Damages from Solomon Islands earthquake reach US$223,858
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Cement plaster at AJ Building at Lungga, Honiara peels off and fall causing damages to vehicles parking below.
The 7.3 magnitude earthquake that struck Guadalcanal in Solomon Islands last Tuesday has left an estimated total loss of roughly around $1.85 million (US$223,858.48) from damages it caused to buildings in Honiara.
This is according to a quick assessment conducted by the Central Bank of Solomon Islands (CBSI) in the city.
"Costs related to physical damage to buildings was estimated at around $0.65 million and foregone sales by businesses approximately $1.2 million (US$145,203.84).
"Loss in productivity was also accounted for in terms of afternoon office closures in the government ministries and disruptions to businesses.
"Replacement and reconstruction costs of damaged buildings and infrastructures were not covered in this assessment. Thus, the total damage and loss costs are likely to be higher than the $1.85 million, once additional data becomes available.
CBSI said against the background of initial damage and loss assessment, the overall short-term and long-term direct impact of the earthquake on the economy is expected to be negligible.
It said in the short-term, the National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) and some anecdotal evidence confirmed minimal casualties sustained as well as minimal damage to few households.
As for businesses, CBSI said the total damage was moderate and related disruptions were temporary for only a few hours.
"As a result, the long-term impact will be minor and is expected to have little or no ripple effect on future economic activity," it added.
Nevertheless, CBSI said it is important that proper assessments be carried out by engineers on affected buildings to ensure their continued safety and stability. Furthermore, it said the recent quake perhaps has provided the authorities the opportunity to relook and reassess the national building code and standards and amend accordingly to withstand such calamity.
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Now in New York!
Peter Greenaway's Vision of Leonardo's Last Supper of 1498 has just arrived at the Park Avenue Armory: a major arrival. It hasn't actually been taken off the wall of the Santa Maria delle Grazie monastery in Milan, but the enormous replica has come. This replica or "clone", that Factum Arte took five weeks to construct, was "painted" by an inkjet printer, but will last longer than the original… The projection in the massive armory is likely to astound those who haven't seen Greenaway's previous such projections, such as the Rembrandt Nightwatch (but iin that case, the projections were onto the real canvas) and the Veronese Wedding at Cana in Venice last year. Some are intensely furious at such playing with the works of art, some are just shocked, and some are moved. Full disclosure: I am one of the latter, having seen the projection of the Wedding at Cana during the Venice Biennale. The spectators sat and stood everywhere, scarcely an inch of room to make any protesting or acclaiming gesture during the projection. The whole thing stuck in my mind, along with the music, and I found it impossible to recount to those who hadn't experienced it. Now we New Yorkers can have a Last Supper experience….
Not exactly on the same scale is one among the tropical terrariums (terraria?) constructed by Paula Hayes at MOMA, under the alluring title: "Nocturne of the Limax maximus," delightfully translated as "Night music of the great slug." Now the fact that that the Great Slug is really called the "leopard slug" added to this delight. My favorite terrarium is just plain "Slug" – fifteen feet in length, and it hangs on a wall, whereas "Egg" (filled with plants, not slugs) stands upright. Perhaps MOMA will buy "Slug," but that we don't know yet.
Right up there with living things as part of spectatordom are the pigeons squatting atop the glass coffin in the see-into portion of the Houdini exhibition constructed by Matthew Barney for his Cremaster project, and recreated in the Jewish Museum here. (Last week, we went on a Saturday, always free entry, because they can't handle money on a Saturday, and in this case, we were given jelly doughnuts on our departure, to celebrate Channukah.) Back to the pigeons. They were put there deliberately to "deface" the coffin, are properly and continually nourished and given breathing room – as a wall text reassures us. I hadn't known that the world-famous Houdini (80, 000 spectators for his stunts, out of straitjackets, out of buildings, off bridges, out of milk cans and steamer trunks and so on) was the son of a rabbi, thus the Jewish Museum venue. Nor had I remembered that his character was played by Norman Mailer and by Matthew Barney himself in various parts of the Cremaster series (2 and 5, if I have my numbers right.) And, of course, by Tony Curtis in a Hollywood film, but that I remembered.
