The Kingdom of God is a paradox. Jesus' disciples are asked to embrace the paradox of seeking to convert the whole world even while they remain vigilant waiting for His soon return. Given the irony of the insistence that 'what the disciples do, they must do quickly' (in terms of being witnesses), and that Christians have been waiting for two millennia for Jesus to come back, perhaps we should stop asking the question of "when will it happen?" Perhaps we should only ask, "What must we be doing today since the teaching of Jesus to His disciples (and the New Testament's teaching to the Church) commanded the immediate spreading of the gospel beyond Jerusalem while not losing heart for His imminent coming back to earth to establish the Kingdom of God.
There is little doubt that we should maintain a Kingdom mindset in more ways than one. Not only should we realize that the methods and standards of the present age are anathema in the age to come. We should also face the ever-present proximity of His return. We live in a transient time—we are between two ages. We must relinquish the values of the old age. We must embrace the values of the new, even though the new world to come awaits consummation. This contradiction comprises "the already, not yet." It constitutes the tension within which the Church of Jesus Christ must practice its faith—exemplifying the new Kingdom. We are to model that Kingdom today, even though our lifestyle will not be fully in fashion until the Kingdom comes.
So does this make the question of when Jesus will return a non-sense question? Should we live like the existentialist who finds meaning by embracing the paradox of meaninglessness? Should we commit ourselves to an existence in which a final resolution never arrives? Given that Jesus demanded His disciples believe in His immediate return, all the while knowing that His Kingdom was at least two millennia away, what manner of man was this that asked his followers to adopt such an irrational lifestyle, conflicting with the values of the world, and their everyday common sense and better judgment?
We never have that much time left in the bank. At most, we will enjoy no more than 80 years of service, and then we will move on to the next phase of our existence. Likewise, we never know whether the day in which we find ourselves will be our last day. Like Job, we should recognize that our life is but a breath—our existence hangs by a thin thread (Job 7:7). When our number is called and our time is up, we will be with our Lord and the Kingdom of God, for each one of us—separately—begins at that distinctive moment. Either (1) living in light of the imminent time-space return of Christ, or (2) the transition to living consciously in His presence, always stares us squarely in the face, whether we realize that ultimate reality or not.
For the past one hundred years, most liberal theologians asserted that Jesus Christ looked to a physical Kingdom of God in this world. He believed in the apocalypse. He preached a coming Kingdom in which God would break into the natural order and bring justice to the world. Unfortunately, these teachers believed he was deceived to think that way, being one of many "apocalyptic rabbis" roaming about the countryside in Palestine, expecting the world to end soon in flames of fire. It is important, however, to recognize these 'doubting Thomases,' while not regarding Jesus to be the Son of God in the correct sense, still asserted Jesus DID believe in a coming Kingdom of God in a real, not 'spiritual' sense.
Bart D. Ehrman, in his book, Jesus: Apocalpytic Prophet of the New Millennium argues a compelling case for this view. Although the most prolific and popular writer on New Testament topics today, ironically Ehrman writes as an agnostic. He investigates and writes as an historian, absent faith that Jesus Christ was anything more than a remarkable personage.
What has struck me over the years, though, is that the view shared probably by the majority of scholars over the course of this century, at least in Germany and America, is equally shocking for most nonspecialist readers. And yet it is scarcely known to the general reading public. This is the view that is embraced in this [Ehrman's] book. In a nutshell, it's a view first advanced most persuasively by none other than the great twentieth-century humanitarian Albert Schweitzer. It claims that Jesus is best understood as a first-century Jewish apocalypticist. This is a shorthand way of saying that Jesus fully expected that the history of the world as we know it (well, as he knew it) was going to come to a screeching halt, that God was soon going to intervene in the affairs of this world, overthrow the forces of evil in a cosmic act of judgment, destroy huge masses of humanity, and abolish existing human political and religious institutions. All this would be a prelude to the arrival of a new order on earth, the Kingdom of God. Moreover, Jesus expected that this cataclysmic end of history would come in his own generation, at least during the lifetime of his disciples. It's pretty shocking stuff, really. And the evidence that Jesus believed and taught it is fairly impressive.
Such strongly supportive testimony for the assertion that Jesus preached the apocalypse, looked at from the standpoint of evidentiary value, constitutes a more decisive witness than those who believe in Bible prophecy and the divinity of Jesus Christ.
Why would I say that? Because Ehrman's view, like most modern theology, rejects Jesus ever claimed to be the Son of God—it expresses doubt that Jesus even claimed to be the fulfillment of the Son of Man referenced in the Book of Daniel and other inter-testament writings (one thinks of the Book of Enoch and other extra-biblical sources discovered in the Dead Sea Scrolls). Nonetheless, liberal scholarship asserts Jesus did believe in the physical manifestation of the Messiah in the realm of space-time. The Kingdom of God would intersect the realm of humankind. It was not to be 'pie in the sky by and by.' Rather, in the same guise as Jesus actions in the Temple when he overturned the tables of the moneychangers, the Kingdom of God would upset the apple cart. It would forever alter the normal ways of the world where the poor are oppressed while the rich run the show.
