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In a new essay at Moving Image Source, Chris Fujiwara contrasts audience responses to Douglas Sirk's 1950s melodramas in the United States and Japan. He argues that Sirk was sincere about his characters' emotions while remaining detatched from the assumptions of the society he depicted. Yes and no. I'm astonished that people would find The Tarnished Angels (1958) funny, but Written on the Wind (1956) has such an ambiguous tone that, when it came time for me to write about it for the blog, I was too intimidated by it to do more than analyze its structure a little. However, I don't see any evidence of Sirk's detatchment from, say, the conservative sexual politics in All I Desire (1953), in which Naomi Murdoch/Barbara Stanwyck is triumphantly restored to the family she abandoned ten years earlier in order to pursue a career on the stage. If this makes Sirk an idiot, then by default so are millions of people who went to see his films in the 50s, the vast majority of whom no doubt believed in their messages.
Seeing All That Heaven Allows (1955) again, I was especially impressed by the subtlty of Jane Wyman's performance. Consider the scene where Cary Scott/Wyman, a suburban widow, is Christmas tree shopping when she runs into Ron Kirby/Rock Hudson, a much younger tree farmer, for the first time since calling off their engagement, and they realize they still love each other. They only make small talk ("I didn't know these trees were yours." "No, they're Mick's"), and yet Wyman has such an expressive face that she's able to convey an emotion without over-playing it. Sirk's restraint as a director is crucial. A master of group stagings and of moving his actors around the set, he's able to direct the viewer's gaze much more subtly through his mise en scène, only going in for close-ups when he needs to. When Mona Plash/Jacquelin de Wit, the town gossip, first sees Cary getting into Ron's car, the reaction shot of Mona and the butcher is too much by half, but this is a rare lapse rather than typical. I find the film so moving precisely because it doesn't bully the viewer with heavy-handed effects.
However, the movie really lays it on thick with the symbolism equating Cary with a freightened deer. The deer first appears outside Ron's home in the woods. When Cary pulls up in her car, Ron's feeding it out of his hand in the snow. He and Cary step inside the old mill, which Ron has renovated so that the two of them can live there. At the end of the sequence, Sirk cuts back to the deer who scurries away. After Ron falls off a cliff and suffers a concussion, Cary, who hasn't seen him since the night she went shopping for a Christmas tree, comes to his sickbed. In the morning, she opens the improbably large shutters of the improbably large window that Ron installed for her in the old mill. As Ron wakes up, the camera moves to the window where the deer reappears. The pastoral setting and innocuous deer offer such a kitschy image of nature that I can't help but laugh at it.
The film's gender politics haven't aged well. Although Ron and his friends, Mick/Charles Drake and Alida/Virginia Grey, enjoy an alternative lifestyle avant la lettre (Ron doesn't read "Walden," he just lives it), Mick and Alida's marriage is strictly conventional. Mick, a former advertising executive turned tree farmer, is the breadwinner and Alida takes care of the housework. I don't see any evidence here of Sirk's detatchment from the assumptions about the roles of men and women in the society he depicted.
Imitation of Life (1959) even goes so far as to equate being a woman with motherhood. Lora Merideth/Lana Turner is a single mother whose career as an actress prevents her from spending time with her daughter, Susie/Sandra Dee. According to the film, she would've been better off had she married, Steve Archer/John Gavin, an aspiring photographer whose dreams of having his work exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art lead to a steady job in the advertising department at a beer company. In an early scene, she runs out on a lunch date with Steve to see a talent agent, Allen Loomis/Robert Alda, but when Loomis advises her to sleep her way to the top, she tells him that she doesn't want to make it that way. A few months later, Loomis calls her about an audition for a new play by David Edwards/David O'Herlihy, a thinly-veiled parody of Noel Coward. Steve, who's just sold one of his photographs to the beer company, tells Lora not to go because he doesn't want to see her get hurt again and gives her an ultimatum: "If you leave, it's over between us." She decides to go. Although the play leads to a career on the stage, once Lora makes it on Broadway, she finds that fame isn't everything she dreamed it would be. Eventually, Lora's inability to lock that down causes a rift between her and Susie, who develops an Oedipal hang-up on Steve when he reenters their lives after a ten-year absense. The choice offered to Lora is one between something real--namely, Steve--and chasing her dreams on the stage, and although she's right in the short run (she gets the part without having to compromise herself), she ends up paying for it in the long run.
Although Lora's black maid, Annie Johnson/Junita Moore, is a devoted single mother, her fair-skinned daughter, Sarah Jane/Susan Kohner, resents her for her race and tries to pass for white. Eventually, she too goes into show business but not on Broadway. The first time Steve (and the audience) sees the grown-up Sarah Jane, he remarks, "The last time I saw you, you were all legs." "I've still got them." Shortly after, we see Sarah Jane in her bedroom in a low-cut nighty in order to prove the validity of her claim and to foreshadow Annie's discovery that she's been working in a sleazy cabaret. When she runs away, Steve hires a private detective to find her. In the film's most heart-breaking scene, Annie travels to California where Sarah Jane is working at a more upscale cabaret, not to bring her home, but to look at her one last time. When Sarah Jane's white roommate drops in, Annie says that she used to look after Sarah Jane, recalling the film's first scene in which Lora asks Annie, "How long have you taken care of Sarah Jane?" As Annie leaves, Sarah Jane whispers, fighting back tears, "Goodbye... Momma." In both sets of mothers and daughters, acting comes between them, preventing Lora from giving love and Sarah Jane from accepting it.
There's Always Tomorrow (1956) was Sirk's second film with Barbara Stanwyck after All I Desire, and in both movies, like Lora in Imitation of Life, her character chooses her career over a family only to regret it later. Here, Clifford Groves/Fred MacMurray is a family man going through a mid-life crisis when an old flame from his youth, Norma Vale/Stanwyck, now a successful fashion designer, shows up at his house one night out of the blue. He bumps into her again at a resort in the desert, but when his son, Vinnie/William Renyolds, shows up unexpectedly with his girlfriend, Ann/Pat Crowley, and sees them together, Vinnie begins to suspect they're having an affair. It's all quite innocent and soon after Clifford invites Norma to their house for dinner so she can meet his wife, Marion/Joan Bennett, who never suspects a thing. Afterwards, Marion tells Clifford that she feels sorry for Norma who so obviously wants to have a family. It's to the movie's credit that Norma isn't a home wrecker or a femme fatale, but once again the film reflects the assumption of post-war American society that the man is the head of a household and a woman's place is in the home.
What does this proove? That Sirk, working in popular genres (primarily melodrama), made films whose messages flattered the attitudes of their audience--primarily middleclass white housewives. Certainly one can find evidence of ideological tensions in his films. In Imitation of Life, although Annie talks about hitting Sarah Jane, we never see Annie do it as it might complicate our sympathy for her. Although viewers in the 1950s probably thought nothing of it, seen today even the fact that she brings it up to reassure Lora is troubling. However, it does seem to me that there are moments when Sirk is being knowingly ironic. In Written on the Wind, when Kyle Hadley/Robert Stack, upon learning he's sterile, walks out of the pharmacy and sees a boy riding a mechanical horse, the image is so over-loaded with symbolism that it gets a laugh. In All That Heaven Allows, the mix of the subtle acting and over the top symbolism creates a push-pull effect, at once drawing us into the characters' emotions while keeping us outside the film by calling attention to its own artifice. Mirrors and windows are two recurring motifs that literally frame the characters. When Cary plays the piano in one scene, the shape of the reflective surface has the same dimensions as CinemaScope. (That said, the symbolism in A Time to Love and a Time to Die  doesn't strike me as funny, intentionally or otherwise.) Since All That Heaven Allows, Written on the Wind and Imitation of Life are all overtly critical of post-war American materialism, Sirk's critical distance might reflect the original audience's ambivilance about the subject, condemning and celebrating it at the same time.
Monday, August 25, 2008
Thursday, August 21, 2008
In my most recent entry on Gus Van Sant's Paranoid Park, I noted that the consensus among English-speaking reviewers was that 2007 was a pretty great year for the movies. Writing about this year's Toronto Film Festival line-up, Michael Sicinski confesses that he's still catching up with films from last year. Personally, if I were back in the 'Fax, I'd play it cool and wait for the films to come to me, confident that most--though certainly not all--of the year's important releases would turn up at Video Difference on Quinpool Rd. eventually. But seeing as I'm in Busan, I've decided to take matters into my own hands and started torrenting. I've even drawn up a far from exhaustive list of nineteen must sees (plus the one I watched on Tuesday): Alexander Sokurov's Alexandra, Eric Rohmer's Les Amours d'Astrée et de Céladon, Eran Kolirin's The Band's Visit, Cristian Nemescu's California Dreamin' (Endless), Christophe Honoré's Les Chansons d'Amour, Claude Chabrol's La Fille coupée en deux, Ulrich Seidl's Import Export, José Luis Guerín's In the City of Sylvia, Michelange Quay's Mange, ceci est mon corps, Lee Chang-dong's Milyang (Secret Sunshine), Harmony Korine's Mister Lonely, Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg, Naomi Kawase's The Mourning Forest, Jacques Rivette's Ne touchez pas la hache, John Gianvito's Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind, Jiang Wen's The Sun Also Rises, André Téchiné's Les Témoins, Hou Hsiao-hsien's Le Voyage du ballon rouge and Roy Andersson's You, the Living. Obviously this list is slanted against American films since I saw most of the worthwhile titles back in Canada.
I wasn't a fan of Carlos Reygadas' first two features, Japón (2002) and Battle of Heaven (2005), although both won passionate admirers. Without seeing them again, it's difficult to say whether Reygadas' third feature, Silent Light, represents a breakthrough or whether I simply missed the boat on his earlier work. Japón was obviously influenced by Bruno Dumont and Abbas Kiarostami, which is fine, but it didn't--or so it seemed to me at the time--bring anything new to the table. (When Battle of Heaven premiered at Cannes, Reygadas started citing Werner Herzog as an influence, which only seemed to endear him more to some reviewers. In any event, I was disgusted and bored by the film's celebration of religious masochism.) Silent Light lifts even more liberally from the art movie canon than its predecessors, but its sounds and images are too wondrous for it to be dismissed as a mere knock-off.
The film's similarities with Carl Theodor Dreyer's Ordet (1955) are inescapable. Both are about isolated religious sects--in this case, Dutch Mennonites living somewhere in Mexico--and both end with religious miracles. However, the style of Silent Light isn't very Dreyeresque. For starters, Dreyer's film was adapted from a play by Kaj Munk and is essentially an actor's film. The director's mobile long takes maintain a unity of time and space. It's set mainly indoors and was shot on a soundstage. Reygadas' is scarcely a narrative film. (The opening shot, slowly panning across the night sky with the sound of crickets on the soundtrack, recalls Bill Viola's The Passing .) His static set ups regard the characters, all played by non-professionals, as painterly subjects, placing them in the exact center of the 'Scope frame as a Wes Anderson might. When he does move his camera, it's often a smooth dolly that moves slowly in on the characters or just as slowly away from them. Reygadas favors a constructive approach to montage, rarely (if ever) giving the viewer an establishing shot of the entire space. In a funeral sequence near the end of the film, we never see the whole congregation together, but isolated medium shots of two or three people at a time. Much of the film is set outside, and Reygadas' talent for shooting landscapes is stunning. For the first time in a Reygadas film, one senses the emergence of a unique sensibility.
There are a lot of striking images in the film but I want to talk about one in particular that occurs maybe forty minutes into the film. Up to this point, the narrative has seemingly maintained a close temporal unity. The first time we see the film's protagonist, Johan/Cornelio Wall, he's having breakfast with his wife, Ester/Miriam Toews, and their six children. In the next sequence, he pays a visit to his friend, Zacarias/Jacobo Klassen, a mechanic, and speaks frankly about the fact that he's having an affair. This is followed by a brief scene in which he meets Marianne/Maria Pankratz for some midday neckin' in the desert. Later, Johan and his family visit an outdoor bath. All of this could've happened in a single day, so when the next sequence showed Johan's father/Peter Wall and mother/Elizabeth Fehr milking their cows in the early morning hours, I assumed this was the next day. After Johan tells his father that he's having an affair, the two men step outside to talk about it. In a shot reminiscent of the opening scene of John Ford's The Searchers (1956), Johan's father opens the barn door to reveal that the ground is covered in snow, retroactively signaling an ellipsis in the narrative. Additionally, this calls into question the apparent temporal unity of the earlier scenes. Reygadas is obviously paying homage to Ford with this shot, but given its placement in the film, its function is radically different.
For some time now, Roger Ebert has been championing what he's termed the "New Mexican Cinema" of Alfonso Cuarón, Alejandro González Iñárritu and Guillermo del Toro. (Who is the old Mexican cinema?) Unlike Reygadas, all three have made films in Hollywood with varying degrees of success. Del Toro has made three Spanish-language films, one in Mexico and two in Spain. I haven't seen Cronos (1993) or The Devil's Backbone (2001), but I was sufficiently impressed by Pan's Labyrinth (2006) that I sought out Hellboy (2004) to see what del Toro brought to the material, which turned out to be very little. I haven't seen Cuarón's first feature, Sólo con tu pareja (1991), but his fourth, Y tu mamá también (2001), while not the best Mexican film I've seen, runs a close second after Luis Buñuel's The Exterminating Angel (1962). I loved A Little Princess (1995) and I liked Great Expectations (1998), but Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) is indistinguishable from the first two films in the series, and Children of Men (2006) was wildly overrated when it came out for being nominally more challenging than most Hollywood fare. (One wonders if the rumors about the studio not wanting to release it at Christmas time because it was too bleak were actually cooked up by the publicity department in order to lend the film an aura of artfulness.) I liked Iñárritu's Amores perros (2000) when it came out for its style and dark humor, but his subsequent two films make me wonder if the over-generous response from reviewers hasn't gone to his head. 21 Grams (2003), his first English-language film, is such a humorless dirge one might think it was a Canadian film if not for the non-linear plot which makes the story slightly challenging to follow. With Babel (2006), one wonders if the filmmakers were trying to confirm every ethnic stereotype they could think of: the film gives us ass-hole gringo millionaires, their Mexican maid (an illegal alien, natch) and her drunk ass-hole son, a slutty Japanese schoolgirl, and Innocent Arab Children Literally Caught in the Crossfire of International Conflicts. Although Reygadas is fluent in English (see the interview included on the DVD of Battle in Heaven), he has no apparent desire to make a film in Hollywood. This doesn't make him more Mexican than the other three--Silent Light, after all, was filmed in Dutch--but it speaks to the vast difference between filmmakers trying (and often failing) to do good work inside the studio system and an uncompromising independent. As talented as Cuarón, Iñárritu and del Toro are, Reygadas is in a different class altogether.
Monday, August 18, 2008
I've seen three of five Ernst Lubitsch musicals starring Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald with Monte Carlo (1930) and The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) yet to screen. I may have to give those two a pass. Two of the films so far have been charming (and one not so charming), but none of them have been particularly great and I don't know how much more of MacDonald's singing I can take. Not screening is Rouben Mamoulian's brilliant Love Me Tonight (1932), also starring Chevalier and MacDonald, in which a tune sung by Maurice/Chevalier, a tailor in a working class neighborhood in Paris, is carried from one character to another like the Olympic torch until it reaches Princess Jeanette/MacDonald's fairy tale castle.
The Love Parade (1929) is the not so charming one. Count Alfred Renard/Chevalier marries Queen Louise of Sylvania/MacDonald only to find that he doesn't much like living in his wife's shadow. To teach her a lesson, he throws a hissy fit and threatens not to attend the opening of the country's opera, which would cause a scandal. He embarasses her by showing up late, and then reduces her to tears by staring at one of the dancers through a pair of binoculars. According to the film, for them to have a happy marriage, Louise would have to submit completely to Alfred and hand over any say in matters of state, which she doesn't much excel at anyway. In one scene, her advisers are telling her to borrow money from America when Alfred barges in and explains how everything in the budget can be payed for by exploiting natural resources, having mastered macro economics in a matter of days. The hero is a jerk, it's not funny and the songs stink.
One Hour With You (1932) was Lubitsch's fourth film with Chevalier and MacDonald, and his second time filming Lothar Schmidt's play "Only a Dream," so it's hardly surprising his heart wasn't in it. (It's telling that Lubitsch shares the same title credit with his assistant, George Cukor, suggesting that the latter directed some scenes.) The screenplay by Sam Raphelson is no more inventive that it absolutely needs to be: Dr. Andre Bertier/Chevalier and his wife Colette/MacDonald are happily married (which, in the world of the film, simply means they still enjoy screwing after three years of marriage) until the latter's best friend, Mitzi/Genevieve Tobin, returns from Lauzanne and tries to seduce the former. It's indicative of the shallowness of the script that Andre is only tempted to sleep with Mitzi, who looks perpetually drunk, because she's a willing woman. The film's most eccentric stylistic traits--the strecthes of rhyming dialogue leading into the musical numbers and Andre's assides to the camera--no doubt come from Schmidt's play, and aren't matched Lubitsch's sounds and images, which are strictly functional. Parts of the film are tinted, with blue corresponding to moonlight and yellow representing interior lights; daytime scenes aren't tinted, even when the characters are inside. This is enjoyable enough, I suppose, but not especially memorable.
The last film in the cycle, The Merry Widow (1934) is a pleasant enough diversion. The film opens in the imaginary country of Marshovia where Count Danilo/Chevalier has beded the entire female populace except the widow Sonia/MacDonald, who refuses even to lift her black veil. Deciding she's had enough of Marshovia, Sonia splits for Paris. The richest woman in Marshovia, Sonia pays fifty-two percent of the country's taxes. Fearing that an economic crisis would lead to a revolution, King Achmet/George Barbier sends Danilo to Paris to seduce her. But before checking in with the embassy to get the details of his mission, Danilo heads to a cabaret where he's far from a stranger and meets Sonia who tells him her name is Fifi. The plot piles on the standard romantic comedy crisises, although Lubitsch seems more interested in sustaining individual sequences than advancing the plot. (Two particular highlights are King Achmet discovering his wife, Dolores/Una Merkel, in bed with Danilo, and Danilo and "Fifi"'s first meeting in the cabaret.) Made the same year as Mark Sandrich's The Gay Divorcée starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, it's the only Chevalier-MacDonald film in which the stars are required to do any dancing. There's one striking sequence in which Lubitsch contrasts the solitary waltzing of the two leads with an embassy ball packed with twirling dancers. At 99 minutes, it does go on a bit too long, but it's enjoyable nonetheless.
Two Sirk Melodramas
Douglas Sirk's Sleep, My Love (1948) is one of those movies in which everybody thinks the woman is hysterical, but it turns out that there really are people plotting against her. Here, Alison Courtland/Claudette Colbert is being terrorized by a psychiatrist with horn-rimmed glasses that no one else has seen. One is reminded of Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes (1938), but where that film had a clear intent, I'm not sure what the purpose of Sirk's film is. Was he trying to warn viewers against trusting their spouses? It's skillfully made without being exceptional on any level.
A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958), in contrast, has a very simple purpose. Not unlike Clint Eastwood's recent Letters From Iwo Jima (2006) about Japanese soldiers fighting in World War II, it wants us to empathize with a single German soldier and his girlfriend. Given their ideological agenda, these films--and Oliver Hirschbiegel's Downfall (2004)--can't deal with the rise of facism, only its decline. Sirk's film begins and ends on the Russian Front in 1944 with the Germans in retreat and taking heavy losses. While on leave from the front, Ernst Graeber/John Gavin falls in love with and marries a nice girl, Elizabeth Kruse/Liselotte Pulver, whose father (never seen) is in a concentration camp. Despite being a bit sentimental, this works far better as storytelling than either Eastwood or Hischbeigel's films, and Sirk's widescreen compositions are often stunning, especially in the opening and closing scenes which are set mainly outdoors and in the countryside. However, as much as one appreciates the film's non-stereotypical treatment of the Germans, one regrets the way it shies away from the atrocities of the Holocaust.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Friday was the first day of Cinémathèque Busan's nearly month-long program of films by Ernst Lubitsch and Douglas Sirk, two German directors who made it big in Hollywood but otherwise have little in common. I've seen six films so far, some brilliant, all of interest, and among those yet to screen, I can recommend Lubitsch's To Be or Not to Be (1942), and Sirk's All That Heaven Allows (1955) and Imitation of Life (1959). The quality of the prints varies dramatically, and three Sirk films (all pre-1954) are being screened on 16mm.
The first film I saw, Sirk's inexplicably titled Shockproof (1949), is a deterministic melodrama about a female ex-con falling back into her old habits. Its social agenda and overall structure recall Fritz Lang's You Only Live Once (1937), but there are some striking differences between the two. Here, the heroine, Jenny Marsh/Patricia Knight, didn't actually commit the crime she went to prison for but took the rap in order to protect her boyfriend, Harry Wesson/John Baragrey, a professional gambler. Rather than being driven to crime by economic desperation, her biggest problem is having lousy friends. She's only out of jail a few days when she and Harry are picked up in a bookie joint in violation of her parole. But rather than sending her back to prison, Jenny's eccentric parole officer, Griff Marat/Cornel Wilde, forbids her to see Harry and gets her a job looking after his own blind mother so he can keep an eye on her. In other words, like Mark/Sean Connery in Hitchcock's Marnie (1964), he tries to make an honest woman of her. Soon she's even cooking dinner for him like a "normal, decent" housewife. The script by Helen Deutsch and Samuel Fuller has plenty of twists, and Sirk's elegant mise en scéne helps to elevate the material, but the happy ending is so unconvincing that I can only hope it was imposed unwillingly on the filmmakers by the studio.
Made just before the implementation of the Hays Code, Lubitsch's Design for Living (1933) is as striking for its frank attitude about sex as it is dated in its sexual politics. On a train bound from Marseilles to Paris, Gilda/Miriam Hopkins, a successful commercial artist, meets Tom/Fredric March, an unsuccessful painter, and his flatmate George/Gary Cooper, an unproduced playwright, and soon after falls in love with both. Rather than break-up the boys' friendship, Gilda makes a gentlemen's agreement with them--"No sex"--and resigns herself to become "a mother of the arts," helping them to improve their craft and achieve fame. "My career doesn't matter," she announces at the outset. This is certainly enjoyable, but I wouldn't call it one of Lubitsch's best (for one thing, Tom and George are interchangable Jules and Jim types); its over-inflated reputation as a classic has more to do with the prestige of the Noel Coward play it's based on than its merit as a film.
Sirk's Written on the Wind (1956) has a three act structure with a turning point--which is basically just another act break. Notwithstanding the credit sequence, the first part of the movie is set in New York and Miami, and establishes Mitch Wayne/Rock Hudson's goal of marrying Lucy Moore/Lauren Bacall. Kyle Hadley/Robert Stack, a bazillionaire playboy and Mitch's childhood friend, functions as an antagonist who tries to lure Lucy away. The second part of the film begins with Lucy arriving in Texas after marrying Kyle in an offscreen ceremony. The turning point is Kyle's discovery that he's sterile which drives him to drink. The last part of the film is a perfunctory courtroom sequence in which Marylee Hadley/Dorothy Malone, Kyle's sister who's loved Mitch since childhood, tries to have him framed for Kyle's murder. She breaks down on the witness stand and tells the truth, which is totally inconsistant with her character. The film ends with Mitch and Lucy kissing as they get in the car to leave the Hadley estate forever.
The film divides these characters into symmetrical sets of Decent (Lucy and Mitch) and Indecent (Kyle and Marylee), associating decency with pragmatism. While Mitch gets around in a black company car, Kyle and Marylee are both associated with brightly painted convertibles. When Mitch meets Lucy in the film's second sequence, she's working in the advertising department at the Hadley Oil Company in Manhattan. Mitch is in town with Kyle, who flew in on a whim on his private plane. Mitch invites her to lunch, and when they arrive at the restaurant, Kyle is in the company of two floozies. As they're leaving, he attempts to give Mitch the slip and drives Lucy to the airport. Mitch magically gets there ahead of them, but Lucy isn't that sort of girl, anyway. In Miami, Kyle presents her with a lavish hotel room with a closet full of fur coats. But when he shows up for their date that evening, he finds that she's gone. "Lucy, are you decent?" he asks walking into the bedroom. "I guess she was." Earlier, the very fact that she favors Kyle raises doubts in Mitch's mind about her decency. "Are you looking for laughs or are you soul searching?" Kyle is only sympathetic in his desire to have a family. After he marries Lucy, he becomes temporarily decent and stops drinking. Marylee, who shows no desire to have a family, isn't sympathetic at all. Describing Mitch to one of the floozies, Kyle says, "He's eccentric. He's poor," but the movie suggests the opposite: Lucy and Mitch are normal, and Kyle and Marylee (who does less soul searching than anyone) are rich weirdos.
Adapted from William Faulkner's "Pylon" (which I haven't read), and set in Depression-era New Orleans, Sirk's The Tarnished Angels (1958) is about a straight-laced journalist, Burke Devlin/Hudson who's drawn to a family of flying daredevils that live like gypsies: hot shot pilot, Roger Schumann/Stack, his wife LaVerne/Malone, the mechanic, Jiggs/Jack Carson, and Roger and LaVerne's illiterate son, Jack/Chris Olsen. Burke's interest in them is never strictly professional and continues well after he's fired from the paper. When Roger's plane is damaged in an accident, the only person who can get him another one in time for the next day's race is a local businessman, Matt Ord/Robert Middleton, and Roger asks LaVerne to pay him a visit to persuade him, which she agrees to. For all the differences in period, milieu and tone, the emotional dynamic here is much the same as it was in Written on the Wind: Burke is in love with Roger's wife, but here LaVerne is neither a saint like Lucy Moore nor a whore like Marylee Hadley. Photographed in black-and-white and 'Scope with dramatic, high contrast lighting, the film is particularly striking for its mise en scène. Notice how Sirk moves his actors around the set rather than having them stand still while delivering lines at one another. It's at once Sirk's most compelling film and his most stylish.
Lubitsch's The Shop Around the Corner (1940) is set almost entirely inside a gift shop in Budapest where every business relationship doubles as a personal one. (I suspect we never see the boss' wife because their relationship is strictly personal.) The two main narrative threads involve Alfred Kralik/Jimmy Stewart's relationship with the boss, Hugo Matuschek/Frank Morgen, and a new employee, Klara Novak/Margaret Sullavan, which run parallel to one another. Mr. Kralik--the characters always address each other by their last names--is the store's oldest employee and he's often invited to Mr. Matuschek's home for dinner with Mrs. Matuscheck. But when Mr. Matuschek begins to suspect that Mr. Kralik's having an affair with his wife, Mr. Kralik finds himself suddenly out of work. (Mr. Matuschek hires a private detective whose manner is entirely businesslike.) Earlier in the film, Kralik gets off on the wrong foot with Ms. Novak, each unaware that they've been corresponding anonymously through the mail for several months and plan to marry. They agree to meet at a café, but Mr. Kralik, who's just lost his job, doesn't tell her he's the one who wrote her the letters. Thinking she's been stood up, Ms. Novak falls ill at the same time Mr. Matuschek attempts suicide, and Mr. Kralik pays a visit to each. Anxieties about the Depression hang over the characters. The film contrasts Mr. Kralik, who stands up to Mr. Matuschek on business matters, with Mr. Pirovitch/Felix Bressart, who has a family to feed and runs away any time Mr. Matuschek asks his employees for their opinion. There's a moving scene, after Mr. Kralik is fired, in which Mr. Pirovitch cautiously asks Mr. Matuschek to reconsider. Written by Lubitsch's usual screenwriter, Sam Raphelson, it's typical of their best work for the way it brings out depths of feeling in seemingly light hearted material.
To be continued...


