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JERUSALEM (AP) — Actor and director Assi Dayan, an Israeli cultural icon who was known for both his trailblazing films and troubled personal life, died on Thursday in his Tel Aviv home. He was 68.
No cause of death was given but Dayan had suffered from several illnesses in recent years. Word of his death immediately became the top news item in Israel.
A scion to one of Israel's most prominent families, Dayan was the youngest son of famed military chief and defense minister Moshe Dayan. His sister Yael was also a former politician.
"My baby is gone and this is not the age when you expect the anchor to fall," his 97-year-old mother Ruth said, speaking to reporters outside his home.
Despite his lineage, Dayan was somewhat of a counterculture hero. He often lashed out at the state and angrily confronted his father over his military views, his marital infidelities and his reputation for plundering antiquities' sites.
Dayan acted in 50 films and TV shows and directed 16 movies. He played the lead role in the acclaimed TV drama Betipul, which was adapted into the HBO series "In Treatment," with Gabriel Byrne playing Dayan's role. Dayan won many awards for his filmmaking prowess. In 1998, he received a lifetime achievement award at the Jerusalem International Film Festival.
He was also a popular newspaper columnist who did not shy away from sharing confessions about his own demons.
Dayan, who had four children from three marriages, had a tumultuous personal life. He was open about his bouts of drug and alcohol abuse and a series of attempted suicides.
"Today we lost one of our greatest artists, not just in film but in all culture," actress Gila Almagor told the YNet news site. "Assi was a guiding light, a multifaceted genius."


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A Markov View of Bank Consolidation: 1960-2000
by Douglas D. Robertson
This paper presents an empirical investigation of the consolidation process among banking organizations over the past 40 years. As merger announcements in the news make clear, consolidation is a continuing saga. While consolidation has been the dominant characteristic of the banking industry for decades, tests show that consolidation has not been a stable process. These tests indicate that nine different episodes, ranging in duration from one year to 11 years, describe the bank consolidation process since 1960. Closer examination of the episodes reveals that consolidation slowed after the early 1980s for banks with less than $2.7 billion in assets, but accelerated and was operating at its fastest pace between 1994 and 2000 for banks with more than $2.7 billion in assets. Furthermore, in the 1994-2000 episode, the largest banks, those with assets greater than $24.3 billion were most likely to exit the industry while the smallest banks, those with assets of less than $100 million, were least likely to exit the industry. Transition probabilities from the most recent consolidation episode provide a plausible estimate of what the banking industry's structure will look like in the future.
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Manchester man arraigned on stalking, other counts
November 18. 2013 10:30PM
MANCHESTER — A man facing trial Dec. 3 in Circuit Court-Manchester District Division on criminal threatening and possession of a controlled drug charges was arraigned Monday on two new sets of charges.
Thomas Mullen, 53, who was barred by bail conditions on the original charges from 348 Spruce St., where he lived with the alleged victim, was arraigned Nov. 9 on charges of simple assault (2), obstructing the report of a crime and stalking for allegedly going to the Spruce Street address, assaulting the same woman and preventing her from calling police.
He was also arraigned on a Nov. 15 stalking charge for again going to the residence, and police prosecutors filed a motion to revoke Mullen's bail and have him held until trial Dec. 3.
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Adam Bartlett, 42, of 92 Walnut St., pleaded innocent Monday in Circuit Court-Manchester District Division to misdemeanor charges of simple assault and unauthorized use of rental property and trial was set for Dec. 16.
A police prosecutor requested $1,000 cash/surety bail, saying Bartlett pushed his son against a wall during an argument and didn't return a television set to Rent-A-Center. Bartlett told Judge Gregory Michael that his son pawned the TV set. He said he found his son in the bathroom with a needle in his arm, but the police said he had no right to put his hands on his son. Michael set bail at $1,000 personal recognizance, with conditions barring contact with Bartlett's son and barring him from the Walnut Street address.


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Name: Stefan Häusl
Birthdate: 6/19/1976
Nationality: Austrian
Home Mountain: Arlberg
Genre of skiing: Freeride
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How and when did you start skiing, how has it evolved ever since and what got you into freeskiing?
I started skiing when I was three years old. The same as almost every Austrian growing up in the mountains. Since my first day I just wanted to ski all the time, didn't matter how bad the weather was. Even if there was just one hour left after school.
I started with ski racing and qualified for the regional skiing team. I was happy to get my first sponsorship at 10 years old. I got 4 pairs of skis a year. After some injuries I stopped racing at the age of 16. Then I became a snowboarder. It was much cooler than skiing at the time. When I was 20 I turned into a skier again and finished my ski instructor and ski guiding exams. I moved to the Arlberg. I started to love skiing offpiste.
Every free minute I went beyond the borders. On my lunch breaks, after teaching lessons…all the time. Then my wife Geli took me to my first Freeride Competition in Verbier. I absolutely loved it and since then I was lucky enough to be able to be a Freeride Pro. I am still loving it so much, I appreciate my job a lot! Yeahhh!
Who were/ are your idols?
On the hill: Shane McConkey
What does skiing mean to you personally?
Skiing is absolutely my sport and my passion. My life is built around it. I live in one of the best Freeride resorts in the world, skiing is with me all the time!
What were your 3 biggest accomplishments on hill and why?
- skiing the Albonakopf, cause nobody skied this line before.
- skiing the Bec de Ross in a Freeride Competition, because I had starting number one and we had fresh powder over night. I was the first one in the Central Couloir. Scary but exiting!
- skiing the Freeride world tour, because it is great to ski such good faces in safe conditions all around the world.
What aspect of skiing thrills you the most?
Skiing a line I have prepared for more then one day. Standing at the "drop in" and then skiing the line as I planned it. Full on. That thrills me the most!
In what conditions and what terrain do enjoy riding the most?
End of season pow in steep and exposed lines! I like!
Any activities that aren't ski related?
Mountain biking!!!
Family time
How do you manage to combine family/ friends and job?
I don't think about that. I just live and try to take care of other people. Being nice to my family is my priority number one. They support me in my job (skiing) for 100%. They give me energy that I can put into my skiing.
Plesae answer, if possible, with one word only.
Trick/Move: Lines
Band: Metallica
Movie: Ocean's 11
Book: Stieg Larsson's books
Drink: Beer
Food: Steak
Country: Austria
Resort/Place to ski: St. Anton am Arlberg
Car: Mercedes Benz GLK
What do you like about SCOTT?
Scott has cool products. From biking, running to skiing. They talk to their Athletes and then produce the products. Not the other way around. They do a great job!
What are your favorite SCOTT products?
- Scott FIX goggle with light sensitive lenses
- Scott Roam Solid helmet
- Scott Team Issue pole
What SCOTT products are you using this year?
- Goggles
- Helmet
- Ski Poles (normal and telescoptic)
- Protection
- Sunnies
- Backpacks (normal and avalanche bag)
Where would you like to see yourself in 5 years?
Skiing as a Freeride Pro!
Enjoy life and be happy together with my family
What sponsors do you ride for besides SCOTT?
Mercedes Benz GLK
Sport Alber
People you feel you need to thank
Thanks to my wife Geli, she understands my passion for skiing sometimes dangerous lines. Thanks to our daughter Jana to make our life even brighter then it was already.
What's playing on your iPod right now?
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The federal government says an extra 1.5 million people will not be automatically enrolled to vote under new laws aimed at ensuring people don't lose their vote after moving house.
