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Nuns Reach Out to Women in Prostitution
Blog Published: November 22, 2007
By Sister Julie
Check out this article from CNS … my comments are at the end …
Nuns who help prostitutes say exploited women have spiritual needs
By Victor Gaetan
ROME (CNS) — With her hair dyed an unnatural shade of red and a thin green shawl draped over her, Carmelite Sister Begona Arroya stands out among nuns in a convent overlooking St. Peter's Square.
But when she is ministering in southern Spain to prostitutes from all over the world, she blends right in.
"I dress so I won't intimidate the women I need to reach," said Sister Begona, 41, with a smile. "I have no office, just a cell phone and a car."
Good Shepherd Sister Magdalena Barsan Bilibok, 28, of Romania is studying in Italy. She participates in a street outreach group in Rome that befriends exploited women.
"There are places in Rome where men in cars come to buy sex and there are many, many women, all from foreign countries, lined up to go with them," said Sister Magdalena. "Of course, pimps are behind almost all the girls on the streets.
"It is so terrible. The girls get in the car, and when they come back, most look completely gone, like they don't exist, they are destroyed by this," she said. "We talk to them and pray with them. We serve them hot tea."
Consolata Sister Eugenia Bonetti, who spent 24 years in Kenya before returning to Italy "as a missionary in my own country," recalled the words of a woman who sought shelter in a safe house run by women religious.
"She said, 'They destroyed my life.' And she repeated it, 'They destroyed my life.' And a third time, again. Every word was like a bomb," said Sister Eugenia.
Sisters Begona and Magdalena shared their experiences and knowledge of prostitution and human trafficking with women religious from around the world who gathered in Rome in mid-October to consider their unique role in confronting sex trafficking. The conference was funded by the U.S. Department of State and was organized by the U.S. Embassy to the Vatican and the Italian Union of Major Superiors.
The nuns created a new organization, the International Network of Religious Against Trafficking in Persons.
Under the guidance of Sister Eugenia, who has emerged as a world leader fighting human trafficking, participants presented detailed assessments of trafficking trends in their countries, as well as strategies to prevent women and girls from being lured into prostitution.
Many of the participants had been engaged in activities to help people in prostitution — men as well as women — for decades.
In the Paris neighborhood of Pigalle in the 1970s, Sister Magdalena was part of a group of nuns and a priest who converted a brothel into a bar and restaurant to become integrated in the community and serve its spiritually needy residents.
"Our goal was to give compassion to women in violent situations. We helped hundreds of people," she said.
"I will always remember one woman in particular, from Gabon. She was involved in drugs and prostitution, deeply despairing. After a few years, we helped her find her birth father, and we helped her find a new job. She's a flight attendant, with a child today."
In Colombia, a New Zealand nun who identified herself as Sister Mary said she teaches English six hours a day to raise money for her real job.
"I serve the girls and transvestites in the street, dear," said the youthful looking 65-year-old. "I love what I do. They are so badly, badly mistreated."
Sister Mary, a Marist, exemplifies the ability of the nuns to withhold personal judgment of the prostitutes while rejecting those who enslave them.
"The drug lords own the sex clubs that drag these vulnerable people into a life that is very hard to escape," said Sister Mary.
She said she hopes Colombian church leaders will do more to confront sex traffickers.
"Many of them are Catholic and know our priests through the sacraments. We should use our influence to tell them to stop exploiting people in sex," she said.
Sister Eugenia said women religious have a long history of reaching out to people in distress, especially women and children.
Some congregations, for example, Spain's Sisters of Adoration, Slaves of the Blessed Sacrament, were founded specifically to confront the abuse and social exclusion suffered by women in prostitution.
"We have a unique charism to be the good Samaritan. Women religious will reactivate our communities through our commitment to protecting human dignity, fighting human trafficking," Sister Eugenia told the nuns gathered in Rome.
"We must be silent witnesses of personal suffering but eloquent denouncers of social injustice," she said.
WOW … I got chills reading this article. These nuns rock. This one article touched on a number of major issues: faith, redemption, religious life, habits, compassion and justice, sacraments, witness … These women religious remind me that we are to be the healing hands, the welcoming arms, the loving heart of Jesus especially to those people who are poor and vulnerable. Sometimes that means being able to "withhold personal judgment of the prostitutes while rejecting those who enslave them." That is a tough thing for anyone to do, but it clearly exemplifies the Sisters mentioned in this article.
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DJC November 15, 2007 at 6:24 pm
These sisters are seeing daily what most of us can't even imagine, a harsh, cruel side of life. And yet they see Jesus in all that they administer to. They are remarkable women, that are really living the Gospel, God Bless them…
marie November 18, 2007 at 12:35 am
WOW! I got the chills too… How sad these women are … I want to cry when I see women being exploited, used, and tossed aside like so much rubbish. This piece truly touched my heart. In prayer.
Cathy Keller November 19, 2007 at 6:42 pm
One can only imagine the courage it takes to venture out into such a hostile world. It really is a witness too, I think, of the power of the Holy Spirit. I am in awe of these women!!
Ann November 20, 2007 at 10:27 am
"We must be silent witnesses of personal suffering but eloquent denouncers of social injustice," she said. These Sisters have my admiration – it is truly wonderful to read of their mission….and that last line speaks volumes when it comes to Gospel values.


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HomeIndia News'ISKCON Bangalore' Temple To Remain Close For Janmashtami Celebrations
This Article is From Aug 27, 2021
'ISKCON Bangalore' temple attracts a large number of devotees for Sri Krishna Janmashtami.
India NewsANIUpdated: August 27, 2021 5:51 pm IST
This year, the temple is celebrating Janmashtami on August 29 and August 30.
Bengaluru (Karnataka):
Ahead of Janmashtami, 'ISKCON Bangalore' on Friday announced that the temple premises will remain closed for the public from August 29 to August 30.
"In the interest of public safety and prevailing government regulations, the temple management has decided to keep the ISKCON Bangalore campus closed for public on both days. We regret the inconvenience caused due to this decision," stated in the release.
"All the sevas will be offered to Lord Krishna as per the festival schedule," said in the release.
"Devotees are requested to participate online by visiting ISKCON Bangalore's YouTube channel, website and other official social media accounts," it further stated.
'ISKCON Bangalore' temple attracts a large number of devotees for Sri Krishna Janmashtami. This year, the temple is celebrating Janmashtami on August 29 and August 30.
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// After including cdash_selenium_test_base.php, subsequent require_once calls
// are relative to the top of the CDash source tree
//
require_once(dirname(__FILE__).'/cdash_selenium_test_case.php');

class Example extends CDashSeleniumTestCase
{
  protected function setUp()
  {
    $this->browserSetUp();
  }

  public function testOverview()
  {
  $this->open($this->webPath."/index.php");
  $this->click("link=Login");
  $this->waitForPageToLoad("30000");
  $this->type("login", "simpletest@localhost");
  $this->type("passwd", "simpletest");
  $this->click("sent");
  $this->waitForPageToLoad("30000");

