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Android Instant Apps: what do they mean for users and developers?
Adam Sinicki
Do you really need to download an app to own it? I'm not being philosophical here (do we truly own anything?) but when you consider how quickly and easily you can download and install something like a flashlight app, it makes you wonder what the advantage to keeping it on your device actually is. Unless you work down a mine, it's unlikely you'll need those special use case apps all that often; so as long as you're able to access an app quickly when you need it most, what benefit is there to having it take up space the rest of the time? Android Instant Apps are Google's answer to this dilemma.se
Instant Apps is a feature that lets you use an app without needing to fully download it onto your phone: just find it in the Play Store and click 'Open App'. Better yet, it allows you to jump to a specific activity within an app you don't have installed, simply by tapping a URL. It's already available for some users and is in the process of rolling out to the rest of us. Recently, Google added a "Try it Now" button to the Play Store for some Android Instant Apps. But what does it really mean for you? And how should developers adapt to this new feature?
Using Android instant apps
To access Android instant apps on your device, you simply need to turn the option on in your settings menu – as long as you have a Nexus or Pixel device. Head to Personal > Google and then Services. Now just toggle Instant Apps on and then tap 'Yes, I'm In' when the notice comes up. You can try it out with some of the early adopters like BuzzFeed or Wish. If you don't have one of those devices, then you may still be able to find it in your settings, but the apps won't be available yet for you to try. Don't worry though, they're coming!
How to use Android Instant Apps
At Google I/O 2016, we got our first look at a wonderful new feature coming to Android called Instant Apps. Basically, Instant Apps allow you to access a cloud-based version of the app on your …
Android Instant Apps can also be launched from a URL. This is similarly handy because it essentially extends the web browsing experience to add more power and native functionality – not to mention allowing us to share experiences from within apps.
What this could mean for users
So, what does this mean for users? Should you be excited, worried or indifferent?
On the whole, this is pretty exciting news and many expect it to be a game changer for the way we use our devices. There are many apps in the Play Store that are typically 'one-use-only' affairs, or things you will seldom use again. And there are still plenty of us with a paltry 16 GB of internal storage on our devices (or even less).
Most of us would prefer to use a native app over a website where possible but we don't want the hassle of installing it.
While it's not too much trouble right now to install an app and then uninstall it immediately after, Android Instant Apps promises to streamline the process even further so that you can save time and enjoy even greater efficiency from your device. Most of us would prefer to use a native app over a website where possible but we don't want the hassle of installing it.
This is what you call 'having your cake and eating it too'.
Better yet, is the promise of being instantly dropped into a specific useful page in an app with no hassle involved in installing it. The example Google gave at the recent developer conference was that a user could tap a parking meter with their phone to instantly open up a parking app (through NFC) on the payment page, ready to pay with Android Pay.
Another example was that you might be able to share a crossword puzzle with a friend over WhatsApp. Had particular fun with that puzzle? Then you can send the link over and the recipient will be able to dive right to that page within the app, with no need to install it first or even navigate through the menu.
Web browsing will become far more seamless, as sites switch between web pages, apps and back again. In future, we might even see sites using links to launch instant apps from other developers. While checking out nearby restaurants in Maps you could click a review link in Yelp and then open up the Uber app to book a taxi!
Web browsing will become far more seamless, as sites switch between web pages, apps and back again.
Speaking of the future, it is definitely easy to look at Android instant apps as being a big step toward an inevitable evolution for our online experiences. With data plans becoming more and more generous, connections becoming increasingly speedy and cloud storage being commonplace; it's only a matter of time until we no longer have to download anything. Instant apps still actually download and install a portion of the software, but in future even the processing is likely to be outsourced to a server somewhere and that will drastically reduce the need for expensive hardware.
This is a small step in that direction, but it is a positive one.
The worry that some might have reading this, is that it could present security issues. What if a webpage were to temporarily install an app on your phone that could bill you through Android Pay for instance?
An app can't start billing you or reading your contacts unless you say that it can.
While Android instant apps may introduce some new security concerns, there are measures in place that ensure users shouldn't need to worry for the most part. All network traffic from inside the apps will use HTTPS. Signing in will need to be handled by Smart Lock (which also keeps the process nice and speedy) and users will need to give permission just as they do for installed apps. An app can't start billing you or reading your contacts unless you say that it can.
Google's Instant App FAQs page, tells us that these apps can use the following permissions:
ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION
ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION
ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE
INSTANT_APP_FOREGROUND_SERVICE only in Android O.
READ_PHONE_NUMBERS only in Android O.
RECORD_AUDIO
Anything not in this list is not supported by Instant Apps. Notice that things like Bluetooth, set alarm, use fingerprint and set wallpaper are missing.
Other limitations include the lack of support for background services (apps that run potentially without the user's knowledge), for push notifications, for accessing external storage, or for looking at installed apps on a device. Instant apps also won't be able to change settings on the user's device, such as their wallpaper.
As you might expect, there is also a file size limit for instant app downloads too, that being 4 MB for each 'feature' or each page (think activity) of an app. This of course creates more potential limitations. It means, for example, that developers can't pack an app full of rich media, though of course there's nothing to stop them from streaming media from elsewhere.
But it does pretty much discount something like a fully 3D game. At the moment at least. Google has this to say on the subject:
"Games are a highly specialized category of apps, and often have unique tools, large assets, and high performance requirements. Even so, we are interested in exploring game use cases. Check the Android Instant Apps posts on StackOverflow"
In the short term, there is nothing to stop you from creating games, but they will generally be things like puzzle games or very basic 2D platformers at a push. Hardware acceleration with OpenGL ES 2.0 is supported however, so future potential is there.
Time will tell whether some of these restrictions are lifted or whether more are introduced.
Time will tell whether some of these restrictions are lifted or whether more are introduced. It will also be interesting to see how developers and brands adopt the feature. One thing worth bearing in mind is the fact that iOS does not currently have a comparable service. Businesses might be cautious about introducing new experiences that only a certain section of their audience will be able to appreciate – but again, only time will tell.
What this means for businesses and developers
Businesses should be excited at the prospect of Android instant apps though, as this creates a lot of new opportunities for increased engagement and probably sales as a result. As we've already touched on, Android Instant Apps will provide a way for websites to link to more dynamic content for mobile users and this in turn will allow for the use of location awareness, in-app purchases and more. The real appeal for a business then, is the ability to let a user seamlessly order a pizza or buy a product through their app, or to get directions to a store. And the ability to share links to pages within apps will greatly increase the discoverability of those apps and potentially lead to more traffic. Those users that don't like your app are also much less likely to leave a negative review too.
Instant apps will be a must for businesses that want to leverage the maximum marketing potential of their mobile apps then. However, for developers that make their living from app installs or from advertising, the benefits may be less clear cut. If you make your money from ads, then you may benefit from having more users frequenting your individual activities (and Firebase is supported). On the other hand though, the lack of requirement to install the app, might reduce how often some users come back to your app after their first encounter.
Instant apps will be a must for businesses that want to leverage the maximum marketing potential of their mobile apps.
Instant apps will be supported by Android versions dating all the way back to Jelly Bean, meaning that they will be available to millions of users but seeing as they won't be available on iOS, some web pages might be reluctant to make them a big part of their strategy.
How developers can implement Android instant apps
An in-depth tutorial is beyond the scope of this post but we can quickly go over what is involved in creating an instant app.
The good news is that Android Studio 3.0 will come with instant app support out of the box. You'll download the Android Instant Apps SDK from the SDK Manager and then you'll use the App Links Assistant for easily adding your links. The emulators will now support testing on a local environment too (deep links were previously tested using ADB).
The biggest difference is the use of a new type of construct: feature modules. These work like libraries with their own code, resources and manifests and will be accessed in the same way from your installable app, but they will build as individual .apks for your instant apps. An instant app module will act like a container (a .zip) for your feature modules.
So to convert a regular app into an instant app, you'll first use the App Links Assistant to modify your manifest and define entry points and URLs to access them. This works in a similar manner to the way that you would currently insert a deep link for linking directly to activities within a pre-installed app on your device.
You'll then convert your application module and place it within a base feature module. You'll rename the application to be a feature and change the Gradle file so that instead of com.android.application, you have com.android.feature. You'll also add a line to Gradle to define your base feature. You'll then add an application module for your current app, a 'base' feature module for the main app and a feature module for each instant app. All your app modules will build off the base feature module and so will have dependencies added to the Gradle files. There are a few additional steps and you'll find a more detailed explanation below.
Google assures us that this whole process can be handled in less than a day for a basic app, but it will depend a lot on your current app structure, as well as the scale of the project you have in mind. If you want to create a store app and make every product listing its own feature, then you're going to have numerous additional steps compared to building a regular app – but for larger projects it could take significantly longer. It certainly does introduce a number of additional steps if you want to make each page in a store run as a separate instant app for instance.