Now I wasn't in Washington when the National Portrait Gallery recently removed a video from the exhibition called "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American portraiture" because it was deemed offensive to the public. The video, made by David Wojnarowicz to depict the suffering caused by Aids, is called "A Fire in my Belly" and features a scene of a crucifix across which ants are crawling. Didn't see it, no, but I do vividly remember the fuss over the Piss Christ also in Washington, and, in Brooklyn, Mayor Giuliani's horror over Chris Offil's Madonna made with dung, to such an extent that he wanted to close down the subway stop nearest to the museum.
In any case, Houdini's pigeons are still there, doing their thing.


Gunner Stockton Will be Honored as a 2022 All-American as Part of All-American Bowl's Road to the Dome Tour
By Gus RamosSep 14, 2021, 2:23 AM EDT
Quarterback Gunner Stockton (Tiger, Georgia/Rabun County H.S.), the University of Georgia commit, will be officially honored tomorrow as a 2022 All-American during a virtual jersey presentation as part of the first episode of the Road to the Dome digital series.
Having been selected to play in the twenty-second edition of the All-American Bowl, Stockton will play in the annual East vs. West matchup inside the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. The Bowl will be nationally televised, live on NBC, and will feature the nation's top 100 high school football players.
Stockton was selected by the All-American Bowl Selection Committee, consisting of the All-American Bowl and 247Sports. All-Americans are eligible for the All-American Bowl Player of the Year Award, the Anthony Muñoz Lineman of the Year Award, the Defensive Player of the Year Award, the All-American Bowl Man of the Year, the All-American Bowl MVP Award.


Tonight: Guerilla Toss
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Brooklyn-based band Guerrilla Toss has garnered a reputation for their ecstatic, genre-defying live performances. Their visceral, psychedelic take on funk, post-punk, and no wave is a barrage of frenetic instrumentation that centers around eccentric percussion and bass grooves. After moving to New York from Boston and signing with DFA records the now five-piece band released their latest album Eraser Stargazer which incorporates elements of disco and other dance music while preserving their idiosyncratic yet concise sound. Tonight, the band will perform at Buffalo art venue Sugar City at 7pm. Local experimental electronic musician Lesionread will open the show accompanied by his live band. Also opening are Buffalo progressive rock band Luanjie. Tickets are $8 and can be purchased at the door.


2,475 children homeless in Glasgow last Christmas
There were over 12,300 children deemed homeless across Scotland at this time last year.
The Scotland-wide figures have been branded 'tragic' (Image: Daily Record)
Almost 2,500 children were homeless in Glasgow last Christmas, figures indicate.
Statistics reveal over 12,300 children were homeless across Scotland this time last year.
Scotland's Housing Minister Kevin Stewart released the figures showing 12,343 children were part of live homelessness applications on Christmas Day 2018.
The figures were released in response to parliamentary questions by the Scottish Liberal Democrats.
The local authority with the largest number of children on its live homeless applications last Christmas was Glasgow City Council at 2,475, followed by Edinburgh City Council on 2,153.
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Outside these cities, figures dropped sharply, with South Lanarkshire Council having the third largest number at 796.
The number of children homeless across Scotland had been rising since the 2015 figure of 10,508, until last year when it fell by 424 to 12,858.
The party has said the numbers are "tragic" and called for a "revolution" in social rented housing.
Scottish Liberal Democrat housing spokeswoman Caron Lindsay said: "Housing is a basic human need and it is a key responsibility of any government to ensure that people have a warm and secure home, especially at this time of year.
"These new statistics show that over 12,000 children - almost the capacity of the Hydro - are not so lucky.
