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Believe it or not, the Charlotte Bobcats’ 21-61 2012-2013 record was a vast improvement over last season, but it still wasn’t enough to save head coach Mike Dunlap’s job.

ESPN.com is reporting that the organization fired Dunlap on Tuesday. The Bobcats finished the regular season with the second worst record in the league, but still managed to win three times as many games as they did in the lockout shortened 2011-2012 season. Apparently, the Bobcats wanted to see an even bigger improvement and after Dunlap failed to deliver, they will have to look elsewhere for a coach that can.

“(General manager) Rich Cho and I conducted our season-ending review and met with coach Dunlap to reflect on this season,”said Bobcats president of basketball operations Rod Higgins. “As an organization, it was decided that we needed to make a change with the head coach position.We want to thank Mike for his contribution and wish him the best in his future endeavors.”

Dunlap lasted just one season with the Bobcats, who are now searching for their third coach in as many seasons. When Dunlap was brought in, he knew he had a large mountain to climb and at the end of the season, felt it may have been too tall for anyone to climb in one just one year.

“I never thought that we were going to blink our eyes and have 35 wins,” Dunlap said last week. “I thought it was always going to be a slog. We’re slowly moving this thing around and again, what’s perspective? The worst team in the history of the NBA (last season), all right, so how do you go from seven wins to, say, 40 wins? That’s pretty tough to do.”

Needless to say, the next coach who comes in will be facing many of the same challenges, but the organization is confident that the team is headed in the right direction and that the coaching position in Charlotte is an attractive one.

“We believe our head coaching position will be an attractive one to potential candidates,” Higgins said. “This offseason, we will have an excellent opportunity to acquire a quality player with a top-five pick in the upcoming NBA Draft and we could have up to $21 million in space under the salary cap to add players via free agency or trade, so the foundation is solid for someone to come in and continue to build on our on court performance.”

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IOL springs man ST horror718 THE STAR This man, 36, accused of torturing and imprisoning his family, stands in the Springs Magistrate's Court this morning. He faces charges of child abuse and assault. Picture: Chris Collingridge

Johannesburg - The Springs man who allegedly held his family hostage for years has appeared in court.

 Dressed in a blue jacket and sporting closely cropped hair, the man - who was arrested on Friday - stared blankly ahead of him, showing no emotion as he faced charges related to accusations that he kept his wife and five children aged between 2 and 16 captive in their upmarket house for years.

It was his bruised and battered 11-year-old son who raised the alarm last week, leading to the 36-year-old man’s arrest.

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the man’s traumatised wife and children needed to see a social worker for counselling immediately.

The medical investigation into the rape allegations is also nearly complete, and more charges – aside from child abuse and assault – are expected to follow.

IOL ST house horror springs 512 [1] The house in Springs where police rescued five children and their mother. Picture: Chris Collingridge THE STAR

The man’s defence lawyer, Pieter Pretorius, argued that it was extremely unfair for his client to be kept in custody until at least next Wednesday, which is his next court appearance.

Pretorius also accused the police of failing to properly start their investigation.

Outside court, a distraught-looking woman believed to be the man’s aunt refused to speak to the media about the case.

Also present outside the court building were members of a number of motorcycle clubs who held cardboard signs reading “monster” and “stop child abuse”.

Founder of the Wild Wild Angels, Henry Harber, said that his club had been informed of the boy’s disappearance from his home, but later realised there was something suspicious about the boy’s home life.

He said his biker’s club helped police locate the boy and wanted to see the court proceedings for more information.

According to the bikers, three cases of child abuse were set to proceed at the Springs court on Wednesday morning, including the horror house case, an 11-year-old girl who had been raped, and the murder of a 2-year-old girl who had allegedly been killed by a relative.

Earlier, it emerged that in the horror house case the boy fled the house, running to neighbours for help. The story he told was harrowing – the man would not allow them to leave the house, and he sexually molested and tortured them. Rape allegations are also being investigated.

The man, a successful businessman, allegedly kept all five children out of school and the neighbours were not aware of their existence.

When the boy got to his neighbours, they called his father. Apparently they were concerned about the child’s well-being because he was bruised and bleeding. The boy’s father then took him home, allegedly tried to drown him in their swimming pool, wrapped him, still alive, in a blanket and hid him in the ceiling, fearing neighbours would alert the police, which they did.

Police searched the house thoroughly after the father told them the child had run away again.

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It is alleged that the children were shocked with electric wires and burnt with a blow torch, both of which were found in the house.

Pornographic DVDs were also found in the house, which was described by the police as filthy but full of expensive furniture. The children were allegedly forced to sleep in one filthy bed.

Police were told the 11-year-old was often made to stand naked outside as punishment.

The investigating officer said the boy had never been to school. His 16-year-old sister had attended school at some stage, but had been taken out.

The other siblings are under the age of 5.

The wife said she was also often assaulted by her husband.

The five children were taken to a place of safety and the mother is with family members.

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iol pi cwld LA-police _cabin REUTERS Authorities close off Highway 38 at Glass Road on February 13, 2013 while San Bernardino Sheriff's deputies investigate the cabin where police believe they engaged in a shootout with fugitive former Los Angeles police officer Christopher Dorner.

San Bernardino, California - Sheriff's deputies who believed they had cornered a fugitive ex-cop in the mountains above Los Angeles did not purposely torch a cabin where a nine-day manhunt ended, but the deputies may have ignited the blaze by firing tear gas, officials said on Wednesday.

Former Los Angeles police officer Christopher Dorner, 33, was wanted in a killing spree targeting law enforcement officers that left four people dead. A man matching his description was surrounded inside a lodging nestled in the San Bernardino National Forest on Tuesday.

“We did not intentionally burn down that cabin to get Mr Dorner out,” San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon said at an afternoon press conference.

Investigators had not yet formally identified charred remains found in the burned-out structure, although they are believed to be those of Dorner.

“The suspect that we were following ... matched his description,” McMahon said. “Our coroner's division is working on trying to confirm the identity through forensics and we should know that at some point here soon,” he said.

Dorner lost his job with the Los Angeles Police Department in 2008 after a police board of inquiry found he lied in accusing a training officer of using excessive force against a homeless man. LAPD Chief Charlie Beck has opened a review of that case.

Last Wednesday, Dorner was named as the prime suspect in a double slaying that occurred the weekend before, about 64km south of Los Angeles in Irvine. Police say he killed a university security officer and his fiancée, the 28-year-old daughter of a retired LAPD captain who represented Dorner in disciplinary action that led to his termination.

The search intensified last Thursday after he was accused of killing a Riverside policeman and wounding another officer in an ambush about 100km east of Los Angeles.

Law enforcement converged later that day in the San Bernardino Mountains after a pickup truck identified as Dorner's was found abandoned and burning in the snow near the ski resort community of Big Bear Lake northeast of Los Angeles.

