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Deborah Hall
Professor, School of Social Sciences
EmailDeborah.Hallhw.acuk
EH14 4AS
Positive education; Well-being
Willing to speak to media
Deborah graduated from Brunel University UK with a first class honours degree in Psychology and completed a PhD in Psychology at Birmingham University in 1996. In her early career, she established a world leading research programme in auditory fMRI, funded by the Medical Research Council. In 2009, she left to establish cognitive neuroscience teaching and research in the Division of Psychology at Nottingham Trent University. Deborah spent over 8 years at the University of Nottingham; 6 years leading a prestigious translational research centre funded by the UK government's National Institute for Health Research and 2½ years as Vice Provost (Research and Knowledge Exchange) at the Malaysia campus.
Her research spans a range of topics that touch on aspects of individual and societal well-being. She is recognised as a world leading expert on tinnitus, but other examples of her research include the relevance of positive soundscapes, developing a manualised psychological treatment to upskill audiologists in the NHS, and advocating to bring the public voice into clinical research. Throughout, she places great value on interdisciplinary collegiate team working. She's published more than 150 journal articles, has a h-index of >50, and has supervised 15 PhD students to completion.
Deborah was awarded the British Society of Audiology Thomas Simm Littler prize in 2010 for her services to audiology, and gave the Tonndorf Lecture at the 1st World Tinnitus Congress / 12th International Tinnitus Seminar, Warsaw, in 2017. She has received the Marie and Jack Shapiro Prize from the British Tinnitus Association on a number of occasions, most recently in 2020 for the publication of the QUIET-1 trial which compared the novel drug AUT00063 with a placebo in a robust, statistically-powered, multi-centre randomised controlled trial.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Devlopment Goals
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RF Otorhinolaryngology
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Tinnitus Medicine & Life Sciences 100%
Hearing Medicine & Life Sciences 17%
Auditory Cortex Medicine & Life Sciences 16%
Tinnitus prevalence in Europe: a multi-country cross-sectional population study
Biswas, R., Lugo, A., Akeroyd, M. A., Schlee, W., Gallus, S. & Hall, D., Jan 2022, In: The Lancet Regional Health - Europe. 12, 100250.
Tinnitus 100%
Ireland 21%
Bulgaria 17%
A comprehensive literature search to identify existing measures assessing "concentration" as a core outcome domain for sound-based interventions for chronic subjective tinnitus in adults
Shabbir, M., Akeroyd, M. A. & Hall, D. A., Mar 2021, Tinnitus - An Interdisciplinary Approach Towards Individualized Treatment: Towards understanding the complexity of tinnitus. Langguth, B., Kleinjung, T., De Ridder, D., Schlee, W. & Vanneste, S. (eds.). Elsevier B.V., Vol. 262. p. 209-224 16 p. (Progress in Brain Research; vol. 262).
Internal-External Control 52%
PubMed 34%
An Albanian translation of a questionnaire for self-reported tinnitus assessment
Genitsaridi, E., Dode, A., Qirjazi, B., Mehdi, M., Pryss, R., Probst, T., Reichert, M., Hauck, F. & Hall, D. A., 28 Jun 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: International Journal of Audiology. p. 1-6 6 p.
Interdisciplinary Research 32%
Albania 25%
Geographic Locations 10%
Otolaryngology 8%
Bayesian brain in tinnitus: Computational modeling of three perceptual phenomena using a modified Hierarchical Gaussian Filter
Hu, S., Hall, D. A., Zubler, F., Sznitman, R., Anschuetz, L., Caversaccio, M. & Wimmer, W., Oct 2021, In: Hearing Research. 410, 108338.
Sensory Deprivation 18%
Behavior Observation Techniques 16%
Comparison of continuous sampling with active noise cancelation and sparse sampling for cortical and subcortical auditory functional MRI
Dewey, R. S., Hall, D. A., Plack, C. J. & Francis, S. T., Nov 2021, In: Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 86, 5, p. 2577-2588 12 p.
Noise 100%
Inferior Colliculi 23%
Auditory Cortex 21%
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Self-concept and Psychosocial Problems of Hearing Impaired School Children
Deborah Hall (Examiner)
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The best thing is that you can get there by metro from the city centre, and in the vicinity you can enjoy all kinds of shops with original facades that are fascinating to see. Your children will love them and you'll have a blast, what more could you ask for?
Here are 5 amazing thing to do in Camden with kids.
If you want to relax a bit from busy lifestyle of the big city and the number of people who visit Camden daily, you can spend a pleasant afternoon in Regent's Park. In this park you can rent boats or take a walk around the pond and have a drink in the different bars on the premises. Inside the park is the London Zoo.
If you head towards Regent's Park you will find the London Zoo. In the zoo you will see several separate species in different areas of the enclosure, an experience you can do with the little ones. In summer you can make night visits if you are over 18 years old, these tickets are priced at £ 18.50. The activities in the zoo designed for kids will not only make them feel included but are also very educational.
This canal was built to join the River Thames with a huge branch for the transport of goods. It currently goes through parks, the London Zoo and Camden. Next to the water you will find a small path to walk from Camden Market to Regent's Park, a quiet and picturesque walk that you can take to escape the urban hustle and bustle. It's not only peaceful but also very beautiful and walking with kids is very convenient, even if you have a stroller.
Whether for breakfast, brunch, lunch or dinner, in Camden Town you will find many restaurants (rooftop and non) and cafés with background music and a peaceful atmosphere. Fish and chips are almost mandatory; trying them is one of the things you have to do in Camden Town. Especially after a long day or morning exploring the area and taking part in activities, the kids and you will be famished. Most restaurants offer options for kid menus as well.


