For a fact, the development of a country is fast-tracked when citizens are independent, confident and have high self-esteem, all of which are provided through education.
The world over, it is people with knowledge in fields such as IT, agriculture and the economy who have brought about reforms to revolutionise their communities to enjoy better living standards.
It is partly for this that Article 25 1(b) of the 1992 Constitution says that secondary education in its different forms, including technical and vocational education, shall be made generally available and accessible to all by every appropriate means.
To ensure the rapid development of the country, and by extension meet the constitutional requirement, the current government, on assumption of office, took the bold and important decision, unprecedented in the history of the country, to introduce free senior high school (SHS) education.
The policy, which was started in the 2017/2018 academic year, has seen huge numbers of students seeking admission to SHSs, stretching resources and facilities to their elastic limits.
In the wake of this development, the double-track system has been proposed and it, certainly, is the way to go for now.
On Tuesday, the Minister of Education, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, at a press briefing, announced that as part of the effort to ensure accessibility for qualified candidates, the Ministry of Education would adopt the semester system for SHSs from the next academic year, as against the three-term academic calendar the country has been used to over the years.
As is often the case with the introduction of any new policy, the Daily Graphic expects the expression of divergent views from the citizenry. For us, our concern is that many a time debates on important policies are so politicised and sectionalised that we tend to lose out on the benefits.
As we highly commend the government for focusing on the free SHS education for our teeming future generation, we are worried about signals received across the country that suggest that discussions and consultations on the double-track system announced earlier have not been exhaustive enough.
An important stakeholder in education such as the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) has complained about the government's failure to consult with the association. It has thus said it does not support the double-track system.
Similar concerns have been raised by seasoned educationists, some members of the clergy and civil society organisations.
Now that the government plans to adopt the semester system in the next academic year, we implore it to broaden consultations on the plan, so that together we can all fashion the best way possible for our educational sector to get the best for the children, who are the future of the country.


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Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life imprisonment on this day in 1964
Francis Akhalbey Jun 12, 2019 at 07:00am
June 12, 2019 at 07:00 am | History
Photo Credit: Peter Magubane
On this day in 1964, anti-apartheid activist and former South African president Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty of sabotaging and planning a violent revolution against the apartheid government in the famous Rivonia Trial.
On this day, 12 June 1964 #NelsonMandela and seven others were sentenced to life imprisonment for sabotage in the Rivonia Trial pic.twitter.com/FmuUymJLUm
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On July 11, 1963, the police raided Liliesleaf Farm in Rivonia, Johannesburg which was the hideout of some key African National Congress members taking with them supposed evidence of plans by Mandela and others to sabotage and lead a violent revolution against the apartheid government. Keep in mind that Mandela was already serving a five-year jail term on charges of leaving South Africa without permission and also instigating workers to go on strike.
Liliesleaf Farm
Though the Rivonia Trial, which took place between October 9, 1963, and June 12, 1964, was strongly condemned by recognized international organizations including the United Nations and the World Peace Council, it still proceeded and eventually found Mandela together with the other accused guilty. Nelson Mandela
The Palace of Justice, Pretoria: Where Mandela and the other accused were tried
Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life imprisonment alongside seven others. The prosecution pushed for a death sentence but the presiding judge opted for life imprisonment. Nelson Mandela
Below are some photos of the trial:
Photo Credit: Alf Kumalo
Winnie Mandela outside the court — Photo Credit: Pretoria News Library
Protestors outside the court — Photo Credit: Pretoria News Library

