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A Comprehensive Duel between Top Tablets: Google Nexus 7 vs. Apple's new iPad
Posted on July 27th, 2012 David Brooks No comments
Ever since the official release of Apple's iPad, it has been the best seller in the tablet market. For a long time, it remains to be at the top of tablet market, though a lot of other wonderful tablet devices have been continuously challenging its leading role, like Motorola XOOM, Samsung Galaxy Tab, Asus Transformer Prime, and various other Android tablets. The iPad continues to stand head above water over its rivals, especially since the release of the new iPad, which further more makes Apple iPad an undefeatable myth. Various tablet manufacturers are trying to produce a tablet that could match iPad. Amazon has had success with its budget Kindle Fire, but has limited the device to the US audience thus far. In an attempt to gain traction in the tablet market, Google has followed suit by releasing the 7 inches Google Nexus 7, one of the most powerful tablet rivals to challenge Apple iPad so far. Today, I would like to put Google Nexus 7 tablet head-to-head with Apple iPad in key features to make a comprehensive comparison. You can get the information from this duel and decide which one suits you most. The comparison will mainly focus on the following areas: design, display, processor, OS, camera, media, connectivity, storage, battery, price, etc.
Design and display: The 7" Google's Nexus 7 looks glossier than other tablets in the market. It's also very convenient for you to keep Nexus 7 into your cargo pocket but can't with the 9.7-inch iPad. As for display, no tablet could be compared with the Retina Display of New iPad, not even Nexus 7. Google offers IPS display of 1280×800 on its 7-inch Nexus tablet where as Apple offers 2048×1536 pixels IPS panel on its tablet, which means that you can watch 720P DVD movies on Nexus 7, but on the other hand you can watch full Blu-ray movie on the new iPad.
Processor: The new iPad runs on quad-core 1GHz Apple A5X processor and got 12-core GPU, while the Nexus 7 chomps down with a quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 3 CPU, which runs significantly faster and is expected to deliver a better and smoother performance.
Operating system (OS): Google's Nexus 7 runs on the latest Android operating system, the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean OS, which is claimed to offer Project Butter user interface. While the new iPad now runs on iOS 5 and in few months it will be updated to iOS 6.
Camera: The iPad's rear 5MP iSight camera might not deliver the best shots, but it's simply nice to know that the option to snap something is there – plus, it deepens its value over its rival. The Nexus 7 packs only a front-facing camera that's accessible by specific apps – with no dedicated camera app to snap photos or videos.
Multimedia: There's little difference between these two tablets in playing music, but the Nexus 7 provides cool 3D carousel sound. The audio quality is also excellent on both tablets. As to the video playback, due to the Retina Display, there's no doubt that the new iPad would become the winner.
Connectivity: Right now, the Google Nexus 7 is available in Wi-Fi form only, while the iPad is available in Wi-Fi and a variety of 3G/4G LTE options. As for other connectivity options, they both pack Bluetooth and Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, the Nexus 7 has a GPS while the iPad has it in the 4G version only.
Storage: Google's Nexus 7 comes with an internal storage of 8GB and 16GB in two versions where as New iPad's on-board storage are 16GB, 32GB and 64GB on respective versions. The new iPad obviously provides more choices.
Battery: Battery is always a concern of smartphones, tablets and other electronic devices. Both devices provide users a day long use. But due to the different display size and resolution, the new iPad would make some concession in battery use.
Price: Google has price tagged Nexus 7 at $199 (8GB) or $249 (16GB) with $25 of Play store credit and Apple seeks $499 to $699 for the Wi-Fi model and $629 to $829 for the Wi-Fi + Cellular models.
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Apple's new iPad vs. Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 – Which one will be your choice
Posted on March 21st, 2012 David Brooks No comments
In a dilemma on deciding which tablet you should get between Apple's new iPad (3rd generation) and Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1? Need some suggestions to help you make your decision? Well, it would be the right place for you to take reference here.
With the release and shipment availability of Apple's new iPad, the Apple iPad 2 has made its way for its successor. So the new iPad has replaced the iPad 2 to be one of the best choices for you to choose when you need to get a tablet. The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 LTE comes to mind as a dubious competitor since it's regarded as the best of the best from Samsung's camp. On the surface, both are very similar with their options, which is hardly a surprise, but as we've come to expect, there can only be one that will ultimately prove itself to be the sole standout hit. And today what we are going to do is to make a simple and clear comparison between Apple's new iPad and Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. But before diving in, it's worth noting that the Apple iPad 4G LTE's price starts at $629.99 for both AT&T and Verizon variants, whereas the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 LTE is a bit more at $699.99 through Verizon only. The prices of these two tablets also play a role in deciding which one you will get. Besides the price, the comparison between these two fabulous tablets includes: processor, display, memory, internet connectivity, camera, battery, etc.
Processor: The new iPad moves swimmingly in all of its functions thanks to its Apple A5x SoC processor, which breaks down to a 1.5GHz dual-core processor combined with a quad-core graphics processing unit. Despite boasting a still respectable 1GHz dual-core NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor, the Galaxy Tab 10.1 exhibits the choppiness that we tend to see prevalent amongst Honeycomb tablets in general.
Screen display: Without doubt, the winner of screen display should be the new iPad, which features a mind-bending resolution of 2048 x 1536 Retina display, which makes it even be able to play full HD Blu-ray movies on new iPad, while Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 only features a 1280 x 800 resolution screen display.
Memory: The new iPad provides three different versions upon different storage, respectively 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB, with no way of expanding it. The Galaxy Tab 10.1 offered 16GB and 32GB versions, but it can be expanded via its available microSD card slot.
Camera: The iPad's improved 5-megapixel iSight camera produces better overall results and faster snapper than that of Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. Although they both excel with macro and outdoor scenery shots, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 doesn't handle dynamic range as well as the iPad.
Internet and connectivity: Both these two top-notch tablets offer 4G LTE connectivity, which enables them to load complex web site in no time at all. But they produce different browsing experience due to the browsing speeds. The new iPad responses faster than that of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 with things like kinetic scrolling and pinch zooming. They both feature connectivity items such as aGPS, 802.11 a/b/g/n Wi-Fi, and mobile hotspot functionality, but the new iPad supports Bluetooth 4.0 connectivity while the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 only works with Bluetooth 2.1 with EDR.
Battery: Battery is also an important element in deciding a tablet performance. Both tablets provide at least one single day of power consuming at average, with the new iPad featuring 11,560 mAh battery while Galaxy Tab 10.1 including a 6,800 mAh one inside.
With the comparison, you may get in your mind which tablet you want. But remember, the better one may not well suit you, as you need to make clear what kind of tablet you need, and then you can make your own choice. Hope this post would help you.
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Apple iPad with Retina and LTE debuted – What we didn't get from the new Apple iPad
Posted on March 8th, 2012 David Brooks No comments
On the March 7th Apple event, Apple officially released its next generation of iPad, which resets the goal line again even as various competitors have made great challenges to it on the just past MWC 2012 feast to catch up iPad in the burgeoning market for tablets. The new iPad, not named as iPad HD, iPad 2S or iPad 3 as previously rumored, comes with full HD Retina Display which offers a resolution of 2048×1536 (3.1 million pixels) and quad-core A5X GPU processor which is four times as fast as the nearest competition, which together bring excellent graphic experience and effect for you to watch even HD Blu-ray movies on iPad. Meanwhile, this new iPad is also capable of operating on 4G network for both AT&T and Verizon carriers. To make their iPads more competitive, Apple priced the new iPad from $499, the same as iPad 2, and cut the price of iPad 2 by $100. If you want to know more detailed specs of the Apple new iPad, please check the new iPad (3rd generation) specs on Apple official site.
After talking about the specs of the new iPad, let's say something that the new iPad didn't bring to us, or features the new iPad doesn't include but may disappoint us a little.
A6 processor: Prior to launch, there were a lot of rumors and speculations towards what kind of chip would power the next iPad, A5 processor or brand-new A6 processor. After the iPhone 4S got a modified version of the A5 processor found in the iPad 2, many presumed the new iPad would get the A6 processor. Instead Apple released the new iPad with the A5X processor, though it's quad-core chip and Apple claimed that the A5X processor is as fast as four times as the performance of NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor.
Siri: One of the biggest updates of iPhone 4S is the new Siri, the voice-controlled iPhone virtual assistant feature. Since this software emerged on iPhone 4S, all people would expect Apple to add Siri to the next iPad. But Apple just enabled the new iPad to allow users to dictate e-mails, without any mention of Siri.
iOS 6: Ars Technica reported that it was seeing devices running iOS 6 in logs, sparking hope that Apple might release–or at least tease–iOS 6. Alas, we're only getting iOS 5.1 now. Expect more iOS news to emerge in June at Apple's World Wide Developers conference.
A 128GB version: Since the full HD graphic effects with the Retina display, the new iPad is supposed to be one of the best choices to play HD movies and HD games. Thus, more memory storage is required for convenient HD movie playback and HD games playing. A 128GB version of iPad is thus highly expected. But Apple just provides a topping choice at 64GB with no memory expansion slot.
These four features have made them big disappointments to the new iPad. Others include: the absence of a rumored iPad mini version, the same design as that of iPad 2, no lighter weight, etc. But even though these things make the new iPad somewhat disappointed, we have to admit that currently there are few tablets that could compete with the new iPad. Only the Retina display would make other competitors lag far behind.
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See what people think about Apple and the March 7th iPad 3 release event
Posted on February 15th, 2012 David Brooks No comments
The release date of Apple iPad 3 has now been confirmed to be the first week of March, more exactly iPad 3 to be released on March 7th. The new iPad 3 is said to feature quite high-end configurations, including: 9.7 inch full HD Retina screen display with 2048*1536 screen resolution for producing excellent video experience to play HD Blu-ray movies on iPad 3, 4G LTE network connection support, rumored A6 processor, larger memory storage than iPad 2, full HD games, etc. All these specs have been great concern from people worldwide, especially die-hard Apple fans. But for some people, Apple and Apple iPad might seem to be negative in their minds. They would think Apple and iPad stand evil. The ZDNet writer James Kendrick wrote a tongue-in-cheek post on ZDNet blog, namely "Don't be evil, Apple, just sit on the iPad 3", which has attracted great attention and triggered a hot discussion online towards Apple and Apple iPad. I have quoted the full post bellow to make it convenient for you to read the whole post. What do you think of Apple and the iPad 3? Let us know your opinion in the comment part.
Summary: A tongue-in-cheek look at what the iPad 3 will do to Apple's evil reputation.
Unless you've been living under a rock you know that Apple is getting the next generation iPad ready to release to the masses. There are no shortage of rumors what we might expect the iPad 3 to contain, I've added my own to the mix. One thing we know for certain about the next iPad, the launch will trigger a sales boom for Apple as these things usually do. Since Apple certainly doesn't want to be considered evil, perhaps it would be only fair to hold off on the next iPad, at least for a while.
Let's face it, the current iPad is selling like hotcakes, so a refreshed model is not required to continue Apple's dominance in the tablet space. Triggering a sales spike over already dominant sales numbers by releasing the iPad 3 would only be rubbing it into the face of competing tablet makers. Given your desire to be a good neighbor I'm sure you don't want to make all those other companies feel bad. People would end up getting fired, and you don't want that on your heads.
It's not like you need more profits, Apple, you've already got more money than most countries. Profits indicate greed, and you don't want to be known as the evil, greedy company. It's not like you don't have enough money. Heck, you've got enough to give free textbooks for every student in the U. S. if you wanted. You've recently convinced us how much you want to help the nation's kids so giving them textbooks instead of charging for them as indicated would be a very non-evil thing to do. You'd still have more money than God left over.
You can make the argument that a new iPad would really take it to the Android folks, and we know how much you hate them. That may be, but it would also derail the big Windows 8 effort at Microsoft. I know you wouldn't want to do that, given the history of Microsoft stepping in at Apple's darkest hour years ago and putting money on the line to keep you in business. That has to make Microsoft dear to you, and tanking the Windows 8 tablet effort before it even gets started would fly in the face of your close relationship.
So just sit on the new iPad, Apple, and keep the status quo. You'll continue to make more money than all the other companies combined, and have that new iPad in your pocket for whenever you need it. The competition still won't be able to give you a run for the money, and you'll have fun watching them try. Don't be evil, Apple.
Source: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/mobile-news/dont-be-evil-apple-just-sit-on-the-ipad-3/6813?tag=nl.e589
Well, what's your opinion towards Apple and Apple iPad? And how do you think of this post? Many people have added their comments to this post to show their attitude about the Apple iPad 3 event online. Remember to write your thought in the comment part.
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8 Reasons Why Windows 8 Tablets Would Beat Apple iPad 3
Windows 8 is the next generation of Microsoft's operating system for personal computers, laptops, and tablets. It upgrades with major changes, such as an integrated software store–similar in concept to Apple's Mac App Store–and support for ARM chips. Metro is the name of the new touch-centric user interface in Windows 8. Without a doubt, the purpose of Microsoft's Windows 8 operation system is to compete with Apple iPad. Just several days ago, I wrote a post namely Mac OS X Lion vs. Windows 8 Developer Preview speed comparison, which made a comparison between Mac OS X Lion and Windows 8 Developer Preview in speed testing. The result shows that the Windows 8 Developer Preview takes the lead a little. Today, I would like to share something with you to see whether Windows 8 tablet could beat the Apple iPad 3, totally 8 reasons for your reference:
1. Business users
Currently, many iPad users handle business with iPad. But Apple has no clear plan to enter large enterprises market with their iPad for business, which Microsoft on the contrast is quite familiar with. If Microsoft could make full use of this, the market share of Windows 8 tablet would be increased enormously.
2. New Office
The Microsoft Office is still the killer app in Windows operation system, especially in business market. A fatal reason for the failure of Microsoft's own brand tablets is that the Office compatibility was damaged in the versions before the Windows 8. Now, Microsoft would provide Office support for tablets with Intel and ARM processors, though it is still not clear whether Microsoft would bring out complete Metro Office.
3. Mixed type of tablets
The Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime and Leveno IdeaPad Yoga are all multifunctional, not only as a tablet, but also a notebook device, which Apple iPad could not do.
4. Metro user interface
Have to admit that the Microsoft Metro user interface is really beautiful and attractive, which may snatch users from iPad cause they would prefer Metro user interface to iOS interface.
5. SkyDrive
Through a Windows ID, users could visit SkyDrive cloud content via any devices, including PC, Xbox, tablets, etc. while Windows 8 includes SkyDrive support.
6. Run two apps simultaneously
For Windows 8 tablet users, it is a quite practical function to run two apps simultaneously on one screen.
7. Nokia tablets
The Finland Nokia has been famous for its stable hardware around the world. It was reported that some time in this summer, Nokia would bring out Windows 8 tablet, which would no doubt arouse users' interest.
8. Wider options
Apple iPad only has one option, while Windows 8 tablets are provided and supported by various big businesses, which results in wider options for optimization.
By comparing these two tablets, now you may have your decision in your mind. But these are just for your reference. And due to the specs of the upcoming iPad 3's are still not clear, there are always changes. So, stay clear if you want to get one Windows 8 tablet or an iPad 3.
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Beth is currently writing for I Love You America with Sarah Silverman on Hulu. She previously wrote for season 1 and 2 of Judd Apatow's HBO series Crashing starring Pete Holmes. Other writing credits: the feature film Good Boys coming to theaters in August 2019, season 3 of Another Period starring Natasha Leggero & Riki Lindhome on Comedy Central, Verified with David Spade and Seth Rogen's Hilarity for Charity now streaming on Netflix. Prior she'd been a consulting producer for MTV's Ridiculousness.


