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Grassley: Clinton Aides Had Access To State Dept. Classified Docs After She Announced Presidential Run
Hillary Clinton managed to retain access to classified and top secret documents for herself and six staffers after she announced her run for the presidency in April 2015.
The State Department recently told the Judiciary Committee that six of Clinton's former aides were referred to as "research assistants," which enabled their clearance to go with them after their official service at the department ended.
Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, stated in a letter to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson Thursday: "Any other government workers who engaged in such serious offenses would, at a minimum, have their clearances suspended pending an investigation.
The failure to do so has given the public the impression that Secretary Clinton and her associates received special treatment."
After completing the FBI's investigation into Clinton's email server, Director James Comey said that "there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information," and that individuals who are careless with such material are "often subject to security or administrative sanctions.
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Judge In Oregon Bundy Case Now Has Reporter Gary Hunt Arrested For... Reporting
Outpost Of Freedom
"Congress shall make no law respecting ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press..." -First Amendment of the united States Constitution
Journalist Gary Hunt has been arrested and is currently being held in Sacramento, California. He is facing extradition to Portland, Oregon, though at the time of his arrest there was no agreement to extradite him. He is facing charges of contempt of the judge in the Oregon Malheur Refuge case that involved the Bundy family and others last year.
Hunt operates Outpost-of-Freedom and had posted several articles, including information regarding informants at the refuge. He was arrested on Thursday by a court order from Judge Anna Brown because he did not appear in her court to explain why he should not be held in contempt for not removing the information of the informants in the case.
According to the court's order, Judge Brown stated:
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Yankee Foreign Policy and the Cold War
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is rattling his sabers and threatening war against the United States. He blew up an American aircraft carrier in one propaganda video and has goaded the Trump administration in several other statements, ostensibly to create the image of manly firmness to his people. Obviously, high profile assassinations and executions along with staged videos showing Jong-un running through crowds of forced applause and mandatory groveling at his feet are not enough. North Korea does this about every twenty years. It is in the ruling family's DNA.
But most Americans don't understand the role North Korea played in the expansion of unconstitutional executive power in the United States nor its importance in the open ended foreign policy commitments of the twentieth century. That is the real story.
The villain in this narrative is the oft forgotten and in many cases unknown Yankee bureaucrat Dean Acheson, a man who once reportedly called Hillary Clinton a "terrific person."
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Trump backs Flynn's request for immunity in 'witch hunt'
President Trump on Friday supported his former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn's request for immunity in exchange for testifying before the FBI and Congress into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and possible collusion with the Trump campaign.
"Mike Flynn should ask for immunity in that this is a witch hunt (excuse for big election loss), by media & Dems, of historic proportion!" Mr. Trumptweeted.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Mr. Flynn is seeking immunity and that his lawyer, Robert Kelner, says he "has a story to tell."
"He very much wants to tell it, should the circumstances permit," Mr. Kelner said in a statement. "No reasonable person who has the benefit of advice from counsel would submit to questioning in such a highly politicized witch hunt environment without assurances against unfair prosecution."
Mr. Flynn served a top campaign surrogate and then a national security adviser before stepping down amid a controversy over his contacts with Russian officials.
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Goodness: Summer 1959, Virginia Beach & Beth: Connie Stevens - Sixteen Reasons
Popped up on Carolina Beach Music last night.
KREMLIN CONNECTION CONFIRMED! Podesta Company Paid One Billion Rubles from Russian Govt.
Investigative reporter and author Peter Schweizer went on FOX and Friends to discuss Kremlin influence on US politics — and how the Clinton camp was in bed with the Putin regime.
Peter Schweizer: In 2011 John Podesta joined the board of this very small energy company called Joule Energy based out of Massachusetts. About two months after he joins the board a Russian entity called RUSNANO puts a billion rubles, which is about $35 million, into John Podesta's company. Now, what is RUSNANO? RUSNANO is not a private company, Steve. It is a fund directly funded by the Kremlin. In fact the Russian finance minister called RUSNANO "Putin's Child." So you have the Russian government investing in one of John Podesta's business in 2011 while he is an adviser to Hillary Clinton at the State Department.
Steve Doocy: OK. Does anybody in the Trump circle rise to the level that there is this kind of money involved?
Peter Schweizer: No.
And, once again, the frenzy on the left is all a disguise to hide their own rampant corruption.
More with video @ The Gateway Pundit
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VA Manila Outpatient Clinic
Service connected is the key.
On March 18, 2016, VA issued an announcement indicating the VA Manila Outpatient Clinic would discontinue paying beneficiary travel effective April 11, 2016. Due to concerns raised following this announcement, VHA has determined that the VA Manila Outpatient Clinic will continue to provide beneficiary travel benefits as we work to identify a long-term resolution. We will continue to keep Veterans and other stakeholders informed.
The VA Outpatient Clinic in the Philippines is the only VA healthcare facility located in a foreign country and located on U.S. Embassy property. Only Veterans who have a service-connected disability of at least zero percent and registered with VA OPC are eligible for care and services.
Inpatient and Non VA Care (NVC) outpatient care is limited to treatment of service-connected conditions and is provided through NVC arrangements with designated private health care providers in the community.
American Christian pastor imprisoned in Turkey asks Trump to fight for him
An American pastor who has been jailed on bogus terrorism charges in Turkey for more than five months is pleading with President Trump to help secure his release.
Following the coup attempt, Turkey was said to be cracking down on Protestants. Aykan Erdemir, a senior fellow with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and a former member of the Turkish parliament, referred to Turkey as "anti-American" and explained that "Protestant or Christian churches are seen as an American influence."
Analysts have also observed that "President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government has been targeting American Christians in retaliation for the refusal of the United States to extradite Pennsylvania-based cleric Fethullah Gülen, as demanded by the Turkish government."
Erdogan, however, is anything but predictable, except in his zeal to expand his own powers as a regional despot and further his caliphate ambitions.
Major Health Insurance Company Says It May Pull Out of Obamacare for 2018
Things could get really bad for Obamacare.
According to analysts at the elite investment bank Jeffries, Anthem is likely to exit a large amount of Obamacare's individual insurance markets for 2018. Such a withdrawal would have devastating consequences for the program.
Anthem currently offers insurance under the Blue Cross and Blue Shield brand in 14 states and remains one of the only large companies that still offers coverage through the Affordable Care Act.
UnitedHealth Group and Aetna already left most state exchanges, with Humana saying it plans to stop offering any individual ACA plans by 2018.
An Anthem exit would spell disaster for consumers in parts of Colorado, Kentucky, Missouri and Ohio. These states could potentially have no insurers in the Obamacare exchanges.
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Trump to sign executive orders cracking down on unfair trade
President Trump will sign two executive orders Friday aimed at cracking down on foreign competitors' unfair trade practices.
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said Mr. Trump will order his department and the U.S. Trade Representative to compile a report within 90 days to identify a broad range of trade abuses "based on hard facts."
"This will represent the first systematic analysis of what are the causes, country by country, and product by product," Mr. Ross said. "It will form the basis for decision making by the administration."
The U.S. has its biggest trade deficits with China, $347 billion; Japan $69 billion; Germany, $65 billion, and Mexico, $63 billion.
While officials didn't say what action Mr. Trump might take after the report is completed, Mr. Ross indicated it would provide an argument for raising tariffs.
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Jeff Sessions moves to speed up deportation of federal inmates
Illegal immigrants convicted of a federal crime may be deported more quickly under a policy move announced by Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday.
The nation's top law enforcement officer announced the expansion and modernization of the Justice Department's Institutional Hearing Program, which holds deportation hearings for illegal immigrants while they are still in federal prison.
According to Sessions, the program would speed up the process by removing the criminal immigrant as soon as their sentence is completed, as opposed to sending them to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility for deportation.
Media Ignores California Attorney General's Links to Planned Parenthood
Late Monday night on Twitter, the Associated Press broke the news that California Attorney General Xavier Beccera filed 15 counts of felony charges of invasion of privacy against pro-life investigative journalists and activists David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt for their roles in an undercover video operation against Planned Parenthood in 2015. The shocking undercover video alleges Planned Parenthood and their executive directors aim to profit off the sale of fetal tissue to research organizations, a violation of federal law itself.
NBC News: Documents: Hillary Clinton May Have Killed Investigations into Pedophile Ring at State Dept.
While I am skeptical of where this will lead, it is noteworthy to see that this report comes from NBC and more specifically Chuck Todd. In a report earlier this week, NBC reported that there were allegations that while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State, the quashed investigations into a prostitution and pedophile ring that was operating inside the department in order to avoid scandal and protect high-ranking employees and an ambassador.
"Serious allegations concerning the State Department," the NBC anchor said. "According to internal State Department memos the agency might have called off or intervened into investigations into possibly illegal, inappropriate behavior within its ranks allegedly to protect jobs and avoid scandals.
"This concerns a time when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state."
IT Company Hired by DNC Retracted Claims Regarding Blaming Russians for the Email Hacking
Can you remember back to the presidential campaign? Do you remember how, after the DNC emails began leaking, Democrats told us that they'd been hacked by the Russians? Do you remember how the DNC came to learn this? It was through a tech company called CrowdStrike hired by the DNC. The founder of CrowdStrike has very close ties to the Obama White House, is friends with Hillary Clinton, and is connected closely to Ukranian oligarch Victor Pinchuk (who is quite chummy with the Democratic Party).
It was CrowdStrike that uncovered the "Russian hacking" of the DNC, and when the DNC refused to allow the FBI access to their servers to see the evidence for themselves, it was CrowdStrike that told the FBI that it was the Russians.
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Obama Official Farkas Changes Story! Now Says: "I Had No Insider Info" to Dodge Felony Charges
Former Asst. Defense Secretary, Evelyn Farkas is under heavy fire for her March 2nd appearance on MSNBC where she admitted to knowing that the Trump camp was being surveilled. She is trying to do some damage control so she appeared on CNBC's Squawk Box to walk back her statements.
Remember, Donald Trump didn't tweet about Trump Tower being 'wiretapped' until March 4th. Farkas said in her March 2nd interview, (prior to Trump informing the public about the wiretapping claim) that she knew about intelligence being gathered on the Trump folks. Huh? How did she know if not for insider info. There was only one New York Times article that vaguely mentioned it by this time.
Today, in her interview with CNBC, she claimed she only knew what was already in the press.
What?! There was nothing in the press about Trump being spied on until 2 days AFTER her appearance on MSNBC! Time to lawyer up, Farkas! The wagons are circling…
Tucker to BuzzFeed (being sued) editor: Your agenda cloaked as journalism
Thief shot dead during attempted motorbike hijack in Sao Paulo
Senate passes bill to let states strip funding from Planned Parenthood
With Vice President Mike Pence casting the tie-breaking vote, the Senate approved a bill Thursday to let states strip federal family planning funds from Planned Parenthood, marking the first successful strike against the country's largest abortion network.
The bill, which already cleared the House and now heads to President Trump, rolls back an Obama-era rule that said states couldn't deny family planning money to organizations just because they performed abortions.
While other clinics may be affected, both sides acknowledged the fight was about Planned Parenthood, which has been a target for Republicans in Washington and in state capitals across the country in recent years.
Army's diversity plan on 'unconscious bias' blasted as anti-faith by chaplain group
The U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command is accused by a chaplain's group of using "unconscious bias" training to undermine soldiers who subscribe to core tenets of the Christian faith.
The Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty says that a training plan adopted in January by then-Army Secretary Eric Fanning will surreptitiously try to normalize sexual behavior that Christians consider sinful. The Jan. 18 directive seeks to root out "implicit or unconscious bias" of senior leadership and others in positions of authority.
Ron Crews, a retired Army chaplain and executive director of the group, said the plan was a sociological experiment designed to discourage faith.
Border wall funding solved: GOP pushes for 2% fee on money immigrants send home
A group of House Republicans on Thursday introduced the first major bill to fund President Trump's border wall, saying the government could collect billions of dollars by imposing a 2 percent fee on all the money Mexicans and other immigrants send back home.
Estimates vary, but remittances from those in the U.S. to their relatives back home could top $130 billion a year. A 2 percent tax could net more than $2 billion a year if it applied to all money regardless of who's sending it.
"This bill is simple — anyone who sends their money to countries that benefit from our porous borders and illegal immigration should be responsible for providing some of the funds needed to complete the wall," Rep. Mike Rogers, Alabama Republican, said in a statement. "This bill keeps money in the American economy, and most importantly, it creates a funding stream to build the wall."
Mr. Rogers and Rep. Lou Barletta of Pennsylvania are leading the effort.
White House will allow Democrat Schiff to review intel documents
"I'm happy to go tomorrow"
House Intelligence Committee ranking member Adam Schiff, D-Calif., told reporters today that he has been invited by White House counsel to review intelligence materials that have to do with foreign surveillance and U.S. persons who may have been incidentally caught up in those conversations.
Last week, the White House allowed Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes to review documents. When Nunes revealed his knowledge of the documents' existence, he said names of persons in the Trump transition team had been "unmasked," meaning their names should have been anonymous in the raw intelligence reports, but weren't. Schiff said then that the timing of the request by the White House to view the documents "concerns me."
EU could BREAK UP the US: Juncker in jaw-dropping threat to Trump over support for Brexit
Via Frank
Poll: 93% say he should resign.
EUROPEAN Union boss Jean-Claude Juncker issued a jaw-dropping threat to the United States, saying he could campaign to break up the country in revenge for Donald Trump's supportive comments about Brexit.
In an extraordinary speech the EU Commission president said he would push for Ohio and Texas to split from the rest of America if the Republican president does not change his tune and become more supportive of the EU.
The remarks are diplomatic dynamite at a time when relations between Washington and Brussels are already strained over Europe's meagre contributions to NATO and the US leader's open preference for dealing with national governments.
They are by far the most outspoken intervention any senior EU figure has made about Mr Trump and are likely to dismay some European leaders who were hoping to seek a policy of rapprochement with their most important ally.
Rapper 40Glocc Poor Gun Shooting Skills (Watch Out Innocent People)
Fortunately, I believe many of his ilk are no better.
The coming civil war in America
Via comment by EIEIO on Oh Boy: NC Republicans, governor have deal to end ...
With each passing day, we move closer to open conflict in America–civil war, if you will–between the forces of Western Civilization (which is founded on a biblical understanding of nationalism) and the forces of Judeo-Marxism or godless international leftism in general. Both major US political parties are being pulled in one of these directions or the other.
As soon as Trump took office back in January (if not before), the left made it clear that it would not accept the practical outcome of the November 2016 election. For the past two months, they have done everything they can to prevent the new administration from governing and from enacting the platform on which it was elected. This resistance goes as far as openly disobeying the law (see "Sanctuary Cities") and carrying out street violence against Trump supporters (see Antifa and Black Lives Matter). The elite, Jew-dominated media have run interference for the left by pushing the anti-nationalist, progressive Narrative non stop. The tension has been ratcheted so high that something simply has to give.
And it will. All it will take is one incident in which a supporter of one side or the other is killed in a public venue and the episode distributed widely on social media. If things keep moving as they are now, such a tragic event is not merely possible but likely. Then the conflagration begins in earnest.
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Mike Flynn Reportedly Tells FBI: I'll Testify In Exchange For Immunity - Lawyer: 'Highly Politicized Witch Hunt'
Flynn's counsel, Robert Kelner, released the following statement Thursday afternoon:
General Flynn certainly has a story to tell, and he very much wants to tell it, should the circumstances permit. Out of respect for the Committees, we will not comment right now on the details of discussions between counsel for General Flynn and the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, other than to confirm that those discussions have taken place. But it is important to acknowledge the circumstances in which those discussions are occurring.
Notwithstanding his life of national service, the media are awash with unfounded allegations, outrageous claims of treason, and vicious innuendo directed against him. He is now the target of unsubstantiated public demands by Members of Congress and other political critics that he be criminally investigated. No reasonable person, who has the benefit of advice from counsel, would submit to questioning in such a highly politicized, witch hunt environment without assurances against unfair prosecution.
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'Who Is Your Source?' Amit Shah Targets Rahul Gandhi After Clean Chit To Government
Saturday, December 15, 2018 by Indian Defence News
Amit Shah termed the Supreme Court's verdict on the Rafale deal as a "slap on the face of those who spread lies", and demanded that the Congress apologise for its "childish allegations". BJP President Amit Shah said the Supreme Court vindicates the government's stand on the Rafale deal
New Delhi: Shortly after the Supreme Court refused to "sit in judgement" on the Rafale aircraft deal, BJP president Amit Shah today said that the verdict has only served to vindicate the Union government's stand that there was no corruption or nepotism in the case. He also demanded that Congress chief Rahul Gandhi apologise to the nation for raising "childish allegations" against the Narendra Modi government, and disclose his source of information on the matter.
"Truth always triumphs! Court's judgement on the Rafale deal exposes the campaign of misinformation spearheaded by Congress president for political gains. The court didn't find anything wrong with the process, nor did it find any commercial favouritism in the deal," Amit Shah said in a tweet soon after the verdict was delivered.
The BJP chief also noted that the bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi had rejected allegations that the centre coerced the French government into picking industrialist Anil Ambani's Reliance Defence for the deal. "On the contrary, the SC held that govt had no role in selecting offset partners and found no merit in the demand for a probe based on mere perception of individuals. It, therefore, raises questions on the motive of those working to discredit the deal, which is important for India," he said, in an obvious reference to the Rahul Gandhi-led Congress party.
The verdict passed by the Supreme Court today stated that it found no merit in allegations of corruption in the Narendra Modi government's Rs. 59,000-crore deal for 36 Rafale jets, bringing relief to the ruling BJP. "There is no evidence of commercial favouritism either," the judges said, asserting that the "perception by individuals cannot be the subject of roving inquiry" by the court.
Addressing the media later, Amit Shah questioned Mr Gandhi's right to question the BJP on the Rafale deal when his own party was plagued by a "history of corruption". "For so long, they kept saying that the country's watchman is a thief, but the truth has finally been revealed," he said. "If you try to sling mud at the sun, the mud will only land on yourself."
Amit Shah claimed that the Supreme Court verdict has come as a "slap on the face of those who do politics based on lies". "Why did the Congress not approach the Supreme Court if it has evidence of corruption? The doors of the Supreme Court are open to everyone... It is clear that they knew their allegations were baseless, without any facts to back them. Everything they said was based on lies," he said. "We are ready for a discussion on the Rafale deal in Parliament. I challenge Congress to come and debate the issue on the floor of the house."
The Congress leadership, however, has refused to see the court ruling as a "setback". "The government gave the Supreme Court one-sided, half-baked information on the Rafale deal... We have said that the Supreme Court cannot decide on the Rafale issue, only a probe by a joint parliamentary committee probe can do that after examining all the files and noting," party spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said, adding they will continue to insist on such a probe.
The opposition party also pointed out in a tweet that this was not a criminal petition for the court to issue a clean chit, and asked the BJP and the media to "read the court judgement before spreading misinformation"
Congress president Rahul Gandhi had claimed that French aeronautics major Dassault chose Anil Ambani's Reliance Defence as an offset partner despite its inexperience in the field just to bag India's order. The government and the aircraft major have both denied the allegation.
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Gremi Church of Archangels and Royal Tower is part of the Tentative list of Georgia in order to qualify for inclusion in the World Heritage List.
The city of Gremi was the capital of the kingdom of Kakheti in eastern Georgia for about 150 years, before its destruction by the army of Persian Shah Abbas in the XVIth century. It was then considered an important commercial, cutural and educational center.
The oldest part of the town, on the top of a hill, is the well-preserved. For some reasons, its buildings have not been destroyed as the rest of the city. It consists of the Church of Archangels Michael and Gabriel, a three-stories royal palace with a bell tower and a wine cellar, all surrounded by a defensive wall. Coming from Tbilissi, those impressive structures are seen from far away.
The Church is an active church, so dress modestly. Frescoes adorn the walls, and if lucky, some religious fonctions would be in session, with songs and prayers.
The palace is erected beside the Church. Nowadays it hosts a small museum (with a small fee, closed on mondays), with a labyrinth of medieval rooms and corridors. The king's bathroom seems to be a favourite room with the museum guards.
At the bottom of the hill, some mere remains of the city can be seen. In the west lies the ruins of the commercial district, and in the north the royal ditrict. It is mostly walls to be seen, and offer not much interest.
Gremi along with Alaverdi Cathedral is a nice day trip from Tbilissi. It can be combined with visit to wine cellars, and numerous guided tours are available.