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What is Great Britain, United Kingdom, England?
23rd July 2015 by Andrew 8 Comments
In this article, I answer some of the most common questions English learners have regarding the geography and politics behind the countries that make up Great Britain and The United Kingdom:
What is the difference between Great Britain and the United Kingdom?
What countries make up Great Britain and the UK?
Where is Scotland? Where is Wales? Where is England?!
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Great Britain is an island in Western Europe. It is in fact the largest island in Europe and the 9th largest island in the world.
Politically, Great Britain is made up of 3 individual countries:
It also includes islands such as the Isle of Wight, Anglesey, the Isles of Scilly, the Hebrides and the island groups of Orkney and Shetland.
It does not include the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands which are self-governing.
In the sections below, you can see where the 3 countries (England, Scotland and Wales) are located within Great Britain:
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England is the largest country of Great Britain with a surface area of 130,395 km2 and the population is 53 million.
The capital of England is London which is in the South East of the country.
The official language is English.
Scotland has a surface area of 78,387 km2 and the population is just over 5 million.
The capital of Scotland is Edinburgh and the largest city is Glasgow.
The official language is English and there are also 2 recognised regional languages: Scots language and Scottish Gaelic.
Wales has a surface area of 20,779 km2 and the population is just over 3 million.
The capital of Wales is Cardiff.
The official languages are Welsh and English.
The full name of the United Kingdom is "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland". It is often abbreviated to UK.
The United Kingdom is made up of:
Great Britain (see the definition above)
In the map below, you can clearly see where Northern Ireland is location in relation to the rest of the United Kingdom:
Northern Ireland has a surface area of 14,130 km2 and the population is approximately 1.8 million.
The capital (and also largest city) of Northern Ireland is Belfast.
The official language is English and there are also 2 regional languages: Irish and Ulster Scots.
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The meaning of my bike's name... - When pigs fly.
Empire City, M.C.'s Annual Biker's Weekend is nearly upon us. This is a free event that we hold each year. It features a motorcycle blessing & christening ceremony and a guided ride from NYC to a free pool party & picnic in New Jersey! (If you want to come to our free events, all you need is to register at http://www.empirecitymc.com/ -- click the link for the Biker Weekend.
In an effort to foster excitement about our upcoming Biker's Weekend, I present the story of Sabazios (whom my bike is named after).
My bike was christened 22 July 2004 by Mark in Lincoln, NH at ECMC's 40th Anniversary Run. It was a special ceremony where several bikes were christened 'ad hoc', a new motorcycle purchase was made over that week - the ECMC member's former bike was handed down to another member all in the same week! Sadly, I was unable to attend ECMC's 2004 Bike Blessing & Biker's Picnic, as I was without a bike for a short period following my accident in the spring of 2004 until my new bike was assembled and ready for me about a month later).
Sabazios is the nomadic horseman sky and father god of the Phrygians. In Indo-European languages, such as Phrygian, the '-zios' element in his name goes back to Dyeus, the common precursor of 'deus' (god) and Zeus. Though the Greeks associated Phrygian Sabazios with Zeus, representations of him, even into Roman times, show him always on horseback, as a nomadic horseman god, wielding his characteristic staff of power.
It seems likely that the migrating Phrygians brought Sabazios with them when they settled in Anatolia (ca. 1200 BC?) and that the god's origins are to be looked for in Macedonia and western Thrace. The Macedonians were noted horseman, horse-breeders and horse-worshippers into the time of Philip II.
Early conflict between Sabazios and his followers and the indigenous Mother Goddess of Phrygia (Cybele) is reflected in Homer's brief reference to the youthful feats of Priam, who aided the Phrygians in their battles with Amazons. An aspect of the compromise religious settlement, similar to the other such mythic adjustments throughout Aegean culture, can be read in the later Phrygian King Gordias' adoption 'with Cybele' of Midas. Later Greek mythographers reduced Cybele's role to 'wife,' but initially Gordias will have been ruling in the Goddess's name, as her visible representative.
One of the Mother Goddess's creatures was the Lunar Bull. Sabazios' relations with the goddess may be surmised in the way that his horse places a hoof on the head of the bull, in a Roman marble relief at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Though Roman in date, the iconic image appears to be much earlier.
More "rider god" steles are at the Burdur Museum, in Turkey. Under the Roman Emperor Gordian III the god on horseback appears on coins minted at Tlos, in neighboring Lycia, and at Istrus, in the province of Lower Moesia, between Thrace and the Danube. It is generally thought that the young emperor's grandfather came from an Anatolian family, because of his unusual cognomen, Gordianus.
Sabazios on coins, illustrated in M. Halkam collection.
The iconic image of the god or hero on horseback battling the chthonic serpent, on which his horse tramples, appears on Celtic votive columns, and with the coming of Christianity it was easily transformed into the image of Saint George and the dragon.
The naturally syncretic approach of Greek religion blurred distinctions. Later Greek writers, like Strabo, 1st century AD, linked Sabazios with Zagreos, among Phrygian ministers and attendants of the sacred rites of Rhea and Dionysos. (Strabo, 10.3.15). Strabo's Sicilian contemporary, Diodorus Siculus, conflates Sabazios with the secret 'second' Dionysus, born of Zeus and Persephone (Diodorus Siculus, 4.4.1). The Clement of Alexandria had been informed that the secret mysteries of Sabazius, as practiced among the Romans, involved a serpent, a chthonic creature unconnected with the mounted skygod of Phrygia: "'God in the bosom' is a countersign of the mysteries of Sabazius to the adepts, " Clement reports (Protrepticus, 1, 2, 16). "This is a snake, passed through the bosom of the initiates".
