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Jonathan Monaghan, 2021 Sondheim Finalist
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Monaghan's themes of power, technology, and rampant consumerism speak to the unique challenges of today's attention economy
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After a year-plus of isolation from which we are only now emerging tentatively to weekend BBQs and cookouts, artist Jonathan Monaghan's 18-and-a-half-minute looping 3-D animation work, "Den of Wolves," hits differently. The piece, which Monaghan began working on in early 2020 before lockdown, gives us separate vignettes of three hyper-animated and otherworldly wolves which roam an empty Walmart and then end up at a version of the United States Capitol building that contains both an Apple store and a doppelganger of a Whole Foods, seeking out bedazzled symbols of monarchy: an orb, scepter, and royal mantle.
The distinctly American landscapes depicted in the video are familiar yet utterly foreign, functioning as cleaned-up versions of reality that still manage to signal their origin. To anyone who lived through 2020, the emptiness of these spaces isn't what's as striking as it would have been if we had never heard of the "new normal"; it's the total blandness that is the built environment of the American cities in the aughts seen as a primary subject, the wolves functioning as our stand-in explorers slowly stalking their prizes.
"Sentries IX" at The Walters
Wall decal work, "Sentries IX," and "Den of Wolves" video installation
Monaghan's Sondheim finalist exhibition space at the Walters Art Museum contains only two works, "Den of Wolves," and a wall decal work, "Sentries IX," which is from a series of works made using the same software as the animation. The "Sentries" series plays with texture and color, combining Baroque art and architecture with soft-looking pastel fabrics, a melding of the gaudiest moments in art history with contemporary technology.
Monaghan, who received his BFA from the New York Institute of Technology in 2008 and his MFA from the University of Maryland in 2011, lives in Washington, DC, and is represented by bitforms, a New York gallery dedicated to showing the work of contemporary artists exploring new technologies (this video work and others are part of his solo show, closing June 12 at bitforms). Monaghan's work has been screened and included in group shows all over the world, including the Palais de Tokyo in Paris and the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia, among many others. Notably, his work has been recognized with residencies at the Millay Colony in New York state and Palazzo Monti in Brescia, Italy, and he was the 2015 recipient of the Trawick Prize.
Monaghan's themes of power, technology, and rampant consumerism speak to the unique challenges of today's attention economy. Nobel Laureate economist Herbert A. Simon first used the term "attention economy" in 1971, but it has enjoyed a resurgence of popularity thanks in part to Jenny Odell's 2019 NYT-bestselling self-help book, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy. In her book, Odell, an artist, educator, and millennial, discusses a wide range of subjects from the intentional off-the-grid communities of the 1960s and '70s, to alternative social media platforms, to resistance and advocacy groups like the student survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, as a means of demonstrating what can happen when we engage intentionally with the world around us.
Odell writes that "attention economy distractions keep us from doing the things we want to do . . . they keep us from living the lives we want to live." Social media surveillance and the way marketing algorithms now function seamlessly to show us items we want to buy are the problem, she posits. Perhaps "airplane mode" and birdwatching are the answers, she suggests.
Still from "Den of Wolves"
A millennial contemporary of Odell's, Monaghan also remembers a time pre-internet, having come of age with the very technologies he employs to make his work. The wolves in "Den of Wolves" feel like stand-ins for Americans, full of desire for the traditional trappings of empire while simultaneously feeling empty and repulsed by the barren world that surrounds us. Who hasn't wasted a half-hour scrolling through Instagram only to remember nothing of what they saw or experienced? Who hasn't stomped through a big-box store in search of a couple of essential items and left semi-stunned with a pile of mostly useless crap?
It feels telling that Monaghan's alien-wolves leave this constructed world behind, returning to their spaceship at the conclusion of the piece. According to Dany Chan, co-curator of the Sondheim Artscape Prize exhibition and Assistant Curator of Asian Art at the Walters, the artist has said he intends this to be an optimistic ending, but I'm left wondering where are they off to next and is there room in the back?
You can watch Jonathan Monaghan's recorded artist talk from May 25, 2021, about his show at the Walters here.
More Sondheim info: The Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts and the Walters Art Museum proudly present the 17th annual Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize Finalists exhibition. The prize awards a $25,000 fellowship to a visual artist or group of visual artist collaborators living and working in the greater Baltimore region and is presented in conjunction with the annual Artscape juried art exhibition of the finalists' work. A panel of three jurors—Naz Cuguoğlu, Michelle Grabner, and Meleko Mokgosi—has selected five finalists for this exhibition and for final review for the prize. The remaining finalists each receive a $2,500 M&T Bank Finalist Award. The winner will be announced on Saturday, July 10.
Named in honor of Janet and Walter Sondheim, the Sondheim Artscape Prize raises the regional visibility of Baltimore as a vibrant urban center that rewards creativity and continues the Sondheim family's legacy and commitment to Baltimore City.
Links: Promotion and the Arts: Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize Finalists
The Walters Sondheim Prize Exhibition dates and programming
Photos courtesy of The Walters Art Museum and by Cara Ober
Inside Phylicia Ghee's Story of Remembrance
Phylicia Ghee's 'Liminality: Midwifery and the Sacred Womb' at The Nicholson Project
After a residency at The Nicholson Project in DC, Ghee created a container for intergenerational inquiries about care and caregivers
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almotamar.net - An official source at the General People's Congress GPC denied as being true news circulated by some media of the Joint Meeting Parties JMP alleging that the team of the European Union EU has announced its non-participation in observation of the upcoming parliamentary elections in Yemen scheduled to be held next April.
The source asserted such news leaks are groundless and are part of misleading campaign being launched by the JMP in its tensed political and media address for deforming facts. The source pointed out that the GPC did not receive any statement from the EU team in this regard. He added the EU team was presently holding contacts to learn opinions of the parties of the political process in Yemen and it is working for reaching an accord among the political parties and organisations on the difference issues related to holding the elections in Yemen.
Al-Mithaq newspaper quoted the source as saying the team has stressed the necessity of holding the parliamentary elections in the defined date so that the democratic experiment in Yemen would not be exposed to a setback. He pointed out he team advised the JMP on the necessity of taking part in the upcoming elections.
The source made it clear that the GPC is going ahead towards achieving the electoral right on 27 April 2009.


Evolution Properties » Are You Behaving In A Tenant-Like Manner?
Interesting article that came across my desk the other day that I wanted to share!
Although it may seem somewhat self-explanatory at first glance, behaving in a tenant-like manner could really mean anything and would, therefore, be open to interpretation without solid guidelines behind it. Thankfully, such guidelines exist, and in this post we'll explore exactly what behaving in a tenant-like manner actually means so you'll know exactly what your responsibilities are.
What are the origins of the phrase, "tenant-like manner"?


