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Rockford Man's Life Saved By Coworker at Machesney Park Lowe's
Kevin Thompson, Facebook
Simply put, one of Rockford's most loved photographers, and Lowe's employee, is thankful for a coworker who is the reason he's alive today.
In the summer of 2019, Kevin Thompson found out he had liver cancer. During treatment, Kevin learned he needed a new liver. It's no secret, organ transplants can be hard to come by but that didn't stop Kev from remaining in good spirits despite being told he only had six months to live. This is where his fellow Lowe's employee Nick Arduino comes into the picture.
Nick and Kevin weren't close on a personal level but had worked together as a team in the store on occasion. Sadly, Nick's brother passed away the day after Christmas in 2019. While Nick and his family were at his brother's bedside in the hospital doctors informed his family that his brother was a registered organ donor. According to the story, shared on Lowe's corporate website, doctors asked the family if they knew anyone who was in need of an organ transplant. Nick chimed in about Kevin's liver and Nick's mom was supportive of the decision.
Two days later, Kevin's phone rang. He was told to get in the car and head to Loyola University Medical Center. The liver was a perfect match. A belated Christmas miracle, if you will.
Fast forward today and Kevin and Nick share a more personal relationship and, even better, Kevin is doing well. And proving Kevin's character, he sent an email to Lowe's President/CEO sharing this incredible story. Not only did the CEO read the email, he made sure Nick received a special honor.
On November 18, Nick was presented with a Lowe's Angel Award in celebration of the liver donation that saved Kevin's life. Nick's mother was on hand for the ceremony at the store.
This is an incredible opportunity to become an organ donor or encourage others to do the same. You can do that here and read the full Lowe's article here.
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Installations for churches, halls, pubs, clubs etc.
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Fernando Arrabal (n. 11 august 1932, Melilla, Spania) este scriitor, poet și dramaturg francez de origine spaniolă, reprezentant al teatrului absurdului.

Romane
 Baal Babylone. (1959)
 L'enterrement de la sardine.
 Fêtes et rites de la confusion. (Le Terrain Vague, 1967)
 El mono.
 La tour prends garde. (Titlul original: "La torre herida por el rayo": Ediciones Destino SA, Madrid 1983)
 La vierge rouge.
 La fille de King-Kong.
 La tueuse du jardin d'hiver.
 Lévitation.
 Porté disparu.
 L'extravagante croisade d'un castrat amoureux.
 Lévitation.
 Champagne pour tous.

Poezii
 700 cărți ilustrate de Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Roland Topor, Dorothée Bouchard și alții
 Humbles Paradis
 Pierre de la Folie

Teatru
 Arrabal a publicat sute de piese de teatru în 19 volume
 Le Tricycle. (1953)
 Fando et Lis. (1955)
 Pique-nique en campagne. (1959),  "Picknick im Felde" de Otfried Büsing (Picnic pe câmpul de luptă)
 Guernica. (1959)
 La Bicyclette du condamné. (1959)
 Le Grand Cérémonial. (1963)
 L'Architecte et l'Empereur d'Assyrie. (1966)
 La communion solennelle. (1967)
 Les amours impossibles.
 Et ils passèrent des memottes aux fleurs.
 Le Jardin des délices. (1967)
 Le Labyrinthe. (1967)
 L'Aurore rouge et noire. (1968)
 Bestialité érotique. (1968)
 Le Ciel et la Merde. (1972)
 Le Cimetière des voitures. (1959)
 La nuit est aussi un soleil
 Jeunes barbares d'aujourd'hui
 ...Et ils passèrent des menottes aux fleurs
 La tour de Babel
 Inquisition
 Les délices de la chair
 La traversée de l'empire
 Lettre d'amour (comme un supplice chinois)
 "L'Architect et l'Empéreur d'Assyrie",

Bibliografie
 Danțiș, Gabriela - Scriitori străini, Editura Științifică și Enciclopedică București, 1981

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  Biografie la Encyclopedia Britannica

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 Listă de regizori spanioli
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 Listă de piese de teatru franceze

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LA CROSSE, Wis., March 17, 2017 — Marine Credit Union announced several changes to its leadership in the last month that will support the company's continued growth.
Liz Malott has been promoted to Senior Vice President of Community Banking. Malott joined Marine in November 2000 as a teller in La Crosse and has since progressed through multiple roles with the credit union, most recently serving as a Vice President and District Manager in La Crosse. During her tenure with Marine, Malott has mentored numerous team members who have gone on to serve in leadership roles with the company. In her new role, Malott will oversee training, champion talent management, support Marine's deposit business, and help the organization improve communication and efficiency.
Matt Martinson has been named Branch Manager in Des Moines. He will be responsible for ensuring Marine is providing exceptional service to members and coaching and developing employees. Martinson joined Marine in 2013 as a Consumer Loan Officer (CLO). Since then, he has served as Senior CLO, Associate Branch Manager and Interim Branch Manager in Milwaukee. Martinson recently returned from a 10-month deployment serving in the United States Navy, which included over six months in Afghanistan.
Steve Leffew has been promoted to Branch Manager in Neenah, Wis. He will be responsible for ensuring Marine is providing exceptional service to members and coaching and developing employees. Leffew joined Marine in 2015 as a CLO. Since then, he has served as Branch Manager in Green Bay, Wis.
Travis Polodna has been promoted to Branch Manager at the Wisconsin American Drive location in Fond du Lac, Wis. He will be responsible for ensuring Marine is providing exceptional service to members and coaching and developing employees. Polodna joined Marine in 2015 as a CLO and also served a Mortgage Loan Representative before his promotion.
Dan Culligan has been named Member Services Supervisor (MSS) at the 35th Street location in Milwaukee. He will be responsible for managing the tellers in Milwaukee and ensuring deposit operations run smoothly in the branch. Culligan joined Marine as a teller in 2010. Since then he has served as MSS in La Crosse, Eau Claire and West Des Moines.
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Partick Thistle have decided to pay out a goal bonus to Kris Doolan despite the striker's "ghost strike" against Morton being missed by the match officials.
Footage of the Jags hitman's second-half effort not just crossing the line but actually hitting the back of the net has gone viral since referee Barry Cook's blunder on Saturday.
The clip has so far racked up more than 1.5million views on social media and now Thistle chiefs have decided to reward Doolan.
The Maryhill outfit insist the forward - who is still waiting for his first 'official' goal of the new season - did "everything right and deserves the credit for what would appear to be a perfectly legitimate goal".
Doolan has now decided to donate his bonus to the club's charity partner, the Beatson Cancer Charity.
He told the Thistle website: "Saturday was absolutely bizarre and having watched it back a few times I still can't understand what the officials have seen to disallow it.
"It isn't about the money for me and I just want to do everything I can to help the club get back to the Ladbrokes Premiership. Having not scored so far this season I was desperate to get off the mark and thought I'd done that when the ball hit the back of the net on Saturday.
"When Gerry Britton contacted me on Monday morning to tell me the club was paying my bonus I knew I wanted to give it to charity - the goal wasn't given after all.
Thistle - who won Saturday's Championship clash 1-0 - are still waiting for a response from the Scottish Football Association after writing to Hampden chiefs to demand an explanation on why the goal was not awarded.
Jags boss Alan Archibald added: "It's easy for me to talk about it now because we still won the game but a decision of that magnitude could have cost us points. At the end of the day, even though we finished with the victory we had two players booked as a result of the decision, and in a league this tight goal difference could come into play by the time we're done.
"One of the most disappointing things for me though, is that we have heard nothing from the Scottish FA or the match referee since Saturday. As managers we sit in meetings every season with the association and the referees department where they talk about being open and communicating about decisions and rules but that conversation has to work both ways.


