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Surfing the Qiantang River's Silver Dragon
By Jake Howard | Nov 18, 2013
The "Silver Dragon" is China's most famous wave, but it's illegal to surf there…and it's in the Qiantang River
When Surf Industry Manufacturer's Association (SIMA) president Doug Paladdini stood in front of a group of Olympic surfing advocates recently and proclaimed that wave pools will play an integral role in the sport's future, it was a clarion call that, in this day and age of struggling surf brands, anything goes. And while he was speaking about the impact artificial waves will have in years to come, the gist was obvious: the world (and surf brands) need more surfers.
Desperate times call for desperate measures. According to Business Insider, in 2007 Billabong held a peak valuation of $3.45 billion. Today, after admitting to being virtually worthless, they're suffering from a 13.5% decline in sales this year and are reporting an annual loss of $733 million. Quiksilver is also hurting, reporting a $32 million loss last quarter. Of the surf industry's "Big Three" brands, only Rip Curl eked out a profit. The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Rip Curl cleared after-tax profits of $14.12 million for fiscal 2013.
The Qiantang River and the Silver Dragon
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Makua Rothman
This fall Makua Rothman and a crew of surfers from around the world landed in Hangzhou, China, to ride the powerful Qiantang River, known as the Silver Dragon, and compete in the Red Bull Qiantang Shoot Out.
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This brings us to the the other solution: surfing in population-rich China. Considering other major population regions like North and South America, Europe and Australia have all taken to the sport, tapping into new markets is an obvious strategy. Boasting a population of 1.35 billion and a coastline of 9,000 miles, there's definite opportunity in China. There are already a handful of events on the calendar in China, including the Red Bull Qiantang Shoot Out, held during the annual Moon Festival that takes place on the Qiantang River in the city of Hangzhou.
Created by a dramatic surge of the tide during the Fall Equinox, large waves push up the river, hitting a height of well over double-overhead and a speed of an upwards of 40 kmH. The event is produced by Glenn Brumage, the business director Wabsono International, a company specializing in promoting board sports in China. They own the rights to and operate the Red Bull Qiantang Shoot Out and the Vans Dragon Sk8 series.
Historically, the Chinese government has kept access to the river illegal due to numerous drownings and other accidents over the year.
"I'm sure this hasn't been tried in the past because of the numerous challenges to holding a contest on a tidal bore. You have only one wave per day to work with, a limited number of days that it breaks and you have to keep the officials and crews ahead of the wave as it moves upriver at over 40k hr," says Brumage. "As well, most of the world's tidal bores are limited by size, 'surfable' faces or accessibility. Luckily for us, the Qiantang wave is unusual in its size, its variety of workable faces and its path through the middle of the city of Hangzhou."
The contest works as such: riding Jet Skis, four teams of two surfers alternate towing each other into waves on the river. Surfers can ride whatever kind of board they choose and are judged on the quality of their rides. This year Hawaii's Kalani David and Makua Rothman won the event, edging out former world tour surfers Phil MacDonald and Trent Munro. Thousands came out for the contest, both amazed and inspired.
"When we first started doing this a few years ago nobody really knew what to make up it," says Matt Wybenga, who produces video for the event. "But every year we go back it gets better and better. The government is opening up new parts of the river and the crowds seem to be understanding what's really going on more and more. It's not like going on any other surf trip, that's for sure."
Other events scheduled in China this year include the Riyue Bay ASP World Longboard Championships, which is coming up at the end of November. The ASP and ISA are also collaborating on another rendition of the Hainan Wanning Riyue Bay International Surfing Festival, which they jointly held last January.
There's no silver bullet that's going to save the surf business at the moment, but between wave pools and wild and crazy events in China folks like Paladdini and the heads at SIMA are desperately hoping something sticks.
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Located directly across from Douglas Park at 3001 W. 19th, Douglas Park Flats is the largest in the immediate area, First Western says.
The property is walking distance from the CTA Pink Line, the new El Paseo Bike Trail, Lagunitas Brewery, Cinespace Film Studios and the Medical District. It offers strong cash flow, appreciation potential and accessibility to Chicago's strong residential tenant base.


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Thought those Betz Family wines were a little hard to find? They are about to get a little harder.
Betz has closed their mailing list. From now on, only mailing list members will have access to the order page on their website. Others will have to look for their wines in local stores or will have to get on the waiting list.
This change should not come as much of a surprise. While Betz decreased their production slightly in 2005, their wines have become increasingly scarce over the last few years as the winery has continued to grow in prominence. And for good reason. Winemaker Bob Betz not only makes some of the best wines in Washington state, he has also been a tireless champion for Washington wine, dating back to his days at Chateau Ste. Michelle.
Betz makes three Bordeaux blends – Clos de Betz, Pierre de Famille, and Le Parrain (added in 2005) and four Rhone blends – La Serenne, La Cote Rousse, Chapitre 3 (recently added), and Besoleil. All of the wines are meticulously made and are consistently exceptional.
So what do these changes mean to you? First, if you appreciate Betz' wines, it is worth getting on the waiting list. As I mentioned in a recent post, wineries make much more money when they sell wines directly from the winery. Secondly, it means that if you see their wines in stores – they typically provide a good amount of wine to distributors – think about picking it up. The prices, as is generally the case for Washington wine, keep going up, but like the price of gasoline, it is not going to go back down and today's prices will seem like a bargain tomorrow.
Nice call on the Betz, and I think we will see many more closing thier lists soon. Abeja is next. It's Napa Valley late 80's here now, with prices sure to go up with the best ones and they will become harder to find.
Stocking up on undiscovered gems at $50 is the name of the game now.


It's no doubt that Canadian singer, Justin Bieber is one of the biggest singers in the world right now. Starting out as a child star, he grew up in the limelight, made a lot of mistakes, found himself and blessed us with beautiful music. So here are five times Justin Bieber blessed our hearts with beautiful music.
Nine years ago, he released this beautiful Christmas song and it still takes us down memory lane every December.
This song broke youtube's record of becoming the most liked and disliked video of all time, this is to show the kind of impact this individual has on the world.
This introduced a new version of Bieber, this was the Introduction of the bad boy phase, this was the song that solidified him as the boy that every girl wanted to be with.
This song also introduced another version of Bieber, the more mature, responsible, when he realized his mistakes and ready to changed Bieber and the world was loving every bit of him.
This is perfect break up song, although many believed it was about his Ex Selena Gomez, this song is still a classic.