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Q: Java jersey monitoring statistics I am trying to activate the monitoring  statistics for a web service. But i get null pointer exception. How is it activated properly? I do not understand the documentation from jersey. Here is my code:
package com.app.rest;
import javax.inject.Inject;
import javax.inject.Provider;
import javax.ws.rs.GET;
import javax.ws.rs.Path;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Response;

import org.glassfish.jersey.server.ResourceConfig;
import org.glassfish.jersey.server.ServerProperties;
import org.glassfish.jersey.server.monitoring.MonitoringStatistics;
import org.glassfish.jersey.server.monitoring.TimeWindowStatistics;
@Path("/")
public class TestingEvents extends ResourceConfig {
public TestingEvents()
{
    ResourceConfig cnf =   new ResourceConfig(TestingEvents.class);
     cnf.property(ServerProperties.MONITORING_ENABLED, true);
}

@Inject
 Provider<MonitoringStatistics> monitoringStatisticsProvider;

@Path("/test")
@GET
public void test()
{
    System.out.println("Invoked.........");
    final MonitoringStatistics snapshot = monitoringStatisticsProvider.get();

    System.out.println(snapshot.getRequestStatistics().toString());
 //  final TimeWindowStatistics timeWindowStatistics = snapshot.getRequestStatistics().getTimeWindowStatistics().get(0);
    //System.out.println("request count: " + timeWindowStatistics.getRequestCount()+", average request processing [ms]: " + timeWindowStatistics.getAverageDuration());
}}

and my web xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee       http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_1.xsd"
id="WebApp_ID" version="3.1">
<display-name>RestCounter</display-name>
<servlet>
    <servlet-name>MyApplication</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.glassfish.jersey.servlet.ServletContainer</servlet-class>
    <init-param>
        <param-name>jersey.config.server.provider.packages</param-name>
        <param-value>com.app.rest</param-value>
    </init-param>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>MyApplication</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/myApp/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

And the exception:
SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet [MyApplication] in context with path     [/RestCounter] threw exception [java.lang.NullPointerException] with root cause
java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.app.rest.TestingEvents.test(TestingEvents.java:34)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
at org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.internal.ResourceMethodInvocationHandlerFactory$1.invoke(ResourceMethodInvocationHandlerFactory.java:81)
at org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.internal.AbstractJavaResourceMethodDispatcher$1.run(AbstractJavaResourceMethodDispatcher.java:143)
at org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.internal.AbstractJavaResourceMethodDispatcher.invoke(AbstractJavaResourceMethodDispatcher.java:160)
at org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.internal.VoidVoidDispatcherProvider$VoidToVoidDispatcher.doDispatch(VoidVoidDispatcherProvider.java:78)
at org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.internal.AbstractJavaResourceMethodDispatcher.dispatch(AbstractJavaResourceMethodDispatcher.java:97)
at org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.ResourceMethodInvoker.invoke(ResourceMethodInvoker.java:389)
at org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.ResourceMethodInvoker.apply(ResourceMethodInvoker.java:347)
at org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.ResourceMethodInvoker.apply(ResourceMethodInvoker.java:102)
at org.glassfish.jersey.server.ServerRuntime$2.run(ServerRuntime.java:303)
at org.glassfish.jersey.internal.Errors$1.call(Errors.java:271)
at org.glassfish.jersey.internal.Errors$1.call(Errors.java:267)
at org.glassfish.jersey.internal.Errors.process(Errors.java:315)
at org.glassfish.jersey.internal.Errors.process(Errors.java:297)
at org.glassfish.jersey.internal.Errors.process(Errors.java:267)
at org.glassfish.jersey.process.internal.RequestScope.runInScope(RequestScope.java:317)
at org.glassfish.jersey.server.ServerRuntime.process(ServerRuntime.java:286)
at org.glassfish.jersey.server.ApplicationHandler.handle(ApplicationHandler.java:1072)
at org.glassfish.jersey.servlet.WebComponent.service(WebComponent.java:399)
at org.glassfish.jersey.servlet.ServletContainer.service(ServletContainer.java:381)
at org.glassfish.jersey.servlet.ServletContainer.service(ServletContainer.java:344)
at org.glassfish.jersey.servlet.ServletContainer.service(ServletContainer.java:221)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:291)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at org.apache.tomcat.websocket.server.WsFilter.doFilter(WsFilter.java:52)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:239)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:219)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:106)
at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:501)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:142)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:79)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.AbstractAccessLogValve.invoke(AbstractAccessLogValve.java:610)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:88)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:516)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1086)
at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:659)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11NioProtocol.java:223)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1558)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(NioEndpoint.java:1515)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

Invoked is shown at the console but then the program crushes. help please.

A: First get some configuration aspects out the way...
ResourceConfig is kind of a replacement for a web.xml. They can be used together, as you can configure the web.xml to use your ResourceConfig subclass, but I rarely see the need to. If you want to go with no web.xml, you could do something like
@ApplicationPath("/myApp")
public class AppConfig extends ResourceConfig {
    public AppConfig() {
        packages("com.app.rest");
    }
}

This is the equivalent to you declaring the ServletContainer, setting the package(s) to scan, and setting the url-mapping to /myApp/*. With the above configuration, you can completely get rid of the web.xml (assuming you have the jersey-container-servlet dependency, and you are in a Servlet 3.x environment; in a Servlet 2.x environment, you need to use the web.xml).
One thing you do not do, is have your resource classes extending ResourceConfig. So get rid of the sub-classing (in your TestingEvents class), and definitely get rid of what you have in the constructor.
As far as setting the monitoring property...
If you decide to go with the ResourceConfig subclass...
you can simple do
@ApplicationPath("/myApp")
public class AppConfig extends ResourceConfig {
    public AppConfig() {
        packages("com.app.rest");
        property(ServerProperties.MONITORING_STATISTICS_ENABLED, true);
    }
}

