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Artemis Women In Action Film Festival Gala Hits Ahrya Fine Arts Theatre!
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By E.M. Fredric
BEVERLY HILLS, CA (The Hollywood Times) 04/25/19 – The fifth edition of the Artemis Women In Action Film Festival (AWIAFF) kicked off their four-day celebration with an award gala at Ahrya Fine Arts Theater on April 25th. It is the 2nd year that the festival is presented by Paul Feig (The Heat, Spy, Ghostbusters). After a very long delay – the show didn't begin until well after an hour of its slotted time – the women receiving awards and their stories made it well worth the wait.
Their mission is to both entertain and to influence the awareness of the dynamic and powerful roles women play in society and culture throughout the world. The trailer for the recipients was the best part of the show in terms of seeing what they actually do on the job – and they truly kick-ass. The festival's panels, screenings and other special events will be held at Monica Film Center, 1332 2nd Street in Santa Monica from 10AM to 6PM April 27 – 28, 2019.
Jeannie Epper
The lifetime achievement award went to stuntwoman trailblazer, Jeannie Epper (Wonderwoman, Hot Pursuit, Book of Eli) who received a lengthy standing ovation. Every stuntwoman who grabbed an Artemis Award thanked Jeannie for inspiring them as little girls to want to be Wonderwoman and some for her mentorship.
The impressive line-up for the luminaries awarded for raising the bar for female action on screen were: Kimberly Peirce (Boys Don't Cry, Stop-Loss, American Crime), Daniele Ruah (NCIS: LA, Hawaii Five-0, Red Tails), Dot-Marie Jones (Glee, American Horror Story, The Resident), Levy Tran (MacGyver, The First Purge, Furious 7) and stuntwomen Jeannie Epper (Wonderwoman, Hot Pursuit, Book of Eli), Melissa R. Stubbs (Suicide Squad, Deadpool, Jason Bourne), Shauna Duggins (GLOW, Peppermint, Captain America: The Winter Soldier), Lisa Hoyle (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Snatched, Arrested Development), Mahsa Ahmadi (Z Nation, Heathers, Skyfall), Crystal Michelle (Black Panther, Captain Marvel, Avengers: Infinity War) and Dejay Roestenberg (Jessica Jones, The Following, OA).
Many of the women double as actresses, stand-ins, stunt coordinators, choreographers, A.D.'s, directors and more as roles open wider for them. Melissa R. Stubbs (received the Stunt Action Icon Award) becoming the first women in her field to be invited to join The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences – she's also a member of the Director's Guild of America working as 2nd Unit Director.
Every recipient spoke of community, the need for helping one another with some having more support than others – as is the case with Hollywood careers – across-the-board. Stunt women wear many hats and usually less clothes than their male counterparts. They can be pilots, racers, or just some crazy, real-life action heroes. Either way, a stunt performer brings a lot to whatever show or movie they are working on. Without them, movies and shows wouldn't feel as real. No amount of digital special effects can even come close to replacing the work that stunt performers do.
Unfortunately, Hollywood isn't the best at protecting their stunt performers. Stunt performers are frequently the most neglected on sets. They are expected to get the job done, no matter how difficult or dangerous a stunt might be. All too frequently, it's like a death defying dare – which is why many producers and production companies have been sued over the years for misusing stunt performers and for deaths on the job. Many of the women spoke of injuries sustained and all were proud of their work stating how much they love what they do -the dangers, pitfalls and euphoria, aside.
It's what makes this festival unique and important in the world of film festivals as women who have taken over what men used to do for them. Stuntwomen – like the Jeannie Eppers – have ripped open the doors and making way for generations to come.
The Artemis film festival line-up for Friday through Sunday films on can be found here: http://www.artemisfilmfestival.com/
ABOUT AWIAFF
The Artemis Women In Action Film Festival was founded by Melanie Wise and Zac Baldwin, two filmmakers with a long-time love of female-driven action films. Wise and Baldwin have produced shorts and features, focusing on female action projects. They saw that the genre was loved by audiences around the world, despite the fact that studios for many years claimed female action films were box office poison. In 2014, the idea of Artemis was born with the intent to create a space where these types of films could play for audiences with an unsatisfied hunger of female-driven action films. And for the Fifth Edition, Artemis is proud to include female-powered music.
Artemis Women in Action
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A Granddaughters Love
4 years before I was born, my grandfather passed away from leukaemia. 6 months before I was born, my grandmother moved in. When I was born, my grandmother was in the room. 3 weeks after I was born, my grandmother sat next to my mother as I received a baby blessing. 1 month after I was born, my grandmother spent endless nights with me and my parents while I was hospitalised with sepsis.
6 months after I was born, my grandmother helped my family move from Antioch to San Luis Obispo. 1 year after I was born, my grandmother was running around the house after me. 3 years after I was born, my grandmother was dropping me off and picking me up from pre-school.
8 years after I was born, my grandmother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
9 years after I was born, my grandmother was asked to stop driving. 10 years after I was born, my mother told me about my grandmothers illness. 13 years after I was born, my grandmother was moved from my home to an assisted living facility in Salt Lake City, Utah. On April 23, 2014 we got a call from my aunt saying that my grandmother had gone unconscious and was being taken by ambulance to the hospital. My grandmother didn't make it to my 16th birthday.
My grandmother passed away peacefully on April 23, 2014. According to workers who were next to her, she sat in her favourite chair after eating breakfast, closed her eyes, and slumped over. When they couldn't revive her, they called an ambulance. She was taken to the hospital where my aunt was waiting for her to arrive. She was taken into a back room where they discovered she had suffered from a severe heart attack. My grandmother had signed a DNR years before so they couldn't do anything to try to save her. She passed away peacefully in a hospital room, and no longer had to suffer.
Pauline Ruth Copple DeNatly was a beautiful woman. She married Douglass DeNatly, and together they had 5 children. Shannon, Brent, Kelly, Jared, and Misty. Pauline's 5 children provided her with 6 granddaughters and 7 grandsons. Her grandchildren adored her, and she spent years travelling between 4 of her children's homes visiting them. In the final years of her life, she moved from the home she had know for nearly 15 years to an assisted living facility in Salt Lake City. In those years, I watched the beautiful, bright, happy woman who helped teach me to read, who went to every violin recital, who took me to the library and ice cream, and who loved me unconditionally.....slip away, and I saw a hard, angry, scared person take over her body. I spent years being angry and scared of her. I pushed all the happy memories away because it was easier than reliving them. I used to pray every night that they would cure this disease so I could have my grandmother back.
Until the end I was still hoping and praying for a cure. I wanted my grandmother back. I saw all these other people with grandparents in their late 70's, 80's, and 90's and here I was with a grandmother in her early 70's, dying from a disease that made it so she didn't know who I was. I became very bitter because I saw a great injustice. I had lost a grandfather to leukaemia, a grandfather to emphazima, and now a grandmother to Alzheimer's. I had virtually no grandparents left. How did some people still have two sets of grandparents and I had none?
