That would come out to be around $35,000 to $42,000. From this, only $5,000 was donated to the veterans. To my knowledge, it was promoted as “help the veterans.”
Where did the rest of the money go?
Allie Ieyoub, event organizer, said last week that expenses were still being tallied and that a final accounting of the proceeds had yet to be done.
But, she wrote in an email, “even if expenses outpace registration fees, ReALLIEty Challenge organizers guaranteed a minimum donation of $5,000 to The Mission Continues to benefit wounded veterans.”
She noted the various costs involved with arranging the event, including insurance and infrastructure, and she said that groups, sports teams, students and uniformed first responders “were offered a deeply discounted rate.”
Additionally, Ieyoub said, the head count for the event encompassed spectators and 100 or so volunteers, along with participants.
“Based on the feedback from this event, I only see it getting bigger and better,” she wrote. “Our next ReALLIEty Challenge is slated for March 30th, 2013. Anyone interested in volunteering can contact allie@projectfit.net.”
Online: www.missioncontinues.org.
Essential film jobs carry odd names
At the end of movies, the credits include titles like “key grip,” “grip” and “best boy.” What are those?
The key grip supervises a crew of grips, who move set pieces, scenery and equipment. The best boy can be either chief assistant to the gaffer, a production’s head electrician, or the key grip’s second-in-command.
The term “grip” comes from the action most commonly required of equipment movers. “Best boy” may have originated with sailors or with one long-ago manpower-needy film production supervisor’s request to another: “Lend me your best boy.” “Gaffer” dates from the late 16th century.
“ ‘Gaffer’ seems to have arisen as simply a contraction of ‘godfather’ (or ‘grandfather’), the female equivalent being ‘gammer’ (from ‘godmother’ or ‘grandmother’),” Evan Morris writes on his Word Detective website.
“The use of ‘gaffer’ broadened over time to include any older rustic male, and, by the 19th century, was being used as an informal title for the supervisor of a work crew, what we would call today a ‘foreman.’ This use was adopted by the movie industry, which conferred the title of ‘gaffer’ on the chief electrician on a film crew, a use which first appeared in print in the 1930s.”
Foley artist, another noted odd job title, refers to a person who creates sound effects — footsteps, punches, any necessary splats — for a film or television production. It comes from Jack Foley, the name of a sound effects pioneer.
Online: www.word-detective.com.
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