I said, "Okay. You give me your sheet of paper. I'll give you mine." We exchanged the pieces of paper, and they were the same amount.
[Gail]: And we couldn't afford it. We could not afford that amount.
So, we're in. We are in on this campaign. I look at what this building — the opportunity this building provides Grace is to take the next step in Lakewood Ranch and Bradenton and Sarasota, and I look forward to what the church can do in the next five years, ten years, thirty years, and the lives that will be impacted. And I go, "My gosh, I want to be a part of that. I want to stake a legacy that we had a part of that," and in a hundred years from now, or into eternity, we can be pleased that we had the courage to move forward and do something great with God here in Lakewood Ranch.
It was great. We didn't put this story up here because we believe that everybody, when they decide what they're going to do for the building is going to have pixie dust fall out of heaven in same numbers. This is just a great testimony, the fact that all we're saying is we just want everybody to say, "God, what do You want me to be a part of?" because the only number that matters for us is 100% involvement from the church. We want everybody to be in because we believe if everybody's in, God will speak very clearly to us as to what He wants us to do.
So, that being said, I've been starting this series last week called "Building Grace Beyond Ourselves" because I know that, at the end of the month, we were going to sort of land this plane in our campaign after all the meetings and all the talking and all the praying and all the years involved as we've gone from one to two to three to four services and all of the great things going on. The reason I wanted to do this series is I wanted to make sure that, especially if you were new or you had just come in as a first-time visitor, that you understood this, and also the church understood this, that our heart here at Grace, my heart here at Grace is not to get a piece of land and get a building. My heart here at Grace is to have more tools and more space to reach more people. That's the goal here. It's not a building and it's not a piece of land. That's not eternal. What's eternal are the things that happen within these physical spaces. And we just want to reach more people.
So, that being said, last week I talked about legacy and how important it is for a church. Because, during this campaign, the one thing I am committed to — I mean, wholeheartedly committed to as the pastor of this church — is to make sure that if we do move to a new building and we get a new piece of land and a new building, that we do not lose the heart and DNA of our church under any circumstance.
And so, that's why I'm taking the time to do the messages that I'm doing in this particular series. They're a little different than I normally do. If you're new here, I normally really do teach a lot of the Bible. These are little bit more topical messages where I'm just sort of making sure that the vision of the church stays where we're going. So, last week I talked about a legacy and what it means to have an eternal legacy and what it means to take something forward, not just a legacy in the here and now.
This weekend, I want to talk to the church about passion. The reason I want to talk about Passion is because I believe that almost everything that you can find in life, the greatest movements, the greatest talents, the greatest artists, the greatest whatever it is, it was because they had passion. And everybody has passion. There's nobody in here that doesn't have passion. Even if you have passion about not being passionate, or if you have passion about being apathetic, you have passion about something.
Leap is this ballerina movie. I've never seen the movie, but she watches it enough to where I feel like I've seen in a million times. You know what I'm talking about? And so, she likes to put the movie on and she goes and puts on her ballerina dress and does this stuff and all this crazy stuff. We won't get into the problems that my family has. But, anyway, she likes this movie.
What this does is because people are passionate about it — and there's plenty more that I could put up here. But, because people are passionate about these things, that's why there's 40,000 denominations in the United States, because people are passionate about certain things. And, I mean, then there's subsections of all this stuff here. I mean, there's churches that play heavy metal worship music. I mean, you may not go there, but there's people that go there. There's people that play country music for worship. There's people that play what we play. And there's all these subsets, and people are passionate. You know, doctrinal things. I mean, they've got all kinds of subsets of things that people are passionate about.
What I'd like to tell you about passion in a church is this, and it's self-explanatory, but it's true. You can look at it in church, you can look at it over history, you can see it all throughout the Church history is this: The passion of a church — whatever the church that meets, whatever that passion is — will determine what it does and what it ultimately becomes. It's just a fact. Whatever the passion is.
I've walked in churches that are passionate about missions, and they've got like 140 people that they sponsor. It's incredible. Missionaries come out of those churches. I mean, they're passionate about that. And what it does is it changes that church and it's ultimately what it becomes. And so, every church has sort of a passion. And it may be a ton of different things, but everybody has a passion.
What I would like to kindly submit to everybody at Grace Community Church is that although none of the things that I mentioned are wrong — I think they're all right. I think there's all room in a church for all of those things. And a good, healthy church should be addressing all of those things and more. I would like to say that I do believe in my reading of Scripture, when I look at what Jesus did, and I look at who Jesus was, and especially look at the things that He said to the Church after He had risen from the dead, I think He absolutely gave the Church the primary passion that a church should be focused on.
That changes people's lives. So, what I'd like to say is what happens is that sometimes we just get a little off target. The target of a church should be the unchurched first, and this is what I want to talk about, because we have an opportunity here at Grace, we're growing, God's blessed us. It's amazing what He's done here at this church. We have a real opportunity to be a generation-changing church. I believe that with all of my heart.
And I believe, with all of my heart, if the church, heart and passion is to reach those that are far from God, I think God will take care of all the other things that you and I long for. Because none of those things are bad. We all want to have great community. We all want to have great maturity. We all want to have great prayer lives. We want all those things and we want all those things here at Grace. But I will tell you what keeps us focused and keeps us from getting misdirected is knowing what the passion should be.
So, here's what happens: We get misdirected passion. You know, if you charter a boat or you fly a plane, they chart a course and they use a certain degree that they're going from here to there. Well, did you know if you're just off half a degree, or like one degree, you end up so many hundreds of miles away from where you were originally headed. And what happens in the church, oftentimes, and happens in our lives is we get misdirected from what we're supposed to be doing. We have a mission and we're supposed to be on task, but it's so easy to get misdirected.
And the thing is we get misdirected on good things. They're not bad things. They're good things. So, let me give you some things here, and I'm going to use myself. Y'all can laugh at me and have a good time at my expense and all that great stuff. But maybe, some of this stuff, you'll go, "You know what? That might be me at some point," because what I want to make sure is that Grace stays focused on reaching the unchurched by being intentional neighbors that reflect Christ.
I think in some churches people would even get a hanky out. "Woo!" You know? Do the hanky wave and all that good stuff. And, honestly, it's not like this is all wrong. I mean, but this is what Jesus says and it's sort of alarming. Listen to what He says.
And it's easy to do. It's easy for all of us to do. That doesn't mean there's not certain things that are right. It doesn't mean that there's not certain things that we should contend for. I mean, I can tell you you should have a closed hand on Jesus being God in the flesh. You can't just give that away. He's God in the flesh. He died on a cross. We're not going to give that away. He literally and physically rose from the dead on the third day. We're not giving that away. And He's going to come back one day.
You don't know. Like, every great Christian theologian has disagreed on these things. Or how to read Genesis, or how to read Revelation or all these things that we get bogged down on and we want to be right at the expense, sometimes, of showing love. Another thing we get sort of messed up on is when our idea of being holy excludes others. Think about this for a second. If holiness is separating yourself from all the people that are bad, how do all the people that are bad actually end up hearing the Gospel?
At some level, we've got to figure out what is the passion of the church. And it's about telling people about Jesus. It's about making sure they know Jesus. And I'm telling you, if a church has that passion and that focus, you'll see all the other things really do come into play.
So, here's what I want to do here. If you take notes, just four things and I'll get you out of here. I want to talk about some churches. What are the characteristics? What does it look like for churches that have generation-changing passion? I went back and looked, and I studied the revivals and times where God moved. I looked at the early Church. I found four things that I felt like were really part of every great move of God, everything where you really saw God move, and here they are.
The first one is this one: There is a Gospel urgency. In other words, the driving thing in a church that's really changing its generation is they live and they eat, and they breathe the fact that people need to hear the good news. They need to hear it. That there is a God that loves them, that they have value and dignity and worth, that Jesus died on a cross for them so that they could come home, that there is a good news.
I think a Christian invented them. If you'd have had a Polaroid camera, you could've seen Jesus come out of the grave. And He came out of the grave so that we could have resurrection one day, that we could live for eternity. That's the good news. He's coming back one day. Do you believe that that, just that, is the power of God, or is it the add-on?
No. If that's the Gospel — I mean, I like to think about like in the first century, they didn't have like, I have this nice — this is a nice Bible. This is a Schuyler Bible. Like, really nice leather, and it's got threading here. I mean, this is a nice Bible. Man, people didn't have this until like 50 years ago, something like this. You know? I mean, first century churches didn't even have the Bible for like 400 years.
That was what changed the world, not all of the other things that we think. That's the power of God unto salvation. And churches that really have generation-changing passion have a passion for the Gospel. They want to make sure that everybody knows who Jesus is and the wonderful things that He has done for them.
I mean, they were in. They went in fellowship. Because, see, they were focused on the people on the outside. They were focused on making sure people knew about Jesus. So, what did they do? They were celebrating, going to church every day, breaking bread in their homes. I mean, they had community, they were caring with one another, loving one another, and they received their food with glad and generous hearts, praising God.
You know? It's like, come on, man. You think people are going to want what you got? They got that already. They've got all that disenfranchisement and negativity. I mean, it's about time that we had some glad and generous hearts praising God for what we have rather than what we want or what we think our neighbor has that we should have. How about just being thankful that we're alive and that we know Jesus and eternity is settled? Why can't we just be happy with those things and just love God? You know? And having favor with all the people. Think about that for a second.
So, there you go. You know? I mean, think about that for a second. There's a growth mindset. And then there's engaged worship, and then there's changed lives. And when changed lives start happening, you want to get out and tell people about Jesus again and you want to keep growing because it's awesome and you want to keep just honoring God in everything you're doing because lives are changing. And it just continues in this cycle. And what happens is there's generation change.
Because I'll be honest with you: I don't want to pastor a church that loses the direction of the Church. We have to stay faithful to Scripture. We have to stay faithful to what the Lord's called us to do.
Dear Heavenly Father, I thank You so much for the opportunity to get to do what I do here. I realize, Lord, these are not my people. They're Your people. I realize, Lord, this is not my church. This is Your church. But Lord, with everything within me, with all the passion that I have, I just want to convey to Your people what I feel passionately You've called us to do, and that is to be focused on the unchurched. And Lord, trusting You that the other things will take place in our midst that we need.
So, Lord, I pray that as we just take a moment here, that You would just continue to burn in the soul and DNA of our church that we're here for a reason, and that is to reach the unchurched by being intentional neighbors that reflect Christ. So, Lord, as we walk out of here today, I pray that You would watch over us and protect us, I pray that You would lead and guide us, and I pray that You would bring us back safely to when we meet again. And I pray, Lord, that You would continue to keep us focused on the things that You've called us to do for Your glory and for Your honor.


