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Masters of Horror: The Black Cat (US - DVD R1)
Gabe's got a minor case of fever, brought on by a feline's scratch...
Edgar Allan Poe is a starving artist with more baggage than most. He can't sell his poetry to fuel his alcoholic addictions, and when his wife Virginia develops the 'white plague' his need for booze and money peaks. Poe's frustration takes him over, and he begins to focus it on his charcoal-coloured house cat.
Stuart Gordon, despite quite a few less-than-loved motion pictures in his collection, has only made one movie I didn't enjoy, and it was his first Masters of Horror entry Dreams in the Witch-House. It was a boring ball-dropper with only strong performances to save it from true awfulness. Considering the director's recent journey into less fantasy based films, I was thinking that maybe his heart just wasn't into terror tales anymore.
I was wrong, and Gordon is more than forgiven for the artful and dramatic work on his second Masters of Horror outing. The Black Cat features a level of technical elegance not found in any of the director's other work. On strict visual merit the film may be Gordon's most impressive since From Beyond, and for very different reasons. His finest achievements have been almost exclusively found in the realms of pulp and comic book horror—this picture is more classically crafted. It's nearly black and white nature, doused with occasional flourishes of red, is comparable to Tim Burton's beautiful but empty work on Sleepy Hallow. The budget bursting and lovingly crafter sets certainly don't hurt the vision either.
With the possible exception of Takashi Miike's Imprint (though Miike managed to fumble his feature's last act), this is the only Masters of Horror episode I've seen thus far with a genuine sense of terror and dread, the kind one only feels in real life. Madness, the loss of a loved one, lying to a loved one, self hatred, and spiralling depression are all much more horrifying than ghouls, ghosts, and all other things that go bump in the night. In light of the more strictly entertaining entry's this season, the darkness of The Black Cat is a breath of fresh air.
The overall class doesn't just extend from Gordon's sturdy hand, but the cast, headed by Gordon's favourite muse Jeffery Combs. Combs is a ham, pure and simple, but he's my favourite ham in the butcher's case. Here he manages a performance worthy of Vincent Price at his finest—broad and loud, but authentic and dramatic (I always forget that Poe was a Southerner). Gordon's theatre background ensures that he always works well with actors, and he doesn't break the chain. This is easily one of the finest total cast performances in the entire series.
Edgar Allen Poe's original story has been adapted to the screen about a jillion times, including half successful versions by my two favourite Italian maestros Lucio Fulci and Dario Argento. It's been a long while since I've read the story, and I haven't seen every adaptation, but this one seems to be the most true to the source of any version yet. The accuracy of the adaptation has more to do with the tone of the piece than the accuracy of the script, though that too is closer than most.
The film's shortcomings have everything to do with the original story, and Gordon's attempts to mix Poe's real life into it. It's a great idea, and it works for almost the entire feature. Things become less then perfect when the viewer stops to think about the plot, which is kind of... absent. Personally I don't feel horror stories require tight plotting or story structure, but some viewers may be disturbed by the sort of random nature of the episode. Truthfully I'm fishing for problems here; this is the best of the second season releases thus far.
I'm so very glad that these Masters of Horror discs have cleaned up their act since the occasionally muddy and dull season one releases. As I mentioned in my feature review, the film is almost black and white, but like Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow there are brightened tints of red, and on occasion yellows and oranges. The transfer itself is very clean, with the exception of film grain in darker moments, which adds some lovely texture. Tracking shots are slightly blurred, and there is some loss of definition, but the overall crispness of each shot is impressive. The bursting reds are clean as well, without excess noise or blooming.
The class of The Black Cat is greatly indebted to Rich Ragsdale's super slick and super classy score. Here the music is second only to dialogue in audio importance and the Dolby Digital track is high in clear fidelity. The film isn't effects heavy, but scenes of burning houses and off-screen cats meowing will give your 5.1 system a decent workout. The audio level seems to be a little low, however, and to fully experience the track I had to turn my system up louder than normal.
The meat of the extras is the commentary track with writer/director Stuart Gordon and star Jeffery Combs. Not only do we learn quite a bit about the making of the film, but the track acts as a bit of a Cliff's Notes version of Poe's real life. Combs and Gordon are both intelligent and enthralling speakers, down to earth and wise. The track is a breeze, which means a lot coming from someone flat out sick of commentary tracks in general.
More of the usual her with a fifteen-minute behind the scenes featurette called 'The Tell Tale Cat' (get it?). Gordon and Combs are always a joy in interviews, and actress Elyse Levesque is pretty easy on the eyes, so this is one that I could have done with more of. The fact that Gordon and Combs offer up a solid commentary makes everything alright. There's a shorter featurette about the film's special effects, digital and make-up. This is another of the usuals for season two discs, and informative enough for what it is.
The script is available to read (on DVD-ROM), as is a reprinting of Gordon's biography. Master's of Horror fans can also catch a whole bunch of trailers, including ones for three as yet unreleased episodes, The Damned Thing, Valerie on the Stairs, and We All Scream for Ice Cream. More of what we've come to expect from these sets.
Animal rights advocates may be disturbed by this film, despite the fact that no real cats were harmed during production. If you don't want to see a cat's eye removed by pocket knife, even as a rather flimsy digital effect, you might want to skip this one. Horror fans should be happy by The Black Cat's lush visuals and a standout performance from Combs. I've got to say that I'm still pretty satisfied by the second season of Masters of Horror despite all the neigh-saying I continue to hear. Maybe I just haven't gotten to the bad ones yet.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 17th July 2007
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: NTSC
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 English, Dolby Surround English
Subtitles: English, Spanish
Extras: Director and Actor Commentary, Featurettes, Script, Trailer, Bio
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Stuart Gordon, Patrick Gallagher, Elyse Levesque
Cast: Jeffery Combs
Genre: Horror
Length: 59 minutes
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The Taro takes its attitude straight from its steel brother, but incorporates a 6061 aluminum frame and geared-only dropouts. The same short chainstay/slack headtube basics are there, including the 68-degree headtube though the chainstays clock in at a slightly-longer 16.5 inches (vs. 16.3 on the Honzo).
