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Facebook Steps Up Efforts To Combat The Spread Of Coronavirus Misinformation : Coronavirus Updates Nick Clegg, vice president of global affairs and communications, says the company will work to remove coronavirus-related information that has the potential to cause physical harm.
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Facebook says it's directing users across its platforms to more reliable information from established public health organizations in order to prevent the spread of false content.
As a global pandemic takes hold, more people are turning to Facebook in search of news about the coronavirus.
But the traffic load on the social media platform is also testing its ability to crack down on a spike in virus-related misinformation. Users are being confronted with phony cures and conspiracy theories around the virus' origin. (Note: Facebook is a financial supporter of NPR.)
Nick Clegg, Facebook's vice president of global affairs and communications, says he can't quantify the volume of misinformation around the virus, but that the company will remove coronavirus-related information that has the potential to cause physical harm.
"We do not allow misinformation to circulate on Facebook which can lead to real-world harm," Clegg said in an interview with All Things Considered on Wednesday. "So if people say drinking bleach is going to help you vaccinate yourself against coronavirus — that is dangerous. We will not allow that to happen. We won't even allow folk to say social distancing makes no difference in dealing with this pandemic."
On Wednesday the company outlined the efforts it's taking to prevent the spread of inaccurate content during the public health crisis.
Through pop-ups and a new COVID-19 information center on Facebook, the company says it's directed more than 1 billion people on Facebook and Instagram to resources from the World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control and regional health authorities, and that over 100 million users have clicked on the content.
The company's moves to curb pandemic-related misinformation on the site are aggressive in comparison to its hands-off approach in the moderation of political messaging.
Particularly in the wake of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and now during the 2020 race, critics and lawmakers have slammed the company for not doing enough to combat the circulation of false claims from politicians via ads and other messaging.
"What politicians say on the campaign trail about each other is not what a medic or an epidemiologist says about a pandemic," he says. "They're completely different forms of information. One is underpinned by science and established expertise, which no one questions," adding that it's easier for the company to act under the "strict expertise and guidance" from institutions like WHO and CDC.
"The other is a highly contested form of speech. That is the whole point about political speech in a democracy."
But, he says, Facebook does have limits when it comes to political content.
"You cannot use your freedom as a politician in the United States, for instance, to say things which will lead to real-world harm," Clegg says.
There's still room for gray area, and it's unclear whether these criteria apply to high-level officials, including the president himself.
In a still-live post from the White House's page on Facebook, President Trump gave a press briefing in which he embraced chloroquine as a promising treatment in the fight against the coronavirus. However, an Arizona man died and his wife was hospitalized after consuming a form of the chemical.
Last week, according to a Facebook internal report obtained by The New York Times, more than half of the stories being read on the platform in the U.S. were coronavirus-related. The company also recently reported a 50% increase in "total messaging" over the last month in several of the countries most impacted by the virus.
At the same time, the company's increased reliance on artificial intelligence for content moderation could further compromise its ability to effectively police content. Facebook has acknowledged that human content moderators are the best line of defense.
But those contracted employees, who weed through hours of sensitive and often disturbing content — and can suffer serious mental health side effects as a result — were placed on paid leave last week after Facebook failed to come up with an option for them to continue their work remotely.
Clegg added that a number of full-time employees will be trained to review some of the more harmful content, including: child safety, terrorism, suicide and self-injury.
But, he said, users should expect more mistakes as Facebook makes these adjustments amid the increased flow of content.
"It is perfectly possible there will be occasional mistakes and gaps or a slightly slower response than would've been the case in normal times," Clegg said. "These are not normal times."
In a press call on Wednesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said those mistakes will inevitably include content that shouldn't be taken down.

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Once again, Tehran was shut down today as air pollution reached dangerous levels. The shutdown today, included all schools, educational places, government offices, banks, factories and production units that burn oil to operate with. All sporting events and exercises in open air were cancelled. Only one university, Payam Nour, was allowed to hold its exams but the rest of universities postponed their exams. Only staff at medical emergency places were required to go to work.
Earlier this week, the authorities had once again introduced the "odd/even number plate" plan. This plan requires vehicles with the licence number plates that end in odd or even numbers to be driven only on alternate odd/even days. It was hoped that the reduction in the traffic would reduce the air pollution, but it was not enough.
Ambulances were stationed in 5 main squares throughout Tehran to cater for people with heart or respiratory problems who were affected by the pollution. The casualty figures as a result of the air pollution are horrendous. Hasan Aghajani, an advisor to the Health Ministry, in an interview on state TV said, "in the last few days, 30% more patients were admitted into hospitals as a result of pollution related problems in Tehran" Aghajani also stated 4460 deaths were related to the air pollution in Tehran.
Massoumeh Ebtekar, known as Mary to the rest of the world, as the spokesperson for the US embassy hostage takers in the eighties and now head of Tehran Municipality Environmental Committee, said most of Iran's major cities are suffering from dangerous levels of pollution.
She also said there are solutions available to combat the pollution but the will is not there.
Ahmadinejad's first deputy, Mohamad Reza Rahimi, is not happy about the emergency steps to reduce traffic. "We can not stop people from earning a living by driving their cars just for the sake of reducing air pollution" he told reporters.
This is a failed revolution on ALL levels. Iran's natural resources are being squandered, lakes are drying up, economy is in a downward spiral, historic heritage and landmarks of Iran are being destroyed and the country is facing an environmental catastrophe.
In the old days, it was a pleasure looking north and seeing the magnificent Alborz mountains, I was told today by a friend in Tehran, that he couldn't even see the end of his street, let alone the mountains to the north.
The two pictures above show how the Milad Tower, built after the revolution as a landmark to signify the greatness of the 1979 revolution, has disappeared from the view as a result of the pollution and the video below shows the cracks and the dilapidation of another iconic landmark in Tehran, the Shahyad or as they renamed it after the revolution, the Freedom Tower. The engineer who managed the original project, pines with bitterness at how the iconic landmark is facing ruin as a result of neglect and mismanagement. Even the thick waterproof slabs around the tower were taken out and replaced with porous thinner slabs which are now allowing water to leak and flood the foundations of the tower.
The longer this regime remains, the more likelihood that there will be no Iran left to rebuild.
Maybe this is why Iran wants nuclear power plants? So it can stop burning fossil fuels leading to all this.
Again it's the West playing a double game. Sanctions on one side forcing Iran to produce her own petrol (of a crappy standard) and not allowing Iran to go nuclear.


