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We'll Always Have Allen's 'Paris'
City's past and present intertwine enchantingly; if you see latest 'Pirates,' wear two eye patches
In Woody Allen's beguiling and then bedazzling new comedy, nostalgia isn't at all what it used to be—it's smarter, sweeter, fizzier and ever so much funnier.
From the first note of music over a dark screen—a soprano saxophone played by some ghost of Sidney Bechet—"Midnight in Paris" teases us into expecting nothing more, or less, than a charming pastiche of the bits and pieces that pop up in many Woody Allen films. The jazz score from another era introduces scenes of the city—not Manhattan in black-and-white splendor, but Paris under a bright summer sun. Then a troubled writer makes his appearance—not the blocked novelist played by Josh Brolin in last year's "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger," but Gil, a hack screenwriter, played by Owen Wilson, who wants to be a novelist. (He and his prickly fiancée, Inez, played by Rachel McAdams, have joined her parents on what began as a business trip for her father.) To round out the familiar cast of archetypes, there's Michael Sheen's insufferable Paul, a poseur who insists that Versailles means "a place where the weeds have been pulled."
The conflicts are also familiar, and entertaining. The earnestly liberal Gil argues back and forth with his prospective father-in-law, a conservative Republican who takes a dim view of him as well as his politics. Paul dismisses Gil's nostalgia for a Paris that no longer exists as nothing but denial of the painful present. The name for this malady, he announces, is "golden-age thinking."
All of that is well and good, but this 44th film written and directed by Mr. Allen—imagine, 44 films over four decades!—has better poissons to sauté. The plot flips at midnight when Gil, a solitary wanderer lost in a maze of cobblestone streets, spots a black-and-yellow apparition coming around a corner—a huge old Rolls-Royce filled with expat revelers. And not just a Rolls but a magic coach that might have come from a Cocteau fantasy. Once Gil joins the revels, his tipsy befuddlement escalates to the innocent astonishment that Mr. Wilson has done so well in the past, and does superlatively in Gil's present, which is interwoven with the fabled past of the Ville-Lumière.
I'm starting to write in circles here because I'm conflicted myself: I don't want to spoil any surprises, but I do want to convey the sense of joyous delight that flows from the film's time-hops. Maybe the best way of getting into it is by noting that Gil was also the name of the movie actor played by Jeff Daniels in one of my favorite Woody Allen films—one of my favorite films, period—"The Purple Rose of Cairo." The magical moment of that achingly lyrical fantasy comes when Gil's character, an intrepid archaeologist, steps out of the screen and into Mia Farrow's grim, Depression-era life. In "Midnight in Paris," lyricism yields, though not entirely, to the scintillating lunacy of a wannabe writer stepping into another era and finding himself in the midst of the writers and artists he has worshipped as gods.
Cocteau is only one of many. The pianist singing songs with phenomenal lyrics—"in shallow shoals English soles do it"—isn't just a pianist. An American poet introduces himself as Tom. The alpha literary lion of the milieu is Corey Stoll's Ernest (I'm going along with the first-name-only game played by the credits), a somber self-mythologist who speaks about love and death in run-on sentences and keeps trying to pick fights. Mr. Fitzgerald's hair is impeccably marcelled, while Mrs. Fitzgerald's psyche is so tangled that Gil gives her a Valium. (She's played brilliantly by Alison Pill.) Kathy Bates is not just hilarious, she's eerily convincing as Gertrude, who of course has Pablo's portrait of her hanging in her salon. (Speaking of the dour Pablo, Ernest says, "He's great, but he's no Miró.") Gil's presence is readily accepted by Adrien Brody's Salvador, as well as by Salvador's friends, Man and Luis; they see no problem with someone living in two worlds because they're surrealists.
Mr. Allen offers this inspired nonsense with the casual aplomb of an absurdist; it's all so silly, and such wonderful fun. That changes, though, when he brings on Adriana, an aspiring fashion designer and sometime mistress of various painters in town, Pablo among them. She's as real as the marvelous Marion Cotillard can make her, which is to say intensely and, for Gil, sublimely: Adriana is everything his fiancée isn't, with the added attraction of being a legend. And through their adventure in another magic coach, "Midnight in Paris" reconsiders Paul's diagnosis. When was the golden age, and why didn't we get to live in it?
It's a serious question that the movie has the good grace to take whimsically, though there's no contest photographically between present and past. The superb cinematographer Darius Khondji floods his vistas of daytime Paris with light that's gentle but banal, while Anne Seibel's production design turns several coins de rue into vaguely cheesy movie sets. In the nighttime Paris that Gil explores the colors are rich, the shadows are deep, the mists promise mystery, and serpentine alleys invite the sort of dreamy meanders that suit Gil so well. (Annoyed by his romantic affection for soft summer showers, Inez asks early on, "Why does every city have to be in the rain?" One answer is that cameras love the look of wet pavements.)
At the same time, the movie gives today's Paris a boost by populating it with women whose intelligence and sensitivity are equal to their beauty. One of them, a guide at the Rodin Museum, is played by France's First Lady, Carla Bruni. (More than a piquant cameo, it's a pleasing performance.) Another, Léa Seydoux's Gabrielle, sells antiques at an outdoor stand and values Gil as a customer with special tastes.
Actors have always been eager to work with Mr. Allen; here's another demonstration of why. Every member of the cast shines at varying intensities: Ms. McAdams as a young almost-married who's lively and attractive, albeit a scold; Kurt Fuller as Inez's acidulous father; Mimi Kennedy as her dryly sarcastic mother; and, in lesser roles, Nina Arianda, Tom Hiddleston, Daniel Lundh and Michel Vuillermoz. But this is Mr. Wilson's picture. Practiced though his trademark naiveté may be, it's entirely fresh once again because he's so good at playing such a complex role. Gil is a bit of a goofball, but he is also, without knowing it, the genuine artist he yearns to be.
For the filmmaker who brought these intertwined universes into being, the film represents new energy in a remarkable career. In recent years Mr. Allen's output has been variable; a succession of small, mostly agreeable entertainments punctuated by the disagreeable miscalculation of "Whatever Works" and the glorious madness of "Vicki Cristina Barcelona." What's new about "Midnight in Paris"—about its cheerful shallows along with its unstressed depths—is the lovely unseriousness of the whole venture. Just as Luis Buñuel did, Woody Allen is growing more playful as he gets older. His new movie truly is a place where the weeds have been pulled. Everything comes up roses.
'Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides'
"It's not the destination so much as the journey," Johnny Depp's Captain Jack Sparrow declares in this latest addition to the theme park ride. For me it was not so much the journey as the destination—the curtained opening beneath the Exit sign—so I'm not the one to say whether this film is better or worse than the previous one. It's definitely shorter and more coherent: Jack and Geoffrey Rush's Barbossa both sail off to find the Fountain of Youth, but Ian McShane's Blackbeard is after it too, and not just Blackbeard and his crew of zombies but his daughter Angelica, who is played by Penélope Cruz with a what-am-I-doing-here expression on her face. (She looks cute with a moustache.)
Keith Richards, in another cameo as Captain Teague, asks: "Does this face look like it's found the Fountain of Youth?" Nope, it does not. Mr. Depp fulfills his flouncing quota, though his deadpan sometimes goes completely dead. The movie was written by "Pirates" stalwarts Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio. They're funny guys, and the script might well be funny too, but it's hard to tell from the metronome rhythms set for the actors by the director, Rob Marshall, and by the editors working as galley slaves under their producer, Jerry Bruckheimer. I did like an elaborate swarm of mermaids, especially the one who washes up on the movie's shores; her name is Syrena, with a "y" to distinguish her from common sirens, and she's played by Astrid Berges-Frisbey. But the IMAX print I saw was so murky as to make you give thanks for the few scenes shot in simple sunlight, the 3-D wasn't worth the bother, and never before have I wanted to chloroform an entire orchestra.
'Wedding Crashers' (2005)
Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn are John and Jeremy, motor-mouthed con men who crash wedding receptions to pick up girls. In the opening scene, set in an office where the longtime friends maintain a dubious practice as divorce mediators, an aggrieved husband laces into his wife, who replies furiously: "You shut your mouth when you're talking to me!" This tidbit of skewed logic is only one bright moment of many in a film blessed with language that's sharply honed, if often raunchy. Rachel McAdams is a bridesmaid, Claire, with whom John falls hopelessly in love.
'La Vie en Rose' (2007)
Marion Cotillard won an Oscar for her astonishing performance as the tortured, impassioned Edith Piaf. In the spirit of Piaf's signature song, I regret nothing about "La Vie en Rose"—not the narrative confusion, the sketchy details or the lack of historical context. Olivier Dahan's long, harrowing and phantasmagorical biopic doesn't bother with such events as World War II, which slips by unnoticed. This isn't negligence, but a reflection of Piaf's point of view. Her life was only about singing, and searching for love. And, always, the songs she sang with the intensity of a cyclotron beam.
'Broken Embraces' (2009)
Penélope Cruz does her best to act badly during several passages in Pedro Almodovar's tragicomedy, but her effort is doomed to failure. She's magnificent even when her performance is supposed to be clumsy, and those passages aren't what they seem anyway. They're part of a wonderfully elaborate joke in a film that serves as a love letter to the movies, and a demonstration of the medium's mysterious power. Ms. Cruz's Lena is part of a quadrangle that involves a blind Spanish screenwriter and former director, an ominously amorous tycoon and the former director's production assistant.
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Over twenty years ago, at a tumultuous and critical turning point juncture in South African sport, oppressed South Africans fiercely screamed out in anger at their disgust and hatred of rebel sports tours to internationally isolated apartheid South Africa.
That was at the time of what was labelled as the 'Mike Gatting rebel cricket tour' of apartheid South Africa. It was rebel because it was internationally unsanctioned and was orchestrated by the establishment-linked South Africa Cricket Union of Dr Ali Bacher, to entertain isolated white cricket.
That the rebel tour, the last one before the ushering in of the unified sports system in democratic South Africa, was halted and called off before completion is now history. That the rebel cricket tour encountered strong resistance and opposition from oppressed South Africans is a fact. The disastrous rebel tour was battle-weary before every rebel match with protest anger levelled at matches especially in Kimberley and Pietermaritzburg.
Follow on from about 20 years down the line, to about a week ago when an international cricketer was back in Pietermariztburg for a cricket match featuring England against the South African A side.
Representing England but born in Durban in South Africa, the player is Nick Compton. Not only is Nick the grandson of a great English sportsman, Dennis Compton, he is also the son of a former white cricketer, Richard Compton who could have played privileged and establishment and racial sport, but instead chose anti-apartheid and non-racial cricket, together with his brother, Patrick Compton.
The Compton family connection with apartheid South Africa and democratic South Africa is deep, rooted in family and cricket. During the 1940's and 1950's, Dennis Compton toured apartheid South Africa and played against white teams only, both in England and South Africa.
Today, grandson Nick Compton tours free and democratic South Africa, a sports pariah no more, and a legitimate member of world sport; this made possible by the anti-apartheid sports struggle that his father, Richard and uncle Patrick, was associated with.
Both Dennis Compton's sons, Patrick and Richard, from his second marriage and born in England but raised in apartheid South Africa, made committed decisions, as young adult men, to support the anti-apartheid sports struggle that was underway in South Africa and around the world.
This was done by their option to leave the lush green fields and advantaged sports resources allocated to white South Africans because of apartheid's privileges and play anti-apartheid, non-racial cricket and sport. They did this by joining community-based cricket clubs in under-resourced and disadvantaged communities. These cricket clubs were affiliated to the non-sponsored, Natal Cricket Board which was affiliated to the South African Cricket board, an affiliate of the South African Council on Sport (SACOS).
The fact that Nick Compton is touring South Africa, his birth country, and the country his father grew up in and still resides in, and playing international cricket is not only momentous for the Compton family, but deeply significant for the sacrifice against apartheid sport and resistance to oppression in South Africa.
Unlike his grandfather's playing era, Nick Compton's team representing England enters the country on legitimate and authentic visas, unlike during the apartheid years when false names and identification were employed to enter ostracised and isolated South Africa for sport and international teams were asked not to have sports relationships with the oppressive apartheid regime.
The struggle against the oppressive apartheid regime was phenomenal, fierce, massive and committed. Nick Compton's father, Richard Compton was a privileged citizen in apartheid South Africa with numerous benefits accrued from his whiteness. But he chose the option of anti-apartheid sport, in unison with oppressed South Africans. He became one of millions who sacrificed his sports life and chose to play non-racial sport, not only so that apartheid could be disrupted and dismantled and democratic South Africa could take charge, but for future generations, like his children, to be able to play sport representing a democratic and free society. Today, South African sport has its challenges and deficiencies, but representation is done for a democratic country.
Some may ask why Nick Compton chose to play for a country he wasn't born into. With his UK and South African birth connections, this is left to the family and Nick Compton to answer. It appears that young Nick had a desire to emulate his great sportsman grandfather that was Dennis Compton. This is understandable; his father had played some representative first class matches, scoring 99 runs in total and never having the chance to represent a democratic country. So Nick Compton went to England to hone his cricket skills ands stayed on to eventually get an international call up to represent the country of his grandfather and father's birth.