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Dania Popescu (born 11 June 1956) is a Romanian equestrian. She competed in the team jumping event at the 1980 Summer Olympics.

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Olympic equestrians of Romania
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CANADIAN OPERA STARS HEPPNER, PIECZONKA,
FINLEY & POLEGATO
INAUGURATE CANADA'S NEW OPERA HOUSE
Toronto, Ontario – The Canadian Opera Company is proud to announce that acclaimed Canadian tenor Ben Heppner and a stellar cast of Canadian opera stars, including soprano Adrianne Pieczonka, and baritones Gerald Finley and Brett Polegato will perform in a mixed program of opera arias, choruses and orchestral pieces at the Inaugural Gala Concert for the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts on Wednesday, June 14, 2006 at 7:30 p.m. Presented by BMO Financial Group, an audience of 2,000 will usher in a new era for the Canadian Opera Company in Canada's first purpose-built opera house. The Inaugural Gala Concert features COC General Director Richard Bradshaw leading the acclaimed COC Orchestra and Chorus.
After receiving international attention for his performance at the closing ceremonies of the Winter Olympics, tenor Ben Heppner returns to the COC for this fundraising concert. Recognized worldwide as one of the finest dramatic tenors today, Mr. Heppner performs regularly in the world's leading opera houses and is acclaimed for his beautiful voice, intelligent musicianship and dramatic sense. Soprano Adrianne Pieczonka garnered critical acclaim and a Dora Mavor Moore Award for her performance as Sieglinde in the COC's Die Walküre and will reprise that role in the COC's Ring Cycle this September. Praised for "her expressive lyricism, unforced beauty of tone, exemplary diction and compelling acting," (Opera Canada), Ms Pieczonka performs on major opera and concert stages throughout Europe and North America. Baritone Gerald Finley is one of the world's leading opera singers, recording with major labels and performing in opera and concert venues internationally. He is known for performing the leading Mozart and Handel baritone roles and for his involvement in major new works for the stage including the recent world premiere of Mark Anthony Turnage's The Silver Tassie for English National Opera. Baritone Brett Polegato has appeared on several of the world's most distinguished stages including those of Lincoln Center, La Scala, the Concertgebouw, Glyndebourne Festival Opera and Carnegie Hall. He returns next season as Valentin in the COC's production of Faust.
Tickets for the concert and pre-performance cocktails are $150 and $250. Tickets are on sale to Capital Campaign donors of $10,000 and above as of March 6, 2006; Golden Circle and President's Council Members on March 13, 2006; COC Subscribers & Annual Donors on March 20, 2006; and the general public on May 1, 2006.
Thanks to the extraordinary support of BMO Financial Group, this glorious Gala Concert will be simulcast live on a large screen in Nathan Phillips Square, free of charge, for the public to enjoy. Given the enthusiastic response to the COC's Summer Opera Concerts over the past 11 years, a crowd of thousands is expected to fill the square.
Presenting Sponsor of the Inaugural Celebrations: BMO Financial Group


