Once again, mankind has created another monster. In search of the perfect inexhaustible energy source, S.H.I.E.L.D has set up experiments to convert the power of the Tesseract to power the world. But they have a phase two of their experiment: That’s to employ the strange matter into a weapon of mass destruction. But evil purposes can call down evil energies, and mankind has called down Thor’s evil brother Loki (played by Tom Hiddleston), who wants to dominate the peoples of earth. He’s bringing an army with him that is beyond anyone’s imagination to defeat. Unless you’re Nick Fury: He imagines the perfect strike force and he call them the Avengers.

There are so many things that might have gone wrong with a film like this: It’s director Joss Whedon had never directed anything this large before: He’s known best for directing television’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer. And history has informed us that anytime a large cast of A list actors are cast together in a film, their egos will do greater battle than any battle scene a film can muster.

But what has resulted instead is one of the best action films of the last decade, full of fantastic visual effects, clever writing, and comedic timing that had the audience I watched with cheering, laughing,and groaning from vicarious pain. This film is non-stop action from the 10 minute mark to the end of the film.

Robert Downey Jr. plays billionaire Tony Stark aka Iron man and delivers a sarcastic and funny performance as a man of our times who has to team up with Captain America played by Chris Evans. Evans never lets his character slip out of the super straight laced man of the 1940′s, who see’s no room for a sense of humor when there’s a world to save. The two are at perfect odds with each other, and the mix only gets more volatile when Dr. Bruce Banner, The Hulk time bomb played by Mark Ruffalo, and the egotistical God Thor played by Australian actor Chris Hemsworth are added in.

Some time in the future, children as young as three years old have a monitor inserted in the back of their necks. This so it may be determined if they have the right stuff to be sent away to IF Training School. Everything about them is watched by a monitoring team, how they think, speak and resolve problems. Ender’s cruel older brother has been rejected for being off balance, and his slightly older sister has been rejected for being to empathetic. But all three children are recoginized as geniuses. When Ender has his monitor removed, it’s assumed he’s fallen short of the monitors’ criteria for soldiering material. Until family breakfast is interupted by the door bell.

One teacher in particular believes from the beginning that Ender is the one who can eventually take command of the forces and defeat the enemy. But in order to make a leader of him he is isolated and pitted against the other students and never allowed to make friends. He’s been chosen for his compassionate nature, but also because the monitors know that deep down, Ender has the nature of a true killer. But more importantly he has the makings of a true leader.

This story follows Ender from a fearful boy in his early days at the I.F. Training school as he neutralizes the powers of the school bullies, forges allegiances, and gains the respect of his schoolmates and instructors as a first class military strategist.

Written in 1977, this book seems to have predicted the Ipad, voice recognition software and indeed, software itself, in a time when one computer could still fill an entire room and the individual computer was still the stuff of Science Fiction.

In clean nearly adjective free prose, Orson Scott Card has written a fast moving and addicting read writing insightfully about the emotions of a young soldier whose childhood has been taken away from him for the good of humankind. Can a 10 year old take command of a fleat of Starships and save earth from an enemy that will stop at nothing to eliminate its inhabitants?

This is a good clean easy read, full of action and hard won friendships, conflicted emotions and winning against nearly impossible odds. Perfect for boys from twelve years and up to middle age who like good science fiction with a lot of action.

As a kid, it was always a crap shoot what the Saturday afternoon movie on television would be. Usually the possibilities ranged between W.C.Fields, Mae West, The LI’l Rascals, The Bowery Boys and The Three Stooges. Any of them could hold a kids attention. But it was always The Three Stooges that inspired what the priest of our church might have called the misuse of prayer. I more than a few times closed my eyes hoping to sway the Unknown Force to show The Stooges.

To be sure, the other movies fed a kid with lots of valued material for interaction with friends: “Say, what’s the big idea”, Get away from me kid, you botha me”, “Listen, I’m tough see.”, (and later, when you were old enough to realize what it meant: “Ooh, is that a gun in your pocket or are you just happy to see me”) and of course “Hello my little chickadee”. But can anyone really remember laughing at those other movies the way you could laugh at The Three Stooges?