The resilience of resistance to apartheid sport in South Africa and the authentic struggle to achieve freedom from oppression and to play sport in a free and democratic South Africa, never leaves our memory bank. Being filled with heritage wealth and an unrivalled resistance struggle, it's an account that we just can't and refuse to close.
It's now over two decades that South Africa 'left behind' the tormented, unequal, apartheid era of sport to embark on a 'unified sport' era in a democratic and free South Africa. While current sports officials, immersed in the post-apartheid sports paradigm, easily ignore and banish to the dustbins of time, the forthright, authentic and iconic commitment of oppressed people to achieve freedom through sport, in the largely undocumented and rarely acknowledged anti-apartheid narrative of sport and freedom in South Africa, lay the memories of a people's fierce resistance to oppression.
And these memories are always present; hanging around to remind us of the power of struggle and resistance to oppressive and inhumane holding up a society.
These memories stay there; never leaving or being erased. It's the generation for whom freedom was fought that always reminds us of who paid for our freedom and how that freedom is today being enjoyed. Along comes Nick Compton, a former white South African who nurtured his youth cricket in Durban, and the dots are connected.
South African sport has this year experienced some fascinating sporting moments, including some disappointing ones. Contributing to and topping South Africa's memorable sports year were the sports moments which fiercely grabbed our attention and made us remember with pride and respect, the journey that sport in South Africa has travelled.
During this year we acknowledged with pride the fabulous achievement of athlete Wade van Niekerk who won the 400m world title. The son of anti-apartheid sport athletes, Wade van Niekerk's sport prowess demonstrated yet again that our struggle for oppressed people to have the chance to play sport in a democratic country, was not meaningless or a failure.
Forget about South Africa's sports disappointments because South Africa didn't win the men's cricket and rugby world cup and Bafana Bafana didn't qualify for an African football championship. For me, it was the sports moments, which have their roots in resistance to oppression and sports presence in a democratic South Africa which delivered the most cherished and proud moments.


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On October 19, US banking agencies released an advanced notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPR) seeking comments on enhanced cybersecurity standards. These standards potentially would apply to
- US bank holding companies and savings and loan holding companies with total consolidated assets of $50 billion or more,
- foreign banking organizations' US operations with US assets of $50 billion or more, and
- other types of entities under the jurisdiction of the ANPR-issuing agencies and such entities' service providers.
The ANPR would create a tiered system of standards aimed at reducing cyber risk and preventing financial sector disruptions because of cyber events.
The ANPR, issued by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, sets forth an initial framework for the enhanced standards. The agencies will produce a more detailed proposal after they receive comments on the ANPR, which. are due by January 17, 2017.
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- cyber risk governance,
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- incident response, cyber resilience, and situational awareness.
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- having adequate cybersecurity expertise on the board of directors or board access to adequate cybersecurity resources,
- developing board-level formal cyber risk-management strategies,
- integrating cyber risk management into responsibilities of independent functions,
- continually assessing the reduction of cyber risk of internal and external dependencies,
- maintaining awareness of all internal assets and functions that support the cyber risk-management strategy,
- real-time monitoring of external dependencies,
- periodically testing alternative solutions to address potential failures of external partners, and
- establishing capabilities to maintain critical business functions during cyber attacks.
The ANPR also considers a higher set of standards that would apply to "systems of covered entities that are critical to the financial sector." Under the standards, entities potentially would have to minimize cyber risk of sector-critical systems subject to the higher-tier of standards by implementing the most effective, commercially available controls and establishing a recovery time objective of two hours for such systems (among other proposed requirements).
Tentatively, the higher set of standards could apply to systems that consistently support the clearing or settlement of at least 5% of transactions' value in one or more of the markets for federal funds, foreign exchange, commercial paper, US government and agency securities, corporate debt and equity securities, and exchange-traded and over-the-counter- derivatives. However, the ANPR notes that other factors to determine the higher standards' applicability are being considered, including interconnectedness. Notably, service providers that support such sector-critical systems would also be subject to the higher set of standards.


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Two words, "who cares?" Put it down and walk away. I was looking forward to reading it, but sadly, this book is boring and self-centered with no redeeming qualities. I pushed myself to the 65 page mark, where our "intrepid" writer is bedding fellow travelers and loaning them money on day one of his adventurous jaunt into Brazil. The plodding, detail-infested, pedestrian tale is too reminiscent of my own travel writing to take any pleasure in.
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ALAN OX IN CONCERT: "Song, Shtick & Soft Shoe"(Published: December 04, 2010)
An Evening of Classic Stage Variety
What: Alan Ox in Concert: "Song, Shtick & Soft Shoe"
When: Friday, November 5, 2010 - 8:00 p.m.
Where: Washington University • 560 Music Center • 560 Trinity Avenue
University City, MO 63130
Cost: $20 / Adult, $10 / Student with valid i.d.
Tickets: Metrotix (314.534.1111), Edison Theater Box Office (314.935.6543)
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St. Louis, September 29, 2010 - 'Classic stage variety' man Alan Oxenhandler (known by friends as Al Ox) pulls together all his talents "live in the loop" on Friday, November 5, 2010. Not since his Sheldon Concert Hall performance of "You Can't Do That in St. Louis" has Al staged a music/comedy event. This one promises to be more charged with the band and Al working the stage together through both lyrics and laughs.
The multi-instrumentalist (vocals-drums-piano) has routinely performed across the Midwest in bars and bistros since his early 20s. It is his music lovers, however, who know better than to peg him for music alone.
For one-night-only "Song, Shtick & Soft-Shoe" will spotlight Al's vocals in a dramatic venue. "It all comes down to the music," Al explains, "but growing up I also loved watching the show where a guy could crack me up and then throw in a little song and soft shoe too. To me, that's entertainment, and this new show is my expression of the craft!"
Along with his personal take on popular tunes, the show will be peppered with Al's brand of comedic observation as he launches into the crooning styles of vocalists he has admired and jabbed through the years.
The show will include hits "That's Life", "Day In Day Out," and even Lerner & Lowes operatic, "I Could Have Danced All Night." A couple skits consist of, "You Too Can Sing Like Neil Diamond" and "Taking Over NPR." Having studied tap dance for the last five years, you can definitely expect foot flourishes in the show, as well as other surprises to 'entertain and astonish.'