Thus, modern theologians, no friends of literal biblical interpretation, do not deny that Jesus preached the imminent literal apocalypse—they simply reject that what he preached would ever come to pass, as such change would require the supernatural intervention of God. From their viewpoint, Jesus may have been mixed up about certain things. But he was never double-minded about the end of the world. He based His whole ministry on that assumption.
Liberalism, of course, does not leave it there. It goes on to assert that while Jesus believed in apocalypse and the upheaval of the world system, He was just wrong to think that God would stop the injustice and terminate mankind's reproachable reign. Of course, that is where we that believe Jesus was the Son of God (and was not confused about the meaning and timing of the apocalypse), part company.
Assuming, for the sake of argument that Jesus is who we evangelicals believe He claimed to be—i.e., the Son of Man and the Son of God, of all Christian 'branches' of faith we should be the most eager to understand the essence of His gospel so we remain true to its substance. If His principal teaching consisted of the coming Kingdom, it should be front and center in the pulpits of America. Even liberal theologians would confirm this very truth. To be authentic, we had better understand why Jesus was an apocalypticist.
How ironic then that famed evangelical preacher Rick Warren dismisses the apocalypse and coming Kingdom as a matter of no import to Jesus. In his blockbuster book, The Purpose Driven Life, Warren makes no bones about it. Prophecy is not important.
What a thorough misrepresentation of the truth! Warren contends 200 years of liberal protestant scholarship, the emphasis of the true church almost 2,000 years in the making, and the 'fundamentals' espoused by evangelicals in this country during the past century have all gotten the gospel wrong. Instead, the essential message should be about the here and now, about finding purpose in life today through this up-to-date 'Jesus.' To Warren, Jesus believed the apocalypse was malarkey and would have nothing to do with it! Furthermore, neither should the disciples.
How tragic that Warren's message is considered an idyllic statement of evangelical belief! It fails even to be a fair portrayal of liberal protestant scholarship. It can only be a statement that has been thoroughly infused with 'positive thinking' if not out-and-out new age mysticism. Furthermore, Warren pulls Jesus completely out of his historical context and puts words into his mouth that reflect the Gospel According to Rick. For these reasons, I choose not to back away from a most critical assessment of Warren's message: Rick Warren preaches another gospel than that which Jesus Christ preached. His assertion that Jesus possessed a lackadaisical attitude toward Bible prophecy could not be further from the truth. It ignores scores of Jesus' statements to the contrary. As such the Gospel According to Rick could not be more at odds with the essential message of this article [book]. However, I do not intend to mount a negative polemic against those in evangelicalism such as Rick Warren who dismiss the importance of eschatology, let alone who fail to proclaim the message of the Kingdom of God. The truth will become evident of its own accord as we advance a positive polemic demonstrating why the apocalypse matters not only doctrinally but practically to those who seek to be disciples of Jesus Christ.
To recap: the coming of the Kingdom of God was the heart of Jesus' message. Virtually all respected Bible scholars (liberal or conservative) assert this to be so. The only real issue concerns whether we should believe Jesus or not and put into practice the form of spirituality he taught and exemplified, which hung on the promise of His soon return. Additionally, unless we conclude that Jesus intentionally wished to mislead His disciples about His return to this world (to culminate the age in which we now live), it seems most illogical to assume the central teaching of the gospel of Jesus Christ is based upon a non-literal, non-historical, indeed nonsense non-event.
The Kingdom of God is coming. It will happen in space-time. The "other side" will break into our experience one day. The curtains will be pulled back. The day of reckoning will come. The time of reward and recompense will be here before we know it.
Click here to review information about the full book BLOOD MOON at CreateSpace (Amazon).
 Yes, I believe that Jesus had awareness that His Kingdom was not to come until many centuries in the future.
 Ehrman, Bart D. Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium (p. 2). Oxford University Press. Kindle Edition.
 Pastor Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life, p. 285.


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Much Nothing will premiere on February 3, 2023, in cinemas and on video on demand, and RLJE Films has already produced the official teaser. The project is executive produced by two-time Emmy and Golden Globe nominee David Oyelowo. The new trailer depicts a sophisticated movie that explores the best and worst of mankind as actor Mo McRae (The Flight Attendant, Sons of Anarchy) makes his directorial debut (The Water Man).
James and Noel, played by Y'Ian Noel (Insecure) and Cleopatra Coleman (The Last Man on Earth), are a happy couple living in Los Angeles who have their life turned upside down when they find that their neighbor Brian (Justin Hartley) engaged in a police shooting after they saw it on the TV. As the pair attempts to "do something" about it, what happens is a "very explosive trip." In the end, Noel kidnaps Brian and holds him captive inside their home, setting off a night that showcases both the good and the worst in human nature.
