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Ghana positions itself for more climate investment – Ministry
To do so, the Ministry has disclosed that it would soon establish a Climate Division to tap into financial resources being dedicated by multilateral development finance institutions and climate investors across the world.
The Ministry said it was also working closely with social and development partners to seek innovative financing solutions and leverage on all forms of investments in forest conservation and climate resilience.
That would be done along with the allocation of funds to strengthen the capacities of forestry agencies, enhance monitoring and enforcement mechanisms and provide incentives for sustainable forest management practices.
Dr Mohammed Amin Adam, the Minister of State at the Finance Ministry, called on all Ghanaians to embrace their role as custodians of the country’s forests and work collectively to take climate actions.
He was speaking at the commemoration of the 2023 Green Ghana Day in Accra, where the Ministry, together with the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) and the Controller and Accountant General’s Department planted some 200 trees.
Across the 16 regions of the country, about 10 million trees were being targeted to be planted on the occasion of the 2023 Green Ghana Day, to help restore the lost forest cover and make the environment conducive for both people and animal living.
“Let’s join hands in planting trees, protecting our natural resources, and promoting sustainable living. Each one of us has a responsibility to safeguard our forests, protect our health and the health of future generations,” Dr Amin said.
He expressed worry about the depletion of Ghana’s forest cover, caused by deforestation, illegal logging, and unsustainable land-use practices, which had reduced the eight million tropical forest in 1900 to the current 2.7 million.
He said those activities did not on only jeopardise the health of the country’s forests but it also undermined Ghana’s economic well-being, and encouraged Ghanaians to actively participate in the exercise.
Dr Adam urged Ghanaians to plant and nurture trees to support efforts to strengthen forest governance, promote reforestation and afforestation initiatives, and engage in responsible land-use practices.
He also asked staff of the Ministry to engage in practices that would “sustain this beautiful planet, minimise waste in our paper usage, save energy by switching off the lights while we are not in the offices, and separate our waste for recycling.”
In an interview with the Ghana News Agency, Madam Abena Osei-Asare, Deputy Minister of Finance, said: “Soon, the Ministry of Finance will be setting up a Climate Division to take advantage of the relatively cheaper resources out there.”
She said such effort was to help address some of the issues that have come about as a result of the adverse effects of climate change.
“The effect of climate change is happening across the globe but those of us in sub-Saharan Africa, are feeling it the more but do not have enough financial and other resources to meet the demands. What we can do is to come up with an agenda that’s more preventive,” she said.
On the theme for this year’s Green Ghana Day commemoration, “Our forest, our health,” she underscored the dichotomy between plants and healthy living, including the medicinal properties of plants and animals in the ecosystem also help to balance things.
“So, whatever we have to do to protect the sea, our forest cover and the animals that live within, we’ll have to do it and ensure that we do our part [as citizens] to prevent the dire effects of climate change on all of us,” Mad Osei-Asare said.
To ensure effective nurturing of the trees planted and their sustainability to contribute to the achievement of the objective of the Green Ghana Day, she said the Ministry would dedicate its staff to take care of the trees.
According to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Ghana’s investment requirement for its 31 Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) actions is estimated at $22.6 billion over a 10-year period.
UNDP had indicated that most of the investment would need to come from international public funding and private capital.
As such: “It is therefore critical to consider innovative financing models such as blended financing, green bonds and carbon financing for development,” UNDP said.
Efforts to increase investment for Ghana’s climate actions had become critical has the first NDCs sought to reduce emissions by 15 to 45 percent below business-as-usual scenario by 2030 drew closer.
Meanwhile, the World Bank Group’s 2022 Country Climate and Development Reports had indicated that despite a slowdown in progress in the last three decades, Ghana could turn challenges into opportunities by taking a climate resilient and low-carbon pathway, which would deliver more than $26 billion in economic benefits by 2040.


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An overnight strike on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv has reportedly damaged infrastructural facilities causing power and heating outages.
It was reported that that Russia kept hovering around Kyiv for the second night in a row, after firing series of missiles over the capital on New Year’s Eve night and earlier in the day.
Kyiv Governor, Oleksiy Kuleba, posted on Telegram messaging app around 1 a.m (Russian time)
“It is loud in the region and in the capital: night drone attacks,”
He further said,
“Russians launched several waves of (Iranian-made) Shahed drones. Targeting critical infrastructure facilities. Air defense is at work.”
3 hours later the military responded,
Kyiv military administration claims to have shut down 16 drones hovering around the city using Ukraine’s air defense systems.
According to the city’s Mayor, Vitali Klitschko,
“debris from one of the destroyed drone over Kyiv hit the capital’s northeastern district, wounding one”.
The 19-year-old man was taken to a hospital in Kyiv’s Desnianskiy district, Klitschko posted on the Telegram messaging app on 2nd of January 2023

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World Bulletin / News Desk
Switzerland has blocked nearly one billion Swiss francs ($1.07 billion) in stolen assets linked to dictators in four countries at the centre of the Arab spring - Egypt, Libya, Syria and Tunisia - the Swiss foreign ministry said on Tuesday.
Swiss authorities are cooperating with judicial authorities in Tunisia and Egypt to speed restoration of the funds, but it is expected to take years, said Valentin Zellweger, head of the international law department at the Swiss foreign ministry.
"Today a total of one billion francs is blocked in the framework of Arab spring," he told a news briefing in Geneva, giving the latest figures for funds frozen since early 2011.
The bulk of the assets, nearly 700 million francs, are tied to former President Hosni Mubarak and his entourage, he said.
Swiss foreign minister Didier Burkhalter held talks in Cairo on Sunday with his Egyptian counterpart Mohamed Kamal Amr on judicial cooperation to restore the embezzled funds, he said.
Some 60 million francs linked to ousted Tunisian president Ben Ali has also been seized, Zellweger said. In line with U.N. Security Council sanctions, 100 million francs linked to the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and 100 million francs linked to Syrian President Bashir al-Assad and associates are blocked.
Switzerland has worked hard in recent years to improve its image as a haven for ill-gotten gains, seizing the assets of deposed dictators and agreeing in 2009 to soften strict bank secrecy to help other countries catch tax cheats.
