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Cate Blanchett in 'Don't Look Up'
On January 2, 2022 January 17, 2022 By Murtada ElfadlIn Awards Season, Podcast5 Comments
There's a comet hurtling towards earth and a bunch of movie stars at trying to not look up at it. To discuss Cate Blanchett's second movie this holiday season -Adam McKay's climate change satire Don't Look Up– Murtada welcomes critic Boyd van Hoeij from The Film Verdict to the podcast.
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From IMDB: Two low-level astronomers must go on a giant media tour to warn mankind of an approaching comet that will destroy planet Earth.
Who does Cate play?
Bree Evante, a morning news show host determined to put a positive spin on news.
What year did it come out?
Critical Response: Metacritic : 52 RT: 56
General impression on Adam McKay and his films.
Don't Look Up is being sold as a cross between Dr Strangelove and Network. Are the similies spot on?
The targets of the satire – incompetent governments, media, tech billionaires, populace believing in politics not science – are obvious. There's a shorthand that makes each character's real world avatar easy to get hence the laughs but does that undermine the film's intelligence?
Huge cast – Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lawrence, Rob Morgan, Tyler Perry, Jonah Hill, Ariana Grande, Mark Rylance, Timothée Chalamet… and more? Who's funny? Who's annoying? Who's unmemorable? Who brought the heart and pathos? Who stands out?
Leo's big Peter Finch-like monologue. Does it work?
Cate's look; called "yassified" by the NYTimes. Extreme fembot.
Cate and Leo – The Aviator reunion?
Cate and Meryl; they are in one scene together but hardly interact. So we fantasy cast them in other projects
Film within context of Cate's career:
2021 is turning out to be a big year for Blanchett. She has this and Nightmare Alley coming out within days of each other.
Cate Blanchett in Supporting Parts:
Cate came to prominence as a lead in Elizabeth (1998) but has since taken many supporting roles. Is there a link between them? In story? In collaborators?
Some of the supporting parts include The Man Who Cried (2000), The Shipping News (2001), Babel (2007), Hanna (2011).
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Introducing Murtada's Corner
On September 17, 2020 September 17, 2020 By Murtada ElfadlIn Murtada's CornerLeave a comment
Let me introduce Murtada's Corner which will be the new section where you can read about other topics. The podcast will remain all about Cate Blanchett but here I will branch into other writing – old and new – about other topics. Mostly cinema related.
Muligan in Never Let Me Go
I'm starting with another actress I admire, Carey Mulligan and a collection of articles I've written about her through the years. Happy Reading!
Carey Mulligan is an actress of immense range. Since her breakout at the 2009 edition of Sundance with An Education, she's given us many tremendous performances. All of them heartbreaking and deeply felt in different ways, whether she's a replicant trying to make human connections (Never Let Me Go), F Scott Fitzgerald's famous Daisy (The Great Gatsby), a broken sister singing her heart out as a last cry for help (Shame) or a wife and mother facing the dissolution of her marriage and the paucity of choices after (Wildlife). And once again she gives an exceptional performance in Promising Young Woman
On her performance in Wildlife:
"This is her shining moment. It's her Blanche Dubois moment. Her Jeanette, a Montana housewife dealing with the repercussions of a crumbling marriage, is untethered yet Mulligan is in complete control. She holds the performance in her voice, as it trembles with emotion – hurt, confusion, anger, uncertainty – all is clear to the audience through the timber of her voice."
and stream on Netflix
"Mulligan's performance is an emotional marvel and delivered with technical mastery. Her working class English accent is impeccable, her weariness and defeat is visible in her hunched back and heavy walk, her defiance rises to crescendo and is delivered with skillful control of her voice. This is why there are awards for acting."
Click to read more on Suffragette, also available to stream on Netflix.
And at this year's Sundance Mulligan impressed me once more in Promising Young Woman.
"Mulligan is engaging and ferocious throughout and the reason to immediately buy a ticket."
Click to read more….
'Elizabeth' and the 1998 Oscar for Best Actress
On June 14, 2020 January 14, 2021 By Murtada ElfadlIn Podcast4 Comments
For the 2nd season finale of the podcast, we return to 1998. Elizabeth was Cate Blanchett's international breakout and the first time many people saw her on screen. Hence it deserves a revisit. To discuss the film again, along with Blanchett's first Academy Award nomination and the 1998 best actress Oscar race, Murtada Elfadl welcomes Izzy from Be Kind Rewind. Click to listen: https://sundayswithcatepod.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/ep-27-elizabeth-1998-oscar-best-actress.mp3 Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Stitcher / Spotify / iHeart What is the film about? From imdb: The early years of the reign of Elizabeth I of England and her difficult task of learning what is necessary to be a monarch. Directed by Shekar Kapur; also starring Richard Attenborough, Geoffrey Rush, Joseph Fiennes, Emily Mortimer, Kelly McDonald. What year did it come out? 1998. Who does Cate play? Duh – top billed. How is Cate introduced? 7 Minutes in, dancing in a field among her ladies in waiting. Box Office: Domestic = $30,082,699 (36.6%), Int'l = $52,067,943 (63.4%).
Cate Blanchett as Elizabeth I
Why was this performance so well received? It was considered such an arrival of a major star. How much is the role? How much is Cate? She charts a whole journey and character arc from young woman to monarch to stateswoman to almost deity, getting the chance to play innocent, cunning, in love, betrayed; the whole gamut of emotions.
So many actresses played this part: Bette Davis, Glenda Jackson, Anne-Marie Duff, Helen Mirren and Margot Robbie. Why is it so attractive to storytellers?
What is the Cate moment that sealed her stardom and Oscar nomination? Basically what's this film "I have a hurricane in me" from Elizabeth: The Golden Age?
Ominously surrounded by men as Elizabeth is interrogated in the tower early on the film. Vacillating between fear and trying to hold it together while answering a barrage of questions.
Her scene with Kathy Burke as Mary "I see you are a consummate actress."
Preparing and delivering her speech to the bishops.
Lamenting the defeat of her troops in Scotland by Mary of Guise.
The finale "I've become a virgin."
Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth and Gwyneth Paltrow in Shakespeare in Love. Both won Golden Globes, Paltrow won the Oscar
Other 1998 Oscar Best Actress Nominees: Gwyneth Paltrow, Shakespeare in Love – the winner. She and Cate both won at Golden Globes. Meryl Streep, One True Thing – Nomination #11 out of 21. Only nomination for film. Great monologue, "I'm tired of being shushed." Fernanda Montenegro, Central Station– won best actress at the Berlinale, LAFCA and NBR. She and Cate were runners up to Ally Sheedy (High Art) at NSFC. Runner up to Cameron Diaz (There's Something About Mary) at NYFCC. This tweet is funny! Emily Watson, Hillary and Jackie – forgotten film, more of an afterglow nomination 2 years after Breaking the Waves. Interesting career trajectory with Blanchett as she was considered for Elizabeth.
The other 1998 Oscar nominees were Fernanda Montenegro in Central Station, Meryl Streep in One True Thing and Emily Watson in Hilary and Jackie
Did Paltrow win because she played a romantic lead, something academy members are prone to award —Roman Holiday, Moonstruck—while Blanchett was playing a more traditionally male role as a monarch? More from Murtada and Izzy: Elizabeth was previously discussed on the podcast. Don't miss Be Kind Rewind on how Shakespeare in Love won its Oscars. Note on the headline: This Oscar year is sometimes referred to as "the 1999 Oscars" since the ceremony took place in March of 1999. However I prefer using the year of the film's release, 1998. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Stitcher / Spotify / iHeart Like? Rate and Review. Have a question? Leave us a comment.
Cate Blanchett in 'Documentary Now' / 'Manifesto'
On December 22, 2019 August 30, 2020 By Murtada ElfadlIn Podcast1 Comment
We are going avant garde because "art is supposed to be radical." Murtada welcomes Shelley Farmer to discuss Waiting for the Artist (2019), an episode of Documentary Now and the film Manifesto (2017) which started as an art installation.
https://sundayswithcatepod.files.wordpress.com/2019/12/ep-12-doc-now-manifesto-1.mp3
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Documentary Now: Waiting for The Artist
Follow along, Blanchett's episode is available on Netflix.
An episode of the third season of Documentary Now inspired by the Marina Abramovic doc The Artist is Present. From imdb: A performance artist returns to her native Hungary for a career retrospective.
What is Documentary Now?
An American mockumentary television series, created by Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, Seth Meyers, and Rhys Thomas. The series spoofs celebrated documentary films by parodying the style of each documentary with a similar, but fictitious, subject. Notable episodes include spoofs of Grey Gardens, The Thin Blue Line and Company Original Cast Album.
