stops at Beusselstrasse S-Bahn (connects with the Ringbahn), Berlin Hauptbahnhof (regional and inter-city train services as well as the S-Bahn), Unter den Linden S-Bahn (north and south trains on the S1 and S2 lines). The service runs every 10 or 20 minutes, 4.30am-12.30am (5.30am-12.30am at weekends) and takes 30-40 minutes; a ticket is €2.70.
A taxi to anywhere central will cost around €20-€25 and take 20-30 minutes.
Flughafen Schönefeld (SXF)
Airport information 0180 5000 186, www.berlin-airport.de. Open 24hrs daily.
The former airport of East Berlin is 18km (11 miles) south-east of the city centre. It's small, and much of the traffic is to eastern Europe and the Middle East. Budget airlines from the UK and Ireland also use it – EasyJet flies in from Bristol, Gatwick, Glasgow, Liverpool, Luton and Manchester; Ryanair from Dublin, East Midlands, Edinburgh and Stansted.
Train is the best means of reaching the city centre. S-Bahn Flughafen Schönefeld is a five-minute walk from the terminal (a free S-Bahn shuttle bus runs every ten minutes, 6am-10pm, from outside the terminal; at other times, bus 171 also runs to the station). From here, the Airport Express train runs to Mitte (25 minutes to Alexanderplatz), Berlin Hauptbahnhof (30 minutes) and Zoo (35 minutes) every half hour from 5am to 11.30pm. You can also take S-Bahn line S9, which runs into the centre every 20 minutes (40 minutes to Alexanderplatz, 50 minutes to Zoo), stopping at all stations along the way. The S45 line from Schönefeld connects with the Ringbahn, also running every 20 minutes.
Bus X7, every 10 or 20 minutes, 4.30am-8pm, runs non-stop from the airport to Rudow U-Bahn (U7), from where you can connect with the underground. This is a good option if you're staying in Kreuzberg, Neukölln or Schöneberg. When it's not running, bus 171 takes the same route.
Tickets from the airport to the city cost €3.30, and can be used on any combination of bus, U-Bahn, S-Bahn and tram.
A taxi to Zoo or Mitte is quite expensive (€30-€35) and takes around 45 minutes.
Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg Willy Brandt (BER) www.berlin-airport.de.
The airport's operators promise a fast train shuttle will transport passengers to the city centre in just 20 minutes.
Air Berlin 0180 573 7800, www.airberlin.com.
Air France 0180 583 0830, www.airfrance.de.
Alitalia 0180 507 4747, www.alitalia.de.
British Airways 0180 526 6522, www.britishairways.com.
EasyJet 01805 666 000, www.easyjet.com.
German Wings 0906 294 1918, www.germanwings.com.
Iberia 0180 544 2900, www.iberia.com.
Lufthansa 01803 803 803, www.lufthansa.de.
Ryanair 0900 116 0500, www.ryanair.com.
By rail
Berlin Hauptbahnhof
0180 599 6633, www.bahn.de.
Berlin's central station is the main point of arrival for all long-distance trains, with the exceptions of night trains from Moscow and Kiev, which usually start and end at Berlin Lichtenberg (S5, S7, S75).
Hauptbahnhof is inconveniently located in a no-man's land north of the government quarter, and is linked to the rest of the city by S-Bahn (S5, S7, S9, S75), and by the new U55 underground line that runs to the Bundestag and, in 2016, the Brandenburger Tor only (connecting there with S-Bahn lines S1, S2, S25). Eventually, the line will extend to connect to the U5 at Alexanderplatz, via Museumsinsel and Unter den Linden, but not until at least 2019.
On their way in and out of town, inter-city trains now also stop at Gesundbrunnen, Südkreuz and Spandau, depending on their destinations.
By bus
Zentraler Omnibus Bahnhof (ZOB)
Masurenallee 4-6, Charlottenburg (301 0380, www.iob-berlin.de). Open 6am-9pm Mon-Fri; 6am-3pm Sat, Sun. Buses arrive in western Berlin at the Central Bus Station, opposite the Funkturm and the ICC. From here, U-Bahn line U2 runs into the city centre.
Public transport in Berlin
The Berlin transport authority, the BVG, operates bus, U-Bahn (underground) and tram networks, and a few ferry services on the outlying lakes. The S-Bahn (overground railway) is run by its own authority, but services are integrated within the same three-zone tariff system.
