I discovered this delicious drink at All Spice restaurant in San Mateo, and I was hooked. I'm a big lover of sweet lassis, and I couldn't believe I had never had a mint one before – when it seems like such an obvious flavor combination. I wasn't sure what the pomegranate contributed – I still don't know – but the drink at the restaurant was so delicious I just had to try it myself.
I can't tell you the proportions as I simply combined the yogurt with the lassi until it had the right consistency and then added honey until it was sweet enough – beating with an immersion blender, but you can just put everything in a blender. I then added mint until I could taste it. I tried it with both fresh and dried mint, but dried mint works far better. The key to this lassi is to let it rest for at least half an hour before serving, as the flavors need time to combine. But make it, you won't be disappointed.
I've never been much of a fan of flavored teas, I like black tea enough as it is. I'll make an exception for Earl Grey, but that's about it. I didn't even begin tasting flavored teas until we started going, more or less regularly, to the Golden Tea Garden in Hayward. The owner is a huge flavored tea aficionado, and her menu of teas reaches into the dozens, if not hundreds. Every time she gives you a taste of something new and features special flavors. I still always order black tea, but the girls and whoever else comes with me freely explore the flavors.
Last week, as I was considering Christmas presents for the kids, I remembered how much Mika loves caramel tea and decided to buy her some. Browsing through Amazon.com, I was amazed to find out just how expensive caramel tea was! Fortunately, I eventually came about ESP Emporium teas. ESP Emporium is an online tea specialty store selling all sorts of exotic, flavored and regular teas, as well as tea making/drinking equipment. Basically, they seem like a competitor to Teavana. Fortunately, they price the items they sell through Amazon.com much more reasonably. More importantly, they have some amazing, if very fleeting, sales on items – I'm not sure if they are overstock or lower quality (the photos of what I got do not always match the ones on ESP's website) -, but the prices are definitely attractive. I now make it a point to add in whatever ESP Emporium is on sale at a good price whenever I'm making a qualifying Amazon purchase.
ESP Emporium sells teas either in canisters or in bags. If you buy them at Amazon.com, it's very clear which you are buying. It's much less clear on their website – I assume they all come in bags, but don't really know. They both seal very well, but the canisters are difficult to open – so if you have arthritis, you may want to order the bags instead. That said, I prefer them in canisters.
Also, please note the brewing time for each tea on the bag/container. Rooibos and fruit teas require longer times than regular black teas.
I've been using my Keurig machine to brew the tea, as it's very easy. You can usually get at least 3 10-oz mugs of brewed tea from each filled canister . But fill the canister, otherwise you'll end up with a very weak tea.
Also to note, I only recently realized that Chinese tea comes from China (duh!). I mean, I knew it, but Chinese tea has been such a commodity for centuries that it did not occur to me that it might suffer from the same problems of soil contamination that every other food from China does. Unfortunately, studies show that it does. It contains high level of lead, though fortunately the lead stay with the leaf and doesn't make it into the tea itself. Still, I think I'll be cautious and stop buying Chinese tea in the future. I'm also going to be noting where teas are made, whenever I can find the information.
Goldrush Bergamot Lemon Premium White Green Tea Blend has green & white tea, white rose buds (I didn't get any in the photo, but they're there), yogurt granules and natural bergaot and lemon flavors. This is a pretty weakly flavored tea, not too citrusy, but enjoyable with quite a bit of sugar.
Pina Colada Rooibos Tea Blend is a mixture of Rooibos tea with pineapple cubes, coconut shreds and flavoring.
I also really liked this light, fruity tea. It didn't remind me of piña colada as much as it did of candy in general. But it was light, and easy to drink. Again, I felt it needed sugar and did best without milk.
Sir Stuart is a blend of black and green teas with "ginger pieces, fennel, cardamom seed, flavoring, rose petals, cornflower blossoms".
This is a really nice tea. It is very balanced, with a grown up orangy flavor, a little bitter and a little bit spicy at time. I always drink my teas with sugar, and I felt this one really needed it for the full flavor to burst through. This is often my to-go tea when I don't know what else to drink.
Chocolate/Cream/ Truffles Black Tea Blend is a mixture of black tea with "broken cocoa bits, coconut shreds, chocolate chips" and "flavoring".
I got a bag of this one and the smell when you open it is unbelievable. The chocolate and coconut really come through and work well together, so that the end product is really neither. It's very tasty though, but I do thing it needs both milk and sugar for the true flavors to shine – otherwise I found the tea sort of weak.
This is a Sencha green tea from China and includes cocoa peel, orange peel, cocoa pieces and other flavoring.
I made this in my Keurig and I found it to be very weak. Of course, the Keurig doesn't give it the 2-3 minutes seeping time this tea needs, but yet it does well with other teas that require longer seeping times. I will try it again using a tea kettle and report back.
Caramel Black Tea Blend is black tea with caramel pieces and flavoring. It retails for $11.50 for 100g. I paid $3.
I originally came across ESP Emporium while looking for caramel tea, so I was very disappointed at how weak this tea is, both in terms of caramel flavor and flavor altogether. This was the case both through a regular brew and in the Keurig.
This black tea has cinnamon pieces, dehydrated maple syrup, cinnamon rods, popcorn, white cornflower blossoms and flavoring.
I have to confess that I just loved that this tea came with popcorn. I don't know if it added anything to the flavor, but just how cool is it to make popcorn tea? The tea, meanwhile was very good. It had a nice old-fashion caramel flavor and was definitely better than the caramel tea.
Flower Garden Fruit Tea Blend is a mixture of pieces of dried sour apples and pears, pink rosebuds, freeze-dried strawberry and raspberry pieces, blackberry leaves, cornflower blossoms, marigold blossoms, rose petals, Roman chamomile and flavoring.
This tea is just beautiful, pretty much just a combination of flower bulbs. And it tastes like flowers too. If I had to describe it, I'd say it's mostly like a rose hip tea. Definitely needs sugar to bring up the flavors, though.
Creamsicle Rooibos Tea has rooibos tea, flavoring, orange peel and freeze-dried yogurt pieces. I guess I was expecting this to taste like an orange creamsicle, but it tasted like a very good, very balanced cup of tea with milk. It was really nice, and definitely something to keep in the pantry for when you want just a classic tea with milk, but have no milk around.
Tiramisu/Mascarpone Rooibos Tea adds chocolate chips, brittle pieces, caramel pieces, freeze-dried yogurt pieces, roasted coffee beans, Roman chamomile and flavoring to the rooibos tea.
I'm not sure I can see all those ingredients in the tea, and perhaps that's why it doesn't actually taste like either Tiramisu or Mascarpone or a combination of either. It lacks the sour element of both, other than perhaps as an aftertaste. While I can't quite describe the flavor of this tea – beyond being a well balanced rooibos – it is very pleasant, with or without milk.
Ginger/Pepper/Orange Rooibos Tea has almond slivers pistachios, orange peels, coriander, pink peppercorns and flavoring added to the rooibos tea.
This is pretty much a generic rooibos tea. It's good if you like rooibos tea, which I do, but I think the added ingredients substract from each other rather than add, and what you are left with is pretty generic.
This recipe is for "Brazilian lemonade", but it tastes just like the lemonade I used to drink in Egypt over two decades ago. It's delicious and refreshing, but it does require a blender and a strainer. The original recipe asks for 1/2 cup of sugar, but I felt it was a little too sweet. Next time I'll make it with 1/3 cup.
Wash the limes, cut and discard both ends, and then cut them into 8 segments each. Put limes, sugar, condensed milk, water and 3 ice cubes in a blender. Blend until the ice has disintegrated. Strain and serve over ice.
My last visit to Santos Spice market ended with us buying several "exotic" drinks to try. My oldest daughter loves trying new things, and while these weren't cheap, they turned out to be very good.
My daughter loves mango lassis, and Verka Mango Lassi is pretty good. It actually tasted more like a mango yogurt drink, though it doesn't have any yogurt. The ingredients are milk, mango pure, sugar, cream and water. It comes in a 1 pint bottle. It's made in the USA.
Mika was excited t try Coco Passion Fruit Drink because she'd never had passion fruit or passion fruit juice before. The drink, actually bottled in Thailand, is made of water, sugar, passion fruit juice, citric acid, artificial flavor, and gellam gum – so it's not as pure as the lassi. Still, it was very tasty. Indeed, it tasted very much like guava juice, though it was thicker than the guava juice we usually get.
We've never had lychee juice before, and T.A.S. Lychee Drink was sort of a revelation. It has the same flavor profile as guava juice but it's sweeter, if you can imagine that, with a subtle floral/rose-like flavor. We liked it, though I personally would have preferred it being less sweet. Mika thought it was refreshing. I'm thinking that I should explore lychees more. It seems like a sophisticated fruit that could enhance a multi-course menu. The drink comes in a 10.5 oz can and it's also made in Thailand. The ingredients are water, lychee juice, sugar and citric acid.
I personally liked this recipe for white hot chocolate, but nobody else was as fond of it as me.
In a heavy pot, mix the white chocolate chips. Cook over medium-low heat, stirring constantly, until the chocolate chips dissolve. Mix in the milk and vanilla extract. Continue cooking until the chocolate milk is heated through, stirring occasionally. Serve and top with whipped cream.
Based on Paula Deen's recipe at the Food Network.
I'm not the hugest eggnog fan in the world, but I wanted to have something to serve my Christmas Eve dinner guests when they first arrived. For some reason eggnog came to mind.
This recipe, from Alton Brown, was fairly easy and pretty tasty – if you like eggnog. It was a bit too nutmeggish, however, so if I made it again I'd reduce the nutmeg to half a teaspoon. It wasn't too sweet, which I appreciated. I followed it pretty closely, but as I needed both an alcoholic and non-alcoholic version, I only added the Bourbon at the end.
Beat eggs with an electric mixer until they lighten in color. Gradually add 1/3 cup sugar and mix until completely dissolved. Mix in the milk, cream and nutmeg.
Using an electric mixer, beat the egg whites until they form soft peaks. Add the remaining sugar and continue beating until hard peaks are formed.
Mix the egg whites with the egg yolk mixture. If you are making both alcoholic and non-alcoholic eggnog, pour into separate pitchers and add the bourbon to one.
There are many things I love about having Grocery Outlet so near my house, and one of them is their ever changing brands of tea. I used to pretty much only buy Twinnings tea (waiting for it to go on sale, as it's usually $4 for 20 bags), but so many of the teas I've found at Grocery Outlet are comparable in flavor, that I am no longer tied to that venerable branch.
I'm usually a black-tea girl, but I do make an exception for Earl Grey, a black tea flavored with bergamot orange oil. I've recently had those produced by Taja Tea and Dilmah, and they were both excellent.
Taja Tea specializes on "saffron" teas and offers five flavors. The Earl Grey is made with black tea from Argentina, and artificial bergamot flavors (I checked). Still, it is delicious. Other Taja Tea flavors also get good reviews, and I may try the red rubio and the assam if I catch them at GO.
Dilmah is a Sri Lanka based, family company, established soon after Sri Lanka gained its independence. They specialize on Ceylonese tea, as you'd expect, and their Earl Grey is very satisfying. It's not as flavorful as Taja's, but it has nothing to envy Twinnings. It uses Ceylon black tea and artificial bergamot flavoring.
They are both cheaper than Twinnings as well. I'll check the actual prices next time I go to GO, but they're about $1.50 to $2 per box of 20.
I got a box of Impra Organic Black Tea bags at Grocery Outlet ($1.50 for 25) and I was quite pleased with it. This Ceylon tea has a medium flavor, it stands well to milk and sugar. It was quite tasty, and given the great price I'll probably buy a few more boxes.
I'm a moderate tea drinker and mostly a fan of Twinings English Breakfast Tea , which I buy at the supermarket when it's on sale or at Santos Spice Products, where a 50-tea bag box is only $5 or so. But it's not always possible to get it at either place, so when I found myself with no tea last week, I decided to give the Barrington Tea I found at Grocery Outlet a try. At about $1.50 for a 20-tea bag box, I figured I wasn't gambling much. And to my surprise, I ended up liking this tea quite a bit.
I usually like plain black tea mixes – like English breakfast, though I'll have the occasional cup of Earl Grey. I drink my tea with milk and sugar.
Only "Pure Ceylon Black Tea" is listed as an ingredient on the Barrigton English Breakfast tea box, but I could swear the tea has some sort of flavoring in it. I can taste hints of mint and something else which makes the tea taste particularly sweet. It's not as robust as the Twinings, but it stands well to milk and sugar, a bag is strong enough for two mugs and it doesn't seem to over-brew very fast (I don't usually remove the tea bag while I'm drinking the tea). In all, I'm quite happy with this tea and I'll probably go and, given the price, I'll probably go and pick up a few more boxes of it to keep in case Grocery Outlet stops carrying it. The tea expiration date is 11/12, so it should be good for quite a while.
A final thing that I like about this tea is that the bags come in plain paper covers. Twinings' come in sealed waxed/metallic paper bags, which I don't think I can recycle/compost.
Finally, I haven't found much about the Barrington Tea company online – which makes me assume it's quite new. According to its website, their corporate offices are in Palo Alto. The tea comes from Sri Lanka.
I just got a box of their Ceylon tea and I've enjoyed it very much as well. It's a robust black tea, with some hint of flavoring but not as strongly as in the English Breakfast. It's very nice with milk & sugar. I'd buy it again, though now I'm curious about trying the Trader Joe's tea, which is even cheaper.
I've also tried the Earl Gray tea and this one has disappointed me. It's very weak and it doesn't really have a different spicing than the other teas – it's just weaker. I won't be buying it again.
I ran out of strawberries, but got a lot of blueberries at Safeway for $5 – so I decided to make blueberry smoothies for dessert. Everyone agreed it was a good idea. I made them using the recipe for strawberry smoothies I made the other day, modifying it a little. The results (of my second batch) were quite good, though not as good as the strawberry smoothies. The blueberry flavor was also more subtle – if you want it stronger, use more blueberries.
Update. Mika, my 7yo, made this blueberry smoothie today again, all by herself, and it was really good.


