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Jane Austen - Sanditon
Written or Published Around March 21, 1817 : British Authors, English Authors, Jane Austen
Sanditon by Jane Austen
Sanditon Chapter I
Sanditon Chapter II
Sanditon Chapter III
Sanditon Chapter IV
Sanditon Chapter V
Sanditon Chapter VI
Sanditon Chapter VII
Sanditon Chapter VIII
Sanditon Chapter IX
Sanditon Chapter X
Sanditon Chapter XI
Sanditon Chapter XII
Jane Austen Sanditon : Chapter XII
Charlotte had been ten days at Sanditon without seeing Sanditon House, every attempt at calling on Lady Denham having been defeated by meeting with her beforehand. But now it was to be more resolutely undertaken, at a more early hour, that nothing might be neglected of attention to Lady Denham or amusement to Charlotte.
"And if you should find a favourable opening, my love," said Mr. Parker, who did not mean to go with them, "I think you had better mention the poor Mullins's situation and sound her Ladyship as to a subscription for them. I am not fond of charitable subscriptions in a place of this kind—it is a sort of tax upon all that come—yet as their distress is very great and I almost promised the poor woman yesterday to get something done for her, I believe we must set a subscription on foot, and, therefore, the sooner the better; and Lady Denham's name at the head of the list will be a very necessary beginning. You will not dislike speaking to her about it, Mary?"
"I will do whatever you wish me," replied his wife, "but you would do it so much better yourself. I shall not know what to say."
"My dear Mary," he cried. "It is impossible you can be really at a loss. Nothing can be more simple. You have only to state the present afflicted situation of the family, their earnest application to me, and my being willing to promote a little subscription for their relief, provided it meet with her approbation."
"The easiest thing in the world," cried Miss Diana Parker, who happened to be calling on them at the moment. "All said and done in less time than you have been talking of it now. And while you are on the subject of subscriptions, Mary, I will thank you to mention a very melancholy case to Lady Denham which has been represented to me in the most affecting terms. There is a poor woman in Worcestershire, whom some friends of mine are exceedingly interested about, and I have undertaken to collect whatever I can for her. If you would mention the circumstance to Lady Denham! Lady Denham can give, if she is properly attacked. And I look upon her to be the sort of person who, when once she is prevailed on to undraw her purse, would as readily give ten guineas as five. And therefore, if you find her in a giving mood, you might as well speak in favour of another charity which I and a few more have very much at heart—the establishment of a Charitable Repository at Burton on Trent. And then there is the family of the poor man who was hung last assizes at York, though we really have raised the sum we wanted for putting them all out, yet if you can get a guinea from her on their behalf, it may as well be done."
"My dear Diana!" exclaimed Mrs. Parker, "I could no more mention these things to Lady Denham than I could fly."
"Where's the difficulty? I wish I could go with you myself. But in five minutes I must be at Mrs. Griffiths', to encourage Miss Lambe in taking her first dip. She is so frightened, poor thing, that I promised to come and keep up her spirits, and go in the machine with her if she wished it. And as soon as that is over, I must hurry home, for Susan is to have leeches at one o clock which will be a three hours' business. Therefore I really have not a moment to spare. Besides that, between ourselves, I ought to be in bed myself at this present time, for I am hardly able to stand; and when the leeches have done, I dare say we shall both go to our rooms for the rest of the day."
"I am sorry to hear it, indeed. But if this is the case I hope Arthur will come to us."
"If Arthur takes my advice, he will go to bed too, for if he stays up by himself he will certainly eat and drink more than he ought. But you see, Mary, how impossible it is for me to go with you to Lady Denham's."
"Upon second thoughts, Mary," said her husband. "I will not trouble you to speak about the Mullinses. I will take an opportunity of seeing Lady Denham myself. I know how little it suits you to be pressing matters upon a mind at all unwilling."
His application thus withdrawn, his sister could say no more in support of hers, which was his object, as he felt all their impropriety, and all the certainty of their ill effect upon his own better claim. Mrs. Parker was delighted at this release and set off very happy with her friend and her little girl on this walk to Sanditon House.
It was a close, misty morning and, when they reached the brow of the hill, they could not for some time make out what sort of carriage it was which they saw coming up. It appeared at different moments to be everything from a gig to a phaeton, from one horse to four; and just as they were concluding in favour of a tandem, little Mary's young eyes distinguished the coachman and she eagerly called out, "It is Uncle Sidney, Mama, it is indeed." And so it proved.
Mr. Sidney Parker, driving his servant in a very neat carriage, was soon opposite to them, and they all stopped for a few minutes. The manners of the Parkers were always pleasant among themselves; and it was a very friendly meeting between Sidney and his sister-in-law, who was most kindly taking it for granted that he was on his way to Trafalgar House. This he declined, however. He was "just come from Eastbourne proposing to spend two or three days, as it might happen, at Sanditon" but the hotel must be his quarters. He was expecting to be joined there by a friend or two.
The rest was common enquiries and remarks, with kind notice of little Mary, and a very well-bred bow and proper address to Miss Heywood on her being named to him. And they parted to meet again within a few hours. Sidney Parker was about seven or eight and twenty, very good-looking, with a decided air of ease and fashion and a lively countenance. This adventure afforded agreeable discussion for some time. Mrs. Parker entered into all her husband's joy on the occasion and exulted in the credit which Sidney's arrival would give to the place.
The road to Sanditon House was a broad, handsome, planted approach between fields, leading at the end of a quarter of a mile through second gates into grounds which, though not extensive, had all the beauty and respectability which an abundance of very fine timber could give. These entrance gates were so much in a corner of the grounds or paddock, so near to one of its boundaries, that an outside fence was at first almost pressing on the road, till an angle here and a curve there threw them to a better distance. The fence was a proper park paling in excellent condition, with clusters of fine elms or rows of old thorns following its line almost everywhere.
Almost must be stipulated, for there were vacant spaces, and through one of these, Charlotte, as soon as they entered the enclosure, caught a glimpse over the pales of something white and womanish in the field on the other side. It was something which immediately brought Miss Brereton into her head; and stepping to the pales, she saw indeed and very decidedly, in spite of the mist, Miss Brereton seated not far before her at the foot of the bank, which sloped down from the outside of the paling, and which a narrow path seemed to skirt along—Miss Brereton seated, apparently very composedly—and Sir Edward Denham by her side.
They were sitting so near each other and appeared so closely engaged in gentle conversation that Charlotte instantly felt she had nothing to do but to step back again and say not a word. Privacy was certainly their object. It could not but strike her rather unfavourably with regard to Clara; but hers was a situation which must not be judged with severity.
She was glad to perceive that nothing had been discerned by Mrs. Parker. If Charlotte had not been considerably the taller of the two, Miss Brereton's white ribbons might not have fallen within the ken of her more observant eyes. Among other points of moralising reflection which the sight of this tête-à-tête produced, Charlotte could not but think of the extreme difficulty which secret lovers must have in finding a proper spot for their stolen interviews. Here perhaps they had thought themselves so perfectly secure from observation; the whole field open before them, a steep bank and pales never crossed by the foot of man at their back, and a great thickness of air to aid them as well! Yet here she had seen them. They were really ill-used.
The house was large and handsome. Two servants appeared to admit them and everything had a suitable air of property and order, Lady Denham valued herself upon her liberal establishment and had great enjoyment in the order and importance of her style of living. They were shown into the usual sitting room, well proportioned and well furnished, though it was furniture rather originally good and extremely well kept than new or showy. And as Lady Denham was not there, Charlotte had leisure to look about her and to be told by Mrs. Parker that the whole-length portrait of a stately gentleman which, placed over the mantelpiece, caught the eye immediately, was the picture of Sir Henry Denham; and that one among many miniatures in another part of the room, little conspicuous, represented Mr. Hollis, poor Mr. Hollis! It was impossible not to feel him hardly used: to be obliged to stand back in his own house and see the best place by the fire constantly occupied by Sir Harry Denham.