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Airport confident new routes to Dublin and Amsterdam will be just the ticket for Cambridgeshire
It may not be a 'one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind' moment but Cambridge Airport's new services to Dublin and Amsterdam could herald a sea change in fortunes for Cambridgeshire.
Where Darwin Airlines had gone before – and failed – the confidence surrounding CityJet's new schedule from Cambridge is altogether different.
Freed from its ties with Air France, the newly independent company is confident flights from Cambridge will join other parts of their business in forging a strong local business.
Certainly Sir Michael Marshall, chairman of the airport's parent Marshall Aerospace, looked and sounded confident as he greeted the handful of passengers heading to Dublin on Monday morning.
Coffee and Danish pastries were on hand as the first passengers boarded flights to their respective destinations – the forerunner of what Sir Michael and his team believe will be a decisive step to bigger and better fortunes for Cambridge Airport.
He left it to Steve Jones, the airport's managing director, to sum up the company's hopes for the new twice daily flights to both cities.
"These new flights connect us with our top two air travel markets with class-leading frequency and convenience," he said. "Ireland, the Netherlands and all those connecting destinations are hugely important to the economy of this city and region."
The 1hr 20min flight to Dublin means you can arrive mid morning, enjoy many of the city's tourist attractions, have time for lunch, visit the Guinness factory and some of the other 30 or so attractions, and still be back in Cambridge by 8.30pm.
But Cambridge is hoping to combine both leisure and commercial passengers as it rolls out its CityJet services.
Steve Barclay, the MP for NE Cambs, has long campaigned for improved infrastructure – and having an expanding airport on our doorstep can only be good for Cambridgeshire he says.
"It is great news that new routes from Cambridge Airport to Amsterdam and Dublin have been launched," he said.
"This opens up opportunities for inward investment from overseas businesses, which will be more likely to consider the Fens now it is more accessible.
"It also creates export opportunities for our own businesses looking to expand. I am sure local residents will also be keen to benefit from the leisure potential offered by these quick services for short holiday breaks, and hope they take full advantage of these new services on our doorstep".
Both routes offer a double-daily service Monday-Friday and daily at weekends, operated by CityJet's Fokker 50 aircraft
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ROCHESTER — With the coldest winter months approaching, the Business Round Table discussion on Tuesday revolved around energy costs, and ways Public Service of New Hampshire can help businesses become more energy efficient.
The monthly Rounds Table discussions are open to all business owners and managers in the city, and provide a setting for an open dialogue between city officials and business owners.
Mark Toussaint, of energy efficiency services at PSNH, said he often works with small businesses in the Seacoast area to help them find ways to save on energy costs. He said PSNH can offer free energy audits to small businesses, and recommend new methods on making the property more energy efficient.
Toussaint also noted that making simple changes such as switching to LED lighting can make a difference in energy costs. Throughout the past year, Rochester has replaced all of its street lights to LED lighting, and while few, if any, have noticed a difference in quality, the city is seeing financial savings. According to PSNH, the new LED lights are expected to save the city more than $315,300 over the next 13 years, or $24,261 each year.
On Tuesday, Toussaint also brought business owners' attention to the website, nhsaves.com, which provides a catalog of energy-saving items — anything from programmable thermostats; devices that automatically shut off lights and electronics; shower heads; and water conservation devices for toilets.
At the Round Table discussion, PSNH officials, city officials, and business owners discussed whether having a backup generator would be worth it for a small business.
Toussaint said that depends on where the business is located, and what type of business is being conducted. During a power outage, PSNH first focuses on restoring power to emergency shelters and fire and police stations, so businesses close to those areas are likely to wait less time than businesses located on the outskirts of the city.
If business owners cannot afford to have power lost for two days or so, they should consider buying a backup generator.
Planning Board member and newly-elected state Rep. James Gray said it would help for businesses to also consider whether they want power restored throughout the business during an outage, or just for certain appliances.
Jim Grant, director of the Building Safety Department, said that during the recent power outage no one could buy gas in Rochester, because none of the gas stations had backup generators.
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"Endiron" is another eggcorn matryoshka doll-one eggcorn is nestled inside another.
The correct word, "andiron," refers to a (sometimes fancy) iron holder that allows air to circulate under fireplace logs. "Andiron" derives from an older term for the same device, either "andier," an Old French word, or "anderia," the Latin term. The etymology of the OF/Latin term is unknown. Clearly, though, the pre-English words have no "iron" in them. The OED comments that the last segment of the word "was at an early date identified with the word yre, yren iron, whence the later illusive spellings."
The "endiron" permutation may derive from the way andirons are positioned in a fireplace. Two andirons are set up so that each "endiron" supports one end of a log. The 1985 Dictionary of American Regional English (http://tinyurl.com/coqwt4) lists "endiron" as an American regionalism that is a "folk etymology for andiron," and gives literature citations going back to 1899.
Here are three of the dozens of instances of "endiron" that can be found on the web:
Sale announcement "Antique brass endirons w/ log holder. More than 100 years old."
Comment to a group blog post "' andirons '? i've always thought they were called ' endirons '. guess this blog is good for something. thank you."
Strange post to a political forum "I even went dumpster diving and found an old fire screen and endirons that have some rust and dings"
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
What is neat about this eggcorn is the way a "foreign" word is gradually corrupted into good Anglo Saxon. We could almost imagine a comic-book villain, call him Beadwof, whose sole mission in life is to eradicate all non-Teutonic words from English. The immortal Beadwof takes the long view, working piecemeal to defeat ModEng, his sworn enemy, word by word. The first time Beadwof hears "anderia" in English he begins to plant seeds of doubt in the minds of English speakers about the end of the word, pointing out how "iron" would be an appropriate substitution. Once he succeeds in getting "andiron" into the lexicon (how he hates to hear a wordhord called a "lexicon"), Beadwof starts to work on the remaining syllable. "End," he whispers, "good AS. Must be end-iron." In the final panel we see Beadwof standing in a crowd, a fiendish laugh writ in bold above his head, as people all around him say in little speech bubbles "Andiron? No, endiron."
