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L'eclisse
The typical descriptions of Michelangelo Antonioni's great L'eclisse make it sound like an unbearably dull affair, a true product of the 60s art film era. It's about "alienation," right? And disconnection, and the isolation of people from one another in the modern age. Given the typical critical wisdom surrounding Antonioni and this film, one could be forgiven for expecting a bracing, obtuse, rather chilly affair, a humorless intellectual statement that maintains its distance from its characters. Upon seeing the film, of course, one begins to suspect that this is an instance of too much critical discourse threatening to smother the life out of a vibrant, complex work of art. L'eclisse pulses with energy and beauty, with the formal ingenuity of Antonioni's images, which have a lush, sensuous quality. This is a film about the disconnected modern era, yes, but much more importantly it's about the people who have to live in this age, people who aren't willing to take alienation and lack of communication as a given, who fight against the sometimes suffocating constraints placed upon their lives.
Specifically, it's about the lovely Vittoria (Monica Vitti), who breaks up with her lover Riccardo (Francisco Rabal) in the film's extended opening set piece, which masterfully creates tension solely out of the manipulation of space and movement. As Vittoria and Riccardo pace around his apartment together, they are engaging in a dance of disconnection, their words flying past unheard even as their bodies clang off one another whenever they're on the verge of coming together. Antonioni accentuates these disjunctions with his camera, which purposefully creates jarring angles within which the quarreling lovers are awkwardly fitted. At one point, an abrupt cut pushes the lovers out of the frame almost completely, so that a large gray lampshade fills most of the empty space, until Vittoria turns away from Riccardo to face the camera again. It's a great, raw scene, all abstracted motion and hard lines, but its rigidity is contrasted against the equally wonderful sequence in which Vittoria commiserates after the breakup with her girlfriends Anita (Rosanna Rory) and Marta (Mirella Ricciardi). At the apartment of Kenyan native Marta, Vittoria is delighted to study the photos and memorabilia of the other girl's homeland, and she and Anita playfully dress up as blackface natives and dance to the rhythms of an African drum music record, their snaking limbs making fluid "S" shapes in the air.
Despite the racial obliviousness of these middle-class Italian women — Marta puts a stop to the game, seemingly offended, but then derisively calls the blacks she grew up with "monkeys" — they're trying to have fun, and Vittoria at least possesses a genuine spirit of intellectual curiosity, a desire to absorb learning from her surroundings, to learn about other people. She's a woman who will randomly follow strangers on the street to see what they'll do, or who will be suddenly struck by the quality of a person's face. She has a playful, whimsical spirit, a perhaps unconscious desire for something more that drives her to leave Riccardo at the beginning of the film. She's a product of her time and her culture, and she shares the flaws of her milieu, but she's also a spirited and independent woman who isn't willing to settle for the dreary existence that's seemingly plotted out for her: a discontented marriage, like her friends have, to some man who's perpetually away on business.
She's more in touch with the world: a night-time chase through the streets for her friend's lost dog leads to a wonderful shot of her laughing, unguarded, as the dog walks on its hind legs away from her. Later, she's drawn to the clanging sound of tall metal poles bouncing off each other in a strong wind; she has a sensual sensibility that appreciates the urban poetry of these subtle moments. Antonioni is, like Vittoria, attuned to the sensuality of the world, to the puffed cotton wisps of a cloud bank or the ripples spiraling out from a finger as it breaks the surface of stagnant water. His images reflect engagement with the world, even when he isolates Vittoria in pale gray expanses of nothingness that visualize her loneliness and alienation. He's able to find beauty even in a construction site lit by street lamps, in a splinter of wood floating in a barrel filled with rain water, in the abstract lines of an apartment block set off against the vast empty sky.
Despite her free spirit and thirst for more, almost immediately after breaking up with Riccardo, Vittoria finds herself being drawn into the orbit of the stock trader Piero (Alain Delon), a driven, intense young man who spends his days in the relentlessly fast-paced world of the stock exchange, where he shouts into phones and races back and forth across the office's floor placing frantic buy and sell orders. He's completely immersed in the world of money all day long, and is sometimes just barely able to peek his head above the water by night. Vittoria meets him because she goes to the stock exchange to see her mother (Lilla Brignone), who spends all day there as though playing a game — she's a precursor to those old ladies who today would be found sitting in front of a Las Vegas slot machine for endless hours at a stretch. Vittoria has nothing but contempt for this world, and she's pushed away whenever Piero can't resist talking about his new car or the money he's made or lost in the course of the day. And yet she also feels a strange attraction to him, a slowly sparking connection.
The slow, halting courtship between Vittoria and Piero is warm and human and touching, marked by hesitations and withdrawals and false starts. Antonioni is a master at portraying the difficulty of love, the incredible psychological and sociological obstacles to forging a connection between two independent beings. But what's too often overlooked is the hope and beauty that are also contained within his vision of the world: despite the difficulties, despite the seemingly insurmountable barriers separating us, we frequently do make connections, if only momentary ones. The playful wrestling and cuddling of Vittoria and Piero, their stylized come-ons and maneuvers, are a dance of desire, a response to the hard-edged dance of disconnection between her and Riccardo in the film's opening minutes. In contrast to the earlier scenes, the love scenes with Piero often dissolve into frantic, messy movements, uncontrolled and passionate — two reserved people letting go with one another.
There is, of course, a sense even at the height of their love affair that this cannot work in the long term. One knows instinctively that there is little room in Piero's busy work schedule for true, enduring love, and that Vittoria will not have the patience of Piero's less serious old girlfriends for his habitually broken dates and long, unpredictable working hours. And yet Antonioni allows the couple their moments of happiness, then lets them drift out of the film altogether. The final seven minutes of the film are a poetic, dialogue-free collage of quiet, unassuming street scenes from around the city, scenes of urban life going on, no matter what the fate of this one couple might be. This is a sublimely humanist statement, a refusal to give his attractive movie star couple their proper denouement, focusing instead on the ordinary people who get on and off of buses, reading papers, walking to or from work, sitting in a park. Antonioni even includes a clever joke halfway through, a shot of a blonde woman's head from behind, briefly giving the audience the impression that Vitti's character has returned, until the woman turns around, revealing someone else altogether. The main couple are represented again, symbolically, only in the penultimate shot, a haunting nighttime image of the construction site where they planned to meet, empty and desolate, lit only by a single street lamp, perhaps the site of an unkept date, the onset of their disconnection.
Posted by Ed Howard
Labels: '1960s, 1962, Italian cinema, Michelangelo Antonioni
vic said...
I've been following this blog for a while, and I first must compliment you. You are an astonishingly terrific writer and I'm jealous. Secondly, I absolutely agree with this review and thank you for putting it in the words I couldn't quite form. I absolutely adore this film. Antonioni's camera work and the sound work is simply immersive and I wasn't bored once following Vittoria's silent and occasionally poignant drifting. Antonioni is a genius and an artist and I hate it whenever I hear people shrug him off as some snobby or boring film-school hack or something. So, once again, thank you.
Ed Howard said...
Thanks for the very kind words, Vic. I love a lot of Antonioni's films, but this one is truly something special -- and the antithesis of the stereotypes so often thrown around about this great director. Thanks again for reading.
Sam Juliano said...
I second Vic's sentiments on Ed's writing talent.
This is not an easy review to write (none of Antonioni's films are easily and confidently assessed) but this review is proof that in front of the right viewer (and writer) his films can be successfully negotiated. L'ECLISSE is not my favorite of the 'alienation' trilogy, which comprise the upper-level of the director's greatest work (RED DESERT pushes close though methinks, and others like IL GRIDO and THE PASSENGER have their adherents) but it's as masterful as the others. The poetry of LA NOTTE (the only film of the three that isn't so hopeless) has always ravished me.
The lack of human beings in that famous last scene, where we see only the locations and the space that surrounds the players who aren't there, of course speaks volumes, informing the central theme of the film--the individual's sense of alienation in modern society.
But you've already said that?!? LOL!
Patricia Perry said...
Ed -
This is a great post. You've done justice to a difficult but ultimately rewarding film.
Coincidentally, I just reveiwed this at my blog last week.
I had particularly found the opening scenes of Vittoria's and Riccardo's breakup to be mesmerizingly tense, but I couldn't articulate what it was about those scenes that drew me in. You've done a terrfic job in illuminating how the composition of those scenes - and the focus on objects rather than the actors, who never really connect - makes them so rich in meaning and tension.
I'll admit, my first viewing "L'Eclisse" had me exasperated and baffled and rolling my eyes quite a bit. But I gave it a second chance and found more genuine depth and layers of meaning than I was able to appreciate the first time out. Antonioni is not an easy director to appreciate, but taking the extra time to really look deeper at his work is always rewarding.
Joel Bocko said...
This is one of your best reviews, of a stunningly gorgeous film (and MEANINGFULLY gorgeous, every image unites form and content, which is the true beauty). Oddly enough, Sam, La Notte is probably my least favorite Antonioni of the half-dozen or so I've seen...but I've only seen it once, years ago, perhaps I should give it another chance.
and Ed, interesting interpretation of the last scene. I always saw it as more cold than calm, more tragic than contemplative. To me the significance was not in the world going on without the protagonists there, but rather on their very absence from the frame: a rendezvous for which neither of the lovers attend (but the audience does). Leave it to Antonioni, king of the anti-thriller (setting up unsolved mysteries in L'Avventura and Blow-Up) to fashion the perfect anti-climax, as tense and yet un-cathartic as any ending in cinema.
Thanks for the comments, all. Pat, I can certainly see why some viewers would find this patience-testing at first, though I was rapt the whole way through. Each image is just so perfectly formed, as aesthetically appealing as a well-framed photograph.
MovieMan, I can see your take on the closing minutes as well. But as much as those final scenes suggest that the lovers do not keep their date, it struck me that these images had a very tranquil tone that leavened some of the sadness. All the images of ordinary people just going about their day -- and the playful shots of people who look, from behind, like Vitti or Delon -- open the film up to a whole different range of lives and experiences beyond these two lovers. It's a melancholy closing, but not tragic: life goes on, there's more going on in this city than just this one story of lost love. Anyway, it's definitely an amazing finale.
You may be right, Ed, but for whatever perverse personal reason I think I prefer the tragic reading!
I will join the chorus: Terrific analysis. Not just insightful, but an act of reclamation of a great film. It's borders on the criminal the way Antonioni has slipped into obscurity, even among film instructors and filmmakers (especially the latter, due no doubt to the former having so little understanding of his work).
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Q: How do we need to apply the chain rule to obtain this identity for the material derivative? Let $\tau>0$, $d\in\mathbb N$, $v:\mathbb R^d\to\mathbb R^d$ be Lipschitz continuous, $X^x\in C^0([-\tau,\tau],\mathbb R^d)$ be the solution of $$X^x(t)=x+\int_0^tv(X^x(s))\:{\rm d}s\;\;\;\text{for }t\in[-\tau,\tau]\tag1$$ for $x\in\mathbb R^d$, $$T_t(x):=X^x(t)\;\;\;\text{for }x\in\mathbb R^d$$ for $t\in[-\tau,\tau]$, $\Omega$ be a $d$-dimensional properly embedded $C^1$-submanifold of $\mathbb R^d$ with boundary, $$\Omega_t:=T_t(\Omega)\;\;\;\text{for }t\in[-\tau,\tau],$$ $y_t:\Omega_t\to\mathbb R$ for $t\in[-\tau,\tau]$. Assume $${\rm d}y_0(\Omega;v):=\left.\frac{\rm d}{{\rm d}t}y_t(T_t(x))\right|_{t=0}\tag2$$ exists and $y_0$ is $C^1$-differentiable. Let $x\in\bigcap_{t\in[-\tau,\:\tau]}\Omega_t$.