It is important for a graduate in HR to have particular skills in accordance with his or her employment opportunity. The employer in this particular industry seeks several skillsin a competent employee of the organizations. It is important for a graduate of this field to have ability to analyze several aspects of a company and also needs to have the capability to employ or recruit necessary people in the organization.
In any organization or corporation, the department of human resource majorly deals with the manpower of the production system. Therefore, it manages all aspects which are associated with personnel that includes recruiting employees, training and career development, overseeing the compensation packages along with that managing the benefits plan and other areas that are instrumental in better productivity of the company.
Human resources professionals are generally employed into one or two areas such as large or moderate sized companies in any industry and personnel consulting firms as well. In this study in order to understand, the effectiveness of the HR professionals Adecco Employment Services has been selected for the company analysis.
Adecco is considered to be one of the largest recruitment agencies of the world. it has effectively employed a number of skillful employees to the companies that operate globally. This company primarily started by providing the offices with temporary employment services and gradually developed with its increasing popularity over the world.
Adecco is a public employer that has served more than 100,000 clients from more than 5,500 offices worldwide. It primarily provides with temporary staff services and also offers permanent employee placements ( www.adeccogroup.com, 2017). Their service includes project assistance, outsourcing and other human resource related services.
It has a public operation system that directly serves the companies or the offices with efficient employees and significantly provides both temporary and permanent employees. It has developed through mergers and acquisitions.
This company has several branches and each of the branch is consisted of a branch manager and a manager of client. Along with that it also operates its management through the client program manager who is responsible for keeping record of the clients and the employees that they suppy to most of the offices ( www.adeccogroup.com, 2017).
The chief or the main branch of the company operates from Melville, New York and it has a huge market in the HR industry all over the world. it is a significant fact that the company has effectively supplies several companies from all over the world with necessary employees. The market of their services has grown gradually.
It is an important fact that worth to be mentioned that there are several other agencies that also provides recruitment and employment services ( www.adeccogroup.com, 2017). The competitive advantage of this particular company lies in the fact that they offer both temporary and permanent recruitment services to the offices and henceforth the offices that require temporary services along with the companies seeking for permanent recruits trust this company with their services.
As it provides recruitment for several professional lines the client base of this company is huge and has helped in the significant growth of their services all over the world.
Technological advancement has replaced the conventional operational methods of a company with new techniques and it has changed the roles of the HR as well (Kooij et al, 2013). Human resource manager plays multiple roles in an organization and it is true that the function of Human resource has undergone significant changes in the recent years.
HR managers used to be restricted to handling basic data work and routine record keeping. The situation has changed and the HR managers are exposed to evolving nature of the diverse workforce complexities, the legal obligations, organizational goals and strategic management.
An HR manager requires to be responsible and one of the major responsibilities of the Hr manger is to recruit right people in the organization.
It is important for an HR manger to have the proper recruitment skill which include ability to judge a required candidate and selecting a right candidate for a particular job role.
Another important factor is to ability to explain the recruits with the delegated job roles and also choose certain employees from the aspirants who can perform that particular role effectively.
The employer branding aspects have become significant as it owes to the new age media and awareness of the employee right (Oladapo, 2014). Therefore the HR manager needs to be appealing enough and competent enough to attract talented employees for any organization.
Communication skills are one of the moot criteria for operational success of the HR manager. In order to recruit and select efficient and necessary employees it is important for the HR manager to communicate with the applicants effectively in order to understand their capabilities.
An Hr manager needs to have tactical knowledge in regards to the complex situational handling. As the HR manger directly deals with the employees of the organization it is important for the Hr manger to have skills to communicate and handle issues that are faced by the employees.
An Hr manger needs to have sound knowledge of the legislation that are related to the rights of the employees and the business policies of the organization.
A HR manger needs to be confident and convincing in order to find relevant recruits for the organization.
An HR manger needs to have identification skills. It is necessary to identify the development needs of the employees. In order to provide effective training sessions to the employees it is important for the HR manager to identify the development needs of the employees.
After identification of the skills it is important to organize training sessions like proper grooming of the employees and arranging seminars and presentations for the employees in order to make them understand the organizational work pattern.
Along with the above-mentioned skills it is important for an HR manager to be motivational and assist the employees effectively so that they can work accordingly (Stone and Deadrick, 2015). It is important for an HR to have the ability to assess the training program and grading the employees accordingly and it plays a major role in the employee retention of an organization.
The professional skills that are required for an effective HR manger can be identified by a SWOT analysis commenced on oneself. It effectively identifies the development needs of an individual which can be further developed by a professional development plan based on the identified development needs of that particular individual. A graduate in the HR industry has several opportunities that can be availed by a student of this field.
Get jobs that are directly related to the graduate degree of this field.
The three opportunities that are identified have their own significance in the professional development of the HR graduate.
The job options with an HR bachelor degree are vast and diverse. The first option is to get directly involved in jobs related to the HR degree that are human resource officer, office manager, training and development officer and occupational psychologist (Armstrong and Taylor, 2014).
Other than these jobs there are also several other occupations that can be availed because of the degree and these are business adviser, career adviser, data scientist, higher education lecturer, management consultant, recruitment consultant, operational researcher, risk manager, sales executive and Trade union research officer.
It is possible to increase the opportunities and maximize the opportunities significantly. Many employers accept applications from graduates with any degree subject but work experience always maximize the opportunities of recruitment. Development of interpersonal skills can maximize the job opportunities related to the HR management. Another important factor is to do internships in order to increase recruitment opportunities. Further study is another way to avail better recruitment opportunities. It develops the knowledge and understanding of the HR management, which helps in facilitating the professional success.


In the 21st century education has been transformed, from a means for increasing social mobility, to a priority and a major factor in determining social inequality. The transition to post-industrial societies and tracing the path to information1 and knowledge2 societies, has in effect turned education in the most praised resource. One issue that has often been emphasized in the past decades is the need for a more substantial relationship between the educational system and the labor market. In the knowledge-based society, with technology changing at a rapid pace, there is a growing necessity of continual development of the knowledge and skills of the workforce.


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So ok it's Monday. Noone really likes mondays right? I don't normally either- until the delivery man drops off boxes of newness! Today we got in some lovely wool bags and some Jonathan Adler but there was one thing in there that rocked my world even more then merch. NEW AWESOME business cards!
See what I mean? It really is just the little things that I love the most. We have been out of cards for a few days and I knew they were on order, but lookit- they were redesigned! I think they are so so cool and totally match the direction the shop has taken. Good job on you Spitfire Girl, good job indeed.