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Yoav Potash's CRIME AFTER CRIME: This agenda doc has us nearly rabid with anger
Of late we've seen some terrific documentaries that seem nearly-and-pleasurably agenda free (Buck, If a Tree Falls, Battle for Brooklyn: the later may have an agenda, but the filmmakers bend over backward to keep it in check). Now comes a film that absolutely has one: CRIME AFTER CRIME by Yoav Potash. This documentary, that pursues justice above all, brought my anger, beginning in the stomach and rising slowly until I could feel it in my throat, to a point at which few movies have managed. Yet the film never screams, reflecting perhaps its leading lady, Debbie Peagler, shown on the poster above and in two of the stills below.
As Potash (left) shows and tells it, Ms Peagler, some 35 years ago, was the oft-beaten girlfriend of one, Oliver Wilson, her boyfriend who decided to pimp her out to local johns on a regular basis. Six years later, after Debbie has separated from Oliver and he and his thugs threaten to kill her family, she and her mom turn to local gang members who were to beat up Oliver but instead went a little too far in their punishment, leaving the pimp dead. Deborah is eventually arrested for the murder and remains in prison for twenty years -- until her case, which clearly involves abuse-of-women, is taken up by a couple of diverse pro-bono lawyers, Orthodox Jew Joshua Safran (below, left) and marathon-runner Nadia Costa, (below, right).
For very nearly the entire first half of Crime After Crime (which sounds like a play-on-words of a certain Cyndi Lauper song but actually involves the sleazy activity of the Los Angeles County D.A.'s office), we move along a more-or-less expected route, garnering information about our protagonist and the situation, with the full expectation that wrong will be righted. Then a roadblock occurs, and another and another, and very soon, we are feeling, tenfold, the injustice of it all.
Because Joshua, above, saw his own mother repeatedly abused, and Nadia, below, is a former Social Worker for Children's Protective Services in Los Angeles, both are primed for the task at hand. And what a task it turns out to be. Your blood pressure should rise accordingly as the D.A.'s office stonewalls and thwart's justice at every turn (one of the reasons why TrustMovies, who grew up in Los Angeles, prefers to live elsewhere).
What Ms Peagler endures (along with her family), even as her own health deteriorates, is shameful and unnecessary. And some of L.A.s public figures like D.A. Steve Cooley and a certain Lael Rubin are shown up as some of the most disgusting examples of "the law" that you will have seen. When the powers-that-be array themselves against justice, this is what results. Little wonder that Peagler, below, turns to religion -- the hope of the disenfranchised.
But what real hope is there? You will see. Crime After Crime, from the new Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN), opens this Friday, July 1, at the IFC Center in New York City, and on July 8 in the L.A. area (at Laemmle's Sunset 5 and Encino Town Center). Click here to see further playdates, cities and theaters around the country.
Labels: CRIME AFTER CRIME, Debbie Peagler, Los Angeles County law enforcement, movies about injustice, Yoav Potash
David Hyde Pierce and Clayne Crawford star in Nick Tomnay's THE PERFECT HOST; a short Q&A with the filmmaker
An "original" that repeatedly pulls the rug out from under you, THE PERFECT HOST fares well to be among the most enjoyable movies of the year -- for audiences who appreciate surprise upon surprise and are willing to embrace a movie with little more on its mind than to give them a very good time. With David Hyde Pierce essaying one of those roles "he was born to play" (I suspect there are many more of these than we might realize), and the young actor Clayne Crawford (who looks like a cross between Zac Efron and a young David Hasselhoff and has so far spent most of his career doing TV and cable), this film -- from Australian writer/director Nick Tomnay -- succeeds better by its finale that you could possibly imagine from its beginning. (And that beginning, by the way, ain't bad at all.)
Mr. Tomnay, shown at right, tosses us into the middle of things -- a fellow racing from car to bike to car and then into a convenience-store robbery gone ridiculously awry (below) -- and he doesn't track back until mid-way along. We don't know who our "hero" (Mr. Crawford, below) really is (or even if he is our hero) for quite some time; even then, our understanding keeps growing as more information is gradually revealed.
Likewise our pro- (or maybe an-) tagonist, played by the delectable Mr. Pierce, below, who certainly saw a plum role when he read this script. The actor grabs the role and runs with it, scoring a touchdown, topping that with a perfect kick and then even a field goal -- all in one.
This is the kind of movie for which the less you know will only increase your enjoyment. Suffice it to say that, along the way, you'll meet some fascinating dinner guests (below)...
take a refreshing dip in the pool...
and meet a beautiful young woman who suffers from a debilitating disease -- among other negatives.
The threat of some horrific violence hovers near, but torture-porn this ain't. Identities, as well as upper hands, keep changing; suspense builds nicely (there's a scene with our hero in a Creature from the Black Lagoon suit that is as creepy as it is funny); and if the ending -- and I mean the last, brilliant few moments --doesn't have you grinning ear to ear, I'll be very surprised.
Crawford and Pierce make near-perfect foils: the yin and the yang, the boom and the bang. It's their movie. The other characters, with a few exceptions are mostly window dressing -- but dressed to the nines. Tomnay integrates past and present fluidly and with just the right sense of timing so that intelligent viewers can keep up -- but not ahead -- of the game. Should you imagine that you are ahead, just wait: That rug will be pulled from beneath you soon enough.
The Perfect Host makes its theatrical debut this Friday, July 1: in New York City at the Quad Cinema; in Los Angeles at the Laemmle's Sunset 5, and in Lansdowne, PA, at Cinema 16:9.
For further playdates, cities and theaters, click here.
We're talking to… Nick Tomnay (the filmmaker pronounces his last name with a long "o" and a long "a" -- and the accent on the first syllable). In the interview below, TrustMovies'appears in boldface, while Mr. Tomnay (shown below) is in standard type. There may be some spoilers ahead, so see the movie first and then come back to the Q&A.
Your movie is surprising – particularly because you keep threatening to drown us in horror and gore, and yet nothing happens.
Or almost nothing happens, and yet a whole lot happens. We're constantly jerked around and having the rug pulled out from under us. Which is great fun. And – it just keeps going, building up until the final moment when he exits with the two policewomen flanking him. This is hilarious. A brilliant little visual moment. I am very impressed.
It's just such an enjoyable movie. And the performances are really good, too, even the performances from the people who don't exist. (Tomnay laughs)
Now, this was based upon a short you made earlier, right?
I had made a short verson of it called The Host, which we shot in 2000, did post production on in 2001, and then ran in festivals in 2002, here and at home. It has won some awards in Australia and here in the states, too.
How long was this short?
25 minutes.
Is this see-able?
Well, I have a copy. (He laughs.) Perhaps Magnolia has a copy. The short is pretty similar to the full-length -- and in fact, it was invaluable in getting the film made.
Since you've seen the film, you know it's a strange film. It's eccentric, tonally. And it's got a lot going on. The comedic, the serious. The short has the same tone. So it was a really great way to show people and explain what I was trying to do: "Look: Here it is in 25 minutes. Now I want to make it in color, in America -- and longer."
But that was ten years ago!
Yes, right. Well, you know: it's really difficult to make a feature, and to get the money together. I started writing the feature in 2003, when I wrote the first draft with a friend of mine, with whom I wrote the short. Then my wife and I moved to New York City in 2004.
So you're a New Yorker now?!
Not anymore. For five years we lived here, but now we live in San Francisco.
I sure prefer San Francisco -- to L.A., anyway.
Funny, because San Francisco kind of reminds me of New York. They are both very small, compact, elite -- and expensive. Both are beautiful in their own way. But San Francisco is a bit more relaxed. I haven't been back here in two years, and so this morning when I woke up early, I wandered around where we used to live.
Which was…?
The West Village. When I got back to my hotel after walking around for three hours, my ears were ringing – just from the trucks and the noise and all that.
I found something similar when I moved Manhattan to Queens. Whenever I come back into the city, I am surprised anew at all the noise.
I think when you're in it, you don't notice it so much. But when you leave it and come back to it – boy!
Is your wife Australian?
Yes, she is. We came over here in 2004, and I started writing the full-length script. And it was set up with two different production companies, but both fell over. The first time it was because the production company wanted to take out all the irony and the humor.
Oh, no?!
Oh, yes! But I didn't want to do that at all. My manager and I agreed that this was not the way to go. So it just took some time. Because also, I had not made a feature film before. And it is very difficult to convince someone to back it. But once we decided to go out to David (Hyde Pierce), everything just fell into place. He had seen the short and read the script and we had lunch. At the end of the lunch, he said, "OK, I want to do this." It was so simple – compared to all the years of toiling.
How long between the time he said yes and you began filming?
I think it was about five months. Once we got him, we got our financing.
Where did you find your other leading man, Clayne Crawford.
He is originally from Alabama but he now lives in L.A. When we saw his original reel, I really liked it.
He's very good. And very different, in his own distinct way.
Yes, and what happened was, up to ten days before the shoot, we still did not have this role cast. So we saw him again and had him read him a couple of times, and he really is so different from David. A very different energy. Ordinarily those two men would not be in the same room together. You just wouldn't put them into the same environment.
And when you do, their personalities interact so oddly and it almost seems that they begin changing. Or at least our understanding of them changes.
Because things are revealed about them. One of the things I was trying to do when I was writing the script was to present a hero and a villain whose identities would completely swap by the end of the film.
You also do a little back-and-forth swapping during the film.
Yes, your allegiances change.
In this day and age of torture porn, it is so pleasant to see something like your film -- that plays with you and threatens but then delivers something much more clever and better, instead.
I am not into the torture porn thing at all. One of the production companies wanted to push the film into that direction by removing all the humor. I did not want this film to be sadistic; I wanted it to be entertaining.
And it is!
The tone of the movie is meant to have a lot of humor. Even the violence – the threat of it -- has a different vibration going on.
Yes, it's remarkable, really, what you've managed to do. Where are you from in Australia?
Sydney.
I like Sydney. Melbourne, too. I've been to Austalia a few times, and it seem to be the country most like American of any I've been to. More even than Canada.
We are, in some ways. And I think we are becoming even more American, too. Lately, my mother will sit on the bus and listen to school girls speaking with virtual American accents now!
I think Australia and America appear to be very similar in lots of ways, but I think at our core we are very different. Americans are quite reverent, and Australians are really irreverent. Musically, America loves a ballad before anything else -- a low, rounding song. If you go to iTunes and you look at what's coming out, the most popular songs here are always ballads.
Cast members, left to right, Nathaniel Parker,
David Hyde Pierce and Clayne Crawford
That's interesting. I always thought that Australians were like us because they make the best Capitalists. Also, they did to their Aborigines what we did to our Indians. We have so much in common. The first time I was over there I spent quite awhile there. It was the mid-to-late 70s -- just at the time when women's lib was coming to Australia. Petersen was the big film, and Jack Thompson was the big thing then. Hearing the Aussie populace talk about all this was so interesting. Is the word "ocker" still used there?
Oh, yes. I think at that point -- the late 70s early 80s -- Australia was facing a kind of identity crisis. There was the notion that the country didn't really have an identity -- a notion that we were ockers, throwbacks to what we had always been seen as. Another part of Australia was saying, "No we are not. We're sophisticated, middle class, intelligent and literate people."
And both were true?
Yes, and both still are true.
Interesting. You have such an interesting country. Do you think you'll continue living over here. San Francisco?
Maybe. Or Los Angeles.
Ah! Has good stuff started happening from this movie? Or is it too soon yet to tell?
Well, it has been playing on VOD for a couple of weeks, and it is supposed to be doing quite well there.
Really? That's great! VOD looks to be an increasing part of how we watch movies.