Special Minister of State Gary Gray says the laws, passed in June, will merely let the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) restore to the roll people who have been removed after changing address.
Opposition frontbencher Christopher Pyne seized on reports on Monday that this could lead to an extra 1.5 million people being automatically enrolled, claiming it was "the latest iteration" of Labor trying to get an advantage over the coalition.
An analysis of Newspoll surveys indicate the coalition's primary vote would slip by 1.5 percentage points if those eligible to vote but not enrolled - mainly young people - were enrolled, The Australian reported.
"Rorting the roll is routine for the Labor Party," Mr Pyne told Sky News.
He also said voters should be required to show identification for enrolment purposes.
"I think our roll has been far too loose for far too long," he said.
Mr Gray denied the step was a move to give the Labor party an advantage.
"We are not concerned with how people vote, but are aimed at ensuring that citizens who are eligible to vote are able to exercise that important right," he said.
"In any case, what have the Liberals to fear? What's wrong with giving people, particularly young people, the right to vote?"
Mr Gray said the report and the opposition response were inaccurate.
"There is no law or move to automatically enrol people; and of course the Australian Electoral Commission requires proof of identify before enrolling anyone," he said in a statement late on Monday.
Previously, the commission could use information from reliable sources, like other government agencies, to remove people from the electoral roll but not to add them.
Under the new laws, the AEC would have to do rigorous data matching to check the identity and eligibility of each voter to make sure they met legal requirements for voting.
It would have to notify a person it intended to add to the electoral roll and give them 28 days to tell the AEC if they did not live at the address listed or were not eligible to vote.
Mr Gray said the legislation had been debated extensively in both houses of parliament and was recommended several times by a parliamentary committee.
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott disputed the finding that young voters' support for the Greens and Labor had increased at the coalition's expense.
"Increasingly, young people appreciate that this is an incompetent and untrustworthy government," he told reporters in Sydney on Monday.


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An outbreak of E. coli cases led state health officials to warn consumers not to eat raw clover sprouts from an Idaho producer. The sprouts under investigation are linked to seven confirmed and three probable cases of E. coli O121 illnesses in Washington and Idaho. Five of those patients were hospitalized; there have been no deaths.
Five cases were reported in Spokane County, two in King County, and three in Kootenai County, Idaho. Results from initial investigations indicate a strong link to eating raw clover sprouts produced by Evergreen Fresh Sprouts, LLC of Idaho. Sprouts were eaten in sandwiches at several food establishments including Jimmy John's Gourmet Sandwiches locations in King and Spokane counties, as well as two Pita Pit locations in Spokane County, and Daanen's Deli as well as a Jimmy John's location in Kootenai County. The restaurants where the cases reported eating raw clover sprouts have voluntarily suspended serving sprouts.
The producer also distributed sprouts around the northwest to other restaurants, as well as retail grocery stores where consumers may buy them for home consumption.
"We advise people not to eat raw clover sprouts from Evergreen Fresh Sprouts until further notice," said Washington State Health Officer Dr. Kathy Lofy. "If you have these products at home, you should throw them out."
While the outbreak appears to be linked to clover sprouts from Evergreen Fresh Sprouts in Idaho, the source of the sprout seed hasn't yet been determined and remains under investigation.
The type of E. coli in this outbreak is a strain of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC O121) similar to E. coli O157:H7. It can cause bloody diarrhea, abdominal cramps, fever, and vomiting. It can sometimes result in severe, life-threatening illness and may be fatal.
"Anyone who thinks they may have become ill from eating contaminated sprouts should consult their health care provider," said Lofy. "The elderly and very young children are more likely to become severely ill from Shiga toxin-producing E. coli infection."
Local and state health officials in Washington and Idaho are investigating, working with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Sprouts are a known source of foodborne illness. Seeds and beans need warm and humid conditions to sprout and grow. These conditions are ideal for bacteria growth. Since 1996, at least 30 nationally reported outbreaks of foodborne illness associated with different types of raw and lightly cooked sprouts have occurred. Most of these outbreaks were caused by E. coli and Salmonella. In most sprout outbreaks, the restaurant is not the source of the contamination, which usually happens when the seeds are grown or harvested and is often impossible to wash off. It's important to store sprouts in a refrigerator to inhibit bacterial growth. Thorough cooking will kill the bacteria.


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Known for his sculptural aggregations—both freestanding pieces and wall-hung low reliefs—Seoul-based artist Kwang Young Chun assembles his forms from a myriad of small shapes wrapped in mulberry paper. Employing a traditional Korean technique, Chun's use of mulberry paper is inspired by childhood nostalgia; the paper-covered shapes are reminiscent of the clustered bundles of herbal medicines that hung in his family's pharmacy. Chun is best known for the paper sculptures and textured surfaces he has built of styrofoam triangles wrapped in this paper—each shape is individually dyed, and his colors are sourced from natural extracts, like yellow earth and black tea. With a trompe l'oeil quality, Chun's sculptures create the illusion of depth and coalescence and, ultimately, represent the harmony and conflict in the unity of many.
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Bombings, shooting kill 11 in Iraq
BAGHDAD (AP) — Bombs and a shooting targeted a marketplace and off-duty policemen in Iraq on Saturday, killing at last eleven people in the latest attacks by militants seeking to destabilize the country.
Iraq has been experiencing one of its deadliest waves of violence, raising fears that the country is heading toward a new round of sectarian conflict like that which pushed it to the brink of civil war in 2006 and 2007.
Police officials said the first bombing took place near an outdoor market in the morning in the capital's western suburb of Abu Ghraib, killing four people and wounding 12 others.
Also, police said attackers using guns fitted with silencers killed three off-duty policemen in a drive-by shooting near Fallujah, 65 kilometers (40 miles) west of Baghdad.
At night, a bomb went off at a cafe in the Fadhil area of downtown Baghdad as soccer fans were watching a match, killing four people and wounding 17 others, Baghdad police said.
Dozens of soccer fans in Iraq have been killed during the past few days in attacks on cafes and a soccer field.
Health officials confirmed the casualties. All spoke anonymously because they were not allowed to brief reporters.


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Ghost House Underground: Volume Two (US - BD)
Gabe couples all four of the second round Ghost House Underground discs
Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert's Ghost House Pictures and Lionsgate have once again gotten together to release a series of otherwise unreleased (in the US) horror movies straight to video. Last year's batch included eight films, and most of them were very bad. I ran out of time before I was able to review all of them, but there were two better than bad entries – Dance of the Dead and The Substitute. This second wave of flicks is half as big, but manages a better average of good to bad. Lionsgate also saw fit to release this batch on Blu-ray as well as standard DVD.
Offspring is cheap. Really cheap. Cheaper than the majority of the past and present 'Ghost House Underground' and 'After Dark Horrorfest' titles. Like I said, I still haven't watched the other Jack Ketchum adaptations, so I can't vouch for their production values, but this particular project reminds me of the truly independent horror films studios like Synapse and Dark Sky pick up. This isn't necessarily a criticism, per se (there are some great shoestring horrors out there), but audiences will want to know what they're in for, and it certainly isn't a studio experience. Like many no-budget flicks the cast is a mixed bag, but overall pretty decent. The bad apples definitely sour the pie. The direction is clearly a bigger problem, as is the editing, the cinematography and the production design. There's something to be said for some of the handheld camera work and focus pulls, but the film lacks texture and flair. Gore fans should be pretty happy with the vast degree of onscreen grue (I'm surprised by the R-rating), but those looking for a scary experience will likely be disappointed by the film, which is often a lot more funny than frightening. There's some good mood that comes out of the darkness at the very end of the film, but it's all too little too late.
