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Creative methods in longitudinal research with young people
Youth research has an established history of using creative approaches to gain qualitative insights into young people's lives. The past 15 years have seen a rapid growth in the application of visual/creative methods using, for example, drama, drawing, photography, film and digital communication technologies. Such approaches have sought to privilege young people's perspectives, and offer alternative and non-exploitative modes of engagement1. These studies are founded on collaborative work, adopting methods that draw on/incorporate participant's skills and interests. Such moves have not been without criticism with some questioning the theoretical premises and methodological foundations2. In my own work I have been keen to infuse creativity into different phases of the research process, not just data generation.
This summer I was invited to talk about my work at a creative research methods symposium, hosted by the University of Oxford. Developing a paper exploring the potentials and pitfalls of using such approaches presented the opportunity to reflect back over a decade-long qualitative longitudinal (QLR) study undertaken with Rosalind Edwards. The Your Space project followed the diverse lives of 50 participants from mid-childhood to young adulthood. We used tools, such as network maps, timelines and photographs to capture change and continuity in their sibling relationships and friendships over time. Creativity and adaptation feature as trademarks of many QLR studies that are, by their very nature, dynamic and evolving3. Our methods and approaches creatively shifted over time as we 'grew with' participants and as technological developments offered new ways of conducting research.
The symposium also presented the opportunity to consider creative ways to represent research outcomes. As each presenter spoke, graphic recording artist Chris Shipton sketched, condensing 40 minutes of speech into a one page cartoon; a medium apt for depicting complex messages in a simple, sequential form. The experience provided a new lens through which to explore my study. I was fascinated to see the artist's interpretations of the salient points. I was delighted that my key messages were received in the manner they were intended. He identified issues pertinent to QLR, such as sample maintenance ('staying in touch'), reciprocity in research relationships ('providing a university reference'), snippets of the pros and cons of the tools/methods used, and nods to the theoretical underpinnings (social constructionism). Concurrently, I also felt I experienced the "peculiar effect of turning the observer into the observed"4 whilst under the gaze of an artist-in-residence. I wondered how participants might feel about the caricatures. Amidst the feelings of vulnerability was also inspiration. Viewing the final artwork has encouraged more open thinking about the form research outputs can take; about alternative and striking ways to present key messages, as well as the potential for graphic recording in data collection and/or interpretation.
Submitted by Susie Weller, NCRM, University of Southampton on Thursday, 7th December 2017
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It's shocking to think that even by conservative estimates, the WLAN in most industrial environments is some three to five years behind that of the carpeted space. While offices and stores have enjoyed state-of-the-art and seamless connectivity for years, warehouses, factories and logistics have lagged behind.
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At last…they have arrived and Yes, they were worth the wait:
These ink pads are just so awesome! As you can see they have three separate ink pad strips in one. The best way to get a great result is to pat the stamp back and forth so that the colors blend together. I absolutely love the results.
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Throughout the summer we have been trying to stay busy and making a few fun crafts along the way. This one we made for my girls, sister and nieces to sell to make $ to donate to a charity. They have a little group they call {K-JAM} and throughout the year they earn money and then donate it to various good causes. It is so fun to see them get excited about helping other and I am so proud of them!
This was really so simple and fun for them. We purchased these small bags 3/$1 at the dollar store and then embellished them with things we had around the house {flowers, jute, burlap, tags and scrapbook supplies, etc.} We used hot glue and little brads to attach everything to the bags. The brads worked great because they could go right through the material of the bags.
They were so happy with how they turned out.
A fun, quick and simple project!


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Merrill grain elevator site to become new facility
Governor Jennifer M. Granholm recently announced that a blighted and contaminated grain elevator site in Merrill, near Saginaw, will be converted to a new headquarters and distribution facility for Miles Petroleum with the help of a $48,671 Single Business Tax credit approved by the Michigan Economic Development Corporation. The project is expected to generate more than $486,705 in private investment and five new jobs.
"This property has been blighted and underutilized for years," Granholm said. "The brownfield tax credit will make it possible for Merrill to turn a potentially dangerous property into a catalyst for growth and job creation."
The developer, MPI Property Management LLC, will clean up and develop the property on behalf of Miles Petroleum. An existing grain elevator will be demolished and various buildings redeveloped to house corporate offices, a garage, warehouse and truck and oil storage facilities.
"We are pleased that Michigan brownfield policies have made it possible to eliminate an eyesore and develop regional corporate offices for Miles Petroleum," said JoAnn Crary, president of Saginaw Future Inc. "We applaud the efforts of the MEDC and the Saginaw County Brownfield Redevelopment Authority for assisting the village of Merrill with this project."
In her 2004 State of the State address, Governor Granholm announced her plan to make Michigan a global economic powerhouse in the 21st century. In 2004 the Governor and the MEDC announced the creation or retention of more than 54,000 jobs as a result of targeted assistance provided by the MEDC. Overall during 2004, the Governor announced the creation or retention of some 130,000 jobs by all state agencies.
"Michigan's brownfield incentives have a solid track record of turning hundreds of unusable properties into magnets for new jobs, investment and tax revenue," MEDC President and CEO Don Jakeway said. "Redeveloping this site will create a new center of economic vitality in Merrill, encouraging further development."
The Michigan Economic Development Corporation, a partnership between the state and local communities, promotes smart economic growth by developing strategies and providing services to create and retain good jobs and a high quality of life. For more information on the Michigan Economic Development Corporation's initiatives and programs, visit the Web site at www.michigan.org.


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First spiritual development stage.
There are 145 types in the dormancy stage excluding the tirthankar, assimilative body and assimilative limbs and their related parts. Thus, 148 3 equals 145 types are present in dormancy.
Third spiritual development stage.
In the second department, the first persons salary is 40 rupees, the second persons 41 and the third persons 42, etc.; Thus 166th man has a salary of 205 rupees.
In the third department, the first persons salary is 80 rupees, the second 81, etc., so the last persons salary is 249 rupees.
In the fourth department, there are 174 people working. The first persons salary is 121 and the second persons salary is 122, etc., thus the last persons salary is 294 rupees.
The first person in the 16th department receives a salary of 691 rupees and the 222nd a salary of 912 rupees salary.
In this example, the first 39 peoples salary does not match anybody elses and the last 67 peoples salary, also does not match anybody else. The rest of the people may have similar salaries as a person in another department. This is the way the similarity and dissimilarity of the different diespositions is found in the new thought activity stage (Adhah karan).
For further explanation, please refer to the chapter of Guna sthanak in Gommatsars book.
In the sixth spiritual developmental stage, there were 63 types of karma bonded.
In this stage, remove six and add two more, and a total of 59 types of karma bondage occur. Six removed are as follow:
1. Unsteady body (Asthir)
2. Inauspicious body making karma (Ashubh)
3. Pain producing feeling karma (Ashata vedniya)
4. Notoriety body making karma (Ayash kirti)
5. Displeasure quassi-passions (Arati nokarma)
6. Sorrow quassi-passions. (Shok nokarma)
1. Assimilative body (Aharak sharir)
2. Assimilative limbs and their related parts (Aharak angopang)
In the sixth spiritual developmental stage, 81 types of karma were in fruition. Remove five and a total of 76 come in fruition in the seventh spiritual developmental stage.
The five types to be removed are as follow
1. Assimilative body (Aharak sharir)
2. Assimilative limbs and their related parts (Aharak angopang)
3. Deep sleep (Nindra nindra)
4. Exceedingly intense sleep (Prachala prachala)
5. Somnambulistic sleep (Styangrudhdhi)
Just as in the sixth spiritual developmental stage, there are 146 types in dormancy. In the right faith, due to the annihilation of the karma, there are 139 types in dormancy.
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UPPCL'S financial losses bigger than projected!
UP Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL) is reeling under a greater financial deficit than it has been projecting for years.lucknow Updated: Oct 14, 2012 13:49 IST
UP Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL) is reeling under a greater financial deficit than it has been projecting for years.
The UP Electricity Regulatory Commission (UPERC) has discovered that the UPPCL had been showing a narrower gap in its expected revenue and expenditure in the annual revenue requirement proposals (ARRs) filed between 2001-02 and 2007-08.
This happened as a result of ARRs being filed without auditing the balance sheet. Now that the balance sheets for six years have been audited, the additional loss is pegged at a staggering Rs. 26,000 crore.
On the order of the appellate tribunal for electricity early this year, the UPERC insisted on the UPPCL submitting audited balance sheets for the years in which it submitted ARRs and proposed tariff hike.
"We have found the UPPCL should have shown its annual deficit more than it did every year. Simply put, it failed to propose adequate tariff hikes to bridge over the revenue-expenditure gap," said a source.
