I figured since I tell all of my friends about them, I might as well tell the internet. I'm usually really against "celebri-scents", but I have been using Nirvana White for over a year now, and Nirvana Black since last fall.
Mary-Kate and Ashley will forever be the teen queens who stole my pre-pubescent heart in Passport to Paris and Holiday in the Sun. I mean, I used to have a Mary-Kate and Ashley hairdryer for crying out loud. Naturally, when I heard they were releasing fragrances at the end of 2013/early 2014 from their lifestyle brand Elizabeth and James, I knew I HAD to buy them.
Nirvana Black makes me think of a "I don't give a f***" tousled hair, slightly smudged eyeliner, dark jeans and an oversized white t-shirt vibe. It is the spicier, more sensual companion of Nirvana White. I typically don't like dark smells, especially sandalwood, because I find them way too overpowering. However, Nirvana Black is a game-changer.
The scent is warm and dark and manages to avoid being too grandma-like or masculine, and yes, it is quite sultry. Even though it might seem a little overwhelming when you first spray it, the dry vanilla really comes through and downplays the sandalwood. It's also not the type of gross vanilla undertones that people spray all over Bath and Body Works, or that overpowers the women's deodorant aisle. That being said, I mostly use this perfume in the evening because it is such a strong, unique scent, and because I find that the staying power of Nirvana Black's scent is a lot better in comparison to Nirvana White.
As a university student, I cannot stand to sit beside someone in class or at the library who has a really violating perfume, or overwhelming amount of perfume, on. This is why I am obsessed with Nirvana White. It is delicate and prominent without being too heavy, making it perfect for every day use. I have never liked any fragrance enough to actually bother to use it every day until I tried this perfume at Sephora. I literally had a tray of body sprays/perfumes I had collected since I was 12 that I just never bothered to use that often. This is the perfect scent if you love more clean, fresh fragrances because of it's beautiful, light, kind of citrusy, smell.
This perfume is more feminine than Nirvana Black without being too sweet. Because it's not as strong, it does need to be re-applied relatively frequently because the longevity of the scent isn't that great. I find it usually lasts for about 4-5 hours. To me this isn't a huge issue but I know for some people it's worth mentioning.
Overall, I am a HUGE fan of both of these perfumes. I use Nirvana White more frequently, but I also adore Nirvana Black. People also recommend using them together because they are meant to complement each other, but because I like them both individually I don't bother to combine them that often. Even though neither scent lasts as long as some other perfumes, I prefer this because I'd rather have to re-apply than feel overwhelmed by the smell of my own perfume at the very beginning of the day.
Other perks? The flacons (aka the bottles/packaging) are super sleek, easy to travel with (especially compared to all of Marc Jacobs' insanely decorative bottles), and super durable (trust me on this, I have accidentally dropped these a few times with no consequences).
The perfect blending of Violet, sandalwood and vanilla notes make this perfume heavenly. I think Nirvana is the best perfume of Elizabeth and James collection. Thanks for sharing.
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By Sarai Hayes on February 17, 2015 in Features
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Amanda Rose, a music therapy student at Queens, will perform with the Charlotte Concert Band on Feb. 21.
Queens freshman Amanda Rose received her first harp at age 10, when a man who learned that she had been in Hurricane Katrina gave his recently deceased wife's harp to her. Today, she's a music therapy student and harpist with the Charlotte Concert Band.
"My mom always said if she ever had a daughter that she would be a harpist," said Rose. "So, here I am."
But that does not mean that her musical talents end there.
Rose grew up playing the violin. But then her mom signed her up for private harp lessons, hoping that the dream of her daughter becoming a harpist would soon become a reality. From private lessons to harp camps, Rose continued to surprise.
Angels tend to be associated with such an instrument. And with her soft demeanor and gentle tone—and not to mention the fact that she has been playing the harp for seven years—she might be as close as it gets to such a heavenly being.
But Rose's musical interest is more than just a hobby.
"I want to be a musical therapist, so I am learning to play the guitar and piano now," she said, admitting that she's still learning the other instruments right now and has far from perfected her skills.
"I plan to go into geriatrics and definitely play my harp, but not everywhere since it is so big and not easy to get around," she said.
Although it takes two people to lug her 85-pound instrument wherever necessary, she is in love with the harp and the music it produces, she said.
Rose, along with five other Queens students—and other members of the Charlotte community—will be playing in the Charlotte Concert Band on Feb. 21, at 8 p.m. in Dana Auditorium.
The concert is free to the public, and Rose said she encourages Queens students to attend.
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New BoomBottle MM wireless speaker from Scosche is quite versatile.
Scosche Industries touts the availability of BoomBottle MM, its next-generation rugged, waterproof wireless speaker. Building off the portable, cylindrical design, Scosche has crafted the BoomBottle MM with a refined shape and has added additional functionality to provide active lifestyle consumers with a Bluetooth speaker that is ready for any outdoor adventure.
Customers get the new Scosche BoomBottle MM at one of the 250 participating Costco locations or visit Costco.com. The BoomBottle MM retails for $129.99.
Keeping track of portable devices during outdoor activities can become worrisome, so Scosche integrated its MagicMount technology into the BoomBottle MM, allowing users to keep their mobile device magnetically secured to the speaker for added peace of mind.
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Two alarm fire rips through Philly boarding house
Alex Lloyd Gross photo- Delaware Valley News.com Fire crews are busy on Paul Street.
By Alex Lloyd Gross
Alex Lloyd Gross- photo- Delaware Valley News.com Ladders stretch to the roof of the building.
A fast moving two alarm fire destroyed a boarding house in the Frankford section of the city early today, October 26, 2018. Two people went to the hospital with non life threatening injuries, fire department officials said at the scene. The boarding house, located on the 4600 block of Paul Street was reported at 11:00 am. Within minutes, the first fire trucks arrived and reported heavy fire through the roof.
The residents were rescued and transported to Temple Hospital. No cause was determined at press time. This is around the corner from a firehouse in Frankford that had it's engine company ( Engine14) closed by the Nutter administration. Only ladder 15 operates out of the house now. Fire crews spent a good amount of time laying in heavy water lines. That meant streets in the neighborhood had to be closed to keep people from driving over the hoses. There were no cops to direct the traffic, which saw multiple vehicles snake down one way streets the wrong way, to get away from the area.
Two businesses that were adjacent to the boarding home suffered damage as well.
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Learn how speed bursts can build up the stamina and mental energy you need to perform fast.
Being able to play fast runs on the guitar has its advantages, and not simply for shredding or showing how many notes you can play per second. Building picking and fret-hand speed makes it possible for you to solo and play licks effortlessly in fast songs, and gives you yet another way to express yourself on guitar.
But developing speed takes time, in part because you have to build up the stamina and mental energy necessary to perform fast.
Ben Higgins thinks he's found a better way. In his "Badass Guitar Tips with Ben Higgins" video, he teaches you how to use speed bursts—that is, playing a short repetition of a lick and pausing between repetitions. The pause, Higgins, notes, lets you "recover physically and mentally" from the burst.
Unlike other speed methods, this one doesn't use a metronome.
Higgins thinks metronomes are good for working on timing and stamina but won't necessarily help with speed.
We previously featured Higgins' videos, including his clip "30 Shredders in One Solo," featuring the styles of Yngwie Malmsteen, Eddie Van Halen, Steve Vai and others, and "Another 30 Shredders," in which he tackles the styles of players like Nuno Bettencourt, Guthrie Govan, Eric Johnson and John 5.
Take a look at this video for "Fastest Way to Build Guitar Picking Speed," and when you're done, check out more of his videos on his YouTube channel.


Another way to look at it Butch, if he's willing to spend $40k and can get what he likes for $25k; thats $15 k to play with on warranty, mtc, etc. I don't have a clue about the quality of this rv but with your knowledge and experience you can give him some advice on that...if you look at it. You have a good idea of whats junk and whats quality. If it was going to leak, wouldn't it have already.
I'd say go for it. Of course its not my money.
We're still leaving labor day for points east.
