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Greek crisis 'soon worse than Argentina's'
(ANSAmed) - ATHENS - The record is one that the birthplace of the Olympics would have been glad to see pass it by: the Greek crisis will soon surpass that of Argentina in terms of severity, with a GDP down by 16% since 2008, when the international crisis exploded.
Greece is about to become an unprecedented case in modern history. However, going around Athens and speaking to people there brings home the realization that behind all the percentages and talks with the troika there are the lives of people in the balance, struggling like never before. People - when asked ''How is the crisis going?'' - unleash on you all their rage and fears about the future.
Some state employees say they have seen their salaries cut in half, while the minimum monthly wages for the private sector will soon drop to 600 euros. Retirement age continues to slide farther and farther away. Some medicines have begun to become scarce, and many young couples with children have been forced to go back to living with their parents.
In Argentina at the height of the crisis, there were clashes and the 'protest of the pots-and-pans': the 'cacerolazo'. In Greece on Sunday there was instead what many see as ''only a taste'' of things to come: street battles between protestors and police, dozens of buildings and banks set on fire. Read More
After Layoffs, Execs Get Big Raises at Taxpayer-Funded A123
A taxpayer-funded electric vehicle battery company, that is considered in great danger due to its dependency on troubled EV company Fisker Automotive, has awarded its top executives big salary increases despite a steep downward trajectory in its stock price.
Massachusetts-based A123 Systems -- which received $279.1 million in stimulus money from the Department of Energy, and up to $135 million in incentives from the State of Michigan -- boosted the base salaries of two vice presidents and its chief financial officer on February 8.
Chief Financial Officer David Prystash was bumped 27 percent to $380,000; VP of Energy Solutions Robert Johnson's base salary increased 51 percent from his 2010 level to $400,000; and VP of Automotive Systems Jason Forcier saw his pay rise 32 percent from 2010, to $350,000. The news was first reported by the Boston Web site of Citybizlist.com, which obtained the information from an A123 SEC filing. Read More
Foreclosure abuse rampant across U.S., experts say
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A report this week showing rampant foreclosure abuse in San Francisco reflects similar levels of lender fraud and faulty documentation across the United States, say experts and officials who have done studies in other parts of the country.
The audit of almost 400 foreclosures in San Francisco found that 84 percent of them appeared to be illegal, according to the study released by the California city on Wednesday.
"The audit in San Francisco is the most detailed and comprehensive that has been done - but it's likely those numbers are comparable nationally," Diane Thompson, an attorney at the National Consumer Law Center, told Reuters.
Across the country from California, Jeff Thingpen, register of deeds in Guildford County, North Carolina, examined 6,100 mortgage documents last year, from loan notes to foreclosure paperwork. Read More
Inside Facebook's Outsourced Anti-Porn and Gore Brigade, Where 'Camel Toes' are More Offensive Than 'Crushed Heads'
Amine Derkaoui, a 21-year-old Moroccan man, is pissed at Facebook. Last year he spent a few weeks training to screen illicit Facebook content through an outsourcing firm, for which he was paid a measly $1 an hour. He's still fuming over it.
"It's humiliating. They are just exploiting the third world," Derkaoui complained in a thick French accent over Skype just a few weeks after Facebook filed their record $100 billion IPO. As a sort of payback, Derkaoui gave us some internal documents, which shed light on exactly how Facebook censors the dark content it doesn't want you to see, and the people whose job it is to make sure you don't.
Facebook has turned the stuff its millions of users post into gold. But perhaps just as important as the vacation albums and shared articles is the content it keeps out of user's timelines: porn, gore, racism, cyberbullying, and so on. Facebook has fashioned itself the clean, well-lit alternative to the scary open Internet for both users and advertisers, thanks to the work of a small army of human content moderators like Derkaoui. Read More
Preventing a Blowout in the Arctic
In September 2011, Vladimir Putin announced a program to begin offshore oil and gas exploration and drilling in the Russian Arctic. Putin is also interested in creating new sea terminals, which he said would rival the Suez and Panama Canals. In 2008, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) estimated that 13 percent of the world's undiscovered oil and 30 percent of the world's undiscovered gas lay beneath the Arctic Seas. The United States, Canada, Norway, Greenland, and Russia, which make up the Arctic 5, are each interested in tapping these Arctic energy reserves.
Russia, the largest oil producer of the five, gets nearly half of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) from oil exports, a level comparable to Saudi Arabia. As a result, Putin perceives fossil fuels as vital to Russia's economy and political stability. However, the extreme Arctic climate, characterized by unpredictable weather patterns, heaving sea ice, sub-zero temperatures, dense fog, and darkness half the year, requires specialized equipment. Russia holds a technological advantage over the other Arctic countries because it has already invested in 20 icebreakers, while Canada has 12 and the United States only one. Russia signed a deal with British Petroleum last month to explore the Arctic. Therefore, Russia is currently leading the extractive assault. Read More
Categories: MAN-MADE DISASTERS, QUAKES/VOLCANOES
Sanctions Begin to Bite in Tehran
As Iran remains defiant over its nuclear program, tough new sanctions imposed by the United States and the European Union have sent prices for basic foodstuffs soaring on the streets of Tehran.
"Prices have been going up really quickly," said Hossein, the co-owner of a downtown Tehran shop. "And businesses are suffering. People buy less, so we order less, and our suppliers suffer. It's a chain reaction."
"The government says inflation is at twenty percent, but the true figure is at least twice that," he added. "Imported goods have been rising in price almost daily."
A housewife doing her afternoon shopping smiled sadly when asked how her family was managing to cope with the newly exorbitant cost of living.
"It's getting tough," she said. "But what can we do?" Read More
Categories: FINANCIAL EVENTS, WARS AND RUMOURS
Changing equations in Afghanistan: Is America going to stay after all?
The Americans are now sending confusing signals on their withdrawal strategy from Afghanistan and their "dialogue" with the Taliban. Their NATO allies would like to pack up and leave immediately.
The Russians appear concerned regarding the American bases in Central Asia, even while keeping their Northern Supply Route open for American forces in Afghanistan. Accusing the Americans of involvement in espionage and destabilisation from Afghan soil, Iran is now making common cause with the Taliban, earlier regarded by it as an enemy.
Pakistan, America's "major non-NATO ally" in the "War on Terror," now belatedly labelled a supporter of global terrorism, would love to see the Americans pack up and leave. India is working on a gas pipeline through the Af-Pak corridor for gas from Turkmenistan and is ready to invest billions of dollars in Afghanistan's coal, iron ore, copper and gold deposits.
CONDITIONS RELAXED
With Vice-President Joe Biden proclaiming that the Taliban shouldn't be regarded as a global terrorist group like the Al-Qaeda, the Americans have commenced a "dialogue" with the Taliban, which has left President Hamid Karzai dumbfounded, and the Pakistanis mystified. The Obama Administration has let it be known that Mullah Omar sent a message last summer indicating a readiness for dialogue. The earlier American conditions that the Taliban should renounce violence and accept the Afghans' Constitution have been dropped. Moreover, eyebrows have been raised at their readiness to remove hardcore Taliban leaders from the list of international terrorists. Read More
Foreclosure activity edges higher in January
LOS ANGELES – Banks took back more U.S. homes in January than in the previous month, the latest sign that foreclosures are accelerating after slowing sharply last year while lenders sorted out foreclosure-abuse claims.
Foreclosures rose 8% nationally last month from December, but were down 15% from a year earlier, foreclosure listing firm RealtyTrac said Thursday.
All told, 210,941 U.S. homes received a default notice, were scheduled for auction or were repossessed by a lender in January, RealtyTrac said. Read More
Forbes: Bernanke 'Supreme Socialist'
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is running the economy in such a heavy-handed manner that he more resembles a socialist strongman reminiscent of the Soviet Union than the head of the world's largest and most iconic of capitalist economies, former GOP presidential hopeful and publisher Steve Forbes writes.
By swelling the Fed's balance sheets via massive purchases of Treasurys and mortgage-backed securities from banks and by controlling interest rates and money supply with various monetary policy tools, Bernanke has become a "supreme socialist" who dictates how Americans manage their money.
"Our central bank tries to manipulate our economy in ways befitting a Soviet commissar. Take interest rates. Fixing the price of money is a form of price control, pure and simple," Forbes writes in a column in the magazine that bears his name.
Read more: Forbes: Bernanke 'Supreme Socialist'
The Maine Man: Did Ron Paul actually win Maine?
Bankrupt Rhode Island city pays employees $26,000… a month
CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. --
Central Falls is Rhode Island's smallest city and also one of its poorest. Boarded up homes line many streets and one-quarter of the city's families live below the poverty line.
"The people are not getting better. Five years of tax increases, people who make $14,000 to $20,000 a year," said state Sen. Elizabeth Crowley, D-Central Falls.
Some at City Hall make more money than that in a month.
Chief of Staff Gayle Corrigan has essentially replaced the mayor as the executive in charge and answers directly to state-appointed receiver Robert Flanders.
Corrigan owns Municipal Management Solutions, a company aimed at righting the city's sinking ship. For her services, she's paid $100 an hour. Her deputy gets $60 an hour. That's roughly $26,000 a month and more than $300,000 a year. All of it comes from the coffers of Central Falls.
"That's ridiculous. It's not right when we're not financially doing great in this city," said Luis Lubo, a Central Falls resident. Read More
300-Pound Naked Man Walks into Walmart, Steals Socks: Police
A 300-pound man was arrested after he was seen walking around an Exton, Pa., Walmart wearing nothing but socks. It was later discovered that the only apparel the man had on was stolen from the store, police say.