Android instant apps introduce a host of new challenges for designers and developers and will require a new design language and way of thinking.
Google has shared some best practices here. For example, developers mustn't aggressively urge users to download the full application. Developers can use an install button to prompt this but must do so in a subtle manner. Prompts should be limited to no more than two or three instances. Likewise, they need to avoid branching their UI and they are definitely encouraged not to add splash screens to individual pages. Smart Lock should be used for identity to avoid users having to continually log in and out of the apps and sites.
It's definitely worth reading through the full guide, but the best way to summarise this is to keep the transition between the web page and the app as seamless as possible while also remembering that users will be loading these pages from within the regular app.
So what do you make of Android instant apps? Can you see yourself using them? Developers: will you be converting your current apps, or using this feature for future projects?
Personally I see a lot of appeal and hope this is a step toward a 'no downloads future'. For now, the ability to link friends directly to pages within apps will hopefully increase engagement and introduce a range of new use cases.
Success will likely hinge on the willingness of developers to put in that extra time though, which in turn will depend on just how ready users are to change their relationship with their software.
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The Helen Hayes Awards Awards
by Jonathan L. Fischer, Chris Klimek, Benjamin Freed and Rebecca J. Ritzel April 24th, 2012 October 9th, 2020
What lessons to draw from last night's Helen Hayes Awards at the Warner Theatre? There were only two ties—-compare that to five in 2011. And no company dominated outright—-although Synetic, with its four wins, and Signature, with its five, are the evening's clear champs. The region's most prominent theater houses—-the Kennedy Center, Arena Stage, Shakespeare Theatre Company—-got a handful of awards, but half of them were for book-ins. The ceremony could've stood to be a half-hour shorter, but for the most part it felt like it was moving briskly. There were the inevitable D.C.-specific rewrites of classic Broadway musical numbers, but in large part, they were more self-effacing than self-revering.
As always, constituencies from suburban theaters specializing in classic musicals cheered loudest. As always, lots of folks struggled to pronounce the names of Synetic Theater's Eurasia-extracted nominees. And as always, the evening was charmingly indifferent to decorum: One actress thanked her "sponsor" for letting her out for the night; an actor thanked Helen Hayes' board chair for (apocryphally?) sleeping with him.
You can see the full list of winners here. Arts Desk, meanwhile, has its own awards honoring achievement over the course of the 28th Helen Hayes Awards. Just like the theatreWashington-sponsored event, recipients of our prizes are outstanding, not best. After all: When it comes to D.C. theater, everyone's a winner.
Outstanding Self-Serving Appearance by a Local Politician: Jack Evans, who appeared at the ceremony to read a D.C. Council proclamation declaring it "Theatre Week" by the "power vested in him," told the crowd more than once that as chairman of the council's tax-writing committee, he's been looking out for theaters' best interests. At the end of his proclamation, he also called D.C. the "District of Congratulations."
Outstanding Bummer: No mention, by anyone, of D.C.'s dire, dwindling arts funding.
Outstanding Tribute Fom One Winner to Another: "Act 2 with you was why I got into acting," Mitchell Hebert to Gabriela Fernandez-Coffey, both of whom won for After the Fall at Theater J.
Outstanding Excuse for a No-Show Boyfriend: Playwright Marc Acito's partner of 25 years. "I mean, we've been together for 25 years, not that he's 25," the flabbergasted playwright said, after his Birds of a Feather won the award for outstanding new play or musical. "I didn't think I would win, so I told him not to come."
Outstanding Floating Head: Bill Clinton's, via video message, introducing the tribute to Kevin Spacey.
Outstanding Riposte to Floating Head: Kevin Spacey's Bill Clinton impression.
Outstanding Backhanded Actor Tribute: Kevin Spacey's clip montage included not one but two scenes from the career-stalling flop Pay It Forward.
Outstanding Cri-de-Coeur: Spacey's closing line—-"Everybody in the balcony, everyone out there who has a dream: Fucking live it."
Outstanding Grace in the Face of Mispronunciation: "It's all right. I was five before I could spell it."—-Ted van Griethuysen, accepting his prize for outstanding supporting actor, resident production, for Much Ado About Nothing.
Outstanding Should-I-Clap? Moment: Any mention of Mike Daisey.
Outstanding Sartorial Coordination: The Hairspray ensemble's John Waters-trashy outfits.
Outstanding Sartorial Coordination, Runner Up: Hosts Holly Twyford and Felicia Curry's multitudinous outfit changes.
Outstanding Actor Most Likely to Be the Subject of a House of Representatives Hearing on Un-American Activities: Australian Hugo Weaving, a no-show to collect honors for outstanding supporting performer, non-resident production. "I'm very disappointed he's not here," said U.S. Rep. Jim Moran, onstage to present the award.
Outstanding '80s Pop Music Joke Told From the Podium: Michael Baron, collecting his prize for outstanding director, resident musical for A Year With Frog and Toad, Michael Bobbitt, collecting Charlotte's Web's prize for outstanding production for young audiences, recites the Dualan lines from Michael Jackson's "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'," claiming it translates into English as "Sussudio." BWAH-HA-HA-HA-HA.
Outstanding Unfortunate West Side Story Parody: Thanking the corporate sponsors to the tune of "Officer Krupke."
Outstanding Unnecessary Musical Number: D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities Executive Director Lionell Thomas serenading DCCAH chair Judith Terra. Maybe if they restore the agency's arts funding, its boss will stop singing?
Outstanding Artistic Director No-Show: Arena Stage's Molly Smith, who sent a surrogate to collect the award for outstanding non-resident production.
Outstanding Thank You: "[theatreWashington board chair] Victor Shargai gave me a wonderful piece of advice early in my career: Sleep with me and I'll get you an award"—-Euan	Morton, accepting his prize for outstanding lead actor, resident musical.
Outstanding Buffet Option for Pescetarian: Waffle fries with Old Bay
Outstanding Dance-Floor Moves: Brynn Tucker, most recently seen as Eve in Synetic Theater's Genesis Reboot, getting down and carnal with the rest of her movement-theater troupe pals.
Outstanding Choreographed Business Card Exchange That Could Lead to Future Collaborations: Marc Acito and Signature Theatre's Matthew Gardiner.

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How to add Apple Music to your iTunes library on the Mac
With an active Apple Music subscription, it's very easy to add new music to your iTunes library.
When you subscribe to Apple Music, you can add to your own iTunes music library the many millions of tracks available through the service. It's important to note, however, that you don't own these tracks. Really, you're renting them. So if you sign out of Apple Music, or let your subscription expire or lapse, these tracks will disappear.
Still, this is a great way to fill out your collection with tons of great stuff that you can listen to whenever you want — as long as you have an active Apple Music subscription. You will not be charged anything additional to make these songs part of your own iTunes library, but you do need an active subscription. If you don't, the music you've added will disappear — unless you buy your own copy from iTunes (or another music service) and add it to your library permanently.
How to add Apple Music tracks to your Mac iTunes library
Open iTunes.
Find the Apple Music song or album you want to save.
To add a specific track, select it and click the ellipsis button next to it, then click Add to my music.
To select the entire album, click the + button in the album's title bar. It will change to a check box.
To confirm that the album or song has been added to your music library, click on the My Music tab.
Note that the new song or album you've added is in the Cloud, but hasn't been downloaded to your Mac yet. To download it, click the Cloud button.
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John and Annie Bidwell: The Long and the Short of It, written by Nancy Leek and illustrated by Steve Ferchaud. Goldfields Books, 2015. 32 pages, full-color illustrations. For ages 5 to 10 years.
Nancy Leek brings the Bidwells to life in John and Annie Bidwell: The Long and the Short of It, a biography for young readers with kid-friendly illustrations by Steve Ferchaud. Readers will delight in the lively prose and colorful illustrations depicting the eventful lives of Chico's most prominent couple.
John and Annie were a study in contrasts. John stood tall – his wife Annie was short and slender. She was twenty years younger than he was. While she was growing up on a Pennsylvania farm, he was leading an adventurous life in California. But they had much in common – a love of nature and active roles in promoting education, agriculture, and women's rights. Most of all, they shared a deep love for each other.
"Leek brings the history of John and Annie Bidwell to life in this colorful and informative book Chicoans and history buffs will love!"  ~  Debbie Cobb, News Anchor and Author
Nancy Leek became interested in Butte County history when she worked as reference librarian at the Chico Branch Library. A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, she has also worked as a school librarian and a children's librarian. She is the author of John Bidwell: The Adventurous Life of a California Pioneer (ANCHR, 2010) and co-editor of The Miner Poet: Poems of Pres Longley (Stansbury Publishing, 2013). In John and Annie Bidwell Leek combines her research expertise with her love of storytelling to create a picture book that is highly readable and historically accurate.
