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Somdev's defeat results in India's ouster from Davis Cup World Group
Moscow: Somdev Devvarman learnt a good tennis lesson from Mikhail Youzhny and was outclassed 2-6, 1-6, 3-6 in the first reverse singles, resulting in India's ouster from the elite World Group of the Davis Cup tournament in Moscow on Sunday.
India were playing in the World Group for the first time since their 1998 appearance.
With this win, Russia have taken a decisive 3-1 lead and secured a quarter-finals place while India would yet again compete in the play-offs to re-enter the 16-team World Group.
Russia have levelled the head-to-head scores 2-2 between the two nations.
Somdev's defeat has rendered Rohan Bopanna's second reverse singles of the first round tie against Igor Kunitsyn inconsequential.
It was first meeting between Somdev and Youzhny and the class difference between the two players was glaring. The Russian conceded just six games in the lop-sided match that lasted one hour and 55 minutes.
Somdev put up a good fight in the third set but Youzhny was too good for him.
Youzhny showed why he is top-15 player as he never let Somdev play his style of game from the baseline. He in fact took advantage of it. Somdev had no answer to Youzhny's solid ground-strokes and smart drop volleys.
The Russian attacked Somdev's weak second serve and set up and took points at will, executing a perfect gameplan. In no time Somdev was down by two breaks — third and fifth games — and the Russian comfortably placed with a 5-2 lead. Youzhny served out the first set with a drop volley in just 31 minutes.
Somdev, who had never bothered about the rankings of his opponents, looked helpless against Youzhny who toyed with the Indian.
Such was the control and domination of the Russian over his opponent that hardly an unforced error came off Youzhny's racquet.
Whenever Somdev tried to engage Youzhny in a long rally, the Russian would come with a big stroke or a smart volley, leaving the Indian reach for the ball.
Tough drive ahead for Karun
Somdev's misery grew all the more in second set as he could not get on the board till the fifth game. And that was the only game he could win on his serve in that set.
Somdev tried to do something different in the third set as he changed his tactics and approached the net more often but Youzhny had all the answers and was not troubled at all.
It did look like a contest in the third set and the fourth game saw the most fierce fight for points.
Somdev saved quite a few breakpoints but it was the Russian who ran away with the game to create a 3-1 lead.
The Indian though hung in and after one hour and 34 minutes for the first time Youzhny was down a breakpoint. The Russian held after saving two breakpoints but had to sweat it out this time.
Somdev fought with his never-say-die spirit but that merely delayed Youzhny's win.
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The President's Broad Power to Pardon and Commute
July 9, 2007 6 min read Download Report
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Editor's Note: Since President Bush's commutation of the prison sentence of former vice presidential advisor I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Jr., last week, critics of the President have accused him of abuse of the "power of pardon" granted in the Constitution. House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) has scheduled a hearing for this Wednesday to air such accusations. Members of Congress should remember that the Constitution grants the Executive an extremely broad power to pardon and commute the sentences of those accused or convicted of federal crimes. Whatever the merits of President Bush's decision to commute Mr. Libby's sentence, there is little doubt that it was a permissible act under the Constitution and strays little from previous exercise of this power.
"The President . . . shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment."
(Article II, Section 2, Clause 1)
The power to pardon is one of the least limited powers granted to the President in the Constitution. The only limits mentioned in the Constitution are that pardons are limited to offenses against the United States (i.e., not civil or state cases), and that they cannot affect an impeachment process. A reprieve is the commutation or lessening of a sentence already imposed; it does not affect the legal guilt of a person. A pardon, however, completely wipes out the legal effects of a conviction. A pardon can be issued from the time an offense is committed, and can even be issued after the full sentence has been served. It cannot, however, be granted before an offense has been committed, which would give the President the power to waive the laws.
The presidential power to pardon was derived from the royal English Prerogative of Kings, which dated from before the Norman invasion. The royal power was absolute, and the king often granted a pardon in exchange for money or military service. Parliament tried unsuccessfully to limit the king's pardon power, and finally it succeeded to some degree in 1701 when it passed the Act of Settlement, which exempted impeachment from the royal pardon power.
During the period of the Articles of Confederation, the state constitutions conferred pardon powers of varying scopes on their governors, but neither the New Jersey Plan nor the Virginia Plan presented at the Constitutional Convention included a pardon power for the chief executive. On May 29, 1787, Charles Pinckney introduced a proposal to give the chief executive the same pardon power as enjoyed by English monarchs, that is, complete power with the exception of impeachment. Some delegates argued that treason should be excluded from the pardon power. George Mason argued that the President's pardon power "may be sometimes exercised to screen from punishment those whom he had secretly instigated to commit the crime and thereby prevent a discovery of his own guilt." James Wilson answered that pardons for treason should be available and successfully argued that the power would be best used by the President. Impeachment was available if the President himself was involved in the treason. A proposal for Senate approval of presidential pardons was also defeated.
The development of the use of the pardon power reflects its several purposes. One purpose is to temper justice with mercy in appropriate cases, and to do justice if new or mitigating evidence comes to bear on a person who may have been wrongfully convicted. Alexander Hamilton reflects this in The Federalist No. 74, in which he argues that "humanity and good policy" require that "the benign prerogative of pardoning" was necessary to mitigate the harsh justice of the criminal code. The pardon power would provide for "exceptions in favor of unfortunate guilt."
Chief Justice John Marshall in United States v. Wilson (1833) also commented on the benign aspects of the pardon power: "A pardon is an act of grace, proceeding from the power entrusted with the execution of the laws, which exempts the individual, on whom it is bestowed from the punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed. It is the private, though official act of the executive magistrate…." Another purpose of the pardon power focuses not on obtaining justice for the person pardoned, but rather on the public-policy purposes of the government. For instance, James Wilson argued during the Convention that "pardon before conviction might be necessary in order to obtain the testimony of accomplices." The public-policy purposes of the pardon were echoed by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in Biddle v. Perovich (1927): "A pardon in our days is not a private act of grace from an individual happening to possess power. It is a part of the constitutional scheme."
Pardons have also been used for the broader public-policy purpose of ensuring peace and tranquility in the case of uprisings and to bring peace after internal conflicts. Its use might be needed in such cases. As Alexander Hamilton argued in The Federalist No. 74, "in seasons of insurrection or rebellion there are often critical moments when a well-timed offer of pardon to the insurgents or rebels may restore the tranquility of the commonwealth; and which, if suffered to pass unimproved, it may never be possible afterwards to recall." Presidents have sought to use the pardon power to overcome or mitigate the effects of major crises that afflicted the polity. President George Washington granted an amnesty to those who participated in the Whiskey Rebellion; Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson issued amnesties to those involved with the Confederates during the Civil War; and Presidents Gerald R. Ford and James Earl Carter granted amnesties to Vietnam-era draft evaders.
The scope of the pardon power remains quite broad, almost plenary. As Justice Stephen Field wrote in Ex parte Garland (1867), "If granted before conviction, it prevents any of the penalties and disabilities consequent upon conviction from attaching [thereto]; if granted after conviction, it removes the penalties and disabilities, and restores him to all his civil rights; it makes him, as it were, a new man, and gives him a new credit and capacity…. A pardon reaches both the punishment prescribed for the offence and the guilt of the offender…so that in the eye of the law the offender is as innocent as if he had never committed the offence." A pardon is valid whether accepted or not, because its purposes are primarily public. It is an official act. According to United States v. Klein (1871), Congress cannot limit the President's grant of an amnesty or pardon, but it can grant other or further amnesties itself. Though pardons have been litigated, the Court has consistently refused to limit the President's discretion. Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, however, in Schick v. Reed (1974), seemed to limit the Court's restraint to pardons under "conditions which do not in themselves offend the Constitution."
The possibility of a President pardoning himself for a crime is not precluded by the explicit language of the Constitution, and, during the summer of 1974, some of President Richard M. Nixon's lawyers argued that it was constitutionally permissible. But a broader reading of the Constitution and the general principles of the traditions of United States law might lead to the conclusion that a self-pardon is constitutionally impermissible. It would seem to violate the principles that a man should not be a judge in his own case; that the rule of law is supreme and the United States is a nation of laws, not men; and that the President is not above the law.
The pardon power has been and will remain a powerful constitutional tool of the President. Its use has the potential to achieve much good for the polity or to increase political conflict. Only the wisdom of the President can ensure its appropriate use.
Suggestions for Further Research
David Gray Adler, The President's Pardon Power, in Inventing the American Presidency, Thomas E. Cronin, ed. (1989)
Edward S. Corwin, The President: Office and Powers (1940)
William Duker, The President's Power to Pardon: A Constitutional History, 18 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 475 (1977)
Brian C. Kalt, Pardon Me? The Constitutional Case Against Presidential Self-Pardons, 106 Yale L.J. 779 (1996)
United States v. Wilson, 32 U.S. (7 Pet.) 150 (1833)
Ex parte Garland, 71 U.S. (4 Wall.) 333 (1867)
United States v. Klein, 80 U.S. (13 Wall.) 128 (1871)
Biddle v. Perovich, 274 U.S. 480 (1927)
Schick v. Reed, 419 U.S. 256 (1974)
James Pfiffner, Ph.D., is University Professor in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University. This essay is excerpted from The Heritage Guide to the Constitution, a line-by-line analysis of the original meaning of each clause of the United States Constitution, edited by David Forte and Matthew Spalding.

