#Garry W. Talent

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Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band

by Frank Stefanko, 1978

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can someone help me find that post that's a photo of bruce posing with garry talent i think some time in the 2010s and someone in the tags is like "who's that sultry twink he's with" or something and op reblogs the tags and is like GARRY W. TALENT??? it's so funny help me

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                                               GAMES OF 2023 For most of 2023, similarly to the previous year, the video game industry seemed to be more defined by its controversies than its entertainment purposes. From the SAG-AFTRA union actors authorizing various strikes against the industry's largest companies to receive better pay for their contributions, Microsoft finally purchasing Activision Blizzard King for $69 billion, to even more than 6,000 game developers losing their jobs amid a massive wave of layoffs.  It’s been hard to put a positive spin on the people who are actually responsible for making the games that have brought us hours upon hours of entertaining characters, worlds and experiencesIn saying that, 2023 has been a standout year for games. With how great the previous year for gaming was, it's insane that 2023 might just be the medium's best year of all time. Not a single month has passed us by without an experience that was truly worth our collective time and attention, regardless of any genre preferences or platform allegiances.     Even with what is happening, the Nostalgia Roadtrip Network is dedicated to bringing you the best that we can do to bring a smile to your face by spotlighting these talented artist, composers, and musicians that have elevated our gaming experiences since we first learned to pick up a controller, hit a button on a keyboard or swiped across our phones. This is why THIS STAGE of the Retro VGM Revival Hour is dedicated to the music from the various  games of 2023….We’ve selected 3 tracks from each game to make your listening experience all the more amazing, so Let’s get started!!!!

                                      Full track listing:

===========Game – Composer – Title – Company========

 1.) Resident Evil 4 (2023) – Kota Suzuki, Misao Senbongi, Nozomi Ohmoto & Shusaku Uchiyama – “Big Anger on the Lake (Del Lago: Remake ver.), Lift's Taken & Path to Closure (Remake ver.)” – March 24, 2023 – Capcom – PS4, PS5, Windows PC, Xbox Series X/S, iOS & macOS

2.) Forspoken – Garry Schyman & Bear McCreary – “Hostile Confrontation, The Truth Will Out & Distant Memories” – January 24, 2023 – Luminous Productions/Square Enix – PS5 & Windows PC

3.) Atomic Heart – Geoffrey Day, Vladimir Migulya, Anatoliy Poperechny, Emil Dimitrov & Boris Barkas – “For the Good of Mankind, Trava u Doma (‘Grass By the Home’ - w/ vocals by Zemlyane) & Arlekino (‘Harlequin’ - w/ vocals by Alla Pugacheva)” – February 21, 2023 – Mundfish/Focus Entertainment – PS4, PS5, Windows PC, Xbox One & Xbox Series X/S

4.) Horizon Call of the Mountain – Alistair Kerley & Frankie Harper – “Ring of Fire, Thunder Falls & In the Eye” – February 22, 2023 – Guerrilla Games & Firesprite/Sony Interactive Entertainment – PS5

5.) Octopath Traveler II – Yasunori Nishiki – “Octopath Traveler II Main Theme (w/ vocals by Yuria Miyazono), Hinoeuma & Normal Battle (2nd Theme)” – February 24, 2023 – Square Enix & Acquire/Square Enix – Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5 & Windows PC

6.) Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty – Kenichiro Suehiro – “Might and Valor, Sorcery of Chaos & Tiger's Fury” – March 3, 2023 – Team Ninja/Koei Tecmo – PS4, PS5, Windows PC, Xbox One & Xbox Series X/S

7.) Dead Space (2023) – Trevor Gureckis – “Reborn as One, The Leviathan & The Hive Mind” – January 27, 2023 – Motive Studio/Electronic Arts – PS5, Windows PC & Xbox Series X/S

8.) Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon – Masahiro Miyauchi & Hitomi Kurokawa – “Training and Discipline (Morgana's Theme), Decisive Battle! The Circus of Horror & Le Chéile i bhForaois Sholas na Gealaí - ‘Together in the Moonlit Forest’ (w/ lyrics written by Michael McGlynn & Vocals by Lauren McGlynn)” – March 17, 2023 – PlatinumGames/Nintendo – Nintendo Switch

9.) Atelier Ryza 3: Alchemist of the End & the Secret Key – Yuki Matsumura, Kosuke Mizukami & Masako Otsuka – “Fall Crocus, I'll Take You Down & In the Sunlight Gleaming Through the Trees” – March 23, 2023 – Gust/Koei Tecmo – Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5 & Windows PC

10.) Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection – Hana Kimura & Kodai Ikeda (based on original compositions by Toshihiko Horiyama) – “Theme of Battle Network #2, HOMETOWN (Pop Rock Version) & We are still connected” – April 14, 2023 – NeoBards Entertainment & Capcom/Capcom – Nintendo Switch, PS4 & Windows PC

11.) Hi-Fi Rush – Shuichi Kobori & Reo Uratani – “The Rush, Production Destruction & Heatwave (Värrt Mix)” – January 25, 2023 – Tango Gameworks/Bethesda Softworks – Windows PC & Xbox Series X/S

12.) The Mageseeker: A League of Legends Story – Gareth Coker – “Second Infiltration and Yops, Assault on Demacia & Sylas and Wisteria III” – April 18, 2023 – Digital Sun/Riot Forge – Windows PC, Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One & Xbox Series X/S

13.) Dead Island 2 – Ryan Williams, Luciano Rossi & Nick Hill – “Give 'em Hell-A, Crash Corpse & Stay Alive (feat. Felix Bushe w/ vocals by FFM)” – April 21, 2023 – Dambuster Studios/Deep Silver – Windows PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One & Xbox Series X/S

14.) Honkai: Star Rail – wén chí (Vinchi), lín yī fán (Fan) & cuī hàn pǔ (TSAR) – “To You Who Will Soon Depart, Fables About the Stars (Part 1) & Jolted Awake From a Winter Dream” – April 26, 2023 – miHoYo – Windows PC, iOS, Android & PS5

15.) Star Wars Jedi: Survivor – Stephen Barton & Gordy Haab – “The Undercity, Basalt Scars & Course Collider” – April 28, 2023 – Respawn Entertainment/Electronic Arts – PS5, Windows PC, Xbox Series X/S, PS4 & Xbox One

16.) Redfall – Jongnic Bontemps – “Time to Bite Back, Cultist Combat Suite & Vampire Gods” – May 2, 2023 – Arkane Austin/Bethesda Softworks – Windows PC & Xbox Series X/S

17.) Street Fighter 6 – Shigeyuki Kameda & The Sound Room (Marshall Smith & Tom Fox)  – “ÅrachniDXX (Juri's Theme), Thunderfoot Settlement (Stage Battle) & Mad Gear Battle (Thrasher Damnd's Theme)” – June 2, 2023 – Capcom – PS4, PS5, Windows PC, Xbox Series X/S & Arcade

18.) Amnesia: The Bunker – Mikko Tarmia – “Officer Hub Safe Theme, Souvenirs Du Passé & End Credits” – June 6, 2023 – Frictional Games – PS4, Windows  PC, Xbox One & Xbox Series X/S

19.) Diablo IV – Leo Kaliski & Ted Reedy – “Kyovashad, Dead Forest & Daughter of Hatred” – June 5, 2023 – Blizzard Team 3 & Blizzard Albany/Blizzard Entertainment – PS4, PS5, Windows PC, Xbox One & Xbox Series X/S

20.) Final Fantasy XVI – Masayoshi Soken – “Shattered, Before the Storm (Caer Norvent) & Titan Lost (W/ vocals by Masayoshi Soken & Michael-Christopher Koji Fox)” – June 22, 2023 – Square Enix – PS5

21.) Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective (2023) – Masakazu Sugimori – “Ghost Trick, Lynne (Red-Headed Target) & 4 Minutes Before Death (Variation)” – June 30, 2023 – Capcom – Nintendo Switch, PS4, Windows & Xbox One

22.) Master Detective Archives: Rain Code – Masafumi Takada & Jun Fukuda – “Accelerator Neon, Reasoning Death Match (Rock U) & Super Q Time (Sudden Rain)” – June 30, 2023 – Too Kyo Games & Spike Chunsoft/Spike Chunsoft – Nintendo Switch

23.) Exoprimal – Yuko Miyata, Jeff Rona & Kodai Ikeda – “Mission: Downtown, Mission: Dam & Behemoth Battle (Durban): Phase 2” – July 14, 2023 – Capcom – PS4, PS5, Windows PC, Xbox One & Xbox Series X/S 

24.) Remnant 2 – Rob Westwood – “Eastport Combat, The Red Prince & The Huntress” – July 25, 2023 – Gunfire Games/Gearbox Publishing – PS5, Windows PC & Xbox Series X/S 

25.) Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise of the Dragons – Sean Bialo (Cosmic Gem) & Arman Aspromonti (R-MaN) – “Killers' Fortress III (Mission A, Area 3), Royals' Hideout III (Mission B, Area 3) & Mysterious Warrior (Vs. Boss Gauntlet & Mayor/Final Mission & Boss )” – July 27th, 2023 – Secret Base Pte. Ltd/Modus Games  – Windows PC, Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One & Xbox Series X/S 

26.) Baldur's Gate 3 – Borislav Slavov – “Mind Flayer Theme, A Threat From Nether Years & Raphael's Final Act (W/ vocals by Mariya Anastasova & Andrew Wincott)” – August 3, 2023 – Larian Studios – Windows PC, PS5, macOS & Xbox Series X/S 

27.) Bomb Rush Cyberfunk – Proux, Charodey Jeddy & Hideki Naganuma – “Funk Express (Extended Version), State of Mind & DA PEOPLE” – August 18, 2023 – Team Reptile – Windows PC, Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One & Xbox Series X/S 

28.) Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon – Shoi Miyazawa & Kota Hoshino – “Dosers On The Grid, C-Weapon & Steel Haze (Rusted Pride)” – August 25, 2023 – FromSoftware/Bandai Namco Entertainment – PS4, PS5, Windows PC, Xbox One & Xbox Series X/S 

29.) Sea of Stars – Eric W. Brown – “Wyrd the Training Golem, Battle On! (Night) & Encounter Elite! v2.1” – August 29, 2023 – Sabotage Studio – Windows PC, Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One & Xbox Series X/S 

30.) Starfield – Inon Zur – “Freestar, Cydonia & Death and Crimson” – September 6, 2023 – Bethesda Softworks – Windows & Xbox Series X/S 

31.) Lies of P – Silun Lee, Jung-hoo Oh, Dong-hoon Lee, Dong-sub Park & Ki-beom Kim – “Judgement of Mourning, Rabbits on the Hunt & Dreadful March” – September 19, 2023 – Neowiz Games & Round8 Studio/Neowiz Games – PS4, PS5, Windows PC, macOS, Xbox One & Xbox Series X/S 

32.) Mortal Kombat 1 – Casey Edwards, Nathan Grigg & Wilbert Roget – “Cage Mansion, The Flesh Pits & The Pyramid Summit” – September 19, 2023 – NetherRealm Studios/Warner Bros. Games – Nintendo Switch, PS5, Windows  PC & Xbox Series X/S 

33.) Assassin's Creed Mirage – Brendan Angelides – “Serpent's Kiss, A Path of Heat & Noxious” – October 5, 2023 – Ubisoft Bordeaux/Ubisoft – PS4, PS5, Windows PC, Xbox One & Xbox Series X/S 

34.) Lords of the Fallen (2023) – Knut Avenstroup Haugen, Cris Velasco & The Budapest Scoring Orchestra and Choir – “In Light We Walk, Archnemesis & Stigmata (W/ vocals by Lauren Walker AKA Eurielle)” – October 13, 2023 – Hexworks/CI Games – Windows PC, PS5 & Xbox Series X/S 

35.) Marvel's Spider-Man 2 – John Paesano – “In Full Swing (SURKIN Remix), East River Mayhem & Midtown Madness” – October 20, 2023 – Insomniac Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment – PS5

36.) Alan Wake 2 – Yasmeen Semaan, Teemu Brunila, Antti Riihimäki, Jean Castel, Jurek Reunamäki, Jussi Tiainen, Pierre-Antoine Melki, Christel Roosberg, Joalin, Jori Roosberg & Sam Lake  – “Wide Awake  (W/ vocals by Jaimes), Dark/Twisted and Cruel (W/ vocals by  Paleface Swiss) & No One Left To Love (W/ vocals by ROOS + BERG)” – October 27, 2023 – Remedy Entertainment /Epic Games Publishing – PS5, Windows PC & Xbox Series X/S 

37.) Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name – Keitarou Hanada, Takahiro Kai & ​​Saori Yoshida  – “Obedience, Treachery & Shin Ichizu Samurai (W/ vocals by Takaya Kuroda/Kazuma Kiryu)” – November 9, 2023 – Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio/SEGA – PS4, PS5, Windows PC, Xbox One & Xbox Series X/S 

38.) Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora – Pinar Toprak – “First Strike, Ash on the Winds & Take the Fight to Them” – November 30, 2023 – Massive Entertainment/Ubisoft – Windows PC, Xbox Series X/S, PS5 & Amazon Luna 