"In the past, the affair that was resolved most quickly was Abacha and it took 5 years," Zellweger said, referring to assets linked to the late Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha.
Kuwait has detained 26 people who are linked to the attack on a mosque last month
Egypt has drafted an antiterrorism bill that threatens at least two years in prison for those who contradict official figures when reporting on militant attacks.
The Egyptian army has launched operations in Northern Sinai, killing 63 opposition forces.
Saudi-led strikes hit party headquarters of Houthi ally former president Ali Abdullah Saleh
Foreign minister insists recent violence in restive peninsula is 'nothing more than criminal, terrorist acts'
The Lebanese group Hezbollah's television station al Manar said its members and the Syrian army entered Zabadani where oppositions have held it since 2012.
Egyptian dictatorship detains 63 Muslim Brotherhood members. Latest arrests come only days after security forces gun down nine Brotherhood members in West Cairo apartment
Saudi Arabia says it won't rule out building nuclear weapons
Egypt’s president made an unannounced visit to the Sinai Peninsula on Saturday to rally troops following attacks
Attack takes place during Iftar established by Nusra Front
The Syrian army and its allies have launched an attack on the Syrian city of Zabadani, a border city with Lebanon
In 1980s despite knowing about Saddam's plans on building up a chemical weapons arsenal, British government chose not to interfere
ISIL's Egypt affiliate, Sinai Province, claims to launch three Grad rockets toward "occupied Palestine".
13 shells had been launched on Friday by Yemen's Houthis, targeting several areas including Jizan's airport.
Thousands of supporters have filled the streets of various cities in Egypt to protest the anniversary of the overthrow of Mohamed Morsi
An Israeli general has said that Hamas has aided ISIL in Egypt by smuggling wounded through tunnels into Gaza from Sinai

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In this episode, poet Rebecca Salazar joins Glass Bookshop’s Matthew Stepanic to chat about her poetry collection sulphurtongue. They talk about how to organize a poetry collection, what it takes to be a good editor, using humour to tackle trauma, and more.
Rebecca Salazar (she/they) is a writer, editor, and community organizer living on the unceded territory of the Wolastoqiyik people. The author of poetry chapbooks the knife you need to justify the wound (Rahila’s Ghost) and Guzzle (Anstruther), her first full-length collection, sulphurtongue (McClelland & Stewart), was published in March 2021.
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Public prosecutors in Serbia do not respect the law and are afraid to do their job, at least that is what the MP of the ruling party said, and his colleagues did not deny it. Everyone talked about what they had prepared, about local powerful people, about the opposition, about the President.
“So, any prosecutor who would possibly dare to respect the laws of this country, to sanction that behaviour we saw in previous weeks, savagery on our motorways – and we know exactly which article was violated – as our Constitution and laws define such behaviour impermissible, any prosecutor who would dare to initiate any procedure would be declared a servant of the regime, they would be most dreadfully dragged through the media mud. And then we come to a situation where the prosecutor says – I don’t really have to respect the law, I don’t have to respect everything that falls in my constitutional and legal obligation, let someone else do it.“
“That is why we need a prosecutor’s office that is independent, that is able to deal with those who commit crime and say – you can’t do anything to us, because we are tycoons, because we are the owners of capital, because we are some who have a connection with some local powerful people and we can poison you, we can kill you, we can harm you.“
“I believe that a strong Serbia, led by the policy of Aleksandar Vučić, is the only guarantor of continued progress and because of that – Long live Serbia, led by our President Aleksandar Vučić!“
“Why did one director, who probably didn’t get the money for his project, issue death threats and say that Mr. Vučić should end up like the Ceaușescu family in Romania did? Shame on you. That man should answer. Who is he threatening? The President of the country? It’s such a disgrace. What is Vučić guilty of? Of having built 400 km of motorways?“
“They constantly go on about sandwiches that people who go somewhere eat, those who travel to celebrate the 13th birthday of the SNS, for example. I promise them free transportation and free sandwiches. They will also get transportation and sandwiches to see those motorways. We have to travel for a few days though, because 400 kilometres of highways have been built.“
At this sitting, the new mandate was entrusted to the former prosecutor for organised crime, Mladen Nenadić, whose name was mentioned only when the proposal was read. The arrest of Veljko Belivuk’s criminal group was quoted as a success of this government, but the MPs again managed not to present any specific information about any of the 37 candidates for prosecutors.
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Posted by Indian Fashion Police on May 28, 2012
At the end of Cannes this year, IFP has been surprised by unexpected red carpet appearances…………..many new Indian celebs walking at this event have made an impression fashionwise. So for the finally we finally got to see Sonam Kapoor on the red carpet………….was she able to take our breath away………let’s find out………
For the finale Sonam had opted for Alexander McQueen outfit that had left us with one question………………Why did she ever choose this outfit for the most prestigious red carpet event of the year???? She had Dior, Chanel, Naeem Khan, Valentino and so many other designers to select couture from but why this???
It’s not that we don’t like the gown but it does nothing to this brilliant fashionista……………the only saving grace is her hair & make-up. I wish Sonam would have opted for a structured gown that would do justice to her frame. This one is surely a forgettable look………..need more glamour factor.
Sonam Kapoor also made an appearance in a velvet ‘Dolce & Gabbana’ dress which was styled in a very vintage manner for the finale dinner. The hairband, the long earrings, all made the look classy. IFP likes it for sure……….this look was adventurous and better than her day look.
IFP also caught a Cannes look at Arjun Rampal & missus Mehr Jessia. Arjun looked absolutely like a prince in Rohit Bal’s Jodhpuri pants & jacket attire, but it was Mehr Jessia who stole the look in beautiful Tarun Tahiliani. As a couple IFP adores their red carpet ready look.
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Posted by Indian Fashion Police on May 26, 2012
After a day of amazing looks by the Indian celebs on the Cannes red carpet, I am at ease for the fact that our celebrities do know how to rock at any international events. Day 10 had the bigwigs of Hollywood walk the red carpet for the premiere of ‘Cosmopolis’ that stars the ‘Twilight series’ hear throb Robert Pattison & Kristen Stewart. Among our desi celebs, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan also walked the red carpet.