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This book contains the Liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church for the liturgical year of 2003. (The readings are for liturgical year B). It contains the ceremonies for most of the Catholic year, particularly in the archdiocese of Portland, Oregon, where it is published. The first major part of the book is the Order of Mass (the primary and most fundamental ceremony of worship in the Roman Catholic Church). There is an entrance song, the rite of blessing and sprinkling of holy water (to recall baptism) or alternatively a penitential rite. This is followed by the Kyrie, and then the Gloria. There is an opening prayer, followed by the Liturgy of the Word, including various readings from the Old and New Testament of the Bible, depending on the day and time of year; then the homily or sermon. There is a profession of faith and general intercessory prayers. This is followed by the Liturgy of the Eucharist (Holy Communion or the Breaking of Bread), which includes the offertory, the blessing and consecration of the bread and wine, and other prayers, and then Communion itself. Finally, there are the concluding rites. There are a number of hymns throughout the main part of the book, (#1-44), as well as many antiphons and shorter responses and musical themes. The next section of the book then gives the various special readings, antiphons, and Mass propers (prayers and readings specifically for the Mass on a given day) for each Sunday and major feast day throughout the year.
There are rites of baptism, both for babies and adults, and other sacramental rites in this portion of the book as well. The last major part of the book contains various hymns (#45-976) for use at various times of year and in various circumstances. Finally, there is a section of acknowledgements, and Index of First Lines and Common Titles, and a reference to books of accompanimens and of support materials available from the publishers, the Oregon Catholic Press. The inside front and back covers also have several of the major Catholic prayers, e.g., the Prayer of Saint Francis, the Regina Coeli, the Dedication to Jesus, etc.

