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The Film Detective Reveals 50 Restored And Remastered Films For Release On DVD On July 7
Summer Movie Blitz!
That's what is coming on July 7 courtesy of The Film Detective … a 50 DVD release package loaded with star power and featuring action films, Westerns, comedies, mysteries and more that have been restored and remastered from original vault materials.
There are a dozen action films counted among the DVD product offering in The Film Detective's July 7 release mix.
Let's begin with actor-turned-director Paul Guilfoyle's 1953 Cold War-atomic bomb thriller, Captain Scarface, starring Barton MacLane as the double-dealing "Scarface" and Leif Erickson as the unlikely hero — a lothario on the run from a local plantation owner who unwittingly boards the disguised Soviet "Trojan Horse" cruise ship. Its destination is the Panama Canal where an atomic bomb will be detonated!!!
The dangers of diving for sponges in Florida (filmed on location in Key West) are played out in director Robert D. Webb's 1953 Technicolor (an Oscar nomination for cinematographer Edward Cronjager) release of Beneath the 12 Mile Reef — teaming Robert Wagner with Gilbert Roland as father and son divers. J. Carrol Naish, Richard Boone, Peter Graves and Terry Moore round out the excellent cast.
Pre-war conspiracies in Japan are on display as newsman James Cagney refuses to kowtow to Baron Tanaka (played by John Emery) in director Frank Lloyd's 1945 film release of Blood on the Sun (which won the Oscar for Best Set Design).
Director Laslo Benedek's 1949 film noir thriller, Port of New York, features a young Yul Brynner as narcotics smuggler Paul Vicola, with Scott Brady and Richard Rober as the lawmen out to stop him (shot on location in New York City).
Director William Cameron Menzies Civil War-era conflict, Drums in the Deep South, pits West Point grads Guy Madison and James Craig on opposite sides in the battle of Devil's Mountain.
Also plucked from the Civil War period is director R. John Hugh's 1955 swamp thriller, Yellowneck, starring Lin McCarthy as Sergeant Todd, a Confederate deserter, who together with Stephen Courtleigh as "The Colonel" (and three others) try to make their way through the Florida Everglades (actually filmed on location in the Everglades) and an escape attempt to Cuba. Only one of the five will survive their ordeal.
Also on the DVD July 7 release calendar from The Film Detective is Susan Hayward, who is driven near-crazy with a lust for revenge in director Stuart Heisler's 1949 oil boom saga, Tulsa. An elaborate oil field fire sequence earned the film an Oscar nomination for Best Special Effects.
Other action film offerings include: Daniel Boone (1936, directed by David Howard and starring George O'Brien as Boone, with John Carradine and Heather Angel), director Rowland V. Lee's 1941 swashbuckler, The Son of Monte Cristo, starring Louis Hayward with Joan Bennett) and "Jungle" Sam Newfield's 1944 film release of Nabonga, teaming Buster Crabbe with Julie London (in her film debut), Barton MacLane and Ray "Crash" Corrigan as the gorilla.
On the Western front, The Film Detective is right there with three featuring sceen legend John Wayne … these are director Robert Bradbury's 1934 film release of Blue Steel (with Gabby Hayes, Yakima Canutt and Eleanor Hunt), Bradbury's 1937 film, The Trail Beyond, featuring both Noah Beery and Noah Beery Jr. and director Charles Barton's 1937 Western, Hell Town (aka: Born to the West), teaming John Wayne with none other than Johnny Mack Brown (Marsha Hunt co-stars).
Another Western film legend getting some action from The Film Detective on July 7 is Roy Rogers. He stars in director Joseph Kane's 1939 film release of In Old Caliente (with Gabby Hayes, Jack La Rue and Lynne Roberts) and director Frank McDonald rodeo action film, Lights of Old Santa Fe (with Dale Evans and Gabby Hayes).
Rounding out this Western stampede is director Robert Springsteen's 1946 Red Ryder Western, Stagecoach to Denver, starring Allan Lane as the legendary comic strip hero and with Robert Blake as his sidekick, Little Beaver. And lastly, Mickey Rooney, Robert Preston, Robert Stack and Wanda Hendrix team in director Elliott Nugent's 1951 film release of My Outlaw Brother (filmed on location in Mexico).
Drama, you want drama? How about director John Cromwell's 1934 film adaptation of the W. Somerset Maugham novel, Of Human Bondage, starring Bette Davis and Leslie Howard (they would reteam in 1936 for The Petrified Forest)? Bette Davis would be nominated for Best Actress — her first of eleven — for her performance here.
Another film adaptation on the July 7 release calendar is that of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning play (1938), Our Town, which was adapted for the screen in 1940 and subsequently nominated that year for Best Picture (losing out to Rebecca). William Holden and Martha Scott (she was nominated for Best Actress) star as sweethearts George Gibbs and Emily Webb.
Continuing with adaptations from literary sources, we have the remake of the D. W. Griffith's silent era classic (1919), Broken Blossoms, which was a loose adaptation of Thomas Burke's short story. This 1936 remake, being released by The Film Detective on July 7, was directed by John Brahm and starred Dolly Haas, Emlyn Williams and Arthur Margetson.
Another silent remake (also from D.W. Griffith) is director Henry King's 1935 film release of Way Down East, starring Henry Fonda as David and Rochelle Hudson as Anna, with Edward Trevor as the evil Lennox Sanderson and Margaret Hamilton as Martha, the town's big mouth gossip.
And then there's Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, which is also to be found among the 50 films on the July 7th release calendar. This one is the 1933 version, directed by William J. Cowen and starring Dickie Moore as Oliver with Irving Pichel as Fagin.
From the same year, 1933, we have the Best Actor-winning performance of Charles Laughton in director Alexander Korda's Best Picture nominee, The Private Life of Henry VIII … Merle Oberon, Wendy Barrie, Elsa Lanchester, Binnie Barnes and Everley Gregg co-star as Henry's fives wives after he dumped Catherine of Aragon.
On the comedy front, we have director Archie Mayo's 1946 romantic comedy, Angel on My Shoulder, starring Paul Muni, Anne Baxter and Claude Raines (as the devil),
Roger Corman's 1960 film release of The Little Shop of Horrors will also be available, as will director John Cromwell's 1939 comedy teaming James Stewart with Carole Lombard, Made for Each Other.
Others in the comedy mix include Never Wave at a WAC (1953, Rosalind Russell), Private Buckaroo (1942 with the Andrews Sisters, Donald O'Connor, Dick Foran, Joe E. Lewis and Peggy Ryan) and cult filmmaker Edgar G. St. Benny the Dip, starring Dick Haymes, Lionel Stander and Roland Young conmen who become "saints" in the Bowery (filmed on location) … Nina Foch co-stars.
Ulmer's 1951 film
And then there's Bill and Coo, which is one of these "specialty films" that doesn't quite fit in anywhere. This one — which won an honorary Oscar for its inventiveness — is strictly for the birds. Released theatrically in 1948, it stars … birds, dressed in costumes as they go about their business in the little town of Chirpendale.
The Film Detective does indeed have a Summer Movie Blitz! There's something here for everyone … so enjoy!!!
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Around The World With Orson Welles: The Complete Series Gets Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack Push From B2MP, Inc. On July 14
It is as if a long-lost time capsule had been unearthed, opened and the contents therein were once again available after being locked away for a half-century.
That's what B2MP, Inc. has done — metaphorically speaking — with the announcement this past week that a restored (from the 35mm interpositive) Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack edition of Around the World With Orson Welles: The Complete Series (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) will be available on July 14.
Back in 1955 Welles contracted with England's newly-launched ITV channel (a counter-balance to the BBC) to produce and direct a series of "high brow" travelogues. The project quickly blew up and only six episodes ever saw the light of day.