The launch on Tuesday (June 19) of a new eCommerce option for shoppers seeking makeup, hair care products, fragrances and similar products represents the expansion of another frontier for online shopping. Feelunique, an online retailer of cosmetics and other items, said that is has become a WeChat Mini Program member. Mini programs essentially function as digital boutiques that reside inside the WeChat app.
"Feelunique is one of the first pure-play cross-border retailers to launch a WeChat Mini Program," a company spokesman said.
WeChat Mini Programs have attracted more than 114 million users since the launch of those stores in January 2017.
The WeChat move by Feelunique comes amid increasing attention to embedding eCommerce into larger ecosystems where like-minded consumers might gather. One of main buzzwords associated with this trend is "contextual commerce." For instance, a consumer reading an article about a celebrity might want to instantly buy the fashion that movie star is wearing — presenting an opportunity for a smart merchant to capture an impulse purchases — or a consumer, inspired by digital word-of-mouth, might feel to sudden urge to buy, say, a beauty or luxury product.
That flavor of commerce is playing out notably in China, its large consumer base and fast-developing digital ecosystem is leading to those types of online services, and not just from WeChat.
Take the RED social app (aka Redbook or Xiaohongshu), which has 60 million users, according to recent article in Jing Daily.
The article described RED as a "true hybrid" of social media and eCommerce.
"While it may look a bit like Western social channels, such as Pinterest and Instagram, unlike these platforms, eCommerce is a central focus on RED and users are able to buy products directly from merchants," the report said.
Expanding the eCommerce ecosystem is also taking place outside of China, of course. Earlier this spring, for instance, Instagram said it had launched features on its social networking platform that will help users contact companies and enlist them for goods and services. Users will be able to book appointments via Instagram. The company said users can store payment information that would be tied to those activities through "action buttons." Booking is done through third-party partners, but users will not have to leave Instagram to make those bookings. Current partners include Acuity, ChowNow and Yelp Reservations.
Those are a lot of stores, and it seems likely what happens with Chinese eCommerce has a good chance of influencing, directly or indirectly, online shopping practices in the rest of the world.


This Sunday, we gather for a service of repentance and renewal. Following last year's synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh, the Lexington community gathered in solidarity with Temple Adath Israel and Ohavay Zion Synagogue after this tragic event. During the service, a prayer shawl was purposefully soiled with wine to signify our failings to live as God's beloved community, and call us to work for peace.
On Sunday, we reflect alongside this symbol—a reminder of our shortcomings and an invitation to join in God's work of justice and reconciliation. Far beyond guilt and shame, God invites our fractured humanity to wholehearted living that walks in grace and truth in an ever-widening community of love. May we see more clearly the path of God's lovingkindness and walk together in faith.


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NW200: Cooper and Bridewell set for debuts in 2018
Tommy Bridewell (left) and Richard Cooper are set to make their debuts at the North West 200 in 2018.
Published: 17:37 Tuesday 17 October 2017
Two former British Superbike race winners are set to make their debuts at next year's international North West 200 with Richard Cooper and Tommy Bridewell preparing to tackle the Triangle course.
Cooper, who finished as the runner-up in the Pirelli National Superstock 1000 Championship on the Bennetts Suzuki, and BSB rider Bridewell will be competing at a road race for the first time when they join a stellar line-up in Portrush next May.
Both riders flew into Northern Ireland on Tuesday and were shown around the 8.9-mile course by Rider Liaison officer Steve Plater and Event Director Mervyn Whyte.
Nottingham's Cooper revealed he discussed making his debut at the event with his Bennetts Suzuki team-mate and Ulster road racing star Michael Dunlop.
"I have asked Michael what it is like and having someone with his experience in the garage is a positive thing," said the 34-year-old.
"I know that I can count on him to give me honest answers."
Cooper will remain with Stuart and Steve Hicken's Suzuki team for 2018 and would ideally like to ride a Superstock-spec GSX-R1000 alongside a Supertwin machine for his maiden outing at the North West.
"Suzuki make a twin and I've looked at that as an option and it's not out of the question," he said.
"I think it would be better to do two classes as a newcomer.
"I am 34 and I have done a lot of racing in different classes. I've ridden in one-make series and European championships as well as BSB and Superstocks. I have learned to be able to ride around problems," he added.
"I would want to try to take in as much as possible in year one but it would be hard to say whether or not I might make the top ten or not.
"I know what I am capable of and I know who is competitive at the North West. I know who I can run with on the short circuits and I want to come to the North West and do myself justice, not just make up the numbers."
Bridewell, who rode for Northern Ireland's Tyco BMW team in 2015, has been competing in the BSB championship since 2009.
The 29-year-old has long considered making the transition to the roads and following in the footsteps of leading British championship riders who have been successful in both disciplines, such as seven-time winner Plater, all-time record holder Alastair Seeley and more recently Josh Brookes, Peter Hickman and Glenn Irwin.
"It has always been in my mind to have a go on the roads," he said.
"I know quite a lot about the North West because I visited here in 2015 and I am friends with Martin Jessopp and Ian Hutchinson."
Bridewell is coming off the back of a frustrating season in BSB with the WD-40 Kawasaki team and is now chasing a deal for next year that will enable him to combine his roads debut with the British championship.
"I want to integrate riding at the North West with my Superbike plans in 2018. My main focus is becoming BSB champion but I definitely want to come and race the North West," said Bridewell.
"I wouldn't be coming to the North West trying to win or even to make the top ten in my first year.
"I love the North West atmosphere though and I wouldn't be worried about results as long as I was enjoying it. If you enjoy it then you can get sucked along and maybe get into a group and then you never know what will happen."
Rider Liaison officer Plater said the experience behind both riders will stand them in good stead for their roads bow.
"Tommy and Richard have lots of racing experience. They have been attracted to the North West to make their roads debuts here because they like the approach and the lack of pressure, plus there are plenty of people here to offer them support," he said.
"It is great news for the North West 200 fans to have two riders of the calibre of Tommy Bridewell and Richard Cooper wanting to come to race at Portrush."
North West chief Whyte added: "Josh Brookes, Peter Hickman and Glenn Irwin have all made their mark at the North West in recent seasons and there is no reason why Tommy and Richard can't do likewise."

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Thomas Bruchhäuser (* 1964) ist ein deutscher Comedian, Comedy-Akrobat, Clown und Regisseur.

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Jugend und Ausbildung
Thomas Bruchhäuser stammt aus einer Künstlerfamilie (Vater Karl Bruchhäuser:  Maler, Mutter Ute Rohde/Bruchhäuser: Seidenmalerin, Bruder Mario Bruchhäuser: Raumgestalter, Bruder Andreas Bruchhäuser:  Kunstmaler, Bruder Karl Bruchhäuser: Schauspieler). Aufgewachsen im Westerwald absolvierte er seine Ausbildung an der Clownschule Dimitri in der Schweiz.

