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Pride And Prejudice And Zombies has truly risen from the grave.
Deadline reports on two major developments on the Burr Steers film that mixes the mannered, brain-challenging prose of Jane Austen with brain-eating corpses from hell.
Sony Screen Gems has closed a deal for U.S. distribution rights, which means that we’ll probably be seeing the film in theaters come 2015!
Also, two of “Game Of Thrones‘” villains, both Charles Dance, below, and the wonderfully evil Lena Headey, pictured above, have joined the cast! Headey is a big genre icon having starred in the “Terminator” series, Dredd, 300 and even Laid to Rest and The Purge!
The film also stars Lily James, Sam Riley, Bella Heathcoate, Jack Huston, Douglas Booth, Matt Smith, and Suki Waterhouse.
“This mash-up that begins with the tangled relationship between lovers from different social classes in 19th century England, and is complicated by a full on outbreak of zombies.“
Latest script is by Steers, who rewrote a previous draft by David O Russell.
Ready at Dawn’s PS4 debut The Order: 1886 has gradually become one of my most anticipated games. I love Victorian era London, I love ancient wars between man and monster, I love steampunk weapons and gadgets, and I especially love using those steampunk weapons and gadgets on werewolves.
The latest dev diary for the upcoming game digs into all that steampunk goodness, as well as the process that went into creating each weapon and gadget.
If you ever wondered what it would look like if the visceral melee combat of Dead Island and the badass spellcasting of Skyrim was thrown into a medieval fantasy world filled with demons and monsters that need slaying, Hellraid is basically that. Back in April, Techland revealed they had decided to eschew a release on last-gen consoles in favor of bringing their dungeon hack ‘n slash game to current-gen consoles.
The move meant the game would be rebuilt from the ground up to make full use of the new consoles. It also meant it’d look and play better, so few people complained when they announced a 2015 release, rather than its initial fall 2014 window.
As we can see in the video below, this game has benefited greatly from that decision.
Hellraid releases on Steam Early Access later this year, with the retail version hitting PC, PS4 and Xbox One in early 2015.
Bob Clark managed to direct two of the most beloved Christmas movies of all time in his career. What makes that even more amazing is that he directed them for two completely different audiences. The first being Black Christmas which came out in 1974 and starred Margot Kidder, Olivia Hussy and John Saxon. The story follows a group of girls being systematically slaughtered by a killer within their sorority house. Really gets you in the Christmas spirit, no? Well if that isn’t your thing (in which case why are you here?) then you have undoubtedly seen his other classic A Christmas Story in which the most horrific elements come from boyhood pranks and the overshadowing fear of permanent eye dislocation.
So Clark has had an eventful career to say the least and when I picked up Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things I was sure I would enjoy it. I wasn’t wrong, actually I low balled my expectations and I fucking loved it!
I’ll be the first to jump on the “zombies are old news” bandwagon but that doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy them from time to time.Children, though a zombie movie, strangely follows the slasher movie formula. We have a group of young actors visiting a cemetery to entertain their tyrant of a director Alan, who is quite possibly the vilest of characters in movie history. He treats his troupe like dirt, even referring to one of them as “meat”. We have other formulaic characters as well such as the love struck couple, the funny fat guy, the bitchy girl, etc. However, though these characters all fall into some sort of typecast some still manage to be legitimately likable and funny except Alan who keeps insisting these people put up with his shenanigans lest they find themselves unemployed. Why they don’t just seek employment elsewhere I will never know. I guess times were tough in Miami for actors in 1973.
Now according to IMDB this is a horror/comedy which was basically unheard of back then. Sure, we laugh at a lot of horror movies from the 70s and 80s for their camp and bad acting but most of them weren’t funny intentionally. Writer Alan Ormsby (who plays the horrid director Alan) really nails it on dark comedy here while also balancing the disturbing factor. I laughed but I never lost the creeping feeling of what was going on.
Basically, Alan has his acting troupe sail to a, unbeknownst to them, (spoiler!) faux cemetery island that he and some of his friends have built in addition to the actual cemetery already there. After trying to raise the dead, and failing, Alan gives up and leads the group to a cabin but not before he digs up a real corpse named Orville to bring along with them.
And here is where the movie really takes a hard left and descends into lunacy. Turns out the dead really are coming back to life and when they do it’s a sight to behold. I will go on record and say that these zombies are the scariest I have seen. Romero/Savini zombie are all well and good but these zombies really look dead and some have been dead for a long, long time. And these aren’t your modern “virus” zombies either these are the real deal bursting out of their graves kind (read: the best kind).
I’ll admit the first part of this flick does sort of drag. There isn’t really any clear plot going on, it’s just these people going to a cabin on an island with their terrible boss. Essentially the first half hour is the worst team building exercise I have ever seen. Once it gets going though it’s a force to be reckoned with and I’m willing to look past a few flaws.
For instance, it doesn’t seem the zombieism is contagious in any way. Many characters are scratched and bitten but none of them turn. So at the end when the zombies climb aboard Alan’s boat to go back to Miami- ala Lucio Fulci’s Zombie- there really doesn’t seem to be a threat of spreading the disease. But really, that’s less of a “flaw” and more of a breath of fresh air and in a way Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things is sort of the precursor to The Evil Dead. The zombies or more like deadites in that they are brought back by a Necronomicon-esque Grimoire. I definitely can see a lot of imagery and ideas that were spawned from this criminally underrated movie. After all both The Evil Dead and Zombie came out well after Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things.
TLDR- Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things is well worth your time if you haven’t gotten around to it yet. It has the perfect feel for this time of year and really should be held among the top zombie movies of all time. It even almost makes up for Alan Ormsby’s other horror venture 1982′s Cat People…almost.
Have you ever wanted to know what it’s like to be in a coma, existing in some tenuous space just outside the reach of total consciousness? What if you had no agency in this world, but rather were forced to experience fragments of a previous existence without understanding the events themselves?
That’s the best nutshell explanation for Dear Esther I can muster. It is a concise, indelible experience, a playable metaphor without traditional structure or scope, but because I understand so little about it, who knows, I could be wrong about that, too.
Nevertheless, it is an experience worth having. The game is a beautifully rendered, auditorily pleasing adventure, and it only takes a single sitting to complete. Anyone who cares about video games as an art form should be interested in Dear Esther’s overall purpose, even if he – like me – does not quite understand what it might be.
It should be pretty obvious from the intro that Dear Esther is an experimental game, so placing it within the context of the horror continuum is going to be difficult. It is not obvious occultish phantasmagoria like Clive Barker’s Jericho, but neither is it a narratively rich deconstruction on par with, say, Mark Danielewski’s House of Leaves.
Dear Esther has no real game mechanic save for exploration, and it is not long enough to really warrant a full-on analyzation, especially not here. It’s brief, even by indie standards, but without it, arguably, we wouldn’t have games like Gone Home, which I would consider a much more mainstream and palatable example in this… genre?
In Dear Esther an unnamed character — not necessarily the narrator — wanders various parts of a seemingly uninhabited island, stumbling upon items that trigger chunks of epistolary VO and reveal fragments of a story to the player and, thus, the audience. Without giving too much away – and I kind of think explaining anything else about the game would only confuse uninitiated readers – suffice it to say, that’s just about it.
There isn’t even a ‘use’ button to interact with items, so it is the barest of configurations, and plenty of people would argue for that reason it’s not even a video game.
Horror fans might also be puzzled to find the review on Bloody Disgusting, for God’s sake, because what about this game could be construed as horror?
Rest easy. Dear Esther exists without a staple of traditional scary, gory, or disturbing elements, yes, but it is haunting and tonally dark, which ironically will make it more memorable than many horror gaming experiences I’ve had over the last few years. Something about the way the ambient music interacts and complements the baffling, fragmented narrative sets my teeth on edge, which places Dear Esther in a category unto itself.
As the player explores the rocky cliff side of this island, random VO narrates a splintered perspective of…someone. Or someones, I suppose. The narrative bits are not revealed with any linearity, so good luck in trying to decipher the story’s actual or metaphorical meaning. One would expect that, as the game progresses, the pieces of the puzzling story would begin to align, but they don’t in an intentional way.
From what I understand, plenty of sites feature detailed explanations of the game’s plot. I haven’t searched for what the game is “about” or anything and my instinct is to resist that temptation. I’ll eschew them in favor of my specific experience. To that end, Dear Esther is a mystery box I’d rather leave closed. So much of our world is dominated by knowledge that it feels empowering for something to be vague and apocryphal. It’s oddly life-affirming.