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PBSO said Monday the group appeared to be among the people whom authorities nationwide say are taking advantage of peaceful protests related to the death of George Floyd to stage crimes. Such protests happened Sunday night in West Palm Beach.
At about 11:30 p.m. Sunday, PBSO said, it got a call that "a large mob" was looting the store, at Forest Hill Boulevard and Jog Road. PBSO is contracted by Greenacres.
A supervisor told arriving deputies that at about 11 p.m. a white vehicle had parked in front of the store, which was closed. Soon afterward, another vehicle drove by, and someone inside shouted, "It's about to go down on Facebook Live."
About one-half hour later, the supervisor told deputies, several vehicles pulled into the lot, and a large passenger van backed up to concrete blocks that protect the store's front doors.
The supervisor said he alerted the workers who still were in the store to lock themselves into the cash office.
He said a large number of people then rushed the doors. One used a bar to pry the door open, while another tried to smash the glass door with a wrench.
The group got the door open and raced inside, taking women's clothes, jewelry, infant items, shoes, bakery items and electronics, the report said. It said the group also damaged displays and demonstration electronics.
Deputies caught three people fleeing the store.
They were Juan Castellon, 19, of suburban West Palm Beach, and a 17-year-old boy and 16-year-old girl. Those two are named in the report but The Palm Beach Post is not naming them because they are juveniles.
Deputies also tailed and stopped a gray Toyota Corolla, the agency said. Inside were:
– Aaron Burgess, 36, of Riviera Beach, the driver and the car's owner
– Bobby Jones, 26, of Riviera Beach, who was in the front seat.
– De'Andre Mosley, 22, for whom PBSO did not provide a hometown, and a 16-year-old boy whom the Post also is not naming. Both were seated in the back.
A fifth person who fled from the car, Brenton Johnson, 19, also of Riviera Beach, was arrested a short distance away.
Authorities recovered several items, store security tags still attached. Among them were two television sets, a movie projector, a turntable, speakers, a gaming pad and fireworks. The total value of the stolen items was $2,532, the report said.
The store supervisor told PBSO that damage was at least $2,000 just for the front doors.
The adults were taken to the Palm Beach County Jail, where all were charged with burglary, grand theft and resisting an officer. All five remained jailed Tuesday.
None of the five adults had appeared in court records Monday evening, so their bail amounts, as well as the incident reports, were unavailable.
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the world's first integrative therapy developed exclusively to fight pain.
Increasing or decreasing of circulation ( called "Chi" in Eastern Therapies) can benefit the patient in the same manner as the application of heat ( vaso dilation) and ice (vaso constriction) would for Western Therapies.
The Autonomic Nervous System covers over 90% of the body, comprised of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. It is the medium for chronic pain. The proper stimulation of parasympathetic "gates" can have a "calming effect" on the body, provided the suffering patient immediate and long lasting relief from pain, anxiety and insomnia.
Endorphins may be released though concentrated low frequency ETPS stimulation. Endorphins are similar to morphine, but are thousands of times stronger and are not harmful to the patient. ETPS stimulation of neural points can excite the pituitary to release endorphins which release ACTH and Hydrocortisols for tissue repair.
It is now known that chronic pain has its origins in Neuropathy – or functional alterations of the PNS. Neuropathy is always caused by muscle contracture and radiculopathy is neuropathy at the spinal root.
1.) Gait and Body mechanics.
Irregular positioning of the hips create structural and mechanical imbalances throughout the body, leading to length discrepancies, asymmetrical movements of the body and degenerative joint changes. Manually correcting this gait prior to pain treatment can substantially reduce ANS and Myofascial tension throughout the body.
Refers to the impingement of nerves and the reduction in the flow of motor impulses throughout the nerve pathways. Correcting the source of nerve impingement using ETPS therapy can produce long-term benefits to the disease process and the chronic pain cycle.
Acupuncture meridians and key acupuncture points are essential features of ETPS therapy. Integrating acupuncture points into ETPS protocols after treating radiculopathy can provide a strong therapeutic response with many chronic patients.
The integration of dermatomes (nerve pathways) into ETPS protocols brings and objective approached to pain management. Patient's pain patterns may be correlated with known dermatomes, and then integrated with corresponding trigger and acupressure points.
Invasive surgery slices through nerves, meridians, lymphatic, fascia, and circulatory systems. ETPS therapy applied directly surrounding the scar can break up the scar tissue.
6.) Concentrated Microcurrent Stimulation (CMS).
Non-invasively duplicates the "De Chi" of traditional acupuncture therapy, (including nociception, endorphin, histamine and energetic responses), but does so in a fraction of the time. CMS can also relax contracted muscle tissue responsible for the nerve impingement(s) found with radiculopathy and neuropathy. This fast application permits the concurrent treatment and assessment of soft tissue pain, effectively determining root causes and saving time and effort.
E-stim treatments address serious pain management issues in a most comprehensive way.


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Aftermath of a deadly US airstrike on Karbala Airport on March 13th, 2020 which the Pentagon admits killed a civilian.
Pentagon annual report declares 85 civilian deaths in recent US actions
Airwars Staff
Conservative public tallies of civilians killed by US during 2020 are almost five times higher than DoD admits
The Pentagon's annual report to Congress on civilian deaths and injuries resulting from US military actions around the world has declared more than 100 recent casualties. Researchers and human rights groups, including Airwars, Amnesty International and UN monitors in Afghanistan, place the actual toll significantly higher.
For 2020 alone, the Department of Defence said that its forces had killed 23 civilians and injured a further 10 in Afghanistan, Somalia and Iraq. An additional 63 historical deaths and 22 injuries were reported for the years 2017-2019, mostly in Syria and Yemen.
By contrast, the minimum public estimate of civilian deaths caused by US forces during 2020 across five conflict nations was 102 fatalities – almost five times higher than DoD admits.
Casualties from US actions in Afghanistan in particular appear to have been officially undercounted. While the Pentagon reports only 20 deaths and 5 injuries from its own actions last year, UNAMA – the respected UN agency in Afghanistan – says that international forces killed at least 89 civilians and injured a further 31. United States personnel made up the great majority of those foreign forces.
For Somalia, DoD declares only one civilian death from US actions last year – while Airwars and others suggest a minimum civilian toll of seven killed.
And for Iraq and Syria, while US forces declare only one death, local reporting indicates at least six civilians killed by US actions.
Only for Yemen is there agreement, with monitoring organisations and the DoD both indicating that there were no likely civilian deaths caused by US actions during the year.
Major decline in US actions
The 21-page Pentagon document, quietly released May 28th and entitled 'Annual Report on Civilian Casualties In Connection With United States Military Operations in 2020,' has been a requirement of US law since 2018.
The latest report captures the very significant fall in tempo of US military actions during the latter years of Donald Trump's presidency. According to Airwars estimates, there were around 1,000 US strikes across four conflict countries during 2020 – down from approximately 3,500 strikes the previous year and a peak of 13,000 such US actions during 2016. Declared civilian deaths fell from 132 to 23 from 2019 to 2020.
The majority of civilian deaths declared by the Pentagon during 2020 were in Afghanistan – despite a major ceasefire between US forces and the Taliban for much of the year. According to the new DoD report, 20 civilians were killed and five injured in seven US actions, primarily airstrikes.
The seven civilian casualty events conceded in Afghanistan by the Pentagon for 2020
However the United Nations Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) which has been recording extensive data on civilian harm from all parties to the fighting since 2009, placed the toll far higher. According to its own annual report for 2020 published earlier this year, "UNAMA attributed 120 civilian casualties (89 killed and 31 injured) to international military forces".
While these casualties represented just one per cent of the overall reported civilian toll in Afghanistan for the year – with most civilians killed by the Taliban and Afghan forces – of concern was DoD's major undercounting of its own impact on civilians – with UNAMA logging four and a half times more deaths primarily from US actions than those officially conceded by the Pentagon.
Reported civilian casualties from US actions against ISIS in both Iraq and Syria have remained low since the terror group's defeat as a territorial entity in mid 2019. According to the Pentagon, just one civilian was killed by an action in Iraq, after US forces targeted Iranian linked militias at Karbala airport on March 13th 2020. Twenty three year old security guard Karrar Sabbar was killed in that US attack. However the additional reported deaths of two civilian policemen in the attack are not acknowledged by the US.
In Syria, Airwars estimates three to six likely civilian deaths from US actions during 2020, mainly during counterterrorism raids against ISIS remnants. None of these were conceded either.
In Somalia, between 7 and 13 civilians were likely killed by US actions during the year, according to Airwars monitoring of local communities. The US military itself concedes five injuries and one death, in two events in early 2020 near Jilib.
Only for Yemen did human rights organisations and DoD appear to agree, with both reporting no likely civilian deaths from US actions during the year.
US forces in Somalia killed one civilian and injured five others during 2020, according to official estimates
Public transparency
Despite continuing disparities between public and military estimates of civilian harm, the Pentagon's annual report to Congress still represents a significant transparency breakthrough. Close ally France, for example, has refused to declare a single civilian fatality from almost seven years of air and artillery strikes in Iraq and Syria – and recently lashed out at the United Nations after a French airstrike struck a wedding party in Mali.
Later this year the Pentagon will also issue a major overhaul of its civilian casualty mitigation policies, which it has been reviewing in consultation with human rights organisations for several years. On May 25th, new Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Dr Colin Kahl confirmed in writing to NGOs that the new policy – known as a Department of Defense Instruction, or DoD-I – would be published by the Biden administration.
"We welcome the Pentagon's publication to Congress of its latest annual civilian harm report, as well as confirmation that the DOD-I on civilian casualty mitigation will be published by the new administration," noted Airwars director Chris Woods. "We remain concerned however that DoD estimates of civilian harm once again fall well below credible public estimates, and call on officials to review why such undercounts remain so common. Civilians surely deserve better."
▲ Aftermath of a deadly US airstrike on Karbala Airport on March 13th, 2020 which the Pentagon admits killed a civilian.


