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Tuesday, September 11, 2018, 18:02
Principal charms
By Wang Kaihao
Tuesday, September 11, 2018, 18:02 By Wang Kaihao
A royal throne made in 1881 for Prince Charles III is a highlight during the ongoing exhibition from Monaco in the Palace Museum. (JIANG DONG / CHINA DAILY)
When 271 artifacts from the principality of Monaco come to Beijing for the first time, perhaps there is no other place more suitable to display them than the Meridian Gate Gallery.
Monaco has been generous enough to loan many works by iconic artists such as Titian, Monet, and Renoir
The gallery, which sits above the entrance of the Palace Museum-China's imperial palace from 1420 to 1911, which is also known as the Forbidden City-is welcoming a collection from the House of Grimaldi and is launching a "royal" dialogue through its exhibition, Princes and Princesses of Monaco: A European Dynasty (13th to 21st century).
The exhibition opened on Sept 7 and is dedicated to tracing the achievements of the principality over the past 700-odd years. Running through Nov 11, it's open every day except Mondays.
Monaco is minuscule in size. Its 2-square-kilometer-area is only roughly twice the size of the Forbidden City, but it is also famed for its royal aura.
From everyday articles, rare works of art, to a royal canopy and even a throne-which was made in 1881-the range of exhibits are as broad as they are diverse.
"We want to portray the overall image of the Grimaldis through these diverse artifacts," says Thomas Fouilleron, curator of the exhibition. "However, we also care about the individual characters of the monarchs."
White marble bust by Lazare Ratto in 1660 is among the highlighted exhibits from the Library of the Prince's Palace of Monaco. (JIANG DONG / CHINA DAILY)
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After taking over the fortress of Monaco in the late 13th century, the Grimaldis established their territory in the mid-14th century before eventually declaring itself a monarchy in 1612.
"Monaco may be small, but it's a European monarchy with a complete set of royal rituals," Fouilleron says. "People can grasp the bigger picture about European dynasties by looking at us."
A tapestry from the 17th century woven with the coat of arms of the House of Gramildi is among the key exhibits showing the early history of the monarchy and its alliance with France.
Portraits of the princes of Monaco like Honore II (1571-1662), Antonie I (1661-1731), Charles III (1818-1889) are not just important historical references but also provide some of the show's artistic highlights.
The same situation is true about Monaco's architecture. The French influence is apparent in a painting from 1732 which shows a bird's-eye view of the prince's palace of Monaco. "French culture was highly advocated at that time," the curator says. "The prince would have been pleased if someone had told him: 'Your palace looks just like Versailles.'"
Some exhibits also show the princes' interest in China.
The Psalter of vellum is among the highlighted exhibits from the Library of the Prince's Palace of Monaco. (JIANG DONG / CHINA DAILY)
One of the books on display, which was published in 1665 and comes from the Library of the Prince's Palace in Monaco, plots the journeys made by the Dutch East India company in China.
During the 19th century, the focus of Monaco switched from agriculture to tourism as Monte Carlo developed as an entertainment destination. An old map in the exhibition shows the boundaries of Monaco at that time.
Fouilleron says one of the most important elements of this exhibition was to demonstrate the Grimaldis' artistic tastes by displaying examples from their numerous collections of paintings.
Monaco has been generous enough to loan many works by iconic artists such as Titian, Monet, and Renoir, and the paintings were carefully selected for their connection to the principality.
For instance, visitors may feel that Monet enjoyed his trip to the country from his dreamlike touches in the 1884 canvasses Monte Carlo Seen from Roquebrune and The Bay of Monaco.
Of course, one name is unavoidable when talking about Monaco. Grace Kelly, the late Hollywood movie star and former princess of Monaco, has been given the privilege of having an entire section dedicated to her at the exhibition.
Visitors admire works by European artists. (JIANG DONG / CHINA DAILY)
From her wedding gown, to her jewelry, costumes and even to her Oscar for winning best actress at the Academy Awards in 1954, Kelly's legendary lifetime of elegance both on and off screen, is recounted to visitors through a variety of exhibits.
The costume worn by Albert II, the current ruler of Monaco, on his wedding in 2011 and the tiara he gave to Princess Charlene, also lend a modern touch to the ancient architecture of the Meridian Gate.
"The Chinese public's impression of Monaco used to be some scattered 'dots' about Grace Kelly or the eye-catching royal wedding in 2011," says Wang Yuegong, head of the royal artifact department at the Palace Museum. "This exhibition will connect all the dots with a single line."
Monaco signed a cooperation agreement with the Palace Museum in 2016.
As the first step in this collaborative process, The Forbidden City in Monaco, an exhibition which included about 180 artifacts from the Palace Museum, took place last year at the Grimaldi Forum, a convention center in Monte Carlo.
It gave a panoramic picture of imperial life during the reigns of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong, three emperors ruling at the peak of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911).
"The event stirred huge public interest in Monaco," says Wang, who designed the exhibition. "It also prompted our Monegasque counterparts to return the favor by bringing a show to Beijing."
A piece of jewellery belonging to Grace Kelly, the late princess of Monaco, is on show in Beijing. (JIANG DONG / CHINA DAILY)
According to Wang, more than 50,000 people visited the exhibition at the Grimaldi Forum.
"And when I recently returned to Monaco on vacation and noticed that some of the paintings in museum were missing," Wang continues, "a staff member told me that they had been shipped abroad for an exhibition."
"Well, I suppose I'm the one who should be blamed for this because I introduced those exhibits to Beijing," he smiles.
For this reason, neither side should really feel the need to apologize for building up cultural links.
"The Palace Museum embraces different civilizations from all over the world," Wang says. "Such cultural communications are an important way to make people feel more connected."
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And the Monegasque side have confirmed they currently have no plans to take the exhibition to other Chinese museums, because "its dynastic glory is best suited to the Forbidden City".
Contact the writer at wangkaihao@chinadaily.com.cn


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Lady Marchmain Considered
During recent weeks I enjoyed the opportunity to speak with several avid readers who share my interest in Brideshead Revisited, a novel that somehow continues to provide material for reflection. It is unlike Waugh's other works, which are generally dry satires with Hemingway-esque brevity in descriptions and dialogue. Indeed, one conversant who loves Brideshead attempted and failed to delve deeper into Waugh's more typical offerings.
It was during a luncheon and wine splurge that another Waughian reader said, "I don't know what to make of some of the characters. Charles and Sebastian are quite straight forward, but what about the mother?" To which I say Teresa Marchmain and Anthony Blanche are the two most misunderstood characters of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited and fittingly the latter detests the former, never having met her.
Lady Marchmain is probably the most detestable character in the novel, more so than her eldest son, Bridey, because his aloofness and good nature are almost foibles; he has no ill intentions while his mother seems like she could sneak a dagger through a vertebra and twist it just right. Why does Lady Marchmain hold such a tight grip over her family and why does it make Bridey and Cordelia good Catholics while Julia and Sebastian apostosize, return after her death, and become saintly on their own? Why does she smother Sebastian to the point of alcoholism when all he has some is rabblerouse a little as a student?
Lady Marchmain had three brothers whose short lives, ended by the First World War, informed her view of what a man should aspire to be. "Uncle Ned is the test," said Sebastian. Her second blow during the War to End All Wars was that her husband left for combat and remained on the Continent with an Italian dancer, taking up a life of sin in a Venetian palace. It would not be a stretch to say Lady Marchmain is trying desperately to form her sons into the mold of her chivalrous brothers and to hew them to her, unlike her brothers and husband. Bridey turns out safely, if dull; the same is true of Cordelia; Sebastian and Julia, however, reject the program and flee from their mother's grasp to be their own persons.
She spends time in the chapel. She hires Fr. Phipps to say Mass on Sunday for her family and the villagers. She donates to causes, hosts agricultural events, and provides patronage for intellectual hangers-on. She is a good Catholic, but she is not a saint. "A saint must suffer," said my interlocutor. He is right, and Teresa Marchmain does suffer, but unlike her son, Sebastian, her suffering does not make her holy and does not make her closer to God. Sebastian's drunkenness and disempowerment cause him to take pity on a wounded soldier named Kurt, who he nurses and supports; after Kurt dies in a Nazi camp Sebastian returns to Africa and lives in a monastery, praying at odd hours, sneaking a drink, and doing what he can with his wounded soul. His mother, in stark contrast, becomes distant, emotionally stilted, and unable to love outwardly. Instead, she assumes a mantle of stoicism, genuinely loving her children but not knowing how to love them. As a result her social circle perceive her as a victim of her husband, who must have "stolen her patrimony, flung her out of doors, roasted, stuffed, and eaten her children, and gone frolicking about wreathed in all the flowers of Sodom and Gomorrah."