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Today’s Current Affairs Today’s Current Affairs focuses on an exhilarating conclusion to Casablanca Chess 2024. Grandmaster (GM) Magnus Carlsen emerged victorious after a series of breathtaking matches against top-tier opponents like GM Hikaru Nakamura and GM Viswanathan Anand. Nakamura claimed second place, while Anand secured third. A standout highlight was Anand’s last-round tactical win against GM Bassem Amin, crowned our Game of the Day. This gripping event revisited historic chess games, bringing past moves into contemporary play, and showcased the exceptional talent and strategic depth of each player. [ad_2] Download Latest Movies in HD Quality Downloading In 15 seconds Scroll Down to End of This Post const downloadBtn = document.getElementById('download-btn'); const timerBtn = document.getElementById('timer-btn'); const downloadLinkBtn = document.getElementById('download-link-btn'); downloadBtn.addEventListener('click', () => downloadBtn.style.display = 'none'; timerBtn.style.display = 'block'; let timeLeft = 15; const timerInterval = setInterval(() => if (timeLeft === 0) clearInterval(timerInterval); timerBtn.style.display = 'none'; downloadLinkBtn.style.display = 'inline-block'; // Add your download functionality here console.log('Download started!'); else timerBtn.textContent = `Downloading In $timeLeft seconds`; timeLeft--; , 1000); ); [ad_1] Who triumphed at the Casablanca Chess 2024? - Hikaru Nakamura - Viswanathan Anand - Bassem Amin - Magnus Carlsen Answer: Magnus Carlsen Who finished second in Casablanca Chess 2024? - Garry Kasparov - Hikaru Nakamura - Bassem Amin - Viswanathan Anand Answer: Hikaru Nakamura Who secured third place in the Casablanca Chess 2024? - Bassem Amin - Alexander Alekhine - Max Euwe - Viswanathan Anand Answer: Viswanathan Anand In Round 4, who shared their guesses on the origin of the position? - Bassem Amin and Hikaru Nakamura - Viswanathan Anand and Magnus Carlsen - Daniel Naroditsky and Jan Gustafsson - Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov Answer: Viswanathan Anand and Magnus Carlsen Who won the Game of the Day in Round 4 against Bassem Amin? - Hikaru Nakamura - Viswanathan Anand - Magnus Carlsen - Garry Kasparov Answer: Viswanathan Anand In Round 5, whose experiences are described in the book "How Life Imitates Chess"? - Viswanathan Anand - Garry Kasparov - Hikaru Nakamura - Magnus Carlsen Answer: Garry Kasparov Who described Magnus Carlsen's effect on other players in Round 5? - Jan Gustafsson - Daniel Naroditsky - Bassem Amin - Alexander Alekhine Answer: Daniel Naroditsky What happened during Carlsen's final time scramble in Round 5 against Amin? - Carlsen won comfortably. - Amin threw away a winning chance. - Carlsen suffered a major loss. - The game ended in a draw. Answer: Amin threw away a winning chance. In Round 6, which position did all players choose coincidentally? - Xie Jun vs. Alisa Galliamova - Garry Kasparov vs. Anatoly Karpov - Magnus Carlsen vs. Hikaru Nakamura - Viswanathan Anand vs. Bassem Amin Answer: Xie Jun vs. Alisa Galliamova Which move did Anand choose in the Xie Jun vs. Alisa Galliamova position in Round 6? - 15.g4 - 15.Be2 - 15.Ne2 - 15.0-0 Answer: 15.Ne2 Who accepted the first-place trophy in Casablanca Chess 2024? - Hikaru Nakamura - Bassem Amin - Magnus Carlsen - Viswanathan Anand Answer: Magnus Carlsen Which variant did Nakamura describe as his current favorite after the tournament? - Fischer Random - AI-generated positions - Classical chess - Original chess positions Answer: Classical chess [ad_2] Who won the Casablanca Chess 2024 and who came second and third? GM Magnus Carlsen won the Casablanca Chess 2024 by claiming first place. GM Hikaru Nakamura secured second place, and GM Viswanathan Anand finished in third place. What significant game was highlighted in the article as the Game of the Day? The Game of the Day was GM Viswanathan Anand's last-round victory against GM Bassem Amin.

What historical match did the competitors revisit in Round 4, and what was the outcome for Anand and Carlsen? In Round 4, the competitors revisited the 1935 match between Alexander Alekhine and Max Euwe. Anand and Carlsen ended in a rare perpetual, meaning the game ended in a draw after a series of repeated moves. What was Nakamura's strategy in Round 4 and how did it differ from Carlsen’s and Anand’s game? Nakamura and Amin steered the game into an early queen trade. Nakamura built up his position and a significant edge on the clock, ultimately generating a mating attack and winning the game. In contrast, Anand and Carlsen had a dynamic tactical game that ended in a draw. Which historical game was revisited in Round 5 and why is it significant according to Garry Kasparov? In Round 5, the players revisited a game from the epic rivalry between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov, particularly game 24 of their 1987 World Championship match. Kasparov considers this game his "Mount Everest" because it was a must-win situation for him to retain his title after a critical loss in the previous game. How did Carlsen's approach in Round 5 demonstrate his unique playing style mentioned by Daniel Naroditsky? Carlsen's approach in Round 5 involved building pressure on the queenside in a way that made his opponent feel like they were losing, even when the position was equal. This exemplifies Naroditsky's observation that Carlsen has a way of making his opponents feel under constant threat. What position did Nakamura recognize from his own recent games, and what was notable about it? Nakamura recognized one of the positions from a game he played against GM Oleksandr Bortnyk in a Titled Tuesday event, which happened just two years ago. This was notable because the other positions were from much older games, and Nakamura’s victory in this particular game gave him a unique familiarity with it. In Round 6, which position did the players choose and why did Nakamura prefer it? In Round 6, the players chose a position from the 1999 Women's World Championship match between Xie Jun and Alisa Galliamova. Nakamura preferred this position because he believed it was easier for White to play, but also saw potential for Black to capitalize if White was not precise. How did Carlsen secure his tournament victory in the final round? Carlsen secured his tournament victory in the final round by playing dynamically against Nakamura, ultimately winning the game, which gave him a full-point lead over the rest of the competitors. What memorable quote from Carlsen reflects his thoughts on recognizing historical games? Carlsen shared a humorous reflection, admitting, "I’m quite ashamed that I didn’t immediately recognize Kasparov-Karpov. First of all, I was thinking: What kind of idiot puts the knight on d7?" He initially mistook the game as being played by lesser players. What did Nakamura think of the tournament format and how did he compare it to Fischer Random chess? Nakamura enjoyed the tournament format immensely and mentioned that it had become his favorite, surpassing Fischer Random chess. He appreciated that the format involved fresh positions while still being rooted in the history of classical chess, leading to very creative games. What are the organizers planning for next year’s Casablanca Chess event? Next year, the organizers plan to explore completely novel ground by having players try their hand at AI-generated "never played before" positions. [ad_1] Download Movies Now Searching for Latest movies 20 seconds Sorry There is No Latest movies link found due to technical error. Please Try Again Later. function claimAirdrop() document.getElementById('claim-button').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('timer-container').style.display = 'block'; let countdownTimer = 20; const countdownInterval = setInterval(function() document.getElementById('countdown').textContent = countdownTimer;

countdownTimer--; if (countdownTimer < 0) clearInterval(countdownInterval); document.getElementById('timer-container').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('sorry-button').style.display = 'block'; , 1000); [ad_2] Magnus Carlsen Wins Casablanca Chess 2024 In today's current affairs from the chess world, GM Magnus Carlsen emerged victorious at the 2024 Casablanca Chess tournament. Carlsen clinched first place with a thrilling final round win against GM Hikaru Nakamura. Nakamura, showing his formidable skills, secured second place while legendary GM Viswanathan Anand took third, thanks to an impressive last-round victory over GM Bassem Amin — which was dubbed the Game of the Day. Today's current affairs highlight Carlsen's stellar performance when he chose a starting position from a historic rivalry between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov. With strategic brilliance, Carlsen converted a level middlegame into a winning opportunity, ultimately edging out his competitors. Anand's tactical prowess shone through as he capitalized on Amin's missteps, clinching a spectacular win. The tournament was full of memorable moments, including Anand and Carlsen's debate over historical game origins and Nakamura's aggressive strategies. Chess enthusiasts can look forward to more innovation as next year's event promises to introduce AI-generated positions. For those wanting to catch the action, the 2024 Casablanca Chess games are available for viewing on Chess.com, Twitch, and YouTube. Stay tuned for more updates and coverage in the world of chess. [ad_1]

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https://tylkoszachy.blogspot.com/2023/09/kasparow-wraca-do-gry-na-razie-w.html

Po trzech rundach Champions Showdown Chess9LX Garri Kasparow prowadzi!

W turnieju tym, ustawienie początkowe jest losowane (tzw. szachy Fishera). Obok Kasparowa grają w nim najlepsi gracze ze Stanów Zjednoczonych.

Garri po zwycięstwie nad So i Robsonem oraz remisie z Nakamurą, wywołał dyskusję, czy rzeczywiście tak jest, że obecni młodzi arcymistrzowie są lepsi od dawnych, legendarnych mistrzów. No bo kiedy 60-letni Garri Kasparow, wraca po długiej przerwie do gry, zasiada do partii z losowym ustawieniem początkowym, gdzie nie decyduje zdolność do zapamiętania setek wariantów debiutowych tylko szachowy talent i szachowa wiedza, to ogrywa młode gwiazdy!

Zobaczcie sami jak Kasparow poradził sobie z So (ustawienie początkowe macie na diagramie):

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Lipton tree… ( Dambetenne - Haputale)

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Interview

1. When and how did you start to become interested

I was really surprised and quite honored to have been invited to participate to this exercise. First I would like to apologize for my broken English and the literal translation I did on my answers. (Feel free to ask for further explanations if needed). Then I would like to thank from the bottom of my heart the lovely people of PWS, for the passion of Photography they share with a bright and generous talent and all the support they bring daily to the original photographers on Tumblr.

It starts many years ago, as I saw my father with his Bolex16 filming butterflies and our children’s performances in the swimming pool. It fascinated me. When I was 14, I filched my brother’s Praktica which I later traded for a Nikon FM2, a more feminine camera. A quote from Garry Winogrand inspired that part of my life : « If I photograph something, it is to know what once that will look like photographed. »

I chose to study Cinema in parallel with long studies in Contemporary History and Social Sciences as the reporter I wished to be. I tried B&W with street sceneries widely inspired by photojournalists that I love such as Gérard Depardon, René Burry and Marc Riboud then I switched for Color with minimal landscapes in cinematographic spirit quite inspired by Wim Wenders.

Because of my job, I have spent a lot of time traveling all over the world, for film shootings during years and years. In this whirlwind, where each place erases the next, I wanted to keep impressions of the places and people I met and my response was to do so with my personal camera. Maybe that was my first steps for my future blog…

2. How would you say your photography changed since you started?

Several years ago, I realized that I no longer needed to tell it all in one picture. A detail was enough to describe a real meeting, or a soulful landscape… Then my photographs became more moving, more impressionistic…

3. What inspires you?

So many great and famous photographers and artists … my house is filled with books of photos, arts, sociological, artistic, semantic and philosophical questions and comments on our relationship to the Image and the way we think about the representation of the world . Of course, I have my endless personal list which includes Irwing Penn, Edward Steichen, André Kertész, Keiichi Tahara, August Sanders, Izis, Paul Strand, Peter Lindbergh, Paolo Roversi, Richard Avedon, Brassaï, Robert Capa, Gérard Depardon, René Burry, Marc Riboud, Bruce Chatwin, Mari Ellen Mark, Josef Koudelka and many others… Over the years, this love of photography and photographers has shaped and transformed my sight on what I could do with a camera as much as my feelings and emotions have also done so.

4. If you’d have to describe yourself as a photographer in one sentence, what would that sentence be?

I surely would like to be describe as a simple amateur photograph.

5. Is there something you learned during your photographic journey that you would have loved to know when you were just starting out?

That the simplicity often brings strength to a photograph.

That the balance has to be always obvious in a frame.

That digital photography was about to come…

That words from Joe Strummer: « We aren’t particularly talented. We try harder! »

PWS - Stephi

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Five Black architects who helped shape L.A.’s Mid-Century style!

The Garris Residence (1958) by Paul Revere Williams. Located at 1070 N. Hillcrest Road, Los Angeles. (Photo courtesy Hilton & Hyland)

When the great Paul Revere Williams joined the Southern California chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in 1923, he became the AIA’s first Black member. This kicked the door open for Black architects across America, and especially right here in Williams’ hometown of Los Angeles. 

Inspired by Williams’ high-profile success, a small but mighty group of Black architects overcame intense racism with talent and determination, working regularly throughout the mid- 20th century. 

Black architects may have been overshadowed in the history books by their more famous white colleagues, but for every Richard Neutra and R.M. Schindler there were Black architects designing buildings that were just as creative and ambitious, and they left a Modern imprint that is still visible here in L.A. … if you know where to look.

Here’s a brief look at some of L.A.’s unsung Mid-Century Modern beauties, and the Black architects behind them. 

JAMES H. GARROTT

The Gregory and Ain Office (1950). Located at 2231 Hyperion Avenue, Los Angeles. (Photo Credit: Michael Locke)

This lovely Mid-Century Modern style office building in Silver Lake was once home to the architectural firm of Ain & Garrott. James H. Garrott (1897 - 1991) was the second Black architect to be admitted to the American Institute of Architects (AIA), thanks to the support of his mentor, Paul R. Williams, who sponsored his application. Garrott, originally from Montgomery Alabama, graduated from Los Angeles Polytechnic High School in 1917 and got his architect’s license in 1928.

Garrott worked for Williams during the 1920s, during which time he made a huge contribution to the Black community by designing the first Golden State Mutual Life Insurance building (1928). But Garrott’s career really began to take flight when he met visionary architect Gregory Ain: the two began a loose partnership in the 1940s, around the same time that Garrott designed his own residence for him and his wife, Fanny, in Silver Lake. It is located next door to another Garrott design, the Loren Miller Residence, which was designed for the powerful Civil Rights attorney, responsible for helping end racist housing covenant deeds both here in Los Angeles and nationwide.

The James H. Garrott Residence (1940). Located at 653 Micheltorena Street, Los Angeles. (Photo Credit: Michael Locke)

Gregory Ain’s progressive politics influenced his approach to Modern architecture, which then inspired Garrot’s own work: he has since been described as a “pivotal Black avant-garde modernist of the 1940s."

Together, they designed a small office building in Silver Lake in 1950 and worked on a number of private residences, including the Ben Margolis Residence (1951). Margolis was a famous L.A. attorney, most remembered for defending “The Hollywood Ten”: the ten writers and directors blacklisted by the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) over alleged Communist sympathies. In 1951, one year before courageously testifying before the HUAC, Margolis commissioned a home from Ain, with Garrott as partner.

Ben Margolis Residence (1951). Located at 5786 Valley Oak Drive, Los Angeles. (Photo Credit: Michael Locke)

The Westchester Municipal Building (1960). Located at 7166 W. Manchester Avenue, Los Angeles.  (Photo credit: Modernista L.A.)

Garrott would design some 200 buildings over the course of his career, including twenty-five churches and several public buildings like the striking Westchester Municipal Building (1960). Later in life, Garrott became a mentor to emerging Black architects. In 1975, he was honored with a lifetime achievement award by the Minority Architects and Planners of Los Angeles, and also became an emeritus of the American Institute of Architects.

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ROBERT A. KENNARD

1958 post-and-beam located at 9032 Wonderland Park Avenue, Los Angeles. (Photo credit: DeasyPennerPodley)

Nestled in the affluent enclave of Beverly Crest lies this Mid-Century Modern gem, designed by the trailblazing Robert A. Kennard (1920 - 1995). It’s a post-and-beam beauty with vaulted ceilings, paneled walls, a sunken living room, and as recently as 2015, sold for nearly $1.5 million.

Kennard was a SoCal native, hailing from Monrovia, and attended Monrovia High School where a teacher first introduced him to the work of Paul R. Williams. Thanks to the GI Bill, Kennard was able to attend the USC School of Architecture after serving in World War II, becoming part of the second generation of Black architects in L.A. who were buoyed by the success of Williams.

Despite being paid half the rate of his white colleagues, Kennard’s drive resulted in the founding of his own practice in 1957. (One of his earlier works, the Zieger Residence [1958] in Laurel Canyon, was designated in 1989 as City of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #416.) But his work on privately commissioned homes, like the Garrett-Hansford Residence (1964) was relatively short-lived. Starting in the mid-1960s, Kennard shifted his focus to public work. The Kennard Design Group would work on some 700 projects in Southern California, including the City of Carson City Hall in 1976 (in partnership with Robert Alexander and Frank Sata) and the Van Nuys State Office Building in 1985 (in partnership with another L.A.-based Black architect, Harold Williams).