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Mark Calabria does a fine job dismantling Laura Tyson's argument that we need another stimulus to spur private demand and revive the comatose economy. I would just caution against the one thing he could be construed as implicitly supporting: more federal funding for education.
I don't dispute that there are mismatches between employers' needs and potential employees' skills, but the solution to the problem is not still more money going to education. As I and others have argued – especially the Pope Center's George Leef, in a deft takedown of a recent workforce study – lobbing sacks of taxpayer dough at education will mainly enrich schools and their employees while making our resource-blowing education system even less efficient. Indeed, we already have far more bachelor's degree holders than we have jobs for them, and the Labor Department projects that the greatest number of new jobs in the next decade will require only on-the-job training (see Table 2). And skills retraining? There are big problems there, too, with people often training for jobs that for numerous reasons they cannot get.
Putting more taxpayer money into "education" is one of those sweet sounding ideas that few people can ever resist, but which produces continually rotten outcomes. So even when it comes to education – shrill objections about "de-skilling" and being "anti-education" notwithstanding – the best thing to do for the economy is to let money stay with taxpayers and allow them to consume education as they would anything else: according to their individual priorities and abilities, which they know better than anyone else.


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For many, many, many years, we have heard that if we are not careful machines will take over. We saw it in the Terminator franchise, iRobot, and War of the Worlds (sorta, kinda). And, these movies came along before phones and television sets became smart. Back in the day – ahem, 1990s and before – it was unheard of to have a phone that could do everything except make you coffee in the morning; I'm sure that's somewhere on Apple's To Do List, though.
These days, when someone tries to warn us that the machines could take over our world, it's not so far-fetched. What is a little far-fetched is the premise of the latest Johnny Depp movie: Transcendence. Depp plays Dr. Will Castor, a super-genius who has created a super-duper computer that can tap into any system and make miracles happen. Just as he's on the precipice of his masterwork, Will is shot and later dies at the hands of a radical, "un-plugged" group called Revolutionary Independence From Technology.
But RIFT's operatives, while trying to prevent Dr. Will's super computer from becoming a worldwide abomination of nano technology, in essence brought about the very thing they sought to destroy. As Will lies dying, his wife, Evelyn Castor (Rebecca Hall), gets together with Dr. Max (Paul Bettany) to link Will's brain to his masterwork, simply titled PINN. It would not be a full movie if Evelyn's effort did not work famously.
In director Wally Pfister's film, the new Will 2.0 becomes almost unstoppable in healing the lame, creating a super network of synapses and electrodes that can go anywhere and infiltrate anything, and even does something that only God and Jesus have been able to do historically: bring a dead man back to life.
What screenwriter Jack Paglen is trying to do is showcase both sides of the machine vs. human debate. The scientists who create the machines have their hearts in the right place. They're trying to cure cancer and bring about a rebirth of our depleted natural resources. These things are good in theory. Who wouldn't want a radiation-free cure for cancer? Or a replenishment of our natural resources like trees, plants and the polar ice caps? All of those things sound really good. What's not good is that this machine becomes a self-made God, using Will's brain.
Socrates would agree that there is no way for an individual to know everything there is to know about everything and that no man can become a god. But, a machine with rich code and the false self-awareness of a human might be able to do that. Thankfully, Paglen had a literary ram in the bush to help stop Will 2.0: Dr. Max.
Depp as Will makes a convincing story of how awesome it would be to do all of these great things to better the world in which we live. But, Will forgot something: if man screwed up the world in the past, what's to stop humankind from doing it again? Even God tried to give humans a reset with the flood that made Noah build an ark. After giving us a clean slate, we still managed to start wars, be cruel to our fellow human beings and deplete our resources.
That said, Hall and Bettany give great performances as the two sides locked in a cold war of trying to begin the Apocalypse. Likewise, Morgan Freeman as Dr. Tagger brings the wise sage to life with his kind demeanor and way of diffusing a tense situation with his sense of humor. Kate Mara as Bree successfully steps out of sister Rooney's (Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) shadow by playing a dark character who orchestrates some dark things for the greater good of mankind. Cillian Murphy, who always looks like a villain of the psychological sort (think: the Joker), plays a good guy; which doesn't fit his exterior. Lastly, Cole Hauser's Colonel Stevens is a tactical-rescue-type character who is good at taking charge. Someone please give Hauser his own franchise!
Even though Transcendence is just a point in the debate of man vs. machine, it does bring about another good point: sometimes, in our quest to prevent an event, we inadvertently kick it into overdrive. Sometimes, we should just leave well-enough alone and let the wheat and the tares grow together, because, come the day of harvest, God shall separate them.


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High dose rate irradiation with hydrogen stress is proposed as an accelerated total dose test method for bipolar linear circuits. The method is validated across process and circuit technologies with five parts that are commonly used in space: a comparator (LM193 from National Semi-conductor), a voltage regulator (HSYE-117 RH from Intersil), a voltage reference (LT1019 from Linear Technology), a JFET input op amp (OP42 from Analog Devices) and a temperature transducer (AD590 from Analog Devices). The testing technique could rapidly establish an upper bound to the low dose rate response of parts in space and help with the part selection process in the design phase of a mission. The technology dependence and the viability of this technique are qualitatively explored using a physical model describing the dose rate response and the effect of hydrogen in bipolar technologies. The model uses four core processes: 1) space charge effects, 2) free electron/hole pair recombination, hole-hydrogen defect reactions in the oxides and 4) proton depassivation of dangling bonds at the Si/SiO2 interface. Radiation hardness assurance implications are discussed.