The BVG website (www.bvg.de) has a wealth of information (in English) on city transport, and there's usually someone who speaks English at the 24-hour BVG Call Center (194 49). The S-Bahn has its own website at www.s-bahn-berlin.de.
The Liniennetz, a map of U-Bahn, S-Bahn, bus and tram routes for Berlin and Potsdam, is available free from info centres and ticket offices. It includes a city centre map
A map of the U- and S-Bahn can also be picked up free at ticket offices or from the grey-uniformed Zugabfertiger – passenger-assistance personnel.
Fares and Tickets
The bus, tram, U-Bahn, S-Bahn and ferry services operate on an integrated three-zone system. Zone A covers central Berlin, zone B extends out to the edge of the suburbs and zone C stretches into Brandenburg.
The basic single ticket is the €2.70 Normaltarif (zones A and B). Unless going to Potsdam or Flughafen Schönefeld, few visitors are likely to travel beyond zone B, making this in effect a flat-fare system.
Apart from the longer-term Zeitkarten, tickets for Berlin's public transport system can be bought from the yellow or orange machines at U- or S-Bahn stations, and by some bus stops. These take coins and sometimes notes, give change and have a limited explanation of the ticket system in English.
You can often pay by card, but don't count on it (if you do, don't forget to collect your card – infuriatingly, the machines keep the card until all the tickets are printed, making it very easy to forget). An app, FahrInfo Plus, is also available for iOS and Android, which allows you to purchase and carry tickets on your smartphone; details on www.bvg.de/en/travel-information/mobile.
Once you've purchased your ticket, validate it in the small red or yellow box next to the machine, which stamps it with the time and date. (Tickets bought on trams or buses are usually already validated.)
There are no ticket turnstiles at stations but if an inspector catches you without a valid ticket, you will be fined €40. Ticket inspections are frequent, and are conducted while vehicles are moving by pairs of plain-clothes personnel.
Single ticket (Normaltarif)
Single tickets cost €2.70 (€1.70 for children between the ages of six and 14) for travel within zones A and B, €3 (€2) for zones B and C, and €3.30 (€2.40) for all three zones. A ticket allows use of the BVG network for two hours, with as many changes between bus, tram, U-Bahn and S-Bahn as necessary travelling in one direction.
Short-distance ticket (Kurzstreckentarif)
The Kurzstreckentarif (ask for a Kurzstrecke) costs €1.60 (€1.20 reductions) and is valid for three U- or S-Bahn stops, or six stops on the tram or bus. No transfers allowed.
Day ticket (Tageskarte)
A Tageskarte for zones A and B costs €6.90 (€4.70 reductions), or €7.40 (€5.30) for all three zones. A day ticket lasts until 3am the morning after validating.
Longer-term tickets (Zeitkarten)
If you're in Berlin for a week, it makes sense to buy a Sieben-Tage-Karte ('seven-day ticket') at €29.50 for zones A and B, or €36.50 for all three zones (no reductions).
A stay of a month or more makes it worth buying a Monatskarte ('month ticket'), which costs €79.50 for zones A and B, or €98.50 for all three zones.
Tourist travelcards
There are two excellent-value travelcards aimed at tourists, which pack in unlimited transport within designated zones, with a bundle of other attractive perks – discounts and deals with partnering tourist and cultural attractions, shops, bars and clubs. For zones A and B, the Berlin CityTourCard (www.citytourcard.com) costs €17.40 for a 48-hour pass, €24.50 for 72 hours and €31.90 for five days, while the Berlin WelcomeCard (www.berlin-welcomecard.de) is €19.50 for 48 hours, €26.70 for 72 hours (€40.50 including access to museums at Museum Island) and €34.50 for five days.
The U-Bahn network consists of ten lines and 170-plus stations. The first trains run shortly after 4am; the last between midnight and 1am, except on Fridays and Saturdays when most trains run all night at 15-minute intervals. The direction of travel is indicated by the name
of the last stop on the line.
Especially useful in Eastern Berlin, the S-Bahn covers long distances faster than the U-Bahn and is a more efficient means of getting to outlying areas. The Ringbahn, which circles central Berlin, was the final piece of the S-Bahn system to be renovated in 2002, though there are still disruptions here and there.