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Griffey misses cut at Pro-Am, available contract-signing
DMZ · February 15, 2009 at 10:03 am · Filed Under Mariners
Remember when people were concerned that he'd be playing golf today and it might throw off his schedule?
With a score of 207, he and Jason Bohn missed the cut. By eight strokes.
Other non-athletes who get to claim they're better at golf than Griffey:
Greg Kinnear (201)
George Lopez (201)
Justin Timberlake (204)
Chris "You're with me, Leather" Berman (202)
Stone Phillips (202)
Patrick Warburton (206)
Huey Lewis (200)
Rick Reilly (200) (did he keep asking other players for urine samples he could test?)
Carson Daily (200)
Former Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth (200)
Michael Bolton (205)
Michael Bolton!!!!!
And still playing:
Kenny G! Kenny G gets to gloat to Michael Bolton about their relative performance in a sporting event!
24 Responses to "Griffey misses cut at Pro-Am, available contract-signing"
Mariner Melee on February 15th, 2009 11:17 am
Kenny G…isn't that Batista's idol?
y-o-y on February 15th, 2009 11:40 am
Kenny G – hack musician, scratch golfer. Truth.
marinerfaninpdx on February 15th, 2009 12:12 pm
A few more reasons that, in my opinion, golf is not a sport bur rather a sporting event. Plus, I'm an awful golfer…
JI on February 15th, 2009 12:24 pm
fiftyone on February 15th, 2009 12:49 pm
Other tournament scores…
B. Bonds (73*)
I. Suzuki (262)
A. Rodriguez (252)
*failed to complete second round due to court appearance
Gregor on February 15th, 2009 1:05 pm
I thought Kenny G and Michael Bolton were really the same person.
bseblfevr on February 15th, 2009 1:20 pm
3:12pm: Jayson Stark's latest article discusses Griffey and Atlanta. Has he wanted to play there for years? The answer to that question is yes, according to Chipper Jones. And Chipper would love to have Griffey in Atlanta as well:
"He's a guy who can still hit," said Chipper Jones, who would figure to find Griffey keeping him company in the middle of the lineup. "I played with him a few years ago in the [World Baseball] Classic, and he was our best hitter. He's got a knack for being able to turn it up and prove people wrong."
Stark writes that Griffey has moved ahead of both Garret Anderson and Nick Swisher on the Braves' list, and points out that Junior can still hit righties very well, making him an ideal platoon candidate with Matt Diaz.
Coolalvin206 on February 15th, 2009 1:47 pm
He is going to be a Mariner…. No reason to even talk about any option.
Breadbaker on February 15th, 2009 2:31 pm
Patrick Warburton, is he Lewis or is he Clark?
Typical Idiot Fan on February 15th, 2009 2:46 pm
Lewis.
And the man has a voice as deep and sexy as the Pacific Ocean made of chocolate pudding.
fore on February 15th, 2009 3:02 pm
Dang! Not only is griffey bringing down the spirits of the people who are liking Z's moves but he also helps my fantasy golfer Jason Bohn miss the cut. 🙁
msb on February 15th, 2009 3:35 pm
and the wond'rous ability to self-mock.
Philly M's fan on February 15th, 2009 4:13 pm
Kenny G is a UW Grad so of course he is good at any sport he tries. I have my credit card ready, and the second Griffey signs im off to get get his Jersey, which will join Buhner, The Big Sexy Richie Sexson, Felix and Ichiro!
TranquilPsychosis on February 15th, 2009 4:18 pm
He is going to be a Mariner…. No reason to even talk about any option.
And if it so happens that jr actually does sign with Atlanta, does Z go after Anderson for too much money, or stand pat?
Not that I actually believe the rumor. I do think it's worth discussing however.
Am I just being reactionary?
themedia on February 15th, 2009 6:27 pm
Not that I actually believe the rumor. I do think it's worth discussing however.
What is this?!?!?! Are you questioning The Almighty?!?!?!? Have you seen what other disgruntled fans and typical idiots think about posters like you!?!?!?! WHAT THE F**K DO YOU EXPECT FROM THESE BLOGGERS!?!?!?!?!
(Sarcasm.)
DMZ on February 15th, 2009 7:04 pm
Are you done?
wabbles on February 15th, 2009 7:17 pm
OK, now I'm going to be up all night doing the math. Nine holes? 18? 36?
Haha. Yeah. I realize I've moved from relevant to annoying.
Dave in Palo Alto on February 15th, 2009 7:23 pm
Two years ago when attending the AT&T (which, by the way, is a total blast), Michael Bolton nearly nailed my wife with a shank.
Ahhhh, three rounds, so 54 holes, sooooo 3.7 strokes per hole. Not bad.
Michael Bolton nearly nailed my wife with a shank.
Perhaps you'd like to rephrase that . . .
joser on February 16th, 2009 12:42 pm
Man, looking at that list you can't tell if it's intake form for some C-list celebrity rehab or the proposed cast for a particularly lame season of the Surreal Life. Though I suppose it's kind of appropriate: Michael Bolton is to music what golf is to most other pro sports: aging, dull, and very, very white.
Wait — Michael Bolton and Kenny G at the same event? Isn't that some kind of schlock Lite Contemporary version of "crossing the beams"? They just need Dave Matthews to show up to have the sheer concentration of bland awfulness create a schmaltz singularity instantly sucking any real flavor and sincerity out of all the real music on the planet.
NorthofWrigleyField on February 16th, 2009 2:16 pm
"When a Man Loves a Woman" Michael Bolton… or Office Space Michael Bolton?


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LaRhea Pepper is a cotton farmer from Lubbock, Texas. She grew up farming and is a key advocate for the importance of organic farming, working to inspire and equip people to accelerate sustainable practices in textile supply chains. Her personal story is a profoundly powerful one and has impacted her passionate involvement in the field, including participating in a lawsuit against Monsanto, the agrochemical corporation.
What is your earliest memory of life on a cotton farm?
Growing up on the farm, I remember just walking out and checking on the cotton. I love the smell of freshly plowed dirt. I remember going out to see Dad as he was working. And then, as I was older, racing behind the tractor and enjoying the coolness of the field when we were planting.
How much cotton is grown in the area of Texas where you grew up?
The area where I grew up, south of Lubbock, is the largest continuous cotton patch in the world, there is around 3.6 million acres of cotton.
What has changed in recent years about the way this cotton is produced? How has this affected the wider community?
This area has moved from a 'low-input' philosophy which means limited amounts of weed control (spot spraying for weeds) and the use therefore of more labor in the fields, to the use of over 90% genetically modified seeds and the increased use of herbicides, with the aerial application of Round-Up on millions of acres.
As a result, the area has lost smaller mom and pop businesses that were de-linting and selling seed and other farm inputs, to a virtual monopoly for GMO seed.
The area has also lost population due to reduced use of people on the farms – in some areas communities that were able to support 12-man football are now playing 6-man football. The rural populations are suffering, with people having to move to larger towns to find work.
Has there been a lot of testing done on the new chemical processes?
No. There hasn't been a lot of testing on the long term impacts of GMO seed and the farming systems that support this technology.
Does the use of GMO cotton reduce the amount of pesticides being used?
The term 'pesticides' is an inclusive term of several different kinds of chemicals – herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, etc. While it may initially decrease the amount of insecticides for boll worms, there are indications that secondary pests increase and there is still a need for insecticide applications. It has certainly led to a significant increase in the application of herbicides.
What are the long term effects of this increasing pressure on the land?
We are already seeing the impact of high-intensity agriculture – the nutrients available in the soil are depleted rather than renewed creating, in reality, a 'drug addict': this year it takes 'x' amount of petroleum-based fertilizer to generate the yields required to be profitable and next year, they need 'x' amount more… At some point, the resources and the cost of the water, fuel and fertilizers become cost prohibitive for cotton – and you see agriculture shift from cotton to more profitable crops in many instances.
There is also similar pressure on the land for the food crops – requiring more and more inputs to generate yields. Will more rain forests be destroyed to feed the growing population? How we use agricultural land in the future is becoming an increasingly important topic of conversation, along, and in conjunction with, water.
In a world increasingly motivated by the bottom line profit, what impact does this have on farmers in clothing supply chains, both in Texas and around the world?
The production of conventional cotton has a lot of hidden costs that are not fully realized in the cost of the fiber – costs of water contamination, negative impacts on bio- diversity, damage to other non-GMO crops in the area, loss of local jobs and other negative impacts on community, as well as the negative costs on the health and well-being of people living in the farming communities.
I know that this is all very personal to you. Would you mind sharing why this hits so close to home?
The difference in conventional chemically intensive agriculture and organic is literally life and death.
Organic promotes life and creates solutions. Organic agriculture promotes life in the soil, increased bio-diversity, increased food-security, ability to mitigate impacts of climate change with stronger carbon sequestration, the reduced use of irrigation where that applies, and the elimination of toxic and persistent pesticides from the water we drink and the air we breathe. It is also life for communities, catalyzing job creation with the increased crop selections as a result of the shift from a mono-crop culture and the employment of more people to care for the crop during the growing season.
It also means life for farm families ensuring that their fields are safe places to work and to play – to live!! This, however is not the case in so many farm communities. Bottom line, toxic chemicals used in agriculture, the neuro-toxins that kill bugs, impact humans. It is called Cancer.
My husband grew up on a chemically intensive farm in south Texas and his father died of Leukemia at the age of 57. Terry was diagnosed with a brain tumor – a glioblastoma multiforme – when he was just 48 and I had to say goodbye to him just 2 years later.
We were partners in transforming our farm from a low-input 'almost organic' to certified organic in 1991 – we worked hard to build the organic cotton market – for us – and others as well.
Promoting organic as THE way to farm and be responsible stewards of our land was an important priority in our lives.
It is no longer important to me – it is imperative! Agriculture MUST change and LIFE must be the focus.