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RN Neurology 3 South, Medical/Telemetry
Company: CHI-Franciscan St. Joseph Medical Center
Posted on: November 20, 2019
?Position Type: Regular
Scheduled Hours per 2 week Pay Period: 72
Primary Location: WA > TACOMA > ST JOSEPH MEDICAL CENTER??CHI
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competitive salaries and benefits.? We are a family of hospitals,
health care services, and medical providers delivering
compassionate care to people throughout the South Puget Sound. We
are part of Catholic Health Initiatives, one of the largest
not-for-profit health care systems in the country.Our mission is to
deliver high quality care that meets our patients' medical needs
while providing emotional and spiritual support to patients and
their families. We believe this three-part approach ? physical,
emotional, and spiritual ? is essential to healing the whole
person. Come join our team!?Job Summary:
This job is responsible for providing a wide variety of
professional nursing services which focus on the provision of
quality patient care consistent with Franciscan Health System (FHS)
standards/values, applicable regulatory requirements and scope of
practice for the nursing profession.? Work also includes
developing, implementing and assessing the patient plan of care
during time of stay in collaboration with physicians,
interdisciplinary teams, and the patient/family.? An incumbent is
engaged in direct patient care, including assessing, planning,
coordinating, evaluating and delegating work to members of the
patient care team, and for providing education and consultation
with patients, families, physicians and other staff members in
implementing appropriate nursing interventions for optimal patient
Work is performed under standards of safety and care that provide
instruction/guidance for taking care of issues and patient needs in
the absence of a physician.? Requires the use of judgment and
critical thinking skills in making decisions regarding patient care
(within the scope of practice), including knowledge and integration
of evidence-based practices (EBP) through standards, resources and
data, and in the efficient utilization of staff/resources.? Work
involves continuous contact with physicians, patients, patient
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An incumbent is accountable for the quality of care provided to
patients, and has the authority to direct care, provide education,
seek resources at the unit/department level, and delegate
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Adheres to the department?s and hospital?s policies and procedures,
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Assesses patient to include physical, psychosocial, cultural,
behavioral/emotional, developmental and spiritual needs. Gathers
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Cultural Sensitivity and Competence:? Demonstrates proper use of
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Demonstrates competent professional practice and engages in
opportunities for professional growth. Demonstrates self
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Anne Heaton / David Rossiter – January 4, 2017
Anne Heaton is a singer-songwriter and classically trained pianist who has amassed awards and praise from critics, fellow artists and fans with her songs that are by turns “tender, barbed and spiritual” (Washington Post). Heaton has toured nationally, played the Sundance Film Festival, Lilith Fair (2010) and has played numerous times on NPR. Heaton has been a featured artist on the New York Times Music Podcast and has released six studio albums to date. She has shared the stage with artists such as Jewel, Sarah McLachlan and jazz drummer Max Roach. Recently Heaton moved to Ann Arbor, MI and this is her first time performing at On The Tracks Songwriter Showcase.
In 1999, following the sudden death of a close childhood friend, David Rossiter made a pilgrimage to Elderly Instruments and purchased a Martin guitar. It had been roughly 30 years since he’d last picked up a six-string to play music in public. What started out as an exercise in healing quickly became a long-overdue return to an obsessive first love. Four years later, David founded Hoodang as a collaborative vehicle for creating and performing an intensely original form of American roots music. Often writing in the first person, Rossiter wraps himself in a tangled thicket of darkly wry characters — a transformative sleight of hand made all the more directly palpable when he plays one of his rare solo shows.
In 2010, David briefly placed Hoodang on hiatus in order to focus solely on songwriting. Twenty-two songs later a revitalized version of the band started making appearances across the region releasing Blissfield, the long-awaited follow-up to the band’s 2004 debut recording.
Known for his impassioned sensibilities and humor, powerfully haunting vocals, intricate, thumping guitar parts, and unpredictable stage presence, David’s blend of narrrative, autobiographical, and politically-charged sonic storytelling defies easy categorization.