Honestly, it’s difficult to actually review this game as a game, because the game almost manages to sidestep the need for critical judgment. I realize that’s a copout. Being a small art project does not absolve it wholly; that’s not what I’m saying. I’m going to give Dear Esther a numerical value, however weird that feels in this situation, but more than that I think it’s important to get across the idea that people should experience this game.
That said, Dear Esther is not for everyone. I cannot condescend to say that by not playing this anyone is a knuckle-dragging Neanderthal. That is not the case. Nor am I trying to say it’s too “smart” for anyone. It is weird and brief and intentionally vague, kind of like LOST before they tried to explain everything, so this game just might not be enjoyable for you on any discernible way, and I think that’s okay too.
But I still think you should play it.
The Final Word: Dear Esther is less a game than a guided narrative, but its benefit lies not necessarily in how it attempts to deconstruct gaming and narratives and how we interact with digital worlds, but rather in the world itself. The bucolic surroundings are easy to look at, and the combination of visuals with the ambient sounds and odd little narrative pieces make it something to experience, kind of like a dream you don’t quite understand but will remember forever because of the particularly unsettled way it made you feel.
We have a new clip from The Pact 2, is now on VOD through IFC Midnight, with a limited theatrical run set for October 10. The clip shows one of the sequel’s fake scares, and then drops an exposition bomb on you.
The film is, “ a truly terrifying new film set just weeks after Annie Barlow’s deadly confrontation with the Judas Killer. In this elevated sequel, we meet June, a woman whose carefully constructed life is beginning to unravel due to lucid nightmares so awful they disturb her waking life.”
Camilla Luddington (“Grey’s Anatomy”), Patrick Fischler (“Californication”) and Scott Michael Foster all star in the sequel to the Nicholas McCarthy written and directed 2012 movie. The film was directed by Dallas Hallam and Patrick Horvath.
Universal Pictures is playing with the Ouija once again, this time in the UK. Check out a new trailer that moves the needle to “yes”.
In theaters October 24, the movie looks sort of like Final Destination, only they’re being haunted by what appears to be an angry old lady flaming to be their dead “friend”.
The pic stars “Bates Motel” and The Quiet Ones‘ Olivia Cooke, with Douglas Smith and Bianca Santos.
“In Ouija, a group of friends must confront their most terrifying fears when they awaken the dark powers of an ancient spirit board.”
Stiles White directs the supernatural thriller that is produced by Platinum Dunes partners Michael Bay, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller (The Purge, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday the 13th) alongside Blumhouse Productions’ Jason Blum (Paranormal Activity, Insidious series, The Purge), Bennett Schneir (Battleship) and Hasbro.
Let’s say you’re hiding under a cardboard box and there are some well-armed men who may have just made you. They’re slowly approaching. You have no time, no cover, and no way of escape without a distraction. It’s a good thing you’ve come prepared with the perfect decoy, something that will not only buy you all the time you need, but it may also result in a few goons shitting out their spines when they see a freakishly tall lady with a disfigured face waddling toward them.
That’s right, Lisa’s ghost from the Silent Hills P.T. demo is totally something you can summon as a temporary ally in Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain. See her in action in the video below.
And here’s that nightmarish concept video from TGS.
Things are not always what the seem to be inside the walls of Murder World.
Rob Zombie shared new art for his Halloween-themed 31, this time displaying a woman tied down and topless, looking as if she was or is about to raped *Rubbing my eyes in frustration*.
The crowd-source page has revealed that “31 has no rules. 31 has no boundaries. It is ever so simple. Do whatever you can do to kill your opponent before they kill you. Keep this up for 12 hours and freedom is yours.”
What we now know about 31 is that it takes place on Halloween night in 1975. Therefore, it’s a period piece about five random people kidnapped on the five days leading up to Halloween and held hostage in a place called Murder World. While trapped inside this man-made Hell they must fight to survive playing the most violent game known to man… a game called 31..
Some of the greatest horror movies are the classics, the originals that brought the most iconic denizens to the silver screen for the first time. We don’t often take the time to look back and appreciate that which inspired, influenced, and ultimately allowed some of our favorites to exist.
Perhaps it’s this nostalgia that fueled this week’s quiz. This is a chance to look back and see how well you know your classic horror films! Because if any of these have slipped past your radar, it’s time to venture into the past and relive the days of atmospheric horror, the likes of which had never before been seen at that time!
Go back-to-back with a new “American Horror Story: Freak Show” teaser! FX is set to debut the fourth season on October 8th at 10:00 PM on FX.
It begins its tale in the quiet, sleepy hamlet of Jupiter, Florida. The year is 1952.
“A troupe of curiosities has just arrived to town, coinciding with the strange emergence of a dark entity that savagely threatens the lives of townsfolk and freaks alike. This is the story of the performers and their desperate journey of survival amidst the dying world of the American carny experience.“
Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, Angela Bassett, Frances Conroy, Sarah Paulson, Emma Roberts, Gabourey Sidibe, Denis O’Hare, Jamie Brewer, and Evan Peters return from previous seasons. New cast members includes Michael Chiklis, Wes Bentley, John Carroll Lynch, Finn Wittrock, Matt Bomer, Patti LaBelle and the world’s smallest living woman, Jyoti Amge.
The official poster for Fairfield has been released, along with new stills from the film.
It is “A coming of age story about a group of teens trapped in their school during the zombie apocalypse.
When a mysterious illness suddenly spreads through his home town, Gabriel Cooper finds himself fighting for his life. After seeking refuge in the local high school, he’s united with a group of teenagers who are hiding in the school. Together, they must face the gravest of teenage dilemmas: sex, parents, friends, and zombies.”
Fairfield stars Juliet Landau, Chris Bellant, and Chris Riggi and will have it’s premiere this Halloween.
The film is directed by Mattheau O’Brien, written by Isaac Shyamalan Loftus, and produced by Rude Mechanical Laboratory and Waldorf Entertainment.
Horsehead Pictures and Starfix Productions shared the first clip from Horsehead (french title FIÈVRE), the first feature-length film by director Romain Basset from a script he wrote with Karim Chériguène. It premiered at the Fantastic Fest film festival this past weekend.
Catriona MacColl, Murray Head, Lilly-Fleur Pointeaux, Vernon Dobtcheff, Fu’ad Ait Aattou, Gala Besson, Joe Sheridan, Emmanuel Bonami and Philippe Nahon star.
We’ve also re-added the trailer at the bottom.
“Since childhood, Jessica has been haunted by recurring nightmares in which she is chased by a mysterious horse-headed monster called Horsehead. In the hope to find peace at last, Jessica has started studying Psychophysiology of Dreams.
Following the death of her grand-mother, Jessica reluctantly returns to the family home for the funeral. Upon her arrival, she finds out that the dead body of her ancestor is lying in the room next to hers for the duration of the wake…
Jessica falls ill after a first rough night during which she had the strangest nightmare. Stuck in bed with a high fever, the young woman decides to make good use of her lethargic state. She experiments LUCID DREAMING and aims to take control of her nightmares, a dangerous exercise from which some never recover.
Jessica wanders in her own dream-world and investigates to solve the mystery that has been gnawing at her and her family for several generations. She will also have to confront the evil Horsehead one last time.“
New Line Cinema just sent us a batch of family photos showing off their demonic Annabelle doll!
Their quasi-The Conjuring prequel haunting theaters October 23.
“John Form thinks he’s found the perfect gift for his expectant wife, Mia—a beautiful, rare vintage doll in a pure white wedding dress. But Mia’s delight with Annabelle doesn’t last long.
On one horrific night, their home is invaded by members of a satanic cult, who violently attack the couple. Spilled blood and terror are not all they leave behind. The cultists have conjured an entity so malevolent that nothing they did will compare to the sinister conduit to the damned that is now…Annabelle.”
Annabelle reunites the filmmakers behind 2013’s hugely successful supernatural thriller The Conjuring. James Wan, director of the global hit, is producing Annabelle with Peter Safran. John R. Leonetti, who served as cinematographer on The Conjuring, is directing.
Annabelle Wallis (X-Men: First Class) and Ward Horton (The Wolf of Wall Street) star as the Forms. Oscar nominee Alfre Woodard (Cross Creek, Twelve Years a Slave) stars as Evelyn, a neighbor who owns a bookstore and is familiar with the occult. Rounding out the cast are Kerry O’Malley (TV’s “Those Who Kill) and Brian Howe (Devil’s Knot) as neighbors Sharon and Pete Higgins; Tony Amendola (TV’s “Once Upon A Time) as Father Perez; and Eric Ladin (TV’s “Boardwalk Empire,) as Detective Clarkin.