"What's more, there were almost 2,000 more children homeless last Christmas compared to 2015 - a 17.5% increase. That is a tragedy."
The figures were released at the same time as Labour highlighted the rise in people citing mental health problems as a reason for becoming homeless.
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The number of people citing this as the reason why they could not stay in their accommodation increased by 99% in the five years up to 2018-19, to 6,031.
Over the same period there was a 64% increase in the number of people who became homeless because of physical health problems, with this affecting 2,340 people last year.
Communities spokeswoman Pauline McNeill claimed: "The SNP's lack of action on homelessness prevention is disappointing.
"Local authorities are chronically underfunded meaning frontline services are struggling to cope with the demand for support."
She added: "The Scottish Government's commitment to rapid rehousing is of course welcome, but without investment in preventing homelessness the issue continues to grow."
But Mr Stewart said: "Scotland has some of the strongest rights in the world for anyone experiencing homelessness, including the right to emergency temporary accommodation when homeless. While this provides an important safety net, we are clear such arrangements must be for as short a time as possible and be of good quality.
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"That is why we have invested £32.5 million into Rapid Rehousing and Housing First to minimise the length of time people spend in temporary accommodation.
"We also changed the Unsuitable Accommodation Order in 2017 so families with children and pregnant women are only able to stay in accommodation such as B&Bs for a maximum of seven days.
"We are proud of our record on delivering social housing. Recent statistics show that 61,356 homes for social rent have now been delivered since 2007.
"With our investment of more than £3.3 billion over this parliamentary term we'll continue to push towards our ambitious target of delivering 50,000 affordable homes - including 35,000 for social rent - and take forward our actions to end homelessness for good."
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Single Saturdays: Tony Junior feat. Ben Adams – Won't Let You Down
musiflo	Pop	 September 19, 2020 1 Minute
Dutch singer Tony Junior has released a new single, Won't Let You Down, featuring British Pop Star Ben Adams. The song is about a guy who asks for a second chance from the girl.
The music is a mix of Pop and Brit Pop, mix with some Electric/Dance beats. The composition is flowy and wavy, with a catchy beat. The rhythm parallels Darude's works (the electric sound) and some of the a1 songs. The fast pace of the tune complements the subject of second chances in a relationship. The mix of Pop and Electric is impressive.
Tony Junior and Ben Adams's voices compliment each other nicely. There's a smooth transition between their respective parts. Both artists capture the range of emotions felt in the song.
The lyrics are sincere and from the heart. The repetition in the song shows how the guy is begging for a second chance in the chorus. The verses describe the situation in more detail about how the man feels guilty for his mistake. The simplicity of the words demonstrates the importance of choosing the right words in these circumstances. Impressive!
The single Won't Let You Down is available.
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Caroline Cascio, LPC, LMFT
Caroline Cascio was named President & CEO in January 2014. She is responsible for The Wellspring's staff and programming, and supports the work of The Wellspring Foundation. Caroline earned her undergraduate degree in Child Life and Family Studies from Louisiana Tech University and her master's degree in Marriage and Family from Northeast Louisiana University, now ULM. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and a Clinical Fellow of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT). Caroline joined The Wellspring in 1993 as a Marriage and Family Therapist, and became the Director of Professional Services in 1998, overseeing the work of the Counseling & Family Development Center. She served in this capacity until stepping into her current role as President & CEO in 2014. Caroline is a graduate of Leadership Ouachita, a former member of the Jr. League of Monroe and has served on the Boards of Directors of LaFASA (Louisiana Foundation Against Sexual Assault) and the Children's Coalition of Northeast Louisiana. Caroline is an active member of Jesus the Good Shepherd Catholic Church.