Recently I found out where everyone's favorite server to rarely get sold ended up.
That Nitix variation of Linux was impressive enough to IBM to acquire Nitix.
It just took a little while for it to find a good home.
Happy to say it is now the base for the IBM Virtual Desktop for Smart Business.
That's right Virtual Desktop Server it is.
This is the original Nitix, no Domino tacked on, just straight server. Run the software on any platform(IBM preferably but will run on HP too) and multiple OS formats.
So if you were a LFS BP or just sold Nitix or liked the software, as I did, this may be a good route for you.
Announcement letter from December here and IBM site for Virtual Desktop is here.
You can ask me about the VDI at anytime.
Support and licensing for Lotus Foundation servers can be found here with Gregg Eldred.
Yup, that's probably the first application. It was clear from the beginning, that part of LF will become IBM Foundation for Smart Business. Unfortunately, there is now migration path from LF.
It's a completely other animal.
My Foundations server has a new home too - in my loft.


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All of the General Medical Council's fitness to practise decision makers, case examiners and clinical experts are to receive Human Factors training, and advice on modifying investigation processes, as part of a collaboration agreed with the Patient Safety Academy - a project led by Professor Peter McCulloch and Dr Lauren Morgan at Oxford University's Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences.
Human Factors is a social science which studies and attempts to optimise the interactions of humans, technology and the environment at work. It is a standard tool of safety investigation and improvement in several industries such as civil aviation, nuclear power and military planning which seek to balance high risk and high reliability.
The GMC's Fitness to Practise directorate investigates complaints or concerns about doctors which raise a risk to patients or public confidence in the wider profession. The work paves the way for the GMC to draw on Human Factors experts when it chooses to investigate doctors, and where systems issues need to be better understood in order to do so.
In the future, the GMC is aiming to work with Responsible Officers to ensure that the same approaches are also consistently applied locally when they are dealing with concerns around doctors' conduct and performance, before those issues are referred to the GMC.
Charlie Massey, Chief Executive and Registrar of the GMC, said: 'This collaboration will make sure that Human Factors are hardwired into our investigations so that the role systems and workplaces play in events is fully and evenly evaluated in assessing context following serious failings.
'That will guarantee consistency in how we investigate after things have gone wrong and give doctors the assurance that their actions will be seen clearly against the backdrop of any system failings. 'Coupled with the responsibility Royal Colleges and faculties have to equip doctors in training with basic Human Factors training, this will help to embed a greater understanding across the health system of how environments contribute to patient safety incidents.'
We believe that patient safety will be improved by a just culture for healthcare workers, and that this collaboration represents an important advance - Professor Peter McCulloch
The Patient Safety Academy team will also work with the GMC's Employer Liaison Service in their work to help strengthen investigation at local level, so that concerns about a doctor's fitness to practise can be resolved locally wherever possible.
The Academy is funded by Health Education England and hosted within the Nuffield Department of Surgical Science at Oxford University. It carries out training, research and project support for improvement initiatives on patient safety. The Oxford University side of the project is led jointly by Professor Peter McCulloch, Co-Director of the Academy, and Dr Lauren Morgan, Chief Human Factors Scientist for the group.
Professor McCulloch said: 'Integrating Human Factors into the Fitness to Practice process will involve both staff training and modification of procedures and documentation, to ensure that the knowledge acquired is embedded into the investigative process. Our aim in this work is to ensure that context and systems issues are always fully taken into account when evaluating a doctor's performance, allowing doctors to have confidence in the fairness of GMC procedures.
'We believe that patient safety will be improved by a just culture for healthcare workers, and that this collaboration represents an important advance.'
Press release courtesy of the GMC.
GMC to train fitness-to-practice investigators to recognise 'human factors'
Pulse, 11/10/2018
Department Teaching
During 2020, the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences (NDS) Education Team launched a new one-day course, Basics for Medical Education Course (BMEC), as an introduction to teaching and education in the workplace.
Awards and appointments Teaching
The 2019 MSD Teaching Excellence Awards were celebrated in a ceremony at Merton College on Wednesday 23 October.
Professor Ashok Handa has been announced as the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement prize at the 2019 Teaching Excellence Awards.
The University of Oxford is launching the UNIQ+ Graduate Summer School this year and the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences (NDS) is delighted to be taking part.
The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd), along with the Hugh Cairns Surgical Society (HCSS), successfully organised the 4th Oxford Surgical Skills Symposium in John Radcliffe Hospital on Saturday 14 October.
Awards and appointments Teaching Women
The University of Oxford Clinical School at the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences is pleased to announce the winners of their annual teaching awards.

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Ralph J. Esposito, 85, of Meriden, passed away April 17, 2019 at his home.He was born in the Cedar Hill section of New Haven on July 7, 1933, a son of the late Salvatore and Maria (Cassidento) Esposito.Ralph attended Clinton Ave, Fair Haven and Wilbur Cross schools and thereafter was drafted and served in the United States Army. He graduated from the Connecticut School of Electronics and was employed by several companies including M. B. Electronics and Avco Lycoming in Stratford. Ralph then left the private sector and started his career with the United States Government in quality assurance. He subsequently transferred the production branch of the defense contracts office in Hartford. He retired in 1994 after 28 years of Federal service. In the warmer weather he played golf in several leagues. When the weather cooled he was an avid UCONN ladies Husky's fan and attended several final fours. Ralph felt that the United States of America had lost the respect of the world and that many politicians had stopped listening to their constituents. He wrote many letters to the media and he felt that only by the millions of people taking the same action would changes be made to state and national governments.He is survived by his nephew, Joseph; his nieces, Linda, Jean, Rebecca, Josette, and Susan; and a special friend, Stephen Maynard and his girlfriend, Laura. He was predeceased by his brothers, Joseph and Salvatore and his sisters, Theresa and Lucille.His family will receive relatives and friends at The Yalesville Funeral Home, 386 Main St in the Yalesville section of Wallingford on Saturday, April 27, 2019 from 10 am until 12 pm with a funeral service to follow at 12 pm in the funeral home. Interment will be private in All Saints Cemetery in North Haven. www.yalesvillefh.com
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Elektrabel, real name Tomas Hartl, is a part of the top of Czech electronic scene. Native Břeclav dictates many years the hardest, but the most intelligent way of electronic music for listen. To date, he played almost in all clubs and festivals in the country, even a few respectable places in the world like Tresor Berlin or Tokyo Womb. The first time he gave known about himself was through the Czech Virtual Label, which was published in 2001, his debut Untitled. Two years later he succeeded with unprecedented. His production saw Jeff Mills, who later on the sub-label of Axis Records 6277 gave Tomas the first foreign vinyl MISSION 01 – Elektrabel EP. About two years later came the further cooperation and the next release Crocks, marked the forthcoming LP For Various Reasons, released as MISSION 04 which had success with critics and the general public too. Later that year, issued the fifth Mission – Trefa, which only confirmed his strong position on the top. Followed by Edensonic, Pohjola and Antiritmo, which later added other smaller or bigger labels, where he is releasing at the present. His sound is still characterized by hard-hitting rhythms and hypnotic synthesizers loops, but recently also with dense pads and slower minimalistic beats, when one or another part of the production he plays based on the character of the event.
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The Eternal Duel è un cortometraggio muto del 1914 diretto da Bertram Bracken. Interprete del film è Henry King che sarebbe in seguito diventato uno dei più rappresentativi registi hollywoodiani.

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Produzione
Il film - un cortometraggio a una bobina - fu prodotto dalla Lubin Manufacturing Company.

Distribuzione
Distribuito dalla General Film Company, il cortometraggio venne distribuito nelle sale USA il 19 gennaio 1914.