How can we show that $$\left.\frac{\rm d}{{\rm d}t}y_t(x)\right|_{t=0}={\rm d}y_0(\Omega;v)-T_x(y_0)v(x)\tag3,$$ where $T_x(y_0)v(x)$ denotes the pushforward of $v(x)$ by $y(\Omega)$ at $x$.

I think the trick is to write $$y_t(x)-y_0(x)=y_t(x)-y_0(T^{-1}(x))-(y_0(x)-y_0(T^{-1}(x)))\tag4$$ and we may note that $$T_t^{-1}=T_{-t}\;\;\;\text{for all }t\in[0,\tau]\tag5,$$ but I don't know how to conclude.

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Communicate. According to Harvard Business School, increasing customer retention rates by 5 percent increases profits by 25-95 percent. Communication is key to attracting repeat customers. I bought a new Honda this summer and was impressed by how many calls, emails, and letters I got from the dealer throughout the process, making sure that our questions were answered. While I'm not likely to buy another car soon, I'd recommend the dealer to a friend.
Build loyalty. According to Inc., repeat customers spend 67 percent more on their purchases than new customers. So how do you encourage repeat purchases? Some people swear by loyalty programs. With its own app, gold card, and built-in payment system, Starbucks has created a legendary loyalty system that helped to generate a 9 percent increase in same-store sales. Yet, evidence shows that most supermarket loyalty cards aren't generating increased sales or profits.The takeaway? What works for one business may not work for another. Test your loyalty program to see if it's generating repeat purchases. Even the simplest loyalty programs—stamping a paper card every time a customer buys a sandwich-—can pay off, but the more fun, unique, and personalized you can make your program, the better. Offer something more meaningful than a generic cup of coffee. Instead of giving a discount, why not invite your most loyal customers to an annual party?
Share your values. According to Cone Communications, 93% of consumers say they're more loyal to companies that support social or environmental issues. When you tell customers who you are and why you're in business, it motivates them to keep coming back.


