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Interview with CLG.Prime Chauster: "[Lee Sin] is falsely known to fall off late game."
Fri 21st Sep 2012 - 7:15pm
Chauster, as you may know already, is currently the support player for CLG.Prime. Even though he may be known in the LoL community as an outspoken professional gamer, his insight and game sense are second-to-none. When he doesn't troll and answers serious questions, his reponses are honest, insightful, and fascinating.
His AMA megathread on clgaming.net is especially intriguing. For more than a year now, Chauster has taken time to answer questions from fans, be it about gameplay strategies, social issues, or rating girls on a scale of 1-10. He claims that he's doing this because he's bored, but a 1200+page thread can speak to a dedicated member that offers genuine fan interaction. Seriously, who else does this? Either way, I had the opportunity to interview one of the original members of CLG and the brain behind the Prime team:
Chauster and Doublelift; from Inven
What have you been doing lately?
Chauster: After NA regionals I went home for about a week to unwind and prepare for the long haul of practice before S2 Grand Finals. I just streamed for a bit and spent some time with family and friends before moving down to the gaming house where I'm residing as we speak.
You introduced Promote in tournament gameplay against Frost in the OGN Summer RO8 match, and CLG.NA has been showing off the Teleport/Promote strategy in the Regionals. Are you still tinkering with its potential?
Chauster: I originally intended to use promote to snowball an early tower. It was part of a snowballing tower/counter-jungling strategy that is supposed to snowball the game to a free win if played correctly (which we did not do but that is another story). Indirectly during that game I noticed that promote was strong enough to take inhibitors if left untouched during long stand-offs (an inevitability mid-late game when objectives are being contested).
The potential for split pushing with promote is amazing, and I crafted a strategy that was sparked by a question on my AMA talking about TP on AD carry. I used to play sivir with TP when I played AD carry for CLG so I immediately knew how to abuse promote. As for tinkering with promote, the potential has pretty much been seen already. Outside of running double promote and having insane guerrilla warfare tactics or early towers down, I can't see promote being used in more tourney viable ways.
What makes someone a good support player? What distinguishes "good" supports from the "not-so-good" ones?
Chauster: A good support will know what he needs to do to allow his AD carry to farm and deny the enemy AD carry farm. This is a subtle statement but executing it at the top level requires very good knowledge of the game to play at the top level. Good supports will be able to play with the same mindset as the AD carry and that is what separates them from bad ones.
Are there any LoL fixes (buffs, nerfs, etc) that you would like from Riot?
Chauster: Please fix the fact that silenced targets are able to flash RNG status. Also Xerath's ultimate fizzles when he dies and I don't think that is supposed to happen. There are a ton of other bugs but I'm pretty lazy.
Your favorite champions are Lee Sin and Xerath (I/N: and Fizz according to a recent AMA question) . Both are underplayed in the tournament scene. Why?
Chauster: Lee Sin requires a lot of skill to go with his kit late game. He is falsely known to fall off late game. Junglers are generally mechanically disadvantaged relative to other roles since they don't practice anything but last hitting jungle creep (a big generalization). So generally their Lee Sin play is bad.
Xerath is a champion I feel is very strong but doesn't see play. I actually don't know why top players do not play him. I feel like when he was released the former AP mids did not favor him or even try to pick him up and dismissed him without much thought. He isn't very fun and he is hard to play well even though he seems simple.
What should Lee Sin be doing in team fights/ late game?
Chauster: The thing about playing Lee is that even if you build tanky he still feels squishy since his skillset requires him to waste half his resources gap closing (also his spells having cast times doesn't help). Late game team fights are tricky for this reason and it requires a true tank player to play late game Lee at his potential.
There aren't very many good tank players, and even fewer tanks that play Lee. Late game Lee requires you to know how to peel and how to just CC the enemy without doing anything else. Use your time efficiently and tank only damage that you need to tank. The fact that almost every Lee player can't do this makes Lee seem really weak late game even though he has an AOE slow/AS debuff/displacement/line knockup
Image courtesy of ognlol.com
CLG.NA has participated in two OGN tournaments so far. What were the reasons (I guess particularly for coming to Korea for the second time)?
Chauster: We came to Korea the second time in order to get practice for NA regionals. The thought process behind that was that there were hardly any NA teams worth scrimming. The only teams worth scrimming were TSM and Dig and they are our competition so why would we scrim them? We decided to participate in OGN to give us a chance to play against Korean teams and it paid off.
Are there any tricks/cheese/strategies/playstyles you picked up in the OGN tournament(s)? Will CLG.Prime incorporate any of them in its gameplay in the future?
Chauster: We picked up a few random standard gameplay lessons from Korea. If anything the biggest lesson from OGN was learning about our own team's strengths and weaknesses. After OGN and NA regionals I now know how to work better with our relatively new lineup.
Do you perceive a gap between KR/NA/EU LoL scenes in terms of skills level? If there are such gaps, why do you think they exist?
Chauster: I feel that NA AP mids are the weakest of all regions, EU AP mids are the strongest of all regions, and that EU bot lanes are the weakest of all regions. Korean top laners are also on the stronger side. In terms of team play, Asians and Europeans are far above NA. Teamwork is better in Asia mostly because of the sixth man that exists on many top Asian teams. This stops pointless arguing and learning the game is done as constructive as possible. Also with a sixth man opinions are valued more and teams can improve without having to focus on blame deflect.
What does CLG.NA need to improve on before the Championship?
Chauster: Playing off of our strengths is something we have not been doing. We are caught up in trying to take what others have done successfully instead of countering what people are successful at.
Your AMA on clgaming.net is very interesting, and you have been doing this for over an year. What made you start it?
Chauster: I started the AMA because I was bored and wanted to answer some questions.
What was the most interesting question you answered in your AMA (or something that sticks out in your head)?
Chauster: I can't recall anything right now.
Is there a certain type of question that you don't really like to answer in your AMA?
Chauster: I hate answering questions about runes and masteries. It is annoying because you could just pop out a solomid guide and find out the basics. Runes and masteries don't make or break a player, it is playstyle.
Some AMA-style questions for you to wrap up the interview:
Do you agree with Scarra's view that Riot has too much influence on the LoL scene?
Chauster: yes riot has all the power to do whatever they want and everyone has to bend to their will if we want a part in their competitive scene
The best NA/EU/KR teams?
Chauster: NA atm is TSM
EU atm is M5
KR atm i dont know
Rate her on a scale of 1-10:
Chauster: 7 since i cant see her face, rating will probably drop if you can (I/N: gg)
Describe each of your teammates in one word (and yourself).
Chauster: me- real
From left to right: real, kid, weird, bad, blame; from ognlol.com
What frustrates you when playing bot-lane? Does Doublelift do anything that pisses you off?