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THE WOODMANS - CRITERION CHANNEL
This review was originally written for DVDTalk.com in 2012.
The question of why an artist is chosen to create and how he or she divines ideas from the ether is one that will never be answered to any real satisfaction. That is the mystery of artistic expression; if we knew how to nail it down, everyone would be artists. Likewise, we aren't really sure why one person might be born with skills that allow him or her to cope in the face of any adversity, and why some find life to be a brittle, fragile, depressing endeavor. Sure, there is the chemistry of the body and other medical explanations, but the ephemeral question remains: why can't I be like you? Why am I automatically sad while you maintain and stay happy?
These are questions that, in some way, drive C. Scott Willis' documentary The Woodmans, whether they are asked outright or not. This sensitive, intensely empathetic portrait of an artistic family is all tangled up in the whys and wherefores of expression and the unknowable impulses of depression. The Woodmans are an artistic family cursed equally by talent and tragedy. Father George is a painter, and mother Betty creates pottery and ceramics. Their eldest child, Charlie, is an accomplished multimedia artist working with video projection and music. Their youngest child, Francesca, was an influential photographer and is by far the most famous of the Woodman clan. She also killed herself in 1981, an event that will never be separated from the rest of the family's story, regardless of what they do.
Despite the heavy draw of the more sensational aspects of the tale--even Francesca's work is the most magnetic of anything we see in The Woodmans--Willis endeavors to create a level playing field. His movie is as much about how a family like this functions, and the fascinating reality that, though all were drawn to different disciplines, all four Woodmans had a desire to create. What effect did the artistic environment have on Charlie and Francesca? What about the fact that their family spent every summer in Italy? Is it important that Charlie's diabetes caused his early life to be regimented, while Francesca enjoyed added freedoms? These are all avenues that Willis goes down, and he uses whatever he finds there to build as comprehensive a portrait as he can before pursuing the largest elephant down the most troubling side road.
There could be a whole sidebar here about what it means to create a portrait of a person that is not around to speak for herself. It even comes up as part of the documentary's narrative. George and Betty can give their impressions of their daughter, while her friends can tell us about the Francesca they knew--a woman who is often at odds with the perception her parents had of her--but who she really was is as open to interpretation as her art. Willis gives us her perspective where he can, quoting generously from her journals and showing her own videos of her process, but even these things are curated by the director. They aren't the same as if, say, we sat and read Francesca Woodman's journals front to back. Then again, wouldn't that too be an experience beholden to our subjective interpretation?
This is something that Willis grapples with in The Woodmans. George and Betty both wish that their daughter's extraordinary photographs could exist without the tragedy of her life being a part of the dialogue. Betty even goes so far as to try to reject the notion that the photos, many of which are self-portraits and expressive compositions that feature the photographer in the nude, are in any way autobiographical. This is a statement that she barely even seems to stand by when she makes it, though we also get the sense that she pushes back just as hard at applying any analysis to her own process. All Willis can do is show us the photographs themselves, which he does in copious amounts. I was not familiar with Francesca Woodman prior to firing up this film, but I now feel I have a pretty good grasp of her central motifs and her technique.
In trying to show us the artists behind the art, however, Willis transcends even these accomplishments and gets at something that is more meaningful and far deeper than a lot of documentaries are willing to go after. The final third of The Woodmans is an intense exploration of the effect that Francesca's suicide had on her family. Her first suicide attempt was in 1980, and she succeeded in 1981. In many ways, she has created a void that her family has never been able to close. Charlie has largely stepped away from it, determined to make his own mark, but the very act of rejecting his sister's biography and her impact on the art world (at the time of her death, photography was still struggling to be accepted as a fine art) must have its own defining quality. Both father and mother saw their own means of expression change via their grief. George, who was closest to Francesca, has basically picked up where she left off, moving from abstract painting to photographing subjects that carry on the tradition of what his daughter was doing (although he is seemingly reluctant to accept this). For her part, Betty stopped making practical pottery and instead has started making abstract installations. In a sense, she has taken over what George had been doing previously.
The most heartbreaking statement in The Woodmans is not any of the many anguished quotes that come out of Francesca's diaries, but the extended silence that follows Betty repeating the question, "How did I deal with the guilt?" Her answer eventually is that she did not, that she only dealt with the pain. One gets the sense from watching Willis' documentary that, above all else, this is the lasting legacy of how Francesca ultimately chose to express herself. Her family will never really understand why and will probably never get past the worry that there was something more they could have done. This ongoing reverberation of mourning is something that Willis appears acutely sensitive to, and it colors how delicately he handles the whole film. The Woodmans is a deeply moving piece of cinema, one that fearlessly tries to understand the conflicting impulses of creation and eradication, something that many artists wrestle with, and that I think has more far-reaching applications in other walks of life, moreso than most would care to admit.
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RADIO ON - CRITERION CHANNEL
This review originally written for DVDTalk.com in 2007.
Christopher Petit's 1979 independent feature, Radio On, is a brittle portrait of the despair and ennui of 1970s Britain. Rather than indulge in chronicling any particular scene from the time or resort to the usual ripped-from-the-headlines tactics, Petit instead chooses to follow one man over the course of a few days as a portrayal of the feelings of hopelessness many were experiencing. With bleak black-and-white cinematography by Martin Schäfer, who regularly worked with Wim Wenders (one of the producers on the film), Radio On offers a Britain that is perpetually gray. Come, Armageddon, come.
Robert (David Beames) is an all-night DJ in a factory who spends his own boring nights trying to alleviate the tedium of workers on the graveyard shift. He sets aside their banal requests and plays his own choices in hopes of giving them "something better." When his brother mysteriously dies, Robert goes on a road trip to Bristol in search of answers about what happened. Only those aren't the answers he really wants. The questions that loom over him are more existential. Though he never says so out loud, Robert is really searching for some kind of meaning in his dull existence.
Along the way, he meets other people who have been set adrift. There is the Scottish soldier (Andrew Byatt) whose pain at losing his friend on a tour of duty in Ireland has left him emotionally crippled and defensive. Then there is the pair of German women, one who hates all men and the other who is trying to find her ex-husband and reclaim custody of their daughter. Like Robert, these people feel that something has been taken from them, that their life is absurd and pointless. As the grieving mother explains, she feels homesick in England, stranded in a world where no one speaks the language she was born into. For her it may be a literal language barrier, but she might as well be speaking metaphorically. Robert borrows her phrase book and tries out different sayings in both English and German, and she kindly corrects his pronunciation. It doesn't matter that they are saying the same things, the sound of it will never match up.
If there is anything that provides comfort in Radio On, it's music. The DVD box quite loudly trumpets the soundtrack, listing the bands and the songs featured. The tracks are so important, Petit even lists them in the opening credits, rather than sticking them at the end like we're used to. The chosen cuts fit perfectly, the disaffected tones of the music emerging from the ashes of punk echoing the disaffection of Petit's script. Featured here are David Bowie, Kraftwerk, Robert Fripp, Ian Dury, Lene Lovich, Devo, and more. Regardless of what Robert is doing, he always returns to the music, turning on the radio in the car or playing a jukebox in a diner. It comforts him, acts as a friend when he has no one else to share the moment with.
At the same time, music also provides a bridge between people. The last message Robert received from his brother was a birthday present of an envelope full of Kraftwerk tapes. On the road, when he meets Just Like Eddie (Sting) at a gas station, they find common ground by singing Eddie Cochran songs, whereas when the soldier rejects what Robert puts on the stereo, you know their relationship will quickly end.
Petit builds Radio On out of lengthy, languorous shots, letting the landscape pass without comment, the periods of time where there is no dialogue stretching as far as the patches of road traversed. Schäfer keeps his camera at a distance rather than going in for the traditional close-ups, favoring two-person shots over cutting back and forth in the rare conversations. The viewer is kept far enough away as to feel that he or she is on the outside looking in, not unlike how Robert feels. We're the foreigners in his existence. Robert may not be engaged in what is happening, but there is turmoil, poverty, and moral decay all around him. The same radio that provides him with music also delivers the news of society's ills. These problems don't touch him, but they contribute to the dread that permeates the air.
By the end of Radio On, Robert has driven as far as he can go--quite literally. Parked on the edge of a deep hole, his car dies. Rather than fight against it, he opens his car doors and cranks up the Kraftwerk, the last gift from his brother and the DJ's last gift to the world he knew. He walks away from the site and starts walking back toward civilization. What he will find there is the Rorschach test Petit gives to his audience. What do you see in the ill-defined shapes of Robert's future? Has he rediscovered hope, or does the final shot of a train departing mean it's too late, any chance for humanity has already left the station?
Labels: christopher petit, criterion channel, music, wim wenders
MARGOT AT THE WEDDING - CRITERION CHANNEL
A rare case where I was able to re-examine a movie, and where I changed my mind.
ORIGINAL THEATRICAL REVIEW - NOVEMBER 2007 [source]
Noah Baumbach's Margot at the Wedding is another dysfunctional, comical family dramas of the kind the writer/director does so well. Though maybe not as good as his breakout 2005 hit The Squid and the Whale, Margot is of the same ilk: smart, literate, and self-deflating.
Margot (Nicole Kidman) is a popular author of high-brow family dramas, probably not entirely dissimilar to the one she currently finds herself occupying. In fact, given some of the resentment her sister Pauline (Jennifer Jason Leigh) expresses in regards to her personal life being fodder for past fiction, it's safe to say Margot writes her stories exactly like the life she and her family live. The strain of these resentments, as well as the shared memory of an abusive father, has divided the sisters, who haven't talked in several months. They have a third, unseen sibling named Becky who apparently got the brunt of their upbringing. Her problems are the only things Margot and Pauline can truly agree on, reserving their most judgmental tones and cruel giggles for conversations about everything that's wrong with Becky.
A temporary reconciliation has been reached between Margot and Pauline in light of Pauline's approaching marriage to Malcolm (Jack Black). This will be the second marriage for Pauline, the first one having fallen apart when Margot exposed its darkest guts in a New Yorker short story. Pauline has one child from the old marriage, a pre-pubescent girl named Ingrid (Flora Cross). Margot has two children, one of whom she brings with her. Claude (Zane Pais) is her favorite son, a mama's boy who is reaching that age where strange smells are emerging from his armpits and girls' breasts capture his attention. Not exactly the best time for being in a family crisis, but little does Claude know, he's got one coming. Margot hasn't decided to visit her baby sis for wholly selfless reasons, oh no.
Noah Baumbach is amused by intellectual phonies, and he loves to let the air out of their tires. In his college drama Kicking and Screaming [review], he portrayed young people in transition, having to face up to the real world where the pretentious theories of the classroom neither paid the rent nor got them over snares in romance. The father in The Squid and the Whale, played with convincing self-delusion by Jeff Daniels, likes to pretend that growing up means never having to stop quoting Breathless [review] in the original French. When he does so, Baumbach's sleight of hand is clear: he can pull the pin on these toy hand grenades because he knows that the difference between the real and the plastic is very slim. The only separation between himself and the misguided characters he writes about is that he's holding the pen.