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Bangladesh's Ansarullah Bangla Team – Analysis
January 8, 2016 Mantraya 0 Comments
By Mantraya
Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) has emerged as a radical Islamist group with a limited operational objective of targeting secular bloggers in Bangladesh. However, behind its attacks on and killings of these bloggers, is its larger intent of establishing Islamic rule in the country and being part of the global jihad.
By Surya Valliappan Krishna*
Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) emerged first as Jama'atul Muslemin in 2007. Until 2013, the group was believed to be extinct, before its re-emergence as the ABT. The group effectively uses the online medium to promote extremist ideas and messages from al-Qaeda preachers such as late Anwar al-Awlaki with an objective of radicalising Bangladeshi youth and encourage their participation in local Jihad.
The leader of ABT, Mufti Jasimuddin Rahmani, was arrested on 12 August 2013 along with 30 members of the outfit from the southern Barguna district for inciting people to commit violent Jihad. On 25 May 2015, the group was banned under anti terrorism laws. Unfazed by the ban, the ABT issued death threats to more than 10 individuals since including the Junior Minister for Home Affairs, Asaduzzam Khan Kamal. In September 2015, acting chief of ABT, Muhammed Abul Bashar was arrested along with two other ABT cadres. The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) sources in Bangladesh said that Bashar was attempting to flee the country.
The group is famously known for its targeting of secular bloggers in Bangladesh since 2013. In February 2013, ABT activists hacked to death Ahmed Rajib Haider, a secular blogger. Haldar had organised the 'Shahbagh youth protest', demanding maximum penalty for the 1971 war criminals. ABT's subsequent targets included five persons. US citizen Avijit Roy was the founder of the atheist website Mukto Mona. On 26 February 2015, as he was returning from a book fair in capital Dhaka, he was pulled from a rickshaw and killed. Washiqur Rahman was a blogger known for his atheist views; on 30 March 2015 he was hacked to death near his home in Dhaka. Ananta Bijoy Das, a banker who wrote blogs for the Mukto Mona website run by Avijit, was attacked and hacked to death by masked ABT cadres on 12 May 2015 in north eastern Sylhet city. Niloy Chakrabarti (who wrote under the pen name Niloy Neel) and publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan, who published a bestselling book by Avijit Roy were killed in Dhaka in August and October 2015 respectively. In 2015, Rahmani had ordered the murders of the bloggers from his jail cell, a message that Bashar had taken to the outfit's followers, the RAB sources have said. On 31 December 2015, two former private university students- Md Faisal Bin Nayem alias Dweep and absconding Redwanul Azad Rana were sentenced to death by a court for killing Ahmed Rajib Haider. The court also found Mufti Jasim Uddin Rahmani and five others guilty. Rahmani was given five years of jail and Taka 2,000 in fine with two months of additional imprisonment in default.
Several other bloggers were put in the hit list published by the group online on 23 September 2015. The list included nine persons based in the UK, seven in Germany, two in the United States, one each in Canada and Sweden. The ABT called for cancellation of their Bangladeshi citizenship as they are "enemies of Islam and [Muslim religious] education, atheists, apostates, unbelievers, anti-Islamic bloggers, and agents of India." The ABT clearly said that these bloggers "will be killed wherever they can be found in the Almighty's world".
Killings of the bloggers in Bangladesh not only defined the ABT as a brutal force of intolerance but also gathered support for the upholding of personal views and rights with the social media community particularly playing vanguards of the secular atheist blogging community. However, at the same time, the government in Bangladesh curiously asked the bloggers to 'limit' their writings as not to affect the religious sentiments of the people.
The ABT, due to its proximity with the Ansar ul-Islam, is believed to have linkages with the al-Qaeda. Ansar ul-Islam, formed by the followers of an Afghan Sufi preacher, Pir Saifur Rehman in 2004 to counter the Lashkar-e-Islam formed by Mufti Munir Shakir, a hard-line Sunni cleric who opposes Sufism, is one of the most violent factions of Pakistani Taliban and is part of the al-Qaeda network. While Rehman preached Brelvi Islam inspired by Sufism, Shakir advocated puritanical Deobandi Islam. The five ABT members who were arrested in March 2013 for murder of Ahmed Rajib Haider were praised on the al-Qaeda affiliated Ansar al-Mujahideen media website as 'five lions of the Ummah'. ABT translates al-Qaeda's works in to Bengali for their local audience.
Educated youth belonging to the madrassas and other academic institutions remain ABT's target for recruitment. ABT comprises of a group of tech-savy men who keep abreast of atheist writing and select targets, as well a group of foot soldiers who are willing to carry out violent attacks on people they believe violate religious norms. Touhidur Rahman, one of the men arrested for the attack on bloggers Avijit Roy and Anantha Bijoy Das was a British National of Bangladeshi origin. He claimed that upon his return to Bangladesh in 2012 he was inspired by the ABT and monitored the movements of the blogging community. Investigations revealed that the two men who murdered Washiqur Rahman and were arrested in March 2015 had never read his blog but nevertheless killed him for his writing. While unverifiable reports point at training imparted to some of the ABT members by the al-Qaeda members from Pakistan, the ABT's wherewithal appears to have been augmented by the militants belonging to pro-al-Qaeda groups such as the outlawed Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and Harkat-ul-jihad-al-Islami (HUJI) joining the outfit.
The rhetoric of ABT isn't drastically different from the radical Islamist groups around the world. The group openly labels democracy as anti-Islam and has even published a documentary titled 'Eradicate Democracy' which interprets democracy as being in direct conflict with Islamic principles. It further characterises political leaders as the main roots of all evil like murder and rape and exhorts people to "come out of the system and adopt jihad to free themselves from the social evils". Terming a number of bloggers as anti-Islamic, the group calls them apostates and agents of India. Religious radicalism isn't new to Bangladesh. However unlike the previous groups, the ABT focuses on selected targeting rather than mass attacks.
*Surya Valliappan Krishna is a project intern at Mantraya. A special mention to Ipshita Chakrabarti for helping out with Bengali translations. This brief has been published under Mantraya.org's Mapping Terror & Insurgent Networks project.
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Conca de Barberà is a Catalonian region in the north of the province of Tarragona. The wine growing area is primarily concentrated in a part of the region that owes its geological formation to the erosive action of the Francolí River and its tributary called Anguera. The combined action of these two rivers in the course of the millennia has shaped the appearance of this part of the region as a river valley surrounded by mountain ridges: the Miramar and Cogulló mountain ranges to the east; the Tallat and Vilobí mountain ranges to the west; the Montclar, Codony and Comalats mountain ranges to the north; and the Prades Mountains to the south.
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Slatey soil (llicorella) can be found at the south-western border of the region, at the foot of the Prades mountains.
In the central region of Conca de Barberà. Poor in organic matter content. Lime-free and clay-free textures.
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Since the time of the apostles, a foundational doctrine of the Christian church is the atonement of Jesus Christ, made by means of his crucifixion, death, and resurrection. The fact of the atonement is an essential part of the gospel message. However, over the years, the purpose of the atonement has been something of an inside theological debate. A predominant theological perspective of the atonement within Protestant Christianity is known as Penal Substitutionary Atonement (hereafter PSA). Although the idea that Jesus took the punishment for our sin is found directly in Scripture and the church fathers, the official doctrine of PSA was made popular by St. Anselm in the 11th century with his writing Cur de Homo. Anslem wrote, "Everyone who sins ought to pay back the honor of which he has robbed God; and this is the satisfaction which every sinner owes to God."(1.11)This perspective was carried into the Reformation by Martin Luther and John Calvin, and it has predominated for some time since.
