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Review: Cul-De-Sac (1966)
Posted on October 5, 2022 by geelw
"It's only an island from the water…"
When I was about 14 or so, I finally noticed that the local public television station had been showing a load of old foreign and domestic films from the late evening into the early morning hours. While I can't recall the exact date they started, I can remember seeing classics like Seven Samurai, Metropolis, a few Godard films and the occasional silent movie, usually to the effect of me falling asleep on the sofa (hey, not too many kids start out liking everything they watch). It was definitely an eye-opening experience except for me occasionally falling asleep, not really from boredom, but from the films all starting well past my normal bedtime. At least back then, school nights were unaffected by this new hobby although I was pretty useless when I stayed up too late watching all those movies.
"I'm mean, I'm mean, I'm mean – you know what I mean…"
Anyway, one evening I turned the TV on and just missed the opening credits to one film, so all I recall before I passed out about 15 minutes later was a burly guy with a bandaged hand pushing a car down a long road with a seemingly sick or injured passenger inside. The man ends up leaving his passenger alone while he checks out a small castle-like house atop a hill, sneaks in and helps himself to whatever food he can scrounge, including a raw egg. A few years later, I found out that was Roman Polanski's 1966 film Cul-De-Sac and I ended up tracking the film down at a rental shop here that specialized in obscure films. I also discovered Donald Pleasence in a really quirky role, no truly likeable characters among the main cast and a plot that was a mix of dark comedy and psychological drama which is, of course, better appreciated at an older age.
George (Donald Pleasence) and Teresa (Françoise Dorléac) are a married couple living in a remote island area well off the beaten path (Lindisfarne in Northumberland, according to Wikipedia). As George is entertaining some annoying guests, Teresa is doing her fling with a man who's not her husband. The odd thing is, George seems a bit intentionally oblivious to this for some reason, but things are about to be shaken up somewhat after his guests leave. That man pushing the car is a gangster named Dickie (Lionel Stander) and he's come to George's home just to make a long distance call. It's a home invasion film of sorts, with Dickie locking the couple in their room while he waits for aid to arrive from a mysterious Mr. Katelbach, who seems to be Dickie's employer.
"It's only a flesh wound..
The next order of business is retrieving Albie (Jack MacGowran), Dickie's literal partner in crime, before he drowns in the stolen car he's trapped in. This surprises Dickie as well as Albie, as they doesn't realize they're on a small island where the tide isolates the area for a few hours each night. We also learn the unseen crime they were paired up for went south quickly before the film begins. Dickie gets wounded in the wrist, while Albie was shot in the stomach and spends his remaining time in the film hallucinating (he thinks George in makeup is his wife at one point) and later, dies from his wound. Dickie initially starts digging a makeshift grave, but Teresa escapes from the room she's locked in with George and ends up digging willingly for Dickie after offering him some of her homemade vodka. George eventually wakes up to find Teresa free and Dickie forces him to finish the job. George soon ends up as Dickie's drinking buddy after he's coerced into a few drinks (and he doesn't drink at all, which makes him a bit of a mess when he does imbibe).
Just as you're getting the idea that this odd and temporary friendship may be a way out of sorts for everyone, things go completely awry (even more so than you'd prefer).
"Somebody put something in my drink…"
To add to the madness, a surprise arrival shakes things up when the expected guests aren't expected at all (or: hell is indeed other people) and Dickie needs to play servant to the couple to keep a ruse going. Jacqueline Bisset gets a tiny cameo, but an increasingly more unhinged George kicks his new guests out and Dickie gets some more bad news after he fixes the telephone and attacks Teresa after she plays a trick on him. George, now nearly completely out of his mind, gets to prove some sort of manhood to his wife as the film takes itself to its bleak conclusion, but you're treated to an ending that adds at least one final question if you look carefully, guess that a mind was changed and yes, George probably is in for a even ruder awakening than even his now destroyed mind can imagine. I'm not one to rate a film with a proper score these days, but for it's unusual plot presentation, Gil Taylor's great black and white cinematography and Krzysztof Komeda's jazzy score, this one gets a Recommended mention from this end.
It's a bit twisted in a few ways…
In case you haven't guessed, this post is part of The Devilishly Delightful Donald Pleasence Blogathon hosted by Cinematic Catharsis and Realweegiemidget Reviews and other entries can be found at both links starting on October 28, I'm posting a bit early due to some medical stuff coming up ths month, so enjoy my scribbling and please poke at the other posts!
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Review: Once Upon A Time In The West
They don't shoot horses, do they?
An intentionally slow moving, deliberately paced epic "western opera", Sergio Leone's now classic Once Upon A Time In The West wasn't exactly a huge hit back during its 1969 North American release. The film, which was edited for some content (since restored) was probably still somewhat lengthy for audiences of the era and the film's somewhat glacial pace will be a bit much for some new and impatient viewers.
Interestingly enough, the film is a sweeping and meticulous love letter to the western genre, featuring major and minor visual and aural tips of the hat to many previous westerns. It's also Leone doing remarkable work with his camera using carefully crafted sets and locations in Spain and some prime locations in Monument Valley to grand effect. There's also spring loaded tension throughout, such as the brilliant opening sequence where three duster-clad gunmen wait impatiently for a late train to arrive just so they can kill a man (Charles Bronson). Leone uses some humor here to break that tension, having a common fly and dripping water torment two of the men as they wait.
No, he doesn't do requests…
The would-be assassins fail, save for wounding their target and the film cuts to a man named Brett McBain and his young son hunting birds before taking their catch back home to a ranch named Sweetwater, where the entire McBain family is in turn brutally dispatched by a man named Frank (Henry Fonda!), Then we move to Jill McBain (Claudia Cardinale) arriving via train to the town of Flagstone, where no one is there to meet her (thank to Frank and his men). After the buggy she's hired to take her to her new home makes an unscheduled stop, we then meet Cheyenne (Jason Robards), an outlaw who's just escaped from jail and ends up at that spot where he meets his gang. Cheyenne meets a recuperating Bronson, who he dubs "Harmonica" upon seeing and hearing him play while wondering if he can shoot as well. Harmonica initially thinks Cheyenne sent his three of his men to kill him earlier because of the dusters they wear, but he's soon convinced otherwise. Jill eventually makes it to her new home where we see the bodies of the family laid out and a small group of neighbors waiting to give her the sad news. Before the funeral, evidence of Cheyenne's involvement in the murders is revealed, but Frank is actually responsible.
The next time he rode a train, he made sure no one would shoot him.
It turns out Frank is working for a very wealthy man named Morton, who's got a disability and travels in a specially customized train. Morton admonishes Frank for killing the family instead of scaring them off, to which Frank coldly replies: "People are only scared when they're dying"(ouch). Morton wants Sweetwater for its proximity to the railroad and its water source, both of which will add to his wealth, but he doesn't realize Frank also has his own plans for the property. Meanwhile, Jill is the sole owner of Sweetwater now that her family has been killed and yes, Frank has plans for her as well. Both Cheyenne and Harmonica figure out what Frank is up to, but both men have their own plans for dealing with him and fate also drops into the picture. The theme of water plays so heavily here that I thought of Chinatown for a moment once the overall story was finally revealed. This is a film that takes its sweet time to fully display its plot, using Bronson's character as the near-silent observer/detective and his reason for being a bit vengeance minded is finally revealed after a trio of initially hazy flashback sequences are spread throughout the film that eventually tell a tragic tale.
John Ford was here…
There's a lot more, but we'll talk instead about how Leone's superb attention to detail in everything from the sets to costumes to his work with composer Ennio Morricone that make this a film worth watching. The scope of the film is constantly amazing down the finest details to the dozens of extras in full costume for a single scenes. Jill's arrival in Flagstone goes from crowd shot to crane shot to show of the dusty non-splendor of the growing railroad town and as expected, Leone gets in some truly outstanding closeup shots. Morricone has a theme for each of the four main characters and there's a few uses of sound design in lieu of score, like how the film opens using a mix of insects, a constantly squeaky windmill and other amplified bits. The film stretches scenes and can be deliberately confusing in spots, but that's Leone wanting viewers to figure out things out as Harmonica does.