Izabella Barta, a take on Marina Abramovic.
Documentary Now the series, what they are good at, memorable episodes, why is it a must see?
Mimicry, she's an ace after all she played both Bob Dylan and Katharine Hepburn so to take to this absurd level is fun.
Adding absurdity to all the re-creations of Marina Abramovic, this a spoof of her 2012 documentary The Artist is Present.
This is a fun absurd register that she doesn't play with in her films though she has played ridiculous (Crystal Skull, Cinderella).
Memorable quotes:
"Got pain in my uterus already"
"It's supposed to be radical"
What reviews said about Cate:
"There's a genuine, and familiar, tragedy underneath Blanchett's Slavic accent, and she doesn't play the part for laughs. There's humor in the episode, but it's the humor of recognition, not release. Even if it's fiction, "Waiting for the Artist" still feels like it's documenting something real." – Sam Adams, Slate
"The episode is written by Seth Meyers, and its brilliance lies in how tenderly both he and Blanchett approach Barta, a woman whose installations have included getting strangers to pass her toilet paper and pretending to be a cat. Performance art is so ripe for parody that it almost resists it. But Meyers, whether accidentally or not, finds some real meaning in Barta's work, which attempts to expose the absurd suffering of the human condition." – Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic.
Fun project that shows she can be in on the joke playing off her persona as a great actress.
Behind the scenes of the episode @ IndieWire
Recently Cate and Marina spent time together in London.
Official Synopsis: Manifesto pays homage to the tradition and literary beauty of artistic manifestos, ultimately questioning the role of the artist in society today. Performing these 'new manifestos' as a contemporary call to action while inhabiting thirteen different personas, Academy Award winner-Cate Blanchett imbues new dramatic life into both famous and lesser-known words in unexpected contexts. Details about the 12 manifestos here.
Follow aong, Manifesto is available on Amazon Prime.
the installation came out in 2015, the film in 2017.
13 characters reciting 12 manifestos.
Metacritic : 72. RT: 76
Topics to discuss:
Does it work as a movie? What makes it a movie if it is? Is it entertaining.
The installation which I saw in NY at the Park Avenue Armory
You get 13 Cate performances in 90 minutes. Heaven or overkill?
The makeup and hair artists are standouts
The conception of the characters – a trick to play with an actor's outside attributes as opposed to soul. Fits the film but what does it add to Blanchett's reputation?
She gets to detail so many little gestures in building her characters, as a gestural actor it must have been wonderful to play
Her performance as Bob Dylan influenced the conception of this project
Is it navel gazing? People who consider themselves artists making a project about artistic manifestos.
Her husband and children appear in the "Pop Art' segment
Released as a film to pay for the installation
Scenes we liked
"Dada is still shit, but from now on we want to shit in different colors."
When she makes a little Cate doll.
Norma Desmond come to life as the choreographer
"When discourse is opinion," "when you don't have to know anything yet you think you know everything" drag EVERYONE Cate. The film comes to life here.
(video edited by Shayma)
Bolsters her reputation as a chameleon without any expectations that may come with a "regular" film.
What reviews said of film / Cate:
"The surprise here is that Rosefeldt has managed to deliver an intellectually-charged, cheeky, and very funny film that feels unruly and expansive in spite of its tight 12-day shooting schedule and its focus on just one performer. Blanchett has no fear as a performer, and she has such enormous appetite for acting that she rips into each of the characters she is playing in "Manifesto" as if she were hungrily stripping meat off of chicken legs and then hurling the bones over her shoulder. She is such an acting prodigy that she needs to be properly challenged, and "Manifesto" is such a challenging and unlikely project that Blanchett uses her talent as she never has before, splashing it all over the screen and making bold gestures that only become physically overdone when she plays an Eastern European choreographer in a turban." – Dan Callahan, The Wrap.
"There's an apocryphal story about turn-of-the-century theater queen Sarah Bernhardt reading the phone book so emotionally that the audience was left weeping. That's what Blanchett is doing here. She adds a human element. She can turn anything into art. Even artistic navel-gazing." – David Fear, Rolling Stone
Cate Blanchett in 'Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull'
On November 24, 2019 August 30, 2020 By Murtada ElfadlIn Podcast5 Comments
We are going big this week. Big movie. Big performance. Murtada welcomes Gavin Mevius, co-host of The Mixed Reviews Podcast to discuss Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008).
https://sundayswithcatepod.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/ep-9-indiana-jones.mp3
Follow along, the film is streaming on Netflix.
From imdb: In 1957, archaeologist and adventurer Dr. Henry "Indiana" Jones, Jr. is called back into action and becomes entangled in a Soviet plot to uncover the secret behind mysterious artifacts known as the Crystal Skulls.
When did it come out?
Dr Irina Spalko; a doctor, colonel, and the primary antagonist of the film. She is a psychic, as well as a very skilled fencer and combatant. Called "Stalin's fair haired girl" by one of the characters.
How is Cate introduced?
5 minutes in; first a commanding voice then cutaway to her in sunglasses emerging from car. As usual with Cate it's a movie star entrance.
Box Office: Domestic = $317,101,119 Int'l = $469,534,914
Metacritic : 65. RT: 78.
What did we think of the first 3 Indiana Jones movies? Why was this one so indifferently and or negatively received?
Steven Spielberg – general yay or nay? Fave films?
A ridiculous, campy over the top stylized performance. Everything heightened visually (the gray jumpsuit, the robotic body movements, the black bob), sonically (accent, clipped tones) – does it work?
Cate gets asked to play villains in big movies – Hana (2010), Cinderella (2015), Thor: Ragnarok (2017). Why?
Lovely to see Karen Allen, remember Starman (1983)?
A lot of unnecessary exposition of backstory – just get to the action. And Ford is leaning into old professor delivery which doesn't enliven the scenes.
The snakes, scorpions, quick sands, everyone's phobias are there. Are they fun? Did we miss these from the other movies?
Ford and Allen trying Tracy / Hepburn – does it work?
Ridiculous refigerator scene. But it sets the tone and we now know what to do in a nuclear apocalypse.
"What people really jumped at was Indy climbing into a refrigerator and getting blown into the sky by an atom-bomb blast. Blame me. Don't blame George. That was my silly idea. People stopped saying 'jump the shark.' They now say, 'nuked the fridge.' I'm proud of that. I'm glad I was able to bring that into popular culture." – Spielberg to CNN.
Who wields the sword best? Shia really had no chance
Why the disdain for this performance? Was the film not exciting enough? Was there Cate fatigue at the time? That ludicrous death scene?
"You're a teacher?" "Only part time"
"You fight like a young man. Eager to begin, quick to finish"
"Tell me I'm ready, I want to know"
Costumes we loved?
Well it's just the one; an all -pupose gray jumpsuit.
Lucas, Spielberg, Ford and Blanchett at the Cannes Film Festival May 2008
Scenes we liked:
The car chase in the forest with the sword fighting – exciting.
What seemed off:
Is the action exciting? What NY Magazine called "the setups are wittier than the payoffs."
The plot is ridiculous as befits this type of movie, but it's too ridiculous and unnecessarily dense and confusing.
Film within context of Cate's career
This film was announced after Cate revealed her break with movies to run the Sydney Theater Company.
"The bad guys this time are cold war Reds first seen poking around an American military base and led by Irina Spalko. A caricature given crude, playful life by Cate Blanchett, Irina owes more than a little to Rosa Klebb, the pint-size Soviet operative played by Lotte Lenya, who took on James Bond in "From Russia With Love."
Dressed in gray coveralls, her hair bobbed and Slavic accent slipping and sliding as far south as Australia, Ms. Blanchett takes to her role with brio, snapping her black gloves and all but clicking her black boots like one of those cartoon Nazis that traipse through earlier Indy films. She's pretty much a hoot, the life of an otherwise drearily familiar party." Manohla Dargis, NYTimes
"Harrison Ford used to lighten his clenched persona with goofy shrugs that said, "I can only go so far with this hero stuff." But the years have dried him out; he seems like a peevish movie star who's too self-centered to interact. When he's supposed to realize that Marion is the love of his life, he looks as if he's gritting his teeth to kiss her. Blanchett—a great art object, her satin skin taut over those Asiatic cheekbones—hits the same note with diminishing returns. How many variations are there of "We meet again, Dr. Jones?" – David Edelstein, New York Magazine
"Irina Spalko, played by Blanchett with the severe demeanor of Cyd Charisse's Ninotchka in the 1957 MGM musical Silk Stockings and the black bob Charisse sports in The Band Wagon."- Richard Corliss, Time.