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A winking post-modern concoction that has, over its very short career, inspired reams of passionate critical response, Incident at Loch Ness is ostensibly about a spectacularly troubled production, mounted by the German documentary (and occasionally fiction film) director Warner Herzog. It finds the indomitable auteur—famous throughout his career for his forcible, occasionally unscrupulous mastery of exotic, heretofore inaccessible subject matter—in search of the Loch's most famous hypothetical resident.
Complicating matters is the presence of a second film crew, headed by the well-known cinematographer John Bailey. They are making an intimate verité documentary about Herzog's curious new existence as a Hollywood homebody. Apparently, when he's not proudly displaying his collection of poison-tip arrows, the director hosts dinner parties attended by such prolific public-domain weirdos as Jeff Goldblum, Ricky Jay and, fleetingly, Crispin Glover.
It is Bailey's film, "Herzog in Wonderland" that we are supposedly watching, in some hastily re-constituted form. (The opening crawl directly references The Blair Witch Project, the first sign that something's up.) Herzog's Loch Ness movie, the making of which unfolds before our eyes and through Bailey's increasingly curious camera lens, has its mounting share of bizarre problems. The consequences of these problems end up hampering both shoots beyond repair. Somewhere along the line, two people disappear, having been eaten, quite possibly, by the Loch Ness Monster.
In the film, Herzog describes his doomed project's need for a "crypto-zoologist," somebody who is both, in his words, "credible" and "obsessed." The joke, of course, is that Herzog need look no further than a mirror: few filmmakers have proven to be as adept at blending balls-out lunacy and humanistic gravity. Herzog's line blurring has always been in the service of what he calls in Incident at Loch Ness the "ecstatic truth"—a deep, transcendent authenticity that resonates well beyond mere fact.
Herzog's striving explains his involvement in this initially deceptive and relentlessly clever meta-movie. It blows its faux-doc cover somewhere after Nessie's first, surprisingly convincing, on-screen appearance. Nevertheless, Incident at Loch Ness stands as an apt and rewarding clarion call for the "hybrid," one of the hippest and most challenging forms in contemporary filmmaking.
The current omnipresence of mockumentaries, from the gently eccentric spoofs of Christopher Guest to the much-reviled American feature The September Tapes, which recasts The Blair Witch Project as an overseas soldier's video diary and substitutes Osama Bin Laden as the unseen malevolent force, has brought legitimacy to a disreputable genre that dates back as far as Orson Welles' 1938 broadcast of The War of the Worlds. Welles' valedictory F is For Fake (1973)—which places the War of the Worlds hoax among its inventory of significant forgeries—is, perhaps, the keynote film of Cinematheque Ontario's Fall 2004 "Hybrid" presentations.
The programme spotlights films that curator and POV editor, Peter Wintonick, cryptically describes as "defying the death of definition." On that note, hybrids should not be characterized strictly as mockumentaries—rather, they are films involved in blurring the line not only between fact and fiction, but also across genres. They are generally predicated on contradiction of both structure and content.
Wintonick, whose own credits as a documentary filmmaker include the acclaimed Noam Chomsky profile Manufacturing Consent, is also a former collaborator of Peter Watkins. The British-born Watkins' 1966 Oscar winning short The War Game, which hypothesized about the effects of a nuclear strike at the height of the Cold War, is arguably among the greatest of all hybrid films. Its clinical assemblage of cold statistics and probabilities are underpinned by a fervid, terrified humanism. Banned for a time in England, its power to unsettle endures, and is achieved not in spite of, but rather because of, its employment of rigidly informational, apparently conventional, documentary techniques.
Hybrids are defined— as much as they can be— by their desire to push and play with form. Wintonick explains that his goal for the Cinematheque series was "to push hybrids— although a cursory investigation of film history will show they have always been here, and that they have always defined the new, the innovative in cinema." He thus rejects the idea that, in this year of Fahrenheit 9/11 and "Swift Boat Veterans For Truth," the latter commodity has proven any slipperier than usual, in the hands of filmmakers or the media at large.
"Truth," he says, "has never had anything to do with documentary. But the 'fact' that the mainstream curtain of lies has been raised for all to watch, and comment upon, and be aware of, means that the general scepticism that the populace has always with media, law, and government now turns out to be 'true.' The lies," he continues, "that Michael Moore allegedly tells—distortions, editing licence—according to those who critique his methods in anti-Moore books, websites and films now being distributed, can only raise the question: can our propaganda ever be as good as theirs?"
In answering his own challenging query, Wintonick is less than optimistic: "I think not. Even when humour is our new main weapon, the real hard steel weapons extending war and capital around the globe, and the hard-as-steel "mass"(ive) media as voiced by subservient stenographers to power are still in the wrong hands, or in anyone's hands." Against this overwhelming crush of dubiously stated opinion, then, the hybrid film—whether or not it engages in explicit politicising, as Michael Moore's populist video collages most certainly do— would seem to be an exquisite weapon: a means of turning disinformation against itself.
The objective of a hybrid film like Incident at Loch Ness, says Wintonick, is to "push the idea of distrust in the image…to overthrow boredom, earnestness and complacent somatic in active media." The entreaty it offers to filmgoers, even those who perceive themselves as case hardened and genre-savvy, is to question what they are watching. Wintonick's programme implores the viewer not to accept that any film billing itself as documentary, and bearing the aesthetic hallmarks of the form—like talking heads, natural lighting or source sound—is necessarily a work of non-fiction.
That Incident at Loch Ness is directed and written by Zak Penn, a self-admitted Hollywood hand whose scripts include such special-effects abetted blockbusters as X2: X-Men United and Behind Enemy Lines, speaks to the increasing number of films whose untrustworthiness is, in fact, part of their design. Penn gleefully contributes to the untrustworthiness of his own film by appearing as himself, or rather as "Zak Penn," an egomaniacal La-la land jerk.
Penn's hybrid proved to be too much for Leah McLaren, the short-fused reviewer from The Globe and Mail, who was "so irritated (she) could have ripped the film from its projector and chewed it to a chemical pulp" after realising too late that she was watching a not-doc. The horror! McLaren's anger speaks to the encroaching ingenuousness on the part of audiences that Wintonick describes and that Penn—whose lucrative career catering to the multiplex masses makes him a perfect covert agent—obviously hoped to skewer.
The masterstroke, of course, was casting Herzog as its hero. Penn's frenzied, sub-Peter Benchley climax gains immeasurably from featuring (in the obsessed Ahab/Quint role) the man who, for Fitzcaraldo (and its accompanying doc, Burden of Dreams) really dragged a steamship over a mountain range for the simple purpose of photographing it. Obsessed but credible, even when he's firing a flare gun into the water from the deck of a sinking ship? You bet.
Herzog's own Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997) is screening as part of the Cinematheque's line-up, and may be the filmmaker's most labyrinthine—and perhaps, paradoxically, most empathetic —creation. On one level, it's a straight documentary about Dieter Dengler, a German-born American air force pilot who was imprisoned in Laos during the Vietnam War. The film is preoccupied with the details of his incarceration and his remarkable escape through the jungle, which he barely survived.
Dengler's own accounts of these events are gripping enough, but Herzog's pursuit of the "ecstatic truth" he describes in Incident at Loch Ness may be what inspires him to stage re-enactments of his protagonist's ordeal. That these re-enactments are filmed on actual Laotian locations, and star Dengler himself—stripped, trussed, and forcibly marched over the same terrain that nearly claimed his life thirty years earlier— creates a sense of bewilderment tinged by palpable discomfort. What catharsis could this haunted man seek by revisiting the site of his most painful experiences? And what could Herzog's motives be in arranging such a tortuous reconciliation?