B2MP, Inc. has assembled all six episodes of this series, which includes trips to Spain, including Madrid and the Basque region, plus St.-Germain-des-Prés in Paris and a return to Vienna, where Orson Welles filmed The Third Man.
As a bonus, the partially completed seventh episode in the series was the subject of documentary filmmaker Christophe Cognet's 2000 release of L'affaire Dominici Par Orson Welles, which included footage shot by Welles and is presented mainly in French (with some English) and includes English subtitles.
Other bonus goodies include a new essay by film critic Peter Tonguette, the author of "Orson Welles Remembered."
Labels: Around The World With Orson Welles: The Complete Series Gets Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack Push From B2MP, DVD and Blu-ray Release Report, Inc. On July 14
Mill Creek Entertainment Announces It September 2015 DVD And Blu-ray Release Calendar
Movies galore, plus some history about the U.S. Calvary and the presidents on Mount Rushmore are what Mill Creek Entertainment has planned for DVD and Blu-ray during the month of September.
Kicking off the proceedings on Sept. 1 is the double-disc, seven-part study on the four presidents that were carved into the face of Mount Rushmore in South Dakota by Gutzon and Lincoln Borglum between 1927 and 1941.
Titled Monument Men: The Road to Rushmore, the seven parts include one each for George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt, plus three additional segments that are titled "The Making of Mount Rushmore," "Mount Rushmore National Memorial" and "Crazy Horse Memorial."
Over four hours of material have been assembled here and Mill Creek Entertainment will be releasing it to retail with an SRP of just $14.98.
Also on the history front on Sept. 1 is the five-hour, five part series titled U.S. Cavalry: History of America's Mounted Forces.
The five segments are broken down as follows: "Origins to America's First Wars," "Indians, Custer and the West," "The Rough Riders and a New Horse" "Patton and World War II" and "The Modern Cavalry."
The SRP for U.S. Cavalry: History of America's Mounted Forces is also just $14.98 (and that's before discounts offered at retail).
Rounding out this Sept. 1 trio of new-to-DVD product offerings is director Brooks Benjamin's family-fun tale (tail), Bandit and the Saints of Dogwood, which is the latest production from Engine 15 Media Group, who are known for their family-friendly canine and kid adventures — their Designer Pups is also heading to the DVD market place from Mill Creek Entertainment on Aug. 4).
The Dogwood Shores Elementary School (filmed in and around the Rockwood and With help from her best-buddy Dalton (Makinnon O'Brien), they've concocted a plan to "punk" Principal McDougal (Mike Stanley — Attack of the Morningside Monster, Within: Terror Resides ...), which is important to them in that no one in the history of the school has been able to put something over on him.
Kingston communities to the west of Knoxville, Tennessee) is home to Lenna (Katie McNamara) and her close-knit band of fifth grade misfits.
It's a good plan, as fifth-grade plans go, but as luck would have it, they picked the very same night that a group of inept "treasure hunters" (with an ancient map in hand) plan to rip up the gym floor and unearth a cache of long-forgotten buried gold. The kids barely escape their encounter with the thieves, but end up being blamed for the destruction that they caused to school property.
Their fate: summer school at the Passive Valley Educational Center!!!
With the help of Bandit, an Australian Shepherd, Lenna and Dalton — along with their cohorts Benji (Skylar Feichtner) and Huggy (Connor Oringderff) — decide that after a few days at Passive Valley that a better plan of action would be to escape and bring the real villains to justice. Their first plan didn't go so well, maybe they'll have better luck with this one!!!
Bandit and the Saints of Dogwood is great family fun (and doggie fun too) and the SRP is just $14.98.
Shifting to Sept. 15, Mill Creek Entertainment has ten new DVD SKUs on the calendar and a pair of new Blu-ray film offerings.
The selections breakdown into three groups — four new additions to the company's popular "Anniversary Edition" line of retrospective film releases, four ten-film, three-disc DVD selections and a pair of six-film collections spread over two DVD discs.
So let's tackle them in that order. The new "Anniversary Edition" releases are: 25th Anniversary Edition: Postcards from the Edge (directed by Mike Nichols and based on Carrie Fisher's tell-all book … starring Shirley MacLaine and Meryl Streep), 25th Anniversary Edition: Spaced Invaders (which will be available as both DVD and Blu-ray product offerings — director Patrick Read Johnson's inspired tale of Martians landing on the very day that Orson Welles did his famous "War of the Worlds" broadcast), 60th Anniversary Edition: Creature with the Atom Brain (director Edward L. Cahn teams with the legendary Curt Siodmak for this summer of 1955 sci-fi gem starring Richard Denning and Angela Stevens) and 80th Anniversary Edition: Crime and Punishment (director Josef von Sternberg's 1935 film adaptation of the Dostoevsky novel and starring Peter Lorre with Marian Marsh and Edward Arnold).
The SRP for each of the "Anniversary Edition" film releases on DVD is just $9.98, with 25th Anniversary Edition: Spaced Invaders on Blu-ray coming in at $14.98.
As mentioned, there are four three-disc, ten-film collections (priced at $14.98 each) slated for delivery to fans and collectors (and the curious) on Sept. 15.
Attack of the Killer B's features a nifty collection of sci-fi films from mainly the 1950s and 60s that were produced, often quite inventively, on a shoestring budget. Classics one and all — we begin in chronological theatrical release order with filmmaker Dan Milner's Christmas of 1955 box office hit, The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues (Kent Taylor and Cathy Downs star).
There are five from 1959 — the Baby Boomers were in their early teens and hot for movies of this sort and filmmakers scrambled to deliver them in droves. From the summer of that year we have writer/director Tom Graeff's ultra-low budget, but very entertaining, Teenagers from Outer Space, plus writer/director Ray Kellogg's drive-in double bill of The Giant Gila Monster (a little cheezy) and The Killer Shrews (very effective thriller).
The Halloween season of that year saw the Roger Corman-produced delight, Attack of the Giant Leeches, starring Yvette Vickers and Ken Clark and the Roger Corman-directed classic, The Wasp Woman, starring Susan Cabot (Sorority Girl, Machine Gun Kelly, etc.) as the youth-seeking businesswoman who overdoses on an experimental drug with stinging results!
Rounding out this collection are: The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962), Eegah! (1962, with Richard Kiel as the run-amok caveman), Night Fright (1967, starring John Agar) and Invasion of the Bee Girls (1973).
The ten-film, three-disc set titled Directors Collection, features ten different films from ten different film directors. These are: John Ford directing Judge Priest (1934, starring Will Rogers); Frank Capra's Meet John Doe (1941, Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck); Orson Welles' 1946 film noir, The Stranger (Welles co-stars with Loretta Young and Edward G. Robinson); John Huston assembles an all-star cast that includes Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Peter Lorre, Robert Morley and Gina Lollobrigida for the 1953 caper comedy, Beat the Devil; Francis Ford Coppola teamed with producer Roger Corman for the 1963 release of Dementia 13, and Corman also produced Peter Bogdanovich's 1968 reworking of Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (which borrowed footage from an earlier Russian sci-film), Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (starring Mamie Van Doren).
Rounding out this collection are: Richard Donner's 1971 romantic comedy, Lola, teaming Charles Bronson with Susan George; Paul Verhoeven's Katie's Passion (aka: Katie Tippel) and filmmaker Stephen Frears' 1983 MOW, Saigon: Year of the Cat, starring Judi Dench and Frederic Forrest.
Next up is First Features Collection, which showcases the early talents of ten acclaimed movie stars. On the female front we have: Marilyn Monroe is featured in writer/director Arthur Pierson's 1951 release of Home Town Story; Bette Davis is teamed with Pat O'Brien in 1932 film release of Hell's House; Ava Gardner stars with George Raft in 1946 film noir, Whistle Stop, and Michelle Pfeiffer is teamed with Lindsay Wagner, Jameson Parker and Dabney Coleman in soapish 1981 MOW, Callie & Son.
