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2/21/15 (Part Two): Love, Loss and Everything Else
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While watching James Marsh's multi-Oscar nominated The Theory of Everything (2014), I was struck by how much the film reminded me of another Oscar nominated biopic: Phyllida Lloyd's The Iron Lady (2011). Like Lloyd's film, The Theory of Everything is a glossy historical romance anchored by a massively impressive act of mimicry and several strong, if more subtle, surrounding performances. Perhaps the biggest parallel between the two films, however, is the way in which each portrays its subject as less the public figure we all know and more of a "regular Joe" in extraordinary circumstances. In the case of The Iron Lady, this tactic sought to gain audience sympathy for an often divisive public figure. In the case of The Theory of Everything's portrayal of Stephen Hawking, however, it has the curious effect of taking one of the world's foremost thinkers and making his world-changing ideas something of an after-thought.
The romance aspect of The Theory of Everything isn't surprising since the film is based on Jane Hawking's memoir, "Traveling to Infinity: My Life With Stephen." As such, we begin with a young Stephen Hawking (Eddie Redmayne) speeding around Cambridge University in the '60s, as fit, spry, gawky and full of unrepressed energy as any young genius. We see him meet, fall in love with and court young Jane Wilde (Felicity Jones), including actual fireworks to frame the happy couple. We follow Stephen as he works on his doctorate with his mentor, Dennis Sciama (David Thewlis), and are with him when he first gets diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease), a two-year death sentence that is currently stretched into its 50th (and counting) year. We follow the happy couple as they marry, have kids, go through difficult stretches and end up in the arms of others: Jane with choir director/Stephen's first live-in nurse Jonathan (Charlie Cox), Stephen with his nurse/vocal coach Elaine (Maxine Peake). Time, we see, marches ever onward, despite the best ministrations of mankind.
With the exception of Jóhann Jóhannsson's tedious, overly obvious and leading score (Oscar nominated, to boot, albeit for no discernible reason), The Theory of Everything is a perfectly serviceable tearjerker, even if it never gets much deeper than that. From the very first frame to the very last one, it's pretty obvious that Marsh is more interested in the "tortured romantic" aspect of Hawking's life than in the "tortured genius" aspect: for the most part, Hawking's various theories and ideas are introduced quickly and act more as character building moments than actual cornerstones of the film. This isn't necessarily a terrible thing: as previously mentioned with The Iron Lady, any biopic is told from a particular slant and The Theory of Everything's source material is Jane's memoir, not "A Brief History of Time."
The cinematography, courtesy of Benoît Delhomme, is consistently attractive, even if the overly "Vaselined" lens effects tend to lend everything a bit of a cheesy air. While the beginning of the film is (rather inexplicably) shot in blue tones, the rest of the movie looks quite warm, lovely and inviting, rather like the bygone Merchant-Ivory weepies. The flash-back structure is effective for telling the story, although I'll freely admit that the silly "rewind" effect at the finale is a bit of a bridge too far: it's another affectation that seems calculatedly designed to give the ol' heartstrings one final tug on the way out the door.
Much has been made of Eddie Redmayne's pitch-perfect portrayal of Stephen Hawking (he would go on to take home the Best Actor trophy at the ceremony) and there's no doubt that it's masterful: from his early scenes as a gawky, shy, budding cosmologist to the mid-portion where he begins to lose control of his faculties and the final half where he's in the full-blown grip of ALS, Redmayne displays a remarkable ability to fully inhabit the character. There's no point during the film's two-hour runtime where he's ever anything less than completely convincing and his rakish charm, in the early going, goes a great way to establish Hawking's reputation as a bit of a snarky genius. While I still prefer Michael Keaton's performance in Birdman (2014) as far as all-out acting showcases go, there's no denying that Redmayne was a worthy recipient of his praise.
For my money, though, the real standout in the film is Felicity Jones: her portrayal of Jane is subtle, multi-faceted and possessed of some genuine power. Jones and Redmayne have marvelous chemistry together (their early courtship scenes are just so damn cute) but it's the scenes that develop Jane's character that tend to hit the hardest. While the rest of the film is framed, for the most part, as a fairy tale, Jones is brilliant at letting us see the toll that being Stephen's caretaker has taken on both her life and her academic career (or lack thereof). The scenes between Jones and Charlie Cox have a genuinely sad cast to them that often stands at marked contrast to the rest of the film's heavy-handed, baroque sentimentality: it's the difference between a paintbrush and a spray-gun.
Ultimately, The Theory of Everything is the latest in a long line of well-made, well-cast and well-realized soap operas, dispensing the expected dramatic beats in all of the expected places. The acting is strong, the film looks quite nice and the less said about the score, the better. That being said, I can't help but feel as if the film's rose-colored glasses and tunnel-vision sell its subjects a bit short. In between all of the shining bits, soaring strings and three-hanky moments, there are occasional moments of real, raw power. It's an important thing to remember: we may want to keep our heads pointed towards the boundless infinity of the cosmos but the real living, the flesh and blood stuff, is still happening right down here, in the dirt.
2/22/14: Doing it For Yourself (Oscar Bait, Part 7)
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For all intents and purposes, we like to pretend that the world isn't as cruel and ruthless as it really is. We'd like to think that no one truly falls through the cracks, that there's always some sort of safety net out there if people are just willing to look. It may not be the most ideal support, we'd like to think, and people may not be able to live in the exact manner of their choosing but beggars can't be choosers, we reason. At the very least, we've always thought, truly sick people should be able to have access to medicine: no one should just be allowed to sicken and die, particularly if there's something that can be done about it. Right? If we're being dead serious with ourselves, however, we don't believe that anymore than we believe in unicorns or the Bermuda Triangle.
In reality, vast expanses of the populace, of every populace since the beginning of time, have been marginalized, pushed to the fringes and forced to rely only on themselves for their well-being. These populaces vary from society to society, country to country, culture to culture and state to state but they're always painful reminders of one cold, simple fact: whenever anyone needlessly dies, equality is nothing more than a feel-good bedtime story. Anytime an individual is brushed off by the established order and left, essentially, to die, we see the failure of the status quo. In these situations, it becomes necessary for brave individuals (or groups) to fight for their own rights, health and well-being. This need to fight doesn't necessarily reflect society at its best but it sure does make for some riveting cinema and Dallas Buyers Club is gripping from start to finish.
Based on a true story, Dallas Buyers Club wastes no time in introducing us to our protagonist, rodeo bull-rider and general gadfly Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughey). Ron's the kind of guy who likes to live life to the fullest: threesomes behind the scenes of a bustling rodeo, conning his fellow riders and getting his ass beat in the process, hovering up cocaine by the yard, saying the first thing that comes to his mind. There's absolutely nothing altruistic about our "hero": within very short order, we've determined that he's a virulently homophobic, crooked man-child who couldn't give two shits about anyone else in the world. He's the kind of good 'ol boy who sneers when it's revealed that Rock Hudson is homosexual and dismisses HIV and AIDS as a "gay disease." He's also the guy who ends up with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, thanks to his numerous, unprotected sexual escapades.
Doctors give Ron just thirty days to live but he's a stubborn cuss and won't go softly into that good night: "Fuck your 30 days, motherfuckers: ain't nothing can kill Ron Woodroof in 30 days!" Ron celebrates his "ridiculous" diagnosis by immediately rushing out and having a coke-fueled orgy with his best friend Tucker (Steve Zahn) and a couple "lucky" ladies. Once the seriousness of his situation finally settles in, however, along with the realization that all of his friends and associates have abandoned him, Ron must get to the very serious business of staying alive. Drug trials offer scant hope: kindly doctor Eve (Jennifer Garner) can't guarantee that Ron will actually get the AZT rather than the placebo. Time and time again, Ron is faced with the terrifying notion that no one really feels they can cure him: everyone seems to be waiting for Ron to die so they can study him.
A chance meeting with an AIDS-infected transexual named Rayon (Jared Leto) sets into motion a chain of events that sees Ron go around the world to pick up experimental, "unauthorized" HIV/AIDS drugs and distribute them to patients through a club of sorts" the Dallas Buyers Club. In short order, Ron and Rayon's club is doing boomer business and Ron's health seems to be improving. Dark clouds appear on the horizon, however, when the DEA, IRS and AMA all get wind of what's going on. Will the Feds work to shut down the only thing that seems to be keeping Ron and Rayon alive? Is Ron an opportunistic con-man or a saint in redneck clothing? If Ron gets shut down, what will become of the rest of the Dallas Buyers Club?
By the time I saw Dallas Buyers Club. I had already seen a handful of other Best Picture nominees for 2013: American Hustle, 12 Years a Slave and Captain Phillips. Of these four films, Dallas Buyers Club was easily my favorite and, in fact, probably one of the best films I'd seen in quite some time. There's an awful lot to love in Dallas Buyers Club: the film looks great and has a gritty, earnest eye for period detail; the script is razor-sharp, full of sharply delineated characters and plenty of juicy dialogue (especially some of Ron's bon mots); the ensemble casts fits together like a jigsaw piece, each actor (both major and minor) working together to paint a complete picture; the film has a big, epic scope yet still brings everything down to a personal, relatable level; the film is deeply emotional and powerful, yet never maudlin, obvious or hysterical. It's a beautifully made, powerful work of art that hits on a number of levels yet never loses the inherent dignity and passion of its characters. And then, of course, there are those towering performances by McConaughey and Leto.
Even before he was given the Best Actor statue at the Academy Awards, I already knew that McConaughey had earned it. His performance as Ron Woodroof is nothing short of a revelation: angry, charming, obnoxious, feral, frightened…Woodroof is an open-nerve, the unbearably loud voice of the disenfranchised screaming at maximum volume. There's absolutely nothing about McConaughey's performance that ever feels like acting or, to be honest, anything less than completely authentic. At times, it's impossible to watch, since the pain radiates from the screen in waves. At other times, it's impossible not to watch, since McConaughey seems to attract all matter and attention to him in the same matter that a black hole might. Ron Woodroof is an amazingly conflicted character and McConaughey brings him to life in all his multi-faceted glory. Bruce Dern was amazing in Nebraska and Chiwetel Ejiofor was heartbreaking in 12 Years a Slave but, for my money, McConaughey gave the single best performance of the year, hands-down.
Leto's performance as Rayon, although not as multi-faceted as McConaughey's take on Woodroof, is a pretty spectacular piece of craft. Leto becomes the character so completely that, just as with McConaughey's performance, I bought it all absolutely. Despite how good Leto was, however, there were still several moments that felt too "actorly" and performed, moments that were more wholly-integrated in McConaughey's performance. I chalk this up to one fact, plain and simple: Leto just isn't the actor that McConaughey is, at least not yet. It's impossible for me not to feel, at least in some small way, that Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips) ultimately deserved the trophy more than Leto. While Leto gave a humble, nuanced and tender performance, it still felt like a performance: Abdi, on the other hand, never felt anything less than completely authentic, even if his role didn't have the emotional beats and arc of Leto's. Nonetheless, Leto's performance is extraordinary and, in any other Oscar year, would have been my pick, as well.
In many ways, Dallas Buyers Club strikes me as the anti-American Hustle. Both films are period-pieces about the disintegration of the American dream and both feature characters who must pull off elaborate hustles in order to survive. While American Hustle strikes me as weightless and inconsequential, however, Dallas Buyers Club reminds me more of films like Boogie Nights and Goodfellas. There are certain films that just impact me more than other films and Dallas Buyers Club was one of those films: by the time the end credits rolled, the film felt like a masterpiece and something deserving of the term "classic." When American Hustle was over, however, I only found myself entertained: truth be told, I'd already forgotten about several key moments days after first watching it. Dallas Buyers Club, however, stuck with me for days and I can still it so clearly that I might as well have watched it days ago, not weeks ago.
Despite being a film about the terrible ravages of AIDS, Dallas Buyers Club is a fiercely vibrant, alive, angry film. There is nothing melancholy or morose about this: like Ron Woodroof, Dallas Buyers Club isn't interested in feel-good sentiments or gauzy hand-holding. There's nothing stereotypically "heroic" about Woodroof: he's a selfish jerk and he knows it. He also, however, refuses to give up, refuses to lie down just because the odds aren't good. He refuses to listen to "experts" who've written him off, friends who've turned their back on him and a society that looks down on him. Ultimately, Ron Woodroof couldn't give two shits whether you like him or not: he's not asking society's permission to live. Ultimately, Ron (and Dallas Buyers Club) stand as towering testimony that the spark of life can never be truly extinguished as long as the will to survive is strong. Dallas Buyers Club was a profoundly moving experience and was, without a doubt, one of the very best films of 2013.