I come to this particular table knowing relatively nothing about popular horror author Jack Ketchum. I even have copies of The Lost and The Girl Next Door sitting here, I just haven't watched them. As an introduction to the man's work Offspring is a disappointment. The generic title practically defines the experience. The basic story is a relatively generic feral family tale in the vein of The Hills Have Eyes, and there aren't any flippant, ironic, or idiosyncratic details to liven the pot, save perhaps the use of soda can fangs. There are plenty of genuinely disturbing touches throughout, but nothing I haven't seen before. There also isn't quite enough plot to fill out a feature length film. Fans might blame the filmmakers for the quality of adaptation, but it's hard to shift things when the credits tell us that Ketchum himself wrote the screenplay. One can blame the director for the lack of style, the editors for some of the bad pacing, and the actors for some of the lacking character depth, but I think even Ketchum's fans have to recognize the problems with the source material.
The Children
Another extremely generic title (and one that seems interchangeable with Offspring), The Children is a sort of Yuletide zombie version of Village of the Damned. This is more what I was expecting out of the Ghost House Underground series. Clearly a British production, The Children features decent production values, definitively professional actors, and a decent sense of pacing. The basic concepts are pretty unremarkable, but the filmmakers almost immediately capture a sense of dread, and the characters are more realistic and layered than even most big budget terror fodder. For comparison sake I notice some parallels between the bickering adults in both this film, and the entertainingly schlocky Devil Times Five (which The Children shares a lot in common). The interweaving character dramas are quite predictable, but are really only present to put the audience into an anxious mindset. The film seems too humourless for its own good, but the relentless slow-burn mostly works to set The Children apart from other plays on the zombie theme. It also helps that a solid 30 minutes of anxious build-up before something genuinely shocking occurs. Honestly the shock is a bit of a relief. Buzzing quick cuts and a shot of gore finally reminded I wasn't actually locked in a room with sickened children.
Petty complaints concerning concept originality aside, I'm afraid I must highly recommend The Children. The film works hard to put the audience through a genuinely emotional horror experience, and it earns its scares to the bone. Even the frustrating character moments work to ratchet the almost overwhelming anxiety. Horror envelopes all aspects of the story, from disease, to threat of murder, and the terror of finding oneself forced to murder children in self defense. Director Tom Shankland creates his mood through alternating dynamics of dread and shock, and some wonderfully effective quick cut montages of mayhem among cinematographer Nanu Segal leering, snail's pace compositions. Every time I thought the film was losing steam it managed to dust itself off for another round of classy close-ups, vicious violence (most of the gore is implied enough to not push the R-rating too far), and tight-laced suspense. I hold my breath in anticipation for this team's next project.
Seventh Moon
Despite Val Kilmer's involvement in Thaw, and Jack Ketchum's fan base, The Seventh Moon is probably the most anticipated among the film in this four film collection because it comes from writer/director Eduardo Sanchez. The Blair Witch Project may be a little less exciting ten years on (my God, has it really been ten years?), but it was a damn important film, and was a damn good idea. It's almost unimaginable, given Hollywood's penchant for exploiting a popular thing, that nothing came of Blair Witch's massive popularity. The cast and crew largely fell off the face of the earth, for all intents and purposes. Besides the relatively unseen Altered, Blair Witch was Sanchez' only project as director (co-director in this case) leading up to Seventh Moon, which promised a half-decent budget, a Hollywood starlet (Amy Smart), and a seemingly interesting idea harking back to a Chinese myth concerning the full moon of the seventh lunar month. Unfortunately the actual film is a familiar trip into largely uninspired territory.
Seventh Moon starts on a Blair Witch like track – energetic and bickering (often annoying) twenty-somethings find themselves lost in a mysterious area steeped in creepy folklore (rural China standing in for rural America). The film is also largely shot with shaky, hand held cameras, though the cameras aren't being held by the actors. The cinema verite style is occasionally effective, but ends up working against itself after a while, when the wildly waving cameras and excessive quick cuts become exhausting. Sanchez scores points for trying to leave the scares up to our imagination, but the stylistic choices are so extreme imagination is almost all we have to go on. More damning is the fact that his characters are so obnoxious it's almost immediately impossible to care what happens to them. The fear factor quickly gives way to rooting for the creepy white men to find and kill the leads so they'll stop arguing. Eventually it becomes clear that Seventh Moon is another generic survival horror kick featuring a subjective look. Simmered down to its most basic essence, it's kind of Blair Witch with zombies, which is kind of ironic since George Romero's Dairy of the Dead, and Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza's [Rec] got a hold of the concept first. And the climax is so similar to The Descent Neil Marshal might want to call his lawyers.
The Thaw
It's usually a really bad sign when a former A-lister like Val Kilmer headlines a movie that goes straight to video. Usually there's a reason no studio was willing to put the proper theatrical release. The Thaw appears to suffer another major warning sign of a bad movie – really heavy hands – but writer/director Mark A. Lewis isn't aiming for true class in this particular creature feature massacre. The set up features a sledge hammer take on the global warning phenomenon, but it's made clear early that the filmmakers don't really have any Roland Emmerick like environmental aspirations. The characters are made up mostly of average slasher fodder types (the adult characters are killed off really quick, and replaced with college kids and a token black guy), and the basic plot is a simple set up of disastrous monster movie dominos. Gruesome death and wriggling body horror ensue. The concept is actually quite clever as a comment on genre. The film is a modern version of a '50s sci-fi monster movie, replacing post-war fears with environmental fears. Instead of nuclear powered mutant lizards the monsters are prehistoric body-lice like creatures that are resurrected in the carcass of a mammoth thanks to thawing ice in the Artic.
The clichés come hard and fast, including the usual containment discussions, paranoid mistrust, and even a limb chopping scene, but like a decent slasher flick The Thaw embraces the clichés for the fun of it. Perhaps a real inversion of the stereotypes would make for a genuinely good flick, but throw-away fun is still fun. The body horror aspects aren't of the existential or transformative variety, so comparisons to Cronenberg are next to impossible. There is a passing reference to STDs and SARS, but the film doesn't play too much into any real modern disease analogs, it's far more concerned with creepy crawlies and nasty mutilation effects. There are obvious call backs to Carpenter's The Thing too, but the film's closest recent cousins are Eli Roth's over and underrated (depending on who you talk to) Cabin Fever, Toby Wilkins' Splinter and Carter Smith's The Ruins. If it had seen a theatrical release The Thaw would've been a disappointment, but as a random STV offering it's definitely a fun time. Perhaps the Sci-Fi channel will pick it up.
Offspring is clearly a low-budget film, and the video quality doesn't approach the technical clarity of most big and medium budget flicks. The transfer is only as good as the original material, which is to say it looks pretty sad. The 1080p transfer is largely unnecessary, but does deplete any obvious compression noise and blocking found on the DVD release. Colours are pretty dull, but relatively solid and clean. The black levels are defiantly lacking in most shots, and the overall contrast is a little too even to make for any sharpness in the deeper shadows. The clear problem is the lack of detail. Offspring is flat, fuzzy, and dulled likely thanks to choices in camera and film (imdb.com doesn't give any technical specs), and a general lack of budget.