Berlin has a dense network of 150 bus routes, of which 54 run in the early hours. The day lines run from 4.30am to about 1am the next morning. Enter at the front of the bus and exit in the middle or at the back. The driver sells only individual tickets, but all tickets from machines on the U- or S-Bahn are valid. Most bus stops have clear timetables and route maps.
There are 21 tram lines (five of which run all night), mainly in the East, though some have been extended a few kilometres into the Western half of the city, mostly in Wedding. Hackescher Markt is the site of the main tram terminus. Tickets are available from machines on the trams, at the termini and in U-Bahn stations.
Other rail services
Berlin is also served by the Regionalbahn ('regional railway'), which once connected East Berlin with Potsdam via the suburbs and small towns left outside the Wall. Run by Deutsche Bahn (www.bahn.de), it still circumnavigates the city. The website has timetables and ticket information in English.
Travelling at night
Berlin has a comprehensive Nachtliniennetz ('night-line network') that covers all parts of town, with more than 50 bus and tram routes running every 30 minutes between 12.30am and 4.30am. Maps and timetables are available from BVG kiosks at stations, and large maps of the night services are found next to the normal BVG map on station platforms. Ticket prices are the same as during the day. Buses and trams that run at night are have an 'N' in front of the number.
On all buses travelling through zones B and C after 8pm, the driver will let you off at any point along the route via the front door.
Truncated versions of U-Bahn lines U1, U2, U3, U5, U6, U7, U8 and U9 run all night on Fridays and Saturdays, with trains every 15 minutes. The S-Bahn also runs at 30-minute intervals.
Boat trips
Getting about by water is more of a leisure activity than a practical means of navigating the city, but the BVG network does include a handful of boat services on Berlin's lakes. There are also several private companies offering tours of Berlin's waterways.
Reederei Heinz Riedel
Planufer 78, Kreuzberg (693 4646/www.reederei-riedel.de). U8 Schönleinstrasse. No credit cards.
A tour through the city's network of rivers and canals costs €4.50-€18.
Stern und Kreisschiffahrt
Puschkinallee 15, Treptow (536 3600/www.sternundkreis.de). S8, S9, S41, S42 Treptower Park. Open April-early Oct 9am-6pm Mon-Fri; 9am-2pm Sat.
Around 25 cruises along the Spree and around the lakes. Times vary. A 3hr 30min tour costs €18.50.
Taxis in Berlin
Berlin taxis are pricey, efficient and numerous. The starting fee is €3.40 and thereafter the fare is €1.79 per kilometre for the first seven kilometres, and €1.28 per kilometre thereafter. The rate remains the same at night. For short journeys ask for a Kurzstrecke – up to two kilometres for €4, but only available when you've hailed a cab and not from taxi ranks. Taxi stands are numerous, especially in central areas near stations and at major intersections. You can phone for a cab 24 hours daily on 261 026. Most firms can transport people with disabilities, but require advance notice. Cabs accept all credit cards except Diners Club, subject to a €1.50 charge.
If you want an estate car (station wagon), ask for a combi. As well as normal taxis, Funk Taxi Berlin operates vans capable of transporting up to seven people (ask for a grossraum Taxi; same rates as for regular taxis) and has two vehicles for people with disabilities.
Cycling in Berlin
West Berlin is wonderful for cycling – flat, with lots of cycle paths, parks and canals to cruise beside. East Berlin has fewer cycle paths and more cobblestones and tram lines.
Cycles can be taken on the U-Bahn (except during rush hour, 6-9am and 2-5pm), up to a limit of two at the end of carriages that have a bicycle sign. More may be taken on to S-Bahn carriages, and at any time of day. In each case an extra ticket (€1.80 for zones A and B) must be bought for each bike. The ADFC Fahrradstadtplan, available in bike shops (€6.90), is a good guide to cycle routes.
Berlin's bike rental scheme, Call-A-Bike, operates in summer only. The bikes are parked in designated docking stations. You have to register to use the system; you can register at a docking station terminal, via the website (www.callabike-interaktiv.de, in German only) or by calling 0700 0522 5522. There's a one-off registration fee of €12 and a charge of 8c per minute, up to a maximum of €15 per 24 hours. The Pauschal annual subscription (€36) allows unlimited journeys of up to 30 minutes for free, and make sense for those making longer visits.
