Protecting data has always been one of the most important aspects of our digital life. Given the amount of activity done on smartphones, this is especially rings true for smartphones. While users may use the built-in privacy and security settings of their devices, others take it a step further and employ security and privacy protection apps.
One of the ways to protect smartphone data is by using "file locker" apps. As the name implies, these apps can be used as storage for sensitive data. The apps store the data away from prying eyes, often using encryption and passwords for additional security.
But how effective are these apps in protecting your data? Is it safe to assume that these apps will live up to their promise and offer the level of security that our data needs? Unfortunately, we analyzed the more popular ones in Google Play and found that these apps fail to deliver what they promise.
As of posting, we have informed the developers of the said apps as well as Google.
Figure 1 shows that the only difference after the action "hide" is performed is the renaming of the file.
The application creates a file located in sdcard/.hermit/.hermit_restore.hider as an index. These files are found in the SD card and these files are world-readable, meaning, they are readable by any application in the system. In fact, these "hidden" files can be browsed using a file explorer. Malicious apps and users could also use /.hermit_restore.hider as a clue to find and read the so-called hidden files.
File Locker "hides" a user's files by moving them to the fixed folder /sdcard/ .MySecurityData/dont_remove/. Unfortunately, the location of the hidden files and the original files are stored in a SQLite3 database. Both the database and the hidden files are located in the SD card and they are world-readable.
Folder Lock, meanwhile, tries to distinguish itself from other applications by offering a secured "wallet" for information such as credit card numbers, passwords, and other banking/business-related information. Analysis shows that rather than be encrypted, the data in the "wallet" is stored in cleartext in a world-readable path. Other "hidden" files are stored in fixed path folders without any encryption.
The app App Lock we analyzed actually does what it advertises—it encrypts files. But does this mean a user's files are safe? As it turns out, they aren't.
The application encrypts files using a fixed, self-defined algorithm. Unfortunately, cybercriminals can easily implement the decryption algorithm by decompiling the .APK file. This means that there really is no difference between the data that is encrypted and data stored in cleartext.
It's worth noting that the use of passwords is pretty moot for this app. The set password is simply encrypted and saved in the last block of each encrypted files. In short, the password is treated as just another file to be stored. Once the files are decrypted, both the files and the passwords are revealed.Ideally, the password would prevent other people from accessing the files, even if they know the decryption process.
Of course, the initial issue here is the fact that these apps don't work as they claim. However, the bigger issue is that files are potentially at risk for data theft or leakage. One common detail we've noticed with these apps is that the data can be accessed by other apps and accounts. This means that even non-malicious apps can access these files.
The issue is further compounded by the fact that these apps are very popular. One app alone has reached the 50 million download mark while others have also reached millions of downloads. Users must be discerning when downloading apps. App reviews can help a person check if an app truly works as its claims. For apps concerning security, it's best to download apps from known security vendors.
But more than selecting the right apps, perhaps another way of securing data is to remember that apps are not the end-all, be-all solution to protecting your privacy. Users should employ other privacy features and solutions to protect their data from prying eyes. For example, they could store their files and make back-up copies in a different, secure location via Trend Micro™ Safe Sync™.
Another way to protect sensitive data is to actually limit the amount of data stored in mobile devices. Given the amount and variety of activities performed on mobile devices, it seems unavoidable to store some form of sensitive data. However, keeping the amount of stored data to the barest minimum will make it easier for users to keep track of it. After all, it's easier to keep track of data stored in five apps than say, twenty apps. Less data could mean fewer privacy problems.
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1920 - 1944 | Birth: COPENHAGUE, DANEMARK |	Arrest: PARIS |
Biography of Tauba GOLDSTEIN born in Copenhagen
Carried out by the 10th-grade students of the Prins Henrik French high school in Copenhagen, Denmark, 2017 – 2018
The first steps with the Convoy 77 project
Convoi 77 is a project initiated by the association of that name and recognized by the European Union. It deals with the last convoy of Jews deported from Drancy to Auschwitz-Birkenau, on July 31, 1944. High school students in certain schools in France and elsewhere in Europe have been assigned to do research on one of the Jewish men, women, or children deported in this convoy during the Shoah, to unearth the details of their lives and put together their biographies.
Our 10th-grade class at the Prins Henrik French high school in Copenhagen searched out the life of Tauba Goldstein, also called Thérèse. We had very little information to go on when we started, just the place and date of her birth and deportation. We had no idea where this project was going to take us or even whether we would get anywhere at all. From the blog of Tauba's niece, Michelle Goldstein, we retrieved a good deal of information on her family, which made it possible little by little for us to establish her family tree, a very important tool in directing and concentrating our research (cf. document A).
The work was divided up among the class so that certain students researched the Internet, while others contacted people and organizations who could supply additional information, such as the Drancy Memorial, the Archives of the Shoah Memorial, and the Association of the Sons and Daughters of Jewish Deportees from France, whose chairman, Serge Klarsfeld, gave us precious help.
Tauba Goldstein and her family
We were granted access to the pre-World-War-II registers of the Public Records Office of Copenhagen, Denmark (cf. document B). This register provided information on the whole Goldstein family during its stay in Denmark. According to the public records Samuel Goldstein, born in Russia on November 3, 1878 arrived in Denmark from Poland in 1910 (Poland being at that time under Russian sovereignty). The register also states that he was of Jewish faith and registered as a tailor. The rest of his family, including his wife and their eight children, likewise were born in Russia and immigrated to Denmark from Poland. Tauba Goldstein is not mentioned, as she was not yet born.
Tauba Goldstein (cf. document C) was born of Jewish parents, Samuel Goldstein and Jochebed Lebovitsch, on April 17, 1920 in Copenhagen. Her parents moved several times during their youth. In the years right after their marriage in 1907 they had three children in Lodz, Poland: Isaac, Wolf and Gita. Then Samuel Goldstein had to immigrate to Denmark, perhaps to escape being drafted into the Czar's army in Russia between 1910 and 1914. During this part of their lives, their children, Tobias, Kopel, Elieser, Hanna-Léa, Herman and Tauba, were born. They were in Berlin in 1922 when Feiga was born. Finally, they settled in Paris in 1923 and produced four more children, Anna, Louise, Georges and Joseph.
Tauba, called Thérèse, whose youth remains obscure
Thérèse never married and thus had no children. We have no information about her childhood, her studies, or the reasons for the move to Paris. According to the association Sons and Daughters of the Jewish Deportees from France, the address she gave when she entered the camp was n° 10 rue des Deux-Ponts in the 4th district of Paris. (cf. document D) This was the address of the Fernand Halphen Jewish Foundation, which was set up in 1926 and built some fifty low-rent flats for large families.
According to Michelle Goldstein's site Thérèse attended the Poulletier school in the 4th district of Paris (18 rue Poulletier). The school, which is still functioning, had been built in 1903-1904, but was burned down during the First World War and rebuilt in 1923 as an infirmary. It once again became a school in 1928, and Tauba Goldstein, as well as her cousin, was a pupil there, the Goldstein's flat being located 200 meters away. Unfortunately, the school has lost the archives from that period, and this information cannot be confirmed absolutely. (cf. document D)
In the following document (cf. document E), Thérèse declared herself a seamstress, but on the list of prisoners entering Drancy she is found among the personnel of the Lamarck Children's Center (cf. document E), run by the General Union of the Israelites of France (UGIF); She worked there as some sort of housekeeper, nurse, cook, or monitor (cf. document D). The UGIF was housed in 1944 in the Lucien de Hirsch Jewish School after the Lamarck Children's Center was bombed (cf. Document D). The UGIF was created in 1941 by the Vichy government at the request of the Germans in order to represent the Jews of France. The organization is located in Paris's 18th district. It was later to take over the administraton of several children's centers, notably under the control of the Gestapo and the General Commissariat for Jewish Questions.