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Voci correlate
Filmografia della Lubin Manufacturing Company

Collegamenti esterni

Cortometraggi drammatici
Cortometraggi muti statunitensi

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The Definition of the Holy and Ecumenical Synod of Ephesus Against the Impious Messalians
Who are Also Called Euchetae and Enthusiasts.
Note on the Messalians or Massalians.
(Found in Latin only. Labbe and Cossart, Concilia, Tom. III., col. 809.)
When the most pious and religious bishops, Valerian and Amphilochius had come to us, they proposed that we should consider in common the case of the Messalians, that is the Euchetes or Enthusiasts, who were flourishing in Pamphylia, or by what other name this most contaminating heresy is called. And when we were considering the question, the most pious and religious bishop Valerian, presented to us a synodical schedule which had been drawn up concerning them in the great city of Constantinople, under Sisinnius of blessed memory: What we read therein was ap-proved by all, as well composed and as a due presentation of the case. And it seemed good to us all, and to the most pious bishops Valerian and Amphilochius and to all the most pious bishops of the provinces of Pamphylia and Lycaonia, that all things contained in that Synodical chart should be confirmed and in no way rescinded; also that the action taken at Alexandria might also be made firm, so that all, those who throughout the whole province are of the Messalian or Enthusiastic heresy, or suspected of being tainted with that heresy, whether clerics or laymen, may come together; and if they shall anathematize in writing, according to the decrees pronounced in the aforesaid synod [their errors], if they are clergymen they may remain such; and if laymen they may be admitted to communion. But if they refuse to anathematize, if they were presbyters or deacons or in any other ecclesiastical grade, let them be cast out of the clergy and from their grade, and also from communion; if they be lay-men let them be anathematized.
Furthermore those convicted of this heresy are no more to be permitted to have the rule of our monasteries, lest tares be sown and increase. And we give command that the most pious bishops Valerian and Amphilochius, and the rest of the most reverend bishops of the whole province shall pay attention that this decree be carried into effect. In addition to this it seemed good that the filthy book of this heresy, which is called the "Asceticon," should be anathematized, as composed by heretics, a copy of which the most religious and pious Valerian brought with him. Likewise anything savouring of their impiety which may be found among the people, let it be anathema.
Moreover when they come together, let there be commended by them in writing such things as are useful and necessary for concord, and communion, and arrangement (dispositionem vel dispensationem). But should any question arise in connexion with the present business, and if it should prove to be difficult and ambiguous, what is not approved by the most pious bishops Valerian and Amphilochius, and the other bishops throughout the province, they ought to discuss all things by reference to what is written. And if the most pious bishops of the Lycians or of the Lycaonians shall have been passed over; nevertheless let not a Metropolitan be left out of whatever province he may be. And let these things be inserted in the Acts so that if any have need of them they would find how also to expound these things morediligently to others.
(Tillemont, Memoires, Tom. VIII., Seconde Partie. Condensed.)
St. Epiphanius distinguishes two sorts of persons who were called by the name of Messalians, the one and the more ancient were heathen, the other were Christian in name.
The Messalians who bore the Christian name had no beginning, nor end, nor chief, nor fixed faith. Their first writers were Dadoes, Sabas, Adelphus, Hermes, Simeon and some others. Adelphus was neither monk nor clerk, but a layman. Sabas had taken the habit of an anchorite and was surnamed "the Eunuch," because he had mutilated himself. Adelphus was of Mesopotamia and was considered their leader, so that they are sometimes called "Adelphians." They are also called "Eustathians." "Euchites" is the Greek equivalent of "Messalians" in Hebrew. They were also called "Enthusiasts" or "Corentes" because of the agitation the devils caused them, which they attributed to the Holy Spirit.
St. Epiphanius thought that these heretics sprang up in the time of Constance, although Theodoret does not put them down until the days of Valentinian. They came from Mesopotamia, but spread as far as Antioch by the year 376.
They pretended to renounce the world, and to give up their possessions, and under the habit of monks they taught Manichaean impieties, and others still more detestable.
Their principal tenet was that everyone inherited from his ancestors a demon, who had possession of his soul from the moment of his birth, and always led it to evil. That baptism cut away the outside branches of sin, but could not free the soul of this demon, and that therefore its reception was useless. That only constant prayer could drive out this demon. That when it was expelled, the Holy Spirit descended and gave visible and sensible marks of his presence, and delivered the body from all the uprisings of passion, and the soul from the inclination to evil, so that afterwards there was no need of fasting, nor of controlling lust by the precepts of the Gospel.
Besides this chief dogma, gross errors, contrary to the first principles of religion, were attributed to them. That the divinity changed itself in different manners to unite itself to their souls. They held that the body of Christ was infinite like his divine nature; they did not hesitate to say that his body was at first full of devils which were driven out when the Word took it upon him.1 They claimed that they possessed clear knowledge of the state of souls after death, read the hearts and desires of man, the secrets of the future and saw the Holy Trinity with their bodily eyes. They affirmed that man could not only attain perfection but equal the deity in virtue and knowledge.
They never fasted, slept men and women together, in warm weather in the open streets. But certain say that before attaining to this liberty of license three years of mortification were required,
The most well-known point of their discipline is that they forbade all manual labour as evil, and unworthy of the spiritual.
Harmenopulus in his Basilicoe (Tom. I. Lib. ix.) says that they held the Cross in horror, that they refused to honour the Holy Virgin, or St. John the Baptist, or any of the Saints unless they were Martyrs; that they mutilated themselves at will, that they dissolved marriages, that they foreswore and perjured themselves without scruple, that women were appointed as mistresses of the sect to instruct and govern men, even priests.
Although so opposed to the faith of the Church, yet for all this the Messalians did not separate themselves from her communion. They did not believe in the Communion as a mystery which sanctifies us, which must be approached with fear and faith, but only came to the holy Table to hide themselves and to pass for Catholics, for this was one of their artifices. When asked, they had no hesitation in denying all that they believed, and were willing to anathematize those who thought with them. And all this they did without fear, because they were taught they had attained perfection, that is impassibility.Vide Theodoret, H. E., Lib. iv., cap. xi.Photius tells us that John of Antioch wrote against these heretics.
St. Maximus the Abbot speaks of this heresy as still existing in the VIIth Century, and as practising the most abominable infamies. Photius bears witness of its resuscitation in his days in Cappadocia with its wonted corruptions. Harmenopulus remarks that a certain Eleutherius of Paphlagonia had added to it new crimes, and that in part it became the source of the sect of the Bogomiles, so well known in the decadence of the Greek empire.


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Hey Hell Streamers! We sent an exclusive invite for our pre-alpha to our supporters last week and we were met with an overwhelmingly positive response. I would like to thank everyone for responding to the invite - it was more than we ever hoped for. We would like to tell everyone the instructions for alpha access and also the Alpha test rewards!
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Get ready to Play and Stream - We would love to see your initial responses to the game.
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Sarah Engels, a student at the University of New England in Maine, was recently awarded the coveted National Health Service Corps (NHSC) scholarship.
The scholarship will cover her tuition cost for Dental School, as well as a portion of her housing costs.
"I do not have the exact number but it is very significant," said Engels. "It will drastically reduce the amount of loans I will have to take out."
NHSC Scholarship Program provides 222 new and seven continuation awards to students across the country pursuing primary care training leading to a degree in medicine, dentistry, or a degree as a physician assistant or nurse practitioner in exchange for providing primary health care services in areas of greatest need.
The scholarship requires that the recipient to work in an underserved area for at least four years as a dentist upon completion of school. Engels is in her first year of a four-year program in which she will receive her Doctorate for Dentistry
Engels, the daughter of John and Amanda Engels of Ivanhoe, had to write several essays to show her passion for working in these underserved areas, along with submitting a few recommendations, letters, and her involvement and transcript from her college.
"There are certain areas, especially in rural areas, that are considered underserved," Engels explained. "It's usually areas where there is not a big city near by or people are spread out a lot in a country and there is not a dentist in the area."
"This makes it really hard for people who don't have cars or do not make much money to access dental care. It also makes it hard for people to prioritize dental health when going to the dentist is such a hassle."
Engels attended Southwest Minnesota State University in Marshall for two years and then South Dakota State University in Brookings for two years. She graduated from SDSU with a Biochemistry degree. By working in an undeserved area, I will be able to provide dental health to people who really need it."
Her Biochemstry degree from SDSU will be utilized in here dentistry work.
"Dentistry and biochemistry are closely related, as you learn a lot of biology that you apply to your work in the field, as well as understanding the process on a molecular level through the chemistry," she noted.
Engels was notified that she was awarded the scholarship in mid-September.
"I received an email from the National Health Service Corps, and I was super excited," she said. "One of my goals has always been to work in areas that really need help, and this gives me a direct pathway to that, as well as taking some of the burdens of the loans off."