Bike hire
The companies below rent bikes, or see Fahrradverleih in the Yellow Pages.
Dorotheenstr.30, Mitte (2838 4848/www.fahrradstation.de). U6, S1, S2, S5, S7, S9, S75 Friedrichstrasse. Open 10am-7.30pm Mon-Fri; 10am-6pm Sat; 10am-4pm Sun. Rates Per day from €15; 3 days €35.
Other locations Auguststrasse 29A, Mitte (2250 8070); Leibzigerstrasse 56, Mitte (6664 9180); Kollwitzstrasse 77, Prenzlauer Berg (9395 8130); Bergmannstrasse 9, Kreuzberg (215 1566); Goethestrasse 46, Charlottenburg (9395 2757).
Grossbeerenstrasse 53, Kreuzberg (7899 1939/www.pedalpower.de). U1, U7 Möckernbrücke. Open 10am-6.30pm Mon-Fri; 11am-2pm Sat. Rates Per day from €10. No credit cards.
Other locations Pfarrstrasse 115, Lichtenberg (5515 3270).
Driving in Berlin
Despite some congestion, driving in Berlin presents few problems. Visitors from the UK and US should bear in mind that, in the absence of signals, drivers must yield to traffic from the right, except at crossings marked by a diamond-shaped yellow sign. Trams always have right of way. An Einbahnstrasse is a one-way street.
Breakdown services
Bundesallee 29-30, Wilmersdorf (0180 222 2222). No credit cards. 24hr assistance for about €65/hr.
Fuel stations
Holzmarktstrasse 12, Mitte (2472 0748). Open 24hrs daily. Kurfürstendamm 128, Wilmersdorf (8909 6972). Open 24hrs daily.
Parking is usually metered in Berlin side streets (residents get an Anwohnerplakette pass), but spaces are hard to find. Buy a parking ticket from a nearby machine; if you don't have one, you risk getting your car clamped or towed.
There are long-term car parks at Schönefeld and Tegel airports. Otherwise there are many Parkgaragen and Parkhäuser (multi-storey and underground car parks) around the city, open 24 hours, that charge around €2 an hour.
Vehicle hire
Car hire in Germany is not expensive and all major companies are represented in Berlin. There are car hire desks at all the city's airports.
Car-sharing services such as DriveNow are increasingly popular.
Walking in Berlin
Berlin is a good walking city, but it's spread out. Mitte is most pleasant on foot, but if you then want to check out Charlottenburg, you'll next need to take a bus or train.


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Prepared by a clearer view of the justification in question, we are in a position to identify the nature of the truth connection. A proposition is epistemically justified to someone when it is evident to the person that the proposition is true.
From Earl Conee's paper, "The Truth Connection". To my ear (admittedly, unreliable at times), the claim that it is evident to so and so that some proposition is true sounds like it says that the proposition in question has to be true. So, this is a strange thing to say after spending the earlier parts of the paper arguing that a proposition can be justified and justifiably believed even if it is false. Any thoughts on what "evident" means?
Anyway, it is evident to me that the following remarks are all true:
Roderick Chisholm has, to my mind, developed the foundationalist theory of justification in more detail, with more precision, and with a deeper systematic understanding of the issues involved than any other defender of this general position. At the same time, he has produced a theory of such technical intricacy that the reader lacking Providential guidance sometimes feels like Herr K striving to reach the castle, occasionally catching glimpses of it, but always being shunted into side streets. Beyond this, Chisholm often introduces principles and definitions (and subtle qualifications of such principles and definitions) without explaining their underlying motivation. Chisholm's philosophy is played close to the vest. Furthermore, he often assigns ordinary words technical senses that depart in significant ways from their ordinary senses, and then uses these terms to define other terms. For all these reasons, Chisholm is often hard to understand and easy to get wrong.
--That was from Fogelin's Pyrrhonian Reflections on Knowledge and Justification.