Oh don't you know, that's the sound of the men working on the train gang?
In other words, take the time to watch this and you'll be surprised at how well this film works not only as western, but also as a homage to other past westerns. Hey, if you sat through a three hour Batman film, this will be a cakewalk, right? Cheyenne says make a fresh pot of coffee and have it handy (you'll get the reference from watching the film). by the way, this post is part of The Foreign Western Blogathon hosted by Moon in Gemini. Pop on by and take a peek at the other submissions for other genre faves!
Posted in 2022, Commentary, DAF, Features, Humor, Movie Posters | Tagged 1968, Classics, Movie Posters, Movie Reviews, Movie Trailers, Movies, Once Upon A Time In The West, Paramount Pictures, Reviews, Sergio Leone | 7 Replies
Review: Nostalgic Train (PS5)
Or: The small, strange town and its iron horse.
Personally, I'm not a fan of the term "walking simulator" that's often used with derision by some players about short, mostly first person game experiences that focus around slower, careful movement and exploration, yet that term perfectly describes the lovely, melancholic Nostalgic Train ($13.99), which is available on consoles and PC. The Unreal engine game was created by a very talented solo developer named Tatamibeya and just so we're clear, the game's description of itself is "Two fluctuations at journey's end – Beautiful countryside novel and walking simulator."
There's also a bit of a mystery with some semi-supernatural elements and even some time travel tossed into the mix, but the game is actually a text-based record of the town's origins using a few life stories and key events scattered over a few centuries. The game starts off as its sole playable character wakes up in the tiny (and fictional) Japanese village Natsugiri, which is entirely vacant save for the sound of cicadas, dandelion seeds floating about and the scent in the air of mystery. As you walk around, you can use R2 to reveal glowing orbs that reveal more of the story and lead you to the next hint and more of the story. Visually, there's a solid sense of reality in the visuals, but I can imagine some players used to ray tracing and other effects griping that certain elements of the game aren't realistic enough. Whatever, it all looks like a series of gorgeous postcards in my book.
This guided experience format works well for the most part. It makes the game playable by anyone, provided they love to read and can activate their imagination during certain sequences. As you explore the village, you'll come across some items that need to be used to advance the story. For example, early on you find a discarded life preserver near a schoolhouse by a lake. Touching it reveals a past memory of a child picking it up to attempt to rescue another child which soon turns fatal for one. At this point, the formerly inactive train's chime starts sounding and that's your clue that you need to get back to the station and take a ride.
In true Twilight Zone fashion, you end up back at the station and yep, you need to R2 yourself back to find out what's transpired. The entirety of Story Mode is like this, so it's almost impossible to get lost. The village is so small, that you can spend maybe less that five minutes walking around if you're not using the hint system. The story gets more fascinating with each chapter as you'll encounter others who need assistance, but the village remains empty as you only read about your encounters and have to imagine past, present and future encounters, just as if you're reading a book. The story takes a few dark turns as it continues and you find out your character simply trying to find out who and where they are and travel back to what's seen as "normal' reality can't keep you from uncovering what's going on. In fact, there's a link to everything and the constant cycling back to the village the train takes is somewhat important. Or: "You can check out anytime you like, you can't ever leave (guitar solo not included)".
Bring you walking shoes, folks…
There's also a Free Mode where you can stroll around and find glowing orbs that reveal some historical and other bits and (if you're a completion fanatic) nab that Platinum trophy. This won't take long at all, but I'm guessing based on the completion stats I've seen, some players haven't done this yet. Well, it's certainly not for every taste, but it'll stick with you like warm summer wind. Cicadas are harmless, by the way and with all those dandelion seeds blowing around. I'd guess you can pocket a few to remind you of this short trip you've taken. Recommended.
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Upcoming: "You'll Hear The Drums & The Brush of Steel"
"There's only ONE way to deal with tumbleweeds"
Well, that's more than enough time to give the Blu-ray of Sergio Leone's rather epic western Once Upon A Time In The West I just ordered a spin or three for Moon In Gemini. I may try another, as the subject this time is more than broad enough to perk my interest in contributing a few reviews. Better yet, I'd bet a few of you out there that blog a bit on film may want to get in on this as well. Side note: I've actually scribbled a few reviews in the past on certain films mentioned on Debbie's site, so feel free to check out my takes on Outland, Battle Beyond The Stars, and Day of Anger, if you like.
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Review: Gleylancer (PS4/PS5)
Posted on October 26, 2021 by geelw
probably the sole good use of the word "Pow-Wow" these days.
While the SEGA logo is nowhere to be found (they only published the game way back in 1992), Advanced Busterhawk Gleylancer looks, feels and plays like it's 1992 and that's a great thing. Ever busy publisher Ratalaika Games and veteran developer Shinyuden go above and beyond the call here with a flawless English translation plus a slew of gameplay improvements that range from a horde of video customization options to some all-new game modes that make this an instant buy at its low $6.99 price point (the original Mega Drive version will set you back about $200, and yes it's solely in Japanese).
The game is pretty story driven with a lengthy opening movie, but in s nutshell: The story follows Lucia, a 16-year-old star fighter pilot in the Earth Federation. A war breaks out between humans and an unknown alien race in the year 2025. Lucia's father, Ken, a high-ranking admiral in the Federation Navy, is captured after his ship is warped out of the combat zone with 4 alien modules which have the ability of teleportation. Lucia, heart-broken after hearing of her father's disappearance, decides to hijack the prototype fighter CSH-01-XA "GleyLancer" with the help of her friend Teim and go after her father.
Like any decent classic shmup, a good player will complete the game in under an hour, but a smart player will deep dive this and go back for more and unlock every trophy. The fast but methodical gameplay is also customizable to the point of letting players cheat right off the bat if they so desire. There's also a handy rewind function that's excellently implemented and like the cheat mode, optional. The really amusing thing here is very likely, a good deal of modern gamers may not have heard of this until this release and may automatically snap it up for the quick trophies Ratalaika games are known for. My bet is they'll be surprised at the challenge the game presents on its standard mode.
I have no idea what Shinyuden has planned for the future, but there are a ton of other shooters for the Genesis out there that can use this sort of very proper localization. I can name way too many here, but let's not go over the moon with wishful, wistful thinking just yet. Recommended!
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Review: Dark Nights With Poe and Munroe (PS4)
Posted on June 13, 2021 by geelw
They're baaaaack. Full motion games developer D'avekki Studios has made the big leap to self-publishing with the digital release of Dark Nights With Poe and Munroe,($12.99) which is now available on the PS4, Xbox and soon, Switch. The game comprised of six episodic tales of a somewhat supernatural nature, with ghosts, a werewolf, a hungry painting demon, a bizarre love triangle and more. Although the game features a few toe-dips into light horror, it's more of a creepy dark comedy where a bit of previous homework with Davekki's earlier titles goes a long way in explaining some of the quirkier aspects found here.
Poe (Klemings Koehring) and Munro (Leah Cunard) first appeared in 2018's great little gem The Shapeshifting Detective and they return in this standalone set where we get to know their characters a bit more, but yes, there's even more mystery going on in the small village of August, which seems to be a magnet for offbeat supernatural occurrences. In "Frankie" the pair need to deal with a persistent stalker with surprising results. Let's just say Poe has a way with a knife but we haven't heard the last of Frankie in this game.
"In Bed with Poe and Monroe" is next, and it's about a 24-hour radiothon where the two characters need to raise funds to keep the station afloat by staying in bed together (not THAT together) while broadcasting live. Well, it's about so much more, as a sleepy Munro discovers a few times. Poe also makes a few discoveries that are equally revealing as a jealous ghost (Ayvianna Snow) appears to make his love life even more complicated. This episode has a few scenes like the first where shocks drop in and affect the outcomes of paths to wonderfully different results. More of this strangeness will come.