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In the immediate aftermath of the government's announcement that its ban on new petrol, diesel and hybrid cars would be brought forward from 2040 to 2035, the UK saw an immediate spike in online searches for electric cars[1]. If we needed another indication that drivers have grown comfortable with the idea that they will be driving electric in the near future, this was it.
But although the focus for many is the cars themselves, the more pressing problem is now the infrastructure required to keep them on the road. Without details of legislation or policy levers, we cannot say how the government proposes to create the charging network that will be required, or indeed where the burden for providing it will fall. What we can say is that such a network must now become an urgent infrastructure priority.
Build a network
The infrastructure issue is not just one of numbers. As of August 2019, there were already 9,199 electric vehicle (EV) charging stations across the country[2]. That compares to 8,396 standard fuel stations. However, this is for what is still a fairly niche market. Many of those charging stations will be for the exclusive use of the car owner, who will typically also be a homeowner with sufficient private land on which to park and charge their car.
In high-density residential areas, it is simply not feasible for every property to have cables running from their electricity supply to their vehicle. National Grid points out that with 20 million EVs on the road there will be at least 8.6 million vehicles that will not have the facilities for at-home charging.
Public charging stations will therefore be needed. Owners of petrol and service stations have already installed a number of charging points; and there have been some more creative solutions suggested. For example, using lamp posts that now have spare capacity from switching to LED bulbs, or commandeering other street furniture such as Virgin Media's street cabinets[3]. Imaginative though this is, it can only form part of the answer to the challenge.
Prioritise convenience
To date, the fundamental problem has been a technical one. It takes approximately five minutes to fully 'recharge' a standard combustion engine with petrol or diesel. It's easy, it's convenient, and it enables both short and long-distance journeys.
In contrast, it can take up to eight hours to recharge an EV battery to 100 percent capacity using the conventional charging methods we already have. Even a marginal amount of charge can take between one and two hours. Early adopters get around this by charging their cars on their driveway overnight. But it makes mass adoption unlikely, with 45% of respondents to a Department for Transport survey saying the availability of chargers was a reason for not purchasing an EV[4].
Range anxiety and the potential inconvenience stops the proposal dead.
Go ultra-fast
The solution lies in adopting ultra-fast charging capabilities and overcoming the problems of copper and, primarily, cooling.
Conducting the high currents involved requires thick, inflexible copper pipes, whose diameter alone makes them prohibitively expensive and inflexibly unwieldy. They are not suitable for public charging of multiple vehicles.
High currents also produce excess heat that means that they cannot be handled by car-drivers who need to charge their vehicle. The heat problem, and the lack of suitable cooling technologies is one of the main reasons that EV infrastructure has always operated on a low-current basis: air cooling, plate cooling and pipe cooling are all popular, but none offer the best possible solution for ultra-fast charging.
Interestingly, we need to go back to the very earliest days of EVs to find a more suitable solution. Immersion cooling was the early frontrunner for electric vehicles and the charging points. However, the composition was never right, and the proposed fluid was too heavy, adding weight to early vehicles that needed to be kept as light as possible to be as efficient as possible and so encourage take up.
Cool and collaborate
In the intervening years, immersion cooling has moved on substantially. New dielectric fluids have been developed as liquid coolants that are suitable for the thermal management of high-performance electronics and electrical systems.
Because these fluids are non-conducting they can come into direct contact with electronic components and so transfer heat away directly – obviating the need for indirect or secondary cooling systems like cold plates and heat sinks. Low pour points, non-toxic composition, and biodegradable characteristics simply add to their usability and environmental credentials.
As a technical solution, modern immersion cooling is, like many of the best ideas to pressing problems, simplicity itself. However, introducing it to charging stations, to EV batteries so that they can accept ultra-fast charge, and to the cabling connecting the two will require a little forward planning from here on out. It will mean a change in the current design and one that charging-station OEMs, utility companies and the auto-industry as a whole will want to take note of.
Some of the best and most experienced brains in the country have solved the technical challenge. It's now up to the rest of the industry to get the wheel turning to roll it out.
By James O'Brien, MIVOLT Product Group Director, M&I Materials
[1] FT, 2020, Electric car queries soar over UK plan to ban polluting vehicles
[2] Nissan, 2019, Electric car charging stations surpass number of fuel stations
[3] The Guardian, 2019, Powering ahead: six new ways to charge an electric car
[4] National Grid, Electric vehicle charging
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Tesla proposes microgrids with solar and batteries to power Greek islands
Tesla has met with the Greek government to propose ways to modernize the electric grid of the country's many islands in the Mediterranean sea with microgrids and renewable energy to reduce their dependence on fossil fuels.
Several Greek islands are relatively remote and rely heavily on fossil fuels to power their electric grid.
Over the years, Tesla has acquired some experience in building microgrids to power remote islands using solar panels and its energy storage systems, like the Powerpack.
On the island of Ta'u in American Samoa, Tesla deployed a 1.4 MW solar array and a 6 MWh energy storage system with 60 Tesla Powerpacks back in 2016.
It enables the islands to cut back significantly on its use of diesel to power generators.
The company has since deployed many similar systems in Samoa, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and many other places.
Now they want to do something similar in Greece.
The Greek Minister of Environment and Energy, Mr. George Stathakis, confirmed last week that they have met with Tesla to discuss the deployment of microgrids in Greek islands.
They issued the following statement (translated from Greek via Capital.gr):
"Today, the Minister of Environment and Energy, Mr. George Stathakis, met with Tesla executives in order to exchange views on the strategy of fossil fuel dependence on the islands of the country, especially those not connected in the next years with the mainland power grid. The National Energy and Climate Plan provides for a gradual abandonment of oil burning units and a switch to Renewable Energy Sources (RES). However, the stochastic character of photovoltaic or wind power action creates significant energy storage and recovery needs of modern network management technologies.
The extremely interesting thing that emerged from the meeting is that technological progress has now significantly reduced the cost of energy storage. At the same time, successful competitions for new RES investments in Greece, led to an equally significant reduction in the cost of energy production. As a result, the conversion of the islands to RES, apart from being environmentally useful, is now also economically viable. In this context, cooperation with Tesla can prove to be extremely beneficial, as the American company officials have highlighted, showing strong interest in the initiatives promoted by the Ministry for "smart" and "energy" islands."
Tesla has reportedly already suggested a pilot project to demonstrate their microgrid system in the region.
The government would like it to be on the island of Limnos:
The idea is to install a large solar array and combine it with an energy storage facility to store the excess energy during the day and use it at night when the sun is not shining.
In recent years, Tesla has become more present in Greece.
Last year, Tesla started building an electric motor research and development center in Greece to tap into the strong local electrical engineering talent.
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Bernie Protesters Delay Congressman from Convention
Thousands of Bernie supporters protested on opening night of DNC
Supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., chant as delegates enter the security perimeter for the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia on the first day of the Democratic National Convention. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
By Simone Pathé
Posted July 25, 2016 at 8:11pm
PHILADELPHIA — Illinois Rep. Luis Gutierrez spoke at the opening night of the Democratic National Convention. But he had a little trouble getting there.
The Illinois congressman, who's a superdelegate for Hillary Clinton, got caught, with his family in tow, in a protest just outside the security perimeter for the Wells Fargo Center on Monday evening.
Supporters of Bernie Sanders chanted, "Hell no DNC, we won't vote for Hillary" and "Bernie beats Trump!" as bagpipes and megaphones blared.
.@RepGutierrez is trying to get in to convention. He's a Clinton superdelegate. Daughter is wearing a Bernie sticker pic.twitter.com/S4i3IwvXoU
— Simone Pathe (@sfpathe) July 25, 2016
Police estimated that several thousand protesters gathered outside the security perimeter into the evening on Monday.
Several protesters were seen being willingly led away by police for climbing over metal barricades. In some cases, protesters even reached out to police for a helping hand making it over the hurdles.
But the Philadelphia Police Department said Monday evening that they had made no arrests. They gave out disorderly conduct code violations to 55 people at the intersection of Broad and Pattison Streets near the Wells Fargo Center.
Buses from the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority blocked roads, while protestors hoisted "Still Bernie" signs into the air and looped red roses through the thick metal fence separating them from the delegates and press passing by to get through security.
In Gutierrez's case, though, he was caught on the protesters' side of the fence and even after talking to several police officers and flashing his member ID card, he still had to weave back and forth through the protesters to find a way in.
"You're from Chicago?" one police officer asked him, upon seeing his card. "Yes!" Gutierrez said. That wasn't enough. The officer sent him back in the other direction.
Gutierrez may be a Clinton supporter, but his daughter was sporting a Bernie sticker, which the Illinois Democrat proudly noted to show how his own family is a microcosm of the diversity within the Democratic Party.
Gutierrez wasn't exactly annoyed by the protesters. He celebrated it as a sign of democracy. But he was confused by their grievances.
"Look, I was on the platform committee," he said. "I don't know, Bernie Sanders said it was the most progressive platform that the Democratic Party has ever endorsed. I'm really proud of that." Winding through the demonstration to find another exit, each time Gutierrez saw a protest sign, he made the case for how his party had accommodated their demands, whether on trade, a $15-an-hour minimum wage or student debt.
"Bernie Sanders said he's speaking tonight. I'm trying to get in there and listen to him speak, but I can't even get into the convention," Gutierrez said.
He acknowledged, though, that leaked emails from the DNC criticizing Sanders were not helpful to the party.
"The DNC has to be an objective force to make sure that they don't tilt Democratic voters one way or another." He added that Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz "did the right thing" by stepping down as DNC chairman over the controversy.
After some wrangling, Gutierrez and his family finally made it through the line of police officers, beyond the metal barricade and into the security perimeter.
Meanwhile, most protesters were oblivious to Gutierrez's struggle or even to who he was.
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MR: "A grandmother is giving directions to her grandson who is an adult and is coming to visit her.
CI: Why do you think that your mother insists this is a Jewish joke?
This is particularly interesting to me because while I have never heard this joke it seems to be very Italian as well. Growing up with very Italian grandparents, they would always come with their hands full and bags of food and things no one was expecting. The very involved and giving, grandmother is a common archetype in Italian families as well. The grandmother is a strong figure in a lot of cultures, but this particular story of the Jewish grandmother is the most similar to the Italian grandmother. I think this also shows Jewish hospitality/ views on gifts.
The informant is my father (referred to as FI) who is raised by two Italian parents and was raised in a very traditional Italian household. His parents have been married for 60 years and knew each other in their Italian towns since they were age 10. Every year for Christmas there is a huge celebration, and it has a lot to do with the days leading up to Christmas. On Christmas Eve there is a big feast. Below my father discusses what is traditionally eaten and made on Christmas Eve.
The informant is my friend (referred to as EP) who is from Brooklyn, New York, but lives in Spain for the summer. Her father is from Spain and her mother is from Puerto Rico. Every year when she goes to Spain she lives on her family ranch that is outside of a town called Porto. She is discussing one of her favorite movies and a movie that is highly regarded in Spain, "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown," and a conspiracy theory that was developed in Spain about the movie.
The informant is my film partner (referred to as MR) who has a Jewish mother and was raised Jewish. This is a song his Jewish grandmother has the family sing before the dinner service of Passover.
This song is very interesting because it is sung to the tune of a song that is obviously not Jewish which also means that while this is a family tradition this may not be a widespread Jewish cultural tradition. At least this song being sung to the tune of "There's no Business like Show business," means that this is not carried down for centuries and is a modern twist on perhaps a more historically grounded Jewish song. The act of singing before a meal is also interesting because it shows the meal is much more of a celebration than other events.
The informant was my best friends mother (referred to as KM) who is Australian. She is from Brisbane Australia and has been living there for around 50 years now. She works as a talent manager and an accountant. She told me her mother used to tell her the following proverb.
I think this short proverb is very powerful and says a lot about Australian culture. I think a lot of people in western culture view knowledge as power and power also equates to material items and money. So this is kind of the opposite of that. Knowledge is power and therefore, it is the only thing you need. Through my time in Australia and my friends, I have over there I saw a lot of people living a minimalist styled life. Obviously, people live in excess over there as well, but I think this is a beautiful way to live by. When you know more you become more resourceful and are filled with less desire to constantly consume.
The informant was my childhood babysitter (referred to as JC) who is from Mexico. She moved to the United States about 25 years ago and would frequently go back to Mexico, bringing me dolls and candies. Every year for Christmas she would make homemade tamales. When I was little and misbehaving she would always tell me El Cucuy will get me. Recently I asked her to tell me more about El Cucuy.
Growing up and hearing this, I was never really scared because I think that folklore about things coming to get you or haunt you can only really work if it is a widespread tale that most people have talked about. As I didn't grow up in Mexico, the only time I had to hear of El Cucuy was from my babysitter and so it seemed made up and unreasonable to me. However, I do think that if more people were talking about this I would have believed it and been more intimidated. I think culturally it is interesting because El Cucuy seems to be the equivalent to the boogeyman, which is also a way for parents to get their children to behave.
For another version of this story see "Boogeyman," 2005 film by Stephen Kay.
The informant was a woman (referred to as Sarah) at the nail salon who was Vietnamese. She was telling me she was from Vietnam and moved to the United States when she was 13. She lived in Michigan and now is a nail artist in Los Angeles. She told me about the Vietnamese Lunar New Year, Tet.
Sarah: "Tet is the biggest holiday in Vietnam. Everybody celebrates. It is the Lunar New Year. We cook, special food in the days leading up to Tet and everyone is very busy. The preparations are very long. We have something called Mut, which is candy fruit. It is a snack and very sweet.
I think Tet is particularly interesting because it is centered a lot on luck and there seem to be very specific traditions and superstitions that ensure you will have good luck. The worldview here would appear to be very future-oriented because the weeks leading up to Tet are focused on making sure everything is in place for a good fortune for the following year.