Künstlerische Stationen
1987 bis 1988 war Thomas Bruchhäuser als Hauptdarsteller bei einer internationalen Clownshow  von André Heller engagiert. Mit Georg Leiste gründete er 1988 das Comedy-Duo "Tébé & Leiste".

Regiearbeiten und Inszenierungen
Seit 1992 inszeniert Thomas Bruchhäuser Varieté-, Messe- und Eventshows.  1996 gründete er die Kreativ- und Eventagentur movendi eventproductions concepts artists GmbH gemeinsam mit Peter Lomme. Er ist Autor und Regisseur zahlreicher Sketchtheater- und Motivationsshows für verschiedene Industriekunden.

Im Jahr 2000 verwirklichte er seine  Idee zur Höhner Rockin' Roncalli-Show mit der Kölner Band "Die Höhner" und Artisten des Circus Roncalli, die als jährlich wiederkehrende und von Thomas Bruchhäuser inszenierte Veranstaltung inzwischen  Kultstatus besitzt. Seit 2003 besteht eine enge Zusammenarbeit mit dem  Circus Roncalli: An der Seite des Zirkusdirektors und Gründers Bernhard Paul übernimmt Bruchhäuser regelmäßig die Rolle des Künstlerischen Leiters für die Reihe "Circus meets Classic" mit Weltstars aus unterschiedlichen Genres im Konzerthaus Dortmund bzw. in Zusammenarbeit mit den Münchner Symphonikern in der Philharmonie München.

Seit 2003 ist er künstlerischer Berater für die ARD-Show "Stars in der Manege". Thomas Bruchhäuser ist Regisseur im Apollo-Varieté in Düsseldorf und  weiterer Roncalli-Produktionen, u. a. der "Kelly Roncalli Show", "Sterne des Varietés", dem Dinnershow-Klassiker "Panem et Circenses".  Im Jahre 2005 übernahm er die Inszenierung der Auftaktveranstaltung des Roncalli-Jubiläumsjahres  in der KölnArena. Seit 2006 inszeniert er zwei von vier Produktionen der  Dinnershow "Roncalli & Witzigmanns Bajazzo", die jedes Jahr mit wechselnden Shows in Hamburg, Köln, Frankfurt und München gastieren. Mehrmals war er Regisseur des Oldenburger Weihnachtszirkus, an dem internationale Artisten teilnehmen. 2008 führte er Regie bei der 35-Jahre-Jubiläums-Show der Höhner in der Lanxess-Arena in Köln.

Auszeichnungen
 2007 Schweizer Falkenpreis

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 Tébé & Leiste
Themenshows
 Produktpräsentation, Messeshow
 Moderation

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 Tébé & Leiste
 Georg Leiste
 Höhner
 Hoehner-Rockin-Roncalli-Show

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Theaterregisseur
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August 6-16, 2013, Beijing, China
The International Neutrino Summer School (INSS 2013), co-hosted by the Institute of High Energy Physics and Fermilab, will take place at Beijing Shunxin Green Resort in the suburb of Beijing from August 6 to August 16, 2013.
The goal of this school is to train the next generation of neutrino physicists, and its curriculum covers many topics such as an introduction to the standard model, neutrino oscillation phenomenology, accelerator and reactor neutrinos, neutrino cross sections, neutrino mass models, and neutrinos in cosmology. The target audience consists of graduate students and young researchers in both theory and experiment. We aim to cover the full breadth of neutrino physics over all energy scales. The school will include formal lectures, informal tutorial sessions and opportunities for students to present their own work.
The main topics and lectures of the school are
Introduction to the Standard Model
Xiangdong Ji (Shanghai Jiaotong University)
Neutrino oscillation framework
Boris Kayser (FNAL)
Mass models (incl. 0nubb and sterile nus) and leptogenesis
Silvia Pascoli (IPPP of Durham University)
Neutrino cosmology and astrophysics
Jenni Adams (University of Canterbury)
Majorana/Dirac neutrinos and absolute mass measurements
Liang Yang (University of Illinois)
Fundamentals of neutrino cross sections
Kevin McFarland (university of Rochester)
Physics of Neutrino Detection
Federico Sanchez (IFAE, Barcelona)
Accelerator Neutrino sources (accel. physics, superbeams, nufacts, betabeams)
Paul Soler (University of Glasgow)
Solar, atmospheric and Reactor Neutrino Sources
Takaaki Kajita (University of Tokyo)
Concluding lecture: current snapshot of the field
David Wark (Imperial College London)
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"Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious oil upon the head, running down on the beard of Aaron, running down on the edge of his garments" (Psalm 133:1, 2).
The Church today is not "earnestly striving for the faith that was once delivered to the saints." The church has become a social gathering place to hear and exchange the latest gossip. The Church today has become a fashion statement, where members come to show off their expensive clothes. The Church has become a congregation of big I's and little u's. Whatever happened to the church of the apostolic era where the believers had everything in common. Everyone shared what they had?
Pastoring in most churches of today has become a business rather than a calling. People are actually entering into the ministry to make money, not because God has called them to feed and care for His sheep.
Churches of today are no longer concerned for the poor, the orphans, and the widows. They are preoccupied with enriching themselves at the expense of those less unfortunate. In fact, many of the so-called mega churches are even preaching that poverty is a curse! WHAT NONSENSE! How can poverty be a curse when Jesus Himself said, "The poor will always be with you." Both the Old and New Testaments strongly urged people to give to and assist the poor and needy.
The true Church is one that is set apart from the world, both in word and deed. Sinners should look at a born again person, and say, "I want to be like him or her. The church must let the mind that was in Christ Jesus be in it also.
I agree that the Church has strayed from its roots. The fragmentation into so many denominations, and cults, gives scandal to the Christian Faith. Let's pray that people will re-focus their lives on Jesus of Nazareth. Let's pray that people will strip away what is peripheral and non-essential, while accepting Jesus, and following His teachings, as the Way to true happiness. May we put away the things that divide us, so that we may know the Promise of everlasting life, in the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ, Saviour of the world.
May God bless your efforts to restore unity and truth to the Church of Christ.
Thanks so much for your comments. I really appreciate your insight.