Leading men featured in the First Features Collection are: Bing Crosby shines briefly (singing "When the Folks High Up Do the Mean Low-Down") in the 1930 film release of Reaching for the Moon, which teamed Douglas Fairbanks with Bebe Daniels; Clark Gable stars opposite William Boyd (aka: Hopalong Cassidy) and Helen Twelvetrees in the 1931 Western, The Painted Desert (a rare early filmed-on-location "talkie" production); Tommy Lee Jones stars in the 1975 Canadian film release of Eliza's Horoscope (filming actually took place in 1970); Dennis Quaid is featured in the 1978 college-themed comedy, The Seniors; Keanu Reeves co-stars with Olivia d'Abo in 1986 direct-to-video release of Dream to Believe (aka: Flying) and Jeff "The Dude" Bridges is on view in actor-turned-director Burgess Meredith 1970 production of The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go (but not released theatrically until 1973 — after Bridges was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in The Last Picture Show).
The final ten-film collection, Man with a Plan Collection, is all-action and features such High Risk — which counts among its cast members James Brolin, Ernest Borgnine, Anthony Quinn, Bruce Davison, James Coburn, Cleavon Little and Lindsay Wagner — director Ralph Nelson's hard-to-find 1976 sci-fi thriller teaming Rock Hudson with Barbara Carrera, Embryo, and director Lewis Allen's 1954 assassin drama, Suddenly, starring Frank Sinatra and Sterling Hayden.
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The two six-film collections are both actor-inspired. The first, Boris Karloff Collection, packs together The Black Room (1935, with Marian Marsh), The Man They Could Not Hang (1939, Karloff is brought back from the dead!), The Man With Nine Lives (1940), Before I Hang (1940, with Evelyn Keyes and Bruce Bennett), The Devil Commands (1941) and the 1942 comedy, The Boogie Man Will Get You (co-stars Peter Lorre).
It's Western action with the DVD release of Randolph Scott Round-Up. The six films included here are: A Lawless Street, The Tall T, Decision at Sundown, Buchanan Rides Alone, Ride Lonesome and Comanche Station.
And last, but not least, is the stand-alone Blu-ray release on Sept. 15 of director Christopher Guest's 1989 romantic comedy, The Big Picture, starring Kevin Bacon as a wunderkind filmmaker.
Labels: DVD and Blu-ray Release Report, Mill Creek Entertainment Announces It September 2015 DVD And Blu-ray Release Calendar
Paramount Home Media Distribution Selects Sept. 15 For The DVD Release Of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: The Final Season
All good things must come to an end … sadly.
One of the best crime series on TV, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, closes up shop on Sept. 15 when Paramount Home Media Distribution sends home the five-disc DVD set of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: The Final Season.
A decade and a half of Las Vegas crime solving winds to a close with 18 new cases to solve, including an on-going investigation involving the Gig Harbor Killer.
Some interesting guest stars take a turn with the Las Vegas crime-stoppers that include the likes of Eric Roberts and Patricia Arquette, who stars in the new CSI spin-off, CSI: Cyber.
Bonus goodies for fans to savor include deleted scenes and a half-dozen featurettes — "Cool Cars," "Girls Gone Gadgets," "Following The Evidence," "Killer Crime Scenes," "All Dolled Up" and "That's All, Stokes."
Speaking of Patricia Arquette, how convenient is it that Paramount Home Media has also selected Sept. 15 as the DVD debut date for CSI: Cyber: The First Season, the four-disc, 13-episode spin-off of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
In this mid-season launch (hence only 13 episodes), Arquette follows in the footsteps of CSI: Miami (David Caruso) and CSI: NY (Gary Sinise), but as FBI Special Agent Avery Ryan she is not locked down to a specific city (her character was introduced in the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation episode "Kitty" during the shows 2013/2014 season). Instead, her CSI activities are internet in nature.
Bonus goodies for CSI: Cyber: The First Season include the aforementioned "Kitty" episode, deleted scenes, a gag reel and five featurettes — "It Can Happen To You," "Welcome to CTOC," "Encoding CSI: Cyber," "CGI – Cyber" and "Tech Tools of the Trade."
Also announced this week is a Blu-ray edition of NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service - The Complete 12th Season, which will street on Sept. 15 (the DVD SKU will be retail-ready on Aug. 18).
Labels: DVD and Blu-ray Release Report, Paramount Home Media Distribution Selects Sept. 15 For The DVD Release Of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: The Final Season
Wild Eye Releasing Tags Sept. 29 For Writer/Director Brett Piper's Queen Crab
One of the most eagerly anticipated independently produced genre releases of 2015 has been given a post-Labor Day street date by Wild Eye Releasing. This baby will be playing in the major leagues — right there with the Hollywood studios and their big CGI infused summer hits that will dominate the retail landscape after the end-of-summer Labor Day weekend.
So here we go, Sept. 29 will be the DVD debut date for writer/director Brett Piper's "old school" sci-fi gem, Queen Crab! With affectionate nods to Roger Corman (1957, Attack of the Crab Monsters) and stop-motion pioneers Willis O'Brien (1933, King Kong) and Ray Harryhausen (20 Million Miles to Earth, It Came From Beneath The Sea, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad and many more) comes this old school stop-motion cinematic treat.
The script is ripped from the pages of the golden era of sci-fi films — the late 1950s and early 1960s — and "old school" filming techniques (three painstaking years in the making) have been employed to serve up this delicious tale (we are talking about crabs you know) of a giant crab that rises from murky waters to go on a rampage of destruction and human carnage. There could be a new king of the food chain if this scurrying beast can't be stopped before her offspring are hatched and they overwhelm the local population (filmed on location in and around Ansonia in rural north-central Pennsylvania).
Queen Crab is very cool and a thrill to watch at what can be accomplished with stop-motion on a limited budget. Bonus features include commentary from filmmaker Brett Piper (They Bite, Screaming Dead, Arachnia, etc.), a blooper reel and a pair of featurettes — "Behind the Scenes" and "Special Effects" — and a sneak peak at Piper's next film project, Triclops.
Labels: DVD and Blu-ray Release Report, Wild Eye Releasing Tags Sept. 29 For Writer/Director Brett Piper's Queen Crab
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Unearths Auteur Filmmaker Samuel Fuller's Run Of The Arrow For DVD Release On July 7
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment continues to surprise with the release of rare film vault treasures. Last week it was news for Bob Hope (A Global Affair), the week before it was Lucille Ball (Five Came Back) and this week it is the July 7 DVD debut of auteur filmmaker Samuel Fuller's 1957 Western masterpiece, Run of the Arrow.
Filmed in Technicolor and shot on location in the St. George area of Utah, Run of the Arrow stars Rod Steiger as O'Meara, an ex-Confederate soldier who becomes completely alienated from not only society in general, but his own family. His mother even smacks him a good one for showing disrespect for the assassination of president Lincoln.
His solution is to renounce the United States and head west to Sioux territory. His first encounter does not go well and he must survive a life or death test (the title of film), which he does — otherwise Run of the Arrow would have been a rather short film.
Steiger was just coming into his own as an actor with high profile roles in both On the Waterfront (his first Oscar nomination) and Oklahoma, so working with Fuller (who wrote, directed and produced) was a big deal. This is not a "routine" Western from the period, but a complex narrative that deals with blind hatred, identity (post-Korean War disillusionment) and religion.
These subjects aside, the film also works as an action film, with Steiger falling in love with Yellow Moccasin (Sara Montiel — Vera Cruz, Serenade, etc.), joining the tribe — yes, that's Charles Bronson as Blue Buffalo — and then, when all hell breaks loose, he is nearly crippled with guilt over divided loyalties.