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Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
Beadwof? Is the "wof" an unrecorded back-formation from "woffian"—"to shout, rave, blaspheme"? So this guy's name is "Prayer-blasphemy"? Or is that "Table-blasphemy"? Or maybe Beadwof is a scribal error for "Beaduwof"—"Battle-shout"—which sounds très Anglo-Saxon (to my Teuto-celtic ears).
I sometimes think your caped Anglo-Saxon avenger has a shadowy nemesis determined to make some truly Anglo-Saxon words strange and alien. "Stirrup" looks quite odd to me—it feels like something the British might have acquired in India. But no, it's from Anglo-Saxon "stigrap" ("stige" (ascent) + "rap" (rope)). The weakening of the second vowel and the gemination of the r go a long way towards disguising the word's origins. But perhaps Beadwof is asserting himself after all—could the idea of going "up" onto a horse's back have influenced the modern spelling of that final vowel?
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Subconscious "up" in "stirrup?" A possible hidden eggcorn. I suppose the word "halter" might also have a hidden component-it's how you make a horse "halt."
Another place where Beadwof's nemesis has been at work is the Teutonic word "akimbo." Sounds vaguely Japanese, doesn't it?
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
The source of "akimbo" is actually unknown—Latin, Celtic and Teutonic roots have all been suggested. The word is one of the great mysteries of English etymology—like dog, hog, bird, boy, and (the early Lithuanian borrowing?) mattock.
But I think the evil genius Dr. Akimbo—of uncertain origin—would be a fitting rival to Beadwof.
We could add to Beadwof's accomplishments two other words with a history similar to that of "andiron:" "gridiron" and "fire iron." The former is a metal lattice that holds the fireplace logs, the latter is an implement for managing a fire. Neither word seems to have started out with "iron" in it.
The shape of a gridiron, with its parallel bars, gives rise to the modern slang term for a football field. I note that a gridiron was also a medieval torture instrument, a meaning that could also be the metaphorical source of the term for a football field. Let me show you my scars….
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Paul Jennings. "Punch" magazine 1966:
"In a foregoing piece (a week ago in this same mirthboke) I wrote anent the ninehundredth yearday of the Clash of Hastings; of how in that mightytussle, which othered our lore for coming hundredyears, indeed for all the following aftertide till Doomsday, the would-be imaginers from France were smitten hip and thigh; and of how not least our tongue remained selfthrough and strong, unbecluttered and unbedizened with outlandish Latin-born words of French offshoot. Our Anglish tongue, grown from many birth-ages of yeomen, working in field or threshing-floor, ringing-loft or shearing house, mead and thicket and ditch, under the thousand hues and scudding clouds of our ever-othering weather, has been emulched over the hundredyears with many sayings born from everyday life. It has an unbettered muchness of samenoiselike and again-clanger wordgroups, such as wind and water, horse and hound, block and tackle, sweet seventeen. The craft and insight of our Anglish tongue for the more cunning switchmeangroups, for unthingsome and overthingsome withtakings, gives a matchless tool to bards, deepthinkers and trypiecemen. If Angland had gone the way of the Betweensea Eyots there is every likelihood that our lot would have fallen forever in the Middlesea ringpath".
That certainly has the spirit of Beadwof hovering approvingly above it.
On the plain in Spain where it mainly rains.
Not all of Beadwof's work is done with iron, of course. He has also been seen brandishing an axe. Specifically, the word "pickaxe."
A pickaxe was at one time referred to as a "pikeis" or a "picoise." It is derived from "pike/pick" and some suffix. Perhaps it was influenced by the medieval Latin "picosium." By the 1600s English speakers had changed it to "pickaxe," importing the "axe" morpheme.
Beadwof rejoiced at the insertion of the good Teutonic word "axe." About the "pick" part he is two-minded. Pic-like words that referred to pointy implements came into English from both Germanic and Romance language sources. The OED makes this comment about the "pick/pike/peak" complex:
This group of words presents many difficulties…; the pattern of borrowing within and between Romance and Germanic languages appears to have been particularly complex, with individual words and senses being borrowed in different directions and at different times, in many cases reinforcing pre-existing words or senses. This pattern is evident from earliest times right up to the modern period when such borrowings are easier to trace, e.g. the spec[ific] sense 'pointed weapon, pike' which developed in Middle Dutch …, and was borrowed from there into Middle French and other languages …, and the transferred sense 'peak, summit' which developed in Ibero-Romance, and was borrowed from there into other languages.
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A 29-year-old man already sentenced to life in prison on multiple sex offenses on a juvenile, traveling to meet the minor and sending harmful material to the teenage girl is now in custody in Marion.
A 29-year-old man already sentenced to life in prison on multiple sex offenses on a juvenile is now in custody at the Marion County Jail facing similar charges here.
Reno Wolfgang was transported from a reception center in Orlando to the jail on Friday and made his first appearance in front of Judge Hale Stancil on warrants out of Marion County on charges of lewd and lascivious battery on a minor, use of a child in a sexual performance, traveling to meet a minor and carrying a weapon during the commission of a felony.
Wolfgang was given a public defender.
Citrus County sheriff's detectives and Dunnellon Police Department officers contend Wolfgang met a 14-year-old girl online and lured her to two separate locations — Citrus and Dunnellon — where they had sex. In the Dunnellon case, officials said the two met and the girl said she was provided with alcohol and the two had sex.
In October Wolfgang was found guilty of several charges, including lewd and lascivious battery, and sentenced to life in prison.
In the Citrus County trial, Wolfgang blamed his public defender for doing a poor job in his defense and said he was going to appeal his sentence.
"The public defender did nothing for me," Wolfgang said, adding that he hopes whoever the public defender is in Marion County will do a better job.
In an interview with the Star-Banner at the jail, Wolfgang said he metthe teenager online in 2010 but claimed he wasn't aware of her age until he was arrested in June 2012.