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Sunday Line-up
By Camilo Montoya-Galvez CBS News October 6, 2019, 12:10 PM
Engel says Pompeo not complying with Trump-Ukraine impeachment inquiry
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New York Congressman Eliot Engel, one of the high-ranking House Democrats leading the impeachment inquiry into President Trump's dealings with the Ukrainian government, said Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is not cooperating with the congressional investigation.
"He is not complying with the inquiry so far," Engel said on "Face the Nation" Sunday. "There are discussions that are ongoing and we're hoping that he will comply."
Transcript: Rep. Eliot Engel on "Face the Nation"
Engel, a longtime congressman from the Bronx, is chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, which has oversight over the State Department. The panel is one of several high-profile committees — including the Intelligence, Oversight and Judiciary panels — spearheading the impeachment probe into Mr. Trump's efforts to pressure the Ukrainian government to conduct politically motivated investigations, including one into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter.
Along with the other panels, Engel's committee has demanded documents from Pompeo about the administration's recent dealings with the Ukrainian government, as well as testimony from current and former top State Department officials who led diplomatic engagements with the former Soviet country.
A committee official said Saturday that the State Department had "failed to meet the deadline to produce documents required by the subpoena." But the official said the department "has contacted the Committees on this matter and we hope the Department will cooperate in full promptly."
The whistleblower complaint at the center of the impeachment push — as well other revelations, including congressional testimony from the former top U.S. envoy to Ukraine — have shown the State Department was aware of Mr. Trump's requests to have Ukraine dig up dirt on political rivals. High-ranking officials communicated these requests to the Ukrainian government and facilitated meetings between top Ukrainian officials and Mr. Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, who was overseeing what amounted to a shadow diplomatic campaign on behalf of the president.
Although he said over the weekend that his agency had responded to the request for documents, Pompeo has sharply rebuked the Democratic-led panels, accusing them of harassing State Department employees and failing to go through official channels to seek testimony and documents.
But Engel on Sunday said there was some irony in Pompeo accusing lawmakers and their staff of harassing State Department employees.
"We have been getting numerous complaints from people who work at the State Department about all kinds of harassment by this administration, where people were summarily let go or fired because they were deemed to be the wrong political persuasion or the wrong ethnic persuasion," he said.
In August, the State Department's inspector general released a report denouncing the political targeting of career State Department employees during the Trump administration, detailing "inappropriate accusations of disloyalty" and "harassment of employees based on perceived political views."
"I find it really laughable that the secretary of state suddenly has this great concern for the State Department," Engel said.
Olivia Gazis contributed reporting.
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La Piazza Boris Nemcov (in ceco: Náměstí Borise Němcova), nota fino al 27 febbraio 2020 come Náměstí Pod kaštany, è una piazza di Praga, situata nella zona di Bubeneč del Distretto Municipale di Praga 6, sulla quale si affaccia l'ambasciata della Federazione russa nella Repubblica Ceca.

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In origine la strada che dalla porta di Písek portava alla riserva di caccia reale e al palazzo estivo del governatore era un viale alberato di tigli, che poi furono sostituiti man mano con dei castagni nel diciottesimo e nel diciannovesimo secolo. La strada venne rinominata "Královská" nel 1901, prese il nome di Ulice Pod kaštany nel 1925 e la piccola piazza alla fine della strada fu rinominata Náměstí Pod kaštany ("Piazza sotto i castagni").

La villa di Friedrich Petschek, al 19/1 della Náměstí Pod kaštany, fu progettata dall'architetto Max Spielmann e costruita dall'architetto Matěj Blecha tra il 1927 e il 1930 per Bedřich (Friedrich) Petschek, che poi la vendette al banchiere Jiří (Georg) Popper. Dal 1945 al 1991 la villa ospitò l'ambasciata dell'Unione Sovietica, quindi dal 1991 è la sede dell'ambasciata della Federazione russa a Praga.

Reintitolazione
A partire dal 2016, nacque una petizione che chiedeva di rinominare la piazza in Piazza Boris Nemcov, in onore del politico dell'opposizione liberale russa che era stato ucciso a colpi di arma da fuoco nel centro di Mosca il 27 febbraio 2015.

Gli autori della petizione dissero, tra le altre cose: "È giusto che la nostra repubblica e la sua capitale portino rispetto a Boris Nemcov e onorino la sua memoria. E che è giusto ricordare costantemente all'odierno regime di Putin che noi siamo ancora intenzionati a promuovere la libertà, la democrazia e i diritti umani nel mondo - e anche in Russia." La petizione raggiunse approssimativamente le 4600 firme nel 2020.

Realizzazione

Sulla base della petizione presentata nel 2020, una proposta per rinominare il luogo in Piazza Boris Nemcov fu approvata dal consiglio cittadino di Praga e dall'assemblea cittadina praghese.

La piazza venne ribattezzata il 27 febbraio, cinque anni dopo l'assassinio di Nemcov. Anche la figlia di Boris Nemcov, Žanna, partecipò alla cerimonia di reintitolazione. Il presidente ceco filorusso Miloš Zeman vide in ciò una "provocazione non necessaria", mentre l'ex-ambasciatore in Russia e in Ucraina, Jaroslav Bašta, definì la decisione di Praga un atto di russofobia, e il cambiamento causò inoltre dello scalpore tra i gruppi filoputiani sui media sociali.

Oltre a Boris Efimovič Nemcov, si decise di ricordare nell'odonimia praghese anche un'altra personalità russa di spicco: Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaja, una giornalista del giornale di opposizione Novaja Gazeta che si occupò, tra l'altro, di documentare l'intervento militare russo in Cecenia e che fu assassinata nel 2006. A lei venne dedicata una passeggiata situata lì vicino, la Promenáda Anny Politkovské, sempre il 27 febbraio.

Reazione della Russia
Secondo l'agenzia di notizie russa TASS, il portavoce del presidente russo Dmitrij Peskov disse che, oltre a onorare la memoria di Boris Nemcov, Praga dovrebbe anche ricordare i soldati sovietici che sono morti durante la liberazione della Cechia dai fascisti, ignorando che la Repubblica Ceca si prenda cura di 4224 lapidi di guerra, memoriali o monumenti ai soldati sovietici caduti. Anche la portavoce diplomatica russa Marija Zacharova fece un commento, affermando che "la dichiarazione delle autorità di Praga è una sciocchezza, e non ci si potrebbe aspettare qualcosa di più assurdo."

L'ambasciata russa cambiò il suo indirizzo postale al numero 34 della ulice Korunovační (lo stesso tratto che dal 2022 si chiama "Via degli Eroi ucraini") pochi mesi dopo che la piazza venne ribattezzata nel 2020. Questo indirizzo si trova a 400 metri di distanza, vicino al secondo edificio dell'ambasciata, che ospita la sua sezione consolare.

Nell'aprile del 2020, il sindaco di Praga, Zdeněk Hřib, ricevette la protezione della polizia pochi giorni dopo che un resoconto notiziario insinuò che egli fosse l'obiettivo di un tentativo di assassinio.

Reazioni internazionali
Il sito indipendente Free Russia scrisse in anticipo sull'avvenimento venturo il 7 febbraio, Voice of America il 9 febbraio ed Expats.cz il 10 febbraio. La rinominazione della piazza in onore del politico russo assassinato provocò una copertura internazionale, e anche The Guardian riportò in anticipo il grande significato simbolico del gesto l'11 febbraio.

Anche Reuters, CNN e BBC World Service, Radio Free Europe e il quotidiano indipendente The Moscow Times parlarono della Piazza Boris Nemcov a Praga. Nastojaščee Vremja riportò un servizio con immagini e un discorso del sindaco di Praga Zdeněk Hřib e di Žanna Nemcova.

Storia successiva

Nel 2022, dopo che la Russia invase l'Ucraina in quella che il presidente russo Vladimir Vladimirovič Putin definì "un'operazione militare speciale", la piazza divenne un luogo dove si svolsero delle manifestazioni contro la guerra, al pari di altre vie o piazze situate nei pressi delle ambasciate della Russia in altre nazioni del mondo. Per esempio, il 26 febbraio 2022, due giorni dopo l'inizio del conflitto, l'accesso a uno degli edifici dell'ambasciata russa fu imbrattato con della vernice gialla e blu (ossia i colori della bandiera ucraina).