House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler said Tuesday he expects former special counsel Robert Mueller to appear before Congress “way before” the end of summer.
He reiterated his pledge to subpoena Mueller if necessary to force him to testify in an interview on MSNBC.
“Has Robert Mueller agreed to come in voluntarily? Is there a date by which if he does not, you would subpoena him?” MSNBC host Ari Melber asked Nadler, a New York Democrat.
“We’re carrying on conversations with him, and he will come in, and if we have to subpoena him, we will,” Nadler said.
“Would that be by the end of the summer?” asked Melber.
“I would think it would be way before that,” said Nadler.
When asked whether he believes negotiations with Mueller will be over by the end of June, Nadler declined comment but said he was unsure.
Mueller has resisted requests from Congress to testify about his investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government. He issued a brief statement May 29 saying he had no plans to speak to lawmakers. (RELATED: Mueller Says He Believes Attorney General Barr Acted ‘In Good Faith’)
Democrats and Republicans have called for Mueller to testify in public about his investigation, which found no evidence of a conspiracy between the Trump team and Russian government. Mueller was more ambiguous on the issue of whether President Donald Trump attempted to obstruct his investigation.
In addition to pushing for Mueller’s testimony, Nadler has also battled with the Justice Department over some of the information redacted in the 448-page Mueller report that was provided to Congress and the public. Nadler struck a deal with the Justice Department on Monday, just before Democrats planned to vote on whether to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress.
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PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) - The chief prosecutor in Oscar Pistorius' murder trial has urged the athlete to "take responsibility" for fatally shooting his girlfriend, pushing him to look at a police photograph of Reeva Steenkamp's bloodied head that was displayed in court.
Prosecutor Gerrie Nel said Wednesday that Steenkamp's head "exploded" when it was struck by one of four bullets that Pistorius fired through a closed toilet door in his home last year.
The photograph showed a sideview of Steenkamp's head, with a mass of blood and human tissue on the back and upper parts. Her eyes were closed. Nel said: "It's time that you look at it."
Pistorius appeared distraught, saying he didn't have to look because he was at the scene when Steenkamp died.
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Staff will be seeking more direction from the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors Tuesday on creating an overarching ordinance meant to govern public assemblage.
In January, the supervisors directed county staff to work on an ordinance that clarifies the proper use of county property as it relates to protests and assemblies. The direction came after complaints were received from the public about the activities of the Occupy group in front of the Humboldt County Courthouse.
County Administrative Officer Phillip Smith-Hanes said he's had 19 meetings with various people and groups -- as directed by the supervisors -- to discuss what such an ordinance should include. As a result, he said additional direction is needed from the supervisors.
"There were a lot of things raised in those meetings with the public," Smith-Hanes said.
A county staff report states the supervisors are being asked to review a list of topics that potentially could be addressed in the ordinance. They're also being asked whether enough public meetings have been conducted. The report states a number of people feel the three-minute public comment period at regular supervisors meetings isn't enough and that their voices still haven't been heard.
The CAO has met privately with groups and organizations like the Human Rights Commission but has had more difficulty meeting with those associated with the Occupy Movement.
The staff report states the Occupy group chose to protest a June 4 meeting with the CAO's Office instead of providing feedback. A written statement from the group claiming government suffers from "systematized delusion" was received instead.
Smith-Hanes said a couple of Occupy group members sat down to talk but that it was difficult to take comment from them because there was a ruckus outside the room.
"They literally walked up and down the hallway chanting with signs for about an hour," Smith-Hanes said.
Staff are also requesting additional direction from the supervisors in relation to the urgency ordinance adopted in March.
The urgency ordinance restricts protest activities between 9:30 p.m. and 6 a.m., prohibits people from erecting structures or securing items to county property, prohibits camping on the courthouse grounds, obstructing access or interfering with the passage of others and more.
Smith-Hanes said one of the biggest issues raised by those he met with was the urgency ordinance and people's dislike of it. The board can choose to repeal the ordinance, modify it or leave it as it is. The Human Rights Commission has suggested the board repeal the ordinance.
During the afternoon session of the meeting, the board will discuss receiving and filing a resignation letter from 1st District Supervisor Jimmy Smith. Smith is resigning as of Aug. 3 to undergo chemotherapy treatments for lymphoma.
It's ultimately up to the state governor to decide who will replace Smith until Supervisor-elect Rex Bohn takes office in January. However, the board is allowed to make suggestions to the governor and will likely suggest Bohn serve in the interim -- a notion Bohn has said he's comfortable with.
In addition, the supervisors need to decide who will replace Smith on the other board-appointed committees he serves on.
For the complete board of supervisors meeting agenda and supporting documents, go online to www.co.humboldt.ca.us/board/agenda/questys/.
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What: Board of Supervisors meeting
Where: Supervisors Chamber, first floor, Humboldt County Courthouse, 825 Fifth St.
When: 9 a.m. Tuesday
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Clare has participated in church choirs since she was a teen. After earning a degree in nursing at Emory University, she and her husband moved to Melbourne, Florida. In addition to working as a nurse, Clare served as a choir director and pianist at their church, and began writing music for worship. After being a church musician for almost thirty years, she returned to school to complete her music degree at Campbell University in NC, and subsequently earned a MA in music composition from UNC-Greensboro.
Clare and her husband, Jim, have three sons and eight grandchildren. They are still living in the Melbourne area. She is currently serving as choir director at Prince of Peace Church.
You can find more of her music on her website: claretoymusic.com