Also in the limelight will be the venue itself. According to Ox, "The 560 Music Center, right in the U-City Loop, is a plush venue with a huge stage and live acoustics. It's the old Shaare Emeth synagogue. The last time I was there I did not understand a word they said!"
Backing up Al Ox will be his special show band, featuring Phil Gomez (Steinway Concert Grand), Bob Rowe (keyboard), Benet Schaeffer (drums) and Willem von Hombracht (bass). Alan performs weekly on piano at Ruth's Chris Steak House at the Hyatt Hotel Downtown and in Clayton. He also plays drums and piano with his trio, and has staged comedy shows and tributes to both Tony Bennett and Chet Baker.
Alan Ox in Concert: "Song, Shtick & Soft-Shoe" takes place at the Washington University 560 Music Building located in the U-City Loop, across from City Hall at 560 Trinity / Delmar Boulevard. Show time is 8 p.m. Reserved seating tickets are available at Metrotix (314.534.1111), the Edison Theater Box Office (314.935.6543) on the Washington University campus -or- at the door.
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Might've been reasonable when gas was 12¢ per gallon, but not now. I generally oppose government interference in the market, but would welcome a federal law requiring gas to be priced at 1¢ resolution for new pumps and new gas price signs. Would be a nice simplification, universally appreciated by consumers.
Look about you.
I can't see why it would matter one way or the other. It's always rounded to a penny for the total price, so what difference does it make? Seems more like a marketing gimmick than an issue.
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A federal law for that?
Amoco: OK, we'll price at 1 cents resolution, if you all will. You go first.
Chevron: NO, you go first.
BP: Y'all go first.
Its difficult carrying around all those pennies I cut up into 10 pieces. I have yet to find a change holder to accommodate.
There is no cure for stupidity, you either die from it or with it.
Although it makes absolutely no sense today, I always assumed it was a marketing thing, not something that was mandated by the government. And the fact is that it works with many people. I have heard countless references to something like $29.95 as "It costs twenty dollars," or $599 as "It's about five hundred."
"The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."
— Bertrand Russell
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I agree that it's marketing, but at least in your example one can pay the advertised price because it is advertised in US currency.
1/10 cents do not exist. How can one pay a fractional cent for a product when it's not a measure of currency? How would a bank handle a check written out for 9/10th of a cent?
The last fractional cent was the half cent, last minted in 1857.
Look, they do it to deceive you. While we all know what they're doing, we still go to those places. The government is too involved in our lives as it is. We have politically correct people who would find a way to sue the rich oil companies, never looking at the taxes that get a much bigger slice of the price. Won't be long before they'll just leave off the cents and rounding it to the nearest dime. Or dollar.
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That's the type of shit my wife does and it irks me to no end because she's not the one having to pay for stuff.
I simply use farthings, 4 farthings to a penny. "And not a farthing more!" Edward the VIII.
Well, it's always rounded up to the nearest penny...….of course. LOL
Look at your electric bill. Electric is priced by the kilowatt. The price is carried out 3 or 4 decimal points though you're always billed to the penny. Wonder which way that's rounded off?
"I'm sorry, did I break your concentration"?
This is what you have to bitch about?
You have it good. Quit your bitchin. If you don't like it, make your own damn gas.
"Like a bitter weed, I'm a bad seed"- Johnny Cash
"I'm a loner, Dottie. A rebel." - Pee Wee Herman
Rode hard, put away wet. RIP JHM
"You're a junkyard dog." - Lupe Flores. RIP
OK, I fill up once a week. Let's say every time I fill up I go 1/10 of a cent over and the gas company rounds it up so they overcharge me by 9/10 of a cent. That translates into an excess charge of 46.8 cents a year. OK, bilked again, 47 cents a year. I am 64 and have been driving for 48 years. In the course of my driving history the most I could have been bilked for is $22.56. I will not be losing sleep over this one.
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I think not... most don't give a flying-fuck, two-shits, or a rats-ass.
Pledge allegiance or pack your bag!
The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money. - Margaret Thatcher
Spread my work ethic, not my wealth
Let the Democrats propose this for new Federal law and waste time. It might distract them from any anti-gun BS.
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That is the cost of a couple boxes of range ammunition, or a small box of carry-quality ammunition.
That is a serious amount of money!
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I make it up at the local station's diesel pump. It has a cut off of $85.00 when using a card. Unlike all of the other pumps that slow down to a penny a second the last dollar, this pump runs full bore until $85 then kicks off.
Total on the pump is usually $85.15-$85.20. Amount billed to card $85.00.
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Just when I thought y'all wouldn't come up with something I could actually care even less about than the last silly thing.
You only have integrity once. - imprezaguy02
I make a lot of my own gas, but my truck won't run on it and my girlfriend really hates the smell of it!!!!!
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Green Zone" and "The Hurt Locker" — critically praised Iraq War pictures whose box office take falls short of their positive reviews — have their differences. "Locker" was produced for about $15 million and is almost intimate as it zeroes in on a small group of specialists fighting in Iraq. The $100 million, CG-heavy "Green Zone" takes on the overarching political issue of why the war was launched.For more bookings and signings, visit Variety.com/Caranicas
But both capture the conflict's chaos and violence through the dynamic camerawork of d.p. Barry Ackroyd — who has the distinction of having been first embedded with the crew of helmer Kathryn Bigelow, then with the team of Paul Greengrass, with whom he had worked on "United 93."
Ackroyd, who delivered Greengrass' signature kinetic look for "Green Zone," recalls creatively risky moments during the shoot as the helmer made some late decisions. "We didn't have a detailed script; it was more an outline," he says. At one point during production "Paul said to me, 'we've got to have a good chase scene in this film.' "
The scene was added, "then Paul said, 'It would be better at night rather than day, don't you think?' And I said, 'Yeah, of course,' not thinking about the consequences. Baghdad had a curfew, with no street lights, so the brief called for absolute night."
Shooting the scene on 35mm film just outside Rabat, Morocco, the crew had to deal with severely low light levels, which yielded "an enormous amount of grain," says Ackroyd. "We dealt with this digitally, adding grain to some material, de-graining other material to balance the whole thing out. I think we got the look of war, like those night-vision images."
Greengrass strongly resisted any temptation to compromise that look. "I lost a lot of sleep over those night shots because we were pushing things to the limit," says Ackroyd, "but if Paul caught you increasing the light a bit he would say, 'Don't do that, we've got to stick to this.' With great directors, it's not 'I like this,' it's 'I want it to be like this.' "
"We talked about (reproducing) the color of war, the color of death," adds Ackroyd. "It was a very risky strategy. I like to think we pulled it off."