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2004 Ford F-550 on 2040-cars
Year:2004 Mileage:56123 Color: White /
White Haven, Pennsylvania, United States
2004 Ford F-550 Dump Truck with Lift, truck has Only 56xxx miles on it, completely rebuilt bed and frame,
engine and transmission serviced with new oil and filters, tires are in good condition, clean title never in any
accidents,
2004 ford f-550 lariat 4x4 low miles!!(US $17,600.00)
2011 ford f-450 king ranch(US $21,100.00)
2008 ford f-450 lariat 4x4(US $10,000.00)
2011 ford f-450(US $12,480.00)
Lewis windows(US $100.00)
2011 ford f-450 super duty crew cab lariat ultimate(US $20,400.00)
Auto Services in Pennsylvania
Young`s Auto Body Inc ★★★★★
Auto Repair & Service, Automobile Body Repairing & Painting, Automobile Parts & Supplies
Address: 111 S Bolmar St, Mont-Clare
World Class Transmission Svc ★★★★★
Auto Repair & Service, Automobile Parts & Supplies, Auto Transmission
Address: 2299 State Route 66, Slickville
Wood`s Locksmithing ★★★★★
Auto Repair & Service, Locks & Locksmiths, Keys
Address: Stevensville
Trust Auto Sales ★★★★★
Address: 1773 W Trindle Rd, Boiling-Springs
Steele`s Truck & Auto Repair ★★★★★
Auto Repair & Service, Trailers-Repair & Service, Truck Service & Repair
Address: 491 E Church Rd, Zieglerville
South Hills Lincoln Mercury ★★★★★
Auto Repair & Service, New Car Dealers, Used Car Dealers
Address: 2760 Washington Rd, Observatory
Justin Bell makes a horrible policeman
Mon, 11 Nov 2013 19:29:00 EST
If you're wondering what type of person makes a good police officer, it seems a racecar driver doesn't. Let us rephrase that: Justin Bell, a racecar driver and the host of Motor Trend's World's Fastest Car Show, recently got behind the wheel of a 5.0-liter Ford Mustang police car with Sergeant Daniel Shrubb, co-founder of DRAGG (Drag Racing Against Gangs and Graffiti), and proved that his high-performance-driving skillset is a bit too aggressive for police duty.
While it's easy to get carried away in a Mustang GT, a patrol car driver must maintain some sort of restraint while pursuing a criminal, so as not to come off as a reckless driver to the public. We'll admit, some pursuit techniques are counter-intuitive to performance driving (stay off the gas in a lane-change exercise?), but Bell's judicious use of the handbrake can't be normal procedure.
Watch "The One With The Ford Mustang 5.0 Police Car" (yes, we caught the Friends reference too) below to see some shenanigans in one of Michigan's finest patrol cars.
2015 Ford F-Series Super Duty is class-leading once again
Wed, 05 Mar 2014 00:01:00 EST
Time for everyone to feign surprise - Ford has just announced that it has the increased horsepower and torque levels of its 6.7-liter Power Stroke turbodiesel V8 engine for 2015. As you'd expect, the Blue Oval is claiming class-leading figures of 440 hp (up from 400) and 860 pound-feet (up from 800), and that's enough to enable Ford's F-450 Super Duty model to tow as much as 31,200 pounds, which, again, the automaker claims is class leading.
Now, it should be noted that the max rating quoted above is achieved with the Ford F-450. The 2015 F-350, which is perhaps a better comparison to the Ram 3500 HD pickup that claimed the towing crown in 2013 at an even 30,000 pounds, is capped at 26,500 pounds, either with a gooseneck or when towing a fifth-wheel trailer. In any case, it's going to take a load the size of Godzilla to make any of the current crop of fullsize heavy-duty pickup trucks break into a sweat. For those keeping track, Chevy rates its 2015 Silverado HD at a maximum of 23,200 pounds.
Ford's newfound pulling power comes courtesy of a larger turbocharger for its in-house Power Stroke engine, new fuel injector tips and, we'd assume, retuned computer controls. Besides the engine enhancements, the F-350 gets a wider front track for 2015 and new front springs, while the F-450 gains commercial-grade 19.5-inch wheels and tires, new rear U-joints, leaf springs, stabilizer bars and shocks. The steering and brake systems have also been upgraded.
11 vehicles from Barrett-Jackson Las Vegas worth watching
Fri, 26 Sep 2014 14:14:00 EST
This weekend will see the world's collector car crowds descend on Las Vegas, NV for one of the biggest shows on Barrett-Jackson's popular auction circuit. There are hundreds of vehicles up for bidding, ranging from a brand-new Lamborghini Aventador to a spattering of Art Deco classics and a huge swath of classic muscle cars.
While it's virtually impossible to assemble an inarguable list of the best cars coming during the three-day, 700-plus vehicle auction, we've sifted through the listings for this year's show - it was a tough assignment, we promise - and assembled a list of what we think will be some of the most interesting lots. We'll admit, it's a bit heavy on American iron, but if you browse BJ's listings, you'll come to a similar conclusion. Still, scroll down for our list of what we think will be the most interesting vehicles at the upcoming auction.


Get ready to do a happy dance with me, ok? Be prepared to squee. Get your jaw ready to drop.
Chain Reaction by Simone Elkeles - Luis Fuentes is a good boy who doesn't live with the angst that his big brothers, Alex and Carlos, have always lived with. Luis is smart, funny, and has big dreams of becoming an astronaut. But when he falls for the wrong girl, Luis enters a dark world he's never known, and just when he thinks he's got life all figured out, learns some disturbing news about his family that destroys his positive outlook on life. Will that Fuentes bad boy streak come out with a vengeance and lure Luis to live on the edge like his new girlfriend and his own father?
Can you give me a OMG!? Hello shower! Is this YA? Really, is it? Because... wow. I guess they kind of got a bit... hot. EEE I LOVE IT! And I love the switch of roles with this book! Oooh, I am dyyyying to read it! But what is he holding in his hand?
The only thing that worries me about this cover is what those people who like to have fun by ruining our fun by banning books might think. This doesn't look like a cover that will go under their radar. And this worries me. But I loooove it! I am sooo excited!
Man, I cannot wait for this! And that cover...!!!
I hope you love Rules of Attraction, Luisa!
Sophie - I know!!! It's jaw-droppingly good! I love it! I am sooo excited!
Jenny - Isn't it gorgeous?!
Love this cover. Looks to me like he's holding the chain on the shower.
I still can't get over that cover. So HOT.
Jess - Hmmm, I never thought of that. But whatever it is... it's still hot!