The kidnapping is depicted in the trailer for the upcoming movie, along with the arrival for dinner of the couple's friends Lex Scott Davis (Rebel) and Shamier Anderson (Invasion). When the truth is revealed and all of their divergent approaches to solving the problem are displayed, the group becomes at odds. According to the movie's official synopsis, the film will examine how "our experiences with race, class, family, fear, love, and happiness impact our decisions today."
In addition to Sarah Kelly Kaplan, McRae is the author of A Lot of Nothing (Perry Mason). Alongside Next Day Air's Inny Clemons, Deadtectives' Jason Tamasco, Venus as a Boy's DeAnna Gravillis, and Zak Kristofek, McRae also acts as a producer (Red Right Hand). Oyelowo is joined by Nina Soriano and Kim Hodgert (Boy Erased) as executive producers (Bonding). Scalable Content, Secret Society Films, Traction, and Anonymous Content are the producers of the movie.
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During this lecture, Associate Professor Konstadina Griva will highlight and contrast the main challenges faced by Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease on different treatments and the pressures on Health Care Systems.
She will discuss her recent research on cognition, psychological distress, and health behaviour and demonstrate the effectiveness of interventions on clinical outcomes to show how to interpret patients' experience so as to map needs, develop support and improve on models of care.
Konstadina Griva is an Associate Professor of Health Psychology at National University of Singapore. She is a Health Psychologist and a health services researcher whose research is on chronic disease management and measurement with special focus on kidney disease, dialysis and transplantation. The emphasis of her work is to answer questions that are relevant to patients and clinicians so as to facilitate patient engagement and improvements in care. She is leading several projects involving patients with long term conditions and has extensive collaborations and partnerships with health service delivery and community organizations (e.g. National Kidney Foundation Singapore).


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ICRC: DNA Identification of Argentine War Dead: Next Of Kin Visit: 13 March 2019
Relatives of Argentine soldiers, identified since the previous visit organised last year, were able to visit the Argentine cemetery near Darwin on Wednesday, 13 March 2019. The subsequent announcement that two more Argentine soldiers had been identified by DNA testing under the ICRC project brings the total of identified remains to 112 out of the 122 unnamed Argentine graves in the cemetery.
Over 60 Argentine family members visited the Argentine cemetery near Darwin under humanitarian arrangements that mirrored those devised for the first such visit in March 2018. The relatives were accompanied by the Argentine Human Rights Secretary, Claudio Avruj, the head of the Argentine Families Commission, Maria Fernanda Aranjo, and representatives of the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the British Embassy in Buenos Aires. Others included Julio Aro, the head of the Argentine veterans' organisation 'No Me Olvides' ('Don't Forget Me') and Geoffrey Cardozo, the British officer tasked at the time to gather the remains of Argentine soldiers killed during the 1982 conflict into a single burial ground.
The party was met by the Commander, British Forces, Brigadier Nick Sawyer, and the Governor's representative. The service was conducted by an Argentine cleric, accompanied by local Anglican and Roman Catholic clergy. An Honour Guard was supplied by the Scottish Regiment making up the roulement infantry company. An Argentine bugler played 'Silence', the Argentine equivalent of the 'Last Post', and a Scottish piper played laments. The head of the Argentine Families Commission gave a short address and presented CBF with a floral wreath to be laid at the British military cemetery at San Carlos.
With prior agreement, an Argentine flag was unfurled but kept below waist height as a gesture of respect to the Argentine dead. The Argentine side also endorsed a 'Code of Behaviour' to be issued to all Argentine visitors to the cemetery making it clear that political slogans, military insignia and any memorabilia implying Argentine sovereignty over the Islands would not be allowed. A marble plaque was also erected indicating the agencies responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of the cemetery.
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Cognitive and affective functions in Alzheimer's disease patients with metabolic syndrome
Nozomi Hishikawa, Y. Fukui, Kota Sato, S. Kono, Toru Yamashita, Yasuyuki Ohta, K. Deguchi, Koji Abe
Background and purpose: The influence of metabolic syndrome (MetS) on cognitive and affective functions in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) was examined. Methods: A total of 570 AD patients were divided into two subgroups depending on waist circumference (WC) (normal versus achieving Japanese diagnostic criteria of MetS). Afterwards, the AD control subgroup was defined as those normal WC patients with no vascular risk factors (VRFs). The AD with MetS (AD-MetS) subgroup was defined as the MetS WC group who had two or more VRFs to qualify as having MetS. Cognitive and affective functions, insulin resistance, vascular endothelial function and white matter changes between AD-MetS and AD controls were compared. Results: Scores on the Mini-Mental State Examination, Hasegawa Dementia Score - Revised, Frontal Assessment Battery and Montreal Cognitive Assessment were worse in the AD-MetS group than in AD controls, but the difference was not significant. Some analyses were conducted twice, once including all patients and once including only late-elderly patients. Scores on the Geriatric Depression Scale were found to be significantly higher for AD-MetS than for AD controls (all ages, late-elderly), as were those for apathy (late-elderly). Furthermore, both the homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance and reactive hyperemia index scores were significantly worse in AD-MetS than in AD controls, whilst white matter changes showed a tendency to be worse. Conclusions: Greater cognitive and affective decline occurs in patients with AD-MetS than in those without. Further, insulin resistance and vascular endothelial dysfunction are strongly correlated with AD-MetS before pathological white matter changes can be observed. Click here to view the accompanying paper in this issue.