Leek grew up in Millbrae, California, Kamakura, Japan, and Kodiak, Alaska. She and her husband Jim are the parents of five grown children. They live in Chico, California where they have a large garden, a small orchard, and a flock of chickens. Nancy serves on the boards of Bidwell Mansion Association and Chico Friends of the Library, and blogs about California history at http://www.goldfieldsbooks.com/.
Steve Ferchaud, a native of California and a resident of the town of Paradise, has been drawing for as long as he can remember. His parents say that he never went through a "scribbling" stage. He has illustrated over thirty books, including the Benjamin Franklin Award winning book The Carpenter's Legacy. He received The Golden Quill Award for best illustrations for The Man Who Spoke to Cats, and NCPA Award for best illustrations for Joshua and Bigfoot. He feels honored to be chosen to illustrate a children's book about local hero John Bidwell.
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Iraq, through the eyes of Edward A. Ornelas.
Military City, USA // Military City
J.p. Lawrence Nov. 15, 2016
1of15FOR METRO - An Iraqi man leaves St. Odisho Assyrian Chruch of the East after a Christams service Thursday Dec. 25, 2003 in Baghdad, Iraq. PHOTO BY EDWARD A. ORNELAS/STAFFPhoto: EDWARD A. ORNELAS, STAFF / SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS
2of15An Iraqi Shia Muslim self flagellates as he and others parade through Najaf, Iraq to commemerate the anniversary of the murder of Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Mohammed Sadiq Al Sadr Sunday Dec. 28, 2003. Tens of thousands of Shiite Muslims from all over Iraq took part in the event. Sadr's followers believe he was murdered in 1999 by the Baathist regime of Saddam Hussein PHOTO BY EDWARD A. ORNELAS/STAFFPhoto: EDWARD A. ORNELAS, STAFF / SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS
3of15Iraqi Shia Muslim men self flagellate as they parade through Najaf, Iraq to commemerate the anniversary of the murder of Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Mohammed Sadiq Al Sadr Sunday Dec. 28, 2003. Tens of thousands of Shiite Muslims from all over Iraq took part in the event. Sadr's followers believe he was murdered in 1999 by the Baathist regime of Saddam Hussein. PHOTO BY EDWARD A. ORNELAS/STAFFPhoto: EDWARD A. ORNELAS, STAFF / SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS
4of15Iraqi Shia Muslim men carrie a painting of Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Mohammed Sadiq Al Sadr Sunday Dec. 28, 2003 in Najaf, Iraq to commemerate the anniversary of his murder. Tens of Thousands of Shiite Muslims from all over Iraq took part in the event that included self flagellation, marches, and prayers. Sadr's followers believe he was murdered in 1999 by the Baathist regime of Saddam Hussein PHOTO BY EDWARD A. ORNELAS/STAFFPhoto: EDWARD A. ORNELAS, STAFF / SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS
5of15Iraqi Shia Muslims self flagellates as they parade through Najaf, Iraq to commemerate the anniversary of the murder of Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Mohammed Sadiq Al Sadr Sunday Dec. 28, 2003. Tens of thousands of Shiite Muslims from all over Iraq took part in the event. Sadr's followers believe he was murdered in 1999 by the Baathist regime of Saddam Hussein PHOTO BY EDWARD A. ORNELAS/STAFFPhoto: EDWARD A. ORNELAS, STAFF / SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS
6of15FOR METRO - An U.S. Army AH-64D Apache Longbow helicopter provides cover for a convoy of US Army vehicals during a Medical Civilian Assistance Program (Medcap) Sunday Dec. 14, 2003 in Al Anwar village, near Balad Iraq. PHOTO BY EDWARD A. ORNELAS/STAFFPhoto: EDWARD A. ORNELAS, STAFF / SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS
7of15FOR METRO - U.S. Army AH-64D Apache Longbow helicopters leave Camp Anaconda near Balad, Iraq on a patrol December 2003. PHOTO BY EDWARD A. ORNELAS/STAFFPhoto: EDWARD A. ORNELAS, STAFF / SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS
8of15FOR METRO - Iraqis do some last minute Christams shopping on Karrada St. in Baghdad, Iraq Wednesday Dec. 24, 2003. PHOTO BY EDWARD A. ORNELAS/STAFFPhoto: EDWARD A. ORNELAS, STAFF / SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS
9of15FOR METRO - Jwad Kadhem checks Christmas lights for a customer on Karrada St. in Baghdad, Iraq Wednesday Dec. 24, 2003. Kadhem, who usually sells flowers from his stand, was selling Christams items such as santa hats, santa masks, and minature Santa Clauses. PHOTO BY EDWARD A. ORNELAS/STAFFPhoto: EDWARD A. ORNELAS, STAFF / SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS
10of15U.S. soldiers guard an area near an explosion that injured five soldiers and that killed an Iraqi boy and injured other iraqis Wednesday Dec. 31, 2003 in Baghdad, Iraq. PHOTO BY EDWARD A. ORNELAS/STAFFPhoto: EDWARD A. ORNELAS, STAFF / SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS
11of15FOR METRO - Candles burn in an alter during a Christams service at St. Odisho Assyrian Chruch of the East Thursday Dec. 25, 2003 in Baghdad, Iraq. PHOTO BY EDWARD A. ORNELAS/STAFFPhoto: EDWARD A. ORNELAS, STAFF / SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS
12of15An Iraqi woman kisses a cross while others wait their turn as they enter St. Odisho Assyrian Chruch of the East Thursday Dec. 25, 2003 in Baghdad, Iraq. PHOTO BY EDWARD A. ORNELAS/STAFFPhoto: EDWARD A. ORNELAS, STAFF / SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS
13of15Iraqi school girls walk home along a road in Al Goraee, Iraq, south of Baghdad, Dec. 31, 2003. PHOTO BY EDWARD A. ORNELAS/STAFFPhoto: EDWARD A. ORNELAS, STAFF / SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS
14of15FOR METRO - An Iraqi woman milks a cow outside her home in Al Goraee, Iraq, south of Baghdad, Dec. 31, 2003. PHOTO BY EDWARD A. ORNELAS/STAFFPhoto: EDWARD A. ORNELAS, STAFF / SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS
15of15FOR METRO - Iraqi women walk to get water for their homes in Al Goraee, Iraq, south of Baghdad, Dec. 31, 2003. PHOTO BY EDWARD A. ORNELAS/STAFFPhoto: EDWARD A. ORNELAS, STAFF / SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS
A collection of photos from America's first year in Iraq, by San Antonio Express News photographer Edward A. Ornelas.
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Before the San Antonio Express-News, he worked the crime beat at the Albany Times Union and interned at the New York Times, the Associated Press bureau in East Africa and ABC News. His freelance work has been published in The Guardian, The Intercept, Vice, The Christian Science Monitor, Salon and others. His wire story was published in the New York Times and other national papers.
Lawrence is a graduate of Columbia University and Bard College. At Columbia, he studied magazine writing, politics and immigration. His article on Ugandan contractors injured on American bases in Iraq and suing for benefits won the award for best thesis. At Bard, he studied anthropology and was editor of the school newspaper and captain of the cross country team.
He deployed in 2009 to Basra, Iraq with the 34th Infantry Division and won an Emmy Award for his work as a public affairs soldier. He joined the National Guard when he was 17. He is currently a sergeant with service in Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Germany and Australia, and in New York City during Hurricane Sandy recovery.
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IFI Open Day 2017
Tags: Air France, Albert Finney, Amelie, Andy Warhol, Babe Ruth, Bette Davis, Brian F O'Byrne, Bruce McDonald, Canada, Carl Reiner, Cary Grant, Cillian Murphy, Colin Farrell, Colm Meaney, Danny Boy, David Wilmot, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, Deirdre O'Kane, Delicatessen, Dermot Dunne, Dominique Pinon, Easy Riders Raging Bulls, Elliot Harris, Emilio Estevez, Gabriel Byrne, Good Vibrations, Harold Lloyd, Henri Georges Clouzot, Howard Hawks, Humphrey Bogart, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, IFI, IFI Open Day, IFI Open Day 2017, Intermission, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, John Turturro, Kelly MacDonald, Lauren Bacall, Leigh Brackett, Leonard Zelig, Marc Caro, Marcia Gay Harden, Mark O'Rowe, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Miller's Crossing, Molly Parker, Nick Roth, Nouvelle Vague, Nova Scotia, NYC, Peter Biskind, Raymond Chandler, Roy Scheider, Short Term 12, Sorcerer, Speedy, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Steve Martin, Submarine, Sweeney Todd, Talking Movies, Temple Bar, The Big Sleep, The Coen Brothers, The Cohens and Kellys, The Exorcist, The French Connection, The Jerk, The Louvre, The Mighty Ducks, The Purple Rose of Cairo, The Wages of Fear, Twin Peaks, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, Twin Peaks: The Return, Weirdos, William Faulkner, William Friedkin, Woody Allen, Yurodny Ensemble, Zelig
The IFI is holding its annual Open Day on Saturday September 16th with a line-up of free movies running from 1pm to 11pm. As well as free movies, the customary barbecue in the courtyard and special discount on annual IFI membership, there are a number of tours and a jazz brunch in the cafe bar.