The film is exceptionally brutal (for the period) — a precursor to the Wild Bunch — with Ralph Meeker's character literally skinned alive and noted for Fuller's inventive use of "blood packs" for the first time in a film.
Also making its DVD debut on July 7 is Lawman: The Complete First Season (a five-disc collection), featuring all 39 episodes from the 1958/1959 broadcast season.
Tough guy John Russell (Fair Wind to Java, The Last Command, Rio Bravo) stars as His young deputy is played by Peter Brown (Merrill's Marauders, Ride the Wild Surf, Kitten with a Whip, etc.) and Peggy Castle (Miracle in the Rain, Wagons West) as saloon keeper Lily Merrill — after several attempts that failed miserably to cast a female lead (they all come and go during this first season) — settled in as Troop's love-interest.
Marshall Dan Troop, a laconic, no-nonsense lawman who takes on the vacancy in Laramie, Wyoming when the previous Marshall is murdered.
First season guest stars include Edd Byrnes, Martin Landau, Mike Connors, Dorothy Provine and a young Louise Fletcher.
Also added to the release calendar this week by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment are both DVD and Blu-ray collections of The Leftovers: The Complete First Season. The street date selected for the debut of this "mystery" series (two percent of the world's population has simply vanished) is Oct. 6.
Bonus features include commentary for the both the pilot episode and the first-season finale, plus three production featurettes — "I Remember: A Season One Conversation with Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta," "Secrets of the Guilty Remnant" and "Beyond the Book: A Look Ahead at Season 2."
Labels: The Leftovers: The Complete First Season On DVD And Blu-ray On Oct. 6, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Unearths Auteur Filmmaker Samuel Fuller's Run Of The Arrow For DVD Release On July 7
Arrow Video Selects Sept. 22 For The Release Of Director Carlo Lizzani's 1967 Spaghetti Western Requiescant As A Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack
Arrow Video, with sales and distribution expertise provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has selected Sept. 22 for the Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack release of director Carlo Lizzani's 1967 Spaghetti Western, Requiescant (aka: Kill and Pray!).
This newly restored edition from the original film negative features both the original Italian language track (with newly translated English subtitles) and an English-language dubbed track (also with English subtitles).
Lou Castel (Beware of a Holy Whore, The American Friend, etc.) stars as the title character Requiescant, an orphan raised by a religion man to follow in his footsteps as a preacher.
All goes as planned until the day that the hero of this tale crosses paths with George Ferguson (played Mark Damon) — a deviant wretch — and the Bible is set aside in favor of the gun (Romans 12:19 - revenge is mine, sayeth the Lord).
Bonus Materials include a newly prepared video session with the film's star, Lou Castel, and an archival session with the film's director, Carlo Lizzani.
Labels: Arrow Video Selects Sept. 22 For The Release Of Director Carlo Lizzani's 1967 Spaghetti Western Requiescant As A Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack, DVD and Blu-ray Release Report
Cinema Guild To Release Zeitgeist Films 112 Weddings On DVD On July 14
What happens when that guy who you hired to be the videographer at your wedding shows up at your door years later and wants to shoot some additional footage. You know, "how are things going?"
That's the subject of award-winning documentary filmmaker Doug Block's 112 Weddings, which will be making its DVD bow on July 14 from Zeitgeist Films, with sales and distribution support provided by Cinema Guild.
Doug Block, to augment his income while producing and directing documentaries (The Children Next Door, 51 Birch Street, The Kids Grow Up, etc.), would hire himself out as a wedding videographer. He was the invisible guy with the video camera at scores of weddings over the years … the finished work product was sort of a cinema verite mini-documentary of the events of that glorious day.
The gist of 112 Weddings is both inspired, and perhaps a little creepy, but the end result is riveting — it is sort of attention-grabber, like that a multi-car wreck on the freeway that has traffic backed up for miles in both directions. You just have to slowdown and a take a look!
Block tracked down a number of the couples from the wedding videos that he shot and asked them — on camera — how things were going. This new footage is juxtaposed with the original wedding day footage. Even though they all started off on the same path — literally, down the aisle — their destinations have been wildly different. Can you tell from the wedding videos which couples will make their marriages work … and which will not make the effort?
Bonus features include a featurette titled "Heather & Sam Revisited" and a Q&A session with the director and some of the wedding couples at the HBO premiere party.
Labels: Cinema Guild To Release Zeitgeist Films 112 Weddings On DVD On July 14, DVD and Blu-ray Release Report
20th Century-Fox Home Entertainment's Empire To DVD And Blu-ray On Sept. 15
20th Century-Fox Home Entertainment has targeted Sept. 15 as the release for both DVD and Blu-ray editions of the surprise ratings-hit dramatic TV series, Empire: The Complete First Season (viewership nearly doubled from the launch in early January to its season-ender in mid-March).
Oscar-nominee Terrence Howard (Hustle & Flow) stars as Lucious Lyon, the head of a hip-hop music company — Empire Entertainment — who gets some very bad medical news and must make some harsh decisions as to who will take control upon his demise … internecine fighting and murder follow.
Bonus goodies include uncut music videos, pilot episode commentary and a pair of featurettes.
Labels: 20th Century-Fox Home Entertainment's Empire To DVD And Blu-ray On Sept. 15, DVD and Blu-ray Release Report
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Noahidism
The Seven Laws of Noah
Historical movements
Modern Noahidism
High Council of B'nei Noah
Noahidism or Noachidism is a monotheistic, Jewish religious movement based upon the Seven Laws of Noah and their traditional interpretations within Orthodox Judaism. According to the Jewish law, non-Jews (Gentiles) are not obligated to convert to Judaism, but they are required to observe the Seven Laws of Noah to be assured of a place in the World to Come (Olam Ha-Ba), the final reward of the righteous. The divinely ordained penalty for violating any of these Noahide Laws is discussed in the Talmud, but in practical terms it is subject to the working legal system which is established by the society at large. Those who subscribe to the observance of the Noahic Covenant are referred to as Bnei Noach (בני נח, "Children of Noah") or Noahides. The modern Noahide movement was founded in the 1990s by Orthodox rabbis from Israel, mainly tied to Chabad-Lubavitch and religious Zionist organizations, including The Temple Institute.
Historically, the Hebrew term Bnei Noach has been applied to all non-Jews as descendants of Noah. However, nowadays it is primarily used to refer specifically to those "Righteous Gentiles" who observe the Seven Laws of Noah. According to a Noahide source in 2018, there are over 20,000 official Noahides, and the country with the greatest number is the Philippines.
Main article: Seven Laws of Noah
The seven laws listed by the Babylonian Talmud in Sanhedrin 56a are:
Do not worship idols.
Do not blaspheme God.
Do not murder.
Do not practice sexual immorality.
Do not steal.
Do not eat flesh from a living animal.
Establish Courts of Justice to build upon these laws.
Main article: God-fearer
Further information: Hellenistic Judaism and History of the Jews in the Roman Empire
The Sebomenoi or God-fearers are an early example of non-Jews being included within the Jewish community.
There are two different concepts of Noahidism in Judaism:
The B'nei Noah movement whose members observe the Seven Commandments or Laws only and hold that the remaining commandments do not apply to them. This is the view of Chabad-Lubavitch and a few other movements. This means that Noahides may not observe the Sabbath, study Torah (except for the Seven Laws), etc.
The B'nei Noah movement whose members hold that they can adhere completely to Judaism in order to learn from the Jews and together promote the World to Come (Olam Ha-Ba) but without becoming a part of the Jewish people (i.e. without performing a giyur). After B'nei Noah accept the obligatory seven commandments, they can, if they so desire, carry out the rest of the Jewish commandments, including studying the Torah, observing the Sabbath, celebrating Jewish holidays, etc. This view is held, for example, by Yoel Schwartz and Oury Amos Cherki.