It has taken me years to share my story with anyone. I felt that by keeping it hidden, I wouldn't have to feel the pain, sadness, and loneliness. I still have a hole in my life that my beautiful grandmother left that I will never be able to fill. But by sharing my story and her story now, I hope I'll be able to help others in the same struggle I spent years going through.
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Carlos Scheck Aldabe (Montevideo, 13 de noviembre de 1893-ibidem, 17 de agosto de 1959) fue un contador público, escritor y periodista uruguayo, cofundador del diario El País.

Biografía

Nace en Montevideo el 13 de noviembre de 1893. Desde su adolescencia, había ayudado a su padre en el establecimiento de Arroyo Seco. Pero a los 18 años de edad,  debido al fallecimiento de su padre, asume la responsabilidad de trabajar, convirtiéndose en el sostén de su familia, que eran su madre y ocho hermanas.

Ingresa a la Escuela Nacional de Comercio y en 1916, se egresa con el título de Contador Perito Mercantil y comienza a trabajar en la Liga de Defensa Comercial.

En marzo de 1919 se suma al equipo del recientemente creado diario El País, el cual había sido fundado por los nacionalistas Washington Beltrán, Lionel Aguirre y Eduardo Rodríguez Larreta en septiembre de 1918. Sus dotes de contador, le permitieron reforzar la prevalencia y convertir al diario en uno de los más importantes medios no solo de prensa, sino de comunicación generalista en aquella época. Con el tiempo, se convertiría en uno de sus principales administradores.

En los 1944, durante el gobierno de Juan José de Amézaga integraría el Tribunal de Cuentas.

Falleció el 17 de agosto de 1959 en su natal Montevideo.

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Taphenes Koroma
Taphenes Koroma, a tennis player who often represented her home country of Trinidad and Tobago in international competitions, was used to success. She came to FIU in 2012 with the International Freshman Scholars Award. Her initial academic success resulted in an invitation to join the Honors College and her induction into two honors societies: The National Society of Collegiate Scholars and Delta Epsilon Iota.
But she hit a major roadblock in her sophomore year. With no family in Miami, Taphenes struggled with feelings of isolation and her GPA plummeted, resulting in academic probation. She was in danger of both losing her scholarship and dismissal from the Honors College. When she went home to Tobago on break and realized there were no college opportunities there, she decided to turn around her academic life around.
Back at FIU, Taphenes regained focus and although she was working part-time and taking six or more classes a semester, her grades became so impressive that she won a second academic scholarship, the Florida-Caribbean Institute Tuition Waiver.
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Huge Update On Brock Lesnar's WWE Return And First WWE Universal Title Defense Revealed
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The WWE Universe isn't thrilled about how Brock Lesnar's reign with the WWE Universal Title has started, but there is a specific reason why WWE officials are booking him this way. At WrestleMania 33, Lesnar beat Goldberg after months of not being able to get the better of him. Simultaneously, Brock also became the new WWE Universal Champion, but he's already taking time off from WWE television and is leaving with the title.
Brock Lesnar is not being advertised for WWE Payback, which will be the first Raw exclusive PPV after WrestleMania. Obviously, that means he will not be defending the WWE Universal Title during the event. Many people don't like that WWE officials gave Lesnar the top prize on Raw knowing that he'd be missing time right after WrestleMania, but there is a reason why he's being booked this way as champion.
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It's been reported that Brock Lesnar will have his first title defense at one of two events. The WWE Extreme Rules PPV will be held on June 4, and the WWE Bad Blood PPV is being brought back on July 9. He will be defending the WWE Universal Championship at one or each event, but it's unclear which one WWE has decided on right now. However, it's being said that Braun Strowman will be his first challenger for the title.
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It's highly unlikely that WWE officials would be willing to have Strowman beat Lesnar and become the new WWE Universal Champion. The powers that be are high on Braun Strowman, but that's a huge push that he may not be ready for, especially with WWE focusing on the long term storyline between Brock Lesnar and Roman Reigns. Heading into WWE SummerSlam, Braun Strowman will be a great opponent for Lesnar.
Strowman will also likely come out looking strong against Lesnar despite the loss. He's big enough that he won't be pushed around or German Suplexed into oblivion by Brock, which will be a good thing. The match between them will be a fight, which will put over Braun Strowman as someone who can go up against The Beast Incarnate. Not many WWE Superstars have been booked that strongly over the past few years.
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Men in Black II 2002
The way it tends to go with superhero movie sequels is that the first movie is good, the second movie is better, and the third movie is where it all goes to hell. Men in Black surprisingly bucks that trend and instead goes to crap in the first sequel only to redeem itself in the third. It doesn't help that there is quite a bit of time between the three films. Five years have passed since the first Men in Black and they wrote out what made the original so great: the chemistry between Will Smith's and Tommy Lee Jones' Agents J and K. In a lot of ways, this sequel felt like the writers just wanted to recapture what made the first one so great and thought that the best way to do that was to just recreate all the elements of the first film that worked instead of expanding on them. And except for a brief moment here and there, it does not work for me at all. And somewhat surprisingly, even though I did watch all three films in order, it was just so much easier to pick out all of the flaws in this movie rather than try to determine what exactly it is about the first movie that makes it so great.
One of the biggest problems of the film is that it has to deal with the fact that while the first film left it open for a sequel, it wasn't the sequel that they wanted to make. The first movie implicated that the sequel would revolve around the adventures of Agent J and his newfound partner from the morgue Agent L, played by Linda Fiorentino. But the problem was that either she didn't want to return, or more likely the chemistry between them wasn't good enough for a full movie, but the problem is that it takes almost half of the movie before Tommy Lee Jones returns and they start to fall back into the chemistry that worked. Instead, the film presents J as the disenchanted veteran who just can't seem to find a partner that he doesn't neuralize after a few weeks or months. But even though J is supposed to be the veteran agent now, he is still played out as the comic relief due to his amateurish mistakes, even moreso after Agent K returns in full force.
It doesn't help that nearly every element from the first film that seemed to work got brought back, whether it was shoehorned in like the celebrity aliens, most notably Michael Jackson in a joke that likely felt dated back in 2002 and much more dated now. But there's also the need to bring back Frank the pug in an expanded role, the worms, Jeebs the pawn shop owner, and the tiny Noisy Cricket gun. There's also the rehashing of the big twist misdirect about the Light of Kandor which turns out to be Rosario Dawson, and even the ending where instead of an alien picking up a marble containing our universe, Agent K opens up a locker door revealing that MIB headquarters is inside its own locker in an even bigger HQ. They even redo the big red button on the car scene, only this time they enhance it by adding a PS2 controller and calling it "hyperspeed" even though it seems to go slower it did the first time around. And of course, J still hasn't learned his lesson and gets thrown around because he wasn't wearing his seat belt.
At least they did actually use the same Pug.