Thanks to Bloody reader Fabien M., we have new images from Don’t Grow Up, a new thriller from Goal of the Dead‘s Thierry Poiraud.
In the film, “On an isolated island, a group of teenage delinquents living in a youth center wake up to find themselves alone with no one to watch over them. After much partying, their supervisor appears out of nowhere, feverish and shaking. He suddenly attacks the students. They fight back and kill him accidentally, leaving them no other choice than to flee the crime scene. As they run away, they realize the island has been deserted. Or practically. The few adults they encounter on their journey all seem to be infected by a mysterious epidemic, making them violent and dangerous. It gradually becomes clear to them that children and adolescents aren’t affected by this disease.
In order to survive, they need to respect one golden rule: DON’T GROW UP. But one of them is turning 18 very soon…”
The film stars Fergus Riordan, Madeleine Kelly, McKell David, Darren Evans, Natifa Mai, Diego Mendez, Dominique Baute, and Daniela Jerez.
It comes from Noodles Production and Capture The Flag Films.
Dark Sky Films, an MPI company, has picked up U.S. rights to Brian O’Malley’s UK horror Let Us Prey, starring Liam Cunningham (“Game of Thrones,” Hunger), Pollyanna McIntosh (Filth, The Woman), Douglas Russell (A Lonely Place To Die), Bryan Larkin (Outpost 3), Hanna Stanbridge (Outcast), Brian Vernel, Niall Greig Fulton and Jonathan Watson.
In the Irish horror, “An enigmatic stranger is detained in the cells of a remote police station one fateful night. From his basement dungeon the charismatic loner begins to take over the minds of his fellow inmates and those of the police officers. He influences them to bend to his evil will and their latent inner demons explode in a crazed night of blood-spilling and mayhem. Only rookie cop Rachel is able to resist him … Will she survive?
Judge, Jury and Executioner are waiting in Let Us Prey.”
The film premiered at this past weekend’s Fantastic Fest.
Myrkur, the mysterious one-woman black metal project, has released an official music video for “Nattens Barn”, which comes from her brand new self-titled EP (out now via Relapse Records).
Directed by Will J. Løkken and Aske Løkken, Myrkur comments:
See the video below and make sure to read my review here.
Arriving on VOD October 2 with a theater run set for November 7 from Cinedigm is Open Windows, Nacho Vigalondo’s (Extraterrestrial, Timecrimes) innovative and high-tech suspense thriller that unfolds on the screen of a laptop connected to the Internet.
Starring Elijah Wood (Maniac) and Sasha Grey, “Nick (Wood) is excited to discover that he’s won a dinner date with his favorite actress, Jill Goddard (Grey). But when Jill refuses to honor the contest, her manager Chord (Maskell) makes an offer he can’t refuse: the ability to view Jill secretly via computer. Nick begins watching the unknowing star on her webcam, not realizing that this decision will put both himself and Jill at risk as they enter a terrifying world of cat-and-mouse where nothing—and no one—are as they seem.”
Check out this new clip that wants you to keep a secret…
I’m really sorry, folks. Yes, Closed Circuit Extreme is another “found footage” horror flick. I know that you guys are getting sick of them. As I’ve said before, it seems that indie filmmakers will take a concept that Hollywood has capitalized upon and run it into the ground. But who knows? Maybe this film will surprise and take the concept in new and exciting directions? Maybe the film will instantly grip you by the grundies and not let go for it’s entire runtime?
You know the answers to those questions, don’t you?
Student Francesca Pardi mysteriously disappeared in 2010 and her body was never found. Her friends Claudia (Francesca Cuttica) and Daniele (Guglielmo Favilla) suspect handyman David De Santis (Stefano Fregni) is connected to Francesca’s disappearance. Unfortunately, the public prosecutor does not take them seriously. So to gain proof, Claudia and Daniele break into De Santis’ home and install five closed circuit cameras to spy on him. The cameras are all connected to one hard drive in the living room camera, so periodically, Claudia and Daniele have to break in to check the amount of data collected and to constantly fixed faulty recording signals. But when Daniele breaks his ankle, Claudia has to return to De Santis’ home herself, unaware that De Santis has suspected the break-ins for a while.
Well, I suppose that the most interesting way that the found footage gimmick is used in the film is it’s presentation. Given that we’re watching footage from a variety of angles/sources/lighting etc. that’s in possession by the police department, we do get artificially zoomed-in shots that are intended to highlight key snippets of dialogue or whatever. There are also slick graphics to highlight certain individuals involved in the case, so that’s pretty neato…
Yes, my feigned enthusiasm is that obvious.
No surprise, this film sucks. How bad is it? Well, what do you want to have happen in the first hour of a 98 minute film? Maybe some character development, some establishing of the plot? How about an hour of watching Fregni’s character doing absolutely nothing of interest? Yep, we get to watch his entire mundane daily routine. Watch De Santis open a beer with his teeth! Watch De Santis parade around in his underwear, scratching his ass! Watch De Santis hire a “masseuse”! You can see what I’m getting at. The first hour is drawn out for way too long, as if director/writer Giorgio Amato had nothing better with which to fill out his story. Oh, we do get to see Claudia and Daniele break in and adjust the equipment, but rather than gather and review the filmed footage, they just leave it there. Because that makes sense. Only after an hour does the film start progressing, but by then it’s almost over. Amazing.
It doesn’t stop there. The brilliant choice of having Italian actors deliver their lines in English is frustrating, given that there’s no ADR (surprise!), and we’re forced to try and discern what is being said. Don’t worry, the swearing is in English, and it gets tired real fast when that’s all they seem to do. Because that’s how English-speaking people in films talk, apparently. Regardless of whether they talk in English or Italian, none of the actors are particularly enduring. In fact, you end up hoping that our protagonists are caught, just so you wouldn’t have to deal with Claudia being so annoying, and Daniele being such an idiot.
So yeah, the last half hour of the film has De Santis finally begin to show off some serial killer tendencies. Once he does lure an attractive woman and subdue her, we get a rape scene (as well as full frontal Fregni), some disturbing letter dictation, and some cheap offscreen gore. Not only do these scenes feel out of place and are more upsetting thanks to the previous hour of nothing, but you still don’t end up caring all that much. Apparently, neither did Amato, since the film ends as anti-climatic as you can get.
Closed Circuit Extreme is a turd. No question. Instead of innovating things, we get the tired found footage trope run into the ground, lazy storytelling, annoying actors and cheesy effects. This is a far cry from the glory days of Italian horror, and really, the film is a far cry from anything resembling entertainment. Literally, you could watch ants parade along a sidewalk, and you’d find that more stimulating than this. Give Dario a ring if you’re looking for good Italian horror. Avoid this film like the plague.
Presented in 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen, the quality is all over the place. Whether or not this was intentional to simulate the various sources of footage, it makes the film’s grittiness seem more forced and amateur than anything else. Details and colour quality vary with each source. The darker interior scenes suffer the worst, giving way to large amounts of noise, blur and lack of detail. Outdoor scenes fare better, but overall, the look of the film just adds to the aggravation of the overall experience.
Want to make the thick Italian accents more annoying? Scrap doing an ADR, and give us a Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo track with no subtitles. The audio is what you’d expect, given what the visuals are like: dialogue volume is dependent on the location of the hidden microphones, meaning it’s just as uneven as the video quality. What’s more annoying are the intentional static bursts that pop up when a cut to another feed is made. Really artificial, really cheap.
Other than the film’s trailer, there’s a collection of outtakes that have been included at the very end of the main feature. Yeah, I don’t know why they did it like this, either.
Day of the Dead returns to Los Angeles this weekend (September 26-28) for three days of monsters, movies, and madness at the LAX Marriot!
Over 75 celebrity guests are scheduled to appear all weekend long, including: CLIVE BARKER, DOYLE, COREY FELDMAN, TARA REID, BILL MOSELEY, SID HAIG, JOHN SCHNEIDER, RON JEREMY, KANE HODDER, and cast reunions for RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD, NIGHTBREED, NIGHT OF THE DEMONS, THE THING, and much, much more!
Live music, 60+ hours of film and special event programming, monstrous after hours parties, costume and tattoo contests, and the best memorabilia vendors from across the country all weekend long.
Save money over the door price and avoid waiting in longer lines the day of the show by pre-ordering your tickets (through Thursday, Sept. 25th).
For tickets and full event info, visit the official website.