European Journal of Neurology
https://doi.org/10.1111/ene.12845
Published - Feb 1 2016
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Cognitive/affective functions
Vascular endothelial function
Vascular risk factors
Hishikawa, N., Fukui, Y., Sato, K., Kono, S., Yamashita, T., Ohta, Y., ... Abe, K. (2016). Cognitive and affective functions in Alzheimer's disease patients with metabolic syndrome. European Journal of Neurology, 23(2), 339-345. https://doi.org/10.1111/ene.12845
Cognitive and affective functions in Alzheimer's disease patients with metabolic syndrome. / Hishikawa, Nozomi; Fukui, Y.; Sato, Kota; Kono, S.; Yamashita, Toru; Ohta, Yasuyuki; Deguchi, K.; Abe, Koji.
In: European Journal of Neurology, Vol. 23, No. 2, 01.02.2016, p. 339-345.
Hishikawa, N, Fukui, Y, Sato, K, Kono, S, Yamashita, T, Ohta, Y, Deguchi, K & Abe, K 2016, 'Cognitive and affective functions in Alzheimer's disease patients with metabolic syndrome', European Journal of Neurology, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 339-345. https://doi.org/10.1111/ene.12845
Hishikawa N, Fukui Y, Sato K, Kono S, Yamashita T, Ohta Y et al. Cognitive and affective functions in Alzheimer's disease patients with metabolic syndrome. European Journal of Neurology. 2016 Feb 1;23(2):339-345. https://doi.org/10.1111/ene.12845
Hishikawa, Nozomi ; Fukui, Y. ; Sato, Kota ; Kono, S. ; Yamashita, Toru ; Ohta, Yasuyuki ; Deguchi, K. ; Abe, Koji. / Cognitive and affective functions in Alzheimer's disease patients with metabolic syndrome. In: European Journal of Neurology. 2016 ; Vol. 23, No. 2. pp. 339-345.
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So on my second attempt of this recipe I made a couple of adjustments to address the moisture issue (without going the baking potato route). First, I whisked my filling with the hopes that it will hold together longer. Second, per a tip from America's Test Kitchen's Pumpkin Pie, I'm using a warm pie crust to get the cooking process started sooner.
Plus, I decided to kick it up a notch by adding the best complement to yams/sweet potatoes...marshmallow.
Set the mashed potatoes in a strainer and allow potatoes to drain any excess moisture.
Place potatoes in a bowl and then mix in spices and melted butter.
In a separate bowl, whisk eggs and cream. Then add sugar and vanilla.
Whisk the potatoes into the egg mixture then pour into the pie shell.
Bake for 40-60 minutes or until the top becomes firm.
Remove the pie from oven and add a layer of marshmallows on the top.
Place the pie in a broiler until the marshmallows are toasted, checking frequently to make sure your pie doesn't go up in flames.
Remove from broiler and allow the pie to cool on a rack. While the pie cools, the marshmallows will further melt from the residual heat.
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District Attorney Fires Former Oakland Police Captain Who Flirted with Teenager at Center of Sex-Crime Scandal
by Darwin BondGraham and Ali Winston
Former Oakland police Captain Ricardo Orozco, who once led OPD's anti-prostitution enforcement efforts in East Oakland, has been fired by the Alameda County District Attorney, the DA's office confirmed today.
Orozco's termination comes weeks after he was identified by the Express as one of the East Bay law-enforcement officers who solicited the woman known as Celeste Guap for sex.
The DA's office did not share results of the investigation, but Guap shared a lewd text message with the Express in which Orozco wrote to her, "I would love your taco!" According to Guap, Orozco invited her to dinner on at least one occasion, but the two never met in person.
On June 15, the DA announced that Orozco had been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation into his conduct with the young woman.
Orozco attended the 117th Oakland Police Academy and joined the force in 1987. He worked narcotics, special duty, and internal affairs before becoming a captain. In 2006 he attended the FBI's 227th National Academy.
As captain, Orozco oversaw OPD's Area 3, which included the stretch of East 14th Street from Lake Merritt to Fruitvale Avenue, one of the epicenters of human trafficking and the sexual exploitation of minors in California. One of Orozco's initiatives, while he led Area 3, was the distribution of "Dear John" letters to people suspected of soliciting sex workers.


