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Bryan Burk
Michael Stahl-David
Mike Vogel
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January 18, 2008 (2008-01-18)
$25 million[2]
$170,764,026[3]
Cloverfield is a 2008 American disaster-monster film directed by Matt Reeves, produced by J. J. Abrams and written by Drew Goddard.
The film follows six young New Yorkers attending a going-away party on the night that a gigantic monster attacks the city. First publicized in a teaser trailer in screenings of Transformers, the film was released on January 17 in New Zealand and Australia, on January 18 in North America, on January 24 in South Korea, on January 25 in Taiwan, on January 31 in Germany and on February 1 in the United Kingdom, Ireland and in Italy. In Japan, the film was released on April 5.
VFX and CGI were performed by effects studios Double Negative and Tippett Studio.
3.1 Development
3.3 Filming
3.4 Creature design
4.1 Pre-release plot speculation
4.2 Viral tie-ins
4.3 Merchandise
5 Music and sound
7 Shaky camerawork
8 Home media release
9 Sequel
The film is presented as found footage from a personal video camera recovered by the United States Department of Defense. A disclaimer text states that the footage is of a case designated "Cloverfield" and was found in the area "formerly known as Central Park". The video consists chiefly of segments taped the night of Friday, May 22 and the morning of Saturday, May 23. The newer segments were taped over older video that is visible occasionally.
The first video segment opens when Rob wakes up on the morning of Monday, April 27 having slept with Beth, a previously platonic friend. They make plans to go to Coney Island that day. The footage suddenly cuts to May 22, when Rob's brother Jason and his girlfriend Lily prepare a farewell party for Rob who will be moving to Japan. At the party, their friend Hud uses a camera to film testimonials, and flirts unsuccessfully with Marlena, another party guest. After Beth leaves the party following an argument with Rob, an apparent earthquake strikes, and the city suffers a brief power outage.
The local news reports that an oil tanker has capsized near Liberty Island. Then another explosion causes the party-goers to evacuate the building. They see the head of the Statue of Liberty crash nearby in the street, with several stunning scratch and bite marks. Hud records what appears to be a giant hand of a creature several blocks away. Rob, Jason, Lily, Hud and Marlena, along with a crowd of other civilians, attempt to escape Manhattan on the Brooklyn Bridge. A gigantic tail comes down and destroys the center span of the bridge, killing Jason and others. The survivors flee back to Manhattan as the bridge collapses.
Rob discovers that Beth sent him a message and goes to an electronics store trying to get new batteries for his phone. Hud watches the news, which shows the United States Army's 42nd Infantry Division attacking the monster and smaller "parasite" creatures falling off its body.[4] Several of these creatures are seen attacking soldiers and civilians on the ground. Once Rob gets new batteries, he listens to Beth's message saying she is trapped in her apartment and unable to move.
Going against the crowd, Rob, Hud, Lily, and Marlena venture to Midtown Manhattan to rescue Beth. They are soon caught in a crossfire between the monster and the military, and escape into a subway station. They walk through the subway tunnels but are attacked by several of the "parasite" creatures. Hud is nearly dragged away, and in the process of saving him, Marlena is bitten by one of them. They escape to a small room and come across a Bloomingdale's department store where they are met by a squad of soldiers who have set up a field hospital and command center in the store. Marlena starts feeling sick. One of the personal notices this and the bite and has her taken back behind a large curtain where we can see her silhouette explode. One of the military leaders takes them in a back hall and lets them leave, but tells them when the last evacuation helicopter will depart before the military executes its "Hammer Down Protocol".
The group finds that Beth's building has collapsed against another building. They rescue Beth, who was trapped and impaled on a piece of rebar. The four try to make their way to the evacuation site, where they encounter the monster once more over Grand Central Terminal. Lily is raced into one departing U.S. Marine Corps helicopter. Moments later, Rob, Beth and Hud are taken away in a second helicopter and witness a U.S. Air Force B-2 Spirit bomb the monster. The monster falls. Just as Hud declares victory, the monster lunges and attacks the helicopter, causing it to crash into Central Park.
The creature before attacking Hud.
The film skips to less than an hour later, with a voice on the crashed helicopter's radio warning that the Hammerdown protocol will begin in 15 minutes and states that anyone able to hear the sirens is within the blast zone. The three friends regain consciousness and flee the helicopter. As they leave, Hud drops the camera. When he picks it up though, the monster is standing right over him. When the monster notices Hud, it stares at him intently before biting him in half. Rob and Beth repeatedly yell Hud over his dead body.
Rob and Beth grab the camera and take shelter under Greyshot Arch in Central Park as air raid sirens begin to blare and bombing starts. Rob and Beth take turns leaving their last testimonies of the day, which Rob mentions as Saturday, May 23. The bridge crumbles and debris covers the camera.[5] The film then cuts to the footage of Rob and Beth's Coney Island date on April 27. In the distance, unnoticed by Rob and Beth, a large object falls into the ocean.
Further information: List of Cloverfield characters
Michael Stahl-David as Robert "Rob" Hawkins
Mike Vogel as Jason Hawkins
T. J. Miller as Hudson "Hud" Platt
Odette Yustman as Elizabeth "Beth" McIntyre
Jessica Lucas as Lily Ford
Lizzy Caplan as Marlena Diamond
Ben Feldman as Travis
Billy Brown as Staff Sgt.Pryce
To prevent the leaking of plot information, instead of auditioning the actors with scenes from the film, scripts from Abrams' previous productions were used, such as television series Alias and Lost. Some scenes were also written specifically for the audition process, not intended for use in the film. Despite not being told the premise of the film, Lizzy Caplan stated that she accepted a role in Cloverfield solely because she was a fan of the Abrams-produced television series Lost (in which her former Related co-star Kiele Sanchez was a recurring character), and her experience of discovering its true nature initially caused her to state that she would not sign on for a film in the future "without knowing full well what it is". She indicated that her character was a sarcastic outsider, and that her role, was "physically demanding".[6] Ryan Key, the guitarist and vocalist for pop punk band Yellowcard, made a small appearance in the film.
The poster for Escape from New York (1981) inspired the scene of the severed head of the Statue of Liberty in Cloverfield.
J. J. Abrams thought up a new monster after he and his son visited a toy store in Japan while promoting Mission: Impossible III. He explained, "We saw all these Godzilla toys, and I thought, we need our own American monster, and not like King Kong. I love King Kong. King Kong is adorable. And Godzilla is a charming monster. We love Godzilla. But I wanted something that was just insane, and intense."[7][8] There are three still frames in "pre-recorded" sequences, one from the movie Them! one from The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms and one from King Kong - these three movies are also cited in the credits.
In February 2007, Paramount Pictures secretly greenlit Cloverfield, to be produced by Abrams, directed by Matt Reeves and written by Drew Goddard. The project was produced by Abrams' company, Bad Robot Productions.[9] The visual effects producer was Chantal Feghali.
The severed head of the Statue of Liberty was inspired by the poster of the 1981 film Escape from New York, which had shown the head lying in the streets in New York. According to Reeves, "It's an incredibly provocative image. And that was the source that inspired producer J. J. Abrams to say, 'Now this would be an interesting idea for a movie'."[10]
The film was initially titled Cloverfield; however, this changed throughout production before it was finalized as the original title. Matt Reeves explained that the title was changed frequently due to the hype caused by the teaser trailer. "That excitement spread to such a degree that we suddenly couldn't use the name anymore. So we started using all these names like Slusho and Cheese.[11] And people always found out what we were doing!" The director said that "Cloverfield" was the government's case designation for the events caused by the monster, comparing the titling to that of the Manhattan Project. "And it's not a project per se. It's the way that this case has been designated. That's why that is on the trailer, and it becomes clearer in the film. It's how they refer to this phenomenon [or] this case", said the director.[12] The film's final title, Cloverfield, is the name of the exit Abrams takes to his Santa Monica office.[11][13] In turn, the road used to lead to the Santa Monica Airport, which originally bore the name Clover Field.
One final title, Greyshot, was proposed before the movie was officially titled Cloverfield. The name Greyshot is taken from the archway that the two survivors take shelter under at the end of the movie. Director Matt Reeves said that it was decided not to change the title to Greyshot because the film was already so well known as Cloverfield.[14]
The film received a subtitle in Japan, where it was released as Cloverfield/Hakaisha (クローバーフィールド/HAKAISHA, Kurōbāfīrudo/HAKAISHA?). The subtitle "Destroyer" was chosen by Abrams and was translated into Japanese as Hakaisha (破壊者, lit. "Destroyer"?) by Paramount Japan at his request. The subtitle Kishin (鬼神, lit. "Fierce God"?) was chosen for the manga spinoff, Cloverfield/Kishin, released exclusively in Japan.[15]
The casting process was carried out in secret, with no script being sent out to candidates. With production estimated to have a budget of $30 million, filming began in mid-June 2007 in New York.[9] One cast member indicated that the film would look like it cost $150 million, despite producers not casting recognizable and expensive actors.[6] Filmmakers used the Panasonic HVX200 for most of the interior scenes, and the Sony CineAlta F23 high-definition video camera to film nearly all of the New York exterior scenes.[16] Filming took place on Coney Island, with scenes shot at Deno's Wonder Wheel Amusement Park and the B&B Carousel.[17] The scenes of tanks firing at the creature while the main characters hide in a stairwell were filmed on Hennesy Street on Warner Bros. backlot in Burbank, CA. Some interior shots were filmed on a soundstage at Downey, California, Bloomingdale's in the movie was actually filmed in an emptied Robinsons-May store that was under reconstruction in Arcadia, California, and the outside scenes of Sephora and the electronics store were filmed in Downtown Los Angeles.[18]
Brooklyn Bridge, as viewed through the film's first-person narrative
The film was shot and edited in a cinéma vérité style,[19] to look like it was filmed with one hand-held camera, including jump cuts similar to ones found in home movies. T. J. Miller, who plays Hud, has said in various interviews that he filmed a third of the movie and almost half of it made it into the film.[20] Director Matt Reeves described the presentation, "We wanted this to be as if someone found a Handicam, took out the tape and put it in the player to watch it. What you're watching is a home movie that then turns into something else." Reeves explained that the pedestrians documenting the severed head of the Statue of Liberty with the camera phones was reflective of the contemporary period. According to him: "Cloverfield very much speaks to the fear and anxieties of our time, how we live our lives. Constantly documenting things and putting them up on YouTube, sending people videos through e-mail – we felt it was very applicable to the way people feel now."[21]
Several of the filmmakers are heard but not seen in the film. The man yelling "Oh my God!" repeatedly when the head of the Statue of Liberty lands in the street is producer Bryan Burk, and director Matt Reeves voiced the whispered radio broadcast at the end of the credits.[14]
After viewing a cut of the film, Steven Spielberg suggested giving the audience a hint at the fate of the monster during the climax, which resulted in the addition of a countdown overheard on the helicopter's radio and the sounding of air raid sirens to signal the forthcoming Hammerdown bombing.[14]
