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Posted on July 12, 2009 by Gwyllm
Welcome To The Feast…
The days flee so fast in the summertime… We have been working away on various projects, painting, editing, taking care of the grounds, installing this and that. We must catch our breathes, and relax a bit. The summer is our busiest times of the year for us work-wise, all a bit hard to do.
I have been thinking much on Gerrard Winstanley of late, and of William Blake. These ruminations have proved to be the basis of this entry; working it out in process I would venture. Still the themes that are running through my head at this point are just at the juncture of putting something down pen to paper. I feel a welling up of thought and emotions that has me going into another tangent in my life. Stay tuned.
This entry is dedicated to my friend Morgan Miller. He knows the reasons why.
Bright Blessings,
Gwyllm
On The Menu:
The Caer Llwydd Poetry Shrine…
Gerard Winstanley Quotes
The Great Dictator Remix
Geoffrey Oryema – Lapowny
The Case For The Phenomena Of William Blake Experiencing Cosmic Consciousness
William Blake Poetry: A Summer's Reading…
William Blake Biography
Geoffrey Oryema – Land of Anaka
William Blake – Art
The First Entry On Our Poetry Shrine:
The tao that can be told
is not the eternal Tao
The name that can be named
is not the eternal Name.
The unnamable is the eternally real.
Naming is the origin
of all particular things.
Free from desire, you realize the mystery.
Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations.
Yet mystery and manifestations
arise from the same source.
This source is called darkness.
Darkness within darkness.
The gateway to all understanding.
This is of course the first part of the Tao Te Ching… I thought it appropriate for the initiation of the shrine.
I had seen a couple of similar set ups out and about in other parts of Portland. A brilliant idea, and with a little extra flair ours is unique, and hopefully the beginning of more in our neighborhood. Our friend Paul Hoagland put the shrine together on my design ideas, and he provided all of the materials. If you are interested in having one, let me know. I am installing a small altar for incense and flowers as well this week. I will update with photos, and maybe list the poems as we go.
Gerard Winstanley Quotes:
"All men have stood for freedom… For freedom is the man that will turn the world upside down."
"Let reason rule the man and he dares not trespass against his fellow creatures, but will do as he would be done unto, For Reason tells him is thy neighbour hungry and naked today, do thou feed and clothe him, it may be thy case tomorrow and then he will be ready to help thee."
"Everyone that gets an authority into his hands tyrannizes over others; as many husbands, parents, masters, magistrates, that live after the flesh do carry themselves like oppressing lords over such as are under them, not knowing that their wives, children, servants, subjects are their fellow creatures, and hath an equal privilege to share them in the blessing of liberty."
"For surely this particular property of mine and thine hath brought in all misery upon people. For first, it hath occasioned people to steal one from another. Secondly, it hath made laws to hang those that did steal. It tempts people to do an evil action and then kills them for doing it. Let all judge if this not be a great devil."
"When this universal law of equity rises up in every man and woman, then none shall lay claim to any creature and say, This is mine, and that is yours. This is my work, that is yours. But everyone shall put their hands to till the earth and bring up cattle, and the blessing of the earth shall be common to all; when a man hath need of any corn or cattle, take from the next store-house he meets with. There shall be no buying and selling, no fairs or markets, but the whole earth shall be the common treasury for every man, for the earth is the Lord's…
"When a man hath eat, and drink, and clothes, he hath enough. And all shall cheerfully put to their hands to make these things that are needful, one helping another. There shall be none lords over others, but everyone shall be a lord of himself, subject to the law of righteousness, reason and equity, which shall dwell and rule in him, which is the Lord."
"When the people stare at the sky and dream of blessedness, or when they quiver with fear for hell after death, their eyes get blinded so they can't see their own right of primogeniture."
The Great Dictator Remix:
I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an Emperor – that's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone, if possible — Jew, gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another; human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there's room for everyone and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone.
The way of life can be free and beautiful.
But we have lost the way.
Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.
The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women, and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.
To those who can hear me I say, "Do not despair." The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass and dictators die; and the power they took from the people will return to the people and so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
Soldiers: Don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you, enslave you, who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel; who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don't hate; only the unloved hate, the unloved and the unnatural.
Soldiers: Don't fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! In the seventeenth chapter of Saint Luke it is written, "the kingdom of God is within man" — not one man, nor a group of men, but in all men, in you, you the people have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness. You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.
Then, in the name of democracy, let us use that power! Let us all unite!! Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give you the future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power, but they lie! They do not fulfill their promise; they never will. Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people!! Now, let us fight to fulfill that promise!! Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness.
Soldiers: In the name of democracy, let us all unite!!!
By – Richard Maurice Bucke
If Blake had Cosmic Consciousness the words written above as to the vastly greater scope and variety of this than of self consciousness will receive from his case illustration. The few short extracts from his writings, below quoted, almost prove that he had the Cosmic Sense, which he called "Imaginative Vision" [95: 166], and he must have attained to it within a very few years after reaching the thirtieth of his age. There do not appear to be any details extant of his entrance into it, but his writings may fairly be allowed to prove the fact of possession.
W. M. Rossetti, in the "Prefatory Memoir" to "The Poetical Works of William Blake" [52], gives an admirable sketch of Blake's actual life and apparently a fair estimate of his abilities and defects. The following extracts therefrom will materially assist us in the inquiry now before us; that is: Had Blake Cosmic Consciousness?
– The difficulty of Blake's biographers, subsequent to 1863, the date of Mr. Gilchrist's book, is of a different kind altogether. It is the difficulty of stating sufficiently high the extraordinary claims of Blake to admiration and reverence, without slurring over those other considerations which need to be plainly and fully set forth if we would obtain any real idea of the man as he was—of his total unlikeness to his contemporaries, of his amazing genius and noble performances in two arts, of the height by which he transcended other men, and the incapacity which he always evinced for performing at all what others accomplish easily. He could do vastly more than they, but he could seldom do the like. By some unknown process he had soared to the top of a cloud-capped Alp, while they were crouching in the valley: But to reach a middle station on the mountain was what they could readily manage step by step, while Blake found that ordinary achievement impracticable. He could not and he would not do it; the want of will, or rather the utter alienation of will, the resolve to soar (which was natural to him), and not to walk (which was unnatural and repulsive), constituted or counted instead of an actual want of power [139:9].
Rapt in a passionate yearning, he realized, even on this earth and in his mortal body, a species of Nirvâna: his whole faculty, his whole personality, the very essence of his mind and mould, attained to absorption into his ideal ultimate, into that which Dante's profound phrase designates "il Ben dell' intelletto" [139: 11].
– William Blake's education was of the scantiest, being confined to reading p. 193 and writing; arithmetic may also be guessed at, but is not recorded, and very probably his capacity for acquiring or retaining that item of knowledge was far below the average [139:14].
– In the fact that Blake soared beyond, and far beyond, men of self consciousness merely, but could not see or do many things that these saw clearly and could do easily, we see a relationship between him and the great illuminati. For surely the very same thing could be said of all these. In worldly matters they are all, or nearly all, as little children, while in spiritual things they are as gods. Note Balzac contracting enormous debts for want of ordinary business common sense and laboring vainly for years to pay them while in the full exercise of enough genius to equip a regiment of Rothschilds. Bacon showered upon the human race intellectual and spiritual riches beyond all computation, but with every apparent advantage (position at court, hereditary prestige, influential friends) he labors in vain for years for position in the self conscious sphere, and after getting it cannot hold it. Buddha, Jesus, Paul, Las Casas, Yepes, Behmen and Whitman were wise: They saw that the things of the Cosmic Sense were enough, and they simply put by the things of self consciousness, but had they tried for these the chances are they would have failed to obtain them.
– Blake, too, found the world of the Cosmic Sense enough, and wisely did not waste time and energy seeking for the so-called goods and riches of the self-conscious life.
– These men are independent of education, and most of them—like Blake himself—p. 193 think it useless or worse. Blake says of it: "There is no use in education: I hold it to be wrong. It is the great sin; it is eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. This was the fault of Plato. He knew of nothing but the virtues and vices, and good and evil. There is nothing in all that. Everything is good in God's eyes" [139: 80]. This reminds us of what Hawley said of Bacon: "He had not his knowledge from books, but from some grounds within himself" [141: 47], and of Whitman's "You shall no longer feed on the spectres in books" [193: 30].
– In the preface to "The Jerusalem" Blake speaks of that composition as paving been "dictated" to him, and other expressions of his prove that he regarded it rather as a revelation of which he was the scribe than as the product of his own inventing and fashioning brain. Blake considered it "the grandest poem that this world contains;" adding, "I may praise it, since I dare not pretend to be any other than the secretary—the authors are in eternity." In an earlier letter (April 25th, 1803) he had said: "I have written this poem from immediate dictation, twelve or sometimes twenty or thirty lines at a time, without premeditation, and even against my will" [139:41].
– Blake had a mental intuition, inspiration, or revelation—call it what we will; it was as real to his spiritual eye as a material object could be to his bodily eye; and no doubt his bodily eye, the eye of a designer or painter with a great gift of invention and composition, was far more than normally ready at following the dictate of the spiritual eye, and seeing, with an almost instantaneously creative and fashioning act, the visual semblance of a visionary essence [139:62].
– His unworldliness, extreme as it was, did not degenerate into ineptitude. He apprehended the requirements of practical life, was prepared to meet them in a resolute and diligent spirit from day to day, and could on occasions display a full share of sagacity. He was of lofty and independent spirit, not caring to refute any odd stories that were current regarding his conduct or demeanor, neither parading nor concealing his poverty, and seldom accepting any sort of aid for which he could not and did not supply a full equivalent [139:69].
– This is the declaration of each possessor of the Cosmic Sense. It is not I, the visible man who speaks, but (as Jesus says) "As the Father hath said unto me so I speak" [14: 12: 50]; or as Paul writes: "I will not dare to speak of any things save those which Christ wrought through me" [16: 15:18]. "Loose the stop from your throat" [193: 32] says Whitman to the Cosmic Sense. And so universally.
– "O I am sure," says Whitman, "they really came from Thee—the urge, the ardor, the potent, felt, interior, command, a message from the heavens" [193: 324]. "The noble truths," Gautama said, "were not among the doctrines banded down, but there arose within him the eye to perceive them" [159: 150].
– Each word of this passage is strictly true of Whitman, and allowing for difference of manners and customs in other times and countries, the paragraph could be read into the life of any one of the men discussed in this book.
He knows that what he does is not inferior to the gran
dest antiques. Superior it cannot be, for human power cannot go beyond either what he does or what they have done. It is the gift of God, it is inspiration and vision [139:72].
It must be allowed that in many instances Blake spoke of himself with measureless and rather provoking self-applause. This is in truth one conspicuous outcome of that very simplicity of character of which I have just spoken; egotism it is, but not worldly, self-seeking [139: 71].
That he was on the whole and in the best sense happy is, considering all his trials and crosses, one of the very highest evidences in his praise. "If asked," writes Mr. Palmer, "whether I ever knew among the intellectual a happy man, Blake would be the only one who would immediately occur to me." Visionary and ideal aspirations of the intensest kind; the imaginative life wholly predominating over the corporeal and mundane life, and almost swallowing it up; and a child-like simplicity of personal character, free from self-interest, and ignorant or careless of any policy of self-control, though habitually guided and regulated by noble emotions and a resolute loyalty to duty—these are the main lines which we trace throughout the entire career of Blake, in his life and death, in his writings and his art. This it is which makes him so peculiarly lovable and admirable as a man, and invests his works, especially his poems, with so delightful a charm. We feel that he is truly "of the kingdom of heaven": above the firmament, his soul holds converse with archangels; on the earth, he is as the little child whom Jesus "sat in the midst of them" [139:70].
The essence of Blake's faculty, the power by which he achieved his work, was intuition: this holds good of his artistic productions, and still more so of his poems. Intuition reigns supreme in them; and even the reader has to apprehend them intuitively, or else to leave them aside altogether [139:74].
Ample evidence exists to satisfy us that Blake had real conceptions In the metaphysical or supersensual regions of thought—conceptions which might have been termed speculations in other people, but in him rather intuitions; and that the "Prophetic Books" embody these in some sort of way cannot be disputed [139: 120].
– "Divine am I," says Whitman, "inside and out" [193: 49].
– "I conned old times," says Whitman; "I sat studying at the feet of the great masters, now if eligible O that the great masters might return and study me" [193: 20].
– Happiness is one of the marks of the Cosmic Sense.