The ensuing manhunt, stretching from the desert north of the mountains to the Mexican border, was described by Beck as the region's most extensive ever.

It ended on Tuesday following a shootout at the cabin that saw the slaying of San Bernardino Sheriff's Deputy Jeremiah MacKay, 35, a married father of two young children, and the wounding of another deputy.

During a lull in the firefight, the cabin caught fire and was quickly engulfed in flames. It remained unclear on Wednesday how the blaze began.

Los Angeles-based CBS television affiliate, KCAL, and CNN, have broadcast an audio recording of what sounds like police radio chatter during the confrontation at the lodging. On the tape, voices purported to be officers shout, “Burn it down.”

McMahon told reporters that officers used pyrotechnic-type tear gas canisters, which he said generate “a lot of heat.”

“We had introduced those canisters into the residence and a fire erupted,” McMahon said.

Before the man believed to have been Dorner made a final stand, police appear to have been frustratingly close to him.

Less than 10 miles north of the cabin that ignited in flames with the suspect inside, there is another lodging where Dorner is believed to have hidden. It is just steps away from where police last week set up a command post, in the city of Big Bear Lake. Authorities had said they conducted door-to-door searches.

It had been reported in the media that two housekeepers encountered a man believed to have been Dorner inside that vacant cabin. But late on Wednesday, a couple named Jim and Karen Reynolds told reporters they own the cabin and were the ones who walked in on Dorner around noon the day before. They said they feared he would kill them.

“He said four or five times that he didn't have a problem with us; he just wanted to clear his name,” said Jim Reynolds.

But Dorner tied up the couple, they said. “I was able to roll onto my knees and scoot over to the bed and actually get onto my feet,” Karen Reynolds said.

Reynolds said she managed to call authorities to report Dorner escaped in the couple's Nissan. That was minutes before authorities say Dorner was spotted driving away and got into a roadway shootout with a state game warden. The suspect later took cover in the cabin where he is believed to have died.

The Reynolds said they believe Dorner was in their cabin since at least Friday, based on what he told them.

San Bernardino Sheriff's Deputy Chief Steve Kovensky, who was in charge of the mountaintop search, said officers went to each cabin and “if there were no signs of break-in or no open doors” they “noted it and moved on.”

“We did not find any forced entry” at the cabin where Dorner is believed to have hidden, Kovensky said. He added that the residence had not been rented since February 6.

Dorner gained prominence after it was revealed that an angry manifesto posted last week on his Facebook page claimed he had been wrongly dismissed from the LAPD. He vowed to seek revenge by unleashing “unconventional and asymmetrical warfare” on officers and their families.

Police provided security details to over 50 LAPD officers and their families who were believed to be threatened by Dorner, when he named specific enemies in his rambling manifesto.

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said the two people who encountered the man thought to have been Dorner might qualify for a $1 million reward posted for information leading to his capture. It is the largest sum ever offered in a Southern California criminal investigation.

Karen Reynolds later said she did not anticipate a payout. “I've actually pretty much heard nobody is getting that because he needed to be captured and convicted and all,” she said. - Reuters

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Continuing education (CE) activities that carry the seal of the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) accredited provider will automatically qualify for Iowa pharmacist CE credit. At least 15 contact hours of the required 30 hours of pharmacist CE shall be in ACPE-accredited activities dealing with drug therapy topics including, but not limited to: adverse drug reactions, biotechnology, clinical monitoring and drug utilization review, disease state, drug delivery systems, drug information, drug interactions, drug product selection, drugs, medical compliance, new drugs, nuclear pharmacy, OTC therapeutics, pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, substance abuse, and general therapeutics. The last two digits of the universal activity number will be 01 or 02.

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Two contact hours of CE dealing with patient or medication safety are also required for pharmacist license renewal. These hours may be obtained from ACPE-accredited providers (universal activity numbers ending in 05) or from non-ACPE provider activities pursuant to subrule 2.12(1), paragraph (a).

Remaining CE hours may be obtained through completion of activities provided by an accredited CME or other health professions provider if the activity content directly relates to the pharmacist's professional practice. CE offered by a non-accredited provider will not be accepted toward fulfilling pharmacist CE requirements.

Pharmacists shall retain in their personal files for a minimum of four years all activity certificates. The final three characters in the ACPE course number identify the program topic and type of course.

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After a late start, delegates at the World Intellectual Property Organization today are trying to make up for lost time in an attempt to draft a potential treaty text to protect traditional cultural expressions on the last day of a weeklong meeting. The first revision of draft articles was issued yesterday at the end of the afternoon. The status of Indigenous Peoples was also examined by delegates the day before without much interest.

Combined efforts by a facilitator, Kim Connolly-Stone of New Zealand, and a group of experts from the regional groups in informal meetings for most of 11 and 12 July, yielded the first amended version of draft articles [pdf] coming from the 19th session of the WIPO Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (IGC) which took place in July 2011. The revised draft articles also contain comments by the facilitator.

The 22nd session of the IGC is taking place from 9-13 July.

The start of the session was delayed by the inability of the WIPO delegates to agree on the agenda at the start of the week (IPW, WIPO, 9 July 2012).

The plenary resumed briefly at the end of the afternoon on 12 July to allow for the text to be distributed to delegates and for Connolly-Stone to go over the main changes made to the set of draft articles [pdf] from IGC 19.

The plenary reconvened this morning so that delegates could make comments about the text for the record, Chair Wayne McCook said, adding that there would be no live drafting of the text. They went through all 12 articles with many comments, and left off for lunch with the objectives and principles.

Connolly-Stone first explained that as facilitator she considered and revised all 12 draft articles, and only articles 1, 2 and 5 were further amended by the experts group. The aim of the revision was to reduce the number of options and simplify the text, she said.

In Article 1 (subject matter of protection) a slight structural change was made, using two sub-headings: definition, and eligibility criteria, as was done in the draft articles on traditional knowledge, she said. Options one and two of this article have been combined into a single option in which she said areas of divergence were identified and submissions made during the early part of the week added.

Article 2 (beneficiaries) has just one option instead of two in the original text as the expert group tried to come up with one option reflecting all the issues that had been raised, Connolly-Stone said. The option contains brackets around specific issues, such as “local communities,” “who hold, maintain, use or develop” the traditional cultural expressions.

Policy options that were identified at IGC 19 in Article 3 (scope of protection), with one approach being flexible versus a more prescriptive approach have not really changed, she said. The option on equitable remuneration was deleted as she did not hear any support for this option either in IGC 19 or earlier this week.

According to the facilitator, Article 4 (management of rights) now has two options instead of one, the first is merging all previous options, and option two is a much shorter version, she said.

In Article 5 (exceptions and limitations), two options have been combined into one with brackets left to signal differences, in particular on mandatory exceptions for independent creation and permitted acts under copyright and trademark law.