In addition to the one preview, handful of old favourites, and several sheer oddities, there are chances to lift the curtain and see the wizard; with talks from the IFI Archive staff and tours of the Projection Booth. The 'Ask an Archivist' desk in the foyer will give visitors the opportunity to learn about different film stocks, preservation, restoration, digitisation, and even view and handle film. But projection tours to go behind the little window of flickering light, and check out the busy working of the specialised department; handling anything from digital, to 16mm and 35mm, up to 70mm – the IFI being the only cinema in the country that can run 70mm reels; are sadly sold out. As always IFI Membership will be available at a discounted rate for the Open Day and there's a BBQ on the terrace from 16.00 onwards. And this year Air France are running a competition for a pair of return flights to Paris so that one might finally fulfil that nagging desire to run thru the Louvre as if in a nouvelle vague picture.
But what are the free movies? Well, here is a guide to the 12 films being shown in Temple Bar.
The Mighty Ducks (13.00)
It's 25 years since the IFI opened its door in Temple Bar, and there is one notable film also turning 25 this year that has been much discussed this summer. But enough about Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me… Emilio Estevez is Gordon Bombay, a cut-throat lawyer sentenced to community service after a DUI, who coaches an unruly youth ice-hockey team with ruthlessness to earn redemption.
The Big Sleep (13.15)
A high water-mark of film noir, The Big Sleep was adapted by William Faulkner and Leigh Brackett from the first of Raymond Chandler's hard-boiled novels about PI, and all-round shop-soiled Galahad, Philip Marlowe. The great Howard Hawks directs Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in a murky tangle of shady LA characters, innuendo laden dialogue, literate zingers, and baffling plotting. Just don't ask who killed the chauffeur.
Speedy (13.30)
Harold Lloyd's final silent film from 1928 sees his customary 'glasses' character this time appearing as a baseball-obsessed New Yorker determined to save the city's last horse-drawn streetcar, just as another expression of a fine, noble, and disinterested nature, and also to impress the girl whose grandfather owns it. 86 minutes of rapid-fire sight gags and elaborate comedy set-ups ensue, and a cameo from Babe Ruth to boot.
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (15.10)
Robert Wise, director of The Sound of Music, was the unlikely figure picked to lead the crew of the starship Enterprise into the new frontier of cinema. 132 minutes, a regrettable portion of which is lovingly sustained shots of the post-Star Wars VFX accompanied by Jerry Goldsmith's new Trek theme, sees Kirk, Spock, Bones, et al investigate a mysterious alien entity posing a threat.
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (15.30)
Steve Martin continued his fruitful collaboration with director Carl Reiner after The Jerk with this homage to 1940s film noir. While Woody Allen was busy inserting Len Zelig into world events, Reiner and Martin wrote a zany plot and built a farcical amount of sets in order to have Martin interact with old footage of Humphrey Bogart, Veronica Lake, Alan Ladd, and many more.
Intermission (15.40)
Cillian Murphy woos Kelly MacDonald, Colin Farrell is obsessed with woks, bus-driver Brían F. O'Byrne is aggrieved at a kid, David Wilmot is being unnerved by Deirdre O'Kane's lust, and vainglorious Garda Colm Meaney is being filmed by documentarians. The blackly comic intersections of Mark O'Rowe's screenplay no longer seem as impressive as they initially did back in 2003 when everyone was talking about brown sauce in tea.
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Sorcerer (17.30)
William Friedkin decided, for reasons passing understanding, to use his post-French Connection and Exorcist clout to remake Henri-Georges Clouzot's 1953 suspense classic The Wages of Fear. Roy Scheider stars in a tale of men driving trucks with highly unstable nitroglycerine over rickety bridges on a mission to extinguish an oil well blaze. This is remembered now for Easy Riders, Raging Bulls' account of its disastrous production and reception.
Miller's Crossing (18.00)
The Coen Brothers stepped up their ambitions from indie noir and screwball comedy with this expansive Prohibition-era gangster film. Gabriel Byrne is right-hand man to Albert Finney's mob boss. When Byrne is banished, over John Turturro's bookie and Marcia Gay Harden's moll, it begins a deadly game of cat and mouse between rival gangs; featuring much double-crossing, hard-boiled badinage, and a spectacularly OTT use of 'Danny Boy'.
Delicatessen (18.10)
Amelie creator Jean-Pierre Jeunet and his one-time directing partner Marc Caro's 1991 debut is a queasily slapstick spin on Sweeney Todd. Clapet is a landlord in an apartment building in post-apocalyptic France, who controls his tenants' food supply via his butcher's shop; prime cuts from the men he hires. Louison (Dominique Pinon) fills the regular vacancy, but his love for Clapet's daughter complicates matters in this queasy comedy.
Weirdos (20.00)
In 1976 Nova Scotia fifteen-year-old Kit and his girlfriend Alice run away from home in order to reunite with his estranged mother (Molly Parker), while the USA bombastically celebrates its bicentennial. Accompanied by Kit's imaginary version of Andy Warhol, the two undertake a road trip during which they confront the difficulties they face in their teenage romance. Quirky and comedic, Bruce McDonald's film features beautifully photographed Canadian landscapes.
??? (20.20)
The audience choice is yet to be announced but voting for the shortlist of 10 drawn up by IFI staff has closed. Here's hoping for Hunt for the Wilderpeople! Although as that screened in preview at last year's Open Day having it again as a returning favourite might be pushing it. Past winners include Submarine, Good Vibrations, Short Term 12, and Me and Earl and the Dying Girl.
The Cohens and Kellys (20.30)
A genuine oddity is a silent movie in prime time on Open Day… Accordionist Dermot Dunne and saxophonist Nick Roth, Artistic Director of the Yurodny Ensemble, will provide a live musical accompaniment, drawing heavily on Irish and Jewish folk music. The 1926 film is an ethnic comedy of the broadest of stock characters in 1920s NYC: Irish cop, Jewish storekeeper, cheerful Irish wife, Jewish mother.
So, those are the films, but that's only planning's first step… Sadly after two years of running five sets of films; which saw movies begin near 11pm and end near 1am; things are back to the traditional four in this 25th anniversary year. Trying to do four films was always an endurance marathon, but to get into five films was surely beyond mere mortals, and yet undoubtedly somebody did try in those two years… But even to do four movies one must sort out strategy, for two sets of reasons.
One can, obviously, only watch one of the three films running, but the film chosen from each set determines what films are available in subsequent sets. Choose The Big Sleep from the first set of films, and it becomes damn near impossible to see Star Trek: The Motion Picture from the second set of films. To make a quick-change from Star Trek: The Motion Picture to Sorcerer involves having to leave one screen and join a queue for another screen, with neither film starting on time, especially as some introductory speaker always overdoes curating their favourite film. The unexpected can derail well-laid plans as some films will be unexpectedly in demand whilst others unexpectedly languish, and it is impossible to predict which. Might one casually pick up a ticket for Miller's Crossing a minute before it starts as Talking Movies' occasional guest writer Elliot Harris once memorably did for The Purple Rose of Cairo? And how can popularity be predicted in the absence of announced screens? After all amongst past audience choice winners Good Vibrations and Short Term 12 did not make Screen 1, yet Submarine did. One needs a good mental map of run-times and queue-times for improvised plans.
And then there's the second, newer reason to sort strategy if attempting multiple films. Tickets were allocated, 4 per person, first come first served, at 11am; which saw a queue forming from 9.30am, snaking to Dame Street. The days of that Open Day morning buzz are gone. For the second year in a row queues will form inside the IFI, a desk for each movie, an hour before screenings –2 tickets per person. Multiple movie devotees must work together, because they'd have to not be watching a movie in order to queue for tickets for the next movie; reducing them to a mere 2 movies! Expect the queue to form 30 minutes before tickets will be disbursed. Don't expect pseudo-economists trading off queuing during films they don't mind missing in order to get extra tickets for a film they do want to see, in order to get someone to queue for them for a later film they want to see.
A Most Violent Year
Tags: 1981, A Most Violent Year, Ain't Them Bodies Saints, Al Pacino, Albert Brooks, Alessandro Nivola, All is Lost, Arnold Klein, Bill O'Leary, David Oyelowo, Easy Riders Raging Bulls, Elyes Gabel, Ezra Pound, Frank G DeMarco, Gordon Willis, JC Chandor, Jessica Chastain, Marathon Man, Margin Call, Michael Corleone, Michelle Pfeiffer, New York City, Oscar Isaac, Peter Biskind, Scarface, The Godfather
1981 was the worst year on record for violent crime in New York City, and that threat hangs over director JC Chandor's absorbing period drama.