Aishwarya wore an Elie Saab 2011 Couture gown for the premiere in midnight blue color. The mesh fabric ahd all over detail work along velvet floral appliqué at the waist. Elie Saab has been her choice for many international events and I must admit that the designer always makes Aishwarya look effortlessly elegant and beautiful in every look.
The irony of this situation is that international media is loving Aishwarya’s comeback on the red carpet, unfortunately it is just the Indian media that has been pretty rude about her looks. All I can say is that ‘real women have curves’ and Aishwarya portrayed that with utmost grace at Cannes 2012. From fashion point of view, I like the dress, the jewellery has been kept to the minimum and the make-up is all glam.
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Posted by Indian Fashion Police on May 25, 2012
Finally my wait is over…………..and I am delighted to see Aishwarya Rai Bachchan take on the Cannes red carpet for the 11th time in a row. Now that is a hell lot of experience for anyone. Aishwarya stunned us yet again with her style options this time around when she attended the amFAR’s ‘Cinema against AIDS’ event at Cannes yesterday.
Aishwarya opted for a beautiful ‘Abu Jani – Sandeep Khosla’ ensemble which was a combination of a pastel color saree and a heavy detail work blouse. I am impressed at the ability of the designer to make Aishwarya look so beautiful in this Indian attire. I am in awe of the detail work on the blouse which had a lot of traditional zaridosi work and chikan-kari work on the saree……………..It was ‘Indianess’ at it’s best.
As for people concerned with Aishwarya’s weight issue…………….why consider it at all when she still looks this good. People please give some respect to a new mother who has many things on her mind apart from just looking good. Find a better way to waste your time than to discuss such petty issues since we all face similar things at some point of time.
So far this has been my favourite appearance at Cannes 2012. IFP also spotted Aishwarya in a more casual appearance for a photo shoot at Cannes.
Aishwarya opted for ‘Angelo Katsapis’ outfit for daytime………..the black and white ensemble put together with side swept hair. Simple yet very international.
Among other Indian celebrities, IFP spotted Kalki Koechlin in a ‘Sabyasachi’ outfit, clutch and hair accessory. The bejewelled hair band might seem a bit out of place but I still feel no one could have carried off it so well with an Indian outfit as well as Kalki did. IFP likes her style on the red carpet and the fact that she is different from the other usual pouting celebs.
Sonam Kapoor looked pretty in a Naeem Khan polka dot outfit while attending the Chopard & L’oreal bash at Cannes. She added a pop of color with a burgundy clutch. IFP likes her classy look in this outfit and wish to see her in more ‘Naeem Khan’ looks in future.
Mallika Sherwat was also at the amFAR event, I feel she has found an affinity towards the pastels and nude colors. She was dressed in Ali Mahdavi outfit that had a hoodie………………but I am surprised that she could carry this off with such an ease. The vintage style hair and make-up add the much needed glamour to this outfit and she looks much better all covered up……..:-) IFP gives this look of Mallika a thumbs up and appreciates her effort for trying something new on the red carpet every single time.
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Posted by Indian Fashion Police on May 24, 2012
I think that we are actually getting started at Cannes Film Festival with amazing movie line-up from ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’ to ‘Peddlers’ both being received well at the festival. As for the red carpet, the unexpected celebrities are wooing us with their looks. Kalki Koechlin did bring a smile our face with her simple yet cute look. Day 8 saw the cast & crew of ‘Peddlers pose on the red carpet.
Kriti Malhotra, Gulshan Devaiah & Nimrat Kaur
Actress Kriti Malhotra of the ‘Dhobi Ghat’ fame wore a shimmer black gown by designer Jatin Varma. The gown was combined with a grey clutch, dangling earrings and black strappy sandals. The look was kept understated for more emphasis on the outfit.Whereas actress Nimrat Kaur wore a fuchsia color gown at the event. As for the lead actor Gulshan, when you have two pretty women posing besides you, you certainly look good…………:-)
Just in : Nimrat is wearing Swapnil Shinde design and had worn Amrapali jewels at all events in Cannes. Thank you for the update Rubina.
Kriti Malhotra, Siddharth Menon & Nimrat Kaur
Also caught Nimrat Kaur wearing a Sabyasachi saree at the Semaine De La Critique’ event in Cannes. While Kriti Malhotra opted for a Gauri & Nainika Gown in summery yellow. Both the ladies looked gorgeous in western & Indian ensemble for their first time appearance at Cannes……….IFP has no complains on this.
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Posted by Indian Fashion Police on May 23, 2012
Finally we get to see an appearance of the cast members of the much talked movie ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’. Anurag Kashyap, his wife Kalki Koechlin and Manoj Bajpai along with other actors posed for the shutterbugs at the photo-call held in Cannes.
Richa Chadda,Huma Quereshi, Reema Sen and Kalki Koechlin pose for the camera.
It was good to see Kalki Koechlin on the red carpet in that gorgeous ‘Christian Dior’ outfit, though I am not fond of the neckpiece that she is wearing, I feel no one else could have every made it work so gracefully as Kalki did. After few disappointing celebrity looks, it was a refreshing change to see the cast of ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’ and Kalki of course bring some fashion energy on the red carpet.
Richa Chadda at Cannes 2012 for the ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’ photocall was carrying a ‘Invintage’ clutch from ‘MALAGA’.The flat-bottomed shape and sleek construction of the bag allow for a convenient carriage, while the zirconium and semi precious stones studded in an intricate pattern invoke the Regality of our Indian heritage. The brass metal bag, is an iconic piece of Malaga’s evergreen Invintage collection……….IFP does like this clutch which definitely stands out at this International event for its Indian appeal……..
Also spotted in Cannes was Sanjay Suri at the ‘Incredible India’ bash. Looking handsome in a Jodhpuri suit of ‘AD Man’ a label by designer Anita Dongre.
Photo Courtesy : NDTV India and Rediff India
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Posted by Indian Fashion Police on May 22, 2012
After the hype created by Freida Pinto on the red carpet, there has not been anymore Indian celeb spotting on the red carpet that would have made us sit upright and take notice. Mallika Sherawat who should have created the buzz after Freida, seems to have been gone unnoticed by the shutter-bugs.
Mallika Sherawat wore a nude color gown with a sexy back and gave a peek of her bosom, but does it impress us fashionwise…………….. unfortunately not. The hair is too big, the outfit lacks class and just not fond of the skinshow either ways.