The Pilgrim trailer was not the worse trailer made, but it was far from the best too. The only warranties on it would be manufactures warranties like Dometic or Atwood on items used in the trailer. There is NO warranty on the trailer itself from Pilgrim.
Thanks for the quick replies guys. Big help!
Butch...did you get my pm. They seem to end up in my outbox but I don't know if they are sent.
Got them Jim, they will always show in your out box till read. Talk at Ya later! Headed out the door to Shiner.
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DL don't you have to have a motor/drive train to pull the 5th wheel :laugh: Having said that I agree the MH is more expensive to operate but has its advantages.
Shadow I would not let the company being out of business keep me from buying if it was a good product. No knowledge at all on the Pilgram but have seen a few on the road. Just tell your friend to really look at the construction of the rv.
From what I've read/heard, adapting the 5th wheel king pin to a gooseneck is somewhat of a weak link. I don't know enough about gooseneck hitches to provide the particulars of why it's a weak link other than to say common sense tells me it's usually best to use a particular designed hitch in the way it was designed to be used. Gooseneck hitches with goosenecks and 5th wheel king pins with 5th wheel hitches.
With a shortbed pickup I can't quite see how the gooseneck configuration would give him enough clearance between the front of the 5th wheel and the pickup cab on tight turns. The auto slider 5th wheel hitch allows the 5th wheel to slide back out of the way and provide the adequate clearance between the pickup cab and the 5th wheel on tight turns.
I'll pass to Kenneth at Grandview Trailer Sales. He should know if adapting the king pin to a gooseneck configuration is a good idea on shortbed pickups.
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The Green Hornet (2011) – Review
I saw a film today that I had to watch on two levels.
If I were simply a film-goer who had no real idea about who the title character was, I saw an simple action comedy, an affectionate spoof of comic book heroes. It featured good, if ultimately cartoonishly absurd action sequences and a fairly decent 2-D to 3-D conversion. Consistently amusing, but never particularly funny, and pretty much devoid of any real wit or point. An aimless but fun popcorn movie, possibly appealing to an audience who may feel burned out by more serious-minded superhero films.
As an actual fan of the 75-year-old character of radio, comics, TV and film, I'm pretty much appalled. While it's obvious the writers, star Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg know or researched a lot about The Green Hornet, this just doesn't seem to be a Green Hornet movie. The premise seems more like: "How do we write a movie in which Seth Rogen plays a masked crime fighter?" Every choice in the film gives the appearance of servicing that concept.
Rogen's Britt Reid isn't a smooth playboy or thrill-seeking daredevil, he's a kind of sad, petulant man-child trying to extend his frat-boy years into a continuing lifestyle, thanks to being the son of a rich newspaper publisher. Well, even that could be acceptable, if he finally becomes inspired to do something positive, if extreme with his life. The idea is toyed with, but you never really buy it, because he remains the same jackass and flop he always was throughout the film, only now with a literally unbelievably talented sidekick.
And although Jay Chou does a good, if oddly tentative-feeling job as Kato, and every effort is made to show that he is a full partner—in fact the vital part of the team—Kato remains a sidekick. Despite his fighting prowess and technical expertise in just about everything, he also comes off as being a bit of a jerk sometimes.
That's no insult, because everybody in the film is pretty much a jerk, no matter how smart or scary they're supposed to be. Britt's dad James Reid (Tom Wilkinson) is a charmless, insensitive agressive Type-A personality-hole. The villain Chudnofsky (Christoph Waltz) is an insecure, hypersensitive, charismaless schmuck, despite being a murderous sociopath who has somehow managed to become the major crime boss of L.A.
Lenore Case (Cameron Diaz), who becomes Britt Reid's secretary/researcher, supposedly with a degree in criminology, comes off as a little clueless. The D.A. Frank Scanlon (David Harbour) turns out to be a screw-up (and more). James Franco makes a cameo as a rival drug lord, who is also an loud-mouthed idiot.
The only character does not seem to be a major dip is Mike Axford, normally the comic relief in the Green Hornet universe. That's probably because Edward James Olmos plays Axford (now the editor in chief of the Daily Sentinel) in a very low-key and bland style in the few scenes he's actually in the film.
Michel Gondry does give the film a little visual flair, which helps give the movie some life. The 3-D works alright, though in the theater I attended some scenes and the end titles were noticably cut off on the sides, to the extent that some action, and certainly credits, were not completely visble on-screen.
The action is nicely staged, and works well at first, but the situations the heroes are placed in reach truly PINK-PANTHER levels of ludicrousness at times by the end of the film — without, I must repeat, ever actually managing to be laugh-out-loud funny. Maybe you'll smile and snicker a bit.
The Real Star of the film?
The Black Beauty survives things that even a tank couldn't bear up under. It's used as a wall-crushing battering ram repeatedly. That is presented as The Hornet and Kato's standard tactic in dealing with drug labs. It gets cut in half and is still drive-able. Seriously. If the word serious can be ascribed to anything the film.
The Green Hornet and Kato actually kill people in this film, accidentally and intentionally, which is very much against the original conception of the character. Makes the gas gun pretty much pointless. I'm surprised the Trendle family—still the owners—let that get by. Maybe the ups and downs of trying to get a movie made since at least the 1990's wore them out.
All that aside, it's hard to hate THE GREEN HORNET. It's kind of like that guy at the party who's trying really hard to be likeable and amusing, but winds up being loud and a little tiresome by the end of the night.
Like I said, I didn't hate it. It's passably amusing, and I don't regret seeing it, even though I might really wish it hadn't been made in this way. I sure don't think it's a good Green Hornet film. If Seth Rogen had played the Blue Wombat, I might have thought it was decent slacker/stoner action comedy.
If you don't feel nostalgic about the character, and are looking for a little undemanding fun amongst the winter doldrums, you might well enjoy the movie.
THE GREEN HORNET (2011) Columbia Pictures
Starring Seth Rogen, Jay Chou, Christoph Waltz, Cameron Diaz, Edward James Olmos, and David Harbor.
Directed by Michel Gondry, Produced by Neal H. Moritz , Written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. Based on The Green Hornet by
George W. Trendle and Fran Striker.
Music by James Newton Howard, Cinematography by John Schwartzman Editing by Michael Tronick.
A Studio Original Film, distributed by Columbia Pictures.
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The Green Hornet: Cinefantastique Spotlight Podcast #1
A Race to Top Billing: Seth Rogen (right) and Jay Chou defy death in THE GREEN HORNET.
It's all change, baby, and with that in mind we're experimenting with the format of the podcast. We've stripped away the news and theatrical and homevid release segments, combining them with our weekly Post-Mortem bull session to form what will be called the Cinefantastique Round Table Podcast. What's left, now dubbed the Cinefantastique Spotlight Podcast, will provide us with time to stretch out, unhinge our brains and mouths, and let the conversation about the week's top release take us where it will.
And brudder, do we have a kick-off film for the new format. THE GREEN HORNET arrives in theaters with a clouded past that's only been partially concealed by a late-in-the-game decision to convert it to 3D. Did the extra months give its creators — including director Michel Gondry and star/co-writer Seth Rogen — time enough to find the right balance between super-hero action and Apatow bro-comedy? Join Steve Biodrowski, Lawrence French, and Dan Persons to find out.
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75 Years of The Green Hornet
Part One: The Hornet Takes Flight
January 31st, 1936 marked the radio debut of Detroit radio station WXYZ's new masked crime fighter, THE GREEN HORNET. Their previous mystery man THE LONE RANGER had proved a huge hit, and station owner George W. Trendle was determined to catch lightning in a bottle once again.
With Lone Ranger writer/creator Fran (Francis Hamilton) Striker, and director of the Ranger and other XYZ shows James Jewell, he determined to come up with a modern-day paladin who could combat political and corporate corruption, along with racketeers as well as outright mobsters. Rather than bringing "law and order to the early Western United States", this new champion of justice would also strike at "criminals within the law" in a large city. Such a vigilante would be at odds with the police as well as wrong-doers, so a new angle was needed. The solution: make the masked man a wanted criminal in the eyes of authority, a modern Robin Hood.
