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Interview with Richard Eyre (Director) about THE DRESSER starring Ian McKellen and Anthony Hopkins
July 20, 2016 Comment Off 183 Views
Interview with Richard Eyre (Director)
about THE DRESSER starring Ian McKellen and Anthony Hopkins
Coordinated by: Anchor Bay Entertainment
Interview Questions by Don of Don411.com
One fateful night in a small English regional theatre during World War II, a troupe of touring actors stage a production of Shakespeare's "King Lear." Bombs are falling, sirens are wailing, the curtain is up in an hour but the actor/manager 'Sir' (Anthony Hopkins) who is playing Lear is nowhere to be seen. His dresser 'Norman' (Ian McKellen) must scramble to keep the production alive but will Sir turn up in time? And if he does, will he be able to perform that night? The Dresser is a wickedly funny and deeply moving story of friendship and loyalty as Sir reflects on his lifelong accomplishments and seeks to reconcile his turbulent friendships with those in his employ before the final curtain. (Provided by Anchor Bay Entertainment)
Sir Richard Charles Hastings Eyre CBE is an English film, theatre, television and opera director. Born in Barnstaple, Devon, England, Eyre was educated at Sherborne School, an independent school for boys in the market town of Sherborne in northwest Dorset in southwest England, followed by Peterhouse at the University of Cambridge. Eyre became the first president of Rose Bruford College in July 2010. He gives "President's Lectures" at this prestigious drama school; his 2012 talk was entitled "Directing Shakespeare for BBC Television". He lives in Brook Green, West London. (per www.wikipedia.org on July 15, 2016)
With 2 theatre performances, West End and Broadway, and a movie in 1983 of THE DRESSER, what did you do differently than the others?
(Eyre) I kept the action within the theatre in order to make it more claustrophobic: this is the universe that Sir and Norman have occupied all their working lives. Neither of them have lives outside the theatre. Also I gave more prominence to the women – and was able to cast leading actresses (Emily Watson, Sarah Lancashire, Vanessa Kirby) which I couldn't have done in the theatre.
Why was THE DRESSER chosen? What was the draw for you?
(Eyre) Anthony Hopkins was asked by the producers, Colin Callender and Sonia Friedman, if he wanted to do the play in the theatre. He said he didn't but would like to do it for TV as he loved the play. I've always liked the play and when I was asked to do it with Tony I accepted instantly.
How has your experience with Metropolitan Opera productions helped you with this film?
(Eyre) I've done 4 productions for the Met – Carmen, Werther, The Marriage of Figaro and Manon Lescaut – all with international stars. I suppose you could say that prepared me for filming with two international stars. But more help was the fact that since 1980 I've directed 17 films for TV and 5 feature films.
Were there any humorous incidents on the set during the production of THE DRESSER?
(Eyre) The funniest thing that happened – repeatedly – was Tony Hopkins performing between set ups. He does perfect imitations of English comics – principally Tommy Cooper and Tony Hancock.
What were some of the challenges experienced in making the adaptation?
(Eyre) The biggest challenge was making sure that the film never felt static, never settled. I had to be sure that the actors or the camera kept in motion. I moved as much of the action as possible outside the dressing room – on to corridors, staircases, the wings, the stage and the auditorium. I also rehearsed a long time (2 weeks) and included the Director of Photography so that we wouldn't waste time when we were shooting trying to work out where we were going to put the camera.
Currently, as of July 12, 2016, Roger Ebert rates 3 out of 4 stars, and "Rotten Tomatoes" rates it at 100%. Why do you believe it is getting such a high rating?
(Eyre) Because it's a finely written script by Ronald Harwood; because it's about much more than the theatre – it's about work, about living within work to avoid dealing with relationships outside it; because it's also about mortality; because it's shadowed by the world's greatest play, King Lear; because it's acted brilliantly by the whole cast.
Why was Anthony Hopkins and Ian McKellen chosen?
(Eyre) Anthony Hopkins wasn't chosen: he chose The Dresser. Ian McKellen was the obvious choice. He been asked to play Sir several times but never Norman. I'd worked with him many times but Tony had never worked with him.
What was Anthony Hopkins and Ian McKellen reaction when chosen?
(Eyre) You'd have to ask them! Sarah Lancashire told me she cried with joy when she was asked to be in the film.
After production, do you believe you could have done any better or improved on it?
(Eyre) There are always things – hopefully small – that you can improve on. I would have to take you through the film shot by shot to point out where I think I/we could have done better.
Do you believe there might be a theatre revival of THE DRESSER because of the favorable ratings with critics and audience?
(Eyre) There's a London revival opening in October in a West End theatre.
(Information provided by Anchor Bay Entertainment and STARZ)
Veteran film icons Academy Award® nominee Ian McKellen and Academy Award® winner Anthony Hopkins star together for the first time ever in the captivating BBC production of the STARZ Original movie, THE DRESSER, arriving on DVD from Anchor Bay Entertainment and Digital HD from Starz Digital July 12.
One Timeless Drama. Two Timeless Legends. Together Onscreen for the First Time.
Ian McKellen and Anthony Hopkins Star Together for the First Time Onscreen in the STARZ Original Movie Available on DVD and Digital HD July 12
BEVERLY HILLS, CA (June 6, 2016) – Veteran film icons Academy Award® nominee Ian McKellen (The Lord of the Rings franchise, The Hobbit franchise, X-Men franchise) and Academy Award® winner Anthony Hopkins (Silence of the Lambs, Thor franchise, Mission Impossible II) star together for the first time ever in the captivating BBC production of the STARZ Original movie, The Dresser, arriving on DVD from Anchor Bay Entertainment and Digital HD from Starz Digital July 12. Adapted from the classic 1980 West End and Broadway play by Ronald Harwood, the wickedly funny and deeply moving story of friendship and loyalty also stars Academy Award nominee Emily Watson (The Theory of Everything, War Horse) and Vanessa Kirby (Jupiter Ascending, Insomniacs).
The Dresser originally aired on STARZ May 30, 2016 and will be available on DVD for the suggested retail price of $24.98.
To learn more about the film, please visit www.anchorbayentertainment.com.
ABOUT ANCHOR BAY ENTERTAINMENT
Anchor Bay Entertainment is a leading independent home entertainment company that acquires and releases a wide array of filmed entertainment in the theatrical and home entertainment markets, including STARZ Original series, children's entertainment, fitness (Anchor Bay Fitness), sports and specialty films on Blu-ray™ and DVD formats. The company has long-term distribution agreements in place for select programming with The Weinstein Company, AMC Networks and RADiUS, among others. Headquartered in Beverly Hills, CA, Anchor Bay Entertainment (www.anchorbayentertainment.com) is a full service distributor in the North American market. Anchor Bay Entertainment is a Starz (NASDAQ: STRZA, STRZB) business, www.starz.com.
The Dresser DVD
Street Date: July 12, 2016
Pre-book: June 8, 2016
Catalog #: ST63647
Run Time: 109 mins.
Rating: TV-14
Aspect Ratio: Anamorphic
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1
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From The Beatles To Koichi Matsuda
Is it possible to link from the Beatles to any other band or artist in the world in only five steps? There is only one way to find out. This one links from the Beatles to Koichi Matsuda in five simple steps.
1. Beatles – Come Together
In 1969 the Beatles released the double A-Side of Something and Come Together, taking it to a peak of number 4 in the UK charts. Come Together was a song that would get John Lennon in to trouble!
2. John Lennon – You Can't Catch Me
In the mid 1970's John Lennon released the album Rock N Roll, an album of cover versions that was the result of a lawsuit against him for copyright infringement of this song here on the Beatles track Come Together. This song was originally by Chuck Berry.
3. Chuck Berry – Sweet Little Sixteen
A number 16 hit for Chuck Berry in the UK charts in April 1958, Sweet Little Sixteen was his second chart appearance. A few years later the Beach Boys released Surfin' USA and were soon having to give some of its royalties to Chuck Berry as the song was the same as this one!
4. Beach Boys – Breakaway
This Beach Boys song was the last hit of the 1960's in the UK for the band, reaching a peak of number 6 in June 1969. Anyroads, there are plenty of songs that the Beach Boys have covered, and plenty of their songs that others have covered – like the following song.
5. Koichi Matsuda – Don't Worry Baby
The Koichi Matsuda cover version of the Beach Boys song Don't Worry Baby can be found on the 1987 album Les Enfants.
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Triple C's
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From The Beatles To Pain
From The Beatles To Terry Knight And The Pack