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BEHIND EVERY GREAT DRESS IS A GREAT DESIGNER – THE MOST WORN LABELS AT THE 2020 GRAMMYS
The 2020 annual Grammy Awards premiered Sunday January 26th and today's top music artists vied for The Recording Academy's most prestigious accolades. Billie Eilish may have won the most awards of the night, but Christian Siriano, Donatella Versace and Alexander Wang were among the top designers featured on the red carpet and on stage. Best…
Emma Misiaszek February 3, 2020
HOW SOCIAL MEDIA EXPOSED TWO PROMINENT PHOTOGRAPHERS AS SEXUAL PREDATORS
In the span of two days, popular Instagram account Diet Prada facilitated the downfall of two of the industry's prominent photographers. Marcus Hyde, photographer and friend of Kim Kardashian-West, Kanye West and Ariana Grande, and Timur Emek, known for photographing Victoria Secret models like Alessandra Ambrosio, have been accused of extensive misconduct and the sexual…
Emily Siegmund July 26, 2019
INSTA-HIGHLIGHTS STRAIGHT FROM COACHELLA
Coachella 2019 weekend one came to a close, with music sets from Ariana Grande, Cardi B, Tame Impala, Diplo and more. The celebrity-invaded Polo fields brought outfit inspirations and most importantly, lots to talk about. From the technical difficulties that sabotaged Ariana's and Nicki's performance (most artists also suffered from technical issues - Solange even…
Sasha Leon April 19, 2019
THE 61ST GRAMMY AWARDS
The 61st Grammy awards are set to air this Sunday, February 10 on CBS. Covering the vast musical spectrum of the 21st century, the 84 categories range from pop to classical and even Latin, making it a diverse, cultural celebration of what unites us as a whole: music. Tune in on Sunday at 5:00 PM…
The Untitled Magazine February 8, 2019
ARIANA GRANDE, TAME IMPALA AND CHILDISH GAMBINO TO HEADLINE COACHELLA 2019
Coachella returns to the Empire Polo Club in Indio, CA for two weekends set for April 12th – 14th and April 19th – 21st. Childish Gambino, Tame Impala and Ariana Grande will headline both weekends. (Full lineup as of January 2nd below). The festival will also feature original works by selected artists and fan favorites that…
FASHION, NEW YORK
TIME FOR AN OVERHAUL? WHY THE VICTORIA'S SECRET FASHION SHOW IS ANTIQUATED
On November 8, Adriana Lima said goodbye to her Angel Wings with a tear-infused runway finale. The Victoria's Secret fashion show, which has little to no fashion, celebrates old fashion beauty standards and women in ridiculously tiny garb, geared entirely for the male gaze. Although the show, which is being billed as a "holiday special"…
Sasha Leon November 9, 2018
RUBY MODINE ON SONGS, SHOWS & SHAMELESS – EXCLUSIVE BY PHILLIP BLOCH
Ruby Modine photographed by Robert John Kley and styled by Phillip Bloch for The Untitled Magazine. This page: Ruby wears a sequin wrap dress by DIANE VON FURSTENBERG, a feather tassel beaded necklace and beaded bracelets by M. COHEN, a leopard fedora by GLADYS TAMEZ, czarina chandelier earrings and ruby ring by DARIA DE KONING and…
The Untitled Magazine March 2, 2017
THE 2016 MTV VMAS WERE ALL ABOUT GIRL POWER
This year the MTV Video Music Awards were all about the women. Rihanna was the lady of honor as she was accepting this year's Video Vanguard award and graced the stage with not one - not two - not even three - but FOUR performances. Each performance included a medley of her many hit songs and of…
The Untitled Magazine August 29, 2016
ARIANA GRANDE IS FEELING DANGEROUS
In a buildup to her highly-anticipated album, Ariana Grande is releasing singles and making appearances. Most recently is her release of "Dangerous Woman," a ballad in which Grande croons about how a certain someone makes her feel. The second single released from her album, the track has a grown-up flair in comparison to the singers previous work. It highlights her…
The Untitled Magazine March 30, 2016
INTERVIEWS, MUSIC
LIZ ON MAKING IT IN THE ELECTRONIC MUSIC SCENE AND HER Y2K SOUND – EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
Los Angeles-born performer LIZ was signed to Diplo's Mad Decent label in 2012, after only a few years of experimenting with electronic music. Since then, the 26-year-old has been positioned as the ideal link between early-millennium R&B/pop and contemporary dance music. LIZ toured on the Mad Decent Block Party tour this summer/fall and has new album…
Indira Cesarine September 6, 2014
CULTURE, EVENTS, MUSIC
IS IT JUST US OR DID WOMEN DOMINATE THE 2014 MTV VMAs?
On August 24th, 2014, the MTV Video Music Awards turned 30 years old in Los Angeles. Unlike other awards ceremonies, which air with little to no scandal, the VMAs boast a long history of scandalous moments. There was that time Courtney Love chucked a shoe at Madonna on stage. And what about that time Madonna swapped saliva with…
Mary-Linh Tran August 25, 2014
FASHION, MUSIC
AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS RED CARPET FASHION TRENDS
Sunday night was nothing short of dexterity, with some of the biggest names in the music industry gathering to peacock their signature styles. The Untitled Magazine had an eye on the red carpet, on the look out for the most favored fashion trends of the night. Many of the stars kept it minimalistic and au…
The Untitled Magazine November 26, 2013