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Recently, we made the Perler Bead Bowls, which turned out great and were a lot of fun. The kids have loved having these bowls to store things. I had purchased a huge container of the beads, so I had a bunch left. I know they can make the normal stuff, but I began to think, "What else could I make out of these?" A placemat was one of my ideas, and it worked.
I took a jelly roll pan and placed a wooden dowel across the pan to create an edge for the beads to go up against. I also put down wax paper to prevent the beads from sticking to the pan. Next, we poured out the beads and patted them down flat with our hands. I baked it at 350 for 5-10 minutes. I removed the wooden dowel after 3 minutes so that the beads wouldn't stick to the dowel but would stay in place in the pan. After 3 minutes, they had started to adhere to each other so the edge stayed nice and straight, and it was easy to remove the dowel at that time. I cooked mine for 7 minutes. I would say 5-10 minutes is a safe bet. Just keep your eyes on it. The kids love their new placemats.
This is so cool … great idea for so many uses!
This is such a fun idea!! I have to try this with my kids…My daughter has been asking for a fun placemat for herself for so long now….
Very cool! We picked up perler beads at the craft store last week because one of my neighbors uses them with her kids. Of course, I forgot about them. Time to get out the beads!
It's plastic, so it's completely washable (not dishwasher safe though). I hadn't thought about it much, but I don't imagine it would be a problem. Thanks for commenting.
Those are cool. It would be really fun for play dough play. Thanks for sharing at Mom's Library!
omg i love them i made me and my little sis one they r soooo cool i alls so made the bowl love them!!!!!
Great idea. I made 2 and each time the waxed paper stuck to the beads. Any ideas?
Weird. I did not have any issues. Maybe parchment would work better.
I would try spraying it with cooking spray lightly before putting the beads on like when you make bowls?
That's not a bad idea either. The wax paper worked well, but I'm sure cooking spray would do the trick. It definitely worked for the bowls. Thanks!
Lisa Shelton again. Your idea of using parchment paper worked!
Thanks for responding and for your help!
For the kids? To heck with that, I want to make these for myself! They're so cool looking! Plus you could pick any color combo so you could make them match any decor or season…though I love the colorful rainbow one you did!
Thanks so much. Doing different color combinations is a great idea. Glad you are inspired. Thanks so much for commenting.
OMG! I am so in love with this idea! Now I wanna make everything of colourful beads!!!!
Do you know roughly how many beads you used? I want to try to make round placemats for my kitchen table and I'm trying to figure out how much to buy!
I'm not 100% sure. I bought this bucket of beads – http://goo.gl/x9Q5Na (affiliate) and I have made 3 bowls, 2 placemats and a few other smaller projects. I still have some of the beads left. I hope that's helpful. Have fun! Are you going to do them in cake pans?
I'm trying to make round ones using a pizza pan! 🙂 I sprayed the dickens out of it with Pam like some other blogs suggested. It's in the oven as we speak :). I have a big bag of mixed beads that's 15,000…so I'm guessing around 1000 to 2000 beads for a 16 in diam round.
Let me know how it turns out. I hope it was great.
So cool! FORGIVE me asking but what is a jelly roll pan? Can I use like a regular rectangular pan? And can you use pam instead of wax paper? (You can tell I don't do a lot of cooking lol) Thanks for the great ideas! Keep them coming!
Hi! Sorry it has taken me so long to get back to you. I'm trying to get on top of things after vacation, and it is taking a while. A jelly roll pan is a rectangular pan with rims around so food (or in this case Perler Beads) doesn't fall off the edges like a typical cookie sheet. I have used Pam while making bowls, so I'm pretty sure this will work just fine. Hope all this helps and wish you the best of luck.
I just made my first Pony Beads Suncatcher & followed the directions of the person who said she used Parchment Paper on the cookie sheet & guess what? It RUINED my first SunCatcher for the simple reason first, the paper became a PERMANENT part of the suncatcher which WON'T come off AND the metal hoop which was to be the frame came off the suncatcher, so now it's unprotected.
Some people say: "Don't use grease", while others say, "Use oil", or like this person, "Use parchment paper" & one other says, "Use Wax paper". Which is it? Which one am I supposed to use? This is insane.
Hi! Sorry for your frustrations! I have used both parchment paper and cooking spray with success. I haven't had the issues you are describing, so I'm not quite sure how to advise you. I'm so sorry!


What if we had an 'Orange Juice Standard' instead of the Dollar Reserve Standard?
Money trades on one side of every economic transaction in the economy. Hence, when it comes to entrepreneurial affairs, it should be ignored at one's peril!
Analogies are usually a great way to illustrate concepts, so — to demonstrate the profound implications of a tainted monetary system — I thought I'd consider a world with orange juice as the sole legal tender. An 'Orange Juice Standard' — if you will.
The private sector is in a long-term de-leveraging trend, and consequently the equity market is in a long-term sideways market (or worse!). Trends are not obvious these days, so it helps to have some additional technical tools. See the video and eBook below for some great insights into using moving averages effectively.
A few months back, I wrote about a virtue of the MMT; namely, the way it focuses on sectoral balances. I think that this view is both interesting and useful for the contrarian investor. However, I do have some misgivings with the convictions of the typical Modern Monetary theorist. Here, I discuss some of the problems with the MMT frame of mind.
One of the largest and most problematic instances of economic disequilibrium arises from a disconnect between 'claims on wealth' and wealth itself (to quote Carroll Quigley). When these two magnitudes diverge, a great proportion of the population can stray from economic prudence. In the West (at least), periods consisting of these divergences have become the norm – moreover, it would seem that anything else is quite unacceptable to the masses. Here, I consider the nature of such divergences and explore the investment implications of their resolutions.