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Within the Octave of Pentecost: Latin Holy Ghostology
"We aren't very good about the Holy Spirit, we Westerners, we Latins," said the sermonist at the Mass I attended on Pentecost Sunday. "We will pray to God the Father, and the Son, Our Savior, and of course to the Blessed Mother, but we don't really pray to the Holy Spirit."
As jarring as this sounds it is all very true and speaks to the enduring antiquity of both the pre-Conciliar liturgy and the general Latin approach to theology. Prior to the Gallican additions of certain prayers to the Holy Spirit or Trinity (cf. Veni Santificator and Placeat tibi), the Roman Mass has little mention of the Holy Spirit aside from the Gloria Patri, itself an glaring addition to existing psalmody. Without the Gallican emendations one could reasonably imagine the old Roman Mass, textually, being said before the first general council at Nicaea, something that could never be said of the far more advanced Greek liturgy.
Then again the Greeks have a far stronger view of general councils and conciliar decisions than the Latins traditionally have. To the Greek an ecumenical council is almost an act of revelation, an enhancement of the extant deposit of faith that now builds upon the received Tradition and is an event to the celebrated every year with a particular Sunday in the Divine Liturgy. For the Latin the Christian life is the promise of the Temple worship met and fulfilled in the Sacrifice of the Cross, renewed at Mass; it is an extraordinarily primitive, antique mindset compared to the more refined Greek view; under this scheme of things a general council may issue canons or statements on any array of topics, but only what it says de fide is worth remembering and only then as an act of clarification of what had already been held.
"We Westerners, we Latins" do not have the pneumatology developed by the Cappadocian Fathers in the fourth century. We have general works on the Trinity by the likes of Ss. Ambrose and Augustine as well as later writers like Richard of St. Victor. The Holy Spirit and the Holy Trinity seem to be taken for granted in the Roman liturgical and theological tradition and why should that be a bad thing? Would it not speak to our pre-conciliar belief in such things? John Henry Newman wrote in one of his "plain and parochial" sermons that he rarely preached specifically about the Holy Ghost because the cardinal felt He was already and always at work within the Christian populace, moving hearts, directing paths, and forming instincts.
Our sermonist did concede that we Latins sing to the Holy Spirit and about the Holy Spirit quite well. "The Veni Sancte Spiritus is meant to be sung beautifully today, not mumbled at the altar," he told us at the spoken Mass. I was able to hear Veni Creator Spiritus during Vespers at the Brompton Oratory for Pentecost and on [what should have been] the Octave day of the Ascension at Westminster Cathedral's new rite Vespers.
A happy Pentecost to all you Latins who do not deliberate too often on the question of the Holy Spirit because you know He's been with you all along, ever since Baptism.
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Many Happy Returns: Oxford
I recently returned from a week and a half visiting old acquaintances at Oxford and making some new ones in London, escaping those Excel spreadsheets from the office, and immersing myself in my Office. It was a pleasure to return to Oxford, where I spent some happy time reading medieval history as a student, where I first became interested in the medieval enhancement of the basic Roman liturgy and when my faith genuinely came alive. The city is much the same, but in many ways different from when I lived there seven years ago. What follows are poorly devised observations. Some proper reflections on architecture, the service of Vespers, the significance of symbolism, the "good life", and friendship will come in future weeks.
First, the Church of Saint Mary the Virgin is very much the University church in that it reflects both the interests and the religiosity of the University. A greeting table and several pro-gay banners obstructed the Rood screen. On the other side a minister began a said Eucharist service with one or two lay Anglicans in attendance; Chinese tourists snapped away with their cameras. Both Thomas Cranmer and Saint Edmund Campion were listed among the martyrs of the Reformation on the church wall. Rather than dwell on it I went to the nearest tobacconist, bought a Hoyo de Monterry No. 2, and took a morning constitution through the University Gardens.
Oxford has several gardens and the various colleges each have their own. Most people ambulate through the meadows of Christ Church College because the entrance is free and easy to access off Saint Aldate's Street. Instead I selected the quiet respite of Magdalen's gardens, where the hedge work is less deliberate, the deer are free to roam, and a mile or two path can take one out of radar range of the bustling tourism on the High.
After some time reminiscing a friend at the Ashmoleon arranged for a papal audience with the former Bishop of Rome, Prospero Lambertini.
The Pontifex emeritus and I dilated at length about the state of the liturgy, the resurgence of the old Holy Week, and his current successor. When I asked if we should return to the books in force during the reign of Pius X his holiness retorted "I forbade even Masses of the Sacred Heart. Why should my words carry less weight than those of Sarto?" When I pushed him to comment on the current pontiff he said, "De mortuis nil neque vivis."
A friend and I took leave of the Holy Father and instead opted for a nice luncheon at Le Manoir in Great Milton, about half an hour's drive from Oxford, where a pimply sommelier refused to believe his wine selection for the gazpacho did not work; the rest of the meal was a masterpiece. Le Manoir is almost worth a visit for its own sake, a 15th century manor house-turned-restaurant that grows all its own vegetables on a few acres; the scent of several varieties of thymes, lemongrass, and flowers from the Japanese garden perfume the air around the estate.
Finally, I revisited the Oxford Oratory for the 8AM Mass and sung Latin Vespers in the evening, the first time I have attended Western-rite Vespers since leaving Oxford seven years ago. I revisited also the chapel of Saint Philip Neri, founder of the Oratory and the "Third Apostle" to the City of Rome. Philip, not unlike Francis of Assisi, was perhaps not as crazy as we imagine, but his absolute detachment from the world was certainly jarring and attractive to his followers. In our age material wealth and instant entertainment have made possible what in Philip's day were merely tempestuous thoughts, and yet it is Philip's assimilation of indifference to the world and real love of neighbor that re-converted Rome's heart. I have maintained a devotion to Saint Philip these years and would encourage anyone unfamiliar with his life to acquaint himself. There is a reason new oratories seem to sprout up every year and it is not because people want to wear fiddleback chasubles.
More later. Some random thoughts to finish:
there are a lot more German speakers in Oxford than in my day
the tabloids loved this Royal wedding as much as the last, but the retailers did not
attendance at the 1962 Mass at the Oratory is stagnant; their Solemn Novus Ordo is down a bit owing to other churches in the area imitating the practice (not a bad thing really)
during my visit two different people encouraged me to read AN Wilson's Unguarded Hours about "Staggers" in the '70s, which produced some remarkably good and bad Anglican clergy during that decade
the number of homeless in Oxford must have doubled and no one seems interested in doing anything about it
Devotionalism: Its Relation to Religion
Proper devotion, as noted by the Thomistic reference in the previous installment, is tied intrinsically to the practice of religion. While a particular devotion might have grass roots it must have a close relation to the religious practice of the Church if it can be considered a Catholic devotion. There is little necessary in the way of a formal process of ecclesiastical approval; indeed, aside from recognition in the Enchiridion Indulgentiarum or outright condemnation there is little to stand in the way of a devotion from developing however its devotees wish.
In an age when the faithful were more attuned to the movements and rhythms of Tradition, one could more easily trust the common instinct as sensus fidelium. The iconoclastic movement of the Counter-Reformation shifted devotionalism to a clergy-approved process, but the modern age has seen even priests turning skeptic. Devotionals tend to be split between extreme populist practices (consecrations to St. Joseph, various novenas, private revelations) and those safely approved and promulgated (Divine Mercy chaplets, miraculous medals).
The practices of religious orders were the source of most popular devotions. From the formal prayer of the psalter or breviary has sprung the Rosary, books of hours, little offices, parochial vespers, and many more. Every popular form of scapular comes from a religious habit. Consecrations to Christ and Mary take the form of quasi-religious vows. The admonition to have a "rule of life" is a derivation of the strict order of monastic living.