Fran Striker provided for that in the first adventures. Britt Reid, a globe-trotting young playboy, was given the job of publisher of The Daily Sentinel by his father Dan Reid, a maverick newsman and wealthy entrepreneur with a social conscience. Perhaps that would sober the young rascal up. Unknown to his hard-driven father, Britt Reid already had that serious side, hidden under a devil-may-care attitude. During his travels in the orient, Britt had saved the life of a man named Kato. This man would become young Reid's friend and ally, and who despite his inventive genius would pose as a simple manservant.
Together they had built a suped-up car which they called The Black Beauty, since it had been assembled in secret in what used to be the stables of the older building where Reid lived. When the supercharger was cut in, the engine sounded like an angry hornet.
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Outraged by a particular criminal, they had ridden out to deal with him in vigilante fashion. However, the miscreant was killed by another wrong-doer, and "The Hornet" was now wanted for murder. This, Reid realized was the perfect cover. He could now pose as a criminal, walk into their dens, and trick, blackmail, and betray them to the police — or set them up to wipe each other out. Rather than carrying a pair of six-shooters, the Hornet would carry a non-lethal gas gun.
As can be seen, The Green Hornet was an admixture of many other fictional heroes. The Scarlet Pimpernel, Johnston McCulley's Zorro (the day-time wastrel Don Diego Dela Vega). Some of McCulley's literary creations, such as The Crimson Clown, The Black Star, and The Bat used gas guns and bombs, rather than bullets. The legend of Robin Hood was mentioned as an inspiration, and I think the 'bent' hero Jimmie Dale, alias The Grey Seal had a particular influence, conscious or not.
Beginning in 1910 in Street and Smith's People's Magazine, The Grey Seal was named for the diamond-shaped gray paper seal he left as a 'signature', and not from emulating in any way a sea-going mammal. James Dale was a bored playboy, an expert on locks and safes due to his father's business, who turned to safe-cracking as an amusing hobby. If any items were removed, they would either be returned, or if taken from a no-good, donated to a worthy cause. However, his secret was discovered by a young woman, who "blackmailed" him into becoming an active agent of justice.
Donning a black mask, coat, and slouch hat, The Grey Seal would deal with villains in the New York City badlands as well as in the salons of the rich. Author Frank Packard's Jimmie Dale appeared a number of magazine serials, several novels, and a 16-chapter silent movie serial, ALIAS THE GREY SEAL (1917).
I should note that for the first few episodes (no recordings are known to survive) the Green Hornet was referred to a simply The Hornet. and the program actually called THE ADVENTURES OF THE HORNET, according to researchers Martin Grams Jr. and Terry Salomonson. However, it's been reported in books such as Wyxie Wonderland (a book on the history of WXYZ) that the station's legal staff raised the issue that the show bore some similarities to the pulp magazine character The Spider, such as the insect-derived name, often being thought a criminal and wanted by the police, leaving a red spider mark as a signature on his work —usually dead criminals, as Richard Wentworth's alter-ego carried .45 automatics which he used quite liberally— and having an "oriental" aide (Sikh warrior Ram Sing serving as chauffeur and knife-wielding enforcer).
Always a shrewd businessman, George Trendle decided after some discussion to re-christen the character the GREEN Hornet, which seemed sufficient to make the name unique. There are no actual green hornets to be found in nature.
By the way, the radio Green Hornet did NOT dress all in green. He wore a hat, topcoat ( generally tan or camel in offically approved artwork), and often a scarf. To hide his identity, he wore a black mask over the lower part of his face. After a while, he sported a green Hornet insignia on the mask, like the ones emblazoned on the seals he left to mark his involvement in cases.
Al Hodge as Britt Reid in WXYZ publicy still
Britt Reid/The Green Hornet was played by the powerfully-voiced Al Hodge from 1936 to 1943, with another stint in 1945. Hodge would later go on to play science fiction hero CAPTAIN VIDEO on television for the Dumont network in the 1950's.
Donovan Faust played the part for awhile, followed by Robert Hall, and Jack McCarthy from 1947 to the show's end in 1952. Known to older New Yorkers as "Captain" Jack McCarthy, he would serve as WPIX-TV's kids show host (showing mostly Popeye cartoons), staff announcer, and presenter of the Saint Patrick's Day parades during the 1960's and 70's.
The role of Kato was originated by Tokutaro Hayashi, known as Raymond Toyo. The fact that he was of Japanese descent had something to do with Kato intially being identified as Japanese, rather than Chinese or another Asian nationality. (Reid and Kato met in either Hong Kong or Singapore.)
Legend had it that Kato became Filipino after Pearl Harbor, which makes a good story. However, the show had described the character as being from the Philippines as early as 1939. In later years, actors such as Rollon Parker (who often doubled as the Newsboy usually heard at the end of the programs, assuring us that The Green Hornet was Still At Large), Michael Tolland, and others played the role.
Lee Allman and Jim Irwin as Casey and Axford.
One of the characters that would make the Hornet's life more difficult was former police officer Mike Axford. Axford actually pre-dated the Green Hornet series; he had been in many episodes of WARNER LESTER, MANHUNTER, an offshoot of WXYZ's MANHUNTERS series, which featured various crime fighters, and also birthed the Lone Ranger. On WARNER LESTER, Axford had begun as a hard-nosed Irish cop, eventually becoming more friendly and avuncular to the hero.
On THE GREEN HORNET, he would begin as a retired police officer, now a bodyguard the elder Reid had afflicted upon his "wild" son, and living in the same home. Soon Britt would give him a job as a reporter for the Sentinel, and gently evict him from his digs. The character would mellow into a largely comedic role, though still often a menace to the Hornet, who he longed to unmask. Jim Irwin originated the role, and played the part until 1938. Gilbert Shea would play Axford from 1939.
Taking the side of the Hornet was Lenore "Casey" Case, who had been Dan Reid's secretary when he was publisher. The part was played thoughout the entire series by Leonore "Lee" Allman, director Jim Jewell's sister. Though she may have suspected after a number of years, Casey did not actually learn Britt Reid was the Hornet for a fact until 1948.
Like THE LONE RANGER, one of the things that made THE GREEN HORNET memorable was the music. WXYZ tended to use orchestral recordings of classical works. The theme was Rimsky-Korsokov's The Flight of the Bumblebee, an apt choice. Igor Stravinsky's Infernal Dance from The Firebird was also often used. As Russia did not recognize copyright at the time, the piece was effectively in the public domain in the U.S., and fair game. These cues and others from various sources really gave the shows gravitas, as many radio adventure series used no dramatic music or relied upon an organist to provide accompaniment.
Also adding zip was the Hornet buzz, attributed variously to the Black Beauty's engine, horn, or appearing apropos of nothing, simply as a dramatic device to signify the Green Hornet was present, much as a filtered laugh heralded The Shadow. Various buzzing devices were tried, including humming through a wax paper-covered comb, before the sound crew obtained a theremin, the early Russian-invented electronic musical instrument.
The show went out on WXYZ Detroit, and the stations of the loosely aligned Michigan Radio Network. In 1938, it was picked up by the Mutual Network (flagship station WOR, New York), and in later years by the NBC Blue Network, and it's successor ABC.
THE GREEN HORNET became a national success, and soon Hollywood would come calling.
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'Green Hornet' UK Teaser Spot
Here's a UK teaser for Columbia's THE GREEN HORNET.
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'Green Hornet' Behind The Scenes Featurette
Via Yahoo Movies here's Columbia Pictures THE GREEN HORNET: A DIFFERENT KIND OF SUPERHERO.
Star Seth Rogen and co-writer Evan Goldberg explain their revisionist take on the venerable masked hero team of radio, movie serials, comics, and television.
Directed by Michel Gondry, THE GREEN HORNET stars Rogen, Jay Chou, Cameron Diaz, Christoph Waltz, Edward James Olmos, and Tom Wilkinson.
It opena in 3D, 2D and IMAX 3D on January 14th, 2011.