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The Catholic Church is a Force For Good in the World
Stephen Fry and Christopher Hitchens battle it out with Archbishop John Onaiyekan and Ann Widdecombe.
The Roman Catholic Church is the oldest institution in the western world and has had a pivotal influence on western civilisation, ranging from matters of state to cultural life and from personal morals to social values and ethics. Increasingly, though, it is being criticised as being a malign influence in debates about some of the most pressing issues of the modern world – overpopulation, Aids, global warming, human rights and so on.
Stephen Fry and Christopher Hitchens battle it out with Archbishop John Onaiyekan and Ann Widdecombe over the motion "The Catholic Church is a Force for Good in the World" in our debate from 2009.
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Spider-Man: Far From Home is an inspired and expanded continent-hopping adventure film that essentially wishes to be a high school comedy. The film picks up after the events of Avengers: Endgame, so as expected there are a lot of extended universe references as Peter tries to recuperate from the world-bending events that took place.
Though boasting grand set-pieces and action sequences that can make any blockbuster have a lasting effect, Far From Home suffers from being unbelievably hallow in tone and presence. The world-building and character development and interaction is sadly unmoving and feels more like a "you know these kids, you love them, so you should have fun watching them regardless of what's really happening in any scene they're in". Which is essentially what Marvel thrives on; we love these characters so we convince ourselves that anything they're in is super brilliant regardless of the actual quality of whatever it is they're in.
So, the whole gist of the movie is that Peter is struggling to juggle being Spider-Man and "achieving" his crush, which is quite cringey if you dare compare it to the slightly more mature Spider-Man movies. I mean, I'm not saying a Spidey film can't be silly, but it shouldn't entirely be Disney Channel material either. We're watching this on a huge (IMAX for me) screen, get a grip! The whole crush thing is very similar to Into the Spider-Verse, though the striking difference being that Spider-Verse doesn't care to center the entirety of the narrative around the dotty topic and instead makes it a cute, honest and funny life experience in part to Miles' adolescence and learning to be his own person, and dealing with the responsibility thereof.
This film is, well, written like a cute fanfiction on Wattpad rather than a story for the big screen that exists in one of the biggest cinematic universes ever. We know Spidey is a full-on child, we get it, but the core narrative relying on him being completely naive so much so that he needs an older dude with a questionable beard-trim thing is kind of unsettling after a while. A normal Spidey, the one from the comic books especially, isn't that complacent. I mean, the kid is a superstar tech genius, can they please at least afford him the benefit of the doubt so the fans can truly revel in how intelligent he actually is? The same way we find solace in Tony's brilliant mind even in the toughest of turmoils, we should trust in Peter's wit. Peter Parker doesn't need saving (not in that way anyway), he saves. End of.
Click for a spoilerMysterio, hear me out, is a Tony Stark and Lex Luthor reject with a snivelling voice. Look, the guy is definitely not the best Marvel villian as everyone keeps emphasising. We love Jake Gyllenhaal but, come on, be serious here; having the desire to unashamedly kill kids can't be used as some cheat-code to being the best villian. He's essentially just a big bully with an ego the size of the planet whose willing to commit mass murder to feel better about himself. I'll give it to him that he does get quite scary at times, even though it only lasts for a few seconds. So, yes, he had the potential of being the best if only he was given more screen time as a menacing titan rather than a full-on insecure jerk.
The film also has the same format of jokes as every other MCU film ever, especially resembling Spider-Man: Homecoming, so there goes the dream of being a comedic hit. It's only a matter of time before you get tired of laughing at the same joke told slightly differently a million times. We get it, Spidey is an awkward kid, but does he have to be that exhaustively "unintentionally hilarious" all the time? I'd love to see the kid taking charge without a quip following directly after.
Now we get to the good part, which unfortunately only begins in the film's final act. It is explosive and all you would want in a superhero film, especially a Spider-Man one. I mean, it does border on Into the Spider-Verse elements in terms of colours used, the choreograhy and the trippy setting, but Mysterio is one saving grace that pulls attention away from the glaring resemblance in anticipation for a glorious superhero/villain showdown. The fighting choreography itself isn't extraordinary, but the action sequence as a whole is super intense and exciting, and will probably leave you wanting a more Spidey-focused, solo experience in future. This final act adds a lot of points to the movie and will convince anyone to at least give the film a pass for being so monotonous for the previous two acts.
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NTSB, FAA investigating tour helicopter crash on Hawaii Island that left 6 injured
The NTSB and FAA are investigating a tour helicopter crash Wednesday on a remote Hawaii Island lava field that sent the pilot and five passengers to the hospita
Published: Jun. 8, 2022 at 5:45 PM HST|Updated: Jun. 9, 2022 at 2:14 PM HST
OCEAN VIEW (HawaiiNewsNow) - The NTSB and FAA are investigating a tour helicopter crash Wednesday on a remote Hawaii Island lava field that sent the pilot and five passengers to the hospital.
The NTSB said the helicopter departed Kona International Airport on a sightseeing tour around 5 p.m. The crash happened about 5:30 p.m. near Ka Lae.
Two people, including a 19-year-old woman, were seriously injured in the crash. Meanwhile, authorities said the pilot was trapped in the wreckage and had to be extricated.
The 19-year-old was airlifted to Kona Community Hospital while the rest were taken by ambulance.
They included: Two other women in their late teens, a 23-year-old man, a 48-year-old man and a 54-year-old man. Their conditions ranged from stable to serious.
The chopper belongs to Paradise Helicopters, which identified the craft as a Bell 407. The aircraft can seat up to seven people total and is designed to be used for both business and public safety purposes.
There was no immediate word on what may have gone wrong.
But the company said it was cooperating with authorities and seeking to assist those involved.
"The care of our passengers, crew members and their families is our highest priority," said Calvin Dorn, of K&S Helicopters, which operates Paradise Helicopters.
Following the crash, the Hawaii County Fire Department deployed crews by air and by ground.
Authorities said they could not get to the crash site using vehicles because it was more than a mile away from the nearest roadway. Crews had to fly there by helicopter to help the pilot and five passengers.
Paradise Helicopters has had multiple crashes in the past.
In 2019, a Paradise Helicopters aircraft contracted by the state went down near Sacred Falls on Oahu. All four people survived.
In 2013, another Paradise Helicopters chopper made a hard landing in Hilo after the pilot reported engine issues. No one was injured in that incident.