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Taypayers hit with $1,300 'corruption tax' in Illinois
Illinois residents pay a "corruption tax" of $1,308, researchers say in a new study on the cost of corruption.
Indiana University professor John Mikesell and Cheol Liu, assistant professor of public policy at City University of Hong Kong, recently released a study that attempts to put a price tag on public corruption.
The two determined that the 10 most corrupt states – which included Illinois – would have spent 5.2% less in taxpayer dollars from 1997-2008 if they had an average, instead of an above average, amount of corruption.
The researchers first determined the most corrupt states by dividing the number of federal convictions of public officials in each state between 1976 and 2008 by the number of public employees. Mississippi was at the bottom of the list as the most corrupt state. Louisiana, Tennessee, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Alabama, Alaska, South Dakota, Kentucky and Florida also ranked among the bottom 10 states.
Oregon was cited as the least corrupt state. Two states neighboring Illinois – Wisconsin and Iowa – were on the list of least corrupt, which also included Washington, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Utah, Nebraska, Colorado and Vermont.
After identifying the states with the most corruption, Mikesell and Liu then set about putting a price tag on that corruption.
They reviewed more than 25,000 federal corruption convictions of state and local officials between 1976 and 2008. They found most official misdeeds, and the associated excess spending, were concentrated in large construction projects, police and corrections, wages and borrowing. They also determined that one of the areas of government that pays the price for corruption is education, which tends to lose out on money in states with higher levels of corruption.
"The empirical results show that states with higher levels of corruption tend to spend more on items on which corrupt officials may levy larger bribes at the expense of others," they told the Times of Northwest Indiana. "Policy makers should pay close attention that public resources are not used for private gains of the few but rather distributed effectively and fairly for various purposes."
The Newspapers also reported, "Spending comparisons between highly corrupt Illinois and Indiana, which placed in the middle tier of corrupt states, seem to bear out the researchers' conclusions.
"In 2013, Illinois spent $932.47 per person more than Indiana, according to the National Association of State Budget Officers. At the same time, Indiana spent more than twice as much from its general fund on education than Illinois."