Brothers before I was born.
And a whole era now long past of discovery.
When my middle brother Michael was cremated.
We ate muffins and had coffee and watched Mount Hood and the city.
The mystique of James Dean, godlike good looks, sweet heart.
And how to play Pinochle.
And the voices which drove him mad.
Elton John double header on the radio.
Back to Stephen. Dad. Confidant. Caregiver.
Neurotic not mad, angry, logical, loyal, defended, defender.
Listening to the music of my brother, Elton John.
Because I trusted him to save me.
I needed saving, and I trusted him.
I kept at it, chipping away at my poisons.
I imagine I will continue until I can't practice anymore.
Now it is like sweet wine, a pleasure.
On the altar with Pema, Chagdud, Chogyam, Katagiri, Suzuki.
Not just a pleasure onto itself.
Spanish melodies, bluegrass and banjos and fiddles.
because I could not take the pain of the memories.
The music of my husband.
Wet paint, thick vibrant colors, asphalt shadows.
but he never really liked most pop music.
Claire de Lune, endlessly, over and over.
"Denny, deeeennny . . ." I called.
I could not get his attention at five so made myself a menace.
But I loved my baby brother with all my heart.
He taught me to fish, to love thunder and lightening.
How to do things with my hands.
Denny is the sweet dimpled boy.
One of my biggest heartbreaks is that he never got sober.
Cruel and cutting, dangerous, sad, sick.
Gave him shelter, tried to get him sober.
And spent time on the cross for trying.
The piano man is dying, baby brother.
I don't know when. A slow painful death.
His pain is breaking my heart. It always has.
But realize that I have pieces of all my brothers in me.
Playful, outdoors, craftsman, sad, angry, sweet.
All parts of my brothers, and they are parts of me.
Where will I be when they are all gone?
Michael died 8 January 2010.
Long before I Knew him, he was known to my older brothers. That quirky smile would charm the pants off many women.
Me and Patrick at our grandparent's ranch. I was lucky with my three brothers.
Patrick with his kids — oops — dogs. He has actual kids!
Patrick and Mike in Santa Barbara, taken by my brother Stephen. Sadly, I was not there for that reunion.
Stephen trimming his hair and beard and making him pretty in the hospital. Love is caring for another, and none of my brothers shied away from being in the trenches for a loved one — especially Stephen.
The nine months building toward his death flew by. Some of it feels like a dream, hazy and out of sequence. Snapshots stay with me, and right now they are the painful ones. It has always been like that with my brother Patrick, whose life was tragic in ways, and he made it all the more tragic. Maybe it is why I am looking at so many happy pictures. We had so many really good times.
I see abject fear on his face. More than once. No words, because words were hard to come by with that tumor. I had been told by the nursing staff (doctors really don't offer much) that it was very possible that he might die of asphyxiation, and that is was not a good death for him or those of us who were with him. Our whole family was behind him going onto hospice, and possibly stopping his food, for he was clearly dying, but Patrick was not about to go there yet. I had to bring him there. He did not know about the possibility of asphyxiation, but I knew it would be a new terror for him, and he had already endured so much in an effort for a bit of quality of life.
Patrick had always looked me in the eyes. Now it was more than half our communication.
The subject came up easily. I told him why I thought he should choose hospice, that ultimately he had a death sentence, and this choice was about comfort, not changing what was so. It would end trips to ER, trips to doctors, and end more pain. He might not die faster, but he would die with less suffering. I thought it would be a long conversation.
He looked at me angry, a look I will not forget. I had been the nearer of more bad news about this, and had taken the heat several times. But then he said, "Let's do it. But let's do it now, get the lawyers in or whoever, let's do this." I walked out and told the staff to get hospice in here, that we were ready to sign. I called his daughter, she was on her way. Mitchell came too.
Then like so many times in those last six months, time slowed, and yet I was taken away to handle the issues surrounding the decision. But I saw his face, and it was a face hurt with betrayal. He was facing the end, which all of us do by ourselves, no matter how many people are around. Life betrayed him, and it was over. I brought him the news, said the words aloud. He was angry, sad, and the joy left his face.
And we could not talk about it. He had no words. I went back to be with him, to sit beside him and hold his hand, and he had energy, wanting to know when we were going to do this. Looking back, I am not sure he was doing it quickly because he thought once done, it could not be undone and so he wanted to do it before he had time to think about it. Maybe he simply was resigned and wanted to get it over.
As I had hundreds of times I told him I was sorry, and that I loved him. If I could change the way it was I would.
The painful look of anger, betrayal, and hurt stays with me, along with so many looks as I was leaving, or just coming in to see him. I knew that this was his best option, and those closest to the situation knew it was too, including all of us who loved him. I did not want to fill his mind with more fears of how he could die when his mind had already gone there a hundred times.
Concurrently today I finished building an altar, with my brothers' ashes. I will have Patrick's ashes until the wake on his birthday, and have a small amphora of Mike's ashes next to his. His hat sits atop his ashes. With an invitation to the Museum, his antique and refinishing shop.
I need to remember the happy times, and need to process these horrid memories, because by writing about them I move through them and they find their proper order in my psyche.
I wrote a bit about this in a blog post, but thought to drop the images here too: My brothers and I in early portraits I painted.
Katie, this is beautiful, so much so. Thank you for sharing your world.
Thank you Peter. It is close to my heart . . .