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Former Aberdeen boss Mark McGhee makes awkward admission to Dundee squad
The current Dundee boss was speaking on Sky Sports about the chances of his side avoiding the drop after the 2-2 draw with Aberdeen last weekend gave them feint hope
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Dundee sit six points adrift of 11th place in the Scottish Premiership with six games to go (Image: Getty Images)
Former Aberdeen manager Mark McGhee has made an awkward admission on Sky Sports following the 2-2 draw with the Dons last weekend.
The Dundee manager said he told his players when he was appointed the new role that they wouldn't win many games this season reports the Daily Record.
He added that he also set his squad up for setbacks as he still searches for the first win of his tenure, with the Dens Park club having played eight games under McGhee, losing five and drawing three.
However, the 64-year-old is convinced he can mastermind them to survival, insisting they only need to win a couple of games.
Dundee currently sit bottom of the Scottish Premiership, six points behind Tayside rivals St Johnstone, following their draw with Jim Goodwin's Dons last weekend.
Crunch talks held with Andy Considine as Aberdeen boss insists there is no 'bad blood'
McGhee told Sky Sports News: "The most important thing for me, and I think it's one of the reasons I was brought here, it's not just about playing on the pitch and tactics, but how you react. And that's the most important thing that I've kept driving home to the players.
"I said to them on the first day, look we're not going to win very many games, so we are going to be going home on a lot of Saturday nights disappointed.
"But it's what you then do, how you react the next time round.
"So for instance, we played Livingston here and lost badly.
"But we came out against Hibs in the next game still positive, still on the front foot.
"And that's probably been the most important thing during this time is to keep them positive, even when you are losing."
Dundee are favourites to fall down to the Championship but McGhee isn't fazed by the circumstances they currently face.
"It's not head in the sand," he said. "But I think we can mitigate it.
"We only have to win a couple of games to stay up, we don't have to win seven games.
"The important thing is that message that we keep going again and again until we do that and get the couple of results we need."
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Kirsty Blackman criticised the Prime Minister's delay in removing Mr Zahawi from his position after the Conservative party chairman made a "serious breach" of the ministerial code.


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The Violence of Language
July 31, 2014 July 31, 2014 inkinherveins
In the fifth chapter of Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza she features, among others, this epigraph:
Who is to say that robbing a people of its language is less violent than war?
— Ray Gywn Smith
In light of my last post, and Zitkala-Ša's definition of language as a convenience, Anzaldúa's words offer quite a different perspective. Separated by nearly a century, and located in quite different contexts, the counter-perspectives make a great deal of sense. Yet, both women share similar experiences of beatings for speaking their own languages at school, and both emphasize the political power of language: Zitkala-Ša as she urges her fellow Indian Americans to learn English, and Gloria Anzaldúa as she argues for recognition of the Chicano language and refuses to cater to Anglo needs in her own writing.
Anzaldúa's text, published first in 1987, asserts the legitimacy of Chicano languages, and, through her discussion of language, equates language with culture. Asserting the legitimacy of a language, then is equated with asserting the rights and humanity of that culture.
When Zitkala-Ša called language a convenience, it may seem to fly in the face of Anzaldúa's powerful rhetoric. But, for me, their arguments compliment each other. Anzaldúa fiercely declares her right to her language, her right to speak English, Spanish, Chicano, TexMex, whatever she wants and whenever and wherever she wants, and to hell with the Anglo gringos and what they want, and to hell with the dominant culture that denies humanity to anyone with darker skin. Mostly, though, she wants her fellow Chicanos to quit demeaning and degrading themselves, to quit feeling as if they have no self-worth because the Anglos said so. She wants her people to feel pride, to feel worth.
Zitkala-Ša wanted the same thing. When she urged her people to speak whether they had English or not, to speak the words in their heart and not worry about their adequacy, she was basically saying "You are good enough to speak. Your language is good enough to be spoken in front of anyone."
So, while her words were not as forceful, her message was one of empowerment. For, as she and Anzaldúa both illustrate, taking a person's speech away is an extreme form of violence.
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Los Angeles-based company Brikk has recently announced their version of the premium Gold Apple Watch line. For you high-fashion types out there this is sure to pique your interest.
The Lux Gold Apple Watch Version, which is built in 38mm and 42mm sizes can be purchased in 24 carat yellow gold, 18-carat pink gold and 950 platinum. Drooling yet? You ain't seen nothing. There are 3 different Lux Watch versions available after you've picked yellow gold, pink gold, etc. Let's talk about these different versions.
with a leather strap. That's about it. Pretty modest right?
Now, the Lux Watch Deluxe has 2.3 carats of diamonds in several rows around the face with diamond encrusted buttons and a leather strap with a diamond studded clasp. Not bad. Still not impressed? We got something for you.
The added decor on the Omni arrives in the form of a fully diamond-wrapped case and diamond-wrapped wrist-band made up of over 12 carats of diamonds! Talk about crazy. All I'm going to say is don't ever wear it out in the sun or around bright lights or you may just be making a trip to the optometrist to get them eyes checked.
If the design wasn't crazy enough the prices sure grabbed our attention. The Standard goes for as low as $7,495 which is expensive but I can see affording that while accruing some unnecessary debt.
Wait am I reading that right? Hold on let me check another source. Alright I just went to brikk.com and found the cheapest Omni they have and put it in my cart. I've never in my life had my cart on any website total anything close to $109,995. But that's how much their cheapest watch is. Now their press release says it can be as cheap as $69,995 but I don't see any option that's that cheap. Either way that's no chump change.
Maybe they should have just called it the Lux Watch "Omni-ever going to be able to afford this".
Alright the shock is wearing off. Despite the outrageous prices and the fact that I'd probably never drop that kind of coin on a watch there is a market for that kind of high retail. There are plenty of high-rollers, playboys and straight-out ballers who want to sport something that screams they're compensating for something. Or maybe they're just cooler than me. The latter may be true.
Brikk is taking pre-orders now and plan to ship out their high-end version of the Gold Apple Watch 4-6 weeks after Apple's official release on April 24.
Let us know your take on the Brikk Lux Gold Apple Watch versions in the comments below.