Margot may be Baumbach's most conflicted character yet. We meet her at that crossroads where her illusions about her safe little world are very near shattering. She prides herself on being able to diagnose what ails others, and she has no fear telling those people exactly what she thinks is wrong with them. Yet, her assessments are capricious, and she doesn't always stick with one opinion for long. She is also deathly afraid of confessing her own problems, hence leaving Claude in the dark about the impending divorce of his parents. Margot is the kind of role that Nicole Kidman does like no one else. She's frail and trembling, yet also intimidating. She's often the smartest in the room, the most good looking, even the tallest, and she uses that to her advantage just as much as she uses a glass of white wine with an ice cube to maintain her icy distance.
Even so, Kidman conjures a persistent ache for Margot. Her eye for illness is just as turned inward as it is out. Her obsession borders on hypochondria. Despite her maddening changes of tune and comical theories on everything from mothering to relationship politics, when her full vulnerability comes through, we still manage to feel for her. In one of the movie's best scenes, Margot gets thrown under a bus at a public appearance at a bookstore, and she ends up tearfully revealing how much living has started to scare her. The compulsions that drive her to pick life apart are also picking apart her own. The scene also gives Jennifer Jason Leigh a chance to show her sensitive side. Both actresses are very good in this movie and well cast as siblings.
The relationship between Pauline and Malcolm gives Margot ample opportunity to dole out criticism. The more she focuses on the problems she perceives between them, the further she can push back her own issues. Margot tells Claude that Pauline is crazy, one of the many indiscretions that betrays the sister's trust, but Pauline seems ridiculously together by comparison. Malcolm is also an easy scapegoat for Margot's ire: a jobless musician turned painter who spends more time writing pointless letters to magazines than he does wielding a brush. Normally, Jack Black's preening performances are enough to make me stay away from a movie, but Noah Baumbach is just the right director for the comedian. The austere tone of Margot at the Wedding cages the performer, and Baumbach lets him out for well-timed outbursts. What's great, though, is there is more going on here than just quick temper tantrums. Malcolm is riddled with doubt, and his breakdowns push Jack Black to go deeper with it rather than just relying on his usual bag of tricks. It's his best role since High Fidelity, kind of like Barry has grown up and discovered what a loser he really is.
For Margot at the Wedding, Baumbach adopts a more cinema verite style, letting the overcast skies of the coastline where Pauline lives cast a gray pall over everything. Cinematographer Harris Savides shot the movie using older lenses and mostly natural light, and the jerky camera movements and quick cuts give Margot at the Wedding a spontaneous and intimate atmosphere. Given how often the plot is advanced by someone peeking through holes in walls or listening to a conversation from outside a door, the movie gives the viewer the impression that he or she is spying in on something they weren't actually invited to witness.
The only downside of Margot at the Wedding is that at times it may be too smart for its own good. Though Baumbach doesn't make too much of the metaphor of the family tree that needs to be cut down despite denials that it's really rotting or even make his set-ups for later plot devices too obvious, he does lose his way in the labyrinth of lies once or twice. Luckily for him, he always has a dry, sardonic joke waiting to put the train back on track, and luckily for us, he isn't so bitter with cynicism that he forgets to have a heart. Making things fall apart is easy, but Noah Baumbach has enough going on, he is ultimately able to put Margot at the Wedding back together in ways that are both unexpected and satisfying.
DVD REVIEW - FEBRUARY 2008 [source]
If fictional accounts of literary lives are to be believed, the pursuit of stories and greater academic discoveries is an existence cancerous with disdain. Life can't just happen, every event must have meaning, contributing to a larger metaphor. The story of your life is grist for the story on the page, and not only can people not trust you to refrain from twisting what happened to them into some greater fiction, but if they are in the same profession as you, they might also twist yours. If they are not writers themselves, then the writer runs the risk of the people around them twisting their intent, or even seeing images of themselves in the creations even when the images aren't really there.
As a novelist, I can't entirely dispute this. Part of what made the caustic Margot at the Wedding so painful to watch the first time (my original review got plenty wrong) was the fear that maybe the damage being done was damage I would encounter all on my own. Don't get me wrong, I really liked the movie, but I wasn't going to immediately rush back and see it again.
At least not when I could wait for DVD.
Margot at the Wedding is the latest film from Noah Baumbach, co-writer of The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou [review] and the man behind The Squid and the Whale, both of which are also about literary lives (though Zissou hides behind the mask of adventure). In this one, Baumbach turns his lens on a pair of sisters. Margot (Nicole Kidman) is a Manhattan-based writer who is traveling to the coast with the eldest of her two boys, Claude (Zane Pais), to attend the wedding of her estranged sister, Pauline (Jennifer Jason Leigh). Margot had originally RSVP'd a "no" for the event, not wanting to support what she sees as a bad decision on Pauline's part. The younger sister has only known her fiancé, Malcolm (Jack Black), for a very short time, and Margot's sibling judgment is fierce.
The change of heart on Margot's part is not the act of kindness she outwardly portrays, but more selfish. She is running away from her failing marriage, hiding out in a familiar place to avoid the reality of her situation. Pauline lives in the house they grew up in, and just so happens to be near Dick Koosman (Ciaran Hinds), another writer that Margot has been having an affair with. (Has there ever been a more perfect douchebag name than "Dick Koosman"?) These and many other secrets begin to emerge as Margot reunites with her sister and starts stirring things up. There is an abusive father in the girls' past, as well as a third sister. Pauline is pregnant. The two younger sisters resent their elder sibling for using their lives in fictions. Malcolm resents everyone who does anything because he really does nothing. Much of this comes to light in strange ways, with Baumbach using the secret code of sisters as an effective tool for digging toward the emotional heart of a given scene.
It would have been easy for Noah Baumbach to sculpt a self-important drama of the erudite and academic (Pauline is a teacher, but that rarely comes up, because when Margot is around, everything is about Margot), but he avoids the preciousness and self-defensiveness that often arises when intellectuals write about their own kind. Not only did I find Margot at the Wedding funnier (though still in a mean way) the second time around, I appreciated more how Baumbach was willing to hang back and let his actors have the space to move and live and be. Shooting with mostly natural lighting, eschewing a traditional musical score, and using handheld cameras to get in close and move on his feet, the director sets up the locale and lets the drama unfold without forcing it to fit strict literary lines. He does toy with metaphor, most obviously the central family tree that stands tall in the backyard and that outsiders say is rotting, but he doesn't spend a lot of time pushing any greater meaning on his audience than what they might decide to pick up on their own.
Likewise, when the situation overloads and events hit critical mass, it sneaks up on the viewer rather than feeling inevitable--even though it is inevitable, because everything that goes wrong has been pushed into position by Margot's meddling. Nicole Kidman is fearless as the extremely unlikable lead character, who seems capable of diagnosing everyone's problems but her own. It's a bit of an overstatement to call her the lead, though; it's just that her character's name is in the title. It's really an ensemble piece. Jennifer Jason Leigh is a quiet treasure that doesn't get put to use nearly enough anymore, and Jack Black has never been this good. He plays the same kind of emotionally stunted know-it-all that garnered so much notice in High Fidelity, but after life has kicked him a few times. The smug irony has been bled right out of the performance.
Everything in Margot at the Wedding is done smartly, right up to the ending. Be warned, the final sequence comes quick, but back it up and watch closely. The snap decision is all in the action, in the simple business of leaving everything behind and moving forward. Also consider the last scene in relation to the first, the thing that Claude mistakenly thinks he found on the train is now there with him on the bus. Though it happens abruptly, it's vitally important.
Labels: criterion channel, noah baumbach, wes anderson
NIAGARA - CRITERION CHANNEL
Marilyn Monroe was rarely cast as anything but the sympathetic or comedic love interest, but based on the evidence in Niagara, she could have had a whole other career as a femme fatale. In fact, her performance here stands alongside another of her off-model films, Roy Ward Baker's Don't Bother to Knock, released a year prior, as two of her most interesting. If for nothing else, because the frightened, twitchy woman she becomes in each is unlike the persona she came to develop immediately after in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and How to Marry a Millionaire. Whereas her nervous condition in Knock has more mystery--part of the film's main plot is finding out why she is the way she is--Niagara provides her with more of an arc. She goes from confident and devious to hunted and afraid. I'd be curious as to how differently her work might have played sixty years ago, when there was at least still a smidgen of an unknown quantity to the actress; now, Marilyn is so intrinsic to pop culture, we forgive and forget even as she commits her crimes, meaning we feel sorry for her despite the fact that she's getting what she deserves.
For Niagara, Marilyn plays Rose Loomis, who has gone to the famous water resort on a second honeymoon with her husband George (Joseph Cotten, Shadow of a Doubt). He has just been discharged from an army hospital, where he was sent for battle fatigue. His mental maladies are still with him, however; Niagara opens with him wandering in the mist by the falls in the early morning. When he returns home, his wife pretends to be asleep. She has had enough of George and is making plans to get rid of him. He suspects this to be the case, though given his neurotic manner, most think it's just paranoia.
The story of the Loomises is juxtaposed with that of the Cutlers, a couple on their first honeymoon, albeit a belated one. Ray (Max Showalter, Sixteen Candles [review]) has gotten a job in the shredded wheat factory on the American side of the falls; he has taken his wife to the Canadian side to celebrate. Whereas Ray is all golly-gee enthusiasm, Polly (Jean Peters, Pickup on South Street [review]) is more calm and reserved. Through a combination of nosey snooping and empathy, Polly becomes embroiled with the Loomis drama. She also gets the movie's best lines, revealing a sense of humor that can equally be aimed at others ("She sure got herself an armful of groceries") and at herself ("For a dress like that, you've got to start laying plans when you're about thirteen").
Niagara is directed by Henry Hathaway, who was known early on for westerns and then later, particularly in the years before Niagara, for directing definitive film noir like Kiss of Death and The Dark Corner. Though often lumped in the noir category, Niagara is something slightly different. Its setting and intense romantic storyline have much in common with gothic romance, while its colorful artifice has an element of the women's melodrama, looking not dissimilar to Leave Her to Heaven [review], but also being in line with the soap operas of Douglas Sirk and Jean Negulesco.
Cotten makes for a convincing brooder, and his dark passions only become more exaggerated and desperate as the movie progresses. He and Monroe are emotional counterweights. When she is up, Cotten is down, and vice versa. This leaves Peters to be the center. Her suspicions regularly give way to complicity, but she never gives in to her more scandalous impulses. Hathaway uses the setting as an environmental engine, the constant beating of the water churning up all the extreme feelings, driving both character and plot. It's fitting that the movie's most violent action is committed higher up. When Rose Loomis flees from her husband, and effectively her own errors in judgment, she runs up a bell tower, as if trying to climb away from the big hole in the earth and the torrents of water that would otherwise drive them under. Hathaway and director of photography Joseph MacDonald (Bigger Than Life [review]) set the camera up high, peering down from the uppermost point in the tower, the shadows of husband and wife exaggerated like they are posing for a Saul Bass poster. It's the most artful shot in the movie, fueled by the inherent grotesqueness of the incident it portrays.
There is, of course, only one direction George Loomis can go after that. The film can only end in the falls, George can only be ground down by irresistible urges. It makes for a nail-biting finale, one that is surprisingly cynical, but that admirably stays true to the dark places where Niagara began.
Labels: criterion channel, film noir, henry hathaway, jean negulesco, marilyn monroe, Roy Ward Baker, saul bass, sirk