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Paralysed Olympian Thomas Fogdoe on life after his ski accident | Olympic Channel
Thomas Fogdoe on a life helping others after being paralysed in a ski accident
Sweden's Fogdoe was one of the world's best slalom skiers until he broke his back in training. Now he's a sports psychologist helping others.
At 24 years of age, Thomas Fogdoe had established himself as an elite alpine skier.
He had already claimed the slalom world cup title, along with five career wins and 16 podium finishes.
The Swede had also competed at the Albertville 1992 and Lillehammer 1994 Olympics, finishing fifth both times.
But he never got the chance to compete at another Games.
In February 1995 Fogdoe was training in Are, which is currently hosting the Alpine Ski World Championships.
He crashed. His back broke. He was paralysed.
Fast forward another 24 years, and much has changed in the life of Thomas Fogdoe, as he told Alessandro Poggi for the Olympic Channel Podcast.
Read the transcript below.
OriginalsOlympic Channel Podcast
Podcast: "I would love to walk again... [But] if I had the possibility to turn back time I guess I would stay like this," Paralysed Olympian Thomas Fogdö
Originals Olympic Channel Podcast
Thomas Fogdö was one of the best slalom skiers in the world, but his life took an unexpected turn when he broke his back in a training accident. Despite now being in a wheelchair, the Swede has continued to give back to the sport he loves so much, and now helps others who have suffered similar injuries.
Olympic Channel: So things were going well for you, you were one of the best slalom skiers in the world, you won a slalom world cup, but as you mentioned, there was an accident. The date, 7th February 1995 marked your life, what do you remember about that day?
Thomas Fogdoe: It was a normal training day. We should have been at the World Championships, but they were cancelled because of lack of snow so we ended up in Are to train, focused on that. We had a great day, we had a slope that normally wasn't open, really steep. But to get there you had to go through the woods, I've done that run for 3-4 times and the fourth or fifth time I came too fast, lost my balance and ended up in the woods, hitting a (tree) stump with my back, I broke my back and I had a spinal cord injury.
Nu kör vi. Idag tänker vi lite extra på vår vän Håkan Åsell. pic.twitter.com/VOr8kXHncz
— Thomas Fogdö (@Fogdo) February 26, 2016
I imagine it must be painful to talk about that. When you heard the diagnosis, how did you react?
I guess it was like everybody else, denial. I thought the doctor was mad. When he told me that I will be in the wheelchair for the rest of my life, I thought 'this can't be happening.' I knew this doctor was one of the best surgeons in the northern part of Europe so I thought what he did that night was fixing my back and at least I could go on with my life, becoming a police officer, all those dreams that I had. He was quite clear. It was hard, it was tough, but I also needed to hear that. The process to get used to the new life started that day. So it has been tough, but now this is my life, a new one, but still okay.
You were only 24 years old and you had a whole career ahead of you. How that event has changed you as a person?
Surely, in many ways. I guess understanding that life is precious and things happen in life. Sure, I will have other difficulties in life, but I know that I can go through with them, at least live with them. I guess, I'm quite more calm nowadays than I used to be. It feels like if I can do that thing, I can do almost everything.
Plockat blåbär med familjen. Ett #zoommoment med #zoomability som ger massor med energi. pic.twitter.com/MlbZlL3GP2
— Thomas Fogdö (@Fogdo) July 25, 2015
Now you are now helping people, you are motivating people, and you are advising people, but at the that time what advice was precious for you?
There were so many. I guess trying to look ahead, instead of back. Trying to look on the bright side… if something good happens look at that one and not at the five or ten things going on the wrong way. I started to write a diary at that time. That was absolutely perfect because I really had to focus on what I learnt today. That was one of the best advice that I got.
Well your wheelchair certainly hasn't help you back. You're working as a sports psychological adviser, lecturer. What exactly do you do and how have you started this new chapter of your life?
I wanted to help people…My dream about being a police officer was also about helping people. When I had my accident I was thinking: 'What am I supposed to do now?'. It was quite clear that I wanted to help people, whether that was sports or life. I wanted to something for other people. As we started off the Active Life Foundation to help athletes having injuries, trying to get them back to 'normal' in sport or transferring into a new sport. What I want is to help people. I am also a board member of the Postcode Foundation in Sweden and we have 200 million dollars a year to support excellent projects both in Sweden and abroad. I love that, it's the perfect thing to do.
Dags för seminarium hos @RFidrotten med @parasport_se. Ser fram emot det. #almedalen #parasport pic.twitter.com/P5KwPY9S2N
— Thomas Fogdö (@Fogdo) July 6, 2016
What kind of athletes are you working with?
I work with everybody, with those that are having a difficult time, with accident or injury, but also with young people who are on the way up. The youngest one is about 16 years old.
Are you going to follow the world champs in Are?
Yes, I'm going to be there. I will see the old guys and the new guys. We will have a parallel slalom for the oldies to raise some money for my foundation. We started off the Active Life Foundation to help other athletes. We're going to have a easy competition. Ingemar [Stenmark] will be there, he likes to compete, so I guess it won't be that fun, but serious…
I mål!! Blev drygt 17 km. 👍#wingsforlife pic.twitter.com/AIVJeqa7d1
— Thomas Fogdö (@Fogdo) May 7, 2017
How has skiing changed since your days?
Skiing has evolved a lot; the new skis, the courses are different, the snow isn't snow any more, it's ice, so it's different, but I guess you have the same challenges as we had. The skis evolved, they are much better, more fun to watch.
Who are your favourite skiers nowadays?
I like to see [Marcel] Hirscher, he's aggressive, his run is not perfect all the time, but let the skis just go, I think he's a great skier. Of course Mikaela Shiffrin with her compact and powerful skiing. As a person Andre Myhrer, he's one of the best person I know, he's something special and also a great skier.
The great Ingemar Stenmark has the all-time record for world cup victories- 86. How much long do you think this record is going to for?
Let's see, three more years…I guess Shiffrin, if she continues like that, she will have that record. I thought Lindsey Vonn would take it, but, she was close. I mean 82 is extremely good.
So given the life that you had and the work that you are doing and given how passionate that you are about helping other people, if you could turn back time, would you? and would you change anything?
If I could turn back time, it's a tough question, because of course I would love to walk again, have that easy part of life. But the experience of life after my accident is so important, so if I had the possibility to turn back time I guess I would stay like this. If I got the experiences and could go on with the skiing, yeah okay that's fine, but I guess that's not the case. No, I think this is the best way.
I mål efter att ha rullat #glädjeruset pic.twitter.com/5EG7RkmPnu
— Thomas Fogdö (@Fogdo) August 27, 2016
"If I had the possibility to turn back time I guess I would stay like this"
Thomas Fogdoe was one of the best slalom skiers until he broke his back during training. Now he's a sports psychologist helping others.
Thomas Fogdoe was this week's guest on the Olympic Channel Podcast.
We speak to athletes, and others involved in sport, about the biggest Olympic talking points.
The interview and questions were shortened to make them easier to read.
Head here for ways to listen and subscribe.
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How long does it take to do Lions Head hike?
How long does it take to hike up and down Lions Head?
Is Lions Head an easy hike?
How difficult is Lions Head hike?
Is it safe to hike Lions Head alone?
Is there a map for the lion's Head Trail?
Like Signal Hill, the walk to the top of Lions Head is popular with both tourists and locals alike. Generally the walk takes about 90 minutes and is fairly manageable although there are a few chains and ladders that one might need to negotiate along the way, especially as one nears the steeper sections of the climb.
roughly 1.5 to 2.5 hours
The hike takes roughly 1.5 to 2.5 hours up and down, depending on your level of fitness and how long you spend on top. The main routes start from the parking area on Signal Hill Road.
How long is the Lions Head Lookout trail?
4.2-mile
Get to know this 4.2-mile out-and-back trail near Northern Bruce Peninsula, Ontario. Generally considered a moderately challenging route, it takes an average of 1 h 41 min to complete.
Is Lions Head a difficult hike?
Cape Town's Lion's Head Hike is a short 5 km (3 mi) hike. Because the trail is moderate in difficulty, the round trip should only take 2-3 hours, depending on your pace of course.
Head out on this 2.7-mile out-and-back trail near Cape Town, Western Cape. Generally considered a challenging route, it takes an average of 1 h 57 min to complete. This is a very popular area for hiking and trail running, so you'll likely encounter other people while exploring.
Cape Town's Lion's Head Hike is a short 5 km (3 mi) hike. Because the trail is moderate in difficulty, the round trip should only take 2-3 hours, depending on your pace of course. For us it took 1.5 hours to climb up since it was in the dark before sunrise and we took the longer Spiral Route.
How fit do you need to be to climb Lions Head?
If you are an average fitness level and are able to complete moderate intensity exercise then Lion's Head hike will be possible in the aforementioned time of an average of 2-3 hours.
Is Lions Head hike hard?
Because of its sweeping panoramic views of Table Mountain, the Twelve Apostles & the entire Atlantic Seaboard, Lion's Head is an incredibly picturesque hike. This trek is only moderate in difficulty, making it a great option for many different skill levels.
SAFETY TIP NUMBER ONE: NEVER HIKE ALONE. To hike up Lion's Head is no different and you will want to bring a hiking buddy or guide along to look out for your safety. It would be in your best interests and also part of the experience to have a competent and knowledgeable person present who understands mountain safety.
Below: Included in the photograph is is a detailed map, for the experts. Experienced mountain climbers will find this Lion's Head trail map better to hike Lion's Head. It includes an aerial view of the distinct contours and trails up the Lion's Head path, all seen from a detailed trail map.
What is there to do at Lions head?
The best thing about Lions Head is that the views are amazing from almost any place, along the hike there may be hard to find places that entice you to seek out beyond the beaten path. Our suggestion for these places is to use our guided hiking services to safely navigate the rocky cliffs that surround Lions Head.
Will I get Lost with directions to Lions head?
There's no risk of getting lost with directions to Lions Head mountain, using our award winning hiking services. The safest way to hike Lion's Head is to book a guided hiking tour with us. – Book Here – Transport is provided as complimentary vehicle from your centrally located accommodation in Cape Town.
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Great class today on the Foundations of Christian Herbalism! I learned a lot and look forward to the next one! Vas was very informative and provided lots of interesting information on herbalism, the benefits of herbs, and how they can be used to balance body, mind, and spirit!
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Fingerprints , Crooks on Tape's three-years-in-the-making debut, is a peculiar document. At roughly 35 minutes, the songs it comprises represent the barest tip of an ocean liner-sinking berg made not of ice, but of hundreds of hours of studio time. This great squirming mass of improvisation was then chopped up and molded into a series of two- to four-minute pop songs for John Schmersal (Brainiac, Enon) to lay vocals over. Process-wise, it sounds not so different from Wolf Parade's approach to At Mount Zoomer, although the end product is decidedly more bent.
Those familiar with Schmersal's CV — his guitar work for the groundbreaking Brainiac and his genre-trampling 10-year reign in Enon — shouldn't have any trouble finding their bearings in Fingerprints . While it eschews the guitar-heavy, back-to-basics post-punk of Enon's swansong Grass Geysers…Carbon Clouds , it provides a logical fulfillment of the earlier band's flirtations with electronic music, an album of spiritual successors to songs like Believo! 's "Matters Grey" or "Nightmare of the Atomic Men" from Lost Marbles and Exploded Evidence .
In keeping with this legacy, the songs vary greatly in mood and in texture, and even when two songs find the band working in similar modes, the end results often feel very different. Compare, for instance, the almost whimsical, machine-processed disco of album opener "Duper" to the decidedly more dour funk of "The Regiments." Other tracks dabble in Krautrock ("Wandered Again"), fractured R&B ("Melting the Ice," Barging In"), and almost Muse-like indie prog ("If Feelings Mean a Thing").
Fingerprints is a solid front-to-back listen, but I find myself most attracted to its extremes. The unapologetic hookiness of the aforementioned "Duper" makes it the album's MVP by a longshot, but creepy slow-jam "Summer's End" will likely keep you coming back to its Lynchian weirdness. For better or for worse, though, a fair amount of the songs sound like Mahjongg b-string material. Schmersal et al. have billed this as their "pop album" and promised stranger things to come. Given the group's penchant for sculpting bizarre soundscapes into whatever shape fits their nefarious purposes, it's a promise we should all look forward to them delivering on.