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Everyone in Washington and the News media says that if we do not raise our National debt by one and one half trillion dollars by August 2nd, we will have financial Armageddon. Resulting in higher interest payments on our debt, and therefore higher interest throughout the entire economy, massive government layoffs, bills not paid by the government, etc. All that is probably true and yet more Americans do not want to raise the debt than want to. What do "we, the people" know that congress and the news media does not know. Or are we the stupid ones? That is what Obama says about us.
The truth is that even if we avoid this Armageddon on August 2nd, we are still going to fail as a nation sooner or later and sooner if we don't face it now. Our debt is now 14.5 trillion and after we pass this it will be 17 trillion and in a few years it will be 40 trillion and in under 10 years it will be 100 trillion. Then what do we do?
The United States is insolvent and this will not change.
Why is it necessary to spend more (increasing the debt) in order to cut spending (deficit reductions)? Kind of seems counterproductive.
Since we knew this day was coming for quite some time, wouldn't it have just been easier to tighten the nation's belt by cutting spending and reducing the exorbitant waste, and therefore not having to raise the (already unsustainable) debt level?
Which is why it doesn't matter what happens with the debt ceiling. The beast has become so large that it is impossible to kill. The ballgame is over, and United States will never be the same. Most tragically, it is a quagmire of our own doing. We the people made our bed, and now we must lie in it.
Let's be honest. There is no possibility left to fix the problem. It has become pointless to discuss the "solutions" to America's fiscal situation, because they simply do not exist.
Americans have been feeding at the public trough, in one form or another, for so long that everyone thinks they are "entitled" to damn near everything. And despite the imminent financial collapse caused by that "let me get mine" mentality, the people still don't want to give up the keys to the Treasury. There remains a naïve belief that America is too big to fail. How wrong.
Many mistakenly believe that the high standard of living enjoyed in America is a result of having the largest economy in the world. It is not. Because we have deliberately outsourced virtually our entire manufacturing base and refuse to become energy independent, the economy is built on a house of cards just like the housing market.
Like their government, Americans have an unquenchable thirst for things they cannot afford. Three year-old car not new enough anymore? Buy a new one — with debt. Want a 4,000-square-foot house with flat screen TVs in every room? Take out a massive mortgage. Want to tell all your Facebook friends your exciting status of eating out every night? Buy a smart phone you can't afford.
So while certainly not defending the actions of Congress, it is really only reflecting the will of the people.
Which is why the debt deal, like most everything in Washington, will be smoke and mirrors. Politicians will increase our ability to borrow and spend more, but what they won't tell you is that any future agreements to cut the deficit will be null and void in a year, as future Congresses will be under no obligation to follow any deficit- reduction measures this legislature passes. It will continue to be Business As Usual.
The United States' debt is now equal to our annual gross domestic product, a debt so high that we wouldn't even meet European Union standards for admission. And anytime Europe has one up on you, you've got problems.
The economy won't implode in a firestorm today or tomorrow, as some predict, but will be a slow, painful burn as entitlement programs eventually run out of money, government services dry up, interest rates rise, and inflation goes through the roof.
This is no longer conjecture, but a mathematical certainty. Americans will have to reap what they have sown, and the diseased crop is quickly coming to harvest.
America's rating no matter what?
Weiss Ratings has just downgraded the debt of the United States government to a C-minus — approximately equivalent to a BBB- rating by S&P, or one notch above speculative grade (junk).
This is critical for you.
Regardless of the outcome of the debt debate now raging in Washington, few will escape the far-reaching consequences of America's unfolding debt disaster.
S&P and Moody's have finally put the U.S. on credit watch. The Fed Chairman has warned of financial Armageddon.
Even if the immediate debt ceiling crisis is resolved to everyone's apparent satisfaction, it could be just a dress rehearsal for the true tragedy of a nation unable to end its own financial decline any more effectively than a Greece, Ireland, or Portugal.
1. Among the 49 sovereign nations Weiss Ratings covers, the U.S. has one of the heaviest debt burdens, the weakest international reserves, and the least stable economies.
2. It's more dependent on foreigners for deficit financing than any other major country in the world.
3. Its consumers are among the most reliant on mortgages, credit cards, and other forms of debt to support its economy.
4. And perhaps most dangerous of all, America's largest banks have the greatest exposure to high-risk derivatives — nearly 40% more today than during the debt crisis of 2008.
Consider Greece, already caught in a death spiral — revenues sinking like the Titanic, insufficient funds to pay monstrous debts, and unavoidable austerity measures that sink revenues even deeper into the abyss.
Result: Just in the past few months, we've seen riots, the firebombing of banks, and blood in the streets.
Home values are plunging. Unemployment is soaring. The poverty rate is skyrocketing. One in four citizens, including an estimated 450,000 children, live in poverty. Crime is exploding.
Just a few years ago, Ireland was booming. Banks loaned people money hand over fist to finance homes and cars — all the joys of modern life.
Then, the bubble burst. Real estate values crashed. Mortgage defaults and bank foreclosures soared. Suddenly, Irish banks, drowning in red ink, were both insolvent and illiquid.
Thus, just as we saw in the United States, the Irish government stepped in and bailed them out … and soon, it was the government itself — not just the banks — that was in danger of going under.
In May 2010, with Dublin on the verge of defaulting on its debts, the European Union and International Monetary Fund rode to Ireland's rescue with a 110 billion euro bailout. It still wasn't enough. So again, in July 2011, Dublin agreed to accept another bailout worth tens of billions.
Now, the Irish people are living under crushing austerity measures. Countless jobs have been wiped out; the official unemployment rate is 15%.
Salaries have been cut to the bone. Pensions and health benefits have been slashed. The Irish tourism industry — once among the richest — is a shambles.
Similar stories are being told in Madrid, Barcelona, and 53 other cities across Spain, where tens of thousands of workers have taken to the streets to protest a problem they thought they'd never see in their lifetime — not just 9.2% official unemployment as in the U.S., but 21% official unemployment.
In picturesque plazas, beggars outnumber tourists and protesters outnumber beggars. In front of Parliament, riot police stand watch to protect lawmakers from angry mobs.
But of all euro-zone economies now threatened with this kind of chaos, Italy is, by far, the largest.
The combined GDP of all three countries that have gone bankrupt and needed a bailout so far — Greece, Ireland, and Portugal — is $739 billion. The GDP of Italy alone is over $2 trillion, or nearly three times more!
In other words, as the debt contagion strikes Italy, it will have TRIPLE the impact on global markets as the failure of a Greece, Ireland, and Portugal happening all at the same time.
Already, Italy's government bonds are plunging, its borrowing costs surging, and the cost of insuring its debts against default exploding to all-time highs.
The obvious trigger: The demise of Italy's UniCredit, one of the largest banks in Europe.
These same factors, ironically, led to the failure of big bank Credit-Anstalt in May 1931. The bank's failure knocked Europe off the gold standard and directly led to the Great Depression. Credit-Anstalt is the predecessor of UniCredit.
UniCredit's failure will lead directly to the collapse of the euro currency as it finally dawns on the Europeans that their savings are not safe in the current system.
First, America's largest banks — JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citibank, and Goldman Sachs Bank — are grossly overexposed to the credit risk associated with their huge holdings in derivatives. Plus, many of these are linked to large European banks like UniCredit.
Second, like Italy, the United States is now confronting the Faustian choice of either letting its credit go to hell in a hand basket or forcing austerity down the throat of a weakened economy. And this is the same choice Washington also faces, whether Congress raises the debt ceiling in time or not.
Third, like the euro zone, the U.S. has been sacrificing its currency on the altar of expediency. Washington is debasing the dollar's value to postpone its reckoning day. It's forcing the public to pay for its financial sins in the form of higher prices for essentials like food and fuel. And it's careening toward the same kind of disasters we now see in Europe.
As the U.S. follows Europe, you could see cutbacks in Social Security, Medicare, veterans' benefits, support for states, homeland security, and more.
You could see stiffer limits on government guarantees for failing banks, commercial checking accounts, and consumer deposits.
In the event of new bank failures and turmoil in the nation's credit markets, you won't be able to count on Uncle Sam to be the lender, investor, and guarantor of last resort.
Nor can you expect reason to prevail at the Federal Reserve. As Fed Chairman Bernanke declared last week, he's perfectly willing to devalue your money by running the money printing presses with still another round of quantitative easing.


At the time [the 1977 Additional Protocol I] was being negotiated it was clear, therefore, that not all historical, cultural and religious establishments are protected by this article; only such places as the Blue Mosque, the Coliseum, St. Paul's Cathedral, the Dome of the Rock, and the like. The special protection is confined to a limited class of objects which, because of their recognised importance, constitute a part of the cultural heritage of mankind. This approach may be regarded as culturally narrow today and could well result in a move to widen the protection.
New Zealand, Interim Law of Armed Conflict Manual, DM 112, New Zealand Defence Force, Headquarters, Directorate of Legal Services, Wellington, November 1992, § 520 and footnote 78; see also § 632.
making the clearly-recognised historic monuments, works of art or places of worship which constitute the cultural or spiritual heritage of peoples and to which special protection has been accorded by special arrangement, the object of attack causing extensive destruction thereof, where there is no evidence of prior use of such objects in support of the adverse Party's military effort, and when such places are not located in the immediate proximity of military objectives.
New Zealand, Interim Law of Armed Conflict Manual, DM 112, New Zealand Defence Force, Headquarters, Directorate of Legal Services, Wellington, November 1992, § 1703(4)(d); see also § 1703(5) ("attacking a privileged or protected building").
With respect to non-international armed conflicts in particular, the manual restates Article 16 of the 1977 Additional Protocol II.
New Zealand, Interim Law of Armed Conflict Manual, DM 112, New Zealand Defence Force, Headquarters, Directorate of Legal Services, Wellington, November 1992, § 1822.
Under New Zealand's International Crimes and ICC Act (2000), war crimes include the crimes defined in Article 8(2)(b)(ix) and (e)(iv) of the 1998 ICC Statute.