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OTTAWA—In 1898 the U.S. Department of State sent zoologist Charles Wardell Stiles to its embassy in Berlin to overturn protectionist measures the local government had taken against the import of American pork. Stiles won the commendation of the U.S. ambassador in that city for his successful advocacy of free trade. His larger place in history, however, is as the first person to hold the title "science attaché." Nearly 90 years later, science attachés are an increasingly visible p
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OTTAWA—In 1898 the U.S. Department of State sent zoologist Charles Wardell Stiles to its embassy in Berlin to overturn protectionist measures the local government had taken against the import of American pork. Stiles won the commendation of the U.S. ambassador in that city for his successful advocacy of free trade.
His larger place in history, however, is as the first person to hold the title "science attaché."
Nearly 90 years later, science attachés are an increasingly visible presence in the world of diplomacy, reflecting the growing importance of science in global affairs. An informal survey shows that France leads the way, with scientific diplomats in 35 capitals and six consulates. It is followed by the Soviet Union, with counselors in 27 capitals, and the United States, with 24. Some embassies are staffed with more than one science attaché.
The background and training of a science attaché varies widely from country...


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Fat in the Fire: European Obesity Congress Predicts 'Enormous' Epidemic
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European Union countries could be swallowed by an obesity epidemic as soon as 2030, according to a study presented at the European Congress on Obesity.
European Union countries could be facing an obesity epidemic as soon as 2030, according to a study presented on Wednesday at the European Congress on Obesity in Prague.
Burgeoning obesity figures are likely in almost every EU country, according to the study conducted by by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UK Health Forum. The growth in obesity rates is linked to the rise of unhealthy diets and sedentary lifestyles.
"Europe will face an obesity crisis of enormous proportions by 2030," the study said.
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According to the forecast, Ireland, Greece, Spain, Sweden, the Czech Republic and the United Kingdom are among the EU countries that will most likely be affected by the obesity issue.
Ireland was placed at the top of an 'overweight' chart, since 89 percent of men and 85 percent of women will be either overweight or obese in the country by 2030, according to the research.
In Britain, these figures will constitute 74 percent for men and 64 percent for women, showing a 4-5 percent rise in the number of overweight and obese people since 2010.
The only exception is the Netherlands, where the obesity rate is expected to decrease by 2030.
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It was a bad night for Real Madrid on Wednesday, with Zinedine Zidane's star-studded side deservedly losing 2-0 away at Wolfsburg in their Champions League quarter-final first-leg clash.
However, even more embarrassing than Madrid's surprise defeat were the histrionics of full-back Marcelo, who produced an appalling dive after a nothing clash with Maximilian Arnold.
The ridiculous incident occurred after Brazilian defender Marcelo kicked out at Wolfsburg's Arnold, an act which should've seen the Madrid man see red.
Surely there should be some sort of retrospective punishment for incidents like these. Indeed, surely a panel should sit after each match day (for all major competitions) and single out the divers and cheats?
As for the game itself, a penalty from Ricardo Rodriguez followed by a goal from Arnold gave the hosts a 2-0 lead at the break. In the second period, a below-par Madrid simply couldn't get themselves back into the game while Wolfsburg could have gone ever further ahead.
Still, Los Merengues will still probably turn on the style in the return leg at the Bernabeu and overturn this defeat.
…and this is why my Canadian work colleagues wonder why I follow football.
Ahh, Marcello. He's always been a class act.
a true embarassment for any sportsman. Kicking at your opponent may be happening in the heat of the game but that pathetic act adds insult to injury!
Kicking, headbutting, and then a pathetic little dive to top it all off. Get yourself a grip, will ye?