Arrest and transit at the Drancy camp
Tauba Goldstein was arrested on July 22, 1944 and transferred to the Drancy interment camp on the same day. Drancy was a transit camp located northeast of Paris in the Île-de-France region in the Occupied Zone. It was an unfinished real estate development, requisitioned at first by the Wehrmacht for war prisoners. Starting in 1941 the first big roundups of Jews took place, and the prisoners were sent to Drancy before being deported to Poland. The Drancy camp is a building originally constructed in the 1930's as social housing, called the Cité de la Muette. It is a long, rectangular U-shaped structure. Inside the U there was a large courtyard.
From August, 1941 to August, 1944 the Drancy internment camp was the main center for the deportation of the Jews of France and was used for three years as the principal point of departure toward the Nazi death camps. Most of the convoys left for Auschwitz. Nine out of ten Jews deported from France transited through the Drancy camp. The prisoners there were subjected to very brutal treatment by their French guards.
There exists a great deal of testimony by Jews interned in the camp. Living conditions there were extremely difficult due to a lack of hygiene, medical care and food. During the three years of its existence the Drancy camp was successively run by Theodor Dannecker, Heinz Röthke and Aloïs Brunner, three SS officers. The camp was guarded by French policemen, who lived in the "skyscrapers" behind the horseshoe building where the prisoners were held. It was placed under the control of the Gestapo's Jewish Affairs Bureau.
Deportation and murder at Auschwitz
According to the information provided by Michelle Goldstein, Thérèse's Drancy ID number was 2545, and she was classified B+, which meant she was subject to deportation. She was thus deported to the death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland on July 31, 1944, one of the 1321 deportees in convoy 77, the last convoy from Drancy. Thérèse arrived at her destination on August 5, 1944 and was immediately put to death in the gas chambers. We learned in an e-mail from Michelle Goldstein that, in her opinion, Tauba should never have been gassed, insofar as the Nazis only gassed women who refused to be separated from the children with them. As Thérèse was single and had no children, she should have been spared. She was with her sister-in-law, the wife of her brother Wolf, and their two children, as well as three other nieces and nephews. Her brother Wolf was in the same convoy as Thérèse and, selected for work duty, was to come back from this hell.
On the track of Thérèse Goldstein
We began by writing to Michelle Goldstein, who is Thérèse Goldstein's niece. We sent her an e-mail soliciting additional information on her aunt's life. We received a very helpful reply from Madame Goldstein, who gave us telephone numbers to call, plus some photos and a good many documents from Thérèse's life. Following up on Madame Goldstein's e-mail, we called Monsieur Samuel Adoner, who unfortunately was unable to supply any information about Thérèse. After that we got in touch with Thérèse's brother, Joseph Goldstein, who, though he had nothing new for us either, steered us toward the archives of the Drancy Memorial, which we contacted. In the end it was the Shoah Memorial, through the agency of Madame Sabrina Vahldiek, that sent us Thérèse's arrest record (cf. document E). In addition, Monsieur Serge Klarsfeld kindly wrote back and sent us some documents (cf. document D and annex 9) when we contacted the Association of the Sons and Daughters of the Jewish Deportees from France (FFDJF).
Document A: The Goldstein family tree
Document B: Public records register of the Goldstein family's civil status (established upon their arrival in Denmark)
Document C: Thérèse (Tauba) Goldstein, photograph furnished by her niece, Michelle Goldstein
Document D: Letter from Serge Klarsfeld in reply to the questions we addressed to the Association of the Sons and Daughters of the Jewish Deportees from France
Document E: Record sheet (UGIF) of Thérèse Goldstein's internment
Document F: List (UGIF) of those arrested, among whom figures the name of Thérèse Goldstein
Doc 1: Pre-war photograph of Anna Goldstein in a group (she is fifth from the left, wearing a white blouse)
Doc 2: Portrait of Bernard Goldstein, the eldest son of Wolf Goldstein and Sonia Smiliansky.
Doc 3: Portrait of Daniel Goldstein, a son of Wolf Goldstein and Sonia Smiliansky.
Doc 4: Portrait of Dora Bender, a daughter of Gita Goldstein and Joseph Bender.
Doc 5: Portrait of Isaac Goldstein and his wife, Ida Menakovski.
Doc 6: Portrait of Jacques and Mina Bender, children of Gita Goldstein and Joseph Bender.
Doc 7: Portrait of Joseph Goldstein.
Doc 8: Photographs of Kopel Goldstein.
Doc 9: Booklet supplied by Monsieur Serge Klarsfeld, in which are found the names of the children deported and gassed at Auschwitz, among whom were Gita Goldstein and Joseph Bender's children, Dora, Jacques, and Jean Bender.
Documents 10 and 11: Photographs of the Goldstein family's house in Copenhagen.
Doc 12: Portrait of Marie Goldstein.
Doc 13: Portrait of Tauba (Thérèse) Goldstein in profile.
Doc 14: Portrait of Wolf Goldstein.
Sources and acknowledgements
Even though our research was not always fruitful, we are very grateful to the following people for their kind cooperation. Our thanks to:
The Shoah Memorial (http://www.memorialdelashoah.org/ – Madame Sabrina Vahldiek)
The Drancy Memorial (http://drancy.memorialdelashoah.org/)
Madame Michelle Goldstein (http://michelle-goldstein.blogspot.com/)
Monsieur Adoner Milo Goldstein
Monsieur Joseph Goldstein
The Archives of the Shoah Memorial
Le Conseil Représentatif des Institutions Juives de France (CRIF)
Monsieur Serge Klarsfeld, Chairman of the Association of the Sons and Daughters of the French Jewish Deportees (FFDJF – http://www.crif.org/fr/associationsmembres/fils-et-filles-d%C3%A9port%C3%A9s-juifs-de-france-ffdjf/)
Monsieur Georges Mayer, President of the Convoi 77 Association (http://www.convoi77.org/)
Monsieur Serge Jacubert (http://www.convoi77.org/)
les élèves de la classe de Seconde 2 du Lycée Français Prins Henrik de Copenhague (Danemark), sous la direction de Marine Lechat et Vincent Terrasson, leurs professeurs
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Projet: Convoi 77 | Lycée Francais Prins Henrik - 4 years ago
[…] avons le plaisir de vous adresser par ce lien (http://www.convoi77.org/deporte_bio/tauba-goldstein/), le résultat du travail de recherche des élèves de 2nde 2 en enseignement d'exploration. […]
Bruno Descubes, Documentaliste au CDI du lycée Prins Henrik de Copenhague 4 years ago
Félicitations pour cet excellent travail de recherche !
KLEJMAN 4 years ago
Excellent travail! Existe-t-il à Copenhague des archives sur la surveillance des etrangers , notamment pendant la 1re gm, même si le Danemark était neutre?
klejman laurence 4 years ago
Tauba, ou plutôt Thérèse puisque c'est ce prénom que donne sa mère dans les papiers qu'elle remplit pour constituer un dossier pour le ministère des Anciens Combattants, occupait la fonction d'infirmière de la garderie, avenue Sécrétan, auprès des enfants dans cet établissement de l'UGIF où ils ont tous été arrêtés.
Auparavant, elle était domiciliée chez ses parents, dans l'ile St Louis, qui vivent toujours au 10-12 rue des Deux-Ponts après la guerre. (dossier 21 P 457 035 CAEN
chaumery marie jose 3 years ago
Je souhaitais contacter par Mail ( non blog) Mme Michelle Goldstein pour une recherche majeure. En effet sur la photo intitulée " mariage de Raymonde" il y a un homme jeune ( 3eme rang en partant du haut, second) qui ressemble étrangement à un homme dont je possede une photo . On m'a toujours dit qu'il aurait un lien de parenté et des origines plus ou moins proches slaves. Je voudrais soumettre à Mme Michelle Goldstein un copie de cette photo, est ce possible ? merci . Marie jose chaumery ( prénon d'origine Ghislaine). Je ne trouve pas son site mail.est ce possible de lui transmettre ma demande ? Merci
jeanchaumery@club-internet.fr
Michelle Goldstein 3 years ago
J'ai vu qu'une personne désirait me contacter.J'ai envoyé un mail
klejman laurence: Tauba-Thérèse n'a jamais été infirmière.Elle se protégeait à l'UGIF,comme beaucoup d'enfants.Vu son âge, elle a juste aidé
klejman laurence: Les prénoms ont tous été francisés de leur plein grès pour se fondre dans la population française
Michelle Goldstein, nièce de Tauba-Thérèse
Je désirerais obtenir les documents Danois concernant ma famille svp: Document B: Public records register of the Goldstein family's civil status (established upon their arrival in Denmark)
Serge Jacubert 3 years ago
Chère madame Goldstein,
votre demande a été transmise aux enseignants du lycée Prinz Henrik du Danemarrk. Bien à vous.
Serge Jacubert
Littérature et Société classes de 2nde – Projet convoi 77 | Lycée Francais Prins Henrik - 2 years ago
[…] Goldstein https://convoi77.org/deporte_bio/tauba-goldstein/ par la classe de 2nde 2 (année 2017-2018) Alexandre Voronoff, […]
Littérature et Société classes de 2nde – Projet convoi 77 | Lycée Francais Prins Henrik 2 years ago