Chauster: I am frustrated when my solo lanes lose and their loss affects my play bottom when we are winning/doing well. Spillover from other lanes is really annoying. DL goes full retard once in awhile and it is annoying when he derps out which happens a lot for the first game of the day because we forcefully wake him up from his slumber.
Would you like to have a coach on your team?
Chauster: no.
Who will win the Championship?
Chauster: I dont know
You can watch Chauster troll in solo-queue here. If you want to follow him on Facebook, click this link. And obviously check out his AMA.


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Rebecca Reynolds' business was born in the shower.
There's a happy cliché about inspiration in the shower-- you're relaxed, you're enjoying the spray of warm water, and good ideas surface in your consciousness like dolphins in a seascape. But Reynolds' flash of inspiration was nothing like that.
What happened was that her throat started to burn and her eyes started to sting because of the noxious fog rising from the product she was using to scrub away the shower mildew. After she finished her work, Reynolds used those red eyes to do some online research about the chemicals listed on the product's label. An organic shopper from way back, she had always been highly particular about her family's health. She was horrified to realize that she had been exposing her family and the customers of her small house-cleaning business to such bad chemicals. So for the next year, she turned her kitchen into a lab to invent cleaning products based on the kind of benign ingredients people used in the somewhat distant past.
"It was me standing by the sink surrounded by laughing children," says Reynolds, 44. "One time, I filled up the whole counter and sink because I added baking soda to a vinegar solution--it was like a volcanic reaction. But I finally figured out effective cleaners that smelled good."
In 2002, Reynolds started Green Clean. The 25-employee company sells a line of green cleaning products, does both residential and commercial cleaning in the Cleveland area, provides green cleaning consulting nationally and internationally, and just opened an organic lifestyle store called Planet Green. Reynolds expects to break $1 million in sales this year and keeps finding new and profitable ways to grow.
Set Yourself Apart
Thousands of companies call themselves innovative. However, experts say that what sets the real innovators apart is that they have developed new products and business models that have resulted in actual improvements in their bottom lines. Other metrics can also distinguish the real innovators: Many entrepreneurs, like Reynolds, also gauge their com-pany's success by how far it pushes the needle on the green and socially responsible scales.
Not all fresh ideas turn into solid companies. It's not enough to be different, says Peter Skarzynski, co-author of Innovation to the Core--your differences must matter to consumers. He recommends first developing an "aiming point" that identifies a clear customer need. "What are the customers' problems and how are they solving them today?" he asks, using as an example the pre-iPod days when people cobbled together CDs of their favorite songs--a time-consuming and awkward process--in order to make the music they loved portable. "Innovative companies have insights into the compromises the customers are making and find ways to resolve those compromises in a way that's favorable to the consumer."
How many times have you forgotten to plug in your cell phone or BlackBerry, or worse, lost the charger to your device entirely? How many times have you sorted through the tangle of cords on the floor, trying to figure out which one would put the juice back into your fading PDA? This is the kind of customer compromise that immediately occurred to Izhar Matzkevich, 46, the founder and CEO of WildCharge, when he first heard about the technology that his now-partner Mitch Randall, 47, was developing. Originally destined to be a powering device for robotic toys, the WildCharge technology--which has resulted in a product that looks something like a cookie sheet--allows consumers to just drop their power-hungry devices on its surface to re-charge them without cords.
The Boulder, Colorado, company launched in 2005 and is projecting 2008 sales of $6 million to $8 million. The potential is huge. "This technology can be used for anything that needs to be charged or uses power," says Matzkevich. "Think of the billion-plus mobile phones sold every year. Think of the tens of millions of laptop computers, portable music players, games, even power tools. We have this term we use--we're trying to 'boil an ocean.' Consumer electronics are an ocean."
Another successful entrepreneur created his innovative niche in a very different high-energy field. Paul Hemming already had many careers and interests: He'd been a filmmaker, a DJ, a record store owner, an art gallery owner and a student of Eastern philosophies. Three years ago, he decided to combine all these elements into a nightclub, restaurant and entertainment complex that he says is completely different from anything else in his hometown of San Francisco and possibly even the world.
While clubbing usually suggests excess and ultimate exhaustion, Hemming created his nightclub and restaurant (under the parent company Zen Compound) to be sustaining in every possible way. At Temple nightclub, he serves exotic cocktails made with organic ingredients and herbal extracts. He stimulates customers' imaginations with art exhibits and even the club's décor, which relates the story of an ancient temple being rediscovered by visitors from the future. There will soon be a healing center on-site and space for nonprofit organizations and spiritual leaders to interact with customers. Hemming's restaurant is called Prana--a Sanskrit word having to do with the universal life force--and it fuses Indian ayurvedic principles and Chinese herbal traditions to create healing menus.
Hemming's complex also incorporates just about every green innovation in the marketplace, as well as some that aren't. He and his staff recently installed hanging gardens on the outside walls to make it a "living building." They use corn-based cups and straws that become compost, not garbage. They're planning to install a dance floor made from piezoelectric crystals that convert the energy from all that dancing into electricity. They also have plans to install an urban wind turbine as well as solar panels, with the ultimate goal of being completely off the electrical grid at some point in the future. "I really want the space to be a testing ground for some of these sustainable technologies and concepts," says 34-year-old Hemming.
Hemming deliberately set out to not only offer an innovative product, but to also turn the model of nightclub development on its head. "Nightclubs are usually successful because they work with either promoters or big-name DJs, who bring in the crowds," he explains. "I went against both of those models. I wanted the space to be the draw. I wanted people to show up on a weekly basis because they believed in what we were doing." All those potential customers may not have realized that they needed or wanted an entertainment complex that caters to their desires for dancing, healing food, artistic stimulation, spiritual enlightenment and green living, because one never existed before. Now they're flocking to Prana and Temple--which draws in 1,000 people on a good night--and Hemming is projecting sales of $3 million for this year.
Fan The Flames
But once entrepreneurs like Hemming, Matz-kevich and Reynolds come up with their winning idea and manage to translate it into a business, how do they keep the creative juices flowing? That might be the greatest challenge of all. If you're successful, imitators will be quick to follow you, taking away some of your business. Success can also have a dampening effect internally, as the demand for products and services requires you to establish the kinds of systems and procedures that once seemed so stodgy. And often, entrepreneurs try to revive their company's initial innovative spark but wind up with handfuls of worthless glitter.
Many experts say that continuing success depends on knowing who and what you and your company are--and are not. "We call it Apple envy--like, 'Where's my iPod?'" says Lara Lee of Jump Associates, an innovation consulting firm that helps clients from Nike to Target create growth opportunities. "That's really critical, or you'll have innovation run amok. You don't want everyone energized around an innovation effort and producing a bunch of great stuff--and then getting demoralized when their ideas aren't taken up."