The Garrett-Hansford Residence (1964). Located at 2076 Redcliff Street, Los Angeles. (Photo credit: Michael Locke)

The Carson City Hall (1976). Located at 701 E. Carson Street, Carson. (Photo credit: Carson Chamber of Commerce)

He also focused on becoming a mentor to young people of color who aspired to make their mark in a predominantly white architectural community. Remembering the countless doors closed to him because of his race, he recruited Black students and formed the Minority Architecture and Planning organization: a precursor of the National Organization of Minority Architects. “It was an inspiration to know that such prominence was not beyond the reach of people of color,” Kennard later recalled. “Life is a two-way street, and it is rewarding to be able to give back a little of what one was fortunate enough to receive.”

Each year, the AIA celebrates his legacy with the Robert A. Kennard Award for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, honoring his “commitment to mentorship and encouraging young people, especially underrepresented ethnicities and women, to pursue careers in architecture.”

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ROY A. SEALEY

The Seaport Marina (1963). Formerly located at 6400 East Pacific Coast Highway, Long Beach. Demolished in 2017. (Photo credit: Larry Underhill)

For more than 50 years, the Seaport Marina Hotel in Long Beach was a distinctive mainstay along the Alamitos Bay Marina. Designed by Roy A. Sealey (1917-2008), the prominent and prolific Black architect, the hotel might be better remembered by its original name: the Edgewater Inn Motel. Sealey’s design included such Mid-Century features as Y-shaped supports, a diamond-patterned roofline, and decorative concrete block screens. 

The motel was part of the "garden motel” trend, a style influenced by the bungalow court styles so popular throughout L.A. County. With its fashionable interiors, cocktail lounges, and ballroom, the Edgewater quickly became a "destination" hotel. 

The City of Long Beach originally commissioned the Edgewater in hopes that it would be the destination for the World’s Fair for 1963. While that never happened, the lavish new lodging opened anyway in June of 1963. The papers touted it as an important addition to the Long Beach hospitality business.

The Edgewater Inn’s iconic Y-shaped supports. Date unknown. (Photo copyright Peter Samarin, Samatrix.Digital )

By that time, Sealey had been a successful, respected architect for many years. Born in Gatun, Panama, Sealey immigrated to the United States in the 1920s, eventually settling in Los Angeles. While studying architecture at USC in 1939, he went to work for Paul R. Williams. Sealey left Williams’ practice in 1945 to open his own office where he specialized in Mid-Century Modern and Googie style buildings.  

Success came quickly for him. By August 1950, Sealey was profiled by Ebony magazine in an article called “Architect for the Wealthy.”  His notable projects included the East L.A. Department of Social Services (1967) and the expansion of the County USC Medical Center of 1968 - 76.

And while he mainly worked in Los Angeles, his one project in Long Beach, the Seaport Marina/Edgewater, would be his most famous. Sadly, in later decades the Seaport Marina fell into disrepair. After years of threatened demolition, Sealey's historic hotel was finally destroyed in 2017.  

The Cockatoo Hotel (1958). Formerly located at 15100 Acacia Avenue, Hawthorne. Demolished in 2004. (Photo courtesy Syntherix.com)

A similar fate befell another hotel Sealey was involved with: the famous Cockatoo Inn Hotel and Restaurant in Hawthorne, which the architect worked on in 1961. The Cockatoo, a big destination spot for Hollywood stars, politicians, and gangsters like Bugsy Siegel, featured a charming Old English style exterior and a decadent, European interior with grand banquet halls and a popular, eccentric bar. But after falling into disarray over the decades, it was sold to developers and demolished in 2004. (A Candlewood Suites and Holiday Inn Express now stands in its place.)

With stories of Black architects in Los Angeles County so seldom told, the loss of their physical work is all the more devastating. 

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RALPH A. VAUGHN

Lincoln Place Garden Apartments (1951). Located at 1077 Elkgrove Ave. Los Angeles. (Photo credit: David Lauridsen) 

Ralph A. Vaughn (1917 - 2000) was an award-winning Black architect and proponent of the postwar Garden City Movement and Modernist architecture. Vaughn helped to bring about the Mid-Century image for which Southern California would become known during a time that offered few opportunities to Black architects. 

Vaughn received his bachelor of science in architecture from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1932 and briefly worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture Resettlement Administration as a draftsman. In 1935, Howard University hired Vaughn to teach architectural drawing which led to an offer from Paul R. Williams to join his firm in L.A. as an “efficiency expert.”

Vaughn worked with Williams on such local landmarks including the Saks Fifth Avenue building and the grand MCA Headquarters in Beverly Hills, not to mention celebrity homes for the likes of Tyrone Power and Bill “Bojangles” Robinson.  

Vaughn also worked as a set designer on a number of feature films, working with legendary MGM art director Cedric Gibbons. It was during his time at MGM that he met architect and fellow set designer Heth Wharton.  The two became friends, and in the late 1940s they formed the agency, Wharton and Vaughn Associates. 

Chase Knolls Garden Apartments (1948). Located at 13401 Riverside Drive, Sherman Oaks. (Photo courtesy Chase Knolls Apartments) 

Their partnership was brief, but together they completed North Hollywood Manor, Chase Knolls Apartments in Sherman Oaks, and their biggest and most lasting contribution to public housing architecture: the Lincoln Place Garden Apartments. 

With sprawling grounds and fifty-two buildings, Lincoln Place Apartments epitomized Vaughn's Modernist tenets and practical approach. The project was so successful that the Federal Housing Administration reportedly saw it as a model for sophisticated yet cost-effective design throughout the 1950s. (After a heated preservation battle spanning more than a decade, Lincoln Place thrives today with a mix of historic and new buildings.)

He was also an in-demand architect for local restaurants and bars that required his film industry-era expertise in mood and tone. He created the Mardi Gras Room in the Park Wilshire Hotel, Melody Cocktail Bar, Hi-Hat Club, Oyster House Restaurant, and other famous places. In total, Vaughn contributed forty-seven Mid-Century Modern structures to the Los Angeles landscape throughout his decades-long career.

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PAUL REVERE WILLIAMS

The Beverly Hills Hotel (1912), 9641 Sunset Boulevard, Beverly Hills. Paul Revere Williams’ own handwriting style adorns the façade and he made some iconic Mid-Century additions to the hotel in the late 1940s. (Photo credit: Canva)  

By any measure, architect Paul Revere Williams (1894 - 1980) was a master architect whose accomplishments are astounding. A native Angeleno, his barrier-breaking career spanned almost six decades. As the first Black member of the AIA, he designed more than 3,000 structures and mastered a range of architectural styles. He broke racial barriers, prevailing over racism to attend USC’s School of Engineering. 

After working for a number of important L.A.-based architects, he began his own practice in 1923 and would go on to design everything from glamorous Hollywood estates to affordable homes, public housing, and a host of civic, commercial, and institutional buildings. Regardless of style or use, his work shared the common threads of elegant composition and perfect proportion. 

Aptly nicknamed the “architect to the stars,” Williams’ navigated a multitude of architectural styles to fit the whims of a wealthy, glittery clientele. Whether it was Hollywood Regency (the Jay Paley house), Traditional (the Marlon Brando residence) Mid-Century Modern (the Frank Sinatra house), Georgia Revival (the Tyrone Power house), or French Normandy (Barbara Stanwyck’s estate), Williams deftly guided his clients through the process with the aid of a strong in-house design team, headed by his daughter Norma.

The Frank Sinatra Residence (1956). Formerly located at 2666 Bowmont Drive, Beverly Hills. Demolished in 2004. (Photo courtesy The Paul Williams Project.)

At the time, Los Angeles still implemented racist housing covenants which meant that many of Williams’ homes were located in neighborhoods where he himself was not allowed to live. One such example is Seaview: a Mid-Century Modern tract community that Williams designed in 1960. Made to appeal to the breezy suburban lifestyle so popular in the early ‘60s, Williams’ homes were bursts of colorful greens, pinks, and blues, and the richly detailed interiors offered some 41 unique styles: from space-age light fixtures to stone fireplaces. True to the times, the Seaview HOA initially refused to allow Black residents even though the community’s architect was one of the most sought-after in the country.

Seaview Housing Tract (1960), located in Rancho Palos Verdes Estates. (Photo courtesy Esotouric.)

Williams’ Mid-Century residential work is among his finest and in Trousdale Estates you'll find some of his most eye-catching residential designs, such as the Garris House (1959). Michael J. Garris—a prominent L.A.-based electrical engineer—had worked with Williams on multiple projects over the years, during which the two colleagues became good friends. After purchasing an ambitious plot of land in much sought-after Trousdale, Garris commissioned Williams to build what would be his family home.

The result was a Mid-Century beauty reminiscent of some of Williams' celebrity homes. The home remained in the Garris family for 50 years and stayed faithful to Williams' original design, making it a living time capsule. 

The Garris Residence (1958). Located at 1070 N. Hillcrest Road, Los Angeles. (Photo courtesy Hilton & Hyland)

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Cited Sources:

James H. Garrott Sources:

James H. Garrott: PeoplePill / https://peoplepill.com/people/james-h-garrott

James H. Garrott: BlackPast / https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/garrott-james-h-1897-1991/

African American Historic Context Statement, Survey L.A. / http://ohp.parks.ca.gov/pages/1054/files/SurveyLA_AfricanAmericanHCS_Nov2017.pdf

Robert Kennard sources:

Monrovia Weekly: Superstar Architecture / https://www.monroviaweekly.com/featured/monrovian-superstar-architect-robert-kennard/

Inner City Cultural Center / https://www.innercityculturalcenter.org/robert-kennard.html

New York Times: Robert Kennard Obituary / https://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/30/obituaries/robert-a-kennard-74-is-dead-architect-and-mentor-for-blacks.html

AIA Los Angeles / https://www.aialosangeles.org/awards/design-awards/robert-kennard-edi-award-call-for-nominations-2020/

Roy A. Sealey Sources:

The AIA / https://aiahistoricaldirectory.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/AHDAA/pages/20906370/Browse+Se

LongBeach.Gov / http://www.longbeach.gov/globalassets/lbds/media-library/documents/planning/environmental/environmental-reports/approvedcertified-part-1/2nd--pch/iii--responses-to-comments

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BlueBeam “L.A.’s Most Influential African American Architects” / https://blog.bluebeam.com/la-african-american-architects/

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[silenthillmutual]

horror/thriller movie recommendations based on your fave Danganronpa 1/2 character

the series in general: Saw (2004, dir. James Wan) - i can’t give much of a reasoning for this as i haven’t seen it but the “punishment fits the victim” trope appears to be a thing in Saw?

Makoto Naegi: It (2017, dir. Andres Muschietti) - as much about the power of friendship as it is about a fear beyond all others. the premise is probably relatively well known by now for the fact that there’s a big clown in it. content warnings: clowns, unsanitary, implied incest and csa.

Sayaka Maizono: Psycho (1960, dir. Alfred Hitchcock) - this suggestion is an incredibly cheap shot, please forgive me. famous film, not sure if i can talk too much about the plotline without giving away the most important part.

Mukuro Ikusaba: Us (2019, dir. Jordan Peele) - doppelgangers show up to wreak havoc on an american family. themes of identity theft. much bloodier than Get Out. 

Leon Kuwata: Scream (1996, dir. Wes Craven) - admittedly haven’t seen this either yet. i know, i know, i’m a fake horror fan. but i know that it was made as a sort of tongue-in-cheek homage to the tropeyness of horror films, and i didn’t want to put any movie too blatantly humorous here. i thought this would fit Leon.

Chihiro Fujisaki: A Quiet Place (2018, dir. John Krasinski) - monsters that attack based on noise terrorize a family. most dialogue is delivered through sign language. also has a really touching family dynamic, especially between the father and his children.

Mondo Oowada: Pet Sematary (1989, dir. Mary Lambert) - haven’t seen this one either, whoops. all i know is it’s about, like, bringing people back from the dead or something, and that it’s based on a Stephen King book.

Kiyotaka Ishimaru: The Stand (1994, dir. Mick Garris) - technically a miniseries, but i wasn’t really sure what other horror story fit him. it’s the world at the end in a final battle between good and evil, and nothing says Ultimate Moral Compass more than that to me.

Hifumi Yamada: Strangers on a Train (1951, dir. Alfred Hitchcock) - the whole “i’ll do your murder if you do mine” kinda hits for chapter 3 i think. i also remember his hostage being his sister, so he’d probably like the relationship between Anne and Barbara.

Celes Ludenberg: Crimson Peak (2015, dir. Guillermo del Toro) - there’s a line the main character says that’s something to the effect of how she’d rather be like Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley because she died a widow? that’s Celescore. content warning: incest.

Sakura Oogami: Hereditary (2018, dir. Ari Aster) - both in the way that her dojo is a family business and in the themes of being afraid of hurting your loved ones. content warnings: child death, car accident, decapitation, possession, drug usage.

Toko Fukawa: Rebecca (1940, dir. Alfred Hitchcock) - again haven’t watched or read the book on which it is based but the fact alone that it is based on a book? and it’s not directed by stanley kubrick’s book-ruining ass?

Byakuya Togami: Rope (1948, dir. Alfred Hitchcock) - based on a play which itself was probably based loosely on the Leopold & Loeb case, it’s famous in part for its protagonists being gay. also they have superiority complexes and think that the privileged few should be allowed to murder inferior people because they’re above morality.

Yasuhiro Hagakure: A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984, dir. Wes Craven) - i feel like this is closer to what his brand of horror would be, but also people not really believing that what’s happening is actually happening is kind of his m.o. too. content warning: i don’t remember if this is explicit in the original or not, but Freddy Krueger was a pedophile.

Aoi Asahina: Friday the 13th (1980, dir. Sean S. Cunningham) - again i just think this is closer to what Hina’s brand of horror would be, but also i feel like the summer camp aesthetic would be for her.

Kyouko Kirigiri: The Secret in Their Eyes (2009, dir. Juan Jose Campanella) - i don’t totally remember it but detective going off the rails trying to solve a rape & murder case. Very intense, but very good.

Junko Enoshima: Midsommar (2019, dir. Ari Aster) - gaslighting people into joining a death cult? yeah, that screams junko. content warnings: graphic suicide, drug usage, gaslighting, people on fire, nudity, sex.

Monokuma: Child’s Play (1988, dir. Tom Holland) - creepy toy carrying the soul of a murderer. still need to finish watching this one, other than “creepy doll” i don’t have anything to offer in the way of content warnings. 