– It is too bad that these "Prophetic Books" are not published. It seems almost certain that they embody (behind thick veils, doubtless) revelations of extraordinary value—news from "the kingdom of heaven"—from the better world—the world of the Cosmic Sense.
As to his religious belief, it should be understood that Blake was a Christian in a certain way, and a truly fervent Christian; but it was a way of his own, exceedingly different from that of any of the churches. For the last forty years of his life he never entered a place of worship [139:76].
He believed—with a great profundity and ardor of faith—in God; but he believed also that men are gods, or that collective man is God. He believed in Christ; but exactly what he believed him to be is a separate question. "Jesus Christ," he said, conversing with Mr. Robinson, "is the only God, and so am I, and so are you" [139:77].
In immortality Blake seems to have believed implicitly, and (in some main essentials) without much deviation from other people's credence. When he heard of Flaxman's death (December 7th, 1826), he observes, "I cannot think of death as more than the going out of one room into another." In one of his writings he says: "The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after the death of the vegetated body" [139:79].
Blake had in all probability read in his youth some of the mystical or cabalistic writers —Paracelsus, Jacob Böhme, Cornelius Agrippa; and there is a good deal in his speculations, in substance and tone, and sometimes in detail, which can be traced back to authors of this class [139: 80].
– Blake's religion—his attitude toward the Church—toward God—toward immortality—is the characteristic attitude of the man who has attained to Cosmic Consciousness—as shown in each life and in all the writings of these men.
-His attitude toward death is that of all the illuminati. He does not believe in "another life." He does not think he will be immortal. He has eternal life.
-So writes George Frederic Parsons about Balzac [6: 11]. Thoreau makes a similar suggestion as to Whitman [38: 143], and generally it is constantly being hinted or intimated that some of these men have been reading others of them. This may of course sometimes happen, but, speaking generally, it does not, for many of them are quite illiterate, and the studies of others, as, for instance, Bacon, do not lie in that direction. Blake, Balzac, Yepes, Behmen, Whitman, Carpenter and the rest has each seen for himself that other world of which he tells us. No one can tell of it at second hand, for no one who has not seen something of it can conceive it.
Blake's death was as noble and characteristic as his life. Gilchrist [94: 360–1] gives us the following simple and touching account of it:
"His illness was not violent, but a gradual and gentle failure of physical powers which nowise affected the mind. The speedy end was not foreseen by his friends. It came on a Sunday, August 12, 1827, nearly three months before completion of his seventieth year. 'On the day of his death,' writes Smith, who had his account from the widow, 'he composed and uttered songs to his Maker so sweetly to the ear of his Catharine that when she stood to hear him he, looking upon her most affectionately, said: "My beloved, they are not mine—no, they are not mine!" He told her they would not be parted; he should always be about her to take care of her. To the pious songs followed, about six in the summer evening, a calm and painless withdrawal of breath; the exact moment almost unperceived by his wife, who sat by his side. A humble female neighbor, her only other companion, said afterwards: "I have been at the death, not of a man, but of a blessed angel."
It remains to quote certain declarations emanating from Blake and which seem to bear upon the point under consideration—viz., upon the question, Was Blake a case of Cosmic Consciousness?
The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after the death of the vegetated body. This world of imagination is infinite and eternal, whereas the world of generation, of vegetation, is finite and temporal. There exist in that eternal world the permanent realities of everything which we see reflected in this vegetable glass of nature [95: 163].
We are in a world of generation and death, and this world we must cast off if we would be artists such as Raphael, Michael Angelo and the ancient sculptors. If we do not cast off this world we shall be only Venetian painters, who will be cast off and lost from art [95:172].
The player is a liar when he says: Angels are happier than men because they are better! Angels are happier than men and devils because they are not always prying after good and evil in one another and eating the tree of knowledge for Satan's gratification [95:176].
– Blake's name for Cosmic Consciousness. With this paragraph compare Whitman's "I swear I think now that everything without exception has an eternal soul! The trees have rooted in the ground! The weeds of the sea have! The animals" [193: 337].
– The world of self consciousness. Balzac says: (Self conscious) "man judge
s all things by his abstractions—good, evil, virtue, crime. His formulas of right are his scales, and his justice is blind; the justice of God [i.e., of the Cosmic Sense] sees—in that is everything" [5: 142].
– "Showing the best and dividing it from the worst age vexes age. Knowing the perfect fitness and equanimity of things, while they discuss I am silent" [193: 31].
The last judgment is an overwhelming of bad art and science [95: 176].
Some people flatter themselves that there will be no last judgment. . . .- I will not flatter them. Error is created; truth is eternal. Error or creation will be burned up, and then, and not till then, truth or eternity will appear. It [error] is burned up the moment men cease to behold it. I assert for myself that I do not behold outward creation, and that to me it is hindrance and not action. "What!" it will be questioned, "when the sun rises do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea?" "Oh, no, no! I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying: 'Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty!'" I question not my corporeal eye* any more than I would question a window concerning a sight. I look through it and not with it [95: 176].
Beneath the figures of Adam and Eve (descending the generative stream from there) is the seat of the harlot, named mystery [self conscious life], in the Revelations. She (mystery) is seized by two beings (life and death), each with three heads; they represent vegetative existence. As it is written in Revelations, they strip her naked and burn her with fire [i.e., death strips her naked, and the passions of the self conscious life burn it as with fire]. It represents the eternal consumption of vegetable life and death [the life and death of the merely self conscious] with its lusts. The wreathed torches in their hands [in the hands of life and death] represent eternal fire, which is the fire of generation or vegetation; it is an eternal consummation. Those who are blessed with imaginative vision [Cosmic Consciousness]* see this eternal female [mystery—the self conscious life] and tremble at what others fear not; while they despise and laugh at what others fear [95:166].
-I am not ashamed, afraid or averse to tell you what ought to be told—that I am under the direction of messengers from heaven, daily and nightly. But the nature of such things is not, as some suppose, without trouble or care [95: 185].
– I.e., it is the advent of universal Cosmic Consciousness. "Specialism [the Cosmic Sense] opens to man," says Balzac, "his true career; the infinite dawns upon him" [5: 144]. "The audit of nature, though delayed, must be answered, and her quietus is to render thee" [Cosmic Consciousness] [176: 126].
– Blake says his self conscious faculties are a hindrance to him, not a help. So Balzac: "Baneful, it [self consciousness] exempts man from entering the path of specialism [Cosmic Consciousness], which leads to the infinite" [5: 142]. So the Hindoo experts teach and have always taught, that suppression and effacement of many of the self conscious faculties are necessary conditions to illumination [56: 166 et seq.].
– So Carpenter asks (knowing well the answer): "Does there not exist in truth . . an inner illumination . . . by which we can ultimately see things as they are, beholding all creation . . . in its true being and order [57:98].
– "Their worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched" [12: 9: 48], said by Jesus of the self conscious life, which (also) is the hell of Dante.
– So Whitman: "I laugh at what you call dissolution."
– "He [my other self], nor that affable, familiar ghost [the Cosmic Sense] which nightly gulls him with intelligence" [176: 86].
"A message from the Heavens whispering to me even in sleep" [193: 324].
a. Blake seems to have entered into Cosmic Consciousness when a little more than thirty years of age.
b. The present editor does not know anything of the occurrence of subjective light in his case.
c. The fact of great intellectual illumination seems clear.
d. His moral elevation was very marked.
e. He seems to have had the sense of immortality that belongs to Cosmic Consciousness.
f. Specific details of proof are in this case, as they must inevitably often be, largely wanting, but a study of Blake's life, writings (he is not in a position nor is he competent to judge Blake from his drawings) and death convinces the writer that he was a genuine and even probably a great case.
Love's Secret
Never seek to tell thy love,
Love that never told can be,
For the gentle wind doth move
Silently, invisibly.
I told my love, I told my love,
I told her all my heart,
Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears.
Ah! she did depart!
Soon after she was gone from me,
A traveller came by,
Silently, invisibly,
He took her with a sigh.
To The Evening Star
Thou fair-hair'd angel of the evening,
Now, whilst the sun rests on the mountains, light
Thy bright torch of love; thy radiant crown
Put on, and smile upon our evening bed!
Smile on our loves, and while thou drawest the
Blue curtains of the sky, scatter thy silver dew
On every flower that shuts its sweet eyes
In timely sleep. Let thy west wind sleep on
The lake; speak silence with thy glimmering eyes,
And wash the dusk with silver. Soon, full soon,
Dost thou withdraw; then the wolf rages wide,
And then the lion glares through the dun forest:
The fleeces of our flocks are cover'd with
Thy sacred dew: protect them with thine influence!
The Garden of Love
I laid me down upon a bank,
Where Love lay sleeping;
I heard among the rushes dank
Weeping, weeping.
Then I went to the heath and the wild,
To the thistles and thorns of the waste;
And they told me how they were beguiled,
Driven out, and compelled to the chaste.
I went to the Garden of Love,
And saw what I never had seen;
A Chapel was built in the midst,
Where I used to play on the green.
And the gates of this Chapel were shut
And "Thou shalt not," writ over the door;
So I turned to the Garden of Love
That so many sweet flowers bore.
And I saw it was filled with graves,
And tombstones where flowers should be;
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars my joys and desires.
The Voice of the Ancient Bard
Youth of delight! come hither
And see the opening morn,
Image of Truth new-born.
Doubt is fled, and clouds of reason,
Dark disputes and artful teazing.
Folly is an endless maze;
Tangled roots perplex her ways;
How many have fallen there!
They stumble all night over bones of the dead;
And feel — they know not what but care;
And wish to lead others, when they should be led.
To Summer
O thou who passest thro' our valleys in
Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat
That flames from their large nostrils! thou, O Summer,
Oft pitched'st here thy goldent tent, and oft
Beneath our oaks hast slept, while we beheld
With joy thy ruddy limbs and flourishing hair.
Beneath our thickest shades we oft have heard
Thy voice, when noon upon his fervid car
Rode o'er the deep of heaven; beside our springs
Sit down, and in our mossy valleys, on
Some bank beside a river clear, throw thy
Silk draperies off, and rush into the stream:
Our valleys love the Summer in his pride.
Our bards are fam'd who strike the silver wire:
Our youth are bolder than the southern swains:
Our maidens fairer in the sprightly dance:
We lack not songs, nor instruments of joy,
Nor echoes sweet, nor waters clear as heaven,
Nor laurel wreaths against the sultry heat.
William Blake – Biography
from Auguries of Innocence
William Blake was born on November 28, 1757 in London, the third of five children. His father James was a hosier, and could only afford to give William enough schooling to learn the basics of reading and writing, though for a short time he was able to attend a drawing school run by Henry Par.
William worked in his father's shop until his talent for drawing became so obvious that he was apprenticed to engraver James Basire at age 14. He finished his apprenticeship at age 21, and set out to make his living as an engraver.
Blake married Catherine Boucher at age 25, and she worked with him on most of his artistic creations. Together they published a book of Blake's poems and drawings called Songs of Innocence.
Blake engraved the words and pictures on copper plates (a method he claimed he received in a dream), and Catherine coloured the plates and bound the books. Songs of Innocence sold slowly during Blake's lifetime, indeed Blake struggled close to poverty for much of his life.
More successful was a series of copperplate engravings Blake did to illustrate the Book of Job for a new edition of the Old Testament.
Blake did not have a head for business, and he turned down publisher's requests to focus on his own subjects. In his choice of subject Blake was often guided by his gentle, mystical views of Christianity. Songs of Experience (1794) was followed by Milton (1804-1808), and Jerusalem (1804-1820).
In 1800 Blake gained a patron in William Hayley, who commissioned him to illustrate his Life of Cowper, and to create busts of famous poets for his house in Felpham, Suurey.
While at Felpham, Blake was involved in a bizarre episode which could have proven disastrous; he was accused by a drunken soldier of cursing the king, and on this testimony he was brought to trial for treason. The case against Blake proved flimsy, and he was cleared of the charges.
Blake poured his whole being into his work. The lack of public recognition sent him into a severe depression which lasted from 1810-1817, and even his close friends thought him insane.
Unlike painters like Gainsborough, Blake worked on a small scale; most of his engravings are little more than inches in height, yet the detailed rendering is superb and exact. Blake's work received far more public acclaim after his death, and an excerpt from his poem Milton was set to music, becoming a sort of unofficial Christian anthem of English nationalism in the 20th century.
William Blake died on August 12, 1827, and is buried in an unmarked grave at Bunhill Fields, London.
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Q: Recommendations for real-time pixel-level analysis of television (TV) video [Note: This is a rewrite of an earlier question that was considered inappropriate and closed.]
I need to do some pixel-level analysis of television (TV) video. The exact nature of this analysis is not pertinent, but it basically involves looking at every pixel of every frame of TV video, starting from an MPEG-2 transport stream. The host platform will be server-class, multiprocessor 64-bit Linux machines.
I need a library that can handle the decoding of the transport stream and present me with the image data in real-time. OpenCV and ffmpeg are two libraries that I am considering for this work. OpenCV is appealing because I have heard it has easy to use APIs and rich image analysis support, but I have no experience using it. I have used ffmpeg in the past for extracting video frame data from files for analysis, but it lacks image analysis support (though Intel's IPP can supplement).
In addition to general recommendations for approaches to this problem (excluding the actual image analysis), I have some more specific questions that would help me get started:

