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FARGO, ND -- Thanksgiving may just be a few days away, but Fargo-Moorhead is already celebrating the Christmas season. The Xcel Energy Holiday Lights Parade brought many people out in the cold to get in…
The new director of Fargo Parks is looking at establishing its own police department to better keep parks in the city safe.
Although, referring to this as a police department can be a little bit misleading.
It will be considered a department but it's really more of a safety official position.
The position would be filled by a single officer who would take on a liaison role, working with Fargo Police Department to identify problem areas and focus on improving the safety in those parks.
"We could have taken a completely different approach, kind of erased any potential controversy but I'd rather really approach it for the best way we can handle this as a district," says Parks Director Joel Vettel.
Vettel says when looking to create a park safety official, the Parks Department was advised to meet the needs of the position and establish a police department.
He says this option will better allow the officer in charge to accomplish the job of keeping the parks safe.
"Once we started looking at the details it really made perfect sense for our needs," says Vettel.
As for the Fargo Police Department, Vettel says they will still operate normally but park related issues will be assisted by the new Parks Department officer.
With recent crime in Fargo, certain parents are optimistic this new position will help make the parks safer for everyone.
Bethany Johnson and her kids frequent the local parks for recreation and exercise.
"I have five boys ages eleven, eight, six, three and one and we do come often because they're boys and they like to be outside," says Johnson.
She says recent crime in the area has put her on edge at times while visiting parks.
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On some groups related to arc-colored digraphs
Document typeConference lecture
Date issued1988
PublisherMediterranean press
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An arc-coloring of a digraph G is an assignation of colors to its arcs in such a way that all arcs incident to each vertex, as well as all arcs incident from each vertex, have different colors. In an arc-colored d-regular digraph, each color can be associated to a permutation of the vertices of the digraph. In this paper we show the relation between the permutation group generated by these permutations and the groups of those automorphisms of the arccolored digraph which preserve or exchange colors.
CitationSerra, O.; Fiol, M. A. On some groups related to arc-colored digraphs. A: International Conference on Incidence Geometries and Combinatorial Structures. "Combinatorics '88". Ravello: Mediterranean press, 1988, p. 413-420.
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When Richard Sylvester asserts as the title of a book he wrote 'I hope You Die Soon' he is not exhorting you to commit suicide. The 'You' he hopes will die soon is the small 'you', your ego seemingly bounded in space and time. It is born and dies, believes a story about itself including, for most, a specific gender.
Others, of course, hold different opinions about little 'you', based upon the opinions formed as a result their own egos.
When the certainty of your ego falls away you are left with a sense of unbounded knowing and not-knowing apparently occurring locally, surrendering itself in the people and objects that seem to manifest before you.
Richard puts it thus:
"When the sensation that I am in control of my life and must make it happen ends, then life is simply lived and relaxation takes place. There is a sense of ease with whatever is the case and an end to grasping for what might be."
Few of us appearing as within our materialistic world think much about such a death; two hundred years ago each of us would have known siblings, if not a parent, who had physically died when we were children. Death was much more commonplace back then.
Today, dwelling upon death – particularly suicide seems the province of the insane, yet it's simply the opposite side of what we call life. An analogy is to think of the moon. Most of us only get to see the hemisphere that faces us, yet we intuit it has another side even if we think little of it. I doubt if any of us seriously think that we live there, even in our imagination.
For some the prospect of death holds out the promise of release from the pressures of contemporary life. It may also be an escape from pain and, in the context of suicide, an ultimate act of self determination.
A number of noteworthy people have chosen to take their own lives, and arguably were of sound mind when they did so.
Donald Vaughan Sinclair (1911 – 1995), the model for Sigfreid Farnon in the books written under the pen-name James Herriott by James Alfred "Alf" Wight, OBE, FRCVS (3 October 1916 – 23 February 1995), ended his life by taking an overdose of barbiturates. His wife had died just two weeks earlier and his friend and partner Alfred Wright just a few weeks prior to her death. His brother, Wallace Brian Vaughan Sinclair (27 September 1915 – 13 December 1988), the model for Tristan Farnon in the Herriot books predeceasing him by a few years.
Arthur Koestler, CBE (1905 – 1983), a Hungarian-British author and journalist. Koestler was an energetic intellectual, a talented writer, and above all a survivor. His works include: 'The Sleepwalkers', (1959) in which he argued that modern science is trying too hard to be rational, and that faith and reason may co-exist; 'The Act of Creation', (1964) a book about processes of discovery, invention, imagination and creativity in humour, science, and the arts; and my particular favourite: 'The Ghost in the Machine, (1967) an early treatise on System Theory as related to neurology.