On the other hand, Sonam Kapoor attended the Gucci-Vanity Fair Party in Gucci ensemble, beautiful earrings and hair styled short which pratically destroyed the entire look. Still waiting to see the full length pics of hers to decide if this look worked or not???
Right now I am just thinking if Aishwarya Rai Bachchan would bring in some refreshing change on the red carpet. Sigh….
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Posted by Indian Fashion Police on May 19, 2012
I rejoice on hearing the news that Sonam Kapoor has left for Cannes, I truly look forward to what history this pretty lady will create on the red carpet. IFP loved her first appearance at Cannes last year and definitely her red carpet walk will be the most anticipated one for Indian fashionistas. Meanwhile, our very own star in Hollywood Freida Pinto is making waves with her style at Cannes 2012. Let’s check out her summer look on Day 3 which we loved……..
Shutterbugs spotted Freida at the photocall for ‘Desert Dancer’ held in Cannes. Freida wore a ‘Salvatore Ferragamo’ Resort 2012 outfit looking every bit like a celeb. The halter top was paired skirt in geometric print…..the outfit was combined with two-tone strappy sandals. For someone as young as her, I feel she could carry this summer outfit with alot of ease. Her sun-kissed look was kept simple with eye make-up and gloss while hair was styled in a pony.
Photo courtesy : Zimbio.com, Justjared.com
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Posted by Indian Fashion Police on May 18, 2012
Indian media thought that Day 1 would be truly exciting to see many Indian celebs walk the red carpet, but were left a bit disappointed. But I can assure that the festival has just started, we will surely have many surprises to look forward to. As for Day 2, I loved Freida Pinto’s look in lime green……….that was thankfully fresh. Freida walked the red carpet again for the première of ‘Rust & Bone’.
Ms. Pinto took a risk with this color that did pay off on Day 2. IFP loves the beaded gown from ‘Atelier Versace’ and gives it a thumbs up. It had to be the color that scored browny points from IFP. The make-up was minimal and the hair pulled back in a pony. The look was young and chic.
Freida arrived in style in a ‘Paco Rabbane’ outfit at the L’oreal party held in Cannes. We like the dress but not feeling the hair which was too beauty pagent like. Out of the two IFP definitely loves her day look.
Also spotted was actress Fagun Thakrar attending Women In Film celebration which was organised by IFP, Calvin Klein Collection & Euphoria by Calvin Klein. She danced her way thru Cannes 2011 and seems to attract alot of shutterbugs this year too.
Photo Courtesy : Zimbio, Daylife
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Posted by Indian Fashion Police on May 17, 2012
Films, Red Carpet, Beauties, and the best in fashion. It never gets any bigger than seeing the new styles at Cannes film festival each year. Many trends world-wide get set here and IFP will surely keep you updated about our very own Indian celebs. So day 1 started off on a very fashionable note with Freida Pinto taking the red carpet as the brand ambassador of L’oreal Paris.
Freida Pinto opted for a pink Michael Angel gown and combined the look with ‘Chopard’ jewelry. The beaded bodice and the soft color works for us but the platform heels seems a little out-of-place with such a flowy ensemble. The hair and the make-up were undoubtedly flawless but wish Freida would have opted for a more demure outfit for the first day at Cannes,since this outfit does not make any lasting impression.
While daytime look was softer, Freida opted for an all ‘Versace’ black gown which had beads & mesh detailing for the after party at Cannes. Freida who is amazingly dressed on the red carpet at all international events, seems to have missed the mark with these choices on Day 1. IFP does not hate the looks but is not in awe either. Hope to get pleasantly surprised by our Indian celebs during the upcoming days at Cannes 2012.
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Machine vs. Human
Part of learning the piano is simply a battle of Machine vs. Human. The piano is a machine like no other, both in complexity and difficulty. If you’re an adult trying to learn the piano, the first hurdle is pure, brute strength. In order to wiggle your fingers repeatedly and accurately, you will need to take the approach of the athlete or gymnast.
Your hands are the last extension of the great machine that is your body. No amount of brilliant mental management will make up for weak hand and fingers. No amount of brute strength will make up for dull mental management. Playing the piano at a high level takes training similar to athletes and ballet dancers.
It's a lot of work.
Weak Fingers Make Difficulty
Beginning adult pianists often think they are mentally deficient when a difficult passage makes them falter. But it is most often not your mind that falters, but your fingers. You’d be surprised how many times you stumble at the piano because of physical weakness rather than mental disorganization or fuzziness.
So if you want to take greater control of the piano as your hobby, start training your fingers in equal measure to how much time you spend simply playing.
Teach Yourself Piano
Start With A Warm Up
If you normally play about 20 minutes, try a combination of ten minutes exercises and ten minutes playing. Do the exercises as a warm-up first, just as if you were going to the gym. With this regimen, you will be surprised at the strength in your fingers, which will begin to appear after a few weeks. Yes, that does seem a long time, but it is worth it.
One way to survive the dull repetition of finger exercises is to watch a TV show while you play. It doesn’t take much of your brain to watch the TV. Your fingers will wiggle along by themselves just fine without your brain's intense involvement.
The first exercises to try are the Virtuoso Pianist by Hanon. Try the first one and do it over and over. Start with just the right hand. Then do the left hand, each hand separately. Lift the fingers high, and take a full stroke (with most people this is about 2-3 inches above the keys.)
f you feel tired or feel any pain in one hand, stop and do the other hand till the discomfort subsides. If you feel tiredness or pain in either hand, stop and come back later.
Never “play through” pain in piano exercises. The muscles you are using are usually completely unused by non-piano life, and will be extremely weak. Like an athlete, you must build them up, slowly and without injury. Think of your fingers as baby fawns or calves, weak in the legs and barely able to stand: treat them gently at first.