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As a critic, I obviously see a lot of movies, and a drawback to that is I sometimes suffer from a certain fatigue of PG-13 acceptable cinema. Aiming to get as wide an audience as possible, studios try to make so-called "edgy" movies that won't rile the MPAA into an R-rating that could hurt commercial appeal. Look at almost every superhero movie, and even Fast& Furious 6. Of course, you don't need an R-rating to make a great or deeply thrilling movie (again, look at Fast & Furious 6). Still, there's a special illicit joy I feel when watching a movie that proudly proclaims, "This is for adults only, FUCK yeah!"
This bawdy boldness was just one of the reasons I enjoyed Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters. Written and directed by Norwegian horror auteur Tommy Wirkola, this R-rated horror-comedy took the fairy tale we knew as kids and made it something so dark and demented it's just for adults. Having escaped the cannibalistic witch and her candy house, brother-sister team Hansel and Gretel (Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton) make it their life's work to track down and destroy every witch they can find. While the critic community of which I am a part largely sneered at this pic, audiences turned out worldwide to the tune of $225 million, spurring plans for a sequel.
As one of the film's fans/defenders, I was eager to revisit it on Blu-ray, and talk with the flick's producer Adam McKay, who also happens to be Will Ferrell's partner in Gary Sanchez Productions. In a phone interview, he and I discussed how Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters came together, what's in store for its sequel, and how this midnight movie might be remembered.
Adam, I got to start off by telling you I really love this movie.
Adam McKay: Isn't it fun, man? It's a blast.
It really is! In my review, I described it as "the honey badger of movies" because this movie doesn't give a shit if you get it or not. It just does what it's doing.
(Adam laughs hard.)
What drew you and Gary Sanchez Productions to this project?
You know it was really just Tommy Wirkola. After we saw Dead Snow—one of our producers Kevin Messick turned us on to the movie—we brought Tommy in (for a meeting). Kevin really found this project from the beginning, and then I sat down with Tommy. The second I heard the premise (for Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters) and having seen his work before, and knowing how he was going to filter that premise, it was immediately one of the more exciting ideas I had heard. And then Tommy let us look at the first draft. And Will and I thought it was one of the best first drafts we'd ever read in our producing career. So, yeah. It was really Tommy.
Tommy is just a pure, pure film-lover sort in that same category as Quentin Tarantino and Sam Raimi and those types of guys who just love movies and the fun of movies, and have just nurtured their 12-year-old self and not let it slip away, always remembering what kind of knocks you back in your seat when you're 11 or 12 years old. So that was it. We kind of followed his lead. And then Adam Goodman over here at Paramount was perceptive enough to see the same thing and got behind it as well.
Yeah, there's definitely an element in this movie of taking things that got us excited as kids—like fairy tales—and then knocking it up a few notches to make it just for adults.
Exactly, exactly. That darkness to it was also the trickiest element of the movie too, because there is a constant balancing act. Because obviously Tommy—if you've seen Dead Snow you know—can go pretty far. So we were always trying to find that line where we could play but it still kept its edge and kind of walking on the razor's edge with that. But you know ultimately, what Tommy ended up doing was even more than we had hoped for, making a movie that would play for like the whole world, which was so cool. Well, not the whole world, but a chunk of the world let's say.
There was a report at one point claiming that a PG-13 rated version of the film was screened for test audiences. Is that true?
No. We never did that. We did a version where we cut out all the unnecessary violence cursing to kind of see what a stripped down version would look like, a kind of cleaner version. But we never did a PG-13 (cut). I always give Adam Goodman a lot of credit here at Paramount. He made that promise (to commit to R); he stuck with it and that's how he's got the allegiance of Tommy Wirkola now. Because a lot of people would have seen dollar signs and said, "forget it, we're going PG-13." But the promise was made. He stuck with it, and I actually think because he stuck with it, the movie ended up being better than it would have been had we stripped it clean.
What's your favorite part of the movie?
I love details. That's probably what we all love about movies, but I love the things like the fact that Hansel is diabetic, the missing children (flyers) on the milk bottles, I even love the nose Band-Aid the sheriff's wearing that's sort of oddly strapped around his face, and the weapons and how specific the weapons are. Probably my favorite scene is the stone circle when all the witches show up because you get to see Wirkola's imagination on full display and all these specific witches he designed. And when they are all flying and landing, that specific moment in the stone circle where all the witches arrive I love just visually how they all look and how specific they are.