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Kenny Rogers: The Gambler – He Broke Even
All my life, when someone has asked me what my first concert was, I'd tell them it was Dire Straits.
That wasn't exactly true, though. Dire Straits was just the first concert I went to on my own dime.
On an unseasonably chilly summer day during my pre-teen years, my mom took me to the Berrien County fair to see Kenny Rogers. My mom has never been much of a music person, but she loves Kenny Rogers. So, there we were, outside in a cold drizzle, listening to all those songs my mom always played while cooking dinner and cleaning house.
And I loved every single one of them.
So, why do I not admit that seeing Kenny Rogers at the fairground that day was my first concert? Because, it isn't cool to love Kenny Rogers. How stupid is that? I have been lying all my life about my first live music event because I've been too much of a hipster doofus to admit that I dig Kenny.
I wasn't wrong about Kenny not being cool. I suppose there was that brief cred-earning moment when "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)" was featured in the Coen Brothers classic The Big Lebowski, but otherwise, Kenny was seen as pretty square.
I'm not even sure he minded being seen that way. I'm sure he liked cashing all those checks he earned during his career while keeping the wheel straight, driving smack down the middle of the road. As crossover country artists go, he was arguably the most successful. You can be loved while playing it safe – and boy, was Kenny Rogers ever loved.
He had massive hits for nearly thirty years on both pop and country radio. He did this by knowing his audience and himself. His warm tenor served many a song well, even when the production was only a step or two above the usual 70's soft rock cheesel.
There were some rare occasions when Kenny stepped outside the boundaries he largely set for himself: the psychedelic flavor of "Just Dropped In" might be the most obvious example, but it's not the only one.
"Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town" was a song about a paralyzed war veteran whose wife found satisfaction outside the home:
"And if I could move, I'd get my gun
And put her in the ground"
Rogers delivers this line in a chilling, matter of fact fashion before begging "Ruby" to turn around. It is positively heart wrenching.
In "Coward of the County", Rogers tells the tale of a pacifist who lives his life trying to be the opposite of his deceased jailbird father. That is, until the Gatlin boys "take turns" with his girl, Becky. (It's hard to imagine how Johnny Cash didn't get to this incredibly cinematic tune first.)
It's the kind of song you can listen to and not pick up on the grindhouse storyline if you get caught up in the warmth of Rogers' voice (easy to do). But "Coward of the County" is a revenge story about a man whose girlfriend was raped. A man the country was reading wrong: he was never actually a coward at all, he just needed a really good reason to rise up. "Sometimes you've got to fight when you're a man," Kenny sings. It's a pretty astonishing song.
Finally, there's Rogers' signature, "The Gambler." A tune so ubiquitous that "you got to know when to hold 'em and know when to fold 'em" has passed into common parlance. It's truly one of the great "story songs" ever written. A young man down on his luck meets an aging gambler on a train, and in exchange for a swallow of whiskey and a cigarette, the gambler shares wisdom that only a man who's lived a life of hardship can impart. (In this case, Johnny Cash did do the song first, just not as well.)
The final verse is a thing of beauty. As the gambler finishes his tale, he drifts off into a permanent sleep:
"And when he finished speaking
He turned back toward the window
Crushed out his cigarette
And faded off to sleep
And somewhere in the darkness
The gambler – he broke even
And in his final words I found
An ace that I could keep
You've got to know when to hold 'em…"
Like most of the songs Rogers sang, he didn't write The Gambler, but he was such a good interpreter of other peoples' words he made you feel just like he had. Hell, he made you feel like he had lived them.
That's a gift. And one that was recognized by songwriters outside the world of country music. Barry Gibb, Lionel Richie, and even Prince are among some of the greats who wrote words and music for Kenny. If there's any better tribute to a singer of songs, I don't know what it would be.
Kenny Rogers lived 81 years on this earth. His appeal transcended genre and generation. He was also a lot better than some of us music snobs were willing to admit. — Including this one.
So let me close with a confession:
My name is David, and my first concert was Kenny Rogers at the Berrien County Fair.
And he was great.
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In Your Queue: Baseball Docs
In baseball, it's often said that "you just can't write this stuff." Sometimes the real-life drama of the game is so unbelievable that you'd roll your eyes if it were a movie. That makes it all the more difficult to make a good baseball film. Give it a think: You probably don't need both of your hands to count them all, so susceptible are they to insufferable schmaltz, rank sentimentality and invalid team loyalties.
It's documentary where baseball films really take off. Bull Durham and Bang the Drum Slowly aside, it's hard to take most baseball films seriously. Even the classic ones, like Mr. Baseball or Major League, need a qualifier when talking about them. You don't often need that when talking about documentaries, and no documentary captures the spirit of the game so thoroughly as Ken Burns' recently updated Baseball (streaming on Netflix and Hulu+), an 11-part, 22-hour history of the sport, from its invention in the 1850s through the current steroid era and every up and down that the game – and the country – face in between. Even if Burns himself suffers from an invalid team loyalty (to the Red Sox), it doesn't show in this immense, lovingly crafted PBS production.
Kokoyakyu: High School Baseball (Hulu+) is the surprisingly emotional story of two high-school teams from Japan – the reigning champions and a public school that has never gotten beyond regionals – trying to reach Koshien, the hotly contested summer baseball tournament where players like Hideki Matsui and Daisuke Matsuzaka made their names before the MLB. It means everything to these kids – the players and their classmates alike – and they show it in this short, relatable doc through their hard work and through their tears and their observance of the traditions of those who went before them.
In Ballplayer: Pelotero (Netflix, Amazon and Hulu+) the dark side of baseball comes out as young Dominican players (Minnesota top prospect Miguel Sano and Houston prospect Jean Carlos Batista) go through the struggles of poverty and humiliation of an MLB investigation into their ages (a huge problem with Dominican prospects) as they try for a better life through baseball.
There is a rough American parallel in Harvard Park (Netflix, Amazon and Hulu+), the story of Darryl Strawberry and Eric Davis, premier players of the 1980s, who went through similar struggles in South Central but ended up back every summer to train at the park. For them, like a lot of the early ball players, baseball is a way out more than a pastime. They do it for love of their family as much as for the love of the game, though the love of the game is never in question.
Alex Cox Repo Man Q&A – 4/12/13 – Alamo Drafthouse, Denver
There was a full house on Friday night at the Alamo Drafthouse in Denver for a screening of Alex Cox's cult classic Repo Man, the first 35mm screening at the Denver Drafthouse since its opening.
The film is a sort of low life gutter punk approximation of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, that mingles a story of disaffected youth, disaffected middle age and stolen alien bodies together for a test drive and rides it right off the edge of the cliff in magnificent glory.