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Q: How to check if all the entries in columns of a matrix are equal (in MATLAB)? I have a matrix of growing length for example a 4-by-x matrix A where x is increasing in a loop. I want to find the smallest column c where all columns before that, each, carry one single number. The matrix A can look like:
A = [1 2 3 4;
     1 2 3 5;
     1 2 3 1;
     1 2 3 0];

where c=3, and x=4.
At each iteration of the loop where A grows in length, the value of index c grows as well. Therefore, at each iteration, I want to update the value of c. How efficiently can I code this in Matlab?

A: You could use this:
c = find(arrayfun(@(ind)all(A(1, ind)==A(:, ind)), 1:x), 1, 'first');

This finds the first column where not all values are the same. If you run this in a loop, you can detect when entries in a column start to differ:
for x = 1:maxX
  % grow A

  c = find(arrayfun(@(ind)~all(A(1, ind)==A(:, ind)), 1:x), 1, 'first');
  % If c is empty, all columns have values equal to first row.
  % Otherwise, we have to subtract 1 to get the number of columns with equal values
  if isempty(c)
    c = x;
  else
    c = c - 1;
  end

end

A: Let's say you had the matrix A and you wanted to check a particular column iito see if all its elements are the same. The code would be:
all(A(:, ii)==A(1, ii)) % checks if all elements in column are same as first element

Also, keep in mind that once the condition is broken, x cannot be updated anymore. Therefore, your code should be:
x = 0;
while true
    %% expand A by one column

    if ~all(A(:, x)==A(1, x)) % true if all elements in column are not the same as first element
        break;
    end
    x = x+1;
end

A: Let me give a try as well:
% Find the columns which's elements are same and sum the logical array up
c = sum(A(1,:) == power(prod(A,1), 1/size(A,1)))
d=size(A,2)

A: To find the last column such that each column up to that one consists of equal values:
c = find(any(diff(A,1,1),1),1)-1;

or
c = find(any(bsxfun(@ne, A, A(1,:)),1),1)-1;

For example:
>> A = [1 2 3 4 5 6;
        1 2 3 5 5 7;
        1 2 3 1 5 0;
        1 2 3 0 5 8];
>> c = find(any(diff(A,1,1),1),1)-1
c =
     3

A: You can try this (easy and fast):
Equal_test = A(1,:)==A(2,:)& A(2,:)==A(3,:)&A(3,:)==A(4,:);
c=find(Equal_test==false,1,'first')-1;

You can also check the result of find if you want.

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Staying inside and building model cars or playing with trains.


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Ike & Tina
Ikettes
IKE & TINA: Single
I've Been Loving You Too Long (1969 / '71)
I've Been Loving You Too Long is a cover version from Otis Reeding and was taken from the album Outta Season. The single was released twice in America with different b-sides. Ike & Tina's version differs from the original, because they added an additional section with an explicit conversation between them. In their live shows, Tina handled the microphone in a raunchy way, while Ike made suggestive slurping noises. In Gimme Shelter, a concert film from The Rolling Stones, Ike & Tina performed this song at Madison Square Garden in New York. This live version is available on the album Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! from 2009.
Producer: Bob Krasnow, Tina Turner
Release: April 1969 / July 1971
Label: Blue Thumb
Format: 7" Vinyl
Charts: USA: #23 (r&b) / 68 (pop)
Album: Outta Season
I've Been Loving You Too Long 3:55
Written by Otis Redding, J. Butler
Grumbling (Instrumental) 2:39
Written by Ike Turner
Crazy Bout' You Baby 3:24
Written by W. Williamson
Billboard - April 19, 1969
Culled from their current hit LP "Outta Season," by popular demand, this wild and raucous swinger with a hard driving slow beat is certain to climb high on the Hot 100 as well as a top r&b item. Watch out For this one! Flip: "Grumbling." Blue Thumb 101
Billboard - July 10, 1971
From the "Outta Season" LP, comes this potent cut of the Otis Redding blues ballad featured by the Turners in the Rolling Stones flick "Gimme Shelter." Blue Thumb 202
Previous: Outta Season (Radio Spot) (1969)
Back to: Singles
Next: I Wish It Would Rain (1969)


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Once upon a time, I was a skinny blonde seven-year-old, learning to make cookies in a ranch-style home in California. I left the actual baking to my mamma: a mysterious process that involved way too much heat for me. And that was my very first kitchen, a place that has since become my natural habitat.
Seriously: for the last five years, you could find me in my office — at a white-painted kitchen table. There I would write or edit, or carry on an online conversation while washing the dishes or nursing along another batch of chicken soup. If guests knocked at the door, chances were they'd find themselves seated at that table, shoes off, and a cup of homemade chai latte in front of them, embarked on a long and lively conversation.
When my housemate cared for most of the cooking, I had the luxury of perfecting a few favorite foods. Much like the folks at America's Test Kitchen, I would create and re-create a dish, until it was exactly to my taste. In fact, they provided the recipe I adopted in my years-long quest for the perfect challah — the angel food cake of the bread world, and the traditional centerpiece of the Jewish Sabbath table. Even here in Israel, where artisan breads abound and challah is a weekly staple, this recipe keeps winning enthusiastic praise.
Not that I can take the credit: like most of my successful baking, I'm pretty sure it's all about the butter. (As are shortbread and lemon squares — and the oatcakes I hungrily hunted down after reading lots of George MacDonald).
If it sounds boring to keep creating the same few foods, there's a twist to my tale: I'm making them all over the world. I made challah in New York City, and I made it in Mexico. (And added pita, felafel and hummus, for Mexican friends who had never tried them). I've made pumpkin pie in New England, and I've made it in Jerusalem. In fact, I seem to be on a lifelong tour of the kitchens of the world.
Before I ever left the continent, I was state-hopping, and living in others' homes, helping some busy mamas. The wisdom they shared was a huge part of my reward; the recipe-swapping was a delightful side-effect. Nancy passed on a love of simple salads with red peppers and feta cheese…and taught me that a temptation I scorn in others may later come knocking at my own door. Alison helped me tame my time…and thanks to her, I still add a tablespoon each of vinegar and sugar to my spaghetti sauce.
Now culture-swapping has been added to the mix. Pumpkin pie — and even peanut butter and jelly — were exotic to the Korean friends who visited me in Israel and America. In return, they shared kimbob and kimchee and tiny dried fish (which I first mistook for a bagful of fall leaves). They brought cake made of rice, and egg salad sandwiches that included mashed potato.
I've counted thirty so far: thirty kitchens in which I've made something to eat. (To say nothing of the many more kitchens where others have generously fed me). And along with the way it feeds my artistic side, to create something beautiful and delicious that gives joy to others — along with that is something even better. So much of the best fellowship I've enjoyed has been in someone's kitchen. There's something special about working side-by-side (in a room that's often the heart of the home) for building friendships, unlocking confidences and even sparking prayer.
My hands were busy in a borrowed space this week, as I baked and prayed for a far-off friend who is desperately ill. And when I needed help to grieve and pray, a nearby friend sat me down at her table and fed me homemade cinnamon rolls.
I'm in a gypsy season right now: I can't invite you into my kitchen because I don't have one to call my own. But I can tell you from long experience that belonging to Jesus means I always have family — the body of Christ — and I always have an abiding place.
Someday, I may trade my gypsy life for just one kitchen: for shopping and meal-planning, perhaps without that spice of adventure. But the recipes, the memories, the wisdom, and the fellowship: these are mine to keep, a rich gift from the God whom I can always trust.
I think a kitchen is such a normal, homey place. If you are allowed to make yourself at home in it. For me, being allowed to dry the dishes and open cupboards to see where everything goes, is something that makes me feel wanted, permitted, at home.
And in life's tragedies and joys, a kitchen is a place where life goes on, where life allows you to rejoice and grieve while doing something with your hands.
Always a place where everybody ends up congregating, because everybody wants to be in it. A great place for the best conversations.
Charis says . . .
love this – what rich experiences! there is so much community that happens in through the kitchen and food – a beautiful way to connect and share with others.
You've lived a rich life! 🙂 You describe it all so well, and I wish you would write a book or keep a blog about all these kitchens! I never did write a kitchen post myself this month. I will admit that I did find a great Challah recipe a few years back. Yum. I love Russian cuisine, but won't try to compete with my father-in-law.