The other element that was more or less new to this movie and not just a rehash of the first one was the love interest played by Rosario Dawson. Though there was a small aspect of it where Agent K was pining for his long lost love that he left when he became one of the first members of the Men in Black, and here we find out that he had yet another long lost love when he first hid the Light of Kandor and the Princess or Queen of Kandor was killed. And now J goes through a similar ordeal as he falls for Dawson, though she doesn't die at the end, instead she just goes away into outer space. In general, I did like the chemistry between Dawson and Smith even though it seemed like it wasn't really given enough time to fully develop and it was treated as if they were saying goodbye instead of getting married when they were actually only at about the second date of a relationship.
The other half of the Men in Black is always Tommy Lee Jones, and it didn't help that he was missing for half of the film, and when he came back he spent a large amount of time not being his full self. As soon as he came back, he had to become the straight man, and while the chemistry still worked for the most part between him and Smith, there was a large amount that just felt awkward and misguided. It was a nice moment that even without his memories, he still fell into referring to J as "Slick". It also helped a little bit that even though he didn't have his memories of being a Man in Black, he still was largely unfazed by anything that came his way even before he got his memories back. But it was still too long of a journey that felt unnecessary. Even with the caveat that his long lost love that he reunited with during the first movie ended up leaving him, it's a stretch to think that bring him back into the fold is really the best thing for him as an actual person, even though the fate of the galaxy is in jeopardy, as it is all the time which we learned from K himself during the first movie.
This was just embarrassing.
Another surprising moment is how even though it was five years later, with a similar budget to the first one, the special effects ended up looking much worse this time around. It could have been a number of different reasons, either their budget was smaller, or more likely that the filmmaker's ambition was greater than their actual resources. Where Jeebs' head growing back worked in the first movie, it was a short effect and was supposed to look weird. Here, Johnny Knoxville who plays a stupid alien with a forgettable name has an even stupider second head that is at the bottom of the uncanny valley. The technology was not good enough to make the second head look completely real, but it was also modeled too closely to Knoxville's face to look very alien. All of the tentacles from Serleena as well as the subway worm Jeff had an overly shiny CGI sheen to them, and even the practical effects like the dead tentacle alien looked way too much like it was made out of foam rubber, which it likely was. It's a shame that this was the low point of the franchise, but there are a few moments of enjoyment here and there. The one good thing that can be said of it is that it got past the story problem of reuniting J and K so they didn't have to spend time doing that in the next movie. Until next time, this has been Bubbawheat for Flights, Tights, and Movie Nights.
Posted on December 4, 2014, in 00's movies and tagged comic book, film, Marvel, movies, review. Bookmark the permalink. 5 Comments.
Wendell | December 5, 2014 at 8:51 am
I never thought of MIB as a superhero franchise. That said, I enjoyed the middle chapter more than you even though I know it's mostly rehashed. I think its largely because I find this role perfectly suited to Will Smith making him effortlessly funny even when doing things ver:y similar to what he did the first time around. To me, anyway.
Bubbawheat | December 5, 2014 at 9:18 pm
The chemistry between the two is definitely the high point of this one though it's tough because K doesn't show up until halfway through. I explain the superhero connection a little bit better in my review of the first one which should be up within the next couple days or so. It's still a comic book movie though. I can see the appeal though. Was there anything else besides the chemistry that worked for you in this one?
I was an easy mark for some of those dated jokes. Yeah, Michael Jackson actually showing up was funny to me.
Abbi | December 15, 2014 at 7:18 am
I can't remember anything about this film… probably not a good sign.
Yeah, it's very forgettable, and the best parts I imagine blend in with the first movie.


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Gen. Ray Odierno, the Army chief of staff, said "rooting out" militants on the ground would be necessary, but he did not say it had to be done by Americans.
As tensions rise between China and other Asian nations, a top U.S. general is working on improving contacts with China's military.
Defense lawyers for Brig. General Jeffrey Sinclair asked a military judge to throw out the charges, asserting weaknesses in the case.
The Macgregor Transformation Model proposes to decrease Defense Department's spending without leaving the armed forces less-than-ready for combat — a problem with other downsizing plans.
The Army will institute its largest reorganization since World War II to meet budget goals while winding down from wars.
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WASHINGTON -- The Army is reshaping the way many soldiers are trained and deployed, with some conventional units to be placed officially under Special Operations commanders and others assigned to regions of the world viewed as emerging security risks, like Africa. The pending changes reflect an effort by the Army's top officer, Gen. Ray Odierno, to institutionalize many of the successful tactics adopted ad hoc in Afghanistan and Iraq. As the Army shrinks by 80,000 troops over the next five years, General Odierno is seeking ways to assure that it is prepared for a broader set of missions, including in hot spots around the world where few soldiers have deployed in the past.
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Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates inaugurated the post-combat phase.
The outgoing commander of American forces in Iraq said a deadlock could create demands for a new election, throwing Iraqi politics into greater turmoil.
The United States plans on Thursday to transfer to the government of Iraq the last American-run prison, marking another milestone in the winding down of America's war.
Gen. Ray Odierno said that Iranian-backed Shiite militias might increase attacks on American military bases as thousands of American soldiers begin leaving Iraq.
The Army's implementation of a new counterinsurgency strategy shows that institutions don't have to stay wedded to the status quo.
Gen. Ray Odierno served the administration that started the war and now the one whose president campaigned to end it.
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Cytomegalovirus-mononucleosis-induced thyroiditis in an immunocompetent patient
V Larouche and M Tamilia
Enteroviruses, including coxsackieviruses and Echovirus, are well known pathogens responsible for the development of thyroiditis. We describe the case of a 49-year-old woman with no personal or family history of thyroid disease who presented to the emergency room with a two-week history of daily fevers up to 39°C, a sore throat, occasional palpitations and diaphoresis, decreased appetite and an unintentional 10 kg weight loss over the same time course Physical examination revealed mild tachycardia, an intention tremor and a normal-sized, nontender thyroid gland without palpable nodules. The remainder of the physical examination was unremarkable and without stigmata of Graves' disease. Her initial blood tests revealed overt thyrotoxicosis, elevated liver enzymes, an elevated C-reactive protein, a negative monospot and a positive CMV IgM antibody. Thyroid sonography revealed areas of hypoechogenicity and relatively low vascularity. Fine-needle biopsy showed a lymphocytic infiltrate. The patient was treated symptomatically with propranolol. On follow-up, the patient became euthyroid, and her liver enzymes normalised. Previous cases of CMV-induced thyroiditis occurred in immunosuppressed patients. This is the first reported case of a CMV-mononucleosis-induced thyroiditis in an immunocompetent adult patient and serves as a reminder that viral illnesses are a common cause of thyroiditis with abnormal liver enzymes.
The differential diagnosis of thyrotoxicosis with abnormal liver enzymes includes severe hyperthyroidism and thyroid storm caused by Graves' disease as well as the thyrotoxic phase of a thyroiditis, usually caused by a virus such as coxsackievirus or, in this case, cytomegalovirus.
Cytomegalovirus appears to be a recently recognized causal agent for thyroiditis, both in immunosuppressed and immunocompetent patients.
Careful follow-up of thyroid function tests in patients with thyroiditis allows clinicians to determine if patients' thyroid hormone secretion normalizes or if they remain hypothyroid.