Lee says this means having a lot of clarity about your business' strengths, your customers and your strategy. "Look at yourself through the eyes of your employees, your customers, people in the community, people at regulatory agencies--cast the net wide," she urges. "Hold the mirror up from a lot of different angles. Just talk to people and then analyze the feedback to find a common theme."
Paying this kind of attention to relationships--what Lee calls empathy--is crucial to helping entrepreneurs figure out how to work innovation into every part of their business. "Innovation isn't just about new products," says Lorin Coles of Alliancesphere, an advisor to global technology and financial firms. "It's about every aspect of the business--how they promote themselves, how they sell, how they deliver, how they support, how they package."
Coles believes that today's best businesses are reaching out to customers, suppliers and others, and asking for their honest opinions more than ever before. "It takes some courage to start with a blank sheet of paper and have a discussion," he says. "If you're a supplier to a manufacturer, it means asking them what they're not getting. What is adjacent to what you're providing them? You also have to ask questions internally, especially of your sales and service people who are out there every day with the customer. You'd be surprised how much they can tell you about what you should be doing or what your competitors are doing."
The kind of deep listening that Lee and Coles recommend is what helped Jay Jackson and his wife, JL, first realize the potential of Global Surroundings, their recycled teak furniture business. While Jay, now 44, had a job managing the distribution of audiovisual products in Southeast Asia, JL found that there was a market for custom-made furniture for foreigners moving to Singapore. The couple launched their furniture importing business when they returned to the United States 12 years ago, making arrangements with a factory and crafts-men in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, to make furniture from the teak walls and floors of homes that needed to either be restored or torn down. "We were selling the concept of uniqueness at first," says JL, 44, of the Phoenix-based company. "We thought it was really cool that this dining room table was made from someone else's floor."
But their company was regarded as just another furniture manufacturer at industry trade shows. Then they realized that many customers looking for sustainably made products were excited by their recycled teak because it didn't involve further rainforest destruction--and excited by their stories of rebuilding villagers' old teak homes with brick after a destructive earthquake. The Jacksons not only refocused their business on the eco-friendly market, but also fine-tuned their offerings by paying attention to home and garden trends. They found that high-income families were eager to invest in lavish outdoor living rooms. The Jacksons already had the perfect material, as teak is weather-resistant, so they paired up with designer Mark Suess to develop a line of high-end, outdoor furniture.
The Jacksons didn't just find out how to produce the right product by listening to their customers--they figured out how to market to them. Trade shows were still a struggle in this hotly competitive market, so they decided to establish a presence at some of the places frequented by their high-end consumers. In one case, they had a prime spot in a luxury lifestyle pavilion at a collector car auction, right next to the Learjet space. "You have to figure out nontraditional ways to market to the end consumer," says JL, who expects sales of $1 million this year. "Be in the places where you can be seen without the competition."
Investing From Within
Perhaps the greatest source of ongoing innovation is a company's own employees, and owners of highly innovative companies recommend hiring the right kind of people from the start. Much of an employee's success in this environment depends on having the right mind-set, according to Edward Hughes, the 42-year-old founder and CEO of PowerMetal. Based in Carlsbad, California, PowerMetal manufactures the kinds of nanometals origi-nally developed for the nuclear power and defense industries and partners with leading sporting goods brands to make stronger, lighter equipment. For this market, employees have to be ready for a rapid product development cycle and aim for innovation--but be comfortable with failure.
"Hiring for attitude is paramount," says Hughes, who anticipates sales of $2 million to $5 million this year for his 3-year-old company. "You want people who will keep trying to innovate even if they fail. You don't want the kind of person who gets knocked on the ground and doesn't get up again. Really, it's about the type of person they are rather than the qualifications on a piece of paper."
At WildCharge, Matzkevich looks for simi-larly resilient individuals, especially those who have no qualms about questioning their own established wisdom or the company's. "You can never assume that what you have is the best thing in the world," he says. "We're always questioning ourselves here and challenging each other. No one is assumed to be the bearer of eternal knowledge. We don't want anyone to be afraid of voicing their opinion, because no one is always right and no one is always wrong."
In addition to encouraging this ongoing dialogue, WildCharge also funds what Matzkevich calls sandbox projects. Individual employees are given some broad directions about where breakthroughs are needed, then handed a substantial chunk of cash so they can play around with various ideas. "We like to keep people having fun and thinking out of the box," he says. "If someone disappears for two days, that's fine. Lo and behold, three days later, you get a creative design file and you look at it and think, 'Wow, that's really cool!'"
Ultimately, this kind of faith in the creativity and power of employees pays for itself. "You have to find ways to engage, align and [motivate] employees toward your broader purpose," says Skarzynski. "There's a mountain of evidence--make that a mountain range of evidence--that shows that highly engaged employees have a dramatic impact on the bottom line."
Kristin Ohlson is a writer in Cleveland.
Zero-Gravity Thinking
Does your business suffer from tired ideas? Mix it up to get some new perspectives.
Companies spur innovative thinking when they recognize that the things they do best can actually hamper them. "A company's own way of doing things, its own methods, its own expertise can get in the way of doing things better and more innovatively," says Cynthia Barton Rabe, author of The Innovation Killer: How What We Know Limits What We Can Imagine--and What Smart Companies Are Doing About It.
Rabe suggests companies rejuvenate their thinking with what she calls "zero-gravity thinkers." She defines these as people who have psychological distance from the company or team, people who have Renaissance tendencies--"who think broadly and out of the box on a regular basis"--or people who have related but not identical expertise in the area needing assistance. A marketing and innovation consultant and speaker, Rabe learned the value of such people while she was at Intel as a zero-gravity thinker herself.
Basically, this meant that Rabe--who had a consumer-products background--was placed onto teams where she had related but not identical expertise and didn't report to anyone on the team. She was able to ask questions that forced the team to question their most basic assumptions and brought a fresh perspective and new insights to their work.
Rabe recommends that companies large and small try this approach. Companies can reach outside for these zero-gravity thinkers, too--hiring, for instance, consultants who specialize in electrical engineering to come in and work with mechanical engineering teams. Or consultants in fast-food retailing for businesses engaged in DVD rentals. Companies can also get really inventive and swap creative employees with other companies in their city or region.
"I'd love for people to try this," Rabe says. "Small businesses are often part of organizations that help them make connections. They can try swapping their own innovative thinkers with other companies that are noncompetitive for a month. This is a huge opportunity to share brainpower, and everyone benefits."


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My friend, God says, "Be filled with the Spirit." This is a command, not just a suggestion. This is the normal Christian life and not just a mountain-peak experience. To be Spirit-filled is to be Spirit-controlled. But how can we be Spirit-filled?