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Guildford is a large scenic town in Surrey that plays host to the outstanding University of Surrey. It is widely regarded as one of the nicest areas to live in the whole of the United Kingdom. The area is full of history for you to explore
Student culture
The University of Surrey's main campus can be found on Stag Hill. This is opposite Guildford cathedral, which is provides an amazing view of the whole town. Surrey is a picturesque area, everywhere you look expect to see stunning views. You do need to be prepared for the hills though!
There is tons of stuff to came you busy whilst you study. You could head for a game of laserquest with you flatmates. Or if you fancy something more cultured check out the Yvonne Arnaud theatre or Guildford Art Gallery. If you do fancy a change of scenery London can be reached by rail in less than an hour.
Guildford has a comprehensive bus service offering discounted tickets to students; this includes tickets to the stunning Blackwater Valley. The train station also connects you easily to the south coast, London Waterloo and if you fancy a holiday Gatwick airport.
Guildford has a great mix of vibrant bars, student hangout and nightclubs. The student union itself has a multi-level club in Rubix, which has witnessed stars from all genres such The Darkness, Chase & Status and Calvin Harris to name a few. However if you plan to venture out the SU you will likely head to the two floor Casino club, located handily just across the road from Spoons! Other popular venues include the Boileroom, The Legion and Pop world.
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There's billions to be made in civil unrest, and the defence industry is armed and ready to take advantage of it.
Protests, riots, and demonstrations are major issues faced by the law enforcement agencies across the world…In addition the increase in incidents of civil wars in countries such as Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, and Egypt along with an increase in the global defence budget will generate demand for riot control systems.
And, according to the report, these "issues" and "incidents" will generate demand to the tune of $5bn over the next five years.
Such 'systems' have garnered attention in the UK just this week. Greater Manchester police have drawn criticism for the use of divisive language during a mock suicide bombing exercise in the Trafford Centre. Such exercises are not uncommon in the UK today and are, of course, necessary to ensure our forces are prepared for an actual terrorist attack.
But, as Singh noted, terrorism events are not the only target of these 'riot control systems'. In fact, the report gives the protests in Ferguson – over the death of an unarmed black man at the hands of a police officer – as an example of why demand for such systems is booming. It also stresses that "urban warfare", which is the label it gives to the 2014 Umbrella Revolution in Hong Kong where thousands of protesters blocked roads, has compelled governments and law enforcement agencies to take up these sorts of arms against civilians.
Anyone who visited London on 16 April would have seen the "political violence" described in category B in full swing. That day 150,000 Britons took to the streets demanding reforms of the current UK government's policies, and the resignation of the Prime Minister. Some call this democracy. But it seems that globally governments are viewing such action as a dangerous threat, and planning to defend themselves against it.
The report suggests that instances of political violence contagion are becoming more frequent and the contagion effect ever more rapid and powerful.
Not exactly the kind of 'analysis' that breeds a liberal government, but it could line the pockets of defence companies handsomely.
resulted in a domestic police force that looks, thinks, and acts more like an invading and occupying military than a community-based force to protect the public.
Secondly, in the UK such developments cannot be seen in a vacuum. The current government is doing their very best to force through the draconian Investigatory Powers bill, which will essentially legislate for the security services to collect all the electronic data of UK citizens. Advocates for the measures attempt to placate critics with the notion that although information will be collected, only the data of 'criminals' will be targeted. But if the act of protest is viewed as "political violence" can anyone that engages in it escape the spies attention?
Finally, and most importantly, what impact will an increasingly hostile environment have on its citizens? It will, of course, deter some from expressing dissent, and further weaken the expectation of democratic accountability. It also dangerously tips the already unequal balance of power distinctly in the powerful's direction. That is no way for a healthy democracy to function.
Essentially, this investigation draws attention to the formidable architecture of oppression being built around us. How it is used is up to the government of any given moment, whether malevolent or benign. As whistleblower Edward Snowden has warned these are systems of "turnkey tyranny". And once in place they are very difficult to tear down. That should be of great concern to all of us.
Read Nafeez Ahmed's full investigation here.
Tell Theresa May what you think of the authoritarian Investigatory Powers bill here.
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Flynn's contacts with Russia, including President Vladamir Putin, have raised concerns about the country's efforts to interfere in the 2016 elections, as well as about whether Flynn was honest with investigators. While we know about his contacts now, it appears Flynn may have concealed them unlawfully until he was caught.
Flynn was warned when he left military service that he needed advance approval before accepting payments from foreign governments. The Emoluments Clause prohibits such payments without prior approval.
We already know that the Defense Intelligence Agency—which Flynn led before leaving service—has no record of Flynn seeking prior approval for this payments from Russia. However, as of April 2017, Congress was still battling the administration for additional information.
On Tuesday, American Oversight received another piece of the puzzle through a Freedom of Information Act request. Speaking on behalf of components of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, including the General Counsel, DOD told American Oversight that it has no records of Flynn seeking permission or approval to receive payments from any foreign source, including RT.
Evidence of Flynn's concealment continues to amass.