Often, the TV shows and Movies that we loved as kids don’t fare well once we’re older. So a lot of us who were Stooge fans as kids were excited by the funny trailers for The Three Stooges. The advertisement made for TV was a send up of Drug Company ads that had most of us
watching it tearfully laughing on YouTube over and over. But those are trailers. Most of us wondered if the extreme slapstick that made the Three Stooges so popular as movie shorts could still be made as funny in a film lasting two minutes more than an hour and a half.

So after the roll of the credits I couldn’t wait to tell everyone that yes, they can make slapstick funny for an hour and a half and they can do it unbelievably well.

The story line is this: Left on the doorstep of an orphanage run by nuns, newborns Moe, Larry and Curly grow up finger-poking, nyuk-nyuk-nyuking and woo-woo-wooing their way to uncharted levels of knuckleheaded misadventure. Now their childhood home may have to close due to financial difficulties. But Larry, Curly and Moe, employed as the foster home’s inept maintenance men, are determined to come to the rescue. Only The Three Stooges could become embroiled in an oddball murder plot – while stumbling into starring roles in a phenomenally successful TV reality show. (Written by Press kit)

The Farrelly Brothers, best known for their films, There’s Something About Mary (1998) Me, Myself & Irene (2000), Dumb &Dumber (1994) and Shallow Hal (2001), all profitable, are by all accounts successful film makers. But defying all wisdom by making a prediction, I predict the Brothers Farrelly will have an unbridled hit on their hands that will surpass any box office they’ve made yet. What’s the difference between the off center humor of the films they’ve made in the past and the humor of The Three Stooges? My answer is that it’s stupid hilarity we can all agree on and revel in, whether we are twelve years old or fifty somethings. There was one woman of some seventy years with whom I exited the theater (I’m not making this up) with silver hair pulled tightly into a bun, her bent form wrapped in a shawl who answered enthusiastically that she thought the film hit the target.

The cast of Chris Diamantopoulos as Moe, Sean Hayes as Larry and Will Sasso as Curly nail their performances, with Sean Hayes utterly transforming himself beyond recognition. We can only imagine what the rehearsals must have been like as they worked to pull off the old shtick of the original cast. If they had done that alone it would have been an accomplishment. But these three talented comedians managed to bring an even crisper timing to the comedy itself.

You’ll find all of the elements and chararcters in this movie that made the old ones the success they were during the times
of the Great Depression: Damsels who stand for the higher good who need The Stooges’ help, beautiful and sophisticated villains bent on evil ends, the benevolent benefactor who eventually comes to their rescue, and at last, an indignant fat lady with lots of jewelry who finds their very presence a callous affront. And as always, despite being the greatest screw ups
of all Time, the three brothers manage to get it all right in the end by never forgetting their heart felt reason for getting involved in the first place.

This movie opened at 12:01 am to a small audience in my neighborhood at 68th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. All 10 of us who stood outside the theater waiting to get in couldn’t believe the small turn out. But on leaving there was one thing that we all agreed on as we stood outside to see each others reaction: It’s a hit, bonk, boink, nyuk nyuk nyuk and come this weekend, it oughta be a sell out.

Silas Umber has always been told that his father is an Undertaker. Well, that’s what the people of Lichport call him. And Silas comes by the misunderstanding of his father’s profession honestly: Amos Umber has always lied to his son about it. Not because he wants to, but because Silas’ mom doesn’t approve of the Umber family’s business. She doesn’t approve of much else either.

But after giving his son a rare Roman coin that has always hung around his own neck, Silas’ beloved father Amos goes out on a job and never returns. The one human being in his young life that understands him is lost. Within a year’s time the lives of he and his mother descend into poverty.

They must return to Lichport to live with Uncle Charles in his museum like house. His mother takes to her new richly appointed life instantly, but not Silas. He senses that his Uncle guards a terrible secret. There are noises and a strange energy in that house. The source seems to be a room with its door dead bolted multiple times to keep people out; or to keep something in. The housekeeper Mrs. Grey warns Silas he should get out of the house as often as he can.

When he discovers his father’s double life, including the house where he lived away from him and his mother, Silas comes into possession of his fathers very odd pocket watch: It’s shaped like a skull and has the power to reveal the spirits unseen by everyone else. He also comes to understand the very strange business his father’s family has been in for centuries and the meaning of the coin he wears around his neck.