It's an interesting Q&A, going into the backstory of Tracy Walter and Sy Richardson's characters, the generic products, a little about the soundtrack, and Cox learns about the death of The Plasmatics' Wendy O. Williams (they showed this video before the film), and Cox's own life as a repo man for GMAC. I edited out the questions because you couldn't really hear them, and he sort of repeats the question as he answers it.
For a first trip to the Drafthouse, it's hard to ask for a better experience. Seeing a great print of a really fun film like Repo Man in 35mm with the director there for a post-screening Q&A made it, aside from Cox's completely wrongheaded opinion on Black Flag aside (you can hear me booing for a second), a pretty special night.
Check out the Kickstarter that Cox talks about for Bill the Galactic Hero.
In Your Queue: Old Men and Thieves ("I'm Not Rappaport", "The Good Thief")
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I'm Not Rappaport – Herb Gardner (1996)
It's a damn shame that we've lost both Walter Matthau and Ossie Davis in the years since I'm Not Rappaport came out. They were true titans, actors with depth and range honed on the stage in the 40s before making it to Hollywood. They star here as Nat Moyer and Midge Carter, two old Joes who while away the days in Central Park, each fleeing pasts full of regret as well as the limited future offered to them by a daughter who wants to send Nat off on "the Siberian Express" to a home, and a tenant board president that wants to oust Midge from his superintendent job and his apartment. A common enemy, the young bully JC (Guillermo Díaz) and the old bully (Craig T. Nelson), and a common friend, the young artist Laurie (Martha Plimpton) unite these two men to common goals, even though Midge can't stand Nat, who never met a moment of silence he liked. Davis and Matthau are a perfect couple, bounding back and forth between spasms of hilarity and pulses of heartbreak with a fine ease. They are charming to the extreme in every second of the picture. Charm is something of a dead artform these days, where everyone is so busy brooding or being a badass to flash that smile and break into any heart like a crowbar. (Available to stream on Netflix)
The Good Thief – Neil Jordan (2003)
Neil Jordan's The Good Thief — a remake of Jean-Pierre Melville French new wave classic Bob le Flambeur — was the first film Nick Nolte starred in after his notorious arrest (and mugshot) for driving under the influence of GHB. He wasn't in rehab that long, but a string of bombs between The Good Thief in 2003 and The Thin Red Line in 1998 make it a fair deal to call this a comeback film. And what a comeback it was for the gravelly leading man. He plays Bob, a lowlife gambler and junkie with a colorful background in big money heists and art forgery who is wasting his life away in beautiful Monte Carlo. Or at least Monte Carlo has beautiful parts, but Jordan takes us to the back alleys and dive bars that the tourists don't usually get to see. That's where Bob assembles his crew to pick off a vault full of priceless paintings once he realizes the ones hanging in a new casino are forgeries. Like any other heist film, only a tenacious cop (the maniacal genius, Tchéky Karyo) and one of the most sophisticated vaults ever designed stand in the way of the biggest score of their lives.
As a film, I prefer The Good Thief to Bob le Flambeur, maybe only for the fact that I saw the remake first. Bob le Flambeur is also excellent, but there is an existential malaise that permeates the original that the remake doesn't have. It's livelier, which feels like an important thing in a heist movie. Both are more than heist films, though that's the main thrust of each. They are both about a crooked sort of redemption. Neither of the Bobs is an underdog, they are both unrealized heroes who have lost their path in life in a dramatic way. In The Good Thief, Anne (Nutsa Kukhianidze), a young girl with a broken wing making all of the wrong choices that Bob has already made, is his path to redemption. She may not need all of the help he offers, indeed she may actually help him more than he helps her, but redemption isn't a solid state, it's whatever gets you by. The odds are against it working, but it's Monte Carlo, so its worth the bet.
(Available on Netflix — and just for good measure, you can stream the original on Hulu)
Hugo – Martin Scorsese (2011)
I have no idea how this fell through the cracks, but it's been sitting here as a draft since November, 2011.
Late on in Martin Scorsese's Hugo, Papa Georges (Ben Kingsley) stands upon the stage in his tuxedo, drenched in spotlight, a mix of nerves and excitement in his face and in his voice, and welcomes the wizards and magicians in the crowd.
Despite coming towards the end, it's a fitting welcome to this film too. It's a film which was seemingly handcrafted entirely by wizards and magicians, made for people in awe of the kind of magic and wizardry that the camera can be used to compose. The camera may not be made of gears and sprockets anymore, it may not print onto celluloid anymore, or even have the same dimensions that the original film magicians, but the spirit is the same, and so is the magic — especially from Scorsese and Bob Richardson's hands.
Adapted from the children's novel by Brian Selznick (grandson of the legendary David O. Selznick), Hugo tells the story of a little poor boy (Asa Butterfield) in 1920s Paris who goes to live in the walls of the Gare Montparnasse train station after the death of his father (Jude Law) in a fire. Barely more than an orphan, Hugo is stuck tending to and winding the station's clocks for his Uncle Claude (Ray Winstone), a drunk and a scoundrel who has been off on a bender for weeks by the time the film starts. Hugo has nothing left of his past life, except an old mechanical man that he and his father were trying to fix, his father's notebook about how to do it.
When he is caught stealing parts in aid of that purpose by Papa Georges, an old toymaker who keeps a booth in the station, an adventure is set before Hugo and Isabelle (Chloe Moretz), the toymaker's goddaughter who may literally hold the key to unravel the mystery behind the mechanical man. It's an adventure that traces through the origins and history of the cinema as well both of their family histories, one that radically changes each of their lives, and maybe even the world as we know it today.
Early on, though, I had a tough time getting past the idea that Scorsese had decided to jump onto the bandwagon and make a 3D film — and a kids' movie no less. How do you get blood and Catholic guilt into a kids' movie, and why does it need to be in my face about it? But not only is Hugo enjoyable in 3D (and 2D as well), it turns out to be the best use of the format to date. It's the first time that I've seen where 3D was used genuinely, not as a gimmick to pad the box office receipts like so many others.
Of course none of that would mean anything without the tender story to take a piggyback ride on. Selznik's original, and John Logan's adaptation are beautifully crafted and seemingly tailor made for Scorsese's historian sensibilities. You can feel every bit of Scorsese the skinny, bed-ridden boy in the ragamuffin Hugo, who is so alone and afraid of being sent to the orphanage by the station inspector (Sacha Baron Cohen) that he doesn't know what to do when he is presented with a friendship. And Isabelle, the story's quasi-narrator, doesn't fall into the trap of Hugo's information crutch, even though she starts out an expository character. Chole Moretz rescues her with grace and cunning. She's a bookworm's bookworm, tough and loyal with a lot more Francie Nolan to her than Hermoine Granger (who needed a fair bit of saving from Emma Watson herself). But it's Sorsese who is the real wizard here, whipping this all together with a superb eye, a deft hand and a whole lot of heart.
Yi Yi: A One and a Two – Edward Yang (1990)
http://orlandoweekly.com/film/edward-yang-s-yi-yi-comes-to-blu-ray-1.1122737
Let's be upfront about this: Edward Yang's Yi Yi: A One and a Two is a masterpiece. It was a masterpiece when it was released in 2001, it was a masterpiece when Criterion released it on DVD in 2005 and it's a slightly prettier masterpiece now that they released it on Blu-Ray on March 15.