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What can the Church Outside Russia Give the Church inside Russia?
The Lord will have mercy on Holy Rus because it has suffered the dread and terrible period before Antichrist. A great host of martyrs and confessors shone forth, starting with senior clergy and laity, the Metropolitan and the Tsar, the priest and the monk, the child and the breastfed babe, ending with ordinary laypeople. They all beseech the Lord God, the King of Hosts, the King of Kings, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, glorified in the Most Holy Trinity. We must know quite clearly that Russia is the lot of the Queen of Heaven and She takes care of her and intercedes for her especially…Together with the Mother of God the whole host of Russian saints asks for Russia to be spared…
St Laurence of Chernigov (+ 1950)
To some the above question may seem absurd. What can a tiny, émigré-founded part of the Russian Church (ROCOR – 500 parishes), their descendant and missions, scattered across the whole face of the world, give the huge Church inside Russia, with its tens of thousands of churches, hundreds of monasteries and dozens of seminaries? It sounds as if the little brother, so imperfect and with all his faults, is trying to patronise the big brother because he is blind to his own faults. This is not the case; we are well aware of our weaknesses, but perhaps 'our strength is made perfect in weakness.'
In reality, the Church Outside Russia (ROCOR) does have something to say, though perhaps only one thing, but a vital thing. Simply because we were never Sovietised, whereas, through no fault of its own, the people of the martyric Church inside Russia were Sovietised, we have one word to say to. It is: 'Community'. It is most ironic, for this is the very thing promised, but not delivered, by 'Communism'. Commun-ism failed to build a Commun-ity because it tried to do it without Christ. Starting from the bottom and working upwards through five levels, of Community we can say:
1. The Family as Community
Under Soviet atheism, Christian marriage came to an end and was replaced at first with 'free love', then with relationships of convenience, a method, for example, of obtaining a permit to work in Moscow or some other city. Divorce and multiple divorce became 'normal' and, with it, multiple abortion and the horrifying abuse of women and children and the irresponsibilisation of men as fathers. Virtually all sense of the family as the community of the small church came to an end. As a result, the demographic situation throughout all the Slav parts of the former Soviet Union is catastrophic.
2. The Parish as Community.
Today, parish life as community life, as we understand it in ROCOR, hardly exists in the post-Soviet Church inside Russia. Parishes there are largely composed of people who do not know one another, of passers-by, of those who drop in. The repression of the Church in the Soviet period more or less destroyed normal parish life. The reflex of the former Soviet citizen is to erect high barriers around his property. He sees others as potential enemies. Mistrust of others has largely replaced community life. This is not the case in ROCOR parish life, where we try to build scattered individuals into communities.
3. The Diocese as Community
In our small ROCOR all who wish to can know our bishops, write to them and speak to them. Bishops have small if scattered dioceses. The bureaucratisation of bishops did not occur in ROCOR; they are not State functionaries; neither are they wealthy. On the contrary. In the Church inside Russia, even with a relatively small number of churches and today with 300 bishops, bishops do not know their parishes. If a bishop is to visit each parish once a year, surely there should be no more than 50 parishes in his diocese? Perhaps at least another 300 bishops are required inside Russia.
4. The Church as Community
In the Soviet period, not to mention the period before it which prepared it, the Church inside Russia came to be seen as an Institution, a Department of State, as 'the Moscow Patriarchate'. Religion stopped being seen as Faith, and instead as a purely outward rite. Let us be clear. In 2007 the Church Outside Russia did not enter into canonical communion with 'the Moscow Patriarchate'. The Community of ROCOR entered into communion with the Community of our brothers and sisters in Christ in the Church inside Russia. The Church is the Community of believers, living and departed.
5. Rus as Community
Today the East Slav peoples, the Multinational Community of Faith known as 'Rus', are illegitimately divided into three States: the Russian Federation, Ukraine and Belarus. To them can be added a fourth and Non-Slav country – Moldova. Moreover, many, many other countries also have many believers in the jurisdiction of the Church of 'All Rus'. In these post-Soviet times, Rus has not been restored; we have only covered 5% of the path before us. We are not satisfied with this post-Soviet state of affairs: we look for better times, we look to the future, when Rus will exist not only spiritually as now, but politically also.
Today the world is being squeezed between a bankrupt but technologically dominant Western world, a decadent Roman Empire, whose secularist ideology appears to be motivated by the promotion of homosexuality, and the Islamic world. That Islamic world has been divided in terrible wars in one country after another throughout the Middle East, so that it can be ruled and exploited. Orthodox should be aware, for they too are divided and ruled, as happened long ago in the enslaved Patriarchate of Constantinople, as happened with new calendarisation and now EU-isation, and is now happening in Serbia and the Ukraine.
The Soviet Union has long gone, leaving ruins behind it. The Russian Federation, Ukraine and Belarus are all passing States, with no long-term future. The choice is not between Soviet and Russian. The choice is between the descent into a second-rate colony of vulgar Western consumerism and the restoration of Holy Rus. Holy Rus, ruled by a Tsar, is the spiritual tool for the salvation of its own peoples and other peoples. Holy Rus spread across the northern half of the Eurasian continent. In the past it stemmed the wild East and the wild West, Islam and the spiritually damaged Catholic/Protestant West; this is its task again today.
This entry was posted in Orthodox Restoration, Rus, Russian Church and tagged Repentance, Restoration on October 24, 2013 by Father Andrew.
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Monday Music Mic
I did an MMM tonight. I did it one time before and it was pretty wild. They always start late. I haven't been on a stage in three weeks. I walked in, signed up and played it chill. Dude told me he'd put me up at midnight. It was 11pm. Sounded good to me. I like listening to music while I page through jokes in my notebook. Finally the time comes for me to go on. I make sure they know I'm a comedian, then ask now that they know, what do they want to do? Finally it gets down to it that they want to see someone make them laugh. I set about trying, using my second devil cameo joke to start with. I could see a couple of people laughing but the rest of the people said they didn't like it when I asked. Then I tried the other devil joke that I wrote first, but before I could get to the punchline, this reggae dude starts playing a track, and they said I was done. WTF I wait an hour to tell one and half jokes. Didn't really help me feel any different than I've been feeling lately. Still after 9 years, this is about all the scene will let me do. Sure I got to headline a little show three weeks ago and it was a lot of fun. But those shows are few and far between. Seems like I'll be stuck doing mostly just open mics and sometimes a showcase for the rest of my life. Unless I quit.