Persistent hyperthyroidism and de novo Graves' ophthalmopathy after total thyroidectomy
Wei Lin Tay, Wann Jia Loh, Lianne Ai Ling Lee and Chiaw Ling Chng
We report a patient with Graves' disease who remained persistently hyperthyroid after a total thyroidectomy and also developed de novo Graves' ophthalmopathy 5 months after surgery. She was subsequently found to have a mature cystic teratoma containing struma ovarii after undergoing a total hysterectomy and salpingo-oophorectomy for an incidental ovarian lesion.
It is important to investigate for other causes of primary hyperthyroidism when thyrotoxicosis persists after total thyroidectomy.
TSH receptor antibody may persist after total thyroidectomy and may potentially contribute to the development of de novo Graves' ophthalmopathy.
Thromboembolic complications of thyroid storm
T Min, S Benjamin and L Cozma
Thyroid storm is a rare but potentially life-threatening complication of hyperthyroidism. Early recognition and prompt treatment are essential. Atrial fibrillation can occur in up to 40% of patients with thyroid storm. Studies have shown that hyperthyroidism increases the risk of thromboembolic events. There is no consensus with regard to the initiation of anticoagulation for atrial fibrillation in severe thyrotoxicosis. Anticoagulation is not routinely initiated if the risk is low on a CHADS2 score; however, this should be considered in patients with thyroid storm or severe thyrotoxicosis with impending storm irrespective of the CHADS2 risk, as it appears to increase the risk of thromboembolic episodes. Herein, we describe a case of thyroid storm complicated by massive pulmonary embolism.
Diagnosis of thyroid storm is based on clinical findings. Early recognition and prompt treatment could lead to a favourable outcome.
Hypercoagulable state is a recognised complication of thyrotoxicosis.
Atrial fibrillation is strongly associated with hyperthyroidism and thyroid storm.
Anticoagulation should be considered for patients with severe thyrotoxicosis and atrial fibrillation irrespective of the CHADS2 score.
Patients with severe thyrotoxicosis and clinical evidence of thrombosis should be immediately anticoagulated until hyperthyroidism is under control.


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ONE of the most marvellous inventions for the advancement of mankind is the phonetic alphabet, or a system of signs representing the sounds of human speech. Without it our present civilization could scarcely have been possible.
No solution of the origin of our European alphabet has. yet been obtained: we can trace it back from nation to nation, and form to form, until we reach the Egyptians, and the archaic forms of the Phœnicians, Hebrews, and Cushites, but. beyond this the light fails us.
The Egyptians spoke of their hieroglyphic system of writing not as their own invention, but as "the language of the gods." (Lenormant and Cheval, "Anc. Hist. of the East," vol. ii., p. 208.) "The gods" were, doubtless, their highly civilized ancestors--the people of Atlantis--who, as we shall hereafter see, became the gods of many of the Mediterranean races.
The "first Hermes," here referred to (afterward called Mercury by the Romans), was a son of Zeus and Maia, a daughter of Atlas. This is the same Maia whom the Abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg identifies with the Maya of Central America.
"There seems to be no way of accounting either for the early use of letters among so many different nations, or for the resemblance which existed between some of the graphic systems employed by those nations, than by supposing hieroglyphical writing, if I may be allowed the term, to have been in use among the Tsabaists in the first ages after the Flood, when Tsabaisin (planet-worship) was the religion of almost every country that was yet inhabited."
"So great is the analogy between the first principles of the Science of writing, as it appears to have been pursued in Chaldea, and as we can actually trace its progress in Egypt, that we can hardly hesitate to assign the original invention to a period before the Hamitic race had broken up and divided."
It is not to be believed that such an extraordinary system of sound-signs could have been the invention of any one man or even of any one age. Like all our other acquisitions, it must have been the slow growth and accretion of ages; it must have risen step by step from picture-writing through an intermediate condition like that of the Chinese, where each word or thing was represented by a separate sign. The fact that so old and enlightened a people as the Chinese have never reached a phonetic alphabet, gives us some indication of the greatness of the people among whom it was invented, and the lapse of time before they attained to it.
"The nation that became mistress of the seas, established communication with every shore, and monopolized the commerce of the known world, must have substituted a phonetic alphabet for the hieroglyphics as it gradually grew to this eminence; while isolated Egypt, less affected by the practical wants and tendencies of commercial enterprise, retained the hieroglyphic system, and carried it to a marvellous height of perfection."
It must be remembered that some of the letters of our alphabet are inventions of the later nations. In the oldest alphabets there was no c, the g taking its place. The Romans converted the g into c; and then, finding the necessity for a g Sign, made one by adding a tail-piece to the c (C, G). The Greeks added to the ancient alphabet the upsilon, shaped like our V or Y, the two forms being used at first indifferently: they added the X sign; they converted the t of the Phœnicians into th, or theta; z and s into signs for double consonants; they turned the Phœnician y (yod) into i (iota). The Greeks converted the Phœnician alphabet, which was partly consonantal, into one purely phonetic--"a perfect instrument for the expression of spoken language." The w was also added to the Phœnician alphabet. The Romans added the y. At first i and j were both indicated by the same sound; a sign for j was afterward added. We have also, in common with other European languages, added a double U, that is, VV, or W, to represent the w sound.
The letters, then, which we owe to the Phœnicians, are A, B, C, D, E, H, I, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, Z. If we are to trace out resemblances with the alphabet of any other country, it must be with these signs.
none of which bear the slightest affinity to the Phœnician letters.
(From ''North Amer. of Antiquity,'' p. 434.
fortunately, however, preserved for posterity the alphabet of this people. We present it herewith.
When we observe, in the table of alphabets of different European nations which I give herewith, how greatly the forms of the Phœnician letters have been modified, it would surprise us to find any resemblance between the Maya alphabet of two or three centuries since and the ancient European forms. It must, however, be remembered that the Mayas are one of the most conservative peoples in the world. They still adhere with striking pertinacity to the language they spoke when Columbus landed on San Salvador; and it is believed that that language is the same as the one inscribed on the most ancient monuments of their country. Señor Pimental says of them, "The Indians have preserved this idiom with such tenacity that they will speak no other; it is necessary for the whites to address them in their own language to communicate with them." It is therefore probable, as their alphabet did not pass from nation to nation, as did the Phœnician, that it has not departed so widely from the original forms received from the Colhuas.
But when we consider the vast extent of time which has elapsed, and the fact that we are probably without the intermediate stages of the alphabet which preceded the archaic Phœnician, it will be astonishing if we find resemblances between any of the Maya letters and the European forms, even though we concede that they are related. If we find decided affinities between two or three letters, we may reasonably presume that similar coincidences existed as to many others which have disappeared under the attrition of centuries.