Note: Due to formatting requirements, this featurette won't display via our front page video player.
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Gondry Calls Superhero Fans Fascists
via The Guardian
Interviewed by the UK's The Guardian, Michel Gondry, director of Sony/Columbia's THE GREEN HORNET showed surprisingly thin skin for a professional regarding the Comic Con audience walking out on his poorly-received panel this summer.
"I usually identify with the nerds, but these ones just reinforce the social rules. Their values are fascistic. All those people marching around in capes and masks and boots. The superhero imagery is totally fascist!"
While there may arguably be an element of fascism in the superhero/vigilante concept, Gondry seems to be unaware of the actual meaning the word. Fascism refers to a movement that combines far right and far left ideologies, promoting an ultra-nationalistic, modern and mechanized semi-socialistic state organized around a corporate model. Generally, authority is vested in a strong leader who controls both civil and military forces.
In recent decades, it's been used as a pejorative label by various people who think that anyone who disagrees or disapproves of something they've created or support is a bad person.
Enjoying superhero films that show respect for the traditional depictions of the characters is not a character flaw. On the other hand, using hyperbole that compares someone with a different, possibly somewhat conservative view of things to jackbooted thugs is, in my opinion a rather large character flaw… or at least a lapse in taste and judgement.
"When you step into this genre, they feel it belongs to them. They want you to conform, or they won't like you. They want the conventional. But it's fine. The movie's been doing very well, I think, whenever we've screened it to normal people."
From that statement, one must assume that Gondry feels superhero fans are not "normal people".
Earlier in the interview, the director said:
"I don't mock things, which makes me more vulnerable to mockery myself. If you're cynical, you're protected from mockery. But I have to be nice. I don't think I have irony. A sense of humour, yes, but not irony."
So he doesn't mock people and he wants to be nice? Is Michel Gondry sure he has no sense of irony? (Which, in case you've forgotten, means saying the opposite of what you mean, for purposes of humor or sarcasm.)
Irritation at his apparently contemptuous assessment of a potentially significant segment of THE GREEN HORNET's audience aside, I truly hope that Gondry's authentic talents as a director make the film worth viewing. Some of the action sequences look promising. Perhaps the action-comedy approach will work better in context than it seemed in the rather labored and juvenile gags showcased in the trailers.
Next year will mark The Green Hornet's 75th Anniversary, and it would be nice if the film helped revive interest in the venerable character.
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'Green Hornet' TV Spots
Sony/Columbia Pictures has starting running three TV commercials for THE GREEN HORNET, and has posted them on their youTube site.
The action-comedy is due in theatres in standard, 3D, and IMAX 3D formats on January 14th, 2011.
Directed by Michel Gondry, THE GREEN HORNET stars Seth Rogen, Jay Chou, Cameron Diaz, Christoph Waltz, Edward James Olmos, and Tom Wilkinson.
Check out the other two Ad clips at the link above.
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New Green Hornet Trailer
The latest trailer from Sony/Columbia's THE GREEN HORNET.
Well, it looks like it might actually be a fun action-comedy.
The problem is, it's called THE GREEN HORNET, and just about guaranteed alienate any long-time fans of the 74-year-old radio/TV character—and possibly comic book fans in general.
The word is that preview audiences were enthusiastic about the film in test screenings.
Due out January 14th, 2011 directed by Michel Gondry from a script by Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen, based on the characters created by Fran Striker and George W. Trendle.
It stars Rogen, Jay Chou, Cameron Diaz, Cristoph Waltz, Edward James Olmos, Tom Wilkinson, and Edward Furlong.
via The Moive Reel
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Green Hornet 'Graphic Novel' Preview
Check out THE GREEN HORNET's 'graphic novel' -style slideshow preview of the upcoming film at the official site.
There's also an "Augmented Reality" game at Experience BlackBeauty.com — but you apparently need to have a webcam live in order to play.
THE GREEN HORNET will be released to IMAX® theatres, simultaneously with the film's wide domestic 2D and 3D release by Sony Pictures on January 14, 2011.
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New Green Hornet Pic, Interview
SuperheroHype has an interesting, 5-page set visit and interviews about THE GREEN HORNET online.
Here's a few excerpts from their interview with director Michel Gondry.
Regarding taking on the script:
What I liked was when I was asked again by Seth and Evan was that they bring back the spirit of the action comedy that I didn't see for a while now.
There is a sleek and immenseness in the superhero movie that I am not really a big fan of. It's very much about the attitude and everything is as to be a like super posed. As the approach of Seth and Evan was much human and fun of course.
And on the reality-shifting fight scenes:
I was trying to find a way to enhance the fight and use a technique that has not been used before. So basically we shoot at a higher rate. We shoot with one camera and then we separate and sometimes one guy is going faster and the other guy is going slower and then the guy who gets slower gets faster and etc.
It's sort of like you buy a time from the future and then you have to reimburse it. So what it does is it really makes the transfer of energy when somebody hits somebody else so the guy who hits the next guy goes very fast and then the guy when he receives the hit he goes faster.
Read the entire article at the link above.
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Great Performances Will Air From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2020 and Manon in January
Hugh Bonneville hosts the New Year's celebration at Vienna's famed Musikverein.
Two classical music programs will air in January 2020 on PBS stations around the country: Great Performances—From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2020 and Great Performances at the Met: Manon.
The New Year's celebration, again hosted by Downton Abbey's Hugh Bonneville, will premiere January 1, 2020, at 2:30 PM with an encore performance at 9 PM that evening; check local listings. Featuring the Vienna Philharmonic, conducted by Boston Symphony Orchestra Music Director Andris Nelsons, at Vienna's famed Musikverein, the concert spotlights the talent of the Vienna State Ballet and the Vienna Philharmonic with waltzes by Strauss and more. Host Bonneville will tour Musikverein's archives, which hold the largest collection of Beethoven manuscripts in the world, the Beethoven museum, and other locations associated with the composer in honor of his 250th birthday.
On January 5 at noon, the 14th season of Great Performances at the Met will launch with Massenet's French tale Manon. Soprano Lisette Oropesa stars in the title role, alongside tenor Michael Fabiano as Chevalier des Grieux. They are joined by Artur Ruciński as Lescaut, Brett Polegato as de Brétigny, Kwangchul Youn as Comte des Grieux, and Carlo Bosi as Guillot de Morfontaine. Maurizio Benini conducts, and soprano Nadine Sierra hosts.
Laurent Pelly's production of Manon is set in France and begins with Lescaut waiting for the arrival of his young cousin Manon, who is on her way to enter a convent.
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Knives vs. Guns: Deadly Distance
by Mike McDaniel |
April 9, 2014: at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, PA, a 16-year old male student stabbed 19 fellow students and one adult, leaving four in critical condition.
A 16-year-old boy was charged Wednesday after he allegedly stabbed 21 students and an adult — leaving four seriously injured — during an early-morning attack at a high school near Pittsburgh, authorities said . . .
Fox News has confirmed the identity of the suspect as Alex Hribal, a student at Franklin Regional Senior High School, the scene of the stabbing spree. The sophomore was being charged with four counts of attempted homicide, 21 counts of aggravated assault and one count of possessing a prohibited weapon on school property, according to a criminal complaint released by Westmoreland County District Attorney John Peck.
Westmoreland County Sheriff Jonathan Held described Hribal as quiet, adding that the teenager had not been talking to authorities since he was taken to be arraigned before a district judge Wednesday. He was jailed without bail.
Police said Assistant Principal Sam King tackled the boy and disarmed him, and a Murrysville police officer who is regularly assigned to the school handcuffed him.
Fellow students described the attacker predictably:
Alicia Graham characterized the suspect as a 'small, skinny' classmate who didn't talk much. She didn't know him personally, but has acquaintances who do, she said.
Also predictably, some news sources have suggested that the attacker was bullied. This was not the only common element obvious in this attack.
Roberta Cook, a Franklin Regional School Board director and a member of its safety committee, said the local schools have well-practiced procedures in place for such events.