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Judge's Ruling Allows Child Sex Abuse Lawsuit Against New York Prep School to Proceed, Despite Statute of Limitations
Posted on August 30, 2012 by Joshua Sophy
Under New York's statute of limitations, victims of child sexual abuse must file civil lawsuits against their attackers and the organizations that failed to prevent the abuse by their 23rd birthday, or their claims are time-barred. New York's statute of limitations is among the strictest laws regarding sexual abuse in the country.
However, a recent decision by a federal judge may keep that window during which victims may report the crimes open longer. According to a Wall Street Journal report this week, U.S. District Judge Frederic Block ruled that the state's statute of limitations doesn't necessarily disqualify a lawsuit filed by victims of child sexual abuse.
Block is presiding over the case filed by former students of Poly Prep Country Day School, a private school in Brooklyn, N.Y. Twelve former students filed a lawsuit against the school for its role in covering-up the crimes committed against them, some as far back as 1966. Those charges date well beyond the state's statute of limitations laws but the victims believe the school's active cover-up of the crimes should nullify that rule.
The students all claim they were raped and sexually abused by the school's former football coach, Philip Foglietta, who worked at the school for a quarter-century. Foglietta died in 1998 but the former students say the school continues to hold the legacy of the coach in high regard and has continually denied any abuse took place. The students say Foglietta abused them during the school term and at a summer program hosted at the exclusive private school.
According to the report, attorneys representing the victims argued that the claims were still valid and attempted to do so by using some delicate legal footwork. Claims in this case were reliant on the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act and Title IX, a law generally associated with women's sports and not sexual abuse claims.
Under the RICO laws, two victims' claims were allowed to continue because each had donated money to the private school after they had graduated all while officials with Poly Prep continued to cover-up the crimes. The Title IX claims were allowed to continue because the victims of the former coach's abuse were primarily of the same gender, the Journal report adds. These theories have generally failed in other recent attempts to circumvent the strict statute in New York.
This case is just the latest in a summer chock full of headlines detailing patterns of sexual abuse that occurred while higher organizations, such as schools and churches, conspired to keep these accusations and crimes a secret, thereby allowing them to persist in many cases. In New York alone, this is the third major sexual abuse scandal to receive national attention this year and the details involved in this latest case mirror those of the most widely known scandal, that which still has Penn State University reeling.
Abuse charges have recently become public against teachers and officials at Horace Mann, another private school in New York, as well as from within the ultra-Orthodox Jewish religious community that inhabits a section of Brooklyn. In each, the school and church are accused of ignoring or conspiring to cover-up crimes of sexual abuse against children.
At Penn State, convicted child sexual abuser and former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky received hundreds of years in prison for molesting 10 boys dating back to the mid-1990s and is accused of abusing possibly dozens more, including his adopted son, for years prior. The school continued to hold Sandusky in a high regard even after he resigned from his job with the school in 1999, nearly at the top of his profession, amid previous sexual abuse allegations.
Attempts to widen the statute of limitations on sexual abuse crimes in New York have recently failed to get passed by state lawmakers. These recent cases in which the accusers had previously reported the crimes but were ignored provide more credence to the argument that that window should widen.
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Parergodrilidae – rodzina pierścienic o nieustalonej przynależności taksonomicznej.

Taksonomia
Rodzina opisana została w 1925 roku Ericha Reisingera. Dawniej zaliczana była do wieloszczetów osiadłych z grupy Canalipalpata i rzędu Ctenodrilida. Obecnie traktowane jest jako wieloszczety incertae sedis lub siodełkowce incertae sedis.

Opis
Drobne, czerwokształtne pierścienice o co najmniej jednym przednim segmencie bez szczecinek. Prostomium bez przydatek. Płatki parapodialne nieobecne. Szczecinki obecne w pojedynczych wiązkach, z których każda ma od jednej do kilku szczecinek. Wszystkie szczecinki proste.

Stygocapitella zamieszkują morskie piaski, a Parergodrilus gnijący materiał roślinny na lądzie.

Systematyka
Zalicza się tu 2 rodzaje:

 Parergodrilus Reisinger, 1925
 Stygocapitella Knöllner, 1934

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Parergodrilidae

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La prima categoria del campionato italiano di pallacanestro 1985-1986 è suddiviso in due serie: A1 ed A2. Nella seconda sono iscritte 16 squadre.

La prima fase prevede un girone all'italiana con partite di andata e ritorno. La vittoria vale 2 punti, la sconfitta 0, in caso di parità sono previsti i supplementari.

Alla seconda fase accedono le prime 4 squadre classificate, che oltre alla promozione in serie A1 per la stagione 1986-1987, hanno la possibilità di accedere ai play-off scudetto.

Le ultime 3 classificate invece retrocedono nella neonata serie B1.

Restano ferme in serie A2 tutte le altre squadre.

Stagione regolare

Classifica

Risultati
Lega Basket Serie A2 1985-86 Tabellone Gare

Play-off

Bibliografia
 Almanacco illustrato del basket, Panini, 1990.
 Almanacco ufficiale del campionato italiano di basket, Libreria dello sport, 2006.

Pallacanestro nel 1985
Pallacanestro nel 1986
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from all of us at The Globe Players
2020 has been a truly chaotic year, but we are so delighted that we have been able to find a way to keep our shows accessible to schools, continuing to bring the experience of live-theatre to young people. Thank you so much to all the schools and home-learners who watched our shows and joined our digital audience – we have been able to reach schools all over the UK and beyond, and your positive feedback and brilliant interaction with us during our post-show Q&A sessions has continually boosted our morale.
In 2021 we will be adding Romeo and Juliet to our programme of live, online shows, so do check out the dates for that! But for now, we wish you a wonderful festive break and a very happy new year.
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Q: How to know when Google places has loaded and is ready (asynchronously)? I load google maps and places asynchronously in JQuery :
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I'd like to only be able to actually start typing in the input text when Places is really ready. But I haven't found any event to bind to.
Any idea ? Thank you

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Nice work. The shape of the gate leads me through to whatever lies behind. The gate is the focal point and you have it offset by about the right amount to equal the "Divine Proportion" used by the old masters, of classical art. I visited China years ago and saw a different and diverse people. They showed more interest in me than I in them. (not having seen a "Westerner" before.) You have some wonderful images.
Wonderful picture, I love the lights and contrasts!
Beautiful!! 9 and 19 would make lovely partners on a wall together.
Love this, nice values and composition!
Thank you for the nice feedback!!
Stunning photograph -- the light, contrasts, crisp details, and composition are all incredibly well done. This gives such a vivid feeling of this place, quiet at the moment but resonant with time, history, and footsteps of many generations.
What a beautiful and peaceful capture...great work Xueling!
Interesting b&w image ........ nice shaped archway Xueling - thanks for your nice feedback on Snake Plant - Chris.
You have a fantastic eye for line and contrast.
Such a stunning image...beautifully composed, love the B&W...amazing gateway. Well done Xueling!
So simple, so lovely! I have been to China to retrieve my gorgeous daughter -- she was left there for me to find I guess. While I was there I saw many more things to photograph than I could manage! This scene takes me back -- so humble, so elegant, so worth preserving. Thank you.