"Blanchett, who has absolutely no idea what to do with her role: She's equal parts evil and incompetent, and she's the least dangerous villain Indiana Jones has ever faced. Turns out that George Lucas and Steven Spielberg are far more threatening foes." – The Village Voice
Cate in relation to these co-stars, director, costume designer:
Only collaboration with Spielberg, Ford, Labeouf and Allen.
Kathleen Kennedy – current overlord of Star Wars – produced this and Benjamin Button, released in the same year.
Promotional appearances:
Cannes Premiere May 2008.
Cate Blanchett in 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'
On November 3, 2019 September 26, 2020 By Murtada ElfadlIn Podcast5 Comments
This week we discuss one of the most popular films Cate Blanchett has ever been in, yet oddly unrecognized as one of her signature parts. It's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), directed by David Fincher and co-starring Brad Pitt.
Host: Murtada Elfadl, some of Murtada's film writing can be found here.
Guest : Andrew Kendall, some of Andrew's film writing can be found here.
https://sundayswithcatepod.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/ep-6-the-curious-case-of-benjamin-button-hosted-by-murtada-elfadl-with-andrew-kendall.mp3
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From imdb: Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with bizarre consequences. Follow along by streaming on HBO Max.
Christmas 2008.
Daisy; Benjamin's lifelong friend, they lose each other then find each other in the middle.
The film opens with old Daisy in her deathbed. Then at 0:59 briefly Ballerina Daisy ie older Daisy appears for the first time her face scrubbed of wrinkles. Her story starts at 1:27.
Box Office: North America = $127,509,326 Int'l = $206,422,757.
Chemistry with Brad.
Cate in love stories.. Why does no man seem worthy of her on screen?
Outside of LOTR is one of Cate's biggest hits; a result of wide distribution and availability. Does it reflect her screen persona ie if this was someone's intro to her or what they know her from?
The technology … the makeup.
It spins tall tales, not just Benjamin's but also Mr Gateau. Does the filmmaking fit the style of tall tales?
Where does it stand in Fincher's filmography. Why are his fans and the critical establishment unkind to it?
It's Cate Blanchett pod but let's talk Taraji too! A very warm performance as evidenced by the laugh after she says "some joy too." But is this character a modern version of the Mammy archetype?
Stacked cast: Mahershala Ali, Tilda Swinton, young Elle Fanning, Julia Ormond, Jared Harris.
Which part of the story sags a bit? Perhaps the Tilda part? Not just her story but also the tugboat.
Awards wise the film was beloved yet oddly not Cate's performance, why? Because she's "the girl?" Because she was absent for long stretches of screen time? The old age makeup despite the expert "old" voice? Was the category just crowded?
Famous quotes:
"We are meeting in the middle."
'He gives me the willies, that is not for me" said by one of the sex workers.
Costumes we loved:
The red dress on the first date with Benjamin; memorable.
Her ensemble in the post show party when she ditches Benjamin for a fellow dancer.
The short film about Daisy's accident.
Older Daisy when Benjamin returns as a teenager.
What seemed off :
Is the storytelling too stately and classic for this odd little story? Does the tall tale crumble under the long Dr Zhivago- like epic treatment?
Julia Ormond, Blanchett and Henson at the LA premiere in December 2008
Got her hollywood star of fame during the press for this film ie. bought for her by Paramount who released..introduced at the ceremony by Fincher and Kathleen Kennedy.
Came at the end of a very busy few years from 2004 to 2008 where Cate was very active in movies. It was the last film she made before taking a sabbatical for 6 years to run the Sydney Theater Company. In those years she didn't completely abandon movies (Hanna, Robin Hood) but she wasn't as active.
Film within the context of year it's been released:
Awards: Nominated for 13 Oscars though not for Cate.
It was a commercial hit yet has strangely disappeared from cultural discourse except for being the one side eyed within Fincher's filmography.
"The movie, directed by David Fincher, will probably be a hit anyway, because the gimmick (adapted by Eric Roth from an F. Scott Fitzgerald story) is fun to play around with in your head, and because it's liberating to watch makeup gradually come off an actor instead of getting thicker (and phonier). Fitzgerald spent the later years of his life haunted by the profligacy of his early ones; to reverse time and recover his youthful body and stamina but retain his aged wisdom must have been a blessed pipe dream. Fincher is no humanist (his most vivid film is the clammy, clinical Se7en), and he refrains from milking the material for sentiment—which means the movie isn't mawkish, but it isn't especially vivid either. The light is yellowish and diffuse, the backdrops—the clock, a factory wall, the side of a ship—oversize. It's a gentle expressionism, redolent of death without rattling bones
Fitzgerald's alter-ego finds his Zelda—called, aptly enough, Daisy—when she visits the convalescent home where his horrified father abandoned him. She grows up to be Cate Blanchett, whose face is uncannily ivory-smooth. When Daisy and Benjamin meet in the middle, both at the peak of their physical perfection, they're like two Greek statues basking in each other's radiance, albeit with dialogue that knocks them down a few pegs: "I was thinkin' that nothing lasts, and what a shame that is." As they move toward death, one in the direction of infancy and dirty diapers and the other toward old age and osteoporosis, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button attains a level of quiet grace. It's too bad that I can barely remember the movie after only a week. Nothing lasts, indeed.' – David Edelstein, NYMag.
"Their time as lovers is the film's most ecstatic passage, to which Blanchett (who played Pitt's wife, under more trying circumstances, in Babel) lends all her intelligent warmth – Richard Corliss, Time.
"But the movie's emotional center of gravity — the character who struggles and changes and feels — is Daisy, played by Ms. Blanchett from impetuous ingénue to near ghost with an almost otherworldly mixture of hauteur and heat."- AO Scott NYTimes.
"A curious case indeed: an extravagantly ambitious movie that's easy to admire but a challenge to love." – Lisa Schwarzbaum EW.
Her only collaboration with Fincher who said about her, "I always say everyone was lucky enough to be in a Cate Blanchett movie."
I want her and Pitt to work again together. Also made Babel together.
Press coverage other than reviews:
Cover of Vanity Fair February 2009.
At the LA premiere December 2008.
At the Sydney premiere.
Cate Blanchett in 'Elizabeth'
On September 22, 2019 March 14, 2021 By Murtada ElfadlIn Podcast7 Comments
For our first episode of the podcast, we review Elizabeth (1998), directed by Shekar Kapur. This film is considered to be Cate Blanchett's international breakout and the first time many people have ever seen her on screen.
Guest : Teo Bugbee, some of Teo's film writing can be found here.
https://sundayswithcatepod.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/pod-1-elizabeth-.mp3
From imdb: The early years of the reign of Elizabeth I of England and her difficult task of learning what is necessary to be a monarch.
Directed by Shekar Kapur; also starring Richard Attenborough, Geoffrey Rush, Joseph Fiennes, Emily Mortimer, Kelly McDonald and Daniel Craig.
1998 – first played at Venice in September. US limited release in November 1998, wide in February post Oscar nominations.
Who does Cate Blanchett play?
Duh – top billed.
7 minutes in, dancing in a field among her ladies in waiting.
Box Office: Domestic = $30,082,699 (36.6%), Int'l = $52,067,943 (63.4%).
Coronation time for Blanchett as Elizabeth I
Then vs now. Seen then as a new transformative dynamic violent and sexy take on history; different spin than usual polite masterpiece theater drama. That take doesn't hold as much now since we've seen many other historical dramas and of that story in particular.
Historical veracity : "I had to make a choice whether I wanted the details of history or the emotions and essence of history to prevail," said Kapur.
Cate made a point in interviews at the time that this was an interpretation of English history made by outsiders from the commonwealth; an Indian and an Australian.
Elizabeth growing up into a wily politician; does the performance get us there? Are the behind the scenes political machinations the reason this film was resonant at the time?
The tone of the other performances e.g Vincent Cassel.
Joseph Fiennes vs Ralph Fiennes.
Is it camp?
The Godfather (1972) comparison – many reviews pointed that out, and Kapur himself admitted that he modeled the ending after it.
The gestural quality of Cate's performance particularly in the quiet scenes where she thinking or wistfully looking at the distance.
The ending is memorable and plays well with the image we know of Elizabeth.
Anne Hathaway on Cate – "It changed my life (Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth). There's a scene where she does this little nose sniff and, I swear to God, I spent the first 6 years of my on-camera career trying to reproduce it. I never succeeded. People kept saying 'Do you need a tissue?'"
How the film compares with another film about European royalty, Queen Margot (1994).
There's a lot of conversations about Elizabeth being a woman in a man's role. What is the film trying to tell us?
International breakout. Probably the first time many people – including me – saw her.
Cemented her reputation as somebody to watch, someone who will have a long career and is a star actor. Don't think anyone would watch it now for any other reason.