Yi Yi is Yang's most beautiful and touching film, an emotionally complex visual poem of the struggles of a family in Taipei after Granny (Ru-Yun Tang) falls into a coma. "The spark that led me to make this film was I decided that I was going to make a film about life, from birth to death," he told Michael Berry in 2002 for Berry's book, Speaking in Images: Interviews With Contemporary Chinese Filmmakers.
Breaking that lifespan down into three generations of a family allowed Yang to tell the story in a more manageable way, framing it around three family events, and allowed the normally conservative Yang to become the most playful he's ever been with his cinematic space – a necessity for the film's youngest star, the inquisitive, introspective eight-year-old son, Yang Yang (Jonathan Chang), to come to life.
Unlike many other Taiwanese films, the narrative in Yi Yi is not bogged down by a deluge of Taiwan's tumultuous political and cultural history. The characters live and breathe in their own time, in their own way, and get into their own trouble without the help of the Kuomintang. Yang's teasing camera, along with the film's universal themes of love, regret and death allow it to become Yang's – and probably Taiwanese cinema's – most accessible film. "It's not death I'm interested in here, it is life," he told Berry. "In life, you have to go through these things to test your own boundaries. Sometimes it is only when we are faced with loss that we truly appreciate how sacred life is."
In some ways, it's what Band of Outsiders is to the rest of Jean-Luc Godard's work: A wonderful gateway drug that leads you to chase the sensation again, and the deeper you dig, the harder you have to work for it. But unlike some of Godard's material, Yang's work is always worth the doing.
Up – Pete Docter, Bob Peterson (2009)
http://www2.orlandoweekly.com/film/review.asp?rid=14348
It must be freeing to know that you have an audience before you even compose your first thought for a project. It's a luxury very few people enjoy in the movie business, but an audience is a fait accompli for anyone working with the Pixar logo at the head of their credits. Pixar has the kind of track record that renders bad reviews all but moot, but they don't take their good standing for granted. They work harder, as individuals and as a company, with each new picture so as not to betray the quality of what came before just to make a cheap buck. It's the mouse that sells the toys.
Pixar has not failed that legacy with Up, Pete Docter's daydream follow-up to his nightmare awakening of Monsters, Inc. It follows the story of Carl Fredricksen, a former balloon salesman turned elderly curmudgeon who is slowly being squeezed out of his home, his comfort and his life by a great villain called time.
On the eve of being evicted and sent to a nursing home, Carl does what any rational person would do: He turns his house into a zeppelin with thousands of helium-filled balloons and steers it towards South America, hoping to land on Paradise Falls, a mythic-yet-real spot in Venezuela. It's the spot that he and his childhood sweetheart, Ellie, had always planned to visit together, but they ran out of time before they could get there. He is joined – accidentally, as it were – by Russell, a young Wilderness Explorer who is looking for the "Assisting the Elderly" badge to fill out his sash.
With WALL-E last year and now Up, Pixar has, oddly enough, grown up a little. It's not because of the elderly characters or the lack of inanimate objects with speaking parts (animals still talk here, though not of their own accord); there's a new layer of depth and emotional resonance. That could have been assumed to be a fluke in WALL-E, but not only weren't these themes a fluke, they're expanded upon in Up. Now we arethe characters, instead of wishing there were some way that the characters could really exist.
The old yarn that Pixar doesn't really make kids' movies has never been more true with Up, yet it's also their most innocent since Toy Story. Though exploring new depths, they've not left the old adventure hat on the rack – the film is all but dedicated to the spirit of adventure. It's the reason behind Carl and Ellie's sweet, youthful romance, Carl's regret in old age and even Russell's childish naivete. Carl and Ellie's childhood heroes were adventurers. Even the out-of-place moments (doggie planes?) and blunt conceits (the too-literal "life's-weight-on-his-shoulders" metaphor) can be forgiven, as they perform dutifully in service to the kind of thrilling movie adventures we regular folks can only dream of, but which the wizards at Pixar perform with ease.
Frost/Nixon – Ron Howard (2008)
For those born after the incident, director Ron Howard and writer Peter Morgan's dramatization of the 1977 interview series between British TV presenter David Frost and then-former President Nixon offers a comfortably Sorkin-esque glimpse behind the scenes of Frost's landmark grilling of Nixon over Watergate, the coverup and the aftermath that dominated an era of national politics.
Frost (Michael Sheen) is an ambitious TV man whose once-bright star is fading after his American talk show is canceled. He is stuck in entertainment's second tier, longing for another taste of fame, American-style, and sees the resignation and subsequent pardon of Nixon (Frank Langella) as a way back into his table at Sardi's. Laying out the hefty sum of $600K to secure the interview with the tough-as-nails Nixon – at the time living in pitiful seclusion and writing his memoirs – Frost and his team of researchers quibble over their goals and are wholly unprepared for the cagey Nixon on the big day; Nixon talks circles around the process, deflecting from the real issues with glancing blows of sentimental minutiae.
If Ali-Frazier was the fight of the century, Frost-Nixon was to be the sit-down of a lifetime: a no-holds-barred tête-à-tête meant to be, whether for redemption or conviction, the real final words of the chapter. Ali lost – he was unprepared for the Champ's left hook – but Frost comes out the prettier one in this battle. Sheen plays Frost with a dopey smirk that's off-putting enough to Nixon to lead him right into the eventual sucker punch.
The knockout blow isn't the star of this picture, however. Nixon is, and what Langella lacks in physical likeness he more than makes up for with the depth of the Nixon spirit, which, 30 years later, comes off like a mean, ugly dog, as repugnant as it is empathetic.
Nixon moved on (and became richer), but the fact that the interview changed nothing – not the Cold War and certainly not corrupt politicians or a tougher press corps – is not the point. The timing ofFrost/Nixon's release, in these lame-duck last moments of the George W. Bush presidency, won't be lost on most viewers, and Howard utilizes the Nixon-Bush connection of corruption to create the kind of after-the-fact liberal catharsis that Oliver Stone's Bush biopic sorely missed. As Nixon tacitly confesses, his admission of guilt in the film is more heavily defined than in the original interviews, but it's a cherry that sits nicely on top of an "Obama won" sundae. What it does is give us some hope, slim as it might be, that there is a new Frost out there waiting patiently for his chance at flustering Bush into a "whoops, sorry" moment, even a tacit one.
Ms. Couric, line one.
Lou Reed's Berlin – Julian Schnable (2008)
http://www2.orlandoweekly.com/music/review.asp?rid=13904
(My first ever film review)
There are few genuine musical happenings anymore. The world has evolved into the kind of interactive place where the musical happening should thrive, but instead it's succumbed to the corporate clenched fist. Now, instead of Axl and Elton rocking a wet Wembley to bed with "Bohemian Rhapsody," the closest we get to an event is a demand for a public apology to the Jonas Brothers for ridiculing their purity rings.