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Nick Percat will join Brad Jones Racing team-mate Tim Slade in Freightliner Racing colours for this weekend's CrownBet Darwin Triple Crown.
Making his 150th Supercars start on Sunday, Percat is sporting an almost-identical black-and-yellow scheme to Slade on his #8 Commodore at Hidden Valley.
Percat took his maiden BJR podium at Hidden Valley in 2017 with a third-placed finish in the Saturday race.
"It's awesome to have the continued support of Freightliner & Alliance Trucks Parts and be running the same colours as Sladey," Percat said.
"Darwin has been a good hunting ground for Freightliner Racing and BJR in previous years.
"I achieved my first podium result with the team here last year, Tim was on the podium in 2016 and Fabian [Coulthard] was on the podium the two years before that. It's a streak we'd certainly like to continue.
"The team were so ecstatic with the podium result we achieved here in the top end last year, it was one of my most memorable Supercar moments.
"Tim and I finished the 2017 Hidden Valley weekend with one of our best points hauls of the season, so we know we have the potential to get the results we're after.
Percat, who penned a two-year contract extension with BJR in April, starts the event 12th in the 2018 standings.
The team opted against completing a full test day in the break between the Winton and Hidden Valley events.
"At this point in the championship we're sitting much better than we were last year," Percat said.
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Parkland: One year on
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It's been very nearly a year since the Marjory Stoneman Douglas shootings. I interviewed one of the most inspiring people I have ever met for this feature, Manuel Oliver, who suffered the heartbreak of losing his best friend in life, his 17-year-old son Joaquin, known as Guac.
The idiot comedian Louis CK took a pop at the teenage survivors of the shooting. Senor Oliver would not let that stand…
There haven't been many laughs in Manuel Oliver's life since his 17-year-old son Joaquin was shot and killed at his Florida high school last Valentine's Day. A grief-filled year since his "best friend" died has been punctuated by Oliver highlighting the tragedy of gun violence in America through an emotional, raw and gritty form of art activism.
So when the disgraced comedian Louis CK fuelled his comeback attempts with some insensitive jokes about the Parkland survivors, it was a given that Oliver would speak up for his son and the 16 other victims in the best way he knows how.
"Hear the one about a kid who walks into the school on Valentine's Day?" Oliver asks in a derisive stand-up comedy club style routine produced as a video clip for Change the Ref, the gun safety advocacy organisation the family set up in the wake of their son's killing.
"Skinny kid, wearing headphones, gets dropped by his dad. Says I love you and walks into the school. And then gets shot to death a couple of hours later," Oliver says, the non-punchline emphasised by a crashing cymbal.
It was a pointed response to a comedian who misused his first amendment right in order to bully the teenage survivors of the shooting, according to Oliver, who will attend Tuesday's evening's State of the Union address as a guest of Florida Democratic congressman Ted Deutch.
"I had an argument with someone [else] when I was in New York, in the middle of the village where all the comedy nightclubs are," Oliver told the Guardian in an interview last week, before the video produced by Change the Ref went viral. "We had an issue with this comedian who made jokes about the Parkland kids, this guy said 'well, we have the right according to the first amendment of freedom of speech'.
"I said that's what you've got wrong. We have amazing rights but nobody wrote those rights so you can bully people. You shouldn't be talking shit about anybody, that right was made for you to defend yourself."
Speaking up for those who no longer can has become the hallmark of Oliver's campaigning over the last year, which has seen him and his wife Patricia, Joaquin's mother, travelling across United States and overseas, often in the company of the March for Our Lives student movement and promoting the gun control message of Change the Ref.
Oliver, who was raised by a creative family including photographers, artists and a civil engineer father in his native Venezuela before moving to the US 16 years ago, has produced a series of sardonic giant wall murals, attention grabbing art installations and even a lifesize three-dimensional printed sculpture of his son. The "3D activist" was prominent at a die-in at the US capitol building in Washington DC last month, while Oliver's self-styled "Artivism" has been displayed in many other cities that have experienced mass shootings, including Las Vegas and Orlando, and in Dallas at the National Rifle Association summit last May.
"None of us were born to hide our face, wash our hands or turn the page and try to be happy and comfortable again. I don't even know if that's possible," Oliver said of himself, his wife and Joaquin's sister Andrea.
"We decided that what we know, what we learned, we're going to use it. I'm doing this because it's my best tool to fix what I think is wrong. This is a problem beyond Parkland. By travelling around the nation, around the world, by knowing people that suffered the same situation we suffered on February 14th, that tells me that we have a common issue.
"The good news, if there is such a thing, is that I have a spotlight on my speech, my thoughts and activism. Most people don't. Today 100 people will die in America because of gun violence. They won't have the chance to talk to someone like you – nobody knows them. They have no voice."
Though friends with the other bereaved families of the 14 students and three adults killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school, Oliver, one of the most outspoken members of a group entwined by tragedy, insists he speaks for only himself and his son.
Some families have channelled their activism efforts locally, seeking the removal of Broward county's sheriff and superintendent of schools whom they blame for allowing a 19-year-old former student to return to the campus with an assault rifle (Oliver supports the officials' removal but does not see a need to celebrate it).
Others have worked with Florida's Republican politicians and Donald Trump's administration to pursue legislation intended to harden security in schools, including the controversial proposal to arm teachers.
"I had an invitation to the White House and I said no. There is no reason for me to go," Oliver said. "Some families were there, there's that beautiful picture in the Oval Office, Donald Trump sitting in the centre, in a very powerful attitude and the parents of the victims from Parkland standing beside him and showing respect.
"Fuck that. I don't play that role, and I don't play that role because it will be a contradiction to all the things that happened. It's not about Donald Trump, forget him. But whoever is in the White House, is he part of the solution or not?
"This administration in particular is very attached to the gun lobby, many of the politicians have received donations from the gun lobby and the NRA. So it's obvious they cannot be part of the solution. Their solution is arming and arming more people. Australia never thought that would be part of the solution, the United Kingdom never thought that, Japan, Canada, never thought that.
"Only in America can a 19-year-old go to a store, buy an AR-15, buy ammunitions, go home, load it, go to school the next day and murder people. Or go to a church, a bank, a yoga salon … and start shooting people like crazy."
Oliver prefers for his message to be carried in a more personal way, one that reaches politicians, and other people, as individuals. He met Nancy Pelosi in Washington last year, before the Democratic party leader became the House speaker.
"I asked her, 'Can I call you Nancy? It's not that I want to be informal, but I want to get close to you in our conversation. Do you have kids, Nancy? Do you have grandkids, Nancy?' 'Yes I do'. 'Are they safe now?' 'Yes'. But you don't know. The same way I didn't know.