Awards: Nominated for 7 Oscars: Best Picture, Cate, Makeup ( Jenny Shircore won), Cinematography, Costumes, Production Design, Score.
Cate won Golden Globe and Bafta.
It was the Oscars of 2 Elizabethan movies (also Skakespeare in Love).
Whoopi Goldberg came out dressed as Elizabeth at the Oscars "I am the African queen, some know me as the virgin queen… I don't know who."
More on Elizabeth and the 1998 Oscar race for best actress.
"Blanchett's triumph is to create a thoroughly convincing depiction of the journey from canoodling girlhood to the threshold of an imperial monarchy, battling her fears, shedding illusions, absorbing pain, learning judgment, turning anxiety into resolution, acquiring steel and sinew."- The Guardian.
"the captivating Cate Blanchett rules England in "Elizabeth" as if the monarch's principal responsibilities were being bejeweled, choosing consorts and saying "Leave us!" with a wave of the hand." – Janet Maslin NY Times.
More from Maslin "Ms. Blanchett, who was marvelous in "Oscar and Lucinda," brings spirit, beauty and substance to what might otherwise have been turned into a vacuous role. Still, it's jarring when the Queen dances in the midst of admirers as if this were "Saturday Night Fever" or sounds an awful lot like Tootsie when she declares: "I may be a woman, Sir William. But if I choose, I have the heart of a man!" Ms. Blanchett's flouncing Elizabeth is bolstered by an impressive supporting cast, though the secondary characters engage in so many schemes that you may wish Bill, that nice new playwright from Avon, would drop into the film and make more sense of the dramaturgy."
Blanchett as Elizabeth delivering one of many monologues in the film
"But there's more hot blood running through the veins of this opulent production than its A&E-style subject matter might suggest. This is a sensual, psychologically modern costume drama influenced by both The Godfather and gals' guides to empowerment; beneath the finery of these schemers beat hearts as up-to-date as any on a TV drama, assuming a TV story line allows for beheadings." – Lisa Schwarzbaum, EW.
"What it gets right is the performance by Cate Blanchett, who was so good as the poker-playing glass manufacturer in "Oscar and Lucinda" (1997) and here uncannily comes to resemble the great monarch. She is saucy and heedless at first, headstrong when she shouldn't be, but smart, and able to learn. By the end she has outsmarted everyone and become one of the rare early female heads of state to rule successfully without an alliance with a man." – Roger Ebert
"Elizabeth" is superior historical soap opera that shrewdly side steps all the cliches of British costume drama with its bold, often modern approach."- David Rooney, Variety.
Cate Blanchett at the 1999 Oscars
Press coverage other than reviews; NY Times profile:
Mr. Kapur, speaking on the phone from Delhi, said: "Cate has a combination of strength and vulnerability, which, for me, is what Elizabeth was all about. She attacks a role with a ferocious intellectuality. You can't pass anything by her, you can't sweet-talk her into anything. But inside, she is all emotion."
This vigor also struck Eccleston, who, as the Duke of Norfolk, plays one of Elizabeth I's chief adversaries. "There is a directness and gutsiness about Australian women that is great for the film industry, and that was great for Cate playing the monarch," he said. "I think that role would have defeated a lot of our middle-class English roses."
Not many other in the archive… there's a lot of coverage in 1999 and 2000; post her big breakout when she was appointed as the next big thing because of Elizabeth.
Closing Quote:
Brenda Blethyn at the Golden Globes where Cate won; she was nominated for Little Voice.
"I only went to see Elizabeth (1998) because of Cate Blanchett. I thought she was absolutely fabulous and I was delighted she won. I think she's a fabulous actress. I'm not altogether sure about the film but I did enjoy it, primarily because of her… she's fantastic."


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hello! we are jenn + jon!
Took Baclofen to relieve spasms in the muscles of the legs. Cope well. After the first reception on https://fdlist.com/, there was a heaviness in a head and eyes, but it passed in a couple of hours. A week later, there were no side effects at all. Also, the doctor warned that you should not abruptly stop taking it, but you need to slowly reduce the dose so that there is no withdrawal syndrome.


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The Bromeliad Microcosm and the Assessment of Faunal Diversity in a Neotropical Forest
Thu, 07/28/2011 - 16:03 — ckass
Barbara A. Richardson
Biotropica
Vol. 31, No. 2 (Jun., 1999), pp. 321-336
The faunas of tank bromeliads were sampled over two years in three forest types at different elevations in the Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico, and the diversity of their animal communities compared. Bromeliad plants behaved as islands in that, within forests, the species richness and abundance of their animal communities were significantly and positively correlated with increase in plant size. The amount of canopy debris they accumulated was similarly correlated with increase in plant size. Overall diversity was lowest in the dwarf forest, where plants were uniformly small. Animal communities were stable from year to year, and could be characterised for each forest type and for compartments within the plant. They showed a pattern of high dominance, which increased with elevation (McNaughton index 37, 54, and 73, respectively, for the tabonuco, palo colorado, and dwarf forest). Alpha-diversity for sites sampled in each year reflected net primary productivity (NPP) of the forest, declining with increasing elevation when animal abundance measures were used (jackknife estimates of Simpson's diversity index 6.54 & 11.04 [tabonuco], 3.53 & 6.22 [palo colorado], and 2.75 & 2.17 [dwarf forest]). Species richness over the two years, however, was highest in the intermediate palo colorado forest (187 species), compared to 146 and 88 in the tabonuco and dwarf forests, respectively. These figures were close to jackknife estimates of maximum species richness. The difference in species richness between tabonuco and palo colorado forests was significant in one year only. In addition to NPP, other factors, such as litter quality and the structural complexity of the habitat in the palo colorado forest, may have influenced species richness. The most abundant species in individual plants were also the most widely occurring, confirming known patterns of abundance and distribution in other functional groups. Diversity within bromeliad microcosms at different elevations supported known relationships between diversity, productivity, and habitat complexity along gradients and was not related to differences in the total bromeliad habitat available for colonization.
dwarf forest
palo colorado
Richardson B.A.
tabonuco
Effects of nutrient availability and other elevational changes on bromeliad populations and their invertebrate communities in a humid tropical forest in Puerto Rico
Sun, 07/24/2011 - 12:39 — ckass
RICHARDSON, BARBARA A.; RICHARDSON,M. J.; SCATENA, F. N.; MCDOWELL, W. H. 2000. Effects of nutrient availability and other elevational changes on romeliad populations and their invertebrate communities in a humid tropical forest in Puerto Rico. Journal of Tropical Ecology 16:167±188.
Nutrient inputs into tank bromeliads were studied in relation to growth and productivity, and the abundance, diversity and biomass of their animal inhabitants, in three forest types along an elevational gradient. Concentrations of phosphorus, potassium and calcium in canopy-derived debris, and nitrogen and phosphorus in phytotelm water, declined with increasing elevation. Dwarf forest bromeliads contained the smallest amounts of debris/plant and lowest concentrations of nutrients in plant tissue. Their leaf turnover rate and productivity were highest and, because of high plant density, they comprised 12.8% of forest net primary productivity (0.47 t ha-1 y-1), and contained 3.3 t ha-1 of water. Annual nutrient budgets indicated that these microcosms were nutrient-abundant and accumulated < 5% of most nutrients passing through them. Exceptions were K and P in the dwarf forest, where accumulation was c. 25% of inputs. Animal and bromeliad biomass/plant peaked in the intermediate elevation forest, and were positively correlated with the debris content/bromeliad across all forest types. Animal species richness showed a signi®cant mid-elevational peak, whereas abundance was independent of species richness and debris quantities, and declined with elevation as forest net primary productivity declined. The unimodal pattern of species richness was not correlated with nutrient concentrations, and relationships among faunal abundance, species richness, nutrient inputs and environment are too complex to warrant simple generalizations about nutrient resources and diversity, even in apparently simple microhabitats.
McDowell W.H.
phytotelmata
Richardson M.J.

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Greetings friends and fellow crafters, LeeAnn, the Crafty Mimi here today with my newest project from Tape Technologies.
Today's project is using the Florescent vinyl collection, in which we have six colors available. The great thing about this is a little something from the website which states... "Our Fluorescent Films are extremely bright, high gloss films designed for high visibility in daylight conditions. These colors are so bright that some of our customers call them day glow colors. OK, you know how bright these colors are by day, but did you know that they glow at night if you expose them to black light (UV light)?"
Well,let me say, I hope this project doesn't scare my grandbaby as it is for her room.
Baby J is 9 months old now, and this was a photo taken a couple days after she turned 9 months, and when I saw this frame, I knew it would be perfect. My original plan was to put this subway art on a canvas.