Creature design
Main article: Clover (creature)
Visual main effects supervisor Nick Tom and Phil Tippett's "Tippett Studio" were enlisted to develop the visual effects for Cloverfield.[22] Because the visual effects were incorporated after filming, cast members had to react to a non-existent creature during scenes, only being familiar with early conceptual renderings of the beast.[23] Artist Neville Page designed the monster, thoroughly creating a biological rationale for the creature, even if many of his ideas like "elongated, and articulated external esophagus" would not show up on screen.[24] The key idea behind the monster was that he was an immature creature suffering from "separation anxiety". This recalls real-life elephants who get frightened and lash out at the circus, because the director felt "there's nothing scarier than something huge that's spooked".[25]
Before the film's release, Paramount Pictures carried out a viral marketing campaign to promote the film which included viral tie-ins similar to Lost Experience.[26] Filmmakers decided to create a teaser trailer that would be a surprise in the light of commonplace media saturation, which they put together during the preparation stage of the production process. The teaser was then used as a basis for the film itself. Paramount Pictures encouraged the teaser to be released without a title attached, and the Motion Picture Association of America approved the move.[21] As Transformers showed high tracking numbers before its release in July 2007, the studio attached the teaser trailer for Cloverfield that showed the release date of January 18, 2008 but not the title.[9] A second trailer was released on November 16, 2007 which was attached to Beowulf, confirming the title.[27]
The studio had kept knowledge of the project secret from the online community, a cited rarity due to the presence of scoopers that follow upcoming films. The controlled release of information on the film has been observed as a risky strategy, which could succeed like The Blair Witch Project (1999) or disappoint like Snakes on a Plane (2006), the latter of which had generated online hype[citation needed] but failed to attract large audiences.
Pre-release plot speculation
The sudden appearance of the untitled trailer for Cloverfield fueled media speculation over the film's plot. USA Today reported the possibilities of the film being based on the works of H. P. Lovecraft, a live-action adaptation of Voltron (based on a mis-interpretation of the trailer's line "It's alive!" as "It's a lion!"),[25][28] a new film about Godzilla, or a spin-off of the TV show Lost.[29] The Star Ledger also reported the possibility of the film being based on Lovecraft lore or Godzilla.[30] The Guardian reported the possibility of a Lost spin-off,[31] while Time Out reported that the film was about an alien called "The Parasite".[32] IGN also backed the possibility of that premise, with The Parasite rumored to be a working title for the film.[33] Online, Slusho and Colossus had been discussed as other possible titles,[34] as well as Monstrous,[35] although this was dispelled by Abrams at ComicCon.[8] Entertainment Weekly also disputed reports that the film would be about a parasite or a colossal Asian robot such as Voltron.[36]
Visitors of the website Ain't It Cool News have pointed out 9/11 allusions based on the destruction in New York City such as the decapitated Statue of Liberty. The film has also drawn alternate reality game enthusiasts that have followed other viral marketing campaigns like those set up for the TV series Lost, the video games Halo 2 and Halo 3. Members of the forums at argn.com and unfiction.com have investigated the background of the film, with the "1-18-08" section at Unfiction generating over 7,700 posts in August 2007. The members have studied photographs on the film's official site, potentially related MySpace profiles,[37] and the Comic-Con teaser poster for the film.[38] A popular piece of fan art posited that the monster was a mutated Humpback Whale.[25]
Viral tie-ins
Photos on the 1-18-08.com viral marketing website
Unlike most viral campaigns, Cloverfield's marketing had virtually nothing to do with the movie itself, and instead concentrated on a fictional evil Slushy company. Puzzle websites containing Lovecraftian elements, such as Ethan Haas Was Right, were originally reported to be connected to the film.[29][31] On July 9, 2007, producer J. J. Abrams stated that, while a number of websites were being developed to market the film, the only official site that had been found was 1-18-08.com.[39] At the site, a collection of time-coded photos are provided to visitors to piece together a series of events and interpret their meanings. The pictures can also be flipped over – by repeatedly and rapidly moving the mouse side to side. Also, while on 1-18-08.com, if the page is left open long enough, the monster's roar can be heard. Eventually, www.cloverfieldmovie.com was created. The site provided both a trailer and a number, 33287, which, when texted from a mobile phone, provided a ringtone of the monster's roar and a wallpaper of a decimated Manhattan. This eventually turns out to be a Paramount number (people later received material on Iron Man, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Kung Fu Panda, and The Love Guru).[40]
The drink Slusho! served as part of the viral marketing campaign. The drink had already appeared in producer Abrams' previous creation, the TV series Alias.[41] Viral websites for Slusho! and a Japanese drilling company named Tagruato (タグルアト, Taguruato?) were launched to add to the mythology of Cloverfield. A building bearing the company logo for Tagruato can also be seen in the TV spot of the eleventh Star Trek film, another Abrams production.[26] When Cloverfield was hosted at Comic-Con 2007, gray Slusho! T-shirts were distributed to attendees.[42] Fans who had registered at the Slusho! website for Cloverfield received e-mails of fictional sonar images before the film's release that showed a deep-sea creature heading toward Manhattan.[43]
Producer Bryan Burk explained the viral tie-in, "It was all done in conjunction with the studio... The whole experience in making this movie is very reminiscent of how we did Lost."[26] Director Matt Reeves described Slusho! as "part of the involved connectivity" with Abrams' Alias and that the drink represented a "meta-story" for Cloverfield. The director explained, "It's almost like tentacles that grow out of the film and lead, also, to the ideas in the film. And there's this weird way where you can go see the movie and it's one experience... But there's also this other place where you can get engaged where there's this other sort of aspect for all those people who are into that. All the stories kind of bounce off one another and inform each other. But, at the end of the day, this movie stands on its own to be a movie.... The Internet sort of stories and connections and clues are, in a way, a prism and they're another way of looking at the same thing. To us, it's just another exciting aspect of the storytelling."[41]
A four-installment prequel manga series by Yoshiki Togawa titled Cloverfield/Kishin (クローバーフィールド/KISHIN, Kurōbāfīrudo/KISHIN?) was released by Japanese publisher Kadokawa Shoten.[44] The story focuses on a Japanese high school student named Kishin Aiba, who somehow bears a connection to the monster.[45]
Based on the successful opening weekend of Cloverfield in theaters, Hasbro began accepting orders for a 14-inch (36 cm) collectible toy figure of the monster with authentic sound[46] and its parasites that were shipped to fans by December 24, 2008.[47]
Rob's Party Mix
Compilation album by various artists
Alternative rock, blues-rock, britpop, electronic, indie pop, indie rock
Due to its presentation as footage from a consumer digital recorder, Cloverfield has no film score, with the exception of the composition "Roar! (Cloverfield Overture)" by Michael Giacchino that plays over the end credits. Similarities between "Roar!" and the music of Godzilla composer Akira Ifukube have been noted, and it has been suggested that Giacchino's overture is a tribute to Ifukube's work,[48][49] which was confirmed by Matt Reeves in the DVD's commentary track.[14] The sound track was supervised by William Files[50] and Douglas Murray[51] at Skywalker Sound.
Rob's Party Mix or Cloverfield Mix is a collection of the music played in the opening party sequences of the film that was released exclusively on Apple's iTunes store on January 22, 2008 in lieu of a traditional soundtrack album. The Cloverfield score, "Roar! (Cloverfield Overture)" by Michael Giacchino that plays over the end credits[52] is not featured on the album, as it is the mixtape played at the party and is not the official soundtrack of the film. This album was distributed to guests at a Cloverfield premiere party held at the Dark Room in New York City on January 17, 2008.[53]
A complete soundtrack release of all the music in the film, including Giacchino's "Roar!" end title piece, has now also been released exclusively on iTunes; it has not been officially released in retail stores. A CD entitled Rob's Party Mix comes packaged in a special edition of Cloverfield made available for sale in Canadian Wal-Mart stores beginning on April 22, 2008.
1. "West Coast" Coconut Records 3:32
2. "Taper Jean Girl" Kings of Leon 3:05
3. "Beautiful Girls" Sean Kingston 4:01
4. "Do I Have Your Attention" The Blood Arm 3:35
5. "Got Your Moments" Scissors for Lefty 3:11
6. "Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)" Parliament 5:46
7. "19-2000" Gorillaz 3:27
8. "The Underdog" Spoon 3:42
9. "Pistol of Fire" Kings of Leon 2:20
10. "Disco Lies" Moby 3:22
11. "Do the Whirlwind" Architecture in Helsinki 4:39
12. "Grown So Ugly" The Black Keys 2:24
13. "Four Winds" Bright Eyes 2:09
14. "The Ride" Joan As Policewoman 3:09
15. "Seventeen Years" Ratatat 4:26
16. "Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games" Of Montreal 4:15
17. "Fuzz" (ファズ) Mucc 4:47
Cloverfield opened in 3,411 theaters on January 18, 2008, and grossed a total of $16,930,000 on its opening day in the United States and Canada. It made $40,058,229 on its opening weekend, making it the most successful January release to date. Worldwide, it has grossed $170,602,318, making it the first movie in 2008 to gross over $100 million.[54] Critics mostly praised Cloverfield; as of October 29, 2011, review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes reported that 77% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 192 reviews.[55] According to Metacritic, the film has received an average score of 64, based on 37 reviews.[56] And on Spill.com, it got their highest rating of 'Better Than Sex!'.
Marc Savlov of The Austin Chronicle calls the film "the most intense and original creature feature I've seen in my adult moviegoing life [...] a pure-blood, grade A, exhilarating monster movie." He cites Matt Reeves' direction, the "whip-smart, stylistically invisible" script and the "nearly subconscious evocation of our current paranoid, terror-phobic times" as the keys to the film's success, saying that telling the story through the lens of one character's camera "works fantastically well".[57] Michael Rechtshaffen of The Hollywood Reporter called it "chillingly effective", praising the effects and the film's "claustrophobic intensity". He said that though the characters "aren't particularly interesting or developed", there was "something refreshing about a monster movie that isn't filled with the usual suspects".[58] Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly said that the film was "surreptitiously subversive, [a] stylistically clever little gem", and that while the characters were "vapid, twenty-something nincompoops" and the acting "appropriately unmemorable", the decision to tell the story through amateur footage was "brilliant".[59] Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times wrote that the film is "pretty scary at times" and cites "unmistakable evocations of 9/11". He concludes that "all in all, it is an effective film, deploying its special effects well and never breaking the illusion that it is all happening as we see it".[60]