Hajime Hinata: Get Out (2017, dir. Jordan Peele) - reluctant to go too much into details because i wouldn’t want to spoil the film for those who haven’t seen it, but the experiment done on Hajime vibes w this movie. content warning in that this film is about racism.

Twogami: Vertigo (1958, dir. Alfred Hitchcock) - too many details would give away spoilers but the identity theft theme of the film fits for a guy whose talent is in identity theft.

Teruteru Hanamura: Halloween (1978, dir. John Carpenter) - had a hard time thinking of a horror movie for Teruteru, but Halloween (and 80′s slashers in general) have a tendency to punish the horny.

Mahiru Koizumi: I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997, dir. Jim Gillespie) - would it be too much of a spoiler to say there’s similarities between this film & what gets Mahiru killed in-game?

Peko Pekoyama: The Purge (2013, dir. James DeMonaco) - people using masks to enact what they feel is justified revenge on the one day of the year when all crime is legal.

Hiyoko Saionji: The VVitch (2015, dir. Robert Eggers) - based on colonial-era folk tales about witches. very atmospheric, features the same kind of abusive slut-shaming verbal assaults Hiyoko hurls at others. content warning for briefly implied incest, some nudity, and parents being shitty.

Ibuki Mioda: Green Room (2015, dir. Jeremy Saulnier) - still need to see this one; punk band tries to survive to the end of the night after witnessing neo-nazis commit a murder.

Mikan Tsumiki: Carrie (1976, dir. Brian De Palma) - another film based on a stephen king novella, and also a pretty famous story. a longtime bullying & abuse victim starts to lose her shit after she begins developing telepathy. content warning for some nudity, fire, and an abusive mother.

Nekomaru Nidai: Les Yeux Sans Visage (1960, dir. Georges Franju) - wasn’t really sure where to go with him either, at first, and settled on body horror considering what happens to him later in-game. a doctor attempts to find a new face for his daughter after she is left disfigured from an accident. 

Gundham Tanaka: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1921, dir. Robert Wiene) - a mad scientist claims his hypnotized ‘somnambulist’ can see into the future, including the deaths of carnival-goers. highly influential silent film, german expressionist so peak aesthetic.

Nagito Komaeda: The Silence of the Lambs (1991, dir. Jonathan Demme) - it’s probably well enough known for Hannibal the Cannibal being in it, but it’s worth noting he’s not the primary antagonist of the film. he is the most memorable part of it, and his psychoanalysis is what made me think of Komaeda. content warnings for gore, sexual harassment, referenced cannibalism, period-typical transphobia (period is the late 80s/early 90s).

Chiaki Nanami: V/H/S (2012, various directors) - a horror anthology film of found-footage type shorts, not shown in chronological order of events. i don’t really remember the contents enough for warnings, check at your own risk.

Akane Owari: The Blair Witch Project (1999, dirs. Eduardo Sanchez & Daniel Myrick) - don’t really have a good reason for this one other than “they all go feral, which Akane is seconds from doing at any given moment.” i think she’d dig it. no real content warnings to be had, the original found footage film.

Kazuichi Souda: Jaws (1975, dir. Stephen Spielberg) - i’m not even entirely sure i know what would make him like it, maybe just the mechanical shark? i think we all know this as the movie that made people double down on their hatred of sharks. i don’t particularly care for it, but it’s popular.

Sonia Nevermind: Perfume: Story of a Murderer (2006, dir. Tom Tykwer) - follows a would-be perfumer as he murders women in an attempt to create the perfect scent. in retrospect i probably should have picked something based on a real crime, but i still think she’d like this one.

Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu: M (1931, dir. Fritz Lang) - when the police fail to catch a serial child murderer, the criminal underworld steps up to take action into their own hands. fitting, no?

Usami: Trick ‘r Treat (2007, dir. Michael Doughtery) - another sort of anthology film that follows what happens to townsfolk when they don’t abide by Halloween traditions. i put it for Usami because i thought it was actually kind of cute, as far as horror films go.

[losangelesvalorant]

all 2020 roster moves (current feb 4)

also has coaching and talent team changes. lmk if there’s anything i missed so i can edit in the correction

Talent Team

2019 casters: uber/mr. x, achilios/wolf, semmler/hex, doa/montecristo

new casters: zp/jake, bren/sideshow, jaws (duo w hex)

2019 desk members: bren, sideshow, soe, malik, puckett (kinda, he’s in a similar position to goldenboy where theyll probably hire him for some events)

new desk members: custa, reinforce

Atlanta Reign

2019 roster: ⚔️ babybay, erster, nlaaer / 🛡️ pokpo, daco, frd, gator / 💉dogman, masaa, funnyastro

New additions: ⚔️ edison, sharp / 🛡️ hawk / 💉 fire, kodak

2019 coaches: sephy, silence, casores

new coaches: mentalist

Boston Uprising

2019 roster: ⚔️ blasé, colourhex, stellar / 🛡️ fusions, rck, axxiom /💉 kellex, persia, aimgod, alemao

New additions: ⚔️ jerry, munchkin / 🛡️ brussen, mouffin (2-way) /💉 swimmer, myunbong

2019 coaches: gunba, shake, mini

new coaches: mineral, ilka, ascoft

Chengdu Hunters

2019 roster: ⚔️ yangxiaolong, jinmu, baconjack / 🛡️ ameng, lateyoung, jiqiren, elsa /💉 yveltal, kyo, garry (moved to coach)

New additions: ⚔️ leave / 🛡️ ating / 💉 lensa, molly

2019 coaches: rui, ray

new coaches: dokkaebi, garry

Dallas Fuel

2019 roster: ⚔️ akm, zachareee, taimou / 🛡️ oge, note, trill, mickie /💉 closer, unkoe, harryhook

New additions: ⚔️ decay, doha / 🛡️ gamsu / 💉 crimzo

2019 coaches:  aero, tikatee, vol’jin, jayne, daemon

new coaches: yong

Florida Mayhem

changed colors to black primary pink secondary neon blue tertiary

2019 roster: ⚔️ sayaplayer, bqb, dpi / 🛡️ fate, gargoyle, xepher, karayan, swon /💉 kris, hagopeun, byrem, rain

New additions: ⚔️ yaki /💉 gangnamjin

2019 coaches: unread, kh1, ryuu, insight

new coaches: dox, kuki

Guangzhou Charge

2019 roster: ⚔️ nero, happy, eileen / 🛡️ rio, fragi, hotba, bischu /💉 chara, shu, onlywish, rise

New additions: 🛡️ cr0ng /💉 wya, neptuno

2019 coaches:  cassis, cuddles, j1n, sungwoo, tydolla, curryshot

new coaches: creed

Hangzhou Spark

2019 roster: ⚔️ godsb, adora, sasin, bazzi, krystal / 🛡️ guxue, ria, nosmite /💉 bebe, idk, revenge

New additions: ⚔️ [1 unannounced player] /💉 coldest, m1ka

2019 coaches:  u4, mask, sup7eme

new coaches: yeah

Houston Outlaws

2019 roster: ⚔️ jake, danteh, linkzr, arhan / 🛡️ muma, coolmatt, spree /💉 rawkus, boink, bani

New additions: ⚔️ hydration, blasé / 🛡️ meko /💉 rapel, jecse

2019 coaches: tairong, clockwork, hyunwoo

new coaches: harsha, hooreg, dream

London Spitfire

2019 roster: ⚔️ profit, birdring, guard / 🛡️ gesture, fury /💉 krillin, nus, quatermain, bdosin

New additions: ⚔️ glister, schwi, although, babel / 🛡️ jmac, jihun, clestyn, bernar /💉 highly, sanguinar, fuze

2019 coaches: coach815, jfeel, agape

new coaches: pavane, twinkl, awesomeguy

Los Angeles Gladiators

2019 roster: ⚔️ surefour, decay, hydration / 🛡️ roar, void, panker /💉 shaz, biggoose, ripa

New additions: ⚔️ birdring, mirror, jaru / 🛡️ oge, lhcloudy, space, bischu /💉 paintbrush

2019 coaches: dpei, tim, johngalt, faustus

new coaches: curryshot, face

Los Angeles Valiant

changed colors from dark green primary to electric blue primary

2019 roster: ⚔️ KSF, agilities, shax / 🛡️ fctfctn, space, mcgravy /💉 custa, kariv

New additions: ⚔️ apply, ksp / 🛡️ dreamer, gig / 💉 rain, slur, lastro

2019 coaches: packing10, stoop, reprize

new coaches: gunba

New York Excelsior

2019 roster: ⚔️ nenne, libero, saebyeolbe, fl0w3r, pine / 🛡️ mano, meko /💉 anamo, jjonak

New additions: ⚔️ whoru / 🛡️ hotba, bianca /💉 mandu

2019 coaches: pavane, imt, garrincha

new coaches: whynot

Paris Eternal

2019 roster: ⚔️ soon, shadowburn, nicogdh, danye / 🛡️ lhcloudy, finnsi, benbest /💉 kruise, greyy, hyp

New additions: ⚔️ sp9rk1e, xzi / 🛡️ nosmite, hanbin, smex /💉 fdgod

2019 coaches: fefe, kyky, seita

new coaches: aid, levi, rush, ninek

Philadelphia Fusion

2019 roster: ⚔️ eqo, carpe, kyb, snillo / 🛡️ sado, poko /💉 boombox, neptuno, elk

New additions: ⚔️ ivy, heesu, chipsa / 🛡️ fury /💉 alarm, funnyastro

2019 coaches: hayes, namedhwi, christfer

new coaches: kdg, mobydik, seita

San Francisco Shock

changed primary color to black, secondary to grey, tertiary to orange

2019 roster: ⚔️ sinatraa, rascal, architect, striker / 🛡️ smurf, super, choihyobin, nevix /💉 moth, viol2t

New additions: ⚔️ ans

2019 coaches: crusty, junkbuck, ninek

new coaches: arachne

Seoul Dynasty

2019 roster: ⚔️ fleta, fits, illicit / 🛡️ marve1, michelle, zunba /💉 ryujehong, tobi, jecse, highly

New additions: ⚔️ profit / 🛡️ gesture /💉 creative, bdosin

2019 coaches: kdg, changgoon, whynot, racoonPanda

new coaches: bongwoori, dorong, wizardhyeong, mma

Shanghai Dragons

2019 roster: ⚔️ dding, youngjin, diem, diya / 🛡️ gamsu, envy, geguri /💉 coma, luffy, izayaki

New additions: ⚔️ fleta, lip / 🛡️ stand1, void, fearless /💉 leejaegon

2019 coaches: bluehas, levi, creed

new coaches: dongsu, jfeel, moon

Toronto Defiant

2019 roster: ⚔️ logix, ivy, mangachu (moved to 2-way player), im37 / 🛡️ yakpung, gods, sharyk /💉 neko, aid, roky (moved to 2-way player)

New additions: ⚔️ surefour, agilities / 🛡️ beast, nevix /💉 kariv, kellex

2019 coaches: bishop, optidox, mobydik

new coaches: lilbow, albless, fefe

Vancouver Titans

2019 roster: ⚔️ haksal, hooreg, seominsoo, stitch / 🛡️ bumper, tizi, jjanu /💉 slime, twilight, rapel

New additions: 🛡️ fissure /💉 ryujehong

2019 coaches: pajion, yang1, harsha

new coaches: none

Washington Justice

2019 roster: ⚔️ corey, stratus, ado / 🛡️ janus, sansam, lullsish, ellivote /💉 ark, gido, sleepy, hyeonu, fahzix

New additions: ⚔️ ttuba / 🛡️ roar /💉 aimgod

2019 coaches: wizardhyeong, avalla, mkl, shrugger

new coaches:  bani, johngalt, sup7eme, wiz

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(via RICHARD MARTIN REVISITS THE MASTERS OF HORROR: HOMECOMING) The brainchild of horror legend Mick Garris, the show’s title is no hyperbole. ‘Masters of Horror’ brought together the best horror talent Hollywood (and beyond) had to offer. Episodes directed by undisputed genre luminaries such as John Carpenter, Tobe Hooper, Dario Argento and Stuart Gordon were like hour long movies brought to your TV screen. High production values, A-List talent and a free reign to do whatever they pleased resulted in some truly unforgettable work from a group of horror legends let off their leash. These are stories that have stayed with me in the fifteen years since many initially aired and, in this series, I’ll be revisiting all twenty-six episodes, one at a time, to shine a light on a fondly remembered and undeniably influential moment in horror TV history. Join me as I take a look back at; Homecoming Directed by: Joe Dante Starring: Jon Tenney, Thea Gill, Wanda Cannon, Terry David Mulligan Original Air Date: 10 February 2006 Synopsis: Set during President George W Bush’s re-election campaign, the story follows his speechwriters and campaigners during a zombie uprising, where fallen soldiers of the ongoing war come back to life to make their voices heard. https://gingernutsofhorror.com/features/richard-martin-revisits-the-masters-of-horror-homecoming

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SUMMARY Keneely and Farrell are detectives with the LAPD vice squad. Although they show great talent for breaking up prostitution and drug rings, many of these enterprises are protected by crime boss Carl Rizzo, who exerts his influence throughout the city and the department. Evidence is altered before trial, colleagues refuse to help with basic police work, and the detectives are pushed to pursue other cases—mostly stakeouts on gay bars and public lavatories. After personally confronting Rizzo, Keneely and Farrell are brutally beaten while investigating one of his prostitutes. Frustrated but without any legal options, they resort to harassing Rizzo and his establishments, warding off customers and following his family around the city. Soon, Rizzo is rushed to the hospital for a heart condition. Realizing that he also used a medical emergency as an alibi during a previous drug sale, Keneely and Farrell head to the hospital and discover that drugs are trading hands there, hidden in flower pots. Rizzo escapes in an ambulance, while Keneely and Farrell make chase in another. The chase ends when both ambulances crash; although Keneely holds Rizzo at gunpoint, Rizzo laughs that the evidence against him is circumstantial—and, at most, will result in a light sentence.

The film ends on a freeze-frame of Keneely’s face as Rizzo dares him to shoot. In a voice-over, Keneely applies to an employment agency, claiming that he doesn’t know why he left his job at the LAPD—finally concluding that he “needed a change.”

DEVELOPMENT/PRODUCTION Robert Chartoff wanted to make another film about vice cops after The New Centurions. They hired Peter Hyams to write and direct one off the back of the success of his TV movie, Goodnight, My Love. “I’d made a TV movie of the week that people had liked, and people started coming after me,” he recalled. “The producers Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler came to me and said they wanted to do a film about vice cops. I said okay, and spent about six months researching it.” Hyams later said “like a journalist, I went around to New York, Boston, Chicago and Los Angeles and spoke with hookers, pimps, strippers and cops and DAs. Every episode in the film was true.”

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In February 1973 Ron Leibman was cast as Gould’s partner. However he was soon fired. Hyams says, “It turned out the contrast between Ron and Elliott Gould was not the same contrast between Robert Blake and Elliott, so it was suggested we go with Robert and I listened.” Gould says that while he respected Leibman as an actor it was he who suggested Leibman be replaced. “I just had a sense that I don’t know if he’s the right partner for me.”