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Laser Doppler vibrometry (LDV) is a well known technique to measure the motions, vibrations and mode shapes of structures and machine components. Photodetector-based LDV can only offer a point-wise measurement. However, it is possible to scan the laser beam to build up a vibrometric image. These scanning laser Doppler vibrometers (SLDV) assume that the measurement conditions remain invariant while multiple and identical, sequential measurements are performed. This assumption makes SLDVs impractical to do measurement on transient events. In this paper, we introduce a new method of generating multiple laser beams with different frequency shifts. The laser beams are projected on different points, and the reflected beams interfere with a common reference beam. The cross-talk among object beams can be bypassed with a proper selection of frequency shifts. A simultaneous vibration measurement on multiple points is realized using a single photodetector. Based on the proposed spatial-encoding technology, a self-synchronized prototype of fiber-based multipoint laser Doppler vibrometer at 1550nm wavelength is developed. An addition red pilot laser is used for aiming purpose. It has the flexibility to measure the vibration of different points on various surfaces. The prototype is used to measure the vibration of different points on a cantilever beam and a plate. The measured results match well with simulation results using finite element method (FEM).
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"To these, if Hebe's self should bring
• Mark ambition's march sublime
Up to power's meridian height;
And sickens at the sight.
‘Happier he, the peasant, far,
From the pangs of passion free,
Of rugged penury.
• He, unconscious whence the bliss,
Feels, and owns in carols rude, That all the circling joys are his,
Of dear Vicissitude. From toil he wins his spirits light, From busy day the peaceful night; Rich, from the very want of wealth, In heaven's best treasures, peace and health.' TRANSLATION
A PASSAGE FROM STATIUS.
THEB. LIB. VI. Ver. 704-724.
This translation, which Gray sent to West, consisted of about
a hundred and ten lines. Mr. Mason selected twenty-seven lines, which he published, as Gray's first attempt in English
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FRAGMENT OF A TRAGEDY,
DESIGNED BY MR. GRAY,
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THE DEATH OF AGRIPPINA.
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Gray's most favourite plays; and the admirable manner in which I have heard him say he saw it represented at Paris, seems to have led him to choose the death of Agrippina for his first and only effort in the drama. The execution of it also, as far as it goes, is so very much in Racine's taste, that I suspect, if that great poet had been born an Englishman, he would have written precisely in the same style and manner. However, as there is at present in this nation a general prejudice against declamatory plays, I agree with a learned friend, who perused the manuscript, that this fragment will be little relished by the many; yet the admirable strokes of nature and character with which it abounds, and the majesty of its diction, prevent me from withholding from the few, who I expect will relish it, so great a curiosity (to call it nothing more) as part of a tragedy written by Mr. Gray. These persons well know, that till style and sentiment be a little more regarded, mere action and passion will never secure reputation to the author, whatever they may do to the actor. It is the business of the one, 'to strut and fret his hour upon the stage;' and if he frets and struts enough, he is sure to find his reward in the plaadit of an upper gallery; but the other ought to have some regard to the cooler judgment of the closet : for I will be bold to say, that if Shakspeare bimself had not written a multitude of passages which please there as much as they do on the stage, his reputation would not stand so universally high as it does at present. Many of these passages, to the shame of our theatrical taste, are omitted constantly in the representation : but I say not this from conviction that the mode of writing, which Mr. Gray pursued, is the best for dramatic purposes. I think myself, what I have asserted elsewbere, that a medium between the French and English taste would be preferable to either; and yet this mediam, if hit with the greatest nicety, would fail of success on our theatre, and that for a very obvious reason. Actors (I speak of the troop collectively) must all learn to


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Are you thinking about leashing your cat, so he can be happy outdoors? Perhaps my experience can help.
My first childhood cat went outdoors almost all the time, even at night during the summers. But I was a kid then and never gave the situation any thought. In fact I assumed this was the only way to keep a cat.
Since then I have never been without a beloved cat or two, and although they continued to go outdoors, at least I always kept them in at night, mostly because I was afraid they would be hit by cars. Then sometime back in the early nineties, I learned that an average house cat can kill as many as 40 birds in one short summer season. Yikes! I loved the birds too. I would have to learn to somehow change my ways.
At that time I had two cats, Lucy, a female stray who had moved in with us, and Mistoffeles (Stoff), a male we’d had since kittenhood. Both were over 12 years old by then, and definitely outdoor cats.
The first change I made was to wean them slowly. I began by letting them go outdoors for shorter and shorter periods each day, always before suppertime when they were hungry. Eventually, I’d call them back in to eat after only about twenty or thirty minutes.
The next step was to let them out fewer days each week, until finally we were down to just once a week. I chose Sunday mornings because I was home from work and the neighbourhood was quiet then. At first I put up with some complaints, meowing at doors, a bit of scratching and so on, but not as much as I had expected. Soon my cats, adaptable as all cats are, became used to this new routine.
Next my husband screened in the area under our high back deck to make a ‘Cat Condo’. Now they could be out there whenever we were home. It was a mixture of gravel and a few weedy areas, nothing special, but at least they had the smells of outdoors and it seemed to satisfy them.
When Stoff was 15 years old, I got the bright idea from somewhere, not sure where, to train him to a leash. I emphasize his age because I’ve heard people comment that you must have to start them on a leash as kittens. Not true. I was, however, exceedingly patient.
First I put the harness on Stoff, indoors, for just ten minutes. He crouched, squirmed and writhed, but left it on for the full ten. Each day I increased the time a little bit, until he would put up with it for about half an hour. That’s when I started taking him out into the grassy back yard in his harness with the leash attached. He did not try to run. He soon learned not to pull either, perhaps because pulling would hurt his neck.
And so, bit by bit, Mistoffeles became my first leashed cat.
Now we have Gesso, age twelve, who we rescued from a shelter before she was a full year old. Because of the success with Stoff, I started training her right from day one. Yes, I was patient, but she caught on quickly. I wonder if cats realize on some level that having the leash on let’s them go outdoors, which is where they like to be. In those days we had a little travel trailer, and for five years Gesso got to go camping with us because of her leash skills. She was leashed out in all kinds of spaces that were completely unfamiliar to her. No problem.
One thing we’ve noticed is that if Gesso does occasionally slip out of the house without her leash on, she doesn’t run, or even move quickly. She walks slowly, and only as far as she could go with the leash. It’s as if she doesn’t actually know when she’s on the leash and when she’s not. Odd!
If you decide to leash your own cat, and I hope you will, you will find that leashing is only appropriate for people who have time and are willing to be vigilant. Here are some tips to help you on your way.