[li]Sound cannot travel in a vacuum.[/li]
[li]Sound needs a medium to travel (or propagate - or pass) through.[/li]
[li]It transfers its energy through particles.[/li]
[li]It is a wave that compresses and decompresses particles to traverse through them.[/li]
[li]It is a longitudinal wave.[/li]
[li]Higher pitch = Higher Frequency (Hz).[/li]
[li]Our hearing range is 20Hz to 20kHz (20 000 Hz).[/li]
[li]Under 20Hz is [b]Infrasound[/b].[/li]
[li]Over 20kHz is [b]Ultrasound[/b].[/li]
[li]An [b]anechoic chamber[/b] absorbs sound.[/li]
[li]Sound is produced by vibrations (compression, rarefaction).[/li]
[li]More displacement from the base, causes more [b]amplitude[/b], and a louder sound.[/li]
[li]Louder = more energy in the wavelength[/li]
Striking a [b]tuning fork[/b] in air will not produce much sound but when a tuning fork vibrates and is placed on to a larger surface, the surface will vibrate, making the air around it to vibrate, amplifying the sound, allowing us to hear.
The following example demonstrates the limitations of the propagation of sound:
This is an oscilloscope:
[b]Oscilloscopes[/b] convert signals for sound, into a visualized representation of sound waves.
It is connected to a signal generator of some sort.
[u]Low Frequency (Low Hz) Reading[/u]
[u]High Frequency (High Hz) Reading[/u]
The greater the number of waves along the oscilloscope, the higher the frequency.
Because sound propagates through particles, if a material is more dense, it propagates faster.
For example, in the following diagram, the person on the left is trying to hear something the person on the right says.
However, the one underwater will hear it much faster (less than 2 seconds), compared to the person in air (just over 6 seconds), as water is denser than air, and can transmit sound quicker.
Therefore the speed of sound can vary.
It also moves quicker in air at around 30[degree], around 350m/s.