Employees at Walmart called police at about 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, saying that there was a naked man walking around the store, authorities say.
When police arrived they found 32-year-old Verdon Lamont Taylor in the store wearing only socks, police say. When Taylor would not comply with officers, the 6-feet, 4-inch tall, 300-pound man was tasered and taken into custody. Taylor proceeded to spit in an officer's face, police say.
MI5 files: Was Chaplin really a Frenchman and called Thornstein?
MI5 investigated whether Charlie Chaplin was actually a Frenchman called Israel Thornstein, previously secret files on the Hollywood film star have revealed.
Intelligence officers could find no trace of the actor's birth in Britain despite Chaplin always claiming he was born in London in 1889.
The mystery surrounding his origins emerged when the US authorities asked MI5 to look into the comic actor's background after he left America in 1952 under a cloud of suspicion over his communist links.
But British officers could find no birth certificate and the earliest official record was a passport issued in 1920.
They investigated suggestions he was born in Fontainebleau, near Paris, or nearby Melun, while the Americans claimed his real name was Israel Thornstein and raised the idea he may have been a Russian Jew.
Despite extensive searches, MI5 could find no evidence of any of the claims leaving his true origins a mystery to this day. Read More
Categories: FACT OR FICTION?, UNEXPLAINED/WEIRD
Davina Travi seduced underage boys as reward for vandalising rival's car
The 42-year-old "struck a deal" with the schoolboys aged 13 and 14 after she was dumped by her boyfriend for another woman, it was alleged.
She is said to have asked them to damage the car of his new girlfriend Stacey Allright in return for sex.
The teenagers went and found Miss Allright's Peugeot 306 which they smashed up and brought Travi the number plate to prove they kept their end of the deal, it was said.
Travi was "as good as her word" and allegedly had full sex with the older boy in the bedroom of her home while her children weren't there before summoning the second one upstairs.
The mother-of-five had sexual intercourse with the younger boy before they both left, the court heard. Read More
Senate: Nuclear containment is not an option with Iran
A bipartisan slate of senators announced this afternoon they would reject "any United States policy that would rely on efforts to contain a nuclear weapons-capable Iran."
Drawing a clear line in the sand, the senators – among them Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) – demanded that President Obama reject "any policy that would rely on containment as an option in response to the Iranian nuclear threat," according to a new Senate resolution set to be unveiled later today.
The resolution "warns that time is limited to prevent the Iranian government from acquiring a nuclear weapon" and demands that the hostile regime immediately suspend all uranium enrichment activities.
Most noteworthy, perhaps, is the resolution's thorough accounting of the Iranian regime's hostile behavior. It details, for example, Iran's connections to terror groups and its various efforts to harm U.S. interests across the Middle East.
"Iran has provided weapons, training, funding, and direction to terrorist groups, including Hamas, Hezbollah, and Shiite militias in Iraq that are responsible for the murders of hundreds of American forces and innocent civilians," the resolution declares.
It states unequivocally that Iran and nuclear weapons are simply anathema. Read More
Categories: NUCLEAR DISASTERS, WARS AND RUMOURS
REFILE-Al Gore takes aim at "unsustainable" capitalism
LONDON, Feb 16 (Reuters) - Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore wants to end the default practice of quarterly earnings guidance and explore issuing loyalty-driven securities as part of an overhaul of capitalism which he says has turned many of the world's largest economies into hotbeds of irresponsible short-term investment.
Together with David Blood, senior partner of 'green' fund firm Generation Investment Management, the environmental activist has crafted a blueprint for "sustainable capitalism" he wants the financial industry to adopt to support lasting economic growth.
"While we believe that capitalism is fundamentally superior to any other system for organising economic activity, it is also clear that some of the ways in which it is now practised do not incorporate sufficient regard for its impact on people, society and the planet," Gore said.
At a briefing ahead of Thursday's launch, David Blood said capitalism has been blighted with short-termism and an obsession with instant investment results, which had ramped up market volatility, widened the gap between rich and poor and deflected attention from the deepening climate crisis. Read More
Can we shop our way out of a recession?
The retail sales data for January from the Office for National Statistics is stunningly good. One analyst has even said that he thought it had to be a mistake when he first saw the 0.9% rise today. There's a lot of positive talk, prompted by the healthy figures, about how we might now avoid another quarter of contraction, and thus a return to recession.
A couple of caveats though.
First, the ONS data is massively at odds with the most recent survey by the British Retail Consortium, which suggested this was the second worst January for the sector in 17 years.
There's a debate about which data is a better indicator. Both the ONS and the BRC say it's their own. Frankly, I'm not qualified to judge. But the disagreement should give pause to anyone preparing the bunting.
Second, the idea that a lot of shopping translates into a healthy economy is dubious. This chart from Allan Monks of JP Morgan shows that the relationship between consumption – still one of the main drivers of our economy – and retail sales is actually rather weak. Read More
Vatican told to pay taxes as Italy tackles budget crisis
End of controversial property tax breaks leaves the Pope facing €600m-a-year bill.
After several years of scandal in which the Catholic Church has faced allegations of financial impropriety, paedophile priests and rumours of plots to kill the Pope, the Vatican is now facing a new €600m-a-year tax bill as Rome seeks to head off European Commission censure over controversial property tax breaks enjoyed by the Church.
As the EC heads closer to officially condemning the fiscal perks enjoyed by the Catholic Church and introduced by the Berlusconi administration, Prime Minister Mario Monti has written to the Competition Commissioner, Joaquin Almunia, saying that the Vatican will resume property tax, or Ici, payments.
Mr Almunia said in 2010 that the exemption amounted to state aid that might breach EU competition law. A parliamentary proposal by the Italian Radicals party last August to repeal the exemption, with a successful petition on Facebook, upped the pressure. A spokesman for Mr Almunia appeared to give the thumbs-up yesterday: "It is a proposal that constitutes a significant progress on the issue and I hope will be implemented," he said.
"This is a victory for public pressure," said Mario Staderini, the leader of the Italian Radicals party. "We've managed to break down – a little bit – the wall protecting the Church." Read More
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Vaccination campaign necessary to stop the spread of cholera in Haiti, says UF researcher
A mathematical model of cholera transmission in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake suggests that current approaches to cholera control and elimination, which focus primarily on improving sanitation, are not likely to solve the problem. However, eradication of cholera is possible with use of oral cholera vaccine.
"We need to focus on routine vaccination in areas that are at risk of cholera transmission in Haiti," said Ira Longini, a professor in the College of Public Health and Health Professions and the College of Medicine's department of biostatistics. Longini is the senior author of the report.
Previous cholera elimination strategies have emphasized the need for infrastructure improvements; the authors, however, suggest that this approach has led to few if any changes in Haiti's water and sanitation infrastructure. According to the authors, resources should be allocated toward administering oral cholera vaccines, or OCVs, in order to end transmission over the next few years.
Longini stressed the need for urgency, citing climatic instability as a factor that could increase disease occurrence.
"We need to start now," he said. "We don't know when the next disaster is coming – the next hurricane or the next earthquake – that could cause another big jump in transmission. We know it is going to happen. We just don't know when."
The study relied on data from the Ouest Department of Haiti, a region that includes Haiti's capital of Port-au-Prince and the surrounding area. It suggests, however, that several vaccination strategies have the potential to end cholera transmission throughout Haiti before 2023 – the deadline established by Haiti's Ministry of Public Health and Population in 2013 to eliminate cholera from the country.
The article, titled "Controlling cholera in the Ouest Department of Haiti using oral vaccines," was published online in April 2017 in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases.
The vaccine would not need to be 100 percent effective in order to eliminate cholera transmission. In fact, the study's mass vaccination projections assume that vaccine effectiveness will only be 60 percent – a level surpassed by Shanchol, one the two OCVs prequalified by the World Health Organization, in previous studies.
The WHO manages a stockpile of several million doses of OCVs. Since more than 1 billion people live in regions at risk of cholera, however, campaigns relying on WHO resources will likely have to begin with targeted vaccination instead of mass vaccination. Longini is currently developing models that will identify where vaccination campaigns should be targeted to be most effective.
"Transmission occurs along river systems and in areas with poor sanitation," Longini said. "UF researchers have been tracking where cholera transmission occurs since the beginning of the epidemic, so we know where to look for transmission. Now we just need national and international leaders and health policy officials to place a strong emphasis on administering these vaccines to the population."
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This is a small decayed borough, having a population of about 1,652, engaged principally as tin-workers – it has also a very limited export trade, Kidwelly Castle is here situated: it is reported to have been erected by William de Landres, a Norman adventurer, who conquered Glamorganshire about the year 1094. It now belongs to the Earl of Cawdor. The gateway is good, and altogether presents a noble relic of ancient magnificence. Here King John took refuge whilst at war with the barons.


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Climate change could be behind rise of superbug, study finds
Higher temperatures could be spreading new fungal diseases. (Source: CNN)
Posted: Tue 8:48 PM, Jul 23, 2019
(CNN) – Researchers are warning that climate change may be to blame for the spread of a multidrug-resistant superbug.
A new study released Tuesday in the journal mBio says the increase in cases of Candida auris infection could be just the beginning of new fungal diseases emerging because of climate change.
C. auris was first discovered a decade ago, but since then it's been found in more than 30 countries around the world, including the United States, India, Venezuela and South Africa.
Dr. Arturo Casadevall, a co-author of the study, said the strains are adapting to higher temperatures.