How can a bottle be filled with air if it is filled with ink? Simply, empty out the ink! You do not have to use a pump; to pump air into the bottle, just empty it, and it is filled with air! My friend, when we empty sin from our life by confession and repentance, we are filled with the Spirit of God.
The Apostle Paul said in Romans 12:1-2 – "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God."
Picture in your mind yourself as being a glove. Picture the Holy Spirit as a hand. When you were saved, the Holy Spirit came inside of you, just like a hand goes into a glove. This means you are indwelled by the Holy Spirit forever. He will never leave you or forsake you. The question is this. Is He in you but not controlling you?
The hand in the glove determines what the glove does. Are you allowing the Holy Spirit to absolutely control you? If you are, this means you are Spirit-filled. If you are not, you are still a Christian, but you are carnal. It's time for you to let go and let God be all that He is in you.
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Following Sara Wheeler's 1999 trek to Antarctica, chronicled in "Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica," she dismissively labeled the opposite pole as "the complicated, life-infested North." She changed her stance in 2002, following a trip on which she towed her infant son on a sledge while traveling with Sami reindeer herders. The region pulled at her consciousness. "I started thinking about the collar of lands around the Arctic Ocean. Fragmentation, disputed ownership, indigenous populations immobilized on the threshold of change -- those very things Antarctica lacked appealed to the older me." The region, which once held little mystery or romance for Wheeler, had become the lead player in the global warming drama with its "polar bears as poster boys."
She begins in northeastern Siberia, nine time zones east of Moscow, in a region closed to foreigners and so locked in perpetual winter that it has "in a quarter of a million square miles no soil in which anything can grow." Yet this section of the Russian Arctic contains one-twelfth of the land mass of the Earth, and has for centuries been home to 26 ethnic peoples, herders and fishermen, who rarely appear in most stories of Russia's national past.
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Readers reap the bounty of Wheeler's intense curiosity, attention to the smallest detail and the inclusion of obscure, bizarre and astounding facts. While visiting Chukotka, Russia, and sipping bitter coffee brewed on a portable gas burner, she notes the town's 17th-century inhabitants were recognized as the most savage warriors in Russia. "They ate deer maggots, killed migrating geese by hurling balls at them, and built antler towers as seal-oil lighthouses. They milked their reindeer by sucking the udders and spitting the milk into a bowl made of seal intestine and walrus bone."
Wheeler readily admits her chronicle is not a comprehensive history, but this in no way diminishes this amazing story. Her rollicking, fact-filled narrative seamlessly blending historical and contemporary storytelling is a bewitching tale about this remarkable and compelling region.
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February and March are important months in black women's history. In February, we celebrate the important strides people of color have made and this month we observe women's history in America.
Since the beginning, Black women have been on the forefront of civil rights, supporting greats like Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and Stokley Carmichael and have celebrated the strides people of color made in the U.S. Black women have also been on the front lines of the women's liberation movement, rallying along side of such historic figures like Gloria Steinem and Betty Frieden. However, at the height of these movements, respected leaders for minorities and women were Caucasian women and black males who were credited with improving women's rights and civil rights, while African American women were viewed merely as loyal followers who aided in the process of these unprecedented triumphs. One glaring exception was Rosa Parks whose defiant bus seating action energized the non-violent civil demonstration.
Today's African American women are faced with a much tougher dilemma in terms of loyalty and equality. Is she guided more towards the advancement of people of color or the advancement of women's rights?
The 1960's were a time filled with racial unrest, some black women marched and fought alongside their men while working as nannies and housekeepers for wealthy white families. The 1990 film, "A long Walk Home" starring Whoopi Goldberg and Sissy Spacek captures the duality of the time. Goldberg plays a nanny and Spacek plays the white employer who bonds with her during the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
In recent years, however, African American women have come under fire for seemingly abandoning the women's movement in favor of the civil rights agenda.
Conservative pundits point out that 95% of African American women voted for the all-male Barack Obama ticket, while only 5% voted for the McCain/Palin and that most African American women continue to support Obama, who is part black, rather than Caucasian women like Sarah Palin and Michele Bachman. Oprah Winfrey is a perfect example of this theory of someone who introduced Barack Obama to her mid-west viewers and who continues to disapprove of Palin.
Pundits cite for decades that black male activists continually take African American women for granted and that these same women blindly follow African American males and their political views.
Nevertheless, a large percentage of today's modern black women are well educated, stay informed and make their own wise political decisions. They vote not because of a politician's race or gender but rather, for his/her stance. In the November's primaries, the vast majority of African American women did not vote for right wing Florida Congressman Allen West, even though he is African American.
In brief, African American women remain loyal to the same women and civil rights issues in which they always have been loyal. Today, it is not whom African American women will follow but rather, what other groups will follow them on their long walk for equality.


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MathematicsIn this section...
Miss Jessica Edwards is the Subject Leader for Mathematics
At Barrow Hedges we believe that in order to be successful mathematicians, children must develop a deep conceptual understanding of number. We know this starts from a very young age, and that the building blocks for complex maths reasoning are generally developed in EYFS. It is vital that during their time in Nursery and Reception children develop a deep understanding of number as research shows that early maths skills are one of the strongest predictors of later academic achievement.
Please look at our EYFS Number Foundations (pdf below) for ideas on how to develop children's early maths skills at home.
We encourage parents to play an active role in supporting their child through their mathematical journey. Click here to read more information about the importance of mindset in maths, and how parents can support their children in developing a positive mindset. The National Numeracy Parent Toolkit website gives advice and suggestions for how best to support your child at home in maths. In addition to this, there are lots of other games online to help develop mathematical fluency and skills and we particularly like the range which can be found here.
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At Barrow Hedges, we teach a Mastery Curriculum of Maths: please see the 'What does Maths Mastery look like at Barrow Hedges?' pdf below for an overview of our key principles.
We aim to create a balance of fluency in number skills, gained by our Mathletics and Key Instant Recall Facts, and teaching to develop deep understanding. We challenge children to grasp the ideas that underpin their learning. We do this through the use of lots of concrete apparatus and by giving children the opportunity to see how different mathematical ideas are interrelated in challenging, practical and exciting learning contexts (examples of these types of problems can be found in the NCETM mastery documents - 'Questions, Tasks and Activities' Mastery Maths in pdf below and can be worked through at home).
Our mathematical culture underpins this aim, by outlining the qualities that we value in our mathematicians. By promoting these qualities, we are encouraging children to see mathematics as both a logical and creative subject.