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There something that I love so much about photographing a family in front of their home. Whenever we have our own family photographed, I always request one in front of our house because it’s such a special part of our lives. We’ve been through so much as a family in our house; so many “firsts,” so much laughter, so many tears. I don’t know if we’ll stay in this house forever, but I always want to remember the time we spent here. Anytime I have the opportunity to take a few quick photos of a family in front of their house, I always do. It’s one of those things that you probably don’t think you want, but years from now, you will be SO grateful to have.
I have been photographing Michele and Daryl for five years now, and I can’t even put into words exactly how much that means to me. It started with their engagement session at the Buffalo Central Terminal, then their wedding at The Roycroft, then when Desmond came along we did a maternity session in the Elmwood Village, and the photos in this post were from our second family session together. It has been so special to watch them grow into this beautiful, perfect little family, and to know that photos I’ve taken will be on their walls and in their photo albums for the rest of their lives. (Michele + Daryl + Desi: I love you guys!!)
Check out some of my favorites from their most recent family session at Unity Island and in front of their adorable Buffalo home. :)

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The European Union (EU) has agreed on sanctions against Iran over the increasingly violent crackdowns against protesters.
The commission announced the decision today, and foreign ministers plan to adopt them starting next Monday when they have been made official.
“Now is the time to sanction those responsible” in Iran “for the repression of women,” stated the European Commission Chief Ursula von der Leyen.
The decision came after four weeks of increasingly violent protests in Iran following the death of Misha Amini by the Iranian Morality Police.
“This shocking violence cannot stay unanswered,” declared Von Der Leyen.
EU sanctions against Iran
The world has been closely watching the protests since they began in early September, expressing both their fury and sympathy at the continuing restrictions against Iranian women’s liberty. Today, the European Commission seems to have grown fed up as well.
There are no further details about the sanctions against Iran. However, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada have all individually targeted Iranian security branches. The U.S. and the U.K. have also imposed sanctions on Iran’s so-called Morality Police who were responsible for young Amini’s arrest. She later arrived unconscious at the hospital and passed away shortly after.
Canada, in particular, has taken harsh measures by permanently denying entry to over one hundred members of the Iranian regime. The denial of entry will also include the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which many hold responsible for the current repression.
Last week, the United States also imposed sanctions on seven Iranian individuals accused of being responsible for the blackout on social media, internet use, and protest crackdowns.
As for the Commission, they have asked to put the Iranian Morality Police and regime officials on a European blacklist preventing entry into the EU. They have also demanded a freeze on their assets.
The last time the EU sanctioned Iran for human rights violations was in 2011. In 2012, there were further restrictions on the sale of equipment the regime used to spy on its population.
Today’s sanctions are during a moment of particular delicacy, however, given the EU’s desire to revive the Iran nuclear agreement.
Worldwide protesters join Iranians from every segment of society
Despite the blackout on social media in Iran, news of the violence against protesters has sparked solidarity marches around the world. Reports keep flooding in on the use of lethal force and Iranian police firing on women and children.
Yet, resistance to the current government and continuing lack of women’s freedom has spread to several different provinces around the country, making it harder for the Iranian government to quell the fury.
Nevertheless, they try, and they have been shown using guns, assault rifles, and handguns against the crowds in the streets, allegedly killing and injuring hundreds, including kids.

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Jodi Marie Fisher has visited Costa Rica three times — once on a ministry trip for five days, the following summer on a ministry trip for five weeks and most recently, to study abroad for five months.Planning her fourth trip back, the singer/songwriter hopes to stay for five years. But before she leaves, the University of Idaho music and spanish graduate will play Bucer’s on Saturday.
“It’s kind of like my last hurrah,” Fisher said. “I’ve done so much music in the last two years that I haven’t performed here that I really want to share.”
Fisher grew up in a musical family. Although her dad was a Civil Engineer, he previously earned a music degree in 1976. Her mom has a beautiful voice, she said. Fisher would perform with Moscow’s Talent Team or Palouse Performers in productions, such as Grease, and she sang in Moscow Arts Commission Youth Choir.
“When I was a kid, I wanted to be a rockstar,” Fisher said.
LaDene Edwards, music teacher at Lena Whitmore Elementary School in Moscow, was a big inspiration for her, too.
Growing up with artist inspiration, such as Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears, N’Sync and Backstreet Boys, Fisher formed a band called “Sage,” with a friend in high school.
When watching MTV’s Total Request Live (TRL), she heard Michelle Branch explain that one of her songs was easy to play on guitar.
“Just the chords G, C, D,” Branch said.
So, Fisher asked her dad how to play guitar. He handed her a book and tuned the guitar for her to teach herself.
Flash-forward to 2013 and Fisher, 27, finished filming a music video in Boise to go along with her first studio-recorded track, “I Miss You,” one of 75 songs she’s written in the past 10 years. She hopes to have it compiled and edited for release June 10.
Fisher said she was able to have the music video completely funded through a website called kickstarter, where $1,585 was pledged for the project.
She compares her voice to Christina Perry’s and her style to an acoustic version of Coldplay — simplistic, with guitar and piano.
“I love harmony and I love open-mic nights,” Fisher said. “I don’t limit myself to specific styles.”
Fisher’s father, Ed, said it was an awesome experience having Fisher be a twin, because while Fisher is a musician, her twin sister is a civil engineer — both Ed’s avocation and occupation.
“Jodi is free spirited,” Ed said. “I can relate to both of them.”
Ed will play drums with Fisher on Saturday.
“I’m glad to see she is carrying on the Fisher tradition,” said Ed, who emphasized a family history of musicians.
Fisher said if she can make it in Costa Rica, a country of almost 5 million, as opposed to the U.S., a country of 314 million, she can come back to the U.S. as a success.
But much like her “I Miss You” lyrics, she said she will return, but for now Costa Rica will be her home:
“If home is where the heart is, then I’ll come home to you. I miss you. I love you. My home sweet home is you.”
To listen to Fisher’s music, visit her website at www.jodimariecreativity.com or her YouTube at www.youtube.com/JodiMarieMusic.
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Bay of Smokes Trailer, 2016
A film by Amy Yao
Cinematography: Amy Yao and Rob Kulisek
Music: Lhaga Koondhor (Wifey / Asian Eyez)
VSF is pleased to present Amy Yao’s first solo show at Various Small Fires. Titled Bay of Smokes, the exhibition plays with different forms of contamination. It is a continuation of Yao’s interest in the aesthetics of industrial and domestic spaces from the perspective of access, gender, identity, and the codification of space through form, color, and language.
A suspicion is demanded from the kind of ill advised self-production, unavoidably occurring in biological bodies at sites of material transformation. The resulting contamination is, and has been, the constant – the knowledge of it through data representations is the revelation – the thing perceived as change.
The ability to relocate natural materials inexpensively and efficiently relies on anatamo-politics – the ability to integrate bodies into efficient system. Concurrently this seemingly never ending flow of natural resources has radically transformed how bodies move. Airports and logistics operations require streamlined efficiency without room for disruption. Human bodies and objects both become material to be scanned and identified for the benefit of our “security.” New tools are required for the processing of bodies and materials. With all our devices, what escapes or resists detection and identification?
Yes, This is Rice! But it is made of plastic and it’s spreading across Asia. A media induced outsourcing of fear, displacing equally riveting circumstances of domestic contamination onto foreign bodies abroad. Yet the victims in both cases remain minorities and people of color. Lead contamination near Exide Plant may be worse than previously thought, Boyle Heights, CA, Commerce, CA. Barely a newswire blip, a planned scenario of environmental injustice. Pollution is segregated too, and its obfuscation is a product of racism sublimated, reappearing as nationalism and xenophobia. It is easier to overlook what happens in a dysfunctional home.
Driving from A to B and forgetting most of the journey due to its familiarity - isn’t this condition the most efficient form of biopower? Its mental absentness from the moment at hand? Floating back to the consumeristic induction producing this activity (and its subsequent collective dreaming) ... to a landscape where what we don’t want to remember coalesces with our comfort zone.