#1. Be patient. Always, but especially in the training stage.
#2. Never leave your leashed cat unattended! The rope will get tangled a hundred times, leaving kitty stranded. And if your cat pulls very hard, he or she could escape. Also, there’s always the chance a dog or cat will come along, and Kitty on the leash wouldn’t stand a very good chance in a fight.
#3. Your cat will likely love going for walks, but don’t imagine it will be like walking a dog. Kitty sets the pace and the route. There will be a lot of stops for rolling around on the sidewalk, climbing a tree, or for just sitting and staring. Also, be prepared to get some funny comments from passers by. My favourite: ‘Do you realize that’s a cat you have on your leash?’
As you can see, you will need to be vigilant, but I think you and your cat will be pleased with the result. Oops, I hear the stove timer reminding me to check on Gesso. Yup, there she is curled up on the front porch in a sunspot. Happy Kitty. Safe birds.
Good luck with leashing your cat.
– Diane Wile-Brumm


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Has Fertility Medicine Gone Too Far?April 21, 2015
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Angie and Kami Roe were married on December 20, 2013 in Utah, and they have the court papers to prove it. They joined in union after a federal judge deemed same-sex marriage as constitutional.
The natural progression after they were married was to start building a family. In May 2014, the wives agreed upon using a sperm donor and that Kami would carry the baby.
Their daughter, Lucy, was born this past February.
The couple is now in a legal snafu, and the ACLU of Utah is stepping in to help. Recently, the couple launched a lawsuit against the Utah Department of Health arguing that Angie should be permitted on the baby’s birth certificate.
Annie Cutler of Fox 13 Now reports, “Right now in the eyes of the law I’m not her parent,” Angie Roe said. “We just want to be treated the same under the law as opposite sex couples are.”
According to Cutler, Angie and Kami Roe want to be acknowledged under the state’s assisted reproduction statutes. In doing so, there is no reason for Angie to be forced into a stepparent adoption process for legal guardianship which could take up to a couple months.
Leah Farrell, attorney with the ACLU of Utah told the media, “A couple of months of waiting is not nothing. The security or the lack of security that are in those months is a real thing but beyond that there’s just the principle of equality that they are being treated differently just because of the gender of one of the people in the couple and that’s not right.”
There are some who claim to support equality, but feel that this process really is the road toward legal due diligence.
This group is voicing that Angie is being viewed by the law as a stepparent. For heterosexual couples, they say, a stepparent must go through the adoption process to become a legal guardian. The argument from this corner says it sounds “equal” since a child cannot possibly have two mothers, so the adoption process is more than fair since heterosexual couples who marry into an established family go through the same procedure.
This argument doesn’t sit well with me because the Angie and Roe were legally married at the time of conception.
The ACLU fires away in their court papers indicating, “A same-sex spouse and a different-sex spouse whose wife conceives through donor insemination are similarly situated in all relevant aspects.” They continue, “The purpose of the statutes is to immediately establish parentage for a spouse who has consented to bringing a child into the world, whether or not that spouse shares a genetic relationship with the child.”
On the other side of the courtroom, the Utah Department of Health didn’t speak to the media but did release the following statement:
“While we have not had the opportunity to review today’s filing, we have been working for several months with both the ACLU and the plaintiffs in an attempt to reach a solution. Our hope is to resolve the issue at hand in a manner that serves the best interest of all parties.”
While other lawsuits have been heard in the courtroom referring to same-sex couples and parentage rights through adoption, this case is a trailblazer because it relates to assisted reproduction statues in the state of Utah.
Jennifer Dobner of The Salt Lake Union Tribune reports the court papers filed say, “Under Utah laws that govern assisted reproduction, however, only the husband of a woman who conceives through the use of donated sperm is automatically recognized as a child’s parent.”
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This informative article examining Godard’s work duing his 60s heydey of filmmaking is dated May 1, 2005 and comes from the website A Girl and a Gun. I am not sure who the author of this piece is (I apologize) but I believe it is by the person who ran the site…
In the early and middle 1960s, when I was young and starting to turn at once mildly hopeful and vaguely pessimistic about the world becoming a better place, there was one event which commanded my attention and that of many of my friends like no other: a new film by Jean-Luc Godard. Since I spent much of that time in Portland, OR, these releases came late, far too long after we’d read the admiration expressed by a handful of sympathetic big-city critics and the dismissals of mainstream jerks, but they were new to us and we leaped. I lost touch with Godard in the mid-1970s, after Tout va bien, when his work had trouble (for political but also commercial reasons) finding US distributors no matter where you were, even New York. But a few months ago, I caught up with the wonderful new one, Notre musique, and then the slightly earlier Eloge d’amour, and thought, he’s still got it, the old magician. I doubt that many young people, whatever their admiration for Godard of today or yesterday, have any sense of the electricity which each new release of roughly 1960-67 sent through his audiences. I didn’t doubt then that those years were the most creative, imaginative, innovative, stimulating, and original run that any director–any director, ever–has enjoyed, and a selective viewing of the releases from those years has done nothing to change my mind.
It’s important to keep in mind a fact so well-known that it’s sometimes taken for granted: Godard, like several others in the New Wave, came out of a group around the periodical Cahiers du cinéma, and they were all committed to some degree–although few to the extent of Godard–to using film as a tool of cultural criticism with which to examine (and flay) contemporary views on art, politics, sex, social class, anything you cared to mention. Much of Godard’s work sets aside the customary narrative focus of films and devotes itself to this criticism. What keeps it from being off-putting, for the most part, is both the daunting intelligence and curiosity of the man and his always-at-work sense of humor.
His first feature, A bout de souffle (forever Breathless to English-speaking audiences, but more properly Out of Breath, which is what the hero becomes at the end), opened in Paris in March 1960 and achieved instant attention all over the film world not long thereafter. Godard had shot if for about a third of what ordinary French films then cost (perhaps $90,000 in 1960 dollars), he shot it with a skeleton crew, without synched dialogue (that was added in sound mixing), and saw no reason whatsoever to observe the conventional proprieties of editing and narrative presentation. It is the story of Michel, a petty thief who commits a couple of murders, and who runs into Patricia, a young American hanging out in Paris while waiting to start classes at the Sorbonne. Michel stays one step ahead of the cops while trying–successfully–to get Patricia into bed. But Godard is not interested in narrative flow; he wants to get at character and interrelationships, at people who are more interested in themselves than anything else in the world, including each other, and–especially in Michel’s case–who are constantly adjusting their poses and appearance in order to conform with some idealized self. This petty thug famously models himself on Bogart, a cinematic image more real to him than anything in life. Patricia is also trying to find an image that fits, but more distractedly, which leads her to resist and then sleep with Michel, to protect him and then to turn him into the police.