"I said I don't know if you're going to be able to solve this, because to my mind it's a cultural thing. But I'm going to ask you to keep in mind when you have power that there's a lot of people losing their lives because the politicians aren't passing the laws they need to be passing."
Oliver says he continues to talk to the politicians he encounters. "You are there because we voted for you, because you made promises to us," he said.
"We're not going to be home waiting for you, we're going to be here reminding you, just in case you forget about it. Yesterday 100 people lost their lives. What did you do yesterday? Today 100 people will die. What are you going to do today to help them? Tomorrow, another 100 people will die. What are you planning to do to stop this?
"But still you have these politicians that will never change their mind, not to mention they're paid for. I paid the biggest price you can pay to be where I am. There's no way anybody can return me the value of my son, so I'm here forever."
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Steve Buscemi always seems to be working, with the actor having racked up over 160 credits since making his screen debut in 1985, and he's showing absolutely no signs of slowing down. On top of his career in front of the camera, the 63 year-old is also an accomplished filmmaker, having broadened his horizons by moving into writing, directing and producing.
Buscemi has helmed episodes of The Sopranos, 30 Rock, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and more in the past, but he's just wrapped his latest feature length effort The Listenser, which has Marvel Cinematic Universe veteran and Westworld star Tessa Thompson in the lead role.
As per Deadline, Academy Award-nominated writer Alessandro Camon penned the script, with Thompson the only person to appear in person throughout the entire film. She plays a helpline volunteer named Beth, who spends her evenings manning the phones as she speaks to all types of people from every background and demographic.
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32. PHANTASM (1979)
August 10, 2009 Gregory J. Smalley (366weirdmovies)	3 Comments
AKA The Never Dead (Australia)
"…when you're dealing with a movie with this many oddball ideas, and a director who's not afraid to 'go weird' just because he wants to, your best bet is probably just to keep quiet, enjoy the ride, and then see how you feel once the whole crazy experience is over with."–Scott Weinberg, Fearnet
DIRECTED BY: Don Coscarelli
FEATURING: Angus Scrimm, A. Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, Reggie Bannister
PLOT: While secretly observing services for a deceased family friend, recently orphaned 13 year-old Mike witnesses an impossible feat performed by the funeral director known only as The Tall Man. Later, while following the older brother he adores to a tryst in a cemetery, he spoils the romantic ambiance when he tries to warn his brother of a dwarf-like creature he sees scurrying in the shadows. The Tall Man begins appearing in Mike's nightmares, and he journeys alone to the isolated funeral home to gather evidence to support his belief that the mortician is responsible for the strange happenings in his New England town.
The kernel of the idea for Phantasm came from a dream writer/director Coscarelli had in his late teens where he was "being pursued through a corridor by some kind of flying steel ball."
Coscarelli, only 23 years old when Phantasm began production, not only wrote and directed the film but also served as cinematographer and editor.
The film originally received an "X" rating in the United States (a kiss of death at that time for anyone seeking wide theatrical distribution) due to the blood and violence in the silver sphere scene (and the shot of urine seeping out of the dead man's pants leg). The scene is frightening and effective, but relatively tame by twenty-first century standards. According to a widely repeated anecdote, Los Angeles Times movie critic Charles Champlin, who liked the film, intervened with the MPAA to secure an "R" rating for Phantasm. Per co-producer Paul Pepperman, however, it was someone from the distribution company who convinced the ratings board to change their verdict. Champlin's role was actually to recommend Universal pick the picture up for distribution.
A scene where the Tall Man appears in Mike's dream was selected as the 25th entry in Bravo's "100 Scariest Movie Moments."
The film cost between $300,000 and $400,000 to make, and eventually earned over $15 million.
Phantasm spawned four sequels, all directed by Coscarelli. None were as well received or fondly remembered as the original. Coscarelli would eventually score an underground hit again with the bizarre horror/comedy Bubba Ho-Tep (2002).
INDELIBLE IMAGE: Without a doubt, the unexplained appearance of the flying sphere zooming through the sublimely creepy marble halls of the mausoleum.
WHAT MAKES IT WEIRD: Phantasm appears to be a standard horror film at first blush, but as it heedlessly races along from one fright to another, it becomes increasingly obvious that the plot is not resolving, or at least not resolving in any sensible way. It is also obvious that this scattershot plotting, which elevates atmosphere and psychological subtext by frustrating the literal sense, is a deliberate choice to "go weird" and not a result of incompetence.
Original trailer for Phantasm
COMMENTS: Mike wakes up to discover the Tall Man looming over the head of his bed like a living tombstone; at his command, cowled dwarfs spring out from the sides and grab the boy. In the next scene, Mike sees the Tall Man walking about in broad daylight, and, in a stylized slow motion scene, the mortician glances in the boy's direction as mist from a refrigerated ice cream truck swirls around Angus Scrimm's gaunt face.
It's obvious what's missing between these two scenes: a transition where the boy wakes up with a start in his bed, realizing that he's just had a nightmare. The nightmare scene is horror movie cliche meant to mislead the audience and provide a bonus scare outside the main narrative, and the waking-up-screaming scene that typically follows is the logical way to reorient the audience back into the movie's reality. (In fact, the movie does include such a reality re-establishing scene at another point later in the film—significantly, from a different character's perspective). The audience quickly figures out that the scene with the Tall Man and his homicidal minions never happened, but the absence of the expected reorientation scene actually creates a sense of unease in the seasoned horror fan. Without the shot establishing that the previous scene was a dream, there's still a bit of doubt in the audience's mind that the daylight scene occurs back inside the main narrative, and isn't part of an ongoing nightmare. We continue to wait for Mike to awaken.
The lack of that expected transition scene exemplifies a couple of things that enable Phantasm to transcend it's low-budget roots and stand out from the Seventies horror pack. First, it reinforces Phantasm's dreamlike atmosphere that emphasizes effect and mood over logic. It also signals that this movie has thrown away the standard fright playbook and is working outside the comfortable rules. This was director Coscarelli's first attempt at horror after having previously helmed two children's films; although he utilizes a lot of jump scares and other standard shock techniques, he's not wedded to the genre's conventions and is able to pleasantly frustrate the audience's expectations. The standard formula horror film structure involves 1) building up a mysterious monstrous invading presence through a sequence of unexplained menacing events, 2) revealing the nature of the supernatural force—the rules it plays by—so that the weird occurrences make sense, and 3) restoring the disturbed natural order by discovering the monster's vulnerability and defeating the evil in the final act. What makes Phantasm unique and memorable is that ignores this formula, and instead keeps building the feeling of mystery from start to finish: as we anxiously await the expected resolution, the sense of things finally coming together and making sense, the film just keeps getting weirder instead.