Now, the UPERC may have to adjust this amount in tariff orders to be issued by the regulator in years to come.
The already whopping amount may get bigger as UPPCL files audited balance sheets for the remaining years, the source added.
On its part, the UPPCL may be more than eager to propose higher tariffs to make up for the 'past losses', the source said.
The corporation is left with an annual deficit of around Rs. 6000- 7000 crore. Going by the ARRs submitted to the UPERC for the last three years, the UPPCL's cumulative losses are more than Rs. 20,000 crore in just three years. Presently, the corporation is facing a financial crisis of such proportions that even banks are refusing to give loan to it. The corporation is struggling to purchase power and pay salaries to its staff. "We spend around Rs. 18,000 crore on purchase and salaries etc every month against total revenue of Rs. 1200- 1300 crore," said a senior UPPCL official.
"Now, we are anxiously looking to the UPERC issuing the tariff order to help the corporation get some additional revenue from revised rates," he added.
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I made these cabinets for a friend who owns Casa Noble Tequila. He needed a locking cabinet for some of the stores that the tequila was being sold in and his current displays were shelf type. He had the artwork made up on self adhesive posters and I just laid them on the cabinets and viola, . They are made from birch ply and poplar. Painted black with lighting inside to showcase the bottles. If you like tequila or any fine spirits, you should try Casa Noble.
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#1 posted 08-29-2009 04:31 PM
Those are some great looking cases. The interior lighting really sets them off, great job
-- Ben Kahmann Dayton, OH
#2 posted 08-29-2009 04:47 PM
very nice … did he pay you or work out a trade ? >grin<
-- keeping myself entertained ... Humor and fun lubricate the brain
#3 posted 08-29-2009 05:23 PM
Great Job! I See your reflection in the glass, while your taking a picture. I've done that before. lol The display cabinets look very professional.
-- Dennis Zongker
#4 posted 08-29-2009 05:59 PM
Very handsome displays.
-- "The way to make a small fortune in woodworking- start with a large one"
#5 posted 08-29-2009 06:23 PM
Unique cabinet well done
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#6 posted 08-30-2009 08:48 AM
wonderful looking cabinets
I like the idea of a trade
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#7 posted 08-31-2009 05:27 AM
Very nice design.
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#8 posted 05-27-2011 03:57 PM
Super work.
#9 posted 05-27-2011 04:19 PM
It's making me thirsty and I don't do well on tequila:) They're very handsome and sophisticated. I'm sure your friend will be very proud of them.
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Daniel Charles Solander ('The Simpling Macaroni')
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Daniel Charles Solander ('The Simpling Macaroni')
published by Mary Darly
etching, published 13 July 1772
7 1/8 in. x 5 in. (181 mm x 126 mm) paper size
Given by Henry Witte Martin, 1861
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Inventor James Watt produces the first micrometer to simply and accurately measure small distances. It is to prove crucial in the development of early machinery.
Britain's first trunk canal, the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal, opens for business.
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text: A fiery prison memoir extolling the virtues of rebellion against oppression, against any odds, and no matter what the cost. From the moment of her 1962 arrest for counterrevolutionary activity in Fidel Castro's Cuba, Rodriguez refused to submit to the authority of her captors. Her career as a plantada (one who will not bend) began with mocking the state security troops who came to search her home and ended 19 years later when she was released in an attempt by Castro to score human rights points with the Carter administration. Rodriguez and her fellow political prisoners staged nearly daily protests in order to secure better living conditions and visitation rights, and to avoid being split up through unwanted transfers and forced into the general prison population. Armed only with fists, angry words, the toque de lata (banging loudly on the bars with metal objects), and the hunger strike, the women won battle after battle with prison authorities. Often badly beaten, denied medical treatment, placed in solitary confinement, and starved, the plantadas refused to succumb to the will of their tormentors. They managed to drive one prison administrator insane, burn down a jail as they were being relocated, and resist all attempts to ""reeducate"" them. Rodriguez herself escaped from prison twice -- once by pretending to be an evil spirit and walking directly past a superstitious guard -- and managed to stay out for six weeks by misleading a secret policeman into believing that she was in contact with the CIA, which was sending a special submarine guided by dolphins to pick her up. Rodriguez recounts her struggle with great passion and without a shred of self pity; only in retrospect does one realize that the best years of her life were needlessly wasted. No honest history of the Cuban revolution and its relation to American foreign policy can be written without reference to works such as this.


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An Interesting Day
What a day! Rebekah was up early (at about 7:30) and didn't want to go back to sleep. Sarah continued to sleep in, until about 9:15. The girls played (some with each other, at times taking toys from each other), ate (Sarah like a piggy, Rebekah like a mouse), napped (both quite a bit), filled their diapers, laughed, cried, tickled each other and Mommy and generally had a good day.
This afternoon, we watched out the window while it snowed (yes snowed). It has been raining and raining and raining and today for a short while it snowed. The temperature was dropping, too, which had us thinking it might start to stick. It never did and it warmed up, but it was neat to watch (from the warmth of the house).
Fran called and brought out some food and LaDonna brought some food from Sandy, too. It is great that I don't have to worry about what to fix for dinner, especially when life is hectic and the girls are taking extra care. Thank you so much Fran, Sandy and LaDonna!
The girls seemed to go to bed well. Then Sarah woke up screaming - she had lost her binky. Mommy had to search for it and found two hiding under her crib.
Then, Rebekah woke up screaming. She wanted her food stopped and disconnected. She wanted a diaper change, too. She said she had owies, but didn't want any medicine. I gave her some morphine, anyway, as she seemed to need it. I stopped and disconnected her food, changed her diaper, sang to her, and started her music. She still wasn't happy and was crying, but nothing I was doing was helping, so I told her I loved her and that she needed to go night night and left the room. She finally settled down. Before, I go to bed, I'll connect her food back up and get it going again.
Daddy is still not feeling well. Fran brought some Zicam for him, so hopefully that will help. He went to bed early tonight and I hope the extra rest will help, and that he won't wake up too early without being able to get back to sleep.
Nikolette's services are tomorrow, so please keep her family in your prayers. This cancer journey has so many ups and downs. Nikolette's family is coping with what we all fear - the death of their child. We grieve so much for this family. We rejoice with families when things are going well and we cry with families when things are going wrong.
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The View From 1776
Cultural Falsehoods
The Duke lacrosse team fiasco shows that liberals, especially educators, have created a phony cultural paradigm that distorts reality and prevents clear-sighted analysis of the truth.
- Back here in Minnesota, we have a case of sexual assault by members of the U of MN Gopher football team (http://www.startribune.com/gophers/story/1305344.html ). The have been dismissed. The indictments came after DNA evidence was processed and a video recording came to light showing the assault's finale.
However,the intellectual elite at the U of MN, who excoriated the Duke lacrosse team are once again strangely quiet. No calls about closing the football program down and firing the new coach. No full page ads in Prairie Pravda (Minneapolis Star Tribune) excoriating and decrying this type or any type of sexual violence by sporting elites.
Oh, and by the way, all the accused in this case are black.
Equal justice under the law? Derision where derision is deserved? Not where the intellectual illuminati are concerned.Posted by Amendment X on 07/24 at 12:24 PM
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Some Ronzoni pasta recipes include Herbed Seafood Linguine and Spicy Shrimp Scampi. All recipes can be made with boxes of Ronzoni pasta and other fresh and canned ingredients.
For the Herbed Seafood Linguine recipe, gather a 10.5-ounce can of red clam sauce, 1/4-pound flounder filets cut into bite-sized pieces, 3 ounces of crab meat, about 10 peeled shrimp and 2 tablespoons of grated Parmesan cheese. Also gather 1/3 cup chopped onion, 1/4 cup chopped green pepper, 1 clove minced garlic and dried basil and oregano leaves for taste. Start cooking the recipe by boiling 16 ounces of Ronzoni Linguine. Combine the rest of the ingredients, except for the Parmesan, in a saucepan, and heat until boiling. The flounder should flake easily and the shrimp should turn pink. Pour the sauce over the pasta, and add as much cheese as desired.
Gather 2 tablespoons butter, 2 tablespoons olive oil, 3/4 pound peeled shrimp, 2 tablespoons fresh parsley and 16 ounces of Ronzoni Roasted Garlic Angel Hair pasta to make Spicy Shrimp Scampi. Prepare the pasta, and drain. Heat a skillet, and melt the butter and oil on it before adding the shrimp and parsley. Combine with the pasta, and add salt and crushed dried red pepper to taste.