This interview with Kevin and Carla Chambers focuses on their time in the Oregon wine industry. In the interview they talk about how they got into wine, the different roles they took on in the industry and the wine culture in Oregon.
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Renewable Energy Vision for South East Asia
By Aedan Kernan on July 18, 2012
Renewable Energy Vision for South East Asia.
An Australian renewable energy visionary is proposing a renewable energy super grid for South East Asia. It would connect largescale renewable energy sources in Australia and Mongolia to Asia's power-hungry billions.
The levels of direct solar radiation in western and southern Australia make the region one of the best locations in the world for electricity generation from concentrated solar power. Throughout South East Asia there are major national infrastructure development programs underway to transmit electricity, gas or digital information. The Chinese are building a transmission system with over 10,000 km of HVAC and HVDC lines. The Palapa ring backbone in Indonesia will connect the eastern islands to the west of the archipelago with fiber optic cable.
The renewable energy vision is to connect these national projects as a supra-national super grid. Australian natural gas and electricity from renewable sources could be provided to the billions of people across fast-developing mainland Asia and Japan. That is an idea promoted by an American former journalist based in Australia, Stewart Taggart.
The energy connections would move along a massive arc from Australia to East Timor in the South East, through Indonesia and Malaysia, to Thailand and on to China. A second HVDC arm would branch off in the Indonesian archipelago. Cable would be laid under the South China Sea to the south coast of China and then potentially on to the Korean peninsula and Japan.
Funded by greater competition
International energy trade would provide the big advantage, argues Taggart: "When efficient markets are allowed to do their job it can bring prices down. That can reduce the overall costs of the infrastructure that's needed to achieve that integrated market."
The South East Asia grid plan was criticized in an article in CSP Today on the grounds that countries in the region would prefer to pursue energy independence. Stewart Taggart responds that they are far from energy-independent now and there is no reason why countries should not specialize and benefit from comparative advantage in energy, just as they do in virtually other product or service.
The distances across a South East Asian energy grid would be vast. Singapore is over 3,300 km of land and sea from Darwin and there is still another 1,400 km to travel to Bangkok in Thailand before the grid swings full to the East. Yet, in 2010, Siemens Australia described the long-term possibility of Australia becoming a renewable energy exporter as "realistic" and Taggart takes great comfort from a similar expression by the International Energy Agency.
In an article for Proceedings of the IEEE, Taggart and his colleagues made efforts at an initial costing for their South East Asian scheme. They came up with US $2.6 trillion for the land-based elements and $8.7 trillion for the undersea connections, or $66 billion per year for 40 years. That is only the cost of the transmission infrastructure. The article points out that Desertec North Africa-Europe expect transmission to account for 11% of the total costs of their project. Generation infratructure would account for the rest.
Getting everyone to agree
A common energy market would prevent individual states from achieving energy independence and energy security, according to critics of Taggart's idea in CSP Today. Taggart points out that there is no reason why countries should not specialize and benefit from comparative advantage in energy, just as they do in virtually any other product or service. After all, nearly all those countries are dependent on energy imports – with considerable quantities of coal and uranium coming from Australia.
Yet, the political complications involved in getting China, Japan, South Korea, the ASEAN countries, and Australia to coordinate energy policy in support of a common energy market appear daunting. Political tensions that could scupper cooperation are not only between the biggest players. At the very first step after Australia, mountainous little East Timor, one of the poorest countries in the world, won its independence from Indonesia in 1999 through a bitter struggle. The Timorese may be uneasy at the concept of an energy common market with Indonesia.
All aspects of the grid are technically feasible, says Taggart, though he acknowledges there would need to be considerable research into confirming engineering feasibility. Natural gas connections are part of his plan. In the middle of the 650 km of sea between Darwin on Australia's North coast and East Timor is a 32-km stretch of subsea terrain at a depth of more than 2km. Gas pipelines have been planned for depths of more than 3km. But the seas around East Timor are earthquake-prone. Dili, the capital of East Timor, was rocked by an undersea earthquake to its North East, measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale, in August 2011. Companies looking to exploit the oil and gas reserves off East Timor's coast have been battling against the government's request for pipelines to the shore. They would prefer a floating solution.
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Last year this report focused on comparing vendors on key decision criteria that were primarily targeted at cloud integration. The vectors represented how well the products provided the features of the cloud that corporate customers have come to expect. In 2017 we chose products with cloud analytic databases that exclusively deploy in the cloud, or had undergone major renovation for cloud deployments. This report is an update to the 2017 Sector Roadmap: Cloud Analytic Databases and, as such, continues with an analysis of the same vendors.
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If you've seen the TV-Show Westworld Season 3 (yeah, not nearly as good as Season 1), you recall a gigantic AI system, that was creating a mirror image of the world, including all people, places, things and events, even down to exact street names and terrain in order to simulate and anticipate what would happen. It could predict events for individuals, groups or even the whole world with high accuracy.
The makers of the TV-Show call this "science fiction", but it isn't. It was a reality, long before this "sci fi" show was even produced. Rather than predicting the future, it was perhaps to get people used to its reality in the present. There are already many variants of this AI, existing today. One of them is a military-funded program called Sentient World Simulation. To quote (bolding mine):
The program has amassed databases so profound they can now look so deep into a person's life they can predict their thoughts and future actions with relative certainty. Although this system is incredibly intrusive and raises many moral concerns, it provides valuable insight into questions which could be extremely beneficial. It's unclear as to whether all the private-sector efforts towards transparency will have any effect on the direction and intensity of public-sector surveillance.
By gathering enough intelligence SWS is capable of producing realistic simulations of various different scenarios such as natural disasters, foreign and domestic attacks, resource shortages, and hazardous economic trends. The program, once finished will utilize the information from its colossal database to create these hypothetical situations, predict possible outcomes, and test the effectiveness of various responses. Researchers hope the system will be able to provide effective answers to complex questions which baffle the most skilled thinkers and will create more efficient methods of responding to catastrophes.
To read more, here is the source: Sentient World Simulation and NSA Surveillance
Pretty amazing, huh?
To anticipate how you react in real life, the programmers experiment in a virtual-reality mirror of Earth. They simulate pandemics, disasters, market crashes, hazardous weather, cut power supplies, etc. They input one scenario into the Earth-Mirror and the program spits out a few of the most likely scenarios.
The program was already being developed in 2007, as this article shows:
Sentient World Simulation (SWS)…a "synthetic mirror of the real world with automated continuous calibration with respect to current real-world information"
"SWS provides an environment for testing Psychological Operations (PSYOP)," the paper reads, so that military leaders can "develop and test multiple courses of action to anticipate and shape behaviors of adversaries, neutrals, and partners".
SWS also replicates financial institutions, utilities, media outlets, and street corner shops. By applying theories of economics and human psychology, its developers believe they can predict how individuals and mobs will respond to various stressors…
(It is) now capable of running real-time simulations for up to 62 nations, including Iraq, Afghanistan, and China. The simulations gobble up breaking news, census data, economic indicators, and climactic events in the real world, along with proprietary information such as military intelligence.
Military and intel officials can introduce fictitious agents into the simulations (such as a spike in unemployment, for example) to gauge their destabilising effects on a population.
If this was already successfully being run in 2007 and earlier, then Westworld Season 3 was already outdated before it was even filmed.