The ancient practice of pilgrimage developed in a multitude of ways from its roots in the Jewish Passover, and devotions like the Stations of the Cross and "round-the-block" processions are simplified extrapolations from its basic principles. So too are derived the various labyrinths of medieval cathedrals.
The kalendar found popular expression in the dedication of months to saints and Christological aspects, usually tied into a particular feast found in that month. The same is often applied to the days of the week, but to far more questionable effect.
When devotions move away from their roots they begin to take on lives of their own. The Rosary gains a fourth set of mysteries and loses all symbolic connection to the 150 psalms. The brown scapular is handed out like candy by everyone but the Carmelites and becomes a garment of superstition. The vigil is disconnected from its complex roots in the Roman Rite and Breviary, and becomes a way to escape going to Mass on Sunday mornings. Unless it maintains strong roots in Tradition, devotionalism slips into rigid atomization and restless novelty.
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Devotionalism: An Introduction
It was nearly a year ago, I think, that His Traddiness requested I start a series on devotionalism in the Church, as much for my own edification as for that of our readers. My discomfort with popular devotions began during my early movements toward the Church out of my schismatic beginnings and never entirely disappeared. Even that most benign devotional, the Rosary, was soaked with such an overwhelming perfume of sickly sweetness that it took over a year before I felt comfortable praying it without suspicion.
My background in Neo-Reformed spirituality subsumed the entire spiritual life within the prayerful, careful study of Holy Writ. Exegesis upon the literal meaning of the sacred texts was simultaneously the closest intimacy with the Divine Mind. Sentimentality was rarely permitted except when meditating on the comfort provided by God's preservation of the elect forever in a state of salvation. Even the traditionally Calvinist hymns were triumphalist and overwhelmed by the awe inspired by divinity. Christ was seen as judge or as a means to the end of justification and atonement, rarely as a person capable of giving or desiring charitable passions.
The effeminate paintings of the Savior that spread like mold across the walls of our parishes only further the divide between the old world and the new. It is difficult to take icons that resemble the "bearded ladies" of outmoded circuses seriously, and pastel-drenched images of the Blessed Virgin and the multitude of saints only compound the difficulties.
Even worse are the devotionals that demand certain emotional outpourings of which not all people are capable—at least not at all times nor on command—and which create scruples when the devotee fails to correctly conjure them up. The texts used for the Stations of the Cross at a local parish during Lent, for example, insist on a very particular emotional state of mind in those reading the responses and add further problems by surprising the laity with statements that, on a literal level, amount to solemn vows.
This demand for emotional conformity has found its way into the liturgy of the New Mass as normally celebrated. Anyone in the pews who does not appear to be emoting in lockstep with the cantor and peace-givers is either shunned or chided from the pulpit. Individuals are commonly offended if you show a disinterest in their peculiar devotions or decline the offer of a plastic sacramental.
My own spirituality has been—understandably, I hope—somewhat reactionary and similar to what it was in my "Young, Restless, and Reformed" days: studious, technically theological, and suspicious of emotionality. It is easy for someone like this to lose track of the liturgical year, to have to be reminded of traditional fasts, feasts, and vigils. (Indeed, when one kalendar is being used by most Catholics, another by most traditionalists, and yet another by a minority of Roman Rite historians, it is difficult to feel vitally connected to a sense of annual ritual.) When I read of the spiritual practices found in ancient Catholic nations, I admire them with a touch of jealousy, but with little sense that I can participate in anything noticeably similar.
But while I have written skeptically about some devotions in the past, I am far from denying their efficacy for many souls, and farther still from suggesting a prohibition on any but those based on pure fabrications (see nearly everything I have written about St. Joseph to date). I also recognize that my spirituality of study is not profitable for all, and that it is wrought with its own dangers. The primal admonition that faith without works is dead rings true as well; one feels a deep need to participate in the pilgrimages, fasts, vespers, and processions of old, even if their forms must be recreated from scratch in the modern world. Something that once would have seemed commonplace, like making and keeping a vow of pilgrimage, is now itself seen as devotional nonsense by church ladies who gush lovingly over images of Divine Mercy Jesus.
"Devotion," Aquinas writes, "is an act of the will to the effect that man surrenders himself readily to the service of God." He argues also that devotion is tied intrinsically to the practice of religion, and is not something that normally stands alone as a simple act of charity. The privatization of devotion is a real danger in our increasingly atomistic world, as is the imposition of the devotional whims of the few upon the many.
The intent of this series is to look afresh at devotions in the Catholic life, especially those old and discarded: the pilgrimages, the processions, the sponsorship of mystery plays by guilds, and so forth. Can they be revived? Would the attempt be a foolish bit of antiquarianism? Let us hope not.
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Viri Galilaei, Quid Statis Aspicientes in Caelum?
"I may be allowed to say that the disciples' slowness to believe that the Lord had indeed risen from the dead, was not so much their weakness as our strength. In consequence of their doubts, the fact of the Resurrection was demonstrated by many infallible proofs. These proofs we read and acknowledge. What then assureth our faith, if not their doubt? For my part, I put my trust in Thomas, who doubted long, much more than in Mary Magdalene, who believed at once. Through his doubting, he came actually to handle the holes of the Wounds, and thereby closed up any wound of doubt in our hearts." —St. Gregory the Great, 29th sermon on the Gospels
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A Special Kyrie
Henri du Mont wrote during an unusual time, the period well after the Renaissance, when polyphony and plainsong were common and quite separate, and the pre-Vatican II era, when the high Mass was dominated by noisesome, loud sing-songy tunes in Latin. Du Mont's Messe Royale falls somewhere between plainsong, polyphony, and the pre-Vatican II method. It is not quite plainsong, since it is timed, but follows the notation and pattern. It is not polyphonic properly, since it contains a singular, flowing melody. And it is not of the 1950ish variety due to its time of writing, although it probably has the most in common with these.
Not unlike Josquin de Prez's Missa Pange Linguae, the Messe Royale begins each setting of the Ordinary with the same melody, although unlike Josquin the Messe Royale does not explicitly borrow from an extant Gregorian melody, unless a uniquely Gallican tune escapes me. In fact each part of the Messe Royale begins with the same melody, which over the course of the Mass becomes repetitive.
It is not an especially fine Mass, but the Kyrie for the Messe Royale as interpreted by the choir of Saint Just, the FSSP parish in Lyon, is very special. Saint Just offers a rendition of this Kyrie, intended for the private chapel of Louis XIV, with a mix of Old Roman droning and the French style of organ Mass. Despite mixing the eighth and eighteenth centuries, it works extraordinarily well and is quite moving. The domineering presence of God that this sort of music proclaims mimics the song of the angels (it is the remembrance of Saint Michael's apparition today) and might compel some to put down their hand Missals and just think about God for a moment. I would like to hear a happy Gregorian or polyphonic Gloria after this Kyrie, but this sort of music absolutely has a place and offers ambitious choirs something to aspire to after perfecting the seasonal settings of Mass. One does not need to sing Palestrina for special occasions. This sort of music will do.
On another note, I will be in London and Oxford for the next two weeks and happily away from my computer. J and Fr. Capreolus will keep the posts and comments rolling, so don't stop reading. Please keep me in your kind prayers.
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Who Are the Poor?
What follows is a post originally intended for Lent. Holy Week encroached upon its writing and then I fell very ill for the two weeks after Pascha.
One poor for the Kingdom of Heaven
source: Huffington Post
What is the most haunting, or "challenging" in the modern parlance, passage from the Gospel? The myrrh bearing women coming to an empty tomb at dawn two days after Our Lord's death upon the life giving Cross? Christ's own foretelling of the end of the world, the tribulation of faith, and His own return to pass judgment on the quick and the dead? They call us to attention for our sins and remind us that our deeds and faith will have to measure up to what Christ expects when we meet Him. Do any of them remind us how stringently Christ will judge us, especially we modern Catholics, like the parable of the rich man and Lazarus?
"There's no reason to be poor anymore dude! If you're poor it's all your fault!" exclaimed one excitable fellow during dinner some weeks ago. This crypto-capitalist unfolded the mystery of America's wealth dichotomy, the strange fact that America is the wealthiest and most generous nation the world has ever seen and also one whose Horatio Alger, rags-to-riches mantra could be summarized as "Do it yourself."