Todd McCarthy of Variety called the film an "old-fashioned monster movie dressed up in trendy new threads", praising the special effects, "nihilistic attitude" and "post-9/11 anxiety overlay", but said, "In the end, [it's] not much different from all the marauding creature features that have come before it".[61] Scott Foundas of LA Weekly was critical of the film's use of scenes reminiscent of the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York City and called it "cheap and opportunistic". He suggested that the film was engaging in "stealth" attempts at social commentary and compared this unfavorably to the films of Don Siegel, George A. Romero and Steven Spielberg, saying, "Where those filmmakers all had something meaningful to say about the state of the world and [...] human nature, Abrams doesn't have much to say about anything".[62] Manohla Dargis in the New York Times called the allusions "tacky", saying, "[The images] may make you think of the attack, and you may curse the filmmakers for their vulgarity, insensitivity or lack of imagination", but that "the film is too dumb to offend anything except your intelligence". She concludes that the film "works as a showcase for impressively realistic-looking special effects, a realism that fails to extend to the scurrying humans whose fates are meant to invoke pity and fear but instead inspire yawns and contempt."[19] Stephanie Zacharek of Salon.com calls the film "badly constructed, humorless and emotionally sadistic", and sums up by saying that the film "takes the trauma of 9/11 and turns it into just another random spectacle at which to point and shoot".[63] Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune warned that the viewer may feel "queasy" at the references to September 11, but that "other sequences [...] carry a real jolt" and that such tactics were "crude, but undeniably gripping". He called the film "dumb", but "quick and dirty and effectively brusque", concluding that despite it being "a harsher, more demographically calculating brand of fun", he enjoyed the film.[52] Bruce Paterson of Cinephilia described the film as "a successful experiment in style but not necessarily a successful story for those who want dramatic closure".
Cloverfield appeared on some critics' top ten lists of the best films of 2008. Empire magazine named it the fifth best film of 2008.[64] The prestigious French film journal Cahiers du Cinéma named the film as the third best of 2008.[65] Bloody Disgusting ranked the film number twenty in their list of the 'Top 20 Horror Films of the Decade', with the article calling the film "A brilliant conceit, to be sure, backed by a genius early marketing campaign that followed the less-is-more philosophy to tantalizing effect... much like Blair Witch nearly ten years earlier, Cloverfield helped prove, particularly in its first half hour, that what you don't see can be the scariest thing of all."[66]
The movie was nominated for four awards: It was nominated for two Saturn Awards for "Best supporting actress (Lizzy Caplan)" and "Best science fiction film". It was nominated for two Golden Trailer Awards for "Best Thriller for Trailer" and "Most original trailer".[citation needed] The film went on to win a Saturn Award for "Best science fiction film". It was also ranked #12 on Bravo's 13 Scarier Movie Moments.[67]
Shaky camerawork
Sign at an AMC theater warning customers by comparing the film to a roller coaster.
The film's shaky camera style of cinematography, dubbed "La Shakily Queasy-Cam" by Roger Ebert, caused some viewers (particularly in darkened movie theaters) to experience motion sickness, including nausea and a temporary loss of balance. Audience members prone to migraines have cited the film as a trigger. Some theaters showing the film, such as AMC Theatres, provided posted and verbal warnings, informing viewers about the filming style of Cloverfield while other theatres like Pacific Theatres just verbally warned guests in detail at the box office about experiencing motion sickness upon viewing the film and what to do if they had to step out and vomit.[68]
The cinematography influences the encoding of the video and can cause compression artifacts to fast motion across the field of view.[69]
Home media release
The DVD was released on April 22, 2008, in two versions: the standard single-disc edition and an exclusive "steel-book" special edition that was sold at Suncoast and FYE retailers in the US and Future Shop in Canada. Other store exclusives include an exclusive bonus disc titled "T.J. Miller's Video Diary" with the DVD at all Best Buy retailers, an exclusive mix CD titled "Rob's Goin' to Japan Party Mix" with the DVD at all Target and Wal-Mart retailers and an exclusive ringtone with the DVD at all Kmart and Sears retailers. Borders also has an exclusive booklet encased with their DVD.
The Region 2 DVD was released on June 9 in both one-disc and two-disc editions. The limited steelbook edition is only available from HMV, while Play.com offers exclusive cover artwork. The HMV-exclusive steelbook contains two discs.
The DVD includes two alternative endings, which vary only slightly. The first alternative ending shows Rob and Beth exiting the Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue station instead of on the Ferris wheel and features different sirens in the background as Rob talks to the camera. In the second alternative ending, just after the final explosion, Beth can be heard screaming "Rob!", followed by a very brief clip of an unknown person looking at the camera (in the commentary, Matt Reeves said that it was one of the crew members) and brushing rubble off the lens. The film then ends with the original final clip of Rob and Beth on their Coney Island date recording themselves on the ferris wheel as the camera tape runs out, with two differences: there is no timestamp in the lower left-hand corner of the screen, and there is an additional beeping tone indicating the end of the tape.[70]
A Blu-ray edition was released on June 3, 2008.[71] It includes a "Special Investigation Mode," as well as all the bonus features of the 2-disc DVD in HD.
At the premiere of the film, Matt Reeves talked about possibilities of how a sequel will turn out if the film succeeds.[72] According to Reeves, "While we were on set making the film we talked about the possibilities and directions of how a sequel can go. The fun of this movie was that it might not have been the only movie being made that night, there might be another movie! In today's day and age of people filming their lives on their camera phones and Handycams, uploading it to YouTube... That was kind of exciting thinking about that."[73]
In another interview, Reeves states:
There's a moment on the Brooklyn Bridge, and there was a guy filming something on the side of the bridge, and Hud sees him filming and he turns over and he sees the ship that's been capsized and sees the headless Statue of Liberty, and then he turns back and this guy's briefly filming him. In my mind that was two movies intersecting for a brief moment, and I thought there was something interesting in the idea that this incident happened and there are so many different points of view, and there are several different movies at least happening that evening and we just saw one piece of another.[25]
Reeves also points out that the end scene on Coney Island shows something falling into the ocean in the background but didn't give out details. This may have been either the satellite owned by the fictional Japanese media company Tagruato, or the creature itself.
Producers Bryan Burk and J. J. Abrams also announced their thoughts to Entertainment Weekly about possible sequels. According to Bryan Burk, "The creative team has fleshed out an entire backstory which, if we're lucky, we might get to explore in future films".[74]
Abrams stated that he does not want to rush into the development of the sequel because of the first film's success and would rather create a sequel that is true to the previous film.[74]
At the end of January 2008, Matt Reeves entered early talks with Paramount Pictures to direct a sequel to Cloverfield, which would likely be filmed before Reeves's other project, The Invisible Woman.[75] Reeves now said:
The idea of doing something so differently is exhilarating. We hope that it created a movie experience that is different. The thing about doing a sequel is that I think we all really feel protective of that experience. The key here will be if we can find something that is compelling enough and that is different enough for us to do, then it will probably be worth doing. Obviously it also depends on how Cloverfield does worldwide and all of those things too, but really, for us creatively, we just want to find something that would be another challenge.[76]
In an interview with Attack of the Show, J. J. Abrams had stated that they might abandon the filming style, stating that he and the rest of the crew would like to try something new.[77]
In September 2008, when asked by CraveOnline what the current status is on Cloverfield 2,[78] Abrams stated that at this point, they are still discussing it; however, he still feels reluctant to work on a sequel. In the same interview, Abrams said that they were working on something that "could be kind of cool." When asked if it would take place in a different location, Abrams replied by saying that "It would be a totally different kind of thing but it's too early to talk about."[79]
In January 2011, horror film fan site BloodyDisgusting.com stated that a Cloverfield sequel may in fact never happen. They talked to director Reeves and he said that if he can ever get the time to sit down and talk with Drew Goddard and J. J. Abrams about sequel possibilities they will certainly make a sequel, but due to all three's busy schedules Reeves does not see this happening any time soon.[80]
The film Super 8 was initially reported to be either a sequel or prequel to Cloverfield,[81] but this was quickly denied by Abrams.[82]
In a 2011 interview, Matt Reeves gave an update on the status of Cloverfield 2, saying, "Getting the right idea together has been taking a long time." ... "You are going to see it - we just don't know when [laughs] ... At the moment we are talking about the story quite a lot. Drew Goddard, who wrote the original, is going to pen the sequel and JJ Abrams is very much involved. ... However, the three of us have been so busy that getting the right idea together has been taking a long time." When asked if the sequel will be shot in real-time, Reeves stated "You see, that's a difficult part: we want it to be shot like the first but how can you continue that idea successfully for a second time? ... We have a lot of affection for the original and the sequel can't just be the same thing. But that is tricky when you need to have a monster destroying stuff once again."[83]
Found footage (genre)
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^ The creatures are called HSP or "Human Scale Parasites" in the Blu-ray special investigation mode.
^ According to the "military intelligence" in the special investigation mode of the Blu-ray version, this was the only thing that protected the camera during the Hammer-down protocol
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We've scoured the Internet and found some of our favorite interior design trend predictions for 2018.
With 2017 firmly in the rearview mirror, it's time to look forward with eager anticipation as we wait to see what 2018 brings. But for interior designers, waiting isn't always easy. So, we've scoured the Internet and found some of our favorite interior design trend predictions for 2018.
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If you are in need of a little inspiration, the Sherwin Williams 2018 Color of the Year is Oceanside SW 6496, an intense shade of blue-green.
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Still, a color is only as powerful – as meaningful – as its use within a space. So, it's important to pair bold colors with lighter shades for a dramatic, high contrast look that will really make a space pop. "Outlining the room or windows in dark trim helps punctuate and call attention to unique features," says Lord.
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Saint Francis and the Crucified Christ When you look at Saint Francis, you see the Crucified Christ whose presence within Francis was so real and so
Saint Francis and the Crucified Christ
When you look at Saint Francis, you see the Crucified Christ whose presence within Francis was so real and so intense that the very wounds of Christ Crucified broke forth in his body, revealing to the whole world that here, indeed, was the ultimate disciple of Christ, who not only bore in his body the wounds of Christ, but whose heart was filled with the love that moved Christ to suffer for love of us. As St. Francis himself articulates so beautifully in one of the prayers attributed to him, "May the fiery and honey-sweet power of your love, O Lord, wean me from all things under heaven, so that I may die for love of your love, who deigned to die for love of my love."