Wolfgang said he and the teen had mutual interests such as off-roading and fishing, and he alleges she told him she was 18. When they met in Citrus County, he said he thought she was 19, and they hung out. The next time they met, he said they kissed, but nothing else happened.
They met a third time, this time in Dunnellon, he said. Asked what they did, Wolfgang declined to say, other than to say "I'm honest to God innocent of those charges."
He said he and the girl continued to keep in touch online until the two had an argument in late 2011. Despite the disagreement, he said they continued to chat online until his arrest.


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Roger Simon: On Syria, Good Roger vs Bad RogerROGER SIMON
September 07. 2013 6:57PM
"WE WILL SMITE Syria swiftly but prudently," Good Roger said. "Ferociously but cautiously. With abandon but with restraint. And if our red line is crossed again, we have crimson, magenta and puce lines to back them up."
"Have you been sniffing the printer toner again?" Bad Roger asked. "You are beginning to sound like a foreign policy wonk."
"We must stop the needless, senseless, indefensible murder of children," Good Roger said. "The United States must act to stop the slaughter of the innocent."
"You're talking about that 1-year-old boy shot to death in his stroller in Brooklyn on Sunday night, right?" Bad Roger said. "I totally agree the United States should stop such slaughter."
"I am talking about Syria!" Good Roger shouted. "We must protect the children of Syria."
"Totally agree," Bad Roger said. "But the 197 children age 12 or younger who are shot to death on average in America each year are worth protecting, too, aren't they? Maybe our government ought to do something about them."
"The Second Amendment gives Americans the right to shoot other Americans!" Good Roger said, a vein pulsing in his forehead.
"But Syria doesn't have the Second Amendment. So we can kill Syrians to keep them from killing other Syrians!"
"I see you have been watching cable news again," Bad Roger said, "because your logic has become impeccable."
Good Roger is the decent, sincere, well-meaning side of me. Nobody much likes him.
Bad Roger is the snarky, sarcastic, cynical side of me. People often buy him drinks.
Good Roger starting madly leafing through his book of quotations for a devastatingly apt response to Bad Roger.
Good Roger has kept the book ever since he heard that George Will never goes on TV without deft and witty quotations written on his shirt sleeves.
"Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me," Good Roger said. "Also: Bounces off rubber and sticks to glue."
"There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action," Bad Roger said.
"Is that a quotation?" Good Roger asked.
"Yes, from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe," Bad Roger said.
"Is he an American?" Good Roger asked.
"No, a foreigner, so you can bomb him with impunity," Bad Roger said. "He also has been dead for 181 years."
"Excellent," Good Roger said. "That will make him an easier target."
"Can we stop talking about this?" Bad Roger said. "There is a 'Duck Dynasty' marathon on A&E that I don't want to miss."
"I am not done quoting," Good Roger said. "'Speak softly and carry a big stick.' Teddy Roosevelt said that 112 years ago this week."
"But he didn't say take your big stick to Congress, where it can be whittled down to 535 little sticks with pointy heads to match the pointy heads of our legislators," Bad Roger said.
"Congress is a cornerstone of democracy!" Good Roger said.
"Congress is an anvil around the neck of democracy," said Bad Roger.
"It has a lower approval rating than bad breath. And President Obama decides to turn over his foreign policy to Congress for its approval? Pure folly."
"Au contraire," Good Roger retorted, believing that using French proves you are an intellectual. "If Congress refuses to back the President's attack on Syria, Congress will get the blame."
"In Libya, Obama led from behind," Bad Roger said. "In Syria, Obama is letting a bunch of behinds lead him."
"A leader must have the support of his people," Good Roger said.
"President Obama grew very worried when the British Parliament refused to back an attack on Syria."
"If George Washington had worried about what the British Parliament wanted, we all would be driving on the left side of the road today," Bad Roger said. "And have bad teeth."
"There is no talking to you," Good Roger said. "Besides, 'The Ed Show' is coming on, and I have to get ready to take notes."
"This decision to go to Congress has badly split this administration," said Bad Roger. "I saw John Kerry the other day, and I said, 'Why the long face?'"
"You can't say a thing like that!" Good Roger sputtered.
"I can say anything," Bad Roger said. "I'm Bad Roger."
Roger Simon is Politico's chief political columnist.


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Riddick (UK - DVD R2)
Riddick is back. Marcus looks around the return of the Pitch Black monsters...
The original Riddick adventure Pitch Black was a bit of a favorite of mine at the time of release in 2000. It arrived with the right mood, the right anti-hero, the right monsters and at the right time. It echoed the aliens of the Alien franchise but did its own thing, had a rough low budget edge that worked for it and Vin Diesel was hella cool as the prisoner turned really an okay guy Riddick.
Even though the original doesn't quite hold up now-a-days it still carries the positive thoughts as being "the good one" in the stop/start franchise, that's had a sequel and even animated outings. When the first sequel arrived it left behind the minimalist approach and just went too wacky. I can understand the semi-cult following the brave visually playful film sort of has but I just thought it was plain silly and was I was left wishing for more from the monsters in the first flick as opposed to another Riddick outing.
The film left such a bad taste in my mouth in fact I actually never intended on seeing it again but fate stepped in and I caught it in a Thai hotel a year or so ago. So I was all back up to speed with Mr Riddick again and ready for this latest return for the character.
The road to Riddick has been a pretty well documented one. Vin Diesel had a fairly open dialogue with fans in regards to his back and forths with Universal and where he wanted to take the film. There was a lot of talk of the limited budgets and lots of pre-awarness during the film's production. Diesel has had epic success with the Fast and Furious franchise when it comes to interacting with his fanbase and it seemed like he wanted the same for the return of Riddick.
So how did it turn out? This threequel starts in CGI heavy landscapes much like the second film (but done way cheaper) and has our cloudy eyed anti-hero battling the dusty elements of the planet he's on as well as the vicious wildlife. Vin delivers unconvincing rumbley voice overs and the slow pacing and largely eye rolling set up makes for a pretty boring start even with splattering of monsters.