Valerie Bowman, MS, RSW
Director of Domestic Violence Program and Family Justice Center of Ouachita Parish
With The Wellspring since 2001, Valerie Bowman is the Director of the Domestic Violence Program as well as the Family Justice Center of Ouachita Parish. The Domestic Violence Program serves nine parishes in Northeast Louisiana and three parishes in Central Louisiana. Both programs focus on providing a coordinated community response to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking. The Domestic Violence Program and the Counseling & Family Development Center work together to address human trafficking, particularly among survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.
Valerie has a Bachelor's degree in Social Work and a Master's degree in Family and Consumer Science with a specialization in Family and Children. She has also received Certification on Dynamics of Domestic Violence from Louisiana Tech University. Valerie is the current Chair of the SAFE Taskforce for Ouachita Parish, the past Chair and current Secretary of the Board of Directors for LCADV (Louisiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence) as well as the Committee on Quality Assurance (COQA) for domestic violence programs in the State of Louisiana. She recently completed the Advocacy Learning Center, a national training/certification program sponsored by the DOJ/Office on Violence Against Women, which focused on advocacy and best practices in domestic violence programs.
Lisa Longenbaugh, LPC, LMFT
Director of Professional Services
As Director of Professional Services, Lisa is responsible for the leadership and supervision of the clinical staff. Lisa and her staff at the Counseling & Family Development Center, the region's Accredited Sexual Assault Center, are responsible for implementing the mission of strengthening and valuing individuals and families through the Counseling, Sexual Assault, Supervised Visitation, Crisis Line and Employee Assistance (EAP) programs.
Lisa is a Licensed Professional Counselor, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and a Clinical Member of the American Counseling Association. She is a play therapist and is certified in Mediation and Parent Coordination. Lisa serves on the Board of Directors of LaFASA and the Children's Coalition for Northeast Louisiana. She has been a member of the staff since 2005.
Christy Gwin, GMCP
Director of Financial and Administrative Services
The Administrative and Financial Services staff is under the direction of Christy Gwin. She is responsible for overseeing and monitoring the financial and administrative services for The Wellspring. Christy and her staff work to assure compliance with state and federal grant requirements and to provide documentation of program outcomes to funders who affirm their confidence in the work of The Wellspring.
Christy is certified by Management Concepts in Federal Grants Management. She is a past Sustaining Member of the Jr. League of Monroe, past Treasurer of the Board of Directors of LaFASA (Louisiana Foundation Against Sexual Assault) and a Leadership Ouachita Graduate. Christy has been a member of The Wellspring staff since 1991.
Kristie Hodges, RSW
Director of Outreach, Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing
Led by Kristie Hodges, The Wellspring's Outreach, Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing (OPRRH) Program is responsible for developing and implementing a wide range of outreach, prevention and rapid re-housing services to Northeast Louisiana's most vulnerable populations. These programs provide outreach and referral services to the community's street homeless, prevention and rapid re-housing to families with children under the age of 18, and outreach, prevention and rapid re-housing to homeless Veterans or Veterans at risk of losing their housing. The Outreach, Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program serves 12 parishes in Northeast Louisiana.
Kristie has a Bachelor's degree in Social Work and has a Registered Social Work license (RSW) with the state of Louisiana. She has served two United Methodist Churches as youth director for 17 years. Kristie joined The Wellspring in 2004 as the domestic violence child advocate for the Morehouse Parish office. When The Wellspring initiated its first general homeless program in 2006, Kristie became one of the first case managers for the Home At Last program, which is still in existence under the OPRRH department. Kristie has served as the Program Manager for the OPRRH program and in 2015 was selected to serve as the Director.
Cindy Roach, RSW
Director of Permanent and Transitional Housing
Cindy Roach, Director of the Permanent and Transitional Housing Program, is responsible for leading the staff that provides permanent supportive housing and rural victim services throughout Northeast and Central Louisiana. Her program provides permanent supportive housing for the chronically homeless, rural transitional housing for victims of domestic violence,and a coordinated community response to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking in our rural service area. The P&TH program has offices in Morehouse, Franklin, LaSalle and Catahoula parishes and has service sites in spaces located in partner agencies in Caldwell, Concordia, East Carroll, Richland, Tensas and West Carroll parishes.