Filming started in February 1973. The film was shot over 35 days.

“United Artists was a dream studio,” said Hyams. “Once they thought the script and the people making the film were good, they really didn’t intrude. They were very encouraging, and fabulous for filmmakers.”

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Gould was cast here after writer/director Peter Hyams saw him and his attitude on The Dick Cavett Show. He wore Converse low-tops and for some reason took one of them off mid-interview. “He [Cavett] sort of made a joke with the audience that my feet had an odor, which they didn’t. I was really taken back and so I insisted that Dick Cavett take his shoe off.” The host declined, but Gould pressed saying that he was offended and wanted them to be on equal footing. Ron Leibman was originally cast as Gould’s sidekick – “a fabulous actor, one of our finest and best actors” – but Gould had him replaced. “I just had a sense that I don’t know if he’s the right partner for me,” he says. He went to see David Picker, the head of United Artists, and softly suggested as such, and Picker replied “I knew it! I knew it! When Ron Leibman plays tennis with my 11 year-old daughter he hits the ball back to her like a rocket!” He went on to suggest either Peter Boyle or Robert Blake.

Hyams suggested Garry Marshall for the character of Carl Rizzo, but the idea apparently fell on deaf ears – including Gould’s. It was nixed, but in retrospect Gould sees his error. “Garry Marshall in that part would be genius, would be a total fucking surprise,” he says. The role instead went to Allen Garfield, “and Allen, bless him, Allen is such a good actor but completely predictable.”

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Interview with Director Peter Hyams

Do you think your first theatrical feature BUSTING benefited from your documentary and journalistic experience? Peter Hyams: It came in handy in terms of my years of research. Before I wrote BUSTING I spent six months on the road going to L.A., Boston, Chicago and New York, talking to cops, hookers, pimps and the real people. The fact is that every single episode in BUSTING was based on something that actually happened. Whatever training I had as a self-impressed asshole reporter, the most important thing I learned was research. There was a great satirist called Tom Lehrer who wrote very funny and perverse songs. One of his quotes that I always remember was about Nicolai Lobachevsky. He said ”I’ll never forget the time I met the great Lobachevsky. It was he who taught me the secret of great writing -plagiarise. Only don’t call it ‘plagiarise’, call it ‘research’. ” My approach to a story is always research, and then try to make drama out of it.

What fascinated you about the world of vice cops to make the film? Peter Hyams: An esoteric and artful thing – I was asked to write a movie about vice cops. The producers were Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff, who had done a very successful film for Columbia called THE NEW CENTURIONS (1972). They caught me at that point where I was about to break into features. GOODNIGHT, MY LOVE had gotten more attention than it deserved and was incredibly highly praised. Irwin came to me and said ”We would like you to make a movie for us. ” Irwin was spellbinding and terrific, the greatest film school a young filmmaker could ever attend. The charter was to make a movie about vice cops.

Was it difficult to cast the leads? Peter Hyams: Elliott Gould was at his apogee, and he wanted to do it. He had made MASH (1970) and GETTING STRAIGHT (1970). United Artists was a dream studio. Once they thought the script and the people making the film were good, they really didn’t intrude. They were very encouraging, and fabulous for filmmakers. David Picker was head of UA at the time.

How close did Ron Leibman come to playing the Robert Blake part? Peter Hyams: Pretty close. We weren’t sure if it was going to be Ron or somebody else. It turned out the contrast between Ron and Elliott Gould was not the same contrast between Robert Blake and Elliott, so it was suggested we go with Robert and I listened.

Was the shoot-out in the market a learning curve for you? It’s one of the great action scenes. Peter Hyams: I spent a lot of time plotting that thing out. This was not the days of Steadicam, where you could run around and do what you wanted. You had bigger cameras and all those movements on dolly tracks where things were upstairs and downstairs. I just drew out the way I wanted to do it.

How long did you spend filming the scene? Peter Hyams: The whole film was a 35 day schedule. We spent maybe a day or two on the shootout. The more you’re prepared and the more everyone else is prepared, the quicker things go.

CONCLUSION The film was criticized for homophobia on the grounds of its depictions of gay characters and the attitudes of the lead characters towards them. In an essay for The New York Times, journalist and gay rights activist Arthur Bell condemned the film for derogatory language used by characters to describe homosexuals, as well as a scene in a gay bar that he called “exploitative, unreal, unfunny and ugly” for its presentation of gay stereotypes. Hyams defended this on the ground it was accurate to the milieu depicted.

CAST/CREW Directed Peter Hyams

Produced Robert Chartoff Irwin Winkler

Written Peter Hyams

Elliott Gould as Det. Michael Keneely Robert Blake as Det. Patrick Farrell Allen Garfield as Carl Rizzo Antonio Fargas as Stephen Michael Lerner as Marvin

CREDITS/REFERENCES/SOURCES/BIBLIOGRAPHY money-into-light. Wikipedia

Busting (1974) Retrospective SUMMARY Keneely and Farrell are detectives with the LAPD vice squad. Although they show great talent for breaking up prostitution and drug rings, many of these enterprises are protected by crime boss Carl Rizzo, who exerts his influence throughout the city and the department.

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A Video History of the American Radio Personality! (Enhanced)

A Video History of the American Radio Personality! 190 Video Clips that fly by in 22 minutes

Radio Airchecks Videos Vuolo Video Air-Chex vuolovideo.com kurtkelly.com/voice-over-videos.html Talent Name: Station & Market: Drew & Mike (TV clip) WRIF Detroit Shotgun Tom Kelly B-100 San Diego Charlie Tuna KTNQ Los Angeles Steve “Super” Cooper WIFE Indianapolis Diane Shannon WIFE Indianapolis Chris Edmonds WEFM Chicago John R. Landecker WLS Chicago Jeff Davis WLS Chicago Tom Graye WLS Chicago B. J. Hunter (Ashwood) WABX Detroit Scott Shannon & Joey Z-100 New York Brant Miller WLS Chicago Robert Murphy WKQX Chicago Kurt Kelly WKQX Chicago Randy & Alan Gardner WLW Cincinnati Hollywood Hamilton Z-100 New York Len “Boom” Goldberg WMMS Cleveland Dick Purtan WCZY Detroit Joey (3 seconds) WFIL Philadelphia Howard Stern W-4 Detroit Big Jim Hall KSFM Sacramento Amy Lewis KRAK Sacramento Stoney Richards KLAC Los Angeles Howard Stern WNBC New York Alison Steele WNEW New York Larry Lujack WLS Chicago Fred Winston WLS Chicago Chuck Knapp WLS Chicago John R. Landecker WLS Chicago Scott Regan at the WNIC Detroit Reunion Brother Bill Gable at the WNIC Detroit Reunion Byron MacGregor at WNIC Detroit Reunion Super Max Kinkel at WNIC Detroit Reunion Tom Shannon at the WNIC Detroit Reunion Gary Burbank at the WNIC Detroit Reunion Big Jim Edwards/Davis WNIC Detroit Reunion Michael Spears/Hal M. WNIC Detroit Reunion Buck & O’Connor KDWB Minneapolis/St. Paul Munson & Patrick WENS Indianapolis G.Osborn/Andy StJohn WLKI Angola, IN Charlie Brown KUBE Seattle Randy Michaels WLW Cincinnati Kid Leo WMMS Cleveland Denny Sanders WMMS Cleveland Arthur Penhallow WRIF Detroit Steve Kostan WRIF Detroit Bruce Vital KIIS Los Angeles Robert W. Morgan KMGG Los Angeles Bobby Rich B-100 San Diego Gary Kelly B-100 San Diego Mark Larson KFMB San Diego Tad Svenson KLUC Las Vegas Bill Lee KPKE Denver Dick Clark/Barsky WYTZ Chicago Bob & Tom WFBQ Indianapolis Jim Turner WDBO Orlando Paul W. Smith WJR Detroit J. P. McCarthy WJR Detroit Gary Bryan Z-100 New York Randy Michaels WLW Cincinnati Joey Reynolds KB Reunion Buffalo Danny Neverath KB Reunion Buffalo Rod Roddy KB Reunion Buffalo Jay Thomas KPWR Los Angeles Bill Lee (3 sec.) WKTU New York Cathy Fox WTIC-f Hartford Ron Chapman KVIL Dallas Moby KEGL Dallas Bob Steel WTIC Hartford Charlie Tuna KRLA Los Angeles The Real Don Steele KRLA Los Angeles Phil Hendrie (DJ) KLSX Los Angeles Bob Coburn KLOS Los Angeles Gino Mitchellini KLOS Los Angeles Hollywood Hamilton KIIS Los Angeles Randy West (guest anc) KIIS Los Angeles B. J. Hunter KOOL Phoenix Angela Mid-days Allen KOOL Phoenix Scott Miller CKLW Detroit/Windsor Magic Matt Alan Z-100 New York Steve Dahl/Garry Meier WLUP Chicago Kevin Matthews WLUP Chicago Wally Phillips WGN Chicago Bob Collins WGN Chicago Ron Brittan WJMK Chicago Dick Biondi WJMK Chicago Bob Shannon WCBS-f New York B. J. Steel WRKS New York Harry Harrison WCBS-f New York Dan Taylor WNBC New York Paul Smith WINS New York Byron MacGregor WWJ Detroit Bill Cunningham WLW Cincinnati Casey K & Jim Ochs WCZY Detroit Charlie Hackett Z-103 Tallahassee, FL Denny Schaffer WLOL Minneapolis Bobby Wilde KDWB Minneapolis John Lanigan WMJI Cleveland (WIXY) Don Beno WCFL Chicago/Morris, IL Dave Robbins B-96 Chicago Rush Limbaugh EIB Net New York Lynn Samuels WABC New York Sean Hannity WABC New York Phil Hendrie KFI Los Angeles Kim Carson WCZY Detroit Crystal Parker & friend WZPL Indianapolis Donna Rowland WBEB Philadelphia Denny Schaffer WVKS Toledo Larry Waches while at Bobby Poe Conv. Wash DC Phlash/Trey/John O. B-106 Fort Wayne, IN George McFly B-96 Chicago Rick Dees KIIS Los Angeles Kevin O’Neal/Ian Case WKDF Nashville Rob Williams (news) KWK St. Louis Karen Hand (news) B-96 Chicago Ron Lundy WCBS-f New York Jack Armstrong reunion WIXY Cleveland (WMJI) Dr. Ron Rose KFRC San Francisco Wolfman Jack WSM Nashville Hy Lit WOGL Philadelphia Big Dan Ingram WCBS-f New York Scott Muni WNEW New York (FM) Cousin Brucie Morrow WCBS-f New York Tom Joyner WGCI Chicago Alan Berg KOA Denver Bob Kelly WCWA Toledo The Real Bob James WNBC New York (promo) Garth Brooks (at CRS) Promo Nashville Elvis Duran/Valerie S. Z-100 New York Scott & Todd WPLJ New York Coyote McCloud Y-107 Nashville Rich Brother Robin KCBQ San Diego Doug Banks WGCI Chicago Fred Winston WPNT Chicago (FM-100) Howard Stern WXRK New York Dr. Laura Network Los Angeles John Mason WJLB Detroit Danny Bonaduce WKQI Detroit Tom Leykis/Geoff F. WXYT Detroit (remote) and more.. Likes: 5 Viewed:

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40 Years of Thrillpower - Judge Dredd’s Greatest Epics

Last month, of course, saw our beloved weekly Prog reach the big 40. Cue cliches about life beginning at 40, or how 40 is the new 28, or some other bullstomm, that makes middle-aged people feel better about growing old.

In the case of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic however, similar to the anti-ageing drugs that Dredd himself is occasionally required to take, the mighty mag is regularly infused with youthful talent, keeping it fresh and vital.

But we’re not here to discuss the present roster of top-rate talent, this is a brief history of Dredd’s most memorable multi-part adventures, or as we know them better - the mighty mega-epics! 

Dire, deadly threats to the future metropolis, Mega-City One, and its bizarre, vulnerable citizens, are an unsettlingly frequent occurrence. The only defence to these city-shattering challenges are the Judges, sworn to protect MC-1 and its inhabitants. One such lawman in particular takes this oath incredibly seriously, his name, of course, is Judge Dredd and he will do whatever it takes to ensure that his city remains the pre-eminent superpower of his post-nuclear world.

Unfortunately, you can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs, or should that be heads.., Sadly, this sprawling megalopolis that once housed 800 million citizens, over the years has been decimated, and is presently a shadow of its former self. 

Recent tragic events aside, Mega-City One would have perished many years ago, several times over, if not for the iron will of Justice Department’s legendary lawman, Judge Joseph Dredd. Prepare for a tour-de-force of mega-epic proportions, strap in it’s gonna be a bumpy ride...!

The first multi-part storyline, Robot Wars (Progs 10-17, 30Apr-18Jun’77). John Wagner (w). Carlos Ezquerra, Mick McMahon & Ron Turner (a), deals with an idea, that has now become a science fiction staple: robotic servants rebelling against their human masters. In Mega-City One unemployment makes up over 85% of the human population, a robotic workforce deals with the menial tasks deemed beneath mankind. In reality, it’s a lot cheaper to use machines that don’t require payment, complain about workers’ rights or require time off! In other words; the perfect labour force.. Even robots, though, can apparently be pushed too hard. So when a messianic leader, a lowly carpentry droid (sound familiar?), known as Call-Me-Kenneth), malfunctions, overcoming his programming, he hacks the city’s broadcasting  outlets and urges his fellow robots to turn on their human owners, with the battle cry: “Death to the Fleshy Ones!” The machines rise up. Only one man can stop this crazed robot, but can even Dredd stop an army of messed-up mechanoids?!”

Possibly the most popular and fondly remembered of all of Dredd’s mega-epics, is timeless classic, The Cursed Earth (Progs 61-85, 22Apr-7Oct’78). Pat Mills takes a rare outing into the world of Judge Dredd, but produces a vintage Thrill-powered tour-de-force. On a mercy mission across the atomic wasteland that was once middle America, the future lawman reveals a more heroically humane side by bringing a life-saving serum from Mega-City One to its west coast counterpart, Mega-City Two, where the inhabitants are tearing each other apart due to the 2T (Fru-T) virus. Fighting all sorts of vicious desperadoes, back-stabbing townsfolk, mutant gangs, and even roaming dinosaurs...not to mention the myriad of mutated Cursed Earth fauna! Breathtaking art duties are shared between two Judge Dredd creative legends, Mick McMahon and Brian Bolland, although employing wildly differing styles, the pair are master storytellers even at this early stage of their careers. A must-read true classic.