—from Murray Bodo, OFM, author of the book Francis and Jesus
✞"You change your life by changing your heart."
— St. Benedict of Nursia
"Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on: you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently he starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of – throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself."
— C. S. Lewis, p. 205
"And he said to them, 'Go into all the world and proclaim the good news to the whole creation.The one who believes and is baptized will be saved; but the one who does not believe will be condemned.'"
Saint of the Day for October 4
(September 26, 1182 – October 3, 1226)
Francis of Assisi was a poor little man who astounded and inspired the Church by taking the gospel literally—not in a narrow fundamentalist sense, but by actually following all that Jesus said and did, joyfully, without limit, and without a sense of self-importance.
Serious illness brought the young Francis to see the emptiness of his frolicking life as leader of Assisi's youth. Prayer—lengthy and difficult—led him to a self-emptying like that of Christ, climaxed by embracing a leper he met on the road. It symbolized his complete obedience to what he had heard in prayer: "Francis! Everything you have loved and desired in the flesh it is your duty to despise and hate, if you wish to know my will. And when you have begun this, all that now seems sweet and lovely to you will become intolerable and bitter, but all that you used to avoid will turn itself to great sweetness and exceeding joy."
From the cross in the neglected field-chapel of San Damiano, Christ told him, "Francis, go out and build up my house, for it is nearly falling down." Francis became the totally poor and humble workman.
He must have suspected a deeper meaning to "build up my house." But he would have been content to be for the rest of his life the poor "nothing" man actually putting brick on brick in abandoned chapels. He gave up all his possessions, piling even his clothes before his earthly father–who was demanding restitution for Francis' "gifts" to the poor–so that he would be totally free to say, "Our Father in heaven." He was, for a time, considered to be a religious fanatic, begging from door to door when he could not get money for his work, evoking sadness or disgust to the hearts of his former friends, ridicule from the unthinking.
But genuineness will tell. A few people began to realize that this man was actually trying to be Christian. He really believed what Jesus said: "Announce the kingdom! Possess no gold or silver or copper in your purses, no traveling bag, no sandals, no staff" (Luke 9:1-3).
Francis' first rule for his followers was a collection of texts from the Gospels. He had no intention of founding an order, but once it began he protected it and accepted all the legal structures needed to support it. His devotion and loyalty to the Church were absolute and highly exemplary at a time when various movements of reform tended to break the Church's unity.
Francis was torn between a life devoted entirely to prayer and a life of active preaching of the Good News. He decided in favor of the latter, but always returned to solitude when he could. He wanted to be a missionary in Syria or in Africa, but was prevented by shipwreck and illness in both cases. He did try to convert the sultan of Egypt during the Fifth Crusade.
During the last years of his relatively short life, he died at 44, Francis was half blind and seriously ill. Two years before his death he received the stigmata, the real and painful wounds of Christ in his hands, feet and side.
On his deathbed, Francis said over and over again the last addition to his Canticle of the Sun, "Be praised, O Lord, for our Sister Death." He sang Psalm 141, and at the end asked his superior's permission to have his clothes removed when the last hour came in order that he could expire lying naked on the earth, in imitation of his Lord.
Francis of Assisi was poor only that he might be Christ-like. He recognized creation as another manifestation of the beauty of God. In 1979, he was named patron of ecology. He did great penance–apologizing to "Brother Body" later in life–that he might be totally disciplined for the will of God. Francis' poverty had a sister, Humility, by which he meant total dependence on the good God. But all this was, as it were, preliminary to the heart of his spirituality: living the gospel life, summed up in the charity of Jesus and perfectly expressed in the Eucharist.
Saint Francis of Assisi is the Patron Saint of:
Memorial of Saint Francis of Assisi
Reading 1 Neh 2:1-8
In the month Nisan of the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes,
when the wine was in my charge,
I took some and offered it to the king.
As I had never before been sad in his presence,
the king asked me, "Why do you look sad?
If you are not sick, you must be sad at heart."
Though I was seized with great fear, I answered the king:
"May the king live forever!
How could I not look sad
when the city where my ancestors are buried lies in ruins,
and its gates have been eaten out by fire?"
The king asked me, "What is it, then, that you wish?"
I prayed to the God of heaven and then answered the king:
"If it please the king,
and if your servant is deserving of your favor,
send me to Judah, to the city of my ancestors' graves,
to rebuild it."
Then the king, and the queen seated beside him,
asked me how long my journey would take
and when I would return.
I set a date that was acceptable to him,
and the king agreed that I might go.
I asked the king further: "If it please the king,
let letters be given to me for the governors
of West-of-Euphrates,
that they may afford me safe-conduct until I arrive in Judah;
also a letter for Asaph, the keeper of the royal park,
that he may give me wood for timbering the gates
of the temple-citadel and for the city wall
and the house that I shall occupy."
The king granted my requests,
for the favoring hand of my God was upon me.
Responsorial Psalm Ps 137:1-2, 3, 4-5, 6
R. (6ab) Let my tongue be silenced if I ever forget you!
By the streams of Babylon
we sat and wept
when we remembered Zion.
On the aspens of that land
we hung up our harps.
R. Let my tongue be silenced if I ever forget you!
Though there our captors asked of us
the lyrics of our songs,
And our despoilers urged us to be joyous:
"Sing for us the songs of Zion!"
How could we sing a song of the LORD
in a foreign land?
If I forget you, Jerusalem,
may my right hand be forgotten!
May my tongue cleave to my palate
if I remember you not,
If I place not Jerusalem
ahead of my joy.
As Jesus and his disciples were proceeding
on their journey, someone said to him,
"I will follow you wherever you go."
Jesus answered him,
"Foxes have dens and birds of the sky have nests,
but the Son of Man has nowhere to rest his head."
And to another he said, "Follow me."
But he replied, "Lord, let me go first and bury my father."
But he answered him, "Let the dead bury their dead.
But you, go and proclaim the Kingdom of God."
And another said, "I will follow you, Lord,
but first let me say farewell to my family at home."
Jesus answered him, "No one who sets a hand to the plow
and looks to what was left behind is fit for the Kingdom of God."
Meditation: Nehemiah 2:1-8
Saint Francis of Assisi (Memorial)
Send me to Judah . . . to rebuild it. (Nehemiah 2:5)
Perhaps you know the story of the call of St. Francis of Assisi, whose feast day we celebrate today. Praying in a run-down chapel, he heard the Lord saying, "Francis, go and repair my house; look, it is falling into ruins." Now, God wasn't speaking about that particular chapel; he was speaking about the challenges facing the whole Church at the time. It took Francis some time to realize this, but once he did, he and his fellow friars went out and changed the course of history.
Nehemiah feels a similar call in today's first reading: to go and rebuild Jerusalem. And like St. Francis, he does more than "look sad" and bemoan the state of his people (Nehemiah 2:3). He too springs into action.
In every age and for every generation, God has called his people to rebuild his Church. No matter what the era, there has always been a need for renovation, for a return to our roots in the Lord, and for addressing the challenges of the day. In every age, God invites his people, not just to mourn the situation, but to rebuild.
It doesn't have to be difficult. Look at St. Francis. As soon as he heard God's call, he grabbed a hammer and set to work. Of course he would! God had told him to rebuild his Church, so that's what he did. Over time, though, God helped him become more clear about what the call really entailed.
You can follow the same approach. Just do what makes sense to you. What would be helpful? Where are the needs the greatest? What kind of work are you best suited for?
No matter what you choose to do, just get started. If you take that first step, you can be sure that the Holy Spirit will guide you and help clarify your mission. He may give you the sense that you are doing exactly what you should be doing, or he may nudge you in a different direction to make you more effective.
Both St. Francis and Nehemiah got out there and made a difference for the Lord. So can you.
"Lord, teach me how I can help rebuild your house!"
We heard first a prayer:
""If it please the king, and if your servant is deserving of your favor,
send me to Judah, to the city of my ancestors' graves, to rebuild it."
Then we pray:
" Let my tongue be silenced if I ever forget you! "
In the Holy Gospel our Lord prays "Follow Me" and "let the dead bury the dead".
On Sunday, before the readings in Mass, they gathered the children and prayed over them and we sang "I Have Decided To Follow Jesus". No turning back. Indeed, our Lord prays ""No one who sets a hand to the plow and looks to what was left behind is fit for the Kingdom of God." Why are you so worried if you are taking to the work of the Lord? You have no faith? Because we have a million excuses and none of them are good. I hear excuses constantly and none of them jive. Just be honest. You have no will. No desire, when the Lord says "Follow Me". "But let me bury my family". And the other "Let me go so bye to my family". This is putting family first...NOT GOD. Do you think your family will save you? Have you ever been locked up in jail and forgotten? Have you ever been isolated in a hospital room? Or have you ever been surrounded by family and no one can do anything to help or save you? This is why I always direct the attention to God FIRST. Jesus is not being mean here but HE means for the better good....SALVATION. Because eternal life is at stake.
St. Francis was all about family, was going to become a valiant soldier in the military, but once he got sick and was disillusioned, even his family got on to him and was on his case about becoming a fanatic, and paying back what he was giving to the poor. St. Francis never looked back. In his conversion, he gave back to the world what belonged to them and gave the world what belonged to God....His Kingdom of love and service. St. Francis' was a life of prayer, of restitution and of reconciliation. He died rather young by our modern terms, but died rather old in spiritual terms, because a saint has no age. I read a spanish reflection today that said at one point someone's quote "...after him, it has been much easier to be men" and another "...and to be Christians". It takes a soul devoted to Christ to be this kind of light. Total self abandonment. Self surrender. Fasting was the diet, alms giving was the pay. Backwards and contrary to the ways of the world. There is this disgusting issue I see in some people that seems to say "I want to help build the Church but I don't want to do it together". That is not how St. Francis built the Church where He was. He begged for help. And this is a revelation I have been revealed lately, "I can not do anything on my own....in every little thing, God must be involved and all the credit goes to Him" not one thing I can take credit for...and this is good...to deflate my ego, to become less of me...and more of Him.
Thank God for St. Francis and all the Franciscans that try to be devoted to Christ. If Christ is the answer, then we have found the solution.
Prayer of St. Francis, Prayer of Peace:
Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace;
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is error, the truth;
Where there is doubt, the faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
And where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master,
Grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled, as to console;
To be understood, as to understand;
To be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