The file was cut with my Silhouette Cameo using a file from the Silhouette Design Store that I added a couple things to. The inspiration for this project came from baby J's bedding that is in the same colors.
Thank you for stopping by today, and please come back again soon to see my next project.
That is a lot of weeding work! Definitely a project of love.
Love your project! This is a wonderful keepsake.


A spooky skeleton is always an awesome favor for your next halloween party. This skeleton is different though because if you pull his body away from the bead he starts to chatter his teeth. It will definitely be a hit with your friends or kids!


Become a kindly doctor. Or deck out your sweet apartment. Or become a reviled maniac who only talks to trees. All of these choices are yours when you play the Sims series of games. Easily the Electronic Arts' most anticipated title of this year, The Sims 3 will launch on June 2nd for not only the Mac and PC, but also the iPhone. iPhone owners can look forward to playing the mirth-filled, quirky, and addictive person simulator in a handy mobile version. The ambitious project aims to be the deepest, richest, and most graphically beautiful game released to the iPhone to date.
This mobile version of The Sims 3 lets you customize your character using touchscreen controls.
At EA's Redwood Shores headquarters, I was lucky enough to get a personal preview of this exciting title. We started off by walking through the character design setup screen that defines the look of the player's avatar, the Sim. Despite the small platform, I was surprised by the high quality graphics and the level of depth for customizing your character. You can control weight, skin-color, facial features, clothing, hair, etc. After making my character, a mohawked dude with a nifty t-shirt, we walked him around his neighborhood.
Dreyer and Taber are calling the Sim's town a "living neighborhood" where players can experience robust interactions with the different Sim personalities. Dreyer cites the game's Artificial Intelligence — AI — is something they especially focused on; EA Mobile wanted to ensure the Sim could fend for itself in "self-reliant" mode and the other Sims in the world go can about their own daily routines. Fans of the previous editions of the Sims often cited the focus on bodily functions as an annoying chore, but with the Sims 3 you won't have to constantly make sure your Sim goes to the bathroom or eats. On self-reliant mode, Sims will take care of themselves, or you can override the feature and guide them yourself.
Interact with other Sims playing The Sims 3 on your iPhone or iPod touch.
It's easy to guide your Sim around the world by tapping on the iPhone's touchscreen. We watched as my Sim talked to a new acquaintance and tried to make friends. If you're too forward, the other Sim your character is interacting with will think you're creepy. On the other hand, if they think your Sim is acting silly, they'll show genuine expressions of mirth. Conversations are displayed with little icons in speech bubbles, but they're actually not indicative of the topic of conversations Dreyer explained that the icons displayed in the conversation bubbles are random, which explains why your character may discuss toilets or corn-on-the-cob during a fire.
Not only can you interact with other Sims, but you can get a job, explore the world, and fill the individual Sim's wishes and needs. During the demo, Mr. Dreyer showed me how to command my Sim to cook. There's a cooking mini-game that requires the player to pick up the pots in order to have them cool. If you leave a pot on for too long, your food will be burnt and inedible. The interface, though small, was nonetheless intuitive. The cooking mini-game isn't just a side distraction, as the game progresses, your Sim can invite others over for dinner. Better not burn the spaghetti then.
The iPhone version may not sport every amenity of its Mac counterpart, but it still provides a rich, detailed world to explore.
There are some differences between the iPhone version and the Mac version, of course. Unlike the Mac version of Sims 3, recently previewed by Macworld, you won't be able to completely overhaul a house and spend hours focusing on its every detail. Instead, you can upgrade it as your Sim levels up. You can acquire bigger and more rooms, better furniture, etc. The developers sought to "ensure the core user experience was strong," explained Taber. The graphics and file sizes are less than the computer version, but they're nonetheless impressive for the iPhone platform.
In fact, this may be the first 3-D iPhone game to depict actual facial expressions. Like anything in the Sims universe, there are lots of little details throughout that will give players reason to smile and in many cases, laugh. The morbid sense of humor that accompanies the Sim universe is intact as well.
My favorite element of the game was the different personalities that you can play with and their own goals. If you select the "maniac" persona, you'll have some unique wishes and opportunities. You can satisfy your social interaction requirement by talking to trees. Your life goals may include peeing in every toilet in town. Or watching three people sleep.
The skeptic in me wonders if an intricate game like the Sims can be converted to a mobile platform so seamlessly. While the spirit of the Sims 3 seems to have been ported to the iPhone, I wonder if their attempts to cut out the fat of the game they may have cut out much of what you can explore and do.
Still, EA claims it'll take the player around 12 hours to beat 70 goals in the game, and that proposed run time is nothing to sneeze at. There's also a high degree of replay value, not to mention more goals, if you replay the game with a different personality and steer the Sim's life differently. Instead of getting a kind, nature-loving all-around character, why not go for a shy, combative, maniac? Not only will your character have different wishes, but the other Sims will respond to them differently as well.
Look for the Sims 3 on the App Store on June 2nd.


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http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.overloading.php#object.get

A: Try
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That's the magic of the __get magic method :-)
Just in case, you can define
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Home Business Mark Zuckerberg made $3.3 billion on Facebook stock in 2013
Mark Zuckerberg made $3.3 billion on Facebook stock in 2013
Mark Zuckerberg earned $3.3 billion on the sale of his Facebook share options in 2013, a new regulatory filing has revealed.
The Facebook founder has now exhausted his supply of stock options as a result of the social networking's public offering.
Mark Zuckerberg earned $3.3 billion on the sale of his Facebook share options in 2013
Mark Zuckerberg was given 60 million shares to help him with his tax bill.
His base salary for 2013 fell to $1, like other tech leaders such as Google's Larry Page and former Apple boss Steve Jobs.
However, Mark Zuckerberg's total compensation for 2013 was $653,165, down from $1.99 million in 2012.
Facebook said the majority of that was to pay for flights on private jets, which are seen as necessary for security reasons.
Mark Zuckerberg still owns 426.3 million Facebook shares, which are worth around $25.7 billion.
Facebook shares have more than doubled in value over the past year, as the social networking has reported better than expected earnings due to its strong mobile ad sales.
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On 30 July, following two and a half year's unlawful detention, Christian convert Bishoy Armia Boulos (34) posted a video on YouTube announcing that he had returned to Islam. He has been released from prison into the custody of his parents.
The video was posted on a newly-created YouTube channel under the name Mohammed Hegazy (his original Muslim name). Bishoy/Mohammed's lawyer, Karam Ghobrial, stated that he believed that Bishoy/Mohammed made the video which included the Shahadah (the Islamic confession of faith) because he was a terrified and broken man. He noted that Bishoy/Mohammed seemed stilted in the video, and that the statement he gave seemed scripted. "I personally think that he recorded this video to get out," said the lawyer, who had worked tirelessly to secure his freedom.
In the two and a half minute long video, Bishoy/Mohammed said he wouldn't discuss his return to Islam or speak to the media again. "I went through an experience with all its good and bad and all that is in it, but it was an experience… But praise be to God who strengthens me in Islam. I am not coming today to talk about specific things, because it was a personal thing between a person and God. But I am coming today because I hurt a lot of people in my family and my friends and caused them a lot of problems." He apologised to family members, who had threatened to kill him after he became a Christian.
The fact that Bishoy/Mohammed declared that he wasn't speaking under duress but at the same time would no longer speak to media has aroused concern among human rights activists in Egypt that he may have been coerced or threatened to make the statement.
Bishoy/Mohammed was finally released on bail on 23 July after spending more than three weeks being transferred from prison to prison across Egypt, under the direct orders of the Ministry of Interior (MOI), according to Kharam Ghobrial, his lawyer during his imprisonment. It is unclear if he still faces charges.
There has been no news about Bishoy/Mohammed's wife, Christine, and the couple's two children who took refuge in Europe some years ago.
In June, during Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting, Al-Azhar Mosque's Grand Imam Ahmed el-Tayyib, arguably the most respected Islamic scholar in the world, said during a daily TV programme that leaving Islam was "treason" and that apostates should be executed.
Mohammed Hegazy became a Christian in 1998. He was arrested several times and was tortured, but refused to recant his faith. He became well known in Egypt as the first citizen to attempt to change the religious identity on his ID card from Muslim to Christian, in a case begun in 2007. Egyptian citizens aged 16 or older must carry an ID card, which is necessary to open a bank account, enrol children in school or start a business, among other activities. In January 2008, the Supreme Administrative Court ruled against Bishoy. In 2009 a group of Islamists filed a charge of defaming Islam ("blasphemy") against him, based on the accusation that leaving Islam casts the religion into ill repute.