They are likely the same motives that moved him to allegedly "suggest" certain images to his subject, to give the latter's stories a more mythic—or is that Herzogian?—tinge. Dengler's vivid, poetic recollection of a bear that followed him throughout his escape is his own, but a subsequent sequence, in which Dengler explains that a tank of jellyfish represents his personal vision of Death, is by contrast an instance of coercion. Herzog has finessed words into Dengler's mouth, and thus manufactured a symbol—the hovering, malevolent jellyfish as a harbinger of demise—that suits his personal vision.
The suggestion that Dengler is obsessive-compulsive regarding the opening and closing of doors is similarly fabricated—it's a bit of business that the director simply thought to "fit" with other aspects of Dengler's post-traumatic condition. Dengler has no problem explaining the door-related anxiety, however, and is even convincing as he does so.
Inventions both, these details nevertheless ring true within the mood and texture of the film. Rather than detracting from our understanding of Dengler, through some strange alchemy, they enhance it. The point is that Dengler's truth remains stranger than Herzog's minor fictions. And somehow, the two fit together; the film goes from a simple act of recording to a veritable collaboration. It's the trust between an artist with designs on explicating the human condition, and a subject who realizes that his personal demons have universal undertones.
This trust is not apparent—nor should it be—in the films of Emile de Antonio, two of which have been selected for inclusion in the Cinematheque series. Richard Nixon was obviously not a willing collaborator on Milhouse: A White Comedy (1971) an incendiary but long-forgotten slice of political agitprop that has enjoyed a critical re-evaluation in the wake of Fahrenheit 9/11. The film is a scathing broadside against the Nixon administration, a spectacular contradiction of the President's own hopeful assertion, years before its release, that the media wouldn't have him to kick around anymore. How wrong he was: _Milhouse_ is the equivalent of a hard roundhouse to the face.
What binds de Antonio to Michael Moore is their shared disdain for authorial objectivity: although Milhouse's eponymous villain does a fair job incriminating himself in a series of energetically assembled television clips, the film's narration openly conveys the director's disgust for his subject. The thesis of Oliver Stone's comparatively apologist Nixon —that the man was more a pathetic, pathologically driven attention seeker than a scheming emissary of evil—is given no consideration here. It's character assassination all the way. Three decades of hindsight haven't altered the picture's potency, although the argument can be made (as it can against Fahrenheit 9/11) that cheap shots, however satisfying, carry less weight than skilfully wrought observation.
The other de Antonio film being shown, In the King of Prussia, is similarly problematic. An account of the "Plowshares Eight" protest, in which a group of religious radicals invaded and vandalized a Pennsylvania factory involved in the production of nuclear warheads, it casts the real-life defendants as themselves, and then re-enacts their trials with actors—including Martin Sheen—as the other courtroom participants. Given de Antonio's anti-establishment leanings, it's no surprise that the film makes a case for the defence.
De Antonio's fiercely one-sided cinema is less subtle than Watkins' The War Game. But as Wintonick explains, true impartiality is rarely the aim—and even less frequently the by-product of supposedly objective documentaries, much less this trickier sub-breed of hybrids. "In any State of the Documentary Address," he says, referring back to the earlier question of timeliness with regards to Penn's film and his own Cinematheque Ontario programme," I would always question the state of address in documentary, i.e. for whom the doc tolls. Or trolls… Who is it made for, and from whose pointed view voice and vision? The filmmakers? The funding agent? The public? The power elite?" In the case of the crusading leftist de Antonio, the doc trolls for those its maker sees as marginalized, and he doesn't mind hitting below the belt in an effort to even the odds.
The controversy engendered by the muckraking works of de Antonio, Moore, and Watkins spills over into the political arena. But there are other examples of hybrid films that, like Little Dieter Needs to Fly and Incident and Loch Ness,set their sights on altering cinematic perception, rather than social commentary. And they do so not by widening their focus, but by narrowing it down to the seemingly familiar and grounded territory of the biopic.
One such film (and another Cinematheque selection) is Jim McBride's David Holzman's Diary (1967.) A reaction to the verité revolution of the 1960s, which saw filmmakers like the Maysles brothers, D.A. Pennebaker, Frederick Wiseman, and Canada's Allan King redefine documentary with their pared down, strictly observational approach, the film is a convincingly uneventful self-portrait of the aimlessly striving and existentially preoccupied artist David Holzman.
Except that "David Holzman" is no more real than the Loch Ness Monster. He's actually actor Kit Carlson, and his personal odyssey is really a painstaking satire of the first-person film diary. The film was made on the cheap, which explains its naturalistic look and feel, but its violation of the verité ethos is profound. If observational filmmaking is not to be trusted (and banal observational filmmaking at that) it implies, then the notion of an absolute truth in cinema has to be considered a fantasy. (Wintonick's programme notes include D.A. Pennebaker's bemused admonishment to McBride: "you've killed cinema verité. No more truth movies.")
A more contemporary example of Holzman-esque identity fraud, authored by a filmmaker whose ability to perform sleight of hand on a grand scale would earn him untold millions and an Oscar, is Peter Jackson's Forgotten Silver (1997). Mounted for New Zealand television in the interlude between the director's breakthrough Heavenly Creatures and his subsequent mainstream canonization as the 21st Century George Lucas, Forgotten Silver is a loving tribute to a national hero, the pioneering filmmaker Colin McKenzie. According to Jackson's film homage, McKenzie invented the first mechanized camera and came up with the idea for the close-up. Unfortunately, McKenzie didn't exist. He, and his time worn silent masterpieces (including a pretty steamy Salome) are utter fabrications, despite onscreen talking head Leonard Maltin's earnest pleadings to the contrary. (For the record, this appearance is likely the coolest thing the notably straight-arrow Maltin has ever done.)
What links Forgotten Silver, which is really just a brilliantly made mockumentary, to the true hybrid film tradition, was the response of the people who saw it. Like Orson Welles before him with The War of the Worlds broadcast, Jackson managed to convince the masses that they had been witness to the truth. The station that broadcast the film was deluged with phone calls, alternately overjoyed and indignant, asking why it had taken so long for McKenzie to be rediscovered.
As a gleefully self-described charlatan, Welles would have probably enjoyed Forgotten Silver, an out-and-out fake that revealed a greater truth: people want to believe in heroes, and in the transcendence of great and pioneering art. He might have even included the New Zealanders' impassioned reactions in F is For Fake. Welles' film pulls the curtain back on a vast array of convincing and controversial historical forgeries, and furthers the disturbing notion that fakes can, in their own way, equal or even surpass the real thing. If a copy of a Picasso is as beautiful as the real thing, to the point where an art historian can't honestly tell the difference, than aren't both masterpieces? And if not, then who makes that decision? The author? The critic? The audience who would not otherwise know the difference?
Ultimately and inevitably, F is For Fake reveals—and revels—in its own playful dishonesty. Wintonick sees this as a happy, and vital contradiction. "To lie," he says, "you have to be honest, which is what the magician Welles teaches us in F is For Fake. But the subject matter in that film, forgery, is also an analogue to what we documentarians—broadcasters, journalists—do all the time. But usually we are less honest, and less talented, cinematographically speaking. This is what fiction makers can teach us."
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They Rode West [1954] [DVD]
Robert Francis (actor)
Donna Reed (actor)
Format: all region dvd (worldwide)
Quality: Digital
A cavalry doctor is determined to help deal with a malaria epidemic on a Kiowa reservation. However, his fellow soldiers disapprove of his compassionate attitude, while the tribe's medicine man resents outside interference. When the Native Americans attack the fort, the medic is branded a traitor. Western, starring Robert Francis, Donna Reed, May Wynn and Phil Carey.
In this exciting western, medical officer Robert Francis uses his skill to help the Kiowa tribe, to the disgust of the soldiers at his fort. Francis is reunited with his co-star in The Caine Mutiny, May Wynn, and Donna Reed is second-billed as the niece of the fort commander, a year after she received her best supporting actress Oscar for From Here to Eternity. The story about medical ethics is directed with skill by cult favourite Phil Karlson. The blond, blue-eyed Francis, a contemporary of James Dean and Korean War buddy of film historian Laurence J Quirk, was tragically killed in a plane crash at the age of 25 soon after this film was released.