In Article 6 (terms of protection), paragraph 3 of option 1, dealing with secret traditional cultural expressions, was removed. In Article 7 (formalities), which consists of one sentence: “As a general principle, the protection of traditional cultural expressions shall not be subject to any formality,” the facilitator just bracketed the opening phrase “As a general principle” as suggested by one delegation, Connolly-Stone said.

Article 8 (sanctions, remedies and exercise of rights) was restructured so that it better reflects the areas of agreement and divergence, she said. Main differences lie in measures being provided in accordance with national laws, or sanctions and remedies through enforcement and dispute-resolution mechanisms, including border-measures.

Very few changes were made to Article 9 (transitional measures), while in Article 10 (relationship with intellectual property protection and other forms of protection, preservation and promotion), Connolly-Stone said she tried to accommodate two very different approaches.

One of those approaches is to focus on IP international agreements, while the other one wishes to focus on non-IP agreements, and in particular those dealing with cultural heritage, she said. She summarised those two approaches with: “protection under this instrument should/shall take account of and operate consistently with, other international instruments including those dealing with intellectual property and cultural heritage” There were no changes in Article 11 (national treatment).

Keeping Indigenous Peoples in Their Place

During IGC 21, held from 16-20 April, the committee asked that the WIPO secretariat prepare an information document on practical, procedural and budgetary implications of suggestions put forward by the Indigenous Caucus.

On 11 June, in parallel with the expert group working on the draft articles, the plenary met to discuss document GRTFK/IC/22/Inf10 [pdf] on the participation of observers and particular on the status of Indigenous Peoples and the suggestions they had put forward in April.

Co-Chair Bebeb A.K.N. Djundjunan of Indonesia, chairing the plenary while McCook was attending the expert group, proposed to take comments from the delegates on the six proposals made by the Indigenous Caucus. The United States delegate said that document GRTFK/IC/22/Inf10 is an information document and that the plenary was only supposed to take note of it. The same remark was made by the European Union.

Djundjunan said the aim was to get feedback from delegates about the Indigenous Peoples’ suggestions. Wend Wendland, director of the Traditional Knowledge Division at WIPO, said no decisions could be taken on the basis of the document as such, but going over it in plenary was expected to allow member states to make proposals “flowing from the document” on each of the suggestions.

The delegate of Sri Lanka supported going through the six proposals. The Indigenous Caucus made a statement on the participation of Indigenous Peoples in the IGC [pdf] (in English), (in French), (in Spanish). In particular, they called on the IGC to adopt the recommendations of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, resulting from the “Comprehensive Dialogue with the World Intellectual Property Organization” on 10 May 2012 [pdf].

The first suggestion of the Indigenous Caucus was to create a new category for the participation of Indigenous Peoples, including the right to submit proposals, modifications and motions, and the right to vote. Indigenous Peoples are currently considered as observers and have the same prerogatives as other observers. In particular, any proposals made by Indigenous Peoples have to be supported by at least one member state to be considered by the committee.

According to the WIPO secretariat’s information document, under the WIPO general rules of procedure, participants in the IGC “may fall in either of the two following categories: they may be recognized as ‘delegates’ under Rule 7″ or “they may be recognized as ‘observers’ under Rule 8.”

The recognition of a new status for Indigenous Peoples that would be different from observers “might imply either that those participants would be categorized as ‘delegates’ (option 1), or that a new category be introduced for indigenous peoples (option 2).”

Australia asked for clarification from the Indigenous Peoples representatives as to what they were considering. The Indigenous Caucus said that “clearly Indigenous Peoples are not states,” but they wished to have a special status that would give them the opportunity and the right to submit text proposals, to make amendments, motions, and to vote within the IGC process.

The United States said it would not support either option 1 or 2 “or anything which would elevate the status” of Indigenous Peoples at this time, due to the intergovernmental nature of the committee. This approach was supported by Russia, which said considering a new status would require further clarification.

The committee went through the six proposals without much comment or support from member states. Australia, Norway and Sri Lanka supported the 5th suggestion asking that “the Secretariat consult with the Chair of the Indigenous Caucus, inter-sessionally, regarding selection of panelists for the Indigenous Panel.”

An Indigenous Peoples’ representative told Intellectual Property Watch that the discussions were fruitless, and the absence of a decision on the document seemed like a bad omen on further considerations of the Indigenous People’s suggestions.

Catherine Saez may be reached at info@ip-watch.ch.

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Chinese Dissidents Silenced for London Book Fair

BEIJING, Apr 14 2012 (IPS) - A dissident Chinese author has expressed dismay at the lack of independent and exiled authors represented at this year’s London Book Fair (LBF), where China is guest of honour. An ensuing public spat, revolving around accusations that the Fair’s organisers have bowed to Chinese authorities, has thrust the thorny issue of censorship to centre-stage.

In a letter sent to the British Council and LBF, Bei Ling, founder of the Independent Chinese PEN Centre (ICPC), said that he is “astonished that no independent literature voice nor exiled writer from China is being represented at the London Book Fair programme.”

He goes on to state amazement that the state-run Chinese Writers’ Association have chosen the 31-strong author delegation travelling to London to represent China, which is this year’s market focus country.

“Also shocking is the London Book Fair’s cooperation with GAPP (General Administration of Press and Publication which overseas the Writers’ Association) – the very ministry that’s responsible for censorship,” Bei writes in the letter.

Missing voices at the fair Apr. 16-18 include the exiled novelist Gao Xingjian, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2000, and poet Liao Yiwu, who escaped China last July. Nobel Peace prize winner and poet Liu Xiaobo, currently serving an 11-year prison sentence, will also be unrepresented.

“This is very embarrassing, because the London Book Fair should be choosing writers to join the panels independently,” Bei tells IPS. “Sure, LBF may consult the opinions of GAPP, but it doesn’t mean that it has to blindly follow GAPP’s instructions…LBF should show that they are independent instead of being manipulated.

“Exile literature, underground literature, and independent writings are also a part of Chinese literature,” he adds.

The argument echoes the 2009 Frankfurt Book Fair scandal in which Bei and investigative journalist Dai Qing were cut from the list of authors invited following pressure from China. The two writers were restored after a media furore, leading to walkouts from Chinese representatives at the Fair.

Moves have been made to counter the official list in London. Bei will be sharing a stand at the LBF for the ICPC alongside a Hong Kong-based publisher. English PEN also held their own event Mar. 29 , “China Inside Out”, for authors not invited in the approved delegation.

Tibetan poet and blogger Tsering Woeser, 46, who was placed under house arrest last month, is another author excluded from LBF. Woeser was granted both the Norwegian Authors Union’s Freedom of Expression Prize and a freedom of speech medal by the Association of Tibetan Journalists in 2007. She was invited to Frankfurt in 2009, but was unable to attend because she did not have a passport.

“I am used to getting ignored,” Woeser says from her home in Beijing. “This is the reality of China. If you are a writer within the system, for example you are a member of the Chinese Writers’ Association, you will have opportunities for publishing and attending literary events like book fairs. But if you are outside the system, even if you are a good writer, the chances for publishing are few and book fairs are more unlikely.”