The Children is a really good looking movie, and features a nice array of indoor and outdoor images. The warmth indoors are naturalistic, bright and colourful, while the cold outdoors stand caked in white snow, and almost blackened trees. The simplistic, and almost black and white nature of the outdoor shots leads to a more interest high definition effect because the children all wear such bright primary colours, which pop against the dreary backdrop (as does blood). The transfer is far from perfect, but stands ahead of the DVD in the clarity of the brighter hues, along with more pronounced and consistent details, and deeper blacks. There's noticeable grain throughout the transfer (which increases as night falls), bright colours layered upon each other create some unfortunate enhancements, and wide shots lose fine detail, but overall this is as fine a transfer as we can expect.
Seventh Moon is somewhat cinema-verite in its visual approach (not unlike The Blair Witch Project, and occasionally details are lost in the natural lighting and film grain. The visuals start with the extreme brightness of a Hong Kong market. The image is baked in yellows and reds to the point that details are lost in the flood. Pretty quickly the image crawls into extreme countryside darkness. Here details are lost in utter blackness, and pretty heavy grain (not to mention a lot of choppy editing and shaking cameras). The look (minus all the overwhelming verite camera work) is effective and daring, and appears to only be lit by moonlight, but the 1080p effort is a little unneeded. Even when the camera isn't wiggling it's often pulling focus to obscure the villains. The last act features more warm highlights, but details and clarity still aren't sharp enough to require a Blu-ray viewing.
Thaw, the only 2.35:1 film in the set, doesn't feature a single overlaying style, so there are many spots for the 1080p to shine in many different ways. The transfer is all over the place. Sometimes the details are mega-sharp, revealing realistic textures, and grotesque wounds. Other times the sweeping helicopter shots (possibly stock footage) are over-exposed, flat, and jagged. Once the film settles into a single location things become a little more consistent, but the seemingly purposeful white flairs and cool tints keep things understated. Sometimes shots appear a bit foggy, which could be a stylistic choice, but is more likely a side effect of literal fog on the lens due to the cold. The desaturated look leads to similar hues on all skin tones, clothing, landscape elements, etcetera, but allows for some standout reds. The popping whites are nice for the snow, and clear of the transfer's overall grain, but makes for some unfortunately silly teeth. There is quite a bit of grain, but not a lot of compression noise. The image quality drops noticeably in quality towards the third act for little discernable reason (I guess night is falling), but things are still clear and clean enough to hold a definite advantage over the DVD release.
Offspring opens with a title sequence that is clearly meant to evoke comparisons to Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and the soundtrack follows suit with music-like bleeps and scratches in the place of score. The effect is a little silly rather than genuinely disconcerting, but the surround aspects are pretty exciting. Really this pseudo-music is the only aspect of the track worth getting excited about, as the obvious low budget nature mostly leads to flat and centered sound, with occasional spikes of clear post-production additions. The dialogue is clear, but inconsistent thanks to some obvious ADR. The music-ish stuff and the sound effects don't even kind of match in volume or general aural quality. The mood effects do sound impressive, and quite bassy, but there's still very little point in the track altogether, as simple Dolby Stereo would've sufficed.
The Children begins its surround sound work with lots of screaming children. It's annoying, but effectively puts the audience on edge. I began to get a little sick to my stomach with anxiety there was so much screaming. The filmmakers use the repetitive smacking of a children's xylophone to a similar effect. Basic directional elements are featured throughout the mix, most pertaining to movement throughout the location house, and in the woods outside. Sometimes the DTS-HD overstates the bass of something as simple as footsteps on stairs, but overall the movement effects are pretty subtle. There are occasional bits of added hyper-reality, but mostly the big audio is left to the musical score. The music is a mix of creepy and stabby, and perfectly rides the undercurrent of building aggression. The music mostly wells up on the suspense build-ups, but features plenty of hyperkinetic stab cues too, intensifying the overall dynamic.
Seventh Moon features a relatively naturalistic approach to sound design, in-keeping the grainy, natural light visuals. There's a lot of natural ambient noise throughout the channels, which is mixed pretty far below the centered dialogue, and the almost exclusively ambient music. Directional sound plays an important part in Sanchez' idealized scare attack, mostly pertaining to eerie voices taunting and hypnotizing our protagonists. There aren't very many loud sound effects moments, which makes for a relatively naturalistic experience, but not a particularly frightening one. The music is the track's most aggressive element by a wide measure, and often the only thing given any real LFE support. The big exception is the scene where the monster men break into the car the protagonists are hiding in, which is swimming in specific surround cues and some heavy bass. The music is a bit overstated on the track, but features a largely original voice, and is generally pretty neat.
Thaw clearly has a budgetary advantage over the other films, but doesn't do a lot to make it obvious on the audio front. The opening credits are ablaze with the sounds of changing television channels and broken web connections, but the majority of the film is a largely frontal affair, running on centered dialogue and stereo music. The crawling bug sound effects are pretty typical, and relatively loud on the track when needed, but I'm a little surprised at the lack of surround involvement concerning them. There's a sizable explosion at the end that gives the LFE a chance at some action, but there isn't a lot of major action to fill out any major bass requirements. The musical score here is largely of the tradition scare show variety, and is sure to get the job done, but is mixed a little too low on the track to spike any major scares. At times the score bleeds into the rear channels somewhat abstractly, and sounds more like random sound effects than music, which is a little distracting.
Offspring starts with a commentary track featuring director/producer Andrew van den Houten, producer/cinematographer William M. Miller, and writer Jack Ketchum. It's a fun enough commentary, and it features a lot of technical information, mostly thanks to Miller's input. The commentators aren't full of themselves, but they are under the impression that they've made a good film, and aren't bothered to point out any of their clear problems. I don't expect a whole bunch of false modesty, but I'm a little disappointed in the apparent lack of notice. Still all three members seem like genuinely nice guys and I feel bad for not liking their movie. The disc's other extras include 'Progeny: The Birth of Offspring' (20:00, SD), a relatively informative overview of the production, 'First Stolen's Bailout' (3:00, SD), eight webisodes, a gallery, a trailer, and a collection of mini-music video.
The Children starts with a series of featurettes. 'The Making of The Children' (19:30, SD) is a collection of raw set footage (mostly pertaining to stunts and gore effects), and set interviews, and is actually quite light-hearted. The set atmosphere does not match that of the final film even a little. A fun time, but there's a lot of time wasted on inter-splicing scenes from the film itself. 'Working with The Children' (5:00, SD) continues the trend with a specific look at the child actors, who are quite talented. 'Shooting on Location' (3:40, SD) features a chat with the family that lives in the house and lot where the film was shot, a history behind the choice of the location, and a look at the actual shooting process. 'Paul Hyett Talks Prosthetics' (5:00, SD) is a pretty self explanatory title, assuming one knows Paul Hyett is the make-up effects man. It appears some of the gorier bits were perhaps trimmed for the R. 'Snow Set Design' (6:30, SD) looks at the process of creating fake snow for the production. 'Inside Tom Shankland's On-Set Lair' (8:20, SD) finishes the featurettes off with a glance at the director's little on-set apartment. Things are wrapped up with three deleted scenes, the same micro-videos, and trailers.
