go down , death !
go down death dir. aaron schimberg, 2013. 87 min. usa .
go down death
is visually stunning and, at times, darkly funny .
go down death by james weldon johnson - famous poems, famous poets. - all poetry
and god said: go down, death, go down, go down to savannah, georgia, down in yamacraw, and find sister caroline. she’s borne the burden and heat of the day, she’s labored long in my vineyard, and she’s tired— she’s weary — go down, death, and bring her to me .
aaron schimberg ’s “ go down death ” is now available digitally via factory 25. here’s our interview with the director from earlier this year .
go down death theatrical release | dvd | digital | vod catalog no. : ftf - 049 | in theaters: march 28th | director: aaron schimberg | length: 88 minutes | year: 2014
highlighted by offbeat narrative construction, stunning black - and - white 16mm cinematography and immaculately detailed production design, go down death is a distinctively original film informed by american gothic, folk culture and outsider art .
i’m wondering if any other divers hated when kate explained the bcd inflater valve as putting air in if you want to go up and letting air out if you want to go down. no no no .
just google “headphones that don’t go in your ear” and you will find some .
take the right door, go into the warehouse, and drop to your death without boarding the platform. the narrator will applaud stanley for jumping then the game will restart .
an astonishing, out - of - nowhere film. amidst all the cookie - cutter indies, aaron schimberg’s go down death casts a mysterious spell. a dreamy, highly stylized affair recalling early david lynch. highly recommended .
– scott macaulay, filmmaker magazine
this rings true in the poem “ go down, death, ” in which god commands death “to find sister caroline. ” subtitled “a funeral sermon, ” the poem begins with the narrator, an old - time preacher, consoling the family members of sister caroline, assuring them that she is not dead, but simply “resting in the bosom of jesus. ”
a work of latter - day dadaism... an expression of the same humanist - horror that tod browning imparted in his pre - code classic freaks. go down death is as eccentric and daring as american indie cinema gets .
– matthew campbell, starz denver
the slow, secret death of the six - string electric. and why you should care .
the make headsets that go in front of your ears and the vibrations allow you to here .
aaron schimberg' s go down death is one of the strangest films ever, and then the last fifteen minutes happen. some call him lynch, some say madden, but sooner than later you’ll just be saying schimberg .
– christopher bell, indiewire' s the playlist / vivoscene
the show has
temporarily shut down production
following the accident, amc told fox news .
recently acquired by factory 25, the film became available this week on various vod platforms, including itunes and amazon. we got a chance to talk to schimberg, asking about the genesis of “go down death” as well as his influences, the structure of the film, and its fantastic ending .
irresistible! evokes the great novels of william faulkner, even as go down death offers us a resolutely modern filmic experience. schimberg appropriates the language of cinema and obeys only the rules he sets out for himself. the result is a thrilling leap into the unknown .
– simon laperriére, fantasia
for its first–and only? –narrative feature run, spectacle is pleased to present aaron schimberg’s staggering debut feature go down death. acclaimed as one of the most distinctive, visually - stunning, and greatest undistributed films of the past year, it sits uneasily among rote indie festival programming. naturally, we feel we make a great pair .
i like this poem because it gives dignity and gravity to the life (and death) of sister caroline, who would otherwise go quietly and faintly. that death would ride up “the golden street” through the syrupy heat of georgia to find her shows that no matter the humble conditions one endures in life, everybody achieves the grand finality of an end :
the wages of sin is death and as ye sow, so shall ye reap
... sayeth the scriptures !
“the death of the guitar, to paraphrase mark twain, is greatly exaggerated, ” says fender’s chief executive, andy mooney .
bernecker' s death comes just days after a voiceover actor from the
walking dead
prequel series died in a skydiving accident .
while death and loss will come, ammons will hang on to what earthly pleasures he can while time allows. finally, the poem ends on a sublime note, lines written so softly that they should be whispered, full of truth and a love for life and even death :
the next several stanzas mark a dramatic shift in tone: johnson portrays a conversation between god and death with the high drama and ethereal imagery of a baroque painting, with death riding his white horse out of the “shadowy place” and through the deep south to claim sweet old ms. caroline .
what it tells us: arya lets littlefinger see her steal the note because she wants him to think she is planning to take down sansa .