Fungal infections are rare in humans because the organisms usually can't grow in the human body's warm temperature range, but scientists are concerned that the ability of C. auris to adapt to higher temperatures could put people at risk.
"The argument that we are making based on comparison to other close relative fungi is that as the climate has gotten warmer, some of these organisms, including Candida auris, have adapted to the higher temperature, and as they adapt, they break through humans' protective temperatures," Casadevall said.
Casadevall added that global warming could lead to other new fungal diseases.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calls C. auris a "serious global health threat" because it can lead to blood infections.
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These Recipes Sum Up 2021 To A T
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By Ashley Moor/Dec. 17, 2021 12:02 pm EST
In a year of dramatic twists and turns, many took to the social media platform TikTok to escape from the world for at least a few minutes at a time. Even if you don't have a TikTok account, it's likely that you've still witnessed the various trends that have come straight from the application. Musicians like Olivia Rodrigo and Lil Nas X and brands like Gap and L'Oréal have benefitted from the exposure that they have received on TikTok, according to the social media platform. A recent study conducted by TikTok shows that a whopping seven out of ten users believe that the communities on TikTok have the power to influence and change the culture.
TikTok has also influenced restaurant and food trends in the past year. After seeing a restaurant featured on the social media application, around 36 percent of TikTok users have ordered a meal from that restaurant, according to a study conducted by marketing agency MGH. TikTok also showcased the popularity of recent dining trends that began off the application, like plant-based diets and sourdough bread.
These are the recipes that represent the biggest food trends of 2021.
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The baked feta pasta recipe was originally posted to TikTok by Finnish food blogger Jenni Hayrinen in 2019, according to Food Network. Even two years after it was posted on the social media platform, the recipe, which contains cherry tomatoes, an entire block of feta cheese, garlic, basil, and tender pasta, is still one of the most iconic food trends. In fact, as Eat This Not That reported, it became so popular in Finland that the country actually ran out of feta cheese.
BBQ pulled jackfruit sandwiches
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In the past few years, more people than ever have been trying out a plant-based diet. According to Harvard Health Publishing, this diet mostly revolves around the consumption of fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, legumes, beans, and whole grains, though meat and dairy are still consumed in moderation. Many recipes have emerged, like the BBQ Pulled Jackfruit Sandwiches recipe from Food Network, that puts an interesting spin on a favorite meal. The recipe consists of jackfruit slathered in barbecue sauce, sandwiched between a potato roll, and topped with a healthier version of slaw.
Folded tortilla sandwich
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Though it first emerged on TikTok in the early days of 2021, the popularity of the folded tortilla sandwich far surpassed TikTok, quickly finding its way into Facebook and Instagram feeds, as well as into kitchens all over the world. For those who may be unfamiliar with the TikTok trend, the folded tortilla sandwich consists of four ingredients, like cheese, chicken, avocado, and a sauce of some kind, that are divided into separate quarters on a tortilla. These quartered off ingredients are then stacked together and then grilled on a stove or panini press, according to Inquiring Chef.
Goat's cheese, rosemary, and red grape focaccia bread
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While the bread-making trend may have originated in 2020 in the midst of the quarantine boredom at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, it still has maintained its popularity in 2021. However, at-home bakers have now moved on to more complicated bread than simple sourdoughs. Case in point: the goat's cheese, rosemary, and red grape focaccia bread recipe from Good Housekeeping. Though it contains quite a few interesting ingredients, the bread is not entirely too complicated to make on your own, as it takes only a few hours to rise and a matter of minutes to bake and perfect.
Nature's cereal
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Even though it was first posted by TikTok user Sherwayne Mears, nature's cereal, which consists of fresh fruit like strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, and pomegranate seeds, coconut water, and ice, was eventually popularized by the queen of everything herself, Lizzo. According to Food52, Lizzo's version of the nature cereal contained strawberries, blueberries, pomegranate, coconut water, and a few ice cubes. This healthier version of sugary cereal only takes a few minutes to craft and tastes great.


This thorough and comprehensive guide makes use of explanations, photographs, examples, exercises and demonstrations to teach ways to handle sky, terrain, trees and water.
As with a lot of Watson Guptill books, it's something to sit down and read, rather than use as a workbook and the text involves quite a lot of discussion rather than simply prescriptive instruction. If you have little patience with that kind of thing, it'll exasperate you. On the other hand, if you find a list of things to do limiting, you'll be in your element here. It's beautifully produced and a pleasure to handle.
Good portrait painting books come along all too infrequently and something which takes the subject seriously and looks at it in such depth as this is to be welcomed. Suzanne Brooker examines every aspect of portrait painting, from style to facial features and expressions to composition and painting methods. There's a great deal to read here, but there are also plenty of illustrations to leaven and punctuate it so that you're never left struggling for comprehension. There is a also a generous series of demonstration paintings which are described in some detail. Although, as a result, they have fewer stage illustrations than has perhaps become the norm, they are, I think, more suited to the more technically advanced artist, the sort of person who is likely to be going into portraiture seriously. In any case, the whole book is anything but an introduction for the beginner and will appeal to (and should satisfy) the more demanding reader. It is a large and quite heavy tome that rewards extended study and is admirably comprehensive both in its coverage and its execution of that coverage.
If I have a reservation, it's perhaps that the style of painting tends rather heavily towards the old-master that's (admittedly) implied in the subtitle, but it is an American book and American portraiture can be rather like that. I still think you can learn a lot from it, though and I don't think you'd feel your money was wasted. If that sounds like faint praise, it's not meant to be.
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What command do I use to capture endogenity of a variable using non-linear SUR?
What command do I use to capture endogeneity of a variable using non-linear SUR?
Can you explain in more detail what you are trying to do? In SHAZAM there is no command for capturing endogeneity in the way you describe, but if you have endogenous regressors then you probably require instrumental variables. See the chapter on GMM.
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American Association of Petroleum Geologists (2)
Geological Society of London (1)
AAPG Memoir (2)
Geological Society, London, Special Publications (1)
E. J. Milani
Correlations between the classic Paraná and Cape–Karoo sequences of South America and southern Africa and their basin infills flanking the Gondwanides: du Toit revisited
E. J. Milani, M. J. De Wit
Book: West Gondwana: Pre-Cenozoic Correlations Across the South Atlantic Region
Series: Geological Society, London, Special Publications
Publisher: Geological Society of London
DOI: 10.1144/SP294.17
Abstract Early during the twentieth Century, pioneering correlations between the Palaeozoic–Mesozoic basins of South America and southern Africa were used by Alexander du Toit to support the initial concepts of continental drift and the proposal of a united Gondwana continent. New stratigraphic tools and data can now be used to further tease out similarities and differences to reconstruct the detailed histories of these, the Paraná and Cape–Karoo basins. In turn this knowledge can be used also to increase our understanding of the origin and evolution of Gondwana. Recent advances in tectonics and stratigraphy showed that both basins evolved together along a common early Palaeozoic Gondwana margin facing the Panthalassa. Thereafter, this margin was transformed into a series of linked foreland basins coupled to the evolution of the Gondwanides. In detail, the foreland successions differ considerably due to spatial and temporal differences in tectonic histories along the Gondwanides. Only towards the end of the Palaeozoic did both basins evolve and merge into a single continental-scale, and truly intracratonic, terrestrial Gondwana basin that persisted until the early Cretaceous. This shared history was once again disrupted in the Early Cretaceous during the opening of the South Atlantic Ocean.
Structural and Tectonic Controls of Basin Evolution in Southwestern Gondwana During the Phanerozoic
A. J. Tankard, M. A. Uliana, H. J. Welsink, V. A. Ramos, M. Turic, A. B. França, E. J. Milani, B. B. de Brito Neves, N. Eyles, J. Skarmeta, H. Santa Ana, F. Wiens, M. Cirbián, O. López Paulsen, G. J. B. Germs, M. J. De Wit, T. Machacha, R. McG. Miller
Book: Petroleum Basins of South America
Series: AAPG Memoir
Publisher: American Association of Petroleum Geologists
DOI: 10.1306/M62593C1
Abstract The continental lithosphere of southwestern Gondwana, comprising the southern part of South America and southern Africa, was largely assembled before the end of the Proterozoic. Geologic studies indicate that the basement anisotropy that controlled the development of Phanerozoic basins was established by Neoproterozoic–Early Cambrian tectonism. This tectonism reactivated the older terrane boundaries or cut across them. The backbone linking the system of Pan-African and Brasiliano basins was a system of northeast-trending structures. There were four areas of pronounced Neoproterozoic–Early Cambrian basin subsidence in the study area: the Chiquitanas trough in Bolivia, the Puncoviscana basin in Argentina, the Dom Feliciano-Ribeira basins in Brazil, and the Damara-Nama basin complex of southern Africa.