Seventh Moon starts with a boring commentary track featuring writer/director Eduardo Sanchez and actress Amy Smart. The tone of the track is entertaining enough, but the content is pretty reactive. Smart doesn't seem to recall a lot of the film, and Sanchez mostly expresses gratitude to his collaborators. 'Ghosts of Hong Kong' (11:40, HD) is a collection raw of behind the scenes footage including location scouting, stunt practice, prosthetics, problems with the locals, and location shooting. 'The Pale Figures' (5:20, HD) covers the concept art and design behind the film's monsters…which look and act like the creatures in The Descent. 'Mysteries of the Seventh Lunar Month' (7:30, HD) is a strange little featurette concerning the mythological history behind the film. I'm assuming it's a mockumentary, meant to look like a cheap Mondo doc, and not the real thing. Things wrap up with more micro-videos and more trailers.
The Thaw closes things out with a basic making-of EPK (13:20, SD) that features cast and crew interviews, raw set footage, and several scenes from the film. The actors describe their characters and their arcs, and various crew members discuss the creature design, the genesis of the script, pre-production, production design, special effects, and environmental concerns. The relatively bare disc also features another micro-video, and more trailers.
Fortunately Lionsgate is once again issuing these Ghost House Underground features on separate Blu-ray and DVD discs, so no one has to own a copy of the bad stuff in order to get their hands on the good stuff. None of the films are great, but horror fans might want to check out the genuinely upsetting The Children or the fun and brief The Thaw. Offspring[i] is reserved for author Jack Ketchum's fans, and fans of super low budget fair. I can't imagine anyone enjoying [i]Seventh Moon. The video and audio qualities vary per disc, as do the extras, which are largely decent considering the usual treatment of these kind of films.
* Note: The images on this page are not representative of the Blu-ray release.
Review by Gabriel Powers
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Um....huh? From the disc perhaps?
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Disc Details
Release Date: 6th October 2009
Discs: 4
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: Various
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English
Subtitles: English and Spanish
Extras: Cast and Crew Commentaries, Making-Of Featurettes, Music Videos, Trailers
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Andrew van den Houten, Tom Shankland, Eduardo Sanchez, and Mark A. Lewis
Cast: Val Kilmer, Kyle Schmid, Aaron Ashmore, Martha MacIsaac, Dennis Chan, Amy Smart, Stephen Grey, Art Hindle, Pollyana McIntosh, Rachel Shelley, Eva Birthistle, Jeremy Sheffield, Stephen Campbell Moore
Genre: Horror
Length: 345 minutes
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My Bloody valentine....new album???
from facebook...
On 21-12-12 we finished mastering the new album!
YIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Pale-eyedBadger and outspaced this'd this
this was my reaction inside...
outside, a cool collected calm in case it never happens....
Would be great if they released it on Dec. 31st.
Just as a big "fuck you" to end of year lists.
Some of us have delayed our end of year lists specially ;-)
Never doubted it for a minute!
*expecting pure awesomeness, prepared to grant a fantastic amount of leeway*
I'm not letting my expectations get too high
Its gonna be average.
I hope not though.
MBV released two 10/10 records
Ain't no way it's gonna be average. Might be complete bonkers horseshit...but just don't see 'em pissing on their legacy like, say, the Stooges.
Here's what I will grant: Ain't gonna be any genre-defining breakthrough... Because that kind of thing just doesn't happen anymore.
I'll bet the mortgage on it: record will be great!
- Dinohead86 this'd this
this is actually going to happen isn't it?
wow! it's brave of them to actually carry it through.
I wish it was a whole album of this...
I disagree
It was actually just chickenshit of them to wait so long. They're musicians. Hello, they got the luckiest job in the world! When they don't make music it's like some extra fuck-you snub as I'm toiling in the salt mines...
but i mean
they could have just kept everyone infinitely strung along - once the gap between albums became ridiculous it surely would have just been easier to release something under a different moniker for the rest of his/their lives.
- dan_thw, SCROTUM, poptimusgrime, and incandenza_ this'd this
Kevin Shields just announced that it's been scrapped
Something about the midrange frequencies peaking too often throughout the record, tried to fix it in mastering but it's a recording error that somehow wasn't picked up on at the time
Why does this not surprise me
its seems realistic enough to be true...
definitely trolling.
it doesn't sound realistic at all!
no one would ever say that because it's not something that would ever happen.
- JaguarPirate, Antelope, robluvsnic, and TheSoundofBastards this'd this
^ played Scrooge
in grammar school production of A Christmas Carol.
Comedy version, cos it did get a rise. :)
- Antelope, kostenurky, poptimusgrime, Jordan_229_2, littlebirds, Tiresias42, and robluvsnic this'd this
They will probably scrap it altogether now due to ...
'creative differences concerning the albums release as a jewel case or digipak'.


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Obama is urging the House to pass the bill quickly. He says he hopes Congress will build on this progress by taking other steps to reduce educational costs.
The White House-backed proposed passed on Wednesday would link interest rates on federal student loans to the financial markets. That means student loans for the next few years would have lower interest rates, but interest rates could soon start climbing.


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Members of the Fedora ARM project are attending the 2013 FUDCon event in Lawrence, Kansas (Kansas University). We have sessions on Saturday and Sunday, with some informal events besides. Please see below for further details.
We're meeting in room 2112 in Learned Hall.
The following people can help you find the ARM team in Kansas, or help with ARM-related concerns:
- Jon Masters (IRC: jonmasters, cell: +1-617-759-1337).
- Brendan Conoboy (IRC: bconoboy, cell: +1-714-326-9657).
- Chris Tyler (IRC: ctyler, cell: Canadian roaming, are you kidding?)
The following is the schedule as we agreed to on Saturday morning:
Saturday AM:
- F18 Final discussion
- Still working on Highbank support, problems with Secure Mode access
- Going to ship with 3.6 kernel
- Going to ship 3.7 kernel as a zero-day update, but that will likely break Highbank support (for a few days?)
- Going to fix 3.7 Highbank support as an update ASAP
- config settings
- Problem packages
- Eclipse -- takes a long time to build -- but a scratch build supposedly works, so it may be fixed [#863801]
- ghc -- appears to be a problem with ghc-devel -- still needing more information on what's broken
- js -- bad configure lines? (armv7 settings still showing up on the v5 build?)
- graphical updates (yumex? PackageKit?)
- Blocker bug tracker bugs have been created [Trackers]
- Linaro LEG update
- Jon Masters has been working with Linaro for over a year
- Have wanted a enterprise server oriented working group within Linaro
- This is LEG
- Engineer assignees working within LEG to solve problems and push things upstream, work on standardization
- There is a roadmap on linaro.org + minutes from the LEG meetings
- Al Stone from Red Hat working on ACPI support
- Fu Wei from Red Hat working on getting the Linaro test system up and running on Fedora
- ARM is also working other standards, etc.
- Jon to write a message to the mailing list with more details on LEG, engineer assignees from the various companies, etc.
- Linaro are working with us -- not against us. Let's work together and bridge the two communities. They're not going to do any mass rebuild of Fedora -- they'll probably have spins and/or perhaps a remix for testing.
- Hopefully we can get more Fedora folks at Linaro Connect conferences
- Future
- PHX2 move
- PA planning
- v5/v6/v7 support
- v8 plans
- Smoothing th4e on-ramp process + growing contributor base
Saturday PM + Sunday
- Board support hackfest
- ARM assembler, etc.
- Fix GDB (Jon Masters to file a bug)
NOTE: Dinner is at Tellers at 8pm. We are heading out from the conference hotel (ride sharing) at 7:30pm (please contact Jon Masters by text on 617-759-1337 if you need picking up from somewhere else). If you have not RSVPed please contact Jon to let him know you are planning to attend.