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ST PETER CHURCH, LIVERDUN
This understated former collegiate church with its Romanesque architecture was built in the late 12th century, on the cusp of the transition between the Romanesque and Gothic eras. It was listed as a historic monument in 1924. Built on the site of an older chapel, it houses the tomb of Saint Eucharius. The organ, listed in 1984 and restored in 1999, was manufactured in 1847 by Claude Ignace Callinet and has a total of 23 stops. The paintings, also listed, date from the 18th century.
Type of visits: Visit on your own with advanced booking
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Much of the recent disquiet has been spurred on by the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policies and the decision to separate children from their parents at the US-Mexico border, but things have been bubbling up since Trump took office 18 months ago.
Representative Maxine Waters (D-California) caused a huge stir last week when she encouraged critics of the White House's immigration policies to go out and harass members of the Trump administration in public. Waters made an impassioned call for citizens to ensure there would be "no sleep, no peace" for White House officials.
"If you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. You push back on them. Tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere," she said.
Not long after Waters' comments, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders was asked to leave a restaurant in Virginia because she works for the Trump administration.
Celebrities are getting in on the action, too, encouraging Americans to take to the streets in the millions to protest the Trump administration.
Last week, comments by actor Peter Fonda put the secret service on alert when he suggested that Trump's 12-year-old son Barron should be taken from his mother Melania and put "in a cage with pedophiles" and that citizens should "surround the schools" of administration officials' children in response to the child-separation policy.
The fierce debate over the removal of confederate monuments and symbols across the US epitomizes the current political and social divide and the competing interpretations of American history, with one side believing the monuments revere figures who fought to maintain slavery while the other side believes they honor great patriots.
When white supremacist Dylann Roof killed nine black Americans attending a prayer service in Virginia in 2015, it prompted a movement to have Confederate monuments removed from public spaces across the country. More than 100 publicly-supported monuments and symbols have been removed since 2015 — but not without controversy and counter-protests. While monuments are being removed across the US, other groups are pushing for new ones to be erected.
Last year a 'Unite the Right' rally called in protest at the planned removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia turned violent when a protester drove a car through a crowd of counter-protesters, killing activist Heather Heyer.
In his article, Reynolds wrote that news media which "promote shrieking outrage in pursuit of ratings and page views, are making the problem worse" and reminisced about a time when Americans could disagree with each other without hating each other.
While all this is being played out on TV screens and social media, those at the fringes of society are feeling the effects of a sick system perhaps more than anyone. The socio-economic stratification of American society appears more obvious than it has at any time in recent years.
Inequality and rampant police violence against African-Americans prompted the NFL kneeling protests, which turned into a nationwide controversy between Americans who are proud of their flag and national anthem and all they stand for — and those who believe true freedom and justice have not yet come to America. A devastating opioid crisis, one of the highest child poverty rates in the world, and a strict adherence to policies which make the poor poorer and the rich richer, have all helped take anger in America from a simmer to a boil.
Reynolds wrote that part of the problem now is that Americans don't feel social ties which transcend politics. It's all us vs. them — and nothing in between. He argues that churches, fraternal organizations and neighborhoods used to cross political lines, but that this America has "shrunk and decayed" and people are increasingly finding their identity only in politics.
Marriage counselors, Reynolds explains, say that a relationship is doomed to fail when the couple begin to view each other with contempt — and in America today, there seems to be nothing but feelings of contempt felt on both sides of the political spectrum.


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Audiovisual Translation: Theories, Methods and Issues
August 17, 2014 Mona Baker Publications, Translation
By Luis Pérez-González
Routledge – 2014 – 356 page
Paperback: £25.
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Hardback: £90.00
Audiovisual translation is the fastest growing strand within translation studies.
This book addresses the need for more robust theoretical frameworks to investigate emerging text- types, address new methodological challenges (including the compilation, analysis and reproduction of audiovisual data), and understand new discourse communities bound together by the production and consumption of audiovisual texts.
In this clear, user- friendly book, Luis Pérez-González introduces and explores the field, presenting and critiquing key concepts, research models and methodological approaches.
introductory overviews at the beginning of each chapter, outlining aims and relevant connections with other chapters
breakout boxes showcasing key concepts, research case studies or other relevant links to the wider field of translation studies
examples of audiovisual texts in a range of languages with back translation support when required
summaries reinforcing key issues dealt with in each chapter
follow- up questions for further study
core references and suggestions for further reading.
additional online resources on an extensive companion website
This will be an essential text for all students studying audiovisual or screen translation at postgraduate or advanced undergraduate level and key reading for all researchers working in the area.
1. Mapping an Evolving Conceptual Network
2. Audiovisual Translation as a Site of Representational Practice
3. Audiovisual Translation as a Site of Interventionist Practice
4. Audiovisual Translation Models
5. Research Models in Audiovisual Translation
6. Multimodality
7. Self-mediation
8. Lead the Way
Written by one of the leading scholars on the subject, Audiovisual Translation: Theories, Methods and Issues is an accessible and thorough introduction to the study of audiovisual translation in its different forms, providing a detailed examination of the concept of multimodality as well as a thoughtful exploration of fansubbing and other emerging practices, packed with examples and ideas to help students, professionals and general readers to become more informed and reflective about audiovisual translation.
Yau Wai-ping, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
'This is a fabulous, ambitious book that brings together research from far-flung disciplines – from fandom studies to neurolinguistics – to provide a comprehensive and insightful snapshot of audiovisual translation scholarship today. Skilfully analysing and illuminating this burgeoning area of study, it will appeal to students and researchers alike managing to combine accessibility with conceptual rigour.'
Tessa Dwyer, University of Melbourne, Australia
'Luis Pérez-González successfully brings together distinct modes of audiovisual translation and offers a valid and systematic framework for their analysis. The robust and clear discussions of different theoretical models, research methodologies and tools of analysis for multimodal texts, accompanied by several resources such as interviews and follow up questions, represent an exciting and useful resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as researchers in this field.'
Alina Secara, University of Leeds, UK
'With this landmark volume, Luis Pérez-González gives audiovisual translation scholarship the means to generate its futures. It is meticulously researched, intelligent, judicious, consummate in its ability to draw together the threads of AVT's intricate (multi)modalities, to challenge both our knowledge and our ignorance, and to give our theories and methodologies the robust grounding and mutual responsiveness they have hitherto missed. Work like this will help AVT to establish its authority in the 21st century.'
Marie-Noëlle Guillot, University of East Anglia, UK
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audiovisual translation, citizen media, intervention, Luis Pérez-González, multimodality, self mediation


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Q: How to add helix effect on flip effect in CSS? I've created this flip card but I'm wondering if is a way to add in CSS helix effect when it's flipping, or an effect like twist the image.
here I have my flip card demo
http://jsfiddle.net/7k1sf8qk/
and here is my CSS code
.flip-container {
    -webkit-perspective: 1000;
    -moz-perspective: 1000;
    -o-perspective: 1000;
    perspective: 1000;
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.flip-container, .front, .back {
    width: 970px;
    height: 250px;
}

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    -moz-transform: perspective(1000px);
    -moz-transform-style: preserve-3d;

    position: relative;
}

.front, .back {
    -webkit-backface-visibility: hidden;
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    -o-backface-visibility: hidden;
    backface-visibility: hidden;

    -webkit-transition: 0.6s;
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    position: absolute;
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A: Unfortunately you can't recreate this effect using the markup you currently have in place.
What I would recommend is setting the image as the background for a large number of set height HTML elements which you can then set inline styles for with JavaScript to manage the helix effect.
I've made a quick codepen which will hopefully show what I mean:
http://codepen.io/jazibobs/pen/wMvwKP

body {
  background: #555;
}

ul {
  background: #fff;
  width: 600px;
  height: 600px;
  margin: 0 auto;
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}
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292 кіломе́тр — пасажирський зупинний пункт Запорізької дирекції Придніпровської залізниці на лінії Пологи — Комиш-Зоря між зупинними пунктами 290 км (2 км) та 293 км (1 км). Розташований у східній частині передмістя Пологи Запорізької області, неподалік селі Воскресенка.