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Homesless covid deaths should act as a wake up call
Responding to ONS statistics released today that reveal 16 people who were homeless have died as a result of Covid-19, Liberal Democrat MP Layla Moran said:
Yet more lies from PM as he tries to dodge blame for care homes crisis
Responding to Boris Johnson's comments during Prime Minister's Questions that "no one knew early on in the pandemic that the virus was being passed on asymptomatically", Liberal Democrat Health Spokesperson Munira Wilson said:
Davey: We must match the scale of the crisis with the courage to invest
Speaking after the Chancellor's Summer Statement, Acting Leader of the Liberal Democrats Ed Davey said:
The PM blaming care homes for his failure is shameful
Responding to the Prime Minister's comments today saying that "we discovered too many care homes didn't really follow the procedures in the way that they could have," Acting Leader of the Liberal Democrats Ed Davey said:
Landmark domestic abuse legislation passes House of Commons
Tonight, the Liberal Democrats have hailed the passing of the "landmark" Domestic Abuse Bill. The Liberal Democrats tabled a number of amendments designed to further support survivors of domestic abuse.
Lib Dems secure cross-party support to protect migrant women in "historic" Domestic Abuse Bill
The Liberal Democrats have hailed as "historic" the Domestic Abuse Bill, which is due to be passed by the House of Commons today [Monday 6th July], while also securing cross-party support for amendments to protect migrant survivors of abuse.
Govt shouldn't need to mull on EU coronavirus vaccine scheme
Responding to reports that the UK Government is considering whether to participate in the EU coronavirus vaccine scheme, Liberal Democrat Foreign Affairs and Brexit spokesperson Alistair Carmichael said:
Govt woefully underprepared to ensure every young person can return to school
Speaking following the statement on schools reopening, Liberal Democrat Education Spokesperson Layla Moran said:
Govt must stop spending money on measures that don't prevent crime
Responding to the Government's statement on prisons today, including the announcement that four new prisons are to be built in the next six years, Liberal Democrat Justice Spokesperson Daisy Cooper said:
Lib Dems back health leaders' push for review into lockdown easing
Responding to an open letter published in the British Medical Journal from health leaders calling for an urgent review to determine whether the UK is properly prepared for the "real risk" of a second wave of coronavirus, Acting Leader of the Liberal Democrats Ed Davey said:


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As more and more students are diagnosed with vision impairments, kids naturally become curious about what vision impairments are and how people live with them. Luckily, there are many kid-friendly resources online that teach about Braille, blindness, low vision, and more. In honor of National Braille month, here are five websites that teach kids about vision impairments, including blindness and low vision. These websites are targeted at sighted kids but are also great for curious kids with vision impairment.
You've Got Braille is a resource on PBS Kids that teaches young children about Braille using characters from the show Arthur. A character named Marina has a page where she talks about life with blindness and educates readers on basic adaptations such as listening to books, reading large print, and using screen readers. There's also a Braille translator. I love that this website is inclusive of low vision and has current information too.
Braille Bug is an interactive resource from the American Foundation for the Blind. On the website, kids learn about color contrast, Louis Braille, Helen Keller, different types of Braille, and also has games and activities. I had a lot of fun exploring the website, especially the Louis Braille virtual museum.
SeeNow Vision Simulator was developed to teach people about navigating with a vision impairment by seeing what locations look like through the eyes of someone with uncorrectable vision loss. I used it to explain to someone why I find it difficult to navigate an area near my college and show them how it looked to me. There is also an app available, but I have not tested it.
Kids Quest: Vision Impairment is a resource developed by the Center for Disease Control. The website challenges assumptions kids may have about vision impairment and teaches them about assistive technology as well as encourages them to research information on outside websites. There's even a section on famous people with vision loss. This website can answer most questions someone could have about vision loss. I recommend it for older kids, age 10 and above.
While this website isn't technically directed at kids, WonderBaby is a website curated by Perkins School for the Blind about raising children that have vision impairments and multiple disabilities. There's a lot of great projects, information, and tips featured, and my mom has said she wished this website existed when I was younger because it would have been really useful.
By encouraging kids to learn more about living with vision impairment, inclusive and accessible spaces can be created and flourish. After all, kids with blindness and low vision aren't much different than other kids- they just see things a little differently.


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Q: Fetch video meta information - GCP I have video contents uploaded in GCP buckets.
Is there a way by which I can get video meta data(height, width, duration) from any of gcp api / class.

A: You can use stat command in gsutil tool.

Example:
gsutil stat gs://[BUCKET_NAME]/[OBJECT_NAME]

There are also other ways to obtain metadata.
 Further Reference: https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/viewing-editing-metadata

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Christopher Britton was born in London in 1953. At 14 he won a Junior Exhibition to study flute and bassoon at the Royal College of Music and went on to graduate in music and German at Birmingham University. After freelance flute-playing in BBC orchestras, which included regular broadcasts on Radio 3, he settled in Oxford in 1983, where he soon built up a substantial and successful flute and recorder teaching practice. In addition he has established a reputation as a virtuoso and highly versatile flautist, and has played with all the local professional orchestras and with very diverse chamber groups, such as the Pavlova Wind Quintet, the contemporary group The Oxford Players (TOP) and as a soloist. He is currently working on a recording of music by Bach for flute and guitar with Raymond Burley, and enjoys arranging music specifically for his wind quintet.
Malcolm Pearce was born in Bournemouth and studied at King's College, London and the Royal College of Music where he won the Walford Davies prize for organ performance in his final year. He was Director of Music at Magdalen College School Oxford for many years, a post he recently relinquished in order to pursue a variety of musical projects. He has conducted various choral societies and orchestras and is in regular demand as a recitalist, accompanist, continuo player, and for directing workshops. He has a growing list of musical topics on which he lectures for local branches of the National Trust. As a composer, he is regularly commissioned and his compositions have been published, recorded and broadcast on Radio 3.
Carolyn King was born in London and studied the oboe with Natalie James and Anthony Camden. She read biochemistry at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and at University College, London. She completed several years of post-doctoral research in Oxford before relinquishing her scientific career to concentrate on music. She has subsequently built up a busy free-lance career both as an orchestral and solo player, and has toured extensively in Europe with the City of Oxford Orchestra where she was the principal oboe for many years. She is in great demand as a teacher in the region and is the founder of the New Oxford Ensemble and a member of the Pavlova Wind quintet. She is very interested in how dyslexia affects music sight-reading and has recently completed an MA at Reading University on this subject.
New Oxford Trio was formed specifically to give the first performance of 'Sundry Sketches' by Malcolm Pearce. The members are all part of the larger New Oxford Ensemble which was founded a few years ago to present new pieces - including compositions by young musicians for their GCSE and A Levels - and to give a platform to up-and-coming young performers. We are very pleased to be able to introduce the members of the Strathdee Music club to the music of a present day composer, as well as to some 18th century music by a couple of Scottish composers with whom they may not be acquainted.