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Pictures from the Elite Model Look Nigeria 2012 event
This year's edition of the Elite Model Look Nigeria will definitely go down memory lane as one of the most prestigious events. The event had in attendance Agbani Darego, Bisola Dejonwo, Folake Folarin-Coker, Bridget Awosika, Jummai Shaba, Toju Foyeh, Linda Ikeji, amongst many others. Check out the pictures


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Think You're Ready For It?
I think we all realize that if America doesn't repent it will be judged by God. If you're one of those arrogant self-righteous Bible believers who think judgement can't happen soon enough to please you then you need to go somewhere alone and ask yourself if you're ready for the following. Are you ready:
- To eat members of your family? Israel did it when judged of God
- To see your wife and daughters raped regularly? That's what judgement brought to Israel.
- To watch your children mercilessly slaughtered? Ditto.
- To see your sons impressed into slave labor and never see them again?
- To become a refugee who never sees home, family or friends again?
- To never experience a peaceful night's sleep again in your life?
- To never play golf, go on a picnic, enjoy a sports event or a quiet day alone?
- To cry like you've never cried and be afraid like you've never been afraid before?
If you said "Yes." to any of the above you'reeither a liar or high on something. What? Say it will happen but not to youbecause you've "keptthe faith"? Listen, some very good people who believe the Book and aredoing more for the Lord than you are lost everything during hurricane Katrina.You are a proud fool if you think you won't experience the results ofGod'sjudgement on America. You say you can take it? Then reread the above questions,get on your knees and tell God, "Yes." to everyone of them. Fool!
How the Lottery REALLY Hurt Us
The spirit of the lottery is basically this, "Tomorrow I'm goingto be rich!" In other words, without the years of hard work that mademen like Ford, Edison and even Bill Gates rich we can all share that same wealthinessovernight by winning the lottery.
That "dreams come true, tomorrow"spirithas now permeated our national psyche. That includes Christians. The program "AmericanIdol" hasyoung people dreaming that "Tomorrow I'm going to be a star."
America'sFunniest Home Videos has made people think, "I'll send in my faked 'spontaneous' videoand be on TV and get $10,000 tomorrow."
The belief that they will scoreon overnight capricious wealth & fame hasAmericans ignoring reality as being not important since it is going to change "tomorrowwhen I win!"
Americans used to work hard and then go home and watch TVfor an escape from reality. Today, the fairyland world of TV has become realityand it is reality that is viewed as unreal and irrelevant.
The "Religion of Peace" from Hell
A Muslim woman trusted Christ and began going to a Bible believing church.Then suddenly she stopped. Her pastor visited her and asked what was wrong.She told him that her sister had asked why she no longer kept Muslim holidays.She explained that she had trusted Christ and followed Him now. The nextday her brother-in-law came by and told her that if she didn't go back to the mosque he would kill her! That didn't happen in Iraq or Iran or anywhere in the Middle East. It happened in Connecticut! With the importation of Muslim paganism our country has imported murder, hatred and religious slavery.
Meeting the 7000
Dr. Edgar Feghaly
Brother Feghaly has a ministry that directly engages in the conversion of Muslimsin the Middle East. He has missions in Iraq, Egypt, Lebanon. His mission runsa Christian radio station in Iraq. He has hazarded his life numerous timesand the Lord has graciously protected him.
Typical Environmental Mess-up
We all know now that the Great Yellowstone Fire was far worse than it should have been because religious environmentalists hadn't allowed dead wood to be cut from the forest. The result was a wildfire fueled by deadwood environmental shrines.
Here's another environmental pipedream that didn't work. In 1972 religious environmentalists dumped 2,000,000 old tire casings over a 34 acre portion of the ocean floor off Fort Lauderdale, Florida. (YOU would rot in prison for dumping one tire!) Then they happily skipped home knowing they had just created a "natural" (?) reef for all the little fishies to live in. But the "little fishies", not being mentally ill environmentalists, avoided the tires completely. Then the tides and currents pushed the tires all over and they started destroying coral. (Oh God! Not the coral!) Now, the government, which environmentalists badmouth, and the U.S. Navy, which environmentalists hate, are going to have to clean up their mess. They say it will take years and years and millions of dollars. Do you think the environmental polluters will have to pay the bill for their irresponsibility?
Exercises That Will Build Character
Everyone knows that the smoker who says, "I can stop anytime I want to." can't.He doesn't have the character to. He simply can't say, "No." tohis body. Here are some exercises that will help you build character. You willlaugh and think I'm not being serious because "anybody can do these." Good,then do them.
- Get out of bed the instant your alarm goes off. Never hit the "snooze" button.
- Wash your car and keep it clean.
- Read your Bible everyday and don't ever miss.
- Withhold a negative comment about someone when you have the opportunity to make it.
- Don't allow yourself to be a conduit for bad news.
Yeah, yeah, I know.You can "do these anytime I want to." Sure,you and every smoker.
Fight On!
In August of 1944 the 2nd battalion of the 30th U.S. Army Division was entrenched on Hill317 calling in artillery strikes on German troops to their east. The Germans intended to wipe the hill clean. They surrounded the hill and for five days subjected it to never ending assaults. They cut off American troops, ran low on food, ammunition and medical supplies but refused to surrender.
Early on the fifth day a German tank clamored up the hill and fired two rounds into the beleaguered American lines. Then the tank commander called out in perfect English, "Surrender or die!" One GI threw down his weapon and ran to the tank and climbed aboard. No one else moved. The tank then turned around and left with its one foolish prisoner. Amazingly, later that day American forces broke through the Germans and relieved the tired but happy Americans. One foolish GI had given up too soon! Fighton!
The original name for Lake Erie was "Lake of the Erighs." The Erighswere a strong and noble Indian tribe that inhabited its banks. But this smalltribe was attacked and mercilessly eradicated. Every man, woman and child washunted down and murdered until all that survives today is the name "Erie" toeven hint that they ever existed. This is called "genocide."
Whocommitted this horrible act of genocide? Not the French. Not the Dutch. Notthe English. In fact, it was committed by their fellow Indian "brothers," theIroquois. Hey! Maybe Indians are as "evil" as white men!


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Jim Carrey made a splash at Rose Bar on Friday night in full scuba gear. The comic arrived at the Gramercy Park Hotel in a full wet suit with oxygen tank, goggles and regulator at about midnight. Carrey asked hotel staff to hand out shark teeth to each table at the undersea-themed bash hosted by the hotel's creative director, Damion Luaiye, for party animal A.J. Fusco. Carrey told us through his rep, "My friends and I were there for an aquatic-theme party, and everybody in the place thought it was hilarious, so what's your problem, Page Six?" We just want to know if he equalized properly.
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|[A5] How to remove pixels from a bitmap (make pixels transparent)
Member #8,518
April 2007
In A4 it was possible to use blit() or simply the drawing primitives to paint 255,0,255 on a bitmap to make specific areas transparent and then showing the modified bitmap with masked_blit() or draw_sprite().
How do I do this in A5? I have a bitmap, I want to add transparent pixels to it (or remove existing pixels). When I use al_draw_pixel(x,y, al_map_rgba(255,0,255,255)) nothing is added to the bitmap since the color of the added pixel is transparent. Is there something similar to al_remove_pixel(), al_force_drawing_to_bitmap() or some other procedure to do this?
Hope I explained it in a way you get what I want to do. Otherwise I'll have to draw some pictures.
Member #358
May 2000
Member #8,518
April 2007
What? How does that help with this? Of course I've already set the target or the pixels would not be placed on the bitmap. I've debugged by drawing white pixels on the bitmap and that works fine. Now I want to draw transparent pixels and by changing color it doesn't work. Of course. Drawing invisible paint on something tend to look like you didn't do anything. But I want the invisible paint to remove existing paint.
Here's a simplified version of my code:
void makeAllPixelsWithSpecificColorTransparent(int color) { al_set_target_bitmap(mybitmap); for (int x = 0; x < al_get_bitmap_width(mybitmap); x++) for (int y = 0; y < al_get_bitmap_height(mybitmap); y++) { ALLEGRO_COLOR color1 = al_get_pixel(mybitmap, x, y); if (color1.r == color) al_draw_pixel(x+0.5,y+0.5, al_map_rgba(255,0,255,255)); } }
Member #358
May 2000
But you said the 255,0,255,255 pixels don't appear? Even though they are fully opaque?
Anyway, if what you want is draw pixels and keep the alpha value in the destination you need to use a different blending mode, something like:
al_set_blender(ALLEGRO_ADD, ALLEGRO_ONE, ALLEGRO_ZERO); al_draw_pixel(x, y, al_map_rgba(0, 0, 0, 0));
Member #907
January 2001
Alternatively, from reading the manual I get the impression you can also use al_put_pixel() instead of al_draw_pixel(), as the former will ignore the blending mode completely - I assume it means a replacement of all 4 components A R G B by the ones you provide.