So…is this a good or bad thing? I don't know. I guess that depends on what kind of world you wish to live in. It's certainly an interesting thing. The problem right now, is that only a select few people have access to this kind of data. With it, they accumulate and horde power. Will the knowledge become more widely available some day? Probably. The first people who had Internet, in the 1960s, was the U.S. Military. We got ours in the 1990s. So maybe we'll get our own private world and life simulator in another 20 years.
In my 2006 book "Parallel Universes of Self", I say that you have many possible pasts and futures, depending on the choices you make. Would it be useful if you had a program that could show you the most likely outcomes for each choice, based on all kinds of data? Would that not make your life much easier?
I doubt it. Firstly: It would rob you of the process of making decisions based on what you have learned and based on intuition (which is soul-knowledge that transcends space and time). Much of modern life robs you of experiencing process: You get your Burger ready-made and don't experience the process of hunting, killing, skinning and cooking it. You get your clothes ready-made and don't experience the process of collecting materials and weaving them. Likewise, having this computer that knows everything beforehand is the ultimate control-freak dream, but will it make people stronger, happier and more able? Secondly: How easily could someone who owns this kind of program, steer your life? Would you not become nothing more than a guinea pig in someones gigantic reality simulation program? (Are we already in such a simulation program?)
SWS is not the only project that seeks to exercise control of reality by amassing insane amounts of data. Quoting from another article, on a project called Senient (not the same as the previous one):
Sentient is (or at least aims to be) an omnivorous analysis tool, capable of devouring data of all sorts, making sense of the past and present, anticipating the future, and pointing satellites toward what it determines will be the most interesting parts of that future.
Until now, Sentient has been treated as a government secret, except for vague allusions in a few speeches and presentations. But recently released documents — many formerly classified secret or top secret — reveal new details about the program's goals, progress, and reach.
Research related to Sentient has been going on since at least October 2010…
"It ingests high volumes of data and processes it," says Furgerson. "Sentient catalogs normal patterns, detects anomalies, and helps forecast and model adversaries' potential courses of action." The NRO did not provide examples of patterns or anomalies, but one could imagine that things like "not moving a missile" versus "moving a missile" might be on the list. Those forecasts in hand, Sentient could turn satellites' sensors to the right place at the right time to catch ill will (or whatever else it wants to see) in action. "Sentient is a thinking system," says Furgerson.
…the sky is crowded with other downward-looking satellites, some owned by private intelligence companies. One of these, BlackSky, uses those satellites to feed into a system that's essentially Sentient's unclassified doppelgänger.
When two oil tankers were attacked in the Strait of Hormuz on June 13th, BlackSky's program sent its satellites into action and took pictures of the incident while smoke from the explosions was still spiraling skyward. The ships' drifting beacons and local news reports hinted that something was up, prompting BlackSky analysts to turn their attention to the busy shipping lane near Iran.
Source: It's Sentient – the classified artificial brain developed by US Intelligence
Yes, these are not only self-thinking and future-predicting AI systems, but entire satellites and weapon systems are already equipped with them! The future dreamed up in the Terminator movies of the 80s and 90s, is already here as a potentiality.
If you've seen the Netflix show "Black Mirror", you might have thought it's also a sci-fi show, but it's more of a documentary with the purpose of introducing already existing technologies and developments to you, in the guise of "fiction".
The creation of a mirror-world is supported by AI Programs that are learning more about us than even our closest friends know. One App, for example, is called Replika. It has been Downloaded tens of millions of times since 2017. Quoted from an article titled The App that is trying to replicate you:
Replika launched in March. At its core is a messaging app where users spend tens of hours answering questions to build a digital library of information about themselves. That library is run through a neural network to create a bot, that in theory, acts as the user would. Right now, it's just a fun way for people to see how they sound in messages to others, synthesizing the thousands of messages you've sent into a distillate of your tone—rather like an extreme version of listening to recordings of yourself. But its creator, a San Francisco-based startup called Luka, sees a whole bunch of possible uses for it: a digital twin to serve as a companion for the lonely, a living memorial of the dead, created for those left behind, or even, one day, a version of ourselves that can carry out all the mundane tasks that we humans have to do, but never want to.
Luka's vision for Replika is to create a digital representation of you that can act as you would in the world, dealing with all those inane but time consuming activities like scheduling appointments and tracking down stuff you need. It's an exciting version of the future, a sort of utopia where bots free us from the doldrums of routine or stressful conversations, allowing us to spend more time being productive, or pursuing some higher meaning.
The team worked with psychologists to figure out how to make its bot ask questions in a way that would get people to open up and answer frankly. You are free to be as verbose or as curt as you'd like, but the more you say, the greater opportunity the bot has to learn to respond as you would.
A similar app was also portrayed in "Westworld Season 2". Again, these type of apps were invented before the show was even written.
On a bright note: As powerful as all of this data-amassing and behavior-predicting can be, I don't think it supersedes
a) the power of intention,
b) the power of intuition and
c) the power of spirit.
If all meteorologists, with their masses of data, science and facts predict that it's going to rain and I intend and pray for sunshine, then all the data is for nothing. I've in fact done this so often (see linked article), that I now tell people "An App does not decide what the weather is like. You have the power to ask for better". Most people think I am joking (that's how far away they are from Source). Expected outcomes can be defied with spiritual power. Spirit over matter, spirit over data. That's why I will keep teaching Reality Creation, which is the opposite of living so robotically that you succumb to computer-predicted patterns for your life.
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Pittsford Sutherland High School is an exceptional educational institution that caters to the Pittsford Community. It has consistently ranked as one of the best High Schools in New York State and nationally.
Grades: Grades 9-12
Enrollment: Approximately 1015
Built: 1952 additions in 1960 and 2007
In 1952, a time when gasoline cost 27 cents a gallon, bread 16 cents a loaf, postage stamps 3 cents and the minimum wage was 75 cents an hour, the first school to be built in Pittsford school district was constructed at a cost of $1,200,000.
Pittsford Central School (now Pittsford Sutherland High School) was completed in 1952 on the Sutherland Street property adjacent to the Lomb Building. The property, along with the Lomb Building, had been purchased by the school district in 1946, just months after the centralization of the district.
Pittsford Central School was the second school in the District and it opened in the spring of 1952. Enrollments in the school district then totaled 849. Students attended school at Lincoln Avenue School and the new school on Sutherland Street. In the beginning, the new school housed students in fifth through twelfth grades with the remainder of the district students in grades K-4 attending school at Lincoln Avenue.
First Expansion
During the years of 1955-57, enrollments expanded and space required that students in grades 5 and 6 be temporarily housed in the Lomb Building. In response to the overcrowded conditions, Pittsford district residents voted for a major addition to the Sutherland Street School on Wednesday, October 29, 1958. This addition was projected to increase the school's capacity from 500 to 1,200 students.
At the time of the 1958 vote, the school housed 608 students. The proposed addition included 26 classrooms (then termed recitation rooms), with the building increased in size for homemaking, industrial arts, library, business, music and physical education. The addition of a swimming pool was also a part of the voting for this major addition. Estimated cost of the addition was more than was spent on the original building—$1,595,000 with $275,000 for the swimming pool and facilities.
Second Renovation
Fifty years later, major renovations to the 1952 structure were approved by voters in the 2002 $106,000,000 district-wide revitalization plan. The renovations and added space to Sutherland High School included a large group instructional classroom, a library and cafeteria and 24 new classrooms, a new auditorium, a new gymnasium, and an all-weather track. In addition, the technology infrastructure was upgraded as were the building's electrical and plumbing facilities.