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Leesa Rowland
Slaughter Daughter releases its inner demons onto DVD
by Dane Benko
My first question is how such a great title was still available.
This week finds the final cut of Slaughter Daughter newly out on Brain Damage films. Slaughter Daughter comes courtesy of director Travis Campbell, the writer of Troma's Return to Nuke 'Em High, taking up the camera with original Nuke 'Em High alumnus Leesa Rowland.
Those who know Troma need no further introduction, but for the uninitiated, Troma is the demon child of Lloyd Kaufman, conceived of a tradition of a low budget horror production grandfathered by the likes of Roger Corman and Herschell Gordon Lewis, but bastardized into something beyond B-Grade (or even F-Grade). It found its ultimate recognition in the form of a famous cult figure known as Toxie, from a series known as Toxic Avenger. If films are meals with Hollywood being fast food and a good European art film a type of fine dining, Troma is discarded balut found outside a leaking radioactive waste facility.
Those in the know are aware that none of the above is negative criticism of what Troma is or represents. Kaufman is keeping to a method of branded and consistent cult no-budget filmmaking that has maintained a culture of its own. Those whose knowledge of cult cinema terminates at Sam Raimi's Evil Dead films may find themselves horrified and sickened by the production value alone, but for those who love to bathe in abject excess from the fringes of festering film, Troma is iconic. Though Slaughter Daughter is not a Troma release, it and distributor Brain Damage fit firmly within this genealogy, and the production talent keeps it in the nuclear family. Slaughter Daughter is everything hysterical, madcap, and shrill, all of which lends itself an abject, magnetic energy. For fans, this energy is exciting, though some audiences may be forgiven for finding it exhausting.
My second question is how this luscious beauty is still available.
Vamp actress Nicola Fiore plays Farrah, the titular daughter of Rowland's Phyllis. After being stood up at her wedding, Farrah suffers a breakdown and goes into self-imposed isolation. She becomes fascinated by a serial killer named Jackson Miles, and she follows his movements with literally orgasmic passion until Phyllis' engagement with the snobbish Willard Neff awakens Farrah's inner monster.
Tim Dax plays Jackson Miles, one part machismo-drenched prison brat and two parts hallucinogenic fairy tale godmother. Dax (whose tattoos such as a luchadore mask-like helmet design are part of his personal style and not makeup from the production) does actually pull off a strange guiding warmth to Fiore's intensity, counterpointing Rowland's performance as the self-involved and disingenuous Phyllis. Within the insanity of the movie contains an actual underlying logic of the relationships, as the abandoned and dismissed Farrah seeks a lover, a father, and a friend, all of which only she can consummate on her own terms after she's failed to find it from her family (father is dead, brother is impotent, step-father's a douche, you get the drill). She weasels her way into meeting Miles in person and the two, ah, execute a plan focused on Phyllis' rooftop wedding.
And from there… well the movie is called Slaughter Daughter. You know what this is. The rest is the falling action as a roller coaster ride complete with a cameo by Lloyd Kaufman emceeing as the minister of the wedding.
The final cut of Slaughter Daughter was recently shown at The Producer's Club, hosted by Campbell and Rowland in person. The movie has taken a long journey from its production. Shot in 2012, it won best feature film at Orlando's 7th Annual Freak Show Film Festival that year, but various sound issues compelled Campbell to clean it up before Brain Damage's release.
As far as the quality of the final cut is concerned, it looks and sounds great considering the context. Campbell has managed to keep a look of washed-out color of cheap film bathed in sickening pale light cast through green, red, and yellow gels, while updating it to digital by adding a bit of glitch art to fragment the frames. Whereas it ain't Luis Bunuel, it still achieves more psycho-seductive charge on a lower budget than something like Black Swan. You just have to let the glurge wash over you and accept it for what it is.
Filed Under: ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES Tagged With: Brain Damage films, Cult, cult film, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Leesa Rowland, Lloyd Kaufman, movie premiere, Nicola Fiore, Orlando Freak Show Film Festival, Roger Corman, Slaughter Daughter, The Producers Club, The Toxic Avenger, Tim Dax, Toxie, Travis Campbell, Troma


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Q: Autofac's None of the constructors found with 'Autofac.Core.Activators.Reflection.DefaultConstructorFinder' I'm back to Autofac issues despite using it in a very similar manner for over a year and really need some advise.
I choose to opt-in via attributes.  The difference this time is that one of the registrations uses IIndex to select the most appropriate interface for the task at hand based on a LoginState enum.  This value is provided via the attribute .
You could consider it a very basic Autofac based state-machine.
Due to the opt-in nature I have the following extension method which gets the type via the presence of the attribute and the value of the attribute:
public static class ContainerBuilderEnumerateAttributedTypes
{
    #region EnumerateAttributedTypes(builder, action)

    [DebuggerStepThrough]
    public static void EnumerateAttributedTypes<TAttribute>(this ContainerBuilder builder,
        Action<Type, TAttribute> action) where TAttribute : Attribute
    {
        var typesAndAttributes = Assembly
            .GetExecutingAssembly()
            .GetTypes()
            .Where(type => type.GetCustomAttributes<TAttribute>(false).Any())
            .Select(type => new { Type = type, Attribute = type.GetCustomAttributes<TAttribute>(false).First() });

        foreach (var typeAndAtttribute in typesAndAttributes)
        {
            action(typeAndAtttribute.Type, typeAndAtttribute.Attribute);
        }
    }

    #endregion

    #region EnumerateAttributedTypes(builder, inherit, action)

    [DebuggerStepThrough]
    public static void EnumerateAttributedTypes<TAttribute>(this ContainerBuilder builder,
        bool inherit, Action<Type, TAttribute> action) where TAttribute : Attribute
    {
        var typesAndAttributes = Assembly
            .GetExecutingAssembly()
            .GetTypes()
            .Where(type => type.GetCustomAttributes<TAttribute>(inherit).Any())
            .Select(type => new { Type = type, Attribute = type.GetCustomAttributes<TAttribute>(inherit).First() });

        foreach (var typeAndAtttribute in typesAndAttributes)
        {
            action(typeAndAtttribute.Type, typeAndAtttribute.Attribute);
        }
    }

    #endregion
}

During Global.asax.cs I call builder.RegisterModule which in terms calls builder.RegisterModule.
In there I have the following:
public class LogicAutofacModule : Module
{
    #region Load

    protected override void Load(ContainerBuilder builder)
    {
        builder.EnumerateAttributedTypes<DispatcherAttribute>((type, attribute) =>
        {
            var @interface = type.GetInterfaces().First();

            //  ReSharper disable once ConvertToLambdaExpression
            builder
                .RegisterType(type)
                .As(@interface);
        });

        builder.EnumerateAttributedTypes<LogicAttribute>((type, attribute) =>
        {
            var @interface = type.GetInterfaces().First();

            //  ReSharper disable once ConvertToLambdaExpression
            builder
                .RegisterType(type)
                .Keyed(attribute.State, @interface)
                .As(@interface);
        });
    }

    #endregion

There are two instances of IDispatcher are:
IIndex<LoginState, ILogic<AuthenticateContext, AuthenticateResult>>

and
IIndex<LoginState, ILogic<AuthenticateIncurringChargeContext, AuthenticateIncurringChargeResult>> _handlers;

The LoginState if specified via a attribute, when applicable, via a
[LogicDispatcher(LogicState.InvalidCredentials)]
and similar.
No matter how I do this, even falling back to the most basic way of registering I get the 'None of the constructors found with
Autofac.Core.Activators.Reflection.DefaultConstructorFinder error message.

Never had this before... please advise or ask for more info.
Afterthought...  here is an example of the ILogic implementation:
[Logic(LoginState.InvalidAccount)]
public class AuthenticateInvalidAccount : ILogic<AuthenticateContext, AuthenticateResult>
{
    #region Execute

    public AuthenticateResult Execute(AuthenticateContext context, LoginResponse response)
    {
        return new AuthenticateResult
        {
            State = State.InvalidAccount
        };
    }

    #endregion
}

And an instance of a dispatcher:
[Dispatcher]
public class AuthenticateDispatcher : IDispatcher<AuthenticateContext, AuthenticateResult>
{
    #region Fields

    private readonly IIndex<LoginState, ILogic<AuthenticateContext, AuthenticateResult>> _handlers;

    #endregion

    #region Constructors

    public AuthenticateDispatcher(IIndex<LoginState, ILogic<AuthenticateContext, AuthenticateResult>> handlers)
    {
        _handlers = handlers;
    }

    #endregion

    #region Dispatch

    public AuthenticateResult Dispatch(AuthenticateContext context)
    {
        var service = new AccountServiceClient();

        var response = service.Invoke(client => client.Login(context.Username, context.Password));

        var logic = _handlers[response.LoginState];

        var result = logic.Execute(context, response);

        return result;
    }

    #endregion
}

The service super simple:
[ErrorHandled]
public class Service : IService
{
    #region Fields

    private readonly IDispatcher<AuthenticateContext, AuthenticateResult> _authenticateDispatcher;

    private readonly IDispatcher<AuthenticateIncurringChargeContext, AuthenticateIncurringChargeResult> _authenticateIncurringChargeDispatcher;