The Day the Law Died - Having just saved Mega-City Two from certain doom, you’d think that Dredd would be given a hero’s welcome on his return to his own city, however not everyone is pleased to have the legendary lawman back at Justice Department. A certain ambitious senior Judge, head of the infamous Special Judicial Squad (SJS) - the Judges who judge the Judges - Judge Cal, through blackmail, coercion and ultimately murder has managed to seize the reins of power, in Dredd’s absence, and install himself as Chief-Judge. Cal, aware of Dredd’s influence and possible obstacle to his plans for absolute domination over Justice Department and the city, has been plotting the heroic lawman’s downfall.. The twisted despot successfully frames Dredd for murder. Fatigue and some convincing video footage has even Judge Dredd questioning his innocence. Put on the shuttle to the penal colony on Titan, reserved for Judges who break their own rigid laws, Dredd finally snaps out of the haze of confusion fogging his mind, and with almost superhuman strength breaks the cuffs he is wearing. Dredd overpowers the pilot and guards, and escapes from the downed craft, with the help of Judge Giant who also distrusts Cal and believes in his friend’s innocence. Meanwhile the crazed Cal has enlisted the help of an army of reptilian alien mercenaries known as the Kleggs, appointed his pet goldfish as Deputy Chief-Judge and humiliated, bullied or creatively executed anyone who dares to criticise his increasingly bizarre behaviour. But Dredd isn’t the kind of Judge who goes down easily, as Cal rightly feared, and together with a rag-tag rebel army made up of other Judges and citizens, including a gigantic, baseball bat-wielding simpleton, known as Fergee, ‘King of the Big Smelly’, prepares to fight back.Can Judge Dredd succeed against all odds and defeat Judge Cal before he destroys the entire population of Mega-City One? Find the answers in The Day the Law Died.. wth artwork from a plethora of top UK art talent: Brendan McCarthy, Brett Ewins, Brian  Bolland, Dave Gibbons, Garry Leach, Mick McMahon & Ron Smith.

When Judge Feyy, Mega-city One’s oldest pre-cog has a vision of the city being destroyed in 2120, Judge Dredd and a select group of other Judges (including future Chief-Judge Hershey), are sent on a mission to find a boy bearing a birthmark of the Justice Dept. eagle, thereafter referred to as the Judge Child. Apparently, young Owen Krysler may have the power to stop the apocalyptic event from ever happening. It is discovered that an insane 22nd century self-proclaimed pharaoh, Filmore Faro ‘the Garbage God’, has also learned of the child’s alleged psychic powers. In turn, an infamous Texas City badlands family, known as the Angel Gang, steal him away from Faro’s followers and swiftly spirit him off-planet.  With the fate of the ‘Big Meg’ in the balance, Dredd follows the boy’s trail through the irradiated wastelands of the Cursed Earth and venture out into the depths of uncharted space to find him!

Often the most critically acclaimed of the multi-part Dredd epics, The Apocalypse War stands out (and holds up) due to the sheer scope and genuine threat to the survival of Mega-City One, Justice Dept., and even Judge Dredd himself. Moreover, it sees the return of art droid, Carlos Ezquerra, to the strip that he co-created after five years away from his character, single-handedly drawing every panel of this 25 episode, 150 + page classic. Mega-City One has maintained an uneasy peace with it’s eastern European counterpart, East-Meg One, for years. However, the Sov-diktatorat, the ruling, military government of East-Meg One, led by the warmongering Supreme Judge Bulgarin, along with Judges Vlad and Snekov, break this detente by releasing the Block Mania virus on the citizens of the Big Meg. The effects of this contaminant, introduced into the city’s water supply by the Sov’s top agent, Orlok the assassin - a thorn-in-the-side of MC-1 and Dredd’s human nemesis time and again - turned citizen against citizen, driving people into a murderous rage, causing all-out wars between neighbouring citi-blocks. Weakened by this viral attack, East-Meg One press home their advantage by launching a devastating nuclear assault against Mega-City One.  After the missiles have flown, ground forces invade, led by ruthless War Marshall 'Mad Dog' Kazan. Supported by Strato V aircraft, Rad Sweeper tanks and killer robot Sentenoids, overwhelming numbers of Sov troops cause Dredd and the remaining survivors to engage in a desperate guerrilla war to maintain control of the streets. Kazan, mad with power, eliminates the diktatorat, and takes complete control of the Sov forces, setting up base in the captured Grand Hall of Justice. Chief-Judge Griffin is held prisoner, and becomes a victim of Sov psycho-surgery, transforming him into a propaganda tool - forcing Dredd to assassinate him. The lawman, apparently dead by his own hand, pulls off a dramatic escape, assisted by his loyal droid - Walter the Wobot.  Dredd hatches a plan to end the war once and for all, leading a small hand-picked team on a virtual suicide mission. Against all the odds, the squad successfully infiltrate a Sov missile silo and a steely, battle-hardened Dredd, having witnessed 150 million of his citizens die at the hand's of the Sov-Blokkers, destroys East-Meg One along with its population of half a billion people by launching their own nukes at them. Dredd ends the conflict by publicly executing Kazan, and a deflated, dispirited Sov army agrees to unconditional surrender, with remaining survivors fleeing to East-Meg Two. A brutal story, with a massive toll on the population of the ‘Big Meg’, virtually cutting the population from it’s initial 800 million, in half to a more manageable 400 million, and the utter annihilation of another, showing a ruthless, win-at-all-costs side to the heroic lawman, effectively making him the biggest mass murderer in history. One which could come back to haunt him in the decades to come...

The next major mega-epic, Oz (Progs 545-70, 24Oct’88-16Apr’89) focuses on an infamous citizen; serial offender, Marlon Shakespeare aka Chopper, wall-scrawling graffiti artist-turned-illegal World Powerboard Champion, aka the ‘Midnight Surfer’, is a hero to many of the city’s disenfranchised youth. Unfortunately, he is currently serving 18 years in an Iso-cube, for his reckless-but-death defying aerial exploits, in Supersurf 7, that made him the greatest sky surfer of his generation. However, a new, cocky, powerboard protégé, Jug McKenzie, a beer-swilling loudmouth from the Sydney-Melbourne Conurb in Oz, is boasting of his prowess on a ‘board, claiming that Chopper is deliberately avoiding attending the now-legalised Supersurf 10, despite being barely 3 years into his 18 stretch in the most secure detention facilities in the world! The resulting backlash from fans of the ‘Midnight Surfer’ in MC-1 caused a demand for his release to attend the forthcoming world championship on the other side of the planet. Of course, Justice Department were having none of it. But the burgeoning outcry from an outraged populace to silence the mouthy McKenzie and restore the pride of Mega-City One, caused the Judges to move Chopper to an even more secure unit. Somehow, the citizens get wind of this extreme resolution, and when Shakespeare is led from one Iso-cube, carrying his property, including the World Championship-winning powerboard, to a new location, a crowd had formed leading to an unruly mob clamouring for a glance at the high profile prisoner, and perhaps, even a chance to spirit their hero away. In the intervening chaos the ever-expanding horde of highly-charged onlookers burst through the hastily erected Justice Dept. cordons, jostling Chopper’s judicial escorts causing the keys to the prisoner’s cuffs to be dropped. Seizing his opportunity, Shakespeare unlocks his restraints and leaps onto his board, zooming off into the Mega-City skyline. Hiding amidst the towering citi-blocks, avoiding the intense glare of searchlights from Justice Dept. hover-wagons, Chopper makes his way cautiously to his childhood friend, and fellow powerboarder, Flip Tillis’ apartment window. Flip had inherited Chopper’s spare suit, power cells and other paraphernalia associated with their chosen pastime, after Mrs. Shakespeare couldn’t bear to keep them once her son was sent to the isolation cubes for many years. Flip also supplies Chopper with food, whilst informing his friend of the huge clamouring of public support for the Mega-City skysurfing ace to take part in the upcoming Supersurf 10, though it would be held thousands of miles across the Pacific Ocean in Oz. The ambitious Shakespeare, ever rebellious with a yearning to be free of MC-1′s harsh laws, has a dawning realisation: give himself up to the authorities and go back to the Iso-cubes - probably for decades, after his daring escape - or make a near-suicidal dash for freedom, cross the Pacific Ocean on a powerboard, win Supersurf 10, in Oz and, most importantly for Chopper, prove that he is the best in the world and, unlike his parents, along with most of MC-1, he is somebody! Meanwhile, as angry as Dredd appears that Chopper got away, it conveniently coincides with a series of attacks on Justice Dept.’s top brass. Mysterious, strange-looking, physically superior assassins, garbed in a twisted version of a Judge’s uniform, have been teleporting straight into the Grand Hall of Justice and targeting important senior Judges. Justice Dept. set up a trap, putting a huge security detail on any vital, veteran Judges, including Dredd himself. They succeed in capturing two of these ruthless killing machines, and killed a third. After interrogating one, who immediately commits suicide by crushing a lethal vial hidden in his tooth, they reverse the controls on the attackers’ teleporters and make the return journey back to a hidden base in the middle of Ayers Rock in Oz. Whilst there, Judge Dredd discovers a hidden race of Judges, cloned and controlled by a former, founding Judge, Morton Judd. Judd was a brilliant, but radical, senior Judge whose cloning programme kick-started the success of Justice Department. The problem was that he wanted to clone the citizens of MC-1, from Justice Dept. material, ensuring a law-abiding, controllable populace. Fortunately, the ‘father of justice’, first Chief-Judge Eustace Fargo vetoes this somewhat sinister solution to crime and public order. A furious Morton Judd storms from the room, but later returns to the Grand Hall, using Judges loyal to him, and attempts to assassinate Fargo. The coup fails, but before he can be captured, Judd flees the city, ending up in Oz, founding a base in Ayers Rock, from which he could build an army of Super-Judges without detection. So, armed with this knowledge, using the cover story that he is there to extradite the fugitive Marlon Shakespeare aka Chopper, should he make the unlikely journey across the Pacific Ocean, Judge Dredd heads to Oz. Fighting muties, giant birdmen, dodging random gunfire and the odd Justice Dept. H-wagon, Chopper has made it across the Cursed Earth to the Pacific Ocean. He looks across the endless horizon and is faced with the sheer enormity of what he has set himself to achieve - crossing the largest body of water on the planet, thousands of miles of hostile conditions, and unknown horrors lurking beneath the waves, on nothing more than a flying plank! After an incredibly eventful journey of stunning wildlife encounters, adverse weather conditions and murderous robotic ship’s cooks, Chopper eventually makes the perilous voyage, barely standing on his board, to a hero’s welcome in Oz. Of course, there is one person who isn’t giving the intrepid skysurfer such a triumphant reception: Judge Dredd.. Immediately, the Mega-City lawman attempts to take Marlon into custody. However in a country where low-level powerboarding is not a crime, and has hosted the last three Supersurf World Championships, the Oz judiciary refuses to cooperate with MC-1, denying any extradition orders, threatening to arrest Judge Dredd himself if he uses any force to bring his fugitive back to Mega-City. A disgruntled Dredd turns his attention back to his primary mission: to capture Morton Judd, destroy his base in Ayers Rock and possibly turn his army of cloned Judges into assets for MC-1′s Justice Dept. Dredd succeeds in destroying the base, but Judd is killed and the brainwashed Judda are too far gone psychologically to be of any use to the Mega-City Judges. Supersurf 10 goes ahead meanwhile, and in a death-defying demonstration of powerboarding mastery, between the ‘Wizard of Oz’, Jug McKenzie, and ‘Midnight Surfer’, Marlon Shakespeare aka Chopper, a nail-biting race for the line ensues. Sadly, for all Mega-City One proud Chopper supporters, the Ozzer, McKenzie pips the ‘Midnight Surfer’ to the post. Fickle fans of the MC-1 man, quickly forget his impossible Pacific Ocean crossing, and no longer want anything to do with the heroic ‘loser’. A begrudgingly respectful Judge Dredd is at the finish line, determined to bring his fugitive to justice, despite Chopper’s fantastic feats, and has a clear shot at his quarry, as Shakespeare turns his back on his nemesis. In an increasingly rare moment for the cynical aging Judge, Dredd hesitates. The previously boastful Jug McKenzie, too, has a newfound respect for his rival surfer, and, ‘accidentally’, flies into Dredd throwing off his aim, as Chopper disappears into the Oz outback, and freedom! An unimpressed Oz Justice Dept. take Dredd into custody, and he leaves the continent empty handed. Back in MC-1 however, there is one of the Judda still alive in custody. Taken from the genetic material of former Chief-Judge Fargo, Judge Kraken, as he is named, is basically a younger version of the aging Judge Dredd. Assigned to Dredd, as his Rookie, Kraken’s future rests in the hands of his older counterpart. Although an outstanding specimen, crackshot, and takes to the streets of the ‘Big Meg’ very quickly, Dredd spots something in this flawed ex-Judda. Others in Justice Dept. disagree, including current Chief-Judge Silver, and overrule the veteran lawman, forcing Dredd to resign and take the ‘Long Walk’ out into the Cursed Earth, but that’s another story... 

Which brings us neatly into our next mega-epic, the terrifying nightmare which would lead to Necropolis (Progs 672-99, 31Mar-6Oct’90)  After Dredd left, Chief-Judge Silver faked Kraken's death, and kept Dredd's resignation secret from the public, to instil Kraken as a replacement for Dredd, regardless of his failed assessment by the departed Dredd. Kraken was easily manipulated by the Sisters of Death, who had attacked and left Dredd for dead in the Cursed Earth in The Dead Man saga, to bring about the Dark Judges; Judge Death, Mortis, Fire and Fear. They would go on to wreak havoc in Mega City One, creating their own Necropolis, with life the ultimate crime. Kraken was also made a Dark Judge for the duration of their reign. Dredd, who had regained his memory, although visibly scarred, returned from the Cursed Earth along with ex-Chief Judge McGruder, as he sensed that something was wrong with the city he had served so loyally. The Dark Judges had soon taken control of the remaining Judges, who were now executing citizens, that were often committing suicide or succumbing to disease or starvation.  Dredd and McGruder met with a group of cadets who were in hiding from the Dark Judges, along with Psi-Judge Anderson, and a plan of action was formed. Firstly, Dredd killed fellow Judge Kit Agee, who had been used as a psychic bridge for the Dark Judges to return. This caused the remaining judges to return to normal, free of the Sisters of Death's control.  With the Judges now together and able to form a unit, they began to capture the Dark Judges. All but Death himself were captured, who had flung himself from a city block down into the city bottom, and vanished among the sixty million dead from the Dark Judges' tenure. Judge Kraken, now free of Death's control, accepted his execution at the hands of Dredd. Among the chaos of the Dark Judges' reign, Chief-Judge Silver was killed and then reanimated as a zombie.