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News / Court
Jail for beast who raped woman, raped 8-year-old girl and tried to rape second 8-year-old in Dundee
Samuel Zammit
A man who carried out attacks on two girls and twice raped a woman was jailed for nine years.
Samuel Zammit, 24, barricaded the children in a bedroom at a house in Dundee and raped one eight-year-old and tried to rape a second eight-year-old on the same day.
In separate incidents in the city he raped the 24-year-old woman on two occasions and repeatedly hit her on the stomach while she was pregnant.
Zammit, of Andover, in Hampshire, had earlier denied the attacks during a trial at the High Court in Edinburgh, but was convicted of the five offences.
A judge told Zammit: "It is clear that you have a problem with your anger, with controlling behaviour and most importantly with the use of sexual violence against the vulnerable."
Judge Lady Scott pointed out that Zammit was assessed as posing a high risk of sexual violence against adult women and a medium risk to children.
She also ordered that Zammit be kept under supervision for a further three-year period and warned that if he breached licence conditions during it he could be returned to prison.
She told the first offender that he would remain on the sex offenders register indefinitely.
Zammit was found guilty of raping the woman on March 26 in 2015 at an address in Dundee after pushing her on to a sofa, restraining her and removing her underwear.
He was also convicted of raping the woman a second time in October 2016 when he again pushed her on to a sofa and restrained her.
He was also found guilty of assaulting the woman on an occasion between March 1 2015 and June 30 the following year by striking her on the abdomen when she was expecting.
Zammit was further convicted on majority verdicts of raping one girl and attempting to rape another on March 5 in 2016.
The woman told police that Zammit had raped her during a visit from England.
She said: "I told him to stop but he just forced himself on me."
She said she found out she was expecting and Zammit turned up and hit her in the stomach when she was in the early stages of the pregnancy.
Weeks later she lost the baby.
Defence solicitor advocate John Keenan said Zammit continued to deny the sex crimes.
High Court in Edinburgh
Man, 19, caught speeding on road between Dundee and Broughty Ferry


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Comparative Performance of Public Transport in U.S. New Start Rail Cities Versus Bus-Only Cities
This study explores some performance differences of public transport in major U.S. urban areas that have emphasized new start rail transit development, including light rail transit (LRT), in comparison with urban areas that have emphasized public transport development with buses only, including bus rapid transit (BRT). There is an ongoing need to assess the performance of major new capital-intensive rail transit investments. In addition, rail critics have recently begun asserting that some cities operating only buses, including BRT, exhibit more significant performance gains than those of rail transit cities—suggesting that rail investment is a waste or even a disaster. This study examines those issues. Available statistical data from the FTA's National Transit Database, examined over a study period from the mid-1990s through 2003, is analyzed to contrast U.S. cities with new start rail systems (i.e., installed since the mid-1970s) with approximately four dozen major cities operating bus-only transit services. The study concludes that U.S. cities with new start rail systems, on average, have outperformed bus-only cities in terms of growth in ridership and passenger miles. Measured in "constant" dollars, operating and maintenance expenses per passenger mile declined for the cities operating both rail and bus systems, but rose in the cities operating buses only. In 2003, overall operating cost per passenger mile in the cities with new start rail transit systems was only about 74% of that in cities operating only buses. The analysis suggests that the investment in new start rail transit projects has been justified, in that these new rail transit systems overall seem to have outperformed comparable bus-only cities, and to have helped produce a more positive transit system performance.
Henry, Lyndon
TRT Terms: Bus rapid transit; Light rail transit; Operating costs; Passenger miles; Performance; Ridership; Statistical analysis; Statistics
Identifier Terms: National Transit Database
Uncontrolled Terms: Comparative analysis; Maintenance costs
Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation;
Created Date: Mar 16 2007 11:50AM


A properly drafted estate plan enables you to make important decisions regarding various life events and your wishes for property distribution upon your death. The Law Offices of Larry P. Walton provides complete estate planning services designed to help you make those decisions and to consider the tax implications of various methods. Our firm is dedicated to providing you with peace of mind, mitigating tax consequences for you and your family and ensuring your wishes are followed.
Would you like to speak with an attorney about your estate planning needs? Call the Law Offices of Larry P. Walton at 281-760-4985 or toll-free at 866-520-3762 to schedule your initial consultation. You may also e-mail our firm and we will be in touch with you promptly.
Larry Walton has been handling estate matters for over 30 years. He has extensive and meaningful experience helping Houston's families obtain workable and satisfying estate plans. He often receives referrals from clients and attorney colleagues who recognize his level of knowledge in this area. Our firm provides personalized, attentive guidance as we help you make plans now for future situations.
We offer complete services that consider your real estate property, family businesses and tax implications of certain documents.
Our firm also handles probate administration and litigation. We offer dedicated litigation services to executors, heirs and family members involved in disputes arising from will contests and other estate matters.
The Law Offices of Larry P. Walton looks forward to assisting with your estate planning needs. Call us at 281-760-4985 or contact us online to arrange your consultation with a lawyer.


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China's Spaceplane Raises Orbit Nearly 3 Months After Launch.
China's spacecraft, an experimental one, has been launched by Jiuquan Launch Center in August.
It's been almost 8 weeks since the last time we heard from China's spacecraft launched from Gobi Desert. However, things are changing as the spacecraft has recently launched its thrusters to the top of a more circular and higher orbit, but for reasons that aren't fully understood.
The spacecraft was launched aboard the Long March 2F carrier rocket at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on August 4. In China's second attempt to launch a spacecraft, the spacecraft was launched at a higher altitude and over a longer time than the previous.
After its launch, the spacecraft was in an orbit of around 215 miles by 369 miles (346 km by 593km), tilted at fifty degrees higher than the Equator. However, experts monitoring its orbit noticed a shift on Sunday, October 23, with the spacecraft elevating its orbit to a circular 371 by 378 miles (597 608 km), SpaceNews reported.
China has provided little details regarding its spaceplane, and the Chinese government said it would stay in orbit for a speculative "period," the state media said on the day of the launch.
China's first spaceplane tested experimentally was launched in September 2020 and was in orbit for around two days before re-entering Earth. It flew around size of 206 miles by 221 miles, with the same tilt (331 km X 347km), according to Ars Technica. The spacecraft also released a single payload before the landing.
The spaceplane project is under the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, a state-owned vehicle manufacturer producing both military and civilian rockets for launch. Like the United States, the Space Force has its spaceplane called the Boeing X-37. The Space Force's spaceplane was launched in May 2020 for its sixth flight test and had been flying non-stop ever since.
The two tested vehicles remain floating in the sky, but there needs to be a confirmation on the date they will land.
China, Space


The listbox where the language of a repository can be set contains a whole bunch of languages, common ones as well as never heard of ones.
Alas, LaTeX as well as TeX are missing. Could at least TeX (or maybe even both) be added to the list?


We had Sarah come paint for my daughter's 4th birthday, and she was such a hit! The kids loved it, and the parents even joined in and got their faces painted! She had so many different designs, and all looked great, and she's wonderful with kids. I highly recommend her!"