Much later, the Greek encyclopedia, Sudas (10th century?), flatly states "Sabazios... is the same as Dionysos. He acquired this form of address from the rite pertaining to him; for the barbarians call the bacchic cry 'sabazein'. Hence some of the Greeks too follow suit and call the cry 'sabasmos'; thereby Dionysos [becomes] Sabazios. They also used to call 'saboi' those places that had been dedicated to him and his Bacchantes... Demosthenes [in the speech] 'On Behalf of Ktesiphon' [mentions them]. Some say that Saboi is the term for those who are dedicated to Sabazios, that is to Dionysos, just as those [dedicated] to Bakkhos [are] Bakkhoi. They say that Sabazios and Dionysos are the same. Thus some also say that the Greeks call the Bakkhoi Saboi." (Suidas, under 'Sabazios,' 'saboi') 'Barbarian' is instructive here: a non-Greek-speaking Phrygian was considered a barbarian, but no Greek ever referred to a Cretan as a 'barbarian'.
"Cnaeus Cornelius Hispalus, praetor peregrinus in the year of the consulate of Marcus Popilius Laenas and Lucius Calpurnius, ordered the astrologers by an edict to leave Rome and Italy within ten days, since by a fallacious interpretation of the stars they perturbed fickle and silly minds, thereby making profit out of their lies. The same praetor compelled the Jews, who attempted to infect the Roman custom with the cult of Jupiter Sabazius, to return to their homes."
The date corresponds to 139 BC.
This mistaken connection of Sabazios and Sabaoth has often been repeated. In a similar vein, Plutarch (Symposium. iv. 6) naively maintained that the Jews worshipped Dionysus, and that the day of Sabbath was a festival of Sabazius. No modern reader would confuse Yahweh with Dionysus or Sabazius. Plutarch also discusses the identification of the Jewish god with the "Egyptian" (actually archaic Greek) Typhon, an identification which he later rejects, however.
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Nonprofit works to offer free flu shots and raise awareness
By: Maddie Forshee | West Bloomfield Beacon | Published November 16, 2017
Alana Yaksich
WEST BLOOMFIELD — Alana Yaksich, a West Bloomfield resident, was an average 5-year-old on Feb. 1, 2003. She spent the day with her family, watching movies and eating ice cream alongside her brothers.
That evening, Alana developed a high fever and was rushed to the hospital. Within hours, Alana died from swelling and injury to her brain due to flu complications.
In 2003, it wasn't recommended that a child Alana's age get a flu vaccination.
"After she passed away, I started to educate myself more about the issue," said Zachary Yaksich, Alana's father and executive director of Alana's Foundation. "I decided that I was going to make something positive out of a tragedy."
What happened to her could happen to any child, he said, and that's the reason her family set out to make sure people know the importance of the flu vaccination.
"I wanted to stop this happening from other parents," said Yaksich. "I wanted to teach others how dangerous the flu is and how important the flu vaccine is."
Yaksich said he began educating others informally, hosting workshops and vaccination clinics at Alana's old school and at church groups.
"During that time, I was watching people bring their families in to get vaccinated, and they were picking and choosing on who in the family would get vaccinated," said Yaksich. "They couldn't afford for the whole family (to get vaccinated)."
Yaksich and his family established Alana's Foundation in 2009.
"I wanted to help them overcome the barrier of payment," he said. "So I could legally raise money and help defer the cost or eliminate the cost."
Since the nonprofit was established, the recommendations surrounding flu shots changed to include that every person 6 months and older receive an annual flu vaccination.
Alana's Foundation serves to educate communities about the importance of the flu vaccine and the dangers of the flu, as well as to provide free vaccinations to community members in West Bloomfield and metro Detroit.
Yaksich said he speaks to various schools and different community outreach programs, including the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. In the past, he has spoken with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan.
This year, the nonprofit is hosting the Caring Crowd fundraiser and is working with Johnson & Johnson to match every dollar donated.
The foundation works with local clinics to provide free flu shots, like Street Medicine and Cass Clinic, both based in Detroit. Clinics can write in grant requests to Alana's Foundation, and the nonprofit will provide the funds for free vaccinations.
"We pride ourselves in being able to provide flu vaccinations at no cost to our patients," said Adriana Clap, a student coordinator who works with Cass Clinic, a student-run free clinic that serves Detroit's underserved population. "We couldn't run a successful flu vaccination program without the help of Alana's Foundation."
Alana's Foundation hosts the College and University Flu Challenge to encourage college students to get vaccinated.
"We found out that college-age students are the lowest vaccinated group for all vaccines, especially the flu," said Yaksich. "College students are at that age where they feel invincible. If they have an extra $20 or $25, they're not going to spend it on a flu shot."
The program started in 2014, and 14 schools participated. Since then, the program has expanded to include 31 schools nationally.
The nonprofit sponsors a similar program in the Catholic schools in metro Detroit.
Yaksich said he's glad that Alana's Foundation provides a human aspect to a common sickness that many people don't think much of.
"We all hear statistics, whether it's drunk driving or texting or the flu," he said. "But as humans, it goes in one ear and out the other. ... We don't think about it. (Alana's Foundation) has the story, and that's the impact Alana's Foundation has."
In the midst of flu season, Yaksich encourages everyone to take the common sense approach to the flu — wash your hands, don't touch your face and keep away from people who are sick — but the most important thing, he said, is to "get yourself vaccinated and get your family vaccinated."
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Paul Stastny Coming To St. Louis