All indications are that those "well-practiced procedures"—whatever they might have been–had almost no influence on the outcome. Cook also expressed an understandable, but ill-informed opinion:
But I'm just glad it wasn't a shooter, because if it had been a shooter, there would have been fatalities,' Cook, whose children previously attended the school, told FoxNews.com.
Also common was the time frame:
A security guard at the school, in an affluent community about 15 miles east of Pittsburgh, notified authorities at 7:13 a.m. In all, the rampage lasted about five minutes.
All of this follows common patterns seen in previous school violence. The attacker—when a student—is usually said to have been bullied. If false, this early media-trumpeted claim is usually never corrected, so bullying—whatever that might or might not be—has become something of a modern myth.
One factor that's almost universally accurate is that the police pay virtually no role in actively stopping the attack. A third factor—the suicide of the attacker—didn't play out this time because an administrator was, fortunately, in a position to stop and help restrain the attacker.
Michael Daly at the Daily Beast was on Cook's wavelength:
So there might well never have been the remarkable selfie that 16-year-old Nate Scimio took after his heroism at Franklin Regional High School had he faced a gun rather than two knives on Wednesday morning.
Daly's reasoning is self-serving:
Instead of posing for a selfie with a half-smile in a hospital gown, Scimio and who knows how many of his classmates might very well have been as dead as the three soldiers who were mourned by President Obama on Wednesday in the aftermath of the latest mass shooting at Fort Hood. Obama attended a similar ceremony at the base five years ago, after a previous mass shooting left 13 soldiers dead.
Obama might even now be planning a trip to a memorial in this small Pennsylvania town 20 miles east of Pittsburgh if the mayhem at Franklin High had been perpetrated with a 9-mm pistol like the one the 2009 Fort Hood gunman used or the .45 caliber pistol the more recent shooter wielded.
Had there been a gun at Franklin High, the dead might very well have included the school safety guard known to the students as Sarge, who was stabbed in the stomach while trying to stop the attack. The very brave vice principal, Sam King, who then jumped in, might have been killed before he subdued the 16-year-old suspect.
The severity and number of injuries Daly acknowledged would seem to belie his premise:
In all, the sophomore who allegedly stormed through the school in Murrysville, Pennsylvania, stabbed Scimio and 19 students along with one staff member. Three students were critically injured.
One, a girl, was saved from bleeding to death when a classmate kept paper towels pressed against her wound. Another, a 17-year-old boy, was stabbed with such savagery that the wound in his abdomen was 2 inches wide and extended almost to his spine. The blade pierced his liver and diaphragm, missing his heart and aorta by a fraction of an inch. He was on life support after emergency surgery, but doctors remained hopeful he would survive.
And, as of the end of the day, none of the 21 victims had died. Scimio had managed to escape serious injury even as he shielded several students from the attacker and took a moment to pull a fire alarm to alert everyone else. A fellow student named Trinity McCool credited him on Twitter with saving her and a friend.
Cook and Daly are partially correct, but their observation obscures the real issues. It's possible that had the attacker been armed with a firearm more would have been injured or killed, but there is no question that edged weapons are as deadly as firearms, particularly when one considers that the majority of lethal force encounters with guns are easily within knife range. In many ways, the wounds they inflict are more painful and long-lasting than gunshot wounds.
The police recognize this, and competent police training includes the Tueller drill, which comes from an insight and research by police officer Dennis Tueller. An attacker armed with a knife can close a distance of at least 21 feet, perhaps more, before a defender armed with a firearm can react, draw, fire and stop them. This is true of the average person armed with a knife, not a trained martial artist. Therefore, virtually anyone holding a knife within 21 feet represents a potentially lethal threat.
A single attacker armed with a knife, particularly in a crowd, can cause substantial damage, as was demonstrated in this case. Too many media commentators know little or nothing about weapons and tactics. Firearms are not magical death machines. Each and every one must be properly and carefully aimed, and more than 80% of those hit by handgun bullets do not die.
One of the reasons so many died at Sandy Hook Elementary is because the shooter used a rifle; handguns are much more common. Long guns are easier to shoot accurately at almost any distance than handguns and rifle cartridges tend to be more lethal. The killer was able to corner large numbers of particularly helpless victims—small children and their female teachers—at close quarters, huddled in groups. In such circumstances, even a single bullet can wound or kill two or more.
In a terrible irony, the kind of "well-practiced procedures" schools use virtually always include gathering students into tight groups and hiding, which increases the potential lethality of attackers when they find those groups. Common "run and hide" policies actually aid determined attackers, who, planning mass murder and suicide, have no compunction about damaging property by shooting out locks and windows to get at hiding children.
"But hiding behind locked doors will protect students against knife-wielding attackers!" Yes, but only to the extent that they don't attack when large numbers of students are not behind locked doors–as was the case in this attack–and only if the attacker is not prepared to breach those doors and windows, which in most schools, are only capable of delaying a determined attacker by mere seconds.
While Cook and Daly are not entirely wrong, any attack in a school employing deadly weapons, with the likely exception of effective explosives which have the potential to kill hundreds, has the potential to seriously injure or kill very large numbers of innocents. What goes unaddressed, as always, is the sole effective means of deterring and stopping these attacks: armed school staff.
After the Sandy Hook attack, the NRA advocated armed security in every American school. There are four primary problems with this. A single armed security officer is expensive. The largest part of any school budget is salaries, and in the age of Obama, money is tight at best. In order to place a security officer at the school and school activities, which take place until late in the evening and on weekends, a large number must be hired. For most American schools, even hiring a single officer is just not financially possible.
Many modern schools are very large indeed. A single officer will almost certainly be nowhere near where an attack begins. Even running at a fully sprint—assuming he is immediately aware of the attack and can immediately determine precisely where the attack is taking place and can find the attacker without delay—delay will cost lives.
Most importantly, a single security officer becomes a primary target. At the 2005 attack at Red Lake High School in Minnesota, the single security officer—he was unarmed—was the first person the shooter killed.
Allowing school staff to carry concealed weapons, even if a given school doesn't have a single teacher on campus so armed, confers on all schools in the area a powerful deterrent effect. And if an attack occurs, particularly if multiple staff members are armed, the probability that the attacker will meet armed resistance immediately is greatly enhanced. At the very least, facing multiple armed opponents greatly increases the probability that a shooter will be quickly, and finally, stopped.
Some suggest that teachers would not want to carry handguns, but consider that when a single training session organized by the late Chris Kyle was held in Texas, more than 500 (some reports indicated more than 700) teachers attended.
Ultimately, what matters is not which anti-bullying policies are in place, whether a school has "well-practiced procedures," locks, or gun-free school zone signs, but if multiple, responsible adults are present and ready to effectively respond when an attack occurs. If they are not, many lives will be irrevocably changed and lost before the police can arrive, and the victims and survivors will care little about the exact nature of the weapons used. That might be something for school boards, administrators and principals to keep in mind between now and the next mass school attack.
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Noishkel says:
Heh… good photo choice.
NC has a bill in the General Assembly to allow teachers and staff (with special training) to become armed "School Marshals."
NC SB-27.
And, predictably, school officials are against it.
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/04/15/3982416/local-officials-wary-of-gun-proposals.html#.U1WXTWa3KMw
One of the gripes against it is "who is going to pay for it?"
Man, that's a real reach. The bill calls for arming teachers and staff that are ALREADY employed by the school, and it is based on voluntary participation.
Geez.
Well, if the school requires training beyond what the state carry permit requires, I'd say the school should pay for that training. Otherwise, how much can it cost to remove 10 or 20 "gun free school zone" signs?
NYC2AZ says:
Sounds like what I have been using in my arguments with anti's for this issue. I have used the Federal Flight Deck Officer program as the most analogous example to what could be instituted. Minus the TSA/DHS circle-jerk on the applicants of course.
That is BS! How much has the state lotto brought in now? It sure isn't going to the school system. Oh yeah, doesn't the Department of Education have a large ammo procurement order and its own S.W.A.T. team? How much does that cost?