Yes, and really -- you can now see something in HD on VOD on a big screen with a good sound system and pay only ten bucks. No restaurant, no baby sitter, no evening out for 80 bucks. And nobody talking behind you in the theater and ruining the experience. I always loved the cinema experience, but I can see now how people are turning to something different.
Yes, I think they are. I really hope for the best for your film. If I liked it there have got to be others who do too.
I've been looking at some of the web sites. Because once you make a movie, you're in a kind of a vacuum, so it's good to hear feed-back. And people seem to be saying, "This is really entertaining!"
And it is! And the biggest reason for this is because your film is original – in content, form and style. I see maybe 15-20 movies over a week's time, and this one really is one of the most original I've seen in awhile now.
(We get the time-is-up sign from the publicist, so we say "So long.")
Labels: dark comedies, Nick Tomnay, originals, THE PERFECT HOST, thrillers
Azazel Jacobs hits his stride with 'outsider' movie TERRI; ensemble cast a knockout
When I interviewed filmmaker Azazel Jacobs for GreenCine a few years ago, around the time his then-new film Mama's Man made its theatrical debut, even though I was not over-awed with the movie, I found Jacobs an absolutely terrific, insightful, energetic and enjoyable young man (that interview is here). And I couldn't help but wonder where his career might go and what he would do next. With TERRI, we now know: This is his best, most accessible and vital work yet.
Terri is an outsider movie, about, in this case, a hugely overweight high school student, the uncle he lives with and cares for, the vice-principal who takes an interest in him, and a couple of his peers whom he must work with. Jacobs, pictured at left, is no newcomer to outsider movies. He seems the quintessential outsider himself -- not that he was necessarily put-upon in high school, or anything that obvious -- but his films seem made by and for outsiders with subject matter that's about outsiders. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that he consider everyone -- in some way -- an outsider, and I'd have to agree with him. Goodness knows his family life (he's the son of experimental filmmaker Ken Jacobs) could be called "outsider," yet Azazel seems, as a filmmaker and a man, about as comfortable in his skin and shoes as anyone could possibly be.
His movies bear this quality, too. Whatever else you might think of them, they seem comfortable within their own framework. No stretching or over-extending, their reach and grasp are relatively equal. They're simply there. But Terri is somehow there in spades.
Outsider movies are nothing new. From last year's best film (so far as TM is concerned) Never Let Me Go to something as innocuous and fun as Mean Girls, the genre is by now a staple of our movie-going life. In Terri, Jacobs takes all the clichés of the genre but, rather than simply gussying them up, pares thme down to the bone and, along with his splendid cast and a fine and simple screenplay by newcomer Patrick Dewitt, reimagines them with immense feeling, wit and the specificity of the odd.
From the big boy in a bathtub opening, with sidelong shots of his infirm Uncle James (a fine job by Creed Bratton, above) to the old, falling down and-secluded-in-the-forest house that the pair inhabit to that near-enchanted forest itself, through which Terri must travel to get to school -- everything here has been arranged by the filmmaker to seem both very strange and absolutely real: an odd but wonderfully workable combination. Mice, an enormous hawk, schoolmates who tease and hurt, and a vice principal (played with gruff/tender strength by John C. Reilly, below, right) intent on reaching this problemed young man -- they all have their part in the movie's quietly entrancing plan.
This is Mr. Reilly's second film, after last year's Cyrus, in which he plays opposite an overweight boy. As good as was Cyrus, Terri is even better. Despite its weirdness, it is less manipulative, effecting its gradual, one might even say, minimal changes with honor and difficulty. This is not one of those movies in which the fellow we root for goes from zero to hero. We understand, even when Terri does not, that he is a long way from the former, and while he may never reach the latter, he's got a lot of living and learning left to do.
Two of the students who are prove the biggest help to Terri (and he to them) have also been extremely well-imagined and played by Bridger Zadina (as Chad, at right) and Olivia Crocicchia (as Heather, below). The friendship that develops among these three is full of inventive incident, surprise and (thankfully) a sensible dose of self-interest so that it remains truthful to the end. It also goes into difficult places -- drugs and sex, for instance -- in a way in which few other teens movies even get near, and certainly not in a manner this embarras-singly honest.
In the title role, the performance of Jacob Wysocki (below, and in several of the photos above) is memorable. If you see this film, and I hope you do, when you think again of big boys, it's probably Jacob (and his Terri) who will first come to mind. So well do we get under his skin that we begin identifying rather miraculously. This is Jacob's and Mr. Jacobs' most wonderful gift: we are Terri, Terri is us. There is no more "other."
The movie, from ATO Pictures, opens this Friday, July 1, in New York at the Lincoln Plaza Cinema and the Angelika Film Center and in California (Los Angeles, Pasadena, Irvine and Encino). Click here to see all currently scheduled playdates, cities and theaters.
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Labels: Azazel Jacobs, coming-of-age tales, fat kids, outsider films, TERRI
Jill Andresevic's LOVE ETC tracks the NY love life of three couples and two singles
How cool is it to witness a diverse set of love stories -- in a documentary yet -- set in your very own city, in several of its boroughs and spanning ages that range from teen to octogenarian? Very cool. Part of the charm (there's a lot of it) as well as the reality that imbues Jill Andresevic's consistently involving film, LOVE ETC., comes from the fact that it is set here in New York City and captures everything from the glamour of Broadway to family life in Queens and senior citizens in Brooklyn. We see different races, straights and gays, and -- as NYC is the great melting pot -- folk from as far afield as Brazil and the sub-continent of India.
Ms Andresevic, shown at right, has chosen her subjects quite well, I think, to bring home some valuable points about this thing called love: how many forms it can take, how long (or how short) can be its life span, and the work and commitment involved in turning romantic love into a long-term relation-ship. Thankfully, she doesn't preach. She simply lets the stories, with their memorable charac-ters, spin out. This is plenty, for each tale proves full and fascinating enough to provide its own set of hard questions by the finale, some of these answered, others left hanging in the air to taunt us upon reflection. For all its charm and feel-good moments, Love Etc. does not make long-term "love" look easy.
Yet viewing this movie is very easy. You'll be hooked when you meet the octogenarian couple, Albert and Marion (above, in their youth, and below, more currently): a pair of songwriters still looking for that first "hit." Together for more than 50 years, and now plagued by the failure of body and mind, theirs is indeed a long-term relationship -- one that get a delightful little goosing toward movie's end.
Early on in the film (it may be at the very beginning: It's been more than a month since I've seen the movie), an alarm clock rings, and a young East Indian woman attempts to rouse her boyfriend. It's not easy. This seems cute as we watch, but watch out: the behavior here continues throughout, as the couple -- Chitra and Mahendra -- prepares for its traditional Indian wedding (below), during which we meet both families, and watch as the marriage begins, and then begins to flounder.
First love is usually hopeful, exciting, amusing and sad. We get all this and more from high-schoolers Gabriel (whose family hails from Brazil) and Danielle, who seems a fairly typical bourgeois, street smart Manhattan girl. These kids are young, gorgeous (I could imagine a movie career for Gabriel), intelligent and in love. What could go wrong? At this tender age, so very much.
The film is particularly smart, I think, to offer us two single guys, one straight, one gay -- the latter of whom I used to know, so it was a bit of a shock to see him up there on-screen. Back when I knew Scott Ellis (shown below, in baseball cap, and who is now a leading director on Broadway and in TV), he was to be cast in one of the roles in a play I had written. A fine actor, he would have been terrific, too, had he not broken his ankle while auditioning for the musical Starlight Express -- which put him out of commission for quite some time. In fact, this may even have had a part in pushing him from actor into the role of a director. We lost touch after the accident, but now, here he is up on screen, looking for Mr. Right -- and deciding to "have" a child via the in vitro fertilization of a woman who will give birth for him.
Scott's story is fascinating, if a bit scary (you'll learn why when you see the film), and also the most glamorous of the five tales here. One delightful scene is a party to celebrate his new fatherhood that features a raft of wonderful Broadway lights, all good friends of his -- from Debra Monk and Julie White to Susan Stroman -- who salute him with a song.
Oddly enough, it was not the gay man with whom TrustMovies most identified. Instead it was Ethan (above, left, and below), the divorced dad of two teens (also shown above), who rather desperately wants a love relationship -- one towards which his kids consistently encourage him. Ethan would appear to be a real catch: handsome, gainfully employed, kind, caring, a good father and all the rest. And then what seems the right woman appears, and he's off and running. His story -- rich, deep and yet told as glancingly as all the others -- should resonate with us men of all ages, particularly when he admits, sadly but not without some hope, that he needs to grow up.
Love Etc. compares -- and well -- to a number of narrative films we've seen over the years, including of course Love Actually. In the genre of documentary, however, it seems pretty much one-of-a-kind: a joy and a treasure that can also pull you up short. The movie opens this Friday, July 1, here in New York (at City Cinema East 86th Street and Landmark's Sunshine) and July 15 in Los Angeles (at Laemmle's Sunset Five).
Labels: American documentaries, Jill Andresevic, LOVE ETC., love stories, New York City films
DVDebut: Eric Mendelsohn's 3 BACKYARDS offers one day & three stories in suburbia
I can understand why some people might not be particularly taken with 3 BACKYARDS, the latest film from Eric Mendelsohn, who, a dozen years back, gave us Judy Berlin and 18 years ago directed his first short, Through an Open Window. This is not, shall we say, Woody Allen-level output (more like Terrence Malick), but it is enough to have added Mr Mendelsohn, in the eyes of many critics, to the roster of interesting independent movie-makers. Deservedly, I think. His two full-length films are what you might call character-study mood-pieces: quiet, unhurried, of and about the moment, whether it be plangent, embarrassing, frightening or just plain odd.
Mendelsohn, shown at right, has chosen to unite his three separate tales by having them take place in the same town. While we do see -- momentarily, glimpsingly -- the backyard of each of the three families, that word, for me, stands more for the baggage, emotional and otherwise, attached to each of our characters. There's a lot of it, too, though almost all of it is shown via word and deed, rather than exposition.
One of these backyards -- there are five of them, actually, if you count those of two other characters -- belong to Peggy (Edie Falco, above), a gabby, insecure housewife, who is suddenly asked by her neighbor, an unnamed movie star (Embeth Davidtz, below) who has sublet a house on the block, for a drive to the nearby ferry.
A little girl (Rachel Resheff, below) somewhere else in town, is surreptitiously trying on her mom's charm bracelet when she misses her bus and must then cut across various yards and properties to get to school. Adventures ensue.
Husband/father John (Elias Koteas, below) on the extreme "outs" with his wife, leaves on a business trip, but hangs around in town, in his own yard, in a hotel and finally in a local diner, making cell phone calls to home as though he were really out of state.
Into his faux life appears a young immigrant woman (Danai Gurira, below) looking desperately for work, though she hides this desperation behind a sunny smile and sweet, chipper delivery. Events, major and minor, happen to all these people, and they handle them as best they can. We watch, grow alternately annoyed, amused, saddened and fearful. And that's it.
Obviously, this sort of movie is not for the Transformers crowd. It's an art film -- full of lifelike behavior that could easily go in an alternative direction at any moment -- and it is artfully made. Running just 88 minutes, it packs a lot into that short time. What does it "say"? I detected no message, other than "Here's a slice of life in our town," to which I'd suggest you give a nibble.
3 Backyards comes to DVD this Tuesday, June 28, via Screen Media Films. You can purchase or rent it form the usual outlets.
Labels: 3 BACKYARDS, American independent film, art cinema, Eric Mendelsohn, good ensemble casts, suburban stories
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Friedrich Sutermeister (* 29. Januar 1873 in Aarau; † 16. Juli 1934) war ein Schweizer reformierter Pfarrer und religiöser Sozialist.