When I first heard about the acquisition of Paul Stastny by the St. Louis Blues, one thing came to my mind. How do they pull it off? Did Blues GM Doug Armstrong enlist St. Louis native Jon Hamm to dress up as Don Draper and make the killer pitch to Stastny's group? How did this deal go down? Blues couldn't be more excited about the 29 year old center coming to town to play for the Blues. There are reasons this deal blindsided local fans.
For the last few seasons, Doug Armstrong and the Blues haven't been big free agent spenders. When the clock struck 11 a.m. today here in St. Louis, no one knew what the Blues were going to do. Did a trade for Ottawa's Jason Spezza make more sense of the hometown team or was there a chance the team could grab hometown kid Paul Stastny? On Monday, Stastny trimmed his list down of potential suitors and the Blues were on that short stack of teams. Today's free agency kicked off and didn't take long before big deals started happening. Spezza went to the Stars in a huge 6 player deal. Ryan Miller found a new place to tend goal in Vancouver. James Neal found a new home. Before the clock struck high noon in the Midwest, the Blues signed Stastny to a 4 year deal worth 28 million.
Upon his signing, Stastny said that he had to go with his gut and he didn't regret coming to St. Louis, the place where his Hall of Fame father Peter retired his career for. Stastny took less money and years to come to St. Louis. Armstrong didn't need Hamm, Draper, or any additional leverage than a solid deal and a Blues jersey to lure Stastny in. Once he made the decision to not return to Colorado, Stastny more than likely looked at the Arch City hockey team and decided to come home.
Stastny broke into the league in 2006-07, scoring 28 goals and 78 points. He added 79 in 2007-08 and has averaged right around 70 points per season for his entire career. With the exception of the lockout season in 2012-13, Stastny has played less than 66 games only once and is a durable player, which was a warning sign on the potential Spezza trade.
Stastny tallied 10 points and 5 goals in the playoffs this past spring and will only get better when placed in this system of Blues that already enlists a strong balanced presence. Stastny isn't going to be crowned the savior of the Blues simply because he is the hometown kid, makes the most money on the team and has the reputation of a two way player who can elevate a team. He is being brought here to secure the final piece of the puzzle for a team so close to being a legit Stanley Cup contender. The last two playoff exits looked like a goaltender mismatch at first glance but when one looked closer, the Blues simply couldn't score enough to advance. Stastny will fill that void and only make the players around him better as well. The Blues big find at center last offseason was Derek Roy. This summer, Armstrong is leaving nothing to chance.
One must tip their cap to Armstrong. He has quietly improved this team and took some risks. He brought over Jay Bouwmeester to fortify the defense and bring that big presence back to blue line. He made the blockbuster trade for Miller and while it didn't pay off, one must respect the gamble the GM took in taking that shot for his team. Now, Armstrong lands Stastny and one can only hope the Blues team turns this surprise into a celebration come next summer.
What exactly does the kid bring to the Blues? A legit center who can work on the top line or anchor the second line. Put Stastny anywhere and he is going to thrive and pump points into the other players around him. I am sorry Vladimir Sobotka fans but the Blues now have someone to truly inhabit that role and Sobe can go back to being the key utility player that Ken Hitchcock needs.
It would be quite the fit to slip Stastny in between Jaden Schwartz and Vladimir Tarasenko on the second line and let them wreak havoc on opposing clubs. Stastny could also work on the top line and slide David Backes over to wing and move Alex Steen or T.J. Oshie to the second line. Hitch has options and Armie has given them to him with a goal in mind. Win the cup. For the St. Louis Blues and their fans, that is the message every single season.
With Paul Stastny on board, that dream seems a little closer.
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Which Rihanna 'ANTI' Song Should You Listen To First? Fans Have Declared A Winner
By Joseph D. Lyons
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Just last night, the pop star dropped her long awaited album, and already there's one Rihanna song on ANTI you've got to hear. Fans have been waiting three years for new tunes from the Barbadian singer, and they won't be disappointed. In fact, many have already downloaded the album and decided they can't get enough of "Kiss It Better," posting their enthusiastic praise and approval on social media.
This was an early present to RiRi fans. The entire album appeared to have been accidentally leaked on the free streaming service Tidal, which Rihanna co-owns, because it was quickly taken down without a word. That didn't last long, though, and the album is now officially out and exclusively on the platform. A deluxe version will be released on Friday. If you move quickly, you can even get the album for free. Rihanna and Samsung have given out a limited number of free promo codes to use on Tidal, too.
However you get the music, you're going to want to listen to this track first. "Kiss It Better" must be about wanting someone back. Billboard calls it "a mid-tempo anthem rife with electric guitars and a straight-ahead chorus." The lyrics to the chorus do seem rather innocent and straightforward.
What are you willing to do?Oh, tell me what you're willing to do?Kiss it, kiss it better, baby
But when you get to the verses, you're going to want to know who the song is about. These are not the descriptions of a perfect, happy relationship but one with high highs and low lows.
Been waiting on that sunshineBoy, I think I need that backCan't do it like thatNo one else gonna get it like thatSo I argue, you yell, had to take me backWho cares when it feels like crack?
Even if they don't know who it's about, the new song is crack to Rihanna's fans. Their Twitter posts dedicated to the track are intense.
The fandom has spoken, and it doesn't get any better than "Kiss It Better." She's talking about an ex, sure, but a real fan can relate.
I've been waiting up all nightBaby, tell me what's wrongGo on and make it rightMake it all night long
Rihanna made the three-year wait for the album right with the release, and I'm sure there were more than a few listening way into the wee hours. Make sure to check this jam out. You can find the album on Tidal here.


