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University of Michigan-Ann Arbor offers 3 Business Administration And Management Degree programs. It's a large public university in a mid sized city. In 2015, 1,238 students graduated in the study area of Business Administration And Management with students earning 740 Master's degrees, 482 Bachelor's degrees, and 16 Doctoral degrees.
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Boosting energy efficiency and use of local renewable energy has been a strategic focal point during President Barack Obama's two terms in office to a far greater degree than any of his predecessors. That includes initiating policies and investing in programs that help small businesses and rural communities do more with the same or less energy.
The Obama administration's efforts promote emissions-free local power generation while at the same time reducing carbon emissions and the negative environmental impacts of energy production and use.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on October 25 announced USDA is investing more than $300 million to support efforts by small business owners and rural community residents to reduce energy consumption and make use of local renewable energy sources. Vilsack made the announcement at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin, Texas where he met with local business owners have been awarded loans and grants.
USDA is investing $237 million to support 423 rural businesses via REAP, the Renewable Energy for America Program, the department highlights. Recipients are using grant and loan proceeds to install biomass, geothermal, hydropower and solar PV systems, as well as to increase energy efficiency by improving heating, ventilation and cooling systems, insulation, lighting and refrigeration.
"Through efficiency upgrades and private-sector partnerships, America has been able to cut its carbon emissions, create jobs and save families hundreds of dollars at the pump and on their utility bills every year,¨ Vilsack pointed out.
Nine Texas businesses received more than $870,000 in the latest round of REAP grant awards. Two will receive loans of $5 million each. That's on top of the $100 billion the Agriculture Dept. has invested to boost energy efficiency and renewable energy use across the state during the Obama administration's nearly eight years in office, Vilsack noted.
Among them, Austin's Vickery Wholesale Greenhouse is receiving a $28,238 REAP grant to install a 40.32 kW rooftop PV solar array that is expected to reduce its energy consumption significantly.
Austin has emerged as a national leader when it comes to testing and proving use of innovative smart grid and distributed renewable energy technology. More broadly, Texas is a national leader when it comes to wind power generation. Growth of solar energy use is also on the rise.
Johnson City's Pedernales Electric Cooperative is using proceeds of a $68 million Energy Efficiency and Conservation Loan Program (EECLP) loan to fund enhanced energy efficiency improvements across its rural service territory.
The Pedernales electric coop will offer members loans of up to $20,000 to help them install PV solar and energy storage systems. On-bill financing will make it easier for them to make loan payments.
REAP funding has helped finance more than 11,600 renewable energy and energy efficiency projects that have lowered energy costs for about 15,000 rural businesses, according to USDA.
That includes Hiram, Maine's organic foods company GrandyOats. Housed in a former elementary school building. GrandyOats used a $20,000 REAP grant to become the first food production company in Maine to get all its electrical power from solar PV, becomING a net-zero carbon emissions food production facility..


Experts Exchange is the "Survivor" of IT help forums: It pits IT professionals against each other in a contest to see who can provide the best solutions to problems posed by peers. Here's how it works: An IT professional encounters a problem, goes to Experts Exchange, selects a category (divided first by job title, say Software Engineer, then by topic, say Operating Systems, Databases, Game Programming, and so on). He posts a question, receives replies, and grades them according to their effectiveness. The site ranks the top 15 experts in each category, and profiles (with a pic and brief bio) one expert each week. By pitting experts against each other, the site encourages high-quality answers, making the site more valuable to IT managers.


Sharrow is heir to a noble family, which is much less useful than it could be since her grandfather was declared a criminal by the powerful World Court and most of her family's property was confiscated. She's a former military officer and squad leader, and now is a retired antiquities hunter and retrieval specialist. She's also the target of a religious cult, who murdered her mother and who believe that either all the female members of her family line have to die or an artifact known as the Lazy Gun must be returned to their collection for their messiah to return. They are on the verge of getting a Hunting License from the World Court, a legal document giving them a year to murder her with full legal protection.
The final antiquities contract Sharrow and her half-sister took was finding and retrieving the second-to-last remaining Lazy Gun, which promptly exploded and destroyed most of a city when people attempted to analyze it. The last remaining Gun is the one supposedly stolen by her family from the cult. Sharrow plans on finding it, since the alternative appears to be death. Family lore has it that a clue to its location was left in a legendary book called the Universal Principles , a book her half-sister believed was kept in the fortress of the Sea House. Sharrow's half-sister is now imprisoned there for attempting to loot their treasury, with the price of her release being the Universal Principles .
Against a Dark Background has a style and a mood familiar to readers of Banks's Culture novels, but it itself is not a Culture book. (Although, as one discovers late in the book in a memorable moment that most summaries of the book spoil but I won't, it could be in the same universe.) The entirety of the book takes place in one star system, mostly on two habitable planets, with no interstellar contact. But Banks layers into that star system a wealth of history and complexity that brings to mind Culture novels, particularly Use of Weapons .
Sharrow's squad during the war underwent a process called synchroneurobonding, which means that they can anticipate each other's thinking processes in combat situations and make extremely accurate guesses about tactics such as which direction one of them would dodge away from enemy fire. It also makes them very close. Sharrow's second act in the book, after approaching her half-sister for clues to the location of the Universal Principles , is to pull together the remaining members of her squad. That's when Against a Dark Background falls into shape: this is, at core, a caper novel. A small, close-knit, diverse team combines their skills to pull off dazzling heists, following a trail of clues through various antiquities to the last remaining Lazy Gun.
If you've read any Banks before, you might immediately guess that this is great fun. This is a team of highly competent and somewhat jaded people, who have been through a war together and who are cynical, sarcastic, and very sure of their skills, but also dealing with emotional damage. It's set against a marvelous background, a world full of twisty legal codes, microstates, a wealth of half-forgotten history and half-remembered knowledge, and a truly baroque legal system. So much of SF reflects a US sensibility of a young country devoid of the detritus of history. Banks's world is gloriously lived in, full of past mistakes, odd corners, and remnants that need not have any specific story implication. They just are. I could lose myself in the convolutions of the background; the story is just a good excuse to play in it for a while.
So, a caper novel with great Banks protagonists against a memorable background in search of an artifact that's delightfully odd (and whose details I won't spoil for you; it's more fun to find out what a Lazy Gun is in the full context of the book). What's not to like? Well, I have two cautions.
First, this is not a book about explaining things. Golter's history simply is. The caper plot has a resolution (which worked for me, although I know others found it unbelievable), but if you go into this book expecting grand revelations about the world and its history, you're going to be very disappointed. That ties into what I found to be a useful angle from which to examine this book: Against a Dark Background is a story about special forces troops, not about engineers.
Much of SF, particularly much of US SF and including much military SF, is about engineers, or at least about people with an engineering or scientific bent. It's about discovering, designing, building, analyzing, and taking things apart. It's about understanding the world. The military perspectives in SF are normally those of the Air Force or, particularly, the Navy, where understanding, building, rebuilding, and tending to the needs of complex and comprehensible machinery is the center of the military experience.
Sharrow and her team are not like that. They appreciate good technology, but things they acquire are meant to be used. They don't take things apart and try to understand them; they use them for their immediate requirements until they break or they have to leave them behind, and then they acquire new things. This mentality extends to almost everything in their worlds. Banks ventures somewhat into the morality of this and provides some emotional justification in the extensive flashbacks that tell Sharrow's life story. Her goal, from the beginning of the book through the plot climax, is never to understand things. The reader can figure out quite a bit along the way, but Banks is not going to provide the catharsis of jigsaw pieces coming together, and the engineering reading that SF normally encourages is going to be frustrating.
My second caution is that this is Banks, which means that the story can be quite dark. He provides some warning early on: the book opens with a violent flashback, and not far into the story a third player enters the plot by torturing Sharrow. But even with that, I was caught by surprise by the bleakness of the last section of the book. While Banks does provide an upbeat twist to the ending, this is not a happily-ever-after sort of story, and the last 100 pages are a harrowing experience. He's vicious to his characters. There's enough odd gallows humor and personal courage mixed in to make the ending enjoyable (despite a typical, predictable, and very annoying wounded protagonist sequence), but this is not a book that's going to leave you feeling optimistic about the world. Think more Use of Weapons than The Player of Games .
Those two caveats aside, Banks is an excellent writer and this is a beautiful book, full of rich description, layered history, and characters I cared a great deal about. The reader gets to know Sharrow thoroughly, including a miserable childhood and some of the miserable things she did in reaction to it, and she remains appealing as a protagonist despite being far from a saint. Banks does a good job weaving world background and extensive flashbacks into the story, keeping things moving forward while giving the reader lots to piece together and appreciate (and often laugh wryly at). It does require some attention to recognize the pieces, and Banks's description is rich enough that one has to go slow, but I never found it excessively hard to follow.
I came away from the book upset by the ending and wanting more discovery and understanding of the world, but the more I've thought about it since finishing it, the more it's grown on me. It's not The Player of Games , but it's a solid SF caper story that feels better grounded in real emotions, believable characters, and deep history than nearly all SF. Recommended, but be aware of what you're getting.