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>Big grin on my face after The Big Bang, the season finale of Doctor Who. What a delight to have a Who episode where time travel's an intrinsic part of the story, not just a means of getting our heroes to the planet-of-the-week. Especially gratifying to see it relying on character and emotion rather than spectacle and effects (though we had our share of those).
All in all Steven Moffat's done a fabulous job in hs first series as showrunner, steering it away from Russell Davies's over-the-top campery (which was great in the early days but wore thin) and towards his 'fairy tale' ideal. There were a few shaky episodes, especially during those early moments of over-plotted rebooting, necessary though that process was. But the series displayed a growing maturity throughout. And some breathtaking standouts, especially the Vincent episode. And this finale of course. What's obvious is Moffat's deep love of and confidence in the material – that really does seem to inform everything he does. Clever writer. Smart writer. And Matt Smith is just a great doctor. Can't wait for the next series.


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266,283 is an odd composite number composed of two prime numbers multiplied together.
What does the number 266283 look like?
266283 is an odd composite number. It is composed of two distinct prime numbers multiplied together. It has a total of six divisors.
Prime factorization of 266283:
32 × 29587
(3 × 3 × 29587)
See below for interesting mathematical facts about the number 266283 from the Numbermatics database.
Names of 266283
Cardinal: 266283 can be written as Two hundred sixty-six thousand, two hundred eighty-three.
Scientific notation: 2.66283 × 105
Factors of 266283
Sum of prime factors: 29590
Divisors of 266283
1 3 9 29587 88761 266283
Sum of all divisors σ(n): 384644
Sum of proper divisors (its aliquot sum) s(n): 118361
266283 is a deficient number, because the sum of its proper divisors (118361) is less than itself. Its deficiency is 147922
Bases of 266283
Binary: 10000010000001010112
Hexadecimal: 0x4102B
Base-36: 5PGR
Squares and roots of 266283
266283 squared (2662832) is 70906636089
266283 cubed (2662833) is 18881231777687187
The square root of 266283 is 516.0261621275
The cube root of 266283 is 64.3350753167
How big is 266283?
266,283 seconds is equal to 3 days, 1 hour, 58 minutes, 3 seconds.
To count from 1 to 266,283 would take you about three days.
A cube with a volume of 266283 cubic inches would be around 5.4 feet tall.
Recreational maths with 266283
266283 backwards is 382662
The sum of 266283's digits is 27
Number 266283 - Facts about the integer
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Sleep is vital to how we are able to function in life, giving us the energy that we crave, helping to repair the body and allowing us to rest and digest, instead of constantly being in flight or fright mode in today's modern society.
Plan your sleep by putting it into your schedule; plan for 8½ to 9 hours in bed.
As much as possible, go to sleep and wake up at the same time each day. This will help train your biological clock.
Take a hot salt/soda aromatherapy bath—raising your body temperature before sleep helps induce sleep. A hot bath also relaxes muscles and reduces tension. Add 1-2 cups Epson salts (magnesium sulfate absorbed through the skin is very relaxing), ½ to 1 cup baking soda (sodium bicarbonate which is alkalizing to a stressed out acidic body) and 10 drops lavender oil (helps lower cortisol levels).
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Schedule a time within the next few days to deal with whatever is troubling you. If you are having trouble managing your concerns for more than a few weeks, consult your healthcare provider for treatment suggestions or a counseling/therapy referral.
Avoid alcohol (wine, beer, and hard liquor) within 3 hours of bedtime.
Mountain Dew; tea, coffee, lattes, and chocolate; coffee- or espresso containing ice creams or desserts). Read the labels of everything you eat and drink!
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Complete any aerobic exercise before 6 pm (or at least 3 hours before bed time).
Consider reading a good neutral / boring book under low light to help with falling asleep.
Don't stay in bed more than 20-30 minutes trying to fall asleep. Leave your bedroom and go to a relaxing room other than the bedroom and read or do a relaxation technique (e.g., meditation). Do NOT turn on any electronics and televisions.
If you awaken early because of light, put a dark covering over your eyes.
If you awaken early because of recurrent thoughts, try writing them in a journal. If this does not help, consider counseling. Depression might be a factor.
Decrease the light in your bedroom by using a dimmer or a reading light with a dimmer.
Use dark window shades or consider a set of eye shades or a black covering for your eyes when trying to sleep or if you awaken too early because of light.
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Redmond Proficiency Academy to perform Almost Maine
By Renee Patrick December 10, 2014
Performing Arts students from the Redmond Proficiency Academy (RPA) will perform Almost, Maine – a wintry tale of falling in, falling out and tripping over love.
An almost small ensemble cast takes on various characters of a community from a town that almost doesn't exist and almost got organized. Scene by scene, the citizens of Almost tell their heartfelt tales of love and woe, and what they would do for love, almost. "You're probably going to laugh. You're probably going to cry and you're probably going to enjoy it," said sophomore Katie Bullock, who is acting and helping with costume design. "I'm just really happy to see this department flourish."
The cast of 10 features eight RPA high school students and two RPA middle school students. "I think that it's a great play, and we have a great cast and crew to make it work," said Marli Messner, a seventh grade student at RPA. "I'm also very excited about working alongside high school students, and I can already tell that I will grow from the experience."
RPA Theatre Arts instructor Tori Miller is directing the play. "It's a challenge rehearsing and building off-site, then trucking everything over, but this play definitely benefits from having a smaller, more intimate performance space," Miller said. "As a learning experience for the students, nothing is more educational than performing an arm's reach from your audience… they see everything!"
Senior Daniel Altamirano, the production's stage manager, said, "We all have our back stories, and this play taps into at least one thing every audience member can relate to."
The Performing Arts Department will return to the RPA West Campus in April for the Spring comedy musical, Lucky Stiff. Auditions will be held in February and are open to both middle and high school students.
Friday, December 5 at 7pm
Saturday, December 6 at 2pm and 7pm
Friday, December 12 at 7pm
Saturday, December 13 at 2pm and 7pm
Forest Hall (aka The Printing Post)
639 SW Forest Ave.
Students $5
General Admission $8
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Dallas is one of the fastest-growing cities in the United States, with a booming market for mattresses. No less than 79 mattress stores exist in the metropolitan area, from independent shops to nationwide brands, catering to every type of buyer. New arrivals and growing families will want to know exactly where to buy a mattress in Dallas, and where to find the best quality, best fit for their needs, and best possible price in their neighborhood. Whether you're shopping for a top-of-the-line luxury model with smart technology or simply a decent, affordable mattress, we've got you covered. Read on to find the product you're looking for at the mattress store in Dallas nearest to you.
The heart of the city is bustling with business and activity, but you won't find any mattress stores in Dallas within the immediate downtown area. Move a little bit north, though, and you'll find two centrally-located mattress stores: Dallas Luxury Beds (1444 Oak Lawn Ave) and Mattress Firm- Uptown (2633 McKinney Ave). The former is an outpost of Chicago Luxury beds, the first stateside retailer of ultra-luxury Swedish brand, Hastens. The store is set up as a supremely refined "sleep spa" with "concierge services" such as sleep assessment and mattress rotation. Mattress Firm, on the other hand, is a national chain with a total of 14 mattress shops in Dallas. This large mattress store retails brand-name spring, memory foam and adjustable mattresses. Customers give the Uptown location positive reviews for the knowledgeable and professional sales staff.