Caraway Coleslaw This caraway coleslaw is a tasty recipe!
In a small bowl, combine vinegar and caraway seeds. Cover and let stand for 15 minutes; strain through a fine-mesh strainer into a large bowl. Discard seeds. Add mustard, horseradish, salt, and pepper to strained mixture; whisk until well mixed.
Whisk in yogurt, sour cream, and sugar. Add coleslaw mix; gently stir to coat. Cover and chill for 1 to 8 hours before serving (the volume will decrease as the salad chills). Stir before serving.
If you use sugar substitutes choose from Splenda granular, Equal spoonful or packets, or Sweet'N Low bulk or packets. Follow package directions to use product amount equivalent to 2 teaspoons sugar.


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Congresswoman Virginia Foxx represents North Carolina's 5th District in the United States House of Representatives. Throughout her time in Congress, Foxx has established herself as a champion of conservative values and has helped lead the national movements to reduce federal government spending and increase government accountability. She is the chair of the House Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on Higher Education. She also serves as the Vice Chair of the House Rules Committee. In addition, she was elected by her peers to serve as the Secretary of the House Republican Conference. Dr. Foxx is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she received her A.B. degree in English and M.A.C.T. in Sociology. She earned her Ed.D. in Curriculum and Teaching/Higher Education from UNC-Greensboro. God is in the House is her first book. Virginia Foxx is married to Tom Foxx. She is a lay leader in her church, and her hobbies are reading, gardening, and being a grandparent to two.
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Members of Congress reflect on their deep faith and how it guides them as politicians and legislators in leadership, voting, and responding to our nation's crises.
The book was compiled by Representative Virginia Foxx, who personally asked congressional colleagues who are devout in their Christian faith, representatives who are in a Bible study group with her, and colleagues she knows on a personal level to each contribute an essay.
"An inspiring look at faith and politics. A worthy read."
-Former House Speaker John Boehner
"North Carolina's fifth congressional district is represented by Foxx, a self-identified Catholic-Baptist and Republican, who wants to restore Americans' faith in the churchgoing members of Congress. By collecting short faith testimonies by current and former congressional representatives, Democrats and Republicans, men and women, from across Christian denominations, Foxx pulls back the curtain on Capitol Hill Bible studies and prayer groups, revealing a surprising bipartisan unity when it comes to nurturing one's faith life in the midst of often corrosive politics. Catholics, Protestants, evangelicals, and others candidly discuss their religious backgrounds, daily practices, the establishment clause of the First Amendment, and public service as an act of faith."
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House Panels Approve E-Verify, Photo ID Measures
By Steve Peoples
The Providence Journal, April 30, 2009
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Providence — The issues have drawn fire from all sides. But Wednesday, there were no fireworks as separate General Assembly committees voted quickly and quietly to approve legislation seeking to crack down on both voter fraud and Rhode Island businesses that employ undocumented immigrants.
The bills are not directly related, according to their sponsor, Rep. John D. Brien, D-Woonsocket, but each has drawn sharp opposition from immigrant advocates such as the Rhode Island Affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union and the Commission for Human Rights.
This has been turned into some sort of ideological battle when all it should be is a jobs issue, Brien said about his E-Verify plan requiring private businesses to sign statements pledging that all employees are in the country legally. A violation could result in a criminal penalty of up to one year in jail for the employer.
The proposal was approved on an 11-to-3 vote by the House Labor Committee and appears headed toward passage by the full House of Representatives, as has a similar proposal the last two years. To become law, however, it would require the approval of the Senate as well, where it has consistently stalled amid concerns by Senate leaders.
Hopefully the third time s the charm, Brien said. Its a bill that the House of Representatives wants. Its a bill that the governor wants. Its a bill that the people want. There are 38 people in that chamber who need to decide if it's a bill they want.
Senate leaders would not disclose their intentions yesterday. Senate President M. Teresa Paiva Weed would say only that the bill would be reviewed by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Brien's proposal has also prompted criticism from the business community.
One of the worst policy changes we could make as a state in the current economic environment would be instituting this proposal or proposals quite similar, reads a statement issued by Chamber of Commerce Coalition coordinator David R. Carlin III.
Meanwhile, interest groups were also paying close attention to a separate bill a few doors down the hall, where the House Judiciary Committee voted 11 to 2 to support legislation requiring voters to present photo identification.
It was believed to be the first time that any Rhode Island legislative committee has approved such a requirement.
Twenty-four states require voters to present identification, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. But just seven require a photo ID, according to data collected last fall.
Rather than putting hurdles in the way of voters, lawmakers should be working to lower barriers to voter participation, reads a statement issued by the ACLU and signed by 11 organizations such as the National Organization for Women and the Urban League of Rhode Island. Should the bill become law, it would lead to the disenfranchisement of thousands of voters in Rhode Island, and particularly racial minorities, the elderly, and people with disabilities.
Brien, who worked with the Secretary of State to craft the proposal, says he doesnt understand the criticism.
To say you shouldnt have to show a voter ID at the polls is absolutely counter-intuitive, he said. If I open up a Hollywood Video account, I have to show a picture ID. This is one of the most sacred rights we have as Americans.
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For both men and women, heart disease is the leading cause of death. Every year more than 600,000 Americans die from heart disease. That's one out of every four people in the U.S. It is sobering to note that 735,000 Americans will have a heart attack this year and it will be the first time for 525,000; but a quarter of that figure will be repeat sufferers. Only 255 people who have heart disease are aware of the symptoms of a heart attack.
What is heart disease and what are its symptoms?
Any condition that affects the heart is categorized as heart disease. This includes blood vessel diseases, heart rhythm problems and congenital heart defects. There are several key warnings that present themselves when someone is about to have a heart attack, such as nausea, lightheadedness or cold sweats, shortness of breath, chest pain or discomfort and upper body pain or discomfort in the arms, back, neck, jaw or upper stomach.
People who suffer from heart disease usually have several factors in common. They have high cholesterol and high blood pressure. Lifestyle practices are a major contributor. Additional risk factors include: having diabetes, being obese, eating poorly, being physically inactive, smoking and abusing alcohol.
The tests to diagnose heart disease will vary. Nonetheless, an expert physician will accompany these blood tests and X-rays with a physical exam and inquire about a patient's family medical history. Other reliable tests include an Electrocardiogram (ECG), which records electrical signals and helps to identify irregularities in your heart's rhythm and structure. Holter monitoring is a portable device you wear to record a continuous ECG, usually for 24 to 72 hours. An Echocardiogram is a noninvasive exam that takes an ultrasound of the chest. It also shows detailed images of your heart's structure and function.
There is also cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), cardiac catheterization and a cardiac computerized tomography (CT) scan. Dr. Holly advises that heart disease can effectively be deterred or treated with lifestyle changes. People who smoke should quit smoking. People who drink excessively should stop drinking. People who overeat should eat in moderation and include a daily exercise plan.
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Texas Republican leaders' embrace of the Trump administration's efforts to add a citizenship question to the 2020 U.S. Census flies in the face of practical considerations such as protecting federal funds vital to the state budget and avoiding a reduction in Texas' congressional representation. This is because the attitudes of Texas Republican voters on issues of immigration are taking political precedence over the best interests of the state.
Texas polling data shows a negative network of attitudes toward both legal and illegal immigrants among many GOP voters. This creates a significant obstacle to persuading Republican voters to consider the possible negative repercussion of changing the Census form. Any Republican leader who might publicly oppose the Census order fears angering these voters — and inciting any primary challengers who are more willing to cater to these Republican ideals.
70 percent of Republican voters supported the proposition that all undocumented immigrants should be removed from the country immediately — a result in line with responses to many previous UT/TT polls.
The effects of these attitudes already resonate in the political process here in Texas. The Republican majority in the most recent Texas Legislature passed an anti-sanctuary city law that requires law enforcement agencies to cooperate with federal immigration authorities, and forbids local authorities from prohibiting officers' questioning of a person's immigration status when the person is legally detained. The state's leadership was playing in tune with their political base: In October 2017 UT/TT polling found 88 percent of Republicans supported requiring local law enforcement officials to cooperate with federal immigration authorities, and 69 percent said that officers should always be able to question a person's immigration status.
Reservations by GOP voters about the role of immigrants extend to other areas, as well, such as birthright citizenship. Although the debate about birthright citizenship — as guaranteed by the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution — has, for now, receded from the public agenda, in November 2015 UT/TT polling found that in the wake of proposals by then-candidate Donald Trump to repeal birthright citizenship, 66 percent of Texas Republicans favored repealing this part of the 14th Amendment.
Were immigration competing with other priorities for the attention of Republican voters, there might be potential for state elected officials to redirect voter attention toward realistic concerns about defending the flow of federal funds available to the state for social spending, transportation and education. The grounds for the argument hide in plain sight. In the 2016 fiscal year, according to the Texas Comptroller's office, federal funds comprised more than one-third of state budget revenue at 35.5 percent.
However, immigration and border security routinely top the list of concerns cited by about half of Texas Republicans as the most important problems facing the state. No other issues come close to competing for Republican voters' attention.
Given this array of attitudes among the voters who dominate both the selection of state Republican candidates and the selection of winners in the general election, these elected officials remain eternally vigilant in their efforts to remain on the right side of the electorate — and one another — on all things related to immigration. The result is that they continue to channel the nativist impulses that flow through their base, regardless the consequences.
In a news release claiming no small share of the credit for initiating this change, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, declared: "A question on citizenship is a reasonable, common sense addition to the Census." In this case, reason and common sense are clearly being defined in narrow, if recognizable, terms.