According to the first approach, the answer to the question "Can a non-Jew observe the Sabbath and study the Torah?" is negative, and according to the second one, it is affirmative.
During the Golden Age of Jewish culture in the Iberian Peninsula, the medieval Jewish philosopher and rabbi Maimonides (1135–1204) wrote in the halakhic legal code Mishneh Torah that Gentiles (non-Jews) must perform exclusively the Seven Laws of Noah and refrain from studying the Torah or performing any Jewish commandment, including resting on the Shabbat; however, Maimonides also states that if Gentiles want to perform any Jewish commandment besides the Seven Laws of Noah according to the correct halakhic procedure, they are not prevented from doing so. Cherki explains this apparent contradiction in Maimonides by saying that the goy and B'nei Noah are different halakhic concepts. A goy is a gentile who has not yet accepted the commandments of B'nei Noah. However, if he has already accepted Seven Laws, he ceases to be a goy and became a B'nei Noah, and as such can follow additional commandments, including keeping the Sabbath and teaching the Torah.
Main article: High Council of B'nei Noah
A High Council of B'nei Noah, set up to represent B'nei Noah communities around the world, was endorsed by a group that claimed to be the new Sanhedrin.
Meir Kahane and Shlomo Carlebach organized one of the first Noahide conferences in the 1980s. In 1990, Kahane was the keynote speaker at the First International Conference of the Descendants of Noah in Fort Worth, Texas.
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The Chabad-Lubavitch movement has been the most active in Noahide outreach, believing that there is spiritual and societal value for non-Jews in at least simply acknowledging the Noahide Laws, and even more so if they accept or observe them. In 1991, they had a reference to these laws enshrined in a Congressional proclamation: Presidential Proclamation 5956, signed by then-President George H. W. Bush. Recalling Joint House Resolution 173, and recalling that the ethical and moral principles of all civilizations come in part from the Seven Noahide Laws, it proclaimed March 26, 1991, as "Education Day, USA". Subsequently, Public Law 102-14 formally designated the Lubavitcher Rebbe's 90th birthday as "Education Day, USA," with Congress recalling that "without these ethical values and principles, the edifice of civilization stands in serious peril of returning to chaos," and that "society is profoundly concerned with the recent weakening of these principles, that has resulted in crises that beleaguer and threaten the fabric of civilized society."
In April 2006, the spiritual leader of the Druze community in Israel, Sheikh Mowafak Tarif, met with a representative of Chabad-Lubavitch to sign a declaration calling on all non-Jews in Israel to observe the Noahide Laws. The mayor of the Galilean city of Shefa-'Amr (Shfaram) — where Muslim, Christian, and Druze communities live side-by-side — also signed the document.
In March 2007, Chabad-Lubavitch gathered ambassadors from six countries to take part in a gathering to declare their support of the Noahide laws. They represented Poland, Latvia, Mexico, Panama, Ghana, and Japan. They were part of a special program organized by Harav Boaz Kali. In April, Abu Gosh mayor Salim Jaber accepted the seven Noahide laws as part of a mass rally by Chabad at the Bloomfield Stadium in Tel Aviv. In May, the newly elected president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, met with a Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi, Dovid Zaoui, who presented him with the literature on the Noahide laws.
In 2016, the Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel, Yitzhak Yosef, declared during a sermon that Jewish law requires that the only non-Jews allowed to live in Israel are obligated to follow the Noahide Laws: "According to Jewish law, it's forbidden for a non-Jew to live in the Land of Israel – unless he has accepted the seven Noahide laws, […] If the non-Jew is unwilling to accept these laws, then we can send him to Saudi Arabia, […] When there will be full, true redemption, we will do this." Yosef further added: "non-Jews shouldn't live in the land of Israel. […] If our hand were firm, if we had the power to rule, then non-Jews must not live in Israel. But, our hand is not firm. […] Who, otherwise be the servants? Who will be our helpers? This is why we leave them in Israel." Yosef's sermon sparked outrage in Israel and was fiercely criticized by several human rights associations, NGOs and members of the Knesset; Jonathan Greenblatt, Anti-Defamation League's CEO and national director, and Carole Nuriel, Anti-Defamation League's Israel Office acting director, issued a strong denunciation of Yosef's sermon:
The statement by Chief Rabbi Yosef is shocking and unacceptable. It is unconscionable that the Chief Rabbi, an official representative of the State of Israel, would express such intolerant and ignorant views about Israel's non-Jewish population – including the millions of non-Jewish citizens.
As a spiritual leader, Rabbi Yosef should be using his influence to preach tolerance and compassion towards others, regardless of their faith, and not seek to exclude and demean a large segment of Israelis.
We call upon the Chief Rabbi to retract his statements and apologize for any offense caused by his comments.
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Charlotte Lynn (Lawson) Thomas, 54, of South Highway 25-W, Williamsburg, departed this life on Monday, October 9, 2017 at her home surrounded by family.
She was born on September 21, 1963 in Corbin.
She was preceded in death by her grandparents, Johnny and Lucille Smith.
Charlotte was a member of New Mt. Zion Baptist Church.
She is survived by her loving husband, James Thomas of Williamsburg; three sons, Mark Thomas (Tabitha) of Williamsburg, Gary Thomas (Melissa) of Ft. Campbell, and Ben Thomas (Ashley) of Williamsburg; one daughter, Kim Moses (Joe) of Williamsburg; ten grandchildren, Raeleigh Thomas, Greyson Thomas, Kaliopi Thomas, Renesmae Thomas, Xander Thomas, Skyler Thomas, Lexie Thomas, Breanna Moses, Zach Moses and Conner Moses; her parents, Bobby R. and Lona Lawson of Ft. Wayne, IN; one brother, Greg Lawson (Sherri) of Garrett, IN; mother-in-law, Nadine Thomas of Williamsburg; several nieces and nephew, and a host of other family and friends to mourn her passing.
The funeral service was held Thursday, October 12, at the Croley Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Lloyd Taylor and Rev. Roger Prewitt officiating.
Following the service she was laid to rest in the Croley Addition of Highland Park Cemetery.


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After the EU elections: what will the future of adult learning look like?
The new European Parliament and the new European Commission have started their work on the new portfolios in the second half of 2019. The European Union will have to take a clear direction on issues such as sustainability, democracy, and demographic changes. An EAEA working group explored these issues. The results were published in a background paper in December 2019.
Before the EU elections in May 2019, we launched a campaign in which EAEA and its members asked MEP candidates of all political groups how they wanted to support and promote adult learning. Their answers were published on a dedicated website. Half a year later, the new Members of the European Parliament, as well as the new European Commission, have started their work on the new portfolios.
The European Parliament and the European Commission will have to negotiate the follow-up programmes of Europe 2020, including Education and Training 2020 (short: ET2020). Great Britain will (probably) leave the European Union at the end of January, while other countries are planning to join the EU. Europe faces a number of challenges, such as sustainability, democracy, digitisation and automation, and changing demographics. New European programmes and frameworks will have to take these challenges into consideration and find answers to them.
What does this mean for adult learning? An EAEA working group explored these issues. The results were published in a background paper in December 2019.
EAEA background paper on the future of adult learning in Europe (pdf)
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The story contained in this book is a true one. It was taken from letters, memoranda and memory. The author has in his possession twenty-nine letters written by him while in the army, from 1861 to 1865, and sent to his relatives, who returned them to him at the close of the war.