Godard’s rough cut came in at 135 minutes; his producer insisted on a film at ninety. Out came the scissors, although instead of cutting whole scenes (although that did happen), Godard cut within scenes. Example: someone is walking across a room or down a street; conventionally, the camera follows the movement from one or perhaps two and even three points of view, but always seeking continuity; Godard would begin with the first few steps, then abruptly show a few frames from later on, then just as abruptly the arrival. Thus, from necessity, was born (actually reborn, from silent days) the fabled jump cut. The film made a huge star of Jean-Paul Belmondo, then twenty-six, and owed a little of its popularity to Jean Seberg, who came with pre-packaged pubilicity of her “discovery” by Otto Preminger for a role in Saint Joan and Bonjour, Tristesse. After 45 years, the film is still as fresh, invigorating, and exciting as when I first saw it, and it’s not hard to see how Godard got people to thinking lots of new and different ways about films.
Le petit soldat (The Little Soldier) was ready for release later the same year; but it dealt with the Algerian war for independence, and the resistance of French colonials and colonialists to them, subjects that devoured France at the time the way Vietnam came to dominate American politics from about 1967 until the mid-1970s. The Gaullist censors watched and said, resoundingly, Non! It did not appear on screens until 1963, by which time the Algerian war had achieved a negotiated peace. It tells of a hit man for the pro-colonial side who is operating out of Geneva, Switzerland, and who falls in love with a young woman, a situation which only complicates his professional life. There are cool, candid scenes of torture–perhaps the number one issue in the political debate over the war–long monologues, profuse quotations from various literary and philosophical sources, and like most of Godard’s films from these years, a death at the end. I have always liked Le petit soldat and found a viewing after nearly thirty-five years rewarding; the film has life and energy and stays just far enough outside the political thriller conventions to be interesting. It’s also his first film with Anna Karina, the Danish model with whom he fell in love, married, and helped into a brilliant but all too brief screen career.
For someone so rigorously intellectual, politically serious, and high-minded about the functions of cinema, it’s amusing to watch Une femme est une femme (A Woman Is a Woman), which came out in 1961 and was Godard’s tip of the hat and poke in the ribs at romantic musical comedy. Karina is a young wife who wants a child, but whose husband, Jean-Claude Brialy, is reluctant. To get him off the dime, she starts cultivating the interest of Belmondo, and with a lot of delicate playing and teasing, it works. There is singing, dancing, and all manner of charming silliness, with no hint whatsoever at anything adjoining reality: these are actors performing in front of a camera, that and not the illusion is the truth. Although Godard had wanted to shoot in a real Parisian apartment (a rather plain and drab one, as appropriate to the couple’s circumstances), he was finally forced to build a set. But while sets meant control and the possibility of making the scenes “real,” Godard recorded the sounds of the crew moving about and left them in the finished film. A film impossible to dislike.
Then, of course (and by this time we should have seen it coming), a sharp turn in 1962: Vivre sa vie (My Life to Live, although I think Living Her Life is a little closer). This is the harrowing story, “in twelve scenes,” of a young Parisian who has little economic choice but to go into prostitution. She is wretchedly unworldly, gullible when she should be skeptical, trusting when she should have her guard up, taking financially motivated favors for generosity, gradually losing her grip on anything like control of her life. The black-and-white photography is unlike anything I had seen to that point: with a clarity, power, and extraordinary compositions by Raoul Coutard, who had begun working with Godard in A bout de souffle and soon became nearly as famous. Karina has by this point gone from charming to a talented actress, and her portrait of deterioration–at which she never ceases to be astonished–is abundantly moving.
Les Carabiniers (The Riflemen, 1963) lulls us into thinking we’re watching a spoof of war movies, and perhaps of waritself. Michelangelo and Ulysses are a couple of witless peasants who leave their girlfirends, Cleopatra and Venus, to join up in a war which a distinct Orwellian aroma–two undefined sides fighting over undefined issues and objectives. Off they go, and gradually we see, in large part from newsreel and other documentary footage, some of the reality of war. There is senseless carnage and endless destruction aplenty, but eventually the guys return home, not exactly victorious, but exuberant with their experience as it is encapsulated in a huge stack of picture postcards they sent home. This famous sequence is put on with enormous imagination and humor, as the men show their women all the famous sights they have seen or claim to have seen–the pyramids, the Eiffel Tower, the Parthenon, St. Peter’s Square, museums, natural wonders, and so forth. We realize that these prefabricated images which are so immediate to them are like so many images–lies of real experience–meaning that the documentary footage we saw earlier falls into the same category. Images cannot capture the vicious brutality of war; only experience, unmediated by art of an attempt to create enjoyment. Suddenly, Les Carabiniers becomes a new film.
Le Mépris (Contempt, 1963) was Godard’s first comparatively big budget production. He was by now an international brand name of sorts, and Sam Levine put him to work. The story was about a screenwriter with political and aesthetic principles who compromises them to get work with a philistine American producer, and in the process earns the contempt of his wife. A fair chunk of the money went into the contract for Brigitte Bardot as the wife. It may be difficult for younger people to appreciate what a presence BB was in the early ’60s; nobody has dominated the media since to such an extent unless it was Princess Diana in the ’90s. It so happened that she was a neighbor of Godard and Karina in the chi-chi Paris 16th arrondissement and agreed to work with him. Bad idea. She immediately began playing star, late on the set, pissy about her lines, in short a royal pain in the ass. To make matters worse, that great, great American actor Jack Palance, who played the producer, decided that Godard had no idea how to make a film and refused to speak to him for most of the shooting, although Godard spoke near-perfect English. Le Mépris never works very well for very long, but there is a marvelous scene in the couple’s apartment where, for about twenty minutes, we get a complete rehearsal and visualization of how the marriage has unraveled, thread by thread. Fritz Lang plays the famous German director Fritz Lang who has been hired to direct the film, and who, having seen it all, acts as something of a Greek chorus on the insanities of movie-making and how–maybe–something like art can be salvaged from the process. When Levine saw the rough cut, he blew a gasket: there were no nude scenes of Bardot. Godard got her back together with the crew and filmed some, then pasted them onto the beginning and end, where they seemed to turn the most famous derrière on earth into a joke. Henceforth, Godard went back to low-rent but autonomous filmmaking.