*

*Are ffmpeg or OpenCV commonly used in industry as a foundation for real-time
video analysis, or is there something else I should be looking at?

*Can OpenCV decode video frames in real time, and still leave enough
CPU left over to do nontrivial image analysis, also in real-time?

*Is sufficient to use ffpmeg for MPEG-2 transport stream decoding, or
is it preferable to just use an MPEG-2 decoding library directly (and if so, which one)?

*Are there particular pixel formats for the output frames that ffmpeg
or OpenCV is particularly efficient at producing (like RGB, YUV, or YUV422, etc)?

A: 1.
I would definitely recommend OpenCV for "real-time" image analysis. I assume by real-time you are referring to the ability to keep up with TV frame rates (e.g., NTSC (29.97 fps) or PAL (25 fps)). Of course, as mentioned in the comments, it certainly depends on the hardware you have available as well as the image size SD (480p) vs. HD (720p or 1080p). FFmpeg certainly has its quirks, but you would be hard pressed to find a better free alternative. Its power and flexibility quite impressive; I'm sure that is one of the reasons that the OpenCV developers decided to use it as the back-end for video decoding/encoding with OpenCV.
2.
I have not seen issues with high-latency while using OpenCV for decoding. How much latency can your system have? If you need to increase performance, consider using separate threads for capture/decoding and image analysis. Since you mentioned having multi-processor systems, this should take greater advantage of your processing capabilities. I would definitely recommend using the latest Intel Core-i7 (or possibly the Xeon equivalent) architecture as this will give you the best performance available today.
I have used OpenCV on several embedded systems, so I'm quite familiar with your desire for peak performance. I have found many times that it was unnecessary to process a full frame image (especially when trying to determine masks). I would highly recommend down-sampling the images if you are having difficultly processing your acquired video streams. This can sometimes instantly give you a 4-8X speedup (depending on your down-sample factor). Also on the performance front, I would definitely recommend using Intel's IPP. Since OpenCV was originally an Intel project, IPP and OpenCV blend very well together.
Finally, because image-processing is one of those "embarrassingly parallel" problem fields don't forget about the possibility of using GPUs as a hardware accelerator for your problems if needed. OpenCV has been doing a lot of work on this area as of late, so you should have those tools available to you if needed.
3.
I think FFmpeg would be a good starting point; most of the alternatives I can think of (Handbrake, mencoder, etc.) tend to use ffmpeg as a backend, but it looks like you could probably roll your own with IPP's Video Coding library if you wanted to.
4.
OpenCV's internal representation of colors is BGR unless you use something like cvtColor to convert it. If you would like to see a list of the pixel formats that are supported by FFmpeg, you can run
ffmpeg -pix_fmts

to see what it can input and output.

A: For the 4th question only:
video streams are encoded in a 422 format: YUV, YUV422, YCbCr, etc. Converting them to BGR and back (for re-encoding) eats up lots of time. So if you can write your algorithms to run on YUV you'll get an instant performance boost.
Note 1. While OpenCV natively supports BGR images, you can make it process YUV, with some care and knowledge about its internals.
By example, if you want to detect some people in the video, just take the upper half of the decoded video buffer (it contains the grayscale representation of the image) and process it.
Note 2. If you want to access the YUV image in opencv, you must use ffmpeg API directly in your app. OpenCV force the conversion from YUV to BGR in its VideoCapture API.