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Landschaft nach der Schlacht ist ein polnischer Spielfilm von Andrzej Wajda aus dem Jahre 1970. Der Film entstand nach Motiven aus den Konzentrationslager-Erzählungen von Tadeusz Borowski.

Handlung

Der Film spielt in einem Konzentrationslager in Deutschland, das kurz zuvor durch die Amerikaner befreit wurde. Das Lager wird jetzt als DP-Lager von den Amerikanern geführt. Die Insassen leiden nicht mehr unter dem Terror der Nazis und unter der unmenschlichen Zwangsarbeit. Dennoch sind sie weiterhin Insassen eines Lagers und orientierungslos. Die Suche nach Essbarem und neuen Kleidern beschäftigt sie. Einer dieser Orientierungslosen ist der junge polnische Dichter Tadeusz. Er ist irritiert von seinen Landsleuten, die gerade die schrecklichsten Dinge überlebt haben, aber schon wieder einen politischen, patriotischen Streit vom Zaun brechen. Das Einzige, was sie miteinander verbindet, ist der ständige Hunger und der Wunsch, sich satt zu essen. Sensiblen Intellektuellen wie Tadeusz ist das primitive Verhalten seiner Landsleute jedoch ein Gräuel.

Unter den Befreiten ist auch das hübsche jüdische Mädchen Nina. Auch sie ist Polin, muss aber schnell erkennen, dass die Religion sie genauso von ihren Landsleuten trennt wie zuvor. Die polnischen Männer des Lagers empfindet sie als abstoßend. Einzig Tadeusz scheint anders zu sein, und so entwickelt sich in dieser absurden Niemandslandsituation eine zärtliche Liebesgeschichte. Tadeusz tut sich jedoch schwer damit, unter diesen Umständen eine normale Beziehung zu beginnen. Nina möchte mit ihm in den Westen fliehen, da sie in einem zukünftigen Polen keine Zukunft für sich sieht. Tadeusz ist jedoch zu keiner Entscheidung fähig, da er nach dem Überleben noch kein Rezept für ein Alltagsleben im Frieden gefunden hat. Tadeusz zögert mit seiner Entscheidung, und der Tod entscheidet wieder einmal für sein weiteres Leben. Nina wird versehentlich durch einen amerikanischen Wachposten erschossen.