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Sutermeister war ein Sohn von Ernestine Moehrlen und Otto Sutermeister. Er verbrachte seine Kindheit im st.-gallischen Kloster Mariaberg, ehe die Familie 1880 nach Bern zog, wo er die Sulgenbachschule und das Gymnasium besuchte. Mit sechzehn Jahren wechselte er ins Basler Gymnasium; im Rebhaus lernte er das Konviktleben kennen; in der Gymnasialverbindung Concordia befreundete er sich mit Albert Barth. Ab 1892 studierte er Theologie an den Universitäten Basel, Bern und Berlin, wo er u. a. Vorlesungen von Bernhard Duhm, Adolf von Harnack und Friedrich Paulsen besuchte. Nach dem Staatsexamen arbeitete er einige Jahre als Hauslehrer in der Familie Quarles van Ufford in den Niederlanden. 1899 kehrte er in die Schweiz zurück, liess sich in Rued nieder und heiratete 1901 Marie Hunziker (1875–1947). 1910 trat er eine Pfarrei in Feuerthalen an. In diesen Jahren schrieb er regelmässig Artikel u. a. für die Zeitschriften Neue Wege und Der freie Schweizer Arbeiter.

1921 trat er eine Pfarrei in Binningen an, wo er auch im Blauen Kreuz arbeitete und von Wilhelm Denz die «Einwohnerarmenpflege» übernahm.

Sutermeister spielte Bratsche und machte Hausmusik; mit seinem Sohn Heinrich (1910–1995) spielte er «oft vierhändig Klavier»; seine Freundschaft zu Walter Courvoisier trug zur Karriere seines Sohnes bei. Sein Sohn Hans (1907–1977) machte ihn in seiner Novelle Zwischen zwei Welten zu einer tragischen Romanfigur.

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Weblinks

 «Porträt von Fritz Sutermeister-Hunziker». Bildmaterial, Kartensammlung der Universitätsbibliothek Basel.
 Briefe von Fredy Sutermeister in der Burgerbibliothek Bern.
 Briefe von Fredy Sutermeister an Rudolf Stähelin-Stockmeyer im Staatsarchiv Basel-Stadt.

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Person (Religiöser Sozialismus)
Reformierter Geistlicher (20. Jahrhundert)
Fredy
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Geboren 1873
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Milan-San Remo ou Milan-Sanremo, surnommée  (la Classique Printanière) ou  (la Classique des classiques) est une course cycliste sur route italienne qui se déroule entre Milan et Sanremo, en Italie nord-occidentale. Avec une distance totale de , elle est la plus longue course professionnelle d'un jour dans le cyclisme moderne. Elle est la première classique de la saison, ayant traditionnellement lieu le troisième samedi de mars. La première édition a lieu en 1907.

Milan-San Remo est considéré comme l'un des cinq Monuments du cyclisme. C'est la course d'ouverture de la Coupe du monde sur route jusqu'à ce que la compétition soit remplacée par le ProTour en 2005 puis le World Tour en 2011.

Le coureur le plus titré est le Belge Eddy Merckx avec sept victoires. L'Italien Costante Girardengo détient le record de onze podiums pendant l'entre-deux-guerres, remportant la course à six reprises. Dans l'époque moderne, l'Allemand Erik Zabel s'est imposé quatre fois et l'Espagnol Oscar Freire trois fois.

Milan-San Remo est considéré comme une course pour sprinteurs en raison de son parcours principalement plat. Elle est souvent opposée au Tour de Lombardie, l'autre classique italienne, qui se déroule en automne et est considéré comme une course pour grimpeurs.

De 1999 à 2005, une course féminine, la Primavera Rosa est organisée en lever de rideau de la course masculine, mais sur une distance plus courte.

Histoire de la course

Le temps des pionniers
Au début de l'année 1906, les membres de l'Union Sportive Sanremese ont l'idée d'organiser une course à pied le long du trajet Milan-San Remo. La compétition se déroule le , sur deux étapes (Milan-Acqui et Acqui-San Remo).

Cependant, la course est partiellement un échec. C'est ainsi que l'année suivante le journaliste Tullo Morgagni, qui avait déjà lancé le Tour de Lombardie, propose comme idée d'utiliser le parcours pour une course de vélo. Le projet est soumis au directeur de La Gazzetta dello Sport, Eugenio Camillo Costamagna. Malgré quelques réticences, Costamagna confie le projet à l'un des grands organisateurs de compétitions cyclistes, Armando Cougnet (premier organisateur du Tour d'Italie). La première édition a lieu le  avec une certaine appréhension, car lors de la réunion de départ établi à l'Osteria della Conca Fallata à la périphérie de Milan, le long du Naviglio Pavese, seulement 33 des  sont présents. En effet, le temps est très mauvais, il pleut et il fait très froid. La course est remportée par le Français Lucien Petit-Breton, sous contrat avec Bianchi, qui termine les  à une moyenne de  par heure. Seuls  terminent l'épreuve.

La course est un succès commercial et attire certains des meilleurs coureurs du cyclisme européen, de sorte que la Gazzetta dello Sport organise une deuxième édition en 1908, remportée par le Belge Cyrille Van Hauwaert. Le premier vainqueur italien de Milan-San Remo est Luigi Ganna en 1909 avec 3 minutes d'avance sur le Français Émile Georget.

En 1910, la course, entre dans la légende du cyclisme. Les conditions sont dantesques, les coureurs cherchent refuge dans les maisons le long du parcours pour se réchauffer en raison des conditions météorologiques extrêmes. Des quelque soixante participants, seuls quatre parviennent à rejoindre l'arrivée et la victoire revient au Français Eugène Christophe. Cette victoire acquise dans la douleur (à cause de la neige, il est longtemps convaincu qu'il ne roule pas sur le bon chemin) lui valut un mois de soins dans un hôpital. Christophe termine la course en  et , ce qui en fait l'édition la plus lente de la course. Giovanni Cocchi se classe deuxième à 1 heure et  du vainqueur.

La

Après les premières éditions commence l'ère de Costante Girardengo, qui lie son nom de manière indélébile à cette classique. Entre 1917 à 1928, il remporte six éditions sur onze et termine onze fois sur le podium. Les années suivantes sont marquées par la rivalité entre Learco Guerra et Alfredo Binda, dont l'émulation leur a fait perdre plusieurs victoires certaines. Une rivalité similaire que l'on retrouve quelques années après entre Gino Bartali et Fausto Coppi (années 1940), dont le duel fait l'objet d'une intense couverture et aboutit à des courses épiques.

Milan-San Remo est alors à l'apogée de sa popularité et la presse italienne invente le terme de la  (la Super-classique ou la Classique des Classiques), pour désigner la plus grande de toutes les classiques. De 1935 à 1953, la course se déroule chaque année le 19 mars, jour de la fête du saint patron Joseph. La presse italienne, majoritairement catholique, lui donne son autre surnom, la Gara di San Giuseppe (la Course de Saint-Joseph). En 1949, la course se termine pour la première fois sur la fameuse Via Roma, une rue commerçante très fréquentée dans le cœur de San Remo.