After taking a long while to get going and playing like a John Carter style sci-fi with alien pet dogs and wide open landscapes, Riddick gets going. Weirdly though it gets going with a distinct lack of Riddick. Beyond the odd stealthy take down that he carries out on the poorly written Mercs, our lead is played as a menace in the shadows toying with his hunters and we're happily back to Pitch Black mystery man Riddick.
The plot here is pretty lousy. A group of assholes butting heads over Riddick and getting off of the planet all with Riddick stirring up the situation in a smug, oddly self sabotaging approach. It's not a great entry in the series but its small success is that it's a film that manages to balance the silly overkill sci-fi of the second film with the more beaten down real world looks of the first.
There's good intentions here but in general this feels like a thirty minute short movie spread too thinly over an overlong near two hours. Scenes are so stretched out, played slow for sometimes no reason and there's a lot of repeating of the odds. The film actually ends up catering for both sides of the Riddick fanbase but with a distinct yearning (or budget restriction) that echoes the feel of the original film as opposed to its sequel. That makes it a better sequel than Chronicles was but the "my balls are bigger than your balls" attitude is getting tiresome in modern actioners and this franchise is feeling more Starship Troopers sequels than what turned out to be the a great re-shuffle success over in Vin's other baby The Fast and the Furious series.
The warm CGI heavy opening is a rich orange with strong amber lighting. Detail is nice and sharp and despite the scale of the back drops the imagery still feels small and budget limited, sort of like 300 but without the keen eye for style. Switching to the flashbacks, Riddick goes more cold and grey. There's a lot of textures and a real depth to the sets. Costumes are detailed and noticably dusty and worn and while the world always feels like a set and very small in terms of what's convincingly real, there's plenty of dust and debris to create the illusion of environment.
This DVD actually winds up looking alright. Its sharpness suffers without any HD power behind it but light sources are nice and strong and colours glow extremely well. Black levels are also solid and the whole image looks like most mid-range budget sci-fi flicks tend to of late. There's no helping the cheap looking CGI here but even some of that looks well textured at times (especially his dingo dog thing), even if its not all that convincing.
To begin with it's Vin Diesel talking a lot so of course the track is bassy but when laser guns start going off and fists start flying that bass line steps up with a nice bit of punch. Animal hisses, roars and clicks all play around the speakers and the score sits in the rears well. The frontal elements of the score often feel a bit stronger rather than balanced with the rears but this is an overall solid modern audio presentation with very little to fault.
Small elements like scraping rocks, rattling chains or wind fill up the largely quiet feeling film. Sure there's plenty of bombastic sounds but this is a one man trek through the desert for the most part or Mercs shouting at each other with terrible dialogue so its the small ambient sounds that bring it to life a lot of the time. Of course when the bad guys start start firing machine guns the silence it pushed aside for pure aggressive roar.
The disc opens with trailers for Need for Speed, Divergence, Escape Plan and Metallica: Through the Never then it's on to the extras.
'Vin's Riddick' (08:28) talks up the actor/producer's hands on approach to getting the film made as well as his love of the character.
'Meet the Mercs' (10:18)looks at the rest of the cast and 'Riddick: Blindsided' (05:15) is web comic style prequel of the brief flashback we see in the film.
Riddick was an okay sequel for a series I no longer have any investment in. I'm sure there's at least one more film to come out of the franchise but I have little desire to see it after this entry. There's too much repetition of visuals from the first film, too little in the way of originality and I'm not really sure what to think of Riddick as a character anymore, sure he's cool enough but seriously what else is going on with him? Like with most of the action heroes out there, the more they play the same role, the less believable they become (*cough* John McClane) and Riddick doesn't seem to work outside of the original Pitch Black, well for me anyway.
Anyway, the disc is okay for DVD, good picture, good audio, thin fluffy extras. Fans should dig it, those of the fence will probably stay that way, those not bothered with what came before probably won't change their minds. This really winds up to be a non-event rather than a return to goodness.
Review by Marcus Doidge
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I had similar thoughts really. The Riddick character worked well in a supporting role in the original Pitch Black, but the follow-ups have been really disappointing.
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Yeah. He worked as the emerging hero. I don't know what he is here really. Everyone is a bad guy, so its hard to care about much thats going on.
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Release Date: 13th January 2014
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Extras: Featurettes, Trailers
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Director: David Twohy
Cast: Vin Diesel, Karl Urban, Katee Sackhoff
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi and Thriller
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NHIAA Football: Third downs key as Bedford downs resolute SalemBy HARRY KOZLOWSKI
Special to the Union Leader
September 27. 2013 11:04PM
BEDFORD — Bedford quarterback Dan Colella didn't hit all his passes, just the ones he needed to, on the way to a 30-0 win over Salem on Friday.
The Blue Devils defense pressured Colella all game, making things hard on first and second downs. But Colella hit his targets on third down to keep drives alive.
Colella was 10 of 18 for 140 yards but he threw for four touchdowns.
Two of Coella's favorite targets were Nick Vailas, who caught touchdowns of 10 and 9 yards in the first half, and cousin Mike Vailas, who had touchdown catches of 24 and 34 yards.
Miscues hurt Salem right from the start. After receiving the kickoff, quarterback John Cerretani fumbled the first snap from scrimmage. Bedford recovered.
The Bulldogs didn't score but another Salem fumble on a punt was recovered by Bedford and turned into a touchdown drive capped by a 10-yard pass to Nick Vailas.
In the second quarter, Bedford's Aaron Palys blocked a punt by Jason Poore. Salem recovered in their own end zone for a Bedford safety.
Coella then hit Michael Vailas for a 24-yard touchdown to make it 16-0, and followed that with a nine-yard strike to Nick Vailas as the half ended 23-0.
Salem was able to put together a nine-minute drive in the third but it stalled at the 1-yard-line on fourth down.
Bedford coach Kurt Hines called the Blue Devils a "very good 0-4 team." They have a great defensive line, they threw all kinds of stunts at us." said Hines.