- ARM to Primary (Brendan Conoboy, ARM team)
- ARM Building Exercises (Mark Langsdorf)
- Jared Smith brought an OpenBlocks AX3 ARM server (based on the Armada XP processor) that is currently running Debian, and he'd like some help getting Fedora on it -- both to show the OpenBlocks folks how we got it working, as well as to help Jared learn more about getting Fedora running on a new piece of ARM hardware.


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If you run a family business, you probably already know research indicates family-owned businesses tend to have better long-term financial performance than their counterparts that aren't run by blood relations. And you're probably well aware infighting among family members can lead to breakups, selloffs, and bankruptcies …
A family business can be a double-edged sword to many involved – goods and bads, perks and sacrifices. That being said, a family business is strongest when all come together for the greater good of the family and the business. Unfortunately, this isn't always the case and families can fall into infighting that actually sabotages family business succession. How do you protect the family and the business?
A recent article in Bloomberg Businessweek, titled "New Wrinkles on How Family Businesses Sabotage Themselves," examines this subject from a fresh perspective. The article highlights four fundamental pitfalls to avoid:
- Fairness: While parents may want to treat their children equally, when it comes to the family business this is not a good idea. In other words, reward according to merit much like non-family employees.
- Conflict Avoidance: Bring in directors and advisors who are not "in" the family or emotionally related to the family. Independence can help call out the awkward elephants in the room before it is too late.
- Triangulation: Resolve "family issues" within the family. No one else really needs to see non-business dirty laundry.
- Bullying and Scapegoating: Some family members may try to control difficult situations and even escape personal responsibility by attacking and blaming others. Stop it early.
Yes, family businesses can fall victim to their own families. Whether due to good intentions or to rivalries that have existed since childhood, you need to be wary of family problems sabotaging the family business.
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Reference: Bloomberg Businessweek (June 17, 2013) "New Wrinkles on How Family Businesses Sabotage Themselves"


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Pages: 86-87
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Jack Donnelly jumped into his auditions for BBC America's fantasy series "Atlantis" using a few well-placed bluffs.
"I lied through my teeth," he said, laughing, during a recent phone call from London.
When asked by producers if he had a gymnastics background that could help him play Jason, a young man who sword-fights, rides horses and leaps from rooftop to rooftop, he dodged the question by telling them about his younger brother Harvey, who is a gymnast in Cirque du Soleil.
"And they're like, 'Amazing, that's great,'" the 28-year-old said. "Once I got the part they sent me off to a stunt coordinator … and I said, 'Listen, I don't even think I can do a forward roll.'"
After weeks of training, Donnelly was doing all sorts of stunts as Jason, the series lead character who is shot through a gateway to the mythical land of Atlantis, where minotaurs and two-headed dragons aren't that unusual.
Jason befriends Pythagoras (Robert Emms) and Hercules (Mark Addy) and the threesome cross paths with creatures and characters from Greek mythology.
In the series' third episode premiering at 8 p.m. Dec. 7 on BBC America, Jason and his friends are forced to jump over charging bulls to pay respect to the Greek god Poseidon. Donnelly actually jumped for the scene, but the bull was added to the shot later so there was little chance for injury.
He wasn't so lucky when filming a sword fight scene. He landed in the hospital after a mishap with what should have been a rubber knife.
"I blocked one of the knives that was being stabbed at me but it went through my elbow. We finished the take and it was all good," he said. "We were about to move on and I looked down and had this hole in my arm."
He's fine now, but if you see a scar on his arm it's likely real, he said.
Donnelly's looking forward to more action now that the series, created by Howard Overman ("Misfits"), Julian Murphy and Johnny Capps ("Merlin"), has been renewed for a second season.
Playing Jason is the actor's biggest role to date after appearing in British TV episodes including playing the White Rabbit in Overman's "Misfits," which led to another bluff from the actor during his "Atlantis" audition.
"I tried to make it seem like I knew him when I was auditioning, 'Yeah, yeah, I know Howard. I've been in his other shows,'" Donnelly said. He and Overman didn't meet until later.
Donnelly talked more about playing Jason, working with his costars and washing up naked on a cold beach in Wales.
Congrats, this is kind of your first big big role, isn't it?
Yeah, absolutely. Thank you very much. Yeah, it's the biggest thing I've done by quite a way. I've done little bits and stuff in England—episodes of stuff, coming in and doing a few lines and a few plays in like fringe theater just outside of the West End. But this sort of has taken on a whole new level.
I haven't gotten far enough in "Misfits" to see you as the White Rabbit yet.
No worries man. It's just me as a big white rabbit going around and killing people with a golf club.
We don't actually even see your face, do we?
You don't even see my face. Yeah, but it was a job and I wanted to do it. I thought, "Yeah, that's a pretty cool part to play. Who else can say they've played a giant killer white rabbit?"
The creator of "Misfits" is also one of the creators of "Atlantis?"
Howard Overman—the same guy who created "Misfits." He created this. And it was funny because when I met him for the first time at the "Atlantis" read-through he spoke to me and he said that he'd been told that I was in "Misfits" when I was auditioning.
And he was asking, "Who was he in 'Misfits'?" He was wracking his brain trying to think who I was because he's seen all the episodes. And he goes, "I can't remember this guy. This is really bad." And then he ended up phoning and trying to speak to them saying, "When did this guy come in? Who did he costume as?" And then it dawned on him and he was like, "Oh, he was the White Rabbit. That's why I never saw his face."
But, yeah, I tried to make it seem like I knew him when I was auditioning, "Yeah, yeah, I know Howard. I've been in his other shows."
But you hadn't met him?
Yeah, that's right. I hadn't met him because I came into "Misfits" just doing the one episode. He's not on set the whole time because he's a creator and writer. And then, yeah, when I auditioned for this I met him once I'd been offered the part. I had like a first meeting and read through which is the first time I met Howard. But I'd met the other two producers, Johnny and Julian.
I was going to ask you if because you had been on "Misfits" that made auditioning for this any less nerve-wracking, but I guess not.
Not even a little bit, yeah. Not even at all. I thought it might help but, yeah, not even the slightest bit. But there you go.
During the audition process did you think oh, I got this?
As the audition process went on—which lasted for months, you know—I got to know more about it and I then got to understand the scale of the job and how big it was, which just made me even more nervous. I thought, "Yeah, this looks like it'd be a mass success."
And I thought it would be amazing if I could get this. But honestly, by the time I got to the end of the auditions I thought, "They'll go for a name. They'll go for someone with a much bigger CV that's already been recognized." But if I can do a good enough audition maybe they might like ask me to come back in and play a small part further in the series.
So that's what I was kind of holding out for. But as it turns out they were willing to take a chance on a relative newcomer and that's it. And so everything changed from that moment really.
How'd you celebrate?
I went to Pizza Hut with my dad because I thought, "You know what, this is the last time I'm going to be able to eat pizza or carbs for a long time." And then I hit the gym the next day pretty hard.
They stripped you bare in the first episode.
Yeah. Pretty naked, yeah. Washed up on a beach, which we shot first in Morocco and then we had to go to Wales in the middle of winter. So that was only shot a few weeks before the first episode came out. So I was coming out of a freezing cold sea with no clothes on in the middle of winter. I was going, "Yeah, what a magical city this is."
Tell me a little bit about Jason. What is your take on what's driving him and what he's like?