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Associated Press/Provided by Matthew WestmorelandRiley Howell (right) on Sept. 1, 2017
UNC Charlotte student sacrificed life, saved others
by Rachel Lynn Aldrich
The body of a University of North Carolina at Charlotte student who was killed confronting a gunman will receive a police escort back to his hometown on Thursday. Riley Howell, a 21-year-old from Waynesville, N.C., charged and tackled a shooter who opened fire in his classroom on the UNC Charlotte campus on Tuesday. He knocked the assailant down and bought enough time for the first police officer to enter the classroom and capture the suspect, according to Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney. Howell and another student, Ellis R. Parlier, 19, were killed, and four of their classmates were injured. The suspect, Trystan Andrew Terrell, a 22-year-old former student at the school, is due to appear in court Thursday afternoon.
The gunman had a lot of ammunition, Putney said, and there was no indication he would have stopped if Howell hadn't charged him, adding, "His sacrifice saved lives."
Thousands of students and others attended a campus vigil on Wednesday night for the victims.
Rachel Lynn Aldrich
Rachel is an assistant editor for WORLD Digital. Follow Rachel on Twitter @Rachel_Lynn_A.
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Posted: Thu, 05/02/2019 03:31 pm
Much love for Riley Howard, who attended T C Roberson in Buncombe County, NC. There was time taken for his memory at a girl's soccer game last night between Reynolds (my son's school) and Roberson. He was well-loved, it seems, and no one was surprised that he sacrificed his life for others.
This kids photo and story shoud be on the front page of the NY Times. Since it won't be, how about the cover of World mag?
If heroic actions were lionized like vile actions are, they might inspire more, jim Stewart.