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All-inclusive vacation resorts make vacationing with kids so much easier, which is why Beaches Turks and Caicos is an ideal getaway for the whole family. With a 45,000 square-foot waterpark, a stunning 12-mile long beach and numerous activities for the whole family it's the perfect vacation spot. Each of the four villages within the resort represents a different locale; Italy, France, Caribbean, and Key West. While staying at the resort, kids will have the opportunity to learn to golf, scuba and attend a kid's camp, as well. They can attend Scratch DJ Academy, X-Box Lounge or Club Liquid or for younger guests there is the Cho Cho Train and the delightful Sesame Street characters that can even put your little ones to bed for an additional cost. The options are truly endless at Beaches Turks and Caicos, and there is no shortage of fun for the entire family.
It's been said that Atlantis Paradise Island Resort is the next best family vacation following Disney World. Atlantis has many activities for the little ones, and places near the top of the list for kid friendly resorts. Various activities and entertainment is provided to kids, and depending upon their age, they are divided up into separate groups: toddlers (ages 1-6), preteens (7-12), and teens (13-17). For toddlers, there is the kids program in which the children are able to play outdoors, play with Legos and various games, take culinary lessons, check out a variety of marine animals, be able to swim with them, and work alongside animal trainers and animal feeders. Preteens and teens each have their own dance clubs to attend, are able to swim in the various kids pools, swim with dolphins, drive race cars, design pottery, head to the famous water parks, or chill out and watch movies. The fun and opportunities for learning are never-ending at this special resort.
Is there possibly any cooler resort to stay in within Disney World than Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge in Orlando, Florida? Kids are bound to enjoy waking up alongside giraffes, zebras, flamingos, and other exotic animals while learning about wildlife. If you're looking for a fun night out with the kids, but don't want to leave the resort after an exhausting day, have dinner as a family at the Wanyama Safari and Dinner establishment to enjoy multiple courses and have an up-close view of the various animals. When parents are looking for a quiet evening alone, Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge offers supervised kids clubs or in-room babysitting. Within the supervised clubs, children between the ages of 3-12 will enjoy making crafts with one another, watching Disney movies, and eating dinner and snacks with new friends. Disney and kid friendly resorts seem to go hand and hand!