Die polnischen Patrioten im Lager veranstalten eine Jahrestagsfeier zum Gedenken an die Schlacht bei Grunwald. Tadeusz entscheidet sich schließlich, nach Polen zurückzukehren.

Musik

Wajda benutzte neben der Originalmusik von Konieczny, der auch ein Lied zu Gedichten von Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński beisteuerte, klassische Musik zur Untermalung seiner apokalyptischen Bilder: Die vier Jahreszeiten von Antonio Vivaldi und die Polonaise As-Dur von Frédéric Chopin.

Kritiken

Auszeichnungen
Der Film Landschaft nach der Schlacht wurde zum Wettbewerb der Filmfestspiele von Cannes 1970 eingeladen. Er erhielt jedoch hier keine Auszeichnung. In Polen wurde er von der Filmzeitschrift film 1971 zum besten Film des Jahres 1970 gewählt.

Weblinks

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Einzelnachweise

Filmtitel 1970
Polnischer Film
Zweiter Weltkrieg im Film
Literaturverfilmung
Kriegsfilm
Andrzej Wajda

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Lovely Moto Guzzi at last year's Barber Festival.
Summer's here, which means it's time to plan for fall and the 8th Annual Barber Vintage Festival at the Barber Vintage Motorsports Park Oct. 12-14, 2012. There really aren't enough superlatives to describe this event or its locale, home to the world-famous Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum. Launched in 2005, the Barber Vintage Festival is the unofficial season-ending event on the vintage calendar and the premier vintage motorcycle event in the country.
Last year's festival was blessed with unbelievably perfect weather and a revved up activity calendar, which combined to produce record crowds — easily 50,000 people — over the event's three days. In previous years, things didn't really get moving till Saturday, but last year it felt like somebody let the genie out of the bottle, because the festival was in full swing first thing Friday morning. The way this event keeps growing, you can bet there will be even more going on this year than ever before, if that's really possible.
And evidently it is, because in addition to the regular roster of happenings like vintage AHRMA racing, a killer swap meet, a Saturday vintage bike auction, tech seminars, the American Motordrome Co. Wall of Death motorcycle stunt show, the Race of the Century for motorcycles 100 years old and older, the Aeroshell Aerobatic Team, and of course the Motorcycle Classics/Dairyland Cycle Barber Vintage Motorcycle Show, we've heard rumors of a planned Motogiro on Thursday before the festival officially opens. Vintage Triumphs will hold center stage at the Motorcycle Classics tent as the featured marque in our show, and Triumph Motorcycles is the official sponsor of the Barber Vintage Festival, which means the Triumph demo van should be on hand with free rides.
Even with all that, there are still a few vintage bike fans who haven't taken in this great weekend, so for the third year in a row we've teamed up with Barber to give away a pair of tickets to the Vintage Festival. The winners — it's a prize meant for two — will get a pair of passes to the 8th Annual Barber Vintage Festival, plus weekend passes to the Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum, two nights lodging and front row tickets to the Barber classic bike auction, not to mention cool swag like festival T-shirts and caps. Getting there is your responsibility, but if you're our winner, once you're there you'll be pretty much taken care of for the entire weekend. Pretty sweet deal if you ask us. Point your browser to the 2012 Barber Vintage Festival Sweepstakes and sign up now.