I recently spoke with Alanna York to get a Controlled Chaos update. I first spoke with Alanna back in January, 2016 – ten days before her episode aired. She was NOT controlling the chaos then: her website wasn't done and she was completely re-branding her product from the Use Me product line to Controlled Chaos. Back then, she promised me she'd give me a Controlled Chaos update – we just got around to it last week!
I also said there's a "possibility that a deal gets made on air, but didn't close." Of course, a deal was done with Lori who invested $60K for 50% of the business. The deal never did close – which explains the scramble to build a website less than two weeks before airing.
I always ask the entrepreneurs I speak with to give some words of inspiration for others. In the course of that piece of the conversation, I found out Alanna is the second reality TV star in her family. Her uncle, Bob Crowley, is a former WINNER of Survivor from season 17 in Gabon!
I had one more question for Alanna. She answers it over at The Hot Dog Truck.


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Can you do it now? It's very simple, maybe only 2 steps.
Lucia's already making changes. Thanks to a young friend, Rachel (the one in the grey/red sweatshirt), when Lucia needed a lot of blood transfusions she mobilized her peers and they really came through.
Rachel has now developed a Teen Blood Drive Program with Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital. There's even a 2-3 minute public service announcement/ short film about Lucia and the need for blood donations.
Thank you for participating and/or supporting the first school-wide blood drive at Memorial Sloan Kettering. Twenty members of the community gave either blood or platelets over the last two weeks – an impressive number of participants for the first drive. The effort was led by 8 seniors, 1 junior, 1 sophomore, 3 faculty and 7 parents. Next week there are an additional 7 donors, for a total of 27!
Special thanks go to Rachel Giacobbe '12 for her passion to make a difference and organizing this blood drive. She is planning another drive in the spring; we hope to double our number of donors in that effort. Throughout the drive, support was given by many, especially Mary Leber Hughes '98, a nurse in the pediatric division of MSK and Joe Licata, the Director of the MSK blood bank.
It was an amazing effort by all!
It was fun organizing it, it was fun seeing all the different creative piggies, it was fun seeing everyone at the event. Special thanks to Gymboree for hosting the event on December 13th which turned out to be very special since it is officially Saint Lucia Day! That, my friends, is a real holiday, especially big in Sweden.
It was really fun hauling all that change to the bank! Click here for photo gallery.
I'm writing to you to extend my deepest gratitude for your continued support and dedication to Lucia and our family's cause. I know you all have been very proactive in ensuring the success of the LuciaGirl Pediatric Oncology Foundation.
Please know that without your support, everything from dealing with the grief to creating an organization whose goal is the unwavering support for families and children that encounter catastrophic struggles would be immeasurably more difficult, if not impossible.
As soon as Lucia arrived in our lives she was our angel and our family treasure and to share her life with you is an honor.
Knowing that Lucia, in her short but full life, has encountered so many talented and genuine people gives me hope that her time here was not in vain and that true good will come from this.
Children don't ask to get cancer.
They don't do anything to give themselves cancer.
They are forced to live in this toxic world that we created and then they and their family live the worst nightmare.
Pediatric cancer is the number one cause of non-accidental death in children!
Lucia got every chemo available. She got the same stuff you, me, my grandmother would have gotten (that's how old the stuff is)! There is constant talk about 10 year studies to prove that treatments work, well where are the studies that prove the treatments we use now don't work? All those tiny little gravestones, that's where.
We need your support today to STOP THE MADNESS!
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Behind every beautiful child is a story…a story of a child with cancer and the living nightmare that each child and his/her entire family must face twenty four hours a day seven days a week. This is a constant reminder that cancer keeps happening; cancer does not take a vacation. It can strike any child at ANY time.
Miss Ariella, one of Lucia's ballet teachers at Ballet Academy East, the little dynamo go-getter that she is, pulled off an amazing feat. In what felt like just two days flat, pulled together a fundraiser at NYC's Public House!
Was it successful, you ask?
Heck yeah it was successful!
was so iffy and thank you to the staff at The Public House for the opportunity.
Lucia's loving friends have decided to take matters into their own hands and squeeze the crap outta those lemons!
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. So in the spirit of Lucia, her friends will have lemonade stands (selling lemonade, water, baked goods, etc.) situated around the Upper East Side, this Saturday, June 6th.
Imagine it...every few blocks, people will encounter "Lemonade for Lucia" and all the proceeds will benefit LGPOF!
Would You Pay to Throw Cake at Your Teacher?
I think the answer is a resounding "YES!" even when your teacher is a black belt in Martial Arts and can kick your arse from here to where ever.
This year's annual Parents Night Out - Mr. Sevilla Birthday Bash was held as a fundraiser in honor of our Princess Warrior Lucia who earned her purple belt and an honorary black belt at Premier Martial Arts - Eastside.
Luciagirl after earning her first stripe. This is when she began saying "Lucia like a Puma!"It's a strange way to celebrate your birthday but hey, you're gonna argue with a bunch of black belts? All the kids got to throw cake at his face. It turns out that the same kids who are too tired to pick up their socks seem to have quite a bit of strength when throwing cake. So to take a little bit of the sting out, this years' cake had Jello in it. All the better, Lucia loves SLIME!
If your child has ever considered taking martial arts classes, I highly recommend it. At Premier, there is a sense of welcome, community and team spirit as well as discipline, strength and respect.
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David Morgan our IOEE Member of the Year gives us an insight into his upcoming Winston Churchill Memorial Trust travels.
Wow! How time has flown. Where has the year gone so far? Back in February this year I was given the amazing news that I was to become a Fellow of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust. I was successful in applying for a travelling grant to visit the US and explore how organisations support prisoners and returning citizens to develop their entrepreneurial skills and be able to set up their own businesses to lead a crime free life. With the re-offending rates being similar to that of the UK, I was really keen to learn of the programs and success stories and be able to bring that knowledge back to the UK.
Working for Novus, the largest provider of education in prisons in England has given me a fantastic opportunity to be able to work with men and women that are looking to a future of self-employment. Over the last 6 months I have been researching organisations across the US that have amazing stories to tell and I am putting together the last pieces of the jigsaw as I will be heading off in September on this inspiring journey (no pun intended). It's been a massive learning curve in researching and developing a network of like-minded individuals that operate in different time zones! Thank goodness for the internet. Fellows have been travelling for over 50 years all over the world, no idea how they managed to plan their trips.
I've had to get to get a grip of my social media skills (still pretty lacking) and started on Twitter a few months ago and now even have started an online blog. I've been Emailing, Tweeting, Skyping and LinkedIn networking as well as being on Facebook to get in touch with the right people. It takes a long time and a lot of patience but in the end the effort will be worth the reward. After all that effort I have been rewarded with offers of meetings all over the US. My travels will take me to New York, San Francisco, Omaha in Nebraska, Washington DC, Raleigh in North Carolina and the last leg back up to New York where I will fly back the UK at the beginning of October. I'm told that's over 12,000 miles of travelling. I will be visiting a number of prisons and organisations in these areas so it really will be a case of trains, planes and automobiles.. and a good deal of walking too. The organisations that I will be meeting up with include those that work with men and women whilst still in custody that support the development of their skills through academic and vocational learning. This includes being part of enterprises that generate income that can be re-invested for social purpose.