Does it really? I thought Dept of ED was one of the few that did not have its own army.
Cliff H says:
Swords, even fake swords, are not difficult to acquire. And even fake swords can slash and stab, especially if you do not care how long they will hold an edge.
Banning this tool or that tool will NEVER solve the problem. Even if the BG cared about your ban, they will always find another tool with which to do the job. The only reasonable solution is to allow the Good Guys to carry (and use) better tools.
Don't forget bows and arrows. I seem to remember seeing a video on YouTube of how to make a pretty solid bow out of simple PVC pipe and basic materials.
One of the toughest place to acquire a knife is in a prison, yet many convicts have them. How on earth would we ever be able to ban knives in a free society, if we can't even seem to abolish them in much more controlled surroundings.
Fake swords? You can go down to any big 5 and buy a machete.
That's another reason I wouldn't put my kid into a public school; they can't even carry a pocket knife for self defense.
To put a child into a public school is like putting them naked and defenseless into a lions den.
Wyatt says:
Are private schools necessarily safer?
DavidT says:
They are more likely to at least have the choice of arming staff. A public in most states is a criminal safety zone. And you can ask about the possibility when you are interviewing schools. Public schools put you in the district you live in, period.
For those who really care, about safety and a good education, I recommend home schooling where possible. You can choose the curriculum, field trips, safety measures, etc.
Choice is not actualization. Unless it happens, it doesn't.
+One Million.
Homeschooling solves a LOT of problems.
Raul Ybarra says:
Amen to that! And part of the PE curriculum can include both martial arts training as well as shooting. 🙂
pablobrown says:
You Sir are an idiot. A school would run the risk of a blood bath if they allowed pocketknives to be carried.
Um; PabloB, calling someone an "idiot" because you disagree with their point of view does not open a door for a discussion.
You are speaking from a place of irrational fear. Which is why you attacked me for my statement. When you speak from emotion instead of logic, reason, fact, history or experience, you are the one that actually shows yourself to not necessarily be an "idiot", but only ignorant and uninformed; so like an animal, you attack what you fear.
So when I was a child many moons ago, I and many of my fellow children carried a pocket knife on a daily basis in school and we didn't have blood baths. Outside of school today, many children are carrying pocket knives and we don't have blood baths.
So tell me PabloB, if children today carry pocket knives on a daily basis and we don't have blood baths outside of school, how does that change if they are in school?
Just because a person is a child; does not mean they don't have the same rights to self-defense as any other living being, even at the most minimum level, like being able to carry a knife.
In the end PabloB, this idea that there will be "a blood bath", is the same hysterical ravings that come from an anti-self defense advocate every time another public place is opened up for carrying a self-defense weapon. It speaks to your own transference of your feeling of distrust of your self if you were to carry a gun for self-defense.
People can be trusted PabloB, even a child or a young adult; and those that can't, like this teenager, a sign on the door making the space a WFZ, won't stop them anyway. So don't deny a human being, even a child or young adult, the right to defend their life from a homicidal maniac; because you don't trust yourself with a weapon.
A school would run the risk of a blood bath if they allowed pocketknives to be carried.
Wow. I guess I went to school in a bloodbath, then, because pretty much EVERYONE carried a pocketknife. Some even had sheath knives on their belt.
I remember carrying a pocketknife as far back as 2nd grade.
I don't remember the bloodbath because IT DID NOT OCCUR.
You sir, do not have facts on your side at all. Were you looking in the mirror when you started flinging insults?
It says a lot about America when you have to tool up your kids to go to school. I can just imagine you two shouting to you kids before they leave for school,have you got your lunch,books,pens,oh and don't forget your knife. I got into many a scrap at school,and some of the lads were bigger than me; if I was getting a kicking,I'd probably use a knife if I had one,because I was hotheaded. What good would a penknife do if a teenager comes to school packing weapons like Adam Lanza? Shall we start sending our kids to school locked and loaded? I'd rather my child attended school unarmed, than have him spend his life in prison for something he done in the heat of the moment;and if you're going to arm your kids with a penknife,what do arm the teachers with?
Bakus says:
We always carried pocket knives, but don't ever recall thinking of them as a weapon. They were a tool to be used for many things, even sharpening your pencil if needed. I remember in second and third grade, at recess playing "stretch" with our pocket knifes. Throw it into the ground outside of a persons stance, and they had to stretch the stance to the knife. Then their turn to throw. Game went on until one fell trying to reach the distance.
As I said, a pocket knife (and I have carried one for over 55 yrs) has always just been a tool not a weapon. I supose it's how one is raised to view it….
We had our share of bullies as well and fights, no one I know of ever thought of trying to pull out their pocket knife, open it, then use it…. never would have had time to do so….
A bladed weapon is NOT as deadly as a gun. Just admit it!! I'm on your side and all but you have to admit the obvious or your just like the other side.
Vhyrus says:
A bladed weapon is more deadly than a gun. The only advantages of a firearm are that they require less training to use and they don't rely on the user's strength, and that they can be used at range. At close range a knife is considerably more dangerous than a gun.
Yes. Pretty much the major impetus in firearms development was some way to kill that sumbitch with the sword (or pike) before he got close enough to stab you!
A gun, on average, is more dangerous than a knife. Sorry but if you're going to restrict the case to the one that is perfect for your chosen conclusion, you're being disingenuous. Most people are not well trained in using a knife, and most people who go on spree-killings don't even have what it takes to kill with a knife… as this case indicates.
I've heard it all now. Blades are more deadly than a gun? I rather face a ninja with a sword than a child with a gun.
Ready for another day of trolling I see.
Yellow Devil says:
@pablostain: Instead of being shot, you would rather be beaten or stabbed to death. Oh ok. You and Britain have a lot in common.
jomo says:
Several highly publicized incidents in China and the UK seem to show that you are incorrect. There was one rather horrific mass-stabbing recently where several attackers killed and wounded dozens of people. The reality here is that the victims got just as lucky as the kids in Colorado who were attacked by a student armed with a shotgun. In the short term, the outcome was nearly exactly the same: One kid in critical condition, and several more badly wounded who were not considered critical. It remains to be seen if the kid who was nearly stabbed through the heart pulls through. I'm praying he does, but let's not pretend that a knife can't kill you pretty thoroughly. Centuries of warfare before the gun proved that.
Several… er… dozens of cases in many other places show just the opposite. It's true that there was warfare before guns, but there was warfare before knives, too. Does that make a rock as good of a weapon? Of course not. The lethality of warfare also increased by far as guns evolved.
Several highly publicized incidents in China and the UK seem to show that you are incorrect.
What happened in the UK? I know of the soldier being beheaded,but I don't know of any high publicised incidents that involved mass stabbings. Lee Rigby was actually run over before he was stabbed to death,he may have fought off his attackers or simply run off had they used just a knife/sword. It's hard to outrun a bullet.
Yeah much safer in the UK now that there are no guns. No crime at all I hear. Troll
How am I a troll Jerry? The UK is a far safer place to live. The only time I've seen a firearm in the UK is at the airports, and I like it that way.
Cold Steel Magnum Warcraft Tanto cutting a pig carcass in half:
http://www.coldsteel.com/Product/13TXL/MAGNUM_WARCRAFT_TANTO.aspx
Granted, I don't think this troubled little psychopath was using a blade of this quality. Still, a high quality blade in the hands of a skilled user makes a formidable, silent weapon. A weapon that does not run out of ammo and is easy to obtain.
Even a cheap machete available for $10-20 has been used as a mass murder weapon:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machetehttp://www.nbcnews.com/id/35759877/ns/world_news-
africa/t/machete-wielding-rioters-kill-nigeria/
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/the-jungle-massacre-african-rebels-who-revel-in-their-machete-genocide-1077954.html
Knives and shivs make it into prisons and account for a multitude of deaths. It is virtually impossible to ban knives just like it is impossible for a gun ban to be effective in a gun free zone.
To quote Gunnery Sgt. Heartman "It is the hard heart that kills."