dci / the bends is bad. it is worth avoiding at every turn. at best, it is painful and debilitating, and at its worst, it can kill you. what it isn’t, though, is an automatic death sentence, which is what “47 meters down” seems convinced of .
death, where is thy sting? i answer the heroic question, with' it is in my heart and mind and memories. (maya angelou )
it eventually does. however, the line holding the cage breaks, sending lisa and kate straight down the ocean, inside the cage. they eventually hit what appears to be the ocean floor, 47 meters down from the top of the ocean. lisa is freaking out, and kate has to calm her down. they are too far down for them to hear taylor on their radio. so, kate ends up having to leave the safety of the cage to swim to where she can get in touch with taylor on the radio. she eventually reaches taylor who tells kate that he is going to send javier down with a cable to bring the cage back to the surface. but, he warns kate to stay in the cage because of the sharks .
in an episode dedicated to the show within the show, “glow” illustrates its grand capacity for storytelling, and the very good tv podcast breaks down how .
there’s only one issue that still bothers me…isn’t it supposed to be excruciatingly cold down there? (just to put another wrench in their odds of surviving. . )
there’s a lot of opposition to this storyline – but there is some sense in it. let’s go through the scenes one by one to try and sort it out :
“there are a lot of not - easy times that they go through as teenagers, ” she says, “and having music in her life, it’s been a savior. ”
amc told fox news on thursday - - before bernecker' s death was confirmed - - that the network was
keeping john and his family in our thoughts and prayers .
the coweta county coroner' s office told fox news stuntman john bernecker died wednesday evening of
blunt force trauma
after he suffered a fall. his death has been ruled accidental .
lisa begins looking at the wound on her hand and notices that the blood from it is blowing off into the wind, instead of flowing down her arm. she begins to hear taylor' s voice, and it is revealed that lisa has been hallucinating everything after kate' s death. she is still pinned against the cage. still hallucinating that she' s talking to kate on taylor' s boat, she says that they are finally free as she begins laughing hysterically. on the radio, taylor tells her that she is hallucinating, but that the coast guard is there and they are coming down to help her. lisa sees the coast guard coming down to help free her. as they help her out of the cage, she begins to come back to her senses. tears roll down her eyes as she and the coast guard make their way back to the surface safely .
go down death is a wry, sinister realization of a strange new universe, a cross - episodic melange of macabre folktales supposedly penned by the fictitious writer jonathan mallory sinus. an abandoned factory in brooklyn stands in for a decrepit village haunted by ghosts, superstition and disease, while threatening to buckle under rumblings of the apocalypse. soldiers are lost and found in endless woods, a child gravedigger is menaced by a shapeshifting physician, a syphilitic john bares all to a young prostitute and a disfigured outcast yearns for the affections of a tone - deaf cabaret singer .
take the right door, go left in the open door, use the elevator inside the maintenance room. taking this route leaves the narrator confused as to which direction to go. after opening and closing two doors in stanley' s face, he opens a garage door that leads to the monitor room. in successive restarts, stanley will always end up in the monitor room .
- a great emotional and spiritual write that emphasizes that death only leads to rest in the bosom of the lord jesus for his beloved souls and others living need not weep for this happy event .
all news organisations will scramble to get films on air and obituaries online. at the guardian, the deputy editor has a list of prepared stories pinned to his wall. the times is said to have 11 days of coverage ready to go. at sky news and itn, which for years rehearsed the death of the queen substituting the name “mrs robinson”, calls will go out to royal experts who have already signed contracts to speak exclusively on those channels. “i am going to be sitting outside the doors of the abbey on a hugely enlarged trestle table commentating to 300 million americans about this, ” one told me .
these well - laid plans have not always helped. in 2002, when the queen mother died, the obit lights didn’t come on because someone failed to push the button down properly. on the bbc, peter sissons, the veteran anchor, was criticised for wearing a maroon tie. sissons was the victim of a bbc policy change, issued after the september 11 attacks, to moderate its coverage and reduce the number of “category one” royals eligible for the full obituary procedure. the last words in sissons’s ear before going on air were: “don’t go overboard. she’s a very old woman who had to go some time. ”
neither of them have weight belts, if you have tried diving with even a slightly wrong weight in salt water you will know that if you go up a little bit the air expands making you go up faster, making even more air expand and you have an uncontrolled ascent. the blonde haired girl when going up to 40m to radio in would have shot straight to the surface if she hadnt put rocks in her bcd .