Lou Reed pisses on that apology. In 2006, the rock pioneer dusted off Berlin, his 1973 rock opera album telling the story of Jim and Caroline, two strung-out lovers and their inevitable downward spiral, and brought it to the live masses with a small orchestra and choir. The Brooklyn concert, Reed's first in a tour series, was documented by Academy Award–nominated director Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly), and the resulting film was recently released on DVD. It was a musical happening as pure as the driven snow, honest and without corporate hindrance, and it was done just because he felt like doing it.
"[The album] didn't really get a chance for people to hear it," Reed says about Berlin's original release during a Q&A at New York City's Film Forum in July. Coming off his first solo effort, 1972's breakthroughTransformer, Reed should have been bulletproof. But Berlin, released the following year, was an unmitigated flop, critically and commercially failing to live up to the still-unflagging popularity of "Walk on the Wild Side," a song musically dissimilar to his other work.
"It's the other side of 'Walk on the Wild Side,'?" Reed says. "It's the real one. Maybe no one wanted to hear or see that. It was in the middle of glam rock and it was a dose of reality – a certain kind of reality."
Thirty-five years later, Berlin is a cult classic. Reed's voice isn't as steady as it used to be, but he easily commands the stage.
"I'd performed a couple of the songs out of context [in past concerts], but the way it really works, for me anyway, is in context," he says. "I always thought of it as a whole piece."
Berlin is a concert film at first blush, but as it proceeds, it becomes something closer to the theatrical production Reed intended to produce in the early '70s. Thanks to the loving orchestration of sequences shot by Lola Schnabel, we see the lives of Jim and Caroline and their struggles with drugs, abuse and suicide coming alive to the pace of the songs. The enchanting Emmanuelle Seigner (also of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) stars as Caroline, the heroine of heroin. The years it took for this project to be fully realized were well worth it in the end, as Berlin digs out a new spot in the conversation of best concert films.
The Wrestler – Darren Aronofsky (2009)
A few years ago in Sin City, it was said that Mickey Rourke's character, Marv, had "the rotten luck of being born in the wrong century," that he would be right at home "in a Roman arena, taking his sword to other gladiators like him." Underneath the makeup and prosthetics, perhaps, it was just as true for Rourke as it was for Marv.
In The Wrestler, the Coliseum has morphed into a squared circle, and Rourke looks perfectly at home on the canvas even as he takes folding chairs to the head. He plays Randy the Ram, an aging '80s wrestling superstar still clinging to the last, lingering particles of limelight in small, untelevised wrestling shows.
After a heart attack forces him to retire, Randy flounders around aimlessly, unsure of how his life should commence now. He picks up extra work at the supermarket deli counter, the only suitable retirement home for the self-identified "old, broken-down piece of meat," to fill the time. Sensing his loneliness, a stripper friend, Cassidy (Marisa Tomei), suggests he try bonding with his daughter, Stephanie (Evan Rachel Wood), whom he barely knows.
Pro wrestling is not an easy subject to take seriously, but director Darren Aronofsky displays it well as a spellbinding muscle ballet, sweaty and bloody, but graceful and addictive all the same. He avoids the ubiquitous camp elements associated with the "sport," instead focusing on the human elements within the dressing room where these mountains of men are just as fragile and soft as everyone else.
But the rousing comeback of Mickey Rourke is what the film is about, if you listen to common theory. And while that's mostly true, that conversation unfortunately omits Tomei, who, like Rourke, is rising from the ashes of a career never quite fulfilled after the promise of My Cousin Vinny.
To that point, she gives an absolutely sterling performance here, baring all by night as Cassidy, a stripper at the end of her career, and by day as Pam, the mother of a 9-year-old boy looking for a new life. The dichotomy mandated by her job mirrors the Ram's in some ways; both are trying to figure out which life is more important. The film gives Tomei some of the heaviest lifting as Randy gradually makes his way through Cassidy's barrier and into Pam's life.
Aronofsky, too, had some knocks to recover from after The Fountain. He elevates the film above script level with the small touches of genius that are all but expected of him now, a well that seemed to have run dry.
His usual bag of camera and editing tricks is left backstage, but Aronofsky allows for one soulful flourish: a crushing, one-take Steadicam shot as Randy walks from the back of the supermarket into his new life behind the deli counter. The whirring purrs of refrigerator motors are his only cheers on this new runway, and Randy even fools himself with it for a moment before the reality sinks in that he's traded the sharp spotlight for flat fluorescents. To complete that sobering splash of cold water, his nametag doesn't read "The Ram" or even "Randy," but his given, decidedly unexciting name: "Robin."
Waltz With Bashir – Ari Folman (2009)
When Israeli writer-director Ari Folman was 19, he enlisted in the Israeli Defense Forces as part of a regiment that invaded southern Lebanon. Like all soldiers, he saw and did unspeakable things – the kind of things that would mark any man for life.
But then he forgot.
That's where Waltz With Bashir opens: the forgetting. On a stormy night in Israel, two old friends, Ari and Boaz, get together for a drink to discuss Boaz's recurring nightmares. Twenty-six dogs chase him through the streets on a nightly basis. It stems from a scarring incident during the war and when they begin to talk about it, Ari realizes he's never dealt with any of his war demons in his films because he simply doesn't remember them.
The lone memory that remains from the incursion into Lebanon is a stark image of Ari and two fellow soldiers bathing in the ocean as illumination flares gracefully drift to the earth, shedding light on bombed-out apartment buildings and all below them.
But it never happened. Not like that, anyway. And so, 24 years later, he sends himself off on a new mission: one to remember. What he discovers are different versions of the same horror story about the massacre in the Palestinian refugee camps at Sabra and Shatila by the Christian Phalangists as revenge for Bashir Gemayel's assassination.
Naturally, it's impossible to disentangle politics and history from a film like this, no matter what conflict is at its heart, but that's where we get lost as noncombatant viewers. To get heated about the real incident and whatever came before or followed is to miss an opportunity to heal the wounds.
It's true that most modern war films are imbued with the lofty goal of showing us the folly of war – that even in the best of circumstances, war is an unbelievably useless endeavor. No film has yet succeeded, nor can they, but that's no reason to give up on them.
Waltz invites you to make your own decision about the military brass, but shows a deep compassion for the rank and file, Palestinian and Israeli alike, proving at last that there is no such thing as a best circumstance in war. At first bloodshed, all sides are wrong.
The real unavoidable argument, for our purposes, regards the animation.
Because of that device, a certain poetic license is allowed. As much as the film is about war, it's also about the mutability and self-distortion of memory, and that makes animation the ideal medium to paint battle as the surreal experience it is. Waltz never pulls punches on the hard stuff, either. The trembling hands and beads of sweat before the kill remain, an effect as beautiful as it is terrifying.
The titular (and literal) waltz itself is breathtaking in a way that someone aiming a camera could not have captured. But it's unlikely that's how it happened in real time. To put a filter of 20 years over a millisecond of a memory is to forge its authenticity. The animated rendering doesn't quite say, "This is a dream," but it nudges the idea that war may be remembered in soaring poetry and dime-novel prose alike.