The memoranda were written soon after his return from the army. The accounts taken from memory are reasonably correct, as the scenes through which he passed, though here poorly portrayed, are of a character not easily forgotten. They are indelibly stamped upon the memory, and it seems, as time rolls on, that it renders the recollection of them even more vivid and distinct. After revising this story a number of times it is presented to the reader in its present form.


TOKYO (The Straits Times/ANN) - Japan will help push through 150 projects in 5 countries in the Mekong region.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on MOnday pledged to promote quality infrastructure projects in five South-east Asian nations along the Mekong River, while their leaders said they supported Japan's Free and Open Indo-Pacific Strategy (FOIPS).
"The Mekong region is a corridor that connects East Asia and South Asia, as well as a land bridge that links the Pacific Ocean to the Indian Ocean," Mr Abe said at the outset of the 10th Mekong-Japan Summit in Tokyo.
Japan will assist Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar in at least 150 projects under a new blueprint - Tokyo Strategy 2018 for Mekong-Japan Cooperation - which runs from next year to 2021.
These projects will centre on three areas: building effective connectivity, such as expanding airport facilities in Laos and road construction in Myanmar; building people-centred societies, such as through using technology to improve health care; and environment and disaster management, such as irrigation projects in Cambodia.
Japan and China have long been vying for influence in South-east Asia, with Beijing extending infrastructure carrots under its much-vaunted Belt and Road Initiative.
While Japan knows its coffers are not as deep as China's, it touts its superiority in quality infrastructure while committing to follow through on completed projects by training local workers.
The Mekong-Japan Summit has been held yearly since 2009, with leaders meeting once every three years in Tokyo, where they review progress of the previous blueprint and adopt a new document.
Mr Abe noted that investment by Japanese companies in the Mekong region in the last three years exceeded two trillion yen (S$24.5 billion). "To realise even more private investment than before, Japan will use public funds such as overseas development assistance, as well as overseas investments and loans," he added.
The Mekong leaders, in turn, reaffirmed the importance of maintaining a rules-based order and freedom of navigation in the South China Sea. This is in line with their support for Japan's FOIPS, which seeks to promote rule of law at sea and build high-quality infrastructure in areas across the Indian and Pacific oceans.
While the leaders did not single out any country by name, their joint statement, in a veiled allusion to China, noted concerns over land reclamation projects and other activities in the area that "have eroded trust and confidence, increased tensions and may undermine peace, security and stability in the region".
Even so, Mr Masatami Kasagi, a Japanese expert on South-east Asian matters, noted that as Japan and China build closer bilateral ties, they are finding ways to complement and collaborate with each other on infrastructure projects .
University of Tokyo political scientist Heng Yee Kuang, who studies soft-power issues, said that Japan has played a longstanding role in the Mekong region that predates the FOIPS.
"Tokyo can point to its historical record in Mekong connectivity projects," he told The Straits Times, though he noted a key difference that this year's Tokyo Strategy was "quite explicitly" packaged as part of the FOIPS.
He added: "Mekong is one of the key examples of Japan investing quite substantial resources and time, over many years, and not just because of the recent emergence of FOIPS."


What Happened In 2017: Had an unforgettable debut and later made the NLDS and NLCS rosters.
Kyle Farmer began 2017 in Double-A. In 33 games with Tulsa, Farmer slashed .339/.411/.468 with three home runs. Farmer then got promoted to Triple-A in May, and he continued to perform well there, hitting .316/.363/.503 with nine home runs in the three months leading up to his big league callup.
That callup came on July 28. Farmer made his debut two days later, and it was a memorable one. With two on in the bottom of the 11th and the Dodgers down by one against the rival Giants, Farmer was called upon to pinch hit, and he did not disappoint.
Farmer remained with the Dodgers for another couple of weeks, picking up several more pinch hit opportunities. In his first 10 plate appearances, Farmer had four hits.
Farmer would spend August and September going back and forth between Los Angeles and Oklahoma City, remaining with the big club once the Triple-A season was over.
On September 23, Farmer went 1-for-3 in his first and only start of the season. Although he's primarily a catcher (with third base as his secondary position), Farmer started at first base. Because of this, he had more MLB defensive innings at first (eight) than he did at either catcher (seven) or third base (seven).
Farmer was included on both the Division Series and Championship Series rosters, although he didn't see much in the way of playing time. He had a combined five plate appearances, all as a pinch hitter, and he went 0-for-4 with a sacrifice fly. The sac fly came in Game 3 of the NLCS, and it drove in the Dodgers' sixth and final run.
2018 Status: Farmer's rookie status is intact through next season. He is likely to begin the year in the minors, serving as depth behind Austin Barnes and Yasmani Grandal. Should Grandal be moved in a trade, Farmer figures to slot right in as the backup.


Install this NewTab Themes and enjoy HD wallpapers of battle royale games like Fortnite and PUBG everytime you open a new tab.
– Choose a wallpaper from many available battle royale games wallpapers.
– Shuffle all battle royale games images, or shuffle your favorite image only.
– Show/hide features, customize your own theme.
– Battle royale games are played between a large number of individual players, or a number of small squads (typically up to four or five players). In each match, the goal is to be the last player or last team standing by eliminating all other opponents. A match starts by placing the player-characters into a large map space, which may have random distribution or allow players to have some control of where they start. All players start with minimal equipment, giving no player an implicit advantage at the onset, though games allow players to customize the appearance of their character. Randomly scattered around the map are weapons, armor, vehicles, and other items that are beneficial for combat and survival. Players need to search the map for these items while avoid being killed by other players. Equipment from eliminated players can be looted as well. The "safe area" of the map decreases in size around a randomly selected point throughout the match, forcing surviving players into closer quarters and increasing the chance of player encounters. Those caught outside this safe area take damage and will eventually die if they do not re-enter the so-called "safe area". The match is over when only one player or team remains, and the game typically provides some type of reward (in-game currency for more cosmetic items) to all players based on how long they survived.
– The random nature of starting point, item placement, and safe area reduction lends the battle royale genre to challenge players to think and react quickly and improve strategies throughout the match as to be the last man/team standing.
– In addition to standalone games, the battle royale concept may also be present as part of one of many game modes within a larger game, or may be applied as a user-created mod created for another game.
– There are various modifications that can be implemented atop the fundamentals of the battle royale. For example, Fortnite introduced a temporary mode in an event which is 50-versus-50 player mode in its Fortnite Battle Royale free-to-play game; players are assigned one of the two teams, and work with their teammates to collect resources and weapons towards constructing fortifications as the safe area of the game shrinks down, with the goal to eliminate all the players on the other team.


We bring to you the funniest clips from Comedy Circus Ka Naya Daur. So sit back and enjoy these acts by some of the best comedians in the industry.
After 4 years and 12 successful seasons, the veterans of Comedy Circus now pair up with fresh talent.This season sees a veteran paired with a celeb mentoring a team with a new talent and a celeb. The eliminations will be on the cumulative score of the veteran team and the new team.Unusual and rib-tickling combination of the old and new talent, comedy, and antics making for the perfect weekend viewing.


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3 ways coal is depleting the world's water resources
by Gan Yiwei
Source: Greenpeace
Last year, the city of Cape Town narrowly averted day zero – the day the city's water taps would run dry. Many of the city's four million residents patiently joined lines to receive their water ration, as the city desperately worked to restrict water usage in the weeks leading up to day zero.
While for some Capetonians, water rationing was something to adjust to, many residents and communities around the world have already been living day zero. Worldwide, half a billion people experience severe water scarcity 365 days out of the year.
There are many reasons for the global water crisis, and coal is one of them. In addition to polluting the air we breathe, it contaminates groundwater, pollutes streams and rivers, and is the single-biggest driver behind climate change.
From mining to combustion, coal depletes water resources at nearly every step of the process. Its devastating impact is visible worldwide.