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New Chief Executive for HSI
Thursday 1 December 2011, 4:49PM
By Hospitality Standards Institute (HSI)
The board of the Hospitality Standards Institute (HSI) has appointed Ken Harris, of Harris Management Solutions, as its new Chief Executive. He replaces Steve Hanrahan, who has decided, after 14 years with HSI, to seek a new career challenge.
HSI Chair Carol Stigley said "We are delighted to have access to Ken's experience, expertise and leadership, built up through his management consultancy work in the private and public sectors over twenty years."
Ken's experience covers financial services, industry and business associations, business and professional services, tertiary and vocational training, and central and local government. Previous work includes strategic, organisational and business development work with the New Zealand Transport Agency, PrintNZ, ITO cluster groups, AXA, NZ Racing Board, and AMP New Zealand.
He takes up his role with HSI on 12 December, for a fixed term.
For more information, please contact Shelley-Maree Cassidy, HSI Marketing Manager, via email shelley@hsi.co.nz, or on mobile 021 283 0951


Mix messages don't help anyone in a relationship. Read here for how to deal.
Dating a guy who sends mixed messages is not only counter-productive, but it's also frustrating, confusing and severely annoying. Unfortunately, it's a part of the dating game and it's something all of us have dealt with at one point or another. So when it happens, how do you deal with it?
I met this guy about 5 months ago and we really seemed to connect. We started as friends and during that time, we ended up becoming roommates. Not long after that, a relationship started to form and we started going on dates and sleeping together. Things got very intense and I think it's safe to say that I have fallen for him pretty hard.
I decided to let him know how I feel about him and he basically told me that we are not exclusive. I took this as his word so I have been dating other guys.
I can tell that he is bothered by it because now, things between us have gotten so weird. I am severely confused because one minute he is treating me like I am his main squeeze and the next, I'm just another dude off the street.
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Let's Talk Turkey: This Is Your Brain On GOP
Two Pardons? The Nerve!
It's that time of year again when the President takes time to pardon the official White House turkey. While most people find this to be a non-partisan occasion to just enjoy, there are actually members of the right-wing out there who still haven't recovered from outrage over last year's mercy most fowl, because this is Murica and of course.
It seems that last year's pardoning of "Macaroni and Cheese" was an abomination in the eyes of wingnuts everywhere because the President dared, DARED I SAY, to pardon both the chosen and backup turkeys instead of just one. (Pardon me for saying this, but really?) Just why they found this to be (probably) yet another impeachable offense is beyond me and I can't explain it here because I don't speak wingnut.
But the good folks at Public Policy Polling got to the meat and potatoes (mashed, as opposed to sweet, by 55/34) of this and other pertinent Thanksgiving issues, and the results of last year's now fouled pardon were the following:
The examples of the GOP's reflexive opposition to President Obama's agenda are many but this may be the best one yet: by a 27 point margin Republicans say they disapprove of the President's executive order last year pardoning two Thanksgiving turkeys (Macaroni and Cheese) instead of the customary one. Only 11% of Republicans support the President's executive order last year to 38% who are opposed- that's a pretty clear sign that if you put Obama's name on something GOP voters are going to oppose it pretty much no matter what. Overall there's 35/22 support for the pardon of Macaroni and Cheese thanks to 59/11 support from Democrats and 28/21 from independents.
Who knows why this is? Perhaps they saw the second turkey as something similar to an immigrant or a refugee, or perhaps it's just simply "how dare President Obama sign an executive order" over anything, which most wingnuts are pretty sure no Republican President has ever done, just ask them!
The stars of this year's festivities were "Honest and Abe," and Abe was this year's designee to fly the coop:
"I can announce that the American people have spoken, and we have two winners," he said. "Their names are Honest and Abe — I confess that Honest looks like good eating, but this is a democracy."
With daughters Malia and Sasha at his side, Obama declared that "Abe is now a free bird" and will now be designated "TOTUS — the Turkey of the United States."
Perhaps the President returned to tradition and only pardoned one "officially" due to a threatened government shutdown or something if he pardoned both, knowing our current GOP Congress.
But there you have it, just a little something to make any potential family holiday dustups you may have at your Thanksgiving table this year look tame by comparison to those who will even find fault with President Obama over every last White House tradition.
Whether you're in the camp with those who would prefer to have Hillary Clinton join you for dinner tomorrow (24 percent), or if you don't have your very own crazy uncle and/or you need someone with knife expertise to carve your less fortunate turkey and would prefer Ben Carson (18 percent), we here at Beach Peanuts wish you a wonderful Thanksgiving with family and friends.
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Posted by Martha Jackovics on 11/25/2015 at 05:50 PM in Barack Obama, Poll, Republicans | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tags: Barack Obama, Polls, Republicans, Thanksgiving, Turkey Pardon, White House
Marco Rubio Sees Paris Terrorist Attack As A "Positive Development"
Unqualified, And Should Be Disqualified
The Paris terrorist attack was a "positive development."
Isn't this just what you'd want to hear from a presidential candidate? It is to the GOP. After all, their current crop of candidates are a train wreck, so they see the chance to return to the Bush, Cheney era of terrorism scare campaign tactics as a positive last resort for electoral advantage and they're more than willing to stoke fear for their political advantage now. And if that isn't bad enough, those leading the charge have zero foreign policy experience, which makes them that much more dangerous than Bush and Cheney were. And that's saying something.
Case in point, Marco Rubio.
This is what Rubio said this past Sunday about the Paris attacks:
WALLACE: Senator, do you think that your foreign policy credentials are giving you a boost with voters as they focus more on choosing a commander in chief with all of these terror attacks?
RUBIO: Well, on these polls, obviously, you want good news, not bad news. But we've not gotten too excited or too depressed about them. They're going to fluctuate between now and Election Day, especially in early states where voters wait until the last week, the last day oftentimes to make their decision.
As far as national security, let me just say, I obviously am not happy about the events from last week in Paris, but I think it's a positive development that it suddenly has cast — forced Americans to confront more carefully the issue of national security, because it is the most important thing a president will do and that is the most important function of the federal government.
And I hope we focus on that more, not just for political advantage, but because the world has become a very dangerous place.
Here again, Rubio uses his routine style of doublespeak where he denounces something first, followed by a "but," after which he proceeds to say pretty much what he claimed to denounce just moments before.
"I obviously am not happy about the events from last week in Paris, but I think it's a positive development.
Americans have been focused on national security for years, especially in light of 9-11. This isn't something new. What is new is the "positive development" in Rubio's mind to take "political advantage" of the situation, and Rubio is all over it. He's been trying to tell Americans "the world is a dangerous place" (in case they hadn't noticed) for a while now, and just when he was sinking in the polls, along comes a terrorist attack and boom! Rubio could not get in front of a FOX camera fast enough. Be afraid! Rubio will save the day.
And just on the heels of his FOX appearance above, out comes a Rubio ad that both seeks to stoke fear, while playing into the terrorists hands calling this a "civilizational struggle", which is, of course, just the message the terrorists would like to get across and Rubio is only happy to give them what they want.
For an added bonus, he says they hate us because we let women go to school and drive, perhaps a distraction form the GOP's ongoing war on women, in which Rubio himself would also force a women to give birth to her rapist's baby. But I digress.
Then Rubio adds "What happened in Paris could happen here." Yes, that's been the case for years. A terrorist attack could come at any time. But here's a newsflash for Rubio: Attacks do happen here all the time. They're called mass shootings, and as of October there had been 294 of them in 2015 alone. We've had school shootings, Sandy Hook Elementary in 2012 being one of the worst, where most of the victims were children age 7 and under. Where was Rubio when this "happened here?" Back then (as now) Rubio, along with his GOP partners in crime were busy defending 2nd Amendment rights of course. Other than that, he was mostly silent. American toddlers now either shoot themselves or others about once a week. Despite this, Rubio has never made a campaign video saying we need to do something about domestic terrorism and shootings in our own country every day. Nope. And here's something else he's not doing anything about: Making it harder for terrorists to buy guns.
There's also the "political advantage" for fundraising off the victims of the Paris attacks, and naturally Rubio has that covered too. Because if there's one thing any observer of Rubio knows, it's the fact that he will fundraise off of anything and everything. Be it his own mother or a terrorist attack. All are equal in his mind as far as dollar signs go, yes sir!
His love of the almighty campaign dollar has kept him away from his day job for years, only more since he announced his presidential run. And just last week, he missed an intelligence briefing on the Paris attacks in favor of one. (He also made lots of scary speeches against the Iran deal while fundraising off of his opposition to it, then didn't even bother to show up to vote against it.) Because apparently intelligence on this "civilizational struggle" as he calls it isn't part of the Rubio plan against it.
And finally, we have another brilliant idea from the King Of No Foreign Policy Experience Whatsoever:
The Republican presidential hopeful on Monday said that the U.S. not only needs to fight ISIS in Syria and Iraq, but needs to upload videos of the America's exploits to the Internet in order to combat ISIS' slick propaganda and recruiting tactics.
"I want the world to see how these ISIS leaders cry like babies when they're captured," the Florida senator said at a town hall event in Iowa. "I want the world to see how these ISIS leaders, once captured, begin to sing like canaries if they survive."