Phanerozoic Correlation in Southern South America
A. B. França, E. J. Milani, R. L. Schneider, O. López P., J. López M., R. Suárez S., H. Santa Ana, F. Wiens, O. Ferreiro, E. A. Rossello, H. A. Bianucci, R. F. A. Flores, M. C. Vistalli, F. Fernandez-Seveso, R. P. Fuenzalida, N. Muñoz
Abstract A major characteristic of the oil industry is that geologic data tend to be kept within each company. In South America, where state-owned companies and exploration monopolies predominate, there are many datasets and many different interpretations. These "virgin" data constitute a valuable basis for assembling a correlation study across the continent. The authors of this paper are making probably the first attempt to put together extensive, previously unavailable information and present it to the geologic community. The geology of Gondwana is strikingly different from the geology of Laurasia. Gondwana basins tend to be dominated by siliciclastics, whereas northern hemisphere basins are rich in limestones. This largely reflects the cold climate that predominated in Gondwana during most of the Paleozoic. Thick diamictites and sandstones deposited during glaciation in the Carboniferous–Permian are widespread in the Gondwana of South America. These sandstones are the principal reservoirs in the Bolivian and northwestern Argentinian gas fields. Gas and condensate in these fields are sourced from the underlying Devonian black shales. A regional unconformity on top of the Devonian shales played an important role in oil migration into overlying beds in Bolivia and Argentina. Structural traps created during the Hercynian orogeny, and later during the Andean orogeny, were also important for hydrocarbon accumulation near the Cordillera de Los Andes. A huge area east of the Andes is still a frontier area. This includes the Paraná and Chaco-Paraná basins in Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Argentina, covering an area larger than 1.7 million km 2 . There are fewer than 200 exploration wells drilled in these basins.


Add 2y to both sides of the equation.
Since x = 1 + 2y we can replace x with 1 + 2y .
Multiply out (1 + 2y)2 .
Subtract 13 from both sides.
Set each factor equal to zero and solve for y .
Now let's use the equation x = 1 + 2y to find x .
So one solution is x = -11 and y = -6 .
So another solution is x = 5 and y = 2 .
I'd say that hectictar is as "correct" as I am......!!!!!


In December/1976 Mike was on the world junior team that came home from Czechoslovakia with a silver medal. This was one of the highlights of Mike's hockey career but did not go off without some "hitches". Trying to leave the communist country proved to be a bit hectic when Mike forgot his passport in his luggage and was not allowed out until he found it. A little frightening when soldiers are all around watching your every move.


Via BBGM, I hear of WebCite, an on-demand Wayback Machine for web content cited within academic publications. It's important to make sure that links to web content in academic publications don't fail to resolve to their intended content over time, but how valuable is it, and whose responsibility is it?
If the citing author feels it's important, they should make a local copy. They have the same right to make a local copy as a repository does. If the cited author feels the link is important, he should take steps to maintain accessibility of his content. If neither of these things happen, this raises the question whether the value of the potentially inaccessible content is greater than the cost of a high-availability mirror of the web whose funding will come from as yet unspecified publishing partners.
The URL scheme removes any trace of human readable information. It's another one of those damn http://site.com/GSYgh4SD63 URL schemes.
All sites have downtime. Is the likelihood of any given article being available made greater by putting it all under one roof?
What about robots.txt excluded material? A search engine isn't allowed to archive it, and many publishers have somewhat restrictive search engine policies.
Of course, it's much easier to find flaws in a solution than to come up with a solution in the first place, but it seems to me that a DOI-like system where semantic permalinks could be used that would always point to content wherever it moved around the web would work better, lead to a more complete index, and be much cheaper to run, as well. I know they chose archiving as opposed to redirecting because they wanted to link to the version of the page on the day it was cited, and that's a good idea, but if having a copy of the page as it was is important, the author needs to make a local copy, rather than hope some third-party will do it for him.
John Udell likes it, but I'm feeling like it needs a little work.
That's certainly much more useable, but the central point of failure problem, exemplified by the recent TinyURL downtime, remains.
Then there's the issue of the archive maintainer flogging his favorite political candidate on the front page.
If you check the WebCite technical documentation at http://www.webcitation.org/doc/WebCiteBestPracticesGuide.pdf you will see that WebCite also supports a transparent format like http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=this&date=that (retrieving THIS url at THAT date). The abbreviated format using an ID instead (http://www.webcitation.org/aSDHJE) is handy for print publications to save space, and is also used by publishers who in the references section cite the original URL plus the WebCited (archived) URL (see for example references in http://www.jmir.org, or also the BMC journals).
I guess we could (and will) also make the database table public (the table which maps WebCite snapshot IDs to URLs/dates).
WebCite was developed to be used for the references section of an academic paper. Today, authors mostly cite an URL, which might be gone or changed if the reader accesses it. We advocate that authors/editors/publishers also publish a link to the archived version of that URL, as the author saw it when he cited it, by adding a WebCite link in addition to the original URL. So this will indeed increase the likelihood that the cited webdocument is available to the reader.
WebCite does honor robots exclusion standards, no-cache tags etc. (for copyright reasons). So these webdocuments cannot be cached, unless legislators change the copyright law to the effect that archiving for scholarly reasons is permissible. I would think that in these cases scholars should think twice if they want to cite material which is not archived and likely not available to the reader in the future.
yes, I was a little hasty to condemn this, but I think it'll still be irritating in practice, if people tend to use the shortened URLs.
This is the main problem your service solves, and I agree that it does serve that purpose, but I still wonder how this will scale, how your index will remain clear of irrelevant material, and how a service like this would protect future visitors from visiting dangerous links if the service became compromised or changed hands.
scholars should think twice if they want to cite material which is not archived and likely not available to the reader in the future.
Or they could just make a personal copy citing fair use rights and send it into the journal for private storage and display only if the original page goes down. One can imagine research being done on pages which isn't flattering to the page authors, so respecting robots.txt makes quite a few pages ineligible for indexing. If they're publishing the page, shouldn't researchers be able to report on it?
Or they could just make a personal copy citing fair use rights and send it into the journal for private storage and display only if the original page goes down.
I wonder why no journal is currently offering / encouraging / mandating their authors to do this? Perhaps because editors and publishers (and authors) are not overly excited about the idea of having to monitor cited URLs, to answer requests of readers when a cited URL is broken, having to send archived material out individually by email (or having to invent a infrastructure that displays cited material automatically when an URL goes 404 – wait a moment, doesn't such an infrastructure already exist? yes, and it is called WebCite). I am an editor and publisher myself, and I developed the WebCite infrastructure (and made it available to other publishers) exactly to save me the work to do this.
I also think the notion that individual publishers (including micro-publishers, or the 1000+ small self-published open access journals are more sustainable and stable than a central archive run by a consortium of publishers (which is what WebCite aspires to be). Individual publishers are ceasing to exist all the time, are taken over by larger publishing houses, etc. I don't think that submitting copies of cited webpages to individual publishers and journals is in any way a more sustainable, durable, efficient way of preserving scholarly important material. How many of the existing journals, publishers, and authors will still exist in 20, 50 or 100 years to monitor their cited URLs to display the cited URL if the original page goes down or changes the content from the cited version?
WebCite is specifically and explicitly designed to archive material that is cited in an academic context. Should this (archiving "irrelevant" material) really become a problem (at the moment it isn't), it would be quite trivial to scan the references of scholarly journals, books, theses to positively flag "relevant" material, and to move "irrelevant" material to a secondary archive until we get a user request proving that it has been used in a reference. Storage space is cheap, and I do not see any scalability problems.
PS: Here is a view from another participating publisher (BioMed Central), who uses WebCite.
Making a local copy is not the problem. The problem is how to ensure accessibility for the reader, including when the citing author might be no longer around.
But you'll have to do this for copyright takedown requests, so you're not really saving yourself work or keeping things available, are you?
How many of the existing journals, publishers, and authors will still exist in 20, 50 or 100 years?
How many papers published by now defunct publishers are still available? Because research papers are self-contained and present in libraries all over the world, their content remains no matter what happens to the publisher. This approach has worked since the invention of the library, and I don't see why it shouldn't continue.
For online publications, the archiving has been done by the publishers instead of by the libraries, and perhaps this isn't the best infrastructure, but it's far better than depending on one central archive to hold everything.?
WebCite has to respond to takedown requests, but not individual publishers. And the work publishers save the work to disseminate archived copies.
How many papers published by now defunct publishers are still available? Because research papers are self-contained and present in libraries all over the world, their content remains no matter what happens to the publisher.
This is not entirely true – I do know of electronic journals which have ceased to exist and where the articles are lost forever.
But this is not the point. Even if it is true that nowadays most academic articles are archived somewhere using systems like LOCKSS, we are talking here about non-journal material (webpages, blogs), cited in scholarly articles. There is no archiving infrastructure which would ensure that this material is archived, which is exactly the problem WebCite tries to solve. And yes, WebCite does feed its content to libraries.
I do know of electronic journals which have ceased to exist and where the articles are lost forever.
That shows the problems associated with centralized archives. If the e-journal had been archived in the libraries like with print journals, for example, there would still be a copy of all their issues. WebCite may save publishers the work of disseminating copies, but one could argue that disseminating articles is kinda the job of a publisher.
More to the point, however, if the articles were self-contained like I'm arguing they should be, the failure of the journal wouldn't result in the loss of content. You wouldn't need the publisher to read the paper just like you don't need the publisher to be in business to read a print copy.
As you say, it's not the job of WebCite to archive journals, but cited websites. So how can the uptime of millions of websites be improved by creating one more? Mirrors, sure, but that's a different matter.
WebCite may save publishers the work of disseminating copies, but one could argue that disseminating articles is kinda the job of a publisher.
It is getting a bit confusing. We are not talking about disseminating articles, we are talking about disseminating cited webpages. If you are saying that it is the responsibility of the publisher to make these available, then I would agree – this is why WebCite – run by publishers – has been created. If you are advocating a low-tech solution such as including cited webpages etc. as supplementary files, then I would argue that this creates more problems than it solves.
So how can the uptime of millions of websites be improved by creating one more?
Citing a webcited archived copy of the original URL (which is also fed into libraries) in addition to providing original URL obviously increases the overall likelihood that either of these is still available for the reader. Perhaps you misunderstand the system as replacing the cited URL with a WebCite link. However, this is not how this is implemented. See http://www.jmir.org/2007/2/e15#ref1 for an example.