There’s death and ghosts to be managed in Lichport. Does Silas’ return mean that he will follow in his father’s footsteps? The town’s leaders are praying that he does. But he has to escape the terrible trap his Uncle has laid for him first.

A green slime grows on the surface of the Mill pond depicted in Death Watch: Along with the grays and blacks that make up this books shadows, it could be said that the rotted green of that pond colors the world of Silas Umber for the first fifty pages. For many readers of Young Adult Fiction, this book may seem like a maddening dog paddle to nowhere at first. Many will be tempted to put it down and not take it up again.

But the reader is rescued from drowning when Silas at last meets the people of Lichport, a world that still holds to its Elizabethan ways, cut off as they are from the rest of the world. Their poor homes are still lit by candles and the nights are cheered with gatherings around fires in stoney hearths.

The locals loved his father and embrace Silas with open arms and seats at their fires. These characters are rich in personality and bold of heart. And they propel Silas forward into the life for which he was born. It’s when Silas begins to embrace the strange but true purpose of his life that the reader is taken on one of the most imaginative tales bound between two covers.

Ghosts both troubled and content, benevolent Zombies who guide Silas toward the truth about his father, and a cast of powerful characters drive this book forward. Ari Berk has crafted a unique world that many will wish actually existed.

Be patient with the first fifty pages, and we guarantee you’ll be very upset that the sequel is not out yet. Excellent and compelling. We give this book 4.5 stars out of 5.

Nathaniel is gliding the winds of success. He has saved the Prime Minister and other government higher ups from death, (it would appear singlehandedly). And now, with everyone hailing his brilliance and the Prime Minister taking great interest in his future, his glider to new heights has been given a set of jets.

Everything about his new life is exciting. He has a new master, the highly important and very powerful Jessica Whitwell. He lives in an apartment of his own, located in her town house that overlooks the river Thames. And at not quite fifteen years of age, he has an office of his own as assistant to the head of the Department for Internal Affairs. He’s feeling cocky in his tight suit, pointy shoes and rock star hair. He’s even tempted to put his feet up on his desk just to rub it into the eyes of the office naysayers.

But the government has a problem. Rebels headed by Kitty, a one time acquaintance of Nathaniel’s, are creating problems all over London. Though it’s his job to route them out, he hasn’t gotten very far. Now it appears they have gone beyond the imaginable, destroying three shops and killing innocents. His boss and master Miss Whitwell makes it icily clear to him that unfortunate things happen to department heads who embarass the Prime Minister. This is the world of Magicians after all. They don’t just stop at firing someone to get the point across.

Only a matter of life and death could force Nathaniel to summon up the biggest pain in the demon world, the proud and prickly Bartimaeus. It will take some dealing and flawlessly worded contractual spells of course: Bartimaeus is a tricky demon, and he has the goods on Nathaniel; but Nathaniel drives a hard bargain of his own.

Naturally there’s plenty of political intrigue, duplicity and murder to keep the plot moving. But it is always the demon Bartimaeus that can cause the reader to miss train stops and forego lunch. His wry wit and self-aggrandizement in the face of his own cowardice makes for good comedy. He makes an art out of turning his failures into virtues. But despite his numerous failings, he also conceals a heightened sense of decency that makes his character all the more interesting and endearing.

Jonathan Stroud has a wicked sense of humor with perfect British timing. Though written for young audiences, The Golem’s Eye has a sophistication that begs to be enjoyed by adult readers as well. Look, we all need a good laugh these days. This book delivers at least one on just about every other page and will keep you smiling in between those. Four stars out of five.

Reviewed by Laura Bird
If you’re looking for a fast paced dystopian romance, you are in luck. “Legend” will take you on a ride. The two main characters tell their stories against the backdrop of war, plague, poverty, and endlessly playing Jumbo-Tron screens. For readers seeking a “Yaroos Gold Standard” book however, you may find some aspects of this novel don’t quite measure up.

This story is set in a future America that finds our nation divided once again. No longer a United States, but a country split in two. The Republic, on the west coast, is at war with the Colonies, a group attacking from the east. The novel is set in downtown LA, which has partially sunk into the ocean and is ravaged by plague.

Day and June, the two main characters, alternate chapters giving the reader a view of their lives as they head towards an inevitable collision. Day is a fifteen year-old boy from the impoverished part of the city. He spends his time wreaking havoc on the Republic’s military efforts, while watching over his family from afar: A family who thinks he’s dead, and is in constant danger of exposure to the plague.