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Parent Evening Booking System
Student E-Book
GCSE Art Exhibition
The annual GCSE Art Exhibition was held this year to coincide with our summer Open Evening. It was fantastic to see so many Year 11 students attend with their families and friends to celebrate the culmination of their hard work from the last two years. It was quite a special moment to see a Year 5 pupil look at the work in awe, whilst standing next to the Year 11 students who had produced it. The exhibition this year was the perfect ending to such a talented and hard-working Year Group's journey. To view this years GCSE Art Gallery - Click HereView Article
Ofsted and Accreditations
School Trust
Friends of Amery Hill School
Team players conquer challenges
One of the highlights of the Year 7 transition programme at Amery Hill is the residential team-building trip and this year's was no exception. Over 160 Year 7 students participated in the overnight residential adventure at the PGL activity centre at Liddington, Wiltshire. It was a great opportunity to test their teamwork and resilience, and to strengthen and broaden their friendships - whilst having a lot of fun. Activities included canoeing and abseiling, as well a highly-entertaining game of 'Ambush', basically, team hide-and-seek, in a forest, in the dark! Talking about the weekend, Progress Leader, Mr Jules Gibson said "There were no complaints about the rain we had - students just got stuck in. Many of them conquered fears, over the course of the weekend, that they never thought they would overcome. It was a really successful trip, and one that will live long in the memories of staff and students alike."View Article
Curriculum and Attainment
'Education for Life' Programme
Freeman Library
Exams information
Trips & Visits Information
Amery Hill Remembers
Amery Hill marks the Centenary of the First World War Armistice Students and staff at Amery Hill School have been involved in a number of different projects to mark the Centenary of the First World War Armistice. It is customary for the school to mark the Armistice but this year has seen a huge creative effort involving the whole school community, with the artwork produced now on display at Winchester Cathedral, the Winchester Discovery Centre, Gosport Museum and The Iron Age Museum in Andover. However, possibly the greatest honour for the school is to be involved in 'The Nation's Thank you – the People's Procession' which will see students place wreaths at The Cenotaph on Whitehall in London, on Remembrance Sunday. Hope, Peace, Remembrance The Art Department has led Amery Hill's contribution towards the county-wide Art project, 'Hope Peace and Remembrance' which was recently installed in Winchester Cathedral as well as a magnificent display at Amery Hill. The installation in the Cathedral included artwork produced by students from both primary and secondary schools across Hampshire. During lunch times, a number of students volunteered to produce ceramic doves which were decorated and glazed with the words - Hope, Peace and Remembrance. These were arranged on canes at the top of the hanging displays. The school installation was inspired by the artist Jennifer Collier who works using collage and in particular empty teabags. Over a six month period, both students and staff have produced a teabag containing images or words they associate with World War 1. Many even decided to link it to their own personal family histories which opened up discussions with families at home, discovering how previous generations were involved in the war. These have been added to collaged poppies and doves, all of which were made using WW1 poetry. The display is truly amazing and a poignant reminder of the events which occurred 100 years ago. The creativity of students has not stopped there though, with Year 7 and 8 students being involved in designing and creating wreaths. The Unremembered Year 8 students participated in a project organised by Big Ideas, entitled 'The Unremembered'. This community engagement project was a national campaign which aimed to raise awareness of the contribution of the Labour Corps in WW1. Two students from each tutor group were selected to be wreath representatives. They chose a theme and created a design for their wreath, merging their creativity and knowledge of history to commemorate the dedication of WW1 soldiers and their families from across the Commonwealth. The students have worked well together, coming up with some amazingly creative ideas and designs; the wreaths all look wonderful. The wreaths will be taken up to London and will be placed at The Cenotaph on Whitehall as part of 'The Nation's Thank You - the People's Procession' on Remembrance Sunday. Year 7 Design and Technology students designed and made a wreath for display in the school reception to commemorate Remembrance Day on 11th November. Students found images and words to represent, remember and give thanks to those who served in the First World War and to those who never returned home. They used Computer Aided Design to engrave these onto a plywood base and poppies were laser cut from acrylic plastic, heated and shaped to create the unique wreath. View Article
Academy Accounts
School Lettings
Presentation Evening
Letters & Presentation
Parking on School Premises
Repurposing resources and sustainability - the way forward?
Amery Hill School has been the recent and grateful recipient of replacement cupboard/shelving units and desk furniture, thanks to the Business2Schools initiative. Mr Stephen Mann, Headteacher at Amery Hill School said, "As most people are aware, schools up and down the country are not being provided with adequate funding and resourcing, resulting in schools having, amongst other things, to use and maintain dated and tired looking furniture. We are constantly trying to find new and creative ways to reduce the pressures on our budget and therefore a charity like Business2Schools provides an invaluable service which is greatly appreciated. Increasingly our society has created a culture of waste and disposability and that is why Business2Schools is so important in not only reducing this waste but helping to educate future generations about the benefit of recycling and sustainability." The good quality, second-hand furniture donated by Russell Reynolds Associates in London, will be used to replace all the desks in one of the school's music classrooms with the remainder being used to help in the refit of one of our technology rooms. The shelving units are going to be used around the school in various departments and classrooms. Mr Mann added, "To have replaced this furniture ourselves would have taken a significant sum out of our budget and to be honest would not have happened in the present climate. Therefore, this has given the students and staff an unexpected lift in helping to create learning environments that are fit for purpose and inspires their teaching and learning." Business2Schools enables companies to donate unwanted but good quality, high-end items such as furniture and technology to schools around the country. The aim is to help improve the equipment and facilities in schools using the best ethical and environmental way possible, while helping to relieve school budgets.View Article
Our Building Project
AltonTown Mayor Opens new Dining Hall at Amery Hill School
Amery Hill School is delighted to announce the opening of its brand new Dining Hall and kitchen facilities. The new building will allow them to provide an ever-increasing number of students with healthy and nutritious meals. After years of planning it has been a pleasure to see the design finally taking shape. Visually, it is a striking building, with floor-to-ceiling windows making up a lot of the outside walls and as well as providing dining facilities, the room has been designed to be multi-functional, with adaptable lighting and an integrated projection and sound system installed. A significant proportion of the funding came from the Department for Education, Healthy Pupils Capital Fund, as they recognised how the school's application was based on the school's philosophy of developing the whole child. The new dining facilities will help to boost both the physical and mental wellbeing of students, by allowing them to use meal times as an opportunity to share, be social and digest food calmly. This development would not have been possible without financial contributions from The Eggar's Trust, Caterlink and Hampshire County Council and the work of Scope Architecture and building contractors Mountjoy. As part of the build project, the school has considered how they can reduce plastic waste and increase sustainability. Talking about this aspect of the project, Mr Jon Eacott, Assistant Headteacher and Project Lead commented "Solar panels have been fitted to the roof of the main school building to help provide power for the new building and with increased capacity, students' main meals are served on reusable crockery, significantly reducing the dependence upon disposable items." The opening of the Dining Hall and Kitchen marks the completion of the first phase in an ambitious building programme for Amery Hill, which will over the next few years see the creation of a multi-functional performance space, including a new auditorium as well as Drama and Dance studios. Mr Steve Mann, Headteacher, said: "This is a very exciting time in Amery Hill School's evolution. This first phase in our redevelopment provides a wonderful space for all our students to not only eat and socialise in a modern and comfortable environment, but also supports our core values of Opportunity, Progress and Care. I would like to thank all of our partners who have ensured the success of this project, not forgetting the students who have adapted to new routines with maturity during the build."View Article
i2i Teaching Partnership SCITT
Foundation Teaching Alliance
Our Attendance Officer works with parents, students and school staff. He also works closely with Barbara Langham, Family Support Outreach Worker, to support students and families to tackle specific barriers to attendance.
As part of a variety of initiatives and interventions, and in common with other local schools, we use the RAG (Red, Amber, Green) Scheme to colour code attendance. We believe that good attendance is essential as evidence shows that there is a clear link between attendance and achievement and so colour code students based on their attendance.
The colour coded registration certificates for each student are sent out twice a year. The codes are as follows:
RED – Unacceptably low – 85% and below
AMBER – Cause for concern - 85.01% - 94.99%
GREEN – Excellent - 95% and above
In terms of punctuality, we believe that a punctual start to the day is vital. Tutor time begins promptly at 8.45am and any child not at their tutor base by this time will be marked as late.
Late arrival stops the day getting off to a good start and is a disadvantage to the child. With this in mind we have implemented a new late arrival policy. Any student arriving late should report to the front office to have their planner stamped. Students without a genuine reason for their lateness, such as the school bus arriving late, will be monitored closely. A student arriving late on three separate occasions will receive a lunchtime detention, six occasions an after school detention and nine occasions will result in the student spending time in isolation.
All students benefit from arriving on time and regular school attendance. We will do all we can to encourage parents and carers to ensure that the children in their care achieve maximum possible attendance and that any problems that prevent attendance are identified and acted on promptly.
If your child is absent from school to please call the absence line on (01420) 81301 on the first day of the absence and send a note into school with your child when they return.
Communication is vital in achieving excellent attendance, so please do not hesitate to contact your child's tutor or our Attendance Officer to discuss any aspect of your child's attendance. The Attendance Officer is available each school day from 8.30am-12.30pm.
To report an absence please contact
Our Attendance Officer directly on: (01420) 81301 or e-mail student absence:
student.absence@ameryhill.hants.sch.uk
Amery Hill School
Amery Hill, Alton
Hampshire, GU34 2BZ
Mr S. Mann
contactus@ameryhill.hants.sch.uk
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Applications Due Jan. 17 for NOAA Coastal Fellowships
December 2, 2019 | Katie Mosher
John Fear, jmfear@ncsu.edu, 919-515-9104
Katie Mosher, kmosher@ncsu.edu, 919-515-9069
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Office for Coastal Management has opened applications for the 2020-2022 Coastal Management/Digital Coast Fellowship Program.
"These fellowships provide on-the-job opportunities in coastal resource management and policy, while also offering key expertise to state coastal zone management agencies and other key NOAA partners," notes John Fear, North Carolina Sea Grant deputy director.
North Carolina Sea Grant is accepting online applications from current and recent graduate students in the state. Applications must be completed by 5 p.m., Jan. 17, 2020, through the eSeaGrant portal: go.ncsu.edu/ncesg. The site includes details regarding requirements for the application package.
The positions start in August 2020. The two-year opportunity offers a competitive salary, medical benefits, and travel and relocation expense reimbursement.
A national pool of candidates is expected for the new fellowship assignments: the California State Coastal Conservancy; coastal programs in Delaware, Guam, Maryland, Texas, and U.S. Virgin Islands; and with three Digital Coast partners, including the Association of State Floodplain Managers (in partnership with the Coastal States Organization), the National Estuarine Research Reserve Association, and The Nature Conservancy.
Applicants must complete a master's or other advanced degree at an accredited U.S. university between Jan. 1, 2019, and July 31, 2020, to be eligible. A broad range of degrees will apply to the fellowships because the projects are varied across the host organizations.
Application packages must be submitted to the Sea Grant office in the state where the degree was/will be received. For more information on the North Carolina process, contact Fear, at 919-515-9104 or jmfear@ncsu.edu.
National eligibility requirements, descriptions of the specific new projects and other information are available online at: coast.noaa.gov/fellowship. To hear from a former fellow about her experience and how it helped launch her career, click here: https://coast.noaa.gov/data/gallery/videos/fellowship.mp4.
North Carolina Sea Grant: Your link to research and resources for a healthier coast
NC Sea Grant Offers Fisheries Science Course
North Carolina Sea Grant's is again offering its popular course about the state's coastal fisheries science. Registration is available for the four weekly sessions to be held at the University of North Carolina Wilmington starting Feb. 11. It is also available via webinar.
NC Sea Grant Announces 2020–2022 Core Research Projects
With North Carolina Sea Grant funding, research teams across the state are starting new studies on coastal resilience, climate change, flooding, shellfish and aquaculture, environmental literacy and more.
Sea Grant Accepting Applications for NC STEM Policy Fellows
North Carolina Sea Grant is accepting applications for a new fellowship that will place graduate students, who have been trained at North Carolina institutions of higher education, into state government offices as science and technology fellows.
« Students Earn N.C. Coastal Conference Honors
Register Now to Attend North Carolina Sea Grant's Young Fisher Training »