The d.p. is now in Serbia filming the Ralph Fiennes-helmed "Coriolanus." The Shakespeare play, originally set in Roman times, "will be in a modern setting. It's about a great warrior, politicians and the collapse of an empire."
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WME d.p. bookings: Michel Abramowicz on Matthijs van Heijningen's "The Thing," Florian Ballhaus on Robert Schwentke's "Red," Jonathan Brown on Tom Bezucha's "Monte Carlo," Steven Fierberg on Julian Farino's "The Oranges," Steve Gainer on James Gunn's "Super," Brendan Galvin on Tarsem Singh's "Dawn of War," Daniel Pearl on Todd Lincoln's "The Apparition," Stephen Windon on Justin Lin's "Fast 5," Russ Alsobrook on NBC pilot "Friends With Benefits," Michael Bonvillain on CBS pilot "Rough Justice" and NBC's "Undercovers," Uta Briesewitz on HBO's "Hung," Tim Ives on CBS pilot "Reagan's Law," Alik Sakharov on ABC pilot "True Blue" and Eagle Egilsson on TNT's "Dark Blue."
WME has also booked production designers Bill Boes on Raja Gosnell's "The Smurfs," Steven Jordan on Amy Heckerling's "Vamps," Chris Spellman on Jay and Mark Duplass' "Jeff Who Lives at Home," Laura Fox on Fox's "Midland" and Derek Hill on ABC's "Happy Endings"; editors Jim Page on D.J. Caruso's "I Am Number Four," Dan Schalk on Jim Field Smith's "Butter," Mark Manos on ABC's "No Ordinary Family" and Jill Savitt on CW's Wyoming project; plus costume designers Mona May on CBS' "The Defenders," Debra McGuire on ABC's "Happy Endings" and Amy Westcott on Darren Aronofsky's "Black Swan."


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For forty years, Loving experimented with materials and process to expand the definition of modern painting, drawing on everything from free jazz to his family's quilting tradition. In the 1980s, Loving broke free of the flat image, using heavy rag paper to make three-dimensional collages in brilliant colors. At A+P, Spiral Play will feature twelve of these collages, some of them monumental in scale. The work is radical, beautiful, and deeply human.
Loving was born in Detroit in 1935. He received his MFA at the University of Michigan, training in an Abstract Expressionist, gestural painting style. In 1968, Loving moved to New York City to engage in more active dialogue with his peers, and shifted to a hard-edge geometric mode. After less than a year in New York, he was offered a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, which won critical acclaim. Despite his success, Loving felt trapped inside "the box" of geometric abstraction at a charged political moment—as if his art and his life were out of alignment. In the 1970s, he discovered a method of working with torn, dyed, and sewn canvas, drawing on quilting traditions, that rendered his paintings more vibrant and immediate. From the 1980s onward, Loving experimented with large scale collages that expanded into space, reconciling geometry and an expression of life force through profound and playful organic form.
Spiral Play: Loving in the '80s is curated by Christopher Bedford, the Dorothy Wagner Wallis Director of The Baltimore Museum of Art, and Katy Siegel, the Thaw Endowed Chair at Stony Brook University and Senior Curator at the Baltimore Museum of Art. This exhibition is presented by Art + Practice and The Baltimore Museum of Art.
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Someone told me the German VO in this spot for the ŠKODA- Yeti is saying something along the lines of: "The Škoda 'like-weeks' -- Get Germany's awarded brand now. Finance many models without interest or deposit."
If I had to guess it has something to do with not only getting a deal on the car but getting a deal on a car that speaks to your interests.
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Purolite USA Holiday Party 2017
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The Bala Cynwyd and G Street locations kicked off the holiday season with a buffet style party in Conshohocken's lovely Southern Cross Kitchen. The restaurant owes its name to a crossing of tradional southern cooking and jazzed up variations of comfort food. Those there to party were excited to try all the delicios food the restaurant put togther, like sweet and sour potato spuds, a seafood jambalaya, fried pickles, mac n' cheese, and catfish sliders. And to top it all off, desserts included an assortment of chocolate treats and decadant cookies!
After all had their fill of dinner, Jacob Brodie, Vice President, gave an uplifting speech about coming together during times of need and thanking everyone for their commitment to one another. Shortly thereafter, Jason Jay and Bob Rausch in Finance, were recognized for celebrating five years with the company! Before closing out on the celebrations, a handful of gift cards were given out to those lucky enough to have their names randomly selected from a box of all employees at G Street and Bala Cynwyd.
While Purolite employees were celebrating inside where it was nice and warm, Mother Nature had other plans outside. What seemed like a light snow fall only a few hours earlier turned into a 2-3 inch blanket of white along the Schuylkill River. Some employees faced the tortoise speed, bumper to bumper traffic on the I-76 while others chose to avoid traffic and travel the hilly backroads of Pennsylvania. Nevertheless, all routes were covered in snow, ice, and occaisonally salt, leading to traffic jams and extended travel time. Thankfully, the winter weather didn't stop employees from having a great time during the party. Laughs were abundant and cheer could be felt throughout.
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If you're looking for a pet pad that stands out from the crowd, this retro, orange Magis doghouse by Michael Young is a winner.
Raising Rover off the ground, this funky doggy abode comes complete with its own stairs leading up to the entry.
Assuming he or she is under 40 lbs, it gives your pet the privilege of having a sleek and chic home... but it will set you back $900.
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Photo Coverage: Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, et al. at the 2012 BET Honors
The fifth annual BET HONORS will celebrate the outstanding achievements of extraordinary legends in music, literature, entertainment, media, service and education. Acclaimed actress Gabrielle Union hosts the show for a fourth year, honoring renowned poet/author Maya Angelou (Literary Arts), internationally acclaimed musician Stevie Wonder (Musical Arts), Grammy-Award winning songstress Mariah Carey (Entertainer), influential filmmaker Spike Lee (Media), the heroic Tuskegee Airmen (Service) and inspirational coach and mentor Beverly Kearney (Education). The BET HONORS premieres during Black History Month, on Monday, February 13 at 9:00 p.m.*
Check out photos from the ceremony below!
The BET HONORS, star-studded lineup includes performances by Aretha Franklin, Patti Labelle, Cicely Tyson, Common, Jennifer Hudson and Kelly Rowland, with appearances by Cuba Gooding Jr., Terrence Howard, Willow Smith and Jill Scott. The show taped at the historic Warner Theatre on Saturday, January 14 in Washington, D.C.
Stephen Hill, President of Music Programming and Specials, BET Networks, and Lynne Harris Taylor, Vice President of Specials, BET Networks are executive producers, along with Cossette Productions.