The first thought that occurs to us on examining the Landa alphabet is the complex and ornate character of the letters. Instead of the two or three strokes with which we indicate a sign for a sound, we have here rude pictures of objects. And we find that these are themselves simplifications of older forms of a still more complex character. Take, for instance, the letter pp in Landa's alphabet, : here are evidently the traces of a face. The same appear, but not so plainly, in the sign for x, which is . Now, if we turn to the ancient hieroglyphics upon the monuments of Central America, we will find the human face appearing in a great many of them, as in the following, which we copy from the Tablet of the Cross at Palenque. We take the hieroglyphs from the left-hand side of the inscription. Here it will be seen that, out of seven hieroglyphical figures, six contain human faces. And we find that in the whole inscription of the Tablet of the Cross there are 33 figures out of 108 that are made up in part of the human countenance.
We can see, therefore, in the Landa alphabet a tendency to simplification. And this is what we would naturally expect. When the emblems--which were probably first intended for religious inscriptions, where they could be slowly and carefully elaborated--were placed in the hands of a busy, active, commercial people, such as were the Atlanteans, and afterward the Phœnicians, men with whom time was valuable, the natural tendency would be to simplify and condense them; and when the original meaning of the picture was lost, they would naturally slur it, as we find in the letters pp and x of the Maya alphabet, where the figure of the human face remains only in rude lines.
letter H of the Maya alphabet represented by this figure, ; now, as it takes less time to make a single stroke than a double one, this would become in time . We turn now to the archaic Greek and the old Hebrew, and we find the letter h indicated by this sign, , precisely the Maya letter h simplified. We turn to the archaic Hebrew, and we find . Now it is known that the Phœnicians wrote from right to left, and just as we in writing from left to right slope our letters to the right, so did the Phœnicians slope their letters to the left. Hence the Maya sign becomes in the archaic Phœnician this, . In some of the Phœnician alphabets we even find the letter h made with the double strokes above and below, as in the Maya h. The Egyptian hieroglyph for h is while ch is . In time the Greeks carried the work of simplification still farther, and eliminated the top lines, as we have supposed the Atlanteans to have eliminated the double strokes, and they left the letter as it has come down to us, H.
[paragraph continues] and ; now, if we apply the rule which we have seen to exist in the case of the Maya m to these figures, the essential characteristic found in each is the circle, in the first case pendant from the hieroglyph; in the other, in the centre of the lower part of it. And that this circle was withdrawn from the hieroglyph, and used alone, as in the case of the m, is proved by the very sign used at the foot of Landa's alphabet, which is, . Landa calls this ma, me, or mo; it is probably the latter, and in it we have the circle detached from the hieroglyph.
We find the precise Maya o a circle in a circle, or a dot within a circle, repeated in the Phœnician forms for o, thus, and , and by exactly the same forms in the Egyptian hieroglyphics; in the Runic we have the circle in the circle; in one form of the Greek o the dot was placed along-side of the circle instead of below it, as in the Maya.
Are these another set of coincidences?
valley of the Nile, and we find that the Egyptian hieroglyphic for n was the serpent, ; the Pelasgian n was ; the Arcadian, ; the Etruscan, .
Can anything be more significant than to find the serpent the sign for n in Central America, and in all these Old World languages?
Now turn to the letter k. The Maya sign for k is . This does not look much like our letter K; but let us examine it. Following the precedent established for us by the Mayas in the case of the letter m, let us see what is the distinguishing feature here; it is clearly the figure of a serpent standing erect, with its tail doubled around its middle, forming a circle. It has already been remarked by Savolini that this erect serpent is very much like the Egyptian Uræus, an erect serpent with an enlarged body--a sacred emblem found in the hair of their deities. We turn again to the valley of the Nile, and we find that the Egyptian hieroglyphic for k was a serpent with a convolution or protuberance in the middle, precisely as in the Maya, thus, ; this was transformed into the Egyptian letter ; the serpent and the protuberance reappear in one of the Phœnician forms of k, to wit, ; while in the Punic we have these forms, and . Now suppose a busy people trying to give this sign: instead of drawing the serpent in all its details they would abbreviate it into something like this, ; now we turn to the ancient Ethiopian sign for k (ka), and we have , or the Himyaritic Arabian ; while in the Phœnician it becomes ; in the archaic Greek, ; and in the later Greek, when they changed the writing from left to right, . So that the two lines projecting from the upright stroke of our English K are a reminiscence of the convolution of the serpent in the Maya original and the Egyptian copy.
[paragraph continues] Maya sign the cross is united at the bottom, like a figure 8. Here again we turn to the valley of the Nile, and we find that the Egyptian hieroglyph for t is and ; and in the Syriac t it is . We even find the curved lines of the Maya t which give it something of the appearance of the numeral 8, repeated accurately in the Mediterranean alphabets; thus the Punic t repeats the Maya form almost exactly as and . Now suppose a busy people compelled to make this mark every day for a thousand years, and generally in a hurry, and the cross would soon be made without curving the lines; it would become X. But before it reached even that simplified form it had crossed the Atlantic, and appeared in the archaic Ethiopian sign for tsa, thus, . In the archaic Phœnician the sign for t is and ; the oldest Greek form is or and the later Greeks gave it to the Romans , and modified this into ; the old Hebrew gave it as and ; the Moab stone as ; this became in time and .
Take the letter a. In the Maya there are three forms given for this letter. The first is ; the third is . The first looks very much like the foot of a lion or tiger; the third is plainly a foot or boot. If one were required to give hurriedly a rude outline of either of these, would he not represent it thus, ; and can we not conceive that this could have been in time modified into the Phœnician a, which was ? The hieratic Egyptian a was ; the ancient Hebrew, which was or ; the ancient Greek was the foot reversed, ; the later Greek became our A.
[paragraph continues] ; we turn to the Ethiopian q (khua), and we find it , as qua, ; while the Phœnician comes still nearer the supposed Maya form in ; the Moab stone was ; the Himyaritic Arabian form became ; the Greek form was , which graduated into the Roman Q. But a still more striking proof of the descent of the Phœnician alphabet from the Maya is found in the other form of the q, the Maya cu, which is . Now, if we apply the Maya rule to this, and discard the outside circle, we have this left, . In time the curved line would be made straight, and the figure would assume this form, ; the next step would be to make the cross on the straight line, thus, . One of the ancient Phœnician forms is . Can all this be accident?
The letter c or g (for the two probably gave the same sound as in the Phœnician) is given in the Maya alphabet as follows, . This would in time be simplified into a figure representing the two sides of a triangle with the apex upward, thus, . This is precisely the form found by Dr. Schliemann in the ruins of Troy, . What is the Phœnician form for g as found on the Moab stone? It is . The Carthaginian Phœnicians gave it more of a rounded form, thus, . The hieratic Egyptian figure for g was ; in the earlier Greek form the left limb of the figure was shortened, thus, ; the later Greeks reversed it, and wrote it ; the Romans, changed this into and it finally became C.
of the p given thus, , a very fair representation of an r lying upon its face. Is it not another remarkable coincidence that the p, in both Maya and Phœnician, should contain this singular sign?