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Share this Story: What we talk about when we talk about craft beer
What we talk about when we talk about craft beer
'You don't have a lingo test in order to enjoy a beer'
Laura Brehaut
Feb 12, 2021 • February 12, 2021 • 9 minute read • 6 Comments
"When you have a (craft beer) description that's presented in this very interesting, sometimes very technical or goofy way, it raises the question of what kind of target audience is being constructed here? Who is this for?" says Lex Konnelly. Photo by Getty Images
"Imagine it. It's a hot summer day. You're six and someone has given you a Mr. Freezie. I think it's purple. And you've done that thing that every kid does where you suck all the flavour out and there's a little bit at the bottom. It's got that distinct memory of purple freezie — that's what this beer reminds me of."
When Ren Navarro talks about beer, she talks about experiences. This particular beer was a fruited sour, but no matter the style, her approach is the same. Leading with the concrete over the abstract during tastings, she invites people into the world of craft beer with a humanness that can't be achieved with a flavour wheel.
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Exploring the effects of different hop varieties, brewing techniques and terroir is all well and good, but for drinkers new to craft beer, it can be a discouraging way to start. As a diversity educator, craft beer consultant for Ontario bars and restaurants, and founder of Beer Diversity , Navarro takes an interactive approach when advocating for inclusion.
"I'm not talking at people — I'm talking with people," she says, adding that she prefers to start with the experiential rather than the technical. "To be like, 'Hey, we talk in jargon when we get together and we talk in shorthand, and that alienates people. And they don't want to come and try the beer, or they don't want to try and be part of this community that we say is so open and welcoming. So how do we describe things?"
Ren Navarro is a diversity educator, and craft beer consultant for Ontario bars and restaurants. Photo by Mona Moussa
In its use of words such as dry, sweet, fruity, floral, sulphuric, aroma or mouthfeel, the language of craft beer has borrowed from the language of wine, says Lex Konnelly, a PhD candidate in the University of Toronto's Department of Linguistics. Beer descriptions communicate what consumers can expect when drinking the product, but also convey how much information they're assumed to have or not have.
Beer has shifted from a working-class beverage to elite commodity, Konnelly explains in their paper recently published in the academic journal Language & Communication . By speaking the language of so-called beer snobs, brutoglossia ("craft beer talk") can perpetuate inequalities.
Taste is far from arbitrary. It's wrapped up in social status, which is in turn influenced by other categories such as gender and racial identity. Language is one of the ways people define the in-group and out-group.
"It's really fascinating because you don't have a lingo test in order to enjoy a beer," Konnelly says, laughing. "But when you have a description that's presented in this very interesting, sometimes very technical or goofy way, it raises the question of what kind of target audience is being constructed here? Who is this for?"
In the course of their research, Konnelly evaluated how craft breweries in the Greater Toronto Area describe their companies and beers, and looked at how the language of connoisseurship plays into the accessibility of artisanal goods.
As a craft beer drinker and linguist, the seed for Konnelly's investigation into craft beer talk was planted when their friends started sharing what they referred to as "funny beer descriptions." Some they identified as being "especially pretentious" or "oozing fanciness"; others had a slapstick quality.
"It was almost like these two poles of ultra-serious and ultra-goofy, and that was something that I found to be really interesting throughout the course of my research too," says Konnelly. "How breweries navigate between those two oppositions to create something really, really interesting in their marketing."
This awareness was paired with increased representation of beer snobs in popular culture, especially within the last seven or eight years, Konnelly says. They recall the cover of a 2014 issue of The New Yorker magazine. The illustration features a bearded server — dressed in a plaid shirt and jeans, white bar towel draped over his forearm, knit toque on his head. In presenting a bottle of beer to a discerning patron as a sommelier would a fine wine, it becomes "fancy" simply by association.
Stereotypical images of the beer-drinking hoser — popularized by fictional brothers Bob and Doug McKenzie on SCTV , torch carried by Letterkenny — now coexist, and even mingle, with those of the hipster.
You don't have a lingo test in order to enjoy a beer.
Lex Konnelly
While many craft breweries counter these stereotypes by promoting their products as being for everyone, this raises an important question, Konnelly says: Who is everyone?
Even as cultural tides turn, diversity and inclusion in craft beer is moving slowly. Decades of marketing beer as a beverage for working-class white men has proven hard to overcome. According to Konnelly's paper, beer is still brewed and drunk predominantly by white men: 75 per cent of weekly craft beer drinkers are men; 60 per cent white, 2016 statistics showed.
Nonetheless, craft brewers tend to express their egalitarianism in creative ways, Konnelly says. By marketing their beers democratically, in some cases sharing their brewing recipes and processes, and emphasizing hyperlocalism — even in big cities, pinpointing their location to the nearest intersection — they attempt to shake off the elitism associated with prestige consumerism.
"But still the issue is that not anybody can get into craft beer in this way," says Konnelly. "Even if you might not have a lingo test to be able to enjoy a beer, in order to be able to meaningfully interpret that description, you have to have access to it in the first place."
When Navarro started working in beer eight years ago as a sales rep, women were a rarity in the industry. (Konnelly references a 2017 study in their paper that found only 29 per cent of brewery workers are women.) Change is coming, Navarro adds, but in baby steps.
"There's definitely a heck of a lot more women than there were before and there are more BIPOC folks working in beer. But when I say there's more, it's relative," says Navarro. "I hope that it doesn't take another eight years to say, 'Well, now this group is more represented.' But I think that it will take time."
Diversity in beer isn't just about people, she adds. There's also been a shift in the kinds of beers people make. Merit Brewing in Hamilton, Ont., for example, is experimenting with wine ingredients in its Either Way Gewürztraminer-style lager. Brewers are using chai spices and cardamom, mango, passion fruit and guava — everyday ingredients to some, mind-blowing to others.
"For those who have always felt left out or excluded, they're like, 'Hey, that's my jam. I grew up with that,'" says Navarro. "The stereotypes you see are the bearded hipster with his flannel jacket drinking a lager while chopping down a tree or snowboarding. But it's nice now that when you hear these other ingredients, that's not who you think of."
Nova Scotian Aaron Prothro founded Toronto's Mascot Brewery in 2015. Photo by Mascot Brewery
When Aaron Prothro founded Toronto's Mascot Brewery in 2015, he knew he was filling a void. Immersed in the craft beer scene, he hadn't seen many people who looked like him. Channelling his Nova Scotia background, his approach to craft beer is rooted in inclusivity, conviviality and a relaxed state of mind.
"There were no other Black owners," Prothro recalls. "And I'm a pretty behind-the-scenes type of guy. I don't like to put myself out there that much, but now I feel more of a duty to be out there. Because I want to inspire other people who feel like no one really looks like them … that they could own a craft brewery too."
When considering Mascot's beer descriptions, unpretentiousness is the primary goal, he says. Steering clear of technical jargon, they speak plainly about their products without oversimplifying in an effort to appeal to as wide a range of customers as possible.
People gravitate towards craft beer for different reasons, Prothro adds, and he believes that given the relative youth of the industry as well as its growth potential, there's more than enough room for breweries to cater to "super-enthusiasts, explorers, loyal customers," or any combination of the three.
He sees the monetary barrier preventing some people from accessing craft beer as "a complicated conundrum." Sourcing ingredients, buying and maintaining equipment, and aging craft beer comes at a cost, and prices need to be in line with that effort. The "more eloquent, sophisticated" language some breweries use is a way of communicating value to customers.
"The way that we position Mascot is, we understand the process that we need to have: the quality of ingredients that we need to source; the flavour profiles that we need to create, and how to manipulate the ingredients and processes to get those; and the science behind yeast propagation and management. Even terroir of different hops," he says. "But we package it in a way where it's digestible and fun, and more easy-going."
For Shehan De Silva, founder of Toronto's Lost Craft , a commitment to diversity and inclusion has also been a core philosophy since he started the business in 2015.
"I grew up in Scarborough and I just personally felt that a lot of the craft beer marketing wasn't tailored to me. Particularly the people that you saw in social media content, etc. There was clearly a lack of diversity," says De Silva.
The idea that Lost Craft's products are from Toronto but for everyone served as inspiration for what's become one of its most Instagrammed beers. In the shape of the CN Tower, Divercity Helles Lager features the word for diversity in 14 of the city's most-spoken languages.
The can for Lost Craft's Divercity Helles Lager features the word for diversity in 14 of Toronto's most-spoken languages in the shape of the CN Tower. Photo by Christopher Anderson
The company is set on establishing itself as a local voice when it comes to highlighting issues of diversity and inclusion, De Silva says. To that end, Lost Craft recently formed a partnership with the Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion (CCDI). In March, the proceeds of every can sold at the LCBO will be donated to the CCDI and future plans are in the works.
Lost Craft makes approachable products, De Silva says, and he agrees that craft beer lingo can be difficult for non-connoisseurs to decipher. Depending on the bar, asking for a lager could be frowned upon, and styles such as brut or Brett IPA, or kettle sour are pretty much meaningless to the average beer drinker.
It can feel intimidating, De Silva says, which is why when Lost Craft comes out with new styles — such as milkshake and brewed IPAs — they describe them clearly.
"If you come up with these terms and you don't explain what they are and you're elitist about that approach, it's obviously going to turn people away," he says. "Our objective has always been to make sure that (everything we communicate) … is done in a way that the everyday person can accept and understand."
The work they've been doing in promoting inclusion has made a difference, De Silva says. On Instagram, 45 per cent of Lost Craft's followers are women and when they started doing home deliveries during the pandemic, they were able to see the diversity in their clientele firsthand.
"I was pretty proud. It's not about selling more necessarily — you just feel like laying that groundwork from the outset seems to be resonating," he says. "More broadly, it's to everyone's betterment. I want more people to drink Steam Whistle over Stella. It's better for everyone to expand the craft beer pie."
De Silva, Prothro, Konnelly and Navarro all agree that if consumers value diversity and inclusion in craft beer, they should ask questions and support breweries making diverse initiatives a priority in a sincere way.
Craft beer talk is just one manifestation of a deeper need for cultural change, Konnelly emphasizes: "If a brewery is invested in making craft beer more accessible for everyone, and if they really do want to change the landscape of the industry, and make it a more affirming place, there will be more evidence of that than just what they have written on the side of the can."