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The official recall campaign against California Governor Gavin Newsom has now gathered more than 1.95 millionsignatures
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The official recall campaign against California Governor Gavin Newsom has now gathered more than 1.95 million signatures. Organizers have until March 17 to gather signatures. A total of 1, 497, 709 valid signatures must be collected and verified to trigger the recall election. Election officials have until April 29 to verify them. The announcement was made during an online meeting with campaign leaders who are, among other things, dissatisfied with the governors handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The most recent signature verification numbers from the Secretary of State's Office found that about 83% of the signatures counted by early February were valid. There's no guarantee that validity rate will hold for the remaining signatures, but if it does, proponents would reach the threshold needed to trigger a special recall election.
"That is more than enough to be able to have this initiative qualify for a special election later this year to let the people finally decide who and what is going to happen with the fate and the future of California Gavin Newsom," organizers said at the conference.
"We are still setting our sites on getting an additional number of signatures in order to bridge that 2 million mark and we're excited and hopeful that we're going to have that in the time we have left," they continued.
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14-18, the musical is a Flemish musical about the First World War with the music of Dirk Brossé. The original production by Gert Verhulst and Hans Bourlon opened in April 2014 at the Nekkerhal in Mechelen, directed by Frank Van Laecke and produced by Studio 100. The show closed on November 11, 2014, after being seen by more than 320,000 visitors.

The show is about a group of Flemish friends at the outbreak of World War I, as the war drags on longer than anyone expected.

History

Development
On June 24, 2011, Studio 100 announced that the creative team of Daens was brought together to create a new spectacle about the First World War. On October 30, 2013 Studio 100 announced that there would be English language shows with an alternate cast. On April 15, 2014, it was announced that 117,000 tickets were sold. On June 12, 2014, Studio 100 announced that more than 200,000 tickets were sold.

Platform
The musical played in the Nekkerhal in Mechelen. In this gigantic hall, it was possible to build a mobile platform so the audience could ride for 150 meters on a set that had a surface area of 2 football fields. The platform weighed 135 tons (excluding the audience), rode over 350 wheels, and was 55 meters long and 22 meters wide.

Scenery
There were 11 gigantic setpieces (including 6 houses and a large tree) that moved using laser-guided technology. The cast consisted of 9 main actors, 23 ensemble members, 45 extras, 16 children and 6 horse riders.

Story
In 1914, Germany wants to attack France via Belgium. Belgium refuses and becomes involved in World War I. Jan, Kamiel, Albert and Fons are friends who have to fight to defend their country. But all of them want to be somewhere else: Jan wants to go home to his wife, who is pregnant with his son, Kamiel hates violence and does everything to escape it, Albert wants to return to his sweethearts.

Cast
 Jan: Jelle Cleymans
 Albert: Bert Verbeke
 Fons: Jonas Van Geel
 Kamiel: Lander Depoortere
 Céline: Maaike Cafmeyer
 Anna: Free Souffriau
 General: Jo de Meyere
 Sergeant Dedecker:
 Deprez: Louis Talpe

The role of the general was alternated from September 5, 2014 between Jo De Meyere and Mike Verdrengh. On September 17, 2014, Maaike Cafmeyer was replaced by Marie Vinck. On October 1, Bert Verbeke, who took on the role of Albert, was replaced by James Cooke.