Cindy has a Bachelor's degree in Social Work and is a Registered Social Worker. She provides leadership and advocacy in addressing the issues of domestic violence and homelessness by serving on the Boards of Directors for LCADV (Louisiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence) and the HOME Coalition. Cindy is currently serving as Board President for the HOME Coalition. She is also the current secretary and a past treasurer for LCADV, and the past treasurer and secretary of the HOME Coalition. Cindy joined The Wellspring in 2007.


All the 2010 Penn Assert Football Schedule Comes with Various Awesome Match up with Ups
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The 2010 Penn State Football Schedule has been released, this means Nittany Lion football fans can begin the comprehensive evaluation procedure of where wins and losses will come from, and also start out arranging their gameday travels to Happy Valley too as road trips. This season's schedule is characterised as featuring its normal level of big style Big 10 conference match ups, some poor out of conference match-ups, and a single absolute monster clash.
Penn State plays its standard Big 10 opponents. This season you'll find Big 10 home games in State College versus Illinois, Northwestern, and Michigan State (who continue becoming a PSU menace). Illinois could be the homecoming game on October 9th, which will be perfect time of yr to be in Happy Valley.
PSU gets away games in conference against Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan, and Ohio State. One could claim the tougher games are traveling inside Big 10 this yr. The Lions skip Wisconsin this season which is a break https://racalai.com/.
On big schedule development may be the Indiana game, which was to have played traveling, will now be played at FedEx Field in Landover, MD (outside Washington DC). In essence, Indiana took a significant pay day to permit 80,000 Penn State fans to see the game closer to home in the DC region.
Certainly, the signature game on the growing season is vs. Alabama on September 11th. Penn State vs Alabama football ticketswill be among the toughest college football tickets to obtain early in the growing season as both of these storied football programs match up in Tuscaloosa, AL.
The PSU vs Bama game assures to be among the highly regarded early season matchups in college football. Obviously it is going to be really a complicated game for Penn State, for the reason that, Alabama could be the returning national champion and guarantees to be good next year.
The remainder of the Penn State 2010 schedule arguably is incredibly weak. You can find out of conference games versus Youngstown State, Kent State, and Temple, all at home. Granted Temple was a dish team last yr, but none of the matchups guarantee to become contests.
Obviously with the talk of Big Ten conference expansion going on, the appear of future PSU football schedules could to start to appear incredibly, extremely various. The chance of teams like Syracuse, Rutgers, UConn, and PSU's in-state rival from the past Pitt could most of a sudden be back as conference opponents. That could certainly shake things up, and for just one create an unbalanced schedule which will mean additional rotation of teams on the schedule from year to year.
All round, it is a good schedule for PSU in 2010. They've the Alabama game to have through, several difficult road Big 10 games, and controllable games at property in the Big 10. The game at Fed Ex field is intriguing and can make for fun for the group of fans and is going to be beneficial to recruiting in a region that's been beneficial to them.


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The Springboks have played in three Rugby World Cup finals – in 1995, 2007 and 2019 – and were victorious on all three occasions.
The 1995 Rugby World Cup was the third Rugby World Cup. It was hosted and won by South Africa, and was the first Rugby World Cup in which every match was held in one country. The World Cup was the first major sporting event to take place in South Africa following the end of apartheid.
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FIFA reported it made a $631 million profit from the 2007-10 World Cup cycle and earned income of $3.65 billion from 2010 World Cup contracts. FIFA said it spent $1.298 billion on the World Cup in South Africa and also gave $100 million to the World Cup Legacy Trust, a fund that supports grassroots soccer projects.