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♦ Tape record meeting.
♦ Everyone stay in vehicle til 7 pm.
♦ No one enters Town Hall except Town Hall staff.
♦ Meeting begins at 7 pm or as soon as quorum is present.
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To enlarge browser text ect. you can use Ctrl and scroll wheel instead of Ctrl and +
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Ved Lavlay teaser: Bollywood actor Riteish Deshmukh is celebrating his 44th birthday today (December 17). On this occasion, there has been an influx of congratulations on social media for him since morning. On this special occasion, Bhaijaan i.e. Salman Khan has given Riteish a very special gift, which is Bollywood star Salman Khan will be seen in the song ‘Ved Lavlay’ from Ritesh Deshmukh’s Marathi film ‘Ved’.
Ved Lavlay teaser: Salman Khan’s dhamal with Ritesh Deshmukh
Riteish Deshmukh’s directorial debut ‘Ved’ has been in the headlines for a long time. At the same time, on his birthday the actor, Salman Khan shared a glimpse of the song ‘Ved Lavlay’ on his official Instagram account. In the clip, Salman Khan is seen creating a mutiny with Ritesh.
In the video, both the action and fun styles of Bhaijaan can be seen. Salman Khan’s bonding with Ritesh Deshmukh is heart-wrenching, as a result of which the clip has become viral on the internet world as soon as it surfaced.
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Happy birthday to Ritesh Deshmukh
Posting the video, Salman Khan wrote in the caption, ‘Bhau cha birthday aahe – @riteishd Gift to Banta hai.’ The shared video of the song ‘Ved Lavlay’ has got almost 9 lakh likes in no time. Also, the fans are giving tremendous reactions in the comment section.
Salman-Ritesh’s bonding won hearts
Reacting to the post, one user wrote, ‘Bhau to Bhau love together.’ Another wrote, ‘Brotherhood Zindabad.’ Another wrote, ‘East and West… Bhaijaan is the best.’ So are the rest of the fans. Ritesh is seen dropping heart and fire emojis while praising Salman Khan’s tuning. Let us inform you that Ritesh’s wife Genelia D’Souza is going to be seen in the film. Ritesh is trying his hand at direction through this movie.

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The Bottom Line
My Coolpix S1100pj review shows a few nice features that go beyond the projector, such as a touch screen LCD.
The S1100pj's photography features are good, but they don't justify this camera's $349.95 MSRP. It's the touch screen LCD and projector that provide a good value in this model.
- Built-in projector is a very interesting option and works well
- Camera design looks great with unique color options
- Touch screen LCD is sharp and bright, even in sunlight, and includes shutter control
- Camera exposure is really accurate most of the time
- Camera is very easy to use, thanks to various scene modes, "smart" auto mode, and touch screen LCD
- Image quality is only average to slightly above average
- If you don't need the projector feature, price is a little high
- It would be nice to have the option of a directional button for working through menus
- You may notice some focus or camera shake problems in low light on occasion
- Resolution: 14.1 megapixels
- Optical zoom: 5X (28-140mm)
- LCD: 3.0-inch, 460,000 pixels, touch screen
- Maximum image size: 4320 x 3240 pixels
- Battery: Li-ion rechargeable
- Dimensions: 4.0 x 2.5 x 1.0 inches
- Weight: 6.4 ounces (with battery and memory card)
- Image sensor: CCD 1/2.3 in.
- Movie mode: 720p HD video
Guide Review - Nikon Coolpix S1100pj Review
With the Coolpix S1100pj, the overall image quality is about average to slightly above average. There really isn't anything consistently wrong with the S1100pj's image quality, but there isn't anything that stands out, either.
Outdoor photos are well exposed, but the colors just seemed a little flat sometimes. The camera's small, built-in flash seems to work pretty well, and flash photos are also well exposed.
Occasionally, you'll notice some focus and camera shake problems with this camera, especially in low light, indoor photos. If you're shooting these types of photos with the S1100pj, take a little extra time to be certain your photo is sharp before you move on to the next subject. In outdoor photos, the camera's focus is good nearly all of the time.
The macro focus mode with the S1100pj actually works very well, and I did not notice any focus problems in my macro tests.
The S1100pj also did a nice job of setting the proper exposure in automatic mode nearly all of the time, even finding details in shadowed areas very well.
The S1100pj's 5X optical zoom lens doesn't have a smooth movement, and it's difficult to "stop" the zoom at the exact magnification you need.
The S1100pj's touch screen LCD (measuring 3.0 inches diagonally) isn't as big as you'll find with some other cameras, but it is very sharp and bright. In fact, it was easy to view outdoors in bright sunlight ... and I still had the LCD brightness set two steps below the highest level.
With its touch screen, the S1100pj is very easy to use. Nikon included 17 scene modes, and the camera includes a "help" mode where you can see explanations of each scene mode, if needed. Additionally, Nikon included the ability to manually adjust one setting with a slider bar while using a scene mode, which is handy.
The camera's built-in projector works surprisingly well for a small unit. Nikon says the projector will work at a distance up to 7 feet. It will work over that distance, but you need a very dark room. Over a distance of a few feet, the S1100pj's projector works well even with some light in the room. The output image is about 0.3 megapixels in resolution, so it isn't the sharpest image, but it's still a pretty cool feature to have available.
However, you will notice that the camera's rechargeable battery drains pretty quickly if you use the projector a lot.
I like the look of the Coolpix S1100pj, as the camera looks as if it has two lenses. One of the "lenses" is the projector, of course, but it gives the S1100pj a unique look.
One design aspect I did not like was the lack of a four-way button for controlling on-screen menus. Some touch screen LCDs occupy the entire back panel of a camera, leaving no room for buttons. Nikon included a few buttons alongside the LCD on the S1100pj, but there are no directional control buttons. It sometimes would be easier to work through the menus or select a scene mode if you could use buttons instead of the touch screen.


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Cops: Umpire Attacked After Ejecting Players From Baseball Game
ROCK HILL, S.C. (CBS Charlotte) — Police say an umpire was attacked by baseball players he ejected from a game.
According to a Rock Hill Police Department incident report, 42-year-old William Brakefield told authorities that the players initially threatened him after he ejected them from the game at Cherry Park.
“I’m gonna (mess) you up and beat your (butt),” the players told Brakefield, according to police.
The players accused Brakefield of kicking them out of the game due to racial reasons.
After Brakefield turned to leave the field, he told authorities that the ejected players punched him in the back of the head.
Park officials told police that they did not have any information on the team members involved in the incident.
The suspects have yet to be apprehended. When they are, they will be charged with assault and battery.

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One of the biggest deals of the January transfer window is coming to a close as Fabrizio Romano has confirmed that Juventus have landed the signature of Dusan Vlahovic. The Serbian striker garnered a lot of interest but it is the Turin giants who have beaten others to the punch for a reported fee of €75 million. Romano’s tweet notes:
“Total agreement with player, agents and Fiorentina. €75m fee add ons included. €7m net salary per season.” and that the player will sign “..his long-term contract soon”. Romano later added that the Dusan Vlahovic will be in Torino for his medical on Friday.
Juventus Win Race for Dusan Vlahovic
Dusan Vlahović to Juventus, done deal and here we go! Total agreement with player, agents and Fiorentina. €75m fee add ons included. €7m net salary per season. ⭐⚪⚫ #Vlahovic
Vlahović will undergo medical tests in Turin and sign his long-term contract soon. Deal completed. pic.twitter.com/6JYaKTxZSG
— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) January 27, 2022
A number of teams have been linked with Vlahovic over the past few months. La Liga side Atletico Madrid reportedly had interest, then Premier League side Tottenham Hotspur joined the race, with their north London rivals Arsenal having shown strong interest most recently. Juventus have secured the talents of the 21-year-old striker in a move that they will hope can make him their top marksman for years to come.
Impressing in Italy
After a short stint in the senior team for FK Partizan, Vlahovic was signed to Serie A side Fiorentina in 2018. The youngster took time to find his footing but turned heads in the 2020/21 season when he won the Serie A Best Young Player award after scoring 21 goals in the season. His impressive form carried over into this season where he has an impressive 17 goals in 21 Serie A games, he even matched Cristiano Ronaldo’s record for most Serie A goals scored in a calendar year in 2021 by scoring 33 times that year. Vlahovic ends his stint with Fiorentina with 49 goals in 108 games, 41 of which have come in his last 64 appearances for the club. In addition to his club exploits, Dusan Vlahovic has scored 7 times in 14 caps for Serbia at international level.