Woeser publishes her thoughts in an influential (and blocked in China) blog which has helped expose the rash of Tibetan self-immolations and unrest over the past year in south-west China.

Authors who are part of the delegation, however, have complained that the media furore has taken the emphasis away from literature to politics.

Alice Xin Liu, managing editor of Pathlight, a new English language literary magazine featuring translations from top contemporary Chinese writers, says the LBF features many of today’s most exciting authors. Examples include Bi Feiyu, winner of the 2010 Man Asian Literary Prize.

“Writers such as Han Dong (author of the Cultural Revolution novel ‘Banished!’) are quite daring. So it’s quite murky – (Bei’s) distinctions are actually way too clear cut,” the Beijing-based translator and editor tells IPS.

She adds that while listening to the voices of exiled authors is important, “the large majority of the population are reading writers not like him – they are reading writers like Mo Yan and Sheng Keyi, the writers who are going (to the fair).”

Regardless, Bei Ling is holding out optimism that dissident writers will be heard. “I still have hope they can include an independent writer or exiled writer to join a panel,” he says.

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Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney was desperately trying to steady a shaky campaign as US President Barack Obama, enjoying a burst of momentum, headed to New York for a celebrity fundraiser with Beyoncé and Jay-Z, along with a star turn on David Letterman’s couch.

Romney was trying to contain the political fallout of an unauthorised video of him telling donors that supporters of Obama — almost half of the US population — are people who live off government handouts and do not “care for their lives”.

Those people, he went on, “believe they are victims” entitled to extensive government support, before adding that, as a candidate for the White House, “my job is not to worry about those people”.

Romney was also trying to shake stories that his campaign was in disarray and looking for a change in direction seven weeks before the Nov 6 election.

In a hastily arranged meeting with reporters late on Monday, Romney said that while his comments were “not elegantly stated”, he stood by his remarks about Americans who do not pay taxes. “Those who are reliant on government are not as attracted to my message of slimming down the size of government,” he said in Costa Mesa, California.

The former Massachusetts governor did not have public events yesterday and planned to raise money in Salt Lake City and Dallas.

Looking to change the subject, Romney’s campaign rolled out a television ad featuring a mother and infant, aimed at cutting into Obama’s advantage with female voters.

Obama, meanwhile, was set to collect almost $4m (€3m) at a $40,000-a-ticket fundraiser at a Manhattan nightclub and another at the Waldorf Astoria hotel. He also planned to reach out to less-engaged voters on CBS’s Late Show With David Letterman.

Romney faced growing complaints that his campaign fumbled opportunities at the Republicans’ August convention, on foreign unrest and, most crucially, on the US economy, which is seen as Obama’s weakest point.

GOP activists and consultants have fretted as opinion polls suggest Obama has opened a small lead over Romney since the parties’ late-summer conventions.

The unexpected video, recorded in May and released late on Monday, sent Romney’s aides scrambling yet again.

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Romney surrogate Donald Trump said: “I think he has to not apologise... What he said is probably what he thinks.

“The problem they have is they are not being tough enough. I’m not saying down and dirty, but that’s exactly what President Obama is doing with them. They have to get tougher or they’re going to lose this campaign.”

The release of the secretly recorded video, posted on liberal magazine Mother Jones website, did little to calm jitters as Democrats quickly criticised Romney.

“Mitt Romney’s insulting comments during a closed-door meeting with a group of wealthy donors regarding half the people in the United States show just how out of touch he really is with middle-class families,” said Senate majority leader Harry Reid. “The job of president is to fight for everybody, regardless of their wealth or social status.”

In the video, Romney said 47% of Americans pay no income tax.

In the clip released by Mother Jones, Romney also is asked about the “Palestinian problem”. He gives a rambling response, then says “the Palestinians have no interest whatsoever in establishing peace”, and “the pathway to peace is almost unthinkable to accomplish”.

Some conservatives have complained for months that Romney needs to put more details behind his pledges to tame the budget deficit while also preserving all tax cuts and expanding military spending. Others say he mishandled a chance to criticise Obama’s foreign policy last week when the Republican nominee issued sharp remarks in the opening hours of fast-changing and complicated episodes of violence aimed at American diplomatic facilities in the Middle East.

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Screenwriter Whingeing about cinema and real life since 2009 2015-07-28T18:03:01Z Donald Clarke <![CDATA[Three Irish films announced for Toronto Film Festival]]> 2015-07-28T18:02:35Z 2015-07-28T16:44:37Z Oh dear Lord. That half of the year we refer to as “awards season” moves closer with the first announcement of films for the Toronto International Film Festival. There are rarely many surprises in such lists. More or less every film of any significance will play at TIFF. Sure enough, Jean-Marc Vallée’s Demolition, a drama of grief starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Nami Watts, is to kick off the event. Other presumed Oscar hopefuls include Ridley Scott’s The Martian, Peter Sollett’s Freeheld and Tom Hooper’s The Danish Girl. All three of those films have been confirmed as “world” premieres, thus ruling them out of the Venice Film Festival and presumably (though the rules have been stretched to breaking point there in recent years) the Telluride Film Festival. Less expected was the news that Michael Moore’s Where to Invade Next, his first documentary in six years, is to play at the event.

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The real fun here comes from working out what’s going elsewhere and what’s not. We don’t need to speak too much about The Lobster and Brooklyn. The former premiered at Cannes; the latter at Sundance. The cryptic clue beside the listing for Lenny Abrahamson’s Room does, however, lead us into worthwhile speculation. TIFF is only going so far as to call it a “Canadian premiere”. Does that mean it will play in Venice? Maybe, but you will note that some other, possibly Venice-bound films are listed as “North American” premieres. This suggests that Room, an adaptation of Emma Donoghue’s admired novel, may be making its world premiere at Telluride. Cards could be kept close to chests for some time to come on that. Indeed, that event will reveal little until the festival kicks off on September 4th.

Of course, the fact that something is down as a “world premiere” may tell other equally interesting stories. Terence Davies’s Sunset Song sounds like an ideal candidate for Venice, but it makes its bow in Canada instead. Another British film premiering at TIFF is Nick Hynter’s version of Alan Bennett’s much-loved The Lady in the Van.

Don’t get too excited about the absence of pictures such as Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies, Ron Howard’s In the Heart of the Sea or David Gordon Green’s Our Brand is Crisis. As Variety notes: “the bulk of Toronto’s slate [is] still under wraps”.