But Dan Colella had the answers on third down.
Salem quarterback John Cerretani went 8-of-12 for 66 yards with two second-half interceptions. Jason Martinez led the Blue Devils with 65 yards on 17 carries.
Bedford (4-0) notched its third straight shutout and faces Goffstown next Saturday. Salem is 0-4 and hosts Manchester West on Friday.


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The National Association of Retired Federal Employees (NARFE) has surpassed its goal of raising "$9 Million by NARFE's 90th Birthday 2011" for the Alzheimer's Association. Having surpassed its fundraising goal, NARFE has extended the campaign to "$10 Million in 2012." NARFE forged a relationship with the Alzheimer's Association in 1985 and fulfilled its first $1 million pledge in 1991. Since then, its members have been steadily raising money to fund Alzheimer's research.
"NARFE has been committed to raising funds for vital research to the Alzheimer's Association for over 25 years," said Angela Geiger, chief strategy officer of the Alzheimer's Association. "We thank the thousands of loyal NARFE members for their outpouring support and continued efforts throughout their communities. NARFE's committed fundraising successes will contribute to finding a cure for this national health crisis."
NARFE became a charter member of the Alzheimer's Association's Zenith Fellows, a premier group of donors of $1 million to Alzheimer's research, in 1991. NARFE announced at its 2011 national convention that its new goal will increase by an additional $1 million, bringing the cumulative donation to "$10 million in 2012."
Alzheimer's is the sixth-leading cause of death in the United States, and today as many as 5.4 million Americans are living with the disease. Every 69 seconds, someone in America develops Alzheimer's disease, and by mid-century someone will develop Alzheimer's every 33 seconds. For more information about the Alzheimer's Association, visit alz.org.
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David Oyelowo was everywhere last year, and that was no accident. Sure, he had no way of knowing that the tiny indie Middle of Nowhere, in which he plays the sensitive bus driver romantic interest of our lead heroine, would come to theaters just weeks after Jack Reacher and a month after Lincoln, in which he plays a black soldier brave enough to speak up to the President in the first scene. And, as he told me in our conversation last week, he had no idea that his voice would be the first thing anyone heard in the trailer for Lincoln, which arrived when there was massive speculation about what Daniel Day-Lewis's performance would sound like.
But the fact that Oyelowo has worked with a string of acclaimed directors and in a series of successful films, and has played a seemingly different character in every single one of them? That's no mistake at all. The 37-year-old veteran of the Royal Shakespeare Company in London, who made headlines a decade ago when he played Henry VI, has made his way through Hollywood carefully and slowly, taking on roles in films big (Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Jack Reacher, the upcoming Interstellar) and small (Middle of Nowhere, The Paperboy) that each reveal something new about him. In Lee Daniels' The Butler, in theaters this Friday, Oyelowo steps back into the past to play Louis Gaines, a college student who becomes involved with the Freedom Riders and eventually the Black Panthers as the Civil Rights movement builds in the 1960s. That leads to a series of clashes with his father Cecil (played by Forest Whitaker), the titular butler who works closely with the all-powerful Presidents inside the White House.
Oyelowo plays Louis from age 17 until his late 60s, a remarkable transformation made all the more incredible by how little makeup it took. I asked Oyelowo about that process, as well as the ways that director Lee Daniels' challenges him, how he found out he was such a big part of that Lincoln trailer, and a little about his upcoming work with Christopher Nolan on Interstellar-- and no, he hasn't read the script for that yet, so don't bother asking. Check out our interview below, and see Oyelowo and the rest of the all-star cast in The Butler this weekend.
I'm curious about how freakishly young you play at the beginning of this movie. I think you're like 16 or something like that?
Yeah, yeah.
Were you wearing makeup? How'd you pull that off?
No, one of the biggest challenges about doing this film was Lee insisted on no makeup, until we were older. I've worked with him twice now and he's all about authenticity, you know. Before each take, he's right up in your face, checking that you didn't put any makeup on or anything, because he wants the camera to catch every bead of sweat. So, that was actually a challenge. I was like, "Lee, you've got to help me out here." I was going from so, I think, yeah, it's 17 through to 68. So, I literally had to do crazy things like, you know, make sure I got 10 hours of sleep before the days I was playing young, drink lots of water, you know, just silly things that I almost had to experiment to find out if they actually worked. And then when I sort of get a bit older, literally, I would eat a lot of salty foods…
So you would puff up?
Yeah, and then drink lots of water. So apparently, this is what I found out, the water clings to the salt and you sort of puff out and literally you can see it overnight, and that helps. So, yeah, it was crazy things like that I had to do over the three months.
And then you go do another movie with makeup and you're like, oh, this is so much easier.
Yeah, you know. I don't have to eat salty food and you know, go to bed really early and all that good stuff, but you know what? I had played Henry VI at the Royal Shakespeare Company about 10 years ago.
Famously, a far as I can tell.
Yeah, yeah, it went incredibly well. And similarly I had to play from a very young to I think again from my teenage years through to maybe late 50s, maybe early 60s, and again, we were working with a director who wasn't keen on makeup.
Even on stage, where you can get away with so much more.
Exactly, but that was kind of the point, because we didn't want that to be distracting. And so much of aging is an attitude really, whether it's confidence, whether it's what's happening physically with the body, the eyes, you know, with the emotions. When Lee first cast me as this, I said, you know what, I actually, and I didn't mean it this way, I said, "Let's do as little makeup as possible, I want to see if this is achievable, because I've done this once before in the theater. Let's see if it works on film."
So, it was almost a challenge to yourself.
Yeah, but Lee always has to push everything the the nth degree, so I said less makeup and he's like, "No makeup." I was like, no, that's not what I meant.
Well, with The Paperboy, you say he had similar natural techniques, but the tone of that movie is really different. It's really big and your character goes through this crazy transformation at the end. Lee pushes you in one way on that, so when you transfer to something like this, is he pushing you in a different way?
He is, I mean, the thing with Lee is that not only is he pushing you in relation to the character you're saying, but the more he gets to know you as an actor, he literally demands of you more than he has seen of you.