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Famous Newark Museum Of Art Logo Ideas
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Famous Newark Museum Of Art Logo Ideas. Navy embossed with museum logo full. The newark museum of art needed a brand to attract younger audiences in their 20s and 30s without alienating families, and also wanted to double down on its impressive chops as a museum of art.
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Notable auctions happening this month. Today, at 217,000 square feet, it is the largest museum in new jersey. Linda harrison, the museum's chief executive and director, explained that the decision to change.
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Notable auctions happening this month. The newark museum announced on wednesday that it would now be known as the newark museum of art.
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In addition to its extensive art collections, the newark museum of art is dedicated to natural science. This is its new logo.
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Main entrance of the newly renamed newark museum of art. Since 1937, the house has been a part of the newark museum of art and is now a wing of the museum complex.
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The new york red bulls partnered with horizon blue cross blue. It was founded on the notion of inclusion, and celebrated the diversity and energy of newark.
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Notable auctions happening this month. Parking getting here by car getting here by public transportation.
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After Christmas, while hitting the sales, I came across the last mug tree at Pottery Barn. At first I didn't even look at the ticket because I knew it was out of my price range, but while checking out, I glanced over at it and saw it was on sale. It was marked down to $59.99 from $149.99! I didn't get it right away because it was a little bigger that what I wanted but I also knew that the cheapest one that I had found online was $80 for a small one! After shopping the mall for awhile, I went back to PB and grabbed it up!
I was afraid that it would be too big but it works pretty good on the island!
My nephew gave me a dozen ironstone mugs to use for this project. I purchased a porcelain pen from Hobby Lobby and painted the numbers on by hand. I was too impatient to try to find some stencils or to make them. I was inspired by these numbered mugs from Anthropologie.
After I painted them, I let them dry for 4 hours, then baked in the oven at 350 degrees for 45 minutes. My nephew did the same things for some other mugs but he just used a regular sharpie and I really didn't see any difference!
There is even enough space to store some ironstone plates on top!
Glad you went back to PB as it looks fantastic on the island!...I love that piece! The mugs from your nephew turned out great..!
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I love your idea with the mugs. Anthropologie sure offers great inspiration. I drooled over the PB mug rack and there was one left on sale just like you saw but I passed on it. You lucky girl. What fun it will be for a hot chocolate stand.
These turned out wonderful! Sorry I am so late in visiting from last week's party. It has been a hectic week. thank you for joining the party!
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Cross-Cultural Understanding and the Listening Intellect
Ruth Hayhoe
Ruth Hayhoe is a professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. Her professional engagements in Asia include First Secretary for Education, Science and Culture in the Canadian Embassy in Beijing (1989-1991), Visiting Professor at Nagoya University (1996) and Director of the Hong Kong Institute of Education, now the Education University of Hong Kong (1997-2002). Recent books include China Through the Lens of Comparative Education (2015), Canadian Universities in China's Transformation: An Untold Story (2016) and Religion and Education: Comparative and International Perspectives (2018).
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One of the greatest lessons of this COVID period for me has been the importance of learning to listen. The term "listening intellect" comes from Rajni Kothari, an Indian scholar who was one of the founders of the World Order Models Project in the 1970s, along with Ali Mazrui, Ashis Nandy and others at the Centre for Developing Societies in Delhi, India (Kothari, 1975). These scholars were mainly from what is now called the global south, then the non-aligned nations, following neither the Soviet Union nor the capitalist West in the Cold War, and they asked to be heard.
Listening sounds like something simple, but the term "intellect" suggests how demanding it is, requiring us to open our minds and hearts to the other at a deep level. Now that we have been under the restrictions necessary to controlling the pandemic for more than a year, we are finding more opportunities to listen than ever, with many academic meetings and social justice initiatives presented on-line with free global access. So how do we develop what is truly a listening intellect and what kinds of new thinking for our work in comparative education might come out of it? In this short reflective paper I will share my personal experience of listening in developing my research on Chinese-Western educational interaction, and some thinking related to history and method in my chosen field of comparative education that has developed out of this.
Comparative Education has often been seen as rooted in the thinking and initiative of the French scholar Marc Antoine Jullien in the early 19th century. He became excited about the idea of a science of education, parallel to Auguste Comte's idea of a science of society, and planned to collect statistics about all aspects of "modern" education emerging in Europe at the time. While the center he envisaged was not realised until the 1920s, the field of comparative education has tended to be associated with that time period and the rise of modern nation states in Europe. However, historical reflection makes clear that cross cultural communication in education goes back more than two millenia, and terms such as nation state that emerged at that time may prevent us from listening intelligently to the rich cultures that formed the roots of the field. Listening involves understanding at a deep critical level and recognizing that countries or regions such as India, China, Africa and the Middle East made huge contributions to educational thought from an early period, and may need to be understood as civilization states or state nations, concepts quite distinct from the modern nation state. It also involves learning the languages of other cultures and connecting to what cannot be easily translated.
Let me also say at this point that profoundly intelligent listening does not mean giving up one's own heritage and language for another, but rather opening up that heritage to enrichment and extension. That was my experience, being brought up in a traditional Christian family and community. When I moved to Hong Kong in 1967 and began learning Chinese, I was deeply attracted to Confucian culture, and worked hard to learn classical Chinese so I could understand it as fully as possible. Confucius left a short autobiography which has remained in my mind and heart ever since. Given my current age, I share with you the last two lines: "From sixty, my ear was attuned; from seventy, I could give my heart and mind free rein, without overstepping the boundaries" (Ames & Rosemount, 1998, p.77). This passage highlights the importance of learning to listen, while it also expresses the experience of Confucius toward the end of his life when reaching a point when all his personal desires were in full accord with Heaven. In this last phrase I found a deep connection to my Christian heritage and an ancient Christian prayer containing the paradoxical phrase "Whose service is perfect freedom" (Collect for Peace, 1986, p. 57).
Let me now turn to the field of comparative education and how it enabled me to bridge the East Asian and Western worlds. When I began my studies in the late 1970s and early 1980s, there were two main paradigms: the value neutral positivist frame of modernization theory, following scholars such as Parsons and Eisenstadt, and seeing educational investment as essential to economic prosperity and the critical frame of Marxism and neo-Marxist concepts of dependency and world system. While I was uncomfortable with the value neutrality of positivism, I also had difficulty with the tendency to economic determinism in Marxist theory. It was thus exciting to see the emergence of the World Order Models Project (WOMP) led by scholars affiliated with the non-aligned movement of the 1970s, who created the idea of a non-Marxist socialism and extended the Marxist critique beyond the history of capitalism to the Soviet empire with Galtung's "structural theory of imperialism" (Galtung 1971).
This provided a frame that was particularly helpful in reflecting on China's historical experience. The imposition of Soviet patterns there in the 1950s had proved even more bruising than those of European powers earlier in the century and resulted in an unprecedented eruption of violence in the Cultural Revolution. As China was reopening to the world, my deep concern was to see forms of educational interaction that would enable China to prosper and enter into mutually respectful and mutually enriching relations with others in the global education community.
WOMP scholars pioneered a holistic and value-explicit approach to social theory, distinct from either the value neutrality of functionalist modernization or the Marxist tendency to the economic determinism of values. They believed scholars had the responsibility of establishing a set of agreed upon human values for a preferred future or relevant utopia and then analyzing social change processes on the basis of how far education or other social reform endeavors moved towards these preferred values. The values of equity, autonomy, solidarity, and participation were agreed upon at an early period (Kim, 1984). This framework proved extremely helpful for collaborative research with Chinese scholars on China's experience of development projects with a range of Western countries and Japan after Deng Xiaoping's opening up in 1978. It took us beyond the value neutral measures of efficiency and effectiveness to a value explicit exploration of the degree of mutuality of learning in the pursuit of shared human goals (Hayhoe 1986b).