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Online Radio BD is an important topic who is interested about to start an online radio station, as a listener and online radio researcher. Here I discus and guide unlimited as per online radio Bangladesh. This topic covers you everything you need to know about internet radio Bangladesh. You will also know, how does online radio works and what is online radio. So, lets start to learning.
Online radio is either prerecorded MP3 media files those are broadcast steamed through internet server. Also, another way to broadcast via-a-microphone live steamed over the online. Any listener can listen song, news, jokes or recorded files any part of the world. With online radio you are not restricted geographically by listening all around the world. Though we discus here about Online Radio BD .
There have a few elements that work for online radio.
Generally, the source files should be clipped, inputs from CDs, live voice and so on.
You need an internet server like Shoutcast through Shoutcheap.com who combined to put it in a format. After that steamed send to the sound waves through the internet with a click.
Without a radio listener there has no point in broadcasting. Listener connects to the online server to listen the radio.
Online radio is not broadcasting. Actually, it is called webcasting. Because it is not broadcast through wireless signals. It is transmitted via the internet as an audio service.
Online radio is one of the popular parts in Bangladesh. More than One Million people are searching through Google. A number of people are listening daily internet radio. Online radio contributes many parts on the Bangladesh. Already community radio Bangladesh got popular and contribute in different way in Bangladesh. A vital role are played by Online Radio BD .
Through the internet independently you can start an online radio. Different categories online radio channels are live and schedules. Some of them broadcasting online news Bangladesh. Many online radio provide 24/7 day entertainment radio service. FM radio are popular by fun an jokes. Listener does live call to the station manager to provide opinion.
Online radio bangle channel live and offline categorizes. Live radio channels are broadcast real time for the listener. The audience can ask question on the live show and get answers as per topics. Live show one of the popular ways to connect people and advertise any brand. Live radio show can not be edited in the latter.
One of the major thing is online radio instantly radio show can go live. Listener direct connect to the live show. Many Online Radio BD goes live every day.
On the other hand, your listener can download episodes and scheduled as per their time. A radio shows provide the best bits for the listener and quality sound for the listener.
One of the main things is a variety of online station and it's greatest strength of internet radio. You can choose any time classic rock, pop hip-hop etc. you can see benefits on the Online Radio BD .
Online radio broadcast is cost effective and to set up it there is no large scale cost. So it is going popular for it. You can start an online radio at your own home with your computer internet.
I am easy and available for everyone where internet is available. The many terrestrial radio starts their broadcast turn intern radio.
Minimal instrument is needed to set up online radio station. Simply install a software on your computer and start listening radio.
Online radio sound quality is always same but the general radio channel signal can go bad for the weather.
You advertise your own brad through your own radio station. This is way to boost any brand locally or globally.
There are several methods used for broadcasting in Bangladesh electronic media. There have no specific mention about the internet or online radio wave casting license. You four type of license in Bangladesh those are mention bellow. You can simply start an online radio bd through internet.
For internet wave casting you can apply a local city corporation trad license if it's purpose is business related. As per my personal opinion, it is not mandatory to get an online radio license for any website.
Terrestrial Television Broadcasting : Only Bangladesh television can broadcast in this criteria. According to ITO from 2015 switch off analog broadcasting.
FM Radio Broadcasting: To broadcast you need a license from the Ministry of Information According to NFAP frequency is assigned from the BTRC to the licensee from 87.5 to 108 MHz.
Community Radio Broadcasting : To provide any specific community or local people Bangladesh government has has passed Community Radio Installation in 2008.
Different counties have different radio broadcasting rules and have various licensing bodies.
Licensing in the UK: Here have two licensing bodies one is PRS (Performing Rights Society) and PPL (Phonographic Performance Limited). First one is public broadcast service and on demand streaming. Another one is a commercial music service. There have an annul paying issue.
Licensing in the USA: If you want to lunch an online radio broadcasting from USA then you will need to statutory license. Also, there have four licensing bodies. This are ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, and Sound Exchange.
Licensing in the BD: In bangladesh have it own rules and copyright low. There have two popular radio service one is FM Radio Broadcasting and another is Community Radio Broadcasting.
Bangladesh have many free online radio. You can listen every hour with them. Find bellow online radio station listen. On the list we have only mention some of them.
Community radio can be varied like rural radio, cooperative radio, participatory radio, etc. There have also free radio, alternative, popular, educational radio, local regional radio and many more. Some of them are mix radio and some of them is militancy. Most of this community radio is located isolated rural villages.
Bangladesh NGO community radio communicates as a medium of the different local people. They are working to pick up all those voices who are neglected by locally, regions and classes.
Many web hosting companies are providing Online Radio Hosting some of them cheap and some of them high rate. You can buy any SSD package to start your online radio station.
Those service providers can also help you to set up your radio business or broadcasting. Get hosting for bands, artists, community radio stations, and DJs. It can be your own music or talk shows online radio.
You can get fast, real-able and hosting server from the Bangladesh data center. The service that will not buffering when your listener will increase in the channel. It can be upgrade at any time.
Few radio hosting provider website links.
If you want to download form radio software free than here you can find the links. You can set up it easily and there has also a video.
Many web hosting give you this service. Here you can get technical support and step by step guide. Our WP GROUP provides support from start to finish to set up an online radio station. You can call to our mobile number. However online radio is powerful advertising media still now.
Our WpHostsell.com gives you a hosting package to start an online radio broadcasting. We also made a video how to create an online radio station. If you are interested in lunch an online radio in your website then you can contact with us. Our online technical expert help you to integrate radio on your website.
Finally, Online Radio BD is popular subject at this time. Also, listen Online Radio BD at your own home as an Online Radio BD owner. Here are ready to help you. At this time you can make money with internet radio. Many people broadcasting online to advertise there company. Also, it's grow your community and popularity.
Make sure about technical support before stat internet radio lunching. Many privet company created online radio for advertising and promotion. Moreover, it increase your brand awareness.