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The latest film from Alexander Payne is "Nebraska," a road trip story depicting family life in America's heartland. His sixth film — named for his home state — certainly isn't the first to dig into dark humor and awkward family dynamics.
We discuss the themes and characters in Payne's celebrated body of work — a repertoire that includes "Election," "About Schmidt," "Sideways" and 2011's "The Descendants."
What drives Payne to make these uniquely human films? Which one speaks to you the most?
Alexander Payne, Director, “Nebraska;” Academy-Award winning writer of “The Descendants” (Adapted Screenplay) and “Sideways” (Adapted Screenplay); Payne’s other highly notable films include “Election” and “About Schmidt”


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Koch Network pushes Trump and Congress for a Dreamers deal
The Koch Network's advocacy groups, The LIBRE Initiative and Freedom Partners, are launching a seven-figure national television and digital ad campaign this Sunday calling on President Trump and Congress to take action on finding a permanent solution for DACA recipients.
Why it matters: The Koch Network, which has been vocal about its frustration with lawmakers' failure to find a DACA fix, is hugely influential with Republicans and certain factions within the White House. Their latest ad campaign could be the driving force toward clinching an immigration deal.
Elected officials must stop thinking about this as a campaign issue ... this is an avoidable crisis; we're only here because of Washington's failure to act. President Trump and our congressional leaders should step up and do the right thing. This is too big of a problem for lawmakers to ignore, or to allow politics to get in the way."— James Davis, President of the Koch Network's PR firm, tells Axios.
Flashback: The Koch Network supported a recent immigration proposal that would've provided $25 billion for enhanced border security while also providing the 1.8 million DACA recipients a path toward citizenship. The proposal never made it into the omnibus bill, but the group thinks the deal should still be put into motion.

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Wywiad z zespołem Dionisyan
BWR: Not every day do we see a project that connects so seemingly different styles as doom metal and baroque music, and it is not the first time for you to experiment with various sounds. For starters, could you tell us about your previous projects?
T: With DELIRIUM AND MADNESS’s Album I wanted to give a strong and impactful identification with Spirituality coupled with philosophy, completely switched to female opera and modern Vocals.
Certainly it is a pioneering album of a new genre; the atmospheric baroque doom metal.
Absolute melody, harmonies from the first to the last note of the opera, lyrical and modern female singing alternating, baroque music with progressive metal and ATMOSPHERIC DOOM METAL in my original and innovative blend
BWR: Why doom metal? It is not a very spectatular genre of music and it requires an engaged listener who will not be bored by the low tempo and gradually building atmosphere. What convinced you to choose that particular approach? Could you tell us about your inspirations, both those coming from metal and the classical music?
T: My second DIONISYAN Opera Magna “ Delirium and Madness – Concerto Grosso Opera °2 in G Minor, in which I reinvented and renewed the polyrhythmic counterpuntic polyphony of baroque music in metal style.
It’s my 6th career album and it’s my absolute masterpiece, where I’ve surpassed myself, in every detail, compared to the first album of DIONISYAN „The Mystery of Faith” which is already very complete and intricate.
My intent was to create something of unique and innovative, that no one else had yet done with Metal.
And in “Delirium And Madness” my goal has been achieved.
I played, composed, arranged and orchestrated 9 baroque acoustic instruments, both for the intros, outros and during the songs to blend with the baroque structure of all the songs.
BWR: Now lets talk about Dionisyan itself, where did the idea of a combination of classical music and doom metal come from? Usually the neoclassical elements can be heard in power metal, folk,or progressive bands.
T: The first work had as its structure the melodic progressive death doom metal as the main matrix and then I had composed and arranged the music for the cantata harsh and growl, instead for the second great work that is totally structured in baroque music recontextualized in atmospheric doom metal, I created all the music for the female singing and the result was amazing.
My composing style is from classical music to jazz, I have been composing music professionally for over 20 years as a music teacher and for “Delirium And Madness” I had a general view of the whole opera initially that I then started to develop individually for each song on a melodic line carrier.
Normally I start working on more melodic lines that interact with each other so the two harmonized electric guitars and then develop all the other metric lines for the other instruments that are spot for my natural way of composing extremely detailed, intricate, complicated and complex.
BWR: Deliriumand Madness (Concerto Grosso Opera !2in G Minor)is a unique album, distinguishing itself from the CDs of other doom metal bands. Could you tell ushow it was created? What feelings accompanied creating a doom metal opera? What were the inspirations behind it ?
T: For sure “DELIRIUM AND MADNESS” be much more ‚complex musically regarding the compositions, arrangements and orchestrations from the first album „THE MYSTERY OF FAITH” that already anyway presents his musical innovation at the forefront for the contrasts of genres that I mixed between them, but in the second album I’ll move to other genres of music not to fossilize the DIONISYAN only to what I’ve done so far and go beyond the boundaries with other musical styles to get ahead in my evolutionary path as Composer, multi-instrumentalist and Teacher Music
BWR: The baroque music, although monumental and full of life, came to life during the period of many european wars. Chapels made of skulls, abandoned cities, leftovers of macabre massacres performed by marching armies & Thats also part of baroques heritage.Saying that this aspect of XVII and XVIII century is reflected in Dionisyan music would be taking it too far?
T: For “Delirium and Madness” I wanted to recreate a true Concerto Grosso in real Baroque style with the female chants, but rivisited by Me in Metal key and I wanted to recreate the typical Italian counterpoint polyphonic of the late 17 century, contrasting the different melodic vocal lines, using both the lyrical singing that also modern to give a unique brand to identify my musical proposal on all.
BWR: Its been less than a year since the premiere of the second Dionisyan album and maybe it is too soon for such a question,but when can we expect the new CD?Do you have any ideas as to which direction this project could go with next album?
T: Next year i will record the third DIONISYAN’s Opera,
I will change for the third time musical genre, I do not want to fossilize myself or even cradle myself on the tortuously beautiful articulated styles that I have amalgamated in the two Dionisyan’s albums.
In the first album I explored progressive metal, melodic death metal, traditional Arabic music, classical and medieval songs, always with Atmospheric Doom metal.
In the second album the baroque music, the opera and the progressive metal, always with the Atmospheric Doom metal.
In the third album I will realize exclusively Epic Atmospheric Doom Metal, very linear, without any contamination of other styles and musical genres, it will be 100% DOOM METAL.
As for the line up, I only keep bassist Alessandro Basso and I will change the female singer to get a male singer, this time with a clear voice too to sing Epic style
BWR: To wrap things up,is there anything you’d like to say to the listeners and readers from Black Widow Radio?Thank you so much for your time and we hope that we will hear much more about Dionisyan and its creations in the future.
T: I take this chance to thank you and the large community of Black Widow Radio for the kind interview and the opportunity to make known both me and my DIONISYAN.
I also invite anyone who wants to know the second album „DELIRIUM AND MADNESS – CONCERTO GROSSO OPERA°2 IN G MINOR”, can see “Blood Prophecy” and “ In The Mirror Of My Soul” lyrics video and the last audio video “Guardian Angels” with Sarah Eick as Special Guest from FUNERAL.
Our Album is still available for sale.
Anybody willing to buy a copy please contact me at email@example.com and with the copy, i will do an autographed postcard !
Thanks again for everything.
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St. Clair County Circuit Judge Vincent Lopinot is set to preside over a medical malpractice trial involving a Belleville neurologist beginning June 3.
Plaintiff Lisa Quick sued Dr. Stephen Burger, May 25, 2011, claiming he failed to recognize a growing cut on her brain. The suit specifically alleges Burger failed to appreciate the significance of a one-centimeter lesion adjacent to her right carotid siphon.
Quick, represented by attorney Rex Carr, alleges the lesion doubled in size in nearly a year’s time.
Because of the growing brain tissue, Quick alleged she developed injuries to her brain and brain stem. She claims she suffers double vision, headaches and memory loss, according the complaint.
She says Burger negligently failed to refer her to a neurosurgeon in a timely manner to treat the lesion.
Burger, represented by Ted Dennis of Freeark, Harvey & Mendillo in Belleville, has denied the allegations.
In his affirmative defenses, Burger claims the plaintiff had a duty to exercise care for her own health, and that she did not comply with follow-up care, which caused her injuries.
Burger also denies he failed to report to the plaintiff a lesion which showed up on an MRI, but admits that he did not report that to Dr. Gerald Wankum, an Alton ophthalmologist.
The case was set to go to trial Feb. 4, but was continued to March 11, then was continued again to June 3. Lopinot continued the setting in a March 4 order, with an objection to the continuance from Carr.