The festival begins on September 10th. Here’s what we know…

Beeba Boys – Deepa Mehta, Canada

Forsaken – Jon Cassar, Canada

Freeheld – Peter Sollett, USA

Hyena Road (Hyena Road: Le Chemin du Combat) – Paul Gross, Canada

Lolo – Julie Delpy, France

The Man Who Knew Infinity – Matt Brown, UK

The Martian – Ridley Scott, USA

The Program – Stephen Frears, UK

Septembers of Shiraz – Wayne Blair, USA

Stonewall – Roland Emmerich, USA

The Dressmaker – Jocelyn Moorhouse, Australia

Colonia – Florian Gallenberger, Germany/Luxembourg/France

Desierto – Jonás Cuarón, Mexico

Families (Belles Familles) – Jean-Paul Rappeneau, France

Guilty (Talvar) – Meghna Gulzar, India

The Idol (Ya Tayr El Tayer) – Hany Abu-Assad, UK/Palestine

The Lady in the Van – Nicolas Hytner, USA

Maggie’s Plan – Rebecca Miller, USA

Parched – Leena Yadav, India/USA

Sunset Song – Terence Davies, UK/Luxembourg

Trumbo – Jay Roach, USA

Un plus une – Claude Lelouch, France

Where To Invade Next – Michael Moore, USA

Demolition – Jean-Marc Vallée, USA

Legend – Brian Helgeland, UK

Remember – Atom Egoyan, Canada

The Danish Girl – Tom Hooper, UK/Sweden

The Daughter – Simon Stone, Australia

Dheepan – Jacques Audiard, France

Len and Company – Tim Godsall, USA

The Lobster – Yorgos Lanthimos, Ireland/UK/Greece/France/Netherlands

Louder than Bombs – Joachim Trier, Norway/France/Denmark

Mountains May Depart (Shan He Gu Ren) – Jia Zhang-ke, China/France/Japan

Sicario – Denis Villeneuve, USA

Youth – Paolo Sorrentino, Italy/France/UK/Switzerland

Anomalisa – Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson, USA

Beasts of No Nation – Cary Fukunaga, Ghana

Black Mass – Scott Cooper, USA

Brooklyn – John Crowley, UK/Ireland/Canada

I Smile Back – Adam Salky, USA

Room – Lenny Abrahamson, Ireland/Canada

Son of Saul (Saul Fia) – László Nemes, Hungary

Spotlight – Tom McCarthy, USA

Victoria – Sebastian Schipper, Germany

Donald Clarke <![CDATA[I return from the IASIL conference in York]]> 2015-07-28T18:03:01Z 2015-07-27T15:56:45Z To beautiful York for high-brow conversation with some of the world’s experts on Irish literature. Professor Matthew Campbell, Bangor-born boffin at the University of York, invited your current correspondent to the 2015 conference of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures with a mind to allowing film into the wider conversation. We walked ancient walls and considered the spot where Constantine was proclaimed Roman Emperor. I was followed by ducks near the lake around which the now, very highly rated “plate glass” University was built. (There’s actually not much plate glass about the place, but that’s what this generation of universities are called.)

To this point, my engagement with academic conferences had largely involved the reading of David Lodge novels. I wouldn’t say that the experience was precisely as Dr Lodge had suggested, but there was certainly eccentricity mixed in with the erudition.

The Irish Ambassador to the Court of Saint James turned up to salute us all at a banquet in the 14th Century Merchant Adventurers Hall. The reliably charming Bernard O’Donoghue read some of his poetry in the King’s Manor Refectory. John McAuliffe, a frequent reviewer in these pages, delivered some of his own angularly funny verse. There were also contributions from our own Belinda McKeon, whose new novel Tender I recommend with enthusiasm.

Clarke is tempted to bolt in panic. Dr Kelly contemplates rugby tackle.

The meat of the conference is, of course, academic papers and panels. This year’s event, focussing on “Reconciliation”, included contributions from such thinkers as James Chandler, Hugh Haughton, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, and Eve Patten. It also featured a classic example of practical blagging from the Irish Times’ Film Correspondent. The cerebral end of that conversation was held up by the admirable Dr Adam Kelly, also from the English Department at York, whose questions were comprehensive, lucid and well-researched. We touched on the Film Board’s upcoming name change, the apparent move away from rural stories and the current sturdy status of Lenny Abrahamsson’s work. The properly distinguished Dr James Chandler of Chicago, who balances professional researches in the Romantics with an encyclopaedic interest in the formative years of rock, made the interesting point that some American directors — think John Sayles and John Ford — view the “Irish Film” as a genre in itself.

Radvan Markus makes like a Czech Ian Anderson. Maeve Campbell and Jim Kelly listen in awe.

Anyway, the event was at its most Lodgian in the evening when quills were stowed and all retired for festivities to pubs that, in their antiquity, made the average Irish hostelry seem positively Californian. Everyone had a song to sing. Amazingly, almost all could sing that song in staggeringly melodic fashion. The Irish Times remained stubbornly silent. Most impressive of all was, perhaps, the Czech Academic Radvan Markus. Not only has Dr Markus learned to speak and translate Irish, he has mastered any number of Celtic melodies on the flute. His book launch was decorated with unexpected reels (maybe) and mazurkas (less likely).

The bash was an absolute delight and served to confirm that there remains a happy community of thinkers representing the nation’s literature in every corner of the world. It was a pleasure to be briefly among them.

Donald Clarke <![CDATA[The trailer for Freeheld hits all the bases]]> 2015-07-26T21:07:29Z 2015-07-26T21:07:29Z We’re sorry to do this, but a glance at the trailer for Peter Sollett’s Freeheld can’t help but trigger absurdly premature talk of Oscars. At about this time last year, we began pointing up Julianne Moore’s turn in Still Alice as the tastiest kind of awards bait. She played a woman declining from Alzheimer’s Disease. She was absurdly overdue for a statuette. Do the math(s). This new picture seems, if anything, even more suited to the Academy than the last. Based on a documentary that has already won an Oscar, the picture relates the efforts of Laurel Hester, a New York cop diagnosed with lung cancer, to pass her pension on to her female partner after her death. Moore plays Hester. Page is the younger woman facing up to a grim future. So, not only is Moore’s character grappling with illness, but she is also forwarding a fashionable cause in a film based on a true story. If Moore hadn’t won last year you’d already have her down as a favourite. Just look at the trailer…

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No, I’m not crying. I’ve just got something in my eye. I need to have a moment alone. AHEM! Right!? Where were we? Everything about this looks like a manipulative winner. I don’t mean that to come out as bitterly as it sounded. We can assume that the surging ballad is only there for the trailer. We do, however, know that Steve Carell is on board to combine off-centre charm with comic relief. The always magnificent Michael Shannon looks to be playing Hester’s loyal partner. If this doesn’t trigger mass sobbing then I’ll eat my underpants. To be less facetious, the picture does also seem to be getting at issues worth discussing in popular media. What’s not to vote for?