The senior finally has some company at the state tourney.
When Elk River No. 1 singles player Meagan Brown won her match in the Class 2A, Section 7 team championship, she was mobbed by her teammates.
"It was bedlam," coach Randy Ronning said.
They had called it "Operation Duluth," one of 20 items on their team code. "Operation Duluth" actually dated to 1979, when Ronning coached the St. Francis girls' team in the same section and it defeated Duluth East in the semifinal before making state.
The Elks return to state Tuesday for the first time since their run from 2006-12, when they won two consolation championships (2007, 2008), finished second (2009) and third (2011). Unseeded this year, they'll take on No. 2 seed Mahtomedi, the defending state champion and a team that beat the Elks 6-1 earlier this season.
The Elks defeated Duluth East 4-3 in the section final, continuing their history of tight matches. Ronning said this was the sixth consecutive time the score was 4-3 between them.
"So it's quite a rivalry we have," Ronning said.
This season the Elks enter the tournament with a 27-5 record. Their losses have come against top teams: state No. 3 seed St. Cloud Tech, No. 1 seed Edina, unseeded Minnetonka and No. 2 seed Mahtomedi.
They've done it with only five varsity starters back from last year. Five players from the junior varsity — juniors Sophie Wetherille and Lauren Conzet, sophomores Lydia Haack and Kaitlin Tran and eighth-grader Emma Anderson — have been outstanding this season, Ronning said, especially Haack, who's 25-4. The team's success has been a bit of a surprise.
"In fact, one of the captains about halfway through the season commented at the end of practice: 'Wow, I never thought we'd be this good this year,' " Ronning said.
The leadership starts with Brown, who is 36-1 and making her fifth consecutive trip to the state tournament as a singles player. She's never played anything but the No. 1 spot on the team. Her 153 career varsity wins have all come at No. 1 singles, except for a couple at No. 1 doubles that she played for fun. Brown probably would have made the varsity had she played high school tennis as a seventh-grader, Ronning said.
She's a power player with the best serve of any girls in the state tournament, her coach said. She's aggressive, hitting a lot of winners and enjoying the game the most when she's on the attack, which is most of the time, he said.
As an eighth-grader, she won a three-set match to start her state tournament résumé before losing in the quarterfinals. She made state unseeded her freshman year, finishing as the consolation runner-up.
Brown took third place at state as the No. 4 seed in the singles tournament each of the past two years.
"She so wants to get to the finals," Ronning said.
Should the third-seeded Brown make it back to the semifinals, there's potential to be matched up against Edina senior and No. 2 seed Sophia Reddy for a third straight year in the tournament. Reddy beat Brown 6-0, 7-5 in the semis last year. In 2015, they were set to play in the third-place match, but Reddy defaulted with an injury. Brown never has beaten Reddy, according to Ronning.
Brown will play Eagan junior Lauren Ferg to open singles play Thursday. Brown's teammates have watched her at state in the past.


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Texas is one of the most conservative states in the country, so it's not surprising they also have some of the harshest marijuana laws as well. But a new ad campaign is looking to change that.
An organization called Foundation for an Informed Texas is producing a series of ads in rural Texas to help convince people to support medical marijuana. Texas currently only laws people with severe forms of epilepsy to receive a prescription for cannabis oils that do not contain THC. The Foundation for an Informed Texas is hoping to swing more rural, conservative voters to support expanding those laws.
In one commercial, a man dressed as a cowboy talks about the medical benefits of cannabis and how using it will help him fish and hunt. The commercial also shows the man working on various things around his farm. So it's pretty clear how they're trying to appeal to rural voters.
The commercial campaign is only one part of their plan. The group also wants to hold town meetings throughout the state to lower negative attitudes towards cannabis. The hope is that if voter show less opposition to medical marijuana, the legislature may finally consider expanding the state's laws.
Of course, there's still opposition from Texas Republicans and law enforcement. But the hope is that this campaign can be the foundation that will build a movement for medical marijuana in the future.


That was the resounding and unified message from the two head coaches patrolling the sidelines Sunday afternoon at the Garden — the Knicks' Jeff Hornacek and Celtics' Brad Stevens. The responses, however, came from two very different places.
Boston entered Sunday with the best record in the Eastern Conference, a feat achieved through hard work, continuity and intensity. New York entered Sunday with the sixth-worst record in the NBA, a sorry circumstance brought about by underperformance and, most importantly, a failure to commit on the defensive end, especially from its best players and leaders, Carmelo Anthony, Derrick Rose and Kristaps Porzingis.
Isaiah Thomas drives around Ron Baker (left) and Sasha Vujacic.
There is a disparity in effort between the Celtics and Knicks. And according to Hornacek and Stevens, that difference can be attributed to the players.
"I can tell you it's not coaching," Stevens said Sunday before the Celtics' 110-94 victory over the Knicks. "You're not going to have a roster full of 15 guys that don't play hard and think you're going to be able to convince them to play hard for 82 games. I think that you recruit hard-playing guys. "If you're a hard-playing guy, and you're around other hard-playing guys, then that's contagious. And certainly there are instances where maybe a guy hasn't played as hard, but when he gets around the Marcus Smarts of the world and people like that, there's a contagiousness. And I think that when you play in Boston, it's one of the responsibilities that comes with being a Celtic. And so we've talked quite a bit about that. But there's no, like, motivational speech to get guys to play hard. They're either going to play hard or not."
Stevens' roster is loaded with players who take responsibility and pride on defense. He mentioned Smart, the Celtics' pugnacious and feisty combo guard. But Jae Crowder, Al Horford, Jaylen Brown, Amir Johnson and others provide similar defensive work ethic.
The Knicks, meanwhile, have few if any of those types of players — consistent defenders. Before Sunday's game, Hornacek used Ron Baker and Lance Thomas as examples of hard-working players who show up on defense on a nightly basis. But the list ends there. "I can think of all the teams that I played on, and you have those certain guys that just do it. Coaches don't necessarily have to get on you about doing that. That's an internal pride thing," Hornacek said of playing hard. "When you have two, three, four of those guys, then all of a sudden guys see that success and then they do it. So we're trying to get that with some of our guys. …We have guys that do it at times. But we've got to get them to do it for all 48 minutes every night."
Hornacek admires what Stevens has accomplished in his four years in Boston and hopes to garner similar success in New York. "They play hard every single night," Hornacek said of the Celtics. "And when you do that, then you win games."


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Sexing the Soldier: The Politics of Gender and the Contemporary British Army
Title Sexing the Soldier: The Politics of Gender and the Contemporary British Army
Authors Woodward, Rachel, and Trish Winter
Publisher Routledge
Sexing the Soldier takes a critical look at how gender—what it means to be a man or a woman—is understood within the contemporary British Army, and the political and practical consequences of this. Drawing on original research, this informaive volume looks at the history and structure of the British Army as a masculine institution; personnel policies which deal with gender issues; the construction of ideas about military masculinities and femininities within the Army; and media representations of the figure of the soldier. Using case studies ranging from the exclusion of women from direct combat posts, to the issues surrounding bullying, this book argues that we need a fuller, more nuanced assessment of gender issues in the military that moves beyond the simplistic ideas about women's and men's "natural" capacities for soldiering.
URL https://www.routledge.com/Sexing-the-Soldier-The-Politics-of-Gender-and-the-Contemporary-British/Woodward-Winter/p/book/9780415392556?utm_source=cjaffiliates&utm_medium=affiliates&cjevent=84f574ef103c11ec83e304cb0a82b820
War & Cultural Representations of Gender
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Pablo Honey est le premier album du groupe Radiohead, sorti en 1993. Le single Creep, extrait de cet album, est la première chanson qui ait fait connaître Radiohead sur le plan international. En 1995, ce single est utilisé dans la bande originale du film Cyclo de Trần Anh Hùng. La chanson a été classée  chanson britannique de tous les temps par XFM en 2010.

L'édition japonaise comprend trois chansons supplémentaires, dont le single Pop Is Dead.