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Q: System.Timers.Timer Elapsed event not firing in Windows Service I recently purchased a very weak VPS from GoDaddy to test a website I have developed.  I've created a simple service that I would like to trigger every 10 seconds to send pending emails to users from my database.  I've created many services before that used a System.Timers.Timer and I've never had a problem with it.  This is the first service I've installed on the VPS, however.  The timer is simply not firing.  I know this because I keep my own EventLog in a txt file and the Service's OnStart() works and writes to my EventLog.  After that, nothing...  I have tried everything under the sun to get this to work and I just can't.  The mysterious thing is that even a System.Threading.Timer's callback DOES NOT fire.  Could this be an issue with the VPS??  Please don't tell me I'm going to have to put this in a Scheduled Task!! lol
Things I've tried:
Using timer.Enabled instead of timer.Stop.
Using System.Threading.Timer.
Reordering the timer property declarations.
Setting timer.Autoreset to "false" and not stopping timer in Elapsed event.
Installing the service as local system AND as Administrator.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Linq;
using System.ServiceProcess;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;
using FieldEncryption;
using Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data;
using System.Net;
using System.Threading;

namespace EmailsPendingSvc
{
    public partial class Service1 : ServiceBase
    {
        System.Timers.Timer timer = new System.Timers.Timer();

        public Service1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        protected override void OnStart(string[] args)
        {
            timer.Interval = 10000;
            timer.Elapsed += timer_Elapsed;
            timer.Start();
            using (StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(@"C:\Program Files\PHServices\EmailsPendingSvc\EventLog.txt", true))
            {
                sw.WriteLine(DateTime.Now.ToShortDateString() + "  --  " + DateTime.Now.ToShortTimeString() + "  --  Service Started.");
            }
        }

        void timer_Elapsed(object sender, System.Timers.ElapsedEventArgs e)
        {
            using (StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(@"C:\Program Files\PHServices\EmailsPendingSvc\EventLog.txt", true))
            {
                sw.WriteLine("Timer elapsed.");
            }
            timer.Stop();
            // Do Stuff
            timer.Start();
        }

        protected override void OnStop()
        {
            using (StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(@"C:\Program Files\PHServices\EmailsPendingSvc\EventLog.txt", true))
            {
                sw.WriteLine(DateTime.Now.ToShortDateString() + "  --  " + DateTime.Now.ToShortTimeString() + "  --  Service Stopped.");
            }
        }
    }
}

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Documenting Sault's music scene nears end
Ric Datson of Bone Yard performs at Queen Street Cruise at Essar Centre on Saturday, June 16, 2018 in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. (BRIAN KELLY/THE SAULT STAR/POSTMEDIA NETWORK)
This is The End of Shaun Antler's efforts to document Sault Ste. Marie's music history.
What started as a small-scale attempt to get names of members of groups through the years grew into a two-year project that now stands at 1,722 entries.
Antler's ready to drop the curtain and hit the lights at month's end.
"It just keeps growing and getting bigger and bigger and bigger and I've got to put an end to it," she told The Sault Star. "This is your last chance to get any information in."
Anyone with information about bands that have been part of the Sault's music scene can reach Antler at santler@shaw.ca.
The stage director of Rotaryfest's Stage 1 has compiled a whole range of types of acts, including opera, country, electronic, musical theatre, grunge, doo-wop, death metal and jazz.
"Every single genre you can think of," Antler told The Sault Star. "It's quite diverse."
More recent additions to her collection include 1940s outfits such as Mino and His Merry Men and George Nesom and The Personality Boys. Antler's also been handed names of groups, Deja Vu, The Extracts, Gambler, Heaven's Devils and The Jesters, but no listing of group personnel.
She's focused now on "tidying up loose ends," such as finding out what instruments band members played.
Production help Antler could use now is a name for her research effort that will be donated to Sault Ste. Marie Museum. She's been calling her work The Music Project.
"But it deserves a better name," said Antler.
She's been putting in five to six hours a day for the last couple of weeks to put her band list to bed. Other projects beckon for the rest of 2021.
"I want to make sure that I get this done," said Antler.
Submissions that come in after Jan. 31 "will have to be added at a later date."
Website developer Bill Cowen is working with Antler to take the information she's gathered and share it through an online directory.
That site is expected to go live in March. An address is still to be determined.
Cowen helped develop a similar online resource, www.artsvictoria.ca, more than a decade ago when he lived in Victoria, B.C.That site, highlighting visual artists, musicians and dancers is still active.
"It's been a successful endeavour," he said.
He was an Arts Council of Sault Ste. Marie board member in the late 1990s. The arts umbrella organization produced an annual paper directory of artists.
"I witnessed their struggles to keep that up-to-date," said Cowen.
What he's creating for Antler lets artists update their information themselves without contacting a site administrator.
"We give the resource back to the artist," said Cowen. "It dramatically increases the up-to-dateness of the resource and it keeps it going with much less administration. The burden of the organization is taken away from the organization that's developing the resource."
Cowen is also part of Antler's two-year project. He was a member of dance/pop outfit Four Really Nice Guys. Cowen also made a one-show appearance with Skeleton Closet.
"We'll see where it goes," he said of the interactive directory. "There's a lot for it to develop into. In other cities when left to the community, the community sort of develops itself because the musicians recognize that it's a place where they can also be a part of it."
Cowen also wants what he's helping create to have a long shelf life.
"Mostly so no-one has to aggregate the data again but also, so that all the information can be found in one place for anyone who comes looking for it, now as well as in the future," he said. "What partnerships and collaborations will be required to keep it going is difficult to say, however I believe there is the will and opportunity to see such a digital archive establish itself locally, both as a current resource for the area, as well as an historical archive moving forward."
Antler has done "a hell of a job," said the secretary and treasurer of Sault Ste. Marie Musicians' Association.
"It's a task that is beyond anybody's imagination because you think you know everybody in the business," said Paul Leclair. "Well, you don't."
He helped Antler with her efforts. Leclair focused his research mostly on bands active from 1960 to 1980.
Recent finds he shared with Antler are The Country Kings featuring John McClanaghan, Frank Boyer, Gary Mason and Ken Findlay circa 1968. Leclair also shared a tip about a current outfit, Dynowaves.
Museum visitors "would be most impressed" with its music display. Antler's contribution will add to "a great trip down memory lane," said Leclair.
"I commend her for sticking to it because it is quite daunting to have to put together," he said.
btkelly@postmedia.com
On Twitter: @Saultreporter