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Mexican flag, seen at Trump protests, has long history in US
Russell Contreras
ALBUQUERQUE - It's a flag seen at many protests against presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. It also can be spotted at immigration rallies, on murals in cities with sizeable Latino populations and at Mexican National team soccer games held on U.S. soil.
The flag of Mexico has a long history in the United States, despite being a symbol of a nation south of the border. It became a topic of discussion last week after a violent anti-Trump protest in Albuquerque.
Trump lashed out on Twitter after protests outside his Albuquerque rally sparked a riot that caused thousands of dollars in damage, condemning "thugs who were flying the Mexican flag." His comments turned the emblem into a political symbol for those voicing their opposition to Trump's controversial rhetoric against Mexicans and his insistence to build a wall between the two countries.
Within minutes, images of protesters waving the Mexican flag were shared on social media. Conservative radio talk show hosts repeatedly mentioned the flag as anti-Trump demonstrations moved to San Diego and Fresno, California.
Set to red, white and green bars, the Mexican flag contains in the center an eagle sitting on a cactus eating a snake. The central emblem is based on an indigenous legend of the Aztecs settling in present-day Mexico City on what was originally a lake-island.
After the United States took over a third of Mexico's territory following the U.S-Mexican War in 1848, the flag remained a symbol of resistance due to broken promises outlined in Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, said David Correia, an American Studies professor at the University of New Mexico. That treaty said former Mexican citizens from New Mexico to California would be granted full American citizenship, but instead, they faced illegal land seizures by whites and decades of discrimination, Correia said.
"In New Mexico, those claims have never been resolved," said Correia.
In Houston and parts of Texas in the 1920s and 1930s, Mexican immigrants used the flag as symbols for their mutual-aid societies that provided funeral insurance and avenues for other civic engagement, said Lorenzo Cano, associate director for the Center of Mexican American Studies at the University of Houston.
"But they also flew it with the American flag," Cano said.
That changed when returning World War II Mexican American veterans began getting involved in civil rights. G.I. Forum founder Dr. Hector P. Garcia and John J. Herrera, a national president of the civil rights group the League of United Latin American Citizens, discouraged the use of the Mexican flag and believed sporting the American flag at events and protests reinforced the notion that Americans of Mexican descent were the targets of racism.
During the Chicano Movement of the 1970s, a more militant movement like the black power movement, activists proudly brought the Mexican flag to protests to showcase their ethnic pride, Jennie Luna, a Chicana/o Studies professor at California State University Channel Islands, said. "It also reminded people that our history is one about being displaced," Luna said.
Luna said today waving the Mexican flag is no different than Italian Americans waving the Italian flag in New York's Little Italy or Irish-Americans carrying the Irish flag in South Boston. "The difference is that Mexican Americans have never been fully incorporated into the history of this country," Luna said. "On top of that, the language Trump uses reinforces the idea that all Mexicans are foreigners."
Karla Molinar, 21, a University of New Mexico student who was thrown out of the Trump rally in Albuquerque for disrupting his speech, said she saw nothing wrong with protesters waving the Mexican flag. "They are just showing that they are proud of where they came from and they won't put up with the hate," said Molinar, who was born in Mexico.
Trump's latest tirade against Mexicans came only this week after U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, an American of Mexican origin, agreed to unseal the details in a class-action lawsuit by people who say they were victims of fraud by Trump's real estate business education venture, the now-defunct Trump University.
Curiel has "an inherent conflict of interest" because Trump is "building a wall," the billionaire real estate mogul said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. He told CNN Friday that Curiel is "of Mexican heritage," dismissing the fact that Curiel was born in Indiana, saying only: "He's proud of his heritage."
Orlando Baca, a retired teacher in Santa Fe and a Republican, said it would have been better if Latino anti-Trump protesters, especially immigrants, started waving the American flag to highlight their grievances.
"If things are so good for some back in Mexico and you are so proud of being Mexican, then why didn't you just stay there?" said Baca, whose family's presence in the United States goes back centuries. "If you are an American, be proud that you are an American. It's about respect."
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