Пасажирське сполучення
На зупинному пункті 292 км зупиняються потяги приміського сполучення:

У квітні — на початку травня 2018 року працівники колійного господарства регіональної філії «Придніпровська залізниця» за допомогою машини РМ-80 оновили щебеневий баласт на 950-метровій ділянці перегону  — , щоб усунути забруднення щебеневого баласту та небезпечні розлади колії.

У зону колієремонтних робіт на перегоні потрапив пасажирський зупинний пункт Платформа 292 км. Для того, щоб на перегоні могла працювати великогабаритна колійна техніка, залізничникам довелося частково демонтували 13 із 18 залізобетонних плит з посадкової платформи. Решту плит (загальною довжиною 30 м) було збережено, щоб на час ремонту не відміняти зупинку на платформах приміських поїздів, якими користуються місцеві мешканці. Деякі ЗМІ розповсюджували недостовірну інформацію про повну відсутність платформ на зазначеному перегоні, що для пасажирів нічого не зроблено, щоб вони безпечно сідали в приміські потяги, стверджували, що вже кілька десятків потерпілих, які зістрибучи з великої висоти, ламали ноги. Через це велика частина пасажирів боялася їхати поїздом, тому пересідала на автобуси.

7 травня 2018 року колієремонтні роботи на перегоні  —  були завершені. Також була повністю відновлена та впорядкована пасажирська посадкова платформа. «Укрзалізниця» спростувала цю недостовірну інформацію. Залізничники Придніпровської залізниці у короткі терміни провели посилений середній ремонт колії на перегоні, актуальність якого була продиктована питаннями безпеки руху. Зокрема була повністю відновлена посадкова платформа, яка була частково демонтована на час роботи великогабаритної колійної техніки.

Примітки

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Посилання

 Розклад руху приміських потягів на сайті регіональної філії «Придніпровська залізниця»

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Notre-Dame du Nil est une adaptation cinématographique du roman éponyme de Scholastique Mukasonga réalisée par Atiq Rahimi, avec en vedette Amanda Santa Mugabekazi, Albina Sydney Kirenga, Malaika Uwamahoro, Clariella Bizimana, Belinda Rubango Simbi et Pascal Greggory.

La première mondiale de cette coproduction belge, française et rwandaise s'est déroulée le  au Festival international du film de Toronto, où le film a été choisi comme film d'ouverture de la section cinéma du monde contemporain.

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 Titre : Notre-Dame du Nil
 Réalisation : Atiq Rahimi
 Scénario : Atiq Rahimi et Ramata Sy d'après le roman Notre-Dame du Nil de Scholastique Mukasonga
 Photographie : Thierry Arbogast
 Montage : Hervé de Luze
 Production : Charlotte Casiraghi, Marie Legrand, Rani Massalha et Dimitri Rassam
 Société de production : Les Films du Tambour, Chapter 2, France 2 Cinéma, Swoon Productions, Belga Productions, et Canal+

 Société de distribution : Bac Films (France)
 Pays : ,  et
 Genre : Drame
 Durée : 93 minutes
 Dates de sortie :
  :  (Festival international du film de Toronto)
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Distribution
 Amanda Mugabezaki : Virginia
 Albina Kirenga : Gloriosa
 Malaika Uwamahoro : Immaculée
 Clariella Bizimana : Veronica
 Belinda Rubango : Modesta
 Ange Elsie Ineza : Frida
 Kelly Umuganwa Teta : Goretti
 Pascal Greggory : Fontenaille
 Carole Trevoux : La mère supérieure
 Alida Ngabonziza : Dorothée
 Solange Ngabonziza : Godelive
 Khadja Nin : la reine
 Florida Uwera : la narratrice

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Voir aussi

Bibliographie
 David Fontaine, « Notre-Dame du Nil (À l'ombre des jeunes filles en pleurs) », Le Canard enchaîné, Paris, , ,

Liens externes

  Our Lady of the Nile, site du Toronto International Film Festivals
  Notre-Dame du Nil, site de la Berlinale

Film belge sorti en 2019
Film dramatique belge
Film français sorti en 2019
Film dramatique français
Film rwandais sorti en 2019
Film en français
Film en kinyarwanda
Film se déroulant au Rwanda
Adaptation d'un roman français au cinéma
Film se déroulant dans les années 1970