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Owner: Antarctic Heritage Trust, New-Zealand. This object is from the collection of c.18,000 artefacts at Terra Nova Hut, the expedition base built by Captain Robert Falcon Scott and party during his 1910-1913 expedition to Antarctica. The match box is composed of plywood, a blue paper liner and a white paper label printed with black ink. After mechanical cleaning of the object, the different elements have been repaired with Japanese tissue and reshaped in their original format.


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"I know this video is going to get a lot of hate from a lot of people"
Tana Mongeau has posted a full video response after she faced backlash following her comments about the death of Mac Miller.
The deliberately demonetised video, entitled 'clearing some things up' is thirty minutes long and delves into Tana's relationship with Miller. "In the past twelve hours I have been accused of so many things I didn't do", Tana says, at the start. "I want to try and delve in and answer as much of that as possible."
She begins with a comprehensive apology, saying: "first and foremost... I want to start this video with an apology, especially to the friends and family or anyone who supported and loved Mac Miller if anything i posted about Malcolm upset you in any way, I am so incredibly sorry."
What is she apologising for?
Following the sudden and tragic death of musician Mac Miller, Tana posted a screenshot of a text conversation between her and Mac on Instagram with a caption that included the sentence: "what I would do for you to tuck my hair behind my ear and kiss me one last time". Fans of Mac interpreted this as Tana trying to make Mac's death about her.
"I want him to be remembered for the incredible person he was & i was sharing my experience.. however i can see how people could perceive that post differently not knowing how close i was with him & that breaks my heart & i'm sorry for that. it isn't about me. it never will be."
However, it seems that this apology was not enough to satisfy some people and so Tana decided to make a video.
Tana does not try to defend herself in the video.
"I know that...this situation has nothing to do with me and as soon as this video is out I will never even allude to making it about me again... I know so many people are going to come at me and say that I made it about me and for that I just want to apologise."
She recounts her experiences with Mac.
She recounts how she texted Mac the night before he died and was confused when she didn't get a reply in the morning. She says she then went on a long flight and only found out the tragic news after she landed.
She then criticises the response to Mac's death, saying that people "dehumanised" him, referring to him as "just an ex-boyfriend" or "just another rapper that the world lost to drugs" or "just another celebrity RIP post and then everything's back to normal".
Tana says she 'doesn't deal with death well'. Tana says "my best friend died when I was 15 in front of me" and that she has had trouble processing death ever since. She says she just wanted him to be remembered properly and respectfully and so made a misjudged post that she now regrets.
She says she has been a life-long fan of Mac.
Tana says she has been a fan of Mac since she was a teenager and was honoured to get to meet him, and that he was even better in person than she had hoped.
She discusses how she has had a very difficult time this year after the disaster that was TanaCon and the subsequent fallout.
Reaction to the video has been mixed from fans.
What do you think of this video? Do you think Tana's apology is enough? Do you think the issue should just be left to lie now?


The genus Lepargyrea is in the family Elaeagnaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).
The Plant List includes 3 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Lepargyrea. Of these 1 are accepted species names.


When writing, it can be helpful to know what the readability statistics are in order to determine whether your writing is at the appropriate level for the intended audience. Microsoft Word has the ability to show you both the Flesch Reading Ease score and the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level rating. This information is displayed at the conclusion of the Spelling & Grammar check, but you must have the settings turned on first.
To turn on readability statistics in Word, go to File > Options > Proofing. Near the bottom, you will see the options for correcting spelling and grammar. Place a check next to Check grammar with spelling and Show readability statistics as shown below. Click OK to save your changes.
With the option to display the readability statistics active, as soon as you click OK to complete a spelling and grammar check, then your Readability Statistics will display. For the Flesch Reading Ease score, zero is the most difficult to read and 100 is the easiest. Word suggests hitting between 60 and 70. The Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level rating is tied to U.S. school grade reading levels. Aiming for between seven and eight puts your writing at a middle school level and is recommended as a best practice. If you are writing for a more sophisticated audience, you may wish to aim for a higher grade level rating and lower reading ease score.
For information on how these scores are calculated, search "readability scores" in Microsoft Word's help.


The festival is over once again. Opposite of the luck we had this festival weekend with great weather, it rained all Sunday long. I'm guessing the grey hues with its cool air fanned quite a lot of hungover visitors in their struggle to find their way back into the boring everyday existence after two days of enjoying the music and lovely atmosphere of thousands of like-minded metalheads gathering in a small spot in a town a few hours north of Stockholm.
The lines to the bars were too long, the staff happily keeping us waiting so people wouldn't get too drunk. It worked. It also left us hungry and thirsty because there were no time to stand around in line for 25 minutes every time you wanted something to snack on. Being sous vided in one's own sweat under the blaring sun didn't help things out either.
But it was lovely, the weekend as a whole. I'm greatful for the opportunity to be able to walk over to a festival, that this year also offered no rain, no mosquitoes and lots of energy! Last year, I was beat and just wanted to sleep and mellow out with my friends, but this year I found myself enjoying the bustle.
It was fun to see Paradise Lost but it made me realise how few songs of theirs I actually listen to. Those I do listen to though, are DABAMM.
Historically questionable Amon Amarth made a prescence with their iron age helmet with horns. Not really being my cup of tea, I ventured after a cider before they whipped out the huge dragon on the stage, that one I got to look at from a distance.
Freaking Opeth. Add a shrieking high pitched sound that doesn't end and you have my mental state before, under and after this performance. It's my fourth time seeing them live and I don't even care. They're so life alteringly good.
The weekend was lovely. I shall remember it dearly.