we just dove to 143ft, and many others do the same in the blue hole in belize. granted, we could only spend a few minutes at that depth, but it’s by no means some instant death sentence .
the population will slide between sadness and irritability. in 2002, 130 people complained to the bbc about its insensitive coverage of the queen mother’s death; another 1, 500 complained that casualty was moved to bbc2. the tv schedules in the days after the queen’s death will change again. comedy won’t be taken off the bbc completely, but most satire will. there will be dad’s army reruns, but no have i got news for you .
take the right door, go into cargo room, take the lift across without jumping, unplug the phone in the phone room. the narrator shows stanley a hilarious video about choice. return to the two doors room .
bernecker was working on the set of season 8 when he fell more than 20 feet onto a concrete surface, deadline reported. bernecker was reportedly treated at atlanta medical center, a level 1 trauma center, before his death .
fever dreams can be scarring. however, if you’re filmmaker aaron schimberg, you can take that harrowing dip into the subconscious and make it into the fine, singular work “ go down death. ” his debut film follows a few lives in a desolate village ravaged by constant bombing and unending trauma, changing character perspectives frequently — ranging from a child gravedigger to a disfigured gambler — but always maintaining its utter strangeness. it’s also sort of an anomaly in the independent scene, having been shot on 16mm black & white and utilizing both sets and scale models. we saw it last year and raved about it, claiming it “will trouble and beguile the subconscious long after you’ve moved on. ”
obey everything the narrator tells you to do, but follow the escape sign instead of going in the mind control facility. you will end up in a long corridor. the narrator will continually say that the end of the corridor will lead to your death, trying to convince you to turn back. reaching the end causes you to fall into a death trap that slowly brings you towards a large crushing machine just before stanley meets his death at the hands of the machine, a female narrator takes over and frees stanley, giving him a chance to look inside a museum containing beta elements from earlier in the game' s production, elements from other endings, and content that was cut from the game .
my daughter - in - law printed this out on the evening of my wife' s death. it is an awesome statement. it reached the the deepest part of my soul. thank you james. would like to have known you .
after that, the female narrator tells the player that the only way to save stanley is to quit the game, but staying put will have the metal jaws crush stanley to death, leaving the screen blank and truly forcing one to restart .
some years ago—never mind how long precisely—my friend ashley was walking down the street, to get to her next mortuary science class at um - twin cities. it was a windy autumn morning. the wind blew this poem into her hands .
the film is quite aware that the more time the characters spend underwater, the lower their air reserves get. but what “47 meters down” completely and spectacularly ignores is that, with scuba, depth is incredibly relevant to the rate of air consumption. with increasing depth and increasing ambient pressure, the air you breathe on scuba becomes more dense. but because the volume of your lungs doesn’t change, you end up using a greater volume of your overall air supply with every breath, the deeper you go. with every additional atmosphere of pressure, the air you breathe is compressed to half the original volume. so, at 2 atmospheres (about 10 meters below the surface), your lungs take in air that is twice as dense as it would be at the surface, meaning you will go through your air twice as fast. at 47 meters down, a person is experiencing 5. 67 atmospheres, which means they blaze through their air at nearly six times the rate they would at the surface .
listen to the narrator, but go down the stairs instead of up. stanley will enter a never - ending paradoxical loop of rooms. as stanley walks through the rooms without end, he begins to question everything, believing himself to be in a dream. he imagines himself to be a bird and to be flying through a star field in space, and then believes the narrator is just a voice in his head, but then he realizes that he is not dreaming and ends up screaming for help, dropping dead .
in scuba diving, one of the first things you learn is how to combat this pressure upon descent using equalization techniques. this is particularly important for the ears, because if you reach a mere several meters down and fail to equalize any of that pressure pushing in, you can be dealing with a serious amount of pain, ruptured eardrums, and even irreversible hearing loss. the only real way to avoid discomfort is to descend slowly and equalize as you go, and by slowly, i mean half a meter at a time .
my favourite issue was when the second tank arrives and it has an a - clamp fitting. her tank has a din fitting yet when she swaps tank the tank is suddenly a din. maybe a kindly shark popped down with an allan key and removed the insert 😂😂
at that point, the entire ui layer was wiped clean and it was all hands on deck to get luna ready to show in january. late nights, early mornings. palm feared sprint' s reaction to being told that it was abandoning and rewriting a significant portion of the platform with just a half year to go, so sprint executives were told that it was just a
reskinning .