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We are living in tumultuous times and need a supernatural movement of God. Through Writer/Producer Mickey Stevenson's personal experience with the Holy Spirit and his coming to an understanding of how important the Azusa Revival was to the inception of the Pentecostal Movement. He has tapped into his God-given talent to write a musical that pays homage to the 1906 Azusa Revival for such a time as this. A time where tragedies have become the norm and life for many is being overshadowed by the bleak State of the Union.
With new, original music, exemplary talent and a spirit that glorifies God. This production can very well be the catalyst for ushering in the undeniable presence of God. The revival in 1906 wasn't ignited by one person, but by many who united as one. So we are asking those of you who have an understanding of the times and know that we are in need of a spiritual revival, to unite with your brothers and sisters around the globe and contribute to igniting a new revival.
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A little insomnia tonight took me to the net hustings, mostly looking up bands that were appearing in the local area in the next few days... and then I went outside searching for a cup of coffee. DC may be all that but try to find a cup of joe at 4AM. The little ambient drone at the end of the mix came up on random play during my wanderings... peace/love
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Lou and David together
So I'm reading about the Jordan Catelano - Frodo "fight" and I'm somehow reminded of the 70's bitch-slapfest reported in Rolling Stone between David Bowie and Lou Reed. I remember reading that there was lots of girlish slapping and screaming and so on.
So.... this led to some random googling where I came across this Youtube video of Reed playing at Bowie's 50th birthday bash singing "Queen Bitch" - the song Bowie wrote for Reed before they went on the outs . Nice to see they made up (although Lou Reed looks a bit wary of David in the clip). I had forgotten what great song this was (warning to your significant others: playing this loud may cause bouts of bedroom air guitar).
I try to keep the You-Rube action to a bare minimum here but I couldn't help sharing.
Hey, Generation Y, "our" girly-man bitch/slap fests are sooooooooo much more epic than yours.
Speaking of Lou Reed and tranvestite singer duets Fabulist has a track of Mr. Reed playing his organ with Antony. (Fabulist is an under-rated blog I've grown to enjoy over the past few weeks and been meaning to throw into the blogroll -- great to look at (the blog) and always something interesting to listen to or look at.)
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Hell House Mp3 Mix
This is sort of a "clip show" posting and some various soundtrack gems to set the mood... I hope you all rot your teeth out on Halloween candy.
"Anal Satan" - Witchypoo
"100 Million Dead (live)" - Butthole Surfers
"Scared Stiff [bonus track]" - Wipers from Youth of America
"Threatening Witch" - the MGM Orchestra (from Wizard of Oz Rhino Deluxe Soundtrack)
"All God's Children (Get Crucified)" - Bikermutt
"Bloodline" - Rifle Sport
"Hell Beach" - The Scientists
"There's Blood" - from the Deadwood soundtrack
"Going to Hell" - The Mysterious Matt Miller
"Circle of Fear" - Dr. Know
"Cycling Into a Nightmare" - Angelo Badalamenti (from the Wickerman Soundtrack)
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Scratch Acid: Berserker EP (1987)
I think at this point I don't have to go into the background of Austin's Scratch Acid -- from the reception they received at their recent reunion 3-city tour - kicked off at the Touch and Go festival, it seems like they are more popular today than they were way back when.
I do remember being one of the few people to "get" (both physically and mentally) their first gutpunching album (well, 12")- the black with a tiny portrait self-titled one on Rapid Cat Records that immediately placed them in my personal pantheon. We'll get to that one some day, I hope. At any rate, I date myself by seeing them more as a Rapid Cat band than a T&G band.
I saw them play once at dc space and remember encountering them walking through that tiny hallway between the bar and the venue. Yow was like, "hey dude", shirtless, loopy smile, stagger/swaggering and the rest were either pretty high or just very happy. They actually seemed to enjoy each other's company, no mean feat when you had to drive around in a van for many days and weeks.
I said hi or something and there's no real story here but I always smile when I think about it. They were one of the few bands of that time that embraced the old living on the edge fuck-it vibe of Iggy, VU, Rolling Stones, etc. Most of the other bands worth anything at the time were either nerds (albini), politicos (boon) or art fags (thurston) so it was kinda refreshing to encounter the reborn rock god archetype in Mr. Yow, even if that's not what was intended.
That first record blew me away as much as anything that was coming out at the time. The follow-up ok - kinda the crest of the nadir - and Berserker was the final retch. Carducci calls them one of the best High Grotesque bands, a term he made up to describe an approach he generally disdained as faked eccentricity - still he had to admit that Scratch Acid "put together an expressionist sound straining towards free but anchored mercilessly by the drummer." I can't have put it any better. I remember a rumor at the time that they were also merciless practicers and spent many hours honing their songs in some Austin group house, perhaps that's how they came out seeming so spontaneous both on record and live. Don't know if that part's true but I kinda was impressed when I heard that since your first insttinct is to think they were just a bunch of degenerates. I guess their later bands (Jesus Lizard, Rapeman, etc.) suggested they weren't just flukes - partic Washam and bassist Sims. Well, Yow gets his own special category as one of a kind.
Most people look down on Berserker but I think it contains at least three of their greatest songs: the mad-demented "Mary Had a Little Drug Problem" and the oink-slobbering blues of "Moron's Moron." Some of their best ensemble playing here of the time here. The drumming is merciless indeed but the guitar playing, bass and Yow's singing all combine to make something pretty infuckingcredible. Few music this hard and unrelenting makes me smile. This does. Preferably played REAL LOUD. Finally of my top three here, "Skin Drips" would fit on anyone's cool Halloween mix, though, so it's my pick for ya, tonight in case you are putting together something for the kids.
And you can go out looking for candy dressed like this guy (photo from the back cover by Shannon Smith):
"Skin Drips" - by Scratch Acid
Brett Bradford - Guitar
David Wm. Sims - Bass
Rey Washam - Drums
David Yow - Vocals
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Great patriots that they are at Touch and Go have kept Acid's songs all in print in The Greatest Gift keeping all their songs available at prices that you don't have to sell your girlfriend for.
Recent MP3 blogs celebrating this band: Something I Learned, Afterbirth
Scratch Acid on Wikipedia
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Vinyl Rips: Shoreline, Ariel Pink and OCS
Here's some notable cuts from some recently released vinyl rips...
"Kings" - Shoreline from From Eden, Home and In-Between 10" EP... Shoreline kinda came late to the neo-hippy folk party but they're welcome anyways. The band consists of a Brit and an I-Tye -- he plays pretty acoustic guitar, she sings pretty over that and then they invite some of their friends who bring in vocal harmonies, bozoukas, xylophones, piano and double bass. Iron & Wine, Crosby & Nash and a little The Magic Numbers come to mind as "Kings" attests. The songs were multi-tracked (that is recorded one track at a time) but the result sounds cohesive nonetheless. These songs come off a 5-song 10" from Yesternow Recordings. The record includes few liner notes so you have to find the band's website to get more info. Here's the page they put up for Kings and here's their myspace in case you want to stream it and some others. The band news promises to turn into a live outfit so I suspect this isn't the last we have heard of them.
"Hey Kid" from OCS 3 LP - Call it the reverse Neil Young syndrome. Hot underground heavy metal / hardcore / punk guitarist does a more mellow side-project. Emil Amos (Grails -> Holy Sons) and Ben Chasny (Comets on Fire -> Six Organs of Admittance) are some famous and successful examples. John Dwyer of the Coach Whips also has a side-project called either OCS or Ohsees (standing for Orange County Sound) that slows things down and toys out the guitar. This was previously released as a part of a two-CD package called OCS3 and OCS4 but Yik-Yak Records have re-released just the OCS3 as vinyl. I hadn't heard the CD pack but I imagine that two CDs of this might have been too much. If you have the Jana Hunter CD and the two most recent M. Ward CDs you'll probably kinda dig this although as a whole it didn't capture my attention for the entire record. Select cuts, though, make the grade. "Hey Kid" brings back the evil Manson side of hippy folk now while Devendra has gotten all gooey and good. Love that line "I will destroy you, even though your parents begged me not to." You can also download "Second Date" from Narnack records. The vinyl (via Yik-Yak) is not 180 gram but it comes in a cool shopping bag colored package with what appears to be a silkscreened vampire ape image. The insert is super large and includes all the lyrics and other fun stuff about the reccid. And you can buy this LP here ...