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The England result meant Ireland needed to beat France by seven points (six if they scored a try) to lift the trophy while France needed to win by a margin of 31 points and score four tries. Neither side could achieve their target – France won 35-27 – so England have duly been crowned champions.
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Bafana Bafana are still ranked 71st in the world, which is the same position they ended the year 2020 on. This does not come as a surprise as Bafana have been inactive since November 2020 when they played two 2022 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) qualifiers against Sao Tome and Principe.
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Amid '2G' Vaccine Passport System, COVID-19 Cases Surge Across Germany
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German officials confirmed that daily COVID-19 cases surpassed 50,000 for the first time during the pandemic, coming weeks after a number of states have implemented "2G" rules that increased restrictions on individuals who haven't been vaccinated.
Article by Jack Phillips from our premium news partners at The Epoch Times.
Under the rules, which have been in effect since September, the states allow businesses like restaurants and bars to choose to exclude individuals who are not vaccinated or have recovered from COVID-19. Hamburg, Hesse, Saxony-Anhalt, Berlin, Brandenburg, Saxony, Lower Saxony, and Baden-Württemberg have opted-in, reported The Local.
But on Thursday, the country's public health body, the Robert Koch Institute, showed that the total case numbers hit 4.89 million with 97,198 fatalities.
As a result, Chancellor-in-waiting Olaf Scholz told Parliament on Thursday that new measures are needed "to get through this winter … we must shelter our country from the winter." Government spokesman Steffen Seibert was quoted by VOA News as saying that the virus is "spreading dramatically" and asserted that a "quick and unified response" was needed.
It comes as cases of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus have significantly increased across Europe in recent days, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
The WHO said in a weekly update that Europe leads the world in percentages of new virus deaths and cases. The number of deaths rose by 10 percent and the number of new cases rose by 7 percent, the body said.
Starting Monday, Berlin will block all unvaccinated individuals from entering restaurants, gyms, bars, and other businesses, EuroNews reported.
Bulgaria reported 334 COVID-19 deaths on Tuesday, the highest daily toll since the pandemic started. It requested oxygen devices, patient monitors, and hospital beds, VOA reported. The Eastern European nation last month implemented a "green pass" required to enter restaurants, gyms, and other locations.
The Slovak Health Ministry also reported that the daily increase of new COVID-19 infections hit 7,055 on Tuesday, setting a new record. In nearby Czech Republic, CCP virus infections jumped to levels close to record numbers earlier this year, according to EuroNews. Authorities in both Central European nations said they are considering additional measures to deal with the outbreak.
On Thursday, Austrian Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg confirmed the country is just days away from placing millions of people who aren't fully vaccinated on lockdown. Daily infections hit a record high of about 11,398 on Wednesday, data shows.
"According to the incremental plan we actually have just days until we have to introduce the lockdown for unvaccinated people," Schallenberg told a news conference.
Elsewhere, the Dutch government confirmed Thursday it is considering whether to impose Western Europe's first partial lockdown since the summer. The country implemented a vaccine passport system earlier this year.
Ukraine's Health Ministry on Thursday reported 27,377 new infections, about 500 more than the previous high tallied last week. Ukraine has faced protests against vaccination certificates for teachers and other public employees, as well as for passengers on airplanes, trains, and buses.
Hungary said 107 people died from COVID-19 between Wednesday and Thursday, the highest daily total since May 5. Authorities confirmed 6,268 new infections, roughly 2.5 times more than last Thursday.
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NotFilm: New Documentary on Samuel Beckett's Film
Milestone Film production aims to shed light on Samuel Beckett's only motion picture
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A press release from IndieGoGo:
Documentary will reveal for the first time the rediscovered missing first scene of Samuel Beckett's FILM and a long-forgotten sound recording featuring Beckett himself. The first-ever Milestone Film production, directed by well-known filmmaker/archivist Ross Lipman.