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Q: Получение данных из двух таблиц Помогите реализовать sql запрос select'a. Суть необходимой выборки:
Имеются 2 таблицы:

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*table1 c полями name1, region

*table2 c полями name2, infocode, (и еще несколько полей, они не потребуются для запроса)

В поле infocode таблицы table2 первые 2 символа = region.
Я реализовал запрос получения информации из table2 количества строк с группировкой по substr(infocode,1,2), результирующий вывод получается такой:
select substr(infocode,1,2), count(substr(infocode,1,2))
from table2
where (created > '01.01.2016' and created < '30.06.2016')
group by substr(infocode,1,2);

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| 01 | 1 |
| 02 | 8 |
| 05 | 6 |
| 07 | 5 |
и т.д.
Но мне нужно вывести таким образом:
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| 01 | 1 |
| 02 | 8 |
| 03 | 0 |
| 04 | 0 |
| 05 | 6 |
| 06 | 0 |
| 07 | 5 |
Я так понимаю, нужно брать таблицу table1 и к ней подставлять значения из предыдущей выборки путем сопоставления region = substr(infocode,1,2), но не получается это реализовать.
Прошу помощи с моим вопросом! Заранее, спасибо.

A: select T1.region, nvl(T2.cnt,0)
  from table1 T1
  left join (
             select substr(infocode,1,2) as region, count(*) as cnt
               from table2
              group by substr(infocode,1,2)
            ) T2
         on T1.region=T2.region