This course examines women's writing in Western culture from the Medieval Period through the end of the nineteenth century. Writers range from Julian of Norwich to Sojourner Truth, from Eliza Haywood to Kate Chopin, from Aemilia Lanyer to Charlotte Bronte, among many others. The literary works involve a wide variety of genres, including poetry, prose fiction, speeches, letters, and other forms of non-traditional prose. The course provides the opportunity to explore women's literary creativity within an evolving cultural and historical context.
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The directive came yesterday after a picture of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan depicted as a Hindu god.
However, the verdict will not affect the PML-N's registration as a party.
Gulalai said, Khan initially sent her 'inappropriate' texts, but later proposed marriage to her before her father intervened in the case.
The assembly then passed the motion and directed the committee to submit its report within a month.


MEAD VALLEY, Calif. The 2-year-old boy and his older brother were playing in their yard in Mead Valley when a bull in a field next to their home saw the boys and charged. The bull plowed into a chain-link fence separating the yards and knocked the toddler to the ground.
The child was hospitalized and has been released. The older boy was not hurt.
Police said the bull was taken to the Ontario Stockyard, and the bull's owner will be cited.


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Progressive Pipleline announced Thursday it would move its coroporate office to downtown Meridian, one of a few positive developments in the news in recent weeks.
David A. Bohrer
OUR VIEW: Time for private sector to ante up in Meridian
Meridian is getting all dressed up, but where will the city go?
Are we the girl who buys the prom dress, the guy who orders the tux and then waits anxiously by the phone for someone to text and ask them to the prom?
The atmosphere here the last few weeks has been intoxicating.
As construction workers continued to rebuild the interior of the Threefoot Building and paving crews worked around the fringes of downtown streets, drawings were presented on what 22nd Avenue gateway could look like, the Mississippi Children's Museum-Meridian held a ceremonial groundbreaking and the Lauderdale County Board of Supervisors formally announced their intention to build a government complex at the Village Fair Mall site.
At the East Mississippi Development Corporation's annual meeting Wednesday, RockStep Capital President Andy Weiner, with much hype, unveiled details about the arrival of Hype Indoor Adventures next spring and other plans that could revive the Bonita Lakes mall and nearby areas.
Later that morning, a few miles east off Interstate 20/59, the board of supervisors christened the Key Brothers Industrial Park and pronounced the 360-acre piece of prime land ready for commercial tenants that could provide potentially hundreds of jobs for the region.
Before the end of the day, Progressive Pipeline President Michael Castle Jr. revealed his plans to locate his company's headquarters and 50 employees in the former Melton Hardware Building at 2201 Front St., across the street from the still glimmering Mississippi Arts + Entertainment Experience.
All of this is exceptionally exciting. Take a moment and pat yourself on the back, for along with private investment and donations, federal, state and local taxpayers have provided millions of dollars to get us to this point – and taxpayers will be asked to provide millions more.
During his presentation Wednesday, Weiner said RockStep would chip in 16 acres of land adjacent to the mall in the next year if Meridian and Lauderdale County moves forward to build a sports complex of 20 to 30 ballfields at an estimated cost of $30 million.
The promise being sports-minded families from around the Southeast would spend their weekends and their money in Lauderdale County as their children played ball.
We appreciate the cautious restraint of local leaders, who learned of the RockStep proposal at the same time as the rest of the EMBDC audience at the MSU-Riley Center.
County Administrator Chris Lafferty said the board of supervisors would be more interested in private investment in a sports complex, and Meridian Mayor Percy Bland said private investment would be needed to supplement any city or county dollars.
As reporter Erin Kelly noted in her reporting: Two months ago, the city passed a budget with more than $600,000 in cuts. Its Lakeview Municipal Golf Course is in danger of closing and a 19-year improvement program for Meridian's wastewater system has an estimated pricetag of $127 million. Meanwhile, the county estimates that new government complex will cost $35 million.
Much has been asked of city and county residents to support these projects. We encourage continued community support and a spirit of optimism for the region's future. That's the way we will grow and stem the loss of population.
Glenn McCullough, the executive director of the Mississippi Development Authority, told the EMBDC audience: "It's just a matter of time until we believe there will be a major new investment here in East Mississippi."
We have heard that line for too many years.
We say before we commit many more public dollars to get ready for that promised date, it's time for private investors to step up and recognize the value this community offers without demanding more taxpayer money.
Andy Weiner
Lauderdale County Board
Rockstep Capital
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Arrangements were incomplete at Berry and Gardner Funeral Home for Mrs. Virginia Hand, 97, of Stonewall, who died Friday, Jan. 17, 2020, at Anderson Regional Medical Center.
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Virgil D Reed, age 76, of Toomsuba, Miss., passed away Jan. 11, 2020. He was surrounded by his loving family. Virgil was born on March 5, 1943, to Henry and Nell Reed. He married Helen Reed at the age of 21. They were married for 54 years and enjoyed working in the garden and spoiling their …
Arnold Hardy
Graveside services for Mr. Arnold Hardy will be held on Friday, Jan. 17, 2020, at 2 p.m., at Old Barker Cemetery in Marion. To view the full obituary go to www.jamesfwebb.com.
Dorothy Yochim
Funeral Mass for Dot Yochim will be Monday, Jan. 20, 2020, 11:30 a.m., at James F. Webb Funeral Home Chapel. Visitation will be Monday 11 a.m. until service time. To view full obituary go to www.jamesfwebb.com.
Frank Long Jr.
Funeral Mass for Mr. Frank Long Jr. will be held Friday, at 12:30 p.m., at St. Patrick Catholic Church. Visitation will be 11 a.m.-noon, Friday, at James F. Webb Funeral Home. View full obituary at www.jamesfwebb.com.
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Basketball is not Costa Rica's most popular sport, but it has been been my favorite sport since 2006, when I discovered there is an organized league here.
The Tico Times brings you closer to some of the country's stars as they discuss the sport's growth in Costa Rica, the joy of winning a championship, and their physical and mental preparation, among other topics.
We do not have a tico King James yet, but believe it or not, basketball was once upon a time a trendy sport in this coffee land. The best way to learn about that history is to go to the source, so I spoke to some of the sport's leading figures.
Franklin Cubero, President of the Basketball Association of San Ramón (ARBA), has 41 years of experience and has been involved in the sport since he was only 11 years old. Cubero started as a player and in 2009 took a role in leadership. The team in San Ramón, Alajuela, has been one of the strongest of the Premier League, winning the title two seasons ago and finishing runners-up in the last Tournament.
Tico Times: Have you seen an evolution in the sport's organization through the years?
What benefits could you observe in the cultural exchange between the foreign players and the fans/community?
How can we take advantage of Sports as Human Rights and work through them to shift into a more positive society?
With ARBA, how do you prepare the team both physically and mentally for each season?
Escazú has its own basketball team, which was the winner of the previous Championship.
Nicolas Marin, the team's head coach, was born in Nicaragua and went to the United States for college. At a University of North Carolina camp, he honed his basketball skills, then started working as a coach in Costa Rica in 1996. He joined the Premier League in 2006, and for the last 10 years has been working with Escazú's team on and off.
What do you think needs to be improved in the national basketball scene?
"I think basketball in Costa Rica is an excellent illustration of the good and the bad of our society. I believe one of the biggest gaps is the organization capacity. For example, a few years ago, I went to the Summer Camp of North Carolina as a Coach and with the experience that I had gained in Costa Rica, I did not feel less than my colleagues there — so in terms of technical capacity I did not feel any disadvantage.
"But what surprised me was how well organized they were. There were hundreds of kids and young people in charge of making sure the activities were done on time, that the gyms were ready, and so on. If I compare that to Costa Rica, taking Escazú as a reference because I believe our organization is decent, but there are times where we do not even have the gym to train and that is just a matter of communication. I have voiced my concerns before; we went to Limón one time a few seasons ago and when we got there, right in the middle of the gym, there was a stage built. Those types of setbacks happen — that is just life — but of course if there is a lack of management is going to affect [the sport].
Why do you think is that not enough people attend basketball games?
"Over the last 10 years, we have lost brands of Costa Rican basketball. Liceo, Seminario, Limon and Barva, those four teams were probably the best known teams. This is like if in soccer, Saprissa, La Liga, Heredia and Cartago left. We have lost such strong organizations, and the League has become top heavy, and that means that for the last two years we have seen the same team beat another one by 80 points. The truth is that no one wants to see that from a fan's perspective — it is not interesting. I think fans want suspense, they want close games, they want drama.
"The best basketball we have seen in Costa Rica was when there were six or seven strong teams. When I first came into the League, there were 12 teams, and six of them were really good, and even the other ones would beat the good teams every once in a while. Last year, the champions did not lose any games, which is historically very interesting. But from a fan's perspective, if it is not exciting, it loses a lot of appeal.
How was the journey to the Championship this season?
How were the trainings organized when most, if not all, players work full time?
"All of my guys either work or go to school, so we trained three nights a week. Also, some guys have business trips or, for example, one of my players has to work a lot each month-end closing so we have to adapt according to everyone's needs. With experience, you learn that is better to talk with them right away to discuss availability, but sometimes we have to work with what we have. It is challenging but normal in the sport.
Clifford Smith is one of the players responsible for that recent title. He started playing basketball when he was 12 years old and has vast experience abroad, including with Barry University in the United States. He mentioned the importance of discipline and time management as the majority of players work or study.
Was this Final different than others in which you have played?
"It was a very special final. I have won a National Championship three times, and this one was very exciting, because it was not predictable. There was a fifth game to break the series tie and that meant playing at a neutral court. In those type of games, the team that wins is the one that makes less mistakes, and that it is completely focus. We played against San Ramon at the Palacio de los Deportes in Heredia, which is a place with basketball tradition, so this helped, and this time there was a significant crowd. That is something that is very difficult to achieve in alternative sports. We already know that the number one sport in the country is soccer — and I personally love it, soccer attracts a lot of fans — but in basketball there is still a lack of promotion.
What happened right after the winning hoop?
Some of the greatest basketball athletes in the world, such as Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, and Shaquille O'Neal, practiced mindfulness, meaning they would strengthen their mental skills through meditation. I wanted to ask an expert on the topic and found Jorge Chaverri, who is known as "The Mind Coach." Chaverri is a certified business coach and a neuro-linguistic programming practitioner.
Chaverri said that mental training can help athletes be more present in the moment while they are training or playing. He teaches athletes how to focus without distraction.