Day is extremely street smart, clever, protective, and agile. And while his actions are those of a strong teenage boy, his narrative doesn’t always add up. The voice he is given by the author seems a stretch, and at times his thoughts and words don’t mesh with his external actions and character.

June, a fifteen year-old girl genius and parentless prodigy, has the skill and smarts to take on any challenge that comes her way. She has out paced all of her peers, and holds the only perfect score on her Trial, a test given to ten year-old children to determine their future positions in The Republic. She is born of wealth and privilege, and has been given the best the Republic has to offer. June is insightful, and it is often her keen observations that give us the best clues into how this futuristic world works.

At times the voices of Day and June feel very similar, almost as if they are the same character. This novel could have been written in the third person perhaps, making that a non-issue. However, the reader is helped along by a change in type style and ink color for the two characters, should confusion arise. I found myself wondering if maybe Day and Edward from the twilight series by Stephanie Mayer were cut form the same soft fuzzy romantic cloth.

This well paced page-turner throws so much in the paths of its characters that they are challenged at every turn. From the dark agendas of the novel’s one-dimensional villains, to the injustices of the class system, Day and June have their hands full from page one. It’s June’s quest for justice against her brother’s killer that sparks this story into motion, and sets these characters on a dangerous collision course. From the moment Day and June are introduced, the reader knows that an impossible love is in the stars.

It’s no surprise that this book was picked up as a film even before it was published. Marie Lu’s background as an art director for video games is in evidence during her action sequences and visual descriptions. I’m confident that this will make an excellent film once talented actors round out, and give dimension to these tortured characters.

I’ve heard “Legend” compared to “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins, and they do share a thread in terms of the basic plot set-up. But Suzanne Collins is a master of this genre, with the ability to create unique multidimensional characters that exist in a fully realized world. It seems Marie Lu, while not yet a master, is beginning to find her character’s voices, and I hope with two more books to come, she will live up to the promise she displays in “Legend”.

Dane DeHaan, Michael B. Jordan and Alex Russell

There are three good reasons to see this film. But first I admit that I gave a loud snort when I heard this was another camcorder film. I had had it with this genre and its jerky hand held filming, and the illogical dilemma inherent in all of them. This last matter always managed to nag me somewhere halfway through all of them: Who would keep filming while in an all out heat to escape the mocking revs of a chainsaw just inches from their head ? Wouldn’t a person at some point use the camera as a weapon, (albeit knowing it’s a poor seventh place to better options against a chainsaw), in a desperate and irrational hope that a computer chip or the on/off button might somehow jam the chain?

Inevitably some scene in one of these camcorder films will always bring this thought before my inner eye and blank out the screen. The illogical always screams out for more popcorn. It’s when my soda straw becomes more an object of my entertainment than the film. I focus on my drink cup and listen to the quiet profundity of the ice shifting as I attempt to discreetly suck out the last puddle of coke. If I’m irritated enough I might even slurp.

Somewhere in the middle of Chronicle though, I put down my medium overpriced soda and forgot to pick it up again. I may have even put it down shortly after the film opened with the character of Andrew, played by an aptly cast Dane DeHaan, as he sets the sight of his video camera on the filthy door of his bedroom. His drunken father is on the other side of it shouting and kicking and threatening him as usual. He can hear his mother coughing from her death bed in the next room. This is the first day of Andrew’s personal chronicle however depressing the subject matter.

His only rescue from this gloom is his cousin Matt played by Alex Russell who drives him to school every morning. He’s an affable jock and intellectual wannabe, awkwardly quoting Schopenhauer as if his brain were firing between the synapses for the first time, with some of the sparks falling short of their target. He’s a little embarrassed by his camera toting cousin, finding the voyeurism of it a little creepy. But like a lot of cool people who find the eye is on them, he manages to warm to the camera’s presence within minutes.