Mattress Firm dominates the landscape here, with a total of 9 mattress stores in Dallas located north of the city center. Of these locations, the ones in Vickery Meadow (10910 N Central Expy), Mockingbird Central Plaza (5400 E Mockingbird Ln) and North Dallas (10759 Preston Rd) have the greatest number of positive reviews. The chain retails a selection of 55 different types of brand-name beds, including basic models and others with the latest materials and sleep technology. The abundance of locations and wide selection makes this mattress store in Dallas a convenient destination. Those in search of a greener option should consider Dallas Natural Mattress (11661 Preston Rd), one of the few mattress stores in Dallas to sell natural products. This mattress shop has been in business for 60 years and builds their own products locally from plant-based memory foam. If, on the other hand, you're after the most affordable mattress, visit Mattress Clearance Center Dallas (9665 N Central Expy), where customers rave about bargain buys.
You'll find few mattress stores in Dallas located south of the city center. In fact, the only source that's consistently well-reviewed is BT Furnishings (4350 Gannon Ln). As the name implies, this store sells furniture as well as mattresses, making it a great stop for those needing not only an affordable mattress but a bed (and maybe a dresser or two) as well. BT Furnishings is locally owned and has been in business for 25 years, offering affordable pricing and convenient, same-day delivery.
The mattress shop in East Dallas that earns the most positive reviews is USA Mattress (1707 Alpine St), a family-owned mattress store which prides itself on providing, "good beds, good people and good prices." Beds and bedroom sets, as well as mattresses, can be had at Rico's Furniture (1018 S Buckner Blvd). This small, family-owned furnishings and mattress store is well-reviewed for prices but can be crowded with merchandise, so plan for a bit of hunting. If you prefer a more spacious mattress shop, there's always the wide selection and expansive showroom of Mattress Firm, which has a store in Northeast Dallas (6464 E Northwest Hwy), located in the Medallion Center.
Simmons Mattress Outlet (1290 Conveyor Lane) is the go-to store for an affordable mattress in Dallas' western area. Customers rave about the bargain prices they score on BeautyRest products, including pocketed coil spring and hybrid mattresses. Over in Oak Cliff, shoppers in search of an affordable mattress can also check out Great Sleep Mattresses (4040 W Davis St), which carries most major brands at wholesale rates, and stocks bedroom furniture as well.


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Only one word can describe what children feel when waking up Christmas morning to open their gifts: magic.
A Christmas without that magical feeling is no Christmas at all, so we decided to adopt five less-fortunate families and make it happen!
Five giant gift-wrapped boxes encircled a giant Christmas tree in the middle of our offices, each with a tag from Santa. Team members divided into groups — donating presents and cash. Each day the boxes filled up more and more until they were overflowing with gifts for little boys and girls. On the final day of Operation Christmas Magic, team captains gathered all of the money raised and bought remaining gifts on the children's wish list.
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Want to succeed in STEM? Listen to the experts!
President Obama believes "The quality of math and science teachers is the most important single factor influencing whether students will succeed or fail in science, technology, engineering and math." The problem is that our "quality" teachers and their administrators are not given the freedom to support children in ways that will produce the scientists and innovators our country needs. This is because we are stuck in an outdated system that values test scores and grades rather than creativity and innovation.
This is no secret. America's great scientists and innovators have been clear about how our nation's schools need to change to support great thinkers like themselves. Unfortunately it seems those with the power to make decisions (the politicians and corporations) are not listening to the very type of people we say we want our students to become.
Let's take a look at what those in charge are failing to hear when our nation's historic inventors, scientists, and physicists share their advice and experiences.
Einstein clashed with authorities and resented the school's regimen and teaching method. He later wrote that the spirit of learning and creative thought were lost in strict rote learning. At 15 he convinced his school to let him leave by using a doctor's note. After he left school he wrote a short essay with the title "On the Investigation of the State of the Ether in a Magnetic Field." At sixteen, Einstein sat the entrance examinations for the Swiss Federal Polytechnic in Zurich where he failed to reach the required standard in several subjects, but obtained exceptional grades in physics and mathematics.
In school, the young Edison's mind often wandered, and his teacher called him "addled". This ended Edison's three months of official schooling. His mother supported his learning outside of school where he taught himself mostly everything he knew about science and technology. His two favorite pastimes were reading and experimenting.
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In high school, his IQ was determined to be "merely respectable. Feynman scoffed at psychometric testing. At 15 he taught himself trigonometry, advanced algebra, infinite series, analytic geometry, and both differential and integral calculus. His advice was to "Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible."
As a physicist Feyman gave a now famous lecture on education where he shared that he figured out that the students had memorized everything, but they didn't know what anything meant. They could pass the examinations, and "learn" all this stuff, and not know anything at all, except what they had memorized. He explained that he couldn't see how anyone could be educated by this self-propagating system in which people pass exams, and teach others to pass exams, but nobody knows anything."
In the video below physicist Michio Kaku explains that exams are crushing curiosity out of the next generation through the memorization of facts. In light of this he questions why we wonder why kids aren't interest in science.
Despite these insights, our schools are still places that reward compliance, memorization, and regurgitation. They give young people little time to work independently, discover passions, or pursue much of anything that requires independent thinking or hasn't been laid out for them. In many cases schools also restrict them from using the technology tools and online resources they need for success in the world.
Instead of fostering success in science, technology, engineering and math, schools have pushed young people to achieve success outside of school. As a result many talented youth are learning that when it comes to being innovative and creative, leaving school behind is often the best option. To address the issue of our failing schools let's think about how the following modern-day school rejects and trouble makers could have been supported in our school system.
Aaron Iba Aaron Iba is a computer programmer who became a mulit-millionaire in his early 20s after Google bought a great product he created and also hired him. Iba shares that school was a boring waste of time but he had one exception during his entire k - 12 experience. It was in 4th grade when his teacher allowed him to sit in his own space in the classroom doing logo programming. Iba laments that he just isn't the type of person who could sit back passively listening to a teacher try to impart knowledge. He liked interactivity and engagement which was why he drawn to technology. The school system labeled him as a multi-problem child. Fortunately, Google did not.
Nick Perez Nick Perez is a successful software developer who was traumatized in a school system who had no place for someone with such a passion. Perez endured a long and hard road in school that included prescription drugging, to the humiliation of being singled out from the rest of his peers, to threats of litigation. He left school at the age of 17 after deciding that he'd had enough of his school district's attempts to forcibly shift his attention toward the classroom, and away from the studies about which he was passionate. Perez notes that this is the result of rigid systems that have yet to bend and break under the pressure of progress. Read his story here.
Mom's Story Education experts told Jo-Anne Tracy without any doubt in their minds, that she would be foolish to keep thinking that her son had what it takes to succeed and he was being placed in a class where ineducable children would taught life skills and a vocation. She knew they were wrong however, the school system does little to honor or respect the insights of mere parents who don't have the "credentials" necessary to properly identify "problem children" like hers. The one-size-fits all school system experts refused to consider her input and explained they were not giving her son any other options. As a result she removed her son from school at 9 years of age. Today he is studying geoscience at university.
Jack Andraka At 15 years old, Jack Andraka created an important test for pancreatic cancer. He explains that he could not have done this without the use of the internet. He came up with the idea for his research when he was attempting to chill out in biology class and read a scientific journal. Like many teachers, independent work was not allowed in her class and she confiscated the journal. Andraka was forced to leave school to do his research which he began by going to Google to begin his research. Then he wrote to nearly 200 actual biology labs where he could do the work of a real scientist in a real science lab.
You can watch Adraka's video below to hear how he was able to reach his potential, pursue his passion, and save lives.