In Episode Three, "Green With Envy", the pair are racing against time to find a kidnapped and drugged student (Warrick Simon) before his time runs out. Time is of the essence as the duo's decisions in this chapter affect the ending and all depends on how you choose to investigate the case. There's a pair of laugh out loud innuendo bits here when Munro visits guest house owner Violet (Aislinn De'Ath) and a little De'ath goes a long way when Munro misinterprets some simple queries before asking her own. Poe gets his way (sort of) with a pretty teacher (Ashleigh Cole) who may be a suspect, but who's the mysterious Yvette who calls into the show to say she's the kidnapper?
Episode Four, "Everybody Changes" brings a hypnotist into the studio, Madame Baratsky (Lara Lemon), who puts Munro into a trance where she relives a past life and tells a disturbing tale of murder. As mentioned above, playing that chapter made me go see the Doctor up close and personal (I bought the game last year on the PS4), an experience I highly recommend. In any event, this episode made me want some sort of Doctor Dekker followup, or at least the desire to replay that game again a few more times.
In Episode Five, "Many Happy Returns", it's the day before Munro's birthday, there's a full moon and a caller rings in to note he may have almost run over a werewolf. Guess where out two intrepid adventurers are headed? If you guessed "Why, to find out if that's true, but not before a possible time traveler named Kaspar (Vincent Gould) calls, then shows up to the studio!" Well, you need to be in your own game, as you're psychic. Like all the episodes, there's a set-up of events and situations here that definitely hints at more. This give players a hint that the sleepy town of August is quite the nexus for bizarre happenings (like the sudden rock, paper, scissors game in this chapter).
Finally, Episode Six gets truly freaky with "It Started with a Wish" where we get a soul-eating canvas demon named Rose (Rachel Cowles) who lives inside a painting. She grants Poe a wish, which he has to pay for by having Munro hide nine capsules as prizes for 'lucky' listeners to find. Those capsules are supposed to have museum tickets inside, but (surprise!), they have a less pleasant gift awaiting. You'll see. Poe's wish has very huge consequences both he and Munro have to deal with and there's a sort of David Lynch meets Night Gallery thing here when the characters have to deal with the results.
As noted, the game teases very much that there are many more August takes to be told, and I like that Poe and Munro's relationship goes where it does in different ways depending on your choices. In terms of production, this one's pretty solid. Without fancy effects makeup or gore, the game still conveys an eerie, scary vibe when it needs to, But it's also funny, sexy and mature where it matters. Some may feel the vignette nature of the episodes might be better served as a single story arc. But I found that a game where time travel seems a quiet reality, dryads may actually exist and so many possible outcomes from charming to deadly are at one's fingers that I'm all aboard for more. Recommended.
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Review: Ord. (PS4)
From ever-busy publisher Ratalaika games and indie developer Mujo Games comes Ord.($4.99), a minimalist adventure game that tells its short stories three words at a time. Split into five tales with a bit of replay value in each (Quest, Dimensions, World, Foul Things and Heist), the game will also have you brain filling in most of its visuals. It's also part memory test in that there's a Groundhog Day-like loop to overcome where choosing certain answers won't advance the story, but instead, send you back to choose differently.
zzzzzzzz
That said, there are no "wrong" answers here. In fact, choosing every option will lead to some surprises and abrupt (sometimes fatal) endings. The minimalist thing in taken to extremes here on both the visual and aural fronts. Other than the title screen, visuals are just text on a black background with some stylistic touches like thunder, lightning, rain, a bit of fog and yes, you'll want to have a drink in the tavern just to see the blurred result. For me, the sole flaw here in there's no story tracker, so on a replay, you may get temporarily stuck (a notepad will come in handy here). Playing the game through once won't take long and those trophies drop pretty quickly once you get rolling.
Overall, Ord. is a pretty decent and nicely experimental bit of fun. Ratalaika's been on a roll lately with more hits than misses of late. So I'll have to get to covering more on their interesting titles from it's rather intriguing lineup shortly.
Posted in 2021, Commentary, DAF, Features, Humor | Tagged Ord., PlayStation 4, PS4, Ratalaika Games, Reviews, Sony, Video Game Reviews, Video Game Trailers | Leave a reply
Review: Cosmic Top Secret (PS4)
this one's something else…
Indie publisher nakana io's latest, Cosmic Top Secret ($9.99, multiplatform) just might be one of the best surprises of 2021.Part historical document, part adventure with a detour into a bit of mystery, the game tells the gripping tale of Trine Laier, or "T" as she goes by in the game as she tries to uncover just what her parents did during the Cold War. Fascinating and supremely surreal, the game is compelling from start to finish and would even make a pretty good true spy film, intentionally goggle-eyed protagonist and all. But don't take my word for it- take a look at this gameplay:
There are puzzles to solve, loads of clues to gather and enough intrigue here to keep your brain and fingers busy. T navigates the environments by transforming into a paper ball and rolling about. You'll also need to master a bit of jumping,. which comes in handy when you get stuck and later on you can transform into a plane, which has it's own uses you'll discover. The game also had you collect all sorts of specific secrets T needs to unlock other secrets, all while trying her best to get her dad to tell her about the past. Have another trailer, folks:
The visual style is both striking and genius, especially the more humorous aspects found in the work. Early on, you're told how to skip text using a very lengthy explanation on the Cold War. The game helps out here by cutting off the lengthy text with something like a "Blah, blah, you can find this stuff on the internet" quote. Dossiers and a few machines are used to break codes but a few of the puzzles and some of the trickier movement areas may stump players temporarily. T can also toss grenades and later smoke bombs to find certain secrets, but that can be a bit imprecise until you nail that task perfectly. Also, that sequence with the angry buzzard in one level can be irksome if you roll off the path and fall a few times. Progress is auto-saved at certain points, but you'll want to manually save from time to time (just in case…). Th game can be completed in around eight hours or so and it's time well spent because you'll come away quite impressed at what you learned. I know I certainly was.
Yes, indeed it is!
The really cool thing here is you don't need a pricey console to play this on as the game is also available on Google Play and the App Store, so you can enjoy this on your even more overpriced phone or tablet, ha and ha. As a exercise in storytelling, the game excels on a few fronts and the overall experience is one that will stick with you for a while. Highly recommended, of course.
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Was thinking about the video I had seen of the woman with the dancing horse. Bev & I had just prayed, as she's been battling severe attacks of witchcraft all week,.
"Arise and Thresh daughter of Zion, for I am putting a bigger sword in your hands. I will strengthen your hands & arms to be able to wield it gracefully for you will dance with me a mighty sword dance in the spirit! Those spirits which have come against you & tormented you and pressed you down will be annhilated & crushed to pieces.
Was watching Daniel movie and it was at the point of Mene, Mene Tekel Upharsin written on the wall.
"Just as with Nebuchadnezzar's son, will I remove the rulership of every kingdom under heaven that doesn't acknowledge me! I will humble all who lift their hearts against Me and My own. The Spirit of the fear of the Lord WILL FALL in My church once again, and all who hear of My power will bow or be humbled!
The towers that men have built for themselves will fall. There will be great blood spilling in days ahead, of My children, by the wicked ones, but I will glean a great harvest of souls.
The bribes, the murders and deception will be uncovered and undone in this nation. Their arrogance reaches to the heavens. I will humble the arrogant in heart.
I am also making new hearts for My people who are called by My name, that they may be known for the love they have for one another. I WILL HAVE MY WAY with My own beloveds. Do not doubt for one second My love for you, and all you have endured, has come up before me as a sweet aroma.
6 And those who have drawn back from following the Lord and those who have not sought the Lord nor inquired for, inquired of, and required the Lord [as their first necessity].
7 [Hush!] Be silent before the Lord God, for the day [of the vengeance] of the Lord is near; for the Lord has prepared a sacrifice, and He has set apart [for His use] those who have accepted His invitation.
Zeph 2:10-11 amp 10 This shall they have for their pride, because they have taunted and boasted against the people of the Lord of hosts.
11 The Lord will be terrible to them, for He will make lean and famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship Him, every one from his place, even all the isles and coastlands of the nations.