When Matt invites his cousin along to a Rave, he begs Andrew to leave the camera behind. Lucky for us of course, he doesn’t. Just beyond the barn where the party’s rolling, Matt and his friends have discovered a hole in the ground to a cave with a sound emanating from it. One of the friends, Steve played by Michael B. Jordan finds Andrew to film the inside of this cave as the three of them go down in to explore. When they’re exposed to the energy of a glowing rock in the deepest part, they develop super powers.
At its core, the success of this film is due not so much to the script, (it has a number of flaws) or to the feeble direction. It is the ensemble acting of the three lead actors who bring a lifelike spontaneity to their roles as they discover the powers they’ve developed. Scenes of them attempting to stop a baseball in mid-flight, complete with the bruises they earn when they fail, and watching them learn to fly with face crushing stumbles brings us flinching and laughing into their world. When at last they take flight, I guarantee you’ll forget your not flying yourself.

It’s a lot of hard work having super powers. They get nose bleeds whenever they attempt maneuvers beyond their abilities. But boys will be boys. There are all kinds of great practical jokes to play on everyone when they’re not practicing. The shear joy these three actors bring to the screen as they revel in their new found powers makes watching them a thrill. And Andrew has figured out the dilemma of the Camcorder’s presence: He keeps it hovering on the three of them with his new found power. The most unpopular kid in the trio ends up being the most talented.

The audience is bound to this story by the especially liquid performance of Dane DeHaan, an actor who reminds one of a young Leonardo DiCaprio without the self awareness. He embodies the spirit of a young man who’s potential for good is destroyed by the hatefulness that surrounds him. In his weary handsomeness you see youth’s poetry slung into the dung heap. He has the dimmed and saddened eyes of the ever pummeled who hopes that today will be different.

His character’s progression into the dark side of his powers draws the viewer into their own darkness. We watch as he rationalizes the power he has gained and its use for destruction, by comparing it to the natural and unquestioned order of the jungle’s food chain. Doesn’t he then have a right to use it, he reasons? Hauntingly, the young actor delivers his character’s argument with such conviction that the viewer is in danger of agreeing with him. When he closes his fist to crush an old automobile behind him, we have no doubt that the character has some twisted power of the universe at his fingertips. And we know he feels a lusting burn from groin to brain when he uses it. There is no pharmaceutical to equal the raging fiery rush of limitless power.

Where there are teenagers there are always adults of course, and the actors playing them in this film are not very good. Michael Kelly who plays Andrew’s abusive father gives a fairly shallow performance with emotional scenes that are more embarrassing than poignant. Fortunately however, we see much less of him than we do of his son and his friends. And the super trio more than make up for some of the scripts deficiencies.

I found myself wishing the writer and director had spent more time developing the character of Matt, given the significance he plays in the script at the end. The time spent on his character and his relationship with a young photographer and blogger played by Ashley Hinshaw poke up like stray hairs. Their story seems more a matter of problem solving after thoughts than a well developed sub plot. Because of this, the story is thrown off balance at the end.

But its worth the 84 minutes in the dark just to feel the thrill these three young actors make you feel as they play football above the clouds, sore over the oceans, and eat lunch on the top edge of a skyscraper. I’ve given this film three stars out of five, but if I were measuring it alone on how these three actors made me feel through most of this film, they’d have gotten four. Their performances aren’t perfect always, but their energy together is. DeHaan, Russell and Jordan are the best three reasons to catch this one before it leaves the movie theaters. And DeHaan may prove someone to keep our eyes on. This won’t be the last we see of him. We recommend you check out the trailer on our Movie Trailers page to see what we mean.

Frustrated and tired he crawls into bed. When he finally falls asleep, he’s suddenly awakened by the knowledge of where she must have hidden it, and by the sound of someone breaking into the house. He finds the green leather case, and one of the intruders ends up dead at the bottom of the stairs. Will is now a fugitive and his flight leads him to a strange discovery: There’s a disturbance in the air into which a cat disappears. When he

follows, he discovers himself in the abandoned city of Cittagazze. He also discovers a wildcat of a girl named Lyra who just like him is a murderer. They soon discover their destinies are tied together.

Between them they navigate the horrors of this strange world devoid of adults whose souls have been eaten away by the Specters, while high in the Torre degli Angeli, the Tower of Angels, the cause of this world’s deathly ills awaits Will to command it: A knife capable of cutting into parallel worlds.

Just as in “The Golden Compass” before it, Lyra and her new friend must navigate two worlds of greedy and power hungry villains, government officials whose intentions toward them are unclear, and murderous gangs of parentless children and soul eating spirits in order to discover the roles they are to play in a war between God and his angels.