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Updated on: Thursday, January 23, 2020, 08:57 AM IST
'The club is an embarrassment': Twitter destroys MU after a humiliating defeat
It was a humiliating defeat for United, that after the match the manager and the players were booed off the pitch by fans.
'The club is an embarrassment': Twitter destroys MU after a humiliating defeat | Photo: AFP
Manchester United's downward spiral continued on Thursday when the 'Red Devils' managed to lose 2-0 to 13th-placed Burnley. Solskjaer's side suffered a third consecutive defeat in their last four Premier League games to put the United boss' job security back under the microscope.
It was a humiliating defeat for United, that after the match the manager and the players were booed off the pitch by fans. Even the majority of Old Trafford was on its feet when chants of "stand up if you hate Glazers" echoed around the ground in reference to United's owners.
Manchester United fans took to Twitter to voice their sentiments against the club's dismal performance.
Let us know! 👂
What type of content would you like to see from us this year?
— HubSpot (@HubSpot)
The fans also demanded that manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer be sacked as soon as possible. #OleOut started trending on Twitter.
Even United legend, Rio Ferdinand, stated the club as an embarrassment and slammed the club's performance. "I can't defend this," Ferdinand told BT Sport. "These young kids now in schools around the country, they are not going to be wearing Manchester United shirts.
"They are not going to be wanting to come here and support Manchester United based on what you are seeing out there. It's just not going to happen, fans are walking out after 84 minutes!
"It's an embarrassment. People at the top need to look and see this and make changes, put a plan in place that people can sit there and see where we are going now. I don't see it."
'Ole at the wheel': Manchester United manager Solskjaer aims to compete for title next season
Burnley took the lead six minutes before half-time as Ben Mee jumped highest in the area to nod the ball down for Chris Wood to apply a first-time finish.
And the visitors doubled their lead in stunning fashion in the second period as Jay Rodriguez rifled a ferocious strike off the underside of the bar from just inside the area.
Fifth-placed United are six points behind fourth-placed Chelsea as they battle to qualify for next season's Champions League via a top-four finish.
The pressure had piled on the United manager and players after their loss to Liverpool on Sunday. The fans, too, were on the edge after this loss. That loss combined with the defeat at home to Burnley really puts United at the edge of the sword.
'Mind the gap': Twitter brutally trolls Manchester United after Liverpool defeat
Elsewhere, Tottenham needed a late winner from Son Heung-min to snap a four-game winless streak in the league and breathe new life into their push for a top-four spot.
The South Korean's stooping header 11 minutes from time hauled Jose Mourinho's men within six points of Chelsea, but another uninspired performance did little to suggest they are capable of chasing down his old club.
(With Inputs from Agency)
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Published on: Thursday, January 23, 2020, 08:57 AM IST
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That's the headline of a blog posted today by Herb Greenberg, CNBC senior stocks commentator, where he makes the case that consumers really need to see, touch and try CE products and major appliances before buying.
So what better way to spend your money than to buy a national chain and restructure it, right? That will surely help the bottom line.
One thing he doesn't mention: Like "Amazon" which could mean anything "Best Buy" does not have to mean CE and major appliances. If Amazon did acquire Best Buy, with that name it could carry any product category.


The space agency headed back to the Moon for the first time in 25 years tonight, launching an orbiting spacecraft to look for water that could one day be used by human settlers.
With the Moon gleaming in the sky, the unmanned Athena rocket blasted off at 9:28 P.M. with the Lunar Prospector.
An effort to launch it on Monday was foiled by the failure of Air Force radar needed to track the rocket for safety reasons.
The system was repaired today, and, everything went well the second time around.
The Lunar Prospector is due to arrive at the Moon on Sunday after a trip of four and one-half days spanning 240,000 miles. Two days later, the probe will slip into a 60-mile-high orbit and begin searching for evidence of frozen water as well as minerals and gases.
The spacecraft has five science instruments, including a neutron spectrometer that will look for excess hydrogen, an indication of water.
Some scientists believe the Moon's shadowy poles hold as much as a billion tons of water ice, a theory bolstered by the military's Clementine spacecraft, which was launched to the Moon in 1994.
''We wanted to show that for the cost of a typical Hollywood movie, you can explore interplanetary space,'' the mission manager, Scott Hubbard, said..
If that is so, astronauts living on lunar bases could mine the water and separate it into hydrogen and oxygen for rocket fuel.
The 4-foot, 650-pound Lunar Prospector will survey the entire Moon, orbiting from pole to pole. The $63 million mission is expected to last at least a year.
A military spacecraft, Clementine, launched in 1994 to test missile-detecting sensors, discovered the possible presence of water ice in a giant crater at the Moon's south pole.
The finding is controversial; some scientists believe the patches are not ice but rough surfaces on the steep slopes of the crater.
The Lunar Prospector is better suited for such a quest.
''If there's a cup of water in a cubic yard of lunar soil, we'll see it,'' Mr. Hubbard said.
The Lunar Prospector, which will eventually crash-land on the Moon, contains a unique payload: an ounce of the ashes of Eugene Shoemaker, a planetary scientist killed in a car accident last summer.
Mr. Shoemaker trained the astronauts of the Apollo program in lunar geology and discovered, along with his wife and a colleague, a comet near Jupiter.
NASA last explored the Moon in December 1972 with Apollo 17.


On Monday Fu Yuanhui, a 20-year old swimmer from Hangzhou won the bronze medal in the 100 meter backstroke race. During the medal ceremony, she could not hide her excitement.
It's noteworthy because Chinese Olympians have been known to cry and apologize for earning silver medals (instead of gold).
Since then, Fu, from the southeastern city of Hangzhou, has gained more than three million fans on Chinese social networking site Weibo in two days. Her catchphrase "mystic energy," or "prehistoric power," has become a meme, and her super-excited expressions have been turned into emoticons.
I don't have expectations for tomorrow; I am already pleased!
You can read more about Ms. Fu here, here, and here.
Thanks Joann, that's fantastic … A few if us just had a good laugh at her video … I'm in Rio (with Marty and Jenny), and we had missed this – hard enough seeing all the swimming finals for us Aussies when usually they clash with Brazil playing soccer! Your post is a refreshing counterbalance to the earlier diplomatic spat between my country and China over Sun Yang and his past.


I'm a sucker for quotes y'all. If you read a lot of my articles, particularly some of the more personal ones then you will know that I quote things all the time. So I've decided to compile 27 of my favorite inspirational mountain quotes of all time into this post. The best part is… I want to add to this list!
If you have a favorite quote and I don't have it listed here, tell me about it in the comments!
Seriously though… I need more mountain quotes in my life!
I'm sure I will also add more… the more stories I read and books I consume. This is going to be awesome! And next time you need a pick me up, or you are feeling not-so-inspired by life, you can come back to this post and be reminded that we all struggle, and part of life's big journey is pushing past the challenges that face us.
So here we go… my favorite inspirational mountain quotes!
Some of the quotes below have a story to go along with them, some of them I read in books, some I heard in talks and some I can't remember where I heard them, but have them written in my notebook of quotes (yes, I keep a notebook of quotes).
I hope you find that one of them touches you as some of them have done for me.
A Story: I have this tattoo on my arm that came from this first inspirational mountain quote above. It was early in my adventure story (I haven't posted my "story") yet, but it's coming soon. I had just completed my first year learning about mountaineering with a Climbing Club in Utah I had joined. We had done 2 or 3 trips that year, one of them being Mount Whitney's Mountaineers Route.
I was so inspired by the mountains and the joy they had brought my life but saw this beautiful parallel between mountains and life in general. Mountains aren't just beautiful. They are insane struggle, challenge, and sometimes disappointment as well. I read this quote somewhere one night, and I felt it in my core. My life had been this series of achievements, disappointments, struggle, and joy… it was the say feelings I got when I went out into the wilderness. So I got a tattoo inspired from this quote, it says, "On life and mountains, it is the same".
I feel like I wouldn't get away with writing a post about inspirational mountain quotes without dropping the most well known one, and while sometimes its easy to feel like it is overused… I can't say that I don't feel this way every time the weekend rolls around. John Muir captured a strong feeling with that short sentence.
"Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there."
I love the simplicity of this, but just goes to remind you. Its easy to look at everyone's success stories and think it's all rainbows and unicorns. However, they struggled and had challenges, just like you and me. There are no unicorns.
I have no idea who said this quote, but I love it! It's so true.
I grew up very religious as a child. I don't really go to church anymore, but I sort of see nature and the outdoors as my new church. It's where I go to find community (with other climbers and hikers) and it's where I find my peace.. the deep inner peace. It's also where I go to confront my greatest challenges, learn humility, and be in awe of beauty.
For more inspiring quotes, check out this post on inspirational quotes about travel!
Well, I really hope you liked this list, and like I mentioned above… Leave me any of your favorite ones in the comments below! I'll be going back and updating this post throughout the year to add in new ones!
Before we part, I'll leave you with two final quotes that I LOVE.
If I'm being honest, those two quotes are really what this blog is all about. It's one thing to dream of beautiful mountains, hiking beautiful places, and traveling all around the world. It's another thing to LIVE those dreams. Let your curiosity and your dreams drive your life… not your fears.
Looking for more Quotes posts? Check out my 57 Quotes to Inspire Your Solo Travels.