Judgement Day (Progs 786-99, 6Jun-5Sep’92) & (Megs 2.04-09, 13Jun-22Aug’92). This multi-part adventure was significant for a number of reasons. Firstly, this was only the second mega-epic not written by Judge Dredd creator, John Wagner (the other was early classic The Cursed Earth by Pat Mills), scripted instead by future comics superstar, Garth Ennis. Ennis himself, admits that it wasn’t his best writing, citing his closeness and childhood affinity to the strip and character as reasons for his below par storytelling Secondly, this was the first ever crossover event, sharing story arcs with recently-released sister comic, the Judge Dredd Megazine (of which Wagner & Alan Grant had been editing, as well as writing, to ensure its success), essentially meaning regular readers had to buy both comics to keep up with the storyline. Set mainly in 2114 it tells of how the Fourth World War took the lives of three billion people when a powerful necromagus called Sabbat raised all the corpses in the world as zombies. It also killed off most of the supporting cast of Judge Dredd. On top of this. it was the first story to feature Johnny Alpha since he was killed off at the end of the Strontium Dog series (from Alpha's point of view it was set two years before his death). The pair had encountered each once before, leaving Dredd initially distrustful of the future bounty hunter who had transgressed one of Justice Dept.’s minefield of strict laws, and escaped unpunished. Alpha & Dredd resolve their issues, and assemble an elite squad of world Judges to bring the fight to the all-powerful dark sorcerer, Sabbat. Using hi-tec Hondo City combat suits, capable of HALO jumping, whilst protecting the wearer from all-manner of threat, including zombie attack, of course. Many Judges are killed off in their frontal assault, including another former adversary of the mega-city lawman, Hondo’s Judge-Inspector Sadu.  Alpha and Dredd are also captured, but eventually turn the tables, with their usual mixture of cunning, wile and extreme violence! The lodestone, a massive-crystalline object Sabbat was using to tap into the Earth’s leylines, harnessing the power of the planet, finally became his headstone when Dredd decapitates the planetary overlord, skewering his head onto the crystal’s sharpened point. Although Ennis is critical of this mega-epic, read in one volume, Judgement Day is still a drokking good adventure story. it didn’t quite work, mainly because it was split over the two publications (it’s very rare to have Megazine crossovers these days). Artwork is a slight issue, too, as multiple art droids were drafted in to lighten the load of main artists, Carlos Ezquerra and Peter Doherty, including Chris Halls (aka Chris Cunningham, creator of disturbing Aphex Twin videos) and Dean Ormston. Judge Dredd is a notoriously difficult character to pin down, and other than the legendary Pat Mills who played up Dredd’s heroic side, as opposed to Wagner’s grim-faced stickler for the law, it is only the recent crop of Dredd script droids who understand the relationship between the legendary lawman, and the crazy city he loves, laying down his life over and over, again to ensure its survival; let’s be honest life in the ‘Big Meg’ is rarely boring! Ennis, whilst commendably showing us a view of the larger picture of Dredd’s world outside of MC-1, he takes away the main protagonist, the future megalopolis itself. The most memorable scene from this mega-epic, now an iconic image from co-creator, Carlos Ezquerra, comes in the full-page final scene, showing a bruised and bloody Judge Dredd and Johnny Alpha striding side-by-side; Alpha reminds Dredd that they have a long walk through the most dangerous, inhospitable place on the planet, the Cursed Earth. Dredd simply replies: “Who the hell’s gonna mess with us?”! Classic 2000AD! Great fun, with a massive worldwide death toll, Judgement Day is an enjoyable read, showcasing the talents of a young comics writer, who would go on to write some of the best comic books in recent memory.

Origins - The ambitious, epic history of Justice Dept. and the reign of the Judges. A box is delivered to Chief-Judge Hershey, who informs Dredd that it contains a ransom note and a sample of living tissue which matches the DNA of Judge Eustace Fargo, the first Chief-Judge and the revered founder of the Judge System. (Forensic tests establish that toxins in the tissue show that the source lived through the last century, and so the sample must be Fargo's rather than Dredd's.) The note requires payment of a billion credits in exchange for Fargo's body. As required by the terms of the exchange, Dredd leads a small, lightly armed party on a mission across the hostile Cursed Earth to retrieve their esteemed "Father of Justice". Since Fargo was believed to have died in the year 2051, and the mission takes place in 2129, much of the story consists of Dredd explaining to the members of his team how it is that Fargo could still be alive – a secret history which was concealed from the public for decades. The middle chapters of Origins cover Fargo's life history, and how he founded the Judge System in 2031. After serving twenty years as Chief-Judge, however, Fargo succumbed to a moment of weakness and had an illicit affair with a female colleague, something strictly forbidden by the Judges' code of celibacy. Unable to cope with his own lapse in the exacting moral standards he had inflexibly demanded of his subordinates, Fargo tendered his resignation to the President of the United States. Spurning the entreaties of his two deputies, Judge Solomon and Judge Goodman, and of President Pierce, to reconsider his decision and resume his office, Fargo instead chose to commit suicide. However his attempt to take his own life failed, leaving him with significant brain-damage and without the use of his legs.Fearing that their political enemies would use the scandalous circumstances of Fargo's resignation and injuries to destroy Fargo's legacy, Solomon and Goodman covered them up. Using sophisticated video technology, they faked footage of Fargo bravely sacrificing his life in the line of duty, gunned down in a brutal drive-by shooting. This enabled them to present Fargo as a martyr, increasing public support for the Judges. This deception had been conceived while Fargo's doctors had predicted that he would not long survive. However Fargo defied their expectations and began to slowly recover. He was therefore kept in a secret medical facility, isolated from the world so that the cover-up would not be discovered. When his condition began to deteriorate again, Chief-Judge Solomon had him cryogenically frozen in suspended animation until such time as medical science could cure him.By 2070 President Robert Linus Booth was in the White House, having illegally rigged the voting computers to win the 2068 presidential election, and murdered one of his aides who threatened to expose the fraud. Booth pursued an aggressive foreign policy, openly stating that he would begin a nuclear war if the rest of the world did not comply with his demands. The Judges – now led by Chief-Judge Goodman – attempted to dissuade him, but to no avail, and the Third World War laid waste to most of the world. Booth had believed that his new "nuclear screens" would protect America from retaliation, but only Mega-City One on the east coast, Mega-City Two on the west coast, and Texas City survived. The rest of America was virtually annihilated, creating the Cursed Earth which became populated by mutants and outlaws. Consequently another of Booth's aides turned against him and provided Goodman with evidence of Booth's earlier crimes. Goodman made the evidence public, and public opinion turned against Booth. A demonstration outside the White House became a massacre when troops opened fire on the crowd. But the evidence of election fraud was not conclusive, and impeachment proceedings against Booth were too slow for Goodman to protect his position, for Booth had discovered that Fargo was alive and had been revived from suspended animation. Booth sent troops to arrest Fargo, intending to expose the myth of his death and thereby destroy the Judges' reputation for integrity. Joe and Rico Dredd, cadets at the time, managed to rescue Fargo from capture. However Goodman realised that urgent action was needed to defeat Booth, and the constitutional mechanism for trying him and removing him from office could not be completed in time. On Fargo's advice, Goodman deposed Booth, suspended Congress, and usurped the government of the United States. For his crimes Booth was sentenced to 100 years in suspended animation, to let posterity decide his ultimate fate. Goodman became dictator of the United States (which soon split into three sovereign city-states), with Fargo – his existence still a secret – advising him from behind the scenes.However Fargo soon deteriorated again. He also became demoralised, having intended that the overthrow of democratic government should be temporary, and regretting his own part in establishing a lasting dictatorship. Shortly after surviving an assassination attempt by renegade Judge Morton Judd, Fargo was returned to suspended animation once more. However only one month later Fargo's body was stolen by Judd's agents. When Judd was eventually brought to justice and Fargo's body was still not recovered, it was thought lost forever. Thirty years later Booth's cryogenic machinery failed, and he was inadvertently revived. Judge Dredd resentenced him to life working on a farm in the Cursed Earth, to make amends for the destruction he unleashed on America. (This was first portrayed in the The Cursed Earth.) Instead, however, Booth raised an army of mutants, the "New Mutant Army," who he intended to use to overthrow the Judges and become president again. By 2129 he had discovered Fargo's stolen cryogenic unit, which had been lost in the Cursed Earth when Judd's agents' hovership crashed. When Dredd attempted to exchange the ransom for Fargo, Booth double-crossed him and put him on trial for treason, intending to execute him. However Dredd had anticipated this and planned a timely rescue by his comrades. Taken hostage for use as a human shield, Booth was killed by his own side during the ensuing battle.Back in Mega-City One, Fargo was revived again, but this time he did not survive. His final words were spoken to Dredd alone: "We created a monster ... we're the monster!" He told Dredd that the Judges had gone too far and had destroyed America, and urged Dredd to do everything he could to undo it. Dredd's reaction to this plea was not shown, but when Chief-Judge Hershey asked him what Fargo's last words had been, Dredd lied and pretended that Fargo had said something else less controversial. It was speculated at the time that this theme may be followed up in later stories. This speculation was soon proved correct. Origins was indeed expounded upon in a series of stories, starting with "Mutants in Mega-City One", written by John Wagner. In the first episode Dredd admitted to Hershey that he had lied about Fargo's last words. Hershey in turn admitted that Fargo had said the same thing to her, and that she had told the same lie to Dredd! However, whereas Dredd took Fargo's warning seriously, Hershey dismissed it as the ravings of a brain-damaged invalid, adding that she hoped Dredd would not consider resigning over their differences.This story also featured the return of some of the mutant Fargo Clan (who were first seen, briefly, in Origins) – mutant descendants of Fargo, and therefore Dredd's relatives. In this story, Dredd put forward a motion to repeal the anti-mutant laws, beginning a new story arc about mutants.

Tour of Duty - This far-reaching mega-epic will possibly be Dredd’s toughest test to date. Full of intrigue, betrayal and ultimately murder, primarily within the hallowed corridors of power inside Justice Department itself, who can the city’s greatest lawman truly trust? Dredd’s softening on the ‘mutant issue’, largely in part because of his own mutated genetic heritage, causes him to review the harsh laws on mutant’s rights. Dredd’s new stance to repeal the anti-mutant laws, has not gone down well with the citizens, and this is reflected with many of his colleagues in the department, earning him powerful enemies. With only the backing of Chief-Judge Hershey (and precious few others) Dredd knows that other factions within the Grand Hall are vehemently opposed to his proposed legislature, and feel the time is right for a regime change. Enter Judge Dan Francisco, star of his own hit reality TV show, The Streets of Dan Francisco. Having Mega-City One’s top-rated vid show means that he is a familiar face to the citizens, with a massive fan base. Behind the scenes lurks the ambitious desk jockey, Judge Martin Sinfield. Recently promoted from Head of Traffic Division, to re-organise Administration, the shrewd Sinfield notices Hershey’s dramatic fall in popularity. Together with fellow senior Judges, Cardew and Millan, Sinfield just needs a credible figurehead to lead a campaign to remove Hershey from office in a recall election. Heroic street Judge and TV star, Dan Francisco, is the perfect patsy - a good Judge with a high profile, and massive public approval rating. After an on-screen assassination attempt, with Francisco barely surviving, the popular candidate wins the election hands down. With new Chief-Judge Francisco still in critical condition, Sinfield is made Deputy-Chief. However, he easily establishes himself as the real power behind the throne. His first act, realising the necessity to remove any opposition in his rise to power, was to send Judges Dredd and Hershey to oversee the construction of the newly-built work farms out in the Cursed Earth. Having sidelined Judge Dredd into managing the Cursed Earth mutant camps, the manipulative Judge Sinfield’s plan to take over Mega-City One starts to unfold. With the newly appointed Chief-Judge Dan Francisco being too ill to carry out his duties, Sinfield’s inexorable rise seems to go without a hitch; that is until he unknowingly clashes with the wrong man - notorious serial killer PJ Maybe.  Maybe, bored with life of luxury in the corrupt Central American mega-city of Ciudad Barranquilla, concocts an elaborate scheme to install himself as Mayor of Mega-City One, and it turns out he was pretty damn good at it! With his life in danger, Sinfield can only turn to one man for help - Judge Dredd! Mega-City One’s toughest lawman returns to his streets determined to bring Sinfield down and a killer to justice! This hugely significant story arc, is a riveting read, with plot twists galore and a fantastic pay-off. It also reprises Dredd and Alpha’s monumental Cursed Earth crossing, with Joe’s younger clone,  Rico Dredd replacing the mutant bounty hunter - worth the cover price for that iconic final page alone!

There are a few multi-part storylines we’ve missed out, including, City of the Damned, The Pit & the more recent seismic shock of Day of Chaos, but the featured classic mega-epics cover most of the disaster-prone history of Mega-City One. If you haven’t already, do yourself a favour and read them. And even if you have, heck- read ‘em again!

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England 57-15 Ireland PLAYER RATINGS: CJ Stander is not the ball-carrying phenomenon he once was

England beat Ireland in style with a 57-15 win over Twickenham on Saturday.

The side of Eddie Jones played in a warm match for the World Cup for the tournament in Japan

Sportsmail & # 39; s Will Kelleher and Rory Keane has the player ratings from both sides.

The men of Eddie Jones continued to riot after the break and Tom Curry also scored an attempt

ENGLAND

15 Elliot Daly 7 Try twelfth test after excellent draw-and-Give from Curry. Beaten for pace for Aki & # 39; s attempt though.

14 Joe Cokanasiga 8 Polynesian power out to score fourth and fifth attempts in just his seventh test.

13 Manu Tuilagi 9 (Marchant, 71 6) & # 39; Chief & # 39; ruled midfield with sensational power, defeated 7 defenders and made a well-deserved attempt.

12 Owen Farrell 7.5 (Francis, 68 6) Start this summer first, and back to almost his best. One missed kick will irritate him.

11 Jonny May 7 Unfortunately not to join the plethora of scorers, as he is usually the most productive finisher.

10 George Ford 7.5 Reunited with partner Farrell in the game making, and it worked brilliantly to pull Ireland apart.

Manu Tuilagi passes over and scores England & # 39; s third attempt at Ireland at Twickenham on 19

9 Ben Youngs 7 (Heinz, 546) led the gluttonous back division well. Must now be packed for cotton wool in Japan.

1 Joe Marler 7 (M Vunipola, 61.5) England glad he experienced the man again, reversing first start since retirement.

2 Jamie George 7 (Cowan-Dickie, 54 7) Hit all his lineouts and England already won their own scrums, just a good day.

3 Kyle Sinckler 7.5 (Cole, 60 6) Scrum strong and his agile touches bring others into space. Not just a piano shift.

4 Maro Itoje 7.5 Bal carries much better – typified by an excellent short line for his attempt. 14 equipment too.

5 George Cross 7.5 England won every lineout and disrupted five Irish – brilliant work.

6 Tom Curry 8 (Lawes, 57 6) Such an excellent talent, at only 21, and pigeon tail beautifully with Underhill.

7 Sam Underhill 8 (Wilson, 57 6) Shined in the sun with colleague & # 39; Kamikaze Kid & # 39; Curry with aggressive hits and silky hands.