We want children to take risks, make mistakes and feel challenged in their learning journeys. This is all part of building learning power in mathematics:
- Risk Taking - having a growth mindset, enjoying challenges and learning from mistakes, reflecting on learning and using vocabulary like "I can't do that yet…"
- Resilience – working logically, controlling negative emotions, trying different approaches and using resources available to problem solve
- Reciprocity- we encourage children to work collaboratively, explaining their reasoning and learning in groups of their peers
We assess children regularly to track their progress towards meeting the end of year expected standards (these standards can be found on our maths target sheets pdf below). This ensures that work is accurately matched to the specific needs of the learners, and allows time to address the specific misconceptions that the children may have and move children's learning on, once appropriate. To inform teaching and learning within mathematics, our children sit termly tests produced by one of the many Maths Hubs. The results of these are shared with parents and carers at our parent teacher consultation evenings so they are aware of the skills their children are able to apply and areas for development.
This approach has led to outstanding attainment in mathematics in recent years. (Please take a look at our Ofsted data dashboard for our end of Key Stage results).


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Logically this equation appears to be correct but it is, in fact, wrong – 5×4 is equivalent to 20 not 5+5+5+5.
To come up with the wrong answer required the application of simple logic – question (before the equal sign) and therefore the answer is (after the equal sign). Except it isn't. It may be said that the brain worked too fast because it already calculated the sum of 5+5+5+5 and presented 20 as the answer even though the calculation is not the question being asked.
To derive the correct answer one must begin by looking at semantics. Yes, Right and Wrong really does boil down to splitting hairs over the definition of certain words. Equal is defined as, "being the same in quantity, size, degree, or value." Whereas equivalent is defined as, "equal in value, amount, function, or meaning."
5 copies of 4 may well be equal to but not necessarily equivalent to 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 and 4 copies of 5 might be the same but, in reality, could represent something completely different. For example, 4 bunches of 5 bananas is different from 5 bunches of 4 bananas even though they total to the same number.
Liars tirelessly argue the slightest difference in the meaning of words, cloaking the bigger picture by tying us up in detail, using the minutiae of semantics as the basis for legitimising their version of reality. Most sane people know that the remorseless drip, drip, drip of semantics can only lead straight up the backside of a nervous breakdown.
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The approaching deadline to file income tax returns could be, quite literally, a life-and-death situation for many taxpayers, according to a study of fatal tax-day vehicular accidents.
Nationwide since 1980, more than 400 additional vehicular fatalities occurred on Tax Day, as compared with two control days 1 week before and 1 week after. The difference translated into three excess deaths per Tax Day, investigators reported in a research letter in the April 11 issue of JAMA.
The increased risk of vehicular death became most prominent over the past 20 years and persisted across regions, locations, sexes, times, and initial outcomes, wrote Donald A. Redelmeier, MD, and Christopher J. Yarnell, AB, of the University of Toronto.
"Because this study lacked data on alcohol, stress, or driving patterns, future studies should evaluate the reasons for the increased risk as well as potential opportunities for intervention," they wrote in their summation. "In the interim, public health campaigns should reinforce the importance of road safety on Tax Day, including emphasizing the need to wear seat belts, avoid alcohol, reduce excessive speed, and minimize distractions."
A national survey suggested that Tax Day was one of the most stressful days of 2011, but, although tax payments affect the long-term health of the economy, no studies have examined the influence of tax deadlines on individual health, Redelmeier and Yarnell wrote of their justification for the study.
They hypothesized that stressful deadlines might increase the risk of vehicular trauma "by impairing drivers or by compromising surrounding individuals from making compensatory adjustments."
The authors analyzed tax data from the Internal Revenue Service and data on fatal road crashes from the National Transportation Safety Board from 1980 to 2009. They also examined data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System, which maintains a database on fatal motor vehicle accidents on public roadways.
For comparison with the 30 Tax Days, the authors defined the day 1 week before and the day 1 week after Tax Day as the control days (n=60). They found that 6,783 traffic fatalities occurred on the 30 Tax Days (226 per day) versus 12,758 fatalities on the 60 control days (213 per day).
Comparison of the tax and control days resulted in an odds ratio of 1.06 for fatal vehicular accidents (P<0.001). Redelmeier and Yarnell calculated that the increased odds resulted in an absolute increase of 404 vehicular fatalities on the 30 Tax Days, an average of 13 excess road fatalities.
Most of the increase occurred during the last 2 decades of the study period and was most apparent in adults younger than 65. The increased risk extended to passengers and pedestrians.
"Although electronic submissions might be expected to lessen driving on Tax Day, we observed an increase rather than a decrease in fatal crashes in recent decades," the authors wrote.


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Singer Jaimie Ciero is going after titan Disney, as well as Demi Lovato and Idina Menzel, saying that they allegedly stole his song and revamped it into the hit "Let It Go" which is used in the animated movie Frozen.
The song that Ciero is referring to is called "Volar", which he wrote. It roughly translates to "Fly" in Spanish. A song that he recorded back in 2008, he believes that his version heavily influenced the song that Idina Menzel sang in the movie and Demi Lovato covered on the soundtrack for the film.
One of Ciero's primary complaints is that the song performed so well and it has enjoyed "a huge international success reaching millions of listeners and landing on numerous charts of the most popular, top-performing songs."
The amount he is suing for is undisclosed but he claims that the songs are incredibly similar in structure, hooks, note combinations, melodies, lyrics, textures, and themes.
What do you think?
Frozen was a monster smash hit and made over a billion dollars at the box office, which makes it one of the top-grossing animated films of all time. In 2014, the film won the Academy Award for best animated feature and "Let It Go" won for best original song.
So if there is any validity to his claims, he clearly lost out on being recognized as apart of a huge song that did well commercially and won the ultimate prestigious award in the industry.
Robert Lopez, who is the co-writer for "Let It Go", is actually the youngest of the 12 people who have achieved EGOT status. This means they have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony. Lopez also accomplished this feat in just a decade.
It is unclear how the singers, Idina Menzel and Demi Lovato, being named in this lawsuit may affect them. They both obviously have received a portion of the film's earnings as well as whatever their agreed upon rate to sing the song was.
Either way, the song has come to mean so much to so many and is a positive, steadfast anthem about perseverance and moving on.


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The first book in Bernard Cornwell's epic and bestselling series on the making of England and the fate of his great hero, Uhtred of Bebbanburg.
BBC2's major Autumn 2015 TV show THE LAST KINGDOM is based on the first two books in the series.
Uhtred is an English boy, born into the aristocracy of ninth-century Northumbria. Orphaned at ten, he is captured and adopted by a Dane and taught the Viking ways. Yet Uhtred's fate is indissolubly bound up with Alfred, King of Wessex, who rules over the only English kingdom to survive the Danish assault.