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Emanuel Licha, The Work of Seeing – Guillaume Lafleur
Issue: Ciel variable 107 - RUINS | Tags: Essays | Authors: Guillaume Lafleur | Artists: Emanuel Licha
[Fall 2017]
Emanuel Licha, Et maintenant regardez cette machine, vues de l'exposition / exhibition views, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, 2017, Photo : Richard-Max Tremblay
Emanuel Licha, Hotel Machine, 2016, film HD, couleur et son / colour and sound, 64 min photographies de film / stills
By Guillaume Lafleur
We are seeing more and more experimental documentary cinema at festivals, at which the programming naturally includes a fair dose of representation of geopolitical issues. Although environmental issues are core to this new trend, this is only one facet of productions that also explore both older and current forms of the film essay – a concept of filmmaking that is presumed to take an analytic approach to the image, centred on comprehension of its powers.
At the source of this current is situated the essential work of Harun Farocki, whose emblematic film Still Life (Stilleben, 1997) analyzes the set-up for a beer ad and the design of the light reflecting in the foamy beverage as an extension of the work of seventeenth-century Flemish masters. Farocki had done something similar previously, in An Image (Ein Bild, 1983), which documented a four-day photo session for Playboy in a Munich studio. Emanuel Licha's work is deeply rooted in this type of approach. His new work, presented last spring at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal,1 is related to the trend in documentary cinema that involves taking solid formal points of view – a trend that has been validated by following the traditional levers of funding. Licha, who divides his time between France and Quebec, received support from the French Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée and from the Montreal production house PRIM. Hotel Machine is thus a feature-length film in the current meaning of the term. It is Licha's first production of this type, as he comes from the contemporary-art world and his work has usually been presented in galleries.
For the last ten years, Licha has been probing the signposted, formal, and political aspects of staging images. He may, for instance, challenge the powers of editing devices such as shot/reverse shot, which gives us an idea of the mechanics of associating two images in motion. Or he may dwell on the audio-visual apparatus of generalized surveillance – breaking with traditional narrative cinema – that associates the camera's point of view with the voyeur's. For some time, Licha has been interested in the theatre of operations – an expression linked, of course, to the rhetoric of war: a wartime site of control that is also a concrete space, such as a hotel, adapted to the context and related to subterfuge or to total staging.
First, I would like to describe how the film, titled Et maintenant regardez cette machine, is installed in the museum. This setting is intended essentially to offer us extra keys for interpreting the film, in the light of its reception in the screening room. The film becomes accessible in two ways: one, attached solely to the logic of the internal narrative through which the spectator views the entire film, in a linear fashion, and the other staging a critical apparatus with supporting documents. In the latter case, the screening room becomes an area that one may enter and leave as the film is playing. It has some benches and chairs – a sitting room reminiscent of the layout of lobbies of the hotels in which the film was shot. Bookshelves on either side of the screen are full of books that broaden the horizon for interpreting the film, enhancing and explaining the artist-researcher's positions.
Specifically, Licha has installed in front of the screen five workstations for consulting visual archives, videos, and books. This is not simply an educational complement to what we see on the screen. In playing with a reference to the five hotels shown in his film (which I will discuss below), he has designed an observatory for spectators – a study nook where they may learn more about the filmmaker's and the camera's points of view. Here, Licha is probing more deeply ideas addressed in his preceding works, of which Mirages (2010) is perhaps the best example. This film transports us to an Iraqi village prefabricated in the California desert for the benefit of American soldiers in training. It was built to habituate soldiers to the look of Iraqi reality; through the use of multiple points of view, the film shows a link between the Hollywood-like staging and the need to comprehend enemy territory prior to conducting an attack in the theatre of operations.
Here, the configuration of the space is clearly a subject that the soldiers must study. But the actors performing as Iraqis also play this strange game, at a disturbing distance. Similarly, as viewers of Hotel Machine we are invited a bit further into these hotels than we would be if we simply watched a film, through the attentive staging of the screening room.
Hotel Machine takes place in five hotels that have been affected by or are still plunged into war. Through intelligent editing, the crises underway in the most sensitive places do not appear but always seem about to take place. This positioning is very coherent, because these hotels contain journalists, politicians, and an entire nocturnal wartime fauna that can be found in the bar, the halls, and the conference rooms. Licha shot the film in the Mayflower in Beirut, the Holiday Inn in Sarajevo, the Al-Deria in Gaza City, Hotel Ukraine in Kiev, and the Hyatt in Belgrade, where there was heavy bombing in early 1999. The film begins at the Sarajevo Holiday Inn, which was the best site from which to understand the theatre of operations and observe the forces in place.
In this respect, the film highlights the role of the fixer. It is the fixer who welcomes the journalists, the most sensitive guests, and preserves the inevitable tensions at the core of a temporary community. Discretion with regard to the clientele is required, as people from different camps are likely to find themselves in neighbouring rooms.