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Police issue urgent appeal to locate missing teen who grew up in Manchester
Have you seen her?
Jamie Roberts
An urgent appeal to find a missing teenage girl has been issued by police.
Abbie-Lea Bolshaw lives in Blackpool but grew up in Manchester, and might be in the city, according to officers.
The police are 'extremely concerned for her welfare', after the 15-year-old disappeared in a pink dressing gown around 9.30am on Monday, March 9th.
Lancashire Police wrote on Facebook: "Have you seen Abbie-Lea Bolshaw, 15, from Blackpool? She was last seen at around 9.30am on Monday (March 9th) on Bispham Road in the resort.
"Abbie-Lea is described as white, 5ft 2ins tall, of petite build, and has blonde hair. She may have changed her appearance by wearing wigs or extensions. She was last seen wearing black leggings with Armani written on them and a pink dressing gown.
"She has links to Morecambe, Carnforth and Lancaster, as well as Cumbria. She is originally from Manchester and could be in the area.
"We are extremely concerned for her welfare and need anyone with information to get in touch. For immediate sightings of Abbie-Lea, please dial 999. If you have any information about where she could be, please call 101 quoting incident reference 305 of March 9th."
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Have you seen Abbie-Lea Bolshaw, 15, from Blackpool? Last seen at 9.30am on Monday on Bispham Rd in the resort. She's white, 5ft 2ins, petite build with blonde hair. For immediate sightings, dial 999. If you have info, call 101 quoting ref 305 of March 9 pic.twitter.com/sWaoZ5yiIS
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While Abbie-Lea has blonde hair, officers have advised she may be wearing wigs or extensions.
She's been described as white, 5ft 2ins tall with a petite build, and was last seen wearing black leggings with Armani written on them and a pink dressing gown.
As well as Manchester, the teenager also has links to Morecambe, Carnforth, Lancaster and Cumbria.
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Michael William Hodgetts  (29 March 1936 – 12 December 2022) was an English Catholic historian who became a leading expert on priest holes and on Harvington Hall.