Proceeds from this year's BET HONORS private ticket sales will be given to Metro TeenAIDS. Metro TeenAIDS, a longtime partner of BET, is a community health organization dedicated to supporting young people in the fight against HIV/AIDS, through education, support, and advocacy.
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EOHR calls for an investigation into the attack on the students of the first grade secondary.
The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) condemns the attack that took place on Tuesday 21/5/2019 against the students who organized a demonstration in front of the General Directorate of the Ministry of Education and its offices in the governorates after the students failed in the test through "tablet".
The organization is calling for an investigation on the incident of the attack and the arrest of students in front of the ministry and some of the provinces.
Hundreds of first grade secondary students have organized a demonstration in front of the Ministry's General Office and its offices in the governorates. The students confirmed that they "failed to perform in the exams regularly on the tablets and that the schools are not prepared for this system, stressing that the system went down during the exams in a number of schools, which threatens their future." The students called for the abolition of the exam system on the tablets and the return to the old system.
Consequently, Major General Mahmoud Tawfiq, the minister of the Interior, called for the immediate release of all first-grade students who have been arrested and called for defusing the crisis which took place without any need.
The Egyptian organization emphasizes on the freedom of peaceful assembly and expression in a peaceful manner, a right that is guaranteed by international charters and conventions, including article 21 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights of 1966, stipulates that" The right of peaceful assembly shall be recognized. No restrictions may be placed on the exercise of this right other than those imposed in conformity with the law and which are necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security or public safety, public order (ordre public), the protection of public health or morals or the protection of the rights and freedoms of others." In addition to article 20 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, states that "Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly"
The organization reiterates that the law of protest in this manner is a clear restriction on the right of citizens to peaceful demonstration and deviates from the gains of the revolution of 25th of January and the 30th of June, which ensured the rights and public freedoms of citizens. Therefore, the organization calls upon the Egyptian government to review and amend the law, particularly with regard to the heavy penalties on peaceful protesters.
It also stresses that the right to demonstrate is absolute and guaranteed to all by notification and not by permission after the adoption of the new Egyptian constitution. In accordance with the provisions of the Court of Cassation and the provisions of the law, the Court of Cassation ruled that if the law contradicts with the Constitution, the provisions of the Constitution must be adhered to in addition to the other principle that the subsequent text copies the previous text when it was equal to or higher than its level.
In order to do so, the Egyptian Court of Cassation ruled that the existence of the law should be verified if it was not explicitly written in the constitution and in order to exercise its authority, the Constitution should be self-executing without the need to enact minimum legislation. In that case, it was necessary to implement the constitutional text from the day it was introduced and the rule of law that violates this case is implicitly copied by force of law.
Moreover, if the constitution guarantees a certain right and gives the law the right to regulate the use of this right, the non-issuance of this law does not preclude the implementation of the constitution's text on its guarantee. Therefore, Article 73 of the Egyptian Constitution became enforceable and the provisions of the Law of protest on the procedures regulating the right to organize demonstrations were repealed.
For his part, Dr. Hafez Abu Saeda, the organization's president, stressed that the right to peaceful assembly is one of the most fundamental human rights guaranteed by international human rights instruments and conventions, which allowed everyone to express their opinions freely away from the use of violence or threaten the nation's capabilities and express its opinion in accordance with the rules of the law.
He also emphasized on the need to amend the law of protest in order to allow the freedom of demonstration and peaceful assembly in accordance with article 73 of the Constitution of 2014 and the international conventions on human rights.


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Barely two weeks after the big subprime lender New Century Financial Corp. went bankrupt, a top Standard & Poor's executive assured Congress that her employer could be counted on to sound the alarm for the next credit disaster.
S&P ratings are "grounded in the cornerstone principles of independence, transparency, credibility and quality," resulting in a "long-standing track record of analytical excellence and objective commentary," Susan Barnes, managing director in charge of U.S. residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS), testified.
But as Barnes spoke that April 17, 2007, before a Senate subcommittee, those principles were burning down around her, the U.S. government now argues in a $5 billion civil lawsuit accusing S&P of defrauding investors through inflated ratings.
The 119-page complaint sets out a litany of internal forebodings and warnings that investigators believe show the largest U.S. credit rating agency falsely represented that its ratings prior to the recent financial crisis were objective, and untainted by conflicts of interest.
While the complaint largely refers to S&P officials in the form of "Senior Analyst A," Reuters was able to identify many of them by referencing other public documents.
S&P, a unit of McGraw-Hill Cos., said it will vigorously defend against the lawsuit filed late Monday in Los Angeles federal court, and that it was "simply not true" that it deliberately kept ratings artificially high.
The government did not sue S&P's main rivals, Moody's Corp's Moody's Investors Service and Fimalac SA's Fitch Ratings.
According to the complaint, seeds for the fraud were planted in 2004 when S&P, mindful of its market share and profitability, began to drag its heels in updating its models to assess credit risks of debt it rated. And not everyone was pleased.
"Are you implying that we might actually reject or stifle 'superior analytics' for market considerations?" Frank Raiter, then head of U.S. RMBS, emailed some colleagues around April 2004, according to the complaint. "Inquiring minds need to know."
The government said S&P appeared deliberately slow in updating a CDO Evaluator that addressed risks in collateralized debt obligations, and a Loan Evaluation and Estimate of Loss System, known as LEVELS, that assessed risks in RMBS.
"Version 6.0 could have been released months ago and resources assigned elsewhere if we didn't have to massage the sub-prime and Alt-A numbers to preserve market share," S&P analyst Frank Parisi wrote around March 23, 2005, referring to LEVELS and two kinds of non-prime mortgages.
By late 2006, the government said S&P noted "unprecedented" deterioration in subprime RMBS. Privately, it seemed worried.
"This market is a wildly spinning top which is going to end badly," David Tesher, managing director of the cash CDO group, wrote on Dec. 11, 2006, the complaint said.
But the government said it was investors who got spun.
According to the complaint, from March through late June of 2007, S&P issued CDO ratings that did not account for the "substantially increased" credit risks of non-prime RMBS.
In perhaps the most quotable passage in the complaint, the government describes an unnamed analyst who in March 2007 emails forwarded a parody of Talking Heads' 1983 song "Burning Down the House" and a video of himself performing its first verse:
"Watch out // Housing market went softer // Cooling down // Strong market is now much weaker // Subprime is boi-ling o-ver // Bringing down the house."
Two weeks later, on April 5, 2007, CDO analyst Shannon Mooney fired off an infamous instant message that surfaced during October 2008 Congressional hearings: "We rate every deal … it could be structured by cows and we would rate it."