At the beginning of the film, a fixer speaks in a conference room with its usual lined-up chairs, trying to rearrange the space in front of him, which is now only a circle of ghosts, including that of journalist and writer Paul Marchand – the nicest of all, according to the fixer. In a way, the memory of Marchand's suicide tears a hole in the space of the film. Also in a ghostly mode, a soundtrack of testimonials supports the images, although the experiences related did not occur in the place we are viewing.
In these war hotels, everyone is under surveillance; Licha shows us how much the cameras, in a sense, support the work of the fixers. The film's obvious reference to Kafka's The Penal Colony leads us to the question of the apparatus. In The Penal Colony, the apparatus (or machine) mechanically performs the existing power by conducting an execution in front of the prisoners. Licha is trying to tell us that how the camera is placed is intended to make this performance perceptible to us, but is the emphasis on Kafka anything but selfreferential?
The citation of Kafka no doubt finds its perfect theoretical reflection in the image when one of the protagonists is filmed in a hotel room. He listens to a report by a journalist who appears on his iPhone and says, "Act of seeing is a construction, any act of seeing is work." By extension, we could say that everything seen in the film requires the spectator to look. But journalistic effort also implies a capacity to analyze the configuration of places so that the event can be captured.
The hotel space, as a point of convergence and encounter for all sides, makes it possible to decipher, in part, the context of war. At the same time, it is where the heart of the action is lost from sight because everything there denotes control.
At various times, Licha uses iPhones to cleverly punctuate the narration; these devices are in the hands of real employees or clients of the hotel, who consult them on screen. This is a finely calibrated staging, in that Licha interviewed the people appearing on the phones before he decided to present them through this mechanism. This is an almost naturalistic embedding, whereas on other occasions he creates a rupture effect to emphasize the situation of war. The most striking example of this device is the juxtaposition of the soundtrack of a bombing attack on Baghdad with images of empty spaces and rooms intermittently lit up by the bombs. Then we see calm streets with some amateur fireworks in the sky, still juxtaposed against the war soundtrack. Finally, we see open windows giving onto Independence Square in Kiev, and then windows with a view of the sea. Like a memory image, the account of Paul Marchand's suicide suddenly appears in the shot. It's as if his fall never ended. This shot also portrays the suspended time suggested by war hotels. And the barbarism bureaucratized in these hotels as a sign that it is here to stay.
Translated by Käthe Roth
1 Emanuel Licha, Et maintenant regardez cette machine, Musée d'art contemporain, Montréal, February 16 to May 14, 2017.
Guillaume Lafleur is a programmer and curator at the Cinémathèque québécoise. His book Pratiques minoritaires, fragments d'une histoire méconnue du cinéma québécois (1937-1973) was published by Varia in 2015.
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Florian locks on mount, secures victory
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Florian halts Lauzon; Maynard, Diaz also win
Mike Sloan
BROOMFIELD, Colo. -- Maybe it was the mile-high altitude. Maybe it was Kenny Florian's determination. Either way, Joe Lauzon couldn't make it out of the second round Wednesday in the main event of UFC Fight Night at the Broomfield Events Center just outside of Denver.
After an opening stanza that was about as close as it gets, Florian, a former UFC lightweight title challenger, stepped on the gas and refused to relent until the very end. He had Lauzon fully mounted, and when the Brockton, Mass., resident couldn't buck him off or find a way to slither out, Florian unloaded dozens upon dozens of elbows and punches.
Referee Herb Dean had no other option but to step in and halt the skirmish.
Florian didn't land very many of his strikes in the final minute of the fight, though. When Dean peeled Florian off Lauzon, J-Lau had virtually no lumps or scrapes on his face. Still, all Lauzon (16-4) could do was block the punishment.
"I just want to keep cutting through the layers and find a hole," a jovial Florian said immediately following his triumph. "I was able to just push through. We knew it was going to be a weakness there in Joe."
It took over a round to fully exploit what Florian saw as Lauzon's weakness. In fact, it appeared as though KenFlo lost the opening stanza of the battle. Lauzon scored an early takedown, and though he was cut from Florian's elbows, his submission attempts and overall aggression allowed him to control the pace early.
However, Lauzon seemed to hit a wall early in the second. After taking a solid kick to the body, he was wrestled down and couldn't fend off Florian's frenetic attacks. He tried to roll away and buck Florian off, but it was of no use. Florian achieved full mount and didn't let go until Dean stopped the mugging.
The victory, which came at the 3:38 mark of Round 2, solidified Florian's status as one of the leading UFC contenders at 155 pounds.
"Joe's a great competitor," Florian said. "I knew it was going to be a tough fight. I'm not going to let anybody break my will in here. That's what I wanted to do, is take someone's heart. Take it out."
Florian, who bolstered his pro record to 9-3 with the win, may warrant another title shot. He may also have to be patient, as there is a seemingly endless supply of top-rated contenders in the weight class.