It's time to change tradition, change direction, and change our lessons learned from politicians and corporations to our nation's experts. The scientists, programmers, physicists, inventors and others are telling us that supporting them really is not rocket science. The answer is not more teachers, tests, and textbooks. Instead it is in helping our students explore, discover, and develop their passions. It is not in doing what is common, but supporting the uncommon with personalized plans for their success. It is not keeping kids locked up in schools listening to lectures under fluorescent lights, but rather releasing them to live and learn in the world. The answer is not in measuring grades on tests and requiring the same standards for all. It is in allowing young people to show what they know in authentic ways and develop areas of focus customized to their success.
Parents, their children, and innovative educators know the answer. Let's stop sitting back and start taking charge of doing what is best for our children's success. It's not easy going up against the politicians and corporations, but they do not own our children's learning. That is in the hands of children, parents, and teachers. It's time to take it back!
Tags: education reform, STEM
Tereza Crump November 19, 2012 at 5:40 PM
I think most of what we have in education today is due to control issues. Politicians, government, teachers, administrators, even parents want to feel like they are in control of circumstances and the end result.
As a homeschooling parent who follows unschooling most of the time, learning to let go is really hard. It does pay off in the end because I can see that the most valuable lessons my children know they have figured them out on their own, not doing worksheets or listening to a lecture, but exploring their surroundings.
Lisa, this is a great post that shares the opinions of some very wise people. I also advocate for innovative learning experiences that allow students to solve problems, create products and performances and provide community services in real contexts. Real-world learning. There are examples of this peppered through your post. You and your readers may be interested in my new website fingerprintprojects.com - inspiration for innovative learning. While the site is new and has only a small number of posts, you will get an understanding of the direction in which it will develop and I hope you will pop back often to watch it grow.
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This remake of 2007's Death at a Funeral is a little baffling. It's common for hit European or Asian films to be remade into American films (The Birdcage was originally the French comedy La Cage aux Folles, The Departed was a remake of Hong Kong's Infernal Affairs, Scent of a Woman was Italy's Profumo di Donna, etc.) But usually, these are foreign-language films remade into English because many American audiences don't care for dubbing or subtitles. The first Death at a Funeral is an English language film, made in England. I guess it was remade for those who find English accents too challenging.
As one might guess from the title, both films are black comedies. (Some might be tempted to go for the crude joke that the American version is even blacker with the African American cast, but we at Movie Churches are above such things.) Both tell the story of a family coming together for the funeral of a beloved patriarch. Both films' screenplays are by the same writer, Dean Craig, with little change in the plot, some in the dialogue. Each has a different director (Frank Oz for the British version, Neil LaBute for the American.)
In this version, Chris Rock plays the elder son, Aaron, who is responsible for arranging the funeral and giving the eulogy (this was Matthew Macfadyen's role in the original). Aaron's wife, Michelle (Regina Hall) seems more concerned about procreation than death. In addition to this distraction, everyone's attention is focused on Aaron's younger brother, Ryan (Martin Lawrence), a best-selling novelist who's flying (first-class) into town for the service.
A host of problems evolve on the day of the funeral. The mortician (Kevin Hart) initially brings the wrong body in the correct coffin (Aaron complains, "This isn't Burger King! You can't mess up my order!"). A guest accidentally takes a hallucinogen and knocks over the casket during the service and strips naked. The worst complication is an uninvited, unknown guest who blackmails the sons to pay him a large sum, or he will reveal he is their father's gay lover (Peter Dinklage, in the same role he played in the earlier film).
But, of course, none of these things are of our concern here at Movie Churches. We just want to know about the pastor who conducts the service, the Reverend Davis (played by Keith Davis. You might know Davis from his role in one of the greatest, longest fistfights ever, in the film They Live.)
The Rev. Davis seems to meet Aaron on the day of the funeral. He doesn't seem very familiar with Aaron's father. He doesn't seem very interested in learning about Aaron's father. I've done a number of memorial services, and learning as much as I can about the person being remembered is a very early priority for me. My motivation in leading a memorial service is first to bring to hurting people the comfort God can bring, and second is to honor a human life that is no more.
But the Reverend has a very different primary motivation. He wants to meet Aaron's famed brother, Ryan, "The writer! I squeezed this job in today because I really wanted to meet you. Listen, I just finished reading Momma's Secret. That will be our little secret, because I'm not supposed to be reading this kind of stuff." He fit this service in between two christenings and another funeral. Which makes me wonder how much care he is giving to each family.
And what's the deal about him talking about reading things he isn't "supposed" to be reading? Is it smut? Or is it literature with adult elements? He has an uncomfortable "wink, wink, nudge, nudge" attitude about the whole thing.
When it's time for the service, he begins by saying, "We are here to mourn the passing of a fine man," though, again, he seems to know nothing about the man he calls "fine." He goes on to read from Ecclesiastes and then tells the story of David and Jonathan ( "Then Jonathan and David made a covenant because he loved him as his own soul. Then Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him and gave it to David and his garments, even to his sword, and his bow and his girdle.") This seems to be a rather obscure Scripture to cite, especially, again, since he knows next to nothing about the deceased. I really think he would be better off going with the traditional route of Psalm 23 or John 11.
Reverend Davis invites Aaron to deliver the eulogy. During the eulogy, Aaron's cousin's fiance' has a hallucinogenic episode and knocks over the casket. The body falls out, and (naturally) chaos ensues. In the midst of the furor, the pastor stands to one side, forcing Aaron to restore order. Surely, this should have been the Reverend Davis' job. A decision is made to have a "break" in the service, and everyone is expected to hang around until the service starts again. (This is a lot to expect of people.)
During the funeral intermission, the father's former lover goes about blackmailing the sons and through some wacky escapades, appears to be dead. To help conceal the apparent death, another cousin, Norman (Tracy Morgan), must distract Reverend Davis.
Norman asks the Reverend, "I've been meaning to ask you, at what age did you decide to get your church on?"
Reverend Davis responds, "I need to make a phone call." (This is an emergency phone call -- there's a naked man on the roof -- but wouldn't someone have a cell phone back then? I believe they were rather common a decade ago and I would expect a busy clergyman to have one.)
So Norman tries again with, "But I need to make a confession!"
"I'm not a priest," the Reverend answers.
"That's okay," Norman says, "Because I'm not a Catholic. It's just that, I know I've been touched in some religious fashion… I'm addicted to strip clubs. The smell, the pole, the stretch marks, the C-section scars. I didn't know nothing about whip cream. Nothing, 'cause I'm diabetic, so if I eat whip cream in the wrong place, I'm gonna break out."
Throughout this confession (in which Morgan seems to be channeling his 30 Rock character, Tracy Morgan), the Reverend very visibly appears revolted. Granted, Catholic priests generally have the advantage of a divider in a confessional booth. They might not have to monitor their facial expressions. But someone in the clergy really should get used to people sharing intimate aspects of their lives and -- pro tip! It's best to master the habit of not looking disgusted when they do so.
Eventually, after Norman goes on about angels appearing him in a vision as strippers, the Reverend agrees to pray with him, then goes outside to observe the naked man on the roof with the rest of the funeral crowd. He doesn't offer his counseling expertise in this situation.
Once the man is safely brought back inside, the Reverend wants to get the service going again, saying, "We've got to get this damn thing started. Look, we've got to zip through this thing now, son. I mean, I've already missed another funeral and two christenings."
He again starts the service saying, "I would like to apologize on the behalf of the family for all the distractions." But the distractions continue and the Reverend proves completely inept in controlling the service.
So the Reverend Davis receives a mournful Movie Churches rating of Two Steeples out of Four.
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by Jensen McKey May 5, 2021
written by Jensen McKey May 5, 2021
Like many people, I was incredibly excited that Wonder Woman 1984 would be released this year. I loved the first movie and couldn't wait for the second one.
Unfortunately, the movie was less than underwhelming.
The main theme is about being known. Maxwell Lord, played by Pedro Pascal, desperately wanted to be known as powerful, he wanted to be important and Barbara Minerva/Cheetah, played by Kristen Wiig, wanted "to be like Diana, strong, sexy, cool, special."