Member #8,518
April 2007
Just to be clear:
This is what I start of with:
After the operation I want to have this:
Removing all pixels with color 0,0,0.
Note that there are no white pixels in the image, they are transparent.
Member #907
January 2001
I recognize E1M1
Member #8,518
April 2007
Audric: I have NO IDEA AT ALL what you are talking about...
...but if you are skilled pixel artist willing to paint demons and other evil creatures for free for this game feel free to contact me.
I tried al_put_pixel() but that didn't help. No matter which color I choose the pixels drawn with that function are always black...?
EDIT: The suggestion from Elias seem to work. Now I just have to fix a bug making all pixels transparent...it's never easy.
Member #907
January 2001
In your second post, the if (color1.r == color) is a cut'n'paste simplification ? Because it only checks r component of the examined pixel.
Arthur Kalliokoski
Second in Command
February 2005
TeaRDoWN said:
Removing all pixels with color 0,0,0.Note that there are no white pixels in the image, they are transparent.
Surely you mean you replaced pixels, to show the white background blitted underneath each time you made a change.
TeaRDoWN said:
Audric: I have NO IDEA AT ALL what you are talking about...
if you are skilled pixel artist willing to paint demons and other evil creatures for free for this game feel free to contact me.
So you're making a Doom clone but never heard of Doom?
"Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as "bad luck."
― Robert A. Heinlein


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In response to some feedback I've gotten about not making it to the "win" screen in this year's Santa misadventure, I thought I'd offer peeps the option of a "cheat code" of sorts...
First, tho, I'll throw the basic rules at you again:
1. Control Rudolph's altitude using your mouse. Note that you have to keep your cursor on the game stage for it to be detected by Rudolph.
2. Santa follows Rudolph's trail, and depending on the shape of that trail, he can sometimes be launched into the air.
3. Gifts appear at various heights, but the ones that float in/above the clouds are special. These contain letters of the alphabet, and once you collect the eight different ones, you finish the game!
4. These letters spell out the password that will unlock your... well, let's just call it a "reward." =)
So, with that in mind, please give it another whirl if you're game!
Skip the gaming bit and click to view the "reward" at Vimeo or play it here, embedded below...
I hope you dig SANTA (drop a comment or like at Vimeo to chime in), and a Merry Post-Apocalyptic 2013 to one and all! =)


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Review: The High Cost of Living0.5
The High Cost of Living is yet another example of the high cost (for moviegoers) of lowered production barriers for aspiring filmmakers. In this excruciatingly clichéd Montreal-set saga, in which every twist proves as contrived and implausible as the last, writer-director Deborah Chow opens by crosscutting between New York-transplant Henry's (Zach Braff) night out selling and taking prescription drugs and pregnant, French-speaking Nathalie (Isabelle Blais) attending a party. Inevitably, the duo's paths slowly near each other until confused Henry runs over Nathalie, who—believing she's going into early labor—is idiotically standing in the middle of a street waiting for a cab.
Henry goes home to act shell-shocked while Nathalie learns that her baby is stillborn, and that doctors plan to leave it inside her for a few weeks until she's recovered from her concussion, a decision that's so insanely insensitive that it makes her workaholic husband Michel's (Patrick Labbé) emotional detachment seem minor by comparison. At a bar, Nathalie is accosted by nasty strangers who are appalled by a woman in her condition guzzling wine, a confrontation that allows Henry, who's had his teenage friend Johnny (Julian Lo) discover her whereabouts, to introduce himself to Nathalie and, consequently, befriend her and invite her to stay at his place, all while failing to tell her he's the creep who killed her baby and left her to die.
Chow's somber atmospherics (shadowy nighttime street action, melancholy piano) are as painfully conventional as her script's connect-the-dots plotting, which—trading in a predictable batch of mourning, guilt, deception, forgiveness, redemption, healing, blah blah blah—eventually has Nathalie fall in love with Henry, Henry get interrupted when he tries to confess to Nathalie, and the truth come to light when it appears that Johnny might be fingered for the crime. Such narrative details might normally qualify as spoilers, but The High Cost of Living is so transparently hackneyed that any and all developments are preordained after the couple's initial meeting. The preternaturally unconvincing Braff's morose emoting is done mainly through his scruffy beard and swigs from a bottle, while Blais's slightly more plausible torment is conveyed via sorrowful examinations of her belly in the bathroom mirror, with all of these elements proving as trite as they sound.
By operating in two languages, Chow is able to have her material pose as both a serious foreign drama and a character-driven indie, but in truth, it's merely a collection of melodramatic tropes without any unique or animate life. Bonding over a cutesy game of drunken hopscotch (with scotch, get it?), Nathalie muses, "This is ridiculous," to which Henry responds, "So is life." And so is this movie.
Cast: Zach Braff, Isabelle Blais, Patrick Labbé, Julian Lo Director: Deborah Chow Screenwriter: Deborah Chow Distributor: Tribeca Film Running Time: 92 min Rating: NR Year: 2010 Buy: Video
Review: Myth and Reality Are Smartly Tangled in The Kid Who Would Be King
Joe Cornish's film is vigilant in its positivity and hope for the future at nearly every turn.3
In modern-day London, 12-year-old Alex Elliot (Louis Ashbourne Serkis) is thrust into combating forces both global and intensely personal. Following an animated prologue that briefly recaps the legend of King Arthur, the opening shot of Joe Cornish's The Kid Who Would Be King pans over a series of newspapers, each with headlines preaching doom and gloom while overlying audio from various news programs informs us of the widespread rise of authoritarian strong men. This is the only direct glimpse we're given of the current chaos of our political climate, but it looms large over the film's events as the focus shifts to young Alex, who finds himself with more immediate problems to confront.
At his new school, Alex and his best friend, Bedders (Dean Chaumoo), a goofy but sweet pushover, are quickly targeted by the most notorious bully in the yard, Lance (Tom Taylor), and his loyal minion, Kaye (Rhianna Dorris). Acutely aware of his status as one of the most "insignificant" and "powerless" kids at school, Alex fights back against his tormentors, tackling Lance from behind, only to later be scolded by the school principal (Noma Dumezweni): "The world is not going to change. It's you who has to change."
It's meant as a condemnation of Alex's violent reaction to aggression, but the woman's
empty platitude also serves as a motto for the scarcely effective adult leadership in Alex's life. Indeed, the boy's principal is incompetent, his father abandoned him as a child, and his mother (Denise Gough), caring as she may be, seems incapable of truly listening to him. Adults have let the world turn to shit and Alex is quickly learning that they're not particularly well-equipped to protect him or fix the very problems they've allowed to fester and multiply.
When Alex soon discovers a sword stuck in concrete, The Kid Who Would Be King shifts gears into a full-on adventure fantasy akin, though never beholden, to '80s kids' adventure films like The Goonies and The Neverending Story. Cornish layers familiar forms with new meanings, amending an age-old tale to directly address the perilous and uncertain future that today's youth must face. In doing so, the director's postmodern re-imagining of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table retains a refreshing earnestness in both its unwavering sincerity and commitment to lending its characters an affecting emotional vulnerability.
The film's humor doesn't stem from ironically mocking stodgy, centuries-old mythology, but from richly rewarding character details mined from children grappling with an increasingly terrifying world. Cornish retains the framework of Arthurian legend while connecting its themes to the struggle of the disenfranchised to forge bonds with their equally oppressed enemies. In The Kid Who Would Be King, the myth of King Arthur becomes entangled with reality—and a catalyst for self-actualization. Here, adventure empowers Alex and his friends to apply lessons from the past to the challenges that await them moving forward.
As Alex and Bedders discover the responsibilities they must shoulder as a result of Alex pulling Excalibur from the stone, the two convince their former foes, Lance and Kaye, to help them take on the fiery skeletons on horseback that arise from the underworld under the command of the evil Morgana (Rebecca Ferguson). Along with the extremely verbose and awkward Merlin (played by the hysterically precocious Angus Imrie in his 16-year-old form and by Patrick Stewart whenever the magician is in his dotage), the group sets out across England to find the portal that will take them to Morgana. But even as the group battles Morgana's demons along the way, they continue to struggle with the ever-present fears and insecurities of adolescence.