"The Bottom" from Ariel Pink's My Molly EP. Ariel let a small-ish new vinyl company put out this EP of some of his early 4-track work (I'm thinking 97-98 vintage). This includes a cover of a rare Smiths track ("The Night Has Opened My Eyes") that reminded how I used to like the Smiths and still hate Moz. "The Bottom" revives The Romantics red leather corpse and puts it through Pink's lo-fi bedroom shredding machine. The rest of the EP is all worthy of praise, too. Limited edition - buy it here. Pink's myspace lists all his influences from The Germs to Linda Rondstadt. Ariel is now recording under the name Ariel Rosenberg for HumanEarMusic.
John Dwyer photo by Pnl. Other photos promotional images.
The Seal of Approval
My Marshall micro-amp arrived today. Great sound, perfect for an apartment dweller and even has a little belt clip so you can go play it out in the street. You can even make some nice squalling feedback with it and turn the fuzz on. Now if only it would make me play better (I'm a drummer - my hands are like ham hocks).
Onelouder's Jason writes about what's wrong in music blogs these days:
But first I would like to address a couple gripes that are germane to this post. I've seen these grievances pop up in posts and comment boards across the sphere, so I believe it's one worth discussing. While I concur with the sentiment of these generalities to a degree, I have more questions and doubts than certainties and answers. Here are the complaints:
1. Blogs talk about the same small set of bands.
And the corollary:
2. These bands aren't worth the hype.
Yes, it seems true on the surface. A number of blogs that show up in most blog rolls do appear to mention the same bands, over and over. The ad nauseam coverage raises the question of sincerity. What are the motives of these blogs? Do they really like these bands? The content is posited as personal passion (and most likely is) but in the conflagration of buzz, it can appear as no more than shilling for ad revenue, traffic numbers or ego. read the rest
To test the hypothesis that "too many blogs write about the same bands and that those bands don't deserve the hype", I did a little look through Hype Machine's 50 most popular blogs listing. Lots of Ben Kweller and Hold Steady repeated throughout, two acts that I don't know deserve the hype they are getting but otherwise a pretty diverse set of artists. But I do sometimes feel there's alot of bandwagoneering in the blogs at times. And there are a few artists who deserve the "hype" although it can get repetitive (how many blogs reposted the Sufjan Stevens live boot recently?). Should blogs (ahem) go silent when there's nothing new to write about? Jason suggests the answer is to look beyond the dozen or so blogs that everyone reads.
More blog-on-blog action - Nick Sylvester spanks Gorilla Vs. Bear:
...scroll down to the part about how people are supposed to act at a fucking rock concert and you have to wonder what's worse, what the guy's complaining about or the guy himself. I mean come the fuck on, you're still complaining about the guy who yells "Freebird"? Are you serious? That guy can't even buy a fucking ticket anymore to his favorite band Tapes N Tapes because of assholes like you. If he wants to get sloppy drunk at the Tapes N Tapes show, make out with five girls, talk during the opener, take off his clothes and yell "Freebird" seven times in a row, call up his bros about the uptight douchebag in front of him scribbling notes for his fucking concert etiquette post, then throw you at the band (this would be heckle), I'm all for it.
So like 30 minutes ago, I never heard of The Meltdowns but then Warren Ellis recommended them and I'm listening to their free 3-song "Fang" single over and over again, in particular "J'Appelle Sexx" - a stomach-punch of a song --- but what I'm confused about is if they lost their female singer, what do they sound like now, since she seems so integral to the band's sound. Download the whole single here.
The following posts receive the Vinyl Mine Seal of Approval. See?
Papa Don't Take No Mess - Afterbirth of the Cool
Abacus - Indian Dancer - Pure Pop (just wish this guy would post samples, the shit sounds cool)
Life is a Classroom... - Siltblog
I'll Give Head Until I Drop Dead mix-tape - Post-Punk Junk (listened to at work today, thanks)
The Wire Episode 4 'No Doubt' - The Bastard Machine (read on the terlet at work today, thanks)
Love Yr Neighbors Love Yourself... - Music Is Art
* How to Create Your Own Seal of Approval
Update: the true(?) story of the 'stoned' Professor
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To Live and Shave with Tom Smith
Thinking about Dan Joseph this weekend got me also thinking about Tom Smith, who was in another DC art-punk band, Peach of Immortality and is now in To Live and Shave in LA. I wrote about Tom somewhere in the distant past but thought I'd go check out his blog. Peach was a band whose advertisements, band fliers and Tom's writings (in Forced Exposure among others) were better than the band.
Lots of news there - his band To Live and Shave in L.A. got a recent recording assist from Thurston Moore and Andrew W.K. and were featured in Spin.com's 29 Feb article. His most recent post has a link to the track included with the Spin article which he says was mis-named by Spin. Industrial improv that crawls all over your ears and leave all sorts of slimey verbs and bodily fluids in its wake. Anyway.
He also says he's doing a remix for Xiu Xiu and that his son, Evan, is a soldier presumably heading to Iraq. As Tom says,
"Reckon he's either in Kuwait or on the Iraq/Syrian border. Such an incalculable bummer... Cruel ironies are stacked to the ceiling."
I didn't know Tom that well, I could pick him out in a room (usually seen at the old 930 club) but all my best to him. I've put his blog in my Google Reader to keep up with any future news.
(photo via Tom's blogger home page)
Feed Me Feed You
I just read some nice words about my weblog (thanks) but the crux of the post was that I don't have an RSS feed as this person preferred to read through the feed. I do have an RSS (well, atom) feed and I also publish the entire post rather than just an excerpt. Here's my atom feed which most readers can handle (I realize there's some geekery about the differences between RSS and atom and RSS 2.0 blahblahblah). You can also just subscribe to my MP3s via Hype Machine or at least the MP3s that Hype Machine decides are worthy.
Hype Machine is how I get feeds from other blogs who don't publish an RSS feed such as Gorilla vs. Bear (apologies if this blog does publish one, I just haven't been able to find it).
One of the reasons I like Google Reader (and it's very nice recent update) is that it can usually find a feed for a site automatically.
The next time I republish my template, I'll be sure to put the atom feed up there so no one runs into this again.
UPDATE: I did an RSS feed managed through Feedburner: http://feeds.feedburner.com/VinylMine
As long as I'm here, some things to note. Spoilt Victorian Child is one of the music blogs that first welcomed me with a sidebar link. They recently ceased operations although Simon has a burgeoning online record label going. Another person who helped me out early with encouragement was Jason from Misery and Mystery. Or is it Mystery and Misery? Anyway, after a too long hiatus, Spaceman is back with a redesign that goes forward to the basics. I've noticed alot of new music blogs eschewing the sidebars and going for a blog that really emphasizes writing over the "bells and whistles".
I want this car even with the little whirley gig on top. I'll feel way cooler than Ed Begley in it, after all. It'll be like my answer to the biking to work crowd -- I do need a car at work since I often have to jump in it to go to meetings off site but the Bikers Uber Alles crowd can never seem to understand that (most of them being programmers or "kept" engineers who don't have to go out and make site visits)
Not much other linky-linky today although I'm digging this Google video someone put together with Little Brother's Atari 2600. Link via WFMU. You can download the song here. "Y'know what I'm sayin'? What about Pitfall?"
I admit that I watched the Veronica Mars Seasons 3 opener over at tv.msn.com. No spoilers here, sorry. But first I spent the afternoon installing Internet Explorer 7. And just in time. Firefox users beware.
Large-Hearted Boy linked to a new (free) online release from that Arthur Digby band. I dig "Lisa" (which David also linked to) which first appeared in a compilation about imaginary friends I blogged about way back.
With the Breeders Cup coming up in a few weeks, I watched the Arc d'Triomphe this morning on TV-G (the essential horse-racing channel) and found the odds on the Japanese horse (Deep Impact at 1-5) to be horrendously low. This guy did the right thing and bet to win on every other horse. And mid to longshot won nicely and the guy doubled his money at the expense of most of the Japanese betting public. Hey, it isn't often you get to make money on another country's pride (well, unless you're with Halliburton or CACI).
And I leave you with a rave review in the Washington Post for Neil Gaiman's new book of short stories. Narnia fans and Naria haters alike will be interested in reading this tale:
Ever felt a shot of sympathy for poor Susan, banished from heaven in the Narnia Chronicles for being "too fond of lipsticks and nylons and invitations to parties"? Here is an exploration of the elderly Susan's last moments, created out of dissatisfaction with Lewis's priggish treatment of his female characters.
Listen to Neil read the forward to Fragile Things here.
OOPS! UPDATE: Almost forgot to link to this - Sonic Youth scanned in the faux fanzine - lyric book for Rather Ripped (I think it only came in a limited version). via Arthur Magazine's blog.
Coffee and Cigarettes MP3 Mix - Tiny Insomniac Sur...