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About Specht Architects
Specht Architects was founded on the vision of creating elegant, comfortable, and timeless buildings that are rooted in the unique environments in which they exist, and shaped by the character of the people who will inhabit them.
Specht has been named as a "Top 100" architect by New York Magazine, and one of the "50 up and coming firms from around the world" by Wallpaper* magazine. Scott Specht also recently gave a TEDx talk about the future of housing in the United States.
Our projects have been featured in over 100 publications worldwide, and have received numerous awards from the American Institute of Architects, the Architectural League of New York, The Texas Society of Architects, and many others.
More important than the awards, however, is the fact that we have many repeat clients who appreciate our work and enjoy working with us. We're nice people, and love what we do!
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Australian dollar jumps, kiwi slumps after inflation data
The Australian dollar jumped to a more than five-month high on Wednesday after inflation data came in hotter than expected, while the kiwi slipped after New Zealand's fourth-quarter inflation rose less than what its central bank had forecast.
The euro held near a nine-month peak against the dollar, as traders weighed a rosier growth outlook for the euro zone against growing signs of a looming US recession.
The Aussie rose 0.66% to $0.7092, its highest since August, after a shock surge in inflation to a 33-year high last quarter added to the case for the Reserve Bank of Australia to continue raising interest rates.
Meanwhile, the kiwi slid nearly 0.6% to $0.6469, after New Zealand's annual inflation of 7.2% in the fourth quarter came in below its central bank's 7.5% forecast.
"The main message we're taking from it is that we think we've seen the worst of inflation now, and we think inflation has peaked," said Jarrod Kerr, chief economist at Kiwibank.
"We're expecting the cash rate in New Zealand to peak at 5%, not 5.5%, which is what the Reserve Bank (of New Zealand) is telling us they're going to do, and rates markets are reacting to that change in view."
In other currencies, the euro steadied at $1.0888, near Monday's nine-month high of $1.0927, as a surprisingly resilient euro zone economy and hawkish rhetoric from European Central Bank (ECB) policymakers supported the single currency.
Data on Tuesday showed that euro zone business activity made a surprise return to modest growth in January, indicating the downturn in the bloc may not be as deep as feared.
Expectations of further rate increases from the ECB also aided sentiment. Policymakers are committed to taming inflation, but are split on the size of moves beyond February's likely half-a-percentage point increase.
In the United States, a gloomier outlook is unfolding as signs of an economic slowdown, a result of the Federal Reserve's aggressive rate hikes last year, are starting to show.
U.S. business activity contracted for the seventh straight month in January, though the downturn moderated across both the manufacturing and services sectors for the first time since September.
Against a basket of currencies, the US dollar index eked out a 0.01% gain to 101.92, not far from last week's nearly eight-month low of 101.51.
"(The data) just confirms that for one, the resilience in Europe … and the challenges they've had in terms of energy, have not been as detrimental as some had expected, whilst at the same time, the slowdown in the U.S., in terms of activity, looks to be broadening," said Rodrigo Catril, a currency strategist at National Australia Bank.
Sterling slipped 0.15% to $1.2322, while the Japanese yen last bought 130.24 per dollar.
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With Auction Day fast approaching, we sit down with each of the couples to talk about their futures and their favourite rooms in the first of two exclusive Block Shop retrospectives.
We've tuned in nightly, cheering them on as they renovated five stunning apartments for auction. When Scotty calls, "Tools down!" for the last time, and the Challenge Apartment is complete, our Blockheads will have renovated a whopping 95 rooms – a Block record.
"The kitchen!" Kingi announces, almost before we've finished asking the question.
Flashback: We spoke to Caro and Kingi about their winning kitchen. Read more about it.
One of Ebony's favourite aspects is its art. Katie McKinnon's 'Golden Jellyfish II Acrylic and Gold Mica Flake on Canvas' appears alongside black-and-white Christopher Pillitz photographs from Lumas Gallery.
Flashback: Read what Luke and Ebony had to say about their winning living room.
Their winning master ensuite established our penthouse duo as a force to be reckoned with. The choice to opt for timber and brass showerheads, coupled with timber pendants was inspired.
Whitney is also fond of her master bedroom. She loves the colour palette and the use of timber throughout – their wooden stools and lamp are available now.
It's no surprise that Vonni favours her master bedroom, awarded a perfect score from our judges. The space was praised for treading the knife-edge between feeling trendy and timeless. In it, the ladies proved they have an eye for furniture and artwork.
Flashback: Suzi and Vonni revealed what makes a perfect room after their master bedroom win.
Now that they've lived and breathed The Block, we wonder, will they ever consider slipping on a pair of boots and giving it another crack?
"If you'd asked us halfway through, we probably would've said, 'No,'" Shay laughs.
"Then we fell into a routine, and as we worked it out, it got easier," Kingi chimes in.
Caro explains that by then, you know the process, you know what needs to be done, and when it needs to get done by.
"Once you do a Block, that's when you feel like you can actually tackle it," Ebony says.
Vonni is less ready to commit. For her, it's a question that will need to wait until after the Auction for its answer.
"I can't answer that honestly now. Without a win? Probably not. If you ask me after a successful auction, I will probably say, 'Yes!'" Vonni laughs.
If you're feeling nostalgic, you can revisit every room from this season's Block and purchase your favourite items from each.


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namespace App\Modules\Nucleo\Controllers;

use App\Modules\Nucleo\Models\Users;
use App\Modules\Nucleo\Models\Mysql\ResetPasswords;
use App\Modules\Nucleo\Models\Mysql\PasswordChanges;
use App\Modules\Nucleo\Models\Protheus\Colaboradores;
use App\Modules\Nucleo\Models\UsersGroups;
use App\Shared\Controllers\ControllerBase;

class SessionController extends ControllerBase
{

    /**
     *
     */
    public function initialize()
    {
        $this->tag->setTitle(' Login ');
        parent::initialize();
        $this->view->setTemplateBefore('public');
    }

    /**
     *
     * @return type
     */
    public function indexAction()
    {
        try {

            if ($this->auth->hasRememberMe()) {
                return $this->auth->loginWithRememberMe();
            }
            $this->assets->collection('footerJs')->addJs('app/nucleo/session/register.js');
            $colaboradores = new Colaboradores();
            $this->view->empresas = $colaboradores->getEmpresas();
            $this->view->keyToken = $this->security->getTokenKey();
            $this->view->valueToken = $this->security->getToken();
        } catch (\Exception $e) {
            $this->flash->error($e->getMessage());
        }
    }

    /**
     *
     * @return type
     * @throws Exception
     */
    public function logonAction()
    {

        try {
            if ($this->request->isPost()) {
                //if ($this->security->checkToken()) {

                if ($this->validation()) {

                    $this->auth->check([
                        'cpf' => $this->request->getPost('cpf', 'alphanum'),
                        'password' => $this->request->getPost('password'),
                        'rememberMe' => $this->request->getPost('rememberMe')
                    ]);

                    $user = $this->auth->getUser();

                    if ($user->mustChangePassword == 'S') {
                        $msg = 'Este é seu primeiro acesso ao sistema, ou foi solicitado a mudança de sua senha pelo Administrador.
Por favor, redefina sua senha.';
                        $this->flash->notice($msg);
                        return $this->response->redirect('change-password');
                    }

                    return $this->response->redirect();
                }
                /* } else {
                  $this->security->hash(rand());
                  throw new Exception('Chave CSRF inválida.');
                  } */
            }
        } catch (\Exception $e) {
            $this->flash->error($e->getMessage());
        }
        return $this->response->redirect('login');
    }

    /**
     *
     * @return type
     * @throws Exception
     */
    public function registerAction()
    {

        try {
            if (!$this->request->isPost()) {
                return $this->response->redirect('login');
            } else {
                // if ($this->security->checkToken()) {

                if ($this->validation()) {

                    if ($this->makeRegister()) {
                        $this->flash->success('Cadastro realizado com sucesso.');
                    }
                }
                /* } else {
                  $this->security->hash(rand());
                  throw new Exception('Chave CSRF inválida.');
                  } */
            }
        } catch (\Exception $e) {
            $this->flash->error($e->getMessage());
        }

        return $this->response->redirect('login');
    }

    /**
     * Shows the forgot password form
     */
    public function forgotPasswordAction()
    {

        try {
            if ($this->request->isPost()) {
                //if ($this->security->checkToken()) {
                if ($this->validation()) {
                    $user = Users::findFirstByEmail($this->request->getPost('email', 'email'));
                    if (!$user) {
                        throw new Exception('Não há nenhuma conta associada a este e-mail');
                    } else {
                        $resetPassword = new ResetPasswords();
                        $userName = explode('@', $user->email)[0];
                        $resetPassword->usersName = $userName;
                        if ($resetPassword->save()) {
                            $this->flash->success('Sucesso! Por favor verifique suas mensagens de e-mail para redefinir sua senha.');
                        } else {
                            foreach ($resetPassword->getMessages() as $message) {
                                $msg = '';
                                foreach ($resetPassword->getMessages() as $message) {
                                    $msg .= $message . '
';
                                }
                                throw new Exception($msg);
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
                /* } else {
                  $this->security->hash(rand());
                  throw new Exception('Chave CSRF inválida.');
                  } */
            }
        } catch (\Exception $e) {
            $this->flash->error($e->getMessage());
        }
        return $this->response->redirect('login');
    }

    /**
     *
     * @return type
     */
    public function logoutAction()
    {

        $this->auth->remove();
        $this->session->destroy();
        session_unset();
        session_write_close();
        setcookie(session_name(), '', 0, '/');
        session_regenerate_id(true);

        return $this->response->redirect('login');
    }

    /**
     *
     * @return boolean
     * @throws Exception
     */
    private function validation()
    {

        $cpf = $this->request->getPost('cpf', 'alphanum');
        $password = $this->request->getPost('password');
        $confirmPassword = $this->request->getPost('confirmPassword');
        $email = $this->request->getPost('email', 'email');
        $dataAdmissao = $this->request->getPost('dataAdmissao', 'string');
        $empresa = $this->request->getPost('empresa');

        $msg = '';
        $validator = $this->validator;

        if (!is_null($cpf)) {
            if (!$validator::stringType()->notEmpty()->validate($cpf)) {
                $msg .= 'Por favor preencha o campo CPF.
';
            }
        }
        if (!is_null($password)) {
            if (!$validator::stringType()->notEmpty()->validate($password)) {
                $msg .= 'Por favor preencha o campo Senha.
';
            }
        }
        if (!is_null($confirmPassword)) {
            if (!$validator::stringType()->notEmpty()->validate($confirmPassword)) {
                $msg .= 'Por favor preencha o campo Confirme sua Senha.
';
            }
            if (!$validator::equals($password)->validate($confirmPassword)) {
                $msg .= 'As senhas não conferem.
';
            }
        }
        if (!is_null($email)) {
            if (!$validator::stringType()->notEmpty()->validate($email)) {
                $msg .= 'Por favor preencha o campo E-mail.
';
            }
            if (!$validator::email()->validate($email)) {
                $msg .= 'E-mail não é válido.
';
            }
        }
        if (!is_null($dataAdmissao)) {
            if (!$validator::stringType()->notEmpty()->validate($dataAdmissao)) {
                $msg .= 'Por favor preencha o campo Data de Admissão.
';
            }
            if (!$validator::date('d/m/Y')->validate($dataAdmissao)) {
                $msg .= 'Por favor insira Data de Admissão no formato dd/mm/aaaa
';
            }
        }
        if (!is_null($empresa)) {
            if (!$validator::stringType()->notEmpty()->validate($empresa)) {
                $msg .= 'Por favor escolha uma opção do campo Empresa.
';
            }
        }
        if (!empty($msg)) {
            throw new Exception($msg);
        }
        return true;
    }