"Do it yourself" is an empowering concept that has created considerable wealth and eliminated a great deal of poverty since the Industrial Revolution downsized agrarian life and relocated farmers to cities. "Do it yourself" also assumes quite a great deal. It assumes social mobility, a society that allows anyone to move from his current state, however degraded, to a better one on merit. It assumes the downtrodden are capable and skilled people who can offer something that our consumer-driven, post-industrial, knowledge-based society wants. And above all it assumes that no one needs a second chance, since all opportunity is immanently available.
Is there merit to this logic? Absolutely there is merit. The poor in modern America live in section 8 housing or trailers and collect benefits to use at Walmart or the local corner shop in some crime-infested neighborhood. It may be terrible, but it is not the "leper" society of first century Jerusalem when a mere ailment meant social exile, homelessness, disregard from one's own relatives, and a hungry, lonely death in ritual impurity. Our religious sentiment hopes to assuage genuine poverty in random acts of kindness in encountering a displaced street person, but even they are no longer always what they seem.
There is another sort of poverty that transcends all income levels, that of dis-empowerment, those people who cannot make decisions on their own owing to circumstance. People in this predicament may not live on the street; they may live in a disheveled flat in a bad neighborhood or work away from home for periods of time because their only work prevents them from seeing their families. These poor souls, who cannot make choices with the same levity as most in our post-Industrial, materialist society, are probably the closest we will come to finding traditional poverty.
Poverty, especially of this sort, can be romanticized in literature and devotional writings, not least because for centuries the target audiences for these materials rarely had great means. Dostoevsky almost always has a holy lunatic whose penury frees him or her to embrace a mystical devotion to God. Western spiritual writers seem to think poverty has a merit all its own. This may be true in the case of a devout person, but it cannot be true absolutely. The poverty of dis-empowerment, more than anything, breeds bitterness, resent, quashes dreams, and impinges on one's ability to love others or see beyond the scope of one's own quotidian misery, the latter two being the essence of the Christian life. Far from freeing one of materialistic concerns, this measly state unleashes the worst in our survivalist instincts and when one fails or falls behind, the blame rarely goes to circumstance and almost always to others.
"Blessed are the poor," said Our Lord, but another recounts Him as saying "Blessed are the poor in spirit." Blessed are those who help these poor where ever he finds them. Blessed is he who teaches them to love and to live better. And then will the poor be rich in the kingdom of God.
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The Latin Novus Ordo
Pontifical Latin Mass, the new way. Super K sits in choro.
Sunday will end a remarkable Paschaltide week in the old Roman liturgy which began with the ancient feast of Ss. Philip & James and which ends Sunday with a quintessentially Roman feast of Saint John at the Late Gate, which displaces the Sunday. Not only does the Church recall the martyrdom of two Apostles and the near death of another, she contemplates the glory of the Life Giving Cross through the lens of the Resurrection of the Redeemer and calls to mind the "greatest soldier the Catholic faith has known," Athanasius. Adding to the sanctoral in later editions are Monica, who reared the most influential of Western theologians and the greatest convert after Paul, and also Pius V, who codified this very rite. It is a week so joyous, so Paschal in its brightness, and so very Roman in its disposition.
And I cannot help but notice the 1962 rite does not have even half these qualities this week:
The seventh century feast of two Apostles is replaced by a mandatory concoction geared towards post-War Communists; this mockery of Saint Joseph was only obligatory on the Roman kalendar for fourteen years
St. Athanasius upheld the Incarnation when every bishop other than Hilary and Liberius had explicitly caved, but we could not uphold his feast; Mattins devolves from three nocturnes to one nocturne of nine psalm fragments
The Invention of the Holy Cross is scrapped and the mystery of the Crucifixion is not revisited during Paschaltide; by contrast Corpus Christi specifically revisits the institution of the Eucharist outside the more intensive context of Holy Week
Since this Saturday is a first Saturday I suspect a good number of '62ists will celebrate the Immaculate Heart of Mary votive Mass rather than the feast of St. Pius V, who guaranteed the liturgy which most traditionalists purport to use
St. John at the Latin Gate is gone, not even commemorated with a Mattins reading and a collect and Last Gospel at Mass as he was in the S Pius X rites; this and the abolition of several other uniquely Roman feasts reflects a deleterious tendency in the 1962 and Paul VI rites to remove Roman elements from the Missal in favor of more universal principles, which would be fine if the new Missal were the only rite in the entire Church and permitted no variation, but this is not the case
In contrast to the old rite, the first week of May in 1962 is less "wrong" from an historic perspective than it is just plain old weird.
Similarly, there is nothing technically wrong with practicing the Pauline Mass in Latin—a pet peeve to many a traddie—but they are right in that it is just plain old weird. It is not weird in the way S. Ioseph Opifex is weird, just that the concept behind it is quite awkward and people react to it in various ways because there is no hard and fast rule behind when and how to do it.
I have attended numerous Latin Novus Ordo Masses in my life, which is quite something because they are considerably rarer than the 1962 Mass and may become rarer than the real old Mass if this past Holy Week presages the future. One was in Connecticut, one at the Altar of the Throne at St. Peter's in Rome, and the rest at Oratorian churches in England. All were quite beautiful owing to their setting, the exceptional quality of the music, and that the language removed any spec of personality or innovation from the clergy. The Roman Mass was probably the least "fussy" while the Oratorian Masses were as buttoned-up as a 19th century wingtip collar. The priests of Saint Peter's followed the same ritual as any other Paul VI Mass, just with better music, a different language, and no chatting between parts of the Mass. By contrast the Oratorians were sublimating the ritual, or often directly copying the movements of, the Tridentine liturgy, right down the lined up ministers and Roman vestments. It begs the question, what is a Latin Novus Ordo Mass supposed to be?
That is the $64,000 question.
First, there is the question of how much Latin is to be used. Given that the new liturgy favors an entirely didactic approach to the readings it only makes sense for them to be said in vernacular, although sometimes the Gospel has been read in Latin. One could make the case the orations, being variable, ought to be in vernacular, too. Oratorians do the new Mass entirely in Latin except for the readings and intercessory prayers. Some others adapt a pastiche of back and forth between the old and new tongues. Ss. Cyril and Methodius practiced the Latin rite in Slavonic, but with Latin readings in accordance with Adrian II's "literary principle." There really is no guiding logic in this question.
Then there is a matter of ritual. At Oxford I witnessed what must be one of the rare uses ever of an acolyte in his commissioned place at a new rite Mass, doing everything the subdeacon would in the old Mass. Except they referred to the altar servers as acolytes and the acolyte as a subdeacon. As a remarkable departure from this milieu, a church in this area attempted to do a Latin Novus Ordo Mass on Fridays some years ago, replete with altar girls and Eucharistic ministers; they wondered why there was no demand.
The issue with the Latin Novus Ordo Mass is that it is anachronistic and something of a redundancy on its own. It is the reformed liturgy in another language at heart. Despite what some kind-hearted people wishfully thought under Benedict XVI's reign, a generally vernacular liturgy is what Paul VI intended; he introduced his Mass at a time when Mass had been 100% in vernacular for two years and versus turbam for longer than that. The rare instances where a Latin Novus Ordo has been implemented successfully fall in conservative settings, that is, settings where people were trying to conserve what they had at a time when it was being taken from them. Were a major church in this area to Latinize its primary Sunday Mass the congregation would be confused at the move and older people irritated. In 1969, when the Consilium saw fit to introduce new pains to congregations in frequent intervals, retaining an all-Latin liturgy with excellent music, normal vesture, and a real altar attracted people already familiar with those things. If anything, the Latin Novus Ordo Mass has never been as successful as its prototype, the English Oratorian Mass, which owes its remarkable popularity to the circumstances of its introduction and not entirely its own principle.
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The only downside was that I had to get up at 5 in the morning to do it.
But there was this one place that I didn't quite understand, 23 Bye Avenue it was called. Just a little trailer in a trailer park. But there was something just weird about it. You know when you get that feeling whenever you explore an abandoned house? Like someone's watching you?
I had that feeling every time I dropped off the newspaper to that place. There was never a car or any vehicle in their driveway whoever "they" were, and the lights were never on. But that was a common sight around my route so I thought nothing of it. Until I decided to take a peek inside their window, just to see what was inside, but all I saw was darkness.