Philip Pullman gives us once again a saga full of richly written characters whose only deficiencies are that their emotional relationships might have been written a little more deeply. Never the less the plot continues its steady heart pounding crescendo begun in the first book, as Lyra is guided by angels and guardian witches so that she may take her place in a new order between Earth and the Heavenly realms.

We love this series of books and highly recommend it to anyone from highly intelligent thirteen year-olds who need a break from tedious school work to adults who need an adventurous break from tedious lives. This is some of the best writing in the genre.

THE GOLDEN COMPASS, Philip Pullman, 399pages, $ Varies at Amazon

Lyra’s Oxford is a little different than the one most of us might travel to: For one thing, people in her world don’t have spirits the way we do. They have daemons, animals that stay by their sides. There’s also a kingdom of armored bears living in ice castles, and Tartars who are rumored to eat children. And it all seems so perfectly real.

In Lyra’s Oxford, she has the ideal life: She climbs the roofs of ancient Jordan College and explores its catacombs with her daemon Pantalaimon and her best friend Roger, a kitchen boy. Her schooling comes only when the masters of the all male school have a little time to spare, so there’s plenty of time to have clay ball fights against the brick burner’s children and the townies, and to steal barges from the river people known as Gyptians when she fancies a trip to another town. Lyra doesn’t have a single care.

But everything is about to change for her. Her uncle, Lord Asriel has returned from
an exploration in the north, with pictures to show the masters of the school. Breaking the rules as usual, Lyra hides in an armoire and sees photographs of a city in another dimension, floating in the lights of the Aurora Borealis. As if that weren’t shocking enough, Lyra is horrified when another photo shows a child whose daemon has been cut away from him.

Children are starting to disappear from all the towns, being stolen by people who the villagers call Gobblers. To the privileged Lyra, it’s all just a game of “kids and Gobblers” until a young Gyptian boy named Billy and then her best friend Roger disappear. Lyra becomes angry when the adults of Jordan College do nothing to help. But its just like adults to be preoccupied with useless things.

Despite her pleas for help, the masters of the college are thinking about their young charge’s future. Her uncle has disappeared, and the masters have determined that Lyra needs to have a more systematic education and a woman’s influence. Lyra is high born after all and can’t be left to the unstructured life she’s been leading.

Enter the beautiful Mrs. Coulter, who fascinates Lyra with her independence and elegant manners and agrees to take on Lyra’s education and upbringing. Early one morning before Lyra is to leave Jordan College, the master gives her a strange artifact that had belonged to her uncle. It is an alethiometer, a golden compass that points the reader toward the truth of everything. He warns her to hide it from Mrs. Coulter and never let the golden compass out of her sight. Does Lyra detect misgivings about Mrs. Coulter in the old master’s words to her?

For awhile, Lyra loves her new life. Everything about Mrs Coulter is beautiful: her clothes; her house and the wonderful shopping trips. But when Mrs. Coulter throws a cocktail party, Lyra learns a dark secret about her new guardian and Lyra’s own part to play in a dark plot. She escapes to the streets of London, unprepared for the dangers before her.

Danger does strike, but she’s rescued by the colorful Gyptians who are sailing north to find their lost children. They become awestruck with Lyra’s unfolding gift for reading the alethiometer when she accurately predicts the death of a Gyptian spy. They include her on the dangerous journey to the desolate north.

Turkish slave hunters, Tartars who are rumored to eat children, witches who have vowed to protect Lyra, as well as an armored bear down on his luck in a tavern, and parallel universes, all figure into this harrowing tale.

This is the first book of Philip Pullman’s Dark Matter Series, and one that has become a foundation block in the young adult genre. It is suspenseful and often harrowing, with twists in a plot that keeps the reader turning the pages. This reader however often found himself wishing that the emotional lives of Mr. Pullman’s characters had been given the sensitive attention displayed in other well written aspects of his book. Never the less, he has created parallel universes to our own, mixing the similarities and the differences between them with a cleverness that plays with the reader and keeps us entertained.

This is exceptional story telling and wonderful writing. If you love fantasy as much as we do, you’ll love this one. We have no doubt The Golden Compass will convince you to read the next two books, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass. It’s a gas of a good read! 4.5 Stars out of 5.

J.Taylor