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The natural philosopher Democritus from Abdera
Category: Ancient History
Even in ancient times there were great social differences between rich and poor citizens. Democritus of Abdera was fortunate to be one of the sons of wealthy parents, and from an early age Democritus was fond of spending large sums of money on trips to distant lands.
Leucippus - philosopher and founder of atomism
In the 5th century BC, more precise data about the Greek philosopher are unfortunately not available, Leucippus was born in Abdera or in Miletus.
Shoemaker stick to your last - Apelles
In our articles about the ancient city of Kolophon (located about 35 kilometers from Izmir on the way to Kusadasi) and its important citizens, we have already reported about the outstanding philosopher Xenophanes and the poet Mimnermos from the time of ancient Greece.
Philosopher and poet Xenophanes of Colophon
One of the most important figures of Greek antiquity was the philosopher and poet Xenophanes, who was born in Colophon around 570 BC. As was usual for artists of the time, the poet could not stand the monotony of a city for long.
Heracleides of Klazomenai
Born and raised in Klazomenai, Heracleides (exact biographical dates are not known) probably came to Susa as an interpreter or doctor at the beginning of the reign of the Persian great king Darius II as part of an Athenian delegation for peace negotiations after the lost war at his court.
The Celts - ethnic groups move Europe and Asia Minor
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At the time of the Greeks and Romans, who saw their scope for action primarily in the Mediterranean region, originally Indo-European tribes were able to spread in northern Europe, which could hardly be assigned by the educated Mediterranean cultures of the Greeks and Romans.
The Celts / Galatians - From the Balkans to Ankara
On their raids and migrations, individual tribes of the Celts advanced across the Balkans to ancient Greece in 279 BC, where they raided and plundered Delphi, among other things.
Mimnermos from Colophon - just a poet?
Alongside the painter Apelles and the philosopher Xenophanes, the poet Mimnermos (around 640 – 570 BC) was probably the best-known citizen of the city of Colophon, which was booming in the 6th century BC.
Apellicon of Teos - Collector of Literature
One of the city's residents, known far beyond the gates of Teo, was the politician and collector of literature Apellicon, who later moved to Athens and joined the tyrant Athenion there.
Water supply of the ancient high cultures in Asia Minor
With the end of the epoch as collectors and hunters and the settlement in the first village groups, there were of course also new requirements in terms of water requirements and water use in the history of human development.
Amphipolis - Greek colonization in North Aegean
The term "Greek colonization" refers to the founding of Greek planting towns (Apoikia) extending from the mainland and the islands of the Aegean before and during the archaic period of Greek antiquity.
Along the Via Egnatia: from Ohrid to Elbasan in Albania
The Ancient Roman Via Egnatia enters Albania, which at that time was called Illyricum, from Ohrid in the east, then ran through Elbasan from where one arm directly connected to Dyrrhachion (todays Durres).
Sharks - A journey into the native times of Perchtoldsdorf
In Perchtoldsdorf, a market town in the district of Mödling in the vicinity of Vienna, we had met by our friend Robert some time ago. Today, one of the numerous wine regions around Vienna, the wine farming already draws conclusions to the mineral origin.
About the history of the Celts - life habits and culture
The inhabitants of the landscapes north of the Alps were described by ancient Greek philosophers like Herodot, Strabon and many others as Keltoi or Celtae, by the Romans as Galli.
Phrygians - The origins of the migrants were in Thrace
Our tours through Anatolia had led us to the so-called Phrygian Valley next to Afyonkarahisar, a term for the group of people settled there from the West.
The legendary Xerxes Canal of Chalkidiki
Our investigations on the peninsula of Chalkidiki had inevitably led us to the historical background of the campaigns of Xerxes, who as Achaemenid Great King and Egyptian Pharaoh reigned the vast Persian Empire between 486-465 BC.
Xenophon - philosopher and writer in ancient Athens
Xenophon's birth date is uncertain, but most scholars agree that he was born around 431 BC near the city of Athens. Xenophon was born into the ranks of the upper classes, thus granting him access to certain privileges of the aristocracy of ancient Attica.
Strabo - Greek Historian and Geographer
Strabo was a Greek historian, geographer and philosopher. Strabo was born to an affluent family from Amaseia in Pontus (modern Amasya, Turkey), a city which he said to be situated the approximate equivalent of 75 km from the Black sea.
Homer - Ilias - ancient historical poet
The ancient Greeks generally believed that Homer was an historical individual, but modern scholars are skeptical: no reliable biographical information has been handed down from classical antiquity, and the poems themselves manifestly represent the culmination of many centuries of oral story-telling and a well-developed "formulaic" system of poetic composition.
Hesiod - Greek Oral Poet and Mythologist
Hesiod (Hesíodos) was a Greek oral poet and is often identified as the first economist. His date is uncertain, but leading scholars favour the eighth century BC for when Hesiod lived.
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UNOME. Tony Parker had 55 points, carrying the Spurs to their first win. And in more important news, his boo was spotted at an Alabama Football Game last weekend. With celebrities starting to jump onto the college football bandwagon because of great TV viewership numbers that even American Idol would be proud of, all sorts of Celebrity JerseyChaser's have surfaced. One of these being Mrs. Tony Parker, Eva Longoria (pictured above on the right).
However instead of her supporting her own school, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, who has legendary alums like Jim Hill and Gene Upshaw, she turned her back on them in favor of Alabama. Tisk, tisk. Attending last weeks Alabama vs Arkansas State game and she was seen rocking an Alabama jersey that said "Mrs. Parker" on the back. Since she was on the field the entire game we have not gotten word if she even knows the Alabama Rammer Jammer, but she is rumored to be "a huuuuuge Alabama fan". Eva you grew up and went to school in Texas, this is just just bad form. Fans we do not condone this type of behavior. But, I guess thats what 9-0 gets you. A Hollywood A-Lister. What's next Paris Hilton routing for Penn State.
The game was Alabama vs. Arkansas State not Alabama State.


Teignmouth is a fairly populous civil parish in the southwestern English county of Devon. River Teign flows alongside the town, the lush green scenery of Teignmouth is a clear evidence of benefits the town owes much to the river. An official census indicates that Teignmouth has over 14,000 inhabitants which make it a very animated place to be. Originally the town was a fishing port but with the passage of time natives decided to develop the town on the lines of a seaside holiday resort. Today, local people have adopted professions to cater the needs and demands of incoming visitors during the summer.
Teignmouth as being located on the coast of Devon naturally inherits a gentle maritime climate. The mild climate attracts the English and British tourists throughout the year to enjoy endless possibilities that Teignmouth generously offers.
The peak season of incoming holiday makers in summer when thousands of tourists flock to experience Teignmouth's sea front. The local administration has successfully managed to bring forward seaside associated games in the near vicinity. Teignmouth Carnival is another brilliant event that people from neighbouring towns attend eagerly. This joyous event is held in the last week of July which is also considered as the peak time of foreign tourists.
Teignmouth's port which dates back to the 13th century still operates with an unmatched vigour. This historical port offers a unique opportunity to people who are interested in the historical context of ports in English region. The sheer number of activities that run parallel to each other is a treat to watch.


'Jafri' has been chosen as part of the Kaleidoscope VR virtual reality showcase. Amongst some other great project from the likes of Chris Milks 'Life of Us' ,  and Saschla Unseld's 'Dear Angelica. I'll be appearing on a panel in Sydney to talk a bit about the project and general VR stuff.
Gizmodo Article on the Sydney event.


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Paulo Roberto Fiorilo (Araraquara, 25 de janeiro de 1964), mais conhecido como Paulo Fiorilo, é um filósofo, professor e político brasileiro, filiado ao Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT).

É formado em Filosofia com mestrado em ciências políticas pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, iniciando sua militância na juventude católica.

Foi duas vezes vereador de São Paulo. Atualmente exerce o cargo de deputado estadual pelo estado de São Paulo, eleito com 80.430 votos nas eleições de 2018 e sendo reeleito ao cargo com 110.251 nas eleições de 2022.

Biografia
Paulo nasceu em Araraquara, porém no ano de 1984 mudou-se para o bairro São Rafael, na zona leste da cidade de São Paulo. Posteriormente formou-se em filosofia e realizou mestrado em Ciências políticas na Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP). Além disso, foi professor da rede municipal de ensino, obtendo licença posteriormente para atuar na política.

Atuação na política
Sua militância política iniciou na cidade de Araraquara junto às Comunidades Eclesiais de Base da Igreja Católica. Após sua mudança para São Paulo, filiou-se ao Partido dos Trabalhadores em 1986 e contribuiu com a sua fundação.