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Det här är en lista över den finländska marinens tidigare fartyg.

Pansarskepp
Ilmarinen
Väinämöinen

Fregatter
Hämeenmaa
Uusimaa

Ubåtar

Vetehinen-klassen
Vetehinen
Vesihiisi
Iku-Turso

Vesikko-klassen
Vesikko

Saukko-klassen
Saukko

AG-klassen
AG 12
AG 16

Bestyckade isbrytare
Aallokas
Apu
Jääkarhu
Murtaja
Tarmo
Sampo
Sisu
Voima
Väinämöinen

Minkrigföring

Minfartyg
Louhi
Riilahti
Ruotsinsalmi
Keihässalmi
Rautu
Vilppula
Sveaborg
Pommi
Miina
Lieska
Loimu
Paukku
Porkkala

Minröjare
Ajonpää
Kallanpää
Purunpää
Vahterpää
Tammenpää
Katanpää
SM1
SM2
SM3
SM4

Ahven-klassen
Ahven
Kiiski
Muikku
Särki
Kuore
Lahna

Kuha-klassen
Kuha
Salakka
Siika
Harjus
Säynäs
Karppi
Kuha 7
Kuha 8
Kuha 9
Kuha 10
Kuha 11
Kuha 12
Kuha 13
Kuha 14
Kuha 15
Kuha 16
Kuha 17
Kuha 18