So, the better he knows you, the harder he pushes you?
Yeah, which I think is why I really, really enjoy working with him, because I'm always a better actor beyond the experience, because I always discover new things about myself. The Paperboy we really pushed it on the envelope in terms of a character who was duplicitous, someone who just wasn't all that he seemed. Whereas with this, you know, the film largely centers around this family and it's far more vulnerable, far more open in terms of feelings. There's an openness and an honestly that isn't in The Paperboy. The Paperboy is diametrically opposed, I would say.
Not about open emotions.
Exactly, it's all about hidden emotion and a hidden inner life. So, with this, you know, he was really pushing me towards what it is to be, you know, can we show a boy becoming a man before our eyes? Can we show the birth of the civil rights movement through one person? It was in the same way that Forest beautifully embodies some of the pain, some of the subservience, that had been imposed upon black people through history, my character was taking on the fire that was burning within black people back then, to challenge this country for freedom and you know, I had to sort of embody that in an embryonic form and then for it to sort of gain in momentum through to its fruition through the course of the film.


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Do you have big business ideas? Are you passionate about entrepreneurship and innovation?
Then sign up for a contest with the Sawyer Business School's Center for Entrepreneurship. The Center is hosting a week of competitions in celebration of national entrepreneurship month in November.
Pitch Your Ideas at the Trade Show
On November 19, you have the chance to pitch your business ideas to those who matter most—potential angel investors who can give you the funding you need to get your ideas off the ground.
The Entrepreneurship Trade Show, open to all undergraduate and graduate students, will take place in the Sawyer Café from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m.
All Suffolk students, faculty, and alumni are invited to attend and vote for their favorite ideas. It's also a chance to network and meet our angel investors: James D. Tollman, managing partner of Tollman Capital Partners, founder and CEO of a hospitalist firm, and an angel investor in many diverse ventures; and Roman Wunderlich (BSBA '10), founder of the investment fund Legion Holdings.
Need help creating the perfect pitch? No problem. The Suffolk Ventures alumni group is hosting the Ideal Pitch Workshop on November 18 at 1-5 p.m. in the Entrepreneurship Resource Center (4th floor of the Sawyer Building).
Square off Against Your Professors
Sign up for Entrepreneurship-Trivia on November 20.
Hosted by the Suffolk Ventures alumni group, entrepreneurship students will go head-to-head against faculty.
In teams of 4-6, you'll answer questions about anything from famous innovators and booming startups to the latest music and movies. And you'll also meet successful alumni who were in your shoes not too long ago.
Trivia starts at 7:30 p.m. at the Red Hat (9 Bowdoin Street).
Win a Cash Prize for Your Twitter Pitch
With a single tweet, you could win $500.
The Twitch Competition on November 21 awards the best product pitch delivered via Twitter. One week before the competition, @SuffolkENT will announce the product, giving you plenty of time to perfect your tweet.
The competition is open to all Suffolk students. To sign up, contact Janelle Shoup at (617) 305-1984 or visit the Entrepreneurship Resource Center.
The competition will take place at 7:30 p.m. on the 9th floor of 73 Tremont.
Is Your Big Idea Worth $100K?
Does your idea have what it takes to be the next big thing?
Enter the Dr. Sushil Bhatia Competition for Innovative Ideas and find out. You'll be competing for $100,000 in awards and in-kind services.
The competition is open to all Suffolk University students and alumni. And two of the award categories—the Green Product Award and the Frugal Innovation Award—are open to the public.
Just make sure you submit your idea by December 31, 2013.
And if you need help refining your idea, check out Innovation Hour. The competition founder and Executive in Residence Sushil Bhatia will help you increase your product's competitive advantage, while providing compelling benefits for the consumer. The sessions are Tuesdays and Thursday 1-2 p.m. in 73 Tremont, Room 7010. All Suffolk students and alumni who have entered the competition can attend.
Celebrating Your Success
Stay tuned throughout the month of November. We'll be highlighting some of our best and brightest students and alumni on the Business School website, Twitter, and Facebook.


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NEW YORK (AP) — As the tabloids speculated about whether Jessica Simpson is expecting again (she is) and the media zeroed in on Kate Middleton's acute morning sickness, Kim Kardashian says it was nice to be out of the media spotlight during the early stages of her pregnancy.
"I'm obviously so happy for them, but if anything I loved the privacy," the 32-year-old reality TV star said in an interview Wednesday.
That bit of privacy went out the window when Kardashian's boyfriend, Kanye West, revealed during a Dec. 30 concert in Atlantic City, N.J., that they are expecting their first child together.
Now that the word is out, Kardashian says her motherly instincts have made her pull back from being so open about her personal life.
"I think that definitely kicks in where you're like, 'OK, I have to go in protect mode,' and as ironic as it sounds, you live your life on a reality show but then when you grow up ... certain things change your life that make you want to be more private and this is definitely one of them."
The couple went public with their relationship in March.
Kardashian married NBA player Kris Humphries in August 2011 and their divorce is not finalized.
West rarely grants interviews, and the 35-year-old rapper is the ying to the Kardashian family's "out there" yang. Kardashian says she is somewhat influenced by West's approach.
"When you spend time with someone, you learn things from them, so I see what (his) views are in wanting to be private, so that's a choice we make together as a family just in how we're gonna raise our kid," she said. "... But my personal experience of having really open relationships on the show, I've done that, and for me I feel like I got really scrutinized when people didn't maybe understand my decisions at some point, so I feel like after that experience I've become more private more so than just like Kanye's views or anything."
Kardashian is due in July.
A new season of her reality show with her sister Kourtney, "Kourtney and Kim Take Miami," premieres Sunday on E! (9 p.m. EST).
Alicia Rancilio covers entertainment for The Associated Press. Follow her online at http://www.twitter.com/aliciar


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As a professor at Northwestern University teaching courses on linguistic and cultural diversity, I see this biennial demonstration of the world's languages and cultures as instructive and emblematic. As a psycholinguist, I see language and culture closely intertwined, and the Olympics often attest to that with fascinating examples.