I tried the second time the next day but I got the same thing except this time, I thought I saw someone or something moving around inside. Suddenly I heard a scream coming from inside and that was enough to send me running out of the damn place. The next morning when I got up to do my route, I only left the paper at the end of the driveway. I never went directly up to the porch, just out of fear.
Then something happened that sent me great relief, there had been a notice. My father told me that the owner was selling the trailer park and everyone's trailer was to be taken to a different location by August 1. I was so glad to not be delivering to that place anymore. I couldn't wait for that morning to come.
Eventually August 1 came. I got up to get the newspapers out of the plastic bag they came in and read the notice on the front to see what changes came to my route...and what I saw brought the dread crawling back. I still had to deliver to 23 Bye Avenue.
I finished with my other houses and came down to the trailer park where there was nothing but empty rectangles where the trailers once stood with dead grass filling them. then I came to 23 Bye Avenue only to find what the rest of the place looked like. An empty rectangle just like the others.
I dropped the paper and ran out of there as fast as I could. The next day I called the office to see if it was a mistake but all they said that someone was still paying the bill to get the paper delivered there, and they were paying a very large amount of money.
Eventually I grew up and moved on from the route which had been handed to someone else by now and move away from the location. But to this day I still wonder who used to live on 23 Bye Avenue.


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Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Report. Tamsin Greig is Malvolia in a new twist on Shakespeare's classic comedy of mistaken identity. 0 of 1 people found this review helpful. Although much was omitted from the play/film, a lot of stuff was added, most of which was irrelevant. With Jonny Lee Miller, Benedict Cumberbatch, Andreea Paduraru, Ella Smith. In a foggy winter morning, a raft brings a priest to an isolated island. Frankenstein MARY SHELLEY, AUTORA DE FRANKENSTEIN (Año 1797) Pasajes de la historia (La rosa de los vientos) - YouTube. Victor Frankenstein creates a chemical that could bring the dead back to life. Makeup Tutorials. HISTORIA TV. This hardly comes across when the Creature is not allowed to make his own case comprehensibly, and he and Victor Frankenstein always shout, rather than speak to each other.Second, how good is this film/play in its own rights? Staying as close to the novel as much as possible. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his Uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne, and plans his revenge. Bernard Rose wrote and directed this modern adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein with a husband and wife (Danny Huston and Carrie-anne Moss) serving as the creators of … The cult movie to end all cult movies, 1975's Rocky Horror Picture Show reimagines Frankenstein as a bawdy, omnisexual musical about a pair of young lovers (Barry Bostwick and Susan Sarandon) who wind up the unwitting houseguests of the lingerie-sporting transvestite Doctor Frank N. Furter, who unveils his dim-witted (albeit hunky) creation before murdering … As Blanche's fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace - but her downward spiral brings her face to face with the brutal, unforgiving Stanley Kowalski. Eckhart described his character thus: "Frankenstein is an intelligent, evolved man, and that's how he is portrayed in this movie, for sure." Was this review helpful to you? 2011: Victor Frankenstein appears in the ABC show Once Upon a Time , a fantasy series on ABC that features multiple characters from fairy tales and classic literature trapped in … Unable to conduct legal human trials, the … General Mark Antony now rules alongside his fellow defenders of Rome. This made-for-cable Frankenstein was originally intended as the pilot for a weekly series based on Frankenstein: The Prodigal Son, a novel by Dean Koontz and Kevin J. Anderson. He succeeds and creates a monster that has to deal with living again. (2011). A disclaimer: I'm the author of The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein (2007). Director: Jed Mercurio | Stars: Helen McCrory, James Purefoy, Neil Pearson, Benedict Wong Votes: 294 Full Cast & Crew: Frankenstein (2011) Cast (21) Benedict Cumberbatch. Agatha de Lacey Karl Johnson. Set a few years into the future, Dr Victoria Frankenstein works on an advanced stem cell research project. Created by Victor Frankenstein, the one known only as 'The Creature' sets out to discover the world and the meaning of his life. This may be politically trendy, but what is the point? Francis spots the chance of an extra meal ticket and takes a second job with one Stanley Stubber. This FAQ is empty. Everything here is wrong. Directed by Jordan Salkil. He is getting paid to perform a wedding ritual under very mysterious conditions. Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Use the HTML below. The Creature / Victor Frankenstein Jonny Lee Miller. Viola is washed ashore but her twin brother Sebastian is lost. Frankenstein (stylised as FRANKƐN5TƐ1N) is a 2015 updated adaptation of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, directed by Bernard Rose.. No_Favorite. Caesar and his assassins are dead. share. Flag this item for. Two crucial characters -- Robert Walton and Henry Clerval -- are completely omitted. a few were striking visually, but all were pointless. Klaus, a beggar Lizzie Winkler. The definitive site for Reviews, Trailers, Showtimes, and Tickets A gripping re-telling of Mary Shelley's gothic masterpiece. A group of researchers conducting illegal stem cell research discover a cell anomaly that has the potential to regenerate dead tissue. Frankenstein is a novel of ideas: a moral allegory, written in poetically powerful prose by one of the greatest poets in English -- about the evil effects of intolerance, to the victims of intolerance and to society at large. The groom is Victor Frankenstein, and the young and beautiful bride is his cousin Elizabeth. Its world premiere was at the Royal National Theatre on 5 February 2011, where it officially opened on 22 February. A List of Movies Based on Frankenstein, 1910-1994 Since a complete list of films based directly or indirectly on Frankenstein would run into the thousands, it's convenient to exclude films with only a tangential relationship to the original novel: those, for instance, with only a mad scientist, a raising-from-the-dead theme, or a Creature cameo. De Lacey, her father-in Law Daniel Millar. Browse more videos. This FAQ is empty. View production, box office, & company info, New Movies to Watch This Week: 'Capone,' 'The Wrong Missy,' 'Scoob!', 2019-20 TV Season Ratings: Fox To Win Demo After Long Dry Spell; CBS First In Viewers For 12th Year In A Row, Frankenstein's 200th Birthday - Iconic Portrayals, M. Frankenstein, father of Victor & William. Leaping between barber shops from Peckham to Johannesburg, Harare, Kampala, Lagos and Accra over the course of a single day, stories are shared and generations reconnect. Created by Victor Frankenstein, the one known only as 'The Creature' sets out to discover the world and the meaning of his life. 27:16. First, the fidelity of this film/play to Shelley's novel, Frankenstein. A ship is wrecked on the rocks. The full 2011 … Add the first question. Henry Frankenstein is a doctor who is trying to discover a way to make the dead walk. Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 Dan Jardine Slant Magazine. This House is a play by James Graham, based on true events that occurred in the 1970s British Parliament. This is the original 1931 Frankenstein. 200 years after his shocking creation, Dr. Frankenstein's creature, Adam, still walks the earth. Get a sneak peek of the new version of this page. Victor Frankenstein is a 2015 American science fantasy drama horror film based on contemporary adaptations of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.It is directed by Paul McGuigan and written by Max Landis, and stars James McAvoy as Victor Frankenstein and Daniel Radcliffe as Igor.The film was released by 20th Century Fox … (2011). With Lee Godwin, Kayla Elizabeth, Chris Party, Chad Foltz. EMBED. PatrickStarrr - YouTube . 6:39. January 1, 2011 Classic monster movie still electrifies. Francis Henshall becomes minder to Roscoe, a small time East End hood. The IMDb editors are anxiously awaiting these delayed 2020 movies. 6 years ago | 687 views. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Written by Josh Pasnak Plot Summary | Plot Synopsis The film is told from the monster's point of view as he is created, escapes into the modern world and learns about the dark side of humanity. Felix … But at the fringes of a war-torn empire the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra and Mark Antony have fallen fiercely in love. The Creature in Frankenstein is superbly eloquent, but Cumberbatch can hardly speak a coherent sentence. This iconic horror film follows the obsessed scientist Dr. Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive) as he attempts to create life by assembling a creature from body parts of the deceased. You can now buy Frankenstein Day of the Beast at https://amzn.com/B01D01K5P0 The impeccable Blu-ray edition has exclusive features. Graphic Violence ; Graphic Sexual Content ; movies. A 2011 play by Nick Dear and directed by Danny Boyle.It stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller, alternating night-by-night in their roles as Frankenstein and the Creature.Scored with dark electronic ambient by the band Underworld.. To prevent discovery, Francis must keep his two guvnors apart. Use the HTML below. Frankenstein (2011 play) Frankenstein is a stage adaptation by Nick Dear of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel of the same name. The play is a new work by Nick Dear … The old horror films had no music, only dialogue. This gets tedious. August 10, 2010 Frankenstein is a horror film … Frankenstein In November 2011, Yvonne Strahovski was cast as the female lead, a scientist working to reanimate the dead, while Miranda Otto was cast as the queen of the gargoyles. Caius Martius Coriolanus is a war hero, banished from his home, seeking to come back. This production was directed by Danny Boyle with a cast including Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller, with the two lead … Victor Frankenstein's father and his bride Elizabeth are portrayed by actors "of color". Have those who gave high ratings read the novel and understood it? In the novel the Creature is swift, lithe, and agile -- whereas Cumberbatch is always flopping and flailing around with his mouth open. However he is attacked by demons but he kills one of them and Gargoyles save him and take him to a Cathedral where the Gargoyles Order gathers. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Add our editors' Netflix movie and TV picks to your Watchlist, including "Bridgerton," David Fincher's Mank, and more. The Creature (aka Being, monster, et al.) SpicyWoods. Directed by Danny Boyle, Tim Van Someren. Frankenstein (2011) - Full Movie - YouTube. With the King's mind unravelling at a dramatic pace, ambitious politicians and the scheming Prince of Wales threaten to undermine the power of the Crown, and expose the fine line between a King and a man. Frankenstein is a stage adaptation by Nick Dear of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel of the same name. Seriously, if i have the chance and the money this guy had, i would have made an excellent movie, even with 0 budget... Get a sneak peek of the new version of this page. Dr Victor Frankenstein dies frozen to death and the creature buries him at the cemetery of his family. Frankenstein (2011) on IMDb: Movies, Tv, Celebrities, and more... Oscars Best Picture Winners Best Picture Winners Golden Globes Emmys STARmeter Awards San Diego Comic-Con New York Comic-Con Sundance Film Festival Toronto Int'l Film … Follow. The point of the episode and the tension are lost because the Creature is unable to make his own case. I, Frankenstein on DVD May 13, 2014 starring Yvonne Strahovski, Aaron Eckhart, Bill Nighy, Jai Courtney. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is a 1994 science fiction horror film directed by Kenneth Branagh, and starring Robert De Niro, Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hulce, Helena Bonham Carter, Ian Holm, John Cleese, and Aidan Quinn.The film was produced on a budget of $45 million and is considered the most faithful film adaptation of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern … Frankenstein (2011) Movies Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. 4:55. 6 of 28 people found this review helpful. A theatre adaptation of the well known story of Jim Hawkins and his adventures in search of Treasure Island. But when he finds himself in the middle of ... See full summary ». A journey from Jamaica to Britain, through the Second World War to 1948 - the year the HMT Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury. in the novel is not only of superhuman size and strength, but also of superhuman intelligence, which makes him both more sympathetic and scarier. Was this review helpful to you? Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house, to care for his young daughter. Title: Frankenstein (2011) Publication date 2011 Topics frankenstein. Nothing to do with the book and its filmed like with a webcam, and the acting is baaaaaaaaad. Whats wrong with this people?? Check out what we'll be watching in 2021. View production, box office, & company info, Frankenstein's 200th Birthday - Iconic Portrayals, Favorite oft-adapted male literary character from the 19th century. Gretel, a prostitute / Clarice, Elizabeth's maid John Killoran. Enjoy! The climatic episode of the novel -- the confrontation between the Creature and the blind old man, De Lacy -- is treated at length in the film, but wrongly and ineptly. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Playing next. "Please do not be inconsistent, I find it infuriating" Perhaps the first big theatre 'event' of the year is the National Theatre's Frankenstein which has taken the step of cross-casting its two main parts, so on different nights one can see Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller playing the roles of Victor Frankenstein and the Creature. The initial twenty minutes, of Cumberbatch rolling and flopping around on the floor, quickly become boring. flag. Title: The Creature / Victor Frankenstein Ella Smith . Forget your old Frankenstein, starting with the Mad Scientist mixing up bubbling potions on a midnight dreary, and using a lightning strike to … Let alone the kind of ecstasy that Frankenstein provoked. 2011: Frankenstein: Day of the Beast is an independent horror film based loosely on the original book. All in all, this work is botched and boring. "The opening 10 minutes are stunning," says Henry Hitchings in the Standard , setting the scene. 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By Katharine Jose | 10:50 am March 29, 2019 CDT Apr 1, 2019 | Updated 10:28 am April 1, 2019 CDT
The Hays CISD board of trustees unanimously approved a resolution at its March 25 meeting opposing construction of the Permian Highway Pipeline and calling on the Legislature to better regulate oil and gas pipeline projects. The district joins Hays County and the cities of San Marcos, Kyle, Wimberley, Woodcreek and Buda in officially stating its opposition.
"I think it's such an important time to take a stand and unify with our county and our city with regard to opposing this pipeline," trustee Esperanza Orosco said at the March 11 agenda meeting where the matter was first discussed.
In addition to articulating opposition, the resolution states Kinder Morgan "has not engaged Hays CISD to discuss areas of growth near schools or district facilities or engaged in conversation regarding pipeline safety concerns," a statement confirmed by Superintendent Eric Wright on March 11. Asked by trustee Willie Tenorio if the district had heard from the company, Wright said, "Not at all."
Kinder Morgan, the company building the pipeline, has released only an inexact map of the proposed route, but Tenorio said it appears to come near Tobias and Hemphill elementary schools as well as in the vicinity of Uhland Elementary School.
"I'm pleased to see this on the agenda," Tenorio said. "I definitely do support passing a resolution against the pipeline."
The resolution states that the district "opposes the PHP on behalf of the interests of the citizens of the school district and in recognition of the potential harm the PHP poses to the school district" and "calls for action at the state Legislature" to create a better regulatory process, to require environmental and economic impact studies and to increase oversight on the power of eminent domain.
"Whatever we can do, we should do," trustee Will McManus said at the March 11 meeting.
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Charleston, WV, Speaker of the West Virginia Tim Armstead announced earlier this year that he would not be seeking reelection to his house seat. The reason he gave was that he may seek other political office in the future. It was a terribly-kept secret that he had intentions of seeking a seat on the West Virginia Supreme Court in 2020.
Well with the debacle that is currently happening with West Virginia's Supreme Court, the resignation of Justice Menis Ketchum under threat of impeachment and the actual impeachment proceedings of another justice, a seat on the court will be chosen early by the voters this November.
Speaker Armstead would be the perfect justice for a West Virginia Supreme Court badly in need of a credibility infusion. Tim Armstead was voted Speaker of the House of Delegates after a red revolution in 2014 that flipped both legislative houses from blue to red. And for four years has successfully managed the hardest job in West Virginia. Much harder than heading the heavily red state senate, Armstead has had to wrangle three political parties, Democrats, Republicans and Libertarians, within the House of Delegates.
That volatile mix unexpectedly tripped up some of West Virginia's united red initiatives. But Armstead was consistent in his principle. He was unwavering in his courage to defend the state and federal constitutions and the rights of West Virginia's citizens contained therein. He was such a stalwart of the truth and common sense, that marijuana-minded young Republicans were forced to team with rabid Libertarians and maniacal Democrats in order to force a pro-pot bill passed Armstead's control.
So the opening on the court has presented an opportunity. And it's time that in West Virginia, the people of faith, people of principle, citizens of integrity, it's time to call for a Supreme Court candidate like Speaker of the House Tim Armstead to run for that open seat this November.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Secretary of State Mac Warner is announcing the official candidate registration dates for a Special Election called by Governor Jim Justice to fill the unexpired term of Justice Menis Ketchum on the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals.
Justice Ketchum resigned effective Friday.
The Special Election will run concurrently with the regularly scheduled Nov. 6 General Election.