One could ask, after hearing this, if Rubio wants to join ISIS rather than fight them, because this sounds like it comes right out of the terrorist propaganda playbook. It's one thing to give in and show the fear the terrorists are seeking not just from Americans, but from one who has his eye on the Oval Office, but it's another entirely to go so far as to become just like the terrorists by adopting their tactics.
Yes, Rubio loves to talk tough, but here's one thing you won't see Rubio doing, besides his job, voting, and attending intelligence briefings. You won't see him volunteering his own boots on the ground in order to go make ISIS leaders "cry like babies." He also wouldn't be sending his own children to fight his "civilizational struggle" for him as he would yours. He would, however, be creating more veterans for the chicken hawk GOP back home to ignore as he's done during his short stint in the Senate. (Look at his voting record on veterans.)
Perhaps if Rubio showed up for some of those intelligence briefings he would learn something. Maybe if he showed up to do his job and listened to people who do know what they're taking about, like President Obama, instead of merely criticizing everything he does, he would learn that wars aren't video games. That stoking fear and using irresponsible and dangerous rhetoric have real consequences not just for the country, but for those who are fighting the endless wars the GOP demands we embark on.
The highest office in the land is no place for someone who uses terrorist attacks, victims of terrorist attacks, wars, and the troops that do the fighting and dying in them, as political campaign and fundraising fodder.
Saying that a terrorist attack is a "positive development" to focus on "not just for political advantage" isn't something a presidential hopeful should say. It's something that should disqualify them from seeking office in the first place.
It's also shameful and disgusting, but Marco Rubio has no shame.
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Posted by Martha Jackovics on 11/24/2015 at 08:16 PM in Election 2016, Marco Rubio, Republicans, Terrorism | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tags: Election 2016, Marco Rubio, Paris, Republicans, Terrorism
Patrick Murphy, Gwen Graham Vote Against Syrian Refugees For Their Own Political Gain
Selling Out The Country's Values & Safety For Political Gain
"I cannot think of a more potent recruitment tool for ISIL than some of the rhetoric coming out of here in the course of this debate. ISIL seeks to exploit the idea that there's war between Islam and the West … that feeds the ISIL narrative."
- President Obama
This is what President Obama said the other day about the political discourse erupting among the Republican Party over the terrorist attacks in Paris, the dangerous rhetoric they use, and their rejection of refugees fleeing ISIL in Syria.
In essence, Republicans playing into the terrorists hands by passing a bill to block refugees from coming to the U.S. is no different. In doing so they're also going against everything America stands for by turning away those who are fleeing the terrorists in their own country after their party created the problem in the first place with the Iraq war. Once again, Republicans are targeting the wrong people. Add to that the utter inhumanity of turning them away, especially when just weeks ago some were complaining that the President wasn't aiding the refugees enough.
My how the tables have turned.
To make matters worse, 47 Democrats joined the Republicans to vote and pass a bill to block the refugees, a bill President Obama has vowed to veto.
Among those Democrats joining the Republicans to abandon the refugees, sell out the country, and our values for political gain were Florida's Rep. Gwen Graham and Rep. Patrick Murphy. Graham is facing a tough reelection and Murphy is now running for the Senate seat that's currently empty because Marco Rubio has abandoned his job, also for political gain, as a White House hopeful. They were the only Florida Democrats to join all the Florida Republicans in voting for the bill.
Both have a habit of voting with Republicans to protect themselves, and both could have done the right and humanitarian thing here, but once again they didn't. Instead, they offered the following excuses:
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Posted by Martha Jackovics on 11/21/2015 at 04:47 PM in Alan Grayson, Election 2016, Gwen Graham, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Patrick Murphy, Republicans, Rick Scott, Terrorism | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tags: Donald Trump, Gwen Graham, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Paris Terrorism, Patrick Murphy, Refugees, Republicans, Rick Scott, Syria
Jeb! Advisor Calls Trump A Fascist As GOP Targets Him, In Spite Of Pledge
Pot, Kettle?
It wasn't long ago that the GOP signed a pledge with Donald Trump stating that he wouldn't run as an independent, which also forever tied them to Trump's wrecking ball. Now it seems the pledge honeymoon is over and the knives are coming out.
Just yesterday it was reported that Republicans are launching an effort to boot Trump because he continues to blow away all the other candidates in the polls.
The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that a team of establishment Republicans is hatching plans for a "guerrilla" offensive against Trump before the business mogul gains more steam at the Iowa caucus scheduled for February 1.
Leading the effort is former Republican National Committee operative Liz Mair. Mair is calling her effort Trump Card LLC and she told the Journal that the group is "loosely organized and highly confidential" in an effort to attract high-rolling donors "who are very happy that their fingerprints will be kept off things."
Memo to Mair and crew, if you're launching a secret offensive against a candidate, it's probably not a good idea to announce it to the press ahead of time. Of course, that might be too much to ask of Mair who was forced to resign from her last job with the failing Scott Walker campaign for tweeting this:
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Posted by Martha Jackovics on 11/21/2015 at 01:06 PM in Election 2016, Jeb Bush, Republicans, Terrorism | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tags: Donald Trump, Election 2016, Fascism, Jeb Bush, Refugees, Republicans, Syria, Terrorism
Mission Accomplished, Governor Scott! Syrian Refugees In Florida Now Living In Fear
Just five days after the terror attacks in Paris, filled with false, angry rhetoric from the GOP and calls from governors to keep Syrian refugees fleeing terror away from their states as Florida's Rick Scott has done, innocent victims fleeing terror are now living in fear where they thought they had found a safe haven in Florida.
When the bombs started falling near her family's apartment building in Aleppo, Syria, Amal Saleh was too scared to leave their home.
Now, after a 21-month journey that scattered her family around the world and left one of them dead, the Syrian refugee finds herself scared to leave her new home near Fort Lauderdale. This time, it's the Americans she's scared of.
Saleh said she's watched in horror as Americans have focused their fears following the Paris terrorist attacks on Syrian refugees trying to find safety. "The same way that Americans are afraid of us, now we are afraid of them," said Saleh, 45, from the home she shares with her husband and their four teenage children. "I would tell them that we, the Syrian people, are very peaceful. These are children, women and elderly who have no blame for what's happening. We have been vetted very thoroughly.
"We deserve to live."
The Salehs don't even have an Internet connection in their home yet, but it's been impossible for them to miss the widespread reaction around the country to people trying to follow in their footsteps.
They hardly need an Internet connection when they have a governor in their own back yard claiming he wants to keep Florida families safe from people like "them." (Contrary to what Rick Scott claims, read more here of the extensive vetting this family had to go through to get here.)
Well done, Governor Scott. Mission accomplished.
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Posted by Martha Jackovics on 11/18/2015 at 06:42 PM in Florida, Republicans, Rick Scott, Terrorism | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tags: Florida, Paris, Refugees, Republicans, Rick Scott, Syria, Terrorism
Predictably, Rick Scott Joins The GOP Parade To Demonize Refugees Fleeing Terror
Playing A Shameful, Dangerous Game For Political Gain
It was predictably just a matter of time before Rick Scott, Florida's "Obama basher in chief," jumped wholeheartedly into the parade of GOP governors seeking to politicize the terrorist attacks in Paris by taking aim at innocent Syrian refugees, many of them orphans, who are fleeing those same terrorists.
Scott happily jumped in with both feet to say he would seek to ban refugees from coming to Florida, and using his claims that his interests are to "protect Florida families" to do so. (Scott has no authority to ban the refugees, nor can he opt out of the refugee relocation program.)
After joining a call with the President and other governors over the issue, Scott, whose Department of Children and Families has a terrible record of taking care of Florida's own children, claimed among other things that neither he, nor the DCF were given "enough information." The DCF is the agency that coordinates with other groups on refugee services. 104 refugees have already been relocated in Florida.
Scott is following his usual playbook to demonize the refugees by announcing he would work to ban them from the state, making the rounds to various media outlets like FOX to politicize it for his own gain, and then holding a press conference back home that provides little to back up his claims.
For instance, here's what he had to say yesterday:
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Posted by Martha Jackovics on 11/18/2015 at 04:48 PM in Republicans, Rick Scott, Terrorism | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tags: Florida, Paris, Refugees, Republicans, Rick Scott, Syria
Bondi Uses Your Tax Dollars As A Weapon Against You, But She's The One Being "Bullied?"
Who's The Bully?
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, the master of vague legal arguments, is best known for one thing, using Florida taxpayer dollars as a weapon against those same taxpayers. She's sued to take away their health care, to block Florida women from gaining access to contraception, to block abortions, to block solar ballot initiatives, and to block a medical marijuana amendment from the ballot, just to name a few. She's also gone to bat to block a cleanup plan for the Chesapeake Bay on Florida's dime.
Now she's up to it again, this time suing to fight President Obama's Clean Power Plan, a plan which would pave the way for cleaner air and to fight climate change, both horrors in Bondi's mind. So she's joining the fight to protect power companies "protect consumers" from these impending nightmares.
To fight back against Bondi and the rest of the AG's fighting the good fight to hasten the planet's death and choke anyone who breathes, Michael Bloomberg's political action committee, Independence USA, is launching ads against them:
"Attorney General Pam Bondi is siding with big polluters. Her lawsuit would let them make millions in profits while they pollute our air and water," the ad states. "Pam Bondi — putting polluters and their profits ahead of protecting Florida families."]