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UN urges East African States to revitalize war against corruption
NAIROBI, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- Governments across the East African region must devise bold and innovative strategies to re-energize the fight against corruption, said the senior anti-corruption advisor at the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Tim Steele, during a regional forum held in Nairobi on Monday.
While acknowledging that corruption was detrimental to regional development, peace and stability, Steele emphasized that political goodwill, law enforcement and public awareness are key to rooting out the vice.
"Corruption not only inhibits development but also compromises security and cohesion in any country. Governments in this region must create an enabling environment to enhance the fight against this menace at all levels," Steele said.
Senior policymakers, law enforcement agencies and experts from the east and Horn of African region attended the workshop on fast-tracking the implementation of the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC).
Majority of countries across the eastern African region are signatories to the UN convention adopted in 2003 to reactivate global efforts to eradicate corruption.
Steele noted that improved cross-border collaboration in vital areas like investigations, prosecutions and public outreach will be critical to minimize graft in the public and private sectors.
"What is required as a matter of urgency is for countries in this region to enhance collaboration in financial investigations and whistle blower protection," said Steele.
Multilateral institutions have partnered with countries in the East and Horn of Africa to identify and implement novel measures to eradicate corruption.
Steele noted that multilateral lenders have supported governments in the region to unearth and prosecute graft cartels.
"Technical expertise is critical to strengthen investigative capacity and reporting of corruption in the region. The eastern African countries should also have a strong mechanism for asset recovery," Steele said.
He added that eradication of graft is directly linked to sustainable development in the region.
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Charles IV, a highly renowned emperor, together with his wife and sons, went to Pope Urban at Rome in A.D. 1368. He proceeded through Padua and Bologna and into Etruria. When he reached Pisa a number of cities submitted to him as part of the Roman Empire. He also secured various sums of money from the Florentines, who feared the opposition of certain of their subjects in Etruria and who would have proceeded against them if the Emperor had consented. While Charles was at Rome he requested Pope Urban to search for the heads of the holy apostles, Peter and Paul. Through divine sanction they were found and they were deposited in a visible place in the Church of St. John Lateran, ornamented with much silver and gold and precious stories. At one time Charles attended the University of Prague; and there he heard the masters of the liberal arts disputing for four hours. His attendants became impatient and reminded him that it was time for the evening meal. Whereupon Charles answered, It is time for you, but not for me; for this is my meal. At another time he ordered brought before him a man who wanted to take the emperor's life; and Charles handed him a thousand gliders with which to endow his eligible daughter, saying that he felt sorry for the daughter who, although the eldest, was destined to remain at home. The man thanked the king, and returned to those who had engaged him to slay the king, and said, I did not know who Charles was, but now I do not wish to slay or otherwise do away with this kind and merciful prince. During Charles' time serious dissension arose in the imperial city of Nuremberg because the members of the council and the heirs of Charles were attached to the emperor. This was contrary to the wishes of the community. The uproar was caused by one Geiszbart, a member of the guild of smiths; but the controversy silenced through the diligence of the emperor; the guild of the craftsmen was abolished, the city provided with better police protection, and the butchers who had adhered to the emperor and the council were perpetually privileged to celebrate carnivals at Shrovetide.
The Order of Jesuati (or Jesuates) had its origin at Siena in Etruria, under the hereinafter named Pope Urban. The members of this order wore lay dress according to the custom of the clergy, lived together in houses, with great affection and simple devotion, performed manual labor, and served God. When said pope summoned them before him he was greatly pleased with their mode of life, and he assigned to them a habit consisting of a white robe and a cowl; and he gave them as patron a brave and very holy man who was his kinsman, and who by virtue of the authority vested in him, prescribed for them a gray habit over the white coat; and they were to remain unshod. He also endowed them with many privileges, and they increased throughout Italy, and because of the good life of its members, they were held in high esteem.
The Order of the Regulated Canons, called the Scopetini, and which we call St. Salvatore, also originated at this time in the vicinity of Siena through certain fathers of the Augustinian Order. This congregation was later recognized by Pope Gregory XI, confirmed and chartered, and reckoned among the Regular Canons. These men, in memory of their original states, wore a white robe with a white scapular over a white linen shirt. They live off their revenues and rents, and do not preach, but they do hear confessions. Until now they have been held in great esteem and respect; for this order reared a large number of men highly renowned for their Scriptural wisdom and piety.
John, king of France, began to reign in A.D. 1350 on the death of his father Philip; and he reigned twenty-five years. He carried on the war begun by his father with Edward, the king of England. However, in the sixth year of his reign he was defeated by King Edward at Poitiers, and he and his son Philip were taken prisoners; and Gaulterus, the duke of Athens, and 20,000 Frenchmen were slain. Three years later King Edward freed John and all the prisoners on condition that he never again undertake a war against Edward; but John soon violated his pledge, causing Edward to take up arms anew. And Edward invaded France with a large and mighty army, inflicted a great defeat, and ravaged the country for a long time.