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Two SVA students were winners at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 31st annual Student Academy Awards competition, held in Beverly Hills, California, on Saturday, June 13. Robert Castillo (second-year MFA Computer Art candidate) got the Gold Medal in the alternative category for S.P.I.C.: The Storyboard of My Life; and Sukwon Shin (MFA 2004 Computer Art) won the Silver Medal in animation for Rock the World. Third-year Film, Video and Animation Department student Jeff Mednikow was also nominated in the animation category for his film, Tricks for a Treat.
Image: Peter Docter presents the Gold Medal to Robert Castillo (right) at the Student Academy Awards. © AMPAS 2004.

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Brian Froud - The Dark Crystal Suddenly the fact that this guy reminds me of "Labyrinth" is makeing sense... he worked for Jim Henson. :)
Fairy Tricks the Fay Might Play on You!
Fairies in Legend, Lore, and Literature by Terri Windling: Summer 2006, Journal of Mythic Arts, Endicott Studio
The Greenman,Cernunnos/Herne the Hunter....By Artist and Author Brian Froud's "Green Man"...
Brian Froud----brings to mind the three weird sisters of Macbeth
THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF SOMEONE TAKING FROM FAMOUS BRIAN FROUD'S CHARACTER DESIGNS AND STEALING. ---------THUS THIS IS NOT CHARACTER DESIGNING. This could be a cool concept for boys? Instead of faeries, make them these gremlin-like things.
Fantasy painting - Brian Froud
brian froud | Brian Froud beautifully pictured on Digital Photo Club
"Losgunna", by Brian Froud I love her frog-like legs. Absolutely beautiful. Who says fairies need humanoid legs?


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If you follow me on Instagram you know that I recently posted about giving these beautiful Dixie nightstands / end tables a pop of color. I am not too big into painting Mid Century Modern pieces of furniture but I really felt that these 1970’s side tables needed a little bit of pizzazz. Each of them has two drawers. And please notice the detailing on the front of them. The brass handles add an accent color in addition to adding functionality to them. These beautiful nightstands measure: 24″ long, 24″ high by 15″ deep.


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In 2014, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Fondation Cartier, Hans Ulrich Obrist conceived the Infinite Conversations, a series of conversations with the artists, scientists and thinkers close to the Fondation Cartier and its exhibition program. Since then, Hans Ulrich Obrist and the Fondation Cartier have renewed their collaboration. The exhibitions The Great Animal Orchestra (2016), Junya Ishigami: Freeing Architecture (2018) and Southern Geometries, from Mexico to Patagonia (2018) were the occasion of new "marathon dialogues" with other artists and contributors. The Infinite Conversations gathers all these conversations, inviting to transcend the borders between art disciplines.


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The Vineyard varsity soccer teams came up victorious Monday in non-league matches against the Dennis-Yarmouth Dolphins.
The girls downed D-Y, 2-0, at Dan McCarthy field in Oak Bluffs. Jenny Lindland scored both Vineyard goals in the first half. The first was a header to the far post off of a Mariah Campbell free kick from 35 yards out. The second came on a squibber in close.
The win was a welcome turnaround from a tough loss to Whitinsville Christian in the home opener on Saturday.
“After our disappointing second half against Whitinsville Christian, we came out and played two really good halves of soccer and moved the ball effectively,” coach Richard Bennett said. “I thought it was a good recovery from our match on Saturday.”
The boys traveled to South Yarmouth and claimed their first win of the season, 3-1. Rodrigo Honorato scored following a corner kick to put the Vineyarders up 1-0 in the 32nd minute. Jacob Lawrence and Jack Roberts added second half goals for M.V., who improved to 1-1-2.
Saturday, both teams played on the home pitch for the first time this season.
The girls took on the Whitinsville Christian Crusaders for the second time in a week and again came up short by a 2-1 score.
The Purple played an inspired first half, employing a crisp short passing game to keep possession and earn some solid attempts at goal. The teams went to the halftime break tied, 0-0.
Two minutes into the second half, Jenny Lindland, who had tended goal in the first 40 minutes, burst through the Crusaders defense and scored on a breakaway to give M.V. a 1-0 lead.
The Crusaders stormed back and tied the match five minutes later. From there, the Vineyarders stopped passing and opted mainly for clearing the ball out of trouble. The Crusaders pressed the play and earned nine corner kicks in a 15-minute span.
The pressure finally paid off. With eight minutes to play, Molly Stark stepped up and blasted a 35-yard free kick into the twine for the match winner.
Three hours later, under the lights at Dan McCarthy field, the Vineyard boys took to the pitch against Nauset and tied the Warriors, 1-1.
Nauset came into the match with a three-game winning streak against M.V., which included a 5-1 romp on September 5.
The Vineyarders forced the play early. Jack Roberts scored in the fourth minute to put the Purple up 1-0.
The Vineyarders continued to attack but Nauset equalized against the run of play. Following a Warrior counterattack, the Vineyarders were penalized when Cody Savonen was downed in the box. Adam Huber stepped up and calmly slotted the spot kick past Vineyard keeper Jackson McBride to tie the match.
Nauset had two good chances to score late in the half but failed to capitalize and the teams shared the points.


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(incase picture doesn't show: http://www.jessenicola.com/offsite/boombubblegum/AR-15s-nice.jpg) Inside AR-15 in the picture above is Adams arms Evo Ultra Lite upper (14.5" Mid Evo Ultra Lite Upper - Adams Arms). It's a 14.5" barrel with a flash hider on it staked to make it the legal 16". Weighs very little for a piston driven upper, ultra reliably cycles ammo, feels great, shoots accurate, etc etc etc. It's on an Anderson Manufacturing Forged Lower with a Palemmto State arms LPK, and a Giselle tuned trigger I forget the brand that Giselle worked with on it but it's the nicest trigger I've felt on any AR. Magpull ACS butt stock, Vortex Strikefire sight, ergonomic grip, etc etc. Works great, not used a ton and available. Asking $1400. Outside AR-15 is the Adams Arms 16" Mid Base Upper (16" Mid Base Upper - Adams Arms). Fine rifle, shoots great, cycles ammo reliably, etc etc. Has same lower as above only instead of the fancy trigger just uses the PSA full LPK kit trigger, which is still a pretty nice trigger compared to most. Cheap 2-7x adjustable scope that is damn accurate and I couldn't find anything more expensive with comparable features in a compact package. 45 degree angle iron sights as well. Asking $1000 (incase picture doesn't show: http://www.jessenicola.com/offsite/boombubblegum/AR+benelli.jpg) Inside gun is obviously the AR. DPMS gas block, Stoner Chrome Lined M16 profile barrel, polymer quad rail setup (really light weight). Reflex sex, flip up iron sights. Simple butt stock and pistol grip... etc etc. Lower is forged Anderson Manufacturing Lower, DPMS full LPK which is reliable but not mind blowing. Asking $800 Benelli Shotgun is available upon request for a fair price as well. I'll list that if I get the time today. Part trades I am interested in: I would be interested in taking a Shield 40, Shield 9, and/or an XDs 9. I'm a big fan of pocket pistols. I would also be interested in a bone stock Ruger 10/22. I do need to raise some money though, this is all going to help pay off debt I had to take on to cover surgery for my dog. So, some cash needs to be involved in any trade offers. Prices are flexible if you're paying enough cash.


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Stoic released The Banner Saga last year, and it was a great strategy role-playing game. It had characters on a square grid, drama, and lots of death. Basically, it was ripe for conversion to a board game.
Today at GenCon, Stoic and its partners MegaCon Games and Versus Evil announced just that: the trio is working together on The Banner Saga: Warbands. Details are extremely light outside of that announcement, with the official site showing only a logo and a note that the project is set to make its way to Kickstarter in the near future.