I would argue that this creates more problems than it solves.
Maybe. It's just an idea borrowing from the publisher+library system that's been so successful over centuries and regime changes and wars and so on. I would be out of my depth to comment further, but it could just be that you don't think having a central point of failure is that big of a problem. I would argue that this is all fine and good for TinyURL, but making it distributed is the main architectural challenge in making something like this work for academics.
I know you're not expecting to replace the URL with a WebCite URL, but lets remember how services can become taken for granted, experience "mission creep", and become depended on. I'd hate to see publishers make the mistake the Twitter team did by coding TinyURL support into Twitter and being embarrassed when the site went down.
You keep bringing up the "central point of failure" argument, but I don't think that WebCite is any more a central point of failure than for example http://dx.doi.org/, through which references in scholarly papers are cross-referenced to other papers, using their DOI. Whenever you see a [CrossRef] link or something similar behind a reference in a publication, this is routed through http://dx.doi.org/, which resolves it to the "real" URL (e.g. http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/jmir.9.4.e29 resolves to the paper with the DOI 10.2196/jmir.9.4.e29, which happens to be at http://www.jmir.org/2007/4/e29/ ). Publishers got together and agreed on this. Surely they created a central point of failure – if doi.org is down or gets hacked, the system breaks down. But it works.
I'd hate to see publishers make the mistake the Twitter team did by coding TinyURL support into Twitter and being embarrassed when the site went down.
The model is that WebCite is owned by publishers, so they have control over whether of not it "goes down" (and have a vested interest in keeping it alive).
At this point, I don't know if I'm just too stupid to understand(and maybe Clifford Lynch is too), but I can't help thinking about what would have happened to the state of the world's knowledge if the Romans had gathered all the books from all the monasteries and private villas around the empire and put them in one central library in Rome. I'm fairly certain that if anyone had asked, "But what if Rome gets sacked and the library burned to the ground?", they also would have been reassured that that could never happen.
In this, I suppose we'll just have to acknowledge that we have a difference of opinion, but I would rather see the data format be the unifying factor, rather than the domain. Then you could have a protocol where you could ask any one of a number of services for a piece of data identified by some unique identifier(s) and any of those services could direct you to a currently functioning repository, somewhat like the way p2p systems work today.
Since you're the expert, can you explain to me why a centralized domain lookup service is better than a distributed hash-based system?
I don't know where the impression comes from that net archivists gather everything in a "central library". In fact, the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) (of which WebCite is a member) consists of a number of national libraries as well as transnational initiatives such as WebCite and the Internet Archive, so this is pretty decentralized and there are a lot of redundancies. I assume in the future there will be a fair amount of data exchange between these organizations.
However, even if editorial/style guidelines on how to cite Internet material would be changed asking authors to include the hash, a system like WebCite would still be needed to determine the hash and to make sure that at least one archive actually has a copy of the cited document.
Well, that's one way to do it, but then you run into the problem YouTube et al. have, where the content at the endpoint is behind some inscrutable hash that shouldn't be public-facing. I'm not saying I'd like a hash-based system, just that I'd prefer that over a centralized one, i.e, one which requires use of URLs all resolving at the same domain.
I appreciate your taking the time to go over these things with me. I hope you understand my standpoint on things is that of a writer, not a librarian or publisher, and I'm speaking out because it seems like it's only librarians and publishers involved in the discussion at the moment, and if it continues this way, we'll end up with some painful-to-use system that is more complicated than the current one, and no one will use it until forced by the publishers. I'm aware there are significant technical reasons for the way things are currently set up.
As a content-creator, I'd like to maximize both the availability and exposure of my work by having human-readable URLs that are resolveable by a distributed system of resolvers, OpenURL-style. That's the viewpoint I'd like to put out there, for anyone working on services for academics.


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Phil Knight, Nike executive and UO donor, on the list of possible UO board members
Updated: Jul. 30, 2013, 8:18 p.m. |
Published: Jul. 30, 2013, 7:18 p.m.
Nike founder Phil Knight spoke about the $227 million Matthew Knight Arena, the UO basketball facility named for his son, before the inaugural game there in January 2011.
Betsy Hammond | The Oregonian/OregonLive
Nike founder and unsurpassed University of Oregon donor Phil Knight headlines a long list of financial and political heavy-hitters who have been nominated by UO, Portland State University and Oregon State University to form the inaugural independent boards that will run the three universities starting next summer.
Gov. John Kitzhaber will pick 11 to 15 members for each board. He doesn't have to stick to the suggested lists.
But each of Oregon's biggest universities sent in a list of suggested members that includes wealthy donors, influential politicians and diverse civic leaders. The UO list gives the governor the most latitude to chose, with more than 45 names listed and still more to be turned in this week.
Here are some of the bigger names:
For PSU: Successful engineer Fariborz Maseeh, who's already given $12 million to PSU and has its engineering school named for him; Tom Imeson, Port of Portland executive and former top aid to then-Gov. Neil Goldschmidt and the late Sen. Mark Hatfield; wealthy financial services entrepreneur Irving Levin; former Portland City Council member and mayoral candidate Jim Francesconi; travel agency owner and former mayoral candidate Sho Dozono; and technology company co-founder Christine Vernier.
For UO: Knight; Columbia Sportswear president Tim Boyle; fellow Columbia executive Peter Bragdon, who was chief of staff to former Gov. Ted Kulongoski; professional golfer Peter Jacobsen; former Oregon attorney general and UO president Dave Frohnmayer; entrepreneur and former state higher ed board chair John von Schlegell; former UO athletic director Pat Kilkenny; Intel President Renee James; former Intel vice president Keith Thomson; Oregon Health & Science University president Joe Robertson; forestry company executive Allyn Ford; Columbia University President Lee Bollinger; federal judge Ann Aiken; and veteran Oregon House member Phil Barnhart.
For OSU: Pat Reser, chair of Reser's Fine Foods who, with her late husband Al, has given millions to Oregon State including for Reser Stadium, named in their honor; Duane McDougall, chairman of Boise Cascade; Avamere CEO John Morgan; former Nike lawyer Paul J. Kelly Jr.; St. Charles Health System vice president Kirk Schueler; Weyerhaeuser executive Patty Bedient; Intel vice president Rani Borkar; former Oregon House member Tim Josi, now a Tillamook County commissioner.
The governor's office released the lists to The Oregonian Tuesday in response to a public records request. You can see the original documents from PSU, from Oregon State and from the U of O. The University of Oregon list was put together by the university's foundation, said UO assistant vice president Phil Weiler. Oregon State University President Ed Ray put together that school's list of nominees.
Ray said Tuesday that "at their best, institutional boards attract amazing people... who often have resources they can bring to the university and they can influence people they know to bring more philanthropy to the university... and hopefully influence people in the Legislature to provide more resources to public higher education."
Knight's nomination is notable in part because the board's meetings and records will be public -- and Knight has assiduously avoided talking publicly about his obvious interest in the UO and the way it is run.
Kitzhaber is expected to announce next month the people he wishes to appoint to each board. His appointments are subject to Senate confirmation.
The independent boards will take over from the state Board of Higher Education on July 1, 2014.
-- Betsy Hammond
UO Governing Board Suggestions.pdf


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Red-Carpet Video Interviews: Gloria Estefan's Broadway Musical 'On Your Feet!'
Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on June 21, 2015 - 1:38pm
Adam Fendelman
Ana Villafañe
Emilion Estefan
Jeff Doles
Jerry Mitchell
Lauren Wolf
Marquis Theatre
Oriental Theatre
CHICAGO – HollywoodChicago.com presents our video coverage of the pre-Broadway premiere of the new musical "On Your Feet!" from Gloria Estefan and Emilio Estefan on June 17, 2015 at the Oriental Theatre in Chicago.
Film News: 'Birdman' is Best Picture at 2015 Academy Awards
Submitted by PatrickMcD on February 23, 2015 - 1:19am
87th Academy Awards
Alejandro González Iñárrittu
CHICAGO – The Bird was the word at the 87th Academy Awards, as the film "Birdman" won Best Picture and Alejandro González Iñárrittu won Best Director for the same film. The stellar broadcast was hosted by Neil Patrick Harris, and was highlighted by some passionate speeches and song performances.
Film Feature: HollywoodChicago.com's 2015 Oscar Predictions
CHICAGO – Oscar! Oscar! Oscar! Say it three times to win it, and you'll win every Academy Award pool you enter – at least for the nine categories covered here – if you follow the advice of the HollywoodChicago.com "experts." We have the Oscar magic, so if you believe in it, then we deliver.
Film News: 'Life Itself' Snub Mars 2015 Oscar Nominations
The Imitation Gam. Selma
Whiplash. Best Picture
CHICAGO – In an unprecedented oversight, especially for the film community in Chicago, film critic Roger Ebert's biography "Life Itself" was snubbed for Best Documentary as the nominations were announced on Jan. 15, 2015 for the 87th Academy Awards. The films "Birdman" and "The Grand Budapest Hotel" tied for most Oscar nominations with nine.
Entertainment News: Best-Picture 'Boyhood,' TV's 'Transparent' Are Golden Globe Winners
Submitted by PatrickMcD on January 12, 2015 - 9:53am
Billy Bob Thorton
CHICAGO – The best of 2014 in film and TV was celebrated at the 72nd Golden Globe Awards on January 11th, 2015. Co-hosted by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, the first big and splashy awards ceremony of the season honored the films "Boyhood" (Drama) and "The Grand Budapest Hotel (Comedy), plus continued to recognize the current influence of online TV series by awarding honors to "Transparent" (Amazon Prime) and its lead actor, Jeffrey Tambor.