The $20,000 submission
Not only did Nathan Diaz score an impressive and dramatic tapout of Kurt Pellegrino via triangle choke, he also pocketed the "Tapout of the Night" award and an additional $20,000 for the trophy. But Diaz's submission win didn't come easily.
Pellegrino (11-4) had his way with the Stockton, Calif., fighter in the first. He had Diaz (9-2) battered, bloodied and on his back for much of the stanza.
Pellegrino also had Diaz on the canvas midway through the second, but he stood up and away from his opponent after Diaz had failed at a kimura attempt. Diaz then tripped Pellegrino and brought him down to the canvas; shortly after he sneaked his legs around his foe's head and trapped his left arm. Once Diaz sank in the triangle, he posed for the crowd before forcing the tap-out at the 3:06 mark of the second.
"I knew I could do it because I train with top fighters like [his brother] Nick Diaz, Jake Shields, Gilbert Melendez and I just want people to know," Diaz said about his rally from behind. "Sometimes people think the [contestants from "The Ultimate Fighter"] are sheltered. Not me, I ain't looking for no sheltering."
Maynard teaches Edgar a lesson
Gray Maynard put Frankie Edgar through a wrestling clinic for three arduous rounds and cruised to a well-deserved unanimous decision. Edgar was out-muscled from beginning to end. Even though the Las Vegas-based brawler broke his right hand early in the contest, Edgar couldn't withstand the constant pressure from Maynard, who remained undefeated with six wins and one no-contest.
Maynard landed several sneaky uppercuts during their exchanges on the feet. It seemed as though whenever he wanted to take the fight to ground, he simply scooped up Edgar and slammed him down to the canvas. He also pressed Edgar (8-1) into the fence and landed stinging punches and elbows.
In the end, Maynard was awarded all three rounds from the three ringside judges.
"I'm bigger," Maynard explained of his win over Edgar. "He's a tough kid, but I just kinda was like, 'All right, he's a little small. I think I can pick him up and kind of throw him around a little bit.'"
Maynard kept his unblemished professional record intact and was also able to avenge good friend and teammate Tyson Griffin's loss to Edgar. Still, as great as his performance was against one of the brightest prospects at 155, Maynard freely admitted that he needs much more time to evolve before he's ready for the elite of the lightweight class.
"There's so many guys. I'm not even close yet," he added. "I've got a long ways to go. I was just trying to prove a little bit, like, 'Hey, I'm here. I'm not just a TV show guy.'"
Parisyan stopped for first time
For the first time in his career, Karo Parisyan suffered a defeat via stoppage. Thiago Alves landed a crushing left knee to Parisyan's jaw -- a vicious strike that sent him crashing to the canvas. Alves swarmed his woozy opponent and unfurled a series of punches until referee Steve Mazzagatti waived off the battle 34 seconds into the second round.
Parisyan, now 25-5, quickly recovered and vehemently protested the stoppage, claiming that he was able to continue. But the knee that Alves (19-4) landed would have felled a steer, and the Brazilian bomber landed four hard unanswered blows before the fight was halted.
"He was out. He knows best," Alves said after the competitive back-and-forth tussle. "I think the referees in the UFC do a great job, so I'm not going to go against them. Whatever, I won. Karo is a great fighter, but I'm the better man tonight."
It was a devastating loss for Parisyan, one of the leading contenders for the UFC welterweight title, who will certainly be set back by the defeat.
Hamill hammers Boetsch
Matt Hamill, the popular fighter from Zuffa's reality TV series, scored a sensational second-round TKO over late-replacement Tim Boetsch.
Hamill (6-1) had an early takedown but opted to stand and trade with Boetsch (7-2) once the fight got back to the feet. After several rather sloppy exchanges, Hamill, bleeding profusely from a lacerated lip, was able to stuff Boetsch's takedown attempt. Hamill then pressed Boetsch's head down and trapped him along the cage, where he pounded away with punches until the fight was stopped at 1:25 of the second.
Mike Sloan is a contributor to Sherdog.com.


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Canada has opened its bid to defend its Olympic curling title by edging past Germany 11-8. Despite hopes that this would be a great match, as the Canadian captain Brad Jacobs said, "It was pretty ugly, to be honest".
Canada met unexpected competition from the German curling team but still managed to win 11-8.
Germany won two points in the third end to go ahead 4-2 before Canada managed to regain the lead. However, in the ninth end, Germany managed to close the gap to 9-8. Having thrown the final rock, Jacobs missed draws in both those ends, a massive mistake for a man who is widely seen as the top player in curling.
After the match Jacobs said, "It's a different event to any regular event. There are nerves out there." Perhaps correctly, the German captain John Jahr thought that Canada underestimated his team saying "they don't know us."
Jacobs also complained that he found it hard to play through the noise of the horn-blowing Russian fans that succeeded in bringing a lively atmosphere to the area which was only three-quarters full.