    /**
     *
     * @return boolean
     * @throws Exception
     */
    private function makeRegister()
    {

        $cpf = $this->request->getPost('cpf', 'alphanum');
        $dataAdmissao = $this->request->getPost('dataAdmissao');
        $empresa = $this->request->getPost('empresa', 'alphanum');

        $colaboradores = new Colaboradores();
        $funcionarioProtheus = $colaboradores->validaDadosFuncionario($cpf, $empresa, $dataAdmissao);

        if (empty($funcionarioProtheus)) {
            throw new Exception('Não foi encontrado esse CPF na base de dados. Verifique sua Data de Admissão ou Empresa e tente novamente.');
        }

        $user = new Users();

        $user->setId($user->autoincrement());
        $user->setName($funcionarioProtheus['NOME']);
        $user->setCpf($cpf);
        $email = $this->request->getPost('email', 'email');
        $user->setEmail($email);
        $user->setUserName(explode('@', $email)[0]);
        $user->setPassword($this->security->hash($this->request->getPost('password')));
        $user->setMustChangePassword('N');
        $user->setStatus('A');

        if (!$user->create()) {
            $msg = '';
            foreach ($user->getMessages() as $message) {
                $msg .= $message . '
';
            }
            throw new Exception($msg);
        }

        $userGroup = new UsersGroups();
        $userGroup->setId($userGroup->autoincrement());
        $userGroup->setUserId($user->getId());
        $userGroup->setGroupId(3);

        if (!$userGroup->save()) {
            $msg = '';
            foreach ($userGroup->getMessages() as $message) {
                $msg .= $message . '
';
            }
            throw new Exception($msg);
        }

        return true;
    }

    /**
     *
     * @return type
     * @throws Exception
     */
    public function resetPasswordAction()
    {

        try {

            $code = $this->dispatcher->getParam('code');

            $resetPassword = ResetPasswords::findFirstByCode($code);

            if (!$resetPassword) {
                throw new Exception('Não foi possível encontrar o código.');
            }

            if ($resetPassword->reset != 'N') {
                throw new Exception('Código expirado.');
            }

            $resetPassword->reset = 'Y';

            if (!$resetPassword->save()) {
                $msg = '';
                foreach ($resetPassword->getMessages() as $message) {
                    $msg .= $message . '
';
                }
                throw new Exception($msg);
            }

            $user = Users::findFirst([
                          'userName = ?0',
                          'bind' => [$resetPassword->usersName]
            ]);

            $this->auth->authUserById($user->id);
            $this->flash->notice('Por favor, redefina sua senha.');
            return $this->response->redirect('change-password');
        } catch (\Exception $e) {
            $this->flash->error($e->getMessage());
        }
        return $this->response->redirect('login');
    }

    /**
     *
     * @return type
     * @throws Exception
     */
    public function changePasswordAction()
    {

        try {
            $user = $this->auth->getUser();

            if (!$user) {
                throw new Exception('Acesso inválido.');
            }
            if ($this->request->isPost()) {
                if ($this->security->checkToken()) {
                    if ($this->validation()) {
                        $user->password = $this->security->hash($this->request->getPost('password'));
                        $user->mustChangePassword = 'N';
                        if (!$user->update()) {
                            $msg = '';
                            foreach ($user->getMessages() as $message) {
                                $msg .= $message . '
';
                            }
                            throw new Exception($msg);
                        } else {
                            $passwordChange = new PasswordChanges();
                            $passwordChange->usersName = $user->userName;
                            $passwordChange->ipAddress = $this->request->getClientAddress();
                            $passwordChange->userAgent = $this->request->getUserAgent();

                            if (!$passwordChange->save()) {
                                $msg = '';
                                foreach ($passwordChange->getMessages() as $message) {
                                    $msg .= $message . '
';
                                }
                                throw new Exception($msg);
                            } else {

                                $this->flash->success('Sua senha foi alterada com sucesso');
                            }
                        }
                    }
                } else {
                    $this->security->hash(rand());
                    throw new Exception('Chave CSRF inválida.');
                }
                return $this->response->redirect();
            }
            $this->view->name = $user->name;
            $this->view->keyToken = $this->security->getTokenKey();
            $this->view->valueToken = $this->security->getToken();
        } catch (\Exception $e) {
            $this->flash->error($e->getMessage());
            return $this->response->redirect('login');
        }
    }

}

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One of the best feelings is leaving the nail salon with a perfect manicure and a fresh new polish. But who has time to make a trip to the salon every time you feel like updating your look? Not me! Between crazy work schedules and demanding social calendars, I depend on Revlon ColorStay Gel Envy Nail Enamel totransform my nails in minutes!
It is so easy and only takes a few quick steps. Use the brush to dab a few beads of polish onto the center of the nail. The trick is to let the polish do the majority of the work. Use the brush to spread the polish as it's placed onto the nail. It should only take a few brush strokes and voila! You have a fresh new color with a gel-like shine, without the lengthy trip to the salon.
Often, updating your look is as simple as a quick color change. There is no better feeling than going out for the evening with that extra boost of confidence!


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The Thomson Centre: a building without a plan
It's been 10 months since the Yukon government promised to open a palliative care unit in the Thomson Centre, yet the Health Department…
It's been 10 months since the Yukon government promised to open a palliative care unit in the Thomson Centre, yet the Health Department can't say when it plans to fulfill this Yukon Party election promise.
From the outside, the centre, which adjoins Whitehorse General hospital, resembles a pleasant old cottage — a fitting appearance for a place intended for elderly Yukoners to spend their final days. The setting is intended to feel like home yet offer high levels of medical care.
Inside, most the lights are out. The 44 rooms designed as extended-care units have no patients, and are largely bare of furniture as well.
The occasional bed remains in the patient rooms, but much of the equipment has been carted over to Copper Ridge Place.
Inside a spacious foyer sits a fireplace, complete with stacks of wood waiting to be lit.
Less welcoming is a sign on a red door nearby, which leads to the special care unit.
"Private property," it reads. "No trespassing."
However, several rooms are in use.
In one, a woman jogs on a treadmill inside a room full of exercise equipment. In another, a physiotherapist helps limber an elderly woman. Visiting physicians and therapists use the building for spillover from the hospital.
But much of the building sits unused.
Mould grows inside.
The heating and air-circulation systems need to be replaced. And the nurse-call system needs to be upgraded to meet modern standards.
These repairs are necessary before patients are moved into the facility. The work is expected to cost millions of dollars.
When will the mould be scrubbed? When will repairs be made? When will patients live inside the building?
The Health Department prefers not to answer these questions.
It's a big change from when the Yukon Party came into power with promises of cleaning up the Thomson Centre.
The facility was built under the NDP and was plagued with problems. The roof leaked. The Yukon Party bet they could do better and promised to fix the mess.
It cost more than $1 million to fix the leaky roof. Still, problems persisted.
Now they'd rather not talk about it.
For more than a week, Pat Living, a Health Department spokesperson, has not responded to questions concerning the Thomson Centre.
Health Minister Glenn Hart proved equally evasive in the legislature this month. It takes determination and a heavy dose of caffeine to parse his words. Even then, little is gained.
"Until such time as we determine the need for what's going to take place in the Thomson Centre, then we'll make the adjustments with regard to making the mechanical maintenance changes necessary to accommodate that need and make things happen in the Thomson Centre," said Hart on December 2.
On the matter of mould, at least, Hart was direct.
"Work is underway" to clean "some small mould located in an area that is not being utilized right now," he said.
To find more straight answers, one must go back to May, when the more articulate Brad Cathers held the Health portfolio.
Fixing the Thomson Centre is not a government priority, Cathers said at that time. Instead, it would sink its money elsewhere.
This was a step-down for Cathers, who, in August of 2006, promised to fully open the Thomson Centre within six months.
But Cathers imagined the Thomson Centre would see money for repairs by the end of the fiscal year, to bring the centre "back into full operation."
Seeing as no such money has been allocated for the Thomson Centre in the government's supplementary spending bill, it now seems unlikely this will happen.
Both Cathers and Hart have acknowledged the government faces another big obstacle to opening the Thomson Centre: they don't have enough nurses to staff it.
So the government has focussed on a more modest goal: to re-open a 12-bed wing of Copper Ridge Place by mid-January, Hart said.
Contact John Thompson at
johnt@yukon-news.com.
Little Paws daycare faces eviction
'Abnormality in the lungs' likely cause of man's death