English cast
 Jan: Rob Eyles
 Albert: Bert Verbeke (BE)
 Fons: Danny Whitehead
 Kamiel: Jonathan Broderick
 Celine: Sarah Dungworth
 Anna: Kayleigh McKnight
 General: Dirk Bosschaert (BE)
 Sergeant Dedecker: Luke Hope
 Deprez: Lawrence Sheldon
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A killer returns to his childhood home to plot his escape from the law.
Sylvia Sidney
Drina [Gordon]
Dave [Connell]
"Baby Face" Martin
Wendy Barrie
Francey
Dead End (1937) -- (Movie Clip) The Mark Of The Squealer
Dead End (1937) -- (Movie Clip) Don't Call Me Ma!
Dead End (1937) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Frightened Of Being Poor
Dead End (1937) -- (Movie Clip) I Can Do My Own Fighting
Dead End (1937) -- (Movie Clip) Why Didn't You Starve First?
New York opening: 24 Aug 1937
Samuel Goldwyn, Inc.
United Artists Corp.
Based on the play Dead End by Sidney Kingsley, as produced for the stage by Norman Bel Geddes (New York, 28 Oct 1936).
Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
Theatrical Aspect Ratio
10 reels
The East Side tenements of New York have gradually given way to exclusive dwellings of the rich, with the result that many of the poor live next to opulent apartments they can never afford. "Baby Face" Martin, a notorious killer, returns to one such dead end street, his home as a boy, hoping to see his mother, and Francey, an old girl friend. Dave Connell, an unemployed architect, also lives on the street, but dreams that one day he and Kay, the girl friend of a wealthy man, can have a better life. His friend Drina Gordon, who has loved Dave for years, struggles through a strike, hoping to earn enough money to keep her kid brother Tommy from turning into a criminal along with his friends on the street. Martin finds his mother and Francey, but becomes despondent when his mother slaps and rejects him and he learns that Francey is a prostitute. Martin yearns to stay in one place, but, despite plastic surgery on his face, his finger prints cannot be changed and he is trapped by his past crimes. That same afternoon, the street kids beat up Philip, the son of one of the wealthy apartment owners, and take his watch. Although Tommy gives the watch back, the boy's father, Mr. Griswold, the brother of a famous judge, wants to press charges when Tommy wounds him slightly with a knife. Tommy wants to run away, but Drina begs to go with him. When Spit, the leader of Tommy's gang, informs, Tommy hides while Drina talks to the police. Meanwhile, Martin is killed by Dave, who stops Martin's plan to kidnap Philip. Because Dave will now earn a large reward, he thinks that he and Kay can start a new life, but lets her go when he realizes that she is only interested in a year of high living with him. He and Drina convince Tommy to give himself up and, although Mr. Griswold refuses to drop charges, Dave offers to use his reward money to hire a good lawyer to keep the boy out of reform school. As the inhabitants of the street go back to their respective homes, Dave and Drina walk together with Tommy to the police station.
Mrs. Martin
Billy Halop
Tommy [Gordon]
Huntz Hall
Bobby Jordan
Leo B. Gorcey
Gabriel Dell
T. B.
Bernard Punsly
Charles Peck
Philip [Griswold]
Minor Watson
Mr. Griswold
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[Officer] Mulligan
Elisabeth Risdon
Mrs. Connell
Esther Dale
Mrs. Fenner
George Humbert
Pascagli
Marcelle Corday
Alan Bridge
Robert Homans
Thomas Jackson
Donald Barry
Charles Halton
Esther Howard
James Basevi
Eddie Bernoudy
Richard Day
Paul Eagler
Process Photography
Julia Heron
Set Decoration
Merritt Hulburd
Omar Kiam
Jock Lawrence
Press rep
Frank Maher
Daniel Mandell
Gregg Toland
Dead End (1937) -- (Movie Clip) Don't Call Me Ma! Lillian Hellman's screenplay from Sidney Kingsley's play, pouring on powerful scenes, as hunted gangster "Baby Face," who's had his face surgically altered and come home to his old neighborhood, finally finds his mother (Marjorie Main), not happy to see him, in William Wyler's Dead End, 1937.
Dead End (1937) -- (Movie Clip) Why Didn't You Starve First? Most of the performance of Claire Trevor, as Francey, girlfriend from the old neighborhood, finally found by "Baby Face," (Humphrey Bogart), the most-wanted gangster, who's had his face changed and come home, William Wyler directing from Sidney Kingsley's play, in the Samuel Goldwyn production Dead End, 1937.
Dead End (1937) -- (Movie Clip) The Mark Of The Squealer The gang (Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan, Huntz Hall, Leo Gorcey, Gabriel Dell) showing off for Baby Face (Humphrey Bogart), would-be architect Dave (Joel McCrea) panics as well-to-do Kay (Wendy Barrie) tries to visit, with director William Wyler's famous cockroach shot, in Dead End, 1937.
Dead End (1937) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Frightened Of Being Poor With "Dead End" kids (Billy Halop, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan) and gangster Baby Face (Humphrey Bogart) nearby, aspiring architect Dave (Joel McCrea) visits with his more affluent otherwise-committed girlfriend Kay (Wendy Barrie), in Samuel Goldwyn's urban drama Dead End, 1937.
Dead End (1937) -- (Movie Clip) I Can Do My Own Fighting Tommy (Billy Halop) leads future "Bowery Boys" (Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, Gabriel Dell) recruiting Milton (Bernard Punsly), until his sister Drina (Sylvia Sidney) intervenes, gangster Baby Face (Humphrey Bogart) and her under-employed architect pal Dave (Joel McCrea) observing, early in Dead End, 1937.
Dead End (1937) -- (Movie Clip) Every Street In New York Opening from producer Samuel Goldwyn, director William Wyler and Lillian Hellman's screenplay from Sidney Kingsley's play, the socially conscious Dead End, 1937, and the first screen appearance by Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan and Gabriel Dell, who would become "Dead End Kids" and "Bowery Boys."
Dead End - (Original Trailer) A killer (Humphrey Bogart) returns to the mean streets that made him in William Wyler's Dead End (1937) co-starring Sylvia Sidney and Joel McCrea.
Best Art Direction
A harsh, pessimistic portrait of life in a big city ghetto, the film version of the acclaimed Broadway play Dead End (1937) remains one of the more relevant social dramas to emerge from Hollywood in the late thirties. Not only was it prescient in its observation that poverty breeds crime but it also spawned a series of films about juvenile delinquents and slum life like Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) and Juvenile Court (1938). And, of course, it intruced to moviegoers The Dead End Kids, who took their name from the original play's title. Contrary to stories by the studio publicists, The Kids were not discovered on the streets. The six member gang - Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Leo Gorcey, Gabe Dell, Bernard Punsly and Bobby Jordan - were professional actors and had already appeared in the Pulitzer Prize winning play upon which the movie was based. So when Samuel Goldwyn decided to turn Sidney Kingsley's stage hit into a movie, with a screenplay by Lillian Hellman, the boys packed up and headed West to recreate their roles. Director William Wyler wanted to shoot it on location in the New York slums. But Goldwyn convinced him that award winning Art Director Richard Day could just as easily build the tenements on a soundstage - and do it more cheaply.
Kingsley wrote Dead End when he was only 29 years of age. It's a classic New York story, capturing the city's social dichotomy where poverty lives under the shadow of wealth and power; an environment where the distance separating the social stratum spans wider than the Brooklyn Bridge, but is separated by only one block. The Dead End Kids are pructs of this urban ghetto and, though only supporting characters in the movie, are clearly representative of the next generation of inner city slum dwellers who remain trapped in an endless cycle of poverty and crime.
The main storyline of Dead End concerns Drina (Sylvia Sydney), a young woman walking the picket line at work and trying to keep brother Tommy (Billy Halop, the only Dead End Kid with a prominent role in the film) out of trouble. She's also in love with Dave (Joel McCrea), an idealistic but unemployed boy from the neighborhood, who has set his sights on a penthouse view complete with a sexy mistress (Wendy Barrie). The real trouble begins when gangster Baby Face Martin (Humphrey Bogart) returns home to visit his mom (Marjorie Main) who wants nothing to do with him. Martin is a bad influence on Dave and has already ruined the life of his ex-girlfriend Francie (Claire Trevor), who is now a prostitute and slowly dying from consumption.
Bogart had originated the Baby Face Martin role on stage. His silk shirt wearing ho-from-the-streets-who-made-go is in stark contrast to McCrea's can't-get-a-break straight shooter. Martin and Dave are the older generation of Dead End Kids, both representing possible outcomes for the youngsters. Bogart would go on to play in two more Dead End Kids movies: Crime School (1938) and Angels With Dirty Faces. There would be seven films in the Warner Bros.' Dead End series total; all featuring big stars like James Cagney and Ronald Reagan with the Kids taking secondary billing.
After Warner was finished with them, the Dead End Kids took up residence at "Poverty Row" studio Monogram as the East Side Kids. Here they made 21 more movies. At the same time, four of the boys (Halop, Hall, Dell and Punsly) ventured over to Universal for 12 Little Tough Guy movies. Finally, it all culminated in what were probably the boys' best features since the original Warner pictures - The Bowery Boys series; 48 movies in all, with Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hall taking over gang command from the departing Billy Halop. By the end of the series, Gorcey and Hall's slapstick comedy shtick had become the focus of their movies, which had little in common with the gritty social realism of their debut feature, Dead End.