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Cowlishaw: Before important Cowboys-Redskins game, forget silly talk of moral victories
It's hard to say who arrives with the hotter hand at AT&T Stadium Sunday night — the Cowboys riding the high of a moral victory or the Redskins coming off of a bye.
The standings in the victory-challenged NFC East show Dallas tied for first at 2-3 with Washington a half game back at 1-3. But the Redskins beat Oakland the week before they took vacation. These guys barely remember how they lost three in a row.
As for the Cowboys, owner Jerry Jones has attempted to clarify his questionable decision to call Sunday's 51-48 loss to Denver a moral victory. On radio this week, he maintained that the offense was getting hotter around Tony Romo when the game ended and that, while the team badly needed the real win that it did not get, such progress moving the ball could spill over into future games.
Jones is only correct if you take it on a player-by-player basis. Last Sunday probably was a victory for wide receiver Terrance Williams, who led the Cowboys with 151 of Romo's 506 yards. Williams' first NFL touchdown, an 82-yarder down the middle of the field, was the highlight of the day as he fought off Broncos safety Tony Carter's attempt to chop his arms as he made the catch, then ran away to the end zone.
Williams has arrived, and that's big for Dallas. So was the play of cornerback Morris Claiborne, who lost his job earlier this year and has seemed out of place in Monte Kiffin's zone-based Tampa 2 defense if not in the NFL entirely.
Claiborne recovered a Broncos fumble, but it was his interception of Peyton Manning — the only interception by anyone of Peyton Manning in 2013 — that reversed the momentum of the game and provided Dallas an opportunity to win.
On those individual levels, you can say, yeah, that was kind of a moral victory Sunday. But Cowboys history tells us that tough losses, even against the NFL's elite, rarely serve as springboards to championships. Brutal losses are much more efficient in creating turnarounds.
I go all the way back to 1970 (because I'm old), the season the Cowboys would reach their first of eight Super Bowls. They had failed in four straight playoff visits, losing either in the NFL Championship to Green Bay or the Eastern Conference playoff games with Cleveland before the NFL and AFL merged in 1970.
The key loss for Dallas that season? It was a 38-0 destruction at the hands of the St. Louis Cardinals on this new thing called Monday Night Football. I was sitting right behind the Cardinals' bench (securing tickets was not difficult in those days). Disgruntled Cowboys fans in the Cotton Bowl's upper deck famously waved for ABC broadcaster Don Meredith to return to the playing field.
He wanted no part of it.
The Cowboys were 5-4, two games out of first after that defeat. They did not lose another game until playing Baltimore in Super Bowl V.
Fast forward a generation to 1992. The Cowboys were coming off a surprising season in which they beat Chicago at Soldier Field in the playoffs, establishing themselves as a team on the rise.
The Cowboys and Eagles both started 3-0 and each had a bye before a Monday night game in Veterans Stadium. The 15-day gap between games created an early-season level of Super Bowl hype. The game did not go well for Dallas.
Troy Aikman was sacked on the first play from scrimmage, a crazy crowd went nuts and the Eagles won, 31-7. Throughout that season, Cowboys players pointed to that game as having taught them how far they had to go. When the postseason arrived, the Eagles were Dallas' first victim at Texas Stadium on the way to Super Bowl glory.
In 1995, Barry Switzer endured the "Dumb and Dumber" headlines after gambling on fourth down twice in his own territory (the first attempt was blown dead by a whistle) in a bad loss to the Eagles. The Cowboys won their next five games, the last of them being Super Bowl XXX.
Humiliation serves the Cowboys best.
Losing a close game to a top team rarely amounts to much. The Cowboys lost a two-point decision in Baltimore about this time last season. The Ravens went on to win the Super Bowl. The Cowboys just stayed in their 8-8 rut.
Silly talk of moral victories is behind this team now. The Redskins, a team that beat Dallas twice last season but has hardly looked the part of defending division champions, come here with the only pass defense ranked below the Cowboys.
Dallas began this season on the high note of ending Eli Manning's run of victories at AT&T Stadium. As a Redskin, Robert Griffin III is just 1-for-1 here. If the Cowboys can stop that run before it becomes a streak, it's far more significant than what took place against Denver.
Follow Tim Cowlishaw on Twitter at @TimCowlishaw