There may be reasons for tracing the history of comparative education as a university discipline to France in the early nineteenth century, but I believe it should rather be seen as part of the history of world civilizations and their interactions. The writing of Lê Thành Khôi, a Vietnamese scholar at the Sorbonne in Paris, took this approach in his influential article, "Toward a General Theory of Education" (Lê 1986). He recommended the development of a general theory of education on the basis of a cmparative study of education and society across all of the world's civilizations over human history, with a focus given to peoples, ethnic groups and languages, the natural environment, modes of production, ideas and values, and international relations. Unfortunately, little of his work has been translated from French into English, yet it clearly foregrounded the emergence of the clash and dialogue of civilizations in the 1990s, and the new space for reflection on the contributions of non-European civilizations.
The dominant theories of modernization and neo-Marxism that had anticipated an inexorable process of secularization in social and educational change were challenged by these discourses around the dialogue of civilizations. It became clear that what does not change – or changes very slowly – are deep-rooted belief systems such as Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Confucianism. The current situation of pandemic brings a deep awareness of the importance of emotional and spiritual listening as well as intellectual reflection, in other words Kothari's "listening intellect".
While Max Weber's sociological thought has been criticized in relation to the imposition of Euro-centric theories on the field, it seems to me that Weber's development of ideal types as a sociological tool for comparative analysis of the values of major religions & philosophical traditions, of such core concepts as modernization and the nation state, and of theories such as dependency or world system, may be extremely useful for comparative analysis (Weber, 1949). While Western sociological theory has tended to focus strongly on social change, yet what does not change, or what changes only very slowly, may provide the deepest insights into the potential for future educational development. Indeed, the ability to clarify core features of a persisting philosophical or religious system and identify its views of society, knowledge and the human person may provide deeper comparative insights than political or economic theories of change (Holmes, 1981).
To give one example, how could it be that the eight Confucian heritage societies of East Asia exhibit very similar patterns of classroom organization, teacher-student relations and parental involvement in education, in spite of the fact that six were capitalist and two were socialist? How could this similarity be so evident, when the colonial or neo-colonial influences of England, France, Portugal, the USA, and the USSR had shaped the modern education systems of these societies in such different ways (Hayhoe and Li, 2017)?
Ideal types are also illuminating when they are applied critically in order to show how they do not fit. If you take the concept of nation state, clarify its core features by reference to nations such as nineteenth century France, Prussia or Italy, and then apply it to India or China, it soon becomes clear how poor is the fit. One scholar developed a fascinating argument for defining India as a "state nation" rather than a "nation state," through a study of the recent progress of Education for All (Panthaki 2016). Martin Jacques introduced the term "civilization state" to replace the concept of nation state for China (Jacques, 2009). Instead of imposing Euro-centric frames in ways that denigrate the unique educational heritage of different regions, everything that does not fit the ideal type can be highlighted in the process of refining alternative concepts. Ideal types are "made to be broken" and in the breaking of them our listening intellects may be rewarded by deep insights of comparative understanding (Hayhoe, 2011).
Sociological theories can also be utilised in an ideal typical form. Weber's Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism was presented as a challenge to the economic determinism of the classical Marxist explanation of capitalist development in Europe (Weber, 1958). In parallel ways it is possible to take other Western derived theories and "break them" through identifying all that does not conform to the theory in a wide range of historical contexts. Given China's bitter experiences of imperialism over a period of 150 years, one would expect that dependency theory would be useful in understanding the development of education over the twentieth century. However, what is most revealing when this frame is used to analyze China's experience is all that it fails to explain (Hayhoe and Bastid 1987). While Britain was the main colonial power in terms of economic influence in early twentieth century China, it had minimal influence on Chinese education. Only in the 1950s, with a massive Soviet reconfiguration of China's higher education system, were external influences imposed that enabled education to consolidate economic, political and social patterns of domination. This contradicted dependency theory and the Chinese chose to name it "Soviet social imperialism" when they sent the Soviet experts home in 1958 (Hayhoe, 1996, p. 98).
The listening intellect should thus enable us to engage deeply with educational ideas and visions arising from regions and cultures with very different philosophical and religious roots from those developed in Europe after the Enlightenment. There is an increasing awareness of the deep insights indigenous peoples are able to contribute in most regions of the world, also of the richness of African and Asian thought that was so evident in the work of WOMP scholars in the 1970s.
If comparative education has been confined mainly to West-centric sociological theories since it was established in the twentieth century universities, comparative higher education has been even more Western dominated. It arose in the 1950s and 1960s with the work of scholars such as Burton Clark and Martin Trow. The worldwide move to mass higher education after World War II, and the huge investment this involved on the part of governments, stimulated the comparative study of higher education. Clark's (1983) definition of the continental and Anglo-American models of higher education, parallel to Guy Neave's (2001) Roman and Saxon models, is helpful for comparative purposes, with the continental or Roman model characterizing systems of higher education that are integrated within the nation state, and the Anglo-American or Saxon model allowing for greater independence from the state. However, all are seen as based on the medieval European university tradition, with a range of hybrid versions. So far there has been little serious study of how China's ancient civil service system might have influenced the development of the continental model in France and the widespread adoption of written entrance examinations in contrast to the oral examinations of the European tradition, what Nakayama (1984) defined as the rhetorical tradition as against East Asia's documentary tradition.
With the rapidly increasing economic globalization that followed on the end of the Cold War, governments around the world have increasingly seen their higher education systems as a resource for competition in a global knowledge economy, and given escalating importance to the global ranking systems of higher education that emerged in the twenty-first century when deciding on funding allocations for their universities. The pursuit of "world class" status for the top layer has followed a common model, the so-called "global research university." This is clearly a Western model rooted in Humboldt's nineteenth century German university and American institutions such as Johns Hopkins. It has increasingly focused on the value of measurable research achievements, especially in the STEM disciplines, and led to an all-out Westernization of the top level of higher education around the world. Inadequate attention has been given to the quality of teaching, the student experience, and the nurturing of global citizens capacitated for service in a global knowledge society.
Fortunately, however, there has been a recent revival of interest in the role of the liberal arts, including moral and spiritual forms of knowledge that can empower young people to address current concerns around the environment, social cohesion, and world peace (Boyle 2019). This calls for a listening intellect that prioritizes voices from the diverse civilizations of regions such as the Middle East, Asia, and Africa as well as indigenous voices.
One approach to this is to identify alternative models of the university which have arisen historically and embraced a combination of Eastern and Western values. In searching for a suitable university title for Hong Kong's Institute of Education as it was being upgraded to university status, I stumbled on the deep parallels to Confucian values that could be seen in France's écoles normales, founded after the Revolution for the preparation of teachers to serve the first state-sponsored system of elementary education. This was a distinct alternative to the European university model and embodied such features as a focus on moral formation, an approach to knowledge that emphasized application and inter-disciplinarity, close personal relations between teachers and students, and direct accountability to the state (Hayhoe, 2002). No wonder normal schools and normal universities were widely adopted in East Asian societies as they modernized. It is still my hope that a country with China's rising economic and cultural influence will promote this model globally through its leading normal universities (Hayhoe, 2017).