No ano de 2003, durante a gestão da Marta Suplicy na prefeitura de São Paulo, foi chefe de gabinete da prefeitura paulistana.

Durante as eleições de 2018, concorreu para deputado estadual do Estado de São Paulo tendo sido eleito e figurando na lista de dos dez deputados mais votados na periferia da capital paulista.

Durante seu mandato como deputado estadual por São Paulo na 19.ª legislatura, entre 2018 e 2022, foi coordenador da Frente Parlamentar de Desenvolvimento Econômico Regional e presidiu da Comissão de Relações Internacionais do Legislativo Paulista. Em seu mandato, também propôs mais de 50 projetos de lei, dos quais seis foram aprovados e tramitados. Dentre estes, consta o projeto de lei, posteriormente aprovado como Lei nº 17.365/2021 contendo alterações, que permitiu a compra direta de vacina pelo governo do Estado sem a espera de ações do governo federal.

Em 2022, recebeu o diploma de Honra ao Mérito pela Câmara Municipal de Araraquara, por reconhecimento aos serviços prestados à cidade. A homenagem destaca a destinação de cerca de R$3 milhões pelo deputado por meio de emendas parlamentares, recurso de caráter relevante especialmente durante o contexto da pandemia de COVID-19 no Brasil.

Nascidos em 1964
Naturais de Araraquara
Alunos da Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
Filósofos de São Paulo
Professores do estado de São Paulo
Políticos do estado de São Paulo
Vereadores da cidade de São Paulo
Deputados estaduais de São Paulo
Membros do Partido dos Trabalhadores


we've looked at others' architecture. let's look at our own home.
This is what we've been heading towards this year and it looks like most of it will happen during summer break… but that doesn't mean it won't count! We will be on it.
First, an "elevation" of our own house. I think the differences in how they draw this say so much about both of them.
Then — without measurements (because we don't know what dimensions Béla's new room will be) — and just to see what they could suss out on their own — they did "first draft" floor plans of their upcoming bedroom changes.
The next step is meeting with the architect again to discuss HIS plan for the structural changes to Béla's room. Then we will have some numbers to work with. Claudia's numbers exist, somewhere beyond Tucker's belongings, and that is our next step there as well.


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Glad you have your power back! It's amazing how we take it for granted--it's only when the power is down that you realize how much of your daily activities rely on it!
Lara--Thanks! Absolutely. It's amazing how even a few days without electricity turns the world upside down.


The harness for our API tests should be in Python, not Perl. This will also allow re-using much of the code running layout tests, adopt improved simctl code and use multiple processes.
Note that some of these new features (such as using multiple processes) require changes to the tests as well, which will be tracked in different bugs.
After <https://trac.webkit.org/changeset/226263>, we could fully replace the existing run-api-tests with a Python implementation.  Patch still needs some polish, I don't think it's ready to land.
13:54:23.224 26571 All tests successfully passed!
Updated the patch with the correctSimulatedDeviceManager.
I find the new code much more confusing than the old code, which was quite hackable. Has an attempt to add multiple processes to the old perl code been attempted and determined to be impossible?
> attempted and determined to be impossible?
The bigger problem here would be attempting to port the Python simulator code to Perl. Booting multiple simulators has been a pain point for us in the past, and we have quite a bit of logic surrounding the creation and cleaning up of the managed simulators.
I've done my best to simplify this code, but our use of multi-process has this Manager/Runner paradigm, which is what I feel makes this code feel less hackable than the Perl version.
> > attempted and determined to be impossible?
> cleaning up of the managed simulators.
> hackable than the Perl version.
r=me if you make sure Windows ports are fixed before landing, but I really only did a high-level sanity check here.  I assume that you ran tests with the old and then the new script locally to verify the output is similar.  You may want to get a second review as well.
> +# this software without specific prior written permission.
Please grab Source/WebCore/LICENSE-APPLE and replace the Google-specific text with that text (unless this was largely derived from Google source in another file).
Nit: Maybe change TEST_FAILURES to FAILED_TESTS to make it match the other enum values?
Nit:  Grammar:  "run the singly" => "run singly"
Prefix these enum names with "STATUS_" to hint that they are index values for NAME_FOR_STATUS?
Nit:  Why not make this one line since environment is not used after these two lines?
Windows layout tests are already red. This is a purely Python change, layout tests are still running.
How does this work? API tests aren't safe to run concurrently because they depend on the system-wide global states.
> depend on the system-wide global states.
At the moment, we use one child process by default because many API tests aren't safe to run concurrently.  Note that this is actually not a problem on iOS, we could safely run concurrent API tests in two separate simulators.
As far as I can tell we no longer have an equivalent to this in the new code :( The lack of this options makes is more burdensome to iterate quickly on WTF as the new tool only allows a person to build the world or not build the world.
Filed bug #187893 for this.