In one of many inventive grace notes, Cornish has all of London's adults vanish at night whenever Morgana's army arises, leaving the kids to literally fend for themselves as they adapt to their newfound roles as both protectors and shapers of the future. And despite its relatively bleak view of the present, The Kid Who Would Be King is vigilant in its positivity and hope for the future at nearly every turn. Cornish's film meets a world full of bullies, thieves, and malevolence with a warmth and pureness of heart that's evident in everything from the inclusivity of its casting and its offbeat sense of humor to its thrilling, galvanizing finale, which sees Alex's entire school takes up arms in an epic battle against Morgana.
Cast: Louis Ashbourne Serkis, Dean Chaumoo, Tom Taylor, Rhianna Dorris, Angus Imrie, Rebecca Ferguson, Patrick Stewart, Denise Gough Director: Joe Cornish Screenwriter: Joe Cornish Distributor: 20th Century Fox Running Time: 120 min Rating: PG Year: 2019
2019 Oscar Nomination Predictions
How has Oscar royally screwed things up this year? Let us count the ways.
How has Oscar royally screwed things up this year? Let us count the ways. The hastily introduced and unceremoniously tabled (for now) "best popular film" Oscar. The impending commercial-break ghettoization of such categories as best cinematography and best film editing, but most certainly not best song and best animated feature. The abortive attempts to unveil Kevin Hart as the host not once, but twice, stymied by the online backlash over years-old anti-gay Twitter jokes and leading AMPAS to opt for George Glass as this year's master of ceremonies. The strong-arming of its own membership to deter rank-and-file superstars from attending competing precursor award shows. If these end up being the last Oscars ever, and it's starting to feel as though it should be, what a way to go out, right? Like the floating island of plastic in the Pacific, the cultural and political detritus of Oscar season has spread far beyond any previous rational estimates and will almost certainly outlive our functional presence on this planet. And really, when you think about it, what's worse: The extinction of mankind or Bohemian Rhapsody winning the best picture Oscar? In that spirit, we press on.
There will be plenty of time, too much time, to go deep on the many ways Green Book reveals the flawed soul of your average, aged white liberal in America circa 2019. For now, let's just admit that it's as sure a nominee as The Favourite, Roma, and A Star Is Born. (There's snackable irony in the fact that a movie called The Front Runner became very much not an Oscar front runner in a year that doesn't appear to have a solid front runner.) And even though few seem to be predicting it for an actual win here, Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman has an almost spotless precursor track record, showing up almost across the board among the guilds. Predicting this category would've been easy enough when Oscar limited it to five films, but it's strangely almost as easy this year to see where the line will cut off between five and 10. Adam McKay's Vice may be without shame, but you don't have to strain hard to see how people could mistake it for the film of the moment. Bohemian Rhapsody is certainly lacking in merit, but, much like our comrade in chief, Oscar has never been more desperate for people to like and respect him, and a hit is a hit. Except when it's a Marvel movie, which is why Black Panther stands precariously on the category's line of cutoff, despite the rabid enthusiasm from certain corners that will likely be enough to push it through.
Will Be Nominated: BlacKkKlansman, Black Panther, Bohemian Rhapsody, The Favourite, Green Book, Roma, A Star Is Born, and Vice
Closest Runners-Up: If Beale Street Could Talk and A Quiet Place
Should Be Nominated: BlacKkKlansman, Burning, First Reformed, Let the Sunshine In, and Zama
Best Director
Everyone can agree that Bohemian Rhapsody will be one of the best picture contenders that doesn't get a corresponding best director nomination, but virtually all the other nominees we're predicting have a shot. Including Peter-flashing Farrelly, whose predictably unsubtle work on Green Book (or, Don and Dumber) netted him a widely derided DGA nomination. The outrage over Farrelly's presence there took some of the heat off Vice's Adam McKay, but if any DGA contender is going to swap out in favor of Yorgos Lanthimos (for BAFTA favorite The Favourite), it seems likely to be McKay. As Mark Harris has pointed out, Green Book is cruising through this awards season in a lane of its own, a persistently well-liked, well-meaning, unchallenging throwback whose defiant fans are clearly in a fighting mood.
Will Be Nominated: Bradley Cooper (A Star Is Born), Alfonso Cuarón (Roma), Peter Farrelly (Green Book), Yorgos Lanthimos (The Favourite), and Spike Lee (BlacKkKlansman)
Closest Runners-Up: Ryan Coogler (Black Panther), Barry Jenkins (If Beale Street Could Talk), and Adam McKay (Vice)
Should Be Nominated: Lee Chang-dong (Burning), Claire Denis (Let the Sunshine In), Spike Lee (BlacKkKlansman), Lucrecia Martel (Zama), and Paul Schrader (First Reformed)
Best Actress
Had Fox Searchlight reversed their category-fraud strategizing and flipped The Favourite's Olivia Coleman into supporting and Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone into lead, the five best actress slots would arguably have been locked down weeks, if not months, ago, unless Fox's bet-hedging intuits some form of industry resistance to double female-led propositions. As it stands, there are four locks that hardly need mention and a slew of candidates on basically equal footing. Hereditary's Toni Collette has become shrieking awards show junkies' cause célèbre this year, though she actually has the critic awards haul to back them up, having won more of the regional prizes than anyone else. The same demographic backing Collette gave up hope long ago on Viola Davis being able to survive the Widows collapse, and yet there by the grace of BAFTA does she live on to fight another round. Elsie Fisher's palpable awkwardness in Eighth Grade and winning awkwardness navigating the Hollywood circuit have earned her an almost protective backing. But we're going out on a limb and calling it for the rapturously received Roma's Yalitza Aparicio. Voters could, like us, find it not a particularly great performance and still parlay their good will for her into a nomination that's there for the taking.
Will Be Nominated: Yalitza Aparicio (Roma), Glenn Close (The Wife), Olivia Colman (The Favourite), Lady Gaga (A Star Is Born), and Melissa McCarthy (Can You Ever Forgive Me?)
Closest Runners-Up: Toni Collette (Hereditary), Viola Davis (Widows), and Elsie Fisher (Eighth Grade)
Should Be Nominated: Juliette Binoche (Let the Sunshine In), Toni Collette (Hereditary), Olivia Colman (The Favourite), Regina Hall (Support the Girls), and Melissa McCarthy (Can You Ever Forgive Me?)
Take Toni Collette's trophies thus far in the competition and double them. And then add a few more. That's the magnitude of endorsements backing First Reformed's Ethan Hawke. And his trajectory has the clear markings of an almost overqualified performance that, like Naomi Watts's in Mulholland Drive, cinephiles decades from now will wonder how Oscar snubbed. If Pastor Ernst Toller and Sasha Stone are right and God is indeed watching us all and cares what the Academy Awards do, Hawke's nomination will come at the expense of John David Washington, whose strength in the precursors thus far (SAG and Globe-nominated) is maybe the most notable bellwether of BlacKkKlansman's overall strength. Because, as with the best actress category, the other four slots are basically preordained. Unlike with best actress, the bench of also-rans appears to be one solitary soul. A fitting place for Paul Schrader's man against the world.
Will Be Nominated: Christian Bale (Vice), Bradley Cooper (A Star Is Born), Rami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody), Viggo Mortensen (Green Book), and John David Washington (BlacKkKlansman)
Closest Runners-Up: Ethan Hawke (First Reformed)
Should Be Nominated: Yoo Ah-in (Burning), Ben Foster (Leave No Trace), Ethan Hawke (First Reformed), Meinhard Neumann (Western), and John David Washington (BlacKkKlansman)
Supporting Actress
Every Oscar prognosticator worth their bragging rights has spent the last couple weeks conspicuously rubbing their hands together about Regina King's chances. The all-or-nothing volley that's seen her sweep the critics' awards and win the Golden Globe, and at the same time not even get nominations from within the industry—she was left off the ballot by both SAG and the BAFTAs—are narrative disruptions among a class that lives for narratives and dies of incorrect predictions. But despite the kvetching, King is as safe as anyone for a nomination in this category. It doesn't hurt that, outside the pair of lead actresses from The Favourite, almost everyone else in the running this year feels like a 7th- or 8th-place also-ran. Except maybe Widows's Elizabeth Debicki, whose fervent fans probably number just enough to land her…in 7th or 8th place. Vice's Amy Adams is set to reach the Glenn Close club with her sixth Oscar nomination, and if she'd only managed to sustain the same loopy energy she brings to Lynne Cheney's campaign-trail promise to keep her bra on, she'd deserve it. Which leaves a slot for supportive housewives Claire Foy, Nicole Kidman, and Emily Blunt. Even before the collapse of Mary Poppins Returns, we preferred Blunt's chances in A Quiet Place.