Quick is seeking a judgment more than $50,000.
St. Clair County Circuit Court case number: 11-L-248.

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Knurling is a process where a cross-hatch stamp is pushed into metal. By doing this, the metal is compressed in some areas and raised in others. Here is a picture of a piston with a knurled portion in the side skirt:
The main part of the piston (as in the picture) which gets knurled is the skirt. The reason someone would knurl a piston is one of two reasons.
First, if they want the piston skirt to hold more oil while running. This can provide better lubrication to the cylinder walls and with the piston skirt.
Second, and is more often the reason, people will have old pistons with worn skirts knurled to take up the slack where the worn part of the piston is at. This allows the piston to fit in the cylinder better than it would otherwise. This is only done during a rebuild where the engine builder is trying to skimp on parts. Since there is relatively little surface area on the piston skirt where the knurling is done which will actually touch the cylinder wall, this area will wear away fairly quickly (in the grand scheme of things).
Knurling pistons is an "old school" technique which I don't think is used much in the modern era. Piston manufacturers are able to produce quality pistons at a cheap price so affording new pistons to replace old ones is a lot easier to accomplish. This is doubly so considering getting old pistons knurled costs you money ... the difference between new pistons and knurling is not that great.
Besides decorative knurling, you can also find knurling done to valve guides to get a worn guide back into spec. This too, has ran its course and has fallen out of favor. One of the possible side effects of knurling your valve guides is if it's not done just right, can make your valve guide act like an oil pump and actually push excess oil into the cylinder. The guide also wears out rather quickly for the same reasons I talked about for the piston. Besides, you can get a valve guide insert done for a relatively cheap price. Inserts work far better than knurling, last longer, and there's no risk of making an oil pump out of your work. It's also much cheaper than having a new valve guide put into your engine.


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The best strategy for minimizing future influenza morbidity and mortality would be to concentrate vaccinations in school children and high-risk groups, according to a new research commentary by scientists at Emory University.
The alternative vaccine plan is based on mathematical models developed by Ira Longini, PhD, and Elizabeth Halloran, MD, DSc, professors of biostatistics in Emory's Rollins School of Public Health, and on influenza field studies. The report will be published in the February 15 issue of The American Journal of Epidemiology.
The mathematical models show that vaccinating about 70 percent of school children, ages 6 to 18, with influenza vaccine would reduce community-wide transmission to very low levels. School children are the population group generally most responsible for transmission of influenza because of more exposure potential and less prior immunity than adults. Even if only 50 percent of school children could be vaccinated, this would still result in a considerable reduction in transmission within the community, according to the models. The vaccine strategy over the last several years has been based on distributing vaccine primarily to high-risk groups, and such a strategy has not been very effective in reducing influenza deaths and illness, the researchers assert. Due to the current vaccine shortage, this same strategy has been enacted with the further stipulation that vaccine be limited to high risk and other predefined groups, but not to low risk school children.
The researchers suggest that the alternative strategy of vaccinating children and high risk groups would require around 120 million doses of vaccine per season, taking into account the fact that many high-risk people are never vaccinated. They recommend that the federal government guarantee the purchase and distribution of that many doses of vaccine each year in order to stabilize production. This strategy not only would be effective for normal yearly flu outbreaks, but also for years of pandemic influenza when supplies of vaccine are more limited.
The Emory researchers cite several field studies by other research groups showing that mass vaccination of children can be effective in reducing influenza transmission in an entire community.
"Many influenza researchers have believed for decades that vaccinating school children would be an important indirect way to reduce influenza transmission," Dr. Longini says. "This strategy has never been carried out in the US, however, possibly because public health officials have until now mostly considered the direct protective effects of vaccination, and school children are not considered a high-risk group."
The Emory researchers suggest it would be important to evaluate such a strategy carefully. One option would be to mass vaccinate school children in several states, with other states used as comparisons. "The current vaccine shortage gives public health officials the opportunity to reconsider what we believe is a very important alternative strategy of vaccinating school children in addition to high-risk groups," Dr. Halloran says. "If this strategy were adopted, the incidence of influenza could be monitored in states that adopted the strategy and those that did not."


Many drivers who have run-flat tires on their vehicle want to know if they can switch to a regular tire? While technically there is nothing preventing a non-run-flat tire from being mounted on the wheel, there is one thing you must consider before making the change. Most run-flat equipped vehicles do not have a spare tire. I highly recommend giving some thought to the course of action in the event you get a flat.
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CARSON CITY – The Crime and Justice Institute on Wednesday, Oct. 10, presented new findings to the Nevada Advisory Commission on the Administration of Justice (ACAJ) showing that inmates are spending significantly more time on average behind bars since 2012, contributing to growth in the overall prison population.
The average length of stay in Nevada’s prisons increased 31 percent over the past six years, according to CJI’s analysis of state data. The presentation was the second of three CJI will deliver to the ACAJ as part of Nevada’s effort to find ways to reduce recidivism, hold offenders accountable, and give taxpayers a better return on their public safety investment.
CJI has been working with stakeholders in Nevada since May, when state leaders requested CJI’s technical assistance. Ultimately, CJI’s data analysis will allow the ACAJ to develop policies to address obstacles facing Nevada’s criminal justice system.
CJI’s analysis found that one reason for the growth in time served was the increase in both the average minimum and maximum sentences imposed between 2008 and 2017. Minimum sentences increased 16 percent for inmates convicted of drug offenses and 8 percent for those convicted of property crimes. Time served for individuals convicted of a non-person offense also increased by 30 percent since 2012.
Most prisoners can earn credits toward an earlier release while in custody. But in 2017, inmates who were sent directly to prison upon conviction – as opposed to those incarcerated for a parole or probation violation – served an average of 129 percent of their minimum sentences. While parole is the primary opportunity for release from prison, over the past decade parole rates have fluctuated. Forty percent of inmates released in 2017 served their sentences without being paroled.
CJI will present data on community supervision at the upcoming ACAJ meeting on Nov. 8. The ACAJ will investigate strategies for reducing recidivism to help craft policy solutions to recommend to the Legislature in January 2019.
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Ben Southall became the envy of many when he beat out 34,000 other applicants and was awarded the “best job in the world” – the chance to spend six months in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef region. He even got to bring his girlfriend along for the adventure. In exchange for priceless experiences and A$150,000, Southall was to detail his adventures on regular blog posts.
But, according to The Courier-Mail, some people feel that Southall hasn’t keep up his end of the bargain. Since the job started on July 1, Southall has logged just seven posts. Tourism Queensland blames difficulties with Internet access for the skimpy posting and says that they are pleased with Southall’s performance so far, especially given his hectic schedule. Tourism Queensland also claims that Southall has conducted over 50 interviews and has a documentary crew filming his every move. From what is posted on the blog, it does seem as though Southall has a very busy schedule, with dawn-to-dusk activities planned nearly every day. Tourism Queensland also said that they were looking at ways to clear up Southall’s schedule a bit.
Hopefully they can work things out and allow Southall more time to blog. And if it turns out that Tourism Queensland isn’t pleased with his performance, I’m sure they’ll have no trouble finding a willing replacement!


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Editors’ note: This article, first published in print during Jan/Feb 2002, has been republished for Nonprofit Quarterly with minor updates.
September 11 marked the beginning of a new era characterized by an awareness of how little control any of us really has. Of course, from the day we are born none of us really knows what is going to happen tomorrow or the next day. Will we catch a cold? Trip and break a bone? Hear that a loved one has died? Die ourselves? In many ways, the United States has now joined a great portion of the world community. Palestinians and Israelis, the people of Ireland, India, Spain, and many other countries live with the threat of terrorist acts. People in dozens of other countries live with civil war, often close by their towns and villages. Even in many neighborhoods in the United States, people live with the very real threat of drive-by shootings, gang warfare, and police brutality. Women always live with the threat of rape, and millions of women live in fear of domestic violence.
For our purposes, the events of September 11 raise two questions: What effect does all this have on fundraising? And, How shall we change our fundraising plans and strategies to cope with it? I will reflect on the overall picture and then suggest, strategy by strategy, things to take into account as you adjust your fundraising plans.
In these times, one would expect three important factors to affect the ability of small nonprofits to raise funds: the September 11 attacks, the subsequent “war on terrorism,” and the state of the economy. Interestingly, none of these factors is likely to have a great or lasting effect on fundraising overall, although in the short term and for a cross section of groups, they may exact a high toll.