Early life
Hodgetts was born in Birmingham on 29 March 1936, and was raised a Catholic. He attended King Edward's School, Birmingham and then studied Classics at Worcester College, Oxford, as well as briefly studying as a seminarian at the Venerable English College, Rome, before becoming a teacher at St Thomas More Catholic School, Willenhall.

Career
In the 1970s and 1980s, he sat on the International Commission on English in the Liturgy, alongside his work as a teacher, and his translation of the hymn Pange lingua is now used in the English-language Catholic liturgy for Good Friday.

In 1984, he was appointed to the management committee of Harvington Hall, a former manor house and centre of Recusancy that had been given to the Archdiocese of Birmingham in 1923. He edited the volumes series of the Catholic Record Society and the society's journal, Recusant History (now British Catholic History). In 1989 he retired from school-teaching and joined the staff of Maryvale Institute, a Catholic college of further and higher education.

Personal life
He married Barbara in 1969. They had four children.

Hodgetts died on 12 December 2022, at the age of 86.

Works
 St. Chad's Cathedral, Birmingham (1987)
 Secret Hiding Places (1989)
 Midlands Catholic Buildings (1990)
 Harvington Hall (1991,1998)
  Life at Harvington, 1250-2000 (2002)
  Midland Martyrs, 1580-1680 (2017)
 (with Aileen M. Hodgson), Little Malvern Letters—I: 1482-1737 (2011)
 (with Aileen M. Hodgson), Little Malvern Letters—II: 1737-1870 (2023)

Awards
 Knight of St Gregory the Great (1990)

References

1936 births
2022 deaths
20th-century English historians
21st-century English historians
Historians of the Catholic Church
People from Birmingham, West Midlands
Knights of St. Gregory the Great


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Another shocking armed robbery and a violent mugging on campus: Selly crime wave spiralling out of control
The students were subjected to death threats with a foot-long machete
Harry Yorke
• Eight students threatened at knifepoint by machete-wielding gang
• The second armed robbery in Selly Oak in as many weeks
• Two similar robberies reported on Friday night
• Another attempted-mugging took place last night on campus
• Police urge witnesses to call 101
Eight traumatised students were left fearing for their lives on Friday night, when a machete-wielding gang attempted to rob the group as they returned home from a house party along the Bournbrook Road.
The incident, which took place at approximately 2.30 am, is the second armed robbery to have struck Selly Oak in as many weeks, and was followed just one day later by an attempted mugging on campus.
One of the students confronted by the gang had a foot-long knife held to his chest, and was told "empty your pockets, or we'll kill you."
The West Midlands Police confirmed that two other robberies were reported in the area on the night- potentially committed by the same gang.
The street on which the Bournebrook armed robbery took place
The robbery occurred when the group of students- made up of two girls and six boys- were confronted by three young black males.
The two male students at the front of the group were confronted by the gang first, who demanded they hand over their belongings.
When a third student- second year Maan Singh- intervened, he was surrounded and told repeatedly to empty his pockets.
On failing to do so, one of the gang members took a foot-long knife and held it against his chest. Maan was then told that if he did not hand over his items they would kill him.
Corinne Brooks, a female student walking with the group, observed the incident before backing away and then running from the robbers, fearing she too would be threatened.
Fleeing from the scene, Corinne rang two male friends who had returned from the party minutes earlier. They proceeded to rush from their house to find her, eventually tracking her down on Exeter road.
The thieves allegedly panicked at this point. Fearing she would call the police, they opted to flee the scene on foot.
Following the attack, several victims spoke to The Tab about their ordeal.
Civil Engineer Maan said: "I thought they were going to take my life, I count myself lucky I wasn't harmed.
"I'm both shocked and relieved that nobody was hurt given the nature of the situation- it could have ended very badly.
"Even now I'm still shaken by it, and I don't feel safe anymore. I have to think twice about even walking out the front door. I wouldn't leave the house at night now."
Corinne, a third year english student continued: "I was absolutely terrified, I thought they were going to kill my friends. I backed away from the confrontation because I was so frightened. I just couldn't believe it.
"I felt so vulnerable- I have never experienced anything like this in my life.
"After reading about so many incidents recently, including the Tiverton robbery, this has made it clear to me that anybody could be a victim. It feels like the situation is getting out of hand."
Two weeks ago, an equally harrowing robbery on Tiverton left 7 female students traumatised
Attack on campus
Last night, following the previous day's robbery, a similarly concerning incident occurred on the University campus around 10pm, when a third year male student fell prey to another gang-related mugging.
He was walking home from the library when a gang of three males ambushed him. He was attacked from behind, with one of the thugs placing him in a headlock while the other two attempted to rob his possessions.
All three members of the gang have been described as tall, well built, dark-haired, and appeared to have Eastern European accents.
Luckily the student managed to wrestle free, and the mugging was interrupted by several other students also walking back from the Library.
The attackers then took flight from the scene, heading south towards the Bournbrook rugby pitch.
The assault took place next to the Old Gymnasium (pictured here)
Speaking in an interview with The Tab, the student said the incident had badly shaken him, but no serious injuries had been inflicted.
"I will be making a conscious effort to return home earlier from campus however,"he added.
"It feels like there has been an upsurge in student-related attacks recently, and I feel it has something to do with students walking home with laptops and valuables late at night."
In response to the two incidents a University of Birmingham spokesperson told The Tab: "Although crime statistics for incidents off campus are outside our control, campus itself remains a very safe place. We are cooperating with police, and continuing to ensure that our students are safe on site."
Sergeant Simon Williams of the West Midlands Police said: "We have arrested three male suspects for a robbery committed just outside the Selly Oak area but believe the offenders are connected to the offences we are investigating in Bournbrook – they are on police bail with curfews."
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Q: What kind of word is the "a" in "a few"? What kind of word the the "a" in a sentence like "I left a few books in the office"?  Is this an indefinite article, even if "few" here does not seem to be a noun?

A: According to the world-renowned Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (Huddleston & Pullum, 2002) the word a in the lexical determinative a few is indeed the indefinite article.
Note that a few books is completely different in structure from the few books, which looks similar but isn't.
Here is the relevant excerpt (p. 392):

A: Simply an 'article' just like in any other use case. If I gave you a few books, and you'd put them away something, I could ask you:
"Hey, where did you put the few books I gave you?"

That would be correct English, even though it would be irrelevant to use 'few' in this instance.
Edit: 'few' is a numeral, not a noun. This is why it can be used independently, yet also as an adjective.

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Justin Lewis scored on a one-handed put-back of a D.J. Carton free-throw miss at the buzzer for the final two of his game-high 18 points, lifting Marquette to a 67-65 victory against No. 4 Wisconsin on Friday night in Milwaukee.
Lewis added eight rebounds and two blocks for the Golden Eagles, whoearned their first win against a Top 5 program since rallying from a 17-point deficit to edge No. 1 Villanova in January 2017.
Following D'Mitrik Trice's go-ahead jumper with five seconds left, Marquette (3-1) had the opportunity to win the game at the line when Trice was whistled for a blocking foul with five seconds left. Carton made the first free throw to tie the game at 65, but Lewis was there after the second attempt rattled out.
Trice paced the Badgers (3-1) with 17 points and matched Jonathan Davis with a team-high six rebounds. Davis (12 points) and Nate Reuvers (11) also finished in double figures.
No. 6 Duke 76, Bellarmine 54
Matthew Hurt made six 3-point shots on the way to 24 points as the Blue Devils defeated the Knights at Durham, N.C.
Hurt was 6 of 8 on 3-pointers as part of Duke's 13-of-26 shooting from long range. That included freshman Jaemyn Brakefield's 4 of 4, giving him 12 points. It was a rude introduction to Division I for Bellarmine, which played its first game since moving up in classification from Division II. The Knights' first three scheduled games were called off because they were in a coronavirus-related quarantine.
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text by John Campion: My daughter brought a shell and bade me put my ear to it: —That's the sound of the ocean, I said. —Is the ocean inside of it, she asked? —The shape of the shell causes the sound, I said. —Then the ocean is the shaper of things, said Sophia. You throw a stick out into the water and it comes back looking like a fish.