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André-Gilles FORTIN
FORTIN, André-Gilles, B.A., B.Ped., Br.A.
Lotbinière (Quebec)
Deceased Date
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/André-Gilles_Fortin
http://www.parl.gc.ca/parlinfo/Files/Parliamentarian.aspx?Item=62c671a6-e471-4999-aee1-17376a7ee1b2&Language=E&Section=ALL
April 1, 1971 - September 1, 1972
July 8, 1974 - March 26, 1979
Social Credit Party House Leader (January 1, 1976 - January 1, 1976)
Most Recent Speeches (Page 2 of 450)
1.	At the employer-union meeting which was held on December 8, 1976 and in which six UIC managers in Quebec participated with Mr. Pierre Gadbois, Director, heading their group, and five regional union officers led by Mr. Robert Goyette, Regional President, did the five managers accompanying Mr. Gadbois admit that they had not read the document entitled Cadre des rencontres patronales-syndicates submitted by the union on May 26, 1976, and did they refuse to have it inserted in the minutes of the meeting?
2.	Was the only item on the agenda of the meeting the document mentioned in Part 1?
3.	Did Mr. Gadbois in regard to invitations for consultation extended by the union on May 26, August 30, October 17, 1976, consider the document submitted by the union as an obstacle to the meetings?
4.	On December 8, 1976, upon reading the document, did Mr. Gadbois indicate he agreed almost completely with the union paper, except for a matter of little importance?
5.	Did Mr. Michel Fortin, Chief of the UIC Labour Relations in Quebec, admit to Mr. Robert Goyette, the Quebec President of the Union, that the management refused to study the paper because they thought the union was demanding co-management?
6.	Was Mr. Goyette dismissed under these circumstances, even though it was not in keeping with the reasons put forward by management?
7.	Since December 8, 1976, has the union invited management to employer-union meetings on particular dates and, has management refused to take part in such meetings?
8.	Is the prevailing atmosphere in employer-union relationships in the UIC in Quebec favourable to changes such as the merger proposed in Bill C-27 now before the House and, if so, what are the future intentions of the government?
Topic: ROUTINE PROCEEDINGS
Subtopic: QUESTIONS ON THE ORDER PAPER
1.	Since March 1976, at UIC, Quebec area, has section B5, indicating job designation date in most of TBCT 360-15 (REV. 1.76) 7540-21-870-7234 forms commonly referred to as OALO and used to describe the linguistic situation of a job in the Public Service been filled and, if not, does the UIC infringe the Official Languages Act which states that the designation date of a job has to be known when the job is identified as bilingual?
2.	Does this practice allow the Commission to delay the designation of jobs whose unilingual incumbent should receive language training, to have more bilingual jobs than the authorities intend to designate and to reject illegally any dispute with respect to bilingualism allowance and, if so, who is responsible for this situation?
3.	Since the appointment of an Official Languages Officer at the Unemployment Insurance Commission, Quebec area (a) who filled the job on (i) an interim basis (ii) a permanent basis (b) in each case, for what period, indicating the interim period or other and the permanent period (c) was anyone appointed to that job without competition (d) what became of each ex-employee?
1.	Following the transfer of the Unemployment Insurance Commission office in fles-de-la-Madeleine from the Maritime Region to the Quebec Region, was there a one week delay in the payment of benefits and, if so, what was the cost of (a) overtime (b) private messenger services (c) air mail (d) others?
2.	Are these special measures still in effect today and (a) if not, on what date were they stopped (b) if so, are the beneficiaries still entitled to forward their 31-01 forms on Thursdays?
Was a grievance filed by 167 employees of the UIC regional office in Montreal in December 1976, to protest against the lack of ventilation and humidity and, if so (a) during the hours which preceded the tests conducted by
Order Paper Questions
the Departments of Public Works and National Health and Welfare on December 21, 1976, did the administration order a manual ventilating system "to recreate a normal situation" (b) did the complainants win their case and, if not, for what reason?
1.	Does the manual used for training claim control officers at the Quebec regional office of the UIC specify on page 45, that it is better not to inform the claimant that any statement he makes might be used against him, in spite of the intimation of the court that enquiry officers must give a statutory notification to the individuals they are going to question and, if so, for what reason?
2.	Does the manual also state on page 46, that the claimant has to declare that he has read the unemployment insurance booklet which accompanies the claim form in order to bring it to the attention of the court if the accused pleads his ignorance of the law and, if so (a) does the UIC suggest that the booklet is complete enough to enable a person who has read it to know all the provisions of the Act (b) in view of the complex nature of the Act and of the fact that the claimant could be intimidated by the presence of the enquiry officer while being asked whether he has read the booklet, could the use by UIC of the answer to that question be considered malicious and even fraudulent?


I didn't know decisions in arranged marriage were made so quickly.
When it comes to love marriage there are huge ifs and buts. That the lovers know and understand each other is never taken into consideration.
But when it comes to arranged marriage, parents are ready to throw you to sleep with a complete stranger just because he has a secure job and therefore, a good future.
They say getting to know each other automatically develops with time.
Afroza Sultana is from Murshidabad, West Bengal. She is currently employed as a state-government employee. She has been writing since she was a kid and had a dream to be recognized as an author.
The author's short story 'Her Inbox World' was published in an international bilingual literary magazine 'Purbasha Ekhon' (edited and launched both from Norway and India).
Her stories mainly develop from her personal life experiences. She borrows a few strands of reality and tries to craft them into stories, with her own thoughts and imagination.
It's You and I is her first novella, which she developed from her own story of her friendship with a real life character, Girish Soni.


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Colorful Stuffed Animals
Colorful Stuffed Animals Puzzle Details:
About: Solve this fun new puzzle and put the colorful stuffed animals back together as fast as you can for a fun and relaxing time. Have fun!
Puzzle Of The Day On: 24/Oct/2016
Floating Umbrellas
Although designed to protect a person against rain or sunlight, colorful umbrellas (like the ones in this puzzle) can be use as decorations or parts of or artistic installations. In this case the floating colorful umbrella roof featured here is part of an urban art installation hanging above small part of a street in a popular tourist location.
Anyone up for a game of cards? Today's new puzzle features a deck of playing cards. Playing cards were invented in imperial China.They were found in China as early as the 9th century during the Tang Dynasty. Playing cards first entered Europe in the late 14th century.
Red Electric Guitar
An electric guitar is a guitar that uses a pickup (a transducer (specifically a variable reluctance sensor) that captures or senses mechanical vibrations) to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical impulses. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is plugged into a guitar amplifier before being sent to loudspeakers. Invented in 1931, the amplified electric guitar was adopted by jazz guitarists. During the 1950s and 1960s, the electric guitar became the most important instrument in pop music.
Great Puzzle
We've got a great puzzle for you today; both literally and figuratively. Pick you difficulty level, click start and put the Scrabble tiles spelling the word great back together as fast as you can for a chance to get on our leaderboards. Have fun!
Colorful Floating Umbrellas
This kinds of colorful attractions, made out of hundreds of colorful umbrellas floating above the streets, are often found in tourist locations around the world. The multi-colored umbrellas add a bit of color the otherwise dull surroundings and at the same time create cool shaded places where people can escape the Summer sun and heat.
Wooden Masks
In today's new puzzle we feature a some happy and sad hand-made wooden masks. Masks have been used since antiquity for both ceremonial and practical purposes. The word "mask" appeared in English in the 1530s, from Middle French masque "covering to hide or guard the face".
Tropical Huts
If you didn't know, huts are built of readily available materials such as wood, snow, ice, stone, grass, palm leaves, branches, hides, fabric, or mud using techniques passed down through the generations. Some huts are transportable and can stand most conditions of weather. In today's new puzzle we feature two small huts on a tropical island. The designs of these type of buildings in tropical and sub-tropical areas favor high airflow configurations and are built from non-conducting materials, which allow heat dissipation - like wood and palm leaves.
Today's puzzles features an acorn on the forest floor. The acorn, or oak nut, is the nut of the oaks and their close relatives. . Acorns vary from 1–6 cm long and 0.8–4 cm broad. Acorns take between about 6 and 24 months (depending on the species) to mature. Acorns play an important role in forest ecology when oaks are the dominant species or are plentiful. The volume of the acorn crop may vary wildly, creating great abundance or great stress on the many animals dependent on acorns and the predators of those animals. Wildlife which eat acorns as an important part of their diets include birds, such as jays, pigeons, some ducks, and several species of woodpeckers. Small mammals that feed on acorns include mice, squirrels and several other rodents. Ponies eating acornsLarge mammals such as pigs, bears, and deer also consume large amounts of acorns; they may constitute up to 25% of the diet of deer in the autumn.
Lots of things and details to put back together in this new puzzle featuring a corner of a small kitchen. Click start and give it a try!
A heart shaped log is the main subject of today's new jigsaw puzzle. Click start and put the wooden heart and the logs around it back together as fast as possible and get your time on our game leader boards.
Container Terminal By The Docks
A container terminal is a facility where cargo containers(the big and colorful metal containers in the image featured in this fun new puzzle) are transferred between different transport vehicles. In this case the transshipment is between container ships and land vehicles(trains and trucks) - so this facility by the docs can be described as a maritime container terminal. If the transshipment of cargo doesn't involve ships (only land vehicles), this type of facility is called a inland container terminal. Both maritime and inland container terminals usually provide storage facilities for both loaded and empty containers. So know that you know a little bit more about shipping containers and container terminals, click start and join us by the docs and put stacked colorful metal container back together and see a part of the docks you don't usually don't. Have fun!
Deck Of Playing Cards
The most common deck of playing cards used today is the the deck of French playing cards. This kind of deck includes thirteen ranks in each of the four French suits: clubs, diamonds, hearts and spades, with reversible "court" or face cards. Modern playing cards are available in both "wide" and "narrow" sizes, often now commonly referred to as either 'poker' or 'bridge' sized. Although French suited cards are the most common playing cards used internationally, there are many countries or regions that continue to use their own regional cards. In Central Europe, German suited cards are widely used, Italian suited cards are common in Italy and Spanish suited cards on the Iberian peninsula. What is your favorite card game?