The economy has been sliding into a recession for more than a year. September 11 added a major blow to an already fragile economic picture. Fortunately, history shows us that giving by individuals is not generally affected by recessions. Although we have gone through several recessions in the last 40 years, in all but one of those years giving has gone up. Since most gifts are from middle-class, working-class, and poor people, the stock market has little effect on their incomes or their giving.
People with a lot of money in the stock market will cut back on their giving, but those who held diversified portfolios will be able to continue giving by taking money from money markets or when their CDs roll over. Of course, people who are left unemployed because of the recession will have to cut back on their giving, but those who still have jobs often give more during hard times. Region by region, economic downturns may take a toll on giving by individuals, but overall there will be little change.
The American Association of Fundraising Counsel (AAFRC) has examined the impact that major events of terrorism or war and major political and economic crises since the fall of France in 1940 have had on giving. They note that the stock market has dropped immediately following most major crises, and within one year has recovered. Many experts believe we are moving into a global recession and so the market may stay depressed, but the AAFRC data simply indicate that the market will recover most of the value it had before September 1, not that it will come back to where it was in the late 1990s.
A question in the minds of many nonprofits today is whether the immediate outpouring of donations to relief efforts following the September 11 attacks will diminish the generosity of donors to other causes. Last fall the AAFRC reported, “A significant outpouring of support for relief efforts from donors making small gifts, perhaps $25–$100…will be relatively short term and have little impact on total giving or on distribution of giving (i.e. what proportion goes to education, health, the environment, and so on) this year.” (You may read their full report at www.aafrc.org.)
While some organizations have noted significant drops in contributions since September 11, others have noted no drop at all. There is no pattern to these reports. For example, in the San Francisco Bay Area, two fairly similar organizations are having very different experiences: the Salvation Army reported a large drop in donations after September 11, whereas Goodwill Industries reported being right at their target goals for that time of year even one month after the attacks. Other organizations are doing better than anticipated. Alan Becker reports in the AFP Bulletin that the San Francisco Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility had their annual dinner the night the bombing of Afghanistan started. Attendance was up by 20% from the previous year. The amount of money brought in by events for Strike Out for Breast Cancer and Amfar are projected to exceed last years’ by significant margins. I have heard from a wide variety of organizations that, much to their relief, they have not seen a decrease in donations.
Of course, this is not everyone’s experience. I have also received calls and e-mails from groups that were having a hard time raising money after September 11. Often on further probing, however, I discovered that they had been having a hard time for quite a while. A development director called to ask me how she could motivate board members who were
reluctant to make their calls since the tragedy. It turned out these board members had consistently been unwilling to do fundraising. September 11 has just provided them a new and very dramatic excuse for their foot-dragging. Whatever problems your organization had prior to September 11 will be more acute now.
To be sure, some organizations have reported that some major donors have decided to give their big gifts to relief efforts. Organizations located in and around New York City and Washington, D.C. had a harder time gearing up for fall fundraising, and they will suffer some loss.
All in all, with some obvious exceptions, there is no inherent reason to think that September 11 will have much of an impact on an organization’s ability to raise money from individuals over the long term.
Though much fundraising will remain unchanged in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, certain sources of funding are going to change dramatically and most strategies will need some fine-tuning to be sensitive to both the attacks and the current recession.
Foundations are required by law to pay out 5% of the value of their assets annually. The 5% is based on the average of the value of the foundation’s assets during the previous five years. This safeguards foundation giving from spiking in a good year and being dramatically reduced in a bad year. It also allows the endowment of the foundation to grow so that it keeps pace with or, as in the past several years, exceeds inflation.
From 1995 through the middle of 2000, foundation assets grew at a record pace, as did the creation of new foundations. In 1999 alone, 3,300 foundations were created, bringing the number of foundations in the United States to 50,200. (When I started my fundraising career in 1976, there were only 15,000 foundations.) For years, foundation giving accounted for about 5% of all giving; in the last three years, however, that percentage has more than doubled, so that foundation giving in 2000 accounted for 12% of all giving.
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As the large number of foundations and their huge assets made grant seeking in the last five years much easier than it had ever been, many organizations came to rely on foundation funds. One development director said, “The question became not whether we would get
the grants, but could we keep up with the money we were able to generate?”
The five-year average asset value that foundations are using this year still includes some very high-earning years. But by 2003 and 2004, foundation giving will drop dramatically, as the stock market’s decline means their endowments are reduced in value each year. Some foundations have already cut back on grantmaking, particularly those heavily invested in technology stocks. (A similar pattern occurred after the stock market drop of 1987. The years
1988 and 1989 showed little change in foundation giving, but by 1990, there were major cutbacks.)
If your organization relies heavily on foundation funding, you have one or at most two years to develop other income streams. My advice is to get busy because the days of lots of foundation funding are, at least temporarily, over.
Direct mail experts are all reporting that mail is performing as well now as it was before September 11, but it will be some time before we can know for sure the full impact. Acquisition mailings are still getting 0.7–1% returns, and mailings to current donors are getting returns of 10% or better. They note that there are a few new things groups will want to do with their mail to ensure it is delivered and opened. Whereas in the past we have suggested adding suspense by not including a return address, that advice is no longer valid. Without a return address on the outer envelope, many people will not open a letter. If you write addresses by hand (which I have often recommended), make sure that the recipient can easily tell who sent the letter by having a clear return address. In the body of the letter, you can acknowledge the war (and whatever the latest manifestation of it is), but don’t dwell on it. Focus on what your organization does and why it is important.
With any direct mail appeal in these times, there is the chance that your mailing will arrive on the day that something terrible has happened. To spread out the risk, you may not want to send thousands of pieces at once.
Your major donors will continue to be loyal and giving if you intensify your efforts to see them and to let them know how important they are. Some donors who have been giving stock may postpone or cancel their gifts. In order to keep your cash flow from taking a nosedive, you may want to discuss with donors you are close to whether they could give some money now and some later.
One organization with a lot of donors who give stock shows these donors a chart of their monthly cash-flow needs and their monthly expected income from all sources. They then see if the donors are willing to give $100, $500, $1,000 or whatever is possible every month or every other month to help meet these cash-flow needs. In this way, they have managed to piece together enough gifts to get them through the next few months without having to borrow money. One donor who normally gives $10,000 in stock is giving $200 a month for the next six months. He will then evaluate whether he can make his stock gift. Obviously if his stock suddenly shoots up, he will make that gift sooner. It is important to be sensitive to the fact that many people who were heavily or entirely invested in the stock market, particularly the NASDAQ, are not doing very well financially.
Many other major donors are still doing fine. If their large gift is derived from their income and they still have their job, they can still give. In fact you will want to focus a lot of attention on the middle range of major donors: those who give $100 – $1,500, who are giving from income, and who have secure jobs. Last year the Chronicle of Philanthropy reported that donors in the $500–$1,500 range were the most neglected. They did not give enough to merit attention as major donors at many groups, but they were giving enough that they were often pulled out of the regular direct mail stream. Make personal contact with these donors. Tell them how important they are to your work and do more personal solicitation in this gift range.
Somewhat surprising, to me at least, is that special events seem to be doing well. While some groups cancelled events right after the attacks, those who went ahead with their events later in the fall report that they did well. It seemed that people wanted to come together to see each other and affirm that life does go on. If your event is well planned and carefully thought through, it should do well.
To err on the side of caution, though, some groups are scaling back the cost of their event so that if they have to cancel, they won’t be out as much front money.
Corporate giving is going to vary greatly from one corporation to another. Because of the current economy, many corporations will not be in a position to give for the next couple of years. Others are doing very well and even increasing their giving. They will continue to seek publicity for their gifts. Corporations continue to be under pressure from consumers to be more generous, which is part of a wider consumer concern about corporate ethics. Whether or not corporations are actually more generous is up for debate, but that they want to appear to be is not. Any group that can help them appear to be good corporate citizens probably has a good chance of getting some funding. (See related article in this issue, “Fundraising Medicine: Creating Gift Acceptance Policies,” by Rick Cohen.)
Far more scary to me than the state of the economy are the sweeping powers that law enforcement agencies have sought, and so far won, to investigate terrorists. These new laws may have a profound impact on a broad cross-section of nonprofits. OMB Watch reports that the USA Patriot Act, passed by the House and Senate in October, “gives the government broad powers to investigate for intelligence purposes, without requiring probable cause that a crime is involved. The Attorney General or Secretary of State could designate a group as a terrorist organization…and there are no procedural safeguards to protect against a wrongful designation.”