Will Be Nominated: Amy Adams (Vice), Emily Blunt (A Quiet Place), Regina King (If Beale Street Could Talk), Emma Stone (The Favourite), and Rachel Weisz (The Favourite)
Closest Runners-Up: Claire Foy (First Man), Nicole Kidman (Boy Erased), and Margot Robbie (Mary, Queen of Scots)
Should Be Nominated: Sakura Ando (Shoplifters), Zoe Kazan (The Ballad of Buster Scruggs), Regina King (If Beale Street Could Talk), Rachel McAdams (Disobedience), and Haley Lu Richardson (Support the Girls)
Supporting Actor
The same people who're curiously doubting Regina King's nomination chances seem awfully assured that Sam Elliott's moist-eyed, clearly canonical backing-the-truck-up scene in A Star Is Born assures him not only a nomination but probably the win. Elliott missed nominations with both the Golden Globes and BAFTA, and it was hard not to notice just how enthusiasm for A Star Is Born seemed to be cooling during the same period Oscar ballots were in circulation. Right around the same time, it started becoming apparent that BlacKkKlansman is a stronger draw than anyone thought, which means Adam Driver (who everyone was already predicting for a nod) won't have to suffer the representationally awkward fate of being the film's only nominee. Otherwise, the category appears to favor previously awarded actors (Mahershala Ali and Sam Rockwell) or should have been previously awarded actors (Chalamet). Leaving Michael B. Jordan to remain a should have been previously nominated actor.
Will Be Nominated: Mahershala Ali (Green Book), Timothée Chalamet (Beautiful Boy), Adam Driver (BlacKkKlansman), Richard E. Grant (Can You Ever Forgive Me?), and Sam Rockwell (Vice)
Closest Runners-Up: Sam Elliott (A Star Is Born) and Michael B. Jordan (Black Panther)
Should Be Nominated: Timothée Chalamet (Beautiful Boy), Adam Driver (BlacKkKlansman), Hugh Grant (Paddington 2); Richard E. Grant (Can You Ever Forgive Me?), and Steven Yeun (Burning)
Adapted Screenplay
Get beyond the best picture hopefuls BlacKkKlansman and If Beale Street Could Talk, which seem deservedly locked, and A Star Is Born, which is even more deservedly iffy, and you'll see the screenwriters' branch deciding just how seriously to take themselves this year, and whether they're feeling like spiritually reliving the moments that found them nominating Bridesmaids and Logan. If so, then expect Crazy Rich Asians and Black Panther to factor in here. If they most definitely don't feel frisky, then maybe the foursquare First Man has a shot at reversing its overall downward trajectory. If they're seeking that "just right" middle ground, then Can You Ever Forgive Me? and The Death of Stalin are in.
Will Be Nominated: BlacKkKlansman, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, The Death of Stalin, If Beale Street Could Talk, and A Star Is Born
Closest Runners-Up: Black Panther, Crazy Rich Asians, and First Man
Should Be Nominated: BlacKkKlansman, First Man, Leave No Trace, The Grief of Others, and We the Animals
Original Screenplay
It's not unusual for some of the year's most acclaimed movies whose strength isn't necessarily in their scripts to get nominated only in the screenwriting categories. First Reformed, which even some of its fiercest defenders admit can sometimes feel a bit like Paul Schrader's "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me" greatest-hits package, stands to be another of them. But it'll be a close call, given the number of other equally vanguard options they'll be weighing it against, like Sorry to Bother You, which arguably feels more urgently in the moment in form, Eighth Grade, which is more empathetically post-#MeToo, and even Cold War, which had a surprisingly strong showing with BAFTA. Given the quartet of assured best picture contenders in the mix, First Reformed is going to have to hold off all of them.
Will Be Nominated: The Favourite, First Reformed, Green Book, Roma, and Vice
Closest Runners-Up: Cold War, Eighth Grade, and Sorry to Bother You
Should Be Nominated: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Bodied, First Reformed, Sorry to Bother You, and Western
Review: M. Night Shyamalan's Glass Is Less Than Half Empty
M. Night Shyamalan's film is aimed at an audience from whom he cringingly craves fealty.2
What a difference nearly two decades makes. When writer-director M. Night Shyamalan released Unbreakable way back in 2000, the superhero genre was hardly the mass-cultural malady that it is today. An oddball take on caped crusaders and the like had a better chance of standing out in theaters, and Unbreakable was certainly one of the more eccentric uses of $75 million Hollywood studio dollars.
Shyamalan's tale of a Philadelphia security guard, David Dunn (Bruce Willis), who, after surviving a devastating train crash, discovers he has inhuman strength and a psychic ability to predict danger, was photographed in languorous long takes, with most dialogue spoken barely above a whisper. Unbreakable was really more of a slow-burning family relationship drama—especially between Dunn and his hero-worshipping son, Joseph (Spencer Treat Clark)—than it was a men-in-tights, or, in this case, man-in-rain-slicker action flick. But a cartoonishly clothed Samuel L. Jackson did often pop up as a brittle-boned character named Elijah Price, who pontificated about comic books as if they were a socio-cultural Rosetta Stone.
In one of his patented, P.T. Barnum-esque twist endings, Shyamalan revealed that Price fancied himself Dunn's brainiac archnemesis. "They called me Mr. Glass," he says of his childhood torturers. And so the stage was set for a future showdown, though lower box-office receipts than expected appeared to put the kibosh on that. But now here we are with the frivolous and protracted Glass, which finally pits Dunn and Glass against each other. Though there's one other person involved…or perhaps we should say multiple people in one.
That would be Kevin Wendell Crumb (James McAvoy), the dissociative identity-afflicted villain known as The Horde, who was first introduced in Shyamalan's 2016 hit, and stealth Unbreakable sequel, Split. McAvoy is once again the whole show here, with the actor receiving top billing over his co-stars. He shares several scenes with Split's damaged final girl, Casey (Anya Taylor-Joy), and he leans full-tilt into The Horde's various personalities. Among these interior others are prim British matriarch Patricia; nine-year-old dance freak/Drake fanboy Hedwig; macho sexual deviant Dennis; and a cannibalistic savage known only as The Beast, who's as close to a Big Bad as the film gets. McAvoy's energy and go-for-brokeness is infectious, and it's something Glass could use a whole lot more of.
The film's first 20 minutes or so put Dunn, now nicknamed The Overseer, and Crumb on a collision course that eventually lands them in the same mental hospital where Glass is incarcerated. The trio's physician is Dr. Ellie Staple (Sarah Paulson, seemingly rehearsing for her eventual role as Nurse Ratched in Ryan Murphy's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest prequel), an icy unbeliever, so she says, in anything superheroic. It's Staple's goal to talk her three charges into renouncing their phenomenal powers. And talk. And talk. And talk.
Much of Glass's running time is given over to therapy sessions in which Crumb cycles through his personas, Dunn looks alternately befuddled and constipated, and Glass lolls his Frederick Douglass-coiffed head to the side in drooling catatonia. (Is he faking his unresponsiveness? What do you think?) He's barely the star of his own film, though Shyamalan has said in interviews that Glass is meant to reflect the title character's fragile, erudite nature, as Unbreakable did Dunn's reluctant heroism and Split did Crumb's anything-goes psychosis.
There's a certain clinical elegance to the crisp digital cinematography by Mike Gioulakis, much in keeping with Glass's eye-catching, purple-accented wardrobe (love that monogrammed cravat!). It's telling, however, that the most striking scenes here are flashbacks to the Eduardo Serra-shot Unbreakable. This includes a terrifying deleted scene from that film in which a young Elijah Price (Johnny Hiram Jamison) rides an amusement park Tilt-A-Whirl, with bone-shattering results and to the palpable distress of his mother, played by Charlayne Woodard. She reprises her role, as Clark does Dunn's now-grown son, in Glass's present-day scenes.
A bigger issue is that the film's earnest deconstruction of comic-book mythology seems antiquated given our present glut of superhero media. It's no longer a genre to be elevated since it has become the norm. Plus, the unintentionally hilarious way that Paulson says, "Have you ever been to a comic book convention?" is one of several signposts suggesting that Shyamalan's geek cred is about, say, 20 years behind the times.
It certainly might have helped if Shyamalan were able to more humorously poke at his own pretenses. The wet-noodle climax in which all of Glass's characters have a staggeringly non-epochal confrontation in a friggin' parking lot could only have benefitted from a sense that the stars and the multi-hyphenate auteur were enjoying themselves. It's only too appropriate that Jackson's Glass sternly narrates this skeletally smack-a-doo finale as if he was a distressed academic lecturing attention-starved stoners.