Premier album du groupe, Pablo Honey présente un son rock alternatif et grunge rappelant d'autres groupes de ces mouvances et de cette époque et/ou cités comme influence, tels que les Pixies, R.E.M., ou U2. Le groupe s'en éloignera progressivement au fil du temps.

Liste des titres
 You
 Creep
 How Do You?
 Stop Whispering
 Thinking About You
 Anyone Can Play Guitar
 Ripcord
 Vegetable
 Prove Yourself
 I Can't
 Lurgee
 Blow Out

La version japonaise comprend trois titres supplémentaires :
 Pop Is Dead
 Inside My Head
 Million Dollar Question (Acoustic Computer)

Disque bonus de l'édition collector de 2009
Contient l'EP Drill (titres 1 à 4)
 Prove Yourself (Demo)
 Stupid Car (Demo)
 You (Demo)
 Thinking About You (Demo)
 Inside My Head
 Million Dollar Question
 Yes I Am
 Blow Out (Remix)
 Inside My Head (Live)
 Creep (Acoustic)
 Vegetable (Live)
 Killer Cars (Live)
 Faithless The Wonder Boy
 Coke Babies
 Pop Is Dead
 Banana Co (Acoustic)
 Ripcord (Live)
 Stop Whispering (US Version)
 Prove Yourself (BBC Radio 1 Evening Session 1992)
 Creep (BBC Radio 1 Evening Session 1992)
 I Can't (BBC Radio 1 Evening Session 1992)
 Nothing Touches Me (BBC Radio 1 Evening Session 1992)

DVD de l'édition collector de 2009
 Creep video clip
 Anyone Can Play Guitar video clip
 Pop Is Dead video clip
 Stop Whispering (US Version) video clip
 Creep (Live On Top Of The Pops)
 You (Live at the Astoria London May 1994)
 Ripcord (Live at the Astoria London May 1994)
 Creep (Live at the Astoria London May 1994)
 Prove Yourself (Live at the Astoria London May 1994)
 Vegetable (Live at the Astoria London May 1994)
 Stop Whispering (Live at the Astoria London May 1994)
 Anyone Can Play Guitar (Live at the Astoria London May 1994)
 Pop Is Dead (Live at the Astoria London May 1994)
 Blow Out (Live at the Astoria London May 1994)

Singles
 Creep
 Anyone Can Play Guitar
 Pop Is Dead
 Stop Whispering (sorti aux États-Unis uniquement)

Reprises
 Korn reprend Creep en 2007 sur leur album Unplugged
 Creep a également été reprise par la chorale Scala & Kolacny Brothers

Références

Premier album musical sorti en 1993
Album de Radiohead
Album publié par Capitol Records
Album produit par Sean Slade
Album produit par Paul Q. Kolderie

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DVD review: Everybody Wants Some!!
September 17, 2016 May 10, 2021 Garry Arnot
In 1993, writer and director Richard Linklater helped launch the careers of Ben Affleck and Matthew McConaughey with cult teen comedy Dazed & Confused. Now he is back in the same academic territory with what is being considered the 'spiritual sequel'. Named after the Van Halen song, coming-of-age flick Everybody Wants Some!! follows freshman Jake (Blake Jenner) as he begins a baseball scholarship in Texas 1980. When he arrives at his new digs, he meets his many housemates including party animal Finnegan (Glen Powell), fun-loving Dale (J. Quinton Johnson) and hallucinogen hooligan Willoughby (Wyatt Russell), and is instantly initiated into their chaotic college culture.
Quite often with Linklater's movies, there is a distinct shortage of plot. In his Before trilogy, he explored the blossoming of a romance through conversation and in Boyhood, the focus was more on the uniqueness and enormity of the filmmaking process rather than the story itself. This time around, the narrative moves along swimmingly from party to party as Jake prepares to start a new chapter in his life, but the problem lies in the lack of conflict. The production design and soundtrack combine nicely to establish a satisfying eighties feel but on the whole it just isn't funny or clever enough to cope without a narrative structure. The romantic subplot is well judged, taking us away from the fratpack bromances, and Zoey Deutch is excellent in her portrayal of Jake's love interest Beverly.
After the mammoth twelve year effort of his last project, I think Linklater is phoning in Everybody Wants Some!! and it suffers from this as a result. Although it is really good fun in places and features a few solid performances, there seems to be more investment in nostalgia than in telling a story. If Boyhood was an epic journey about the ups and downs of life, this is more of a pleasant day-trip seen through rose-tinted glasses, with no bumps in the road in sight.
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I enjoyed reading your review and agree that the real comparison is with Boyhood. However, I cant recall a movie that has attracted such extremes of opinion. I could find no redeeming features in the film and my review states that rather bluntly.


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Professor Gideon S. Were was born in Kakamega District, Kenya in 1934. He attended his early education at Manyala, Kakamega and Maseno Schools in Western Kenya before joining the Royal Technical College of East Africa (now the University of Nairobi) where he did his "A" Level examinations in 1959. He later studied at the University of Wales for his bachelors and doctoral degrees in 1963 and 1966 respectively. He also attended the London School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, from 1963 to 1965.
Professor Were published numerous scholarly books and contributed extensively to academic journals and other publications. Among his best known works are A History of the Abaluyia of Western Kenya (E.A.P.H., 1967), A History of South Africa (Evans Brothers, 1973), East Africa Through a Thousand Years (Co-author with D.A. Wilson, Evans Brothers, 1968), Essays in African Region in Western Kenya (Kenya Literature Bureau, 1978), Leadership and underdevelopment in Africa (G.S. Were Press, 1983). History, Public Morality and Nation-Building: A Survey of Africa Since Independence (University of Nairobi, 1985). He is the editor of the Transfrican journal of History and Journal of East African Research and Development.
Prof Were was a Professor of History and Director, Institute of African Studies, at the University of Nairobi. He was also the Director of the Women Studies Project at the Institute. He also served in the as Dean, Faculty of Arts, and Chairman, Senate Postgraduate Studies Committee at the same institution. Was the Deputy Principal, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Nairobi. Professor Were was a Fellow of the Kenya National Academy of Sciences. Was married with six children.


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Mureck ( archaic: Cmürek) is a municipality in the district of Südoststeiermark in the Austrian state of Styria. Administrative reforms in Styria led to the merging on 1 January 2015 of the formerly separate municipalities of Mureck, Gosdorf, and Eichfeld, which includes the villages of Hainsdorf-Brunnsee and Oberrakitsch. The new municipality is named Mureck.

Geography
Mureck is situated in the south of Styria, on the border with Slovenia.

Constituent parts of Mureck municipality
The municipality comprises the communities of:
 Diepersdorf (pop. 138)
 Eichfeld (349)
 Fluttendorf (59)
 Gosdorf (574)
 Hainsdorf-Brunnsee (209)
 Misselsdorf (388)
 Mureck (1570)
 Oberrakitsch (334)

Name
The name Mureck was first attested in 1151 as Mŏrekke (and as Murekke in 1181, Můrekke in 1183, and Muregk in 1500). The name is a compound of Mur 'Mur River' + Old High German ecke 'edge, bend' or egge 'hill' (sometimes 'fortification'), and thus means 'bend on the Mur River' or 'hill/fortification on the Mur River'. The Slovene name Cmurek is borrowed from the Middle High German prepositional phrase ze Murekke, literally 'at Mureck'. For similar Slovene geographical names based on foreign-language prepositional phrases of location, compare Crngrob, Cven, Dragonja, Sostro, and Spuhlja.

Population

Events

 Weckruf: since 1954 the local marching band Grenzlandtrachtenkapelle Mureck has performed the so-called wakening call (in German, Weckruf) each May 1, waking every friend of brass-band music with marching music in the early morning hours. Until 1964 all of this happened by foot; later the band started using a nicely restored truck.

Clubs and organisations

Marching bands
 Grenzlandtrachtenkapelle Mureck

Fire departments
 FF Eichfeld
 FF Gosdorf
 FF Hainsdorf-Brunnsee
 FF Misselsdorf
 FF Mureck
 FF Oberrakitsch

Sports clubs
 Beachvolleyballclub
 ESV Mureck
 TUS Mureck

Charity and service clubs
 Leo Club South Styrian Unity
 Lions Club Bad Radkersburg-Mureck

International relations

Twin towns — sister cities
Mureck is twinned with:
  Lenauheim, Romania

References

Cities and towns in Südoststeiermark District


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Slivia is een plaats (frazione) in de Italiaanse gemeente Duino-Aurisina.