This restaurant has amazing Thai food. People think the Danforth is just Greek restaurants, but I highly suggest you try this restaurant next time you are in the Danforth area.
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coleslaw and Thai sweet and sour sauce.
Delight coconut sticky rice served with peanut sauce.
Thai shrimp chips served with peanut sauce.
with Thai cucumber sweet & sour sauce.
Black mushrooms, tofu, bamboo shoots and eggs.
and onions in chicken broth.
veggie, mushrooms and onions in soup.
breast, sweet peppers and onions.
milk, green beans and bamboo shoots.
peanut sauce and lime leaves.
beans, red peppers and Thai sauce.
milk, bamboo shoots and green peas.
leaves, onions and sweet peppers.
mushrooms, carrots, onions and sweet peppers.
with broccoli, mushrooms and onions.
red peppers and Thai sauce.
basil leaves, onions and sweet peppers.
and red peppers with Thai garlic sauce.
and Thai sweet and sour sauce.
coconut milk, bamboo shoots and eggplants.
lime leaves, bamboo shoots baby corns and green beans.
bamboo shoots and basil leaves.
shrimps, onions and sweet peppers.
and Thai sauce, served with coleslaw.
bamboo shoots and green beans.
broccoli and deep fried chilli.
green bean and golden curry powder.
pineapple, sweet peppers and onions.
sweet peppers and sweet basil leaves.
peppers and green onion in Thai sauce.
red onion, sweet peppers and chilli.
Thai chilli and lemon juice.
milk, red curry, peanut sauce and lime leaves.
coconut milk , lemon grass and sweet basil leaves.
sautéed with sliced of oriental mushrooms.
onions, and sweet peppers in Thai garlic sauce.
mangoes and red peppers in garlic sauce.
nuts, orange segments, onions, sweet peppers.
snowpeas , bamboo shoots and broccoli.
red peppers with golden curry powder.
Deep fried bananas served with honey.
Green Tea, Mango or Coconut.
Coconut served with blueberry and cherry.