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Voters' Choice
Home Is Where the Horror Is
By JASON ZINOMAN, New York Times
In "Hereditary," bugs crawl from decapitated heads, ghosts lurk in the shadows and an artist tries to communicate with the dead. But the most jarring moment of this terrifying new movie might be when Annie, a mother played by Toni Collette, tells her son she never wanted to have him and tried to induce a miscarriage. Then she wakes from this nightmare, unsettled by the thoughts rattling in her subconscious. Parental guilt is the real monster here.
Moving into the territory of prestige dramas, horror has never been more bankable and celebrated than it is now. While evil clowns and serial killers at sorority houses still haunt young viewers (and make tons of money), we're in the midst of a golden age of grown-up horror. Hushed and character-driven, this mix of indie fare and blockbusters works ferociously on adult anxieties in an age of dislocation.
These movies confront liberal racism, economic worries and family dysfunction; and while horror has always reflected the social and political concerns of its day, if you had to pinpoint a unifying theme that distinguishes this renaissance, it's the ominous danger of overwhelming grief. A character coping with the death of a loved one is the new car of teenagers heading to a cabin in the woods. It's the starting point of "Hereditary," "Goodnight Mommy" and "Pyewacket," to name just a few movies from the past three years. Then there's the subgenre of apocalyptic movies (like "It Comes at Night"), whose narratives revolve around coping with the vanishing not of one person but possibly all of them.
"A Quiet Place," the horror blockbuster of the year, belongs to both categories. Directed by John Krasinski, it's an end-of-the world movie about unstoppable monsters that appear to have wiped out most of humanity, but the engine of the story is a sibling's ill-advised decision that leads to the murder of her brother, fracturing and haunting the family. "Get Out," Jordan Peele's triumphant debut of 2017, does not begin with mourning, but the inability to process grief is a critical theme. Although liberal racism is the source of the main character's terror, what allows him to be hypnotized, rendered helpless in "the sunken place," is the memory of his mother's death and his guilt over not doing more to save her.
None of these movies are sequels or remakes, and most of them come from the singular perspective of writer-directors pursuing their vision, not a studio pumping out product. They feature the usual preoccupations of horror — supernatural evil, gore, creepy basements — but they also evoke poet Anne Carson's answer to the question: Why does tragedy exist? "Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief."
For most of its history, horror was considered kids' stuff. The publisher of the first major fanzine dedicated to scary movies — the influential Famous Monsters of Filmland — gave his editor one instruction at its start in 1958: I'm 11 1/2 years old. Make me laugh. The reputation of scary movies started to change in the late 1960s and '70s, when a new breed of ambitious filmmakers pushed to make them darker, more realistic and mature. (See "The Exorcist" or "Don't Look Now.") While many of the films from this era explored the tensions of the generation gap, they were typically on the side of the younger counterculture. The poster for Wes Craven's "The Last House on the Left" (1972) warned: "not recommended for persons over 30."
In the following decades, the business of horror expanded and became more diverse, as the genre shed its disreputable image, gaining more respect from critics and even attention from the Academy Awards. These days, the scary movies that dominate the discussion in popular culture are more likely to try to make adults tremble than children giggle.
"Hereditary," opening June 8, is the apotheosis of this trend, a visually ambitious and ruthlessly disturbing supernatural story that is also an intricate meditation on mourning. It begins with a family late for the funeral of its matriarch. Everyone appears dry-eyed if not indifferent about the passing, the first sign something is off. After delivering a halfhearted eulogy for her mother, Annie asks her husband (played with grave unease by Gabriel Byrne): "Should I be sadder?"
Like comedy, horror is drawn to transgression, as both a short-term shock and a cathartic outlet for repressed emotions. There's no one right way to mourn the death of a loved one, but this movie provides a litany of wrong ways. When Annie's son, a sulking, withdrawn teenager played with hollow eyes by Alex Wolff, witnesses an act of unspeakable violence, instead of screaming or calling the police, he freezes, silent, then heads home, sleeps, tells no one.
A quirk of most horror is that people tend to move on from violence quicker than they do in real life, in part because they need to (no time to pay your respects when a sociopath is chasing you) but also because of the mechanics of scary movies: Horror directors like to keep frights at a brisk pace. But "Hereditary" turns the teenager's denial into the subject of the scare, making the lack of sustained response to death appear chilling, even another kind of death.
Something seems inexorable about the miseries that befall this family. Annie is an artist who creates tableaux in miniature houses, which the camera lingers on, at one point segueing seamlessly into a scene of the real house. The implication is clear: These people are minor players in a drama they have little control over. Children are familiar with this kind of helplessness, but this movie suggests that adults have just as little agency and works on the fear that has set off so many midlife crises: the sense you are turning into your parents.
"Hereditary" is an apt companion piece to "The Babadook," the terrific debut of Australian director Jennifer Kent that more than any other film sparked the ascendance of grown-up horror. That 2014 movie presented another mother in tumult, haunted by the death of a loved one, in this case, her husband, who died in a car crash just before she was to give birth to their son. In another performance that veers from vulnerable to terrifying, Essie Davis plays a woman whose resentment of her boy manifests itself in something existentially menacing. It's a movie that turns on the unspoken anxiety that you don't love your own child. Terrifying parental figures have long been a boogeyman of great scary stories, from "Psycho" to "Carrie" to "The Stepfather," but these new movies are as likely to show us the perspective of the unhinged mother as her child's, and the dynamics of their relationship are often complex. In "Goodnight Mommy" (2015), the mother, whose head is wrapped in bandages, initially comes off as a figure of terror to her twin boys, before they switch positions. And in "Pyewacket," a recent indie gem, the contentious mother-daughter relationship is rooted in such heartbreaking realism that it evokes "Lady Bird" plus witchcraft. The single mom in "Pyewacket" angrily tells her teenager she hates seeing her face, which is generous compared to what the mother in "The Witch" (2016) tells her daughter: "You reek of evil."
Sexual voyeurism and exploitation have long been hallmarks of horror, but they are relatively absent in grown-up horror. "It Follows," which centers on a world of teenagers, does play on the old formula of sex leading to death (see "Halloween," a movie it evokes with beautifully gliding camerawork and synthesizer sound). But this movie has none of the titillation or theatrical kills of a slasher picture; it's deliberate, melancholy and deceptively layered.
Like "Don't Breathe," one of the finest horror movies of recent years, "It Follows" is set in a hollowed-out Detroit, a pointed nod to our insecure era of economic and technological disruption. Horror often takes place in isolated settings like the woods or space, and the empty streets of a once bustling city work just as well, evoking a vanished world wiped out not by zombies or aliens but by globalism. Its story, about a teenage girl, Jay, stalked by killers after sleeping with the wrong person, is more of a metaphor for sexual assault than a cautionary tale. The killers are human monsters who often take the form of victims' parents.
Like the found-footage or torture porn genres before them, grown-up horror movies frequently lean on a high concept, but they are far more likely to blur the line between scary movie and bleak drama. Not only are there few jump cuts, but the camera work is also intentionally slow. Silence often operates the way the violins do in "Jaws," as a warning that something sinister awaits. "A Quiet Place" and "Don't Breathe" are both movies about keeping quiet to avoid unstoppable blind killers, making anything but silence equal murder. And in a family dinner scene in "Hereditary," all the sound cuts out except the clatter of silverware, which seems like the final blows of a bloody sword fight. Although horror often sets up scares with jokes, in these films, the mood is relentlessly grim.
There has been a backlash to such restraint among the horror faithful. On his podcast, novelist Bret Easton Ellis, a genre fan who has been critical of what he calls "indie art house horror," argued that "The Babadook" was not really horror at all but a tidy psychological drama. In an interview with Jason Blum, the most influential producer of horror today ("Get Out," "Split" and more), Ellis said too much logic can be ruinous, rightly grasping that ambiguity can mean more scares.
Blum pushed back, saying his films must be rooted in a coherent reality. Before finishing any project, he said, he tries an exercise: "Let's take out all the scares. Would it work as a drama?"
This is a very different attitude from that of past horror impresarios and illustrates an aesthetic divide. No one wants to see "Halloween" or "Alien" without the scares.
Ellis hinted at a concern that many fans, including myself, have about the growing respectability of the genre. Now that horror attracts better actors, bigger budgets and meatier scripts, a sense of fun is missing in some of the tastefully scary movies. Has horror lost some of its disreputable pleasures, not to mention its single-minded determination to terrify?
But this ignores another recent trend, how radically horror has expanded and diversified. To take one example, for a genre that has been dominated by male directors, there are more female directors leading scary movies than ever before. Kent and Julia Ducournau, who directed the lurid French cannibal tale "Raw," are two of the most exciting new voices in the field. In the first horror movie to speak to the #MeToo era, Natalia Leite's "M.F.A." (2017) applied a gritty realistic view to a story of sexual assault on campus, while Coralie Fargeat's new "Revenge" has turned a stylish female gaze on the rape-revenge genre.
Part of the reason horror has long targeted young viewers is that it's harder to scare adults. We have seen too much, including other scary movies. But that experience can be used against us. H.P. Lovecraft famously wrote that the strongest kind of fear was that of the unknown. But the older you get, the less unknown there is. Vampires, werewolves and zombies don't frighten like they once did. But ghosts still do — when they remind us of what we have lost.
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