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The Myth of National Self Determination (2017)
Recent events in Catalonia demand a restatement of a basic socialist principle.
The word 'we' is one of the most powerful words, all the more so because its use often passes invisibly. Every time we speak of a 'we' we are also creating a 'them', an other, we are identifying ourselves as a group and placing others outside it. 'We' could be the people that live in our neighbourhood, it could be those with whom we share a common language or accent, or it could be those that go to the same clubs, pubs or places of worship as us. In daily life we can easily think of ourselves as belonging to a variety of different overlapping communities. But which of these groups is the most important? With whom are you most loyal? To which people do you belong?
Many people will see their national identity as being the most fundamental. After all we have to identify ourselves as a member of a particular nation state when we go abroad, when claiming benefits or applying for a job. What nation we belong to determines what rights and privileges we have, if we find ourselves in a nation other than our own we may find our rights restricted or denied. Our nationality can often form an important element in how we act with the world and how we are placed within it, it can often seem to be as natural and integral a part of us as our gender or hair colour.
A people with a shared culture, language and history, who live in the same place over time naturally develop a strong sense of belonging together. This sense of belonging together and of being tied to a certain geographical place is what constitutes nationhood. A nation is a group of people that has a history of doing things together in a certain geographical area. And just as an individual has a right to choose and to freely express their will so too do peoples who form nations have the right to self determination.
Or at least that is how the myth goes. However, does it really make sense to think of a nation as a homogeneous 'people' sharing the same interest and expressing its 'will' in the same way as an individual?
Behind the supposed unity of a national identity we will find a whole manner of divisions, class distinctions and unequal power relations. In nation-states based on capitalist property relations, which is all of them, there is a fundamental divide between owners of capital – the factories, land, raw materials, means of transportation – and sellers of labour-power. The vast wealth of the minority, the class of capital owners, comes from the labour of the majority, the sellers of labour-power – the working class. Market competition compels the capitalist to seek to extract the maximum from the worker. The need to preserve and improve their living conditions drives the worker to resist. This sets up irreconcilable class struggle at the centre of society. To think of a nation as a homogeneous block with all members sharing the same interest is to ignore the real conflicts that arise from the unequal economic power relations that exist within all nation-states.
Nations can be thought of as imagined communities. The majority of the population will never meet or know each other yet in their minds they imagine each other as being and belonging together. These imaginings will be both semi-mythical and semi-factual in nature. The historical stories told for the purpose of nation building are always ones that have been sanitized and moralized, glossing over all the splits, conflicts and discontinuities that occur within and between the populations that have lived in the same space over time. History taught in a truthful and unpolished way does not have the effect of national building – the history of any one particular area is as fractured as any other.
The nation-state is now the fundamental unit through which political affairs are conducted but despite its seeming antiquity it is a relatively modern invention. The origin of the modern nation-state is tied to the development of capitalism and the demise of monarchical regimes, feudal city-states and principalities. The nation-state came to the fore because it was the form of organisation that most suited the operations of the emerging capitalist class.
If our aim is to bring about a classless society of equals then our attention should be on the real antagonistic relation between the classes not the fake illusions put forward by nationalists. We have to find and create new forms of egalitarian organisation that can supersede the nation-state and capitalism, not help the local capitalist class in the creation of new and ever smaller states.
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Inteview with OUTSpoken Performer, Molly Kessler
Rehearsing the piece "Singing Blue/Straight Girls", (from left to right) Sean Madison Kelley, Amber Autry, and Molly Kessler, with dir. Adam Crandall in the background.
OUTSpoken (a one-night event) will be going up next Saturday, the 28th at 7PM at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Church. Molly Kessler will be one of seven performers lending their talents to the pieces showcased in the production. Having been an actor since her freshmen year, she wrote her first play "I See London, I See France" in 2013. She will be performing the poetry piece "Singing Blue" as well as playing a supporting role in the prose piece "Steel".
ES: How did you get involved with OUTSpoken?
MK: Well, I was contacted by Adam [Crandall, director] who organized the event.
ES: OUTspoken presents a series of separate written pieces, along with poetry readings, by local LGBT and ally writers. Can you tell us more about the pieces that you are a part of?
MK: The piece is a poem called "Singing Blue" and Adam's joined it together with another poem called "Straight Girls", and it's sort of a back-and-forth: both pieces are about gay women pining after straight girls, and realizing that it's an unattainable or unrequited love. So, Sean Kelly, who's performing "Straight Girls", and I are doing this back and forth.
ES: One of the themes common to both "Singing Blue/ Straight Girls" as well as the other piece you are involved in, "Steel", are people dealing with relationships, or potential relationships, that aren`t working out. Do you have any personal connection to the type of issue these pieces are exploring?
MK: Yeah, I think we all do. It doesn`t necessarily have to be romantic but just, trying to be friends with somebody or trying to work with somebody when you have incompatible personalities. It doesn`t even have to be romantic. I can think of dozens of situations like that, sexual preference aside.
ES: What do you, speaking of both the pieces you're in, hope to achieve? Do you come in with a specific goal in my mind, with these projects?.
MK: I just come into it hoping to tell the story. Because that's what I assume part of the goal in writing it was, to convey some sort of emotion or tell a story, and I hope it comes across and does the story-teller justice.
Director Adam Crandall (left) directs Taylor Jackson (right) in OUTSpoken piece "Banging".
ES: Of course, OUTSpoken is more than just a night of story-telling. There's also a wider social issue being promoted. What kind of role do you think a production like this plays in the big picture of giving voice to LGBT people in our community?
MK: I think that the kinds of stories we've told for a long time don`t really show that side of human experience. But we're showing those who may not know a lot about LGBT issues, that they're real people, showing them go through things that everyone can relate to. It helps you understand that it is a human experience, and that we are all the same.
ES: So, would you say that the performing arts, like theatre and film have a special role to play in promoting that kind of understanding?
MK: Well, yeah, because it's entertaining. And when people are entertained, they listen. Even something like the difference between news programs and Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert-people get their news from shows like that now, because it's entertaining and they retain it. And in our production… the pieces are so beautiful, and you can`t help but listen.
ES: So we've talked about performance- what about writing? Do you have a lot of experience with, say, writing poetry?
MK: Well, I've written poetry, but I don`t show it to anyone because it's just goofy and stupid. It all rhymes, and it's all Seussy and not about anything real. I have written a play, which was not fiction but based on my experience studying abroad in France.
ES: Having both performed and worked in a written form, would you say you have a preference?
MK: I much prefer writing, myself. The difference for me… I don`t know, it's not that I feel more connected to my words… I feel more connected to someone else saying my words than I do when it is myself saying somebody else's words- if that makes sense. I feel more comfortable with someone else saying my words, than me saying someone else's. Because I feel like I don`t do them justice.
ES: How about your future plans? We were talking earlier about how you were planning on moving to Chicago. What do you plan to do once you get up there?
MK: Yes. Some friends and I, including Amber Autry, who is also in the show, are planning on moving there sometime in September. I want to take some classes with Second City and Improv Olympic. I'm not sure quite where that will go, I'm really interested in writing more than performing, but life takes you places, and you don`t know where it will go. And that's exciting, and also terrifying.
ES: One more question. Do you have a favorite LGBT pop icon?
MK: It's gotta be Ellen. Without a doubt Ellen. It will always be Ellen.
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Erik Schiller is a graduate of the University of Tennessee, where he received his BA in Anthropology and English, with a minor in Theatre. He has been performing in live stage and film productions in Knoxville since 2009, working with local companies that include the Clarence Brown Theatre, Yellow Rose Productions, and Badland Pictures. In addition, he has served as Secretary for All Campus Theatre at UTK, is a founding member of the guerilla theatre troop Shakespeare Unauthorized, and has had poetry published in the Phoenix Literary Arts Magazine.
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Euphorbia aspericaulis ist eine Pflanzenart aus der Gattung Wolfsmilch (Euphorbia) in der Familie der Wolfsmilchgewächse (Euphorbiaceae).

Beschreibung
Die sukkulente Euphorbia aspericaulis bildet zweihäusige Sträucher bis 45 Zentimeter Höhe aus. Aus einer etwas knolligen Wurzel werden sich gegenständig oder gegabelt verzweigende und nahezu aufrechte Triebe ausgebildet. Sie werden 3 Millimeter dick, sind sechskantig und besitzen eine raue Oberfläche. Die eiförmigen Blätter werden 2 Millimeter groß und sind mehr oder weniger langlebig.