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CPL Beach Party 2 Was AWESOME!!!
Then me and Rubbatummy had a little game of volleyball!
And we eventually got bored of it. So we went down the waterslide!!
Lol! Awesome and I are just chillin'!
And apparently Rubbatummy likes candy... ALOT!!
Just some more random dancing!
More random stuff: The party ended with Awesome turning into a Reindeer!! LOL! I tried to catch him but he is just too fast!!
Well... thanks again for everyone that came to make the 2nd Beach party a success. You guys are the best CPL fans in the world!!
Can i come? I love partys!


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Centrica and Ryze to develop hydrogen pathway
Centrica and Ryze Hydrogen are set to jointly build and operate hydrogen production facilities aimed at providing a reliable supply of hydrogen for industry and transportation.
Under the landmark agreement the firms will jointly develop hydrogen production projects on existing Centrica sites and work with third-parties to build production on their sites.
A Memorandum of Understanding has been signed and will combine expertise in order to kickstart the development of the UK hydrogen economy, targeting the mobility, industrial and commercial markets.
In addition, the partnership will explore how the UK can work with international hydrogen production facilities to move low-cost renewable power converted to hydrogen and hydrogen derivates to areas of high demand.
William Mezzullo, Centrica's head of hydrogen, said, "Low carbon hydrogen will play a major role in decarbonising our energy systems. It enables the increased use of renewable and low carbon electricity by offering the potential for storage in quantities that provide long term resilience and another choice for decarbonising hard to electrify sectors.
"We should be bold in our thinking, the UK should aim to be a net exporter of hydrogen, providing high quality green jobs, additional revenues for the UK treasury and a lower cost of transitioning to Net Zero for homeowners and businesses."
Jo Bamford, green entrepreneur and executive chairman of Ryze, said: "It is clear from our conversations with Centrica that they are committed to making hydrogen a valuable component of its net-zero strategy.
"Ryze is at the forefront of green hydrogen production and supply and we are incredibly excited to share our vision for growth with an energy giant such as Centrica."


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Pay no attention to those insurance lobbyists behind the Medicare curtain!
by Wendell Potter January 27, 2014 June 19, 2019
Screen grab from the Coalition for Medicare Choice's ad "No More Cuts" YouTube
If you go to 601 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Suite 500, in Washington, D.C. in search of what you've been told is the address of a grass roots organization concerned about "cuts" to Medicare, you will likely be surprised what you find there.
You will indeed find an organization that is lobbying hard to keep federal dollars flowing, but it is anything but grass roots.
Ads supposedly sponsored by the Coalition for Medicare Choices started appearing last week on buses and subway trains and on Washington TV stations warning that seniors will face higher costs, fewer benefits and a loss of provider choice if Congress and the Obama Administration don't take action to keep planned rate cuts from going into effect.
The ads are part of what POLITICO described as "the new seven-figure campaign … that is the group's biggest mobilization to date for Medicare Advantage," the alternative to traditional Medicare that is operated by private insurance companies.
The real sponsor of the ads is the real tenant of 601 Pennsylvania Avenue., N.W., Suite 500: America's Health Insurance Plans, which is one of the best-funded and influential lobbying and PR outfits in the nation's capital.
As I noted last week, several insurance companies make a boatload of money by participating in the Medicare Advantage program. The Government Accountability Office noted in a recent report that the federal government spent about $135 billion on the Medicare Advantage program in 2012 alone. And much of that was in the form of overpayments that the government has been sending to private insurers for years.
Brian Biles, professor of health policy at George Washington University, explained in testimony before the Senate Committee on Aging last Wednesday that Medicare has paid private plans more than the costs of traditional Medicare since 1997 when Congress authorized extra payments to entice private plans to operate in rural areas. Six years later, those extra payments were extended to just about all private Medicare plans.
Biles testified that those extra payments to Medicare Advantage plans nationwide averaged 13 percent — or $1,100 per enrollee — in 2009. The Congressional Budget Office projected that year that the excess payments would total more than $150 billion over ten years.
As lawmakers were debating health care reform in 2009, they inserted a provision in what became the Affordable Care Act to get rid of those overpayments. Alarmed, AHIP has been hard at work ever since trying to figure out how to keep the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) from carrying out that provision of the law.
And for good reason. Insurers like UnitedHealth and Humana with a substantial number of Medicare Advantage enrollees are able to convert those excess payments into hefty profits. Financial analysts at Goldman Sachs estimated a few years ago that 66 percent of the net income at Humana, where I used to work, came from its Medicare Advantage business.
Not all of that money goes to profits, however. Some of it is used to add benefits like dental and vision and gym memberships, which many seniors enrolled in the plans do indeed value. But another big chunk of the extra payments goes to advertising and sales activities—and to AHIP to finance the group's lobbying and PR campaigns.
The Coalition for Medicare Choices current campaign is heavy on intimidation, all of it directed toward members of Congress. Under the headline, "Seniors are Watching," is this warning:
"In 2010, Seniors saw Washington cut Medicare Advantage funding by $200 billion, causing rate cuts that already hurts them. Now more rate cuts are looming. Rate cuts that would mean higher costs, lost benefits and lost provider choices for seniors. As next year's Medicare Advantage rates are being set, seniors are watching more closely than ever. They don't want to see any more rate cuts. More than 1.5 million seniors are ready to defend the Medicare Advantage coverage they like and want to keep. They know from experience that seeing is believing."
That reference to "coverage they like and want to keep" is, of course, a not-so-subtle reference to President Obama's ill-advised assurance that "if you like your health care plan, you can keep it."
And there was this thinly veiled threat in the POLITICO story from "an insurance industry source familiar with the campaign:"
"If CMS doesn't keep Medicare Advantage payment rates flat next year, it is going to create a huge political problem for members of Congress this fall when they have to face millions of angry seniors who just found out they are losing benefits and choices they were promised they could keep."
Translation: AHIP will be behind those huge political problems during the re-election campaigns this fall.
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Pay no attention to those insurance lobbyists behind the Medicare curtain!

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January 27, 2014

Screen grab from the Coalition for Medicare Choice's ad "No More Cuts" YouTube

If you go to 601 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Suite 500, in Washington, D.C. in search of what you've been told is the address of a grass roots organization concerned about "cuts" to Medicare, you will likely be surprised what you find there.

You will indeed find an organization that is lobbying hard to keep federal dollars flowing, but it is anything but grass roots.

Ads supposedly sponsored by the Coalition for Medicare Choices started appearing last week on buses and subway trains and on Washington TV stations warning that seniors will face higher costs, fewer benefits and a loss of provider choice if Congress and the Obama Administration don't take action to keep planned rate cuts from going into effect.

The ads are part of what POLITICO described as "the new seven-figure campaign … that is the group's biggest mobilization to date for Medicare Advantage," the alternative to traditional Medicare that is operated by private insurance companies.

The real sponsor of the ads is the real tenant of 601 Pennsylvania Avenue., N.W., Suite 500: America's Health Insurance Plans, which is one of the best-funded and influential lobbying and PR outfits in the nation's capital.