Bishoy/Mohammed worked as a Christian journalist and had been in prison since December 2013 when he was arrested while documenting the persecution of Christians in Upper Egypt. He should have been released in December 2014 after serving a one-year sentence but remained in prison at the insistence of state security intelligence officials. It is known that he was beaten and tortured in prison and that he was pressurised to recant his Christian faith.


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'Museum of Corruption' – Interview with Alexander Parkyn-Smith
'Museum of Corruption' – Interview by Cristina Cusenza from HW Team with Alexander Parkyn-Smith, Visual Anthropologist
HW: Introduce us to your new project in collaboration with the anthropologist Dr Taras Fedirko. How did you come up with this idea? What inspired you, and what do you aim to communicate?
APS: I am working on the project 'Museum of Corruption' with my friend and collaborator Taras. We both had the same supervisor for our PhDs. Taras now works at Cambridge University in the Anthropology department where his research is focussed on Ukraine, his home country.
Fascinated to find out more about his research and keen to explore the use of photography as part of an anthropological fieldwork practice, we discussed the possibility of a visual exploration of one site he had come across during his research. The former residence of ex-president of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych. Quirky, surprising and visually striking it seemed like a good subject to explore together. The images in the project explore our subjects onstage presentation of self, alongside the offstage realities of life in modern Ukraine.
Over a number of trips in the last couple of years we have worked to make a collection of documentary images. Learning as we go about negotiating research with a camera and taking photos that explore topics and themes being researched. The project has allowed us to reflect on the similarities and differences between anthropological and photographic practice. We have found that both allow for new opportunities for the other but that ultimately there are limitations in the messages that each can communicate, and this is something that is being explored more in the editing stage which we are in now.
@Copyright Alexander Parkyn-Smith
HW: Who introduced you to the world of photography? Tell us about how you got started.
APS: I have always taken photos while travelling and found it a reflective way of exploring new places and meeting new people. My undergraduate degree, while focussing on the diversity of human cultures across the world, was academic and book focussed. I needed a change. It was at Goldsmiths, while studying for an MA in visual anthropology, that I began to explore using documentary film techniques as part of an ethnographic research methodology. Moving and still image have always overlapped for me. The considered aesthetics and of photography and technical procedures and physicality of working to capture moving images with a camera, while also interacting with people around you, come from my tutors at Goldsmiths. My knowledge of the world of documentary photography and canon of photographic history is down to the immersion in the exciting buzz of people and work at the Martin Parr Foundation, where I have worked part-time over the last two years.
HW: Which artists/photographers are you a fan of? Where do you get your inspiration from?
APS: I love Werner Herzog's films, both their spontaneity and the space they give the subjects to breathe and speak for themselves. This sympathy for the subject is also reflected in my interest for neo-realist literature including authors such as Émile Zola and Upton Sinclair, detailing the realities of everyday life.
Aesthetically, the work of the filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky inspires me, with his attention to how a camera can move around and explore a space and the amazing shifting compositions he achieves. In the 'Museum of Corruption' project it was really important to show how the subjects were presenting themselves to me and it is no coincidence that the documentary contexts are rendered to appear as sets in which the subjects are performing their public roles. In this respect the work of Wes Anderson was particularly influential, in particular the aesthetics of presentation for the audience, celebrating rather than denying the photographer or cinematographers presence in a scene.
Finally, the photography of Martin Parr and various forms of art created by Grayson Perry offer a reflective look at modern life which, in many similar ways to my other influences continues the artistic tradition of giving focus and attention to the quotidian.
HW: What are you obsessed with right now?
APS: Coronavirus has had a big effect on photography and film work. Film festivals which I have submitted to have been called off or postponed and exhibitions that were planned have been cancelled. As a distraction I have been obsessed with something quite different, gamified language learning! A chance to improve my foreign-language skills further has helped me see some progression over the previous weeks and mark the passing of time.
HW: What's the best advice you've ever been given?
APS: Keep shooting or keep the camera rolling. It's the in-between and off-guard moments that often turn out to be most arresting.
HW: What do you think your biggest personal or professional success has been so far?
APS: Working through the process of a PhD turned out to be a massive undertaking. From living abroad, learning another language and making sense of a society and culture in another place, it has been the most challenging and rewarding experience and feeds into everything that I am interested in and working on today. I am a firm believer in having a strong idea, feeling or message to communicate through film or photography and that visual methods are just one option available for exploring and explaining them and should be used in conjunction with others.
HW: What's the dream?
APS: Being able to creatively explore everyday life and better understand how people negotiate their paths through it, with all the myriad variations this incurs.
HW: What is your biggest fear?
APS: A further rise of homogeneity in popular culture, search for instant gratification and a lack of respect for others around us.
HW: What is fragility for you?
APS: The uncertainty that all of us live with. The unpredictability of situations is what makes social and visual exploration of the world so exciting. Linking back to the best advice I have had, those moments that fall between, can in themselves be as powerful and meaningful as the dominant, loud and in your face moments. It is the play between these, and the fragility that the offstage may be revealed at any moment, that keeps the balanced performance of everyday life unfolding.
HW: What do you think of the link between psychology and art?
APS: I see psychology as a way of understanding and explaining, a laying bare and reducing, whereas art is often a celebration of the ambiguity. While they are both interested in the same thing their way of exploring it is often very different and this is a similar dynamic that I have encountered between the academic discipline of anthropology and the creative medium of photography.
Alex@myriadfilm.com
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"Domicide, the destruction of home" – Interview with Ammar Azzouz
Documentary, "Domicide, Ammar Azzouz, ARUP, CristinaCusenza, Syria, the destruction of home"
Documentary, 'Museum of Corruption', Alexander Parkyn-Smith, CristinaCusenza, Dr Taras Fedirko, photography, Visual Anthropologist
Current state: Covid19 and digital hysteria – project by Mattia Pintonello, Vitalij Weber and Sara di Lauro
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The Artist's Residence: detached Villa Sutri – project by Giacomo Branca
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Artists from Syria in the International Artworld: Mediators of a Universal Humanism – project by Cristina Cusenza
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At this time of year after a long cold winter clients often ask if they need to buy a new bed.
They ask this as they often wake up feeling stiff in the back or the neck and assume the bed is a large factor in this.
More often than not we say No.
Unless you are sleeping in a hammock or a super soft bed with no support, often the bed is not the problem. Its you. Sorry –it's a sign your body is not happy.
If your body is not happy during the day, from prolonged work postures, lots of sitting, driving etc etc it often "guards" to protect you with muscle tightness and stiffness.
This "guarding"often worsens when we stop moving at night. So we get out of bed and feel like everything is "seized up" And the old bed gets the blame.
Please note the exercises and advice provided is of a general nature and should not be used as personal, professional advice. If symptoms persist we encourage you to see your GP or preferred health care provider.
1. Sleep in another bed for 2-3 nights and see how you feel in the morning. No different ? Still stiff ?…. Its your body that's not happy.
2. Loosen your body up a bit. Try the simple stretching exercises demonstrated on the video BEFORE you go to bed each night. It will only take 2-3 minutes.
Try this every night for a week…except Saturday…..well its Saturday night!! Feel better less stiff in the morning? ……..its your body that's not happy.
3. Tried step 1 and 2 still stiff in the morning?
4. If we can't help you we will send you to see someone who can.
5. As the last resort we may suggest you >>> buy a new bed !!


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Morgan Rosen and Daniel Kaufman
Photographed by: Jay Lawrence Goldman Photography Location: Beverly Hills, California, United States
"We laughed the whole night and neither of us wanted it to end," reveals Morgan Rosen of her first date with Daniel Kaufman. And yet, that encounter almost didn't happen. "I was given her number by a close friend. I called her one night to ask her out, and she promptly hung up on my unknown number," laughs Daniel. Luckily, she answered when he called back, and they ended up talking for a while. "The minute I met Morgan, I knew I was going to marry her," Daniel asserts. "It was just a matter of waiting until we had met each other's families."
After a couple years of dating, Morgan's father was in town and Daniel invited him over – they discussed the soon-to-be groom's intentions with a glass of wine. In the backyard of their new home together, Daniel asked Morgan to be his wife.
Though the couple was living in Chicago, the bride knew she wanted to be married near Manhattan Beach, California, where she grew up. With only a few locations that could accommodate 400 guests, Morgan and Daniel were quickly smitten with their venue choice – selecting it sight unseen. The bride admits she had a difficult time articulating what she wanted for the big day, but The Hidden Garden was able to materialize the vision in her head, using bright pink and green blooms for an exuberant atmosphere.
Both the bride and groom's Jewish heritage and their love for their families was incorporated into the wedding, starting with a tish – or groom's reception – and a bedeken, where the groom veils the bride before the ceremony. Prior to Morgan walking down the aisle, the couple elected to ask the orchestra to play two special melodies: "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," in honor of Daniel's recently departed grandmother, as well as "What a Wonderful World," which was the first dance song of the parents of the bride.