Plaats in Triëst


DESCRIPTION: The Common Raven is a large bird of the Corvidae family. It is entirely black, including the slightly decurved large bill, the eyes and the legs and feet. Sexes are similar. This species is around 66 cm (25 inches long).
VOICE: https://www.xeno-canto.org/species/Corvus-corax – the call is a low-pitch 'kwaaawk'.
NAME: The English name 'Raven' for this bird derives from Anglo-Saxon 'Hraefn', an onomatopoeia for the bird's call. The Latin genus name 'Corvus' means 'crow'. The Latin genus name 'corax' is from Greek 'korax', and would also be an anomatopoeia for the bird's call.
HABITAT: Prefers the forest and rural areas.
DIET: The common raven has an omnivorous diet which includes scavenging. For large carrion it waits for other animals to tear the carcass apart because it doesn't have the bill shape to do this. Feeds on rodents, invertebrates, small mammals, bird eggs and chicks, also seeds and grain. Attracted to garbage landfills and roadkill.
NESTING: The nest is a bowl structure made of sticks and lined with soft materials. It is located in a tree or on a cliff, sometimes around human-made structures. An average of six blue-green eggs are laid, which are incubated by the female. Both parents feed the chicks.
DISTRIBUTION: The common raven range encompasses almost the whole northern hemisphere including parts of the tundra. It is a year-round resident.
ON PEI: The common raven is a common year-round resident on Prince Edward Island.
CONSERVATION: The population of this raven would have increased in the last few decades, to reach around 20 million. They benefit from the human presence. Ravens can turn into pests in some agricultural areas where they kill young lambs and calves.
NOTES: The raven has been associated with human societies for millennia, being part of their mythology in a positive way, but also as an omen of death. One legend associated with that bird is about the ravens of the Tower of London .
Intelligence: The common raven has a relatively large brain and is known to display various problem-solving 'skills'. Is the behavior described in this article also an intelligent skill?
The common raven is the official bird of the Yukon Territory of Canada.
SIMILAR SPECIES: American Crow – these two species might be confused, but there are different ways to tell them apart. The raven is larger, and its call has a lower pitch. Ravens do not gather in large flocks like crows, and do not mob birds of prey. Actually it's the other way around – it is the crows that will mob ravens.
The video below provides a good sample of the raven calls, which seem to require quite an effort on the part of the bird to belch out its very loud and repetitive kwaawwks.