As I noted last week, several insurance companies make a boatload of money by participating in the Medicare Advantage program. The Government Accountability Office noted in a recent report that the federal government spent about $135 billion on the Medicare Advantage program in 2012 alone. And much of that was in the form of overpayments that the government has been sending to private insurers for years.

Brian Biles, professor of health policy at George Washington University, explained in testimony before the Senate Committee on Aging last Wednesday that Medicare has paid private plans more than the costs of traditional Medicare since 1997 when Congress authorized extra payments to entice private plans to operate in rural areas. Six years later, those extra payments were extended to just about all private Medicare plans.

Biles testified that those extra payments to Medicare Advantage plans nationwide averaged 13 percent — or $1,100 per enrollee — in 2009. The Congressional Budget Office projected that year that the excess payments would total more than $150 billion over ten years.

As lawmakers were debating health care reform in 2009, they inserted a provision in what became the Affordable Care Act to get rid of those overpayments. Alarmed, AHIP has been hard at work ever since trying to figure out how to keep the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) from carrying out that provision of the law.

And for good reason. Insurers like UnitedHealth and Humana with a substantial number of Medicare Advantage enrollees are able to convert those excess payments into hefty profits. Financial analysts at Goldman Sachs estimated a few years ago that 66 percent of the net income at Humana, where I used to work, came from its Medicare Advantage business.

Not all of that money goes to profits, however. Some of it is used to add benefits like dental and vision and gym memberships, which many seniors enrolled in the plans do indeed value. But another big chunk of the extra payments goes to advertising and sales activities—and to AHIP to finance the group's lobbying and PR campaigns.

The Coalition for Medicare Choices current campaign is heavy on intimidation, all of it directed toward members of Congress. Under the headline, "Seniors are Watching," is this warning:

"In 2010, Seniors saw Washington cut Medicare Advantage funding by $200 billion, causing rate cuts that already hurts them. Now more rate cuts are looming. Rate cuts that would mean higher costs, lost benefits and lost provider choices for seniors. As next year's Medicare Advantage rates are being set, seniors are watching more closely than ever. They don't want to see any more rate cuts. More than 1.5 million seniors are ready to defend the Medicare Advantage coverage they like and want to keep. They know from experience that seeing is believing."

That reference to "coverage they like and want to keep" is, of course, a not-so-subtle reference to President Obama's ill-advised assurance that "if you like your health care plan, you can keep it."

And there was this thinly veiled threat in the POLITICO story from "an insurance industry source familiar with the campaign:"

"If CMS doesn't keep Medicare Advantage payment rates flat next year, it is going to create a huge political problem for members of Congress this fall when they have to face millions of angry seniors who just found out they are losing benefits and choices they were promised they could keep."

Translation: AHIP will be behind those huge political problems during the re-election campaigns this fall.