Organizations working with immigrants, or critical of US foreign policy, or working to lift the sanctions against Iraq, or with any number of other missions, could find themselves caught up in these “intelligence” investigations. All nonprofits, but particularly those working on social justice issues, will want to set aside staff and board time to learn the potential impact of these laws and to protest any violations of constitutional rights inherent in new legislation.
In the end, as it always has been, staying focused on fulfilling the mission of your organization must remain the driving element behind all fundraising and program decisions.

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In a scary year, these films offered catharsis and chills.
A tech-infused yet human-scaled, consistently tense genre piece anchored by a terrific lead performance.
Each individual blind box sells for $4 USD with a sealed flat box of 24 individually boxed figures selling for $96 USD.
With her co-starring role in Jordan Peele’s US (pictured) hitting theaters later this month, Elisabeth Moss is now poised to step into another high-profile genre project.
After the poor reception to the latest THE MUMMY led Universal to put the kibosh on its Dark Universe series, the studio is now revisiting the idea of reviving its classic creatures, and the latest development is a big step in the right direction.


Theoretical predictions from a 1D model of a solid:
interfaces and quantum wells
Seminar series given at the University of Pretoria by Matthias Schmidt in 2014.
Time: Wednesdays, 16:00. Venue: Department of Physics, Computer Lab
Check your knowledge!
Seminar 1, Introduction
Seminar 2, Getting started
- How is Schrödinger's equation integrated numerically?
- What is the particularity of a solution of Schrödinger's equation which is an eigenstate?
How is this used in order to find the eigenstates of a quantum mechanical problem numerically?
Seminar 3, Coupled Quantum Wells and the Kronig-Penney model
- What are the command-line arguments which must be passed to solidsim in order to
- run a simulation?
- print the potential values to a file (1001 steps, range -10< x < 10)?
- How can the potentials for a quantum well and a harmonic oscillator, respectively, be defined?
- Why is the free electron in a computer actually an electron in an infinite quantum well?
Seminar 4, 1D Hydrogen Atom and H2 Molecule Ion
- What happens to the eigenstates if two identical finite quantum wells are in close vicinity?
- How do the energy gaps calculated within the Kronig-Penney model depend on the barrier height?
- How do the energy gaps calculated within the Kronig-Penney model depend on the lattice constant?
- How does the finite x interval used by solidsim for the Kronig-Penney model simulations
influence the wave-functions?
- Why does every lattice cell contribute exactly one eigenstate to one energy band? Hint: coupled quantum wells.
- Why does the Coulomb potential bear a numerical difficulty? How can that difficulty be overcome?
- How do the energy levels of the 1D hydrogen atom compare to those calculated in the 3D case?
- In the 3D case the eigenstates of the H-atom are degenerate. What about the 1D H-atom?
- Consider two H-atoms in close vicinity forming an H2 molecule ion. What happens to the electronic
states if their distance becomes zero? What happens for an infinite distance?


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Scott Adams is the creator of Dilbert, one of the most popular comic strips of all-time, and author of the new book. "Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America."
October 23, 2018
Every issue stems from leadership. It's important to know when to step back, or push forward. Don't be afraid to take ownership. A creative solution requires a change in perspective.

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“Tastes of Mexico”
South of the Border specialties are served with Old World hospitality in this intimate, twilit setting. Start out a romantic meal with zesty appetizers like tortilla soup topped with avocado, cheese and tortilla strips. Then, delight in steak, chicken and fish entrées served with such sauces as chipotle pepper, chocolaty mole and green tomatillo. And later, top off your meal with creamy Bavarian mousse, or cheesecake covered in caramel sauce! Guests 21 years of age and up can even enjoy a variety of margaritas and premium tequilas. Mexican wines, beers and coffees are also available.
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The newest hotel in Tusayan, The Grand Hotel is modern and welcomming and just one mile away from the entrance of the Park. Built in 1998, The Grand Hotel was designed to resemble a three-story chalet and certainly stands out among the other area hotels.
Walking into the spacious lobby seems to instantly transport you to a mountain lodge. The flagstone fireplace warms guests on chilly fall and winter evenings. Guest can often be found gathering around the grand piano while a guest may take a turn tickling the ivories.
With Starbucks in the lobby and a pool, spa and fitness room within steps of your room, one does not miss many of the creature comforts here. Laundry facilities mean you can pack light without having to stay dirty.
The Grand Hotel also offers a gift shop stocking a decent inventory of Camelbak accessories and various outdoor gear as well as Native American jewelry and art.
An onsite restaurant, The Canyon Star Restaurant and Saloon, bring a historic Western feel to its patrons while serving up hearty helpings of barbeque, steaks and other southwestern fare. The saloon transports guests even further West with stools that were made from the saddles of the mule runners that used to work in the region many years ago. Entertainment is offered nightly and often features Native American dancers, folk singers and cowboys.
With a spacious, 700 foot conference room available to rent, The Grand Hotel hosts conferences, business meetings, retreats, weddings and other events.
- Air conditioning
- In-room coffee makers
- Pillowtop mattresses
- Guest rooms come equipped with cable television, including premium channels.
- Bathrooms feature shower/tub combinations, hair dryers and complimentary toiletries.
- Indoor pool
- On-site fitness center
- Restaurant open for breakfast, lunch and dinner
The Down Low/The 411
Reputed to be the best of the hotels in the area (there is nothing higher than the average 3-star hotel offered in the vicinity), The Grand Hotel delivers what it advertises. Complaints of chlorine wafting down the hallway seem to be the only real downside, but most get what they expect here.
Who is it good for?
This hotel is best suited to those who desire a little extra comfort. It is a smoke-free facility, so if you or members of your travelling party are smokers, you may want to look elsewhere.


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Institute for Forensic Medicine at the Heidelberg University Hospital/walk-in clinic for victims of violence
The forensic walk-in clinic of the Institute for Forensic Medicine in Heidelberg provides examinations according to state-of-the-art forensic standards. A specially trained team of experts is on hand around the clock. One of a kind in Baden-Württemberg, this clinic is designed to provide easy access to help and contributes to detecting violence and solving violent crimes. In many cases, examinations conducted by doctors with special forensic training enable objective diagnoses and the collection of evidence. It is important that examinations be made as early as possible, especially following domestic violence, strangulation, when there is a suspicion of child abuse, child molestation, rape, violence against the elderly or other acts of assault including fist fights or assault with a dangerous weapon or item. The walk-in clinic is open to anyone regardless of age, gender, ethnic background, nationality, or financial means. Even if you don't (or don’t yet) wish to file a report with the police, you can still ask to be examined.
The walk-in clinic can be phoned 24 hours a day on +49 152 54648393. An examination can be conducted any time after making an appointment by phone. There is usually no waiting time. The doctors in the forensic walk-in clinic are subject to doctor-patient confidentiality.
Institut für Rechtsmedizin und Verkehrsmedizin
Voßstraße 2, Geb. 4420, 69115 Heidelberg
SRH University Heidelberg Department of Applied Psychology
As one of the oldest and largest private universities in Germany, SRH University Heidelberg offers 32 innovative degree programmes in the fields of information science, media and design, business, engineering and architecture, social studies, law, therapy sciences and psychology. SRH University Heidelberg stands for innovative education. Its educational model, the CORE principle (Competence Oriented Research and Education), is unique in Germany and was distinguished with the Genius Loci Prize for educational excellence by the Volkswagen Foundation and the Stifterverband der Deutschen Wissenschaft, a joint initiative among German companies and foundations. At locations in Heidelberg and Calw, about 3,400 students are preparing themselves for their professional careers with a competence-oriented education. In addition to six academic departments, the Heidelberg Academy for Psychotherapy (HAP), the institute for continued education Institut für Wissenschaftliche Weiterbildung und Personalentwicklung (IWP), the university's own research institute and an institute for start-ups all belong to the university. SRH University Heidelberg is a state-recognised university and is accredited by the German Council of Science and Humanities. It is part of a network comprised of eight SRH universities in Berlin, Gera, Hamm, Heidelberg, Riedlingen and in Paraguay as well as the EBS University of Business and Law in Wiesbaden/Oestrich-Winkel. SRH Higher Education GmbH is the shareholder.
The Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at Heidelberg University Hospital
The Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at Heidelberg University Hospital has a variety of treatments available to people for the whole spectrum of mental illness. One of the clinic's areas of focus is to enable people who have experienced violence to receive psychotherapy treatment as either an in-patient or within the context of a partial hospitalisation programme; this allows patients to speak about their experiences and work through them in a safe environment as well as to receive tangible help. People who develop severe depression, anxiety or post-traumatic stress disorder following trauma can also get help at our institute's walk-in clinic as needed. In an acute crisis situation, we are ultimately there for women living in Heidelberg to set up an emergency plan and to find them initial help. Whether as part of in-patient or out-patient treatment, the social workers at our clinic will work closely with GUIDE4YOU in order to counsel, advise and support affected women.