Perhaps genuine fun is too much to ask from an artist who once wrote a po-faced tome about closing America's education gap (put "I Got Schooled" into Google and delight, such as it is). There's also another twist or two on the horizon, though it gives nothing away to say that the reveals amount to little more than "the real superhero…was mankind." In the end, Glass proves to be another of Shyamalan's pompous sermons about faith in oneself, aimed at an audience from whom he cringingly craves fealty.
Cast: James McAvoy, Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Sarah Paulson, Anya Taylor-Joy, Spencer Treat Clark, Charlayne Woodard Director: M. Night Shyamalan Screenwriter: M. Night Shyamalan Distributor: Universal Pictures Running Time: 129 min Rating: PG-13 Year: 2019
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"If we evaluate the NASCAR points system, you will notice that every race is equally important in the schedule and all of the races have the same point value. But if you ask a certain group of NASCAR Sprint Cup Series drivers heading to Richmond this coming weekend, they will tell you that there is no race more important on the tour than the upcoming one at Richmond International Raceway. This is the race where dreams will be made or destroyed.
"With only one race to go before the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup gets underway, Richmond is not only a vital race for all the contenders, but especially for those teams on the bubble. Every lap and every position counts. Currently, there are three Team Chevy drivers locked into the Chase, and a possibility for several more to secure spots.
"We always look forward to visiting Richmond, and have a successful history at this unique 3/4-mile D-shaped oval short track. The racing is always exciting, and especially so under the lights. The key is having an adjustable car; and the chassis set-ups are always very important.
"We were very successful the first time we came here earlier in the year. We are looking forward to repeating that performance on Saturday night and to celebrating with our Chevrolet drivers who make the field to vie for Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup championship."
"We obviously would like to have a good run at Richmond this weekend. We've been a little streaky there but we had a good test with the rest of the Hendrick teams a couple of weeks ago. But honestly, the only thing that will help us with the Chase is a win. We are obviously leading the points but all that goes away and we won't be leading once we get out of Richmond unless we win. I'm proud of the fact that we are the point's leader but you don't get anything for winning the regular season- no extra points, not even a t-shirt or a mug. Seriously, every point counts and we'd like to have this Lowe's team start the Chase as the top seed but doing that means we have to win this weekend."
KEVIN HARVICK, NO. 29 BUDWEISER CHEVROLET SS – 3rd IN STANDINGS:
"This little stretch leading up to the Chase (for the NASCAR Sprint Cup) for us is kind of a trial-and-error period as we go to different styles of race tracks and try different things. Obviously, we won the race at Richmond (International Raceway) earlier in the year on a crazy restart. We ran ok during the first half of the race and ran fairly good toward the end of the night, and one thing we have learned and try to remember about Richmond is that tires are king at that track. I'm hoping we can repeat the outcome we had there in the spring, but the big thing is making sure we can continue to learn things that will help us in the Chase."
DALE EARNHARDT, JR., NO. 88 TIME WARNER CABLE CHEVROLET SS – 7th IN STANDINGS:
"It will be good to go to Richmond with a really nice cushion on the guys behind us. We tested at Richmond so hopefully that's going to pay off for us. I'm ready to make the Chase and get to Chicago."
KURT BUSCH, NO. 78 FURNITURE ROW RACING/SEALY CHEVROLET SS – 10th IN STANDINGS:
"It's been our goal at Furniture Row Racing from the beginning of the year to make the Chase and we enter the final pre-Chase race (at Richmond) controlling our own destiny by being in 10th place. We need to get it done on our own Saturday night and not worry about what the other Chase contenders are doing. No single-car team has ever qualified for the Chase and we're in position to make history. That's pretty exciting for everyone associated with Furniture Row Racing. Regarding Richmond, it's a tough track; you can punish your tires and then suffer the last 30 laps of a fuel run. It gets into that old tire-management category and not a lot of people see that. If you play it cool for the first 15 laps you'll have better tires for the later part of the run. But then if you're playing it cool on the restart you get swallowed up and slide back and then you have to battle back through those guys with those tires. It's a tough balance. Turn four at Richmond has been the biggest struggle for me over the last few years just trying to get the drive off that corner. Turn two you drive a lot straighter so you can use both rear tires. But turn four you're using just that right rear and the left rear wants to come unhooked."
JEFF GORDON, NO. 24 DRIVE TO END HUNGER CHEVROLET SS – 11th IN STANDINGS:
"Winning is our goal this weekend – it's what we want to do every weekend. Through practice, during qualifying and during the race, we're doing everything we possibly can to win. I've said all along that I think [Chase berths] will come down to the last lap at Richmond, and we're going to battle all the way to that checkered flag to try and earn one of those spots. We missed it early (in the race) last year, but we were able to make some good changes and the car came to life. This year, I'm hoping we'll be strong from the drop of the green flag all the way to the checkered flag.
"We were much better the second day of the test, but we still have a weekend full of hard work ahead of us. We must focus on our team and getting the most out of the Drive To End Hunger Chevy SS Saturday night and see how things work out after the race ends. Hopefully, we've done enough to earn our spot in this year's title race."
KASEY KAHNE, NO. 5 FARMERS INSURANCE CHEVROLET SS – 12th IN STANDINGS:
(ON WORKING FOR TEAM OWNER RICK HENDRICK.): "I think it starts with just how Mr. Hendrick treats people. From the top, every single person there (at Hendrick Motorsports) and the management people, all the competition side, everybody that I work with treats everybody with respect, and that starts from Mr. H. You don't have that everywhere you go. He actually cares about every single person at Hendrick Motorsports. When he's not around for a week and he's doing other things, it's still run the exact same way, and that's all from him and what he puts into it and his passion he has for racing and for winning."
RYAN NEWMAN, NO. 39 QUICKEN LOANS CHEVROLET SS – 14th IN STANDINGS:
JAMIE MCMURRAY, NO. 1 CESSNA CHEVROLET SS – 16th IN STANDINGS:
"This will be a busy weekend at Richmond. I have the opportunity to drive in the NASCAR Nationwide Series for the first time this season, so Friday will be a busy day between the two garages. Hopefully the extra track time will help us on the Cessna Chevy SS in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. We have one last shot to make our way into the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Saturday night so our guys will be focused on the task at hand. Richmond has always been a fun place to race, so I look forward to having a good weekend in both cars."
PAUL MENARD, NO. 27 PITTSBURGH PAINTS/MENARDS CHEVROLET SS – 17th IN STANDINGS:
"Richmond (International Raceway) is a three-quarter mile short track that is uniquely shaped. It races like a track much bigger than that, so as a driver, I've got to approach the track differently. It is shaped like a 'D,' and there is a really big arch going into turn one, but you carry a lot of speed into turn one, you get hard on the brakes and then the groove opens up as you exit turn two and you can run where your car wants to run. You don't have to stick to the bottom of the race track; you can run the middle and three-quarters of the way up the track. Turn three is almost like a Martinsville (Speedway) turn. It has a really sharp entrance and it's not very open. On exit, it opens back up with the 'D' shape. We had a decent finish earlier this year at Richmond and we are hoping to build on that this weekend. We've had a top-10 streak going the past two weeks, and we are hoping to keep that alive on Saturday night."
JUAN PABLO MONTOYA, NO. 42 TARGET CHEVROLET SS – 19th IN STANDINGS:
"Richmond is the race that got away from us earlier this year. Our Target Chevy was strong and if it wasn't for that untimely caution, we would of gotten that win. We're looking forward to going back there and getting that win. The guys have done a great job with our cars and we've had some great results this last month. I'd love to get a win for Target and this team and there's no better place to do it than at Richmond this weekend."
JEFF BURTON, NO. 31 CATERPILLAR CHEVROLET SS – 22nd IN STANDINGS:
"Richmond International Raceway has these big, wide sweeping corners in turns three and four while turns one and two are much tighter. The track also has enough width to put on good side-by-side racing. I think it is the perfect-sized race track. I wish we had more 0.75-mile race tracks on the schedule. We always have good racing at Richmond. Over the last few years, the track hasn't developed a second groove and we're used to having two or three grooves at Richmond in the past. We don't have that anymore and it has been disappointing because the racing is so much better with multiple grooves. The racing is still great at Richmond and it is a fun place to visit too."
DANICA PATRICK, NO. 10 GODADDY CHEVROLET SS – 27th IN STANDINGS:
"I've always enjoyed coming to Richmond. I had fun racing Indy cars here. I liked driving the Nationwide car here. We didn't have the greatest result but it was still fun. Having done the Cup race in the spring and then a test last week, I feel more confident going in. As I've said, it's nice to go to these tracks a second or third time. The comfort level is obviously much higher."
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So I'm on a bit of a Retrospective blast from the past this week.
Space Hulk on Thursday and painting up a bunch of 80's Imperial Guard loft finds Saturday for next weeks "The Killing 3000".