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Q: How do I underline text "text" when text is a field? public class Text extends JPanel {

private String text;

    public Text()
    {
    this.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(20,20));
    setFont (new Font(text, Font.PLAIN, 24));
    text = "";
    }

    public void showUnderline()
    {

    Hashtable<TextAttribute, Object> map = new Hashtable
    <TextAttribute, Object>();

    map.put(TextAttribute.UNDERLINE, TextAttribute.UNDERLINE_ON);
    }

the text object will be created within another class. in that class I will need to underline it with the showUnderline method. The method seems incomplete.I'm shooting for the java exclusive approach, meaning no HTML.
How do I link the text to the showUnderline method?

A: What do you mean 'java exclusive approach, meaning no HTML' ? You probably are looking for a JLabel, and you can put very simple html in it. Here's the first result on google:
http://www.apl.jhu.edu/~hall/java/Swing-Tutorial/Swing-Tutorial-JLabel.html
It has an example of making text different colors, fonts, and bold or italicized. You could probably just do something like:
JLabel label = new JLabel("<u>MY TEXT</u>",JLabel.CENTER);

From there, you can place it like you would place any other JComponent.
If you really don't want HTML, you could use a JTextPane. Here's an example:
http://www.exampledepot.com/egs/javax.swing.text/style_hilitewords2.html

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