There are even circumstances, such as sentry removal, that a good blade is a better weapon than a firearm. I carry both guns and knives every day. Ultimately the firearm is a better weapon, but the knife definitely has its place in modern day self defense. It's also pretty hard to cut a seat belt with a .40 cal.
Tyler Kee says:
All that bacon….
Every knife comes with a million round assault magazine built in. And If you played with my 9″ Cold Steel Tanto a while, you would see the error of your ways. Razor edge, needle point, strong enough to use as a pry bar.
Come on. Take your fancy knife and put it against any reasonable defensive firearm… would you REALLY bet on that knife? At punching distance, fair enough. At arm's reach, yeah. Any more than that things start going bad for the knife wielder.
People often get very confused because they hear about the Tueller Drill and conflate it with knives being equal to guns up to 21 feet. No, they are just potentially deadly within that range, so a response with deadly force is indicated.
Were not talking about a knife versus a gun, were talking about a knife in relation to a gun. In that comparison, a gun may have a range advantage and require less strength, but an average built male can kill an unarmed person within a confined space with a knife just as easily as with a gun.
In a "gun free school zone", a knife THERE is far more deadly than a gun AT HOME!, many bulletproof vests fail miserably when facing a knife. The argument is silly, as evidenced by this attack. If someone had a gun, we'd also save money on the trial and incarceration for 5 years until we loose this fruitcake on society again.
And I would CERTAINLY put my "fancy knife" against NO gun!
Another Robert says:
Gotta admit, I've never heard anyone wisely intone "Don't bring a gun to a knife fight." I can think of a situation or two where a knife could conceivably be more deadly than a gun–say, if you're walking down a crowded hallway stabbing passersby in the kidneys as they pass. You could perhaps get into the double digit casualty figures before anyone tumbled on to what was going on enough to effectively thwart it . At the first gunshot, tho, everyone knows that something is happening and can react. Or a similar situation in which you could isolate individual victims and dispatch them quietly with a knife–you could keep going all day with that. But of course, none of those really represents the out-of-control mass killer that is the object of everyone's nightmares at this time.
I'm with ya. Some people of the gun can be as disingenuous as the anti-gunners. They'll take the best possible case for a knife and act as though it proves knives are as deadly as guns and therefore gun control doesn't work… even when every other situation shows the advantage of a gun. It's a bad argument and it's absurd to anyone without an agenda, so I don't understand why it gets trotted out because there are so many better ones to make.
The military is very good at killing, and there's a reason they've abandoned edged weapons for all but very specific duties (mostly peeling potatoes). There's a reason no sane armed person who is not operating operationally would see someone coming towards them with a knife and draw their own blade instead of a gun (people completely misconstrue the Tueller drill!) With the exception of being at very close range and having the experience or training to use a knife, it's far inferior to a modern firearm. That's to say nothing of the psychological and physical difference in stabbing through someone compared to pulling a trigger. Most nuts who want to go on a spree killing have neither the physical strength or intestinal fortitude to do with a knife what they can do more easily with a gun.
Guns make killing easier. They make suicide easier, and they killing others easier… including killing in the name of self-defense. They are an equalizer. That's the argument to make.
Ever hear of the 21 foot rule. A man within 21 feet of you can rush you with a knife before you can pull your gun and fire. More deadly inside the range which it intended to be used. Guns are made for keeping distance. Knives are more up close and personal.
More food for thought. If knives are inferior, other non-firearms are equally inferior. If this is the case explain these.
Indian tribes winning battles against the army.
Modern soldiers that still carry and spend lots of money for good knives.
Amount of people that survive gun shots as opposed to the amount that survive knife or sword attacks.
I could go on but I dont want your mind to explode.
Grumpy F'er says:
"A 16-year-old boy was charged Wednesday after he allegedly stabbed 21 students and an adult…"
When I was 16, I had a real job and had learned how to drive. Wow. I coulda been out stabbing people.
Hidesight ya know.
Sixpack70 says:
If they want to ban knives in the future like the UK is trying they need to keep this in mind. All you need is a grinder and a strip of steel to make a nasty knife or shiv. Good luck banning that stuff, although I can see them try, for the children of course.
Yes, well…knives are banned in prisons and jails – how's that working out?
Meanwhile, in Canada…
Zebulon Pike says:
Meanwhile, In Denver: http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_24886179/brothers-be-sentenced-5-stabbing-deaths-at-denver
Jack Brown says:
A man with a knife(and no skill) can still ensure you spend the rest of your life evacuating waste into a bag.
Lfshtr says:
Hmmm, maybe some child problems? Let's all watch our back out there.
"[…]'juvenile delinquent' is a contradiction in terms. 'Delinquent' means 'failing in duty.' But duty is an adult virtue—indeed a juvenile becomes an adult when, and only when, he acquires a knowledge of duty and embraces it as dearer than the self-love he was born with. There never was, there cannot be a 'juvenile delinquent.' But for every juvenile criminal there are always one or more adult delinquents—people of mature years who either do not know their duty, or who, knowing it, fail." – Robert A. Heinlein, "Starship Troopers.
It's a pretty scary game to pontificate "Thank god he used weapon X instead of weapon Y".
We're lucky the kids who attacked with guns didn't use a milk carton full of gasoline and a bic lighter in a confined space.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiamen_bus_fire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chengdu_bus_fire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daegu_metro_fire
These murder-suicide mass killers seem to use whatever method is in their local popular culture. The only way to stop them is to not produce these people in the first place.
These people never learn. First sentence of the second paragraph is his name, they also showed his picture (of course).
This only serves to glamorize them and make them famous. There is a reason that in some countries you have freedom of press except you can't show the faces and names of these kinds of people (terrorist would be the correct word, they spread fear). I believe Canada does this.
seans says:
Having guys try to talk tactics, who have no tactical background is getting pretty old. The Tueller drill really isn't relevant anymore. A lot has changed in fire arms tactics since he came up with that. I have had enough time being the RED Man with hood drills to believe that bullshit anymore. Taken enough sim rounds and muzzle strikes to the face against inexperienced shooters to even think that a knife can beat a gun in under 21 feet. As for the saying why Sandy Hook had some many fatalities, small children do not take penetrating trauma well. That's straight battlefield medicine right there. Go talk to any 18Ds they will tell you the same. Kids do not fare any were as well as adults when it comes to violence. People want to bring up China, those were Chinese terrorist who had links to Al Qaede.
Jonathan - Houston says:
Not bad points. Not irrefutable, either, but not bad. The main thing is, you sound drunk.
I'm just saying that it is a hell of a lot easier for an inexperienced person with a gun to kill a large group of people than an inexperienced person with a knife. You really can't argue with that. If he had an ak I'm sure at least 1 person would have been killed rather than 21 knife wounds. That's why we all carry guns..they work better.
A gun is generally a much more effective weapon and is effective at a much greater distances than a knife. I agree with you on that, obviously. A 100 foot shot is simple with an AR, a bit long for a handgun, and is a minimal threat with a knife. I am merely observing that there are also other deadly weapons such as knives in the hands of a juvenile psychopath that can still cause havoc. As has been pointed out before, a gasoline bomb on a public bus has been more deadly than a knife or a gun.
Also, as has been pointed out on numerous occasions, gun free zones / knife free zones are not actually effective in stopping an armed attacker. That is the point that Obama and Co. deliberately ignore, and they will continue to do so.
Ing says:
Yes, there is that. It goes both ways, too. An inexperienced defender wielding a gun is exponentially more likely to survive a violent attack (by taking action to stop the bad guy) than one who has only a knife.
The anti-gun (anti-violence) crowd only sees it one way: the bad guys have the weapons, and innocent people are always helpless. Violence, of course, is pure evil; like Sauron's One Ring, it will possess and destroy anyone who uses it. So they fixate on the gun as the enabling factor in all these evil acts, never realizing that it's possible — even necessary — for good people to harness violence when there's no other choice.