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Films That Scared You Sh**less as a Kid
By InsideOutBoy,
January 25, 2012 in Film, TV & Radio
Dame Orbette
War of the Worlds (1953) gave me nightmares for around three months when I was little. My dad always had the album on in the car so seeing it on screen, kind of, messed up my mind.
The remake gave me nightmares too but for entirely different reasons.
Labyrinth - Still scared of David Bowie to this very day
I.T - Responsible for my fear of clowns (well along with my mother putting a clown figure on my chair when I went out the room, while watching)
Watership Down - Yep, it bloody frightened me.
thebigbadwolf
I remember watching The Exorcist for the first time, I think it was when it was finally unbanned and was shown on Channel 4?
My dad let me watch it and later fell asleep in the sofa behind my chair, before that he told me I'd have nightmares and I'd regret it, I was lucky enough to not receive any nightmares and not regret it, however I was scared shitless and honestly believed that girl was possesed by the devil. I stayed awake a long while after.
The film has always stayed with me, I still consider it to be the second scariest film I've ever seen. Simply because when you can turn off the lateral thinking part of your brain, and just think "this girl is possesed" it seems very real, and very scary.
We once had a conversation with my brother aswell and how he didn't find the film scary, more laughable & we came upon the subject of ones imagination and how the film can increase certain fears from the length of ones imagination, I believe that to be true.
I think that's why some people laugh at the Exorcist, while others find it horrifying.
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (the original 1973 version) frightened the living bejeezus out of me when I was little.
Quatermass and the Pit - the film version - also scared me witless. The bit where the workman has forgotten his tools and goes back down into the underground station where the alien ship has been found...
Watching old 50s B movies also produced the occasional fright for the young me. It Came from Outer Sace for instance...
larrydavidsanger
Watership Down got me too, cartoons were supposed to be funny and light, not gory, explicit images of rabbits getting torn to pieces.
Although not a movie, this really fucked me up too when I was young
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD6YLl5I4RQ
Around about 10 minutes when the owl flies down. Funny watching it back there, I hadn't realised that you don't actually see any harm come to the frogs but my memory had them being killed by the owl with bits flying everywhere and lots of terrified frog children crying, my 5 year old mind must have filled in teh blanks and come up with that. I still don't trust owls today because of Rupert!
100% correct opinions
I recommend to you the next film from the same British animators: The Plague Dogs. What's that, poster? "Escape to a different world and share the adventure of a lifetime"? Yes, an adventure involving vivisection, accidental-death-by-shotgun, foxes being torn to shreds and general, horrifying tragedy.
Bloody good film, mind, but fuck me if it isn't miserable to watch. Makes Watership Down seem like the Sound of Music in comparison.
lying in bed, innocently scrolling down and see that pic - aghr!! I hate clowns
Salems Lot when I was about 7 gave me nightmares.
I saw Don't Look Now when I was 12 or so and the ending haunts me to this day.
Flams
In no certain order:
MAC and me
Harry and the Hendersons
All supposedly family friendly films that gave me sleepless nights because of the 'creature'. I still won't watch et and I'm 27, but I'm fine watching alien and films like that.
I caught event horizon on tv late one night when I was 10 and didn't sleep for about 4 or 5 nights. Scary stuff!
BossSaru
A wee bit traumatic when I was six.
Oh, and the bit when the head falls out of the sunken boat in Jaws. I thought it would be OK when I was 10 because the video we had of it had a PG certiciate on the cover. What the fucking fuck?
Not a film exactly, but this:
I was ten at the time. I fucking love The X Files. I'm watching it again on netflix with my fiancée (who hasn't seen it before) and it's still awesome. It's aged so well.
Not a film, but does anyone remember that show 'Strange but True?' Between that and watching X Files with my big brother I think I was convinced that aliens and monsters were real...
Michael Buerk, right?
Ah, it was Michael Aspel. Around the same time I remember a great interdimensional alien invasion show called Invasion Earth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Wfxi_65nOY
And ye, no-one slept that night. One of the best things the beeb ever did. I wish they'd troll their audience a bit more.
Yes!! I suddenly feel compelled to find episodes and watch it...although it'll probably seem incredibly corny now!
The Large Marge scene in Pee-Wee's Big Adventure. I loved the film up until that bit!
The "Lair of the Beast" task from The Twelve Tasks of Asterix (which unfortunately seems to be the only part of that film that's not on Youtube - not even in a foreign language).
Davros sock drawer
There's an old 50's movie that has a really creepy opening, can never remember the name of it. A kid sees a ship or something land near his house and runs off to find it over some sand dunes. When he comes back his parents are possessed/replicas, with little marks on their necks, I think. Anyway, had a really unsettling atmosphere, mainly in the way the surrounding areas of the house were shot.
But the first thing to actually scare me and give me nightmares?
WHERE'S MY CAKE BEDELIA! I WANT MY FATHER'S DAY CAKE!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4A4e3-5j3I
My first '18' was The Fly, followed by Aliens, when I was 12.
Thanks Dad.
Sounds like Invaders From Mars. Tobe Hooper did an equally unsettling remake with some very hideous puppets.