Abel Morales (Oscar Isaac) is a driven entrepreneur in the business of supplying the oil that gets New York thru its winters. He is buying a coveted piece of real estate from a Hasidic dynasty, but needs an awful lot of money to cover the sale or he loses his huge deposit and the tract of land; and with it the chance to trump his rivals. But things are unravelling. The government in the form of Lawrence (David Oyelowo) is ready to indict his business practices, somebody – possibly his rivals Peter Forente (Alessandro Nivola) and Gleen Fleshler (Arnold Klein) – are hijacking his trucks and stealing his oil, his protégé Julian (Elyes Gabel) has been severely injured in one of these jackings, and Teamster Peter Gerety (Bill O'Leary) is threatening a strike if Abel doesn't arm his vulnerable fleet of drivers.
A Most Violent Year despite the menacing title isn't a violent film. But from the outset, when you realise that driving a truck thru a toll-booth can lead to getting jumped, it has an unnerving tension. JC Chandor sets his film in 1981 New York, and seemingly sets out to replicate the 1970s New Hollywood in doing so. Frank G DeMarco who shot Chandor's previous films Margin Call and All is Lost with a crisp clarity is replaced as cinematographer by Bradford Young. I raved about Young's atmospheric under-lighting of Ain't Them Bodies Saints, and here he channels 1970s DP Gordon Willis (aka Prince of Darkness) for rich, underlit interiors of browns and dark gold. And if certain scenes look like The Godfather then Oscar Isaac is on the same wavelength as a certain Pacino quality comes off his performance.
But this is Michael Corleone determined to remain on the straight and narrow. Abel's wife Anna (Jessica Chastain in 1980s mobster moll mode) is the daughter of a connected man, but Abel is adamant that he wants to win by staying clean. Such morality confuses his attorney Andrew Walsh (Albert Brooks), who foresees disaster if Abel doesn't learn to play dirty in a bent town. The control on display by writer/director Chandor is intimidating. This is a very precise film. Even action scenes, like a thrilling truck chase in a tunnel, feel exacting; and a foot-chase along a spaghetti junction with a steadicam recalls Marathon Man. But, as with Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice, there's a point at which this Biskind-led valorisation of New Hollyood becomes crippling. How can you make it new, as Pound demanded of art, if you're in thrall to making it like they did in 1975?
Chandor is an intriguing film-maker – he's made three films, all wildly different, but each time characterised by singular vision.
Conspiracy Cinema at the IFI
Tags: 'The Conversation', Alan J Pakula, Angela Lansbury, Arthur Penn, Bonnie & Clyde, Chile, Chinatown, CIA, Costa-Gavras, Donald Sutherland, Easy Riders Raging Bulls, Faye Dunaway, Francis Ford Coppola, Frank Sinatra, Gene Hackman, General Pinochet, George Axelrod, Henry Kissinger, High Anxiety, Hollywood, IFI, Inglourious Basterds, Jack Lemmon, Jack Nicholson, James Earl Ray, Jane Fonda, Jeff Bridges, Joe Kennedy, John F Kennedy, John Frankenheimer, John Huston, John Klute, Klute, Korean War, Kris Kristofferson, Laurence Harvey, Lee Harvey Oswald, Missing, New Hollywood, Night Moves, Parallax Organisation, Peter Biskind, Raymond Shaw, Richard Condon, Richard Nixon, Robert Towne, Rollover, Roman Polanski, Roy Scheider, Salvador Allende, Saudi Arabia, Senator McCarthy, Sissy Spacek, Star Wars, The Godfather, The Godfather: Part II, The Manchurian Candidate, The New Frontier, The Parallax View, Vietnam, Walter Murch, Warren Beatty, Watergate, William Richert, Winter Kills
The IFI is presenting a season of films this June playfully titled High Anxiety. As 'filmnoia' these are meant to encapsulate the post-Vietnam post-Watergate zeitgeist of chastened 1970s America. Invariably there is much idolatry of the faultless New Hollywood that was tragically killed off by Star Wars in this positioning, which regular readers of this blog will know I have little truck with. The truth is there are some great films here, some over-rated but good films, and by far the best film is the most defiantly Old Hollywood: The Manchurian Candidate, which is oblique in its violence, sexually charged without being sexual, and whip-smart and heart-breaking in its scripting; the kind of thing that Hitchcock might have directed on one of his darker days at the office. Let's briefly trot thru the line-up of films in the season.
The Manchurian Candidate June 1st & 2nd @ 6:25pm
The pick of the bunch is the first out of the blocks. Catch this tonight if you can. A superb Laurence Harvey stars as Raymond Shaw, an unpopular soldier who unexpectedly returns as a war hero from the Korean War to the political machinations of his terrifying mother Angela Lansbury, a witch-hunting Senator's wife. Frank Sinatra is his old army c/o trying to work out the mystery of just what happened in Korea that fills his men's nightmares, and director John Frankenheimer ratchets up the tension as George Axelrod's script satirically skewers McCarthyism while breaking your heart along the way.
Klute June 4th & 5th @ 4.50pm
Sex, lies, and audiotape. Widely regarded as the film that legitimised profanity as a hallmark of serious movies Alan J Pakula's 1971 exercise in paranoia sees Donald Sutherland's enigmatic small-town PI John Klute travel to the big city to investigate the possible involvement of his friend with Jane Fonda's nervous call-girl, and her possible involvement in his mysterious disappearance. The sound design is extraordinary as ambient noise swamps the possibilities of recording the truth, and this arguably established the house-rules for all subsequent 1970s filmnoias. Keep an eye out for Roy Scheider's ridiculous outfit in his cameo as a pimp.
The Parallax View June 6th @ 3.00pm & 7.05pm
Alan J Pakula again, this time Warren Beatty is the lead in a 1974 thriller about a journalist investigating the possibility that the powerful corporation the Parallax Organisation has been behind not only a political assassination allegedly carried out by a conveniently dead lone gunman, but the clean-up murders of all the witnesses of the assassination. The dazzling and famous highlight comes when Beatty is subjected to a test to see whether he fits the criteria for maladjusted misfit that Parallax likes to use for its lone gunmen. You know, people like say Lee Harvey Oswald, or James Earl Ray…
Chinatown June 8th @ 2.10pm & 6.30pm
If Roman Polanski's film was just a little less self-regarding it would be a far better film noir. Jack Nicholson gives a terrific performance as the cock-sure PI suddenly out of his depth against Faye Dunaway's ambiguous femme fatale and John Huston's monstrous patriarch, and there are wonderful moments and lines throughout. The enormous self-importance of Robert Towne's screenplay sinks the film from its potential heights but is unsurprising given that he reputedly told anyone who would listen that the success of the 3 hrs plus The Godfather was entirely attributable to his dialogue polish on one 3 minute scene…
The Conversation June 9th @ 6.45pm
Francis Ford Coppola's small personal movie between The Godfather and The Godfather: Part II stars Gene Hackman as a surveillance expert who finds a simple job developing into something much more disturbing, which eventually pushes him to the very limits of his sanity. Walter Murch's sound design is extraordinary and best appreciated on a big screen, but I've never thought that Coppola's script was good at making us care about the possible murder plot Hackman stumbles upon; the physical distance his camera maintains from the camera being sadly replicated as an emotional distance maintained by the audience from the characters.
Night Moves June 12th @ 5.00pm
A staple of late-night TV schedules (TV programmers can be very easily amused sometimes) this 1975 movie sees Arthur Penn and Gene Hackman reunite for a more subdued outing than their 1967 collaboration Bonnie & Clyde. Hackman is a defeated PI who discovers his wife in adultery, but is unable to satisfactorily resolve that situation or any other case he is working on. Perhaps a lament for the lost idealism of the New Frontier in the age of Watergate, or perhaps just another deconstruction of American myths by Penn that has aged far less well than his Bonnie & Clyde.
Rollover June 18th @ 3.15pm
Yes, Alan J Pakula for a third time. He never stopped making paranoia movies, and this 1981 effort may have had the amazing good fortune to become relevant thirty years after being dismissed as pessimistic and incomprehensible, because of the second defining event of the last decade, the credit crunch. Jane Fonda stars as a company director's widow who romances Kris Kristofferson's financial trouble-shooter, brought in to steady the corporation, who ends up involved in an extremely risky deal with Saudi Arabia that goes belly-up in such spectacular fashion that it leads to the meltdown of the entire Western economy.