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This report was written by Ross Ramsey of the Texas Tribune.
Republican Mitt Romney has a commanding lead over Democrat Barack Obama in the presidential race in Texas, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll. The survey of likely voters found that 55 percent support Romney while 39 percent support the incumbent. The remaining 6 percent said they support someone else.
The survey results illustrate the continuing dominance of the GOP in Texas — Republican John McCain got 55.5 percent of the Texas vote in 2008, to Obama's 43.7 percent — and illuminate a significant gap in Texans' feelings about national and state officeholders and government.
Numbers in the U.S. Senate race were similar to those in the top contest, with Republican Ted Cruz holding 54 percent of the support to Democrat Paul Sadler's 39 percent, according to the poll. John Jay Myers, the Libertarian candidate, had 3 percent, and Green Party candidate David Collins had 2 percent.
More voters want to replace their congressional representatives than want to keep them. Asked whether their own member of Congress deserves re-election, 36 percent said yes, while 43 percent of likely voters said it is "time to give someone else a chance." The remaining 22 percent said they didn't know.
Republican Christi Craddick held the lead in the contested race for Texas Railroad Commission, with 50 percent of the support to Democrat Dale Henry's 36 percent.
"What you have in these results is a pretty decent idea of what a Democrat with warm blood and a pulse can get in Texas," said Daron Shaw, co-director of the poll and a professor of political science at UT-Austin.
The poll also asked respondents to rate the job performances of Obama, Gov. Rick Perry and Congress. A majority of Texans — 53 percent — disapprove of Obama's work, including 44 percent who said they strongly disapprove. Another 40 percent approve of the job the president has done, 19 percent strongly so. Perry got good marks from 41 percent, including 9 percent who strongly approve of the job he's doing, and bad marks from 39 percent, including 27 percent who strongly disapprove of the governor's work.
Congress is flunking on this measure. Only 11 percent approve of the job Congress is doing, and only 1 percent strongly approve. Meanwhile, 69 percent gave Congress bad marks, including 43 percent of Texans who said they strongly disapprove of the job performance on Capitol Hill.
Voters' opinions of the candidates mirror the results of the horse-race questions. For example, 52 percent of voters have a "very" or "somewhat" favorable opinion of Romney, while 41 percent have "somewhat" or "very" unfavorable opinions. Obama's numbers were 39 percent favorable and 57 percent unfavorable. Strong opinions outnumber milder ones at this point: Romney was ranked very favorable by 30 percent and very unfavorable by 35 percent; Obama by 26 percent and 52 percent, respectively.
The numbers for the vice presidential candidates closely match those of their running mates. Republican Paul Ryan is favorably viewed by 53 percent of likely voters and unfavorably viewed by 36 percent. For Democrat Joe Biden, the favorable opinions came from 39 percent, unfavorable ones from 57 percent. And like their presidential partners, the strong opinions of the vice presidential candidates outnumbered weaker opinions.
The gap in the Senate race reveals some voter unfamiliarity with the Democrat. Sadler is viewed favorably by 23 percent and unfavorably by 14 percent, but 20 percent have a neutral opinion of him, and 43 percent said they didn't know. Cruz's numbers were 49 percent favorable and 29 percent unfavorable.
Perry has said he would consider running for another term in 2014, and about one in five likely voters — 22 percent — said they would vote for him. Another 42 percent said they would vote against Perry, and 35 percent said they would wait and see how things develop.
Two state officials — Perry and Attorney General Greg Abbott — were included in the favorable/unfavorable questions. The governor is favorably viewed by 45 percent of likely voters and unfavorably viewed by 42 percent (including 33 percent who have a very unfavorable opinion of him). Abbott, who is widely expected to run for governor, is less well-known — 29 percent have no opinion and another 23 percent said their opinion is neither positive nor negative. That said, 30 percent have a favorable opinion of the attorney general, while 19 percent view him unfavorably.
A fantasy 2014 Republican primary for lieutenant governor appears to be of more interest in political parlors than in the general public, with 38 percent saying they haven't thought enough about the matchups to form an opinion. Another third said they won't be voting in that GOP primary. Among the likely voters who answered, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst led the pack, with 15 percent, followed by Comptroller Susan Combs, 6 percent; state Sen. Dan Patrick, 5 percent; and state Rep. Dan Branch, Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson and Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples, each with 1 percent.
The University of Texas/Texas Tribune internet survey of 800 voters was conducted Oct. 15-21, 2012, and has a margin of error of +/- 3.46 percentage points. Numbers in the charts might not add up to 100, due to rounding. "Likely voters" were defined as those who indicated they were "somewhat" or "extremely" interested in politics and who said they voted in "every" or "almost every" election in recent years. The margin of error for questions confined to likely voters is +/- 4.22 percentage points.
This article originally appeared in The Texas Tribune at http://www.texastribune.org/texas-politics/2012-elections/new-uttt-poll-romney-comfortably-ahead-texas/.