Es werden endständige oder achselständige Cymen ausgebildet, die ein- bis zweifach gegabelt und nahezu sitzend sind. An den Blütenständen befinden sich etwa 1,3 Millimeter große abgerundete Tragblätter. Die Cyathien erreichen 3 Millimeter im Durchmesser und die vier bis fünf Nektardrüsen sind elliptisch geformt. Die kugelförmige Frucht wird 4 Millimeter groß. Über den Samen ist nichts bekannt.

Verbreitung und Systematik
Euphorbia aspericaulis ist in Südafrika in der Provinz Nordkap bei Calvinia verbreitet.

Die Erstbeschreibung der Art erfolgte 1899 durch Ferdinand Albin Pax. Ein Synonym ist Tirucallia aspericaulis  (1996).

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Keeping The Most Serious Criminals Secure, To Keep Victorians Safe
The Andrews Labor Government will overhaul the system for supervising the state's most serious criminals, by building new secure facilities, expanding supervision and introducing sweeping reforms to keep Victorians safe.
The Labor Government today released the Harper Review into the management of serious sex offenders and announced $84 million in funding in the 2016/17 Victorian Budget to directly respond to this landmark report.
The government commissioned the Harper Review of the Serious Sex Offenders (Detention and Supervision) Act 2009 last year following the murder of 17-year-old Masa Vukotic by Sean Christian Price.
The review found existing laws were inadequate and did not adequately manage the risk Price posed to the community. It recommends sweeping changes to increase supervision and treatment of high risk offenders.
The Government has accepted all 35 recommendations made by the Harper Review in principle, and work is already underway to implement them.
The sex offender supervision scheme will be expanded to include the state's most serious violent offenders, additional powers to control high risk offenders will be introduced, and a new governance model to oversee the scheme will be developed.
As part of the response, the Government will build a new 20-bed secure facility to deal with the most serious offenders who can't be managed in Corella Place or the community.
The Budget contains a range of measures to tighten the net around offenders and better protect the community, including:
A new model for assessing and managing prisoners so that intervention happens earlier and those who remain a risk to the community are identified.
An expanded supervision model for those on orders and additional resources for mental health treatment for violent offenders.
A new facility for offenders on supervision orders who have disabilities.
The development of a new governance model for overseeing the operation of the scheme so that decisions are always made in the interests of community safety.
These reforms will build on changes to the serious sex offenders supervision scheme brought in last year, including a Specialist Response Unit comprising senior Corrections Victoria staff, Victoria Police detectives and intelligence analysts.
A community safety bill currently before the Parliament includes new conditions of supervision orders to prohibit violent offending and conduct, and increased police powers to hold serious sex offenders without charge from 10 hours to 72 hours. These are recommendations from the Harper Review.
A copy of the expert panel's report can be accessed on the Department of Justice and Regulation's website.
Quotes attributable to Acting Premier of Victoria James Merlino
"The system failed Masa Vukotic and her family and we will do everything we can to make sure it never happens again."
"Work is well underway to overhaul the way we control and supervise the state's most serious criminals, and these additional reforms further tighten the net and keep Victorians safe."
"We promised we would fix the system, and that's exactly what we're doing."
Quotes attributable to Acting Minister for Corrections Robin Scott
"We've started implementing the recommendations set out in the Harper Review, which provides a detailed blueprint for managing and treating high-risk offenders."
"I would like to thank all of the members of the panel for their contribution to a safer Victoria."