["Attorneys general in many states are frequently relatively unknown to voters… they often operate under the cover of darkness," said Howard Wolfson, a senior advisor at Independence USA. "They think they can make decisions that are at odds with the interests of their constituents without anyone really noticing, and we want to make sure that we shine a very bright light on the activities of these attorneys general to make sure that constituents in all four states know exactly what they are up to."
Yes, AG's actions often do fly under the voters' radar. In Florida, much of the reason Bondi's actions draw any attention at all is because she rarely does anything in the interest of the Floridians she supposed to be protecting. She always claims she's operating in their best interests, but it's hard to look at her list of failed accomplishments and make a sane argument to back her up.
True to form, Bondi is now outraged that anyone would challenge her on her latest "consumer protection" effort. The legal opinion from Bondi brain trust central? Bloomberg is a bully!
Bondi responded in a statement, calling Bloomberg a "billionaire bully" who is "attacking Florida, and 26 other states, for having the audacity of defending their citizens against the EPA's heavy-handed and unlawful regulations, which will drastically increase Floridians power bills— something this billionaire clearly cares little about.
"This bully wants to defend the federal government; we want to protect the people we serve," she said.
Yes, because if there's one thing Bondi and her partners in crime in Tallahassee hate, it's billionaire bullies who "drastically increase" the power bills of Floridians! This is why they've either stood by, or orchestrated the giant corporate welfare power company suckage that now charges Florida consumers for nuclear power plants that don't exist and likely never will, and for fracking exploration so they can potentially poison the Florida aquifer when fracking comes to Florida later on.
But tell us who the bully is again, Ms. Bondi?
So just add her latest effort to aid the poor power company underdogs to your taxpayer tab, and keep her and the GOP Tallahassee powers that be in mind when you pay your next power welfare bill.
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Posted by Martha Jackovics on 11/10/2015 at 02:09 PM in Clean Energy, Climate Change, Environment, Florida, Pam Bondi | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tags: Clean Energy, Clean Power Plan, Climate Change, Florida, Pam Bondi
Florida Government Corruption Forecast
(Photo: Martha Jackovics)
If you're a Floridian who needs to apply for public assistance, if Rick Scott had his way you would have to pass a drug test first.
If you're a Floridian who is unemployed through no fault of your own and you need unemployment compensation, you have to jump through several hoops, and when you're done, Scott's unemployment website doesn't work anyway, so chances are you're out of luck.
If you want to vote in Florida, you have to prove yourself voting worthy in the form of mountains of documented proof, and then hope you don't get caught up in one of Scott's voter purges.
And in the state which has the only governor in history with a blind trust, if you want to find out what else he's up to through access to public records through our Sunshine Laws, the forecast is more like cloudy with a chance of a full blackout.
The Center for Public Integrity has just released the State Integrity 2015 report, and Florida scored a "D."
Color me not shocked in the least.
When scoring the access to public information, Florida get's an "F."
The rest of the Florida "report card" in assessing the systems in place to deter corruption in state government breaks down like this:
Political Financing, Electoral Oversight, Judicial Accountability, State Budget Processes, State Civil Services Management, and Lobbying Disclosure all scored an "F."
Earning a "D" or "D+" were Executive Accountability, Procurement, Ethics Enforcement and State Pension Management.
Legislative Accountability rated a "C+" and Internal Auditing a "B."
To see the full report, which is easier to access than whatever Florida government is up to, click here.
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Rick Scott's Hypocrisy On The VA And His Refusal To Expand Medicaid
Lack Of Jobs, Health Insurance, Makes Florida Under Scott The Most Stressed Out State In The Country
Posted by Martha Jackovics on 11/09/2015 at 02:37 PM in Florida, Florida Legislature, Rick Scott, Sunshine Laws | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Florida Rep.: Ignore Sea Rise Speculation, And The High Tide In Your Living Room
More brilliance from the Florida Department of Can't Say "Sea Rise."
A House subcommittee chairman, who this week during a meeting twice cautioned a state environmental protection official about expressing "speculation" on sea level rise, tells POLITICO Florida that "the world goes through cycles" of climate change.
Rep. Ben Albritton, a Republican from Wauchula and chairman of the House Agriculture and Natural Resources Appropriations Subcommittee, said in an interview that the world may be headed for a cold spell, as he read in a 2011 book written by someone who does not believe that humans contribute to climate change.
"I don't understand sea level rise, global warming — this whole discussion," Albritton said. "I've seen really good data that shows global warming. I read a book recently that had really good data in it that shows we are actually entering into a cooling period that happens about every 200 years."
On Tuesday, Albritton cautioned Department of Environmental Protection Deputy Secretary Drew Bartlett on answering questions from subcommittee members about sea level rise.
"Feel free to answer that if you'd like to," Albritton said. "We want to be very careful of course in providing speculation or personal opinion on something that may be out 5, 10, 15 or 30 years from now, and not building concrete ideas or concrete decisions around this table on something that might be speculation."
Yeah South Florida, just ignore that high tide in your living room. With any luck you'll be dead by the time it reaches your ceiling anyway, so until then, just zip it on all that speculation.
Speaking Of Climate Change Earns FL State Employee A Mental Health Evaluation
Governor Smokescreen's DEP: Don't Say "Climate Change" Or "Global Warming"
Marco Rubio: Still Clueless After All These Years
Posted by Martha Jackovics on 11/05/2015 at 12:55 PM in Climate Change, Florida Legislature | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Rubio Reminds Voters Of His Immigration Pandering, Then Vows To Deport DREAMers
I'm starting to think that Marco Rubio really doesn't want to be President at all.
Yesterday, in addition to taking a shot at Rubio over his personal finance train wreck, Donald Trump threw in a jab at Rubio's immigration train wreck while he was at it.
Rubio said weeks ago that he refused to respond to Trump when baited by him. He probably should have stuck with that decision, because his response only highlighted the fact that Rubio is a shameless panderer.
Trump:
"Rubio was totally in favor of very lax rules, he was part of the 'Gang of 8,' " Trump said Wednesday in New Hampshire. "The Gang of 8 means 'come on in folks, come on in, no one is going to stop you."
And Rubio's response:
"Donald was a supporter of amnesty and the DREAM Act, he changed his position on those issues just to run for president."
Take out the "Donald" and insert "Rubio." There. All fixed.
In short, no one trusts Rubio on immigration, and his latest move to the right certainly won't help. Yesterday he also said he would end protections for DREAMers whether or not there's immigration reform, thus deporting thousands who have never lived anywhere else but the U. S.
This may please the hardline anti-immigration crowd, but it's a sure loser in the general election if Rubio ever gets that far.
Poll: Americans Say Rubio Is All Wet On Climate Change
Rubio Preaches "Morality" At Anti-Gay Group Fundraiser
Posted by Martha Jackovics on 11/05/2015 at 12:14 PM in Election 2016, Immigration, Marco Rubio | Permalink | Comments (0)
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A new study seeks to determine how one parasitic species can give rise to two drastically different outcomes in its host: The human body louse (Pediculus humanus) can transmit dangerous bacterial infections to humans, while the human head louse (also Pediculus humanus) does not. A report of the new study appears in the journal Insect Molecular Biology.
"Body louse-transmitted diseases include trench fever, relapsing fever and epidemic typhus," says University of Illinois entomology professor Barry Pittendrigh, who led the research. In a previous study, Pittendrigh and his colleagues compared the sequences of all protein-coding genes in head and body lice and determined that the two belonged to the same species despite the fact that body lice are bigger than head lice, cling to clothing instead of hair, and can transmit disease.
Since the early 2000s, Pittendrigh has worked with John M. Clark, a professor of environmental toxicology and chemistry at the University of Massachusetts, on the molecular biology and genomics of lice. Clark was a collaborator on the 2012 study, and the two have had "a long-term goal of trying to solve this question of why body lice transmit bacterial diseases and head lice don't," Pittendrigh says.
In the new study, Clark's group infected head and body lice with Bartonella quintana, the bacterium that causes trench fever. Pittendrigh's laboratory then looked at gene expression in each to see how the insects responded to the infection.
"Our experiments suggest that the head louse immune system is fairly effective in fighting off the bacteria that cause trench fever," Pittendrigh says. "However, the body lice don't seem to have as good an immune response."
The researchers discovered that several immune genes were regulated differently in head and body lice after infection with the bacteria, and the infection progressed further in body lice over time.
"By eight days post-infection, head lice had killed or contained the invading B. quintana, whereas the bacteria were still proliferating and spreading in body lice," the researchers report.
The team cannot yet say why head and body louse immune responses differ from one another, but Pittendrigh hypothesizes that the body louse has a reason to be more tolerant of bacterial infection.
"Head and body lice have beneficial bacteria living inside them," he says. "These bacteria make vitamins that the lice need to grow and survive. Body lice tend to grow larger than head lice. It may be that a suppressed immune system allows body lice to grow more of the bacteria that make the vitamins they need, and they grow larger."
The body louse's dampened immune response would allow other invading bacteria, such as those that cause disease in humans, to also survive in its gut, he says.
"So body lice may grow bigger, but they also are more likely to get sick with the trench fever bacteria and pass the disease to humans," Pittendrigh adds.
The study team also includes researchers from Purdue University, Seoul National University, the University of California at San Francisco, the University of Massachusetts and the University of Illinois department of animal biology.
The title of the paper is , "Differential Gene Expression in Laboratory Strains of Human Head and Body Lice When Challenged With Bartonella Quintana, a Pathogenic Bacterium."