Another approach is to go deep into the spiritual and scientific traditions of the Indian monastic universities, first founded in Taxila in 700 BCE, and consider the enrichment they brought to the wider region over a long historical period. An example in the Chinese context was the expansion of opportunities for women's scholarship, support for the empowerment of women and service to the most needy (Hayhoe, 2019). Currently the influence of this approach is evident in Malaysia's Accelerated Program for Excellence (APEX), where "the idea of being world class is not defined by dominant neo-liberal concerns of occupying better positions in university rankings or league tables but in terms of addressing and providing sustainable solutions to the more immediate global problems in the areas of health care and poverty" (Wan et al., 2015, p. 273).
In conclusion, let me emphasize how both comparative education and comparative higher education can be enriched, both in terms of theory and content, by embracing the rich cultural and spiritual resources found in the dialogue of civilizations that emerged after the end of the Cold War. This was formalized by the United Nations in the name given to the year 2001, which might be seen as a turning point for both comparative education and comparative higher education (Hayhoe and Pan, 2001). Now, twenty years later, as we move into a post pandemic era, there is an even greater need for the listening intellect that will be crucial to realizing the Sustainable Development Goals set forth by the United Nations, also to peace building and the nurturing of citizens able to serve a global knowledge society.
Acknowledgements: The author wishes to acknowledge that some of the ideas presented here were developed for a longer book chapter, entitled "Comparative Education and the Dialogue of Civilizations," in Beverley Lindsay (2021), Comparative and International Education: Leading Perspectives in the Field, (New York: Palgrave MacMillan). The Chinese translation of this article is published by the Comparative Education journal (比较教育研究) of Beijing Normal University.
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Nine Lives, Nine Deaths
What's the first thing you think of when you hear the word "grindsploitation"? If you're like me, you think of campy low-budget horror filmmaking with a decidedly dark comedic twist and as much over-the-top imagery as the film budget will allow.
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People's Korea Grows, Guided by the Marshal
Posted on May 20, 2014 by Official USA Delegate
Korea is making a leap forward with lively youth. Korea is face-lifting herself in every aspect.
In April last respected Marshal Kim Jong Un visited the Songdowon International Children´s Camp nearing completion and spent a long time, looking round with satisfaction and pleasure different places of the camp which was rebuilt dandiacally.
Written in the compound was the slogan:
"We are the happiest in the world!"
Seeing this, the Marshal said that the slogan was very good and went on to say that we are working hard with pleasure despite difficulties to make our children and people the happiest in the world. He said that the slogan makes it possible to do any difficult work with a smile.
Officials were deeply impressed by what he said. He continued:
"There were many difficulties in reconstruction of the Songdowon International Children´s Camp, but our hard work has borne fruit. When we work hard for one year, the country will develop ten years. How good it is that we have rebuilt the camp! That is why we are making revolution."
Respected Marshal Kim Jong Un finds his greatest satisfaction and pride in the happiness enjoyed by the children and people without thinking of his fatigue accumulated on the road of field guidance, which continues day and night.
When the Munsu Water Park was under construction, he visited the construction site many a time and paid meticulous attention so that all conditions were provided on the highest level. He said that when the Munsu Water Park was completed, people would like it very much and, thinking of it, he was already pleased. He beamed all over his face, as if picturing to himself happy school youth and children and working people who would enjoy themselves there.
In November Juche 102 or 2013, he visited the Masikryong Ski Resort under construction again and said:
"When the Masikryong Ski Resort is completed, people´s happy laughter will be louder in the Masik Pass area. Thinking of the people and school youth and children who would enjoy themselves at the modern ski resort, I feel a pride of making revolution."
Chae Kyong Chol, Department Director of the Pyongyang City People´s Committee, has this to say:
"It is a will and practice of our Marshal Kim Jong Un that everything the people desire and like should be provided preferentially on the highest level.
Pyongyang, the capital of the Democratic People´s Republic of Korea, has face-lifted itself in one or two years. Parks were smartly rebuilt everywhere and monumental creations such as the Ryugyong Health Complex, the Rungna People´s Pleasure Ground, the Munsu Water Park and the Mirim Riding Club were built, where people enjoy themselves. Respected Marshal Kim Jong Un feels a great pride of making revolution in the happiness of the people and his lofty respect for the people teaches us a lot. We, the officials of a government organ, will regard the demand and interests of the people as absolute standard and live and work as true servants of the people devoting ourselves only to them."
Korea is further prospering as a country of the people as she is led by respected Marshal Kim Jong Un who finds the pride of making revolution on the road of providing pleasure and happiness to the people. That is why the entire Korean people unanimously trust, follow, and praise him.
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'1492: Conquest of Paradise' – An Exhumation
Whenever anyone asks me what my favourite film of all time is, I find it impossible to give a single definitive answer. However, I usually mention Ridley Scott's forgotten Columbus epic, 1492: Conquest of Paradise. Released in October 1992 as part of the 500th Anniversary of the Genoese navigator making landfall in the Caribbean, it was dismissed by most critics and tanked at the US box office, making a measly $7million against a production budget of approximately $40million. It eventually recovered roughly $50million on its worldwide release, but the producers would still have been left with large black hole in their accounts after marketing costs.
The film well and truly had the wind taken out of its sails right from the beginning. There was a public backlash against the Columbus 500th Anniversary celebration, particularly from the Native American community who saw him as the instigator of the next 400 years of genocide against them. Two other Columbus films were released around the same time: a dismally unfunny and puerile Carry On Columbus, which nailed the lid on the Carry On series' coffin for good, and the just plain dismissal Christopher Columbus: The Discovery, which was produced by the Salkind family and has rightly earned a place as one of the most universally awful films of all time.
My personal voyage with 1492
I first saw 1492 on television a few years after its cinema release when I was about 15 with my father. It received a glowing review in our household's television guide, Radio Times, (although I seem to remember it was given the full five stars, not the four in the linked review). Aside from that, I came to the film with no preconceptions or baggage whatsoever and was able to enjoy it for what it truly is. I had always loved watching films but took no deeper interest in them once the end credits rolled. However, 1492 changed all that for me.
I had learned about Columbus in school, but never taken any special interest in him. I had never seen a film adaptation of his life, but considered the tale to be relatively straightforward. The Radio Times review rightly warns viewers "looking for an old-style adventure to look elsewhere, for this is a dark and brooding piece about colonial exploitation."
"Dark, bloody and brooding" describes it perfectly. The horrors of the Spanish Inquisition are portrayed in full and while all other film versions have ended with Columbus' triumphant return from his first voyage, 1492 continues to show the next ten years of his life with his attempts to set up a colony on Hispaniola resulting in the slaughter of the native Indians, civil war and natural disaster.
Columbus' life ends in poverty and obscurity with fellow-Italian voyager Amerigo Vespucci, who discovered the American mainland c. 1500, taking credit for the new continent's entire discovery; lock, stock and barrel. The final screen crawl provides a glimmer of optimism as it informs us that Columbus' final voyage in 1502 with his son, Fernando, saw them land in Panama where the Indians revealed to them the existence of the Pacific Ocean (thus dispelling the myth that Columbus went to his grave believing that the land he had discovered was the east coast of Asia) and Fernando's biography of his father restored the name of Columbus to its place in history.
Gérard Depardieu plays the lead role of Columbus. Although he seems like an odd choice of casting in terms of his thick French accent (some additional voice coaching and post production dialogue rerecording would have helped), but as Empire's review puts it, "he's the stand-out – loping around like a particularly charismatic sore-headed bear, and playing triumph, passion and crushing disappointment with equal Gallic aplomb."
Adrian Biddle's cinematography (in what looks like natural lighting as per Kubrick's Barry Lyndon) gives the film a European Art House look while Scott uses even more smoke and wind machines than usual, and emphasises key moments with languid slow-motion and zoom shots.
Canadian rent-a-bad-guy Michael Wincott plays Don Adrian de Moxica (probably based on the real-life Adrian de Mojica who did lead a revolt against Columbus on Hispaniola) and gives the most memorable performance of his career. Previously starring as Guy of Gisborne in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, he is slimmed down to skeletal proportions, his famous raspy-60-Malboro-Reds-a-day voice has an authentic Spanish accent to it and he turns in a brilliant performance showing contempt both for the commoner Columbus and racist hatred of the Indians, conveying insane evil while staying the right side of hyperbole and ham. Look out for his almost as dastardly sidekick, Guevara, played by a pre-Mummy/baldness Arnold Vosloo.