Winter Kills June 25th & 26th @2.00p
Adapted from another book by Manchurian Candidate novelist Richard Condon, this thriller stars John Huston as Not Joe Kennedy, who after 19 years is told by his son Jeff Bridges that he finally has a good lead on who really assassinated Huston's other son, the President Not John F Kennedy. Winter Kills had an extremely troubled production, with director William Richert having one of his producers murdered, so this is a welcome chance to belatedly see Huston chewing scenery in such a ripe scenario of what could be classified alongside Inglourious Basterds as the genre of fantasy historical revenge movies.
Missing June 25th & 26th @2.50pm
Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek star as the father and wife of an American missing in Chile, in acclaimed Greek director Costa-Gavras' first American film. An attack on Henry Kissinger's brand of realpolitik, here masked by hypocritical mutterings about truth, justice, and the American Way, this vividly recreates the feel of Pinochet's Chile; a regime enabled by CIA connivance in the overthrow of Allende's democratically elected socialist government. There is a sense of kicking a dead donkey about this as Nixon was already out of power, but Costa-Gavras at least clothes his political points in empathetic flesh and blood characters.
Not Adjusted for Avatar
Tags: 3-D, Alfred Hitchcock, Alice in Wonderland, Avatar, Christopher Nolan, Easy Riders Raging Bulls, Graham Greene, Hays Code, Hollywood, Igor Stravinsky, Insomnia, James Cameron, Martin Scorsese, New Hollywood, Not Adjusted for Avatar, Not Adjusted for Inflation, Peter Biskind, Shutter Island, Stephen King, The Dark Knight, The Golden Age of Hollywood, Tim Burton, Whip It!
Following on from the last entry on the malign influence of the sensational reporting of box-office returns not adjusted for inflation, we look at Avatar – its slow-burn success, broad brushstrokes approach in the history of cinema, and its possible heralding of the future.
Avatar has done one unquestionably positive thing – it has firmly thrashed the media and studio obsession with opening weekends. It started slow, not breaking any records as is now obligatory, and was about to be dismissed as a failure for that, when its takings didn't fall off a cliff after the opening weekend but instead remained constant and then kept making money at the same level week after week. It has since made money for longer than nearly any other film in recent memory. However you can rest assured that this will not be enough to change the ways of the media, which have been reporting Shutter Island as the most successful opening weekend of Scorsese's career, and then also trumpeted Tim Burton's Alice fiasco as the biggest opening ever for a 3-D film… Deep sigh.
Marketing can generate enough buzz to generate the opening box-office needed for a lazy headline. Conversely Avatar did not make enough money on opening for a lazy headline and so the focus was, pleasingly, thrown on to its craftsmanship – or lack of it. Perhaps because he was painfully aware of how much money he'd been given for his dream project Cameron opted for the broadest brush-strokes possible to generate maximum return, and it worked so he's a genius to Hollywood, whereas if it hadn't worked they'd be more exercised about the lazy derivativeness of his story even if his basic skills at manipulating emotions work. But then isn't emotional manipulation the core of cinema? Graham Greene said that cinema was a series of images arranged in a certain order to generate a particular emotional effect, Stephen King wrote that American cinema was idiotic as far as communicating ideas went but that for sheer emotional impact its use of imagery was masterful, and Hitchcock's explanation of the power of cross-cutting in 'pure cinema' explicitly prioritises using images to manipulate an audience's response on an emotional level. I think there's more to be said about Avatar and so, once I finally figure out what my point is, I'll be returning to it again in coming weeks. But here, let's note that its broad brushstrokes approach has a precedent in past stellar successes.
Peter Biskind's grand narrative (mentioned last time) which prioritised the licentious New Hollywood of the 1970s over the Golden Age of Hollywood seems to assume that there is something fundamentally compromising about reaching a large audience. One would think that an artist would want to reach as large an audience as possible but Biskind's ideology insists that an artist loses their integrity if they make a film suitable for all rather than narrowing the size of their audience, so that, for instance, Christopher Nolan jettisoning sex and language to get a PG-13 for The Dark Knight compared to an R for Insomnia represents self-censorship and a cheapening of his talent. I would argue that helming a blockbuster in such a way as to make it distinctively a Nolan film is more challenging and it is precisely the ingenuity exercised in the over-coming of arbitrarily imposed limitations that makes it a greater artistic success than the rather ordinary thriller for adults with which he paid his studio dues. It could be argued that the same difficulty involved in working with the Hays Code was responsible for the Golden Age, and it ties in with Stravinsky's dictum that true artistic creativity needs rules and restrictions, which he frequently imposed on himself arbitrarily to replace the lost discipline of classical tonality, not total freedom. There will be another article in the coming weeks about the most successful films of all time (adjusted for inflation) but it is dominated by films everyone could enjoy. It's easy to make your friends laugh, it's harder to make strangers laugh, and Biskind's idols largely fall into the first category of connecting with a small audience – and then sneering at more popular works as being artistically compromised.
Avatar aims at the widest possible audience but its archetypal story-structure is the zenith of a recent trend towards deeply predictable films – even a charmer like Whip It! has audibly whirring plot mechanics in its second act before unexpectedly subverting expectations. That refreshing unpredictability is unnecessary if people can write each scene in a three-act structure with a spark so that you're too captivated by the content to notice the scaffolding but of late, especially in rom-coms, films seem less to be written than generated by software programs. Arguably cinema attendances are at historic lows because of boredom at this formulaic approach. Hollywood thinks the solution to declining interest in cinema is to trumpet 3-D technology and increase ticket prices but wouldn't the sensible solution be to make better films? When I saw the trailer for Alice in Wonderland I thought "That looks pretty stupid", but when I saw the trailer in 3-D I thought "That looks really stupid". We need to ruthlessly insist that the box-office gross of Avatar be discounted for inflation and its 3-D mark-up because chances are it's not even dented the All Time Top 10 (adjusted realistically). And if that's the case then we need to ask hard questions about what Hollywood is doing so wrong at this present moment to have led to such a historic disconnect with audiences, and the answers will not be stories we could write ourselves from seeing the trailers, presented in gimmicky 3-D.


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Baby poop is gross, but someone's gonna wipe that baby's bottom. He or she just isn't old enough to grasp the meaning of bladder control and wipe before you flush. So mom and dad, you have to step up and do the job for baby until he or she is ready to potty train.
If you're a first-time parent, you may be surprised to see that baby poop doesn't always look the same. Every time you change your sweetie's diaper, your baby's stool may be a different color, and even a different consistency. With so many shades and consistencies, you might be wondering what's normal and what should make you worry.
Eww – should I call the pediatrician? Or is this color normal?
Here's my "Baby Poop Decoder" to help you on your way. You'll quickly find out what's perfectly normal, and what should concern you.
In the first few days after birth, your baby will pass a greenish-black, tarry, and sticky goop-like substance. This is called "meconium," or baby's first poop. Meconium is made of amniotic fluid, mucus, skin cells, and anything else that your baby digested while in the womb. It may resemble motor oil or tar, and it may smell like licorice – but there shouldn't be much of an odor. Your baby will pass meconium within the first 24 to 48 hours after birth.
If you're bottle-feeding, it may take longer before your baby to have his or her first poop. Breast milk acts as a natural laxative, so breast-fed babies typically pass meconium sooner. If your newborn doesn't poop within the first couple of days after birth, be sure to call your doctor.
Between 2 to 4 days old, your baby's poop will get lighter in color, and may resemble an army green, and it will become less sticky. This is considered "transitional" baby stool, and it's a positive sign that his or her intestinal tract is working and that he or she is starting to digest breast milk or formula.
If you are breastfeeding exclusively – meaning that you are not using any formula, your baby's poop will become yellow and have a creamy or mushy consistency. It may look like you've mixed cottage cheese with mustard, and there are seedy specks in it. The baby poop may smell mild, and maybe even slightly sweet.
Sometimes, your baby's poop may turn a green hue, and if your baby does not have any other symptoms – such as looking uncomfortable – you shouldn't worry. This change in color may be caused by something that you (mom) ate, and it passed to your baby through breast milk.
If you've been breastfeeding and your baby's poop becomes bright green and frothy, and looks like algae, this is a sign that your baby is getting too much foremilk and not enough hindmilk. It may also be a sign that you aren't feeding enough on each breast. To fix this problem, you should start nursing on the breast you ended on last feeding.
Babies who are fed formula will pass a pasty, tan, or peanut butter-looking poop. It is typically smellier, with a strong iron-like odor, than the poop of babies who are exclusively breastfed. This stinky baby poop is normal. You should only be concerned if the stool becomes watery or hard in consistency.
If your baby has been taking an iron supplement, his or her poop may turn dark green or black. This shouldn't happen that often, but it's completely normal and shouldn't cause you to worry. You should only worry if your baby's poop looks blackish and you aren't giving him extra iron. You should call your doctor, if this is the case.