Film News: Chicago Film Critics Association Names 'Boyhood' as 2014's Best Picture
Submitted by PatrickMcD on December 16, 2014 - 9:25am
Alejandro G. Inarritu
CFCA
Chicago Film Critics Association
CHICAGO – 'Boyhood,' director Richard Linklater's story of a boy maturing from age 6 to age 18 – using the same actor over 12 years – was designated Best Picture by the Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA) at a ceremony on December 15th, 2014.
Film News: 'Birdman' Tops Chicago Film Critics Association 2014 Best Film Nominees
2014. Best Film
CHICAGO – The best movies of 2014 were on display as the Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA) announced their nominees in several categories of film excellence. Leading the pack was director Alejandro G. Inarritu's "Birdman," Wes Anderson's "The Grand Budapest Hotel" and newcomer Damien Chazelle's "Whiplash." The best in each category will be announced on Monday, December 15th.
Film Review: Michael Keaton Soars in Mesmerizing 'Birdman'
Submitted by PatrickMcD on October 23, 2014 - 6:01pm
Lindsay Duncan
The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance
CHICAGO – There are parts of "Birdman" that are absolutely breathtaking, in dialogue, performance and visual acumen. Even its subtitle, "The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance" has a wonderful payoff. Michael Keaton provides an Oscar worthy performance as the title character.
Film News: 'The President' is Top Film at the 2014 Chicago International Film Festival
Submitted by NickHC on October 18, 2014 - 4:16am
1001 Grams
Chicago International Film Festival
Michael Kutza
Refugiago
Sand Dollars
Speed Walking
The Alley Cat
The Art of the Pit Stop
CHICAGO – The 50th Chicago International Film Festival announced its award winners in a ceremony at the city's Sofitel Chicago Water Tower on October 17th. The Gold Hugo for "Best Film" went to "The President," a dark satire from Georgia, France, UK, and Germany. This year's jury members for the international feature film competition included Oscar-nominated actress Kathleen Turner and renowned German director Margarethe von Trotta.


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I Tried Misfits Market, A Subscription Service That Sells You 'Ugly Produce,' And Now I'm Hooked
By Kristin Salaky
Kristin Salaky
As more of us are relying on grocery delivery (and delivery, in general), many, like me, have been exploring options beyond Instacart and big-name stores. While meal kits and other delivery services are great options, I was looking for something a bit different, something that would make a difference while also helping me expand my culinary repertoire. Enter: Misfits Market.
What is Misfits Market?
The program is a subscription service that delivers boxes of certified-organic produce to your door. But this isn't just your regular produce. No, these boxes are full of "misfit" produce, meaning that for whatever reason, they weren't quite right to be put on shelves.
Make no mistake; it's not like they're handing you a box of moldy fruit and calling it a day. This is produce that's generally too big, too small, or has slight dimples or ridges. By buying up these items, this program is designed to cut down on food waste. Plus, the fruit and vegetables can be up to 40 percent less expensive than buying organic produce from the grocery store.
What comes in a box?
You can choose from two different subscriptions: The first is called the Mischief Box. It's $22 and comes with 12 different kinds of fruits and vegetables such as bell peppers, kale, apples, peaches, mangoes, and more. Occasionally you'll get some super fancy stuff, but these are generally your staples. You can expect to feed one to two people for a week with this box.
The second is called the Madness Box. This box comes with 14 different types of fruits and veggies. It's $35 and you can expect to feed three to five people for a week with this box. Each box ships for $4.50 to all locations for either size box, with the exception of Florida and Tennessee ($5.50 for either size).
You pick the type of box that works best for you and how frequently you want deliveries (you can do weekly or bi-weekly). You also have the option to skip weeks or put the subscription on hold. You might be able to choose what's in your box (more on that in a minute), but it's not currently available in all delivery areas yet.
Misfits delivers to Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Maine, Ohio, West Virginia, Washington, D.C., Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and Tennessee.
*Note: Misfits Market currently has a waitlist due to demand during the COIVD-19 outbreak.
What was my experience using it?
I'll say up front that I absolutely loved the experience getting one of these boxes. I'm someone who eats a lot of fresh produce and honestly, I'm a little skittish when it comes to expiration dates and food that's a bit off. That said, when the food arrived on our doorstep, I was pleasantly surprised.
The box came with a cooling pack to keep everything fresh. Though I apparently had the option to choose what came in my box, I truly didn't notice until I was writing this (just being honest!) and am pretty glad I didn't because I feel like it gave me a more generalized experience of getting one of these boxes. Plus, I was very happy with the contents.
In my box, I received a butternut squash, Brussels sprouts, cucumbers, grape tomatoes, a bunch of kale, limes, a mango, an onion, oranges, potatoes, a turnip, and zucchini. Misfits had no way of knowing this, but this is pretty much what a typical grocery haul looks like for me.
The biggest thing I noticed is that this produce looked pretty flawless to me. Sure, the kale could have been a teeny bit crisper, the butternut squash had a little crack, and the mango featured a slight dimple, but nothing that would have stopped me from buying any of it. In fact, a lot of it was pretty textbook perfect in my opinion (please look at how gorgeous those oranges are!). I can say my boyfriend and I happily ate all of it, and I finally figured out what the hell to do with a turnip. (Here are some suggestions!)
I'm not someone who typically cares about buying organic, but even so, this was definitely cheaper than my typical grocery bill. The only thing I will say is if you're a high-volume veggie eater like I am, this probably won't totally replace your weekly shopping trip, but for me, it's been a good base to work off of and plan meals around.
You can learn more about Misfits Market here.
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PSO Mother-Son Camping Event
January 29, 2022 at 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Half Day: GHA In-service
PSO Volunteer Appreciation Family BBQ
Trivium Run the Virtues 5K/1-Mile Fun Run
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No School: Presidents' Day / R&R
PSO General Meeting
February 22, 2022 at 8:00 am - 9:00 am
PSO Uniform Collection
The PSO will be hosting a Uniform Collection on Tuesday, February 22 in the front office from 7:30-9:30am and 1:30-3:30 PM. Parents can bring in gently-used uniforms and concert attire to receive vouchers which can be used to shop at upcoming Uniform Exchange events.
All donated items must be uniform-policy compliant, clean, and in good condition. Accepted items include: shirts with emblems, sweaters/pullovers with emblems, pants, shorts, skirts, rompers, belts, shoes, and concert attire. For Archway Trivium West, only Dennis or Anton-brand skirts and rompers will be accepted for exchange.
Our next Uniform Exchange is on Friday, February 25, from 10am-1pm in the library.
PSO Uniform Exchange
PSO Father-Daughter Dance
February 26, 2022 at 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
PSO Night at Uptown Jungle and Papa Murphy's Pizza
On Thursday, March 3 there are two opportunities to kick off Spring Break while supporting our school!
Play at Uptown Jungle anytime from 3-8pm and 35% benefits our school! (This is for full-priced tickets and can't be applied to Groupons). Let them know you are with Archway Trivium West when you get there.
Swing next door to order your Papa Murphy's pizza for dinner! $3 from every full-priced pizza benefits Archway Trivium West! You can order online, over the phone or in person but just make sure you mention our school name during ordering/pickup.
K-5 Field Day
K-2nd Field Day: 8:15-10:30am
3rd-5th Field Day: 12:00-2:45pm
Field day is almost here! It would be greatly appreciated if you could assist our PE teachers by volunteering or by donating/loaning us a few items to make this year a success! Please drop off items in the office on Wednesday, March 2. Please clearly mark ALL items with your name.
Click Here for the Kinder-2nd Grade Field Day Sign-up
Click Here for the 3rd-5th Grade Field Day Sign-up
No School: Academy In-service
Quarter 3 Evals Available by
March 11, 2022 at 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
No School: Spring Break
March 7, 2022 - March 11, 2022 at
Half Day: Academy In-service
Trivium Athletics Golf Tournament/Auction
Visit www.triviumprep.org/events for details and to register
No School: R&R Weekend
Volunteer Appreciation Breakfast
April 25, 2022 at 8:00 am - 9:30 am
Half Day Dismissal: Academy In-service / R&R Weekend
Feed My Starving Children - PSO Service Project
May 2, 2022 at 11:30 am - 1:15 pm
PSO Night at Yogurtini Goodyear
May 3, 2022 at 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Join us at Yogurtini Goodyear on Tuesday, May 3 from 4-8 pm. Show the flyer (linked in the Friday Flash) when ordering at 20% of sales will benefit our school.
14175 W. Indian School Rd, Goodyear
PSO Popsicles in the Park
May 7, 2022 at 9:00 am - 11:00 am
Goodyear Park, 3151 N. Litchfield Rd, Goodyear, AZ 85395
Ramadas 2 and 4 near the Splash Pad and Tot Lot
Current and Incoming Families are Welcome!
K-2 Spring Concerts, Summit Community Church
3rd-5th Spring Concerts, Summit Community Church
K-5 Art Walk
May 20, 2022 at 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
We are getting excited about our Art Walk on Friday, May 20 from 5-7 PM. All Archway Trivium families are encouraged to attend. Student art work will be on display throughout the campus and parents will have an opportunity to take home their student's portfolio from the year. Additionally, there will be:
Free Art Workshops in the MPR (Painting and Sculpture Projects)
Bounce Houses and a Dunk Tank on the field
Hot Dog/Hamburger Meals (Pre-order online or cash only at the event)
Mister Softee Ice Cream Truck (Card or Cash at event)
Sponsor your Child's Artwork to support the purchase of art for the new building
Pre-Order Meals and/or Sponsor your Child's Artwork
Our PSO will be hosting a Uniform Collection on Friday, May 20 from 7:30-9:30 AM and 1:30-3:30 PM outside the Front Office.