As we've already witnessed, North and South Korea present a real-world laboratory that shows how languages can diverge at the national level due to opposing influences from cultural and political pressures. For example, athletes from North and South Korea who are on the first-ever joint Olympic team are finding it difficult to communicate with each other despite ostensibly speaking the same language.
That's because many words that exist in Korean (for example, words based on English or another foreign language) have been eradicated in North Korea and have been replaced with newly created originals, leading to a need for North Korean–South Korean dictionaries.
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My fascination with languages, cultures, and the Olympics includes first-hand experience with the games in 1996, when I worked as associate envoy for the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games. From the time the athletes arrived until they left, I lived in the Olympic Village alongside them. I participated in the opening and closing ceremonies, attended practices, games, competitions and social events, spending nearly every waking moment with athletes, coaches, team staff, doctors, and government officials.
As someone with knowledge of Russian and Romanian languages and cultures, my role was to help team members navigate the linguistic and cultural differences they might encounter in a foreign country.
These differences were not limited to the language barrier, although having someone translate for athletes and team officials was certainly valuable. Beyond language, there were cultural and social variables that all foreign teams encountered, and the more distinct their culture, the more differences they faced.
For example, at one point I found myself an intermediary in a courtroom as a foreign team official was accused of sexual assault after groping a female driver. What counts for friendliness and openness in one culture was interpreted as an invitation and consent in another culture. Unfortunately, issues related to sexual assault and what constitutes consent are still with us today.
In another surprising turn of events, I assisted several Olympic athletes in legal meetings as they either defected or sought political asylum in the Unites States. Rooted in cultural and political differences, such acts have a history in the Olympic landscape and are likely to continue as athletes make powerful statements on and off the field. And sadly, the threat of terrorism remains a concern in just as it was in .
From encountering unfamiliar foods in the Olympic Village dining hall ("What is this?" and "How do you eat this?" were frequent questions) to relationships to exploring the host city, there was endless potential for foreign team members to find themselves in complicated situations. I often had to assist when athletes got on the wrong bus or went to the wrong venue because of linguistic and cultural differences in how messages were communicated.
And, of course, the Olympic Village sees its share of friendships, competitions, gossip, rivalries and sex. These are expected when high-energy, high-intensity, hormone-fueled young people come together by thousands. While the 1996 games took place before cell phones became ubiquitous, this year every step and misstep will likely be documented on social media, as it has been for the past decade.
Complications will continue to happen no matter what country the Olympics are held in, as we saw at the last Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . What can help minimize missteps are cultural awareness, basic linguistic knowledge, strong ethics and clear communication.
Social media, as well, can be used to capitalize on instant communication and provide direct access to millions of people to seek and share information. Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook and Twitter can bridge across languages, countries, and people in ways that were not possible before.
As in every Olympics, summer or winter, no matter where they happen on the globe, some things will go awry, some things will be funny, many things will be awe-inspiring.
I remember the young girls from the Romanian, Ukrainian, Russian, American, Canadian and French gymnastic teams whose conversations I overheard on the way to various Olympic venues. They worried then about the same issues my own teenage daughters worry about—friends, parents, school, looks, boys, happiness—in addition to the grueling training and competition schedule, and the hard work and dedication that it takes to be a world-class athlete.
In spite of all the anxieties, there is more laughter, camaraderie, joy, pride, enthusiasm, excitement, and energy in the Olympic Village than I've seen anywhere else. Socializing with celebrities or athletes from other teams at meals and parties, and in between events, leads to making friends from around the world and lifetime memories that will remind the Olympians that they are part of a global network.
I imagine this Olympics will be no different. We will watch the athletes go after their dreams, succeed, or stumble. In their humanity, they will remind us all that we are connected, that we are all part of the same network that transcends borders. This is true even as we witness how things work differently in Pyeongchang and how South Korea differs from the United States and other Western countries.
This year, there will be many firsts at the Olympics . Six nations are participating in the winter games for the first time (Ecuador, Eritrea, Kosovo, Malaysia, Nigeria, Singapore) and four new events are making their debut (big-air snowboarding, mixed doubles curling, mass-start speedskating and the Alpine team competition). Individual athletes ranging in age from 15 (halfpipe skiing) to 51 (curling) will amaze with awe-inspiring accomplishments . And the Winter Paralympics that follow soonafter will inspire their own moments of awe.
The Olympic Games are a symbol that underscores that differences between cultures, countries and peoples not only can be overcome, but can be capitalized and built upon to make us stronger, faster, better, to inspire and propel the human race forward.
The views expressed are those of the author(s) and are not necessarily those of Scientific American.
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Florida is the latest state to report the presence of epizootic hemorrhagic disease in its white-tailed deer herd.
This viral disease has been confirmed in two deer and suspected in at least 10 others from north Florida that were examined this year.
EHD is an insect-borne disease, transmitted to deer by small, biting flies known as midges. The disease can cause illness or death in individual deer but should disappear when freezing temperatures halt insect activity. EHD cannot be transmitted to humans or pets; however, as a general rule, people should avoid consuming sick or unhealthy deer.
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With the recent news of Apple talking tough to Palm about the new Pre phone, it was clear that any conflict was between two companies with a pair bit to lose and a lot of patents on either side on which to bargain.
So, while the system isn't perfect, it does allow some measure of an level playing field when all players have a patent portfolio.
However, here it is the exact opposite. Apple is by far the larger player with more legal resources, but its would-be opponent is so small and new that the stakes are low. Other than legal costs, which are something but not the same as Palm talking a huge hit on millions of development costs, this PearC has nothing to lose, but much to gain.
Apple will have to spend much more to prosecute their case than PearC will need to defend it, as the stakes for Apple are so much higher. Even worse, the law in Germany might favor the defense.
But, having said all that, it is clear the likely outcome is either the clones are legal and Apple accepts them as such, and competes on their strengths, or Apple takes steps to make a custom chip that REAL apples must have to work. time will tell.