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Indian Christians rally to show solidarity with raped elderly nun
Community demands swift justice, but still no arrests
Women in Kolkata participate in a March 16 solidarity rally for an elderly nun who was raped in her convent. (Photo by Julian S. Das)
By ucanews.com reporters,Delhi and Kolkata | India
Thousands of Christians rallied in Kolkata in a show of outrage over the recent gang-rape of an elderly nun.
Some 4,000 Christians, including nuns and priests clutching lit candles, sang hymns and said prayers as they gathered in a public park on March 16.
Archbishop Thomas D'Souza of the Archdiocese of Calcutta, the main organizer of the rally, called it a "solidarity rally, not a protest rally." He said he wanted to show that Christians in Kolkata stood united at a moment of "pain and sorrow."
"We definitely protest the crime, and demand the arrest of the culprits at the earliest," he told ucanews.com. "Such a crime should not take place at any place, at any time."
Florence Gonsalves, a woman who attended the rally, said they could only pray "for peace and that people grow to respect each other as human beings." The attack on the nun, 71, occurred on March 13 after robbers broke into her convent in the town of Ranaghat, some 80 kilometers from Kolkata.
Police said Monday that 10 men have been detained for questioning but no arrests have been made, even though the faces of four of the robbers were captured on CCTV footage.
Savarimuthu Sankar, spokesman of Delhi Archdiocese, urged a swift response from authorities but bemoaned the lack of arrests.
"There cannot be any result unless the local police show sincerity," he said.
Fr. Sankar said the nun's rape should not be dismissed as an isolated incident.
"We should know that there is already a vicious atmosphere against Christians in the country, which encourages criminals to attack Christians," he said.
The assault on the nun is the latest in a string of high-profile rapes in India and comes after a spate of attacks on churches that prompted Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi to promise a crackdown on religious violence.
Priests and other Christian leaders have blamed those attacks on religious hardliners, who are said to have become emboldened since Modi swept to power at general elections last May.
Modi had been heavily criticized for not speaking out earlier against religious violence and has also faced flak for remaining silent about a spate of mass "re-conversions" of Christians and Muslims to Hinduism.
The Prime Minister's Office has asked for an "immediate report on facts and actions taken" regarding the rape and another attack on a church in Hisar in the northern state of Haryana, according to a spokesman for the prime minister.
The junior federal minister for home affairs, Kiren Rijiju, also told ucanews.com on March 17 that the government has asked for a detailed report from the West Bengal state government on the attack on the convent school.
"We have asked the West Bengal government to provide details of the existing security arrangements at convents and other Christian educational and social institutes in the state," he said.
Additional reporting by AFP
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St. Francis House, Wells Fargo collaborate on financial education
by: Dan Santella
Posted: Sep 20, 2019 / 10:10 PM CDT / Updated: Sep 21, 2019 / 12:54 AM CDT
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — The St. Francis House in Sioux Falls provides transitional housing to its guests, and it also has a new building going up. On Friday guests had a chance to build their own financial futures when Wells Fargo employees provided financial education for them; this comes in addition to a recent $150,000 gift from Wells Fargo to the St. Francis House's campaign for their new building.
Scott Schultz is a guest at the St. Francis House. He works as a carpenter, and on Friday he took in the presentation on finance.
"It's always good to be able to save money, in case you do have an emergency or something like that … it's good to think you're not left out in the dark," Schultz said. "I know people that are always a little bit short."
Friday's class is Wells Fargo's first one at the St. Francis House.
"In addition to our foundation providing some funding for the beautiful new facility that they're in their process of completing, it's really important that we do step into that problem-solving space, and providing financial education is the first piece in that helping the group here achieve that self-sufficiency," said Natasha Smith, community relations consultant with Wells Fargo.
For Schultz, the most important thing that he learned here is availability.
"That you can stop in any time, and talk to a bank, just find out maybe what kind of goals you should have," Schultz said.
Future collaborations between the St. Francis House and Wells Fargo are on the way.
"We would really like to continue to work with them in that volunteerism capacity," Smith said. "Going beyond the kitchen, we've done that in the past. We've had groups of volunteers come out to serve. We really wanted to get into that problem-solving space, and I think offering the financial education is a good step in that direction."
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Actors: Jet Li, Wah Yuen, Crystal Kwok, Jerry Trimble, Anne Rickets
Director: Hark Tsui
Genres: Action & Adventure, Indie & Art House
Fans of Jet Li should check out The Master, an early movie by the Hong Kong action star. Li is the anti-Stallone, all sinew and smile. His boyish grace makes him seem almost weightless as he whips through his fight scenes ... more »in peak physical form. Though the story isn't as strong as the Once upon a Time in China series or Fist of Legend--the plot, about a student of kung fu (Li) from China who comes to Los Angeles to help his former master, is serviceable but generic--the action scenes are dynamic and give ample room for Li's sprightly charisma. Everything about The Master is a little clich�, but at the same time it's all much more enjoyable than you'd expect. The editing is brisk, the actors are enjoying themselves, and the direction (by dependable Hong Kong auteur Tsui Hark) keeps things hopping. --Bret Fetzer « less
Creators: Anthony Chow, David Lo, Siu-Tin Lei, Kee-To Lam, Tai-Muk Lau
Sub-Genres: Hong Kong Action, Jet Li, Indie & Art House
Studio: Dimension
Format: DVD - Color,Widescreen - Closed-captioned
MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Directors: Jing Wong, Lun Ah
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Director: Kazuya Konaka
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The Master = Bruce Lee! That's the Key!
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(5 out of 5 stars)
"This DVD The Master, with Jet Li, is wonderful. Admittedly it may initially disappoint, but this should only happen on first viewing. It is a movie that requires attention to detail (as all masterpieces do) and knowledge of other martial arts movies and legends. Nonetheless, after first viewing (during which time the proverbial penny should drop and deeper understanding commence), there are amazing viewing rewards! In fact, if you should ever want to show off your knowledge to others of the deeper purpose of martial arts and/or Jet Li, well, this is definitely THE movie to have!First, though, to find the deeper story! So, to help the penny drop and to help find full appreciation of the consummate mastery of this Tsui Hark movie (especially its script), consider the possibility that the Master = Bruce Lee, the first internationally-recognized master of martial arts. On another level, to move closer to the story's higher purpose, consider the Master as the true spirit and/or reason for the practice of martial arts. Second, consider the possibility that the movie is an extremely respectful criticism of the post-Bruce-Lee commercialism of martial arts (and the resultant use of martial arts in street violence).Finally, consider the possibility that the martial arts people of the East saw a need to reinforce (via another master: Jet Li) the true spirit and/or reason of martial arts to the people of the West. This last point helps explain why the movie is set in modern-times and why it deliberately avoided the high-wire tricks; the movie is introducing to America the real martial arts mastery of Jet Li. In so doing, it is dealing with real social/cultural issues in a real way with a real and meaningful answer; for that answer watch the non-preaching and non-judgmental corrections to violence in this specific movie!Now, to match the above viewing suggestions to the movie! The Master opens with the master as a doctor who is physically healing and attempting to mentally heal/warn/correct a macho streetfighter type. In fact, the movie actually links this doctor (via the Po Chi Lum herbal medicine shop) to Wong Fei-Hung. Wong Fei-Hung, you may recall, was the master from Once Upon A Time in China: an all-but-divine hero in Chinese martial arts history who was born in 1849 and who inherited a herbal medicine shop call Po Chi Lum, a shop where he also taught Kung Fu! The dimension and breadth of the movie should now start to tease sensibilities into a state of alertness! Jet Li, of course, had already starred as Wong Fei-Hung in earlier movies (and how!) but, because there is a higher purpose to this story than pure commerce-driven martial arts entertainment, Jet Li does not play the role he immortalized for cinema-goers. Instead, Jet Li plays one of this master's students! Why? Well, in brief, Jet Li is paying homage to the mastering spirits and legacy of martial arts. Why? Well, in brief, that's the lesson the West needs to re-learn; otherwise, the martial arts can be used for violence and destruction, not personal and community peace and safety.At this point, consider the role that Jet Li plays in this movie: like his master, he is a healer (i.e. of the policemen's ulcers, which also suggests the authorities have not quite learned how to correct and stomach street violence! So, the movie has a social critique at work too! Truly, this story gathers to a giddying greatness the more it is meditated upon! It's great! Then, of course, Jet Li is a man of peace despite, and because of, his great martial arts skills. This is why he won't teach the Latino gang the martial arts (because they will use such skills violently for personal ends, not to help ensure personal and public peace; later in the story, Jet Li teaches them enough to protect themselves. This is a very fine edge of difference; but a critical difference! Jet Li is also a worldly innocent (as beautifully and humorously demonstrated by the one-sided romance). Of course, all Jet Li's don't-call-me-master positive qualities are in sharp contrast to the call-me-master "bad" student's ego-driven mistakes (including the mistake of never having learned what the true purpose of martial arts actually is i.e. mastery over self and the resultant increasingly-perfected personal path to peace! So, as the bad student very capably shows, to challenge and/or kill a master = to lose directions to the true meaning of martial arts = to not be a master; regardless of physical prowess = to be killed by the self as a martial arts exponent). To become a true master (and, thus, find the invisible hands of non-terrestrial-power making you effortlessly invincible), this movie suggests, requires a full willingness to place martial arts in the service of humanity ....!Actually, enough ... it is time to stop! It will take a book or two to explain this movie ... it is great! There are problems for viewers, certainly, because both before and after this specific movie, Jet Li starred in some of the most sublime action/martial arts movies in the history of world cinema; nevertheless, The Master is also an awesome achievement once the deeper story starts to become visible! Be patient with this movie, it will reward ... a masterpiece is patiently and respectfully waiting to speak to you! Be warned: when the glory of the story starts to gather momentum, your eyes will widen and smiles will arrive like a thousand chuckling sunrises! A masterpiece of reverence for life and community spirit has been scripted here and, as is clear from the fact that he doesn't play Wong Fei-Hung (the master), Jet Li clearly demonstrates his accord with the spiritual values offered by the infinitely disciplined, fully loving immortal heart of martial arts!"