Still, even after 80 movies, the Kids were still right there on the East Side of New York. And Dead End, nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Picture, Supporting Actress (Claire Trevor), Art Direction and Cinematography (Gregg Toland), would be remembered as the one that started it all.
Prucer: Samuel Goldwyn
Director: William Wyler
Screenplay: Lillian Hellman; based on the play by Sidney Kingsley
Art Direction: Richard Day
Cinematography: Gregg Toland
Editing: Dan Mandell
Music: Alfred Newman
Cast: Sylvia Sidney (Drina), Joel McCrea (Dave Connell), Humphrey Bogart (Baby Face Martin), Wendy Barrie (Kay), Claire Trevor (Francie), Allen Jenkins (Hunk), Marjorie Main (Mrs. Martin), Billy Halop (Tommy Gordon), Huntz Hall (Dippy 'Dip'), Bobby Jordan (Angel), Leo Gorcey (Spit), Minor Watson (Mr. Griswald).
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A harsh, pessimistic portrait of life in a big city ghetto, the film version of the acclaimed Broadway play Dead End (1937) remains one of the more relevant social dramas to emerge from Hollywood in the late thirties. Not only was it prescient in its observation that poverty breeds crime but it also spawned a series of films about juvenile delinquents and slum life like Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) and Juvenile Court (1938). And, of course, it intruced to moviegoers The Dead End Kids, who took their name from the original play's title. Contrary to stories by the studio publicists, The Kids were not discovered on the streets. The six member gang - Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Leo Gorcey, Gabe Dell, Bernard Punsly and Bobby Jordan - were professional actors and had already appeared in the Pulitzer Prize winning play upon which the movie was based. So when Samuel Goldwyn decided to turn Sidney Kingsley's stage hit into a movie, with a screenplay by Lillian Hellman, the boys packed up and headed West to recreate their roles. Director William Wyler wanted to shoot it on location in the New York slums. But Goldwyn convinced him that award winning Art Director Richard Day could just as easily build the tenements on a soundstage - and do it more cheaply. Kingsley wrote Dead End when he was only 29 years of age. It's a classic New York story, capturing the city's social dichotomy where poverty lives under the shadow of wealth and power; an environment where the distance separating the social stratum spans wider than the Brooklyn Bridge, but is separated by only one block. The Dead End Kids are pructs of this urban ghetto and, though only supporting characters in the movie, are clearly representative of the next generation of inner city slum dwellers who remain trapped in an endless cycle of poverty and crime. The main storyline of Dead End concerns Drina (Sylvia Sydney), a young woman walking the picket line at work and trying to keep brother Tommy (Billy Halop, the only Dead End Kid with a prominent role in the film) out of trouble. She's also in love with Dave (Joel McCrea), an idealistic but unemployed boy from the neighborhood, who has set his sights on a penthouse view complete with a sexy mistress (Wendy Barrie). The real trouble begins when gangster Baby Face Martin (Humphrey Bogart) returns home to visit his mom (Marjorie Main) who wants nothing to do with him. Martin is a bad influence on Dave and has already ruined the life of his ex-girlfriend Francie (Claire Trevor), who is now a prostitute and slowly dying from consumption. Bogart had originated the Baby Face Martin role on stage. His silk shirt wearing ho-from-the-streets-who-made-go is in stark contrast to McCrea's can't-get-a-break straight shooter. Martin and Dave are the older generation of Dead End Kids, both representing possible outcomes for the youngsters. Bogart would go on to play in two more Dead End Kids movies: Crime School (1938) and Angels With Dirty Faces. There would be seven films in the Warner Bros.' Dead End series total; all featuring big stars like James Cagney and Ronald Reagan with the Kids taking secondary billing. After Warner was finished with them, the Dead End Kids took up residence at "Poverty Row" studio Monogram as the East Side Kids. Here they made 21 more movies. At the same time, four of the boys (Halop, Hall, Dell and Punsly) ventured over to Universal for 12 Little Tough Guy movies. Finally, it all culminated in what were probably the boys' best features since the original Warner pictures - The Bowery Boys series; 48 movies in all, with Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hall taking over gang command from the departing Billy Halop. By the end of the series, Gorcey and Hall's slapstick comedy shtick had become the focus of their movies, which had little in common with the gritty social realism of their debut feature, Dead End. Still, even after 80 movies, the Kids were still right there on the East Side of New York. And Dead End, nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Picture, Supporting Actress (Claire Trevor), Art Direction and Cinematography (Gregg Toland), would be remembered as the one that started it all. Prucer: Samuel Goldwyn Director: William Wyler Screenplay: Lillian Hellman; based on the play by Sidney Kingsley Art Direction: Richard Day Cinematography: Gregg Toland Editing: Dan Mandell Music: Alfred Newman Cast: Sylvia Sidney (Drina), Joel McCrea (Dave Connell), Humphrey Bogart (Baby Face Martin), Wendy Barrie (Kay), Claire Trevor (Francie), Allen Jenkins (Hunk), Marjorie Main (Mrs. Martin), Billy Halop (Tommy Gordon), Huntz Hall (Dippy 'Dip'), Bobby Jordan (Angel), Leo Gorcey (Spit), Minor Watson (Mr. Griswald).BW-92m. Closed captioning. by Stephanie Thames
Maybe I'm wrong. We all make mistakes, boss. That's why they put the rubber on the ends of pencils.
- Hunk
This was the first appearance of the Dead End Kids who later evolved into the East Side Kids and later the Bowery Boys.
In order to get past the censors, all references to Francey's "profession" were veiled (although it was mentioned in the original play on which the film was based), even the fact that she was suffering from the late stages of syphilis, which was never mentioned by name.
The play opened in New York City, New York, USA on 28 October 1935 and closed 12 June 1937 after 687 performances. Those originating their movie performances in the play were Gabriel Dell, Huntz Hall, Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan, Marjorie Main and Bernard Punsly. Also in the cast were Leo Gorcey and David Gorcey (playing "Second Avenue Boys"), Joe Downing (Babyface Martin), Dan Duryea, Martin Gabel and Sidney Lumet.
According to the program for the film's premiere, Samuel Goldwyn dedicated the production "to the children of today, that they May be better citizens of tomorrow." According to the program and a Life magazine article on the film, Goldwyn paid $165,000 for the rights to Sidney Kingsley's play, which ran eighty-five weeks on Broadway. The review of the play in Hollywood Reporter noted that the play had the potential to make a great film. According to information in the file on the film in the MPAA/PCA Collection at the AMPAS Library, Twentieth Century-Fox and RKO both considered turning the play into a film before Goldwyn purchased the rights. According to memos in the file, Joseph I. Breen, director of studio relations, raised some objections to elements of the first script submitted to the office. Breen requested that the line "All cats look alike in the dark" be deleted, as well as two sentences that were to trail off, "son of a-" and "go to-."
Additional suggestions offered to Goldwyn included: the word "bum" should not be used in British prints for the film as that word was British slang for the posterior; no "bronx cheer" should be used; the character "Spit" should not be shown actually expectorating; there should be no scenes of characters stepping on cockroaches; and, "old cans and spilled garbage" might cause offense. Some aspects of the original play were altered before the screenplay was submitted to the Hays Office. In the play, for example, the character Francey has syphillis, however, in the film she says that she is "sick" but her hacking cough indicates tuberculosis. The character Dave Connell, played by Joel McCrea in the film, was a crippled artist named Gimpty in the play. Several of the actors from the Broadway production recreated their roles for the film, among them Marjorie Main, Billy Hallop, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, and Bernard Punsly. Leo B. Gorcey also was in the Broadway play, but did not play "Spit." In the play, Gorcey and his brother David played characters known as "Second Avenue Boys." A number of other actors who appeared in the Broadway version of the play later became well known on stage and in films. Among them were directors Martin Gable and Sidney Lumet, and actor Dan Duryea.