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Android growing much faster than expected, say ana...
Android growing much faster than expected, say analysts
Better backing from operators and phone makers is boosting Android
Mikael Ricknäs (IDG News Service) on 06 August, 2010 02:25
Google's Android was expected to become the world's second most-used smartphone OS by 2012, after the Symbian OS, but now accelerating sales will help it get there this year, according to analysts.
Android was in fourth place during the first three months of 2010, trailing the Research In Motion (RIM) and Apple smartphone OSes by a margin of about 5 million and 3 million, according to market research company Gartner, which tracks the number of smartphones sold to end users.
However, since then sales have picked up significantly. In February, Google said 60,000 Android phones were sold per day and in June that number had gone up to 160,000, according to Google. Today, 200,000 Android-based smartphones are sold every day, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said on Wednesday.
The reason for Apple's 3 million unit lead in the first quarter was that the iPhone is more popular than Android-based devices in Europe and Asia, Carolina Milanesi, research vice president at Gartner, said at the time. In North America, Google and its partners outsold the iPhone. However, sales of Android-based started to pick up toward the end of the second quarter, thanks to new smartphones from Samsung, LG and Sony Ericsson, she said.
Gartner's second quarter numbers will be presented next week, and even if the Android camp doesn't surpass RIM and Apple this quarter, it will before the end of the year, according to Milanesi.
Francisco Jeronimo, research manager for European Mobile Devices at IDC, also expects Android to become the second most-used mobile operating by the end of the year.
Both IDC and Gartner have in the past predicted that it wouldn't happen until 2012.
The explosive growth has been helped by a growing number of devices at different price points, and increased backing by operators. For example, Verizon's big Android bet, in lieu of the operator getting the iPhone, has helped Android a lot, according to Milanesi.
Worldwide marketing efforts by both operators and smartphone makers have increased consumer awareness, according Jeronimo. Last year, not many people knew what Android was, but that is now changing fast, he said.
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Serbia's lawyers start protest strike after colleague shot dead
BELGRADE (Reuters) - Lawyers in Serbia started a week-long strike on Monday to protest the fatal shooting of their colleague Dragoslav Ognjanovic who helped defend late Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic and represented leading underworld figures.
Ognjanovic, 57, was gunned down in front of his apartment building in the Novi Beograd neighbourhood on Saturday. His 26-year-old son was wounded in the right arm.
During the strike lawyers will refuse to attend court hearings and a number of other cases, including questioning before prosecutors and plea bargains, the Lawyers' Chamber of Serbia said in a statement.
"The Bar wants to send the message of the unity of profession and firm determination that it will not stay silent in cases like this," it said.
As a prominent criminal lawyer, Ognjanovic served in the early 2000s in a legal team that helped to defend Milosevic at his war crimes trial before the U.N. tribunal for former Yugoslavia in The Hague.
Several prominent members of Serbian and Montenegrin organised crime networks, including another lawyer, have been killed in Belgrade in the past two years in what police describe as a turf war over the illegal drugs market.
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Woodford achieves runner's-up prize in national hoarding competition
Hobson & Porter was delighted to receive a runner's-up trophy in the Ivor Goodsite Hoarding Competition, a national initiative from the Considerate Constructors Scheme.
The site team at Woodford Leisure Centre received the trophy in recognition of the artwork from three local schools displayed on the hoarding around the site. Pupils from St. Anne's Community Special School in Welton, and Estcourt Primary Academy and Mersey Primary Academy, both in Hull, produced artwork which is currently on display around the site perimeter on Holderness Road.
Hobson & Porter is approximately halfway through a major project to extend and improve facilities at Woodford – one of Hull's largest local authority recreational centres. From the beginning, Project Manager Kevin Harrison and his site team have engaged with the local community, in particular with education providers, hosting numerous visits from school and college students. As a result, the three participating schools produced a fabulous array of artwork on the theme of healthy living and health and safety.
Kevin said: "The children from all three schools showed real keenness to learn about the work we are doing at Woodford and the importance of site safety in the construction industry. It was great to see their eagerness to understand more about the work at Woodford, and their artwork was wonderfully thoughtful and creative.
"It is clear that they put a lot of effort into their work and they have been rewarded by having their designs named the second-best site hoarding in the country. Congratulations to them all!"
Winners of the Ivor Goodsite competition receive a range of prizes, including personalised t-shirts and other goodies. All pupils who enter also receive a medal and fun pack for taking part.
Dave Blades, Hobson & Porter's Business Development Director, said: "The Ivor Goodsite Hoarding Competition is a brilliant initiative which helps construction companies educate children about site safety while also allowing them to be creative and learn more about the industry.
"It is also an early introduction the construction industry, and can inspire future generations to consider a career in construction. Congratulations to all the schools that worked with us on the Woodford Leisure Centre site hoarding, they can be very proud of their achievements."
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One of the most inspiring visitors at CERS this fall has been distinguished Professor Leyland Pitt from the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. He spent a couple of weeks with us in Helsinki in October.
Leyland, tell us about your work: with what concepts or themes are you working right now?
I am really interested in computerized content analysis, especially of so called big data in the form of online text, and I am looking for different approaches for doing that. For example, I'm using the DICTION program with which we have looked at 6 000 job interviews by using linguistic analysis. The program lookis for example at different aspects of style, how people write, or adjectives or readability of text, for instance. I've also been using IBM's Watson AI suite to look at how authors (of whatever kind) express their personality in the words that they use. This is done in terms of the so-called "Big Five" traits of personality, namely, openness of experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.For example, my colleagues have been comparing service reviews in Tripadviser and AirBnB. Methodologically, they use quite simple statistical comparison to show that people tend to write much more favorable reviews on AirBnb than Tripadvisor. The assumption is that it is because of emotional closeness with their hosts. What are your earlier connections with CERS, and what projects did you have at that time?Christian Grönroos invited me to visit back in 1996. Back then, I was one of the first marketing academics who started studying marketing and the internet. Along with colleagues we had published a paper in the Journal of Advertising Research that showed how you can measure the effectiveness and efficiency of online marketing efforts. Isn't it interesting how those basic principles haven't changed at all, though the technology has changed enormously? The basic problem is still how to get people to find your web page, explore it, interact with it, hopefully purchase, and eventually to return to it to go through the process again.Then last year CERS director Kristina Heinonen invited me to Hanken, so now I got an opportunity to return to Helsinki, for which I am very grateful. You are a real cosmopolite. You were born in South Africa, lived many years in Australia and the UK, and since 2004 your home has been in Vancouver, Canada. You are also teaching constantly in different countries. That is a lifestyle, isn't it?My home is now in Vancouver, and there it will always be. I think Vancouver is almost a perfect place to live. But I travel a lot, that is true. I work with two doctoral programs in Sweden, one in Luleå, a program that we started from a scratch about sixteens years ago, and another one in the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, which we started in 2012. So I travel to Sweden 3-4 times a year.In the recent past I have also taught on executive and MBA programs at schools such as RSM in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, and in the Wirtschaftsuniversität in Vienna. I was also recently an Erskine fellow at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand (a country that I have a special affection for), and a visiting scholar at the University of South Australia.Yes, sometimes it feels a bit exhausting with all the traveling. I used to be very good with jetlags when I was younger, but ageing is changing that a bit. You are considered an excellent teacher. What is your teaching philosophy?I don't actually think of it as teaching, I think it as talking with people. I am a case teacher which means that I hardly ever do traditional lecturing. That is my philosophy. MBA students, who I mostly teach, learn actively, and more effectively, using case studies than they do by means of traditional lecturing. Cases are a great way to help people develop an opinion and articulate a point of view, and that is more important for them, I think, than accumulating and remembering lots of facts.Another significant student group to me are my PhD Students. I know how important it is to get help when writing a PhD. I tell them that it is not my job to help you write your PhD dissertation, my job is to find the resources that enable you to do that. A good and confidential relationship with my students is crucial to me – you have to like your students, and they have to like you! I like mine very, very much, and I have been lucky to have students who also like me. I also let them understand quickly how fortunate we are to work in academia. That is a privilege that they must understand and value, and be excited about. What else, besides academic work, is important in your life?I don't have any hobbies, but there is one thing that both my wife and I love: snorkeling! We travel to Hawaii at least once a year. It offers us perfect
relaxation from work. Moreover, I like cooking and wine, and wine research, too. Actually, I have just become the Editor of the Journal of Wine Research. And my favourite grapes? I would say Cabernet Sauvignon of the reds, and perhaps Chenin Blanc of the whites. But wine is like music to me, I like it all!I use to say that I can play all musical instruments badly. I played in a dance band a long time ago – I played keyboards, and we made a pretty good living. Then there was a long pause with my amateur musical career, until three or four years ago. I had a PhD course in Stockholm, and used a Harward business case on distribution strategy in the Met Opera in New York. It turned out that there was an opera singer, in my class. From that course on, we have played together whenever I teach that case. He sings, and I play the guitar. He has a beautiful voice. More recently I also played bass in an informal Bruce Springsteen tribute band.I also enjoy seeing how my two daughters are finding their way in life. My older daughter took a Master's in Arts Management on a wonderful joint program through Southern Methodist U in Dallas, HEC in Montreal, and Bocconi in Milan. She is currently working in marketing for a theatre company in Vancouver. The younger one is following me in academia and is currently enrolled in her PhD in marketing at KTH in Sweden. She has just had her first really good journal article published. I'm very proud of them both! Back to CERS page