The form of pp in the Maya alphabet is this, . If we are asked, on the principle already indicated, to reduce this to its elements, we would use a figure like this, ; in time the tendency would be to shorten one of these perpendicular lines, thus, and this we find is very much like the Phœnician p, . The Greek ph is Φ.
The letter l in the Maya is in two forms; one of these is , the other is . Now, if we again apply the rule which we observed to hold good with the letter m--that is, draw from the inside of the hieroglyph some symbol that will briefly indicate the whole letter--we will have one of two forms, either a right-angled figure formed thus, , or an acute angle formed by joining the two lines which are unconnected, thus, ; and either of these forms brings us quite close to the letter l of the Old World. We find l on the Moab stone thus formed, . The archaic Phœnician form of l was , or ; the archaic Hebrew was and ; the hieratic Egyptian was ; the Greek form was --the Roman L.
thus, ; the Chaldaic b was ; the Syriac sign for b was ב the Illyrian b was .
The Maya e is ; this became in time ; then (we see this form on the Maya monuments); the dots in time were indicated by strokes, and we reach the hieratic Egyptian form, : we even find in some of the ancient Phœnician inscriptions the original Maya circles preserved in making the letter e, thus, ; then we find the old Greek form, ; the old Hebrew, ; and the later Phœnician, : when the direction of the writing was changed this became . Dr. Schliemann found a form like this on inscriptions deep in the ruins of Troy, . This is exactly the form found on the American monuments.
The Maya i is ; this became in time ; this developed into a still simpler form, ; and this passed into the Phœnician form, . The Samaritan i was formed thus, ; the Egyptian letter i is : gradually in all these the left-hand line was dropped, and we come to the figure used on the stone of Moab, and ; this in time became the old Hebrew , or ; and this developed into the Greek .
We have seen the complicated symbol for m reduced by the Mayas themselves into this figure, : if we attempt to write this rapidly, we find it very difficult to always keep the base lines horizontal; naturally we form something like this, : the distinctive figure within the sign for m in the Maya is ח or . We see this repeated in the Egyptian hieroglyphics for m, , and , and ; and in the Chaldaic m, ם and in the Ethiopic . We find one form of the Phœnician where the m is made thus, ; and in the Punic it appears thus, ; and this is not unlike the m on the stone of Moab, , or the ancient Phœnician forms , , and the old Greek , or the ancient Hebrew , .
The , x, of the Maya alphabet is a hand pointing downward , this, reduced to its elements, would be expressed some thing like this, or ; and this is very much like the x of the archaic Phœnician, ; or the Moab stone, ; or the later Phœnician or the Hebrew , , or the old Greek, : the later Greek form was Ξ.
The Maya alphabet contains no sign for the letter s; there is, however, a symbol called ca immediately above the letter k; it is probable that the sign ca stands for the soft sound of c, as, in our words citron, circle, civil, circus, etc. As it is written in the Maya alphabet ca, and not k, it evidently represents a different sound. The sign ca is this, . A somewhat similar sign is found in the body of the symbol for k, thus, , this would appear to be a simplification of ca, but turned downward. If now we turn to the Egyptian letters we find the sign k represented by this figure , simplified again into ; while the sign for k in the Phœnician inscription on the stone of Moab is . If now we turn to the s sound, indicated by the Maya sign ca, , we find the resemblance still more striking to kindred European letters. The Phœnician s is ; in the Greek this becomes ; the Hebrew is ; the Samaritan, . The Egyptian hieroglyph for s is ; the Egyptian letter s is ; the Ethiopic, ; the Chaldaic, ; and the Illyrian s c is .
We have thus traced back the forms of eighteen of the ancient letters to the Maya alphabet. In some cases the pedigree, is so plain as to be indisputable.
Maya, ; old Greek, ; old Hebrew, ; Phœnician, .
Maya, o; old Greek, o; old Hebrew, o; Phœnician, o.
Maya, ; old Greek, ; old Phœnician, and .
Maya, ; old Phœnician, and ; Greek, .
Maya, ; Egyptian, ; Ethiopian, ; Phœnician, .
Maya, ; Egyptian, ; Pelasgian , Arcadian, ; Phœnician, .
Surely all this cannot be accident!
[paragraph continues] Maya, were supplied by imitating the Maya sign for b; and it is a curious fact that while the Phœnician legends claim that Taaut invented the art of writing, yet they tell us that Taaut made records, and "delivered them to his successors and to foreigners, of whom one was Isiris (Osiris, the Egyptian god), the inventor of the three letters." Did these three letters include the d and r, which they did not receive from the Atlantean alphabet, as represented to us by the Maya alphabet?
It is astonishing to notice that while Landa's first B is, according to Valentini, represented by a footprint, and that path and footprint are pronounced Be in the Maya dictionary, the Egyptian sign for B was the human leg.
"Still more surprising is it that the H of Landa's alphabet is a tie of cord, while the Egyptian H is a twisted cord. . . . But the most striking coincidence of all occurs in the coiled or curled line representing Landa's U; for it is absolutely identical with the Egyptian curled U. The Mayan word for to wind or bend is Uuc; but why should Egyptians, confined as they were to the valley of the Nile, and abhorring as they did the sea and sailors, write their U precisely like Landa's alphabet U in Central America? There is one other remarkable coincidence between Landa's and the Egyptian alphabets; and, by-the-way, the English and other Teutonic dialects have a curious share in it. Landa's D (T) is a disk with lines inside the four quarters, the allowed Mexican symbol for a day or sun.
[paragraph continues] So far as sound is concerned, the English day represents it; so far as the form is concerned, the Egyptian 'cake,' ideograph for (1) country and (2) the sun's orbit is essentially the same."
It would appear as if both the Phœnicians and Egyptians drew their alphabet from a common source, of which the Maya is a survival, but did not borrow from one another. They followed out different characteristics in the same original hieroglyph, as, for instance, in the letter b. And yet I have shown that the closest resemblances exist between the Maya alphabet and the Egyptian signs--in the c, h, t, i, k, m, n, o, q, and s--eleven letters in all; in some cases, as in the n and k, the signs are identical; the k, in both alphabets, is not only a serpent, but a serpent with a protuberance or convolution in the middle! If we add to the above the b and u, referred to in the "Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society," we have thirteen letters out of sixteen in the Maya and Egyptian related to each other. Can any theory of accidental coincidences account for all this? And it must be remembered that these resemblances are found between the only two phonetic systems of alphabet in the world.
that these forms should have the same significance; and by no stretch of the imagination can it be supposed that in these alphabets so created, without correspondence, thirteen out of sixteen signs should be the same in form and the same in meaning.
It is probable that a full study of the Central American monuments may throw stronger light upon the connection between the Maya and the European alphabets, and that further discoveries of inscriptions in Europe may approximate the alphabets of the New and Old World still more closely by supplying intermediate forms.