The Middlesex Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program, a nationally recognized innovator in residency education, is seeking a dynamic, board-certified DO or MD family physician for a full time faculty position beginning summer 2019. Maternity care, musculoskeletal, sports medicine, OMT and integrative medicine skills are highly desired.
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Foreign Exchange is all about the value of one currency against another, and the cost (or return) on a given currency is its interest rate. Traditionally, forex values have been driven by relative interest rates, but in the wake of the "Great Recession", we have gone through an unprecedented eight year period of near-zero interest rates in major economies. This has seen forex traders turn their focus elsewhere for factors to trade on. Now with a Fed rate hike imminent and the Bank of England starting to wake from an extended period of hibernation, interest rates have started to move and they are impacting exchange rates. When central banks telegraph their future policy moves, financial markets adjust well in advance, so that when an official rate change is announced, the policy statement often only ratifies what has already happened.
You will find three lines in the charts above. The green line is the differential in two-year government bond yield, the blue-grey line is the difference between 10-yr note yields and the grey line is the exchange rate. As shorter-term traders, we focus mainly on the green (2-yr differential) line and the grey exchange rate line. Many like the two-year differential because it amounts to a market forecast of the administered overnight deposit rate set by the central banks. Exchange rates tend to be highly sensitive to changes in the expectations for monetary policy. You can see in the charts how the interest rate and forex markets have been adjusting to mounting expectations for a Fed rate rate hike on December 16.
The upcoming week is a relatively mixed period for major economic data.


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On January 2nd, 2019, I watched an episode of the BBC program, THE ANTIQUE ROADSHOW; one segment was a story of another unsung Canadian hero of World War II, CHUCK-CHUCK the panda. Who was he and why should he be remembered? WILLIAM GORDON RADCLIFFE was born in...
REMEMBRANCE WEEK ~ THE ALLIES OF WORLD WAR II
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THE ALLIES OF WORLD WAR II The allies of World War II, called the United Nations from the 1 January 1942 declaration, were the countries that together opposed the Axis powers during the Second World War (1939 – 1945). The Allies...
REMEMBRANCE WEEK ~ CANADIAN HERO BEHIND ENEMY LINES
CANADIAN HERO BEHIND ENEMY LINES Gustave Bieler was one of them. In 1940, at age 38, he was an officer in the Regiment de Maisonneuve. He came from Montreal and volunteered for service in the S.O.E., Britain's special operations (Spies). He...
REMEMBRANCE WEEK ~ SOME OF CANADA'S AIR FORCE HEROES
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SOME OF CANADA'S AIR FORCE HEROES F/O Lyle James. Lancaster Pilot. Lyle flew a record 32 missions in 90 days over enemy territory. F/O Alan Early DFC. Saved his crew crash landing his B24 on Sable Island. F/O George Clark. Lancaster...
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WHAT DOES "REMEMBRANCE DAY" MEAN TO ME? My Father. Harry Danton. Gassed in WWI My Eldest Brother. Peter. Royal Navy. WWII My Second Brother. Tom. Royal Air Force. WWII My Uncle Jim. British...
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Nyetimber Pirates are celebrating after being awarded a £1,500 Grow the Game grant, attracting praise from England manager Gareth Southgate.
The grant, which will provide a boost to grassroots football in Bognor, has paved the way for the Pirates to form a new third team and allow the club to train two new coaches, one level one and one level two.
England boss and Football Foundation ambassador Southgate said: "I am so pleased the Pirates have secured this Grow the Game grant. The club have worked very hard with Sussex County FA and the Football Foundation to get more local people playing football so they can enjoy the many physical and mental benefits that come with playing regular sport.
Grow the Game is a £2.5m programme which awards grants to grassrootsl clubs that wish to create new teams, especially among under-represented groups.
A total of £1,500 is available to help FA-affiliated clubs with the cost of creating a new team, which might include the cost FA coaching courses, FA league affiliation costs, referees' fees; first-aid kits and even football kit and equipment.
Pirates secretary Charlie Welling said: "We are pleased that the Football Foundation has given us the chance to expand our club and help increase the number local players getting involved.
"The grant is also giving us the chance to get another new coach qualified up to level-one standard and another one up to level two which should also help improve the standard of our training and hopefully in turn improve the level of football being played.


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Q: How does one hide content from a user until a stylesheet is loaded and executed? I'm using a jQuery plugin for sliding panes of content.  For about 400ms all the page elements flashes up (text, images, etc.) on top of themselves making for a messy garbled jumble... a brouhaha you could say.
Then the stylesheet comes along and sorts it all out.  But for the sake of professionalism and perfectionism I'd like to hide all the content until the stylesheet has loaded.
$(document).ready is inappropriate because boom... that's my problem.  onload() doesn't work either because then all content is hidden until the page completely renders (images...4, 5, 6 seconds...zzzzzzzz....)
So does anyone know what the options are?  (And would it be possible to play Girl From Ipanema midi during page load? :p)

A: You can have the stylesheet hide specific elements as display: none until they are needed.
However, if you do this directly in the stylesheet you've got accessibility problems, as on a browser without JavaScript available the content will not appear at all. A way around this is to key the hiddenness on a variable that is set from JavaScript before any of the deferrable elements are loaded, for example as a class on :

Content that loads normally...

        content

A: Accessibility-wise, you should not assume your stylesheets are actually being used by the client. Your content should be accessible without the stylesheet, and stylesheet should only enhance the presentation - that's Progressive Enhancement.
If accessibility matters less, you can hide the entire page (or at least the brouhaha) with display: none in the wrapper div or body.

A: It's very easy to hide content that's going to be processed by JavaScript. You just need to generate the content itself with JavaScript or set its style to display: none.
The problems is accessibility. You normally want the content to be available for tools that do not support all the advanced features, including old browsers, search engines, mobiles phones, screen readers... That's what prevents you from doing what I mentioned in the first paragraph.
My advice is to alter your CSS so the content looks good even with JavaScript disabled.
(As for your latest requirement, you can use the jQuery.ipanema-girl.js plugin.)

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Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order formally has platforms and a launch date: it is coming to PS4, Xbox One, and PC on November 15, 2019, developer Respawn Entertainment has introduced. The date was revealed through the sport's panel at this 12 months's Star Wars Celebration occasion, the place it was additionally confirmed that the PC model could be solely obtainable on Origin. We additionally received a take a look at a trailer, though there was sadly no gameplay (and few particulars available on the whole).
We now know that gamers will take management of a younger Padawan that escaped Order 66, the Emperor's decree to wipe out all Jedi–even the younglings in coaching. You can learn extra about Jedi Fallen Order's story right here. A day earlier than the panel, Respawn confirmed Jedi Fallen Order has no microtranactions and is single-player solely.
Although Respawn is thought primarily for creating first-person shooters such because the Titanfall collection and, extra lately, the battle royale hit Apex Legends, Jedi Fallen Order is a is extra targeted on melee fight. In 2014, God of War 3 director Stig Asmussen joined Respawn, bringing some third-person motion experience to the studio.
Jedi Fallen Order was officially confirmed throughout E3 2018, when Respawn's Vince Zampella revealed the title and teased that it might be set between Episode III: Revenge of the Sith and Episode IV: A New Hope.
Prior to the reveal at Star Wars Celebration, artwork for Jedi Fallen Order was leaked by Amazon. The retailer listed a t-shirt which featured a picture of the primary character wielding a blue lightsaber and his droid companion. In the was a downed vessel that appears to be a Republic-era Star Destroyer.
Star Wars Celebration additionally yielded a brand new trailer for the subsequent film within the beloved franchise. During the present it was confirmed to be referred to as Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker, and you'll watch the first trailer here. We've additionally received a complete round-up on everything happening at Star Wars Celebration that'll preserve you updated with the most recent goings-on.