The struggle between the English and the Danes and the strife between christianity and paganism is the background to Uhtred's growing up. He is left uncertain of his loyalties but a slaughter in a winter dawn propels him to the English side and he will become a man just as the Danes launch their fiercest attack yet on Alfred's kingdom. Marriage ties him further still to the West Saxon cause but when his wife and child vanish in the chaos of the Danish invasion, Uhtred is driven to face the greatest of the Viking chieftains in a battle beside the sea. There, in the horror of the shield-wall, he discovers his true allegiance.
The Last Kingdom, like most of Bernard Cornwell's books, is firmly based on true history. It is the first novel of a series that will tell the tale of Alfred the Great and his descendants and of the enemies they faced, Viking warriors like Ivar the Boneless and his feared brother, Ubba. Against their lives Bernard Cornwell has woven a story of divided loyalties, reluctant love and desperate heroism. In Uhtred, he has created one of his most interesting and heroic characters and in The Last Kingdom one of his most powerful and passionate novels.
'Cornwell is a virtuoso of historical fiction.' Sunday Telegraph
'Bernard Cornwell is a literary miracle. Year after year, hail, rain, snow, war and political upheavals fail to prevent him from producing the most entertaining and readable historical novels of his generation.' Daily Mail
'Cornwell's narration is quite masterly and supremely well-researched.' Observer
Bernard Cornwell worked for BBC Television for seven years, mostly as a producer on the Nationwide programme, before taking charge of the Current Affairs department in Northern Ireland. In 1978 he became editor of Thames Television's Thames at Six. Married to an American, he now lives in the United States.


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During their Spring General Meeting this week in Maynooth, the Bishops of Ireland reviewed their pastoral message Two Lives, One Love and today publish a revised edition as part of their contribution to the national conversation on the right to life:
Having consulted carefully with members of the lay faithful, both women and men, the Irish Catholic Bishops' Conference wishes to offer the following considerations as a contribution to the present national conversation on the right to life.
The Catholic Church recently concluded a Jubilee Year of Mercy. This initiative of Pope Francis was celebrated by the universal Church and it called on us to be open both to God's mercyin our lives and to ways of being more merciful to others especially those who are vulnerable. While the Constitution celebrates the equality of the mother and the unborn child in its EighthAmendment, we have an obligation to be at our most compassionate, our most merciful, if and when the expectant mother and father and their unborn child require support during a crisispregnancy. This support must be more than words. Public resources should be applied in a practical and in a creative way. Supporting and sustaining a culture of life is in the interests ofevery generation and it defines us as a society.
We believe that human life is sacred from conception until natural death and that Article 40.3.3 reflects the appropriate balance of rights.We ask God's blessing and guidance on each member of our society in responding to the significant responsibility that we have to defend this right for the present generation and for the generations to come.
Some people argue that the right to life of the unborn should be a matter of personal choice on the part of the mother. Others argue that, while they are opposed to abortion as a generalprinciple, they believe that there are some children to whom the right to life does not apply either because they have been diagnosed with a serious medical condition or because they havebeen conceived as a result of rape. We wish to state our firmly held belief, based on reason as well as faith, that there is no such thing as a human life without value. We accept, of course,that death is part of our human condition. What we reject is the suggestion that any person can decide when it is time for another person to die.
2.The Right to Life as a Fundamental Personal Right
Article 40 of the Constitution has the heading "Personal Rights" and is situated in a section entitled "Fundamental Rights". In this way, long before the Universal Declaration of Human Rightswas promulgated by the United Nations, the Irish people recognised the fundamental nature of rights such as the right to life, the right to liberty, the right to the privacy of one's home and theright to freedom of speech.
Fundamental human rights are different from civil rights. While civil rights are the rights given by law to citizens in a particular society, fundamental human rights belong to every personsimply because he or she is a person. Fundamental human rights are not "given" by society and they cannot be taken away by society.
Fundamental rights are "acknowledged" in constitutions and charters and "vindicated" in the application of the law. They are what the United Nations refers to as the "equal and inalienablerights of all members of the human family".[i]
Article 40.3.3, sometimes referred to as the Eighth Amendment, reads:
"the State acknowledges the right to life of the unborn and, with due regard to the equal right to life of the mother, guarantees in its laws to respect, and, as far as practicable, by its laws todefend and vindicate that right".[ii]
The deletion or amendment of Article 40.3.3, would serve no purpose other than to withdraw the right to life from some categories of unborn children. To do so would radically change theprinciple, for all unborn children and indeed for all of us, that the right to life is a fundamental human right.
During the current debate some have argued that abortion itself is a human right. We see this view as being inconsistent with an integral understanding of human rights. We would point outthat the European Convention on Human Rights requires that "everyone's right to life shall be protected by the law".[iii] The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child defines a child asmeaning "every human being below the age of eighteen years unless, under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier". No distinction is made between born and unbornchildren.[iv]
We invite your attention to a number of aspects of Article 40.3.3, which we believe to be significant:
In this Article, the State does not concede the right to life to the unborn, but acknowledges that right as a fundamental right, which belongs to the unborn by virtue of his or her being aperson. A person is an individual member of the human family, to use the description given in the Preamble of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Article 40.3.3 describes the right to life of the unborn as "equal" to the right to life of the mother. It quite rightly does not place the right to life of the unborn above that of the mother.
Article 40.3.3 does not guarantee, in all circumstances, to be able to defend and vindicate the right to life of the unborn, any more than it can in the case of people who are born and living inour towns and villages. The State does, however, guarantee to respect the right to life of the unborn in its laws, just as it does in the case of other persons.
The right to life is unique, of course, because, in the absence of that right, no other civil or natural right can be exercised, either now or in the future.
3.The Unborn as Persons
We would ask you to consider carefully the reality of what happens in the life of each human being, between conception and birth. There is no moment as developmentally significant as themoment of fertilisation, in terms of defining the beginnings of personal existence. There is no logical or scientific basis for considering, on the one hand, a born child to be a person with allthe rights that this involves and, on the other hand, an unborn child to be a non-person. The distinct identity of a human individual is already present once fertilisation has taken place.Everything else is simply the process of growth and development of a person who has already embarked on the journey of life.
For us, as Christians, there is no conflict between faith and reason. Just as reason leads us to recognise the continuity of every human life, from fertilisation to natural death, so faith allows usto see each person as having his or her origins in the intention of God and his or her fulfilment in eternal life. This belief, expressed in various ways in the Bible, is presented verybeautifully by Pope Francis in his 2016 publication The Joy of Love. He says:
"The gift of a new child, entrusted by the Lord to a father and a mother, begins with acceptance, continues with lifelong protection and has as its final goal the joy of eternal life. ….. Sogreat is the value of a human life, and so inalienable the right to life of an innocent child growing in the mother's womb, that no alleged right to one's own body can justify a decisionto terminate that life, which is an end in itself and which can never be considered the "property" of another human being."[v]
4.The Power of Language
We wish to refer briefly to the use of language with reference to unborn children. Words like "foetus" and "embryo" and "zygote" have specific technical meanings. We question why, inpublic discourse, healthy unborn children are always referred to as "the baby" while those who, in the opinion of some, do not measure up to expectations are routinely defined as the"foetus" or the "embryo". We are concerned that language is being used with the intention of depersonalising certain categories of unborn children in a way which seeks to normaliseabortion.