Additionally, on Monday, May 23 from 8:30-10:30 AM, the PSO will be collecting uniforms outside near the Archway MPR. During this time, items from the Archway Lost and Found will be displayed for parents to peruse and Archway Trivium West Spirit Wear will be available for purchase on clearance.
Families will be issued a donation voucher that they can use to shop at our Uniform Exchange. All donated items must be uniform-policy compliant, clean, and in good condition. Accepted items include: shirts with emblems, sweaters/pullovers with emblems, pants, shorts, skirts, rompers, belts, shoes, and concert attire. For Archway Trivium West, only Dennis or Anton-brand skirts and rompers will be accepted for exchange.
Our next Uniform Exchange will be held on on Saturday, July 30 from 10:30 AM-2:30 PM in the Archway MPR. Look for more information as the date gets closer.
PSO Uniform Collection / Lost&Found Cleanout
May 23, 2022 at 8:30 am - 10:30 am
5th Grade Promotion
Half Day Dismissal
May 23, 2022 - May 25, 2022 at
Barnes & Noble Book Fair
June 4, 2022 - June 12, 2022 at
Barnes & Noble Book Fair - June 4-12
The Barnes and Noble bookstore on Litchfield Road will be hosting a series of Book Fairs throughout the year. During this time, they will have tables set up in the store with consumable books for each of our grade levels. If you choose to purchase your consumables elsewhere, please be sure the ISBN number matches the approved book list. You can also order books from Barnes and Noble online at www.barnesandnoble.com.
June Book Fair Flyer (June 4-June 12, 2022; online through June 17)
GH Summit: School Office Closed
July 30, 2022 at 10:30 am - 2:30 pm
Archway MPR
July Barnes & Noble Book Fair
July 23, 2022 - July 31, 2022 at
Our Barnes & Noble Book Fair is this week at the Barnes & Noble on Litchfield Rd. Present the flyer at checkout or enter the Book Fair Id 12627857when shopping online (through August 5) and a portion of sales will benefit our school!
https://archwaytrivium.greatheartsamerica.org/academics/book-supply-lists/
Meet the Teacher Open House 0 Students must wear uniform
Kinder-1st Grade: 1:00-2:30 PM
2nd-3rd Grade: 2:30-4:00 PM
4th-5th Grade: 4:00-5:30 PM
Kindergarten Welcome
August 4, 2022 at 8:10 am - 9:00 am
The first day of school is memorable for students and parents. To honor this special moment for incoming Kindergarten students, Kindergarten parents will be able to walk their child onto the playground and spend a few minutes with their child on the first day of school, Thursday, August 4 during the times noted below.
First Day of Kindergarten - Thursday, August 4
Section KE - 8:10-8:20 AM
Sections KA and KD - 8:30-8:40 AM
Sections KB and KC - 8:50-9:00 AM
Kindergarten students who are dropped off (without a parent) before 7:50 AM will gather at a designated table in the Multi-Purpose Room (MPR) with activities and supervision. Once our older students are in class, Kindergarten students will proceed to the playground for a special time of play.
Our Headmaster, Dr. Scott, along with the Kindergarten team and other faculty members will be on hand to greet you and your child on their first day of school. We are looking forward to sharing this memorable time with you and your child.
PSO Boo Hoo/Yahoo Parent Social, Panera Goodyear
First-Early Release Wednesday Dismissal
K-2nd Parent-Only Curriculum Night
Join us for K-2 and 3-5 Parent-only Curriculum Nights
Please join us for our K-2 and 3-5 Parent-only Curriculum Nights on the dates/times listed below. Parents will gather at the start of each session (5pm and 6pm) to hear a few words from Dr. Scott before being dismissed to meet with teachers in their child's classroom.
Specials teachers will be available from 5:30-6:30 pm for any parents who wish to speak with them (K-2 Specials in Room 206; 3rd-5th Specials in Room 216).
There are two identical sessions offered each night. We hope you can join us for this event!
Tuesday, August 16 - K-2 Parent Curriculum Night
Two Identical Sessions:
Session 1: 5:00-5:45 PM
Tuesday, August 23: 3rd-5th Parent Curriculum Night
Half Day: Academy Inservice
Trivium Spirit Day
August 20, 2022 at 9:00 am - 11:00 am
Location TBA
PSO General Meeting, MPR
August 22, 2022 at 8:00 am - 9:00 am
3rd-5th Grade Parent-Only Curriculum Night
Spalding/Singapore Night for Parents
Students must wear uniform on Picture Day.
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No School: Labor Day/R&R
The school office will be closed.
PSO Night at Yogurtini
September 8, 2022 at 3:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Teacher Appreciation Lunch sponsored by 4th Grade Families
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Great Hearts Gala
School Picture Retake Day
No School: Academy Inservice
No School: Fall Break
October 3, 2022 - October 7, 2022 at
No School: Parent/Teacher Conferences
October 10, 2022 - October 12, 2022 at
School Resumes
PSO Goodwill Drive
PSO General Meeting, Archway MPR
October 24, 2022 at 8:30 am - 9:30 am
PSO Uniform Collection - Monday, October 24
The PSO will be hosting a Uniform Collection on Monday, October 24 in the front office from 7:30-9:30am, during the PSO General Meeting in the Archway MPR and from 1:30-3:30 PM. Parents can bring in gently-used uniforms and concert attire to receive vouchers which can be used to shop at upcoming Uniform Exchange events.
All donated items must be uniform-policy compliant, clean, and in good condition. Accepted items include: shirts with emblems, sweaters/pullovers with emblems, pants, shorts, skirts, rompers, belts, shoes, and concert attire. For Archway Trivium, only Dennis or Anton-brand skirts and rompers will be accepted for exchange.
PSO Uniform Exchange - Tuesday, October 25, 5-8 PM
Our PSO Uniform Exchange will be held on Tuesday, October 25 from 5-8 PM in the Archway MPR.
Families may purchase used uniforms at a discounted price or may receive credit for donating used uniforms. Only Dennis/Anton brand uniforms in good condition (no holes, stains or frayed edges) will be accepted for exchange credit.
PSO Uniform Exchange, Archway MPR
October 25, 2022 at 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
PSO Ren Faire Community Market
November 5, 2022 at 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm
PSO Ren Faire
November 5, 2022 at 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm
No School: Veterans Day
PSO Holiday Photo Shoot
November 19, 2022 at 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
PSO Uniform Jacket Swap & Shop
No School: Thanksgiving Break/R&R
November 23, 2022 - November 25, 2022 at
K-2nd Winter Concerts
Please mark your calendars for our upcoming Winter Concerts. This year, our Archway concerts will be held on campus in the Trivium Gym. Scholars wear Concert Attire (as described below). This is a wonderful celebration of our music program at Archway Trivium West. We look forward to seeing you there!
Winter Concert Dates
Monday, December 5
Kindergarten, 5 PM (arrive 4:30 PM)
1st Grade, 6 PM (arrive 5:30 PM)
2nd Grade, 7 PM (arrive 6:30 PM)
3rd Grade, 5 PM (arrive 4:30 PM)
4th Grade, 6 PM (arrive 5:30 PM)
Concert Attire: Boys wear white collared dress shirts with black pants and black dress shoes. Girls wear a white blouse with a black skirt or black dress pants, or a solid black dress, and black dress shoes (open-toed shoes and reasonable heels are permitted).
PSO Night at Desert Farm Lights
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3rd-5th Grade Concerts
PSO Harkins Orders due to Front Office
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December 3, 2022 - December 11, 2022 at
In-store: December 3-11
Online: December 3-16
Book Fair ID: 12627864
December 13, 2022 - December 15, 2022 at
No School: Winter Break
December 16, 2022 - January 3, 2023 at
Trivium Spirit Day - Full Day of School
No School: Civil Rights Day
January 23, 2023 at 8:30 am - 9:30 am
PSO Dancing with Daughters
Evening in the Gym
More information to come
Half Day: GHA Inservice
Sons Adventure Day
February 11, 2023 at 11:00 am - 2:00 pm
No School: Presidents Day/R&R
Run the Virtues 5K/1-Mile Fun Run
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March 13, 2023 - March 17, 2023 at
April 7, 2023 - April 10, 2023 at
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From festivals to weddings to real estate, Grant JT Holub of Black Hills Video has seen it all (including quirky music videos for the Nashville, Tenn. band The Outer Vibe). The professional storyteller has been creating films since a young age, and now shares his talents from the ground and high up in the air thanks to drones. 605 caught up with the cinematographer to see what inspires him, where some of his favorite spots are at, and what it's like capturing the Black Hills from the sky.
You might know Black Hills Video from… several wedding, aerial, and event videos. Also, the logo is making its rounds either on stickers or hats in downtown Rapid City.
I got into film when… my teachers in 10th grade started letting me make videos instead of writing papers and doing projects for class. At the time, the videos were great, and it wasn't hard to get people interested in helping. That was 12 years ago. YouTube wasn't big yet when I first started, so I was just making content on the fly without any knowledge.
We are 107a FAA certified, which means… that I probably won't get in trouble for flying a drone. Like most things, flying a drone on a professional level, being aware of the environment, and situation, requires a license. Four hundred feet up, and as far as the eye can see (within reason).