when sprint had previously been shown prima, they' d only seen a locked - down version of the phone application, so they were none the wiser .
every day for the month of april, we’ll share a poem that speaks to us. to share your own favorite, email hello @ urltoken, and tell us a little bit about why you love it. and to read a daily poem from the atlantic archives, go here .
gotta remember it is a movie, is for entertainment. there hasn’t been one shark movie that doesn’t exaggerate things if i wanted to see a real shark’s behavior or learn how to dive i would watch animal planet or go to the classes. it’s not realistic but that’s the point .
today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. don’t open the door to the study and begin reading. take down a musical instrument. let the beauty we love be what we do. there are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground .
and yes, no need to go all the way to 47 meters (not like most of the american watching public knows how deep that is anyway). the fact that they went into dive more than 40 - 50 feet when totally unprepared and surrounded by sharks would have been enough .
listen to the narrator until he reaches the boss' s office. quickly enter and leave the boss' s office, making sure the doors are closed. all doors behind stanley will be open (including the executive bathroom); go back towards stanley' s office. a door will be open right in front of his office. (if you go back to your office and close the door, you cannot reopen the door again). upon entering the door, you will be teleported to a long staircase. after you go far enough there will be a sign warning the player that both the narrator and the player need to be present in order for escape sequence to play out as intended. the narrator was disabled earlier on, so stanley couldn' t escape. like in not stanley ending the narrator needed stanley but he wasn' t controlled by the player .
15. cooper spends the entire movie trying to get back to his daughter … and his daughter spends the entire movie yearning to be reunited with him. he spends two minutes with her … and then then they both agree he should split to go have presumed only - guy - on - the - planet sex with brand ?
that’s the number of months it took palm, inc. to go from the darling of international ces 2009 to a mere shadow of itself, a nearly anonymous division inside the hp machine without a hardware program and without the confidence of its owners. thirty - one months is just barely longer than a typical american mobile phone contract .
hen people think of a contemporary royal death in britain, they think, inescapably, of diana. the passing of the queen will be monumental by comparison. it may not be as nakedly emotional, but its reach will be wider, and its implications more dramatic. “it will be quite fundamental, ” as one former courtier told me .
great poetry can do many things—challenge us intellectually, show us beauty, allow us to inhabit the gray areas of language, entertain us. this poem does all those things for me, but it also gave me comfort in a time of loss, and in its ending lines i found wisdom on how to live in light of death and loss .
when mcknight launched a video series on youtube, he did an episode called “is taylor swift the next eddie van halen? ” he wasn’t talking about technique. he was talking about inspiring younger players. the video series, in the end, grew faster than guitar sales or lessons. earlier this year, mcknight shut down his store .
disobey the narrator to the end; take the right door, go into the warehouse, take the lift and jump onto the catwalk. take the blue door 3 times. stanley will walk into a large room that the narrator had not finished building yet; developer textures (orange and white tiles) can be seen along the walls around stanley .
on d + 1, the day after the queen’s death, the flags will go back up, and at 11am, charles will be proclaimed king. the accession council, which convenes in the red - carpeted entrée room of st james’s palace, long predates parliament. the meeting, of the “lords spiritual and temporal of this realm”, derives from the witan, the anglo - saxon feudal assembly of more than a thousand years ago. in theory, all 670 current members of the privy council, from jeremy corbyn to ezekiel alebua, the former prime minister of the solomon islands, are invited – but there is space for only 150 or so. in 1952, the queen was one of two women present at her proclamation .
a wonderful teacher once broke down the word “translate” into its latin parts: trans + latus, “to carry across, ” to ferry meaning from one side to another. for me, this sparked an interest in how translations vary, how the shift of one word or an alternate choice of phrase can profoundly change the music of the poem, or its resonance .