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Casey Affleck to Receive the Desert Palm Achievement Award
November 25, 2016 HollywoodGlee	1 Comment
Palm Springs, CA (November 11, 2016) – The 28th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) will present Casey Affleck with the Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actor at its annual Film Awards Gala for his performance in Manchester By the Sea. Each year the festival selects an actor and actress to receive this award. The Film Awards Gala, hosted by Mary Hart, will be held Monday, January 2 at the Palm Springs Convention Center. The Festival runs January 2-16.
"Casey Affleck delivers his finest performance in Manchester By the Sea, playing a Boston
janitor living a lonely and isolated existence," said Festival Chairman Harold Matzner. "He has earned rave reviews from critics and is sure to garner awards attention. It is our honor to present the Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actor, to Casey Affleck."
Past actor recipients of the Desert Palm Achievement Award include Jeff Bridges, Bradley Cooper, Johnny Depp, Daniel Day-Lewis, Colin Firth, Matthew McConaughey, Sean Penn, Brad Pitt and Eddie Redmayne. In the years they were honored, Bridges, Day-Lewis, McConaughey, Penn and Redmayne went on to win the Academy Award® for Best Actor, while Cooper, Firth and Pitt received Oscar® nominations.
Affleck stars in Manchester by the Sea, the latest film from award-winning writer and director Kenneth Lonergan, about the life of a solitary Boston janitor who is haunted by his past when he returns to his hometown to take care of his teenage nephew. The story of the Chandlers, a working-class family living in a Massachusetts fishing village for generations, Manchester by the Sea is a deeply poignant, exploration of the power of familial love, community, sacrifice and hope. The film also stars Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler, Lucas Hedges, Gretchen Mol and C.J. Wilson.
Casey Affleck was nominated for an Academy Award®, a Golden Globe Award® and a Screen Actors Guild Award for his performance in the character drama The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. His film credits include Gone Baby Gone, Gerry, Good Will Hunting, To Die For, Interstellar, Out of the Furnace, Ain't Them Bodies Saints, Steven Soderbergh's Oceans trilogy, Triple 9, and The Finest Hours.
About The Palm Springs International Film Festival
The Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) is one of the largest film festivals in North America, welcoming 135,000 attendees last year for its lineup of new and celebrated international features and documentaries. The Festival is also known for its annual Film Awards Gala, an upscale black-tie event attended by 2,500, honoring the best achievements of the filmic year by a celebrated list of talents who, in recent years, have included Ben Affleck, Javier Bardem, Cate Blanchett, Sandra Bullock, Bradley Cooper, George Clooney, Daniel Day-Lewis, Leonardo DiCaprio, Clint Eastwood, Tom Hanks, Matthew McConaughey, Julianne Moore, Brad Pitt, Eddie Redmayne, Julia Roberts, David O. Russell, Meryl Streep, and Reese Witherspoon.
For more information, call 760-322-2930 or 800-898-7256 or visit www.psfilmfest.org.
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FILM CAPSULE: A Life Begins (Monty, 2010): Canada
November 10, 2016 HollywoodGlee	Leave a comment
Reviewed by Larry Gleeson.
Viewed during the Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) 2011.
A Life Begins, part of the SBIFF's Focus on Quebec, follows first time film director Michel Monty as he tells a heartfelt story based on his real life experiences.
The film is set in Montreal during the early 1960's. Monty opens the film with a tracking shot as he follows the action of Etienne Langevin's father, switches to a POV of Etienne Langevin legs to a matching medium close up, equivocating Etienne's close attentiveness to his father's persona. Several scenes show Etienne mimicking his father's actions and movements. To Etienne his father, Dr. Jacques Langevin, is worthy of such hero worship. The audience is treated to an intimate, playful bedroom scene between Dr. Langevin and his wife Louise, played by the soul-capturing beauty, Julie Le Breton. Monty goes to a close-up of an ear. Anticipation builds. Lips move-in. No words are uttered. We hear the banter of well adjusted seemingly normal children. It appears as though we are witnessing the interactions of a highly functional, representational Quebec family.
However, we quickly come to find out, Dr. Langevin is robbing the pharmacy to feed his out-of-control drug addiction. To his family Dr. Jacques is a model father figure. We see the family out for a joyous Sunday drive with the top down in a used red convertible the Doctor recently purchased. The kids throw their arms up in the air – roller-coaster style foreshadowing the cacophony of events that will transpire in this dramatic film.
Dr. Langevin's father, seems to be hypercritical of his son and happens to be the hospital's president. He confronts Dr. Langevin and regretfully tells his son he is fired. Dr. Langevin is unable to disclose to his lovely wife his addiction to drugs and the fact he has been fired because of his drug addiction. The next morning Dr. Langevin, having spent the night in a alcohol fueled and drug-induced stupor clamors up the basement stairs and goes into cardiac arrest dying as the youngest child playfully fires imaginary gunshots into his father.
Louise distraught and financially strapped sells the family house and moves into an apartment with her three children. She goes off to work leaving Etienne home alone. Etienne is an inquisitive young man and has found his father's stash of morphine, uppers and downers. He begins experimenting with the drugs and a tumultuous life surfaces. Louise trudges on displaying depth and strength of character.
In the Q & A that followed the screening Monty shared that in the family he was the youngest child and that Etienne was his older brother. He chose to tell the story through his brother's eyes as he felt that his brother had the loneliest time after their father's passing. Interesting to note that the famous song by rock and roll legend Harry Nilson, "One is the Loneliest Number," played as the credits rolled.
The film was Monty's first venture into filmmaking. He was able to shoot the film in 28 days. Due to budgetary and time constraints Monty created a shot list allowing for 2-4 shots per scene for coverage.
I really enjoyed this film. The acting was excellent with limited dialogue. As a result, actions, by Director Monty's design, told the story. Warm-heartedly recommended.
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Paramount Pictures' FENCES release scheduled for December 25th
FENCES, a new film from Paramount Studios, is scheduled to open in theaters December 25, 2016. The film is directed by Denzel Washington from a screenplay by August Wilson, adapted from Wilson's Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play. See trailer below.
The film stars Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Jovan Adepo, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Russell Hornsby, Mykelti Williamson, and Saniyya Sydney.
The film is produced by Denzel Washington, Todd Black and Scott Rudin.
Early Oscar speculation has a best actor nom for Washington for his lead role as a failed baseball player who faces discrimination as a garbage collector.
(Press materials provided by Paramount Studios)
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M. Night Shyamalan's SPLIT Added to AFI FEST 2016
Universal Pictures' SPLIT — from Academy Award®-nominated director/writer/producer M. Night Shyamalan and Academy Award®-nominated producer Jason Blum — will play as a Special Screening at AFI FEST 2016 presented by Audi. Watch the trailer below.
Written and directed by Shyamalan, SPLIT is an original thriller that delves into the mysterious recesses of one man's fractured, gifted mind. Though Kevin (James McAvoy) has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher (Betty Buckley), there remains one still submerged who is set to materialize and dominate all the others. Compelled to abduct three teenage girls led by the willful, observant Casey (Anya Taylor-Joy), Kevin reaches a war for survival among all of those contained within him — as well as everyone around him — as the walls between his compartments begin to shatter apart.
Following last year's THE VISIT, Shyamalan reunites with producers Blum and Marc Bienstock and executive producers Ashwin Rajan and Steven Schneider for the film, which also stars Jessica Sula and Haley Lu Richardson.
SPLIT joins the already announced Special Screenings BRIGHT LIGHTS: STARRING CARRIE FISHER AND DEBBIE REYNOLDS (DIRS Fisher Stevens, Alexis Bloom), THE COMEDIAN (DIR Taylor Hackford), LION (DIR Garth Davis), MISS SLOANE (DIR John Madden), MOANA (DIRS Ron Clements, John Musker), PATERSON (DIR Jim Jarmusch) and TONI ERDMANN (DIR Maren Ade).
Free tickets to AFI FEST will be available on AFI.com beginning November 1. For the full slate of previously announced titles screening at the festival, visit the Film Guide, now online here.
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FILM REVIEW: Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954): USA