When you meet Jason he's an outsider coming into Atlantis and the whole world is new for him. And I think as the audience discovers Atlantis and what it's about they're seeing it through Jason's eyes because it's all new to him. It's a strange new world. And I guess we find out about the character mostly through his relationship with Pythagoras and Hercules, played by Robert Emms and Mark Addy respectively.
I think you've got these big Greek myths and it is an epic fantasy drama with lots of fighting and monsters and stuff. But the heart of it, I think it's a buddy series. It's really about the relationships between these three guys and their friendship.
I don't think Jason is a fully formed character yet. I think he's led a quite sheltered, closed off life up until he comes to Atlantis. And he finds everything starts to connect for him and make sense. And he learns more about himself and who he is through his relationships with these other guys. ... He has a really strong moral compass but at the same time he's quite stubborn and a bit hotheaded and sometimes he's too quick to react to stuff without thinking what the consequences might be.
And he doesn't seem all that surprised about his situation.
Yeah, I thought that. … But I spoke about this with the producers. I said, "How much of the story do you want to tell of Jason being new to this world and everything comes as a surprise and wrestling with that?" And they said "not a lot. We're not looking to tell a big fish-out-of-water story."
The way we spoke about it, the way I justified it to myself was I think because he was born there, because he's from Atlantis, it makes sense to him. He's starting to come alive and be himself. And I think being so far away from another world, being on Earth for 25 years--it's been death to him. It's the same way, I guess, Superman feels when he goes and gets energy from the sun and everything.
His powers start kicking in. This is Jason I'm talking about. You know, that's why he adapts because suddenly for the first time in his life everything feels right and he feels alive. And yes, it's very different this world, but I don't know necessarily about if that happened to anyone in the modern world now whether you would be striving to come back. Atlantis, for all its monsters and magic and stuff, it's still a pretty cool world. I don't know if I ended up there I'd say, "Yeah, I'll go back to 2013 London." Yeah, I might stick it out for a bit as well. So that's how I justified it to myself and he adapts as quickly as he does.
Even if you get attacked by a two headed dragon?
Even if you get attacked by a two headed dragon, yeah. Absolutely.
Talk about working with Mark and Robert. I love the buddy story going on.
It's brilliant. That's probably why I feel the luckiest and where the best part of the job is.
I'd met Robert Emms once through mutual friends, just completely randomly on a night out about a year before the audition. And he'd just come back from his "Warhorse" premiere and we got on really well that night. And I thought "what a lovely guy." I didn't see him again until my final audition when they asked us to come in and do a chemistry read together …
I said, "Oh I know Rob, yeah." I thought, "Oh God, if this guy doesn't remember me; I'm about to get really, really embarrassed." And when he came in I was like, "Hi buddy." I was thinking "please, please don't show me up." But it was great and it was fine.
And I've got friends that have worked with Mark before on "Game of Thrones" and stuff. And everyone I'd spoken to just said "Mark Addy, he's the nicest guy you'll ever meet. So down to earth. So friendly." And it holds up. I mean that's exactly who he is.
So the three of us have spent every day together. We've had breakfast, lunch and dinner together for the last seven months and they're just great guys and incredibly funny. And I think that's what made the job so much fun to do, because they just have me laughing all day. I think as the series progresses that stuff's come through more in the character relationships.
I think there's a real turning point for the series from about Episode 6 or 7 onward. I think the storylines get darker but on the other side of that the characters, and especially that buddy relationship in the middle, gets much funnier. Rob and Mark, both of them, suddenly become much funnier characters because they're funny people in real life and I think the writers saw that.
Did you have jitters starting out, since this was such a big job?
Absolutely massively so. Yeah, I mean, in all honesty I think I spent the first six to eight weeks waiting to get fired. I just thought, "Oh man, I'm too nervous." I was second-guessing myself and I was nervous going in every day.
I was so happy to be there because I thought, "This is something I've dreamt about. This is like a big break if ever there was one." I was so grateful but at the same time I thought I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to pull this off. I was nervous about being on camera. I was second-guessing all my choices I was making.
But the producers and the directors were lovely and it just got to the point after about six weeks where I thought, "I'm going to ruin this for myself if I stay this way seven months. I have to find a way to relax."
And you know what? I credit Rob and Mark with that a lot. Because like I said they are such nice guys and so funny, once I started having a laugh with them I started to relax a bit and ease into it. And then the whole thing just became fun. It didn't really feel like work at all. It was brilliant.
But, yeah, at the beginning I just--yeah I was terrified.
You shot some in Morocco, you said. Was the base in France like with "Merlin?"
We shot in Wales in fact. Yeah, we were in a studio in Wales that they built there and then we shot the three weeks in Morocco as well. And we just found out we've got a second series and we're going again next year and we'll go back to Morocco and possibly somewhere else which they haven't told us yet to do some more shooting abroad. But the most part it was filmed in Wales.
Did you know how to do all this stunt work? Horses, swords, all that kind of stuff?
Nope … They built me up and then taught me how to do front flips and back flips and all this running and jumping off walls, which was great fun to learn. And horse riding as well. Again, I didn't have a horse in the audition room so I said to them, I was like, "Me? I'm an excellent horse rider. I mean, you know, really good." And then they'd send us up to France and I had to learn to horse ride from there for the first time. So that was it.
Was that difficult?
It was OK actually. I really enjoyed the horse riding. Robert Emms has done quite a bit as well. In fact, Mark has as well, but Rob had done it recently on "Warhorse." So he was good. He helped me out ... They had great trainers to teach us in France where we went for three days. But then when we went to Morocco all the horses we had there were like four-year-old stallions who either didn't want to go at all or wanted to go absolutely hell-for-leather and fight each other. They were a bit nuts, so that was quite fun having to go on that. But, yeah, I think the horse riding was one of the best bits.
How about the sword play? Did you play swords when you were a kid?
I did, yeah. That stuff was really fun to do. I'm the oldest of four boys. I have three younger brothers and we all grew up in like the forest over here so this sort of genre, these films, I grew up watching these. And we used to dress up and play swordfights all the time. And I think just bringing that now to this role, it didn't feel that different. I mean the swords are a lot heavier and they're metal and you're really going for it. You're not fighting with like wooden sticks like when you're a kid. But it's the same principle so, yeah, all the swordfights and stuff—I had a great time doing that.
Did you and your brothers bull jump when you were kids, too?
Yeah but, I mean, I'm fighting CGI dragons on a green screen now and bulls on green screen. I just used to make them up when I was a kid. I just used to get my brother to pretend to be it. … You just sub my brother for a CGI monster.
The bull-jumping, you guys jump but obviously not with a bull in the ring?
We did. They went to Madrid and they shot the bull in Madrid. So that was all done separately. And then they shot with us in the studio in Wales. And they mixed the pictures together. That absolutely took the longest to film. ... The bull jumping took three weeks just to do all the bull-jumping stuff because it was so technical the way they were filming it and trying to work out the timing with the bulls. …
We had a few stuntmen in, I believe, for some of the other characters but yeah, I had a tramp pit built into the floor so I was running and jumping. And I had the director shouting at me, "OK, the bull is coming at you now, now, jump!" And I had to jump and like flip over and one time fall on the floor and another time land it. So, yeah, we shot that from quite a few different angles. So that was good fun to do.
With all this training you could probably appear with your brother in Cirque de Soleil now?