“he would burst open the screen door and try to do the dishes with you, ” carloss said. when her children played in their sandbox, ernie would plop his front hooves down next to them. carloss took ernie to compete in shows throughout the state, where he would strut around with a sequined browband. “he stole everybody’s heart, ” she said .
the pre launched in the us on june 5th, 2009, making good on the
first half of 2009
guidance issued at ces. just days later, longtime ceo ed colligan stepped down and made way for jon rubinstein, who' d already been deeply involved with the company in his role as executive chairman. the changing of the guard was complete .
the parallels with the unease that we will feel at the death of elizabeth ii are obvious, but without the consolation of britain’s status in 1901 as the world’s most successful country. “we have to have narratives for royal events, ” the historian told me. “in the victorian reign, everything got better and better, and bigger and bigger. we certainly can’t tell that story today. ”
but that’s what enthralls keats—the eternal, resplendent pause. anticipating a moment, my teacher proposed, may be more of a thrill than the moment itself. it’s the breath pressing in your ribs before a long exhale, the wait at the top of a coaster before the plunge down. keats revels in this instant before the end. he wishes he could linger there longer .
shortly after kate escapes the cage, she swims towards the surface a bit (up to 40 meters) so she can get in range of the boat, allowing her to use her mask communications system to notify captain taylor that they are still alive down there. kate tells taylor that she has 55 bar left (that’s only one - quarter of a tank !). taylor then advises kate and her sister stay down in the cage at 47 meters and wait until they can pull the whole thing up somehow, because if they go to the surface while fleeing the sharks, they will get the bends and they will die! this is a ludicrous flipping of priorities. yes, decompression illness can be dangerous, even fatal in some cases. but you know what’s 100% fatal? not having any air to breathe. taylor advising kate and lisa to sit tight at 47 meters and race through their air rather than take a risky ascent is like your doctor telling you to stop drinking any and all water because there might be lead in it. yes, technically lead poisoning is not ideal, but perishing from dehydration is quite a bit worse .
taking the right door will prompt further
narrative contradiction ,
and when you enter the left door, the meeting room will have been destroyed and distorted. the narrator shuts down the game and goes on a rant about how stanley destroyed his work. he is cut off by a sudden restarting of the game, with stanley reappearing in front of the two doors after returning from the cargo room .
once the cage begins to plummet to the seafloor, lisa and kate begin to experience increasing pressure. as more and more seawater stacks up above them as they sink, the pressure exerted on their bodies by all this water goes up. every 10 meters or so of seawater produces the same amount of pressure as the entirety of the earth’s atmosphere at sea level. so, at 10 meters down, a person experiences 2 atmospheres of pressure. 20 meters down, it’s 3 atmospheres, and so on. all that squeezing doesn’t do a whole lot to your solid, fleshy parts—but it does a lot to air spaces. gas is compressible, and as the pressure mounts, the air - filled sinus cavities, interior parts of the ears, inside of the mask, and lungs are all impacted .
i like learning to science and truth behind things occurring in movies and comparing them to what is shown in the movie…but… this entire article is so negative and has such a snarky sanctimonious tone that it was hard to enjoy. it’s a movie. it’s supposed to be an escape and about impossibilities and fun to watch. there’s a way to dissect fact from fiction without being so bitter lol simmer down .
take the right door, go into the warehouse, take the cargo lift across without jumping and answer the phone in the phone room. this teleports stanley in front of what appears to be his apartment, but when he opens the door, expecting his wife, he finds a robotic mannequin. attempting to leave instead of entering his apartment prompts the narrator to block stanley, forcing him to enter his apartment. as the screen tells the player to press a specific button, the apartment around stanley begins to change into his office (in some cases the apartment will remain the same if you pressed other buttons than stated to push, however, there is still no way to progress through the story line meaning the player will still have to restart) while the narrator tells stanley the story of the death of a man named stanley .
on the aesthetics, i love the way the poem moves. it starts with the commonplace idea that the people an older person knows begin to die off to the point that funerals take over their social calendar, much the way younger people seem to spend the summers of their late 20s and early 30s attending an endless string of weddings. the poem then pivots from its resigned stance toward the inevitability of loss and death :
i think it’s sarton’s parsing of what “dead center” is—a celebration of the blood that keeps on pumping, through loss and cold and “leaps into the dark, lovers unkind, ” alongside an acknowledgement of mortality (“temperature zero, and death on my mind”) —that brings me back to these stanzas over and over again. there’s a certain comfort in thinking about self - reliance as a matter of flesh and blood and breath .