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var chai      = require('chai')
  , expect    = chai.expect
  , Support   = require(__dirname + '/support')
  , DataTypes = require(__dirname + "/../lib/data-types")
  , dialect   = Support.getTestDialect()
  , _         = require('lodash')

chai.Assertion.includeStack = true

describe(Support.getTestDialectTeaser("QueryInterface"), function () {
  beforeEach(function(done) {
    this.sequelize.options.quoteIdenifiers = true
    this.queryInterface = this.sequelize.getQueryInterface()
    done()
  })

  describe('dropAllTables', function() {
    it("should drop all tables", function(done) {
      var self = this
      this.queryInterface.dropAllTables().complete(function(err) {
        expect(err).to.be.null

        self.queryInterface.showAllTables().complete(function(err, tableNames) {
          expect(err).to.be.null
          expect(tableNames).to.be.empty

          self.queryInterface.createTable('table', { name: DataTypes.STRING }).complete(function(err) {
            expect(err).to.be.null

            self.queryInterface.showAllTables().complete(function(err, tableNames) {
              expect(err).to.be.null
              expect(tableNames).to.have.length(1)

              self.queryInterface.dropAllTables().complete(function(err) {
                expect(err).to.be.null

                self.queryInterface.showAllTables().complete(function(err, tableNames) {
                  expect(err).to.be.null
                  expect(tableNames).to.be.empty
                  done()
                })
              })
            })
          })
        })
      })
    })
  })

  describe('indexes', function() {
    beforeEach(function(done) {
      var self = this
      this.queryInterface.dropTable('Users').success(function() {
        self.queryInterface.createTable('Users', {
          username: DataTypes.STRING,
          isAdmin: DataTypes.BOOLEAN
        }).success(function() {
          done()
        })
      })
    })

    it('adds, reads and removes an index to the table', function(done) {
      var self = this

      this.queryInterface.addIndex('Users', ['username', 'isAdmin']).complete(function(err) {
        expect(err).to.be.null

        self.queryInterface.showIndex('Users').complete(function(err, indexes) {
          expect(err).to.be.null

          var indexColumns = _.uniq(indexes.map(function(index) { return index.name }))
          expect(indexColumns).to.include('users_username_is_admin')

          self.queryInterface.removeIndex('Users', ['username', 'isAdmin']).complete(function(err) {
            expect(err).to.be.null

            self.queryInterface.showIndex('Users').complete(function(err, indexes) {
              expect(err).to.be.null

              indexColumns = _.uniq(indexes.map(function(index) { return index.name }))
              expect(indexColumns).to.be.empty

              done()
            })
          })
        })
      })
    })
  })

  describe('describeTable', function() {
    it('reads the metadata of the table', function(done) {
      var self = this
      var Users = self.sequelize.define('_Users', {
        username: DataTypes.STRING,
        isAdmin: DataTypes.BOOLEAN,
        enumVals: DataTypes.ENUM('hello', 'world')
      }, { freezeTableName: true })

      Users.sync({ force: true }).success(function() {
        self.queryInterface.describeTable('_Users').complete(function(err, metadata) {
          expect(err).to.be.null

          var username = metadata.username
          var isAdmin  = metadata.isAdmin
          var enumVals = metadata.enumVals

          expect(username.type).to.equal(dialect === 'postgres' ? 'CHARACTER VARYING' : 'VARCHAR(255)')
          expect(username.allowNull).to.be.true
          expect(username.defaultValue).to.be.null

          expect(isAdmin.type).to.equal(dialect === 'postgres' ? 'BOOLEAN' : 'TINYINT(1)')
          expect(isAdmin.allowNull).to.be.true
          expect(isAdmin.defaultValue).to.be.null

          if (dialect === "postgres" || dialect === "postgres-native") {
            expect(enumVals.special).to.be.instanceof(Array)
            expect(enumVals.special).to.have.length(2);
          }

          done()
        })
      })
    })
  })
})

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Maryvale Phase I and II Senior Residences
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Maryvale Phase I
Angle Park Senior Residences are located in the affluent Buffalo, NY suburb of Orchard Park. Completed in 1997, Angle Park is a wood framed two-story new construction building. The project is comprised of 72 units divided between 62 one bedroom and 10 two bedroom units. Angle Park was financed using 9% LIHTC from DHCR, syndicated to KeyBank. A conventional first mortgage debt is in place with Enterprise Mortgage Co.
Maryvale Phase II
Located directly adjacent to Maryvale Phase I, Maryvale Phase II was constructed using steel and concrete block and was completed in 1991. The project is comprised of 104 units divided between 87 one bedroom and 17 two bedroom units. Maryvale Phase II was financed utilizing the tax-exempt bond program and 4% LIHTC. The project also received funding from HUD's Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME).
Maryvale Phase I + II – Renovation & Recapitalization
In 2006, both Maryvale Phase I and II were renovated with tenants in place. At the time, the reconfigured 172-unit project required new windows, roofing, facility upgrades and modernization of the interior spaces. Renovation included significant energy improvements to all components of the building and units. DHCR provided 4% LIHTC, syndicated by WNC & Associates. Tax-exempt bonds were issued by the Kenmore, NY Housing Authority and were purchased directly by First Niagara Bank. The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) provided a loan for exceptional energy improvements at the property. In addition, the Town of Cheektowaga, NY provided a low interest loan to facilitate the renovation program.
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I was in a pool with Lulu, and she was holding on to the edge of the pool. I went next to her, blocking her path, and said "None shall pass until you answer the riddle". Then I gave her a riddle: "What is larger, an elephant or a mouse"? She said elephant and then could pass. She was delighted!
The real tests of a game are whether she requests to play it again (which she did!). In fact, this game got her highest praise, of playing it herself asking her mom which is bigger, an elephant or a baby elephant (after blocking Mommy's path)!