Understanding signals in the niche that regulate stem cell behaviours is important for applications such as tissue engineering, and limitations in ex vivo/in vitro recapitulation of some stem cell niches, particularly the bone marrow, have led researchers to attempt to delineate signalling mechanisms present in vivo using a reductionist approach. This is especially important as 'stemness' is not solely an intrinsic property of stem cells but a result of the reciprocal interactions between stem cells and their niches. Physical stimuli such as mechanical stiffness and topography are known to significantly impact stem cell behaviours; being translated through adhesions, intracellular tension and mechanotransduction, which can alter gene expression and thus cell fate. In this review general properties of the stem cell niche are initially described, using intestinal and bone marrow niches as examples. The lesser-described physical stimuli of nanotopography and the mechanisms by which stem cells respond and interact with it are described, including biochemical and physical mechanotrasduction, chemical and physical signal integration and adhesion mechanisms in both anchorage-dependent and -independent cells. Specific examples of nanotopographical influence over stem cell differentiation are highlighted and parallels drawn between the stem cell niche and these 'synthetic' in vitro observations. Ultimately if the complex stem cell niche is to be mimicked in vitro or stem cells exploited for medical applications the physical microenvironment, including nanotopography, must be optimised.
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CD PROJEKT RED is looking for an exceptional, talented and experienced Gameplay Animator to join our outstanding team. Person on this position will be responsible for character and creature animation as well as for animations of other in-game objects. Gameplay animators in our company work very closely with gameplay designers and programmers, so technical and implementation knowledge is crucial. You will also be responsible for the preparation of mocap materials, their dynamics and overall quality as well as for the implementation of animations into the game.
Creating high quality animation assets with low turnover time.
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Very good knowledge of Motion Builder and / or Maya.
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Experience working with motion capture technology including set up, acting and animation cleanup.
The ability to effectively collaborate with game designers and programmers.
Outstanding creativity and very strong commitment to a project.
Passion for games and in general for animation.
You're probably wondering what's it like to be an animator at CD PROJEKT RED. Well, it's refreshingly different! We're giving animators a lot of freedom in terms of creativity – we have our own motion capture studio and animate everything in-house. You'll have a shot not only at animating humanoids and animals, but also machines and creatures that are a real challenge to bring to life. At RED, every animator is responsible for a piece of the project, so you feel you're a a part of things. If you've been looking for change, you just found it!


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Gilda Susan Radner (* 28. Juni 1946 in Detroit, Michigan; † 20. Mai 1989 in Los Angeles, Kalifornien) war eine US-amerikanische Schauspielerin und Komikerin, die durch ihre fünfjährige Teilnahme an der NBC-Comedyserie Saturday Night Live bekannt wurde.

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Gilda Radner wurde 1946 als Tochter einer jüdisch-amerikanischen Familie in Detroit geboren. Ihre Eltern waren Herman Radner und Henrietta Dworkin. Sie hatte einen älteren Bruder namens Michael. Radner hatte eine enge Bindung zu ihrem Vater, einem Hotelmanager, mit dem sie häufig Broadway-Aufführungen in New York besuchte. Es traf sie  hart, als ihr Vater an einem Hirntumor starb, als sie 14 Jahre alt war. Vermutlich war dies der Auslöser ihrer Erkrankungen Bulimie und Magersucht.

Nach ihrer Schulausbildung begann sie in den 1960er Jahren ein Studium an der University of Michigan. In Ann Arbor, Michigan begann sie ihre Medienkarriere als Wetteransagerin beim Hochschulradiosender WCBN. Ihre ersten Schauspielerfahrungen sammelte sie in dem Off-Broadway-Musicalstück Godspell. Von 1973 bis 1975 wirkte sie mit John Belushi, Richard Belzer, Chevy Chase, Bill Murray und Brian Doyle-Murray bei einem Comedy-Radioprogramm mit, das von etwa 600 US-amerikanischen Radiosendern gesendet wurde. Von 1975 bis 1980 gehörte sie zur Originalbesetzung der Show Saturday Night Live, bei der sie fünf Jahre lang in verschiedenen Sketchen und Rollen zu sehen war. 1978 erhielt sie dafür einen Emmy-Award.

In erster Ehe von 1980 bis 1982 war sie mit dem Musiker G. E. Smith verheiratet. Am 18. September 1984 heiratete sie in Südfrankreich den Schauspieler Gene Wilder. 1986 drehte sie mit ihm und unter seiner Regie den Film Hochzeitsnacht im Geisterschloß (Haunted Honeymoon), der zugleich ihr letzter Film wurde. Schon während der Dreharbeiten zu dem Film klagte sie über Müdigkeit und Schmerzen in den Beinen. Nach mehreren Fehldiagnosen wurde im Oktober 1986 bei ihr Eierstockkrebs festgestellt. Nach Chemo- und Strahlentherapien wurde ein temporäres Nachlassen der Krankheitssymptome festgestellt, was sie dazu bewog, ihre Memoiren mit dem Titel It's Always Something zu verfassen. Darin beschrieb sie das Leben mit ihrer Krankheit und den Kampf dagegen.

Aufgrund der vermeintlichen Besserung trat sie wieder bei verschiedenen Veranstaltungen auf und plante ihr Comeback. Dies musste verworfen werden, als im Mai 1988 der Krebs zurückkehrte und metastasiert hatte. Am 17. Mai 1989 fiel Radner ins Koma und starb drei Tage später im Alter von 42 Jahren. Die Beisetzung fand vier Tage nach ihrem Tod statt. Am 27. Juni 2003 erhielt sie einen Stern auf dem Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Filmografie

Im Fernsehen
 1974: Jack: A Flash Fantasy
 1974: The Gift of Winter (Stimme)
 1974–1975: Dr. Zonk and the Zunkins (Stimme)
 1975–1980: Saturday Night Live
 1978: The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash
 1978: Witch's Night Out (Stimme)
 1978: Muppet Show
 1979: Bob & Ray, Jane, Laraine & Gilda
 1980: Die Dschungelolympiade (Stimme)

Im Kino
 1973: Das letzte Kommando (The Last Detail)
 1979: Mr. Mike's Mondo Video
 1980: Gilda Live
 1980: Ene Mene Mu und Präsident bist du (First Family)
 1982: Der Geisterflieger (Hanky Panky)
 1982: It Came from Hollywood
 1984: Die Frau in Rot (The Woman in Red)
 1985: Movers & Shakers
 1986: Hochzeitsnacht im Geisterschloß (Haunted Honeymoon)

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FBU to expand its presence in Collier County, bring more events to new sports stadium
Steve Quinn and Erik Richards, the duo who recently purchased the youth sports enterprise, are looking to build upon "The Path to Naples."