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John Pilger (2019-11-29). Visiting Britain's Political Prisoner. Julian Assange. globalresearch.ca I set out at dawn. Her Majesty's Prison Belmarsh is in the flat hinterland of south east London, a ribbon of walls and wire with no horizon. At what is called the visitors centre, I surrendered my passport, wallet, credit …
teleSUR (2019-11-29). Chile: People With Eye Injuries To File Lawsuit Against Piñera. telesurenglish.net Chile's Coordinator of the Victims of Eye Traumas (CVTO) announced Thursday that it will file a lawsuit against President Sebastian Piñera as directly responsible for human rights violations. | RELATED: | Chile's Lawmakers Approve Impeachment of Interior Minister | "We seek justice. People responsible for serious injuries to citizens should not go unpunished. That…
RT (2019-11-29). London Bridge attacker's prior 'terrorist' conviction revealed as BoJo calls for 'appropriate sentences'. rt.com The man behind the London Bridge stabbing rampage had spent time in jail for an "Islamist terrorism-related offense," UK newspapers report, as PM Boris Johnson called for stricter jail terms for offenders. | The attacker was released from prison on probation about a year ago, agreeing to wear an electronic monitoring tag as part of his bail terms, the Times and Sky News reported independently, citing government sources. The Ministry of Justice has ordered a review of his case, but authorities are yet to reveal his identity or share details of the crime for which he served time. | Moments before the attack, in…
teleSUR (2019-11-28). Lula: The Legal and Political Battle for His Innocence. telesurenglish.net The former president and Workers' Party leader, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, reiterated the legal and political battle he is fighting to prove his innocence before the more than 210 million Brazilians who trust his word. | RELATED: | Brazilian Regional Court Extends Lula's Prison Sentence | "I need to prove that all the proceedings against me are fallacies, lies, inventions, both from media, the Public Ministry and Judge Moro," Lula da Silva…
NationAction (2019-11-27). Take Action Now: Fight to End Mass Incarceration. thenation.com Take Action Now: Fight to End Mass Incarceration…
Strategic Culture (2019-11-26). Netanyahu's Get-Out-of-Jail Card… War With Iran. theantimedia.com The temptation will be ever-stronger for the hot-headed commando-turned-politician to rile up security tensions with Iran and Syria.
Delilah Boxstein (2019-11-25). Blinded Palestinian Journalist Exposes Israel's Increasing Violence Against Media. mintpressnews.com 2018 saw a 52 percent increase in the number of violations against Palestinian press, the majority of them comprised physical abuse, arrests or detentions, questioning, preventing coverage and shutting down websites and social media accounts.
Natasha Lennard (2019-11-22). Meet the Tucson 12: Under Trump, Protesters Are Being Hit With Felony Riot Charges. theintercept.com Illustration: Hanna Barczyk for The Intercept | On the night of August 14, a small group of around 20 Tucson, Arizona-based activists and community members stood outside the Pima County Adult Detention Complex, making noise. They sang, they chanted, they banged drums and pans loud enough to reach the ears of those caged behind the facility's beige concrete walls. Standing on a sidewalk, some lit small, handheld fireworks; others held up a large banner bearing the famed prison abolitionist refrain, "Fire to the prisons." The message to those inside, as with most every noise demonstration held outside a prison:…
Ezekiel Edwards (2019-11-18). An Arizona Sheriff Deputy's Abuse of a Quadruple Amputee Teen Highlights a Policing Culture That Must Change. aclu.org Inhumane. Cruel. Abusive. What other words could possibly describe a Pima County, Arizona Sheriff Deputy placing a 15-year-old quadruple amputee who posed no threat into a headlock and then pinning him to the ground at a group home? What if the Deputy then screamed at another teenager videotaping the abuse and yelled at him repeatedly "shut the hell up" and, "Am I your bitch?" before slamming the teenager's head into the wall while handcuffed? | This is not another example…
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Should subscriptions to online versions of newspapers, journals and periodicals be charged at 0% VAT? The Upper Tribunal in the case of News Corp says 'yes'.
By Geoffrey Tack
On 24 December 2019 the Tax Chamber of the Upper Tribunal in the case of News Corp UK & Ireland Ltd v HMRC found that subscriptions to online versions of newspapers should be charged at the zero-rate of VAT; just like the sales of the equivalent printed versions. In doing so, the Upper Tribunal overturned the decision of First-Tier Tribunal (Tax).
This means that previous understanding that online subscriptions must be charged at 20% VAT is incorrect. As a result, the judgment should give rise to claims to HMRC for overpaid VAT by those who supply online versions of printed newspapers, journals or periodicals, regardless of the nationality of the publication, provided it is supplied in the UK. Statutory time limits allow claims of overpaid VAT to go back four years.
Facts of the News Corp case
News Corp UK & Ireland Ltd (the Appellant) publishes The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun and The Sun on Sunday. The supply of newspapers is zero-rated for the purposes of VAT by virtue of Section 30 of the Value Added Tax Act 1994, specifically Item 2 of Group 3 in Schedule 8 of the Act.
The Appellant contended that the term 'newspapers' in Item 2 should be interpreted as including online versions. HMRC disagreed and the First Tier Tribunal found that, although online versions were indeed similar to printed versions, the legislation did not extend to online newspapers.
The Upper Tribunal's Decision
The Upper Tribunal agreed with the First Tier-Tribunal's finding that online versions were essentially digital versions of the newspaper, being periodic edition-based publications.
The Upper Tribunal acknowledged that VAT zero-rating provisions should be construed strictly (in order to avoid the zero rate being abused by suppliers). However, the Upper Tribunal determined that this did not prevent the principle in statutory construction of 'always speaking' from applying to technological advancements in curated news (i.e. the law should be interpreted and applied to the world as it exists today). Although the original VAT legislation had not foreseen the advent of online newspapers, Parliament's purpose in zero-rating newspapers could be assumed to have included online versions.
The post Should subscriptions to online versions of newspapers, journals and periodicals be charged at 0% VAT? The Upper Tribunal in the case of News Corp says 'yes'. appeared first on mediawrites.law.
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Bird & Bird LLP


This accessory attaches right to the bowl on the Universal Plus and turns it into a large, 6.5 qt slicer shredder. It is one of my favorite attachments! There is no chopper or slicer at the bottom of the bowl, just the one pass-through on the disk.
Comes with 3 disks: Shredding/Grating (reversible for coarse & fine), Slicing (reversible for thick & thin), and Fine Grating.


Today is just the first day of the challenge so you have plenty of time to create and share your project. You can click right here for the link to participate.
Sooo pretty especially with those sweet little flowers...love this, Susie!!!! Thanks for playing along with us at the Color Throwdown Challenge!!!
So pretty! Love the cluster of flowers accenting the sentiment panel. Thanks for joining us at The Color Throwdown!


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namespace {

char* install_option = NULL;
char* update_option = NULL;
char* uninstall_option = NULL;
char* reinstall_option = NULL;
char* operation_key = NULL;
char* xml_path = NULL;
char* icon_path = NULL;
int quiet = 0;

GOptionEntry entries[] = {
  { "install", 'i', 0, G_OPTION_ARG_STRING, &install_option,
    "Path of the application to be installed", "APPID" },
  { "update", 'u', 0, G_OPTION_ARG_STRING, &update_option,
    "Path of the application to be updated", "APPID" },
  { "uninstall", 'd', 0, G_OPTION_ARG_STRING, &uninstall_option,
    "Uninstall the application with this appid", "APPID" },
  { "reinstall", 'r', 0, G_OPTION_ARG_STRING, &reinstall_option,
    "Path of the application to be reinstalled", "APPID" },
  { "key", 'k', 0, G_OPTION_ARG_STRING, &operation_key,
    "Unique operation key", "KEY" },
  { "quiet", 'q', 0, G_OPTION_ARG_NONE, &quiet,
    "Quiet mode", NULL },
  { "xml", 'x', 0, G_OPTION_ARG_STRING, &xml_path,
    "Xml file", "XML_FILE" },
  { "icon", 'y', 0, G_OPTION_ARG_STRING, &icon_path,
    "Icon file", "ICON_FILE" },
  { NULL }
};

}  // namespace

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
  GError* error = NULL;
  GOptionContext* context;

#if !GLIB_CHECK_VERSION(2, 36, 0)
  // g_type_init() is deprecated on GLib since 2.36, Tizen has 2.32.
  g_type_init();
#endif

  context = g_option_context_new(
        " - Crosswalk Tizen Application Installation helper");
  if (!context) {
    fprintf(stderr, "g_option_context_new failed\n");
    exit(1);
  }
  g_option_context_add_main_entries(context, entries, NULL);
  if (!g_option_context_parse(context, &argc, &argv, &error)) {
    fprintf(stderr, "option parsing failed: %s\n", error->message);
    g_option_context_free(context);
    exit(1);
  }
  g_option_context_free(context);

  bool result = false;

  // args for pkgmgr
  const char* pkgmgr_argv[5];
  pkgmgr_argv[2] = "-k";
  pkgmgr_argv[3] = operation_key;
  pkgmgr_argv[4] = "-q";

  char* appId = NULL;
  if (install_option) {
    appId = install_option;
  } else if (uninstall_option) {
    appId = uninstall_option;
  } else if (update_option) {
    appId = update_option;
  } else if (reinstall_option) {
    appId = reinstall_option;
  } else {
    fprintf(stderr, "Use: --install, --uninstall, --update or --reinstall\n");
    exit(1);
  }

  PackageInstallerHelper helper(appId);

  if (install_option) {
    if (!xml_path || !icon_path) {
      fprintf(stdout, "missing --xml or --icon option\n");
      exit(1);
    }

     if (operation_key) {
      pkgmgr_argv[0] = "-i";
      pkgmgr_argv[1] = install_option;  // this value is ignored by pkgmgr
      helper.InitializePkgmgrSignal((quiet ? 5 : 4), pkgmgr_argv);
    }

    result = helper.InstallApplication(xml_path, icon_path);
  } else if (uninstall_option) {
    if (operation_key) {
      pkgmgr_argv[0] = "-d";
      pkgmgr_argv[1] = uninstall_option;  // this value is ignored by pkgmgr
      helper.InitializePkgmgrSignal((quiet ? 5 : 4), pkgmgr_argv);
    }

    result = helper.UninstallApplication();
  } else if (update_option) {
    if (!xml_path || !icon_path) {
      fprintf(stderr, "missing --xml or --icon option\n");
      exit(1);
    }

    if (operation_key) {
      pkgmgr_argv[0] = "-i";
      pkgmgr_argv[1] = update_option;  // this value is ignored by pkgmgr
      helper.InitializePkgmgrSignal((quiet ? 5 : 4), pkgmgr_argv);
    }

    result = helper.UpdateApplication(xml_path, icon_path);
  } else if (reinstall_option) {
    if (operation_key) {
      pkgmgr_argv[0] = "-r";
      pkgmgr_argv[1] = reinstall_option;  // this value is ignored by pkgmgr
      helper.InitializePkgmgrSignal((quiet ? 5 : 4), pkgmgr_argv);
    }