Reviewed by Larry Gleeson. Viewed at the Mann Chinese theater as part of the AFI film festival, Hollywood, Calif.
Rear Window, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, is a brilliantly filmed movie, adapted from Cornell Woolish's, "It had to be Murder", of a man, L.B. Jeffries, an injured war photographer/correspondent, played by James Stewart of It's a Wonderful Life (1946), who believes he has witnessed a murder in the apartment complex where he lives. Hitchcock uses this window view to film his entire story. John Michael Hayes wrote the screenplay. His other credits include The Man who Knew too Much (1956) and To Catch A Thief (1955). George Tomasini provides the editing as he also worked on other Hitchcock classic films Psycho (1960) and North by Northwest (1959). The viewer is treated to a look into all the neighboring dwellings as seen from the protagonist's, L.B. Jeffries' window – seemingly many New York apartment dwellers partake in the alluring fascination of peeping through neighboring windows. The cinematography is credited to Robert Burks. Bruks other works include Vertigo (1958) and North by Northwest (1959). The production design was done by Sam Comer and Ray Moyer of Sunset Blvd (1950) and Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) fame. James C. Katz is listed as producer having produced the epic Spartacus (1960) and Vertigo (1958). Paramount Pictures with over six thousand pictures to its credit, is listed as the production company.
Hitchcock, known for powerhouse suspense films like Psycho (1960), Birds (1963) and North by Northwest (1959), shows cooped up newlyweds, a buxom young skimpily-clad, shapely exercise-crazed maiden, a lonely, love sick lady, a socially-inclined, romantic-minded musician and a seemingly ordinary housewife married to a seemingly normal traveling salesman, whom Stewart's character, Jeffries, claims has murdered the wife. Jeffries doesn't actually see the murder. Nevertheless, he is convinced the salesman murdered his wife after witnessing several highly acute, suspicious events . Stewart's facial expressions and what appear to be exaggerated eye movements key the viewer in on action as Stewart plays the role of Jeffries, a wounded war hero who confined to a wheelchair and who passes the time by peering out his rear window at the neighbors as they go about their everyday lives. Jeffries also uses his camera with a telescopic lens to provide up-close detail of his subjects and he frantically uses exploding flashbulbs as he attempts to thwart the murdering salesman's efforts to silence Jeffries.
Hitchcock introduces and develops several strong and powerful characters, most notably in the form of Grace Kelly, later known as the Princess Consort of Monaco, as Jeffries love interest. Kelly's striking good lucks coupled with her patient, unrequited love for Jeffries provide the viewer a glimpse into Hitchcock's portrayal of a 1950's socialite. She credibly plays the role of murder investigator with a refreshing vim and vigor. In addition, Wendell Corey plays a rather uninteresting yet wary detective who also happened to be a war buddy of Jeffries. Thelma Ritter plays Stella, Jeffries' physical therapist, who drops by for daily therapy and, at times colorful banter. And, Raymond Burr plays the antagonist, a wife-murdering, traveling salesman who dwells across from the rear window. Rear Window is splendid film, an Academy Award Runner-up for Best Picture to the American drama film, On the Waterfront (1954), about longshoreman corruption and mob violence starring Marlon Brando, I recommend wholeheartedly.
"It had to be Murder"ActorAlfred HitchcockBirdsBreakfast at Tiffany'sCornell WoolishDirectorFilmfilm festivalsFilmmakingGrace KellyIt's A Wonderful LifeJames C. KatzJames StewartJohn Michael Hayes screenwriterLarry GleesonNorth by NorthwestOn the WaterfrontProducerPsychoRay MoyerRaymond BurrSam ComerSpartacusSunset BlvdVertigo
AFI FEST 2016 Cinema's Legacy Lineup
AFI FEST 2016 presented by Audi has announced its annual Cinema Legacy's lineup. This section highlights classic movies and, this year, is comprised of nine iconic titles from film history, including Orson Welles' masterpiece CITIZEN KANE (1941), along with films featuring the three female film trailblazers adorning this year's festival key art: CARMEN JONES (1954), starring Dorothy Dandridge; THE HITCH-HIKER (1953), directed by Ida Lupino; and PICCADILLY (1929), starring Anna May Wong. Additionally, the Cinema's Legacy section will present AFI Conservatory alumna Julie Dash's (Class of 1974) groundbreaking DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST (1991).
CINEMA'S LEGACY
CARMEN JONES – Dorothy Dandridge stars in the title role that made her the first African-American woman to be nominated for a Best Actress Oscar®. DIR Otto Preminger. SCR Harry Kleiner. CAST Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge, Pearl Bailey, Olga James, Joe Adams, Brock Peters, Roy Glenn, Nick Stewart, Diahann Carroll. USA
CITIZEN KANE – Orson Welles' classic — number one on AFI's list of the greatest films of all time — follows the tragic life of newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane. DIR Orson Welles. SCRS Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles. CAST Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, Linda Winters, Agnes Moorehead, Ruth Warrick, Ray Collins, Erskine Sanford, Everett Sloane, William Alland, Paul Stewart, George Coulouris. USA
DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST – Filmmaker Julie Dash (AFI Class of 1974) weaves lush imagery and a poetic narrative in this tale of three generations of African-American slave descendants on a journey to the North. DIR Julie Dash. SCR Julie Dash. CAST Adisa Anderson, Barbara-O, Cheryl Lynn Bruce, Cora Lee Day, Geraldine Dunston, Vertamae Grosvenor, Tommy Hicks, Kaycee Moore. USA
FLIRTING WITH DISASTER – In David O. Russell's sophomore feature, Ben Stiller, Téa Leoni and Patricia Arquette play an oddball trio careening across America. DIR David O. Russell. SCR David O. Russell. CAST Ben Stiller, Patricia Arquette, Téa Leoni, Mary Tyler Moore, George Segal, Alan Alda, Lily Tomlin, Richard Jenkins, Josh Brolin. USA
THE HITCH-HIKER – A deranged hitchhiker takes two all-American Everymen as hostages in this gripping film noir classic. DIR Ida Lupino. SCR Ida Lupino, Collier Young, Robert Joseph. CAST Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman, José Torvay, Sam Hayes, Wendell Niles, Jean Del Val, Clark Howat. USA
IL SORPASSO – A classic road trip comedy meets the most fabulous of odd couple pairings in Dino Risi's IL SORPASSO, considered the holy grail of commedia all'italiana. DIR Dino Risi. SCRS Dino Risi, Ettore Scola, Ruggero Maccari. CAST Vittotio Gassman, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Catherine Spaak, Claudio Gora, Luciana Angiolillo. Italy
MIFUNE, THE LAST SAMURAI – This thoughtful, elegant documentary on Japanese cinema's greatest actor, Toshiro Mifune, is a cinephile's dream. DIR Steven Okazaki. SCRS Steven Okazaki, Stuart Galbraith IV. FEAT Keanu Reeves, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Kyôko Kagawa, Toshio Tshuchiya. Japan
PICCADILLY – Anna May Wong, the first Chinese-American movie star, is astonishing as a dishwasher promoted to the headlining act at outré London club Piccadilly. DIR Ewald André Dupont. Presented with live DJ accompaniment from Ms. 45s. SCR Arnold Bennett. CAST Gilda Gray, Anna May Wong, Jameson Thomas, King Ho-Chang, Cyril Ritchard, Charles Laughton. UK
SPEEDY – Special engagement of the silent film classic, presented with original live music accompaniment by DJ Z-Trip. The great Harold Lloyd stars in the title role as a man who hilariously tries to save the last horse-drawn streetcar in an increasingly modern New York City. DIR Ted Wilde. SCRS John Grey, Lex Neal, Howard Rogers, Jay Howe, Albert De Mond. CAST Harold Lloyd, Ann Christy, Bert Woodruff, Babe Ruth, Brooks Benedict. USA
Tickets to Cinema's Legacy screenings will be available on AFI.com beginning November 1.
(Source: www.blog.afi.com)
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FILM REVIEW: GIGOLA (CHARPENTIER, 2011)
Reviewed by Larry Gleeson. Viewed at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2011.
Gigola, directed by Laure Charpentier, is a French film with subtitles set in the early 1960's Paris containing themes of adult sexuality and gender issues. The film made it's debut at the Cannes Film Festival. From there Gigola was shown at the Hamburg Film Festival in Germany and finished out the year at the Paris Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, in Paris, France. The mise-en-scene is in Gigola is remarkable. The costumes, make-up, and lighting are spectacular conveying images reminiscent of That's Entertainment (1974), and Moulon Rouge (2001).
The film opens with a teenage school girl named George, played by Lou Dillion, as a young and slender coming of age debutante, and her teacher, an attractive mid 30ish woman. Playful background music provides energy for a highly sexually charged, sensual transaction between George and her teacher.
Charpentier jumps ahead to 1963 Paris nightlife scene. George's boy friend has committed suicide. George has decided to withdraw from school and announces to the night-time partiers that she has flunked out of medical school seemingly intentionally.