He seems to have felt reinvigorated, for next came the masterpiece Bande à part (1964), a lovely little piece about two film-mad young men who are always looking for the easy franc. They are casing the suburban house where they think riches dangle ripe for the mere plucking, and they enlist the reluctant support of the lovely but insecure and even rather gawky girl who works there. She finds herself drawn to them–literally: in one remarkable scene she runs through the entire suburban neighborhood to be with them, and we understand how much she thinks she needs them to complete her, for all her misgivings about their project. It’s not really a caper film, but a film about “outsiders” and how they got that way, how they are with each other, how they bumble forward but also backward. There is lots of conversation, many monologues, but we pick up their internal dynamics through one stunning moment when they dance to a cafe jukebox. The dance is called “The Madison,” Godard dubiously claimed to have invented it, and it is one of the most charming and subtly revealing passages in his work. Predictably, one of the characters comes to a tragic end, although there are flickers of a possibility of romantic escape as well.
I have always found Une femme mariée (A Married Woman, 1964), a day-in-the-life film, and Alphaville (1965), sci-fi/noir mélange, to be rather labored and a little abstract. They have moments of sharp images and telling, funny comments, but moments only, at least for me. I think Godard may have been marking time, throwing stuff up on the wall to see if anything stuck, trying to find his way out of a dead end. This sense is, again for me, reaffirmed by Pierrot le fou (1965), which seems to have been intended as a sort of summing up of where he’d been in the last five years, and which indeed Godard himself described as: “A little soldier who discovers with contempt that one must live one’s life, that a woman is a woman and that in a new world one must live as an outsider in order not to find oneself breathless.” The earlier themes are here–freedom, death, the centrality of film–along with the quotations and speeches and the inescapability of suffocating from imposed events beyond one’s control. Here, Vietnam has finally replaced Algeria and there is an air of pessimism which extends beyond the fact of death at the end. Narrative has become even less important: Belmondo plays a married man bored senseless at a party of advertising people who runs away to Karina, a former girlfriend, who may–I say may–have killed a man (someone is reponsible for that dead body in her apartment). They steal a car and set off for the south of France, pursued by bad guys of uncertain provenance, but this is no thriller or melodrama. Godard is building atmosphere, charging the environment with darkness and hopelessness, creating moods which cannot be shaken by story line, and he’s immensely talented at it. I remember people coming out of the theater forty years ago saying, What the hell was that all about?” I could only answer, inadequately, it was about itself, it was about what you saw taken all together. Can’t do much better now.
If Pierrot le fou was about where he’d come from, Masculin féminin (1966) pointed out some new directions. It is in fifteen scenes populated by young people roughly ten years Godard’s juniors (he was now thirty-six), and deals with their preoccupations with pop culture but also politics, sex but also how to live life decently. There’s no narrative here, just interviews and conversations and monologues designed to bring forth all sorts of information from which we can draw our conclusions (“make of it what you will” in the words of another intertitle). Roger Ebert (who as a young man “saw” Godard more clearly than most big-city newspaper critics) has pointed out that while the film’s most famous intertitle is, “The children of Marx and Coca-Cola,” he thinks much of its sense lies in another line, “We went seeking greatness in movies, and were most often disappointed. We waited for a movie like the one we wanted to make, and secretly wanted to live.” I think that’s this movie, and I think its a masterwork.
I didn’t bother watching Made in U.S.A. (1966) or 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d’elle (Two or Three Things I Know About Her,1967), both of which left me cool at the time and which re-viewings ten years later did nothing to improve. Similarly with La Chinoise (1967). Most of the film is conversation amongst a group of French students, and the conversation is fascinating, earnest, thoughtful, but its connection to real-world possibilities hard to find. There is more than a whiff of agitprop to this film, although Godard remained just independent enough to annoy French Maoist intellectuals of the period (not actually a difficult feat). Incidentally, the marriage to Karina, which was all but unsalvageable in 1965, had by now ended, although she worked with him up through Made in U.S.A. Godard’s gargantuan tempers, his epic jealousy, and his moodiness had become impossible, divorce unavoidable. La Chinoise starred his latest romantic interest, Anne Wiazemsky, not yet twenty, whom he married after the film’s release.
Later the same year, Godard brought out Weekend, a film with its own burden of agitprop, but which I also regard as one of his greatest works. The long tracking shot near the opening of a gigantic traffic jam composed of numerous wrecks is as pungent a statement as I have seen of how the end of urban capitalist society might be imagined. But that society has actually been coming apart from the very opening shots and it continues to degnerate into banditry, terrorism, and even cannibalism at the very end. It’s a grim, but still wildly funny–madcap, screwball funny, perhaps the only kind of funny that one could stand in such a world–view of the end of civilization as we know it, and there’s little evidence that Godard regrets its demise.
After Sympathy for the Devil in 1968, the politics more or less took over the films instead of being one of the areas he was exploring. Producers shied off, and even when they were lured out of the bushes by stars like Yves Montand and Jane Fonda inTout Va Bien (1973), audiences kept their distance. It was on to the really low-budget productions, digital filmmaking, and any number of other experiments. He hasn’t stopped, and I think we’re the better for it. Still, there’s been nothing like those early years, that burst of creativity and energy and joy–even with all the deaths, even with all the gloom–he gave us. I haven’t seen and don’t expect to see anything like it again in my lifetime, and you probably shouldn’t either. There have been many great directors, but early Godard was the one indispensable one.
P.S. Invaluable resource: Colin MacCabe, Godard: A Portrait of the Artis at Seventy (2003). MacCabe knows Godard, although there as been some separation recently, but worked with him on a number of films in the digital period, and provides a huge amount of information and insight, both personal and artistic.