Diana Prince/Wonder Woman, a returning Gal Gadot, wanted to be known as Wonder Woman, but only by one person, her beau, Steve Trevor. It's only when she accepts that she can't be known by him that can she save the day.
My aunt, Tammy Wilkerson liked the film. She had many reasons to love it. and although Tammy and I disagreed on some points, we did agreed on several.
"I like how she (Wonder Woman) is very honest and an encouraging person," Tammy said. "She is a good role model. At the beginning of the movie when she was young and she cheated during the race, it showed her mother not letting her have the victory. She told her she was not ready. I try to teach my kids that so I really liked that part of the movie. I liked how they brought back the love of her life and put some closure to that from the first movie. I liked that it showed you may lose someone but you can still carry on even though it is hard. You can look past your own desires to see what's good for all."
My sister, Jaci, and I disliked many parts of the movie.
"It showed Barbara/Cheetah's descent into darkness/evil by having her beat up the man who harassed and then assaulted her," Jaci said. "Barbara's arc also held the narrative that trying to fit in was bad, all Barbara wanted was for people to like her, to not see her as weird, and wishing for that took away her humanity. During the rising action of the movie, it showed Maxwell Lord clearly overwhelmed; several people were talking to him over one another, hundreds of calls coming in."
Jaci said Maxwell Lord's character was clearly overwhelmed and reacted how most people would react and the movie used that to show he was evil and was losing his humanity.
I had high expectations for Wonder woman 1984, but it failed to meet a lot of them. The storyline was weak and the central message was horrific. People were put in bad situations and their reactions were used to show their "evilness."
Whether or not it was worth watching is something I'm still split about, while the movie had many faults, it had many good points as well. Overall I don't regret watching it, but I most definitely would not do it again.
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MomentoPro Book Comp - Winners Announced 2020
Six winning entries from the 2020 APS Photobook Competition
The fifth edition of the Australian Photographic Society's Photobook Competition received a record breaking 37 entries from 13 camera clubs. Congratulations to the six winners across the Storytelling and Portfolio categories - Lou Gilbert, Helen McFadden, Brian Rope, Lesley Bretherton, Paul Balfe and Anne Pappalardo - who share prizes of $500 cash from the APS Print Group and $1400 in photo book vouchers from Momento Pro.
The competition attracted 18 entries in the Storytelling category, and 19 in the Portfolio category, from 20 female entrants and 11 males entrants, from camera clubs across Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and the ACT. They presented a diversity of photographic genres and subjects including landscape, portrait, travel, nature, architectural, street and fine art nude photography. Most entries were hardcover books in landscape format with printed covers, featuring lay-flat paper or binding.
Yvonne Hill, outgoing Competition Coordinator turns the pages of one of the competition entries for the digital judging by Momento Pro's Libby Jeffrey (on the laptop screen)
Major thanks go to outgoing competition coordinator Yvonne Hill, and incoming coordinator Anne Pappalardo, who this year introduced the Storytelling and Portfolio categories, negotiated more prizes of greater value, and adapted the judging process to meet COVID requirements.
Judging took place on 22 August at the Art at Heart studio in Bellbowrie. Sue Gordon (President of the Photographic Society of Queensland) and Warren Vievers (accredited judge for the Photographic Society of Queensland) reviewed the books physically, while Libby Jeffery (co-founder at Momento Pro) Zoomed in from NSW. To allow Libby to judge remotely, the coordinators presented each book to multiple video cameras, describing their physical characteristics, reading out essential text, and flicking through every page.
Judge Warren Vievers
After five hours of review, the judges' scores were analysed and the six winners were confirmed. The judges awarded the following books for their excellence and fitness for purpose in photography, sequencing of images, design, layout and typography. The Storytelling category winners also showed an originality in concept and design, and an engaging visual narrative. The judges' rationale for selecting each book is outlined below.
With five years of coordinating the competition under her belt, Yvonne Hill confirmed that, "the standard of winning entries continues to improve year after year and 2020's entries were no exception." Libby Jeffery stated that, "all the winning books showed an appreciation for white space, symmetry and consistent alignment, and many of the books made good use of text and extra graphics to enhance the story behind the photos. We hope the process of reviewing, editing and sequencing photos into a book layout helped the entrants develop new skills, and inspired them to work on more creative photo series or projects in the future."
PORTFOLIO WINNERS
Hokkaido Winter 2020
Hokkaido Winter 2020 by Lesley Bretherton of Melbourne Camera Club
Prizes: $150 cash and $350 Momento Pro voucher
Watch a video of the book https://youtu.be/NI877C5YLdE
This book was the unanimous winner, due to its immaculate landscape photographs that were poetically paired with a haiku. The font style and colour blend beautifully with the tone of the photography, while the placement of a Location Index at the back of the book is in keeping with the book's minimalist nature. Hokkaido Winter 2020 is a visual meditation.
Brian Rope with 'Liked'
Liked by Brian Rope of Canberra Photographic Society and Canberra PhotoConnect
Prizes: $75 cash and $250 Momento Pro voucher
Watch a video of the book https://youtu.be/cnU2bqeRyQ4
Liked presented an engaging series of abstract black and white images and it made us laugh. The image selection was unique and contemporary, as only photos that received a 'Like' from a photography peer were chosen. Including the social post text and comments, in the Facebook font, also added to the context and humour. It's a great creative collaboration.
Anne Pappalardo with "Amsterdam Rush Hour"
Amsterdam Rush Hour by Anne Pappalardo of Queensland Camera Group
Prizes: $25 cash, $100 Momento Pro voucher
Watch a video of the book https://youtu.be/nvr2hQ64kIs
Amsterdam Rush Hour is a well-edited and beautifully sequenced series of photographs of the city's bike riders. The technically excellent images have been strategically paired and placed on the pages to play on and enhance the concept of motion, and the choice of a matte white stock and black end pages was a perfect match for the monotone imagery.
STORYTELLING WINNERS
Lou Gilbert with "I"m not here any more"
I'm not me any more by Lou Gilbert of Brisbane Camera Group
Prize: $150 cash and $350 Momento Pro voucher
Watch a video of the book https://youtu.be/94hC7VvXSNE
Despite its intimate size, this book packs a powerful emotional punch. The portraits of an elderly woman woven in with her comments on moving into a nursing home, are confronting. The grey cover, the addition of deliberately blurred images, and their random placement on the page, all tragically reflect the status of her Alzheimer's affected mind
Helen McFadden with "If I had my life over I'd pick more daisies"
If I Had My Life Over I'd Pick More Daisies by Helen McFadden of Canberra Photo Connect
Prize: $75 cash and $250 Momento Pro voucher
Watch a video of the book https://youtu.be/z4K0xCqoxkc
Helen has brought together all her creative skills in this beautifully edited and formatted photo book. In addition to the excellent photography and fine art photo editing, she enhanced the photographs with botanical illustrations, painting and poetry, making full use of the book format to create her memoir in flowers from 30 years in floral art.
Paul Balfe with "The Music of The Spheres"
The Music of the Spheres by Paul Balfe of Redlands Camera Club
Watch a video of the book https://youtu.be/22wtzVT9TSo
Not only are the photographs of moving light sources skilful and fascinating, but the text, font and layout of the book are perfectly aligned with its purpose. The design is clean and consistent, the use of headings and captions makes it feel like a scientific document, while the organic motif used throughout the pages, reflects the concept of movement too.
Learn more about the APS Photobook competition here [https://www.momentopro.com.au/partners/APSbookcomp ] and keep your eye on the APS eNews [https://www.a-p-s.org.au/index.php/downloads/e-news/e-news-2020] or Momento Pro newsletters [https://www.momentopro.com.au] for the announcement of a webinar on How To Create An Award-winning Photo Book Design, to be hosted in early 2021.
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