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How to Check for COVID Exposure Notifications on iPhone
Thursday December 9, 2021 7:58 PM PST by Tim Hardwick
Apple in May 2020 introduced an Exposure Notification System, which lets public health authorities and governments worldwide help people figure out if they've been exposed to COVID-19, and if so, what steps to take next to minimize the spread of the virus.
Apple and Google developed the underlying APIs and Bluetooth functionality, and that technology has been incorporated into apps designed by public health authorities worldwide, which can use the tracking information to send notifications on exposure and follow up with recommended next steps.
The exposure notification feature is designed to automatically send you a notification if you've been in proximity to a person who is diagnosed with COVID-19. But if you're concerned that you've missed a notification or should have had one, you can manually check for them on your iPhone by following these steps.
Open the Settings app.
Scroll down and tap Exposure Notifications.
Tap View Exposures in App at the top.
This will send you to the app that is using Exposure Notifications. Depending on your local health authority, these apps have different interfaces and the information is organized differently, but whichever app it is you're using, any exposure logs should be highlighted pretty prominently so that you don't miss them.
Some states and countries use an Exposure Notification "Express" system that does not rely on an app. In these cases, you won't be directed to an app, but will instead see an "Exposure Check Status" that will let you know if you've been exposed. To check the status, follow the first two steps listed above.
You can allay any concerns you may have in future by going into the Settings app on your iPhone and turning on Exposure Notifications -> Monthly Update. With the option enabled, you'll receive a monthly notification that reminds you that the feature is functioning and possible exposures are being shared with your authorized public health authority app.
Tag: Exposure Notification Guide
iOS 15: How to Set Up a Notification Summary
Monday October 11, 2021 9:27 am PDT by Tim Hardwick
Notifications in iOS 15 got a design overhaul on iPhone and iPad, and one of the marquee feature additions is notification summary. This article explains what it is and how to use it. With the notification summary, you can schedule select app notifications to be delivered alongside others as a bundle at a specific time of the day. The idea is that by bundling non-urgent notifications and...
iOS 15: How to Have Siri Announce Your Notifications
Monday August 16, 2021 10:43 am PDT by Tim Hardwick
In iOS 15, Siri comes with a new Announce Notifications feature that allows you to have notifications read out to you when you're wearing connected AirPods or Beats headphones. Siri has been able to announce messages for some time now, but in iOS 15, the feature has been expanded to all notifications. When enabled, Siri will automatically announce Time Sensitive notifications from apps ...
How to Fix Mail Notification Sounds in iOS 15
Thursday October 14, 2021 8:19 pm PDT by Eric Slivka
After updating to iOS 15, a number of users have discovered that they are no longer hearing notification sounds for the Mail app. To fix this issue, you may need to adjust your Mail notification settings. Open the Settings app, tap Mail, and then tap Notifications. At the bottom of the Notifications screen, tap Customize Notifications. Tap the desired email account. Turn on or off the...
How to Disable Annoying Apple TV Keyboard Notifications in iOS 15.1 and iPadOS 15.1
Wednesday October 13, 2021 2:30 am PDT by Tim Hardwick
On the Apple TV, if you prefer not to input text using the Siri Remote you can use a nearby iPhone or iPad to type. Whenever a text field appears on the Apple TV, a notification appears on the iPhone or iPad, and after tapping the notification, you can use the on-screen keyboard on your iOS device to enter text on the Apple TV. It used to be the case that you could disable these...
How to Customize Your iPhone's Status Bar With an Emoji
Monday December 20, 2021 12:16 pm PST by Tim Hardwick
Apple in iOS 15 introduced a Focus feature that's designed to let you set up your device to help you be in the moment and zone in on a single thing. When a Focus mode is active, it displays a little customizable emoji/icon in the status bar of your iPhone, next to the time. Setting up a Focus mode can be complicated, but if all you want is to see a symbol in the status bar, it's easy to do once...
iOS 15: How to Get Weather Notifications on Your iPhone
Wednesday September 1, 2021 3:26 pm PDT by Tim Hardwick
In iOS 15, Apple's stock Weather app received a major design overhaul, thanks in part to a number of features brought over from the popular weather app Dark Sky, which Apple acquired in 2020. One of those features is the ability to receive notifications when rain or snow is starting or stopping. This article explains how to enable them. In Apple's revamped Weather app in iOS 15, you can sign ...
How to Hide Your Instagram Online Status
Wednesday January 12, 2022 9:43 am PST by Tim Hardwick
Most social media networks and chat platforms these days include a feature that shows when a user was last online or last active on the service, which can be either helpful or a hindrance, depending on your personal or business situation. WhatsApp includes an optional "Last Seen" status for the person you're chatting with in a conversation thread, while Instagram tells you how long it was...
iOS 15: How to Allow Time Sensitive Notifications to Bypass Focus Mode
Tuesday July 27, 2021 10:01 am PDT by Tim Hardwick
With Focus in iOS 15, you can set an activity that you're doing, such as working, exercising, reading, or spending time with family, and block out the notifications that are unrelated to those tasks. It's like Do Not Disturb, but with more options for refining what you see and what you don't see. If there's something pressing coming up or an event you're expecting that you don't want to...