Next time we see George she is in a Parisian bistro and we are introduced to a Carol Channing like character. George has reinvented herself.
A comment is made to George, "You look like a gigolo."
George coolly replies, "Gigola."
We now see George as Gigola, the name she has given her new self. A well-to-do matron comes to the bistro and Gigola is into action. Dressed in a black tuxedo, Gigola escorts the matron onto the dance floor for a spin. Soon the pair leave the bistro together and head to the matron's estate. With grace, elegance and a touch of class Gigola seduces the matron in an erotic bedroom scene with a snake-headed cane and white gloves.
Gigola, if nothing else, knows what she wants and she goes after it. She threatens to leave her new found matron unless she receives more money. The matron has already given Gigola a signet ring and a red MG convertible. The matron capitulates handing over to Gigola a large cache of currency. We now witness Gigola expanding her "business" with new girls working under her discretion.
Meanwhile, Gigola's father, an opium addict, is squandering away the family's estate as he cogently leads the life of a Parisian gentlemen. Eventually Gigola confronts her father brandishing a loaded revolver after repeatedly warning her father to stay away and, in turn, pleading with her mother to cut him off.
After an attempted suicide, Gigola finds herself under the care of a psychiatrist who bears a striking resemblance to her former teacher. She suggests having a baby to Gigola. Gigola is less than optimistic but the psychiatrist is able to connect with Gigola. Never one to miss an opportunity, Gigola deftly makes clear her intentions to the attractive psychiatrist. When the psychiatrist makes a "house call" Charpentier uses a wrestling take down move to portray the mixed emotions the psychiatrist has – she is attracted to Gigola but she is married and lives according to her principles as a married woman – a defining characteristic of the times. The psychiatrist cares about Gigola and they have dinner together where she tells Gigola that Gigola needs to let go.
Again without missing a beat Gigola moves deeper into the nightclub scene in Paris meeting a Mr. Tony Pasquale, a Sicilian. The two gain a mutual respect for each other and Tony ends up impregnating Gigola. Gigola has the baby and it seems as though Gigola has accepted normalcy and is conforming to societal norms. Gigola has left and George has come back.
However, before a sigh of relief can be expressed, in tromps the cast from the bistro. A raucous scene ensues in the hospital room with Gigola consenting to have her locks cut – a symbol of Gigola's re-emergence.
The film closes with Gigola adhering to her somewhat circular, misguided idealism. She has turned over the care of her child to her mother and she is shown in tuxedo walking down a Parisian cobblestone alley way with her back back to the camera just before sunrise.
Amazing Friday night film for the right audience. Gigola is currently available on Amazon Prime.
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Chicago Film Festival Marks 52nd Year
By Lisa Fielding
The Chicago International Film Festival is America's longest running competitive film festival, and organizers are promising something for everyone this year.
Michael Kutza, Founder and Director, Chicago International Film Festival. (Photo credit: Emily Oscarson)
"Young people films like 'Trolls' in 3D for kids, up to musicals like 'La La Land,' which is a big, Oscar potential, and we have a whole section on musicals. But really the festival is based on discovering new directors and honoring some of the old ones who've been here over the years," says Michael Kutza, Founder and Artistic Director.
Kutza founded the CIFF in 1964 and has been bringing independent and foreign films to the masses for years.
"We do a mix of independent and Hollywood. We close with a big Hollywood film to tempt you to come see some of our foreign films. It's a tough town, but we want to get you to see the world, and so we tempt you with Hollywood," he says.
Kutza says not only does the festival educate fans about films they would never have seen otherwise, but the 15-day festival offers hundreds of feature films. It's an opportunity to see many features before they are released.
"You want the best films, you want the winner of the Cannes Film Festival, Venice, Sundance, then you start with that. We go all over the world to find what's best and bring it to film fans here in Chicago," he says.
There will also be documentaries, films by first-time filmmakers, short-subject films, educational films, big name directors and actors along with films submitted for the Academy Awards.
There's even a new section this year, an International Musical section.
Programming Director Mimi Plauche, Chicago International Film Festival (Photo from www.tiff.ro.com)
"We found everything from an Israeli-Palestinian hip-hop musical. Three different Polish musicals were made this year, and we have two of them. It's really kind of fun looking for and finding a whole new genre of films from around the world," says Mimi Plauche, programming director.
This year's main competition jury president is actress Geraldine Chaplin, daughter of Charlie Chaplin. She will join Kutza for a conversation about her career and the 23 days her famous father spent at Chicago's Essanay Studios in 1915.
Actress Geraldine Chaplin, daughter of Charlie Chaplin, will serve as the main competition jury president for the 52nd Chicago Film Festival. (Photo courtesy of Chicago International Film Festival)
"I was just in Cuba and spent ten days on a jury with Geraldine. I asked her if she'd ever been to Chicago and she said no. I told her to come and take part and we can honor you and you talk about your life and your dad's films," Kutza says.
Directors Peter Bogdonovich, left, and Steve McQueen will be honored at the 52nd Chicago International Film Festival. (Photo credit: www.chicago.cbslocal.com)
This year, directors Peter Bogdonovich and Steve McQueen will be honored. The film fest opens on Thursday and runs through Oct. 27. For more information, click here.
(Source: www.chicago.cbslocal.com)
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Filipino films garnering wider international attention
October 8, 2016 HollywoodGlee	Leave a comment
Filipino films have been garnering international recognition in recent years. "The Woman Who Left" by director Lav Diaz won the prestigious Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival last month.
In May, the Philippines' Jaclyn Jose won best actress at the Cannes Film Festival.
CCTV's Barnaby Lo reports this could be a new golden era in Philippine cinema.
It was a red carpet event, and rightly so. After its success in the international film festival circuit, "Ang Babaeng Humayo" or "The Woman Who Left" opened in the Philippines last week. The almost four-hour film about a woman seeking revenge for getting incarcerated for a crime she didn't commit had won the prestigious Lion Award last month, the highest honor at the Venice Film Festival. But for its Filipino cast and filmmakers, it was both an exciting and nervous moment.
Today's Filipino films have little to prove abroad, especially with the win of Lav Diaz's latest epic at the Venice Film Festival. The real battle now is at home, where romantic comedies and commercial dramas still dominate the local movie industry.
While awards do not guarantee box office success, surely, they are a measure of where Filipino films are right now on the world stage.
(Source: www.cctv-america.com)
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In 1930-1940, the WPA (Works Progress Administration) surveyed churches throughout the state to chronicle the history and inventory the church archives. The WPA reported the Town of Boynton had seven organized congregations with church buildings, though few buildings were the original structures.
According to WPA records, Saint Paul's African Methodist Episcopal Church (1900) is the oldest. The records designate Saint John Baptist (1909) as the second oldest, yet a comprehensive history of the Boynton Methodist Episcopal Church, South published in 2006 (First United Methodist Church of Boynton Beach, Florida: A Centennial Celebration: A History of the First 100 Years 1905-2005) is contrary to the WPA date of 1915 and supports the claim the Boynton Methodist formed in 1905.
In the 1976 film, The History of Boynton Beach, one of the scenes shows scores of men, women and children exiting a church. As the church-bell chimes, people scurry across Seacrest Boulevard and gather in small groups to chat. The women wear lovely skirts and wear heels, with their heads covered by colorful hats. Nearly every gentleman wears a tie, and most are carrying a suit coat or sport jacket over his arm. Though today many church-goers don't dress up as much, this idyllic scene is still repeated across Boynton Beach on Sunday mornings.
Today Boynton Beach and nearby unincorporated areas of Palm Beach County are home to nearly 600 religious institutions. The Boynton Beach Historical Society would like to add to its knowledge base and archive with information including primary documents and photographs of each church. To contribute to the history, please email us at boyntonhistory@gmail.com.
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