The cows came home.
By July 5, 2007, parts of the credit market had begun to seize up. Two Bear Stearns Cos. hedge funds had just collapsed. And S&P's ratings were behind the times, the government said, quoting a new structured finance analyst's email to a client.
"The fact is, there was a lot of internal pressure in S&P to downgrade lots of deals earlier on before this thing started blowing up," the analyst wrote. "But the leadership was concerned of p*ssing off too many clients and jumping the gun ahead of Fitch and Moody's."
Six days later, in an allusion to the climactic scheme in the 1983 movie "Trading Places," the analyst wrote: "You should see how it is here right now. It's like a friggin trading floor. 'Downgrade, Mortimer, downgrade!!!'"
The next day, July 12, S&P announced a big downgrade of subprime RMBS. More would follow. It would end in October 2007 when S&P had finally eliminated the grade inflation behind dozens of RMBS-backed CDOs, the government said.
"I had forgotten all about the email until the Justice Department showed me," Raiter said on Tuesday in a phone interview, referring to his 2004 email. "The emails went to senior managing directors, most of whom had been on a senior leadership team, but some of us had been reorganized off that committee because we were too outspoken. They never responded to my observations."
Raiter said he left S&P in 2005 and is now retired.
Neither the other people named above in this article nor an S&P spokesman could immediately be reached for comment.
"Put simply," U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said at a Tuesday press conference discussing the government's allegations, "this alleged conduct is egregious – and it goes to the very heart of the recent financial crisis."
For S&P, it culminated in the same thing that Talking Heads lead singer David Byrne famously wore in his band's 1984 concert movie "Stop Making Sense."
A big suit.
(Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Additional reporting by Luciana Lopez; Editing by Tim Dobbyn)
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Over 80 young snowboarders today took on the massive 22ft halfpipe at Cardrona in a bid to earn a prized spot in tomorrow's semi finals and an opportunity to ride for the 2010 Junior World Championship title.
Of the 84 athletes, 18 men and nine women, made it through the qualifiers to the semi finals and finals in a very tough competition that featured a high level of riding.
It was a young Japanese rider in the men's heat three who stole the day with the highest scoring run ever seen in a New Zealand halfpipe, second only to Shaun White at last year's 100% Pure New Zealand Winter Games. Taku Hiraoka (14) scored a 43.8 run which mixed massive amplitude with a perfectly executed frontside air, backside 5, frontside 7, cab 7 finishing with a frontside 9.
Staale Sandbech (17) of Norway with 41.7 was the second highest scoring qualifier with two consistent runs, following on from his success at Saturday's slopestyle where he took out the world champion title. Another young Japanese rider 15-year-old Masakaze Yoshida, had the third highest qualifying score with 41.3. All three go straight through to tomorrow's finals, joined by Seppe Smits (19) of Belgium, Derek Livingston (19) of Canada and Jan Scherrer (16) of Switzerland.
In the women's Cilka Sada (18) who is 28 in the world rankings took the clear lead in 41.7. She too skips the semi finals and goes straight to tomorrow's finals, joined by Japan's Rana Okada (19) and Kelly Marren (USA).
FIS head judge, Ola Sundequist, said tomorrow's finals promised a very exciting event. "The best of each heat today were of a very high standard and they will be saving their best tricks for tomorrow's finals," he said.
Tomorrow's semi finals will see the remaining qualified athletes battling it out for the last six finals spots:
Nathan Johnstone (AUS), Ben Stewart (NZE), Manuel Pietropoli (ITA), Ethan Morgan (GER), Dimi de Jong (NED), Benjamin Farrow (USA), Ayumu Nedefuji (JPN), Roope Tonteri (FIN), Ikumi Imai (JPN), Scott James (USA), Ho-un Kim (KOR), Paul Brichta (USA).
Haruna Matsumoto (JPN), Rika Hatta (JPN), Madeline Schaffrick (USA), Rebecca Sinclair (NZE), Ryo Nakakita (JPN), Palmer Taylor (CAN)
The snowboard halfpipe semi finals kick off at 9.35am in the Cardrona with finals scheduled to take place at 11.00am. For further information and full results, go to www.juniorworldsnz.co.nz.


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The Society for Classical Studies would like to clarify that the Society's Committee on Professional Ethics has not censured Prof. Sarah Bond. More details will be forthcoming later.
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The Society for Classical Studies would like to clarify that the Society's Committee on Professional Ethics has not censured Prof. Sarah Bond. More details will be forthcoming later.
Helen Cullyer, Executive Director
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Poetry, Philosophy, and Mathematics: Performance, Text, and External Representations in Ancient Greek Cultural Practices
The SCS board of directors has endorsed a statement on the use of student evaluations of teaching developed by the American Sociological Association.
The board has also reaffirmed its own statement of November 28, 2016 that condemns "the use of the texts, ideals, and images of the Greek and Roman world to promote racism or a view of the Classical world as the unique inheritance of a falsely-imagined and narrowly-conceived western civilization." In accordance with that statement, the board has also endorsed the American Historical Association's statement on Domestic Terrorism, Bigotry, and History and would like to draw attention to its condemnation of the "recent deployment of histories invented in the interest of bigotry, violence, and division."
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Of the slew of Disney's new live-action remakes, perhaps the most anticipated release was this summer's The Lion King, directed by Jon Favreau. After all, the original 1994 version was arguably the crown jewel of the 'Disney Renaissance', enjoying massive commercial and critical success (followed by a highly successful Broadway production). More importantly - at least for those like me who grew up in the 90's - it was a cultural touchstone, a perennial source of references, parodies, and praise.
The following members were elected in the ballot held this Summer. They take office in January 2020, except for the two new members of the Nominating Committee who take office immediately. Thank you to all SCS members who agreed to stand for election this year.
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Please join us for the 37th Classical Association of New England Summer Institute On the theme "The Empire and the Individual"
The organizers of the CANE Summer Institute invite you to join us for a weeklong examination of peoples and cultures that comprised the Classical Greek and Roman worlds. We will consider what it meant to be (but) an individual amid the greater whole of an empire and what that can tell us about living in today's world.