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Q: Creating custom method for collection I'm trying to create several methods to manipulate collections of objects.
I have the following statement in my controller
  def show
    @big = Configuration.find(params[:id]).elements
    @custombig = @big.getchanged
  end

In the Configuration model I have:
require 'lib/validation_rules'
class Configuration < ActiveRecord::Base
  include ValidationRules

and in my lib folder I have a file called validation_rules:
module ValidationRules
  def getchanged()
    names =[]
    self.each do |pp|
      names << pp.name
      return names
    end
  end
end

The idea is simple. The same model will need a lot of configuration rules, which I want to keep out of the controller and the model (when I say a lot, i mean about 200).
The problem with the code above is that when I call upon it, it tells me the method doesn't exist, and it seems this is happening because @big is an array of configurations, not just one configuration object.
When I tried the same approach on a single Configuration object, it works fine, but in this version, it doesn't.
How can I get rails to add this "custom" library of methods into the default Array arsenal?
For the record, the method above is just a test and not exactly what i need to do, what the code does is not the problem, but that Rails doesn't even look there before throwing the error.
Thanks a lot for your help!

A: You can extend the Enumerable module, which is included into collection classes such as Array, and which defines methods such as 'any?' and 'collect'.  For example:
module Enumerable
  def do_something
    self.each do |item|
      yield(item)
    end
  end
end

letters = ['a', 'b', 'c']
letters.do_something { |letter| p letter }

My do_something method does nothing, really -- calling it is like calling 'each'.  But of course you can add your logic into it to achieve the desired result.
Keep in mind that anything including 'Enumerable' will now have the do_something method, so that method should be coded to play nicely with any type.

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How long should you spott for if your only seven weeks pregnant?
I have been spotting for about two weeks now I'm between seven an eight weeks pregnant and I am starting to get worried somethings wrong I have two healthy boys and I never had spotting before and I think its not right. It will be light pink to sometimes dark red an pink but I NEVER fill a pad its only on the toilet paper.
It is not "normal: to spot for any amount of time. But up to 30% of women do experience some type of spotting during early pregnancy. Half of these will lose the pregnany, half go on to have healthy babies. If you are concerned call your OB.