Clad in a romantic, lace A-line gown, Morgan entered the ceremony space under a lush archway of pink and magenta roses to meet Daniel, who waited for her beneath an even more vibrant chuppah. She was preceded by 18 bridesmaids dressed in black gowns and darling flower girls in bright pink to match the punchy hues of the blossoms. Following the traditional vow exchange, guests tossed flower petals at the newlyweds in celebration during the recessional.
At the reception, guests took part in a photo booth featuring a backdrop made from banana leaves and bright pink tulips, miniature calla lilies, and roses. Dinner was enjoyed at a mix of long tables and square mirrored varieties, both adorned with crystal candelabra and a plethora of candles in addition to vivid blooms and verdant greenery. Crystal glasses and gold-rimmed chargers, along with specialty chairs, added to the luxe design of the space. The look was softened and tied together with champagne and ivory linens, as well as elegant drapery throughout the ballroom. One of the bride's favorite elements of the décor were the roses cascading down from the chandeliers.
A klezmer band – which plays traditional Ashkenazi folk music – performed with a wedding orchestra for what Morgan describes as a "really wild hora." She adds, "Danny even bodysurfed and got lifted on a serving tray!" It was the perfect start to a party that didn't end until 2:30 a.m. The groom had been heavily involved with selecting both bands, who kept the revelers entertained all night long. "I've never seen anything like it," Daniel confirms. "We were surrounded by everyone that we love, and the energy was incredible," muses the bride.
Unsurprisingly, neither of the newlyweds would have done anything differently. "Everyone tries to give you advice on what you should do on your wedding day, but just be you. I followed this advice and had the best night of my life," asserts Morgan. For future grooms about to embark on their own journey toward marriage, Daniel advises, "Get involved with what is most important to you and stay out of everything else."
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Pvt. Horace G. Webber, 34-year-old Norwood Infantry soldier, is missing in action in Germany, it was learned last night following the receipt of a War Department telegram by his wife, Mrs. Margaret Webber of 32 Melville avenue.
Pvt. Webber is one of five brothers in the service, two of whom have been wounded in battle. They are the sons of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Webber of 286 Railroad avenue.
The War Department notification announcing her husband as missing was received by Mrs. Webber on Tuesday. Yesterday, Pvt. Webber's mother received a letter from him. in which he stated that Christmas packages which she had sent him had been received.
OVERSEAS SIX MONTHS
Entering the service a year ago. Pvt. Webber received his training at Camp Eustis. Va., and was stationed at Fort Meade, Md.. before leaving for overseas service six months ago. He has been fighting in France and Germany with the 117th Infantry attached to the 30th Division.
Pvt. Webber attended the local schools and prior to entering the service was employed at Bird and Son. He is married to the former Margaret Maguire of Hyde Park.
A brother, Pfc. Russell H. Webber. a fleet Marine, was wounded in the Palau invasion and recently arrived at a hospital in San Diego, Cal. Another brother, T/Sgt. Edgar F. Webber, a veteran of 50 missions as an aerial engineer and gunner on a Liberator bomber in the Mediterranean theatre was wounded in action over Italy some time ago. He is now back in the States and is stationed in Tennessee.
Other brothers are Sgt. Preston J. Webber, who is serving with the amphibious engineers in New Guinea; Pvt. Kenneth Webber, who is stationed at the Naval Ammunition Depot at Crane Island, Ind., and Elliott Webber of Norwood.
There are two sisters. Mrs. George Dulcy of 33 Washington street, East Walpole, and Mrs. Charles Smith of Abington.
Pvt. Webber is the second Norwood man reported this week as missing in action. Pvt. John J. Ready of 35 Mountain avenue, who is married and the father of a year and a half old boy, was listed in the Messenger on Monday as missing in action in France.
Other battle casualties reported here during the last few days include six Norwood soldiers wounded.
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This Day in Norwood History-December 20, 1944-Pvts. Horace G. Webber And Thomas Elias Listed Killed
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A research paper co-authored by a University of Maryland expert in software vulnerabilities is being presented tomorrow (May 20) at the 36th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy in San Jose, Calif.
Tudor Dumitras, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering with appointments in UMIACS and the Maryland Cybersecurity Center (MC2), collaborated with researchers from the University of Maryland, IMDEA Software Institute, Symantec Research Labs, and Universidad Politécnica de Madrid to examine how well software updating mechanisms work.
Their paper, "The Attack of the Clones: A Study of the Impact of Shared Code on Vulnerability Patching," analyzed the software patching process on 8.4 million hosts—computers connected to one another via the Internet—over a period of five years.
The research team noted 1,593 vulnerabilities—weaknesses that allow a system to be compromised—from 10 client-side applications. They then measured how quickly users adopted security patches for the vulnerabilities.
The team used Symantec's Worldwide Intelligence Network Environment (WINE) for their research, a platform built by Dumitras for the purpose of experimenting with big data techniques in cybersecurity.
They found that patching rates vary widely among applications and application versions, Dumitras says, often leaving large numbers of hosts open to attack for long periods of time.
"Patching vulnerabilities completely is difficult because a host may be affected by multiple instances of the same vulnerability," Dumitras says.
For example, the vulnerability may affect a library that is used in multiple applications—Adobe Flash Player and Adobe Reader share similar vulnerabilities because Reader includes a library for playing Flash files embedded in PDFs.
Users may also install multiple versions of the application; for example, device drivers such as printers often install an old version of Adobe Reader to allow the user to read the manual.
In these situations, many hosts patch only one instance of the vulnerability, giving attackers a long window of opportunity for attacking the vulnerable hosts. The research team found that the median fraction of hosts patched when exploits are released is, at most, about 14 percent. This suggests that it is difficult to patch vulnerabilities before attackers can exploit them, Dumitras says.
He notes that the research team's findings will enable system administrators and security analysts to assess the risks associated with vulnerabilities, taking into account all the phases in the patch deployment process.
Learn more about the team's research here.


(Reuters) – U.S. stocks were lower late on Wednesday morning after President Donald Trump's warning of a government shutdown to secure funds to build the Mexico border wall added to nerves as the deadline to the raise the U.S. debt ceiling looms.
Lawmakers face a late-September deadline to raise the debt ceiling or risk a default, and Trump's comments on Tuesday evening came hours after a lawmaker said there was "zero chance" of the ceiling not being raised.
Investors have grown increasingly concerned about the Trump's ability to legislate his pro-growth agenda given the near constant political rumblings in the White House.
At 11:01 a.m. ET (1501 GMT), the Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI was down 58.78 points, or 0.27 percent, at 21,841.11 and the S&P 500 .SPX was down 6.83 points, or 0.28 percent, at 2,445.68.
The Nasdaq Composite .IXIC was down 21.91 points, or 0.35 percent, at 6,275.56.
The CBOE Volatility index .VIX, a widely followed measure of market anxiety, rose 0.55 points to 11.90, marking its first increase in four days.
Investors are also jittery ahead of Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen's speech in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on Friday, which will be scrutinized for clues on the central bank's stand on monetary policy.
Also weighing on sentiment was data that showed new U.S. single-family home sales unexpectedly fell in July to a seven-month low.
Six of the 11 major S&P indexes were lower, with consumer discretionary index's .SPLRCD 0.75 percent fall leading the decliners.
Lowe's (LOW.N) 5.5 percent fall weighed the most on the S&P after the company reported a lower-than-expected profit and cut its margins forecast.
Bigger rival Home Depot (HD.N) dropped 2.28 percent, weighing the most on the Dow.
Shares of advertising firm Omnicom (OMC.N) dropped nearly 4.5 percent, while Interpublic Group (IPG.N) fell 3.7 percent after WPP (WPP.L) cut its sales forecast. WPP'S U.S.-listed shares (WPPGY.O) sank about 12 percent.
Advancing issues outnumbered decliners on the NYSE by 1,431 to 1,251. On the Nasdaq, 1,477 issues fell and 1,156 advanced.


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Today, 14 September, an agreement was signed on cooperation between International Medical Center "Heart Clinic" and the Samara State Medical University. The event was attended by the Rector of SSMU Gennady Kotelnikov, deputy chairman of the Samara region government, the head of Information Technology and Communications Department Stanislav Kazarin, the investor of the project Sergey Shatilo and CEO of "Heart Clinic" Anna Makovskaya, chief physician of "Heart Clinic" Alexey Vachev and the chief physician of the SSMU clinics Alexander Sonis.