A-klassen
A-1
A-5

DR-klassen
DR-1
DR-2
DR-3
DR-5
DR-6
DR-7
DR-8
DR-9
DR-10
DR-11
DR-15
DR-17
DR-18

Kanonbåtar
Hämeenmaa
Uusimaa
Klas Horn
Matti Kurki
Karjala
Turunmaa
Aunus
Giljak
Uisko
Tursas
Karjala
Turunmaa
Aunus
Tampere
Viena
VTV 1

Eskortfartyg
Aura I
Aura II

Robotbåtat

Tuima-klassens robotbåtar
Tuima
Tuisku
Tuuli
Tyrsky

Isku-lklassens robotbåt
Isku

Helsinki-klassens robotbåtar
Helsinki
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Augustin Ehrensvärd (1915), av Ehresvärd-klassen.
Axel von Fersen (1915), av Ehresvärd-klassen.
Fabian Wrede (1915), av Ehresvärd-klassen.
Wilhelm Carpelan (1915), av Ehresvärd-klassen.
Ahvola (1914), en finländsk motorbåt som fungerade som flaggskepp för den finska flottan på sjön Saimen.

Fartyg i den finländska marinen

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Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin will put the First Woman on the Moon – Amazon CEO Says
Jeff Bezos, CEO, and founder of tech giant Amazon projected in an Instagram post that his company, Blue Origin, will put the first woman on the moon come 2024. The video which he posted during the weekend showed the BE-7 engine which will be used for the moon mission project if NASA awards the historic project to Blue Origin.
"This (BE-7) is the engine that will take the first woman to the surface of the Moon," the video caption reads.
The engine which was built by Blue Origin, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Draper has been tested for about 20 minutes, according to Jeff Bezos. The four tech companies make up Blue Origin's Human Landing System National Team. The Jeff Bezos-owned space company assembled the team in 2019 to build the moon landing engine.
NASA is currently considering three companies for the manned moon landing, the first of its kind in 48 years. The space agency announced, in April, that the contract will be awarded to two of Blue Origin, SpaceX, and Dynetics. SpaceX is Elon Musk's space exploration company while Dynetics is one of the subsidiaries of Leidos. The two successful companies will partake in the scheduled moon landing in 2024.
If Blue Origin is one of the companies chosen for the project then, the BE-7 will be one of the first moon lander engines built by privately-owned companies. The company, which was created in 2000, was recently awarded a $579million contract in April for the moon lander development program. SpaceX got a contract of $135milion while Dynetics received $253million.
There are concerns from experts that the scheduled landing might be disrupted by Congress policies concerning the funding of the space program. It is also not very clear yet what the stance of President-elect Joe Biden will be about the space program.
Since the Apollo 11 mission landed on the moon in 1969, twelve astronauts have walked on the surface of the moon but no woman has made the historic event. Jim Bridenstine, administrator of the agency announced in 2019 that the first woman to make the trip will be taken from the current astronaut corps. Bridenstine explained that things didn't look very positive for females in the 1960s but things are much better now.
Valentina Tereshkova, a female Russian astronaut made history as the first woman in space in 1963, and in 2019 two female astronauts from the United States also participated in an all-female space exploration trip.
Source: cnn.com
ESA Awards Contract of $102 Million to ClearSpace to Remove Thousands of Space Junks
The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded a contract of €86 million ($102 million) to Swiss company, ClearSpace,…
For the First Time, Astronomers Watch as a Distant Galaxy Dies
Galaxies cease to exist when the stars found in them stop forming, scientists say. This is exactly what…
Mysterious Metal Monolith Found In Utah Desert Has Vanished Without Explanations
A mysterious metal monolith that was found in the Utah desert and falsely believed to have been planted…
Soyuz Spacecraft Sets Record Travel Time to the ISS in Just Over Three Hours
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Événements

Pièces de théâtre publiées

Pièces de théâtre représentées
 18 avril : La bête de Marius Riollet, mise en scène par Fernand Ledoux,  Comédie-Française
 27 avril : Ondine de Jean Giraudoux, mise en scène Louis Jouvet, Théâtre de l'Athénée
 juin : Le Canard sauvage d'Henrik Ibsen, au théâtre de l'Odéon
 17  décembre : La Rabouilleuse d'Honoré de Balzac, mise en scène Émile Fabre, Comédie-Française

Récompenses

Naissances
3 mars : Ariane Mnouchkine, metteuse en scène et fondatrice du Théâtre du Soleil
20 mai : Roman Kartsev, humoriste, satiriste russe
 30 décembre : Alexeï Loktev, comédien russe

Décès
 17 septembre : Georges Pitoëff (°1884)