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by Daniel Otero
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Hitchcock, "Master of Suspense" without an Oscar: What! You got to be kidding?
By: Daniel Otero
The great gentleman who made "Psycho", tales a tale about a man who has a psychotic break from himself, and becomes a double entity of himself and his overbearing-abusive mother. Until this day, the opening scene with Janet Leigh still sends chills down anybody's spin. A true classic of terror that has engulfed the younger and older generations for decades. It doesn't matter if you watched it today, yesterday or 60-years ago. It is scary as hell, and still leaves people by the edge of their seats in fear.
This is the same Alfred Hitchcock who gave the greats like, "The Birds". Nobody could leave a movie theater or their living room without feeling traumatized and afraid of crows. Oh, by the way, as a boy after watching this one–I had to turn on all the lights inside my house! Ha, ha! That was how fearful this motion picture left me. Well, I was 11-years old at the time!
But the scariest of them all in true Hitchcock fashion was the "Rear Widow" (1954). This story is about a 'peeping tom', Jeff, a photojournalist who breaks his leg and is convalescing at home. Jeff, with his binoculars, while 'spying' on his neighbors witnesses a man murdering his wife. This is true Hitchcock at his best and a genius at scaring people 'half-to-death', indeed.
If you're into horror, all of the above are top Hitchcock classics, when he was at his best. In other words, all of these are a must see! Other than that, "North by Northwest". But start with his three-greatest masterpieces first.
So, why didn't he ever win an Academy Award?
That's the mystery which even today has perplexed the Hollywood establishment. And here is the reason why! Horror wasn't considered the kind of movie genre that ought to win awards. It was better to nominate dramatic films or true-life stories like "Spartacus" at the time (1960s) than anything the "Master of Suspense" made. Sadly, Mister Hitchcock never got his proper dues or the chance to win this prestigious award. This was also the fact that he would 'thumb-his-nose' at the elite and didn't care what they thought of him. Something which the Academy never forgave and it is still that way with actors/directors who don't conform until present-day.
In any case, it is important to recognize 'Hitch's' (as he was known in intimate Hollywood circles) contributions to the art of cinematography 60-years later. Without him, others would not had the opportunity to come out and follow with the "Halloween", "Friday the 13th", "Zombie", "Freddy Kruger" and "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" movie franchises. Therefore, Hollywood still owes a great depth of gratitude to a man that literally made what the horror genre is all about, scary and fascinating. Three cheers and five stars for 'Hitch'!
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A few minutes into my conversation with Charles Banks at Mayacamas Vineyard in the Napa Valley, he mentions 'authenticity'. It's a word oft used by Banks who, in the past five years, has invested in an estimable collection of wine brands in an entity called Terroir Selections, which includes wineries from California, Oregon, Hawke's Bay, Stellenbosch and Burgundy. In this instance he's using the word to describe the feel of this place, a venerable 124-year-old property on the furthest reaches of Mt Veeder which he owns with retail entrepreneurs the Schottenstein family. It's less than 16km from Banks' previous Napa project, Screaming Eagle, but may as well be in another country.
To get to the winery you must pass through west Napa's tidy sub-divisions and seek Redwood Road. From there you make a rapid, winding ascent, shaded by tall old trees, the air spiced by redwood, cedar and bay laurel. By the time you've reached the winery, 30 minutes later and nearly 700m higher, it's easy to forget you're in Napa. Literally and figuratively, Mayacamas is Banks' new home.
Banks meets me in front of the winery on a drive that passes for a crushpad here. Nearby, stonemasons are shoring up a wall first built by Bob Travers, the previous owner for 45 years. The wall represents one of dozens of modest improvements Banks has imposed upon the property, including extensive replanting, an irrigation system for the young vines, a bottling line and the residence. Banks has strived to change little else, in an effort to preserve the strange alchemy of mountain terroir and Travers' idiosyncratic winemaking, the stuff that has made Mayacamas a classic Napa Cabernet house, with a flavour profile in 2014 that remains largely unchanged since the early 1970s.
Banks' acquisition of Mayacamas in 2013 serves as a convenient demarcation line for his conversion from winery impresario to what might be called winery conservator. He is an owner-partner devoted to preserving classic brands, American and otherwise, whether established, like Mayacamas, Qupé or Mulderbosch, or future classics like Wind Gap, Sandhi and Fable Mountain.
It signals the final decoupling of the Banks name from one of Napa's most mythical Cabernets, Screaming Eagle, in favour of wineries known more for fidelity to place than for fame and scarcity.
Finally, the acquisition is emblematic of the cultural shift underway in California, one where the interests of wine entrepreneurs like Banks are no longer characterised by the pursuit of cult brands – wines defined by bombast and hype – but rather by subtler, quieter, more terroir-focused efforts.
Charles Banks IV was born in Virginia in 1967, and raised in Georgia. After working in California for many years as a venture capitalist, and then establishing Terroir Capital, a winery, hotel and restaurant group, he and his wife Ali recently moved the family back to Atlanta, in part to be closer to her family, and in part, he says, to instil a bit of the southern politesse upon his children.
Banks is tall and thin, with greying fair hair and a youthful face, framed by wireless, bookish glasses that make him look more like a clerk than a venture capitalist. His voice, however, commands attention, with a delivery that's pleasingly throaty and gruff, part wine mogul, part football coach.
In the early 1990s, Banks was informed by his new wife that, as grown-ups, they had to learn about wine. They entrusted their early education to Kent Torrey, a wine and cheese purveyor in Carmel with connections to California's Central Coast producers. Consequently, the couple's earliest wine epiphanies were found in bottles of Au Bon Climat Chardonnay and Sanford & Benedict Pinot Noir.
Less than a decade later Banks had experienced his share of grand vins, and had cultivated several friendships in the industry, including sommelier Rajat Parr and then-retailer Pax Mahle, both of whom would become winemakers. By 2000, Banks had entered into a vineyard investment in Santa Barbara County's Santa Ynez Valley called Jonata.
He worked for five years to establish vines at this sandy Ballard Canyon site, deflecting a fair amount of scepticism about the vineyard's potential. (Frédéric Engerer of Château Latour famously dismissed the site out of hand, saying it might be a good place to grow asparagus.) Jonata would go on to win accolades from several American wine critics as emblematic of California's bold new wine style.
In 2005, Banks learned that Jean Phillips, owner of Screaming Eagle, was looking for an investment partner. Banks jumped at the chance: he enlisted the financial assistance of Stan Kroenke, billionaire owner of several sports franchises (including Arsenal Football Club) and set about improving the estate, with an extensive replanting effort and a state-of-the-art winery which his new winemaker, Andy Erickson, helped design. He realised that they'd have just one chance to enhance the winery's already exalted reputation, or he'd be perceived as a failure. 'We were under extreme pressure not to screw it up,' he says. Eventually he and Kroenke purchased the property outright, vaulting Banks into an echelon of winery ownership that proved to be at once thrilling and disconcerting.
Throughout the 2000s Screaming Eagle was routinely bestowed with near-perfect scores from critics. Its flagship wine was one of the most famous in the world. It was so coveted that bottles of it were rarely seen, and rarely opened – upon release, 'Screagle' was invariably squirreled away for later sale, as an instant commodity.
This rankled the Bankses; it was as if they were being treated like rock stars for music they weren't allowed to play. 'We weren't in this business to show off,' he says; 'we were in it for the wine. But we became pet celebrities. I'd go to dinner with the hedge fund guys and they'd all go nuts.' But the sommelier community, whom Banks was close to, and on whom he had relied for his wine education, was indifferent. 'They'd be like, "Yeah, I'm not really into Cabernet, especially this one".' Despite immense pride for the work he'd put into the estate, Banks started to realise that the hype was likely always exceed his efforts, no matter what he did. When Kroenke offered to buy him out in 2009, both Screaming Eagle and Jonata, Banks accepted.
He wouldn't be sidelined for long. In 2010, with the encouragement and guidance of a South African wine merchant, Banks purchased a stake in Mulderbosch Winery in Stellenbosch, a highly visible brand he could sell worldwide. Thereafter, the pieces of Terroir Selections came together quickly and serendipitously. Rajat Parr and Sashi Moorman, who would go on to partner in a number of Banks-supported wineries (Sandhi, Domaine de la Côte and Evening Land) sought him out to invest in their fledgling efforts. So did Pax Mahle with his brands Wind Gap and Agharta. Both Parr and Mahle were allied in the trend towards more balanced, lower-alcohol Californian wines, as was Pinot Noir producer Jamie Whetstone. It was Parr who notified Banks of the financial straits that Qupé's Bob Lindquist found himself in. Lindquist had been making nuanced Rhône-varietal wines for more than 30 years; Banks agreed to partner with him after one phone conversation, in 2013.
Together, it is a collection of winemakers characterised by restlessness, single-mindedness and heterodoxy – a group that shouldn't be a group, with winemakers who have gone their own way for years, sometimes decades. It's no coincidence that some were in financial distress, or that Banks was called in as an angel investor, but this has just as much to do with Banks' attraction to risk-takers and iconoclasts – and is perhaps one reason the portfolio has developed such a distinct aesthetic.
The only conceivable outlier to this group might be Erickson, Banks' winemaker for Screaming Eagle, and a consultant to a host of new-guard Napa wineries such as Arietta, Ovid and Dancing Hares, as well as a Banks-backed project called Leviathan. Erickson was, and still is, a darling of US critic Robert Parker, and known for graceful, modern wines. So when Banks hired him to make the wines at Mayacamas, there was trepidation, not least among the coterie of Terroir Selections winemakers.
In August of 2013 Banks organised a vertical tasting of every vintage Bob Travers had made, spanning six decades and including a flight from the '70s that Parr said was 'the single greatest decade of wines from one place I have ever tasted'.