Les années 1950 marquent la fin de la domination des coureurs italiens sur la classique, qui, après la victoire de Loretto Petrucci de 1953, restent  sans succès. En 1960, le parcours inclut pour la première fois la célèbre montée du Poggio, fortement souhaitée par Vincenzo Torriani, fatigué de voir les sprinteurs flamands s'imposer à l'arrivée à San Remo. Mais, cette nouvelle difficulté n'a pas l'effet désiré et les coureurs étrangers continuent à gagner.

En 1965, le parcours emprunte l'ascension du Col de Melogno, déplaçant le départ effectif à la Certosa di Pavia, mais en dépit de l'issue défavorable pour les sprinteurs (course remportée au sein d'une échappée à trois, par le Néerlandais Arie den Hartog) l'expérience n'est pas répétée. L'édition 1966 inaugure l'ère Eddy Merckx, qui, avec ses sept victoires, dépasse le record historique de Girardengo (ce qui est aussi le record de tous les temps pour un cycliste sur une grande classique). Depuis 1976 et la dernière victoire du , la course est remportée par différents coureurs, sans que ceux-ci ne parviennent à s'imposer plus de deux fois. Pour retrouver un vainqueur multiple, il faut attendre la fin des années 1990 et l'arrivée du sprinteur allemand Erik Zabel qui s'impose à quatre reprises et termine deux fois deuxième.

Sprinteurs contre puncheurs

En 1990, l'Italien Gianni Bugno établit un nouveau record sur la course en   et , avec quatre secondes d'avance sur Rolf Gölz ( par heure de moyenne). Une autre édition mémorable dans les années 1990 a lieu en 1992. L'Irlandais Sean Kelly rattrape Moreno Argentin dans la descente du Poggio et le devance au sprint. Il s'agit de l'avant-dernière victoire de Kelly dans sa carrière. Lors de l'édition de 1999, Andreï Tchmil lance son attaque décisive sous la bannière du dernier kilomètre et conserve jusqu'à l'arrivée une légère avance sur le peloton, Zabel remportant le sprint pour la deuxième place

En 2004, Zabel aurait pu gagner une cinquième fois l'épreuve. Il est finalement battu par Oscar Freire, car il a arrêté de pédaler trop tôt pour lever les bras et célébrer sa victoire. Freire remporte un total de trois victoires au sprint sur la Primavera dans sa carrière. En 2008, l'arrivée est déplacée à un autre endroit pour la première fois en , en raison de travaux sur la Via Roma. Le Suisse Fabian Cancellara devient le premier à s'imposer sur le Lungomare Italo Calvino, grâce à une attaque en solitaire dans les rues de San Remo. Cette même année, avec les trois grandes courses par étapes (le Tour d'Italie, le Tour de France et le Tour d'Espagne) ainsi que d'autres classiques, Milan-San Remo décide de quitter le circuit ProTour. Depuis 2011, la course fait partie de l'UCI World Tour.

La 100 édition a vu le triomphe au sprint du Britannique Mark Cavendish (pour sa première apparition), qui a dépassé de quelques millimètres sur la ligne l'Allemand Heinrich Haussler.

2013, la première d'après guerre disputée un dimanche, reste une année épique. Les fortes chutes de neige et la température en dessous de zéro obligent les organisateurs à raccourcir la course de  à  en éliminant deux ascensions clés - le Passo del Turchino et Le Manie - et à organiser un transfert en bus, pour que la course commence une deuxième fois. Lorsque la course reprend, après 1 heure et demie d'arrêt, les écarts sont conservés. La course est remportée par l'Allemand Gerald Ciolek.

En 2015, après sept ans sur le bord de mer, le directeur de course Mauro Vegni décide de terminer la course à nouveau sur la Via Roma. Vegni explique qu'il était satisfait de cette décision et que le retour sur la Via Roma serait pour 2015 et au-delà. La course est remportée par l'Allemand John Degenkolb devant le vainqueur de l'année précédente Alexander Kristoff. La victoire d'Arnaud Démare en 2016, lors d'un sprint chaotique, marque le premier succès pour un Français dans une classique  depuis Laurent Jalabert en 1997. En 2017, Michał Kwiatkowski devient le premier vainqueur polonais de Milan-San Remo dans un sprint à trois avec le champion du monde Peter Sagan et Julian Alaphilippe. Les victoires de Vincenzo Nibali en 2018, Julian Alaphilippe en 2019 et Wout van Aert en 2020, indiquent un retour en force des puncheurs aux dépens des sprinteurs..

L'édition 2020, qui est reportée à la mi-août, en raison de la pandémie de Covid-19 a lieu sur une distance record de .

Parcours
Milan-San Remo est la plus longue course du calendrier mondial avec ses , sa difficulté résulte dans sa distance.

Course actuelle

Dès sa création, Milan-San Remo est conçu comme une ligne directe reliant Milan, le cœur industriel de l'Italie du Nord, à San Remo, la station balnéaire à la mode sur la Riviera italienne, avec ses célèbres villas de la Belle Époque. La course commence sur la Piazza del Duomo, dans le cœur de Milan et se dirige immédiatement vers le sud-ouest, sur les plaines de la Lombardie et du Piémont, le long des villes de Pavie, Voghera, Tortona, Novi Ligure et Ovada. Alors que la course entre en Ligurie, le peloton rejoint le bord de mer à mi-parcours par le Passo del Turchino, col long de plus de  et présentant la première difficulté du parcours, après  de course.

Après la descente du Turchino, la course atteint la mer Ligure à Voltri, placé à mi-chemin du départ et de l'arrivée. De là, le parcours suit l'autoroute Aurelia, à l'ouest, avec ses spectaculaires et typiques paysages le long de la côte ligure. La course traverse les villes d'Arenzano, Varazze, Savone, Finale Ligure, Pietra Ligure et Loano, suivies par les stations balnéaires de la Riviera dei Fiori (Alassio, Andora, Diano Marina et Imperia). Après Imperia, trois montées sèches et courtes, le long de la côte sont à grimper : Capo Mele, Capo Cervo et Capo Berta. Dans Santo Stefano al Mare, le parcours se dirige vers l'intérieur pour escalader la Cipressa. Située à  de l'arrivée, cette côte est un point stratégique de la course. Après les villes de Santo Stefano al Mare et Arma di Taggia, il reste pour les coureurs à gravir la dernière et la plus célèbre montée, le Poggio, qui est en fait, une banlieue de San Remo, construit sur une colline le long de la mer.

Du haut du Poggio, situé à  de l'arrivée, le parcours emprunte alors une descente rapide et sinueuse pour atteindre le centre de San Remo où la course se termine traditionnellement sur la Via Roma, illustre rue commerçante de la ville.

Caractéristiques de la course

Étant la plus longue course professionnelle d'un jour, Milan-San Remo est un test inhabituel d'endurance au début de la saison. Il est souvent gagné non pas par le sprinteur le plus rapide, mais par le coureur le plus fort et le mieux préparé et qui bénéficie d'une bonne pointe de vitesse. Au cours des années, la Cipressa et le Poggio ont joué leur rôle et piégé plusieurs sprinteurs pas assez forts pour rester avec le groupe de tête.

Dans les premières années, la seule difficulté notable est le Passo del Turchino, qui est souvent le point décisif dans la course. Au fil des années, quand le cyclisme devient plus professionnel, l'ascension n'est plus assez exigeante et est placée trop loin de l'arrivée pour être décisive. En 1960, le Poggio, quatre kilomètres de montée situé près de l'arrivée, est ajouté au parcours. En 1982, la Cipressa, près d'Imperia fait à son tour son apparition . Les autres côtes sont le Capo Mele, le Capo Cervo et Capo Berta. De 2008 à 2014, les organisateurs ont ajouté la montée du Manie, entre le Turchino et la Capi. Ils sont les plus longues montées, destinées à provoquer une première sélection dans le peloton, tandis que le Capi, la Cipressa et le Poggio sont plutôt courts, invitant les attaquants à distancer le peloton.

Au cours des dernières années, toutes ces difficultés n'ont que très rarement créé une grande sélection dans les derniers kilomètres de la course. Beaucoup de sprinteurs sont en mesure de suivre le peloton dans les montées, de ce fait la course se termine le plus souvent avec un groupe qui arrive au sprint. Néanmoins, l'emplacement du Poggio près de l'arrivée a souvent signifié que la position des coureurs au sommet du Poggio est cruciale pour gagner la course.

Malgré son parcours relativement plat et sa longue ligne droite finale, les équipes de sprinteurs se sont fait piéger de temps à autre par une attaque lors des dernières côtes. Parmi eux, Laurent Jalabert et Maurizio Fondriest, tous deux échappés en 1995 et en tête jusqu'à l'arrivée. En 2003, Paolo Bettini attaque avec Luca Paolini et Mirko Celestino avant de s'imposer. En 2012, Vincenzo Nibali et Fabian Cancellara partent sur le Poggio, suivis par l'Australien Simon Gerrans qui les devance finalement à l'arrivée. En 2017 et 2018, ce sont également les attaquants qui sont récompensés, après avoir placé une attaque dans le Poggio.