Voir aussi
 L'année 1939 dans tous les domaines.
 1939 en littérature

XXe siècle au théâtre
Theatre


Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (ゴジラvsキングギドラ, Gojira tai Kingu Gidora) is a 1991 Japanese science fiction tokusatsu kaiju film featuring Godzilla, produced and distributed by Toho. The film is written and directed by Kazuki Ōmori and is the 18th film in the Godzilla franchise and the third film in the Heisei series. The film was released in Japan on December 14, 1991 and direct-to-video in North America in 1998.
Although the film's production crew remained largely unchanged from that of Godzilla vs. Biollante, the previous film's financial disappointment, due to a lack of child viewership and alleged competition with the contemporary Back to the Future franchise, compelled the producers to create a more fantasy-orientated picture with elements of time travel included. It was the first Godzilla film to feature a newly orchestrated score by Akira Ifukube since Terror of Mechagodzilla, and although much more successful than its predecessor, the film became controversial in the United States due to perceived anti-Americanism stemming from a scene where Godzilla kills several American soldiers. Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment released Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah and Godzilla vs. Mothra on DVD in 1998.
In 1992, science fiction writer Kenichiro Terasawa (Kosuke Toyohara) is writing a book about Godzilla and learns of a group of Japanese soldiers stationed on Lagos Island during the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign. In February 1944, while threatened by American soldiers, the Japanese soldiers were saved by a mysterious dinosaur. He theorizes that the dinosaur was subsequently mutated into Godzilla in 1954 after a hydrogen bomb test on the island. Yasuaki Shindo (Yoshio Tsuchiya), a wealthy businessman who commanded the Japanese soldiers on Lagos Island, confirms that the dinosaur did indeed exist.
Meanwhile, a UFO lands on Mount Fuji. When the Japanese army investigates, they are greeted by Wilson (Chuck Wilson), Grenchiko (Richard Berger), Emmy Kano (Anna Nakagawa) and an android, M-11 (Robert Scott Field). The visitors, known as the "Futurians", explain that they are humans from the year 2204, where Godzilla has completely destroyed Japan. The Futurians plan to travel back in time to 1944 and remove the dinosaur from Lagos Island before the island is irradiated in 1954, thus preventing the mutation of the creature into Godzilla. As proof of their story, Emmy presents a copy of Terasawa's book, which has not yet been completed in the present.
The Futurians, Terasawa, Miki Saegusa (Megumi Odaka), and Professor Mazaki (Katsuhiko Sasaki), board a time shuttle and travel back to 1944 to Lagos Island. There, as American forces land and engage the Japanese forces commanded by Shindo, the dinosaur attacks and kills the American soldiers. The American navy then bombs the dinosaur from the sea and gravely wounds it.
After Shindo and his men leave the island, M-11 teleports the dinosaur from Lagos Island to a place in the Bering Strait. Before returning to 1992, the Futurians secretly leave three small creatures called Dorats on Lagos Island, which are exposed to radiation from the hydrogen bomb test in 1954 and merge to become King Ghidorah, which then appears in present-day Japan. After returning to 1992, the Futurians use King Ghidorah to subjugate Japan. They issue an ultimatum, but Japan refuses to surrender.
Feeling sympathy for the Japanese people, Emmy reveals to Terasawa the truth behind the Futurians' mission: in the future, Japan is an economic superpower that has surpassed the United States, Russia, and China. The Futurians traveled back in time in order to change history and prevent Japan's future economic dominance by creating King Ghidorah and using it to destroy present day Japan. At the same time, they also planned to erase Godzilla from history so it wouldn't pose a threat to their plans. After M-11 brings Emmy back to the UFO, she reprograms the android so it will help her. With M-11 and Terasawa's aid, Emmy sabotages the UFO's control over King Ghidorah.
At the same time, Shindo plans to use his nuclear submarine to recreate Godzilla. En route to the Bering Strait, Shindo's submarine is destroyed by Godzilla, who absorbs its radiation and becomes larger and more powerful. Terasawa discovers that a Russian nuclear submarine sank in the Bering Strait in the 1970s and released enough radiation to mutate the dinosaur into Godzilla.
Godzilla arrives in Japan and is met by King Ghidorah. They fight at equal strength, each immune to the other's attacks. Godzilla eventually ends the battle by blasting off Ghidorah's middle head. Before the final blow, Godzilla destroys the UFO, killing Wilson and Grenchiko. Godzilla then turns its attention on Tokyo, destroying the city and killing Shindo.
Emmy travels to the future with M-11 and returns to the present day with Mecha-King Ghidorah, a cybernetic version of King Ghidorah. The cybernetic Ghidorah blasts Godzilla with energy beams, which proves useless. Godzilla then counters by relentlessly blasting Ghidorah with its atomic ray, almost decapitating Ghidorah. Ghidorah survives but Godzilla prevails, knocking Ghidorah down. Emmy carries off Godzilla and drops it and Ghidorah into the ocean. Emmy then returns to the future but not before informing Terasawa that she is his descendant.
At the bottom of the ocean, Godzilla awakens and roars over Ghidorah's remains before swimming away.
Although the previously filmed Godzilla vs. Biollante had been the most expensive Godzilla film produced at the time, its low audience attendance and loss of revenue convinced executive producer and Godzilla series creator Tomoyuki Tanaka to revitalize the series by bringing back iconic monsters from pre-1984 Godzilla movies, specifically Godzilla's archenemy King Ghidorah.
Godzilla vs. Biollante director and writer Kazuki Ōmori had initially hoped to start a standalone series centered on Mothra, and was in the process of rewriting a 1980 script for the unrealized film Mothra vs. Bagan. The film was ultimately scrapped by Toho, under the assumption that, unlike Godzilla, Mothra would have been a difficult character to market overseas. The planning stages for a sequel to Godzilla vs. Biollante were initially hampered by Tanaka's deteriorating health, thus prompting the takeover of Shōgo Tomiyama as producer. The new producer felt that the financial failure of Godzilla vs. Biollante was due to the plot being too sophisticated for child audiences, and thus intended to return some of the fantasy elements of the pre-1984 Godzilla films to the series. Ōmori himself blamed the lackluster performance of Godzilla vs. Biollante on competition with Back to the Future Part II, and thus concluded that audiences wanted plots involving time travel. His approach to the film also differed from Godzilla vs. Biollante in his greater emphasis on developing the personalities of the monsters rather than the human characters.
Akira Ifukube agreed to compose the film's score on the insistence of his daughter, after as he was dissatisfied with the way his compositions had been treated in Godzilla vs. Biollante.
The Godzilla suits used in Godzilla vs. Biollante were reused in Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah, though with slight modifications. The original suit used for land-based and full body shots had its head replaced with a wider and flatter one, and the body cut in half. The upper half was used in scenes where Godzilla emerges from the sea and during close-ups during the character's first fight with King Ghidorah. The suit used previously for scenes set at sea was modified with rounder shoulders, a more prominent chest, and an enhanced face, and was used throughout the majority of the film's Godzilla scenes.
The redesigned King Ghidorah featured much more advanced wirework puppetry than its predecessors, and effects team leader Koichi Kawakita designed the "Godzillasaurus" as a more paleontologically accurate-looking dinosaur than Godzilla itself as a nod to American filmmakers aspiring to direct their own Godzilla films with the intention of making the monster more realistic. Ōmori's original draft specified that the dinosaur that would become Godzilla was a Tyrannosaurus, though this was rejected by creature designer Shinji Nishikawa, who stated that he "couldn't accept that a tyrannosaur could become Godzilla". The final suit combined features of Tyrannosaurus with Godzilla, and real octopus blood was used during the bombardment scene. Because the Godzillasaurus' arms were much smaller than Godzilla's, suit performer Wataru Fukuda had to operate them with levers within the costume. The creature's distress calls were recycled Gamera cries.
The Columbia/TriStar Home Video DVD version was released in 1998 as a single disc double feature with Godzilla vs. Mothra. The picture was full frame (1.33:1) [NTSC] and the audio in English (2.0). There were no subtitles. Extras included the trailer for Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah and Godzilla vs. Mothra.
The Sony Blu-ray version was released on May 6, 2014 as a two-disc double feature with Godzilla vs. Mothra. The picture was MPEG-4 AVC (1.85:1) [1080p] and the audio was in Japanese and English (DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0). Subtitles were added in English, English SDH and French. Extras included the theatrical trailer and three teasers in HD with English subtitles.
Joseph Savitski of Beyond Hollywood said "This entry in the popular monster series is a disappointing and flawed effort unworthy of the "Godzilla" name." WatchMojo ranked it as the #2 best Godzilla Movie.
The film was considered controversial at the time of its release, being contemporary to a period of economic tension between America and Japan, but mainly due to its fictional World War II depictions. Gerald Glaubitz of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association appeared alongside director Kazuki Ōmori on Entertainment Tonight and condemned the film as being in "very poor taste" and detrimental to American-Japanese relations, allegations that Ōmori denied, stating that the American extras in the film had been "happy about being crushed and squished by Godzilla." Ishirō Honda also criticized Ōmori, stating that the scene in question went "too far".
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