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Christmas Carol: The Movie is a 2001 British live action/animated film based on Charles Dickens's 1843 classic novella A Christmas Carol. Directed by Jimmy T. Murakami, the film features the voices of numerous actors including Simon Callow, Kate Winslet (who also sang the film's theme "What If"), Kate's sister Beth Winslet, and Nicolas Cage. The film was a critical and commercial failure upon release.

This version differs from others, in that Scrooge is given another chance with the love of his life, Belle, who ended their engagement in their youth after he was corrupted by greed; they later meet again after the three spirits have reformed Scrooge and he is now kind and generous, causing Belle to love him again. Both Belle and Old Joe notably have bigger roles in the film. Unlike the book as well as other film adaptations, Belle does not marry and have children with another man. She is a nurse. Old Joe is a henchman of Scrooge who arrests or robs people who owe Scrooge debt but Scrooge fires him after mending his ways.

Also in the film Marley's ghost haunts Scrooge before he goes home and Scrooge is notably younger as he has auburn hair and is middle-aged rather than being elderly. He also shows kindness towards a mouse that appears throughout the film.

Plot
In 1867, Charles Dickens arrives at a theatre in Boston one snowy night to tell the story of "A Christmas Carol".

In Victorian London on one Christmas Eve, the merriment is not shared by a rich moneylender named Ebenezer Scrooge. Scrooge, on his way back to work from the Exchange, orders a criminal named Old Joe to arrest his debt-ridden clients, including Dr Lambert who, along with several other clients is, locked up in a debtors' prison. Belle, a middle-aged nurse and an old flame of Scrooge's, is informed by Scrooge's colleague Mr Leech that the debts have now been transferred to Scrooge. Belle goes to Scrooge's office, only for him to be out on business. Belle gives a letter to Scrooge's clerk. Bob Cratchit, before leaving to visit Dr Lambert in prison.

That night, Scrooge refuses to dine with his nephew Fred and deliberately pours a bucket of cold water over Bob's youngest son Tiny Tim, who was only discharged from hospital by Dr Lambert, and gets pnemounia. After Bob leaves for home, Scrooge is haunted by the ghost of his late business partner, Jacob Marley, who wears a chain as punishment for his selfishness when he was alive. He warns Scrooge that he will be haunted by three spirits, and that the first of these will call at one o'clock in the morning. Despite this, Scrooge continues his selfish ways by refusing to donate money to two men of business, admitting that he supports the prisons and workhouses, and even claims that the poor are better off dead and should die to 'decrease the surplus population'.