Modifications proposées

Au cours de son histoire, Milan-San Remo a connu quelques changements depuis sa première édition. Néanmoins, les organisateurs mettent un point d'honneur à rester fidèle au parcours original.

La dernière modification importante du tracé est l'inclusion du Manie en 2008. En , l'organisateur RCS Sport annonce que la course inclurait la montée de Pompeiana entre la Cipressa et le Poggio. Pour garder la course à une distance totale raisonnable, il décide d'exclure Le Manie. Le Pompeiana, nommé d'après le village homonyme où la route passe, grimpe sur cinq kilomètres avec une pente maximale de 13 %, et serait donc la montée la plus difficile dans le final de la course.

Le tracé proposé est finalement modifié quelques semaines avant la course en , le Pompeiana étant endommagé par des glissements de terrain récents. De ce fait, le parcours est plus traditionnel et favorable aux sprinteurs. Cela conduit certains sprinteurs - qui prévoyaient de faire l'impasse en raison des rajouts de difficultés - à finalement participer à la course.

En 2015, la montée du Manie est supprimée, le Pompeiana n'est plus au programme. Avec cet itinéraire pré-2008, les organisateurs de la course déclarent qu'ils veulent revenir au parcours traditionnel de la course
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Palmarès et statistiques

Palmarès

Lors de l'édition 1915, Costante Girardengo est disqualifié, c'est Ezio Corlaita qui a obtenu la première place. En 1976, Jean-Luc Vandenbroucke initialement troisième est disqualifié.

Statistiques et records

Par coureurs

Par pays

Cyclosportive
L'Unione ciclistica San Remo organise chaque année depuis 1970 la cyclosportive « Granfondo Milano-San Remo ». Elle réunit en juin  sur un parcours de , quasi identique à celui-des professionnels.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Primavera Rosa

Liens externes

 Palmarès de Milan-San Remo sur memoire-du-cyclisme.eu
 Palmarès de Milan-San Remo sur siteducyclisme.net

Compétition fondée en 1907


Chance The Rapper took the music trade by storm together with his mixtapes. Now, he's lastly able to drop his debut album.
The Grammy-winning artist teased followers Twitter by hinting at a July launch date on Monday night time (February 11).
Soon after, Chance posted a video on Instagram reflecting on among the fantastic issues taking place in his life. After suggesting followers must proceed ready for his album, he as soon as once more talked about a July launch.
Chance's playful announcement was ultimately confirmed by his supervisor Pat Corcoran, who formally revealed the LP would drop this summer time.
On Tuesday (February 12), Chance hopped again on Twitter to inform followers about what they may count on from his debut. The Hip Hop star stated it wouldn't rehash what he did on 2016's Coloring Book and his breakthrough mixtape Acid Rap.
I bought actual well-known so I gotta lotta eyes on me that wasn't followers of me they only followers of whats fashionable. My first album is for my followers.


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Best Haunted Houses – 2017
Mckamey Manor – Formally in San Diego, now in Huntsville, Alabama and Nashville, Tennessee
What the majority of the population would consider a torture chamber rather than a haunted house, McKamey Manor is by far the scariest "haunted house" there is. It's been taking place in San Diego for about 16 years, and not one person has made it through without asking for it to be over. The 30-page waiver you need to sign in order to participate gives Russ McKamey and his "team" the OK to shock you, submerge you in water, and even give you unwanted dental work, along with other disturbing things we'll save you from reading. McKamey is currently under watch from locals — in both of his new locations — who want him out. The most disturbing part: Mckamey Manor has over 27,000 people on the waiting list.
The Terror Behind The Wall – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The setting for Terror Behind the Walls is perfect for a haunted attraction. Eastern State Penitentiary was once the most famous and expensive prison in the world, but stands today in ruin, a lost world of crumbling cellblocks and empty guard towers. This gothic structure, with soaring 30-foot high fortress walls, is intimidating enough during the day. At night, the cellblocks fall into darkness, and the building becomes truly terrifying.
Many people believe that Eastern State Penitentiary is haunted. As early as the 1940s, officers and inmates reported mysterious visions and eerie experiences in the ancient prison.
With the growing interest in paranormal investigations, Eastern State Penitentiary may now be the most carefully studied building in the United States. Approximately 60 paranormal teams visit to explore the site in a typical year.
The penitentiary has been featured on the Travel Channel's Most Haunted Live, Ghost Adventures, and Paranormal Challenge; Fox Television's World's Scariest Places; TLC's America's Ghost Hunters; and MTV's FEAR. Footage captured on the second tier of Cellblock 12 by paranormal investigators during filming of SyFy's Ghost Hunters may be the most controversial ghost sighting in history. During the filming of Paranormal Challenge, host Zak Bagans called Eastern State Penitentiary "one of the most haunted places in the world."
Ranch Of Horror – Turlock, California
Zombie Escape is a combination of an escape room and paintball tag in one. Players are sent out equipped with paintball guns, masks and gear to fight off zombies while wearing flag football tags that allow zombies to fight back. This is the most interactive zombie experience in the Central Valley.
A Zombie outbreak has occurred and extractions teams are being assembled to help find a cure for the outbreak and save humanity. As the team enters the compound, disaster strikes, the vehicle carrying them breaks down and zombies are everywhere. The team is limited on time as a bomb, charged by the last living scientist before he was infected is set to ignite. The team must work together to find the tools needed to repair their vehicle, while fighting off zombies before time runs out. If the team is successful they will come across a cure which was saved on a flash drive by scientist who were infected before the team could get there. A successful team will get a victory ride back to their homeland. An unsuccessful team will be noticeable by their walk of shame back to the homeland.
Fear Factory – Salt Lake City, Utah
In the late 1800s, in the heart of industrial Salt Lake City, a cement factory known as the Portland Cement Works began its operation. In those days, manufacturing was a dangerous activity, requiring the use boiling liquid and heavy machinery powered by the grinding of giant gears. In this environment of early industrialism, the margin for error was small. Throughout the history of the factory, numerous workers learned this reality too late.
George Howe, charged with maintenance of the coal crusher, was one such worker. One evening, George was alone in the factory oiling the crusher before shutting it down for the night. As he reached across to apply oil deep within the crusher, the machine grabbed his sleeve and began slowly pulling him into its gears. George's arm was first removed from the socket, then snapped and ripped from his body. Unable to free himself, the man was slowly but consciously pulled into the crusher. The roaring machinery and the solid factory walls silenced his cries. George Howe's entire body was eventually twisted into the gears before being spit out as nothing more than a torn and mutilated collection of bloody flesh.
For the factory and its managers, this first accident was unexpected and unfortunate. As the frequency of accidents increased, however, it seemed that the factory itself was intent on keeping its gears oiled in blood. The building would take its victims in the blink of an eye leaving them mauled, dismembered, burned, electrocuted or beheaded. As the years past, the number of stories increased.
The Portland Cement Works eventually closed its doors. As the decades past, the property fell into a terrible state of disrepair. Several times, would-be entrepreneurs acquired the factory as a home for their businesses. Despite the best of intentions, these businesses never lasted long. Between periods of operation, the property became home to transients and wanderers. In 2010, we acquired the property and began exploring its expansive spaces, its silos, and its underground tunnels. We've also performed research, using the state's historical archives along with the latest paranormal technology.
Creepy Hollow Haunted House – Rosharon, Texas
As with any research, sometimes the results simply are not stable and must be contained. Pitch Black is a holding facility adjacent to Nouveau Genesis located at Creepy Hollow. Once the factory started experimenting on humans, strange and uncontrollable side affects started to appear with some of the subjects. They became insane, freakish, and began to get aggressive.
The scientist found they could control the state of the subjects depending on the light they were exposed to. Bright lights and glowing lights made them act completely insane. Complete darkness made them turn into killing machines. Nouveau Genesis began to worry about spies and competition watching and sneaking into their facility. They created a area called Pitch Black with both crazy lights and complete darkness to harness the pure killing power of the rejected subjects to provide added security measures. Most people will never make it through the Dark Woods or Pitch Black to see what takes place the inside walls of the 288 Scare Factory. Will you?