FBU to expand its presence in Collier County, bring more events to new sports stadium Steve Quinn and Erik Richards, the duo who recently purchased the youth sports enterprise, are looking to build upon "The Path to Naples." Check out this story on naplesnews.com: https://www.naplesnews.com/story/news/local/2019/12/20/fbu-expand-presence-collier-county-bring-more-events-to-new-sports-stadium/2713839001/
Laura Layden, Naples Daily News Published 4:08 p.m. ET Dec. 20, 2019
Photos: FBU Freshman All-American Bowl
Naples High's Dominiq Ponder looks to throw the ball during the FBU Freshman All-American football game at Gulf Coast High School in Naples, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018. Chris Tilley/Special to USA TODAY NETWORK-FLORIDA
Naples High's Devin Moore (8) during the FBU Freshman All-American football game at Gulf Coast High School in Naples, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018. Chris Tilley/Special to USA TODAY NETWORK-FLORIDA
High School Football Helmets from school across the nation laying on the field during the FBU Freshman All-American football game at Gulf Coast High School in Naples, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018. Chris Tilley/Special to USA TODAY NETWORK-FLORIDA
The FBU Freshman All-American football game at Gulf Coast High School in Naples, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018. Chris Tilley/Special to USA TODAY NETWORK-FLORIDA
Naples Highs' Devin Moore (8) defends the runner for a touchdown during the FBU Freshman All-American football game at Gulf Coast High School in Naples, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018. Chris Tilley/Special to USA TODAY NETWORK-FLORIDA
Community School's Dylan McNamara (12) during the FBU Freshman All-American football game at Gulf Coast High School in Naples, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018. Chris Tilley/Special to USA TODAY NETWORK-FLORIDA
Community School's Dylan McNamara (12) looks throws the ball during the FBU Freshman All-American football game at Gulf Coast High School in Naples, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018. Chris Tilley/Special to USA TODAY NETWORK-FLORIDA
Community School's Dylan McNamara (12) throws the ball during the FBU Freshman All-American football game at Gulf Coast High School in Naples, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018. Chris Tilley/Special to USA TODAY NETWORK-FLORIDA
The FBU Freshman All-American Bowl football game at Gulf Coast High School in Naples, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018. Chris Tilley/Special to USA TODAY NETWORK-FLORIDA
Naples High's Andre Dollar catches runs down field during the FBU Freshman All-American football game at Gulf Coast High School in Naples, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018. Chris Tilley/Special to USA TODAY NETWORK-FLORIDA
Community School's Dylan McNamara (12) looks for the snap during the FBU Freshman All-American football game at Gulf Coast High School in Naples, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018. Chris Tilley/Special to USA TODAY NETWORK-FLORIDA
Naples High's Andre Dollar catches the ball during the FBU Freshman All-American football game at Gulf Coast High School in Naples, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018. Chris Tilley/Special to USA TODAY NETWORK-FLORIDA
Naples High's Andre Dollar catches the ball during the FBU Freshman All-American football game at Gulf Coast High School in Naples,Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018. Chris Tilley/Special to USA TODAY NETWORK-FLORIDA
The FBU Freshman All-American football game at Gulf Coast High School in Naples,Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018. Chris Tilley/Special to USA TODAY NETWORK-FLORIDA
The new owners of Football University have a new playbook.
Business partners Steve Quinn and Erik Richards, the duo who recently purchased the youth sports enterprise, are looking to build upon "The Path to Naples."
Until now, the path referred to the regional games leading up to the national youth football championships played each December in Naples, hosted by Football University — or FBU.
The "path" will soon involve other football events, including FBU's Top Gun Showcase.
Photo from Top Gun Showcase in 2019 (Photo: Submitted)
The showcase, last held in Rock Hill, South Carolina, is moving to the Naples area — more specifically to the Paradise Coast Sports Complex, Collier County's new amateur sports and event complex that's under construction at City Gate, off Collier Boulevard just east of Interstate 75.
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The event will be held in July. It's designed to "highlight the best middle school and high school FBU student-athletes in an intense position-specific test of technical skill and ability," according to FBU's website.
The showcase is the largest of its kind in the country, drawing more than 1,200 athletes and roughly 3,000 supporters. At the annual camp, FBU athletes from across the country learn to play better and compete for exclusive invitations to other national events, such as FBU's All-American Bowl, which moved to Naples a few years ago.
"Now, we can truly call it 'The Path to Naples' in everything we do," Quinn said.
Steve Quinn, vice president of player development at All-American Games (Photo: Adam Fisher/Naples Daily News)
More than half of last year's FBU All-American Bowl athletes were invited from Top Gun.
Collier County Commissioners recently approved a sponsorship agreement with FBU to host Top Gun for three years — in 2020, 2021 and 2022.
"This is the biggest showcase in the country, so every young athlete that's a football player wants to make it to Top Gun," Quinn said.
FBU estimates the showcase will generate 1,000 to 1,500 room nights each year, with an annual economic impact of $1.5 million to $2 million in the county.
"It's not a three- to four-day, it's more like a 10-day event for the parents who bring their athletes down here — and obviously their siblings," Quinn said.
That's because after the event wraps up, families will hit the beaches and enjoy everything else "that paradise has to offer," he said.
Collier County antes up
Collier County has agreed to pay FBU a sponsorship fee of $100,000 each year to help offset the costs of hosting the event, which has been held for more than a decade at various locations.
Jack Wert, executive director, Naples, Marco Island, Everglades Convention & Visitors Bureau (Photo: Submitted)
The county's Tourist Development Council unanimously recommended in favor of the sponsorship agreement, which county commissioners approved without discussion on their consent agenda Dec. 10.
"They really want to establish Naples as the real home for youth football and that helps when you have two events during the year," said Jack Wert, Collier County's tourism director. "It becomes a football destination."
The showcase will be held at a slower time of the year for tourism, helping to fill empty rooms during the offseason. It's expected to be one of the first events held at the new stadium, which is on schedule to have its first four fields open for play before July.
"The initial fields will be ready for play in May or early June. They are moving along pretty fast on phase one," Wert said.
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The first phase includes a welcome center and concessions, which should also be open in time for use during the Top Gun Showcase.
Quinn, a local resident on and off since 1996, and his business partner recently moved FBU's headquarters to Naples, because they hope to play a big part in the growth of sports tourism that's expected to come with the opening of the sports complex.
"We want to partner with Collier County, not just for football, but in any way we can help with all sports," Quinn said.
FBU plans to bring four more football events to Collier County over the next few years.
"These will be homegrown, right here in Naples, Florida," Quinn said.
That means no costly bidding fees to lure events away from other cities or towns, he explained, which could result in savings of $500,000 to $1 million a year to the county.
"We believe that the Paradise Coast Sports Complex will be an unparalleled first-class experience for families and athletes of all ages," Quinn said. "This is the one-stop-shop sports complex of the future, and we are proud to be a part of it."
Two new football events are being planned for 2020 and two more for 2021. These new events will be announced over the coming months.
Naples connection
In the mid-2000's Quinn became president of the Naples Gators youth football league. That's when he learned about FBU.
Quinn lived in Naples for 15 years before moving to New Jersey to work for All-American Games, the previous owners of FBU. He served as president of the Naples Gators for five years before moving, and he also started the Southwest Florida Youth Football League.
Richards has been involved with youth and high school football for more than 25 years. He plans to relocate to Naples from Atlanta in August, while Quinn's family has already made the move.
For months, Quinn and Richards have been in discussions with Sports Force Parks, the operator of the new stadium, and Collier County about bringing more events to the venue, from lacrosse games to flag football tournaments.
"The relationship with FBU is one that makes perfect sense," said Brian Storm, Sports Force Parks' president and CEO, in a statement. "We're thrilled to combine their professional organization and world-class events with Sports Force Parks' commitment to high-end facilities and fantastic family experiences. This partnership is a game changer for the region and just the beginning of great things to come for the Paradise Coast Sports Complex."
Flag football is of particular interest because it's "really growing," especially the 7-on-7 version, Wert said.
"I think that will be one we will go after," he said.
While Wert expects Quinn and Richards to be successful in bringing new events to the stadium, with so many contacts in the sports world, he points out the county also has a sports marketing and sales team of its own that's focused on attracting games, competitions and tournaments to all of the county's venues.
FBU's football championships and showcase will be like bookend events, bringing in visitors at slower times of the year. Tourism usually slows in the two weeks leading to Christmas when the championship games are played.
From a news conference announcing the return of the FBU national championships at Naples Bay Resort on Sept. 26, 2017. From left: Steve Quinn, vice president of All-American Games; Doug Berman, CEO of All-American Games; Penny Taylor, Collier County commissioner; Mary Shea, president of the Sports Council of Collier County; and Jack Wert, executive director of the Naples, Marco Island, Everglades Convention and Visitors Bureau. (Photo: Adam Fisher/Naples Daily News)
Typically, season runs from November to April — with the peak hitting in the months of January to March.
The FBU championships have been an economic win for Collier County —generating 3,000 to 3,500 room nights, with an estimated economic impact of $3 million to $3.5 million annually.
More: FBU National Championship is a 'little piece of gold' for Collier County's economy
When the sponsorship agreement for the Top Gun Showcase went before the Tourist Development Council, member Michelle McLeod raised concerns about whether the stadium would be ready for the event, saying it's still so "raw."
Although he expects the stadium to be player and camera ready by July, Quinn said there's a Plan B if that doesn't happen. The showcase would then be held at North Collier Regional Park, he said.
Some have questioned whether cost could keep some families away when Top Gun moves to Naples, a market that's more geared to the wealthy.
"Hotels give parents great rates," Quinn said. "We will do anything for our kids, especially right now."
Youth sports tourism is a multi-billion-dollar industry worldwide, he pointed out.
"We have obviously taken a small piece of that," he said.
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