5.The Positive Effects of Article 40.3.3 – A Culture of Life
Many thousands of Irish people are alive as a direct result of the enactment of the Eighth Amendment, who might otherwise never have been born. This is partly because there was aninevitable interval between the thought of having an abortion and that thought being put into action. That interval allowed women, often with the support of family members, partners orpregnancy care agencies such as our own Cura, to consider other, more constructive, options.
Quite apart from the numbers of lives that were saved as a result of Article 40.3.3, expectant parents who experience a crisis pregnancy have been culturally supported in making the decisionin favour of life and in avoiding a decision which many of them may have regretted afterwards. This cultural support was not simply in the fact that Irish society had made a publicstatement of principle about the right to life, but also because the structures of society, including healthcare facilities, were not deployed, as they are in many countries, to promote orfacilitate the taking of life as an appropriate social response to crisis pregnancy.
The goal of good maternal care would be to achieve a maternal mortality rate of zero. Sadly this is practically impossible because there are some potentially fatal medical conditions relatedto pregnancy which cannot easily be predicted for individual women. According to the most recent figures, published by the World Health Organisation in 2015, the maternal mortality ratefor Ireland is 8 per 100,000 live births.[vi]This places Ireland in the lowest, or best, category (number 26 out of 190 countries, and consistently ahead of the United States and the UnitedKingdom, where abortion is readily available).
6.What abortion is and what abortion is not: the Catholic Church's teaching
Some of those who advocate deleting or changing Article 40.3.3 of the Constitution, have made it clear that they wish to make abortion available on demand in Ireland. Others say that theyare opposed to abortion in general, but would want to see it permitted in certain difficult circumstances. We do not share that view, because we believe that every unborn child, irrespective ofhis or her medical condition or the circumstances of his or her birth, has the right to be treated equally before the law.
We are concerned that some elements of the Catholic Church's teaching on the right to life tend to be presented inaccurately:
The Catholic Church has never taught that the life of a child in the womb should be preferred to that of a mother. By virtue of their common humanity a mother and her unborn baby have anequal right to life.
Where a seriously ill pregnant woman needs medical treatment which may, as a secondary effect, put the life of her baby at risk, such treatments are always ethically permissible providedevery effort has been made to save the life of both the mother and her baby. Abortion, by contrast, is the direct and intentional destruction of an unborn baby and is gravely immoral in allcircumstances. It is not a medical treatment.
When, sadly, a baby dies naturally in the womb before birth, there is no question of the mother being obliged to proceed with the pregnancy. There is now only one "patient", the mother. Themother becomes the sole focus of any medical care that is required. Along with the father, the mother is entitled to the best pastoral care that we can offer, as they grieve the loss of theirchild.
In the confined context of the debate around the Eighth Amendment, it is important to address difficult cases such as those of children with life limiting conditions; and children conceived asa result of rape, neither of which justifies a change in the basic law:
a)Children with Life Limiting Conditions
It is very distressing for a mother to discover that the baby in her womb is seriously ill and, in all probability will not live. Her dreams and hopes are dashed. She grieves for the child thatshe will never have. She struggles to tell others of the loss that faces her. The grief of the father is no less real. Children with life- limiting conditions are frequently spoken of as if theywere "as good as dead". The use of words like "fatal" or "lethal" to describe these conditions implies that there is something definite about the outcome and that death is imminent andinevitable. The reality is that every case is different and that, while some babies will die before birth, and some will live for just a few hours, others will live for significantly longer.[vii]
Many of us have met parents whose children have been born with life-limiting conditions. They have told us about the support they needed to deal with this very difficult situation. Theyhave emphasised how important it was for them to have the memory of doing the best they could for their sick child. They have spoken about how helpful it has been to them to have hadthe possibility of holding and caring for their child for a few hours or even for a few minutes, until death naturally occurred. Others have told us about their joy in discovering after birth that,while their child did have serious health issues, the prognosis was actually far better than they had originally been given to understand. May we encourage you to listen to their own stories onthe websites www.onedaymore.ie and www.everylifecounts.ie.
Even taking the worst case scenarios, the situation of an unborn child with a life-limiting condition is comparable to that of a born child or adult at an advanced stage of terminal illness. Oneof the particular challenges facing parents of unborn children with life-limiting conditions is the lack of coordinated support for them. We believe a lot more needs to be done to provideappropriate perinatal hospice services, which offer warmth, tenderness, nutrition and hydration and, in that way, support parents in caring for their sick children until natural death. This,rather than the repeal of Article 40.3.3, should be the focus of government policy and it is something towards which we can and should all work.
b)Children conceived as a result of rape
Rape is an act of violence and a crime. A woman who has been raped needs compassionate care and support. Under such circumstances one can scarcely begin to imagine the physical andemotional stress facing the expectant mother. Society has a moral duty to support her and to do so with the utmost compassion.
A child conceived following rape is also a person. He or she has rights, including that most fundamental of all rights, the right to life. Society must similarly extend its support to the unbornbaby.
Some people respond to crisis pregnancy by proposing abortion as a solution. It may even seem like the compassionate thing to do. But these children are innocent and they are entitled to thebest support and care that we can provide.
7.Women, Men, and Unborn Children
The relationship between a mother and her unborn child is not simply physical and biological, but emotional and even spiritual. To hurt her child goes against everything that a mother is. Weare aware that there are many factors which may influence the decision to have an abortion and that, in many cases, it is a painful and even shattering decision. The emotional and spiritualwound may take a long time to heal.
There is a regrettable tendency to associate abortion exclusively with women who have had abortions. The clear teaching of the Church is that those who promote, organise and carry outabortions are just as responsible and, in some cases, more responsible. Often the destructive act carried out against the unborn child is compounded by the failure of key individuals orinstitutions to support the mother in recognising and choosing other possibilities.
We understand that some people, including men themselves, feel that men have no contribution to make to this debate. With due respect and sensitivity to the unique role of the mother whocarries the unborn child in her womb, we would want to say very clearly that fathers are also parents, with all the responsibility that this involves. Similarly, when it comes to the right tolife, men like women have a responsibility, which cannot be abdicated, to defend unborn children who have no other voice.