Have you noticed how often the president seems to have flip flopped on so many important issues? Or, if not flip flopping at least taking diametrically opposed positions on the same basic issue. Since the media isn't very good at alerting us to these inconsistencies, I'll bet you haven't been paying close attention either. Here's my update.
Oil and Gas and the Environment. President Obama just vetoed a bill to fast track approval for the Keystone XL pipeline. That wasn't a surprise. He has been threatening a veto for a month or so, even though Hillary Clinton's State Department signaled that it was all systems go sometime back.
But here is a surprise. Did you know that the president is approving off shore drilling along our Atlantic sea coast?
Almost all the opposition to the Keystone Pipeline comes from environmental groups who are opposed to any and all carbon based energy – not just oil from Canadian tar sands. Do you think any of them want to see oil rigs in the Atlantic Ocean – just off the shore line of North and South Carolina, Georgia and Virginia?
Longtime political strategist Doug Schoen has a plan to save America from its squabbling politicians.
If that zig after a previous zag, leaves you a bit dizzy, try this one.
At the same time the White House is opening up the Atlantic coast to drilling, it is moving to put nearly 10 million acres of Arctic waters off Alaska's coast permanently off-limits to oil-and-gas development. It's proposing to put the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge permanently off-limits as well. And that's after promising to allow exploration in Alaska, according to Sen. Lisa Murkowski.
The president still says he supports oil, coal, and natural gas production in the US (zig). But he also supports higher fuel-economy standards for cars and light trucks (zag) and the EPA's forthcoming rules to crack down on carbon-dioxide emissions from coal plants (another zag).
So what is the administration's over all position on oil and gas and global warming? That's anybody's guess.
Labor markets. Another mystery is the Obama administration's attitude toward labor. President Obama has long supported "card check" legislation, making it easier to form labor unions. He even used unconstitutional means in an attempt to appoint pro-labor representatives to the NLRB, which has regulatory authority over labor-management issues. But then here is a surprise. The president's budget actually allocates money to encourage states to get rid of unnecessary occupational licensing.
What's the difference between unionization and licensing? Not much.
Like medieval guilds, the goal of a modern union is to monopolize the supply of labor to a market. (See David Henderson.) With that power, the union can then limit the labor supply and secure above-market wages. Why do unions push for higher wages and benefits even when they cause layoffs? Because trading off smaller output for higher prices is what all monopolies do.
How is it possible to monopolize the supply of labor? In a free labor market, it isn't. Workers who aren't in the union (scabs) will offer their services for lower wages than the union is demanding. Employers will be more than willing to hire them. The only way to prevent this is through force — either by the government or by the union itself. This is why the history of American union movement has been marked by so much violence. In a very real sense, there is no such thing as a peaceful picket line. The only purpose of a picket line is to intimidate.
Enter occupational licensing. This is the modern way of achieving the same results without the necessity of collecting union dues and walking picket lines. One out of every three jobs in the United States today, requires a government license.
Education Savings Accounts. The tax law allows parents to save tax free for their children's college education and at one time President Obama was a fan. As a senator he voted to make them a permanent part of the law and he wrote favorably about them in his autobiography. He and Michelle even put $120,000 in an ESA for each of their two daughters, Malia and Sasha.
But then in his State of the Union Address, the president proposed taking away this option (fortunately for Malia and Sasha, not retroactively) until … well, until he changes his mind again.
Yet as reported previously, none of this fits into the vision of the Obamacare creators. Obamacare architect, Zeke Emanuel, for example has called personalized medicine a "myth" and even if it works, he says, we can't afford it. Obamacare cheerleader Atul Gawande thinks that medicine should be more like engineering — with all doctors following the same script, rather than exercising their individual judgments. Karen Davis, another cheerleader, envisions a world in which doctors who follow the script get more pay, while those who deviate will be docked.
While the Obama administration is throwing a handful of dollars at the personalized approach, it is continuing to spending millions on pilot programs and demonstration projects to find about "what works" so that doctors can be told to go copy them.
"Contracts for medical care that incorporate "pay for performance" direct physicians to meet strict metrics for testing and treatment. These metrics are population-based and generic, and do not take into account the individual characteristics and preferences of the patient or differing expert opinions on optimal practice."
Chicago's Mayor Election. President Obama's tendency to exhibit a spit personality has never been more evident than in Chicago, where he has campaigned for the re-election of Rahm Emanuel as mayor. Remember, Barrack Obama is supposed to represent the left wing of the Democratic Party. But Rahm Emanuel (like almost all successful mayors) has governed like a Republican – closing failing and superfluous schools, funding charter schools, instituting merit pay and insisting on results.
So what's a loyal member of the Chicago teacher's union to do? They voted for another candidate.


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I also offer gift vouchers for my very popular photography course in St Albans, a great present for a DSLR owner who would like to get more out of their camera.
When choosing your gift voucher,I recommend you select the option based on your budget, the recipient will always be able to upgrade to a larger package should they wish to do so once they see the photos. The most popular packages for gifts are either the Sweet Collection or the Essential Collection.


Configure a proxy server on Windows, and Windows applications will send your network traffic through the proxy server. For example, you may need to use a proxy server provided by your employer.
RELATED: What's the Difference Between a VPN and a Proxy?
Generally, you'll use a proxy if your school or work provides it to you. You could also use a proxy to hide your IP address or access geoblocked websites that aren't available in your country, but we recommend a VPN for that instead. If you need to set up a proxy for school or work, get the necessary credentials from them and read on.
The settings you choose will be used for Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, and other applications that use your system proxy settings. Some applications, including Mozilla Firefox, allow you to set custom proxy settings that override your system settings. Here's how to set up a system-wide proxy in Windows 10, 8, and 7.
On Windows 10, you'll find these options under Settings > Network & Internet > Proxy. On Windows 8, the same screen is available at PC Settings > Network Proxy.
The settings here apply when you're connected to Ethernet and Wi-FI network connections, but won't be used when you're connected to a VPN.
By default, Windows attempts to automatically detect your proxy settings with the "Automatically detect settings" option. Specifically, Windows uses the Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Protocol, or WPAD. Business and school networks may use this feature to automatically provide proxy settings to all PCs on their networks. If the network you're connected to requires a proxy and it provides that proxy via WPAD, Windows will automatically configure and use the proxy. If the network doesn't provide a proxy, it won't use a proxy at all.
If you don't want Windows to automatically detect proxy settings, set the "Automatically detect settings" option here to "Off". Windows will then only use a proxy if you configure one under Manual proxy setup.
In some cases, you may need to manually enter the address of a setup script for your proxy configuration. To do so, enable the "Use setup script" option here. Plug the network address of the script into the "Script address" box, and click "Save". This script may also be referred to as a .PAC file.
Your organization or proxy provider will provide you with the address of the setup script, if you need one.
To enter manual proxy settings, enable "Use a proxy server" under Manual proxy setup. Enter the address of the proxy server and the port it uses in the "Address" and "Port" box.
Your organization or proxy service provider will provide you with the network address and port number the proxy requires.
When you connect to any address, Windows will send the traffic through the proxy server. However, you can configure a list of addresses that Windows won't use the proxy server for. By default, the list includes only *.local . The asterisk is a wildcard and means "anything". So, if you attempt to connect to server.local, database.local, or anything else that ends with .local, Windows will bypass the proxy and connect directly.
You can also check the "Don't use the proxy server for local (intranet) addresses". Windows will bypass the proxy server when you connect to resources on your local network, or intranet. When you connect to addresses on the Internet, Windows will use the proxy server.
Click "Save" when you're done to change your proxy settings.
On Windows 7, you can change your proxy through the Internet Settings dialog. You can also use this dialog on Windows 8 and 10, if you like. Both interfaces change the same system-wide setting.
First, open the Internet Options window. You'll find it at Control Panel > Network and Internet > Internet Options. You can also click the Tools menu in Internet Explorer and select "Internet Options" to open it.
Click the "Connections" tab at the top of the Internet Options window. Click the "LAN Settings" button at the bottom of the window.
The "Automatically detect settings" option is enabled by default. When this option is enabled, Windows will attempt to automatically discover a proxy with the Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Protocol, or WPAD . If no proxy is provided by your network, none will be used. Disable this option to prevent Windows from using WPAD to automatically configure your proxy settings.
The "Use automatic configuration script" option allows you to enter the address of an automatic proxy configuration script. This address will be provided by your organization or proxy provider, if you need it.
The "Use a proxy server for your LAN" checkbox will allow you to manually enable and configure a proxy. Check it and enter the network address and port of the proxy below. The organization providing your proxy server will provide you with these details.
By default, Windows will automatically send all traffic through the proxy, including traffic to addresses on your local network, or intranet. To always bypass the proxy server when connecting to these local addresses, enable the "Bypass proxy server for local addresses" checkbox. Applications will bypass the proxy and connect directly to resources on your local network, but not Internet addresses.
Click the "Advanced" button under Proxy Server if you want to change advanced settings when enabling a manual proxy server.
The Servers section here allow you to set a different proxy server for HTTP, Secure (HTTPS), FTP, and SOCKS protocols. By default, the "Use the same proxy server for all protocols" box is checked. If you know you need to use a different proxy server for different types of connections, uncheck this box and enter the details you require here. This isn't common.
The Exceptions section allows you to provide a list of addresses Windows will bypass the proxy for. By default, it only includes *.local . The asterisk here is known as a "wildcard" and matches everything. This means that any address ending with ".local", including server.local and database.local, will be accessed directly.
When you attempt to connect to howtogeek.com, Windows would then make a direct connection to howtogeek.com without going through the proxy server.
If there's a problem with the proxy server—for example, if the proxy server goes down or if you enter the proxy server details incorrectly—you'll see a proxy server-related network error message in the applications you use. You'll need to return to your proxy server settings and fix any problems.