Even without having seen the film, I firmly assert that it will require a proper upset for Moore not to be nominated. That said, she will have to go some to become the first actress to win back-to-back since Katharine Hepburn in 1967 and 1968. There is potential competition. Either Cate Blanchett or Rooney Mara from Carol will be there, but they’ll probably try and channel Mara into supporting (absurdly) and Blanchett is also a recent winner. Charlotte Rampling will be in the running for 45 Years, but that film may be a bit too low-key. Hmm? It may be down to our own Saoirse Ronan, early favourite for Brooklyn, to stop Moore doubling-down. Here’s a question we’ll ask again. What are the odds of both best actor and best actress going to last year’s winners? Eddie Redmayne looks like a serious contender for The Danish Girl. Both will surely get nominated. You heard it here first (I hope). You’ll hear it again and again over the next six months.

Donald Clarke <![CDATA[50 years, 50 films Vol II: Bride of Frankenstein (1935)]]> 2015-07-25T16:32:42Z 2015-07-25T16:30:25Z Most of us have, from time to time, been asked to name our favourite film. If you write about movies for a living then you will encounter this query that bit more often. It’s as well to have an answer to hand even if that involves some reduction and simplification. Happily, I’ve been able to give pretty much the same response for the last 40 years.

James Whale’s Bride of Frankenstein, follow-up to a film that brought a new dimension to cinematic gothic, is still “my favourite film”. It may, however, not be my favourite horror film. What semantic convulsions are these? It requires no great twisting and turning to argue that Bride is not really a horror film at all. In saying this, I am not dabbling with the argument that Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein is, by current definitions, more science fiction than horror. The point is, rather, that Whale pushes his sequel so far into comedy and camp absurdity that the shocks become mere decorations. It is said that Whale, convinced that no sequel could top the 1931 original, decided to make no attempt at a tonally consistent follow up and elected instead to make a bit of a “hoot”. Let’s just have some fun and exercise a few obsessions while we are at it. You sometimes get what you couldn’t have hoped for. Bride of Frankenstein was a huge success and remains by far the most revered of Universal’s great pre-war horror sequence.

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Having noted that Whale veered away from the tone of his own Frankenstein, we should allow that it links very neatly with the first film’s story. Following a famously silly prologue in which Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron urge Mary to tell us more (just listen how Gavin Gordon’s Byron rolls his tongue around the word “cadavers”), we pick up the plot from the very end of Whale’s Frankenstein. Villagers crowd nervously around the ruined windmill  within which the monster is believed to have perished. He is, of course, still alive (or still undead, anyway). Discovered by previous antagonists, the being reacts violently and — after a comic encounter with the great Belfast actor Una O’Connor — lurches out into Hollywood’s version of middle Europe.

There may be a humanist message in here concerning the way kindness breeds kindness and cruelty generates more cruelty. The scene in which the monster — again played by a sympathetic Boris Karloff — encounters O P Heggie’s blind hermit is, following the hilarious parody in Young Frankenstein, now impossible to watch without sniggering. But there is something serious going on: the decent old man is implanting worthwhile values on the Tabula Rasa that is the Creature’s new consciousness. By the end of their idyll, the anti-hero has learned to talk and has developed a taste for cigars and alcohol.

Karloff was adamantly opposed to the idea of having the monster speak (though he does just that in Shelley’s very different novel). In one sense he was right. The Universal sequence continued right up until 1945 (ending with House of Dracula) and the monster never spoke again. That’s not what this version of Frankenstein’s creation usually does: he’s a lumbering, often compassionate mute. But Bride of Frankenstein sits someway apart from the series. Like Whale’s almost equally brilliant The Old Dark House (1932), this film is as much a comic exercise in high camp as a story of the macabre.

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Both The Old Dark House and Bride of Frankenstein lean heavily on Ernest Thesiger for those energies. In the earlier film he played a malevolent paterfamilias. Here he is Dr Frankenstein’s old chum Dr Pretorius, one of the great creations of US cinema. Whale was, of course, (for the times) a relatively open homosexual and, thus, long before it was fashionable, critics have mined Bride for gay subtexts. To be honest, little mining is required and, in Pretorius’s case, we are dealing as much with surtext as subtext. What does the incorrigible old fellow have on Colin Clive’s wracked Frankenstein. We need not work our imaginations too furiously.

At any rate, Pretorius persuades the younger man to return to the laboratory and produce a mate for his now-communicative first creation. We are surely giving nothing away when we say that she turns out to be a towering, shrill harpy in the irresistible form of Elsa Lanchester. The tendrils here are deliciously intertwined. Lanchester also plays Mary Shelley, thus getting at the darkness that dwells within the most civilised breast. She was, of course, married to Charles Laughton, fairly unambiguously gay, and would understand the various colours of reference and sexual deflection that were buzzing about the place.

All this helps add layers of mystery to the still-stirring creation scene. Franz Waxman’s score finds wedding bells among the orchestral surges as the patched-together Nefertiti teeters forwards. Frankenstein is driven by fear. Pretorius is quite mad. The Bride hisses like a bipedal cat that has been interbred into pedigree instability. Only the Creature seems to understand the hopelessness of the situation. “We belong dead,” he says before bringing fire down upon them all.

What possibilities there are here! Few other films manage this balance of high and low culture. A working class boy from the English West-Midlands, Whale brought both music-hall humour and post-Freudian unease to his greatest creation. Yet it was all too odd and too dubious to produce any obvious successors. The Universal series returned to its enjoyable, semi-serious Southern Californian Gothic. Whale struggled to find work. Thesiger continued to flesh out such fine films as The Man in the White Suit. Clive was ruined by booze. Larne’s Valerie Hobson, who played Mrs Frankenstein, married John Profumo and stood beside the Tory minister during the notorious scandal that was named for him 30 years later.

Meanwhile, Bride of Frankenstein played on late-night telly and gradually accrued a stringer reputation than the contemporaneous middle-brow pictures that won Oscars in the same decade. Its resilience is one, among many, reasons why I describe it as my favourite film.

For 1935 we also considered Captain Blood, Mutiny on the Bounty, A Night at the Opera, The 39 Steps, Top Hat and The Informer.

Donald Clarke <![CDATA[Movie quiz for July 24th]]> 2015-07-24T13:48:00Z 2015-07-24T13:31:07Z 1. Which of this week’s releases offers not just Joy, but also Anger, Fear, Sadness and Disgust?