Sylvia Sidney was borrowed from Walter Wanger and Humphrey Bogart was borrowed from Warner Bros. for their roles. The picture was nominated for four Academy Awards, one each for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress (Claire Trevor), Best Cinematography, and Best Art Direction. It was also named one of the Ten Best pictures of the year by Film Daily Year Book. A thirty minute broadcast based on the film was adapted for the Hollywood Hotel radio program on August 20, 1937 and featured McCrea and Bogart from the film's cast. According to modern sources, Goldwyn had initially wanted to film the picture on location in New York but later decided to recreate the New York streets in the studio in Hollywood. Later, he reportedly complained to director William Wyler that the sets were too realistic and appeared too dirty. Modern sources credit Dead End as a positive turning point in Bogart's career and list him as the "star" rather than Sidney or McCrea. The "Dead End Kids" as the young tough boys came to be known, appeared in many films together during the 1930s and 1940s, variously known as "The East Side Kids," "The Bowery Boys" or "The Little Tough Guys." For additional information on their films, consult the Series Index and entry above for Crime School.
New York City's Lincoln Center hosted a special fiftieth anniversary showing of Dead End on February 2, 1987. Although flu prevented Sidney, McCrea and Trevor from attending at the last minute, Dell and Hall attended, as did playwright Kinsgley and Sidney Lumet. Modern sources list the following additional cast members: G. Pat Collins (Detective), Walter Soderling (Coroner), Wade Boteler, Bill Pagwell, Jerry Cooper, Kate Ann Lujan, Gertrude Valerie, Tom Ricketts, Charlotte Treadway, Bud Geary, Sid Kubrick, Frank Shields, Maud Lambert, Lucille Browne, Earl Askam, Mona Monet, and Gilbert Clayton.
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By Les Enekes
Now we come to SUV's or as I refer to them, Silly Urban Vehicles. I have yet to figure out what is sporty about these things. A sports car is a small two seat convertible with sleek lines and great performance, preferably in British Racing Green. Right hand drive optional. The truck that the hydro people use to service the power lines is a utility vehicle. No matter how hard I try, I fail to see how you can combine these two and get "sport utility vehicle." Where are the sleek lines? How do you put the top down? Where is the boom arm? Ok, they have four wheels an engine, and seats. I guess I have to admit they are vehicles. There is absolutely nothing sporting or sporty about these things, unless you consider the "mudders" (see my column on pickup trucks). Nor do they server any useful purpose unlike real working pick up trucks. Sport Utility Vehicles may very well be the mother of all oxymorons.
These things appear to resemble the off road exploration vehicles of the 1950s. One well known former British brand comes to mind. You know, rugged, well built vehicles you could drive anywhere, through anything in any weather. Another one would be the civilianized version of the United States Army General Purpose Vehicle used in World War II. Comfort was not an issue, getting you there was. The descendants of these vehicles have lost most of their original purpose over the years.
It would seem a large percentage of owners think that because they have a four wheel drive vehicle they are invincible and can drive through several centimetres of snow as if they were on a dry summer road. For many of these drivers, off road driving means passing on the paved shoulder. I wonder what percentage of these drivers have ever been off a paved road? Most of these alleged vehicles would be road kill on the back roads of Costa Rica (I have been there, and trust me the term road is wishful thinking in many places, and the back roads), the Australian outback or the middle of some out of the way desert. They certainly don't have the storage capacity or the ease of loading of a van or mini van where the side doors slide open and don't ding the car in the next parking space. Comfort is still not an issue. I have sat in the back seats of some sub compact cars with more comfort and are easier to get in and out of. They range in size from the fourth attempt at a really awful vehicle, to one almost as big as the territory in the arctic it is named after. It's a race to see which is the ugliest. No matter how much they dress these things up, no matter what fancy name they come up with, these things are nothing more than trucks.
The only reason I can think why they are used in law enforcement and politician protection is that are just trucks, and they can put large engines in these things and add lots of armour plating. Yes, some of these things can look rather intimidating.
Ever notice the number of people in TV shows and movies driving silly urban vehicles? Once again the marketing types are trying to convince us that it is cool (there is absolutely nothing cool or sexy about any of these things) to drive strange useless vehicles, I mean silly urban vehicles. The almighty product placement at work. Yes, the manufacturers pay a lot of money to have their brand of vehicle on the screen. I really don't blame the producers, they do have to pay for unneeded digital effects and untalented insipid script writers without an original thought. They will take any money they can get. It's marketing thing, and we don't understand. Remember what I said about URVs (Urban Redneck Vehicles, aka pickup trucks) and product placement a few weeks ago?
Both URVs and silly urban vehicles are nothing more than vision blocking, road destroying, gas guzzling ego vehicles. As with URVs, the bigger they are the more the owners are compensating for something. The drivers all think they own the road. What they lack in brains they make up for in arrogance. They should be banished to far end of parking lots, with no yellow pavement markings because they don't know what they mean and not be allowed near cars. Ever end up between a couple of these things in a parking lot? It's like being in a canyon. These things cause more wear and tear to our roads than the average car and use a lot more gas. Again, the environment is the last thing on the minds of the owners.
What exactly is a Crossover? I guess it could mean that it has crossed over the boundary of good taste. How did they ever come up with a term like that? It makes as much sense as sport utility. For the most part they look like bloated hatchbacks on steroids, and that's being kind and generous. I have a name for these things, unfortunately my editors won't let me use it. Once again the marketing people are preying on the weak minded.
That gets us past the most ignorant and arrogant drivers on the road, there is still a lot more to come. There is still a lot to be said about other vehicles, distractions of all types, impaired drivers and all sorts of other issues including the latest attempt at photo radar. There is lots more to come.
I have not forgotten about the election down south. As with our own election last year I need some time to read and analyse the "black boxes," and come up with my spin on things. It was certainly a shocker, or was it?
Les Enekes can be reached directly by owl. For those not owl equipped, he can be reached at news@thefountainpen.com
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The movie was humming along just fine, and then it wasn't. We were watching a Colin Farrell horror/action thriller, and then we were watching Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe facesmashed together like, I dunno, it was the end of 'Supernova' and James Spader and Angela Bassett were being dimensionally smashed-together in that pod-thing. It was weird.
After five minutes the lights went up. Three guys walked in; two of them were built like Steve Austin, the third like Jerry Lewis. "We're experiencing technical difficulties," Jerry said.
No shit, I thought.
"No shit!" somebody yelled from the middle of the stuffed audience.
Jerry scratched at the nape of his neck. "We should have everything sorted soon enough." And then they all left.
"How long do you think it's going to take?" My date asked.
"Not long, I hope."
It was long. It was very long. Hours long. One guy got up to go - "to the bathroom," he claimed to no one in particular - but was rebuffed by one of the Steve Austins guarding the door.
"Why is Steve Austin guarding the door?" My girlfriend asked.
I didn't know. "I dunno…"
Someone tried the back exit by the screen - still showing the Spader-Bassett still - but it was chained up. When someone tried it later it was cemented shut. People went for their cell phones, but they were all missing. Confiscated, no doubt.
I grew hungry. Everyone grew hungry. Everyone grew tired. People fell asleep, curling up in corners of the theater, wrapping themselves in downy-blue blankets. Steve Austin grew tired, too; he had a shift-change with Ed Sullivan. Night shift guards are old, ex-cop near-retirees. I learned this from the Pierce Brosnan/Salma Hayek/Woody Harrelson romantic comedy 'After the Sunset'.
In the middle of everyone's sleep, perhaps seeing his chance, someone tried to get past Ed Sullivan. We were all woken up with a scream; Ed Sullivan walked back, licking blood off his fingers, and we never saw the man again. No, I take it back - sometimes Ed Sullivan would be eating something, and we always knew who it was. Ed knew we were hungry, too - Ed always knew - and here and there he'd toss a slab of bloody red meat down the hallway for us. It wouldn't last more than five minutes. We're all just animals, after all.
Yesterday a man started moving in on my woman. He already had a woman; he couldn't have mine too. He grabbed her arm and I shoved him away, snarling. He snarled back; we locked eyes for a moment; I readied the steel pipe, carved from the front row rails; sadly, he backed off, looking away, leaving my woman unchallenged for me, for now. She sat silently and obediently at my feet.
At some point Steve Austin tried to relieve Ed Sullivan. We never saw Steve Austin again either, except at dinner.