    #endregion

    #region Constructor

    public Service(
        IDispatcher<AuthenticateContext, AuthenticateResult> authenticateDispatcher,
        IDispatcher<AuthenticateIncurringChargeContext, AuthenticateIncurringChargeResult> authenticateIncurringChargeDispatcher)
    {
        _authenticateDispatcher = authenticateDispatcher;
        _authenticateIncurringChargeDispatcher = authenticateIncurringChargeDispatcher;
    }

    #endregion

    #region Authenticate

    public AuthenticateResponse Authenticate(AuthenticateRequest request)
    {
        var context = request.Map<AuthenticateContext>();

        var result = _authenticateDispatcher.Dispatch(context);

        var response = result.Map<AuthenticateResponse>();

        return response;
        throw new NotImplementedException();
    }

    #endregion

    #region AuthenticateIncurringCharge

    public AuthenticateIncurringChargeResponse AuthenticateIncurringCharge(AuthenticateIncurringChargeRequest request)
    {
        //var context = request.Map<AuthenticateIncurringChargeContext>();

        //var result = _authenticateIncurringChargeDispatcher.Dispatch(context);

        //var response = result.Map<AuthenticateIncurringChargeResponse>();

        //return response;
        throw new NotImplementedException();
    }

    #endregion
}

A: Rather embarrassed.  Commented out the code that registered the logic services.  Ashamed :(
Hope someone finds the extension method useful however!


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Peter Von Kant (Peter Von Kant)
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Director – François Ozon – 2022 – France – Cert. 15 – 85m
A re-imagining of R.W. Fassbinder's all-female-cast The Bitter Tears Of Petra Von Kant, with the three central gay characters switched from female to male – plays in cinemas from Friday, 30th December
Köln, 1972. Peter von Kant (Denis Ménochet) is a successful film director who resides in his apartment with his personal assistant Karl (Stefan Crepon). He is visited by his old friend, the singer Sidonie (Isabelle Adjani), whose blown up picture adorns one of his walls. She introduces him to young man of Arab extraction and actor wannabe Amir Ben Salem (Khalil Gharbia) with who Peter becomes besotted and who subsequently moves in with him.
Their passionate relationship is, however, doomed, with Amir suddenly leaving some months later on the pretext of visiting his wife when she unexpectedly phones him from a nearby city. After Aamir has left him, Peter becomes an emotional wreck. On his birthday, he waits on the phone, hanging up in seconds when he realises the caller isn't Amir. He vents his emotional distress on his three birthday visitors: his mother Rosemarie (Hanna Schygulla), his boarding school student daughter Gabrielle (Aminthe Audiard) and Sidonie.… Read the rest
Tags adaptation, Aminthe Audiard, assistant, blow up, celebrity, claustrophobia, cruelty, Denis Ménochet, distancing, fathers and daughters, female, France, François Ozon, gay, gender flip, gender reversal, Germany, Hanna Schygulla, Isabelle Adjani, Khalil Gharbia, Koln, LFF, LFF 2022, LGBTQ, live-in assistant, London Film Festival, London Film Festival 2022, love, male, mothers and sons, Peter Von Kant, phone, photographic blow up, pop star, R.W. Fassbinder, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, relationship, remake, singer, sociopath, Stefan Crepon, The Bitter Tears Of Petra Von Kant, walls
Rimini (Rimini)
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Director – Ulrich Siedl – 2022 – Austria, France, Germany – Cert. 18 – 114m
A singer of romantic songs performs to elderly female fans (in more ways than one) in an off-season seaside town as his past catches up with him – in cinemas from Friday, December 9th following its screening in the BFI London Film Festival 2022
An old man (Hans-Michael Rehberg, who died in 2016 and whose last lensed appearance on film this performance, split between this film and Siedl's Sparta, 2022, represents) is lost in a care home where he's a patient. None of the doors will open. His son (Michael Thomas) arrives and takes him to the man's wife's funeral.
His son travels to the off-season, Italian seaside resort of Rimini for bookings as Richie Bravo (presumably his stage rather than his real name, although this is never clarified) at hotels to sing romantic songs to his admiring, elderly, female fan base. The dull, monolithic hotel buildings have exotic names like Soleil and 007 belying their inherent blandness.
In between those performances and traipsing around through heavy rain and snow, he engages in sexual congress in hotel rooms with a small number of his most devoted fans including the single Anna (Claudia Martini) and the married Emmi (Inge Maux).… Read the rest
Tags amore, audience, bereavement, blackmail, care home, Claudia Martini, dead mother, emotionally trauma, estranged, explicit, family, fan, fathers and daughters, financial reparation, first sexual experience, funeral, Germany, Hans-Michael Rehberg, holiday resort, hotel, hotel rooms, hotel; room, Inge Maux, Italy, LFF, LFF 2022, London Film Festival, London Film Festival 2022, Michael Thomas, militarism, mobile home, music, Muslim, off-season, performance, pop star, rain, Rimini, seafront, seaside, sex, singer, snow, Tessa Göttlicher, trauma, Ulrich Siedl, weather
Decision To Leave (Heojil Kyolshim, 헤어질 결심)
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Director – Park Chan-wook – 2022 – South Korea – Cert. 15 – 138m
A married detective investigating the death of a climber becomes obsessed with the victim's wife, who looks increasingly like the murderer – on MUBI from Friday, 9th December
Any sexual or romantic energy that once existed between city-based detective Hae-joon (Park Hae-il from Heaven: To The Land Of Happiness, Im Sang-soo, 2021, The Fortress, Hwang Dong-hyuk, 2017, The Host, 2006, Memories Of Murder, 2003, both Bong Joon ho) and seaside town-based wife (Jung Yi-seo, bit parts in Samjin Company English Class, Lee Jong-pil, 2020; Parasite, Bong Joon ho, 2019) has long since evaporated.
Investigating the fatal fall of skilled amateur climber Ki Do-soo (Yoo Seung-mok from The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil, Lee Won-Tae, 2019, also The Host, Memories Of Murder) where the man's Chinese-born wife Seo-rye (Tang Wei, from Lust, Caution, Ang Lee, 2007) is a murder suspect, he falls for her…
[Read the full review at Dmovies.org]
Decision To Leave is on MUBI from Friday, 9th December.
Tags Chinese, city, climber, climbing accident, cop, crime, death, Decision To Leave, fish market, guilt, husbands and wives, innocence, insomnia, Ipo, Jung Yi-seo, Korea, LFF, LFF 2022, London Film Festival, London Film Festival 2022, marriage, murder, nuclear plant, obsession, Park Chan-wook, Park Hae-il, scam, scam merchant, seaside town, South Korea, stakeout, swimming pool, Tang Wei, Vertigo, Yoo Seung-mok
No Bears (Khers Nist)
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No Bears #freejafarpanahi
Director – Jafar Panahi – 2022 – Iran – Cert. 12a – 106m
An Iranian film director banned from leaving his country rents a house close to the border with Turkey, in which country he is remotely directing a film – out in UK cinemas on Friday, November 11th following its screening in the BFI London Film Festival 2022
In a busy, metropolitian street somewhere in Iran, woman restaurateur Zara (Mina Kavani) is greeted by her partner Bakhtiar (Bakhtiar Panjei), who has secured a fake passport for her. She has only three days to use it before the passport, stolen from a tourist, is stopped. But she doesn't want to travel outside the country without him: he is the only thing that makes her life bearable.
Then we realise we are watching a movie shoot not in Iran but in neighbouring Turkey. The director is Jafar Panahi (playing himself) and he is not allowed out of Iran, so he is renting a room in an Iranian village not far from the Turkish border and watching the shoot remotely via his computer. He's been assured that the local internet reception is good, but it isn't and keeps cutting out, making his job all but impossible, although his first assistant director, cast and crew are doing a good job of getting the shots in the can even when they don't hear from him.… Read the rest
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Director – Oliver Hermanus – 2022 – UK – Cert. 12a – 102m
Diagnosed with stomach cancer and given only months to live, a bureaucrat searches for something – anything – to give purpose to his hitherto meaningless life in this remake of Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru – out in UK cinemas on Friday, November 4th following its screenings in the BFI London Film Festival 2022, while Ikiru is on BFI Player subscription
For anyone who has had the privilege of seeing Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa, 1952) it is a very strange thing to watch this remake of it. On the one hand, it is exactly the same film. It has the same plot. On the other, it is completely different. Both are set in the 1950s, the original in Japan and the new one in London.
At this point, I have to say that this remake sounded to me (until I'd seen it) like a very bad idea. Cinema is littered with great films that have been remade as shadows of their former selves. Generally speaking, most ideas like this are better left well alone. To make matters worse, this is a case of an established novelist writing a screenplay: producers love this because they see a bestselling author as having a reliable track record but, in fact, the skills required for writing a novel and a movie are very different indeed.… Read the rest
Tags 4:3 Academy ratio, Aimee Lou Wood, Akira Kurosawa, Alex Sharp, Brighton, Britishness, bureaucrat, commuter, compartment, County Hall, doctor, Ikiru, Japan, Kasuo Ishiguro, LFF, LFF 2022, Living, local government, London, London Film Festival, London Film Festival 2022, Lyons Corner House, novelist, office, Oliver Hermanus, paint the town red, playground, railway, reference, reimagining, remake, runaround, skyscraper, Stephen Woolley, stomach cancer, Tom Burke, travel, UK, waste ground, Waterloo, writer
Post date 1 November 2022
A repressive Islamist regime
Directed by Jafar Panahi
Certificate 12a, 106 minutes
Released 11 November
The Iranian director Jafar Panahi (whose son Panar made the excellent road movie Hit the Road) has been in trouble with the country's repressive Islamist regime for some time and earlier this year was given six years in prison. The campaign to #freejafarpanahi is worth our support, and this release is timely considering what is happening in Iran now.
In No Bears, Jafar plays a fictionalised version of himself, a film director not allowed to leave Iran… [read the full review at Reform magazine]
Read my alternative, longer review here.
No Bears is out in cinemas in the UK on Friday, November 11th following its screening in the BFI London Film Festival 2022.
#freejafarpanahi
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Director – Florian Zeller – 2022 – UK – Cert. tbc – 123m
A man and his wife must deal with the mental illness of his son by a previous marriage when he moves in with them – from the BFI London Film Festival 2022 which runs from Wednesday, October 5th to Sunday, October 16th in cinemas and on BFI Player
Peter (Hugh Jackman) is a successful New York lawyer with a wife Beth (Vanessa Kirby) and a small child Theo. One day, his ex-wife Kate (Laura Dern) turns up at his apartment door to inform him that, as she's just found out, their teenage son Nicholas (Zen McGrath) has not been to school for one month. She has tried to talk to the boy but got no sense out of him. When Peter goes to visit them, the boy insists he'd like to come and live with his dad.
New mum Beth is understandably hesitant, but nevertheless the couple agree to have Nicholas stay. It quickly becomes apparent that he has grievances against his father and step-mother for leaving his mother and becoming involved with his married father respectively. While Nicholas has never got over his parents' break-up, Peter has continued in a career which leaves him increasingly less time for family.… Read the rest
Tags Anthony Hopkins, Christopher Hampton, divorce, ex-wife, fathers and sons, Florian Zeller, Hugh Jackman, husbands and wives, knife, Laura Dern, lawyer, LFF, LFF 2022, London Film Festival, London Film Festival 2022, marriage, mental illness, New York, pain, relationship, school, second marriage, self harm, separation, suicide, teenager, truant, UK, US, Vanessa Kirby, Zen McGrath
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All That Breathes
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Director – Shaunak Sen – 2022 – India – Cert. – 97m
Set against the backdrop of heavily polluted Delhi, Muslim siblings devote their time to healing the local species of bird that seems to get injured more than most: the black kite – plays in the BFI London Film Festival 2022 which runs from Wednesday, October 5th to Sunday, October 16th in cinemas and on BFI Player, out in UK cinemas on Friday, October 14th
Plunging the viewer right from the start into a rarely seen, night time netherworld, this contains incredible intermittent footage of life in a modern city, in this case Delhi. We are on a patch of waste ground, whether an officially designated rubbish tip or simply the place people check their waste is not clear, but the refuse is piling up and you can hear creatures scuffling around. The takes are long and soon you're picking out rats in the darkness, and thinking that if only the rubbish was more securely contained, the rat infestation wouldn't be a problem.
There are several similar lengthy shots that punctuate All That Breathes, and they're absolutely mesmerising. This is in no small part due to the use of the unbroken take, coupled with complex camera moves which reminded me of last year's pig documentary Gunda (Victor Kossakovsky, 2020).… Read the rest
Tags animal rescue, bird rescue, bird sanctuary, birds, black kite, care for animals, city, Delhi, establishing shot, film editing, India, Islam, LFF, LFF 2022, London Film Festival, London Film Festival 2022, long takes, Muslim, pollution, rats, religion, rubbish tips, Shaunak Sen, urban, waste, waste disposal, wildlife
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Director – Marcos Mereles – 2021 – UK – Cert. 15 – 72m
A photographer, an intern, a model and a make-up artist unite for a photography shoot that goes horribly wrong – out in cinemas on Friday, October 14th
What went wrong, exactly,? asks the opening voice over. He's referring to a day, a night and a day when a photographer (Sid Phoenix) with an unpaid intern (James Aroussi) in tow, a model (Isabelle Bonfrer) and a make-up artist (Rosie Steel) gather in a London studio to do a photographic fashion shoot for the All Is Vanity clothing brand. There's a degree of tension and drama between the four. The photographer has the intern's introductory letter on his phone and tells him he takes himself far too seriously: no-one wants to know his internal conflicts or motivation. He doesn't have nice things to say about he model either, noting before she arrives that she can be a bit of a bitch.
It doesn't bode well when she arrives late and holds up the shoot. The photographer likes the clothes and the décor in the studio that the brand has chosen, but doesn't think the two work together. Something strange is going on because at one point the power goes off and the problem doesn't appear to be blown fuses.… Read the rest
Tags fashion, intern, Isabelle Bonfrer, James Aroussi, LFF, LFF 2021, London, London Film Festival, London Film Festival 2021, make-up artist, Marcos Mereles, model, mystery, photographer, photographic shoot, Rosie Steel, Sid Phoenix, studio, studio photography, UK, unpaid intern