The document defines the main directions of the strategic cooperation between the parties in the field of improving the quality of medical services and the promotion of healthy lifestyle. International Medical Center "Heart Clinic" plans close cooperation with the main medical university of the area and the SSMU clinics. The head physician of "Heart Clinic", the doctor of medical sciences, professor Alexei Vachev holds the position of Head of the Surgery Department in the SSMU.
Gennady Kotelnikov, Rector of the Samara State Medical University, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Medicine, Professor, said: "All that we see in the existing dispensary - this is yesterday. The main goal of agreement with "Heart Clinic" is not only to improve medical care for patients, but also to create a training model of tomorrow for a heart surgeon. A person who is engaged only in mechanical art, gradually begins to climb down. He should develop, read, watch, study science, to introduce new technologies. This will give a huge push to improve the quality of doctors' training, it is a big decision and a big step forward".
Director of "Sovremennye medicinskie technologii" Sergey Shatilo told about the plans of interaction: "We are still not yet opened, but the cooperation has already begun, we are already working with the leading specialists of Medical University and the Medical University clinics. Students already pay attention to our clinic, so, form the first day of opening we will work in tandem for the benefit of the inhabitants of the Samara region. "
Anna Makovskaya, CEO of IMC "Heart Clinic" told about the fact that modern medicine is not possible without science, because science is intended to provide high-quality medical care. "Interaction with the Samara Medical University - is first of all, succession and traditions. Medicine is impossible without constant training and the Samara State Medical University is that medical institution, which trains the necessary staff. Only competent doctors will be able to provide the needed care for the residents of the Samara region".


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The Magic of Equine-Facilitated Therapy
By Renée M. Grinnell
The New York Times published a fascinating article last week about one young family's success using an unorthodox combination of equine (horse)-assisted therapy and Mongolian shamanism to ease their autistic son's behavioral difficulties:
When Rupert Isaacson decided to take his autistic son, Rowan, on a trip to Mongolia to ride horses and seek the help of shamans two years ago, he had a gut instinct that the adventure would have a healing effect on the boy. Mr. Isaacson's instinct was rewarded after the trip, when some of Rowan's worst behavioral issues, including wild temper tantrums, all but disappeared.
…"The Horse Boy" traces Rowan's early difficulties with "demonic" tantrums, speech delays and incontinence. The only thing that seemed to help, Mr. Isaacson discovered, was riding horses. On horseback Rowan was calm, gave verbal directives and expressed joy.
Then Mr. Isaacson, who had previously written about the Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert in southern Africa and witnessed several shamanic ceremonies, took his son to a convention of traditional healers. For a few days Rowan improved.
Mr. Isaacson, a travel writer, wondered where he could combine horses and shamanic healing, and landed upon Mongolia… A young filmmaker agreed to record the trip.
The Isaacson family's approach was unorthodox to say the least, and Mr. Isaacson is careful to specify that "the book isn't really saying that shamanism cures autism or horses cure autism; it's saying we found a way." He added later in the article that he wanted to write a book to reassure families with newly diagnosed autistic children, to demonstrate that it was still possible to "lead a life of adventure" together.
Although the Times story makes for great reading, and I'm delighted to hear the Isaacsons have found some treatment approaches that work for them and for Rowan, it's important to keep in mind before hopping the next plane to Mongolia that this is one story about what worked for one family. While seeing shamans worked for the Isaacsons, its validity as a treatment approach for autistic disorders certainly counts as new and uncharted territory for now.
The therapeutic value of horses, however, has made equine-assisted therapy an increasingly popular and well-researched treatment modality. I volunteered at a NARHA (North American Riding for the Handicapped Association) equine-assisted therapy barn for many years, where I saw firsthand the positive effects of interacting with horses on people living with various physical, mental, and emotional challenges. For a wheelchair-bound person, the gentle swing of the horse's walk exercises the same pelvic and trunk muscles used for walking, improving balance and coordination. The instant height and mobility gained from sitting on a horse do equal wonders for the rider's confidence and self-esteem.
Perhaps my favorite memory from my years working at the barn is of a tiny autistic boy who came with his mother each week to ride Hank, a former show horse. Although Hank was easily twice as tall as the boy, he carefully packed his tiny cargo around the ring, slowing or stopping whenever his rider tensed up from nervousness. The boy couldn't speak, and communicated mainly by hand signals.
I will never forget the look on the mother's face when, after five or six weeks of lessons, her son looked at us and very clearly said the word "trot".
More on the Isaacsons, their book, and their documentary
NARHA's Equine Facilitated Mental Health Association main page
Google search results for scholarly papers on equine-facilitated psychotherapy
Renée M. Grinnell
Grinnell, R. (2018). The Magic of Equine-Facilitated Therapy. Psych Central. Retrieved on January 18, 2020, from https://psychcentral.com/blog/the-magic-of-equine-facilitated-therapy/
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Letters to the Editor: 12.31
Holland viewpoint on CO2 is wrong and misleading
Your recent "local viewpoint" by John Holland (LSJ, Dec. 16) on the impact of CO2 on global warming is misleading and just plain wrong on several points. Mr. Holland may be a "professor emeritus at Michigan State Univeristy," but a Google search didn't provide any credentials for him to be considered an expert on the subject.
Holland espouses that "there is no solid scientific evidence that CO2...impacts...the earth's temperature." Nothing could be further from the facts. The understanding that CO2 might cause warming can be traced back to 1861 when a British physicist, John Tyndall, developed a theory that linked climatic temperature-changes to the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The impact of greenhouse gasses has now been confirmed by multiple lines of empirical evidence. Satellite measurements over the past 40 years observe less energy escaping to space due to increasing CO2 levels. There is a direct, causal link between CO2 and global warming.
Dale Dailey
Climate change deniers irresponsible, heel-dragging
By publishing misleading and confusing opinion pieces like John Holland's denial of carbon dioxide's role in climate change ("Science, deception and common sense," Dec. 16), the Lansing State Journal assumes culpability for planetary consequences that will result from continued heel-dragging based on this kind of misdirection.
Wiser publications have long since quit amplifying rhetoric that pretends scientific uncertainty exists on climate change, when it clearly does not. Nearly 200 nations across the globe with widely different political, economic and ideological priorities just reached unanimous agreement on the need to tackle the threat of human-caused climate change, based on consensus work of thousands of scientists who actually conduct climate research.
The suggestion that climate change is some kind of sneaky partisan tax scheme is irresponsible and increasingly dangerous. Giving a megaphone to such claims is an affront to journalistic standards of truth and public service.
Perry Parks
Good reasons to pursue alternative energy
Professor John Holland (Opinion, Dec. 16), are you suggesting we should continue to extract fossil fuels from the earth that were made by nature over eons? Are you suggesting that the coal industry should continue to remove mountaintops? Is it OK for our children and grandchildren to breathe coal soot? Is it good policy to send our boys to the Middle East to protect the interests of big oil? Even if CO2 does not cause global warming, there are good reasons to pursue sources of alternative energy. In short, your comments are not helpful.
Virgil Smith
Misstatements of basic climate-change physics
I am appalled at the misstatements of basic climate-change physics espoused by John Holland (Opinion, Dec. 16). His straw-man use of increasing temperature causing an increase in CO2 is a classic inappropriate application of a known phenomena. The increasing atmospheric temperature associated with an increased CO2 has been well documented in the geologic record. Further, we have a detailed accurate daily record of atmospheric CO2 concentration increasing 20 percent in the last 67 years, correlating well with increased fossil fuel use and global temperatures. The claim that satellites showed global cooling in the last 17 years is blatantly false and misrepresents the data.
Warren W. Wood, MSU visiting professor of Hydrogeology


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Learn how Windows Server 2016 addresses the increasingly complex landscape of security with on prem, hybrid and cloud server scenarios that create the need for new security models and features. Windows Server 2016 delivers huge leaps ahead in security through specific features like Shielded VMs, Hyper V Containers, Nano Server, integrated Windows Defender, Log Analytic Insights, Credential Guard, New Administrative modes, Device Guard, Control Flow Guard and much more.
[1:34] Why should companies be concerned about Security in today's market?
[5:59] How does Windows Server 2016 address some of these security concerns organizations are having?
[9:52] What are some of the new specific security features are exclusive to Windows Server 2016?
[12:36] Besides Credential Guard, what are Device Guard and Control Flow Guard?
[15:30] How do IT Admins take advantage of these new features? Are they easy to set up?
[16:45] Can you talk to us about Shielded Virtual Machines and when people should use it?
[22:23] What do you say to naysayers who may think these types of protection features aren't worth their time?
[28:37] What are the benefits of Nano Server in terms of Security?
Hi thank you for great talk, I am alm/devops engineer, can you guys describe nano servers and microservices approach and security detail of them, its so cool with new approach to micro services win servers evolve to support it.