Whether you are a high school or college teacher of Latin and/or Greek, History, English, the Arts, or other related disciplines, an undergraduate or graduate student, or a devoted lifelong learner, you will enjoy a thoughtful and enriching experience that includes a wide variety of mini-courses, lectures, workshops, reading groups, and special events while also offering many opportunities for conversation and collegial interaction among participants
This summer's 5-day mini-courses include:
He Longed for the Desert: Turning Your Back on Rome John Higgins, Smith College
Romans and Italians: Empire-Making before the Social War Sailakshmi Ramgopal, Columbia University
Making Classics Public
A panel with Prof. Sarah Bond (University of Iowa) and Dr. Donna Zuckerberg (Editor-in-Chief, Eidolon)
Northwestern University,1880 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208
Part of #ClassicsNow: The Urgency of Re-Imagining Antiquity series
Making Classics Public is co-sponsored by the Society for Classical Studies
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Participants will be expected to present a 15-minute paper to a forum of their undergraduate peers, graduate students, and NYU faculty. Submissions may be a condensed version, or a particularly strong chapter, of an undergraduate thesis, an exceptional course paper, or an independent research project. We welcome work informed by any and all theories and methodologies, and encourage submission from students working in any discipline (e.g. Classical Philology, Anthropology, Archaeology, History, etc.) or geo-temporal focus (e.g. Mediterranean and Atlantic Studies; Egyptology; Pre-Columbian, Near East, and East Asian Civilizations).
Food will be provided to all participants, and any audio-visual necessities will be arranged. Some local travel reimbursements will also be available.
ABSTRACT DEADLINE: Friday, November 22nd, 2019
The Classical Association of Ghana
University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana
Theme: Global Classics and Africa: Past, Present, and Future
The late 1950s and early 1960s ushered in a period when many African countries were gaining political independence. Immediately, there was an agenda to unite African nations, and a policy of Africanization began to gain ground. In the area of education, this Africanization process was vigorously pursued. In Ghana the Institute of African Studies was established, and an Encyclopaedia Africana project, originally conceived by W. E. B. DuBois, was revived. In Nigeria, new universities were established to counter the colonial-based education that was present at the University of Ibadan, and in some East African countries there were fears that foreign university teachers would not be able to further the Africanization of university education.


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Think you have the right to unlock your smartphone? Congrats — you've got a whole lot of company.
A petition opposing last month's controversial decision to ban unsanctioned smartphone unlocking has passed the key threshold of 100,000 signatures today, guaranteeing that it will get a response from the White House.
Former Republican Study Committee staffer Derek Khanna, who helped lead the campaign, says he isn't surprised the petition made it this far.
"I think the interest pretty clearly demonstrates that average people want smart tech policies. People recognized that the law invades their property rights, and they're not happy with it," he told me by phone today.
High-profile supporters of the bill include Electronic Frontier Foundation founder John Perry Barlow, publishing kingpin Tim O'Reilly, and Internet granddaddy Vint Cerf.
Khanna says the involvement of these tech luminaries is hugely significant. "Their interest shows that this a big issue, that this an important issue, and that the law itself is asinine," he said.
Khanna says that, though the petition has already passed the biggest threshold, he's intent on getting more signatures before Saturday, when the signing window closes. But the petition is just the start of the process, and Khanna and his supporters have a long way to go before the unlocking ban can get overturned.
"It's a long process, but this is a clearly a show of force," Khanna said.
As someone who has scribbled my name on more ineffectual petitions than I can count, I'm both surprised and glad the campaign has gotten this far. Nice job, democracy.
(Disclosure: I did not sign this petition.)
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A naive, between-the-wars French painter is brought to vivid life in the satisfying fact-inspired drama "Seraphine." An extraordinary perf by vet thesp Yolande Moreau in the title role will propel this throwback example of vintage Euro arthouse storytelling to a larger canvas of fests, theatrical deals and homevid.
Just prior to the Great War, in the small town of Senlis, not far from Paris, middle-aged loner Seraphine Louis (Moreau) works a grueling series of domestic jobs while painting at night. In her fleeting free time, she communes with nature, furtively gathering soil, animal's blood and even the run-off oil from church candles to mix the paints she otherwise couldn't afford. Fittingly, her intricate, colorful canvases are of fruit and flowers run riot.
When the German art critic Wilhelm Uhde (Ulrich Tukur) and his sister Anne-Marie (Anne Bennent) move to town, he's shocked to discover one of Seraphine's smaller paintings at a dinner party thrown by the well-to-do art lover Madame Duphot (Genevieve Mnich).
Uhde buys all Seraphine's work promptly, with the middle of the pic delineating the delicate relationship between aesthete and savant.
Interrupted by World War I, during which Seraphine stays in the nearly deserted town and paints through shellings and scares, the artist and critic are reunited in the late 1920s, with her rapid mental deterioration leading to a sad, tragic end.
Helmer and co-writer Martin Provost brings a pastoral eye to the story, layering the tale with a discreet visual style while at the same time firmly understanding the pic belongs to Moreau. Her Seraphine is a creature at once pitiable and divine, a natural talent so devoted to expression that all else is meaningless.
Vet Tukur convinces as an aesthete thrilled to be in the presence of greatness but smart enough to know he'll never understand her muse.
Tech package is sumptuous but still manages to sell the squalor. Artist is more familiarly known as Seraphine de Senlis.


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Bella Vista
Oshkosh, WI
Aug 10, 2020
Job Description
Supervises the overall day to day operation of the property to ensure the highest quality operation in accordance with Senior Lifestyle Corporation standard and resident satisfaction. This position is responsible to supervise all property staff and reports to Senior Lifestyle Corporation's Regional Director of Operations.
Essential Functions:
On-site executive for all operations, acting as a contact for all staff, residents, prospects, community organizations, government agencies, and the public.
Manages budget and cash flow, maintain budget accountability, aggressively anticipates and minimizes negative budget variances and deficits.
Hires, trains, disciplines and terminates managerial employees in accordance with Senior Lifestyle Corporation human resources policy
Maintains all local, state, and federal licenses.
Maintains superior training for staff, ensuring that training programs are effectively executed.
Creates an environment for pride and quality among all staff, encouraging them to their highest potential.
Ensures that buildings, grounds, and property are maintained at the highest standard of excellence through preventative maintenance systems and programs.
Maintains resident retention by working with residents and their families, dealing with any issues that arise.
Leads to staff meetings.
Keeps up-to-date with information about competitors.
Become an intricate part of the community in social and civic affairs by representing the property in local, state, and professional organizations.
Participates in the Manager On Duty program
Attends all required training, in-service, and staff meetings.
Strives to maintain a safe working environment through the prevention of accidents, the preservation of equipment, and the achievement of safe working practices.
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Adheres to all policies and procedures of Senior Lifestyle Corporation.
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A Bachelor's Degree from a four-year college or university; or one to two years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Training or experience in gerontology and/or hospitality is valuable.
A clean driving record with no more than one violation and/or accident within the past 5 years is required for this position.
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