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Q: django-admin.py returns nothing I am a total newbie when it comes to django. However I have experience with python, I know how to install modules etc. I work on Win7 x64 with Python 2.7
Here is what I did:

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*Made sure Python environment variable is Set in %PATH%

*installed django with pip install Django and checked afterwards if it installed (1.5.4)

*added C:\Python27\Scripts to the environment variables (django-admin.py is there)

*restarted cmd

*enter django-admin.py help - no Error nothing, jumps to next line

*enter django-admin.py startproject mysite - no Error, no Folder created, jumps to next line

*enter django-admin.py gsfögjsdfüoisudhihdsf - no Error, nothing jumps to next line

*did a pip uninstall Django and reinstalled it with pip install Django and tried started again at point 1

So now I have no idea what could be wrong. I even checked if the from django.core import management in the django-admin.py works - it does.
Any ideas?
Edit: Solved it by changing the .py associations. If you still encounter an error (like I did) go How to edit file associations


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"The Films of Agnes Moorehead"
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Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Postby Vecchiolarry » July 8th, 2013, 8:00 pm
An advertisement for a book "The Films of Agnes Moorehead" caught my eye in the latest Classic Images magazine.
Author - Axel Nissen
Rowman & Littlefield = http://www.rowman.com = 1.800.462.6420
$75.00 - - promotion code - 7S3CLSC4 to save 25%
A liitle expensive but I'd say worth it for her!!
Professional Tourist
Joined: March 1st, 2009, 7:12 pm
Re: "The Films of Agnes Moorehead"
Postby Professional Tourist » July 8th, 2013, 8:55 pm
Yes indeed, I had posted on this new book in May, in the "What are you reading?" thread:
http://silverscreenoasis.com/oasis3/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=119&p=131420#p131420
Next Tuesday the 16th is release day!
Hi PT,
Great - I'm glad you have already promoted this book...
I don't usually read all the threads here, but I will look up your post.
Postby Professional Tourist » August 2nd, 2013, 11:17 am
The book has been released and I've ordered and received my copy. I could never recommend this book to anyone, especially not to any of AM's admirers. The author's approach throughout the volume is mean-spirited, as if he had an axe to grind with her. Agnes does not deserve this kind of treatment at all.
Here is an example of one of the nastier remarks, on page 50: "Had Moorehead not had her acting talent and vast ambition, she might well have turned into a meddlesome, man-eating divorcee"
Besides the unkindness, I've also discovered some errors of fact.
If anyone is interested, there has been a conversation about this book at the Harpies Bizarre message board.
[Harpies Bizarre is a web site for fans of Bewitched.]
Postby Professional Tourist » August 10th, 2013, 9:50 am
I hope to finish reading the book before the weekend is out, and to post my review.
Larry, if you have read the book I'd very much like to know what you think of it.
Postby Professional Tourist » August 11th, 2013, 7:38 pm
I have finally finished reading the book and writing my review. I have uploaded it to Amazon, but apparently it has to go through a review process before it is posted. So here it is, for anyone who would like to read it now.
1.0 out of 5 stars Not recommended for established AM fans, August 11, 2013
By Professional Tourist
This review is from: The Films of Agnes Moorehead (Hardcover)
This book focuses on the sixty-three major motion pictures of Miss Moorehead's career in the form of an introduction followed by individual chapters for each film. Although the author has conducted much research into primary sources (archives and personal interviews) the book as-written relies heavily upon secondary sources such as previous Moorehead bios, bios of other actors and of directors, and prior studies of these films -- as documented throughout.
There is some new information here and a few rare photos, but the majority of the content -- though uniquely presented -- has long been available to the general public. At $71 it is not a good value for those who have read Lynn Kear, Charles Tranberg, and James Robert Parish's Moorehead efforts. Further limiting its value, of the 382-page length -- which is already slight for the price -- sixty-three pages are dedicated to photos (poorly reproduced in my copy of the print edition) and roughly fifty pages list credits and technical data which are readily available online. There is repetition within the book, too, particularly between the introduction and the film chapters, where there are several instances of word-for-word copying, as well as some rehashing of info from a film's profile within the chapters of related films.
The introduction states "Each profile concentrates on Moorehead's contribution to the film in question." This does indeed occur in some chapters, but not in all of them. Some profiles ("Mrs. Parkington," "Tomorrow, the World") may describe the character and her physical appearance but contain no comment on her performance. Other chapters focus more on cinema history or comparison of the scripts to original properties. For example, the chapter on "The Magnificent Ambersons" contains a three-page riff on earlier representations of spinsters in film. While this type of info may be of interest, it makes the book more a themed cinema study than a study of Miss Moorehead's film work.
Beyond the questions of value and audience (and others outside the scope of this review, such as personal interpretations and reliability of sources) the issues most significant to me as a fan are the over-arching unkindness and disrespect toward the subject and her associates (shockingly unprofessional) and the sprinkling of factual errors. Here are some examples of the more egregious among them:
*** Errors of fact ***
-- Page xi: ". . .an increasingly successful and busy radio actress, doing as many as six shows a week." In fact, she performed in as many as six shows a day.
-- Page 45: "Apart from the Mercury Wonder Show . . . in August 1943 and a performance of King Lear on CBS Radio's Mercury Summer Theater on September 13, 1946, Moorehead never worked with her foremost mentor and Svengali again." In fact, there were additional radio broadcasts together, including several appearances on Orson Welles Radio Almanac throughout Jan-July 1944; 10 April 1945, on The Master of Ballantrae for the CBS Radio series This Is My Best; and the 31 March 1946 broadcast of the Radio Readers Digest episode Back for Christmas.
-- Page 61 quotes lines of dialog from The Seventh Cross, which AM does not speak in the film (as released by the Warner Archive).
-- Page 141: [Of her desire to reside in Beverly Hills] "She finally arrived there in 1953. . . ." In fact, newspaper articles of the day put this purchase at early 1952. For example, Hedda Hopper's column Looking At Hollywood, published 23 February 1952. [Similar statement page 213]
-- Page 194: "Though she would make several TV movies at Universal in the early 1970s, Agnes Moorehead would make only two feature films there in the course of her career." In fact, The Lost Moment, which was a co-production of Universal and Walter Wanger, was filmed at Universal Studios, which brings the count to three. [See also page 200, which attests to this fact.] [Similar statement page 207]
-- Page 221: "Moorehead died of uterine cancer, which is caused by a virus and not set off by external, environmental factors." In fact, uterine (endometrial) cancer is not caused by a virus. From mayoclinic.com: "Doctors don't know what causes endometrial cancer. What's known is that something occurs to create a genetic mutation within cells in the endometrium -- the lining of the uterus."
-- Page 266: "To commemorate this notable role, she had herself painted as Queen Elizabeth." In fact, the painting of AM as QE1 was executed a few years earlier, at the request of the artist.
-- Page 309: ". . .she had resisted the temptation to bob her famously auburn tresses in her youth. As far as we know, she kept her hair long up until that day in 1961. . . ." In fact, as a young woman in her late teens and early twenties, AM wore her hair short, as evidenced in all her college yearbooks.