Once again the Simply Ghost Nights team were staggered at the help afforded to us by the Cusworth hall staff of, Phil and Craig, no job was too small for them as they provided a first class service that enabled the event to run smoothly and professionally, and we thank them for all their assistance. On the initial walk around this beautiful grand old building, Chris Conway the amazing Most Haunted television medium, illustrated his mediumship skills when in the Victorian school room he picked up the name of Mr. Trainer, and Chris stated that Mr.Trainer was indeed a ghostly school teacher who still resided in that area of the that the table moved around the hearse room and one group actually witnessed a table move by itself with no ones hands on the table this had Andy, Nicola and Jody absolutely staggered. Angela, Sam and Shelley were startled to see the glass move in a vigil on the Ouija board, it was said that the spirit of a child made contact with the group, in the room adjoining the school room. Jo felt the bench move in the school room this caused to her to leap up in terror and move from the bench to another place in the room and Carol's torch came on. Unknown to Chris there was in fact a Mr. Matt Trainer on the guest list of the investigation, who was actually a school teacher too, this discovery absolutely amazed everyone on the event. If that wasn't enough before the investigation had begun, whilst Chris was calling out in the group vigil for spirit communication, there was a loud bang on the door of a cupboard, this shocked most of the group who heard the loud bang, some ghost hunters were actually seen to jump out of their chairs in fright. As we all went our separate ways in search of spirit communication, it wouldn't take long for the ghostly Cusworth hall occupants to make their presence known, in one vigil a bewildered Violet claimed to have had her leg slapped, and Helen felt her jeans been tugged on a vigil. There was numerous vigils that had some great results with the glass divination and table tipping, in fact in one vigil it was noted by itself in another vigil, and in the wedding room Claire felt as though an unseen force was pushing her down from the shoulders, and in the same vigil many ghost hunters felt what could have been the icy breeze of spirits moving around them, as there no draughts coming from the windows. As the event came to a close another mystery came to light, where had all the time gone, many ghost hunters said that the time had flown by and the events that unfolded during the night had opened many of their eyes to another world besides our own, as we all said our au revoirs it was summed up best by one of the sceptics of the night, who said that he now knew for sure there was more to our world than we know. We cannot end there without a big thank you to Mr. Chris Conway for coming along and joining us on this paranormal investigation, it was said by countless of ghost hunters on Saturday that Chris was such an amiable, sociable, and modest man, and we at Simply Ghost Nights second that too.


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Transit Tourist: notes from the land of fire and ice
by Anna Chen , January 26, 2016
I recently ticked off one of my bucket list items and went on a vacation to Reykjavík, Iceland. (No, I was not able to take advantage of WOW Airlines' recent [continue reading]
Metro voted Best of Downtown 2014 in public transportation category
A big thank you to all those who voted for us!
Tokyo Wonderground: fall in love with Tokyo Metro
A recent campaign by Tokyo Metro shows the wonder of traveling underground.
Transportation headlines, Friday, Dec. 16
by goodwindo , December 16, 2011
Here is a look at some of the transportation headlines gathered by us and the Metro Library. The full list of headlines is posted on the library's blog. Amtrak Says It Needs New York Station That May Be Too Costly (San Francisco Chronicle) In New York, Amtrak says it needs to move [continue reading]
Public transit options help offset 60 Freeway closure
by Gayle Anderson , December 15, 2011
Customers can find a convenient bus or rail route to a destination at the TripPlanner on www.metro.net. Also, this is a good time to check out your rideshare options. Find a friend or neighbor to share the ride or make an instant connection at metro.net. (See "Commuting" in the "Getting Around" [continue reading]
Transit notes from Taipei
by Anna Chen , December 6, 2011
A few readers have recently asked for more posts about transit in Asia, the home to some of the planet's most used and advanced systems. With that in mind, I wanted to share my experience with the Taipei Metro, also known as the MRT. I was raised in the 'burbs [continue reading]
Approaching transportation research: It's all here at Metro's library
by Gayle Anderson , June 8, 2011
June got off to a splashy start in 1974 when Metro's predecessor agency Southern California Rapid Transit District launched its "Street Fleet" bus service to carry people to the Santa Monica beaches. Summer beach riders were reminded that they were allowed to bring their surfboards directly onto the buses, writes [continue reading]
National transit group supports legislative proposals to speed funding of infrastructure projects
by Gayle Anderson , March 15, 2011
Metro CEO Art Leahy, in Washington for a transit conference, reported growing support for the 30/10 Initiative, also known as "America Fast Forward." This time the endorsement comes from the American Public Transportation Assn., a Washington-based nonprofit which represents transit agencies (including Metro) and private firms involved in building and [continue reading]
Los Angeles Times reviews L.A.'s other car — a Metro Bus
by Gayle Anderson , January 28, 2011
Online at latimes.com: A crash-less course in driving MTA's new natural gas bus A million or so boardings on an average weekday translates to a lot of people whose other car is a Metro bus. Maybe that's why Los Angeles Times auto critic David Undercoffler wanted to take the newest [continue reading]
Metro reaction to Urban Mobility Report on traffic congestion
Metro Board Chairman Don Knabe has issued a statement in reaction to Texas Transportation Institute's 2010 Urban Mobility Report on traffic congestion. The Texas Transportation Institute's congestion report released this morning serves as a warning bell for the region that we must continue our efforts to improve mobility options as [continue reading]
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I had all sorts of grand plans to get posts up about my weekend with the Cool Crops girls but once I got home I immediately headed out again for a visit to Texas – I'm just now getting photos sorted.
Total reasonable price ($135) included a huge personal space, several meals, and an absolutely appropriate level of "group" activities.
The hotel cost $69 per night and was very reasonable as well.
I knew by the first day that I was going to be signing up for the November Cool Crops date in Portsmouth, NH.
This was my first ever 3 day crop. I spent a long time prepping for the crop by cleaning up my space at home and keeping several lists. I made a 3 column table in Pages and just printed it out again and again. This was something I got right. I had one list for projects I wanted to work on that I wrote down as the thought occurred to me and a similar one for things I wished to bring. Both were exceptionally helpful when packing because I didn't really make page kits – next to each project I jotted down specific materials I wanted to use with that project and just made sure that was packed.
Working off lists of projects and their needed materials was absolutely the way to go – I had always done very specific page kits in the past, even for shorter crops, and the agony of selecting coordinating cardstock a week before I actually was scrapping wasn't working for me. Since I didn't have various colors of cardstock in fifteen different sacks to return to their right places once I got home, unpacking was a breeze.
Only once did I have a problem with my packing – I thought I had forgotten a key set of inks when actually I had packed them in a completely non-intuitive (my intuition, not a normal person's) way and found them after I had to make some serious changes to one of my projects.
I took just about everything. All of my vertical files of CS/PP fit into a large laundry basket (HEAVY!). I just scooped up my Sterilite drawers (they fit perfectly under my table – I would gather there would be crops where this might not be so). I also ended up throwing large categories of things like my ribbons and adhesives into the big 2.5 gallon Ziploc bags I originally bought to put page kits into. I also ended up just throwing a lot of stuff into a second laundry basket. It would drive me nuts to have stuff like that at home, but it worked for me at the crop.
I think the only thing that was totally superfluous was the Big Bite. There was one there, and I had so many projects that never got completed I just never got around to playing with mine.
I am very glad I brought my own Baby Cricut and the big wire shelf. There were plenty Cricuts to go around and I took advantage of the tool table's cartridge selection several times. I got a ton of use out of two of my newer cartridges, Storybook and Happily Ever After.
I personally have no interest in a "location" crop. I care about a quiet place to sleep, reasonably healthy food, good lighting and a really big table all my own.
If I had had more room in the car I would have brought my office chair – the banquet chair wasn't so much uncomfortable as it was just a little too short.
Planning a four hour outing with my family in the middle of Saturday messed with the mojo.
I had a tough time concentrating after lunch on Sunday – I had planned to stay to the very end but I was tired and had a hard time ignoring the packing up going on around me. Next time I'll get there at 9 on Friday morning and make up the time thataway.
None of the Crop Horror Story Threads I had previously read on Two Peas and Scrapbook.com even came close to being true here. We had some issues with other guests of the hotel but that was it. The crop organizers were able to advocate for us all and we were comped the last night's stay. For me, the other guests are now just a funny story to tell.
Sometimes there was dueling musical styles being played. I did have earphones with me and if any of the music had been intolerable (like listening to High School Musical or Christian music) I could have listened to my own stuff. I take fiddle lessons while there are bagpipers practicing outside my lesson room and I taught third and fourth grade. The dueling music in the background didn't crimp my style one bit. I actually found using headphones hindered me from being with the others. My final verdict is to have them (I imagine you'd not make many friends if you asked someone to can their music) just in case, but only use them as needed.
It was refreshing to be with a large group of women. Somehow, topics mostly stayed light and appropriate for the situation. I really hope to run into the women I met there again.
My favorite surprise of the whole weekend was how much I enjoyed the group participation. I'm not a huge fan of get to know you games or anything like that. Cool Crop's "events" were just the right level of participation. Participation in various challenges, group games, and other things were rewarded with Cool Crops Cash which were then used on Sunday morning to purchase raffle tickets for the raffle prizes. Everything except the Saturday night group games was totally optional and I really valued the experience of the group games. We were assigned a random group ahead of time and moved through stations where we played brief games. It was over in an hour and it was a quick hour.
I am so signing up next week for the November crop date in Portsmouth.
Here are a couple pictures of my space. I'll post photos of the stuff I did separately so I can talk about what I did and the techniques/materials used.
This is the crop room. Plenty of room to move around and excellent lighting - I only turned my Ott Light on once or twice whilst matching papers.
My space. Plenty of places to put my stuff and enough room to work, too.
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