When you start to introduce solid foods to your baby's diet, the color and consistency of your baby's poop will change every day, depending on what you're feeding him or her. For example, feeding your baby new fruit may cause the stools to become looser, less firm. When you give your baby dairy products, meat, or egg products, this typically produces the smelliest baby poops.
Solid food baby stools are typically dark brown and thicker than peanut butter but mushy. It is definitely smellier than any other baby poop before.
Sometimes, you will notice identifiable chunks of food in your baby's poop. Other times, your baby's stool will be tinged with a rainbow of colors – such as red, orange, or dark blue. This shouldn't cause you to worry. This type of baby poop only suggests that the foods that your little one ate traveled quickly through the intestines that didn't have time to completely breakdown.
You should only worry if your baby's poop constantly has undigested food in it. Sometimes is OK.
Uh-oh. If your baby has a watery or loose stools, this can be a sign of diarrhea, which can lead to dehydration, and may be a sign of an infection or virus. Diarrhea in babies is typically made up of more water than solids. It can be yellow, green, or brown in color, and it may even seep out of the diaper.
If your baby's poop is brown, dry, and hard in consistency, you have a constipated baby on your hands. The stool may look like little pebbles. Your baby may look uncomfortable when pooping, and sometimes, his or her poop may be tinged with blood.
Constipation is more common in bottle-fed babies, though it can also happen in any baby that's being introduced to solid foods. Call your doctor about suggestions on how to ease your baby's constipation. He or she may recommend offering baby water, pear juice, or prune juice to help get things back on track.
When Should You Worry about Baby Poop?
As a rule of thumb, if you notice anything completely out of the ordinary, you should call your baby's doctor. There are a few poop consistencies that you may want to watch out for. They are rare, but they signal a serious problem.
Baby poop that is thick black, similar to meconium's color, but it's firmer and less sticky. This poop is made of digested blood, and it may suggest a serious health problem.
Red-streaked bloody stool may indicate that your baby has a severe intestinal problem.
Pale, chalky white poop may be a sign that your baby has liver or gallbladder failure.
Call your doctor right away if you notice any of the above three stool types.
To see photos of baby poop, see Similac's diaper decoder.
My baby's poop exploded in her diaper it went through her clothes too when I went to change it the smell was horrible all I could think of was that smell of a very heavy period. Should I be worried?
The expsrtiee shines through. Thanks for taking the time to answer.
My baby is on enfamil newborn and is not taking extra iron but her poop is dark green watery at times but pasty most of the time. Should I be concern?


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The Friday Interview: Donal McGuinness, Alphyra mPayments
Last year was eventful for Donal McGuinness (pictured). In August, Itsmobile, a mobile payments company he co-founded with Kieran McCrea, became part of the Alphyra group of companies and changed its name to Alphyra mPayments. Then in November, the Irish Internet Association named him as one of the net visionaries of 2004 for his contribution to the mobile internet.
Metamorphosing from a start-up to a division of a larger company has brought many changes. "The biggest change is the reach that Alphyra has given us, particularly across Europe," observes McGuinness. "It operates in almost every country across Europe and has relationships with almost every cellular operator in Europe. We therefore have a great opportunity to use the Alphyra channel to promote our technology in these countries and it's already starting to happen."
MPark, the company's system for paying on-street parking using a mobile phone has proved to be a big hit in Dublin and Edinburgh. However, since becoming part of Alphyra, the system has expanded further. "In February we will be rolling out mPark in three German cities and we already have it up and running in Antwerp in Belgium and in two sites in the US," he explains.
Being part of Alphyra was certainly a catalyst for that expansion, he says. "It gives you credibility. It means you have local people in the local country that speak the language. People like to deal with local people, particularly in some countries, and we have that now. This is the beginning of m-commerce of what it was meant to be. Certainly we are seeing huge demand and the networks are ready."
Of course people have been saying the same thing about e-commerce for years. So is e-commerce really taking off? McGuiness believes it is, although it is possible we will be asking the same question in a few years time. "There is such a long way that e-commerce can go. One of the big changes in e-commerce has been the advent of the airline websites such as Aerlingus.com." The other driving force for e-commerce is the migration of government services online or e-government. "To be able to renew your car tax online now is a big plus," he says. "Everybody dreads the motor tax offices. There is support from the right circles to make e-commerce and e-government a success."
However, many pundits have said that e-commerce will not really take off until the question of micropayments are addressed. It's one thing to go into a shop and pay €2 for a newspaper, but how much should you pay to download an article? A few cent? But it would cost several euros just to process the transaction.
"The development of micropayment systems is critical to the success of e-commerce in general and m-commerce in particular," says McGuineess. "If you think of macropayments, the solution has been around for years. But when you get into low-value payments generally the solution offered is a prepaid wallet that in my view is not good enough because people don't like to prepay. It's critical that there is another method developed that will not involve prepayment into a stored value account."
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The problem, he says, is not just technological. There are a lot of solutions out there, many of them from Irish companies. However many of the restrictions, he says, arise from the banking world. Charges are simply too high relative to the actual charge. "Somebody needs to clear the transaction at the end of the day and that's the bottleneck."
One solution would be to spread the risk of the transaction. "If someone is going to sit in the middle of the micropayments chain, they need to do more than pass through the transaction," says McGuinness. "They need to take responsibility for the risk. If the intermediary takes on the risk, the bank charges are lower. In effect you are not processing the transaction but are reselling it. People can then make enough money to survive. But everybody is afraid of risk particularly when you are dealing with prepaid users. They don't have credit cards; you may not even know their identity."
Developments over the next 10 years will undoubtedly bring changes in the way people use the internet. "Will it even exist in its current form 10 years from now?" asks McGuinness, rhetorically. "With broadband being in every home in 10 years time, the biggest changes will be the multimedia elements. I wouldn't like to be in the DVD rental business in 10 years because those people will have to move their businesses online. You can see it already. CDs and DVDs will disappear. You can see it already with iTunes and you will see the same thing for movies."
For the moment, however, McGuinness' favourite websites are those dedicated to travel. "I only view websites by how useful they are to me. So in that regard the most useful websites I find are the travel websites such as Aerlingus.com. Also I travel a lot overland in Europe so I would use the route planners a lot."
As a frequent traveller, he considers Wi-Fi to be one of the most important technological breakthroughs of recent times. "I was in Paris in November and I came across a coffee shop offering free Wi-Fi access. I sat down, ordered a coffee and checked my email. It's just such a great thing. In Ireland there are hotspots pretty much everywhere you go and when voice-over internet protocol starts to converge with the handset manufacturers we will start to see some exciting things happen."
Not surprisingly, his favourite piece of technology is his mobile phone. "I don't have a full multimedia handset," he confesses. "But what I want to get is the new BlackBerry."
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You're an entrepreneur, which means you make your own rules. So own who are, blaze your own trail, and shout your message from the treetops. Shamelessly share the real you -- whether that means you're in a suit, or in bright orange sunglasses.
I haven't always been an entrepreneur. Years ago, I worked in corporate as a Director of Financial Planning. I commuted to work every day, strategized team meetings, placed stock trades and attended to asset retention. I had an executive assistant, secretary, support staff, and large corner office. All these things are typical for high level executives in the corporate field.
Despite what a typical corporate executive looks like. It wasn't unusual for me to come into the office rocking jeans and a band T-shirt. In fact, my dress code violations were the only thing in my corporate career that I was ever "scolded" for. However, I was also smart enough to keep a pair of heels, blazer and black dress in the closet in the event I needed to quickly transform into something more professionally polished.
It wasn't my intention to be a rule breaker, or be that defiant employee. It was however my intention to bring innovative ideas, scale departments and increase revenue. It was also my intention to do that with little to no wasted time, energy or resources. I found that when I came into the office in a suit, a majority of my thoughts dwelled on how uncomfortable I was. Often times I'd be visually creating my strategy on a white board, or by spreading papers and notes across my floor. Neither of which are comfortable to do in a suit.
Eventually I grew tired of the creative ceiling I kept hitting, one that is often times inevitable when working in a corporate setting. It was then I decided to go into business for myself. When first creating my visual brand, I had very "professional" pictures of myself corporate headshot style. The very image and photos I had previously rebelled so strongly against when I was in corporate. Yet without that big corporate name behind me I doubted that people would take me seriously. Again, ironically was never even a thought that crossed my mind when I held my corporate title.
Not one of these images or graphics created from them made me excited to share my stuff with the world. If I wasn't excited to share my stuff, there would be little reason for anyone else to feel excited about it either.
So I scrapped the ice-cold "professional" look and opted for something that was much, much more me: casual clothes, bright orange sunglasses, and a backdrop of graffiti. Not necessarily the most conventional look for a businessperson, but that's the beauty of entrepreneurship: I get to make my own rules.