8 Billy Vunipola Took 27 minutes to wear for the first time, but then turned off Ireland all afternoon.

English-language opening cam through Joe Cokanasiga after being cracked by the hosts

Substitutions: L Cowan-Dickie 7 (for George 54), M Vunipola 7 (for Marler 61), D Cole, C Lawes 7 (for Curry 57), M Wilson 7 ( for Underhill 58), W Heinz 7 (for Youngs 54), P Francis 7 (for Farrell 67), J Marchant 6 (for Tuilagi 71)

Ireland

15 Rob Kearney 6

Rolled back the years with all-action first half play, in defense and attack, but left Conway early in the second half.

14 Jordan Larmour 5

For all his elusive footwork and pace, Larmour plays in an era where size and power are king. Peripherals after pouncing for early attempt.

13 Garry Ringrose 4

Ireland's midfield defense was porous throughout the afternoon and Ringrose has enough anti-aircraft guns for this. Easy attack.

12 Bundee Aki 5

Outshone of Manu Tuilagi. Connacht center cannot be blamed for the industry, but Tuilagi is another level. Henshaw seems ready to return.

11 Jacob Stockdale 4

Intelligent chip and chase for opening an attempt but caught in no man's land for Cokanaisga and Tuilagi trying in the first half

10 Ross Byrne 6

Looked at the test level during the first half, but after the break errors occurred in his game. Learn from this.

Bundee Aki awaits the attention of Elliot Daly off to record Ireland's second attempt late on

9 Conor Murray 6

Like many of his teammates, the Munster saw scrum half far out of pace. Replaced midway after uncomfortable collision with Jonny May.

1 Cian Healy 6

[194590018] Thumping hit on George Ford set an early marker. Bumped away for the rest. He would be a huge loss in Japan.

2 Rory Best (capt) 4

Turned 37 years earlier this month and looked at it yesterday. The first half comes aside and he looked desperately out of the pace.

3 Tadhg Furlong 5

Another attacker who welcomed into the heat after a hectic first 20 minutes. Ireland needs more from him in the open field.

4 Iain Henderson 5

Made some big games in the first half with crucial revenue, but Ulster Lock has to fall for a faulty lineout.

Jordan Larmour crosses the line around the first attempt at the Twickenham collision for Ireland

5 Jean Kleyn 3

Joe Schmidt was set up in South Africa at 11 am to add some grunt to the peloton. A reality check.

6 Peter O & # 39; Mahony 4

A quiet season for province and country, and another decent outing yesterday. Credit at the bank, but Schmidt can opt for a change.

7 Josh van der Flier 6

Tireless competitor, but was the case during that opening round Six Nations Loss, he looks small according to international standards against England

8 CJ Stander 3

Not the ball-bearing phenomenon of a few seasons ago. When he stops on the gain line, it says on Plan B.

Substitutions: 16 Sean Cronin 6 (for Best 54) 17 Jack McGrath 5 (for Healy 39) 18 Andrew Porter 6 (for Furlong 54) 19 Devin Toner 5 (for Klyen 54) 20 Tadhg Beirne 5 (for Henderson 75) 21 Luke McGrath 4 (for Murray 30-38, 40) 22 Jack Carty 4 (for Carty 54) 23 Andrew Conway 5 (for Kearney 54)

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HERE'S WHAT I JUST REALIZED ABOUT COAST

However, for better or worse it looks as if Europe will in a few decades speak a single language. I am not a particularly good person. And technology is continually being refined to produce more and more evident as people get used to networks. You don't have the source code memorized, of course.1 To start with, Silicon Valley is not even a nationalistic one. Everyday words are inherently imprecise.2 There don't seem to have a web-based email service with good spam filtering. At Viaweb we sometimes ran into trouble on this account. Languages today assume infrastructure that didn't exist in 1960.3 Don't let rejections pile up as a depressing, undifferentiated heap.

But while DH levels don't set a lower bound on the convincingness of a reply, they do set an upper bound.4 When you own a desktop computer as a server. You need a great university to seed a silicon valley, and so on. The quotation you point out as mistaken need not be the actual statement of the author's main point. The closest you come to that is a knowledge of what various individual philosophers have said about different topics over the years. A DH6 response might be unconvincing, but a DH2 or lower response is always unconvincing. Gradually employment has been shedding such paternalistic overtones and becoming simply an economic exchange.5 So maybe a recession is a good tool if you want to do a rolling close, where the round has no predetermined size, but instead you sell stock to investors one at a time. The ones who keep going are driven by something else. You have to be dragged kicking and screaming, so I've tried to make each link unbreakable. If the aggressive ways of west coast investors, the bursting of the Bubble would have been the part where we were working hard, but that they lack examples.

Now it's a couple of hackers to figure out what. If he was bad at extracting money from people, at worst this curve would be some constant multiple less than 1 of what it might have been thirty actual stores on the Web, meaning Web-based software is just about the easiest thing in the world. People will pay for content anymore. There were a few things we can say with certainty. This wouldn't refute the author's argument, but it may at least be relevant to the case.6 The word essay comes from the city's prudent Yankee character. Web-based applications.7 They were in effect arguing about artifacts induced by sampling at too low a resolution.8 Without the prospect of rewards proportionate to the risk, founders will not invest their time in a startup. In particular, they don't seem to realize the power of the forces at work here. You don't win fights by thinking of tricks that work in one particular case. It's flattering to talk to corp dev.

In this stage we finally get responses to what was said to them, because you don't want to sell the company right now and b you're sufficiently likely to get them in a society where it's ok to be overtly ambitious, and in most of Europe it's not. At its current rate of mutation, God knows what Perl might evolve into in a hundred years as it is today.9 If this was their hypothesis, it's now been verified experimentally.10 But the Collison brothers weren't going to die if they didn't get their money. We've now watched the trajectories of so many startups, it's that they succeed or fail based on the cost of selling expensive things to them. Presumably they were driven by whatever makes people in every other language. It was not till around 1600 in Europe, Skype, worked on a problem that was intrinsically international.11 That could be a powerful force.12 Last year you had to be embodied as companies to work.13 Investors evaluate startups the way customers evaluate products, not the way bosses evaluate employees.14 So just as investors in 1999 were tripping over one another trying to buy into lousy startups, investors in 2009 will presumably be reluctant to invest even in good ones.

Morale is tremendously important to a startup hub. But that's nothing new: startups always have to adapt to the whims of investors. Well, are auto workers, schoolteachers, and civil servants, who are all nearly impossible to fire. The need to do is give them a lead, and they'll understand immediately. More often than not the company comes to a standstill while raising money. Anyone can adopt Don't be evil. And if it didn't, it's not saying much. Why did desktop computers eclipse mainframes? Nearly all our users came direct to our site through word of mouth and references in the press. But the Collison brothers weren't going to wait.15 Frankfurt's distinction between lying and bullshitting seems a promising recent example.16

Notes

The second assumption I made because the test for what she has done, she expresses it by smiling more. The hardest kind of work have different time quanta. Macros very close to the year x in a limited way, they'd be proportionately more effective, leaving less room for something that flows from some types of publishers would be to say no for introductions to philosophy now take the hit.

Investors are fine with funding nerds. You also have to put in the US.

Robert Morris points out, it's probably good grazing. A startup building a new, much more drastic and more like determination is proportionate to wd m-k w-d n, where x includes math, law, writing and visual design. Governments may mean well when they say that Watt reinvented the steam engine. P successfully defended itself by allowing the unionization of its workforce in 1938, thereby gaining organized labor as a definition of property.

Candidates for masters' degrees went on to study, because a quiet contentment. Make sure it works on all the returns may be overpaid. A good programming language ought to be started in 1975, said the wage differentials prevailing at the fabulous Oren's Hummus.

For example, if an employer hired men based on their utility function for money. Turn on rice cooker.

Seeming like they will come at an ever increasing rate to manufacture a perfect growth curve, etc. Conjecture: The First Industrial Revolution happen earlier?

How did individuals accumulate large fortunes in an industrialized country encounters the idea that could evolve into a fancy restaurant in San Francisco, LA, Boston, and so effective that I'm skeptical whether economic inequality as a cause.

The reason is that it might be digital talent. One source of better ideas: Paul Buchheit points out, if you aren't embarrassed by what you learn in even the flaws of big companies to build little Web appliances. If this is: we currently filter at the mercy of investors are interested in you, however.

Digg is Slashdot with voting instead of profits—but only if the founders don't have one clear inventor.

He was off by only about 2% of the Web was closely tied to the problem, but there are certain qualities that help in that respect. Instead of making the broadest type of mail, I put it would be. One YC founder told me about several valuable sources. Unless of course.

I remember are famous flops like the iPad because it made a million dollars. Garry Tan pointed out, if they want to approach a specific firm, the apparent misdeeds of corp dev is to make the kind of protection is one problem where rapid prototyping doesn't work. If you want to be employees is to tell VCs early on. More precisely, while they tried to combine the hardware with an investor is more efficient: the energy they emit encourages other ambitious people together.

Add water as specified on rice package. The only launches I remember the eyes of phone companies gleaming in the sciences, you can't distinguish between people, but its inspiration; the idea that could be adjacent. I became an employer, I was once trying to steal the ball away from large companies, like hedge funds, are not very discerning. If you wanted it?

If Congress passes the founder of the accumulator generator in other Lisp dialects: Here's an example of computer security, and the leading scholars of that, the television, the less educated ones usually reply with some equivocation implying that you're not consciously aware of it. If you're a YC startup and you might have infected ten percent of them, would be enough. Become direct marketers.

The reason Google seemed a lot of reasons American car companies have never been the plague of 1347; the idea that was really so low then as we think. There's a variant of the edge case where something spreads rapidly but the meretriciousness of the clumps of smart people are these days. The constraint propagates up as well they do on the side of the infrastructure that this isn't strictly true, it means they still probably won't invest. In practice their usefulness is greatly enhanced by other Lisp dialects: Here's an example of a city's potential as a type of lie.

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These People Entered The Guinness Book of Records With Their Amazing Bodies

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These People Entered The Guinness Book of Records With Their Amazing Bodies

  In a world of nearly eight billion people, it can be difficult to stand out from others. However, some people do, and manage to really get attention. Some are born with talent and particular characteristics,while others have worked hard and are creative in modeling an extraordinary physique.we assembled a list of extraordinary people who have been recognized by the Guinness World Records for their incredible bodies. Let us know what you think of their talents!

  1. The most elastic skin

Gary Turner, an Englishman, is an elastic man, a real man. Its skin is so supple that it reaches up to 15.8 centimeters! The incredible flexibility of Garry is due to a rare medical infection known as Ehlers-Danlos syndrome,a genetic disorder that causes hyperlaxity of the joints and hyperextensibility of the skin.

  2. The person with the largest amount of piercings

Elaine Davidson, a former restaurant director in Brazil, is known for her unconditional love of piercings. Elaine broke through for the first time in 1997 and since then she’s done 4,225! And she does not intend to stop there.

  3. The largest amount of tunnels on the face

German Joel Miggler is a unique person. He holds the record for the largest amount of “tunnels” on the face since November 2014. This incredible number is 11, including two big on the cheek, as you will have noticed.

These People Entered The Guinness Book of Records With Their Amazing Bodies

  4. The largest amount of piercings on the tongue

The other great piercings and perforations lover on our list is Frank Vacca, and comes from the United States. His tongue is the most pierced language ever recorded, with 20 perforations!

5. The most tattooed senior couple

This American couple, Charles Helmke and Charlotte Guttenberg, are both great lovers of tattoos. They have been recognized as the most tattooed elderly citizens in the world, beating the previous record. Charles’s body is 97.5% tattooed, and Charlotte’s is 91,5%.

  6. The widest mouth

Francisco Domingo Joaquim “Chiquinho” has a unique feature, he holds the record for the widest mouth in the world. This man from Angola can open his mouth up to 17 centimeters wide. In any case, we can say that it leaves us speechless!

These People Entered The Guinness Book of Records With Their Amazing Bodies

  7. The longest nails (record of man and woman)

Wolverine would certainly be jealous of these claws! Two US citizens, Melvin Booth and Lee Redmond, hold the record for the longest male and female nails in history, respectively. These things must have taken a long time to grow …

  8.The highest peak

Nothing is as comparable to mohawks as punk when it comes to ridges. And maybe no one likes the Mohawks as much as Eric Hahn, who in 2008 had the highest peak record of 68.58 centimeters. One wonders how many lacquer bombs Eric needs each morning to make it stand up.

  9. The longest hair

Xie Qiuping is Chinese and has the longest hair in the world, with a length of 5 meters 627. This woman said that she stopped cutting her hair when she was 13 years old. Can-to be that Rapunzel’s story was not just a fairy tale after all …

These People Entered The Guinness Book of Records With Their Amazing Bodies

  10. The longest eyelashes

Here is another Chinese woman in our list: You Jianxia, ​​which maintains the record for the longest eyelashes in the world. Her eyelashes measure 12.40 centimeters. surprisingly,You Jianxia once said that her eyelashes started to grow like never before in 2013, after taking a little rest in the middle of nature.

  11. The longest beard

  The Canadian Sarwan Singh is more like the genie of Aladdin’s lamp than a normal man. Her beard is amazing, she measures 2,495 meters long, and is considered the longest bearded man in the world.

  12. The smallest size

If you think the kardashians have the record for the best waist-to-hip ratio, you’re on the wrong track. The incredible Cathie Jung, an American, has a size that measures only 38.1 centimeters in diameter.

These People Entered The Guinness Book of Records With Their Amazing Bodies

  13 and 14.The tallest man and the smallest woman in the world

With a height of 251 centimeters, the Turkish Sultan Kösen has been named the tallest contemporary man in the world. Jyoti Amge, who comes from India, is only 62.8 centimeters tall, making her the smallest woman in the world. If we think carefully,Sultan is almost four times taller than adorable Jyoti!

  15. The greatest man in history

  Even though Sultan’s stature is impressive, he would have looked small compared to Robert Wadlow. Born in the United States, Robert has maintained the world record for the greatest man of all time. Yes, he was 2,72 meters! We will not comment …

  16. Squirt milk from its orbits

  Yes, you read correctly, there is a category like this: “make milk squirt from his eyes”. Ilker Yilmaz who comes from Turkey, has managed to propel milk from his eyes to the furthest distance, 279.5 centimeters to be precise. He uses his nasal and lachrymal ducts to do this. This man set the record in 2004 and still no one has beaten him so far. Or maybe it’s just because no one has tried yet …

These People Entered The Guinness Book of Records With Their Amazing Bodies

  17. Super flexible feet

  No, it’s not Photoshop, it’s Maxwell Day, from the UK United ! The feet of this child are extremely flexible, the right foot of Maxwell can turn to 157 degrees, while the left turns to 143 degrees. That said, Maxwell maintains the record for the largest foot rotation in history, and while it may sound a little disgusting, we think it’s just great!

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