2. Who links Aron Ralston, Vikas Swarup, Alex Garland and Irvine Welsh?

3. Depp and del Toro run amok. Douglas and De Niro are on a stag weekend. Cage and Shue are distressed. Where are we?

4. What’s missing: boy, zebra, hyena, Orangutan?

5. Whose debut feature journey out with the tagline “The story of a rebel and his bike”

6. Who was the first Italian to win best actor at the Oscars?

7. Who is missing: Rob Cohen, John Singleton, Justin Lin?

8. Name the cat.

9. Which director’s head was allegedly stolen from his grave last week?

10. What great stars last three ignominious films were The Karate Killers, Berserk! and Trog?

1. Inside Out

2. Danny Boyle. (Adapted adaptations of books by each: 127 Hours, Slumdog Millionaire, The Beach, Trainspotting)

3. Las Vegas (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Last Vegas, Leaving Las Vegas)

4. Tiger (the castaways in Life of Pi)

5. Tim Burton (Pee Wee’s Big Adventure)

6. Robert Begnini

7. James Wan (directors of Fast and Furious episodes)

8. Jones from Alien

9. F W Murnau

10. Joan Crawford

Donald Clarke <![CDATA[Jurassic World is the biggest film of 2015]]> 2015-07-21T14:10:27Z 2015-07-21T14:10:27Z This doesn’t really count as news. When Jurassic World opened to record figures there seemed few limits to what to could achieve in financial terms. It would surely grab the top spot in the 2015 charts. That made the third spot in the all time chart a very real possibility. Might it do the unthinkable and pass Titanic to take number two? (Spoiler alert: no)

Fellow box-office anoraks will enjoy pondering the quirky statistics here. Colin Trevorrow’s film took $1.513bn and thus eased past Fast and Furious 7, which finished at $1.512bn. Nobody expected FF7 to take those figures, but the studio will still be teeny bit peeved that it didn’t take a teeny bit more. It was “just” $8 million (half a percentage point of its total) short of passing out the first Avengers movie to take the all-time number three position. Still grabbing cash throughout he world, Jurassic World will surely pass out The Avengers and trouser the all-time bronze.

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The notion, put about by a number of serious observers, that JW could catch Titanic does, however, now seem to be fanciful. It would have to grab well over half a billion bucks in the rump of its run and that is never going to happen. Once again, we revel at the extraordinary performance of both Titanic and Avatar. Okay, the latter film profited from 3-D surcharges, but dozens of movies have been released in the format since and none has come anywhere close. Though it got a bit of a boost from a re-release, Titanic’s performance is more extraordinary still. $2.2 billion for a film from the last century still defies rational explanation.

Universal will find little to complain about in the returns for Jurassic World. They may, nonetheless, wonder at its failure to perform quite so well outside the US as once seemed possible. On release, following boffo Chinese figures, we reckoned it was going to to do Transformers rest-of-world money. As things worked out, it is in fact performing below the usual rate in the bigger wider world. Just under 60 percent of its takings fall into that column. That compares with a whopping 78 percent for Transformers: Age of Extinction. Look on the bright side. “When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept for there were no more worlds to conquer.” This shows that there are still unconquered domains for franchise movies.

The performance of Jurassic World now means that there are three 2015 films in the all-time box office top ten. Nothing will stop Star Wars Episode VII making it four. That’s a pretty extraordinary record. What might the 2015 figures have been if, as once planned, the Avatar and Finding Nemo sequels had also landed? Phew!

Donald Clarke <![CDATA[Grace of Monaco gets an Emmy nomination]]> 2015-07-19T18:11:58Z 2015-07-19T18:04:36Z Take that, so-called Golden Age of Television! A film that was laughed away from Cannes and then snorted at all the way across Europe has landed an Emmy nomination for best TV movie. How did that happen? Sure, the Emmys are even more idiotic than the Oscars. But it’s not as if they’re the Grammys. Some standards still apply, right?

Let us first remind ourselves how Grace of Monaco, featuring Nicole Kidman as the former Grace Kelly, ended up in contention. Following its disastrous reception as the opening film at Cannes, Harvey Weinstein, the picture’s distributor and Olivier Dahan, the director, engaged in a very public, highly amusing falling out. Weinstein didn’t even turn up at the Croisette and Dahan took the opportunity to put the knife in. “It’s right to struggle, but when you confront an American distributor like Weinstein, not to name names, there is not much you can do,” he said. “Either you say, ‘Go figure it out with your pile of shit’ or you brace yourself so the blackmail isn’t as violent … If I don’t sign, that’s where the out-and-out blackmail starts, but I could go that far.” In short, he felt the picture had been taken away from him and sliced into incoherence.

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The reviews on European release were just as awful as those at Cannes and the film bombed at the box office. After much banter, it was eventually decided not to bother with a US theatrical release and to sneak an edited version onto the cheesy Lifetime Channel. It is safe to assume that no opening film at Cannes has ever met such a fate. Indeed, it is reckoned that the catastrophe triggered the organisers’ decision to begin this year’s Cannes with the relatively low-key La Tete Haute.

So, does the news of Grace of Monaco’s Emmy nomination prove that cinema is great and — despite all the Golden Age chatter — television is no better than it ought to be? Not quite.True, there is some real rubbish in the list. A universe without The Voice in it would be a much happier universe. Moreover, we should not forget that many of the shows nominated here — the cable series in particular — are watched by relatively tiny audiences. Both those points could, however, be made about the Oscars.

The lesson here is actually much less earth-shaking than the news originally suggested. Essentially, the TV movie — never the happiest genre — remains in an unhappy, confused place. Most of the best recent entries to that Emmy race — think Behind the Candelabra — fit neatly into the “true story” genre so beloved of Lifetime. No sensible film-maker is going to put his best efforts into an entity that isn’t quite a movie and isn’t quite a TV programme. With Behind the Candelabra, Steven Soderbergh knew that he would get the film into Cannes and would, most likely, receive a European release.

Just look what Grace of Monaco is up against: the last episode of Poirot and a feature episode of Stephen Merchant’s Hello Ladies. Killing Jesus is a New Testament tale from a book by Bill O’Reilly. Yes, that, Bill O’Reilly. Dear God (sorry for the profanity, Bill), could Grace of Monaco actually win? Probably not. A modestly well reviewed drama starring David Oyelowo named Nightingale is also in the running. But the winner is probably yet another true story: Bessie, featuring Queen Latifa as jazz immortal Bessie Smith.

In truth, the Best TV movie Emmy is the equivalent of the obsolete Grammy for, say, Best Polka Album (honestly, it did exist). It’s nice to win one. But nobody else much cares.

Donald Clarke <![CDATA[Movie quiz for July 17th]]> 2015-07-17T00:59:22Z 2015-07-17T00:59:22Z 1. Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill will be fighting each other as which superheroes next year?

2. Identify the actor pictured as a young man.

3. I am the daughter of a professor of Buddhist studies. My name is that of a Hindu goddess. Who the heck am I?

4. Which musician is currently being played by both John Cusack and Paul Dano?

5. A scene from which Paul Thomas Anderson was the subject of a mash-up to a song by Kelis?

6. Who, earlier this year, became the oldest ever male acting nominee at the Oscars?

7. What connects Tod Browning, John Badham, Francis Ford Coppola and Terence Fisher?

8. Who has been Hunter S Thompson, Polonius, Garfield and FDR?

9. What links Altman’s army comedy, Pixar’s tale of robot love, Colin Farrell as an LA cop (think carefully) and the next Bond film?