We find in the American hieroglyphs peculiar signs which take the place of pictures, and which probably, like the hieratic symbols mingled with the hieroglyphics of Egypt, represent alphabetical sounds. For instance, we find this sign on the walls of the palace of Palenque, ; this is not unlike the form of the Phœnician t used in writing, and ; we find also upon these monuments the letter o represented by a small circle, and entering into many of the hieroglyphs; we also find the tau sign (thus ) often repeated; also the sign which we have supposed to represent b, ; also this sign, , which we think is the simplification of the letter k; also this sign, which we suppose to represent e, ; also this figure, ; and this . There is an evident tendency to reduce the complex figures to simple signs whenever the writers proceed to form words.
Although it has so far been found difficult, if not impossible, to translate the compound words formed from the Maya alphabet, yet we can go far enough to see that they used the system of simpler sounds for the whole hieroglyph to which we have referred.
see very plainly the letter ח for m, the sign for o; and we will possibly find the sign for l in the right angle to the right of the m sign, and which is derived from the figure in the second sign for l in the Maya alphabet.
One of the most ancient races of Central America is the Chiapenec, a branch of the Mayas. They claim to be the first settlers of the country. They came, their legends tell us, from the East, from beyond the sea.
And even after the lapse of so many thousand years most remarkable resemblances have been found to exist between the Chiapenec language and the Hebrew, the living representative of the Phœnician tongue.


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By Vicky Exley, Education Policy & Advocacy Officer, Save the Children
Only 61% of refugee children attend primary school, making them five times less likely to attend school than children in their host communities. Only 22% are receiving a secondary level education.
Reading facts like this, it can feel like we're a long way from real progress on meeting the New York Declaration's commitment to get every refugee child into school 'within a few months of arrival'. However a new report from Save the Children has set out a global plan of action to achieve just that.
How to get every last refugee child learning
Time to act draws out a series of policy recommendations and practical changes that are needed to ensure these children not only get into school, but are learning from a quality education as well. We're pleased to highlight that case studies from the Promising Practices in Refugee Education initiative have been used in the report, including WUSC, Relief International, Windle Trust Kenya, and the Vodafone Foundation.
The recommendations are presented under three pillars:
Inclusion: support for including refugees in national education systems.
Improvement: increasing efforts to ensure children are learning.
Investment: mobilising the funding necessary to scale up access to quality learning opportunities for refugees.
It also sets out suggestions for an accountability framework to monitor progress and ensure collaboration in the delivery of the plan.
'Time to act' shows that we could deliver quality universal pre-primary, primary and secondary education to the world's 7.5 million school-age refugees for $21.5 billion over five years – that's the equivalent of just $575 per child per year.
It recognises that countries hosting refugees perform a global public good for the international community as a whole, and should be supported in doing so. However, not all countries require the same level of support, so the proposed costings reflect different levels of support for refugee education in line with national capacity.
With this in mind $11.9 billion would be needed in international assistance to cover the five years. To put this into perspective this year's World Cup has cost $11 billion to stage, so although the figures look large they represent a relatively modest investment which could reap massive benefits.
What's different this time?
There is a wave of momentum in the global refugee education discussion at the moment.
If we look back at 2016 there are a few highlights where we start to see it move up the international agenda, such as the establishment of Education Cannot Wait, the commitment to responsibility sharing at the Leaders' Summit for Refugees, and the New York Declaration.
In 2017 there were further developments , including the launch of the Promising Practices initiative, and the Djibouti Declaration on Refugee Education which includes a commitment for all refugees in IGAD countries to be included in national education sector plans by 2020.
And in 2018 there's been a focus on girls' education that has provided a platform to push forwards the agenda on education in emergencies, including a record financial pledge at the G7. And now the establishment of the Global Compact on Refugees and its associated Programme of Action, which will be adopted by UN Member States this year.
The Programme of Action has a specific section for considering the distinctive needs of refugee education, and even includes text that follows Recommendation 1 from the Promising Practices Synthesis Report: strengthen national systems to include refugee children.
With all of this in mind, there is no better time to put forward such a plan, and no better time for leaders to make new commitments.
The futures of 7.5 million refugee children – their happiness, health, safety and livelihoods – depend on our getting it right. The time for action is now.


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Streaming: where to find the best film remakes
Cinema's recycling trend continues with Disney's imminent reprise of The Lion King. But then some remakes are better than others…
Guy Lodge
Sat 13 Jul 2019 03.00 EDT
A remake for all seasons… Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe in Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot (1959). Photograph: Allstar/United Artists
With next week's mainstream cinema calendar largely cleared for the presumed box-office colossus that is the "live-action" The Lion King remake, film critics once more have an opportunity to grumble about Hollywood's over-dependence on do-overs at the expense of original material. It is, after all, Disney's third remake of one of its own properties this year – following flashy but instantly disposable spins on Dumbo and Aladdin – and not the last, either.
But as we tut and sigh, it's worth remembering that the cinematic remake is not an inherently bad idea: many a great film-maker has revisited earlier work for inspiration, and the streaming realm is peppered with good examples. Some are obvious – we needn't trace the timeline of all A Star Is Born's versions once more – while some are built on such obscure foundations that they are hardly remembered as remakes at all. How many people know that Billy Wilder's immortally hilarious Some Like It Hot (now streaming on Netflix – go on, delight yourself again) is actually the second reworking of the 1935 French farce Fanfare of Love? Perhaps the latter is every bit Wilder's equal, but good luck sourcing a copy to find out.
Sirk's 1959 version of Imitation of Life may well be golden-age Hollywood cinema's greatest remake
Martin Scorsese, of course, is a dab hand at this game. His richly menacing, psychosexually layered Cape Fear runs slithery rings around J Lee Thompson's more squarely suspenseful original – both are at Amazon if you're in the mood to compare. And Scorsese finally won his Oscar for The Departed (streaming on Amazon), a rollicking riff of Andrew Lau and Alan Mak's steelier Hong Kong cop saga Infernal Affairs (Netflix). Both films, tonally disparate, are very fine, though I admit a guilty preference for the broadly Boston-ised remake.
While I'm committing such English-biased heresy, I think Steven Soderbergh, ever partial to a remake, can claim the superior version of Solaris (Amazon). His mournfully romantic sci-fi dream may lack the frosty, expansive grandeur of Andrei Tarkovsky's pristine Stanislaw Lem adaptation (Google Play), but I connect more to its lonesome, wounded soul. Meanwhile, William Friedkin's tremendous Sorcerer – a literally dynamite-packing road thriller riding roughshod across South America – is, if not necessarily better, a bit more ripely entertaining than Henri-Georges Clouzot's longer, more philosophical, Palme d'Or-winning original The Wages of Fear. Either way, it's a mighty double feature: again, Amazon has the goods.
Robert Mitchum and Robert De Niro as Max Cady in Cape Fear (1962 and 1991). Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock
Of course, this exchange between Hollywood and world cinema cuts both ways. I couldn't do without Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, Rainer Werner Fassbinder's more grittily heartsore German spin on Douglas Sirk's ravishing cross-class melodrama All That Heaven Allows, with its added racial and cultural divisions – a rare instance of both versions of a film being so complementary that it's now hard to treasure one without the other. (The BFI Player has both.) Sirk himself could hardly object: his own 1959 version of Imitation of Life may well be golden-age Hollywood's greatest and most essential remake, deepening the black characters and racial politics of John M Stahl's fascinating but more reserved 1934 original. (Find them on Google Play.) Even then, it's marked by certain pre-civil rights restrictions. If any classic film is ripe for 21st-century treatment, it's this one.