1. Toxic water
Coal mining, washing and burning all release toxic chemicals and heavy metals into the environment, by the truckload. For every tonne of coal mined, between 1 and 2.5 cubic meters of groundwater is made unusable.
A Greenpeace investigation found that almost half of the rivers in Indonesia's South Kalimantan province are at risk from coal mining activities. These activities include open-cast mines, which can cause permanent damage to rivers and aquifers.
Even after coal mines are closed, they continue to be a source of acidic runoff, often tainted with toxic heavy metals like cadmium and cobalt. The acidity kills fish and other wildlife, and heavy metals from runoff accumulate in the bodies of animals that drink the water.
In addition, hazardous coal ash can coat crops in toxic chemicals, leach into groundwater and streams, and be transported hundreds of kilometers by strong winds. At some sites, wastewater from coal-fired power plants remains poorly treated, pouring a dangerous mix of carcinogens into the environment.
2. Less water for farming
A 500 MW coal-fired power plant with once-through cooling uses enough water to drain an Olympic swimming pool every three minutes. This is water that could instead be used for agriculture, drinking, and cooking.
During a severe drought in northeast India, millions of cubic meters of water that could have gone to crop irrigation and drinking water were instead diverted to coal-fired power plants.
A Greenpeace report revealed that India's government continued to build coal-fired power plants in areas facing water stress, worsening the crisis. Likewise in coal-rich northern China, massive coal bases are sucking up precious water resources, and nearby residents have reported wells running dry. In 2013, residents living near one coal-to-chemical project said that it was no longer possible to grow crops in the area due to sinking water levels.
"All the trees around here have already died. The grasslands have turned into deserts, and the dunes are expanding."
3. Worsening droughts
Coal is the single-biggest driver of climate change and was responsible for 40% of global fossil CO2 emissions in 2017.
While Australia has always experienced droughts, climate change is making them worse, and coal has a lot to do with this too.
In 2018, Australia experienced one of the worst droughts in its history. A quarter of the continent was drought declared in the second half of the year and rainfall levels in many areas dropped to record lows. In early 2019, following the extended drought, a stretch of river dried up, killing a million fish.
As the driest continent on Earth apart from Antarctica, Australia is extremely vulnerable to increasing droughts and bushfires, yet the coal industry drains over a hundred billion litres of water per year.
But there is a solution.
The good news is that clean energy sources like solar and wind require very little water, and are increasingly cheaper than coal.
Source: https://www.greenpeace.org.cn/co-benefits-of-wind-and-solar-power-in-china-report/
Wind and solar installations in water-stressed areas of northwest China have taken off in recent years. By 2015, wind and solar capacity had displaced 570 million m3 of water consumption in China, equivalent to the basic water consumption of 31.6 million people.
On a global scale, the problem is not whether there is enough water. It is about how water resources are managed and whether they are equitably distributed. There are many alternatives to fossil fuels, but for humans, there is no alternative to water.
For more information, visit the Greenpeace coal water map.
Gan Yiwei is a Global Coal Water Campaigner at Greenpeace East Asia
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We introduced you last week to a powerful tool for creating custom widgets on your Android device Homescreen, Zooper Widget. We kept it pretty simple, walking you through adding a basic clock widget using one of the many built-in templates, then changing a touch of color and some text. Let's take it to the next level this week and create our own widget from scratch.
Zooper Widget is one of the more popular apps used to create a totally unique design on your Android Homescreen. There are many users, sites and forums out there showing off just how elegant and beautiful the resulting designs can be. It is now your turn, we look forward to seeing what you can do with a few basic skills under your belt.
If you do not already have Zooper Widget installed on your device, you'll want to head over to the Google Play Store to get a copy. You can easily get by today with the free version, but I highly recommend splurging on the pro version for $2.49 if you think you will stick with Zooper Widget for design of your Android Homescreen.
Should you desire any custom artwork or images to use within your widget, it would be good to arrange them into a folder on your device now. Here is my wallpaper today and the image I use to build my widget, or check out this collection. As always, Zooper Widget allows you to come back to any widget at any time to make adjustments, so do not panic if you are unsure of the content you desire at this time. I also want to warn you now that we will be building a somewhat 'busy' widget, this is only to incorporate all of the elements, I expect most of your projects will subscribe to the 'less is more' philosophy, which is great, once you learn how to use the tools today.
As with any Zooper Widget implementation, we'll have to decide what size of widget we need and add it to our Homescreen. Remember that if your Launcher allows it, you can just add a 1×1 widget and resize to fit later. We covered the steps required in last week's custom clock widget article.
Once your empty widget is sized and positioned, tap it to start.
You may now make any edits to the general widget settings, see Color Tool and other important settings from last week if you need a refresher.
Text: fully customizable text element that can be static text or dynamic based upon many triggers.
Rich Text: Similar to Text, but adds multi-line support and text margins.
Rect(angle): Although it says rectangle shapes, they can be rounded into circles too. Do not underestimate this element, it can make or break your widget design.
Scalable Icon Set: Battery or Weather icon sets in a single color, infinitely scalable vector graphics.
Bitmap Icon Set: Battery or Weather icon sets in a colorful design. Limited scalable Raster graphics.
Progress Bar: A customizable and dynamic progress bar to show a values as a percentage of a total.
Bitmap: An image from your device. Supports most common image formats, including jpg, png, bmp and more.
I invite you to follow along as we walk through most of the above elements to build a fun little widget that displays a good amount of relevant information for your normal daily grind.
Text elements in Zooper Widget are very versatile, you can adjust many visual aspects of them from color and size through to drop shadows, angles and curvature. The text displayed can be static text that you set, or, more commonly, can pull from hundreds of aspects of your device and the web. Dynamic text can include things like the time, battery levels, weather and temperature information, network signal strength, information about recent calls or sms messages, CPU frequencies, Calendar events sunrise/sunset times and more.
Beyond Zooper Widget's own accessible metrics, Zooper can be configured to gather information from Tasker variables, but we'll talk about that powerhouse combination next week.
Tap "+ADD" in the top menu and add a Text element. The default Text element will place the time in center position with white text.
Change the Size (Text font size) of the Text so that the clock is roughly one-third the width of your overall widget. Simply tap the right arrow and watch it change in the design preview window at the top of the screen.
Feel free to change up the Text Font Family at this time, keeping in mind you may need to re-adjust your font size afterward. Head back to How to make basic adjustments to a text element for more information on how that is done.
Adjust the Y Offset value so that the clock sits about half of its own height from the top of your widget. Tap the left arrow, this will create a negative value, such as -73.
Tap the system back button to go back to the widget Layout screen. That completes a basic Text element, let's try another one, a little more advanced.
Tap "+ADD" in the top menu and add another Text element.
Delete the existing content in the text box at the top, which should read #DHH#:#Dmm#.
We want to now create a date string, this can be done by either manually typing the required code, or, thankfully, by choosing the elements from the list provided.
Tap the down arrow beside Date.
Choose the individual elements in the order in which you desire them to appear. If required, head back into the text box at the top and add any necessary punctuation.
Tap OK to return to editing the Text element.
Change the font, if desired.
Change the Size of the text to be about two-thirds your overall widget width, or, double the width of your time element.
Change the Y Offset value so that your date string sits just below your time element.
Tap the system back button to go back to the widget Layout screen.
We are now finished with our text elements, but do not exit yet. Next we'll add a Series element.
Tap the "+ADD" button in the top menu and choose Series.
The Series element is based only on dates and the battery at this time. The default Series element places the days of the week in order vertically with the current day in larger and bolded text.
Change the Series Type to Battery.
There are two Font sections in a Series. The Default Font is for the text that is not highlighted, and Selected Item Font, as the name suggests, is the highlighted text. Change the Text Font Family for either of these now, if desired.