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    return THIS.hashCode();
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Apparently, the NFL punter Jon Ryan, the Regina Rams (and Winnipeg Blue Bombers) alum, could be getting signed by the Seattle Seahawks.
It figures and not just because the Seahawks kicking game has lacked a CIS product since long snapper J.P. Darche left after the 2006 season. Seattle's special teams were seven kinds of putrid in their season-opening loss to the Buffalo Bills, who scored 27 points directly off Seahawks gaffes. Ryan Plackemeier set the Bills up with a short field twice with wobbly punts, on top of having one returned for a touchdown.
Ryan has also experience with kickoffs, meaning that in a pinch, he could probably fill in for Olindo Mare in that capacity. Seattle can't carry three kicking specialists, since they have so many injuries, especially at receiver.
Good to see. I was pretty surprised to see Ryan cut by Green Bay, as he's always been quite a good punter. Nice that he found another spot.


"The sexual assault allegation against Brett Kavanaugh is a disturbing extension of his anti-woman ideology, which is evident throughout the records of his work. His demonstrated hostility towards women's autonomy and safety is a testament to the grave risk posed by appointing him to the Supreme Court.
"Sexual assault and restricting reproductive rights have the same root cause: the desire to control women and their bodies, which are in direct opposition to the values and work of NIRH. Our mission to advance reproductive freedom is based on trusting women, always.
"We support survivors' rights to privacy and confidentiality, and vehemently oppose attempts to smear a survivor's credibility or threaten their safety. We believe the survivors of sexual assault and harassment and support survivors' decisions regarding how and when to tell their stories.


Firestone will be the title sponsor of the 2014 IndyCar Series season-opening race on the scenic streets of St. Petersburg, Fla., event promoter Green Savoree St. Petersburg announced today.
The Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg will be held March 28-30 on the 1.8-mile circuit next to Tampa Bay. The "World's Fastest Spring Break Party" will celebrate its 10th anniversary of hosting the IndyCar Series. James Hinchcliffe of Andretti Autosport won this past season.
General public tickets for the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg will be available Dec. 1 at www.gpstpete.com or by calling 877-283-5385.
Firestone, the Official Tire of the IndyCar Series since 2002, also is the title sponsor of the Firestone 600 at Texas Motor Speedway in June.