The most outstanding element of the film though is Vangelis' score. The first time I watched the film, the music did not register with me at all. I have my father to thank for rewinding the tape so we could listen to the final theme that accompanies the end credits again. The triumphant "Conquest of Paradise" is quite simply one of the best pieces of music I have ever heard (and that includes all output by Manic Street Preachers, Joy Division and The Verve!) and I can (quite literally) listen to it all day. The Spanish chants and tribal drums on "Hispanola" make it as good a track as any to wage war and the jungle murmurs of "Moxica And The Horse" (which makes a surprise appearance in Michael Mann's 2004 thriller, Collateral) is as good a track as any to stalk your foe.
Only half the tracks on the official soundtrack feature in the film and "Hispanola" lurches into a dreadful rock-out organ solo halfway through which was mercifully exercised from the film. If you search Google, you should be able to find "The Complete Score" which restore gems such as "Porto Palos", "Departure" and "Return", albeit with less than perfect sound quality and inclusive of Foley sound effects and snippets of dialogue. I hope one day an official complete soundtrack album is released.
I had never heard of Ridley Scott nor seen any of his other films; although I was later to learn that he helmed the bona-fide cinematic classics Alien, Blade Runner and Thelma & Louise. After seeing these three films following 1492, Scott became my favourite director of all time and I was really rooting for him prior to the release of Gladiator in 2000 after nearly a decade of critical and commercial flops with 1492, White Squall and G. I. Jane; the first two getting far less critical praise and box office receipts than they deserved.
1492 was a life-changing film for me because it presents a familiar subject in a very unusual way and does not pander to audience expectations. Whether this is historically accurate or not, Columbus is portrayed as a man who is all too human with strengths as well as weakness, but essentially of good intentions.
When I researched the reaction to the film on the Internet, I discovered what a critical and commercial disaster it had been when it was first released. It currently holds a score of 39% on Rotten Tomatoes, although the public have been slightly kinder and it averages 6.3 on IMDb.
While reviews were mixed-to-negative, between them, the critics seemed to disagree on practically every element of the film as to whether it was a strength or weakness: the casting of Depardieu and his performance, Biddle's photography, Wincott as the bad guy, Vangelis' score; everything. Scott since commented following a viewing of 1492 on Laser Disc that he thought it was "a pretty good film, but not what people were expecting."
Another charge levelled at the film is that it was heavily cut prior to release. While Scott has mentioned that in hindsight his initial three hour cut was his preferred version, if you take the time to read an early draft of Roselyn Bosch's script as I have, it is clear that charges of "pre-release panic cutting" are nonsense. The largest removal from the script to the final film is the portrayal of Columbus' final voyage to the New World with Fernando and even then some of the scenes have clearly been merged into the final shooting script so they occur earlier in Columbus' life. They are also a number of sensible omissions where the violence lurches into bad taste or the character beats wander into cliché.
Following the success of Gladiator, 1492 was given a DVD release in 2001, predictably containing the marketing line, "From the director of Gladiator". When I saw the film on DVD on my father's then-state-of-the-art Toshiba widescreen, I fell in love with it all over again. Aside from a few "nicks and cuts" on the film, the picture and sound transfer was superb and the film "flowed" better than ever before.
So far, a Blu Ray version has not been released in the US or the UK, but French and German editions exist. I recently watched the German edition. The picture quality is amazing: all imperfections present on the VHS and DVD releases have been removed and the beauty of the cinematography and art direction can shine through. The sound quality is generally good, although there is some distortion in some of the sound effects, particularly the sea waves. The original English audio is in place, the text of the opening and end credits are in English, as is the opening screen crawl. Rather annoyingly, however, the end credit crawl is in German with no English subtitles!
A New Life
The critics' reviews have not improved significantly with 1492's DVD and Blu Ray releases; one reviewer writing in a UK national online newspaper about three years ago published a rather scornful review mocking the historicity and the tone of the film. (I'm not linking to the review because quite simply I do not want you to read it since it is chocked full of factual errors and childish comments from a critic who clearly does not like to watch films so much as deliberately poke holes in them!)
However, as I recently posted about Michael Cimino's epic Western Heaven's Gate – a critical and commercial disaster on its initial release in 1980 – the passage of time can be kind to films previous considered box office poison, and with the baggage removed the film's true merits can be reassessed and properly appreciated
So with this in mind, I am going to forward this post to the director, the producer, the studio and the score composer's record company and suggest that the film be given a fully restored and re-cut Blu Ray edition for film's 25th Anniversary.
Sir Ridley Scott
Scott Free Productions (UK)
42 – 44 Beak Street
W1F 9RH
Ilan Goldman
5 rue Lincoln
Email: legende@legende.fr
Paramount Studio
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Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of 'Heaven's Gate'
Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5 / Part 6 / Part 7 / Part 8
I post the videos for Michael Epstein's superb documentary from 2004, Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of 'Heaven's Gate', which is based on former United Artists studio executive Steven Bach's book, Final Cut: Art, Money and EGO in the Making of 'Heaven's Gate', the Film That Sank United Artists.
Upon release and for thirty years afterwards, Michael Cimino's epic western Heaven's Gate has been shorthand for "cinematic disaster of the very first, second and third orders". Following the enormous critical and commercial success of The Deer Hunter, which won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, United Artists handed Cimino an $11.5million cheque and allowed him to make his dream picture.
Heaven's Gate is an epic Western loosely based on the Johnson County War of 1892, with a plot that takes its protagonists Jim Averill (Kris Kristofferson) and Billy Irvine (John Hurt) from their Harvard graduation to the untamed wilderness of Wyoming to fight a cartel of ruthless cattle barons lead by Frank Canton (Sam Waterson), who have hired ruthless bounty hunter Nathan Champion (Christopher Walken), and are determined to wipe out every male Russian immigrant in the county for cattle rustling. Meanwhile Averill and Champion vie for the affections of French prostitute Ella Watson (Isabelle Huppert) who runs a bordello in barrens.
What followed has gone down in Hollywood folklore for all the wrong reasons. Cimino spent the next two years engaging in what the critic Leslie Halliwell described as "self abuse" and the production spiralled out of control, making Francis Ford Coppola's experiences on Apocalypse Now seem like a low-key art house project.
The original $11.5million budget ballooned to between $35million and $50million and stories flooded the film press during production that Cimino had all but lost his mind by tearing down and rebuilding sets and shooting endless takes. One story has it that he ordered the set of an entire town to be taken down and rebuilt because he wanted the main street to be six feet wider; he would not accept the crew's suggestion simply to knock down one side of the set and rebuild it further away from the other. And the scene where Jim Averill played by Kris Kristofferson is awoken from a drunken stupor by a group of townsfolk and angrily cracks his bullwhip at them took upwards of 50 takes before Cimino was happy.
There were also stories of widespread drug use on set by the cast and crew as well as cruelty to animals. The American Humane Association has blacklisted the film and it is alleged that real horse and cattle entrails were used in certain scenes and the cockfight scene actually did result in two birds ripping each other apart on set with the cameras rolling.
After months of editing, Cimino finally delivered a cut to studio that was five and half hours long; one executive commented that the climatic shoot out at end between the cattle barons and the immigrants was longer than the entire running time of many "normal" films!
Cimino eventually had "final cut" on the film and a three and a half hour version was premiered in November 1980 so that it was eligible for nomination at the following year's academy awards, but the New York critics panned it to smithereens. Writing for The New York Times, the usually polite and restrained Vincent Canby described it as akin to "a forced, four hour walking tour of one's own living room" and that "it fails so completely, you might suspect Mr Cimino sold his soul to the Devil in return for the success of The Deer Hunter, and the devil has just come around to collect" before sealing its fate as "an unqualified disaster".
A story from the film's New York premiere had it that Cimino wondered aloud why no one was drinking champagne during the interval. "That's because they hate the movie, Michael", came the reply.
When audiences failed to turn up for the first week of release in New York, Cimino panicked. In a rash move that conceded that the critics were right in their condemnation of the film, Cimino sent an open letter to UA President Andy Albeck by way of full-page adverts Variety and The Hollywood Reporter requesting that the film be pulled from release and re-edited before it went on nationwide release. UA granted his request and there then followed another frantic five months of editing. The film re-emerged a leaner, cleaner 165 minutes. It was different, but it wasn't better. Along with the excess of the original version, Cimino had also removed much of its epic scope and character development while the plot made little sense. The re-released version fared no better at the box office and died a high-profile death. The domestic box office from its original theatrical run was a mere $3.5million.