Introducing the "Pat Sharps"
|the original Motley crew
Some (most !) of you may be too young to get the reference but they are named after this fella.
|NEVER underestimate the power of the Mullet!
The "Pat Sharps" are a group of 80's Guardsmen who have entered the Killing 3000 to fund research into a time machine as they are desperate to get back to a time when bug eyed glasses, big shoulder pads and MULLETS were cool.
First up is Sergeant Acrone
|I want your gun and your badge!
In the tradition of the 80's he is the token Black Sergeant / Police Captain.
As is in keeping he is the archetypal hard bitten, angry / stressed dude always looking to "take their guns and badges" or "Chew their arses" in the fine tradition of
Louis Gossett Jr = An officer and a gentlemen
Gilbert R. Hill = Beverly Hills Cop
Al Matthews = Aliens
Robert DoQui = Robocop
etc, etc, etc.
Next up is Breaker John Hambo
|"unintelligible grunts"
Despite always starting a battle fully dressed, he always manages to lose his sleeves and helmet within 15 minutes of the opening credits.
He is the archetypal lone wolf, lone gun, loner etc war vet who speaks in inintelligible grunts and spends ages making elaborate booby traps out of wooden spikes with his trusty serrated survival knife with compass in the handle (which does not work of you hold it next to the knife).
Next up is Sniper Danny Vondito
He provides the comic relief circa Joe Pesci ( Lethal Weapon), Danny Devito (take your pick) etc, etc, etc.
Last but not least Pat(ricia) Sharpe
|Male of Female.... you decide
Not sure if this supposed to be a male or female figure? But it does harness the power of the Mullet!
|yep thats definately a mullet!
To be honest it does not matter if it male or female, as it is fully in keeping with the "Gender bending" of the 80's i.e. David Bowie, Annie Lennox, Boy George, New York Dolls etc.
Knocked this lot out in about 3 hours and to be honest I loved every minute of it.
One of my favourate blogs is the Leadpile but have never really understood the appeal of collecting the old figures until now.
I really was transported back to being 15 again. Yes the miniatures are god awful and there was some really poor casting but the joy I experienced while painting these figures was a fantastic experience.
I do not see my self becoming a 30K or Oldhammer player but will look at my next loft finds in a new light.


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I found these advertisements, revealed to the public in August 2010, to raise awareness for breast cancer commissioned by the Breast Cancer Foundation in Singapore. Led by the creative director Thomas Yang, the illustrator Andy Yang used body paint on a model's body to show things that women are 'normally' obsessed about - representations of a derriere, bad hair, and a pimple.
Surprisingly, I found a blog stating that these ads are 'excellent' and the 'best print adverts... for some time'. The BCF general manager Christine Ang was also 'satisfied' with these ads.
The catchphrase on all three ads are "Are you obsessed about the right things?", implying that Singaporean women are usually more concerned with the size of their behinds or their weight, bad hair days, and their complexion. While there are definitely women like that, it is a big leap to say that women obsess about this to the point of neglecting their health.
It's not one or the other - being superficial does not necessarily mean being unhealthy. Although it may overlap, these ads exclude women who exercise and eat well for their health, and not primarily their looks. These ads also essentialise women as being shallow creatures only worrying about how they look, with no worries about their careers, families or causes.
These ads put the blame on women who are suffering from breast cancer - they were worrying about the wrong things and so they forgot to check on their bodies - instead of acknowledging the unpredictable nature of cancer.
Lastly, since when was it okay to display women's breasts in public in our nudity-shy Singapore? Does it make the message more catchy because the form of the body has been incorporated into the art? Would an ad for testicular cancer incorporate the naked male body too?
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I am, by almost every definition of the word, a "crunchy mama." All my children have been born at home or a birthing center, I try to use natural alternatives to medicine and feed my kids healthy whole foods, I co-sleep and babywear, etc. And I'm very pro-breastfeeding. I've even written about 8 Ways Breastfeeding Leads Me in Worship. I nursed my older two kids until they weaned themselves as toddlers. I nursed in public. I championed other moms who nurse in public. You get the idea.
But then my third baby, Evangeline, came along and nursing was hard. I was in shooting pain almost every waking moment and—sorry if this is TMI—nursing was making me bleed so much that her stools turned black from consuming my blood! That freaked me out a little bit.
I tried everything I could to fix it; she had a lip-tie correction procedure, I tried pumping and using shields, I visited a lactation consultant multiple times…I felt so frustrated. And from all this pain and stress (combined with my own selfishness and sin) I was becoming a pretty terrible mother to all three of my kids.
After four and a half months, I talked to my husband and we prayed about it and decided to switch to formula feeding. I looked at the label on the formula I bought, and the first ingredient was "corn syrup solids." How can that be considered food!? I cried so much. A couple weeks later my husband and I were watching a comedy and someone even made a joke about how formula-fed children aren't as smart as breastfed children. This also made me cry.
I've read the statistics. I knew the benefits of breastfeeding. I imagined my Evangeline scoring lower on tests than my other two; I pictured her with more allergies and health problems than the other two. I could see her cute face becoming unnaturally, unrecognizably plump from the formula. I wondered if she and I would ever bond like I did with the others. And all these problems would be because of me. Because I couldn't tough it out and do one of the most natural things in the world.
But now Evangeline is over nine months old. She's been formula fed longer than she was breastfed. And you know what?
She's a little thicker than my other two but she is not obese.
She is extremely alert and she is not dazed and unintelligent.
She's bonded more with my husband than she has with me but that's really sweet.
I found a non-GMO formula with pretty decent ingredients from Costco that lasts me two weeks and costs $15. I'm really okay with that.
And guess what?
My life is so much easier.
Sometimes I ask the other kids to feed her a bottle. Actually, at this point, she even prefers to feed herself. Either way I am confident she gets sufficient snuggles.
She sleeps through the night, which means I do too. (Because of my other children, I went over four years without sleeping through the night. You have no idea how much of a gift this is to me.)
I can go on outings without her, no problem. For our anniversary, my husband and I had our first overnight getaway since 2011.
I went to Africa for nine days, for crying out loud. I didn't think I'd be able to do a trip like that until I was, like, 40. But the day I decided to bottle-feed, I realized I could go! (And it was awesome.)
I'm not trying to get pregnant right now, but if I found out God gave me another baby, guess what! I wouldn't be stressed about it. Formula-feeding has given me so much independence that I don't feel like another baby would be "too soon."
And another huge benefit of this new experience is that I'm able to relate to a whole bunch of other moms now. When I'm speaking to a formula-feeding mom who might be suspicious that I'm being judgmental of her, she can now have confidence that I'm not judging her, and I'm not competing in the Mommy Wars, because I actually formula-feed my child and love it.
If God gives me a fourth baby, will I try to breastfeed him or her? Definitely. I don't want to ignore God's beautiful and gracious design for mothers to feed their kids this incredibly nutritious stuff that comes from our own bodies. Formula companies even openly admit that, health-wise, breastfeeding is best for infants.
But now I also know that formula-feeding is not the end of the world. I trace God's hand through my nursing troubles and see His kindness to me through all of this. My baby is perfectly fine. Motherhood is quantifiably easier. It was the right decision for our family for this time. And I totally trust other families who make that decision too.
So I hope you're encouraged, mamas or anyone, that if God gives you a perspective-broadening situation, that's a gift. And who knows? Even though you didn't ask for it, you might really enjoy it!
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CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) - A Marine is dead and five others are hospitalized after a Marine Corps helicopter crashed during a training flight at the sprawling coastal base of Camp Pendleton.
The helicopter belonging to the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing at Camp Pendleton went down around noon Wednesday in the northern section of the San Diego County base, said 1st Lt. Maureen Dooley, a spokeswoman at the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. The section is a remote mountainous area where the Marine Corps conducts takeoffs and landings.
Officials are withholding the Marine's name until family are notified.
Dooley said the five other Marines were being treated at nearby hospitals, but didn't release details about their injuries or say whether any were life-threatening.
At least three of the injured were taken to nearby Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla in San Diego, about 30 miles south of the base, hospital spokeswoman Lisa Ohmstede said. She didn't know what other hospitals took in patients from the crash.
Wednesday was sunny and hot in the county so it was unclear if weather played a role. Dooley said the cause of the crash was under investigation.
The UH-1Y helicopter, known as a Yankee Huey is a modernized variant of the decades-old UH-1 design by Bell Helicopter. Among survivability features on the UH-1Y are "crashworthy" crew seats and fuel tanks, according to a description of the aircraft on the Bell Helicopter website. The UH-1Y is described as a medium helicopter with two engines and one four-bladed main rotor.
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