3. cooper (matthew mcconaughey) gives his daughter murph (mackenzie foy) a soothing explanation of the origin of murphy’s law. this isn’t actually true. the term means pretty much what you thought it meant — if anything can go wrong, it will (like, for instance, your dad taking off for 80 years, leaving you behind to eat corn with dust sauce). speaking of: cooper shows up randomly at nasa and suddenly he’s piloting the craft? if he’s so ideal for this incredibly important earth - saving mission that’s just about to happen, and even knows the professor, and is just a day’s drive away, you would think they might have already known he was working the farm down the street and reached out to him. did nasa not have a pilot before he showed up ?
it’s only after arya and sansa’s first staged argument that littlefinger asks winterfell’s maester to find the incriminating message sansa sent to robb, where she asked him to bend the knee to her evil fiancé joffrey baratheon, after her father was accused of treason and awaiting execution by the lannisters. by taking the ‘bait’ of this message, arya is tricking littlefinger into thinking she wants leverage with which to take down sansa .
and indeed, the talent came to palm in droves. with the original iphone having already shipped, people were tempted by the prospect of a new challenge. rubinstein was selling his old industry contacts and co - workers on the opportunity to go out and make the next blockbuster consumer product. andy grignon, rob tsuk, and rich dellinger, to name a few. matias duarte, who' d done stints at danger and helio, was hired to lead palm' s ui design after considering and turning down a position at google with former danger boss andy rubin. from microsoft, ruby brought in mike abbott to run the software team. palm' s acquisition of a startup called lampdesk, founded by manu chatterjee (who ended up creating palm' s touchstone accessory) and former pixo employee greg simon, closed in early october .
the tulips are too red in the first place, they hurt me. even through the gift paper i could hear them breathe lightly, through their white swaddlings, like an awful baby. their redness talks to my wound, it corresponds. they are subtle: they seem to float, though they weigh me down, upsetting me with their sudden tongues and their color, a dozen red lead sinkers round my neck .
kate goes back to the cage and tells lisa what taylor told her. after some time has passed, they see a flashlight in the distance, which they deduce is javier. since kate is running low on oxygen, lisa decides to go and bring javier to the cage. lisa swims out to meet javier but is suddenly ambushed by a shark. she is able to hide inside a small cavern of rocks, but the shark still tries to get her. the shark eventually leaves, and lisa continues swimming towards the flashlight. she reaches a drop - off point, where the ocean continues heading down. but, she continues heading out to the flashlight, even though she cannot see anything below her. she eventually reaches the flashlight but does not see javier. javier appears out of nowhere, but suddenly he is attacked by a shark and killed .
before they go into the cage, taylor informs them of the equipment, which includes a meter that tells the user how much oxygen they have left. after louis and benjamin take their turn in the cage, kate and lisa get into it. they are lowered into the water. they don' t see any sharks, so taylor has his first mate, javier, throw some fish blood into the water to attract the sharks .
meanwhile, the pre wasn' t the blockbuster that everyone had been hoping for. the decision to launch as a sprint exclusive was frequently cited as a killer, but the situation may have been exacerbated by a bizarre ad campaign that featured a vaguely unsettling, ghostly woman urging viewers to
just go with the flow
— it was strange enough, in fact, that it inspired a string of parody videos that circulated the internet .
the company blew out remaining touchpad inventory for as little as $ 99, a move that one employee we spoke to called a
joke .
at that point, it was nothing more than a dead tablet walking. (demand for the $ 99 touchpad was so strong from internal sales to hp employees alone that it brought down the company' s entire public e - commerce system, which shared the same infrastructure. )
on the conference calls and around the table will know each other. for a narrow stratum of the british aristocracy and civil service, the art of planning major funerals – the solemnity, the excessive detail – is an expression of a certain national competence. thirty - one people gathered for the first meeting to plan churchill’s funeral, “operation hope not”, in june 1959, six years before his death. those working on london bridge (and tay bridge
of course, it should go without saying that the depiction of shark behavior is all wrong, too. just as with “the shallows”, there’s no way great whites would behave like this, even if they were offered up a couple of completely clueless, tasty humans. but that doesn’t even matter in the grand scheme of things; if this movie were true to life, mandy would never have gotten the chance to worry about the sharks .