What I love about flying/filming with the drone is… it give you views and shots that weren't able to be thought of/captured otherwise. Aerial cinematography adds a lot of value to film. The Black Hills is by far the best place to fly around, as we have so many different and unique locations. My favorite location to fly so far would be the Needles in Custer State Park.
We help location scout, which means… I get to help find the filming location for a project. Growing up in the badlands, and now living/exploring in the Hills, has helped me find some really great locations. I owe my friends many thanks for all the hikes. Rapid City gets a lot of outside companies/productions all year long that come here and are wanting to film somewhere beautiful and unique.
I love shooting at events and festivals. One of my favorite local festivals is… the Lead Winterfest. Lead is a seriously underrated town. It has skiing, beer, dark matter science, and several places to get lost outside of town. Like, you could be at the Greenfield Pub drinking a beer, and then there's some scientists 4,850 feet below the earth in the cleanest room in the world, and that's just Tuesday for ya.
Along with being hired for shoots, I'm passionate about working with great organizations. One non-profit I shoot for is… Black Hills Works. Last year we started working with the Black Hills Works in creating several story-based campaign videos to highlight the amazing work they do, and the people they support. It's been an amazing experience, and we're looking forward to continuing with them.
One of my favorite parts about South Dakota is… that it's still the "Wild West." And nothing is impossible.
Our tagline is "Get Elevated," which is… like our version of seize the day. Also, we fly drones a lot, giving an elevated look on what we're shooting.
Shooting music videos is different than other shoots, because… you can do as many takes as you need, and it allows you to get creative. And if you can a fly drone around a band playing a song during the Solar Eclipse? Do it.
One project I'm really excited about… was one I produced for the Dakota Five-O. Last year, six friends and I filmed the 50 mile, 700-rider bike race outside of Spearfish. With eight-plus hours of footage, 120-plus editing, 20-plus re-edits, the Dakota Five-O movie turned out to be pretty awesome, weighing in at nine minutes long.
If someone comes to the Black Hills, I always recommend to stop at… the Badlands, because they are awesome to adventure, and not too far from Rapid. They might as well stop at Wall Drug for a donut and ice water while they're at it. Besides Mt. Rushmore, there's a few breweries/hikes I would recommend. Ask me sometime.
A project I'm currently working on is… this summer I'm creating a video series featuring people doing their thing in the Black Hills, whether it be rock climbing, biking, hiking etc. The Woods Are Sick was inspired by one rad lady, and it will highlight people and their talents and dreams, along with the beauty of the Black Hills. If you'd like to adventure the Hills, let me know.
Why I enjoy telling stories through film is… that it's either helping a cause, or possibly could be contributing to society. Everything has a story, it's just how you tell it that makes it worth it.
For more information, check out blackhillsvideo.com.


Someone stole Mike's identity and has been using it to pay for gas service and buy cellphones in his name. He's even got a $163 default judgment against him for something he never paid. Here's how he unraveled the threads of his identity thieves, and how he may never truly be free from their grasp.
I have been reading Consumerist for years now, and like a good Consumerist reader I check my free credit report every year. Well apparently last year I didn't check my Experian report, which was good news for me this year because I still have until May for my other two. Well, lo and behold, there's a default filing for $163. At first I was like, oh I forgot to pay something, what the hell cost me $163 that I missed?
Small back story: At some point of my life during the transition from my parents house to my own apartment, my mail got rerouted to a P.O. Box that I don't believe I ever set up. At the time I had only one major credit card, and Citibank put me on an extended fraud alert at my request. Basically what that means is that I can't get instant credit and they have to call me any time somebody tries to use my credit info.
Flash forward to just 2 years ago right after my wife and I just bought our first house and I got a call from AT&T to verify my purchase there. Which was weird because I have only had Verizon. Needless to say I was mad, but they wouldn't tell me the location of the store where it was happening or anything. So I told them that no, I wasn't trying to buy a phone, it was fraud.
The next few days I got several more calls from T-mobile and Sprint. Sprint was the only company that at least told me what state this was all happening in, Texas. So I filed an FTC form online, but I had nothing to go to police with since the crooks are using my social but I have a lack of any activity in my report.
Last week I was reading over the report of the default filing and I see that the company is based in Texas. I Googled the company name, and it turns out its a large energy provider for most of the south, Atmos. I'm a long-time resident of NJ and I have never lived in Texas. At first I called Experian and filed a report with them. They gave me the Atmos number to call. I called Atmos and navigated their system to get to their billing department. At first they were shocked. I explained that I don't live there and I don't even know where there is. They gladly gave me the address for the residence who had used my social to get service to their house. Apparently this house is a known hotbed for denial of service and then reactivation under a different social. More than five times a year sometimes, she said. So I filed the report with Atmos.
Then took that info and called the debt collectors directly. I explained this all to them, and they just sounded defeated. They knew they weren't getting a dime now.
Then I went and filed a police report and gave them all my info, the address of where this took place, the phone number of the guy who owned the property (was pretty sure it was a rental). I even had the land tax records which are publicly accessible. I know nothing will happen with the police report, but I need it so I can get my credit mark removed.
All in all it went better than expected, but I'm pretty sure my social is floating around on the black market now. It's only a matter of time until my credit block is ended or there's a lapse and somebody uses it. I have really good credit in the 740+ range. I've spent most of my adult credit-having life protecting my assets and following the rules.
Use my story as a reason people need to check their reports, and personally I believe these reports should be free every quarter since identity theft is more common than ever before.


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This Week at the Movies (Oct. 19, 2018)
Here are some reviews of films coming out at the theater this week as well as others that may be in theaters or newly on home video.
Opening: Oct. 19, 2018
Wide (United States)
For member reviews of this film, follow this link
Expanding (United States)
Brent McKnight @ The Seattle Times
Limited (United States)
Aaron Neuwirth @ We Live Entertainment
Excerpt: What They Had is the sort of family drama you can appreciate for keeping things fairly straightforward. It offers a relatable story that does enough to round out the characters so you can enjoy the time, regardless of the balance between light humor and overwhelming drama.
2018 Films In Theaters Now In Select Areas
First Man
Hotel Artemis
3 Faces
Josh Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
Angels Are Made Of Light
Herman Dhaliwal @ Cinema Sanctum
Excerpt: The influences are clear, but Gareth Evans weaves in and out of several genres in a way that feels distinctly his own, and for what he's trying to do here, I think it's one hell of a success.
Excerpt: As it stands, Beautiful Boy comes up short as far as building a stronger narrative out of a family's struggle.
Jared Mobarak @ BuffaloVibe
Excerpt: Thankfully Knightley and West are so good that we find ourselves enjoying their characterizations enough to forgive the shortcomings of the rather superficial progressions they follow. We learn what Colette's sexuality does to her marriage, but not enough about what it does to her.
Don't Worry He Won't Get Far On Foot
Excerpt: While Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far On Foot may lean a bit too hard on the conventions that made Van Sant's Good Will Hunting work so well, there's a sense of accomplishment to be found in this film's performances, Van Sant's choices, and the genuine feelings the film creates.
An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn
Jared Mobarak @ JaredMobarak.com
Excerpt: If The Greasy Strangler earned the pre-ordained cult following it found, this could too considering its recognizable cast and lack of vomit-inducing viscera makes it more accessible.
Brent McKnight @ The Last Thing I See
Excerpt: It is not for the faint of heart. Unless you like watching a maybe-lunatic dangle from his fingertips thousands of feet up a sheer rock face without any sort of backup plan. If that's your jam, you're very much in luck.
Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween
Excerpt: As someone who wasn't much of a fan of the first, but was still able to recognize its merits, this one managed to bring some charm and fun thanks to a likeable cast.
Introduzione All'oscuro
The Kindergarten Teacher
Excerpt: The Kindergarten Teacher isn't a bad film, but it's a very underwhelming one. Maggie Gyllenhaal is good enough to elevate the thin material into something genuinely compelling.
Betty Jo Tucker @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Excerpt: Maggie Gyllenhaal and Parker Sevak astonish us in this disturbing but intriguing drama about the power and unfortunate results of obsession.
Life and Nothing More
Jared Mobarak @ The Film Stage
Excerpt: By letting the cast improvise their reactions through the lens of their experiences, Esparza finds truth [to] expose how injustice is the new "normal" and how the consequences of one's misfortunate reverberate well beyond him/herself.
Namaste England
Tusshar Sasi @ Filmy Sasi
Excerpt: Indian cinema is evolving but 'Namaste England' is one of the rare, contemporary films that will prove you otherwise. Shoddily written, this showy relationship drama comes sans energy and a profound purpose for its characters.
Frederic & Mary Ann Brussat @ Spirituality & Practice
Excerpt: A dramady carried by many magic moments of heartache and humor.
Ken Bakely @ Film Pulse
Excerpt: This tale of a teenaged girl's crossing the boundary from childhood to too-early adulthood, simultaneously a portrait of a society quietly yet inexorably collapsing, has a disturbing power that sneaks up on you.
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Gerald's Game
Federico Furzan @ Cinelipsis [Spanish]
Excerpt: Un juego inocente se convierte en una pesadilla en una película que reafirma la posición valiosa de Mike Flanagan en el cine de género.
Your're Killing Me Susana
Excerpt: Both Gael Garcia Bernal and Victoria Echequi are quite photogenic. Unfortunately, most of their scenes together appear forced.
Excerpt: This excellent Director's Cut of "Exposed" is far superior to that befuddling mystery offering.
The Wailing
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Reviews: Halloween (2018)
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