In 1964 author Samuel Beckett set out on his only journey to America, to undertake one of the strangest ventures in cinematic history: his collaboration with silent era genius Buster Keaton on a short, almost-silent avant-garde film. The production FILM BY SAMUEL BECKETT, was beset with trouble from the start. The entire first scene was unhappily eliminated, and Keaton suffered terribly in the hottest days of a blistering Manhattan summer. The soon-to-be Nobel laureate Beckett never saw eye-to-eye with the legendary slapstick star, and the film they made – along with theater director Alan Schneider, renegade publisher Barney Rosset, and Academy Award®-winning cinematographer Boris Kaufman – opened at the Venice and New York Film Festivals to a bewildered reception. In the decades since, it's been the subject of praise, condemnation, and ongoing controversy. Yet the eclectic participants are just one part of a story that stretches back to the very birth of cinema, and spreads out to our understanding of human consciousness itself.
Nearly fifty years after FILM's making, archivist/filmmaker Ross Lipman was at Barney Rosset's Fourth Avenue walkup apartment to begin work on the restoration of the 22-minute short. Innocently, he asked about the footage of the famed missing scene, which was initially to comprise nearly a third of the film. Rosset 's mournful reply was, "No, that's lost. But I have other outtakes in the cupboard." Lipman then foraged under Rosset's kitchen sink, where he found piles of rusty film cans, unopened for many years. This was intriguing, but it wasn't until Lipman's return to Los Angeles that he inspected the reels and made the biggest discovery – the cans did in fact contain the missing sequence, which Beckett had reluctantly jettisoned under duress after the first day of shooting. An even bigger surprise, a short time later Rosset delivered old audio recordings of Beckett at work on FILM's production, in impassioned dialogue with director Schneider, cinematographer Kaufman, and the rest of the production team. These tapes are all the more unique in that the notoriously media-shy Beckett made a rare exception to his close friend Rosset in allowing the recording. Until this discovery, there were only two known existing audio fragments and one brief video with Beckett's legendary melodious Irish voice — totaling just a few minutes. Rosset's compiled recordings lasted over two hours and offered a view of Beckett's work in the midst of creation! Together with the recovery of the missing scene's footage, they comprise a once-in-a-lifetime find and a major addition to our understanding of one of the past century's greatest artists. The audio recordings have been preserved at the Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center.
FILM has now undergone a complete 4K digital restoration by the UCLA Film & Television Archive under Lipman's supervision, in collaboration with the British Film Institute, and with funding from Martin Scorsese's Film Foundation and the National Film Preservation Foundation. At the same time, Milestone Film — the company who distributed Lipman's ground-breaking UCLA restorations of KILLER OF SHEEP, THE EXILES, WORD IS OUT and many others — licensed worldwide rights from Rosset for all the material. Together, Milestone and Lipman are now creating a documentary utilizing these remarkable treasures and telling the world of the amazing story behind FILM's production. Included is an astounding collection of recollections from actor James Karen, critic Leonard Maltin (who visited the set as a teenager), Beckett's beloved actress Billie Whitelaw, his close friend and biographer James Knowlson, Alan Schneider's widow Jean, Rosset's childhood friend Haskell Wexler, and Barney Rosset himself. Sadly, it was to be the last recorded interview of the incendiary publisher before his death in 2012. The film's score will be by Richard Einhorn — the brilliant composer known worldwide for VOICES OF LIGHT, the stunning accompaniment to silent classic The Passion of Joan of Arc by Carl Theodor Dreyer.
NOTFILM is now in production as a feature-length essay on FILM's production and its philosophical implications, utilizing additional outtakes, never before heard audio recordings, and other rare archival elements. Archives from around the world including UCLA and the Austrian Filmmuseum are contributing rare footage. Milestone will be producing the film by raising half of the film's budget through IndieGoGo.
You can find the campaign going up today at http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/notfilm/x/4836694.
Tax deductible contributions are also possible under fiscal sponsorship of the Los Angeles Filmforum.
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