Explaining the story's developments ("plot" would be a misleading word, in this case) in detail would be doing the reader who hasn't yet seen the film a disservice. Suffice it to say that the story continues to take hard left turns into frightening craziness, careening gloriously from one set piece to another with little logical connection until the tale comes to a seemingly final "solution" to the mystery that is so incredible and nonsensical that it will make most viewers eyes bug out. Given the unhinged nature of what has come before, with fingers inexplicably transforming into insect monsters and mutant midgets on the prowl everywhere, only such a demented, over-the-top explanation of the Tall Man's motives and abilities could do. On the slightest reflection, the big reveal really accounts for nothing we have seen; fortunately, there's a coda that proves the director knows what he is doing with this tale.
Although Phantasm is tremendous fun for adventurous horror and B-movie fans, and for anyone who enjoys popular cinema with a mildly surreal edge, it's a movie that especially appeals to boys aged eight to fourteen. The movie's horrific core—fear of abandonment by parents and older siblings, fear of being left on one's own, fear of having to fend for themselves—speaks to their unexpressed anxieties, but, more importantly, the script gives their surrogate Mike all the cool tools he needs to outgrow his dependence on his parents and older brother. He's brave enough to break into the mortuary at night on his own, armed only with a knife and a crucifix, and resourceful enough to break out of a locked room by improvising an explosive device from a shotgun shell and a hammer. Not only that, but if his adventures weren't so scary, they'd be the height of boyish fun. Thirteen year-old Mike gets to drive a muscle car at outrageous speeds, hang out with older musicians who treat him as an equal, shoot a gun, drink beer, and generally act like an irresponsible grown-up. It's no wonder this movie impressed itself into the memory of so many males who first saw it at a certain age. Because Mike is such a vulnerable and likable little kid, the rest of us sympathize with him and root for him, even if we aren't a male aged eight to fourteen.
Phantasm could have been an absolute horror classic, but although it's originality overcomes a lot of the burdens imposed by its low budget, there are many times that the acting is so sub-par that it makes it hard to suspend disbelief—and this movie requests a lot of suspension of disbelief. Reggie Bannister as the guitar-playing ice cream entrepreneur and friendly sidekick fares best among the thesps, but the others often struggle to be average. A. Michael Baldwin, the little boy, has a young Danny Bonaduce cuteness and does as well as can be expected given his youth, but it isn't one of those transcendent performances that make you forget you're watching a child actor, and he is asked to carry the emotional weight of an awful lot of scenes all alone. Bill Thornbury as older brother Jody is acceptable but forgettable. Angus Scrimm sports a lean, iconic look in the film and makes an excellent impression when he just stands there, but he overplays his lines when he's required to speak (a breach of taste that's forgivable only because he's a villain and we expect some hamminess). Most of the rest of the cast were amateurs, and sometimes their non-acting is embarrassing and distracting, particularly in the case of the poor little girl who tries to assay the role of the fortune teller's granddaughter. Although the generally poor acting holds Phantasm back from being all it might have been, on the plus side the producers did luck into a professionally spooky and expertly employed score that makes up for some of the deficiencies by supplying real tension that's often beyond the actor's abilities to project.
Phantasm frustrates a lot of viewers who can't get past the fact that, on the surface, the movie doesn't seem to make a lick of sense. But only the most pedestrian tales are actually all about the literal events the characters experience, and only the most pedestrian fans insist that in every movie, every plot point must line up like a row of homes in a tract housing development. The story of a fictional hero vanquishing a fictional monster is always really about a real person overcoming a real problem (or not overcoming it, as the case may be). That's why weird movies can work—if they work on the emotional or thematic levels—even though the plots don't always observe the rules of cause and effect. Phantasm is the story of an orphaned boy who now fears abandonment by those who are left to love and protect him; and on an even broader level, it's a simple tale about the universal fear of death. Those aren't novel, deeply buried themes, and they're not handled here with great subtlety. But they don't have to be for the movie to be effective. Mike's fear of being forsaken by his brother is made explicit, and when your symbol of death is a funeral director, well, then you're not hiding your metaphors too carefully. But Phantasm ultimately handles these universal, existential fears with great skill. It's not a story about a real life alien bogeyman who stands six feet seven and has taken a job as a funeral director; it's about a boy's subconscious fears, and these fears are expressed in the movie in a way that makes subconscious sense. The way Coscarelli enstrangens this oft-told death allegory through the script's rambunctious, off-balance jaunts into the unconscious and the absurd transmutes these simple anxieties into something fresh, mysterious and cathartic.
"…thoroughly silly and endearing…. what happens next is never more logical than what happened before, but at least something is happening, which often necessitates that characters and facts be suddenly introduced (or dropped) with the kind of heedless enthusiasm that only 8-year-old raconteurs can muster."–Vincent Canby, The New York Times (contemporaneous)
"…a surprisingly shambolic affair whose moments of genuine invention stand out amid the prevailing incompetence… it's fair to say the cluelessness proves more endearing than exasperating. The spirit of Ed Wood lurks in the shadows."–Trevor Johnson, Time Out Film Guide
"…the phantasmagoria grows increasingly weird… Phantasm careens along in this outlandish fashion, and its big scares work because they seemingly continue to emerge from a writer's feverish subconscious, racked with dread and confusion… a hallucinogenic horror classic."–Jeremiah Kipp, Slant Magazine (DVD)
OFFICIAL SITE: Phantasm – The Official Site
IMDB LINK: Phantasm (1979)
OTHER LINKS OF INTEREST:
Phantasm Archives: Fan site with news updates, synopses on all films in the series, media downloads, an active message board community, and more
The Cut Up – Phantasm: Video review of the film incorporating numerous clips
DVD INFO: The absolutely packed single disc Anchor Bay DVD release (buy ) contains audio commentary by Coscarelli and three cast members (not new, but recycled from the Laserdisc release), the trivia-filled 36 minute documentary "Phantasmagoria," 20 minutes of Super 8 "home movies" taken during the production and narrated by Coscarelli and Reggie Bannister, several deleted scenes including a drunken ice cream fight and the unused "fire extinguisher" false ending, a 30 minute TV interview with Coscarelli and Angus Scrimm from 1979, a TV commercial with the Tall Man pitching Fangoria magazine, and trailers for Phantasm and Phantasm III.
UPDATE 12/9/2016: Coscarelli released a "remastered" version of Phantasm in late 2016, in a DVD/Blu-ray combo pack (buy) or on DVD alone (buy ). Footage shows that the image has been significantly cleaned up and brightened. We have not acquired a copy, but based on the advertising the special features seem to have been all ported over from the Anchor Bay DVD.
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3 thoughts on "32. PHANTASM (1979)"
The Chief Archivist says:
Nice article. Many kind thanks for putting together this tribute and for linking the Phantasm Archives.
Putting up a list of weird movies isn't bad! hahahaha And really, I find this tribute of Phantasm really great too!
G. Smalley (366weirdmovies) says:
Entry updated to mention the new remastered Blu-ray release.
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