I got sent on one of these PGL type holidays as a 10 year old (or thereabouts) and on the evenings they'd play various films that were far too adult for the audience.
Alien was one, Saturday 14th was another but the cream of the crop was The Warriors. Not exactly scary, but bloody tense at the end
That's the fella Alex, just looked on Youtube. Weird atmosphere to it. Might have to watch it at some point.
That's Invaders from Mars Davros. And it scared me when I were wee also. Must point out. Original 50's not the remake
Classic sci-fi five, cassidy.
superquake
Film that terrified me: The Gate. A family have the gateway to hell in their back garden under a tree. Stuff starts happening (their dog dies, evil demons start appearing, loads of terrifying shit etc), and the kid (Steven Dorff?). The kid figures out what's happening and realises that his friend's heavy metal album (cursed, of course... all the members of the band died in tragic circumstances) has the explanation of what it all means on their album cover. Then I remember something about playing the record backwards, the house being over run by shitty stop-motion gremlin things, a massive shitty stop-motion demon, and some ghost thing based on one of the kid's dead parents shouting "YOU'VE BEEN BAAAAAD!"
I saw it when I was about 8 at a friend's house, it was the first horror film I'd seen and it terrified me. But at the same time I loved the stuff about the record playing backwards.
Then I saw it about 5 years ago and it was.... 'less' terrifying
TV that most upset me: I don't know what it's called, but in the early 80s I must have been 4 or 5 and remember being taken to pick a cartooon from our local video shop. I picked one, took it home and watched it and it ended up with my parents taking it back the next day and basically having a screaming match with the video shop guy because I was so traumatised. All I can remember was a guy (obviously the bad guy of the cartoon) coming to a door, he was tall and thin and I think he had a long cape. I think this was on earth, but I have a feeling it was mainly a space story. He was wanting information from a couple (man & woman I think) and threatened them with killing them. The couple then gave in and told him what they wanted to know, but the bad guy just laughed saying he was going to kill them anyway, and did. I can even feel to this day how horrified I was. I *think* it might be Battle of the Planets - it was that sort of late 70s / early 80s Japanese vibe, and seeing pictures of Zoltar online just gave me the cold shivers. If anyone can help me find what this was (if I could find that one scene I described it would be amazing) it would help lay some childhood demons to rest
Oh aye, Threads. They made us watch it at school as it was kind of educational.
Educated me that mankind is fucked.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2023790698427111488
Robocop gets my vote for the most frightened I've ever been as a child.
My Mum & Nan had no idea about BBFC ratings on VHS tapes and when I went into Woolworths I saw the Robocop video on a shelf. My parents said if I wanted the film, I had to put back the Gladiator Pugil sticks they had just brought me from another shop. I went with the Paul Verhoeven film instead. I was only about 7 years old.
Although the rest of the film is hard going, I never got to see any of it till years later as my parents had to rush in and press stop as Murphy was being torn to pieces during the opening.
It took me weeks to recover from that. The weekend after I was walking in from our dining room and caught out the corner of my eye a light blue tea cloth hanging on the washing line outside our window. In my child like imagination, it was not a tea cloth, it was Robocop's face as seen on the cover. My parents heard a terrified scream, came rushing in and found me hiding under the Sofa repeating that I had just seen Robocop.
Even as a 27 year old man and a huge fan of Robocop, I've never seen that torture scene fully.
Didn't get to see / wasn't allowed to see too many scary films when I was younger but I think we rented poltergeist on Betemax and I was fine with most of the film but there is one scene where the daughter has gone and all the spooky stuff is happening in her bedroom and they keep it closed. The mum walks past the door and opens it and there is a terrible scream, I hated that.
Also poltergeist 2 where that monster with the flappy arms appears. Not sure what its called but its 2 mins into this vid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKS_38uuFek
It's horrible, I still can't watch it. It's the delight that the baddies take in making him suffer that upsets me.
Yobo Ahoy
Ah, my first 18s were Robocop when I was 9 or 10. I remember being seriously shocked, and more than a little scared when ED-209 went all "drop the gun" near the beginning. Emil going "heeelllpp mmmeeeee ...uuunnnnnnggggghhhhh" stuck with me as well. But I fucking loved Robocop.
I was just going to post Robocop actually. Mainly the bit where Murphy gets fucked up (especially where he gets his hand blown off ... still makes me wince today) and weirdly I found it really unsettling when he took the visor thing off towards the end. I also stopped playing the C64 game because the game over screen was a picture of him all mangled in some some lab (sans visor) or something. Pretty freaky anyway.
Strangely I was fine with Emil melting. Nothing I hadn't seen before in Raiders Of The Lost Ark.
EDIT: Whoops, quoted wrong post. But yeah, point stands. Also the fact that my mate's dad looks like Clarence didn't help.
super_quincy
Poltergeist. Scared the crap outa me. It was the first time it was on Tv I wanted to watch it and my mum said "well.....ok"
The film looking back is still very unsettling. The thing that got me at the end was the fact the house developers built the project on a graveyard "you moved the gravestones BUT YOU DIDN'T MOVE THE GRAVES" My parents house backs onto a graveyard......
Did not sleep....for a week.


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