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Un raccourci dans le temps () est un film d'aventures et de fantasy américain réalisé par Ava DuVernay, sorti en 2018.

Il s'agit d'une adaptation du roman de Madeleine L'Engle, publié en 1962. C'est la deuxième fois que ce roman est adapté à l'écran, après le téléfilm Les Aventuriers des mondes fantastiques de John Kent Harrison en 2003.

Mettant en scène Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon et Mindy Kaling en un trio d'êtres surnaturels ainsi que la jeune Storm Reid dans le rôle de Meg Murry, il est le premier film en prise de vues réelles de l'histoire du cinéma à être réalisé par une femme noire avec un budget de plus de 100 millions de dollars.

Il a reçu un accueil critique principalement mitigé de la part de la presse mais réalise une bonne performance aux box-office américain. Néanmoins, il connait un échec au box-office international, remboursant de justesse son budget mais ne réalisant aucun bénéfices en raison de son important budget publicitaire, devenant un « flop » pour Walt Disney Pictures.

Synopsis
Deux enfants, Meg et le benjamin mais non moins précoce Charles Wallace, vivent avec leur mère scientifique. Leur père, lui aussi scientifique, a mystérieusement disparu depuis quatre ans.

Un jour, Meg voit débarquer trois puissants êtres surnaturels : ,  et . Meg va vite découvrir que la disparition de son père n'est pas étrangère à ses recherches sur un tesseract pouvant agir sur l'espace-temps et permettant ainsi de voyager dans tout l'univers.

Les trois femmes annoncent ensuite à Meg et à Charles Wallace qu'ils doivent sauver leur père. Avec l'aide d'un nommé Calvin O'Keefe, nouvel et seul ami de Meg, ils vont s'aventurer vers des planètes extraterrestres pour affronter les forces du mal et sauver leur père.

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 Titre original :
 Titre français et québécois : Un raccourci dans le temps
 Réalisation : Ava DuVernay
 Scénario : Jennifer Lee et Jeff Stockwell d'après le roman éponyme de Madeleine L'Engle
 Storyboard : Peter Ramsey
 Direction artistique : Naomi Shohan
 Décors : Kevin Constant, Greg Hooper, Gregory S. Hooper, Jeff Julian, David Lazan et Ken Turner
 Costumes : Paco Delgado
 Photographie : Tobias A. Schliessler
 Montage : Spencer Averick
 Musique : Ramin Djawadi
 Production : Catherine Hand et Jim Whitaker
 Société de production : Walt Disney Pictures et Whitaker Entertainment
 Société de distribution : Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
 Budget :
 Pays d'origine :
 Langue originale : anglais
 Format : couleur - son Dolby Atmos - RealD 3D / IMAX 3D
 Genre : Aventure-fantasy
 Durée :
 Dates de sortie :
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Distribution
 Oprah Winfrey  :
 Reese Witherspoon  :
 Mindy Kaling  :
 Storm Reid  : Margaret « Meg » Murry
 Levi Miller  : Calvin O'Keefe
   : Charles Wallace Murry
 Chris Pine  :
 Gugu Mbatha-Raw  :
 Zach Galifianakis  : le Médium Heureux
 Michael Peña  : Red
 André Holland  : le proviseur James Jenkins
 Rowan Blanchard  : Veronica Kiley
 David Oyelowo  : le Ça (voix)
 Bellamy Young  : une femme sur la planète Camazotz
  : l'Homme Élégant
   : Paddy O'Keefe
  : une professeure
 Will McCormack : un professeur

Production

Genèse et développement

En , Walt Disney Pictures annonce le développement d'une nouvelle adaptation du roman Un raccourci dans le temps de Madeleine L'Engle dont la société disposait des droits depuis la réalisation d'un téléfilm en 2003. Jeff Stockwell est engagé pour écrire le scénario et Cary Granat pour produire le film avec un budget de 35 millions de dollars.

Mais le projet est repoussé et finalement, en 2014, l'équipe est modifié avec Jennifer Lee qui reprend le scénario tandis qu'en 2016, la réalisatrice Ava DuVernay rejoint le projet. Le budget du film est également augmenté pour atteindre les 100 millions de dollars, faisant de Ava DuVernay la première femme noire à réaliser un film avec un tel budget.

Distribution des rôles
En , Oprah Winfrey rejoint la distribution du film pour interpréter , l'un des trois puissants êtres surnaturels. Elle est rejointe en septembre par Reese Witherspoon et Mindy Kaling qui interpréteront les deux autres personnages. Quelques jours après, Storm Reid décroche le rôle de la jeune et intrépide Meg Murry.

En , Gugu Mbatha-Raw et Chris Pine sont annoncés à la distribution pour interpréter les parents de Meg puis en novembre, le reste de la distribution est dévoilé, avec Zach Galifianakis, André Holland, Levi Miller, Deric McCabe, Bellamy Young, Rowan Blanchard, Will McCormack et Michael Peña.

Tournage
Le tournage du film a débuté le  à Los Angeles en Californie puis il s'est poursuivi à Eureka dans le comté de Humboldt, toujours en Californie, à partir du . Le tournage du film aux États-Unis s'est terminé le .

Le tournage s'est ensuite poursuivi à partir du  en Nouvelle-Zélande, pour une durée de deux semaines. Le tournage s'est déroulé dans les Alpes du Sud et à la Hunter Valley Station où l'équipe a été reçue par la population autochtone locale.

Le , le film fait partie des vingt-huit récipiendaires possibles d'un crédit d'impôts de  prévu par l'État de Californie et pourrait recevoir .

Musique
En , il est annoncé que le compositeur Ramin Djawadi, connu pour son travail sur plusieurs projets célèbres dont la série Game of Thrones, composera la musique du film à la place de Jonny Greenwood.

En plus des compositions de Ramin Djawadi, la bande-originale du film sera composée de chansons originales de Sia, Kehlani, Freestyle Fellowship, Demi Lovato, DJ Khaled ainsi que Sade, qui marque d'ailleurs son retour pour le film après huit ans d'absence, à la suite d'une demande d'Ava DuVernay.

Accueil

Critique

Aux États-Unis, le film divise la critique. Sur le site agrégateur de critiques Rotten Tomatoes, il obtient un score de 41 % de critiques positives, avec une note moyenne de 5,2/10 sur la base de 96 critiques positives et 148 négatives.

Le consensus critique établi par le site résume que le film est visuellement beau et qu'il a du cœur mais qu'il est trop ambitieux avec un résultat inférieur et des scènes classiques. Sur Metacritic, il obtient un score mitigé de 53/100 sur la base de 50 critiques collectées.

En France, il reçoit des critiques généralement négatives. D'après le site Allociné, réunissant les critiques des principaux professionnels, sur 14 titres de presses, seulement un magazine lui attribue une critique positive.