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title: Backbone Soundcloud Example
date: 2015-12-22 11:00:00
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Initially I would say, start off by building small applications in Backbone, such as a an API, that is similar to a jQuery AJAX call to an external API. In this example I am going to walk you through some sample code to get you started by building a Single Page Application that brings up the Titles from your Soundcloud Account.

If you don't already have a [sound cloud developers Client ID](https://developers.soundcloud.com/docs/api/guide), you can get that by referring to their Developers API Guide.

###Step 1###

Lets define our Backbone Model for a single **Track**. Since we are getting JSON data back from the API, there is no need to setup any defaults.
{% highlight javascript %}
// Define the Backbone Model for a Single Track
App.Models.Track = Backbone.Model.extend({});

// Define the Backbone Collection for several tracks or a collection of Tracks
App.Collections.Tracks = Backbone.Collection.extend({

  // The Collection takes in a model of type Track
  model : App.Models.Track,

  // Fetch the data from the external API end point using your own clientID
  url: 'https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks?client_id=',

  // Define a function that invokes the fetch method
  loadMessages: function() {
    this.fetch({});
  }
});
{% endhighlight %}

###Step 2###

Now that we have our Backbone Models defined, lets make some views to render the data to the Page. Create a View for the Track Model. This View consists of the template which lays out how we would like to define our tracks to be displayed. I am not doing anything to complicated, I'm using Backbone's template engine to define a span that contains the title and has a class of the same name.

{% highlight javascript %}
// Define a View for a Single Track
App.Views.Track = Backbone.View.extend({

  // Define a tempalate for the title in a span element
  template: _.template('<div class="title" data-id="<%- id %>">\
  <%- title %>
'),

  // Define the initialize function incase you want to see the value of this.
  initialize: function() {
    console.log(this.model);
  },

  // Define the events object, that is going to take in button click from
  // Display.
  events: {
    'click .display' : 'render'
  },

  // Render the data from each model using the toJSON function and append it to
  // to the soundCloud id Tag.
  render: function() {
    $("#soundCloud").append(this.template(this.model.toJSON()));

    // Always return this from a render function, incase you want to chain
    // functions.
    return this;
  }
});
{% endhighlight %}

###Step 3###

Now, lets go ahead and define a view from our collection of Tracks. Remember that a Backbone Collection is an array containing a single track model. Currently I'm not doing anything too complicated, like sorting the tracks according to popularity and playcounts, but once you get the data and render it on the page, you can certainly make more functions that listen for those and render them on the page as so. Below you'll see, that I am using a function called "sync", instead of clicking on Display. I was unable to get that to work. I believe that's because the Collection View is only looking at the Tracks. We would have to make another View that looks at the entire application in its entirety.