Well, that's what I said but he seems to think differently. He doesn't agree. He's like, "OK, you've learned to do a couple of forward flips but what I do is a whole different level." I've seen what he does. He's not wrong, but I like to wind him up about it anyway.
I heard you got injured.
Yeah, I did. I did in the third week. We were doing a stunt sequence for Episode 2 and we used like rubber knives in the fight sequences, but we do have real knives for all the close-ups. For some reason one of the real knives had been brought ... into the stunt sequence.
On this one take—it was the last take on a Friday night about five o'clock in the evening—I blocked one of the knives that was being stabbed at me but it went through my elbow. ... We had to stop and I got rushed off to the hospital to accident and emergency. And I was still in full costume as well so I don't know what the doctor thought as I was walking in covered in blood and costume saying, "Yeah, I kind of got stabbed in the forest." He was like, "All right." So, yeah, the stitched my arm up and then—thank God it was on a Friday so I had the weekend to heal and get over it. And then I was back on set Monday morning.
Let's talk a little bit about Jason's back story. My theory after these three episodes is the Oracle is his mother.
Interesting. Yeah, I've had a few people say that. I'm not going to say anything. It's far more fun if you find out. I do like the backstory with Jason's mother. I've heard some people have been guessing it right. Other people have a few more stories that are out there. But personally the storyline that I like the best is the Medusa-Hercules storyline. That is my favorite storyline throughout the whole thing.
He finds out quite early that his dad's gone but that's still driving him, right?
Absolutely. … He knows a bit more than he did before but that's always going to be the thing that's driving him. It was the thing that drove him to go looking for his dead father in the first place. … I will say the audience will know more than Jason by the end of the series. And that's all I'll say.
This feels a lot like "Merlin" in that it plays with Greek mythology like that played with the Knights of the Roundtable. Were you a big Greek mythology buff?
Not a massive buff but I knew my stuff. I knew more about Greek mythology than I did about the Arthurian legends. I think because over here you get taught this stuff in school around about 10 years old. Of all the stuff you learn in school, so much of it you forget when you leave. But because the Greek myths are so rich and it's interesting and you've got monsters and characters like Medusa in there you just sort of retain it. That's fun to learn. So I knew all that stuff.
And as I said, being one of four brothers growing up on these sorts of films like the original "Jason and the Argonauts," that stuff sort of just stuck with me. So I knew a fair amount of stuff coming in but the writers really do their research. There's other stuff that I've learned while filming that I had no idea about. And you find out stuff you think that's just thrown in there because it's good writing but actually it links back to some ancient text or some Greek myth I didn't know about.
I think what's interesting is what is as fun as they are, they've been interpreted and remodeled so the writers don't just stick exactly to the myth. But also because then the audience would know exactly what was gonna come. If you knew the myth then you could tell what was coming next. I like the way they play with it. It keeps it interesting.
Is your Jason the "Jason and the Argonauts" Jason?
I've had this talk with the producers because at first, with the Minotaur, I knew it was Perseus who killed the Minotaur. So I spoke to them about that and they said, "Yeah, you are a mixture of Perseus, Theseus and possibly Jason." But now that I've just found out we've been commissioned for a second series, you know, you do have an idea of where the series will go. And actually I think he does become Jason of the Argonauts. That's what they're hinting at. In fact, I don't know the ins and outs and the details, but I think that's definitely a possibility for where it goes.
You and your brothers all have ended up as performers of one sort or another. How'd that happen?
I come from that sort of family. My dad is an actor and my mum is a dancer and a choreographer. So, you know, it's in the blood. And then they never put any pressure on me or my brothers to do anything like that. We just sort of fell into it. My brother Sam is a year younger than me, he's an actor as well. Then my brother Harvey is a gymnast who just, by coincidence, ended up in Cirque de Soleil. Then my youngest brother Finn is a model. So, yeah, not the most academic family in the world you could say. But sort of all fallen into different areas of performing in one way or another. We're really close as a family as well.
Last question: Are you ready to be a heartthrob?
I don't know. You know I was thinking about that. I was thinking, "Well I don't know how to really take that." But actually all three of my younger brothers are ripped. I mean they're in such good shape and they are good looking guys. So when you're the ugliest guy in your own family it doesn't really add up that you can then be a heartthrob to anyone else. So it sort of keeps me in perspective. I'm like OK, that doesn't really work then.
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SANTA CLARA — Defensive lineman Justin Smith said Wednesday that his left arm is holding up well despite the partially torn left triceps tendon he has played with in the 49ers' two playoff wins.
"It's feeling all right, feeling pretty good," Smith said after taking part in the team's scaled-back practice.
Smith and his teammates practiced for the first time since winning the NFC Championship game Sunday against the Atlanta Falcons to clinch a berth in the Super Bowl against the Baltimore Ravens in New Orleans on Feb. 3.
This marks the first Super Bowl for Smith in his 12-year NFL career. He hasn't even attended one.
"I figured if I ever go, I could go when I was done playing, but I wanted to go as a player," Smith said. "To get that opportunity now is going to be awesome."
Smith and the 49ers aren't content just being in the Super Bowl, he said. The goal now is the same as it was at the beginning of the season.
"We got to bring this thing home," Smith said, "because these don't come every year. It's going to be tough to keep this type of team together, as well, so we feel the pressure to get it done, and get it done now."
Smith spent his first seven years with the Cincinnati Bengals without coming close to reaching a Super Bowl. The 49ers lost to the Giants in the NFC Championship game last season.
Just lasting as long as he has in a demanding sport is satisfying enough, Smith said. He views winning a Super Bowl as the capper to his career, not something he needs to consider his career a success.
"I'm just happy to play as long as I did," Smith said, "and an opportunity to be in the Super Bowl game and hopefully come out on top is real exciting."
"We have faith in Dave," Smith said. "Dave's the kicker, and he was one of the main reasons we got as far as we did last year. He's done well this year, and we have all the confidence in him in the world."
Akers missed his lone field-goal attempt against the Falcons and has missed 14 of his 44 attempts in 18 games. Last season, he converted 44 of 52 in the regular season and earned All-Pro and Pro Bowl honors.
Brooks suffered his injury against the Falcons, but he finished the game without difficulty. Celek said his foot injury is chronic.
Linebacker Aldon Smith (shoulder) and fullback Bruce Miller (shoulder) practiced in their regular jerseys after spending the past month or so in black, non-contact jerseys. However, cornerback Tarell Brown and backup defensive tackle Will Tukuafu still wore black jerseys, as they have for the past month or so.
Justin Smith and left offensive tackle Joe Staley practiced at full strength.
On the Friday before the Super Bowl, a joint news conference is scheduled with Harbaugh and his brother John, the Ravens head coach, in the final media obligation for both teams.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported Wednesday that a law enforcement source said two other women had joined Crabtree, 25, and another woman at a party in a room at the W Hotel in downtown San Francisco. The two women disputed the third woman's allegation that Crabtree had sexually assaulted her, the Chronicle reported.
A spokeswoman for the San Francisco Police Department said Wednesday morning that detectives were still working the case, which was announced Friday evening, after the team had left for the NFC Championship game in Atlanta. She also declined to comment on the Chronicle report.
An official at the W Hotel declined to comment on the allegation when contacted by Bay Area News Group on Saturday. Several employees at the hotel said they were not aware of members of the 49ers partying at the hotel in the early-morning hours of Jan. 13, when the alleged incident happened.
Staff writer Daniel M. Jimenez contributed to this report.