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Q: Why would large mini batches take longer to run? I am training an autoencoder on MNIST, and noticed that increasing the batch size after 128, starts taking more computation time on a fixed dataset size.
I am using tensorflow-gpu and have GeForce GTX 1070.
I tried running a couple of tests on a fixed training set of 5000 samples (784 dim), and ran for 10 epochs.
The batches are consecutive batch-size chunks from the 5000 training samples, so the number of iterations effectivaly depends on the batch size.
I tracked the performance on this data (loss), execution time and the GPU memory usage of the python process (from nvidia-smi output):
5000 datapoints 10 epochs

batch size
512:       loss: 53.7472; execution took 00:00:13,787; 4281MiB
256:       loss: 48.1941; execution took 00:00:04,973; 695MiB
128:       loss: 42.7486; execution took 00:00:03,350; 439MiB
64:        loss: 40.0781; execution took 00:00:04,191; 439MiB
32:        loss: 37.7348; execution took 00:00:06,487; 441MiB
16:        loss: 36.6291; execution took 00:00:12,102; 441MiB
8:         loss: nan;     execution took 00:00:23,115; 441MiB

When I try minibatch sizes larger than 512 I get Out Of Memory errors.
I guess it makes sense for the smaller batches to take longer to execute, as there will be more updates in sequence for the same date. However, I am not sure why the computation time increases when minibatch is larger than 128 samples, instead of decreasing further.
One assumption is it has to do with the GPU getting full and unable to parallelise properly, but I couldn't find any such comments online.

A: While bigger batches mean less total updates in each epoch, it also means each batch will take more time to process, and while making the batch size larger makes the total number of batches smaller, it also might result in slower convergence.

So as you can see there is a trade-off. You will have to find the optimum batch size for your dataset. For MNIST batch sizes are usually between 50 to 150.

I'm not sure how you are loading batches from database, but if used in the right way, an advantage of batching is that you don't have to load the whole data into your RAM. So it's only natural that a big batch size will result in out of memory error.

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*When you train your model with the smaller batch size, your model gets updated more often although more stochastically. This help to converge faster in each epoch. For example, if you train on batch_size of 500, you will update your model parameters 100 times in 1 epoch but if you train on batch_size of 50, the number of updates in 1 epoch is 1000.

*When you train your model with the larger batch size, each update is more stable and less stochastic.

*When you train your model with the larger batch size, it makes use of vectorized computation on CPU or GPU for example with batch_size = 1 we get more updates but no advantage of vectorization. But when you train on very large batch size which is higher than the capacity of memory, then it's out of memory.
Usually, we balance the the number of batch size and the speed to convergence.