Change the Default Font Size to a rather small size, about a quarter the size of your Date string. I have set mine to 12.
Change the Selected Item Font Size to about the same size as the Date string, or maybe slightly larger. I have mine set to 24.
Adjust the Y Offset of the Series so that the top of it is a little above the center of your widget, and the bottom sits about one-eighth above the bottom. Or roughly a space at the bottom the size of your Time element. It is very likely that you will have to go back and adjust your Text Size settings so that the overall size of your Series fits within the described area.
Tap the "+ADD" button in the top menu and choose Scalable Icon Set.
Change the Iconset from Default Weather Icons to Battery Icons Filled.
Rotate the icon to -90, so that it is fully upright.
Feel free to change the Size, but keep the icon smaller than your time text.
Adjust the X Offset to the left, try to get the icon about 1/4 of the widget width from the left edge.
Tap the system back button to return to the widget Layout screen.
Tap the "+ADD" button in the top menu and choose Bitmap Icon Set.
Change the Iconset from Default Battery Icons to ZW Weather Icons.
Change the Size, if needed, to try to match the overall size of your battery Scalable Icon.
Adjust the X Offset to the right, try to get the icon about 1/4 of the widget width from the right edge.
Tap the "+ADD" button in the top menu and choose Progress Bar.
Tap on Edit Progress Min/Max/Value.
Tap the checkmark in the top menu to confirm the changes.
Adjust the X Offset so that the left edge of your progress bar is close to the center of the battery Scalable Icon on the left.
Change the Width of the progress bar so that the right edge reaches over to about the center of the weather Bitmap Icon.
Adjust the Y Offset so that the progress bar moves down. Stop so that the progress bar is covering the 20% indicator of your vertical battery Series that we created earlier.
We will now manage two settings together to create a rounding effect. Adjust Curving to a value of about -90. Then adjust Rotation to a value of about 45. The result should round the progress bar, and situate it evenly upright. The center of the progress bar should now be below the lower edge of the battery Series. Adjust these two values in opposite of each other, in small increments, until achieving the desired effect.
Change Spacing to a value of about 6.
Change Split to a value of 1.
Tap the system back button to go back to the widget Layout screen. The neat thing about this particular Progress Bar, is that it will give you a quick and discreet indication of the signal strength of the WiFi network that you are connected to. You may not desire to see this, so go ahead and play around with the various Min/Max/Value settings until you have something important to you.
You should now have what looks slightly like a happy face. Let's bring it all together then.
We will create two Rect elements, the first will be a true rectangle, then we'll create a circle.
Tap the "+ADD" button in the top menu and select Rect.
Increase the Width and Height settings until you have a square, or rectangle, that completely fills your widget area.
Change the Color to something that will nicely compliment your Homescreen. This will be the main color of your widget. You will likely have to come back here later to change the color again, so do not worry if you don't have something in mind, but please do change it to something other than white for now.
Tap the system back button to go back to the widget Layout screen. Simple squares and rectangles really are that easy.
Select the checkbox to the right of our newly created Rect element.
In the top menu, select Clone, which may be an icon of stacked rectangles with a + symbol on them.
The new Rect element has been created with the exact same settings as the previous.
Go ahead and start by changing the color to something different, any color is fine, as long as it is different than the previous Rect element.
Increase the Corners value until the Rect becomes round. You should find that at about 120 you have a perfect circle/oval. Go ahead and push beyond that to about 200 for our purposes.
Change the Width and Height until they are equal, this will create a perfect circle.
If all you want is a circle, you would stop here. We have something more in mind for this design however, so please proceed.
Now, increase both the Width and Height equally until they are roughly 30% larger than your largest widget dimension. For example, if the longest side of your widget is 210, make this Rect element about 280. This should completely fill the widget, or leave just tiny spaces in the corners.
Gradually increase the Outline setting until you have a circle that fully fits just inside your shortest widget edge. I expect your value should reach 150 or higher, so feel free to manually enter a larger number, then continue with the arrow buttons as needed.
Finally, change the Drawing Mode to Clear. What we have done by setting the drawing mode to clear is to designate that area as transparent. You will notice that your first Rect element is visible, but only the perfect circle in the middle.
The last thing we need to do is change the order of our elements so that our Rect element is not blocking all of our other work.
From the Layout screen, tap and hold the up/down arrow icon on the left hand side of your first rect Element. This will activate it for order arrangement. Go ahead and slide the Rect to the top of our elements list. As elements are drawn in order from this list, the result will place all of your other elements on top of the Rect you've created.
You may feel like going back in to make small adjustments to some, or most, of the elements you've created, please do so. Zooper Widget design should be a fluid experience. You may come back to change colors based on new wallpapers, change fonts based on how you're feeling that day, and more. I encourage continual tweaking until you either have the perfect widget, or are prepared to start a new one from scratch.
Before calling it a day, the design we've created gets the job done, but it needs a little oomph. Let's go ahead and add an image, play with some drawing modes and give the widget a clickable action.
Tap the "+ADD" button in the top menu and select Bitmap.
Scroll down and tap on Bitmap to pick a bitmap, or image, from your device gallery.
From the file chooser dialog that pops up, search for and tap on your desired image. The image can live on your device, perhaps in that designated folder you created before beginning today, or even online through your Google+ Photos or Google Drive storage.
Adjust the Scale of the photo until it fits your needs. Certainly it should be made to completely cover the circle area in your widget.
Adjust the X Offset and Y Offset values as desired to move your image into place.
As we did with the first Rect element, tap and hold the up/down arrow icon on the left of the Bitmap and slide the Bitmap up almost to the top of the list. We want your first Rect element to be first, this Bitmap second.
If you find your text hard to read, or that almost any other element blends into the background, consider changing its color or adding a drop shadow. To add a drop shadow, change the value for Blur, I usually go to about 6, then change both the Shadow X Offset and Shadow Y Offset, I go to about 2 each. Now, even if your text is white and your background is white, you should be able to see your item a little more clearly. Check out the highlighted areas in the image below.
In the above, we used two drawing modes, Normal and Clear. As indicated, Normal displays the element in the chosen color, and Clear creates a fully transparent space so that you can see your Homescreen wallpaper in the background. The final Drawing Mode is called XOR. XOR will turn overlapping elements into full transparency, but will show as normal when on its own.
There is also an Opacity setting available for Bitmap and Bitmap Icon Set elements, the default is 100, which shows the item in full clarity, adjust that down to apply a transparency effect. For our design, if you apply transparency to the Bitmap image, you may want to delete the first Rect element, this way you'll be able to see your Homescreen wallpaper instead of the solid color of the Rect. But be sure to play with it to see what looks best.
Utilizing almost every available element in the Zooper Widget arsenal, here is the custom widget we have created today. It is not perfect, but I suspect you'll adjust yours to look even better.
It is possible in the Pro version of Zooper Widget to assign actions that will take place when you tap an element of your widget. For example, you could make it so that tapping on the weather icon opens your favorite weather application. Did you know that tap actions and Text elements can go beyond that of what is built into Zooper Widget? Zooper Widget has the ability to both pull information from Tasker to display as Text, and push actions to Tasker to trigger a task. Tasker is a powerful app that allows you to take near complete control of your device. Tasker also gathers information about nearly any event, setting, and more of your device, which can then be displayed on your Zooper Widget widget.
I offer the challenge to any interested to use Zooper Widget and Tasker to create a customized control panel that changes your volume, screen brightness and toggles on/off your wireless internet. There are many ways to tackle all this, we'll show you an example next week. Bonus points if you can make the widget display an icon indicating when headphones have been plugged in.
Share with us screenshots of the widgets you've created using the skills above, we are always interested to see the results of your custom handy work.