    result = helper.ReinstallApplication();
  }

  // Convention is to return 0 on success.
  return result ? 0 : 1;
}


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Archive for the 'documentary' Category
"Roma" Wins Best Picture from the Broadcast Film Critics! Close ties with Gaga, no REALLY!Christian Bale wins TWICE!
"Roma" makes history at the Broadcast Film Critics tonight. It becomes the first foreign language film to ever win Best Picture. It also won Best Director for its genius helmer Alfonso Cuaron, and he also won for Best Cinematography. Altogether "Roma" won the most awards tonight as it also won Best Foreign Film.
History was also made when Glenn Glose for "The Wife" tied with Lady Gaga for "A Star is Born." That is a combo I thought I would never in this life see onstage together ! Both WINNING!
For those who care about these things, Lady Gaga's leading man/director/co-screenwriter/co-producer Bradley Cooper once again got SQUAT! Nada. Nothing Zilch! Just like he also got completely shafted by the Golden Globes.
Gaga's win here least keeps her in the race, to some degree. But the Academy, who hands out the Oscars is going to give it to 70-something veteran Glenn Close, who has six previous nominations and no wins.
Mahershala Ali nailed Best Supporting Actor once again for "The Green Book," and he will probably go on to repeat his Golden Globe triumph at the Oscars. This category is now officially closed.
Regina King also won, AGAIN, for "If Beale Street Could Talk" but she won't win at the SAGS because she wasn't nominated there. Watch Amy Adams for "Vice" take that.
Christian Bale was TWICE tonight for his evil vice president in "Vice." This makes him almost a lock now for Best Actor at the Oscars,
addiction, Awards, Books, British, Camp, Comedy, documentary, drama, Film, Film Festivals, Foreign Films, Gay, Independent Films, Lesbian, New York, Oscar, Oscar Blogging, Oscars, television, women's rights
Broaddast Film Critics
YEAR'S TEN BEST FILMS 2018
1.BOY ERASED
2.ROMA
3. MARY POPPINS RETURNS
4.YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE
6. THE GREEN BOOK
7.THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS
8.THE ISLE OF DOGS
9.MAMA MIA,HERE WE GO AGAIN!
10.ORSON WELLES' THEY'LL LOVE ME WHEN I'M DEAD
Awards, Books, British, Camp, Comedy, documentary, drama, Film, Film Festivals, Foreign Films, Gay, Independent Films, Lesbian, New York, Oscar, Oscar Blogging, Oscars, women's rights
It's Over 100 Degrees in NYC. Perfect Antidote Mhz's "Antartica:In the Footsteps of the Emperor"
New York is melting in over 100 degree temperatures. It's brutal out there. So why not stay inside In the air-conditioning and watch the latest from Mhz? "Antarctica: In the Footsteps of the Emporor"
This is a very different offering from Mhz who usually specializes in heavy duty European television crime dramas. A favorite of mine "Maigret," but their new "Antarctica:In the Footsteps of the Emperor." is something else entirely. It's a delightful French documentary on the sub-Artic continent, by Luc Jaquet, who brought us the equally delightful "March of the Penguins" in 2016.
And once again, those penguins steal the show. This documentary focuses on the filmmaker/photographers themselves. An intrepid band of French Antarctic enthusiasts, who just HAVE to photograph every single aspect of the frozen continent. Their journey is compelling because they feel that climate change has even affected this least approachable of land masses. It's melting fast. And they show it.
They have found traces of human waste and pollution in the water and also in what the birds and other mammals are eating…And the penguins! How can one not love the most humanoid of birds, who all resemble Alfred Hitchcock? To me any way. And we are engaged in their struggle to survive the brutal arctic conditions. They upstage the filmmakers at every turn, but we form concerns, too, about this intrepid band of Frenchmen, who are so obsessed with Antarctica, they even want to photograph and record what's BENEATH it. Have you ever seen the UNDERside of an iceberg? Well, you will here in this terrific doc.
Your heart is in your mouth as these daredevil deep-sea divers go beyond the beyond. To depths of the oceans bottom that were unimaginable heretofore. Laurent Ballest and Vincent Munier and their crew attempt, and succeed where to bravely go where no man has gone before.
"It's like walking on the moon!" They exclaim, in French, over and over. And you'll feel like you've taken a really cool and cooling escape from the heat of planet earth, when you watch Mhz's enchanting and thrilling "Antartica:In the Footsteps of the Emperor." Emperor Penguin, of course. It's the perfect summertime movie!
Awards, Camp, documentary, Film, Foreign Films, French, Gay, Heat Wave, New York, Snow, Summer, Summer movie, Travel
Agnes Varda, 89, Is Up, in More Ways than One @ the NYFF!
Everything is so up at the NYFF 55, it makes my heart sing! Not the least of which is their big tribute to the tiniest of French Grande Dames du Cinema, Agnes Varda. My latest review at Awardsdaily.com on the great French icon. I called it "Hot at 89" And it was published within minutes! Beautiful lay-out by Sasha Stone and her gifted editor Ryan Adams! Merci a tous, as Agnes would say.
http://www.awardsdaily.com/2017/10/01/hot-89-agnes-varda-nyff-french-cinema- icon-honored/
Autumn, Awards, Camp, Comedy, documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Foreign Films, French, Gay, New York, Oscar, Oscar Blogging, Oscars, Travel, women's rights
Matthew Demy
Visages Villages
"Indecent" Glorious Lesbian/Jewish Musical Play
"Indecent" is Pulitzer Prize Winning Lesbian playwright Paula Vogel's masterpiece. This great American playwright has finally found her voice at age 68 and her greatest triumph. "Indecent" is now at the Cort Theater on Broadway and long may it run. As long as "Fiddler on the Roof," which it strangely resembles, though it is really a straight play with a lot, and I mean a lot, of joyous songs and dances in Yiddish . Perfectly, flawlessly executed under director/collaborator Rebecca Taichman's masterful hand.
At this point in my LONNNNG, career as also a gay playwright, actor, director and critic, I thought I knew every gay and lesbian play backwards and forwards and inside out, four ways to Sunday and back again. But "Indecent" shocked me, not by its' touching, almost reticent depiction of Lesbian-Jewish love at the turn of the last century. (1907 to be exact), but by the fact that "Indecent" is a play-within-a-play-within-in play and that play was the first successful lesbian play just about ever.
And it was written by a newly married heterosexual Jewish playwright Sholem Asch and called "Got fun Nekome" or "God of Vengeance." "Indecent" is a celebration and almost a complete re-staging of this incredibly important, seminal, nearly lost GLBT play. We see scenes from it acted out and re-acted endlessly.
It's certainly one of the best plays of the year, and the most pertinent in this era of incipient terror that is upon us. "Indecent" couldn't be more timely, or more beautiful. And it's simple, so simple, and yet utterly complex. So complex, it has sub-titles or super-titles above the action telling us what, when and in what language, the present scene is taking place. It's a very nifty device, and the shifting Yiddish/English text is glorious in its' magnificent execution.
It's ensemble cast of seven, plus three on-stage actor/musicans, is flawless. And the story and history of "God of Vengeance" is unbelievably dramatic and true.
Of course it was banned and the cast jailed when they LAST tried to do it on Broadway in 1923. By that time "God of Vengenance" had been a hit all over Europe and also in the Yiddish theater here in New York. But they hit the proverbial wall uptown when they were declared "Obscene, indecent, immoral and impure" and shut down immediately.
It's ninety minutes and a harrowing delight. Let me add that the final song "Wiegala" heard near the play's conclusion, was written by Ilse Klein, a nurse at the children's hospital in Theresienstadt, one of the most notorious concentration camps. She sang this song as a lullaby for the children in the wards there before they were to be transported. It is said she sang this song in line to the gas chambers. Are you crying yet? I was. Yes, "Indecent" will move you to tears and to dance and sing and celebrate Paula Vogel's breath-taking triumph of a life time.
Awards, Broadway, Broadway Musicals, documentary, drama, Lesbian, New York, Theater, Tony Awards, women's rights
Debbie Reynolds Dies One Day After Carrie Fisher "Brights Lights" both
Hollywood's heart is surely broken forever with the devastating news of Legend Debbie Reynolds death the day after her beloved daughter Carrie Fisher's death. I'm sad. I'm reeling. I just saw them featured quite marvelously in "Bright Lights" a doc on their tangled lives at the NYFF. And the thing that struck me so much about "Bright Lights" by Fisher Stevens, was how much they loved each other. How much fun they had and what a joy and a treat this documentary was.
It's supposed to air on HBO, now probably sooner rather than later, but don't miss it. It now has an air of tragedy hanging about it, that both Fisher and Reynolds dispel completely by their constantly being "On." And entertaining us mightily and forever. It's a fitting tribute to them, as they always say.
And they don't hold back. It's like they just couldn't. But they loved each other and clearly couldn't live without each other as events have sadly born out.
When I heard Carrie had died, I just KNEW in my heart that her death would kill Debbie, too, and it did. Their houses adjoined each other more or less "up a steep hill" as Carrie put it in Hollywood. They collected endless memorabilia from the Golden Days, and now Debbie herself, one of the biggest symbols of Hollywood's hey day that there ever was is gone.
I can scarcely stand it. Debbie Reynolds played such a large role in my life, always the smiling, dancing teenager from "Singin' in the Rain" and "Tammy" that song that never leaves your mind. And she was even nominated for an Oscar once for "The Unsinkable Molly Brown."
Carrie had "Star Wars" a bigger hit financially than any of her mother's films ever were. And her now iconic Princess Leia never really bowled me over. But her millions of fans disagree.
I loved her acerbic wit, which the film "Bright Lights" capitalizes on by starting with Carrie calling Debbie "tsu-Mommy," but not to her face. When she enters the room with Debbie in it, it's always "Mommy." And the sweetness is not faked for the cameras.
With all her addictions and bipolar disorders, I always thought of Carrie as crashingly normal despite her upbringing and her surroundings. And so did she.
Debbie once said of Carrie "She's genuine." And she was. They both were.
We, the fans, are with them forever and are happy that they are together again in Hollywood Heaven. And we do have this great upcoming doc "Bright Lights" to watch over and over again as soon as it starts airing.
No Mommie Dearest relationship here. They truly loved each other. Don't miss "Bright Lights." Their bright lights will never go out.
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# Bright Lights doc
# Carrie Fisher Death
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NYFF Opens with "The 13th" by Ava DuVernay
My review of the Opening of the 54th New York Film Festival with Ava DuVernay's incredible doc, "The 13th" a veritable history of racism and descrimination in our country.
Here's the link to the article at http://www.awardsdaily.com
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