10. Who are Etheline, Chas, Margot, Rosie and Royal?

1. Batman and Superman

2. Peter Falk

3. Uma Thurman

4. Brian Wilson (in Love and Mercy)

5. There Will be Blood (Milkshake)

6. Robert Duvall

7. They all directed adaptations of Dracula

8. Bill Murray

9. The titles acronyms (MASH, WALL-E, SWAT, SPECTRE)

10. The Royal Tenenbaums

Donald Clarke <![CDATA[The Suicide Squad leak reveals dangers of Comic-Con]]> 2015-07-16T16:08:33Z 2015-07-16T16:08:33Z Twenty years ago, San Diego Comic-Con was what its name still claims it to be. The event was a convention for comics enthusiasts. Once in that southern Californian city, the fan would be welcomed to signings, presentations and sales of vintage comics. Since then the media giants have moved in and turned Comic-Con into an offshoot of the movie and TV industries. Somewhere in the region of 130,000 people allow themselves to be worked upon by the promoters of the latest superhero romp or science fiction epic. The punters then spread the word for free on social media. Well, we are living in a globalised capitalist economy and, thus, should always have expected the bandit financiers to triumph.

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It has, to date, been a neat situation for the likes of Marvel and DC. Unlike the attendees of pesky film festivals, nobody demands that you show any (or many) features in their entirety. They crave snippets of footage and the odd bit of casting gossip. The downside is the risk of digital bootlegging. The most prominent example this year concerned a trailer for Suicide Squad shown to the crowds in the famous (apparently) Hall H. This is a tricky project. Created in obvious imitation of the Avengers — and boosted by the success of Guardians of the Galaxy — the DC adaptation brings together a bunch of anti-heroes to thwart some sort of global catastrophe. Apparently, the Joker has something to do with it all. It’s got Viola Davis in it. I’ll watching anything with Viola.

Anyway, the trailer soon leaked onto the internet an, in response, Warners decided to release a decent HD version officially. This happens quite a bit, but studios, aware of the risks, usually shrug it off as an occupational hazard. The folk at WB seemed more peeved than usual, however. Here’s what they said:

“Warner Bros. Pictures and our anti-piracy team have worked tirelessly over the last 48 hours to contain the Suicide Squad footage that was pirated from Hall H on Saturday. We have been unable to achieve that goal. Today we will release the same footage that has been illegally circulating on the web, in the form it was created and high quality with which it was intended to be enjoyed. We regret this decision as it was our intention to keep the footage as a unique experience for the Comic Con crowd, but we cannot continue to allow the film to be represented by the poor quality of the pirated footage stolen from our presentation.”

You can make your own mind up about what the footage tells us about Suicide Squad. None of controversy does the project any serious harm. The outbreaks of wittering in places such as this only offer the Squad more publicity. They’ll need it. There’s a feeling out there that the Superhero market might be about to slip into economic free-fall. Should we sell, sell, sell? Let’s see how the cards fall for Ant Man before jumping to any conclusions.

Donald Clarke <![CDATA[50 years, 50 films Vol II: Night Mail (1936)]]> 2015-07-15T20:26:48Z 2015-07-15T20:26:48Z We have neglected a great many great talents on our journey through the last century of film. Among them is the influential Scottish film-maker John Grierson. It has been argued that Grierson, born in Stirling in 1898, actually coined the term “documentary”. After all, somebody had to. Along with Humphrey Jennings, Grierson certainly made the British doc what it had become by the middle of the century. He had credits on such films as Man of Aran and Song of Ceylon. That’s his voice you hear in the famous Night Mail, a picture about the  London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) mail train from London to Scotland, but he did not direct or produce the piece. Behind the camera were Harry Watt and Basil Wright. Both went on to have vital careers in British film. Watt ended up working with Jennings on such wartime classics as the still gripping London can Take It (1940).

If you know anything about Night Mail you probably know that it features a poem by W H Auden scored to original music by Benjamin Britten. In fact that sequence doesn’t kick in until the 19th minute of a relatively short film, but it remains one of the most oddly exhilarating moments in contemporaneous British cinema. The beats of the verse meet the rhythms of the train that in turn meld with the throbs of Britten’s music. ”This is the Night Mail crossing the border / Bringing the cheque and the postal order,” Auden’s near-nursery rhyme begins as the train surges forward. Grierson takes over from Stuart Legg at the close of the poem to tell us: ”And none will hear the postman’s knock without a quickening of the heart, for who can bear to feel himself forgotten?” Which is how we used to feel all right.

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Made for the GPO, for whom Grierson was public relations officer, Night Mail is now seen as a meditation on how then-modern communications brought a nation together. As a government-financed production aimed at promoting a public service, Night Mail seems more like a product of the post-war Labour administration than of Stanley Baldwin’s Conservative regime. Maybe, there was a already hint of consensus at work.

If you study the whole piece (available above) you will be reminded that for most of its duration it really is a public information film. What really stands out is the amount of ingenuity that goes into creating and maintaining such a communications network. It always seemed a miracle that post could get to faraway places as quickly as it did then. It seems no less surprising when the curtain is pulled back to reveal the cogs and levers within.

So much that was important in mid-century British culture is bound up in this lovely film. Auden brought new rhythms and hitherto underexploited emotions to English verse. Britten composed work that seems as peculiar — and accessible — then as it did 80 years ago. Note also that the sound director was Alberto Cavalcanti, who went on do direct the wartime classic Went the Day Well.

Such odd things did once exist within the system. They may not do so again.

For 1936 we also considered Camille, Le Crime de Monsieur Lange, Dodsworth, Mr Deeds Goes to Town, Un Partie de Campagne, The Petrified Forest and Swing Time.


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CalGym CG-7508 Selectorized Seated Tricep Extension Machine - The CalGym CG-7508 by TuffStuff is a selectorized tricep extension machine that allows the user to isolate the tricep muscles similar to performing lying tricep hammer extensions with dumbbells and a flat utility bench. Using the neutral grips, train the outer and mid heads of the triceps by keeping the elbows in close throughout the exercise and to hit the inner head bring the elbows slightly out. The pivoting handle and biomechanically engineered cam drive system work together with the body to provide an effective tricep workout with minimal stress on the joints. Providing the resistance to the user is a 150 lb. weight stack that is adjustable in 10 lb. increments via a magnetic selector pin. Users of all heights can customize the fit of the CG-7508 thanks to the adjustable thigh rollers and telescoping seat. The seat also includes a secondary pad in the back to prevent the user from sliding while performing heavy tricep extensions. All padding consists of dense urethane foam padding backed by 3/4” plywood to withstand the harshest workouts.

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  • Revenue Ruling 2009-9 provides guidance on determining the amount and timing of losses from these schemes, which is difficult and dependent on the prospect of recovering the lost money (which may not become known for several years).

  • Revenue Procedure 2009-20 simplifies compliance for taxpayers by providing a safe-harbor means of determining the year in which the loss is deemed to occur and a simplified means of computing the amount of the loss.

For an overview of this guidance, see IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman's March 17, 2009, testimony before the Senate Finance Committee on tax issues related to Ponzi schemes.

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