Our stretch of the Darwen is from the Winery Lane bridge round onto the River Ribble for about 175 metres.
Quality chub and roach are present. This water is a excellent winter venue especially when the main river is carrying extra water.
Please note that this stretch is tidal, care is needed as the water rises. Fishing is from dawn till dusk only. NO Night Fishing. Please note this is a members only water - we don't sell day-tickets for this venue. This water is subject to the traditional close season (15th March to 15th June, inclusive). Please do not fish during this period.
Access to Winery Lane and Capitol Way is at the traffic lights near MacDonalds. Proceed beyond the mini-roundabout to Winery Lane once inside the Capital Centre and bear left. Follow Winery Lane to the small bridge over the River Darwen, from where you have access to the length we control.
If you are a S&DDA member who already using the online membership system you can renew your membership by logging in HERE.
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Did Illumination Solve the Video Game Movie Problem?
Posted by Kris Randazzo on Dec 7th 2022
A Video Game Movie, Not a Movie about a Game
This Mario Movie sure looks like something, doesn't it? This whole thing has had me very nervous since the moment it was announced for a number of reasons. Yet against all odds, here we are. They've released two trailers and they've both felt like something that's been made with an astonishing amount of love and care. I don't know exactly what I expected when this was announced, but being impressed certainly wasn't it. I am, though. It's doing so much of what I always wanted a video game movie to do that I honestly can't believe my eyes. It's taking liberties so it isn't just a literal retread of the games themselves, but it's doing so with not only a ton of respect for the source material, it's actually incorporating the "story" of playing the games into the movie itself.
The "Story" of Games
Think about that for a second. What's the story of Super Mario Bros.? Bowser kidnapped the princess and Mario & Luigi set out across the Mushroom Kingdom to save her. That's it, right? Well, that's it for the beginning of the story. The rest of the story is the game itself. There aren't narrative plot points per se, but a ton of stuff happens between where the backstory leaves off and the actual ending of the game. Mario jumps in a pipe and finds a secret room full of coins. He finds a magical mushroom that makes him taller and stronger. He finds a flower that lets him throw fireballs. He finds a super star that makes him temporarily invincible. He encounters monstrous turtles that he can kick around and use as weapons. He travels through an underground cavern and has to navigate bottomless pits to get to the other side. Then he crosses a giant chasm by jumping on the treetops. Once he makes it to the other side, he encounters an enormous castle filled with fireball traps and actual lava pits. He ultimately comes face to face with the giant lizard monster Bowser, finds a way past him only to discover that he was a decoy, and the Princess is in another castle.
That's just World 1. There's an entire story to video games that isn't told in cutscenes or through quicktime events. The story of Metroid is what happens to Samus while she's looking for Mother Brain. The story of The Legend of Zelda is Link finding the Triforce pieces. Just because there aren't people talking with one another for most of it, doesn't mean there isn't an adventure happening. It's storytelling through gameplay, and it's why I fell in love with video games as a medium in the first place.
So in the new trailer when Mario, Peach, and Toad walk across a bridge and Mario gets hit by a Cheep Cheep, I flipped because for what seems like the first time ever, someone is actually adapting a video game into a movie. The events of the game are being portrayed as part of the narrative. I don't know how deep that kind of stuff is really going to go, but what I've seen so far is wonderful. It's a completely different approach to making a video game movie than I've seen before, and while I'm still all manner of nervous about bad jokes and annoying Minion-like characters getting shoved in my face, I can't help feeling this sense of excitement for a movie that takes the time to actually adapt the game instead of telling a cookie cutter kids movie plot with some video game references slapped on top.
Nintendoes what Sega Don't
I'm talking specifically about Sonic the Hedgehog here. Look, I don't hate the Sonic movies. They're fun little things and my kids enjoyed them, but they could have been so much more. What's always bothered me most about them was the tired premise of Sonic landing in the human world. That they decided to make it live action at all when what's so fantastic about Sonic is, well, how fantastic the world he comes from is.
That is an image from the beginning of the first Sonic movie, and wow. Just wow. They start the movie off with this incredible look at this colorful, fantastic world. Sonic runs through a loop, a thin patch of land crumbles behind him, it's perfect. Then moments later all that fun and fantasy gets ripped away in favor of a small town road trip movie that's about as by the numbers as could possibly be.
In the second movie, nearly everything with the human characters was groan-worthy, and it counteracted so much of the good stuff. If they just had the faith in the property itself to make a Sonic movie instead of a kids movie with Sonic in it, it could have beaten Mario to the punch of being the first truly good video game movie. But it didn't, because it's not a video game movie. It's a movie with video game stuff in it.
Super Inspiration
Mario, on the other hand, seems to be drawing a shocking amount of inspiration from the Super Mario bros. Super Show. Look, I'm WELL aware that that isn't a "good" television show, but as a kid I couldn't wait to get home from school and watch it every single day, and the fact that it's being referenced as much as it is is astounding.
In the first trailer, they played a piece of music that to many probably just sounded like a bit from the first NES game, but I immediately recognized it from the intro to the Super Show. Now, just ahead of this trailer there was a pair of posters that say "We're the Mario Bros., and plumbing's our game," which are the first lyrics of the show's theme song. That isn't a coincidence, these folks likely grew up watching that show too.
Then there's the characterizations. Having Peach not just be the mostly brainless damsel in distress is giving me serious Super Show vibes. There, she was with the team on most of their adventures. She got kidnapped sometimes, but so did Toad, and Luigi, and Mario. Of course in the new movie they do run the risk of making her a one-dimensional character in the opposite direction, being #GirlBoss 24/7 is nearly as bad as being a vapid plot prop who exists solely to ask Mario for help, but the bits we've seen don't point to that. She loves her kingdom and speaks about it with reverence, so her and Toad are playing tour guide. Meanwhile, I know some folks have looked at the trailer and thought Mario is being portrayed as a bumbling idiot who can't do anything right, but I don't think that's the case. I think he's a perfectly capable everyman, but when he's introduced to the insanity that is the Mushroom Kingdom, it's going to take some getting used to, and there's going to be plenty of slapstick humor based around that premise. But I think he's going to get the hang of things and become the Mario we all know and love by the end. We did see him flying in a Tanooki suit, after all.
But again, back to the Super Show, the Mario Bros. are from Brooklyn again! It's another callback to the basic plot of the Super Show, which we haven't heard a peep about in an official capacity in ages. Heck, Mario being a plumber has been all but completely phased out of the games, but here we are. And it's not the "real world" Brooklyn either. Just look at this place.
Much like the Brooklyn of the Super Show, even the live action bits, this is a heavily stylized cartoon world Brooklyn. They aren't from the real world, like what they did in the Sonic movie. These guys are from movie Brooklyn, and I love it.
Let's-a-Talk
Now, a word about the voices. A lot has been said of Chris Pratt's performance, and I can't say I completely disagree. Especially in light of hearing how enthusiastic and genuinely awesome the rest of the voice cast is, Chris Pratt sounds kind of dull. But the complaint that he doesn't sound like Charles Martinet hits differently for folks my age. When I was growing up, Mario didn't have a voice in the games. The first time I heard him speak was in the Super Mario Bros. Super Show where he was voiced by Lou Albano. Then in Hotel Mario for CD-i he sounded like that again, only with an even deeper voice. Then Bob Hoskins played him in the live action movie. So when Super Mario 64 came out and Mario sounded like a high-pitched Italian stereotype, it was pretty jarring. Chris Pratt sounds like a happy medium between the old voice and his current one. I wish there was a little more energy in his performance, but I certainly don't hate it.
The rest of the cast, though, sounds a lot more like their Super Show counterparts than I would have expected. Toad, Bowser, Luigi, and Peach seem to be drawing a lot more from those old voices than their video game counterparts, and I'm honestly perfectly fine with that. With the art direction being so distinct from the games, I'm totally cool with these being very different interpretations of these characters. If they went ahead and used the game voices, it would be weird not because those actors couldn't do the roles, but because it would make the lack of actual talking in the games seem weirder by comparison.
I do have one exception, though. In the Sonic movies, the Tails voice actor reprised her role for the movie, and that was great. For the Mario universe, I would love to see that applied to Wario. We haven't seen or heard a single thing about Wario being a part of this movie, but we do know that Charles Martinet has an undisclosed role in there somewhere. Wario has done plenty of conversational talking over the years, so having him show up with his original voice would work very well. The question is, how do they fit a character like Wario into this thing?
On one hand, Martinet's Wario showing up at the end to be set up as the main villain of the sequel would be incredibly cool. An adaptation of 6 Golden Coins? Sign me up. But what about Wart? What if the second movie heads to Subcon? They also mentioned Galaxies in the trailer, so what if they introduce Rosalina and the second movie is an adaptation of Super Mario Galaxy? Or maybe the galaxy line was more of an allusion to outer space in general, and Tatanga shows up. There's an island in the trailer that looks like it could very well be Sarasaland.
This movie is reminding me of how it felt to be a Mario fan when I was a kid in a way that I didn't think was possible anymore. I adore the modern Mario games, but when I was a kid, every Mario game looked vastly different from the last one. There were more villains than just Bowser. The cartoon series was absurd, but it was fun, and for all its MANY faults, the world always felt exciting and fantastic to be in. This is the most alive the Mushroom Kingdom has felt to me in decades, and it's brimming with personalities. The Toads look different from one another. So do the Koopas, and the Kongs. It feels like a whole universe, and that's wonderful. Literally, full of wonder.
So will this movie ultimately let me down? It's a real possibility. But for now, I'm cautiously optimistic. Either way, I'll be there opening day with my kids, and that alone is more than enough to make me excited.