Intervention agency for women and children (Interventionsstelle)
At the Intervention agency, we counsel women and girls who are experiencing violence in their relationship and who urgently need help. The intervention agency acts as a coordinating office and drop-in centre for women and children as part of the Protection Against Violence Act and when seeking restraining orders. Stalking is another area of focus. Interpreters can be brought in when needed.
We also counsel girls and young women whose ability to live a self-determined life is being prevented by their families and/or who are threatened with a marriage against their will.
We provide support by:
- Counselling by phone and in person
- Contacting public authorities, administrative offices and attorneys
- Providing information on potential legal steps
- Clarifying the situation of any children involved
- Arranging further assistance
Frauen helfen Frauen e.V.
Interventionsstelle für Frauen und Kinder
Mannheimer Straße 226
Tel: 06221 750135
Mannheim Police Headquarters
Domestic violence comes in many forms. Nearly all forms of domestic violence represent acts that may be punished by law; domestic violence itself does not constitute a specific crime. Domestic violence covers a great number of different crimes that require official police involvement. Domestic violence is always more than just a private or personal concern. Article 2 of the German constitution stipulates: "Every person shall have the right to life and physical integrity. Freedom of the person shall be inviolable." This applies regardless of how old people are or what sort of relationship they have with each other. The right to be free of bodily harm applies at home, behind closed doors, just as it does elsewhere. This is why it is especially important for those affected by domestic violence to utilise the help available. Call the police on 110, especially if you are under any acute threat. The police will protect you and can also order perpetrators to leave and stay away from the home for several days. In addition, every police station has staff who have been specially trained to handle domestic violence cases. For more information, visit www.polizei-beratung.de
Mannheim Police Headquarters
68161 Mannheim, L 6, 1
Telephone: 0621 174-0
Telefax: 0621 174-2185


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In the 17. century was built the first estate building. In 18. century the Polish king August III gave the estate as a present for Jānis Borhs, the chancellor of Pasienes earth. The chancellor built also the beautiful church of Pasiene. At the end of 18. century the property got Benislavsku family. The last its landlady was countess Oboļevska, after the war here was primary school of Pasiene. It is privatized now and is waiting for renewal.
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ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia 2019), Volume 38, Number 6, Article 239
Marie-Lena Eckert, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Kiwon Um, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Nils Thuerey, Technical University of Munich, Germany
In this paper, we present ScalarFlow, a first large-scale data set of reconstructions of real-world smoke plumes. In addition, we propose a framework for accurate physics-based reconstructions from a small number of video streams. Central components of our framework are a novel estimation of unseen inflow regions and an efficient optimization scheme constrained by a simulation to capture real-world fluids. Our data set includes a large number of complex natural buoyancy-driven flows. The flows transition to turbulence and contain observable scalar transport processes. As such, the ScalarFlow data set is tailored towards computer graphics, vision, and learning applications. The published data set will contain volumetric reconstructions of velocity and density as well as the corresponding input image sequences with calibration data, code, and instructions how to reproduce the commodity hardware capture setup. We further demonstrate one of the many potential applications: a first perceptual evaluation study, which reveals that the complexity of the reconstructed flows would require large simulation resolutions for regular solvers in order to recreate at least parts of the natural complexity contained in the captured data.
physically-based simulation, inverse problem, fluid reconstruction, convex optimization, data set, user studies, machine learning
While numerical simulation is an established method to generate visually convincing and physically-based fluid effects, it is challenging for human artists to predict the resulting behavior and shape of a forward fluid simulation. Furthermore, in order to recreate the turbulent structures of real-world fluid flows without artifacts, high and hence expensive grid resolutions are required. Reconstructions of real-world flows based on 2D image sequences, on the other hand, follow the prescribed shapes and motion in the input videos. Therefore, reconstructions exhibit behavior known beforehand and also reproduce reality with its turbulent and interesting flows. An example for real-world input images and our reconstructed smoke plume rendered from the same camera views is shown on the very top of this page.
Fig. 1: Overview over our method, where the gray boxes are steps of a regular forward fluid solver and the blue and orange boxes indicate the main steps of our reconstruction technique.
It is very challenging to find a forward simulation whose 2D projections meet the given input image sequences of real-world fluids due to unknown initial or boundary conditions, external forces like buoyancy or ambient air motions, or internal forces like viscosity. Hence, we guide a 3D forward fluid simulation to meet our real-world 2D captures in order to reconstruct real phenomena in 3D. An overview of our reconstruction method is shown in Fig. 1.
We can use the reconstructed densities directly for re-rendering from different view points and to apply the reconstructed velocities for re-simulation, flow enhancement, guiding, or domain modification. We gather our reconstructions in the data set ScalarFlow. Density and velocity for 4 time steps and 10 samples are shown below in Fig. 2.
Fig. 2: 10 samples of our ScalarFlow data set with reconstructed density and velocity.
This work is supported by the ERC Starting Grant 637014.


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This text attempts to map the unique structure and meaning that comprise Chekhov's immensely rich artistic universe. The prime components of his theatrical technique and fictional world are explored to uncover the basic principles governing the Chekhov's universe.
- Limba : Engleza
- Data Publicarii : 01 Jan 2014
- Format : Hardback
- Numar pagini : 296
- ISBN : 9781903900475
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The first time architecture piqued HER interest.
Most fantastic things get born out of simplest algorithms. It surprising how realistic this landscape looks.
This is an original artwork, not a multi-edition, mass produced print. All the artwork is made by HER – a drawing robot – with a real pen that acts as a human hand. The plot are made in less than 10 instances and all are unique and signed.
You can see how the plots are made here – HER Process
Dimensions: A4 (210 × 297mm / 8.27 × 11.7in)
The plot is drawn on Acid Free, Daler & Rowney Fine Grain (160 g/m2) paper using a Flexion pen.
The drawing itself is rectangular with extra padding on the page – it will look best as a square in a frame.
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With the Toronto Raptors trading, DeMar DeRozan for Kawhi Leonard, fans are reminded about the other side of sports where “loyalty” shouldn’t be a factor.
Toronto Raptors fans and DeMar DeRozan learned a valuable lesson on Wednesday, loyalty in sports only goes so far.
The shock value that came from the DeRozan-Kawhi Leonard trade grew as details emerged from the deal. There was excitement to see a top-five player in the league come to Toronto but moving a franchise player isn’t easy for fans to get over.
One of the biggest talking points from the deal was the Instagram story that DeRozan posted claiming that the organization lied to him about being on the trade block. In DeRozan’s case, he has a reason to be upset with how everything played out as it appears that the news blindsided him.
What players and fans have to remember through all of this is that sports are a business and in the end, teams are forced to make tough decisions if they think it will put them in a better position to win.
When it comes to the conversation about loyalty, that is a tough one. Here is a tweet with a quote from Dwayne Wade which perfectly sums up why loyalty and sports shouldn’t go together.
In the end, trading a franchise leader in scoring and games played is not an easy thing to do especially when that player committed to staying with the team when he could have gone back to home.
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There is no denying that he was improving as a player and gave the Raptors everything he could expect finding success in the postseason. Sure LeBron James leaving was one hurdle out of the way but with Boston and Philadelphia emerging as contenders, the Raptors weren’t going to be seen as contenders.
The Raptors might not be perennial contenders yet but this trade puts them in a better position than if they stuck with the status quo. Sure there is a gamble with Leonard only under contract for a season but it’s one Masai Ujiri seems comfortable taking.
In the end, it is the Raptors president who assumes the most risk with the changes made with fans feeling unsettled with the way things have worked with DeRozan. However, if the team can get Kawhi on board and get to an NBA Finals then it is a win.
If it doesn’t work out this season, the Raptors gain cap space and keep their young core intact to move forward with a rebuild than many expected to come.
DeRozan was not only loyal to a team but a city and a country which is something most people in the NBA don’t understand except for the ones who played here. They should also know that the business side of sports can be harsh and unfortunately, DeRozan found that out the hard way.
He is going to an organization that has built a strong culture around winning with a world-class coach that is excited to have him on the team. It’ll take time for him to get over this decision by the Raptors but DeRozan now has the chance to prove why teams should take loyalty into account more often.