*** Rude remarks ***
-- Page 50: "Had Moorehead not had her acting talent and vast ambition, she might well have turned into a meddlesome, man-eating divorcee like Emily."
-- Page 83: "Our Vines also offers us the toe-curling spectacle of customarily austere Moorehead massaging liver-lipped screen husband Robinson's shoulders."
-- Page 97: "The role unified nearly all the qualities that Moorehead uniquely projected on the screen: theatricality, self-dramatization, artificiality, malevolence, sexual rapaciousness and frustration, possessiveness, jealousy, and nosiness."
-- Page 161: [Of Errol Flynn] ". . .we are quite unnecessarily treated to the sight of his sad, sagging tits as he gets a scrubdown from his black manservant."
-- Page 178: " . . .the ballerina's filthy-rich, piss-elegant, feminine yet forceful auntie. . . ."
-- Page 200: ". . .playing the butch blonde proprietor of a Honolulu 'private club' in the first and the patrician battle-ax in the second would have been signature roles for her in any cinematographic process."
-- Page 207: ". . .St. Oegger had given [Jane] Wyman a severe, unbecomingly short hairstyle with Claudette Colbert bangs that made her look more like a bilious Pekingese than ever."
-- Page 266: [In reference to a painting of AM] "With the small crowned head atop the hugely dressed body, he [an old friend] thought it looked like Frankenstein."
-- Page 291: "If you close your eyes during one of her scenes in Pollyanna, it's like hearing Margaret Hamilton as the Wicked Witch of the West! All that's missing is the cackle."
On balance, I find the book serves up little to sustain this AM admirer, who couldn't wait for its release and ended up sorely disappointed. One wonders what would motivate a person to conduct extensive research on an artist seemingly disliked. Although the author does at times present Miss Moorehead's work in a postive light, in my view, those instances are overshadowed by the preponderance of negativity. A frustrating, distasteful read from start to finish.
As lengthy as this is, I actually edited it down by quite a lot!
I'd be happy to discuss or answer any questions.
knitwit45
Location: Gardner, KS
Postby knitwit45 » August 12th, 2013, 8:20 am
PT, it is up, and I voted on it! NOBODY so far has anything good to say about the book. What a ripoff! Doesn't Amazon refund money on something like this? Even a partial refund might ease the 'pain' a little bit.
"Life is not the way it's supposed to be.. It's the way it is..
The way we cope with it, is what makes the difference." ~ Virginia Satir
""Most people pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it." ~ Soren Kierkegaard
Thank you for reading, knitwit45. The biggest pain for me comes not from the amount of money spent for value received, but from all the errors of fact and the cruel remarks. There's nothing to ease that pain. Agnes does not deserve that kind of treatment.
Postby Vecchiolarry » August 12th, 2013, 11:58 am
Currently, I am on a train in Siberia with sketchy WiFi connections, so haven't connected to too many sites.
Thank you for your review of this book and no I haven't read it nor will I after your comments.
I would have hoped that a book titled "The Films of Agnes Moorehead" would have at least 80 - 85% concentrating on her actually films and her work(s) in those...
That's what I was hoping for, as I have not seen all her movies, nor all her TV work either; and would be interested in critiques of them and her performances...
Her private life should have only been minimal - birth, death, marriges, divorces - and not negative references of any kind.
Never was she a preditor seeking out male victims. She was very religious (actually too much so, even for me!!)...... She didn't really like or approve of my grandmother, since Nell was a preditor!!! So, where this guy came up with that, is pure fiction.
Also, I remember she bought Sigmund Romberg's home in late 1951 and had it somewhat redone over a few weeks, as I lived up and across Roxbury Drive and viewed ("supervised") a lot of it before we left for Europe in late October.
I met Agnes on the set of "Show Boat" that year through Kathryn Grayson....
She deserves a more credible book as an actress...
Erika1712
Postby Erika1712 » August 12th, 2013, 12:31 pm
Yes, I have a question. When will you decide to write a book on Agnes, PT?
To give it one star would've likely meant I didn't finish it. Not that I don't understand the one star review. I do, very much so, and agree with you on all the points you've made here. I was glad that you brought up the misinformation on uterine cancer which very much stood out for me while reading.
Vecchiolarry wrote: I remember she bought Sigmund Romberg's home in late 1951 and had it somewhat redone over a few weeks, as I lived up and across Roxbury Drive and viewed ("supervised") a lot of it before we left for Europe in late October.
That's interesting. AM used to say in interviews that she bought her Roxbury Drive house from the Romberg estate, and for a bargain price. Since Mr. Romberg died suddenly, on 9 November 1951, of a stroke (according to Wikipedia) I figured she must have purchased it some time after that date, from his wife. If she had already purchased and started redecorating the house by October, then Mr. Romberg must have sold it himself. Well, either way, it seems that she was living in the house by early 1952 when the news blurbs went out. This is what Hedda Hopper had to say in the item I mentioned above: "Aggie Moorehead bought the Sigmund Romberg home in Beverly Hills, which means she'll be a neighbor of mine. Despite Aggie's presence, I'll still miss the Rombergs."
Erika1712 wrote: Yes, I have a question. When will you decide to write a book on Agnes, PT?
By 'questions' I meant about this book or my review of it. I can't answer this question.
I wouldn't have reviewed the book at all if I hadn't finished it. One star is supposed to mean 'poor', two stars 'disappointing'. I was debating between one and two for a while, but had to go with one because the overall tone is so mean and disrespectful.
Postby Vecchiolarry » August 12th, 2013, 10:58 pm
The Rombergs hadn't lived in that house much for about a year or two before Agnes bought it; they lived mostly in NYC.
Agnes bought it from SR himself. He died about two weeks after we left for Europe and his wife, Lillian, never returned to LA after that; at least as far as I know. She and SR were often guests of several of the lady hostesses in LA that I knew also and were friends of my Aunt Lucy, but I didn't remember seeing her again after he died.
It's possible that the final transfer (s) of the house were through his estate, but I wouldn't know about that really. Agnes may well have been correct in saying she got the house through his estate finally???
I was only 9 at the time and mortgages were never my forte!!!
Ah well, PT, you know I have my own personal rating system.
I did appreciate the write-up. Thanks.
I had Amazon's star-rating system confused with another site. Here is what Amazon's stars are set to mean:
5 = I love it
4 = I like it
3 = It's OK
2 = I don't like it
1 = I hate it
They make it more emotional.
Anyway, if anyone else at SSO reads this book, it would be interesting to read your comments -- even if you love it.
Postby Professional Tourist » October 28th, 2013, 10:12 pm
An update on reviews of this book. On Amazon, as of today, there are five 5-star reviews posted (out of ten total reviews). Four of these five reviewers are authors of Hollywood and theater books themselves, who received complimentary copies of the book in exchange for a review, and/or are personal associates of the author (who were thanked for their support on the book's acknowledgements page).
The fellow authors who received free books do not disclose this fact in their Amazon reviews, but do note it in the reviews posted to their personal blogs. Only one of the 5-star reviewers, as far as I can tell, is neither an author nor personally connected to this book's author.
I would encourage anyone who has read the book to post a review on Amazon, and anyone who has an Amazon account to read through the posted reviews (as time permits) and cast votes as to which are helpful/not helpful.