Eventually, art director Tambi Larsen took the Heaven Gate's sole Academy Award nomination, but the film featured prominently at the 1981 Golden Raspberry Awards being nominated for Worst Film, Director, Musical Score and Actor (Kristofferson); "winning" for Worst Director.
Post-Mortem
The film's failure destroyed UA and it was bought out by MGM shortly afterwards. Cimino's career was left in tatters. Since Heaven's Gate he has directed a mere four feature-length films; all of them low budget thrillers and indie-pics, with the last one, The Sunchaser, released in 1996. Although all were brought in on time and on budget, none of them made any money. Cimino also managed to get himself fired from the helm of Kevin Bacon's breakout hit, Footloose. Go figure…
For many years, critics' and audiences' opinions remained steadfastly unchanged. In a recent poll, readers of Empire voted Heaven's Gate the sixth worst film of all time, while writing in The Guardian in 2008, film critic Joe Queenan had the following to say:
I am firmly in the camp that believes that Heaven's Gate is the worst movie ever made. For my money, none of these other films can hold a candle to Michael Cimino's 1980 apocalyptic disaster. This is a movie that destroyed the director's career. This is a movie that lost so much money it literally drove a major American studio out of business. This is a movie about Harvard-educated gunslingers who face off against eastern European sodbusters in an epic struggle for the soul of America. This is a movie that stars Isabelle Huppert as a shotgun-toting cowgirl. This is a movie in which Jeff Bridges pukes while mounted on roller skates. This is a movie that has five minutes of uninterrupted fiddle-playing by a fiddler who is also mounted on roller skates. This is a movie that defies belief.
A friend of mine, now deceased, was working for the public relations company handling Heaven's Gate when it was released. He told me that when the 220-minute extravaganza debuted at the Toronto film festival, the reaction was so thermonuclear that the stars and the film-maker had to immediately be flown back to Hollywood, perhaps out of fear for their lives. No one at the studio wanted to go out and greet them upon their return; no one wanted to be seen in that particular hearse. My friend eventually agreed to man the limo that would meet the children of the damned on the airport tarmac and whisk them to safety, but only provided he was given free use of the vehicle for the next three days. After he dropped off the halt and the lame at suitable safe houses and hiding places, he went to Mexico for the weekend. Nothing like this ever happened when Showgirls or Gigli or Ishtar or Xanadu or Glitter or Cleopatra were released. Nothing like this happened when The Hottie and the Nottie dropped dead the day it was released. Heaven's Gate was so bad that people literally had to be bribed to go meet the survivors. Proving that, in living memory, giants of bad taste once ruled the earth. Giants. By comparison with the titans who brought you Heaven's Gate, Paris Hilton is a rank amateur.
Empire's DVD review is rather more even-handed, awarding the film three stars out of five and stating:
The film itself… is gorgeous, tranquil, and terribly slow, with shades of Terrence Mallick's floaty dreams. For much of the endless running time, the narrative remains wispy and indistinct as Cimino searches for the melancholy vagueness of life. It has the looks of a Western, but the naturalism of Euro-art. There is no doubting the stunning creativity at work, including strong performances from unshowy talents like Kris Kristofferson, Isabelle Huppert and John Hurt, but it also frustrates with its languid disregard for story. Cimino lacks Mallick's ability to ignite images with meaning, here they remain just eloquent images, stark and beautiful like as the spinning wonder of the roller-skating rink, but over-priced sideshows in a little story.
The final eruption of violence, when the cattle-baron's private-army push to eradicate the lowly farmers carries the chilling edge of tragedy, but it is an emotion not fully won. This is an extraordinary piece of fateful art, but its imperfections are as loud as its reputation.
I have seen both the full and edited versions of Heaven's Gate on television and VHS some years ago and broadly agree with Empire's DVD review as well as Michael Souter's opinion in his excellent book The Worst Movies Of All Time: or, What Were They Thinking? There is no genuine example of incompetence on the screen that makes you stare in shock and disbelief as in a real turkey like Gigli or Christopher Columbus: The Discovery. The performances are generally good (although Walken is miscast and Huppert makes for an improbable French madam in the American wilderness) and the scope and passion of Cimino's vision is clear for all to see.
Yet the $50million price tag is simply not on screen due to Cimino's gratuitous waste leaving most of the production on the cutting room floor (and indeed on the set's rubbish heap!), while the vintage steam locomotive that was sourced and shipped at enormous cost is on screen for mere minutes. The screenplay is reduced to a "motiveless mess" with the characters' incentives and back stories are left untold. Who are these people? Why should we care about them? Why does Averill only half-heartedly help the immigrants? How did Irvine become such a lumbering drunk and why does he stay with the cattle barons even though he disagrees with their course of action? As Souter comments, a few simple reminiscences would have helped; a voiceover would have worked wonders.
Particularly galling are the presence of some truly brilliant moments that suggest somewhere in this bloated dirge of film, there was a great film struggling to get out: an immigrant woman pulls a cart along a rocky road with the corpse of her husband on top; Walken explains to Hubbert that wallpapering his log cabin with newspaper "civilises the wilderness"; the bitterly ironic ending in the full version where Averill's life finishes (quite literally) where it started. The film also benefits greatly from David Mansfield's wonderful score (surely the least deserving of the film's Golden Raspberry nominations).
I agree with the opinions of many of cast and producers expressed in the Final Cut documentary that the disastrous critical response on first release was less a true reflection of the film's artistic merits and entertainment value, but more an extreme and gratuitous reaction to the film's torrid production history and "payback" to Cimino following the unprecedented success of The Deer Hunter.
If Heaven's Gate is among the worst films ever made, then it probably the best bad film of all time.
Having refused to give interviews about Heaven's Gate since its final box office death in 1981 (with the exception of a few brief comments in 1990 while promoting Desperate Hours when he admirably took a JFK-on-The-Bay-of-Pigs-line and accepted full responsibility for what happened), Cimino was finally tempted to "go back to Golgotha" and re-cut and restore the film for a 2012 cinema and Blu Ray release.
The response was the diametrical opposite of its initial release in 1980: the film received a prolonged standing ovation at the 2012 Venice Film Festival, Empire awarded it the full five stars for its UK cinema release and The New York Times, while not exactly recanting the opinion of its original critic, Vincent Canby, still gave the film positive press.
Although it took much, much longer than many other films that failed critically and commercially on their initial release before taking their rightful place in cinematic history, such as Ridley Scott's 1982 sci-fi noir Blade Runner, perhaps time has healed the wounds of Heaven's Gate and it has finally joined the elite of lost classics.
I have not yet seen the re-cut version of Heaven's Gate; however, I will acquire a Blu Ray copy as soon as it is released in the UK and watch it with great interest and an open mind.
If my opinion of the film alters substantially, you will read it here first.
Tags:Andy Albeck, Brad Douriff, Christopher Walken, Dreams and Disasters, Final Cut, Heaven's Gate, Isabelle Huppert, Jeff Bridges, Kris Kristofferson, MGM, Michael Cimino, Michael Epstein, new york times, Stephen Bach, The Making and Unmaking, United Artists, Vincent Canby
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The company highlights itself in the application as a potential benefit to the city by creating dense housing near Dorothea Dix Park and Union Station.
Rocky Branch greenway also runs through the property, and the company says it will incorporate the greenway into its overall design.
The property is made up of 20 smaller parcels and has a total assessed value of more than $1.9 million, according to Wake County records. One of the landowners, CS Smith LLC, which owns four of the parcels, lists the same address as Five Horizons Development, according to records filed with the state. CS Smith LLC has spent around $750,000 acquiring those parcels this year, according to Wake County records.
The ambitious plan is presented as potentially being built in three separate phases, with construction timed around market conditions. Each phase would likely take between 24 months and 36 months to complete.
Across all three phases, the application states the developer would build a total of around 1 million square feet of office, 312,500 square feet of retail, 382 hotel rooms and 975 apartments.
Buildings in the first phase would be limited to 12 stories, while the second and third phase would be capped at 18 and 20 stories, respectively.
For the past several years, the city of Raleigh has wanted private investment to revitalize the area between Western Boulevard and Interstate 40. The South Saunders corridor is heavily traveled but has not seen the same sort of redevelopment that downtown has.
The city published a study on the Southern Gateway Corridor a few years ago, which envisions a massive makeover of the area that entails re-routing streets and building mixed-use offices and residences to create an attractive welcome to the capital city.
Earlier this year, an old Cargill plant between South Wilmington and South Blount streets was demolished with hopes that it would be redeveloped in the future.
At the time, city planners said interest was growing in the area, and the rezoning application from Five Horizons bears that out.
With one eyesore gone, will Raleigh's southern gateway be revitalized?