{% highlight javascript %}
// Define a Backbone Collection View for the Tracks
App.Views.Tracks = Backbone.View.extend({

  // Define the initialize function, that listens for a 'sync' method from the
  // fetch method.
  initialize: function() {
    console.log(this);
    this.collection.on('sync', this.render, this);
  },

  events: {
    'click .display' : 'render'
  },

  // Using the _.each function we can iterate over the collection and
  // pass in a single model/track to the renderTracks method.
  render: function() {
    _.each(this.collection.models, this.renderTracks, this);
  },

  // Define a method, that makes a view for each track and renders it
  // We then want to append that element to the default DIV($el).
  renderTracks: function(track) {
    var trackView = new App.Views.Track({ model : track })
    this.$el.append(trackView.render().el);
  }
});
{% endhighlight %}

###Step 4###

We're going to render the Tracks to the HTML element DIV with an id of *soundCloud*.

{% highlight HTML %}
<!DOCTYPE html>

  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <title>Soundcloud</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="styles/styles.css">

Displaying Sound Cloud Data

    <button class='display'>Display</button>

{% endhighlight %}

###Step 5###

We haven't created an instances of the Track Collection or the Views. Before going forward, I want to let you know, I usually wrap my entire code in a self invoking function as demonstrated below. It allows me to keep my code organized and keep my naming conventions consistent. In addition I make the App available to the window, so I can debug it using the Chrome Developer Tools.
{% highlight javascript %}

(function() {

// Define an object App, that will take in objects Models, Views and
// Collections.
window.App = {
  Models: {},
  Views: {},
  Collections: {}
};

... // code from step 1
... // code from step 2
... // code from step 3

})();

// Define an instance of tracks
window.tracks = new App.Models.Tracks();

// Load the messages into tracks
tracks.loadMessages();

// Define an instance of the Tracks View and pass the tracks object as a
// collection to the App
window.tracksView = new App.Views.Tracks({collection : tracks})

{% endhighlight %}

###Step 6###

I am also adding in my css styles incase your having trouble seeing the data on the web page.

{% highlight css %}
body {
    background: #eee;
    text-align: center;
    padding: 0 25px;
    font-family: arial, sans-serif;
}

.track {
    color: red;
    text-align: left;
    font-size: 12px;
}

.title {
    color: red;
    width: 500px;
    height: auto;
}
{% endhighlight %}

### Snapshot of the Soundcloud Data ###

[Soundcloud API Data]({{ site.baseurl }}/images/Backbone Soundcloud Tutorial Screenshot.jpg)


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10+ Mistakes From 'Beauty And The Beast' Fans Didn't Catch
Jordan Claes
I absolutely love Beauty and the Beast. This tale as old as time is a staple from my childhood and continues to inspire an entirely new generation of moviegoers.
It's a brilliant film, but it's not without its missteps.
Have a look and check out these 10+ mistakes from Beauty and the Beast that even hardcore fans didn't manage to catch their first time around.
1. Belle's book changes colors on her way to the library.
At the beginning of the film, when Belle first speaks with the town's baker about her latest novel, you can clearly see that the cover on the front is a muddled mauve color.
But once she enters the library, it's clearly now a very different and much darker shade of purple.
At first, I thought that she maybe had more than one book in her basket, but nope!
It just flat-out changes color for no reason at all. Whoops!
2. What happened to the bellows hanging by the fireplace?
Do you see that thing hanging by the fireplace, underneath the teapot?
It's an antique device known as a bellows. Basically, it was used to help stoke your fire in olden times.
In the next shot, after Gaston puts his muddy boots onto the table, the bellows is nowhere to be found!
I don't mean to be nit-picky, but this is just plain sloppy! Maybe the bellows was actually a spy from the Beast's castle?
I guess that could explain why it just got up and walked away?
3. Where did the Beast's sleeves go?
During the scene where the Beast gives the library to Belle, he's clearly wearing a long-sleeved shirt underneath his cloak.
This is the first time in the film that he attempts to make himself look more presentable.
So then what happens to them in this wide shot? Did the Beast take off his shirt without us seeing?
It's incredibly difficult to see but if you look very closely, there appears to be a portion of his white-collar poking out from the Beast's cloak.
Maybe the animators just forgot to draw the sleeves?
4. The staircase in Belle's cottage shrinks.
Near the beginning of the film, Gaston calls on Belle in order to propose to her. When he enters, you can clearly see that there are six steps that lead up to the landing on the stairs.
But then something funny happens...
All of a sudden three stairs are missing! So what happened to them?
It happens so quickly that it's easy to miss, but clearly this is a case of animation cells not lining up the way they should.
Or perhaps it was just a complete and total miscommunication between animators?
5. There are some problems with Belle's cottage door as well.
After Belle rejects Gaston's marriage proposal, she swiftly ejects him from her home.
As you can see from the image above, the door very clearly swings out, not in.
However, when Belle retrieves Gaston's boots and throws them outside, the door on the cottage swings in!
I know what you're thinking and the answer is no: it can't be a two-way door.
If that was the case, we wouldn't have heard it slam shut on the frame.
6. Mrs. Potts' eyes aren't quite right.
This one happens lightning fast, so make sure to be paying attention!
During the dance between Belle and the Beast when Mrs. Potts is singing, her eyes change color from blue to black, and then back to blue again.
7. The claw marks on the Beast's portrait change direction.
At the beginning of the film, the Beast viciously tears his portrait out of shame and disgust.
As you can see, his claw marks begin from the top left and down to the right.
But later on, when Belle goes exploring in the west wing, the marks have not only changed their direction but their position as well.
It's a little odd, don't you think?
I guess it's possible the Beast could have had more than one portrait of himself in the bedroom but unlikely.
8. Chips chip keeps switching sides as the film goes on.
For the majority of the film, you can see that Chip's signature chip is on the right side of his face.
But there's a moment during the "Something There That Wasn't There Before" sequence where everything goes awry.
His chip moves to the complete opposite side of his face!
It's right after he and Mrs. Potts watch on in embarrassment as the Beast devours a plate of porridge, similar to how a hungry dog would.
This is just one of many examples of this taking place.
9. Lefou lost a shoe!
After Lefou runs out of the castle, you can see that he is missing a shoe! Panic can do that to a person.
But in the next shot, if you look closely, you'll see that he has both on again.
10. Maurice entering the castle.
Once Maurice enters the castle, you can see that the bolts on the doors of the castle are gold.
However, later in the same scene you can see that the bolts have changed from gold to black.
11. Gaston's boots.
When Gaston goes to Belle to propose to her, his boots are clean — noticeably so.
But when he puts them up on the table, for some reason, they are completely covered in mud.
12. Water, pipes, and shutters, oh my!
After Belle leaves the book store, in a shot above her, you can see a woman pouring water towards the downspout.
In the shot, you can even see gorgeous green shutters and some wood trim around the window.
In the next shot, the shop suddenly has a large hanging pipe sign!
Not only that, but under the window, there is suddenly a table, the green shutters have vanished, and the wood trim has been changed!
13. "Give five hurrahs, give twelve hip-hips!"
During the line in Gaston's song that says, "Give five hurrahs, give twelve hip-hips," LeFou's beer switches from his left to his right hand between shots.
Not just that, but the wood beams have completely vanished!
14. "Who's got Belle locked up in a dungeon?"
When Belle's father makes his way inside the tavern, there's just one man at the bar on the left side.
But throughout the shots, suddenly there are three. And then when Gaston asks "Who's got Belle locked up in a dungeon?" all three have disappeared.
15. Belle's colorful bedroom.
When Mrs. Potts and Chip go to Belle's bedroom, there are a ton of colorful pillows that lie on Belle's bed.
Between all the shots in the scene, they switch between appearing and disappearing and changing positions.
16. Belle's bridge.
At the very beginning of the movie, we first see Belle at her house, and she makes her way across a bridge that sits there in order for her to cross over into the town.
However, much later in the movie, when Gaston leads the insane asylum keeper to the house, something has changed!
There is a horse and buggy waiting in front of the house, but all of a sudden, the bridge is gone.
How did they get there?
17. Blue book.
When Belle sits by the fountain to read the blue book that she got from the library, some sheep pass by and one of them actually takes a bite from the book, ripping off the page!
But in the next shot, the page is there again.
18. "Human Again"
Toward the end of the "Human Again" song, Cogsworth and Lumiere turn on the fountain.
There's a large statue right in the middle of the fountain, and it sprays some water, but the ones that are next to it don't.
However, when the wardrobe is on the balcony and begins to sing, the shot goes to a wide arial shot and something has shifted.
Suddenly, all the statues are spraying out water, instead of just the one in the middle.
19. "No one slick as Gaston."
When LeFou sings "no one slick as Gaston," there is a man speaking to a lady and there is a bar stool behind him.
However, when LeFou runs over to him, the bar stool is suddenly gone.
20. The West Wing
When the Beast begins to yell at Belle in the west wing, she backs up into a rotting cupboard, and if you look closely, you can see a ton of designs all over it.
However, when the shot changes, the cupboard suddenly looks brand new and has no patterns.
21. "Will no one help me?"
After Maurice is thrown out of the tavern, he falls into the snow right by the fountain.
However, when he says, "Will no one help me?" the snow is suddenly gone.