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5, 4, 3, 2 … OOPS!
A couple of weeks ago, the final space shuttle mission launched, and by the end of this week, it will have landed, ending a 30-year era of space exploration for the United States. It goes without saying that this is the end of an era. The first space shuttle launched when I was 3-1/2 years old, and I (unfortunately) rank the Challenger Disaster as one of the most important moments of my childhood.
I wanted to post something about what I thought about the space shuttle saying farewell; however, I don't know if I would have anything to say that hasn't been said already, and I wasn't sure how I was going to keep whatever I wrote within the confines of my "pop culture" subject matter. I thought of the Young Astronauts Challenger Commemorative Packet that I got when I was in the fourth grade and I also thought of writing about the time I put together one of those Revell space shuttle kits and got glue all over my hands, paint all over the place, and never got the decals to go on correctly (seriously, did anyone?). But then I thought of what nobody is probably talking about as far as the space shuttle is concerned, which is the biggest (and well … kind of only) space shuttle movie there is: SpaceCamp.
Starring Kate Capshaw, Lea Thompson, Kelly Preston, Joaquin Phoenix (back when he was known as "Leaf"), Tate Donovan, and Larry B. Scott (a.k.a. Lamar from Revenge of the Nerds), SpaceCamp is one of the few science-fiction (although in a way, this is more "science" based) movies from the late 1970s and 1980s where aliens do not attack and lay waste to the Earth, nor do they mate with, possess, or disembowel anyone. In fact, SpaceCamp doesn't have any aliens. Unfortunately, its tension is tepid enough for a teacher to show an elementary school class.
Capshaw (about a year or two removed from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom) plays Andie Bergstrom, an astronaut who, when she sits on her family's farm in 1961, sees John Glenn's capsule fly through space and says proudly to her dog, "I'm goin' up!" (a line delivered in the cheesiest manner possible, btw). More than two decades later, she has received the umpteenth notification that she will not fly on a shuttle mission–Atlantis, which is scheduled to launch within a couple of weeks. Her husband, Zach (Tom Skerritt, who would be Viper in Top Gun the same summer), then coaxes her into being an instructor at Space Camp, which for plot reasons is held at Cape Canaveral and not in Huntsville, Alabama (a Space Camp was opened in Florida in 1989, but this came out in 1986). She reluctantly takes on the "blue team" of Space Camp students, who are …
… a group of stock characters. Kevin (Donovan) is the arrogant screw-up guy and we know that because when we meet him, he's wearing a Hawaiian shirt and rocking out in his new Jeep; Kathryn (Thompson) is an overachiever who is already a pilot, and we know this because she flies a WWI-era bi-plane to the parking lot; Tish (Preston) is a mall ditz who possesses the ability to memorize just about anything she reads, and we know this because she cinches her flight suit with a stylish red belt; Max (Phoenix) is the annoying kid genius who everyone will pick on, and we know this because everyone picks on him; and Rudy (Scott) is … well, the only one without any issues.
Needless to say, the kids don't get along. Kathryn wants to be the first female shuttle commander but Andie makes her the group's pilot and makes Kevin the shuttle commander, and she deals with it at first but then is pissed off after he takes her out at night and they get caught (she's not one to get in trouble). Rudy basically does things right but winds up having Kathryn push him aside so she can be a control freak. Tish acts like a ditz. Kevin acts like a moron. And Max? Well, in the most insipid point of the plot, Max befriends a sentient robot named Jinx who was supposed to be used on shuttle missions but proved "too unpredictable" and became a handyman.
It should be easy to ignore the Max/Jinx part of the movie, but Jinx winds up being the reason that these kids wind up in space. Basically, Jinx really takes it to heart that he and Max are "Friends for-ev-er" and because they are "Friends for-ev-er," wants to help Max go to space. So on the day the campers are allowed to sit in Atlantis while Mission Control tests the engines, Jinx screws with the shuttle computers, causing one of the boosters to overheat and that forces Zach to launch the shuttle.
This, by the way, is completely implausible and I am sure that the FOUR people who were credited as writers could have come up with a better way to get five teenagers and Kate Capshaw into space, because a) I can't imagine that NASA would let a group of teenagers sit inside the shuttle while they were firing the engines, even if it was a test; and b) every time Jinx is screwing with the computers it's in some dusty, empty room that is always unlocked.
So once they're in space, things should actually be okay because NASA can control the shuttle remotely and get them to Edwards Air Force Base in 12 hours. Only problem? Well, there's not enough oxygen on the shuttle, so unless they figure something out, the kids and Andie are going to die.
From here on out, SpaceCamp becomes a "fiasco" movie. I mean, it's a fiasco at this point anyway, but what I mean is that one thing after another goes wrong so that each of the campers can overcome whatever problems they were having earlier during one of the movie's "space tutorial" montages. Because Andie is with them and is a shuttle pilot herself, she's the one to naturally take the lead, especially when they realize that they can get oxygen tanks off of the not-occupied-yet Deadalus Space Station. She'll do the space walk, bring them back and then pilot them in for the Edwards window.
But … she can't reach the tanks and Max has to help her! Then, after she hooks the first tank up and begins hooking up the second tank, she gets knocked to the back of the cargo bay and is unconscious! Then, NASA takes control for the landing and closes the bay doors, seemingly trapping her out in space, tethered to the shuttle! Then, the kids override the shuttle controls to get her back in and realize they have to land it themselves! Then, they miss the Edwards window! Then, one of them realizes that they can land at White Sands in New Mexico because that's where Columbia landed once! Then, Kathryn has to land the shuttle herself, which she couldn't do when she was in Space Camp!
OH THE DRAMA!!!
You know, the thing about this film that disappoints me the most is that I loved it when I was nine years old. I saw it in the theater and I was in complete awe of how awesome it was that a bunch of kids got to fly the Space Shuttle. I mean, I was the kind of kid who lived for the old-school "future world" portion of EPCOT Center, and spent what seemed like hours gawking at the rockets and other exhibits at the National Air and Space Museum (I have yet to go to the annex out near Dulles and may do so in a year or two when my son is old enough to spend time in a museum just so I can see the Space Shuttle). Plus, while I had already seen her in Back to the Future, this is where I developed an enormous crush on Lea Thompson (stop laughing), which is probably another reason I loved SpaceCamp so much. So to watch this movie again, 25 years later, and see how everything from the opening titles to the blue screen effects is just awful is really kind of painful.
I should have known, though, even when I was that young. When the movie came out on video, I think I was the only one of my friends to profess to liking it; in fact, my friend Tom thought it was so bad he threw up both times he attempted to watch it. Granted, the first time he threw up, he was pretty sure he had food poisoning, but the second time he was sure that the movie was just that bad.
After all, it's really not my intention here to completely crap all over the not-so-great stuff I write about. But SpaceCamp? You make it really hard. Granted, even my nine-year-old self thought that the Max/Jinx stuff was horrendous (and I'd seen Short Circuit multiple times), but it was the grandeur of space flight and … well, during the film's last act I found myself wondering out loud, "Oh shit, what ELSE is going to go wrong?!"
Which, from what I gather, was pretty much the story behind the movie as well. Apparently, SpaceCamp was completed in 1985 and scheduled for release in early 1986, but it wound up being delayed after the Challenger exploded, and then only made about half of its budget. And while it didn't kill the "non-alien, mild-mannered space exploration drama" genre, I can't think of any other movie aside from Apollo 13, like this. I guess it's for the better and if you want to want to be in awe of a shuttle launch, there are plenty available via both NASA and YouTube.
I'm going to miss the shuttle … but not SpaceCamp.
Posted in 1729, movies and tagged 1729, 1980s, NASA, space on July 19, 2011 by Tom Panarese. 3 Comments
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As Israel Votes Again (and Again), Arabs See an Opportunity
ABU QUEIDER, Israel — This was no ordinary Israeli politician's campaign stop.
Some 40 Bedouin women sat on plastic chairs in an open-air living room, a muddy desert village of flimsy shacks, tin roofs, wandering chickens and pitted dirt roads providing the backdrop.
Before them, as modestly dressed as her audience, stood Iman Khatib Yasin, a social worker running for a seat in Israel's Parliament on the predominantly Arab slate known as the Joint List.
Voter turnout among Arab women has always been poor, she reminded them, before describing how things could change if they made their voices heard — and if they helped her make history as Israel's first hijab-wearing lawmaker.
"If we're a big number," she said, "we're a strength that cannot be ignored."
Israeli Jews generally seem dispirited about having to vote for a third straight time in a year, but for Arab voters and their candidates, Monday's three-peat election is full of hope and promise. Buoyed by a strong showing in September, leaders of the combined slate of predominantly Arab parties known as the Joint List are hoping to improve on the 13 seats they won in the 120-seat Parliament, when they helped to nearly topple Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from power.
This time, they are hoping to finish the job — and also to apply their growing clout in Parliament to practical concerns like crime, housing shortages and getting dozens of unauthorized Arab villages in the Negev Desert like Abu Queider added to the government's map.
Sensing they have momentum, Arab activists are leaving no stone unturned, no ramshackle community ignored, in a bid to play a decisive role in determining Israel's next government.
Arab voters have no shortage of grievances against Mr. Netanyahu: his support for settlement and annexation of West Bank land, after years of opposing the Oslo peace process; his enactment of a 2018 law that demoted the status of the Arabic language and said only Jews had national self-determination rights in Israel; and his race-baiting over the past year, including claiming that Arabs wanted to "annihilate us all — women, children and men."
A well-financed door-to-door canvassing operation has more than quadrupled in size, with 600 workers visiting 140,000 homes, or about 40 percent of the voting Arab population, according to its director, Samer Swaid. He would not disclose the campaign's funders beyond saying that they included wealthy American philanthropists.
Arab turnout had generally been on the decline since Israel's early days, under martial law, when historians say Arab citizens felt pressured to vote. But in September, it reached nearly 60 percent. This time, Mr. Swaid says he is confident it will top 65 percent. "That's potentially 18 or 19 seats," he said.
The canvassers are not affiliated with any party, and Mr. Swaid said two or three new seats might go to non-Arab parties like Blue and White, whose leader, Benny Gantz, nearly defeated Mr. Netanyahu in both previous elections. But Parliamentary elections are a zero-sum game. Each additional seat the Joint List wins puts a 61-seat majority farther out of Mr. Netanyahu's reach.
That mobilization has not gone unnoticed by Mr. Netanyahu, who has attempted a high-speed U-turn over the past week. He posted a verse from the Quran on his Facebook page. He granted an Arab website a video interview, in which he spoke of arranging direct flights to Saudi Arabia so Israeli citizens could save thousands on their pilgrimages to Mecca.
He tried to mollify Arab voters outraged by his embrace of the Trump peace plan, which suggested redrawing the borders to give a proposed new Palestinian state sovereignty over the so-called Arab Triangle, a predominantly Arab part of Israel. No Arabs would be "uprooted," Mr. Netanyahu said, though some might find themselves in another country.
And he has started arguing to Arabs that he has made their lives better, while the Joint List's leaders, he says, do little more than drink coffee and express support for terrorists.
In one Triangle town, Qalansawe, the Joint List's leader, Ayman Odeh, told voters Tuesday night that Mr. Netanyahu was running scared. The premier's softened tone and empty promises, Mr. Odeh argued, amounted to nothing more than a more benign-sounding form of voter suppression. This was the same Mr. Netanyahu, after all, who tried to silence the nighttime Muslim call to prayer a few years ago because he could hear it from his beach house in Caesaria, Mr. Odeh reminded a mostly male crowd.
"He treats us like we're five years old," he said. "He's mocking us. And mockery is the worst form of racism."
Only when Arab protesters closed a major highway last fall did the government finally assign hundreds of police officers to crack down on violence and organized crime in Arab areas, Mr. Odeh said, adding: "On whom else can we depend?"
A moment later he asked for new volunteers to knock on doors. A dozen hands shot up.
The Joint List is not only courting Arab voters, however. With cheeky Yiddish-language appeals to the ultra-Orthodox and Amharic-language ads to Ethiopian-Israelis, the Arab parties ask for solidarity in fighting racism and discrimination.
And with house parties and town halls catering to liberal Jews, the Joint List is offering itself up as a more vital alternative to the traditional left-wing Jewish parties, Labor and Meretz, which lost so much support over the past year that they had to merge to survive.
In Israeli elections, each party submits an ordered list of candidates, and the seats won by each party are allocated to the candidates in that order. Outside of the Joint List, it is unlikely any Arab candidate — aside from members of the Druze religious sect, who are viewed more approvingly by Jewish Israelis — will win a seat in Parliament.
From Qalansawe, Mr. Odeh drove 25 minutes to Kfar Saba, a Jewish city of 110,000, where the crowd was bigger and the venue, an apartment living room, too small. There, he appealed to the consciences of Jewish liberals.
"We all need to feel a sense of belonging as citizens," he said. Arab schoolchildren were having to learn about the nation-state law, he noted.
"Imagine the teacher telling an Arab student, you're worth less in this country," he said.
"Jews around the world have stood behind just causes," he added, pointing to the civil rights and anti-apartheid movements. Now, he said, it was time for that at home — for Israeli Jews to "stand by the minority, and strengthen it."
Merely reaching out to Jewish voters is a significant change for Arab politicians, said Shibley Telhami, an expert on Middle East public opinion at the University of Maryland.
"They're normalizing themselves as part of the body politic in a way that makes Jews more accepting of them, even if they don't vote for them," he said. "As you look down the road, could Jews accept them? A slight majority says no, but there are a lot of undecideds. They can help themselves move the needle in the right direction."
For Ms. Yasin, it was tough enough to get her own Islamic party, known as Raam, to accept her as a serious candidate.
"They said no women wanted to be in leadership," she recalled in an interview. "I said, 'Have you asked them?' "
Raised in an observant farming family in the Galilee town of Arabba, where a cousin was killed in bloody protests in 1976 that Palestinians commemorate each year, Ms. Yasin said she was "always political." She just did not know it.
Only after an Israeli leadership program sent her to Morocco, where she met women lawmakers who were also religious Muslims, did she think of entering politics herself.
She is number 15 on the Joint List, so she will only enter Parliament if the list wins at least that many seats. If elected, she said, she hopes above all to fix Israel's Arab schools. Rather than teaching critical-thinking skills, she said, "They're training children to be passive and oppressed."
But first, there's the matter of turning out the vote.
In Abu Queider, she invoked Islamic teaching to make her case. "Your voice is like a treasure, like a diamond around your neck," she told the women who gathered to see her. "God asks us to take care of our treasures."
Voting in Abu Queider is not easy: It requires as much as an hour's drive to the nearest ballot box, residents said. That's because the village is unrecognized: Along with polling places, it lacks electricity, running water and the possibility of obtaining building permits. Which means officials come around every few weeks and stick demolition notices on people's homes; once or twice a year, residents say, bulldozers tear a few of them down.
"They do not consider us citizens," she said of the Israeli government, as women nodded their heads. "They treat us like enemies."
"Like prisoners!" someone shouted.
"You know that, you live this situation," Ms. Yasin said. "This is your reality. This should make you run to the ballot boxes. It's the only way to get our rights."
David M. Halbfinger reported from Abu Queider, and Allison McCann from London.
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Instead, the Ontario Dental Association (ODA) is pointing out some timely facts so that you can still enjoy the Halloween season and all the sweets and treats that come along with it, just with less guilt and hopefully, minimal damage to your teeth.
Best time to be sinful: While anytime may be the preferred time to eat candy, there's a more strategic way to indulge without ruining your teeth. Having candy at the end of a meal will lessen the chance of eating too much of it. That's also when your mouth has the most saliva going so it can help rinse away some of the sugary residue from your teeth.
Risky candies: Some sweets are less harmful to your teeth than others, so before you dig into your candy mountain, remember that lollipops and jaw breakers can chip teeth and take more time to dissolve, leaving sugar coating your mouth for a longer time. Caramels, chewy candies and even dried fruit can get stuck in between teeth and speed up tooth decay.
Liquid sugar threats: Sugar isn't just in candy, it's also in fruit juices, pop and mixed alcohol-based drinks, so follow up your sweet drink with water or chew sugar-free gum to neutralize sugar and acids.
Clean up the crime scene: There is a right way to care for your teeth after raiding the candy stash and it isn't running to the washroom to brush immediately. Because the process of eating softens tooth enamel, it's best to wait 30 minutes before giving your teeth a good brush and floss to make sure all sugar and candy is removed from the surface and crannies of your teeth.