geidt will contact the prime minister. the last time a british monarch died, 65 years ago, the demise of george vi was conveyed in a code word, “hyde park corner”, to buckingham palace, to prevent switchboard operators from finding out. for elizabeth ii, the plan for what happens next is known as “london bridge. ” the prime minister will be woken, if she is not already awake, and civil servants will say “london bridge is down” on secure lines. from the foreign office’s global response centre, at an undisclosed location in the capital, the news will go out to the 15 governments outside the uk where the queen is also the head of state, and the 36 other nations of the commonwealth for whom she has served as a symbolic figurehead – a face familiar in dreams and the untidy drawings of a billion schoolchildren – since the dawn of the atomic age .
taking the left door will allow the game to proceed as normal (sans the option to go downstairs, with the railing blocking the entrance to do so .) instead of a keypad to access the mind control facility, you are presented with a voice box in which stanley must speak the password. he is unable to do so, and the narrator launches on a tirade about entering the right door and
doing whatever the hell you wanted
.
this is where the decision only to show us scenes of disagreement between sansa and arya comes to fruition. surprise! littlefinger’s been busted – he’s done himself out of a job by trying to pit the starks against each other. not only have arya and sansa been working to take him down, but they’ve also had bran to help. littlefinger’s tricks don’t work on the starks, and he’s reduced to begging for mercy. he gets none .
having plans in place for the death of leading royals is a practice that makes some journalists uncomfortable. “there is one story which is deemed to be so much more important than others, ” one former today programme producer complained to me. for 30 years, bbc news teams were hauled to work on quiet sunday mornings to perform mock storylines about the queen mother choking on a fishbone. there was once a scenario about princess diana dying in a car crash on the m4 .
switchboards – the palace, downing street, the department of culture, media and sport – will be swamped with calls during the first 48 hours. it is such a long time since the death of a monarch that many national organisations won’t know what to do. the official advice, as it was last time, will be that business should continue as usual. this won’t necessarily happen. if the queen dies during royal ascot, the meet will be scrapped. the marylebone cricket club is said to hold insurance for a similar outcome if she passes away during a home test match at lord’s. after the death of george vi in 1952, rugby and hockey fixtures were called off, while football matches went ahead. fans sang abide with me and the national anthem before kick off. the national theatre will close if the news breaks before 4pm, and stay open if not. all games, including golf, will be banned in the royal parks .
i recently heard this performed by wintley phipps. amazing! my precious husband went home to be with jesus on january 26, 2009 and my momma on april 20, 2006. this describes so very well how i have felt about death since coming to know jesus christ as my personal savior. it is such a comfort to those of us who have said a temporary' see you later' to those whom we love so dearly. what a blessing to have found this !
a bar owner attempts to discredit the new preacher with whom he is feuding by framing him with a photograph showing him drinking with women with bad reputations. the bar owner' s adoptive mother, a member of the minister' s church, supports the preacher and gets the photographic prints. when the bar owner struggles with his mother for the prints, he accidentally kills her. after the preacher' s funeral sermon, the bar owner' s conscience drives him to his death .
outside, news crews will assemble on pre - agreed sites next to canada gate, at the bottom of green park. (special fibre - optic cable runs under the mall, for broadcasting british state occasions .) “i have got in front of me an instruction book a couple of inches thick, ” said one tv director, who will cover the ceremonies, when we spoke on the phone. “everything in there is planned. everyone knows what to do. ” across the country, flags will come down and bells will toll. in 1952, great tom was rung at st paul’s every minute for two hours when the news was announced. the bells at westminster abbey sounded and the sebastopol bell, taken from the black sea city during the crimean war and rung only on the occasion of a sovereign’s death, was tolled 56 times at windsor – once for each year of george vi’s life – from 1. 27pm until 2. 22pm .
she uses the spear gun to reach the oxygen tank. she eventually is able to get it and changes oxygen tanks, giving her more air. she begins hearing a voice on the radio and discovers it' s kate, she' s still alive. lisa decides to use her scuba gear to lift the cage, getting her free. she swims out of the cage and finds kate, with a very bloody wound on her leg. they talk to taylor and tell him that they are going to try to swim to the top. he tells them to go for it, but not to go too fast or else they will die, due to oxygen bubbles going straight to their brain. they use the flares to ward off the sharks, which works. as they get halfway, they have to stop to decompress for five minutes. as the flare burns out, kate grabs another one but drops it. lisa grabs the last flare, and as she lights it, four or five sharks are circling them. they continue to fend the sharks off with the flare. when they get to the top, they swim to the boat. taylor, louis, and benjamin begin to help them back into the boat. suddenly, lisa is grabbed by a shark. she starts picking at its eye with her fingers, which works and it lets her go. lisa and kate are helped back into the boat .