Box-office

Le film a récolté 100,4 millions de dollars aux États-Unis et au Canada et 32,1 millions de dollars dans le reste du monde dont 1,8 million en France pour un total de 132,6 millions dans le monde.

En France, le film est un échec au box-office, retiré de l'affiche par les cinémas après seulement quatre semaines.

Aux États-Unis et au Canada, le film fonctionne très bien, néanmoins, il est un échec dans le reste du monde, récoltant uniquement 32,1 millions de dollars à l'international. Le , Walt Disney Pictures reporte une perte de 100 millions d'USD pour le film Un raccourci dans le temps à la suite des mauvaises audiences en salles tant aux États-Unis qu'à l'international.

Le film réussit à rembourser son budget mais rapporte très peu car avec un budget estimé à 100 millions de dollars, le film a nécessité de 30 millions de dollars supplémentaires pour sa promotion, faisant de lui un « flop » au box-office.

Notes et références

Liens externes

Film américain sorti en 2018
Adaptation d'un roman de jeunesse au cinéma
Film d'aventure américain
Film de fantasy américain
Film de science-fiction américain
Film réalisé par Ava DuVernay
Film de Walt Disney Pictures
Film en relief
Film IMAX
Film de fantasy sur le voyage dans le temps
Film de science-fiction sur le voyage dans le temps
Film de fantasy mettant en scène une sorcière
Film mettant en scène un extraterrestre
Film mettant en scène des jumeaux ou jumelles
Film tourné en capture de mouvement
Film se déroulant aux États-Unis
Film se déroulant sur une planète fictive
Film tourné à Los Angeles
Film tourné en Nouvelle-Zélande
Film classé PG aux États-Unis
Film tous publics en France
Film tous publics au Québec
Film en anglais
2018 en science-fiction
2018 en fantasy

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Well, Hush My Puppies!
Texas Allows Recovery for Sentimental Value of Accidentally-Euthanized Dog
In law school many a year ago, our Real Property professor assured the class one day that "you can find authority for either side of any legal proposition in the opinions of the Texas Court of Civil Appeals." How right he has proved to be.
The Court of Appeals for the Second District of Texas (Fort Worth) ruled earlier this month that the owners of a dog that had been erroneously euthanized by an animal shelter "can recover intrinsic or sentimental damages for the loss" of their pet.
The case is Medlen v. Strickland (11/3/2011), and the facts before the trial court were largely undisputed. The Medlens' dog "Avery" escaped from their yard and was eventually picked up by Animal Control and taken to a shelter. The Medlens quickly learned their dog's whereabouts, but when Jeremy Medlen showed up to retrieve Avery, he was unprepared to pay the necessary fees for the dog's release. Jeremy was told that he could return in the morning, and Avery's enclosure was marked with a "hold for owner" tag. Carla Strickland, a shelter employee, made a list of dogs to be euthanized that evening and, for whatever reason, overlooked or ignored the "hold for owner" tag. When Jeremy Medlen returned with the requisite fees the next morning, he learned that Avery had already joined the choir invisible.
The Medlens sued Strickland for her negligence in bringing about Avery's death. They acknowledged that Avery had had little or no market value, but argued that they should be able to recover "sentimental or intrinsic value" because Avery was "irreplaceable." The trial judge ruled that those damages were not recoverable and dismissed the case; the Medlens appealed.
The trial judge was persuaded by a Texas Supreme Court decision from 1891, Heiligmann v. Rose, in which the plaintiff's three dogs had been poisoned by a neighbor. The evidence there showed that the dogs' market value (in the sense of what they could have been sold for) was about $5 each, but the Texas Supreme Court found that a higher amount of damages could be recovered based on the owner's showing of the dogs' "usefulness and services." In the 120 years since, the state Supreme Court has not revisited the valuation of a companion animal, and Heiligmann had come to be interpreted to mean that the only way to recover anything other than "market value" for an animal's death is by the sort of showing of "usefulness" to the owner that had been made in that case.
Since Heiligmann, however, the Texas high court has considered how to value other sorts of property found to be lacking in true "market value." In particular, a line of cases has determined that "sentimental" value can be considered when the property that is damaged or destroyed—such as family photos, keepsakes, heirlooms and the like—is of value to no one other than its owner. On appeal in this case the Medlens argued, and the Court of Appeals agreed, that a consistent interpretation of the law should require that animals with purely sentimental value be valued in the same way as any other kind of market-valueless property. In other words, because the dog has no value otherwise determinable, the court concluded that its sentimental value provides the proper measure of damages.
The Court of Appeals in Medlen is insistent that it is only "interpreting" Heiligmann, not overruling it. (As an intermediate appellate court, it has no authority to actually overrule a Supreme Court decision, however old that decision may be.) In its interpretation, however, the Court expressly declined to follow relatively recent decisions from other divisions of the Court of Appeals that have construed Heiligmann to limit or preclude sentimental value as a consideration in animal cases. The upshot, then, seems to be—but don't take my word for it, since I am not a Texas lawyer—that Heiligmann remains "good law" but that there is a division of opinion within the Court of Appeals over how it should be applied. Presumably a Texas trial court not within the Second District could elect to follow the rule as interpreted in other Districts' opinions. So the true "rule" in Texas is actually undecided, until such time as the Texas Supreme Court itself revisits the question.
California Consequences?
Does Medlen have any immediate impact in California? In my view, it should not. In addition to the fact that decisions of out of state courts are not binding upon California courts, the underlying premise of the Medlen decision—that the purely sentimental value of some types of property is compensable in damages—is not consistent with settled California case law and statutes.
Decs&Excs readers may recall that the current state of the law in California turns on two recent decisions. In the 2009 case of McMahon v. Craig, the Court of Appeal found that an animal owner cannot recover damages for emotional distress or "loss of companionship" of an animal that is injured or dies as a result of negligence. More recently, in June 2010, a different division of the Court held in Kimes v. Grosser that the "reasonable" costs of treatment—however that may be determined—can be recovered when an animal is injured, even when those costs substantially exceed the animal's de minimus market value.
Both McMahon and Kimes considered the doctrine known in California as "peculiar value." Peculiar value is the value of property that is unique to its owner, and the doctrine is closely equivalent to what the Texas court calls "intrinsic value." California law differs from Texas law, however, in the manner in which this peculiar/intrinsic value is determined. Unlike the post-Heligmann cases relied upon in Medlen, which specifically permitted "sentimental" value as an element of "intrinsic value," California courts (and federal courts applying California law) have consistently ruled that "peculiar value" must be determined on a "rational" basis, and that sentimental value is a factor that is not to be considered in making that.
Also notable: the concept of "peculiar value" is a creature of statute under California law, codified since 1872 as Civil Code §3355. That statute provides for recovery of peculiar value damages, but only in cases of "willful wrongdoing"—i.e., not in cases where the cause of loss is mere negligence, as in Medlen—or in cases in which the defendant had "notice" of that value prior to the loss occurring.
The current majority rule across the States is that animals are personal property and that market value, or some rationally determined pecuniary value other than mere sentiment, is the appropriate basis on which to calculate damages for loss of an animal. In my opinion, Medlen is most likely not a harbinger of a national shift away from that eminently sensible rule. Medlen is likely to be cited by plaintiffs in animal cases going forward, however, until it is eventually either accepted or expressly rejected on a state by state basis.
Illustration: "In Disgrace" by Bessie Pease Gutmann. And yes, there was a copy of this classic on my bedroom wall when I was but a young pup of a wee sprat.
Posted by George M. Wallace at 09:45 AM in Animal Law | Permalink
If a pet has no market value, why are there such serious fines for hurting one? It would seem that the penalties for killing a pet on purpose would provide an appropriate guideline for the penalties for doing it by accident.
This is not to be construed as an argument against animal-cruelty statutes.
Posted by: DensityDuck | January 25, 2012 at 02:23 PM