My look -- sunglasses, graffiti, and all -- is now a cornerstone of my brand, and is an integral part of my business success.
Here's my point. I'm a creative individual -- always have been, always will be -- and I express that creativity through many distinct avenues. If I've got my headphones in, there's a 50/50 chance that I'm jamming out to hip hop or listening to Johnny Cash. On a Saturday night, I might be salsa dancing or getting inspiration from new books and magazines at my local Barnes and Noble. I love new trends just as much as I love The Beatles.
I figured out a long time ago that my own personal genius doesn't have to come pre-packaged in the way that society tells us that it has to. Own who you are, and people will respect it.
I transfer that same multi-passion that I have for life into my business. In my coaching and brand management, I'm as much about the abstract as I am the concrete. I'm just as likely to be talking about the universe or energy as I am creating sales funnels or positioning a brand. And this has paid off for me -- big-time.
I've landed best-selling authors on a podcast before I even launched it. I have my own column on the Huffington Post, where I contribute to the Business section. And this isn't because I had a huge media budget or big-name contacts in my field; in fact, the online and media world was completely new to me when I launched my business. It's because I blazed my own trail, owned who I am, and demanded to be seen.
When I launched my business What Vibes Your Tribe, I gave myself only two rules: first, I wasn't ever going let work mean missing moments in my daughter's lives; and second, I was going to do it all my way. That meant that if I had to cancel a meeting last-minute because of a soccer game, I was going to do so without guilt or excuses. It also meant that I wasn't going to follow anyone else's rules.
I didn't follow rules: I made my own. I resolved to give to my community more than I take.
I've stayed true to this, and it only continues to solidify my brand and grow my community. The people that follow me, trust me because they know that I'm authentic and rarely will I teach them something I haven't already done or tested for myself. They know this because I'm transparent in sharing my process and transparent in sharing my results, even when the results came in at below par.
Now, my story doesn't mean that you should re-shoot all your pictures against a graffiti-filled backdrop. But what you should extract is a message that can't be stressed enough: be yourself, and share it with the world.
Nobody has your exact personality, your exact skillset, your exact combination of multi-passions. Your uniqueness, and your unique creative process is your greatest asset.


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America Is Failing Its Non-Citizen Veterans
Araceli Cruz
Ivan Ocon, 44, a Mexican veteran of the United States Army deported to Mexico in 2016 after being assigned to guard the Iraqi border in Jordan during Operation Iraqi Freedom, ties a banner with pictures of deported veterans who died outside the US in front of the border wall in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico on November 4, 2021. Mexicans deportees who lived legally in the United States until, due to legal offenses, they were sent back to a country that no longer feels like home left behind families, friends and -- in the case of war veterans -- financial benefits and the comrades they fought alongside in countries including Vietnam and Iraq.
(Photo by HERIKA MARTINEZ / AFP) (Photo by HERIKA MARTINEZ/AFP via Getty Images)
The Biden Administration has committed to reuniting deported veterans with their families and helping immigrant service members obtain US citizenship.
Last month, the Department of Veterans Affairs began contacting 123,983 non-citizen US military veterans about securing their citizenship as soon as possible to avoid deportation. According to NBC News, this figure includes veterans who were not citizens when they left the military between 2001 and 2022.
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The initiative to help non-citizen US military veterans began last summer when President Joe Biden said his administration would help "hundreds, possibly thousands, of deported veterans and their immediate family members back to the United States, saying their removal 'failed to live up to our highest values.'"
The exact number of non-citizen US military veterans is unknown because many were deported to their native countries after their service. The National Immigration Forum estimates that an estimated 40,000 immigrants served in the US armed forces in 2015—a number that has steadily decreased every year—and about 5,000 non-citizens enlist in the military each year. Meanwhile, approximately 94,000 immigrant veterans do not have US citizenship.
According to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the top five countries of birth among those naturalized include the Philippines, Mexico, Jamaica, China, and South Korea.
United States Army veteran Juan Salvador Quiroz crosses the San Ysidro Port of Entry in San Diego, California, the United States, on July 20, 2022. Juan Salvador Quiroz is allowed to enter the U.S. after living in Michoacan, Mexico, for 12 years since he was deported for drug possession and incarcerated for three years in the United States. After Quiroz was deported to Mexico in 2013, he was granted humanitarian parole under the Biden administration limited entry given to migrants, asylum seekers, and deported veterans who served their country honorably. He was notified two days ago that he had been accepted following his March application. The parole was given to Quiroz due to his American wife, who is unable to take care of herself because of a disability, leaving him responsible of her and his children. His family living in St. Louis, Missouri, awaits his arrival as years of expensive monthly visits to Mexico to see him are left behind. "My wife and kids need me. I need them too," Quiroz said while he was crossing the country's border. (Photo by Carlos A. Moreno/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Support for Deported Veterans
Since 2012, Hector Barjas, the director and founder of Deported Veterans Support House based in Tijuana, Mexico, has been helping veterans that were deported to Mexico. His database includes at least 500 non-citizen US military veterans, including some Arizona residents.
In an interview with Copper Courier, Barjas said that he has been contacted by the Department of Veterans Affairs about their aim to naturalize deported veterans.
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"I've been working with Saif Khan [special assistant in the Office of General Counsel for the Department of Veterans Affairs] and Debbie Rogers [Director of the Immigrant Military Members and Veterans Initiative], and of course the ACLU, for many years," Barajas said. "But yeah, we recently heard about the efforts they're trying to do outreach urging people to become citizens."
Not a Guaranteed Path to Citizenship
There are several reasons veterans never become US citizens, despite the promise of citizenship by the US government. First, some service members believe they automatically become US citizens when they sign up to be active military members, but that is not the case. There's a lot of paperwork involved, and some neglect to begin the process.
Margaret Stock, a former Army lieutenant colonel and an immigration lawyer, told NPR that naturalization used to be part of basic training for immigrants serving the United States, but those laws changed under the Obama administration. "As a result, lots of green card holders went to Iraq and Afghanistan without becoming citizens," NPR reported. If immigrants who are serving commit crimes, it factors into their deportation.
Furthermore, the Bureau of Justice Statistics reports approximately 107,400 veterans are in state or federal prisons. When they're finally released, these veterans are at increased risk of homelessness, suicide, death by drug overdose, and deportation. That's why it's vital to re-connect veterans to VA care and benefits to which they may be entitled post-incarceration.
Ivan Ocon, 44, a Mexican veteran of the United States Army deported to Mexico in 2016 after being assigned to guard the Iraqi border in Jordan during Operation Iraqi Freedom, poses for a picture while holding his uniform in front of the border wall in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico on November 4, 2021. – Mexicans deportees who lived legally in the United States until, due to legal offenses, they were sent back to a country that no longer feels like home left behind families, friends, and — in the case of war veterans — financial benefits and the comrades they fought alongside in countries including Vietnam and Iraq. (Photo by HERIKA MARTINEZ / AFP) (Photo by HERIKA MARTINEZ/AFP via Getty Images)
Steps to Citizenship for Veterans
Barajas said his organization is in place to help close that gap and help deported veterans return to the US.
"We want to solve a problem," Barajas said. "Basically, if somebody gets in trouble, or let's say they don't renew their green card, they can face deportation. So it's not guaranteed that you won't be deported right now. So the best thing these veterans can do is become citizens because they're entitled to their benefits."
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According to the Department of Veterans, all eligible veterans are entitled to VA benefits regardless of their immigrant status. The same applies to those who live abroad.
For more information, people can call the Military Help Line at 877-CIS-4MIL (877-247-4645), a toll-free number exclusively for current military members, their families, and veterans.
The helpline is available to assist with immigration-related information, such as:
Checking the status of your Form N-400, Application for Naturalization;
Notifying us of a new mailing address or duty station;
Obtaining posthumous citizenship for a deceased member of the US armed forces; and
Submitting an application for expedited processing of military N-400 and N-600 applications.
If you are a service member or an eligible family member stationed in the US or outside of the country, you may also access the helpline using the toll-free number through their base telephone operator or using the Defense Switched Network (DSN).
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Araceli Cruz is a Multimedia Producer for Copper Courier. Her stories have been published in The Guardian, Teen Vogue, Refinery29, Mic, The Cut, Zora, The Village Voice, Rolling Stone, and others.
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This is a very sad piece, and it is very beautiful piece. Perfect for my story!
Are you writing a fanfic or something?
I miss being younger. ): I was 6 years old when Ocarina of Time came out. And when I first stumbled into Kokiri Forest.
This song is one of the best versions of sarias song out there. it always makes me remember when i was younger, and playing in the woods behind my old house. if only we could all have that kind of experiance in the woods.
It's like Saria is saying "don't be afraid to leave and explore the world but please don't forget Kokiri"