William Burke says:
Medicating Our Troops Into Oblivion:
http://www.ibtimes.com/medicating-our-troops-oblivion-prescription-drugs-said-be-endangering-us-soldiers-1572217?ft=3aj78&[email protected]&utm_medium=Apr_20_2014_0401_194921&utm_source=TailoredMail&utm_term=Military+Docs+%27Medicating+Troops+Into+Oblivion%27&utm_campaign=Apr_20_2014_0401
If this can do that to full-grown AMERICAN SOLDIERS, imagine what it would do to this kid, or the waifish Adam Lanza!
Don't say they're "evil"; don't blame THEM. Blame Big Pharma for the wanton ZOMBIFICATION of soldiers and already-damaged little boys.
It's not their fault. It's not! They've been on mind-warping psychoactive drugs for YEARS, in most cases.
Give thanks it wasn't you or one of your children. This pharma-system is manufacturing severely-damaged psyches, and this is well-planned out.
oldgreyguy says:
Every school and all businesses have a useful weapon against knives. It is called a FIRE EXTINGUISHER!
Useful at a distance, and when empty, a heavy weapon for striking.
I'd rather have a Glock 23 and 40 rounds of .40 Smith. Fire extinguishers weren't meant to be swung around.
Blair says:
Knives are more dangerous, knives can't run out of ammo they just keep going and going and going…….
DV says:
25′ if you cant see the hands; 6′ if you can.
Check this out — one of the most evil things I've ever heard of: http://ethicsalarms.com/2014/04/18/an-unethical-website-golden-rule-malpractice-and-the-worst-anti-bullying-program-ever/.
If there's anything more guaranteed to produce explosions of mass violence than this, I hope I never see it. Considering that they spend years under the tutelage of people who embrace this appalling philosophy, I'm surprised that we don't have even more schoolchildren who explode like dying souls gone supernova.
That might just be the most appalling thing I've ever seen, and I've seen some ugly sh¡t.
I'm physically ill. Jebus!
ColdNorth says:
And last week, five university students were murdered with a kitchen knife at a party in Calgary, Alberta. It was merely luck that no one died during the attack in PA.
Only one quibble: successful suicide by knife is fractionally less likely than by firearm because of ouch-induced hesitation or pullback.
Otherwise, yeah: arm the damned staff. Hell, make firearm ownership and proficiency a double plus good thing in the employment application process.
karlb says:
I know that this is off topic, but this idea jumped out at me: "Most importantly, a single security officer becomes a primary target. At the 2005 attack at Red Lake High School in Minnesota, the single security officer—he was unarmed—was the first person the shooter killed." I understand that many people on this site push for the idea of open carry, but I have always thought that a visibly armed person is as much a target as a deterrent.
GenghisQuan says:
Open carry does, however, mean you have a much better gun because capabilities do not have to be sacrificed to service concealment. Plus, there will likely be multiple open carriers plus whichever people still concealed carry.
The first guy will probably always be targeted. The important thing is that they have backup.
IIRC, that security officer was killed because he was silly enough to do his job regardless of the risk, not because he was targeted. He went after the perp instead of running, IOW.
Gyufygy says:
The winner of a knife fight between two combatants trained with edged weapons is the one who dies in the ER. The loser bled out at the scene.
ihatetrees says:
20+ yeasrs ago, the drill sergeant said essentially the same thing during bayonet training at Ft Benning. "By all means, shoot the bastards if you can. Expect to get cut if you engage bayonet to bayonet."
Even Special Ops guy chose/carried knives primarily as tools and secondarily as emergency close-in weapons.
I forgot who said this, but it was something like "If you break out the knife, expect to get cut up."
pcman312 says:
Anyone else notice that Michael Daly got it wrong when referring to the 2009 Ft. Hood shooting? The shooter used an FN Five-Seven with 5.7×28mm ammo, not 9mm.
Just a few random thoughts on this story…
* It's damn luck – or perhaps better, divine providence – that nobody died in this attack. That it was a knife instead of a gun had nothing to do with it.
* This was just a kid with a couple of kitchen knives. That is part of the good news. If it had been a Kabar or Ontario military knife it would have almost certainly been worse.
* Far too many people underestimate the leathality of a knife, even in an untrained hand. 21 down, 4 in serious and 1 critical? That's a tally that is on par with gun use.
* As far as I'm concerned, the point above is a good thing. I'd rather be underestimated than taken seriously.
* My Kenpo master was fond of teaching that, "Smith & Wesson beats a side kick." Does that make studying martial arts a waste of time? Then don't be so quick to knock a knife for self defense.
* Knifes vs. Guns is really a case of apples vs. oranges. Or better still, hammers vs. screw drivers. Both are very useful tools when used for the right job, but you can really get yourself hurt when you use the wrong tool.
Whitehall says:
Reminds me of the advice that Jack Nicholson (playing Jimmy Hoffa) gave to Danny DeVito as a new teamster union organizer:
"Run from the knife but close on the gun."
HeySpanky says:
A little late on this, I know, but I am truly sick of hearing about these little murderers being bullied. I was bullied. My awkward 120 lbs geek ass got pummeled on a near daily basis. Then one day I fought back, got suspended(naturally), and started a slow yet steady transformation from victim, to a 210 lbs red neck ( still very much awkward) who stands up for himself. Havent had many problems since.
ErikwithaK says:
And an attacker with a gun doesn't have to close those 21 feet to kill or maim. How many school gun assaults had 20 wounded and zero dead? You can justify your unnatural love of guns with these weak arguments, but you can't change the facts that firearms are more lethal than knives or hammers and kill more people in the US than all other weapons combined. Firearms account for 70% of the weapons used homicides and 70% of those firearms are handguns, but firearms aren't the problem, nooooo.


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Wavehunters offers kit hire, surfing and SUP lessons on Polzeath beach.
The Crackling Crab beach cafe is located on Polzeath beach. Open for breakfast, lunch and evening dinner.
Polzeath beach is sand/shingle and is also one of the worlds most renowned surfing destinations. On the beach you also have rock pools and a nature reserve but at high tide much of the beach disappears. The surf can cater for all standards from kids learning to experienced surfers. In the summer it can get very busy in the water. Facilities include car park, lifeguards in the summer months, pubs, cafes and restaurants.
Greenaway Beach has sand, pebbles and wonderful rock pools at low tide that provide for excellent fun with crabbing nets. Approached by steps down the cliff below Tregreen usable only at lower tides. Nearly always quiet as it is largely overlooked in favour of Daymer Bay to the south or Hayle Bay and Polzeath to the north. No facilities.
You have two bays besides each other here, Lundy Bay and Epphaven Cove are both small beaches of sand and rocks only becoming available as the tide goes out. The beaches are quite sheltered by the headlands of Carnweather Point and Trevan Point, and the area has been landscaped by the National Trust but care should be taken. Excellent cliff walks over the headlands to The Rumps or eastward to Port Quin. There are no facilities and only accessible by foot from the coastal path.


Nizar Rohana Trio performing the title piece from their latest album Furāt (Euphrates).
The pieces in this album reflect the quality of flow, captured through the image of the Euphrates River (Furāt). The civilizations and peoples that have lived along the river's course provide the themes for the compositions, from the Syrian city of Mayādīn to the ancient ruins of Al-Dālya, between the willow trees along its banks and through the Jūrjīnā rhythm cherished in Iraq.


Tata Steel on Friday said it has been declared the successful "resolution applicant" by the Committee of Creditors (CoC) of Bhushan Steel Ltd (BSL).
According to a report, Tata Steel has offered to pay a little more than Rs 350 billion ($5.4 billion) to lenders of Bhushan Steel & Power to take over the bankrupt steelmaker.
In a regulatory filing to the BSE, the company said the decision was subject to obtaining regulatory approvals from the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) and the Competition Commission of India (CCI).
"Tata Steel hereby informs that it has been declared as the successful resolution applicant by the Committee of Creditors of Bhushan Steel Limited on March 22, 2018, subject to obtaining necessary regulatory approvals, including approval from the NCLT and the Competition Commission of India," the BSE filing said.
The filing added that Tata Steel has accepted the Letter of Intent for BSL under the Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP) of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016 (IBC).


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