in greek myth, eurydice is a tragic object of love. when a fatal snake bite sends her to hell, her husband orpheus won’t let her go, so he leverages his musical talents into a deal with hades and persephone: he may take eurydice back to earth, and life, with him if he goes in front and doesn’t look back at her along the way. but, afraid she is not really there, he does look back. and she is lost forever .
nitrogen narcosis affects people differently, sometimes not at all. despite having gone down to 50 m myself (both in the water and in a hyperbaric chamber), i can’t really say i’ve ever felt intoxicated (or ‘narc’d 😉), but i’ve seen some people totally lose it. however, being narc’d has led to a number of divers suddenly thinking they either don’t need their reg, or the fish they’re looking at could use it, and they end up drowning .
in theory, everything is settled. but in the hours after the queen has gone, there will be details that only charles can decide. “everything has to be signed off by the duke of norfolk and the king, ” one official told me. the prince of wales has waited longer to assume the british throne than any heir, and the world will now swirl around him at a new and uncrossable distance. “for a little while, ” wrote edward viii, of the days between his father’s death and funeral, “i had the uneasy sensation of being left alone on a vast stage. ” in recent years, much of the work on london bridge has focused on the precise choreography of charles’s accession. “there are really two things happening, ” as one of his advisers told me. “there is the demise of a sovereign and then there is the making of a king. ” charles is scheduled to make his first address as head of state on the evening of his mother’s death .
last month, mcnulty — one of the last senior staff who' d been around for several product release cycles after the departures in january — called it quits along with other key members of hp' s enyo team to go to google. sources tell us they' ll head to the chrome group, where they' ll rub shoulders with many former co - workers including luna architect greg simon. of course, android' s matias duarte won' t be far away, either .
more than 50 years after her death, it’s difficult to untie sylvia plath’s poetic legacy from her sensational, tragic trajectory: a troubled poet who succumbed to her mental illness. and yet, she was so much more than those last days: a fulbright scholar, self - aware and brilliant, with a voice that’s evocative, turbulent, and unflinchingly confrontational. like hundreds of other young women, i turned to plath, with her pure, fearless authenticity, to ferry me through the tangle of growing up .
once stanley reaches the baby game, he continues to press the button to save the baby. after 2 hours, the narrator will add another game, one where stanley (you) have to save a puppy from piranhas by pressing another button in front of the first one. in order to beat both games, stanley has to go back and forth to press both buttons. after a total of four hours playing, stanley will be brought to a white room where he will see the divine art .
the next morning, the two sisters meet up with louis and benjamin who take the two to meet taylor. taylor is the captain of an old boat, which houses a rusty shark cage. taylor asks the two sisters if they' ve ever been scuba diving before, which both claim they have. louis and benjamin are the first two to get into the shark cage. they get in and are lowered into the water. lisa and kate go into another room and get fitted into scuba gear .
for several years, the palace has been discreetly trying to ensure charles’s succession as head of the bloc, in the absence of any other obvious option. last october, julia gillard, the former prime minister of australia, revealed that christopher geidt, the queen’s private secretary, had visited her in february 2013 to ask her to support the idea. canada and new zealand have since fallen into line, but the title is unlikely to be included in king charles’s proclamation. instead it will be part of the discreet international lobbying that takes place as london fills up with diplomats and presidents in the days after the queen’s death. there will be serious, busy receptions at the palace. “we are not talking about entertaining. but you have to show some form of respect for the fact that they have come, ” said one courtier. “such feasting and commingling, with my father still unburied, seemed to me unfitting and heartless, ” wrote edward viii in his memoirs. the show must go on. business will mix with grief.
go down , death ! is a 1944 race film directed by and starring spencer williams . the film ’s title derives from a poem by the african-american writer james weldon johnson . 
go down, death! is a 1944 race film directed by and starring spencer williams. the film ’s title derives from a poem by the african-american writer james weldon johnson.
go down, death! is a 1944 race film directed by and starring spencer williams. the film ’s title derives from a poem by the african-american writer james weldon johnson.