These films hardly need defending, though I differ from most of my colleagues in my appreciation of Gus van Sant's shot-for-shot remake of Psycho (Amazon). Viewed as an avant-garde installation honouring Hitchcock's peerless original (a 90p steal at Chili) rather than as an update, it's brazen, audacious and oddly beautiful.
Still, the safest course of action is always to make over an original with ample room for improvement, as David Lowery did in his inspired, empathetic Disney remake of Pete's Dragon (available only to buy at Amazon, per Disney regulations) – finding a spark of human feeling in it's child's-eye fantasy that the stiff, lumbering, song-laden 1977 original (streaming at DisneyLife, if you're curious) never managed. Why the Mouse House doesn't take this course of action more often, instead of endlessly replicating perfectly imagined animated classics, is something critics and fans alike can justly grouse about.
New to streaming & DVD this week
The Border. Photograph: © Meta Spark and Kärnfilm
(Mubi/Modern Films, 15)
Ali Abbasi's wholly unique contemporary fairytale freely blends folklore, Scandi noir and social realism for a thrilling examination of outsider identity.
(Disney, 12)
The first female-led adventure in the Marvel Cinematic Universe benefits from Brie Larson's doughty presence in the lead, but its haphazard storytelling is disappointingly shopworn.
(Anime Ltd, PG)
Mamoru Hosoda's enchanting, Oscar-nominated anime elegantly blends everyday detail with time-bending whimsy to explore the psyche of a young boy threatened by his baby sister's arrival.
Buy Me a Gun
(Mubi)
Streaming exclusively at Mubi, Julio Hernández Cordón's eccentric Mexican fable bears the influence of both Huckleberry Finn and Mad Max in its story of a tomboy surviving a cartel-run dystopia.
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Gran Canaria's fabulous climate and varied beaches attract visitors to its shores all year round, with the numerous resorts and hotels offering an abundance of facilities that aim to satisfy all travellers' needs. These resorts all offer varied entertainment, a good nightlife, beach amenities, plenty of shopping opportunities and a myriad of bars and restaurants, so how do you choose the location and hotel that suits you best?
Thanks to our local knowledge of the island, Spain-Grancanaria can help you narrow down your choices by recommending hotels in a variety of resorts, as well as apartments, hostels or villas, guaranteeing the best locations, the most competitive prices and high quality accommodation.
San Agustín, one of the island's first resorts, is a peaceful destination with a lovely long beach and home to the prestigious Hotel Meliá Tamarindos. This hotel houses the first casino to be built in the south of the island and is surrounded by manicured gardens that lead down to the beach. The nearby Gloria Palace San Agustín Thalasso & Hotel boasts the best thalassotherapy centre in Gran Canaria.
The adjoining resort of Playa del Inglés, the most well-known in Gran Canaria, is the most animated in the south of the island. Hotel Neptuno enjoys a central location near the Hard Rock Café, the Kasbah shopping centre and the popular gay venue, the Yumbo Centrum. Situated further inland, Vital Suites Hotel & Spa (formerly known as Dunas Vital Suites) overlooks the Maspalomas golf course in a quieter area of Playa del Inglés.
Maspalomas is a more peaceful resort and home to the glorious sand dunes and natural reserves of the lagoon and palm grove. The prestigious IFA Faro Hotel is situated at the very entrance to the beach.
The trendy resort of Meloneras lies just beyond the Faro lighthouse. More sophisticated than other resorts, it boasts casinos, exclusive shops and a scenic promenade. The Lopesan Costa Meloneras Resort Spa & Casino enjoys a central location near the lighthouse and promenade while the 5-star Lopesan Villa del Conde Resort & Corallium Thalasso offers fabulous sea views and a luxurious spa. The Lopesan Baobab Resort is situated just behind Meloneras and contains large recreational areas in its African-inspired surroundings that children will love.
Puerto Rico and Amadores have sheltered, golden-sand beaches. Marina Suites is in Puerto Rico's dynamic marina and harbour area and offers excellent family-friendly apartments and a superb infinity pool that overlooks the sea. The Amadores beach hotels, Gloria Palace Royal Hotel & Spa and Gloria Palace Amadores Thalasso & Hotel provide excellent sea views from their cliff-side vantage points.
Although a more isolated resort, Taurito's beach is complemented by its enormous 'Lago' salt-water swimming pool. The large complex of Hotel LTI Valle Taurito provides an extensive array of leisure activities.
Removed from the coast and located amidst the breathtaking mountains of the San Bartolomé de Tirajana valley, Hotel Rural Las Tirajanas offers stunning views and a number of hiking and mountaineering activities in this scenic part of the island.
In the capital of Las Palmas, the fabulous beach of Playa de Las Canteras is situated right next to the hub of the city's nightlife. It is bordered by a popular promenade, lined with a profusion of bars, restaurants, hotels and shops and is a favourite place for strolling. Hotel Cristina Las Palmas gives onto the beach. AC Gran Canaria is also very close to the beach and just around the corner from the popular Santa Catalina Park. Further removed from Las Canteras and situated amidst the exotic gardens of the Parque Doramas lies the elegant, colonially-inspired Hotel Santa Catalina.


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Tokyo expects to secure all venues for Olympics
AgenciesPublished July 10, 2020
Tokyo 2020 spokesman Masa Takaya (not pictured) terms reports as 'optimistic'. — Reuters/File
TOKYO: Tokyo Olympics organisers expect to be able to use all the venues as originally planned at next year's rearranged Games, several Japanese media outlets reported on Thursday.
Securing venues was a top priority for organisers after the Games were pushed back to 2021 due to the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, and Kyodo and NHK, citing unnamed sources, said they were now confident they would be tied down for Olympics use again.
However, at his regular weekly news conference, Tokyo 2020 spokesman Masa Takaya said the reports were 'optimistic' and that nothing had been announced.
"We have seen a series of media reports concerning the status of securing venues for the Games in 2021," said Takaya. "Tokyo 2020 is aware of these reports but I need to be very clear ... this is not something on which Tokyo Metropolitan Government or the Tokyo organising committee has made a formal announcement.
"The organising committee has not made such an announcement at this stage and during this process, it is very unfortunate to see such reports based on this optimistic view."
Tokyo's city government reported a single-day record of 224 new Covid-19 infections on Thursday, surpassing a high of 204 in April. Though low by many standards, it marks a steady increase over the last week in the Japanese capital.
Published in Dawn, July 10th, 2020
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Amid the ever increasing, rapidly expanding, almost unstoppable and fastly growing coronavirus pandemic, Tokyo, Japan, the venue for the postponed 2020 Summer Olympics wants to do everything in its power to stay afloat, mark its presence, look busy, stamp its impression, get counted and remain in the powerful multimedia limelight.


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