Pope Francis, in line with comments made by Pope Saint John Paul II, recently wrote:
"I wish to restate as firmly as I can that abortion is a grave sin, since it puts an end to an innocent life. In the same way, however, I can and must state that there is no sin that God'smercy cannot reach and wipe away when it finds a repentant heart seeking to be reconciled with the Father."[viii]
As a Church, for over forty years, through Cura's professional counselling service, we have been supporting expectant mothers and fathers who find themselves facing a crisis pregnancy.Our hope is for a Church and a society which, while rejecting abortion, reaches out to women who have had an abortion, with a listening ear and an understanding heart. Most of all, webelieve that the common good is best served by a Church and a civil society which, while rejecting abortion, continues to offer women real alternatives and real support.
Living as we do, in a culture which places such a high value on individual rights, it may seem strange that the most fundamental personal right of all, the right to life, is increasingly beingquestioned and denied. The problem seems to be that, when respect for the rights of the individual is pushed to the extreme in a society, the result is just another form of individualism inwhich all rights, even the most fundamental of rights, become relative. As Pope Saint John Paul said: in such circumstances "the 'right' ceases to be such, because it is no longer foundedon the inviolable dignity of the person".[ix]The logical conclusion is that the whole notion of human rights is undermined and any rights that remain depend on the will of the majority.
Article 40.3.3 of the Constitution of Ireland (Bunreacht na hÉireann) has a particular vision which is based on respect for the right to life of every person. We believe that the deletion oramendment of this article can have no other effect than to expose unborn children to greater risk and that it would not bring about any benefit for the life or health of women in Ireland.Weencourage you, therefore, as members of the human family, to work actively towards keeping the right to life in the Constitution, in the name of equality, fairness and compassion for all.
For media contact: Catholic Communications Office Maynooth: Martin Long 00353 (0) 86 172 7678 and Katie Crosby 00353 (0) 86 862 3298
[i] United Nations. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Preamble. Paris, 1948.
[ii] Bunreacht na hEireann, Article 40.3.3
[iii] European Convention on Human Rights. Rome: 1950, Article 2.
[iv] UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. New York: 1989, Article 1; cf also Articles 2 & 6.
[v] Pope Francis. Amoris Laetitiae. Rome: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2016. Paragraphs 83 and 166
[vi] Cf. http://data.unicef.org/topic/maternal-health/maternal-mortality/. Maternal mortality rate is defined as the number of female deaths per 100,000 live births from any cause related to or aggravated by pregnancy or its management (excluding accidental or incidental causes). The MMR includes deaths during pregnancy, childbirth, or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and site of the pregnancy.
[vii] Cf. Simons, Caroline. " 'Incompatible with Life': Does Article 40.3.3 Permit Abortion for 'Fatal Foetal Abnormality'?" in Medico-Legal Journal of Ireland, 2015, 1, 2-3
[viii] Pope Francis. Micericordia et misera. Rome: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2016, paragraph 12. See also Pope John Paul II. Evangelium Vitae. Rome, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1995, paragraph 99
[ix] Pope John Paul II. Evangelium Vitae. Rome: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1995, paragraph 20
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In a way, all ghost stories are time travel stories. In both types of stories, events of the past tend to have ripples which effect the present. Both are also typically structured in the shape of a loop: either the terrible event in the past is righted somehow and the past stays in the past where it belongs or the past succeeds in effecting the present, history is repeated and a whole new set of ripples are sent out.
"The Abandoned" is as good an example as any of a movie in which technically the spook is the unrestful soul of a once-living person, but in a much bigger sense the ghost is the past itself, trying to remake the world into what might have been. By combining past, present and possibility into a twisty Moebius Strip of a movie, "The Abandoned" succeeds in being scary and cerebral at the same time.
The film opens in 1966 Russia with a truck crashing into the front yard of a peasant couple. Behind the wheel is the freshly dead body of a woman who was clearly the victim of a violent attack and in the back are two crying infants. Forty years later one of those infants, now a grown woman named Marie, is searching for the truth about her birth parents and meets with a notary in Russia who claims to have found her childhood home.
After a ride to the house that riffs on the opening chapters of Dracula, Maria finds herself, in the first of many nods to the film's title and topic, abandoned and
alone in a decrepit, desolate, water-enclosed farmhouse.
Of course, this being a haunted house movie, it's not long before Maria begins to suspect she's not as alone as she thinks. A few glimpses of a soaking wet woman leads to Maria being face to face with her own potential future in the form of a milky-eyed, undead doppelganger. In her panicked escape she falls into the river and nearly drowns, only to be rescued by a man named Nicolai who claims to be her brother, also summoned by the notary.
Soon enough, Nicolai's own bloodied doppelganger appears and the two determine that they have to find a way to escape the house. That's easier said than done when time continuously folds upon itself as parts of the house morph between present and past and the working truck Maria arrived in shifts into a rusted clunker. The two are separated when Nicolai falls into a hole in the floor that ceases to exist when Maria tries to find him. On her own again, trapped in a house in which past, present and future seem to exist all at once, Maria attempts to piece together what happened in the house when she was a baby and tries to avoid the same fate once again.
I've complained about twists in movies so much that I might as well be an outraged conservative parent from the 1950s so it might sound odd that I loved a movie as twisty as "The Abandoned" so much. There's nothing odd about it, though. "The Abandoned" doesn't reveal something obvious or implausible in the last ten minutes with the obnoxious "Oh sorry, did I just blow your mind?" attitude that plagues most twist endings. In fact, the twist itself is pretty predictable for anyone with any experience with this kind of story. What's well done is the way the story is presented. A clue is dropped here and there and the film trusts the audience to fill in the blanks without resorting to too much wordy exposition. The puzzle-like tone is engaging on a story level and the creepy visuals and art direction build an atmosphere that is suitably unsettling and intriguing.
There are only a handful of characters in the movie and the vast majority of screen time is taken up by Anastasia Hille and Karel Roden as Maria and Nicolai. Hille is a mostly unknown stage actress while Roden is a major star in his native Czech Republic but in the US is primarily known as the go to guy for generically Eastern European bad guys, popping up in movies like "Hellboy", "Blade II" and "The Bourne Supremacy". Both do a great job of carrying the movie and it's oddly refreshing to see a modern horror film that not only feels like it was made for adults, but where the two leads look and act like real, slightly haggard middle-aged people.
Smart, engaging, scary horror films often get lost in the shuffle when up against the remakes, extreme violence and novelty that dominate modern horror. While there's nothing new about the story "The Abandoned" tells, it's an exceedingly well-told story. In general, the present tends to cannibalize the past when it comes to storytelling of any kind so it is nice to see a movie like "The Abandoned" where the past gets to bite back and gnaw a little flesh of its own.


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