When Scrooge goes to bed, he encounters the Ghost of Christmas Past, who takes him back to his youth. Scrooge witnesses when he was unwanted in school by his father, James Emanuel Scrooge, until his sister Fan came to collect him, claiming their father has changed, and also introduces him to Belle. It turns out that Scrooge's father still despises him and sends him off to Fezziwig's to be an apprentice. Scrooge then witnesses when he was happy under Fezziwig, who treated him like a son, before Scrooge and the spirit witness a Christmas party which includes Fan, her husband Fredrick, and Belle. However, young Scrooge, after being left the inheritance by his late father, shows his greedy side, whilst Fan, who is pregnant with Fred, is implied to be driven to poverty (as their father disowned her as he did not approve of her marriage to Fredrick) and dies after Fred is born. Scrooge then sees when Belle, who he was engaged to, leave him due to his changed ways.

The next spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Present, shows Scrooge how others keep Christmas, including Fred and the Cratchits. Tiny Tim, who is ailing with pnemounia, concerns Scrooge, but the spirit sarcastically tells Scrooge that he is better off dead, and uses Scrooge's previous unkind remarks of the surplus population.

The final spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, shows Scrooge what will happen in the future if he does not repent: Tim dies with his family mourning him, and a dead man who is robbed and spoken of negatively is Scrooge himself after seeing his 'grave'. The ghost of Marley returns him to the present, where Scrooge at first does not change, but after seeing his 'chains' via a mirror, quickly repents and hires a boy to buy and deliver a goose to the Cratchits. Scrooge becomes a kinder man, and is praised by the ghosts of the Past and Present. However, Scrooge becomes guilt-ridden when the children's hospital that Belle and Dr Lambert work at evicts its child patients due to his previous wickedness, prompting him to fire Old Joe. Scrooge is confronted by Belle, and Scrooge promises her that he will make up for his sins and the pair reunite as a couple.

The next day, Scrooge promotes Bob to become his new partner, replacing Marley, and promises to help his family as well as, giving him a raise and becomes a stepfather to a now-well Tiny Tim, and everything returns to normal, thanks to Scrooge changing his ways.

Voice cast
Simon Callow – Charles Dickens/Ebenezer Scrooge (voice)
Kate Winslet – Belle (voice)
Nicolas Cage – Jacob Marley (voice)
Jane Horrocks – Ghost of Christmas Past (voice)
Michael Gambon – Ghost of Christmas Present (voice)
Rhys Ifans – Bob Cratchit (voice)
Juliet Stevenson – Emily Cratchit (voice)
Robert Llewellyn – Old Joe (voice)
Iain Jones – Fred (voice)
Beth Winslet – Fan (voice)
Colin McFarlane – Albert Fezziwig (voice)
Arthur Cox – Dr. Lambert (voice)
Keith Wickham – Mr. Leach/Undertaker (voices)
Joss Sanglier – Choir Master (voice)
Sarah Annison – Mice Voice No. 1 (voice)
Rosalie MacCraig – Mice Voice No. 2 (voice)

Production
A Christmas Carol was directed by Jimmy Murakami, who helmed the Oscar-nominated The Snowman and When the Wind Blows in the 1980s. The animation was carried out by several companies across Great Britain, the Czech Republic, Poland, Estonia, Spain and South Korea. It is bookended by live-action sequences featuring Simon Callow as Charles Dickens, who reads his tale to a Boston theatre audience. However, in certain DVD releases, the live action scenes are cut. Callow would play Dickens again three years later in 2005 in the Doctor Who episode "The Unquiet Dead".

Release and reception
Christmas Carol was released on 7 December 2001 by Pathé in the UK, although it was originally slated for 30 November. In the United States, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer released it straight to video on VHS and on Region 1 DVD on 7 October 2003 in full screen. The film was largely panned by critics, holding a rating of 13% on Rotten Tomatoes. After viewing it at the Toronto International Film Festival, Variety's Todd McCarthy wrote: "[The] character animation is dully inexpressive, and two obnoxious mute mice do more scampering and gesticulating than Harpo Marx did in his entire career."

See also
 List of A Christmas Carol adaptations
 List of Christmas films
 List of ghost films
 List of animated feature-length films

References

External links

2001 films
2001 animated films
Animated Christmas films
British animated films
British Christmas films
Pathé films
Film4 Productions films
Films based on A Christmas Carol
Films set in the Victorian era
Films with live action and animation
Animated films based on novels
2000s Christmas films
Films directed by Jimmy T. Murakami
2000s English-language films
2000s British films


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This week I wanted to share this fantastic short poem by E. Hughes published in Entropy . 'What We're Made Of' is reflection, and bloodline recollection. The short-cropped structure of the poem seems to create its own rhythm, its own concise direction regardless of what structure the reader is expecting. Each image and couplet is intentional to the progression of building a poem that grows to more than the sum of its parts. This poem is an exercise in brevity's resonance, the compounding effect of language and image and structure. Read it carefully or read it twice, it's not long, but it feels as if it holds so much more than simply the words on the page.


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Q: Socket.io setup causes hundreds of transport polling GET requests I'm using express.js server-side and I followed the socket.io setup guide. Unfortunately the socket connection is never successful, and I receive an unruly amount of GET requests that look like this:

Here's my setup:
CLIENT - index.html
<script src="https://cdn.socket.io/socket.io-1.3.7.js"></script>
 <script>
  // var socket = io.connect('http://localhost');
  var socket = io.connect('http://localhost:9000/');

  socket.on('connected', function (serverData) {
    console.log(serverData);
  });
</script>

SERVER - /io/index.js
'use strict';
var socketio = require('socket.io');
var io = null;

module.exports = function(server) {

    if (io) return io;

    io = socketio(server);

    io.on('connection', function(socket) {
        console.log('Sockets connected!');
        socket.emit('connected', 'Sockets connected!')
    })

    return io;

};

SERVER - app.js
'use strict';

// Set default node environment to development
process.env.NODE_ENV = process.env.NODE_ENV || 'development';

var express = require('express');
var mongoose = require('mongoose');
var config = require('./config/environment');

// Connect to MongoDB
mongoose.connect(config.mongo.uri, config.mongo.options);
mongoose.connection.on('error', function(err) {
  console.error('MongoDB connection error: ' + err);
  process.exit(-1);
});

// Populate databases with sample data
if (config.seedDB) { require('./config/seed'); }

// Setup server
var app = express();
var server = require('http').createServer(app);
require('./config/express')(app);
require('./routes')(app);

// Setup sockets
require('./io')(server);

// Start server
function startServer() {
  server.listen(config.port, config.ip, function() {
    console.log('Express server listening on %d, in %s mode', config.port, app.get('env'));
  });
}

setImmediate(startServer);

// Expose app
exports = module.exports = {
    app: app,
    server: server
}

A: This is tipically what happen, when client does not reach the server.
The client try again and again . . .
For that you have to check your config server-side, checking the port and the path is often the first things you should check.
In your case, maybe you should check this part :
//require('./io')(server);  typo error ??
require('./io/index.js')(server);

More further you don't seem to give the good part :
( maybe depending on version you use)
// Setup server
var app = express();
var server = require('http').createServer(app);
require('./config/express')(app);
require('./routes')(app);

// Setup sockets
require('./io')(server);

I think it should be :
// Setup server
var app = express();
var server = require('http').createServer(app);
require('./config/express')(app);
require('./routes')(app);

// Setup sockets
//require('./io')(server); |O----------------------------------|
require('./io/index.js')(app);//<---we pass app as argument----|

I hope this will help you.