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LeBron: Kevin Love, Kyrie Irving playing their 'best basketball'
CLEVELAND -- LeBron James moved up the basketball ranks again Friday, passing Elvin Hayes for ninth on the all-time scoring list, but it was the play of Kevin Love and Kyrie Irving that he had something to say about.
"They've been playing probably the best basketball of their careers thus far," James said after the Cleveland Cavaliers' 114-84 win over the Miami Heat.
Love posted 28 points and 15 rebounds against the Heat, upping his season averages to 21.7 points on 45.6 percent shooting (41.9 percent from 3) and 10.5 rebounds. All of those numbers are up from his previous two seasons with Cleveland.
"He's the Kevin Love of old, and this is everything we expected out of him," James said. "That's what we want out of him. But there's no added pressure for him. He's going out and just playing his game right now. He's shooting the ball extremely well. He's rebounding at a high clip, and he's at a point where he's just comfortable with everything, and it's great to have him."
In his last season with the Minnesota Timberwolves, Love averaged 26.1 points on 45.7 percent shooting (37.6 percent from 3) and 12.5 rebounds, but that Wolves team finished just 40-42. The Cavs are 16-5 after Friday's win, giving them the third-best record in the NBA.
"I think just the difference is that we're winning," Love said when told of James' compliment. "I think I've played a very high level of basketball before. I don't know if better than right now, but I know I've played at a very, very high level -- even at points through the last two years. It's not like I forgot how to play. I just think I just feel comfortable with this team. (Coach) Ty Lue has me in a lot of great spots, and I'm just playing with a lot of confidence. But the difference is, back 4-5 years ago, we weren't finishing out games, making it to the playoffs, that sort of thing. So I think the fact that we're winning games, and Ky is playing at such a high level, Bron is playing at such a high level, that it's making everybody -- all 15 of these guys and the coaching staff -- look good."
Irving had 23 points and three assists against the Heat, slightly lower than his season averages of 24.6 points and 4.8 assists coming into the night. His scoring average and efficiency (48.7 percent from the floor and 42.4 percent from 3) are career highs.
"I just think every year you get more and more comfortable with the system," James said. "You get more and more comfortable with the play, and we all get more and more comfortable with our role. And it all started from the beginning with Kyrie and Kev just feeling like they wanted to be much better, they wanted to bring a little bit more to the team. Not just scoring, but more just leadership. And they've both done that."
Irving said James' assessment was obvious.
"I mean, it kind of goes without saying," Irving said. "Coming off a year like we had last year ... it was a load for our confidence. Coming into this season, we knew what to expect. The trust factor is there. There are really no more questions in terms of what level we have to play at in order to be great every single night. We don't have the kind of the miscues and the unknowns. The questions are answered, and we're just straight up with one another, earnest all the time, and if there's a problem we fix it right away. It's a tell-tale sign of a maturing, great basketball team."
A tell-tale sign of James' individual greatness was the fast-break layup he scored with 6:57 remaining in the fourth quarter, giving him 27 points for the game and 27,315 for his career to move past Hayes.
Among the scorers in the top 10 list, Hayes is perhaps the least heralded, despite being a 12-time All-Star over 16 seasons that included a championship in Washington. While others such as James, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant are known to basketball fans by a first-name basis, Hayes has faded into relative obscurity since retiring in 1984.
"I don't know much, man," Irving said when asked about Hayes. "I know he scored a lot of points, though. I mean, 27,000, that's still 27,000. That's a lot of points."
James, now 95 points away from passing Moses Malone for No. 8 on the all-time scoring list, said he is honored by the company he's keeping.
"I read up on him," James said of Hayes. "I know the history of the game. Obviously, I haven't gotten an opportunity to see him much. But I know how dominant he was in his era when he played the game. So anytime I'm mentioned with any of the greats, and he's one of them, it's very surreal and very humbling."
LeBron passes Hayes for ninth place on scoring list
LeBron James scores on a driving layup to pass Elvin Hayes for ninth place on the all-time scoring list with 27,315 points.
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One of Australia's finest metal bands, Melbourne's Desecrator release their DEBUT STUDIO ALBUM entitled TO THE GALLOWS!
The album was recorded at Toyland Studios and Goatsound Studios with mastering duties performed by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege.
Desecrator have a sound that has been compared to early Testament, Death Angel and Sacred Reich. Their twin guitar attack, punishing rhythm section and blood soaked vocals have united the old guard and recruited the new.
The four piece stay grounded in the roots of thrash while branching into modern territory. It's the best of both worlds.