Hunter Stockton Thompson (1937 – 2005), the American journalist and author, died at Owl Farm, his "fortified compound" in Woody Creek, Colorado, at 5:42 p.m. on February 20, 2005, from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
Nathan Gill (1960 – 2014) was one of the pioneers in a western movement that has come to be known as Neo-Advaida. He wrote a series of books on the nature of consciousness whilst continuing to work as a gardener. These gentle books still mischievously play in a reader's topiary of awareness. They are titled: Clarity, Already Awake, and Being: The Bottom Line.
He claimed: 'As Consciousness You are already awake and aware. . . . ; it's simply that this is veiled by appearances, the story of 'me' as an individual.'
Not all suicides may be justified as a kind of sanity.
Robin Williams (1951 – 2014), the actor, had been suffering from severe depression, as well as dementia associated with Parkinson's disease.
Terence Donovan (1936 – 1996), a photographer was referred to with Duffy and Bailey, nicknamed by another photographer Norman Parkinson, in the Sunday Times, as one of the 'Black Trinity', of innovative, if irreverent London photographers from the 1960s. Donovan was a black belt in judo and co-wrote a popular judo book, Fighting Judo, with former World Judo Gold medallist Katsuhiko Kashiwazaki. He was also a Buddhist. He took his own life in a state of depression; some say as the result of the side-effects of the powerful medication he was taking to combat a skin condition.
How do we separate sane from unsound suicide, especially in the context of non-duality?
When I was seventeen I was recruited into the Mental Health Department of the County in which I was raised.
As a Welfare Assistant I rapidly learned of the ways in which people suffer, both in youth and old age. To help me assist them it was arranged that I would attend some third year lectures in psychiatry offered to student nurses at the local psychiatric hospital, which in the days before 'Care in the Community' was the home of around six hundred souls, many of whom had lived most of their lives there.
These talks were both informative and unnerving. At the conclusion to each of them I became convinced that I suffered with Schizophrenia, Manic Depressive Psychosis, Psychopathy, or whatever the day's topic under discussion.
Like many before me, I came to the conclusion that my symptoms came within a 'normal' scale of disturbance, whilst those of patients suffering mental illness were simply 'special cases' that occurred under specific physical, (including biological predisposition), and social conditions.
One specific condition we studied is known as disassociation, describes a wide array of experiences from mild detachment from immediate surroundings to more severe detachment from physical and emotional experience. Sometimes disassociation can include: a sense that self or the world is unreal (depersonalization and derealization); a loss of memory (amnesia); forgetting identity or assuming a new self (fugue); and fragmentation of identity or self into separate streams of consciousness.
Disassociation is quite different from the experience of those living through the lens of non-duality, or rather the lack of any lens at all. For the non-dualist the world is not only real, but imbued with a sacred intensity. The body and the mind are no less part of this munificence; it's simply that we don't accord them importance above any other feature of consciousness.
Examples of work made by patients in the Art Therapy Department were shown to me, at the hospital. Many seemed remarkably well executed, and although sometimes bizarre and disturbing, most seemed in sympathy with the prevailing art of the day that command today astronomical prices.
We must be cautious when examining the lives of artists. The really good ones reveal to us the deeper facets of what it means to live with intensity. However, the likes of Van Gough, Gauguin, or even Rothko, amongst us must be seen to manage the daily aspects of living, lest they be thought crazy and incarcerated for 'treatment'.
I survived for less than two years as a Welfare Assistant without getting myself hospitalized. Late in my second year of employment I was promoted to being a Mental Welfare Officer, with statutory powers at my disposal to compulsorily admit people to psychiatric hospitals in specific circumstances. These are laid out in The Mental Health Act of 1959.
According to this Act:
An application for admission for observation may be made in respect of a patient on the grounds:
- (a) that he is suffering from mental disorder of a nature or degree which warrants the detention of the patient in a hospital under observation (with or without other medical treatment) for at least a limited period ; and
- (b) that he ought to be so detained in the interests of his own health or safety or with a view to the protection of other persons.
In addition to ensuring a patient, thus committed, got safely to the hospital it was the function of Mental Welfare Officers to represent a lay-person's opinion, so no one got admitted to mental hospital simply because medical practitioners claimed they were mentally ill.
Although we were chosen to be the eyes, ears, and voice of reason in the face of technical psychobabble, I remain unsure to what degree any of felt free to keep sane individuals who were determined to kill themselves for good reason from preservation in hospital. We certainly had no influence once people became patients following admission. They were often subjected to Electro-convulsive Therapy, which marred their intellectual capacity.
The sections of the 1959 Mental Health Act that refer to compulsory hospital admission and treatment are superseded by a new Act in 1983. Amendments in 2007 broadened the range of professionals who may apply for such admissions, once they had received suitable training.
It's been years since, as a professional, I thought about suicide. I stopped practicing psychotherapy in 2006, and speaking personally the most overcast days always seemed preferable to self-imposed oblivion. Too much radiant joy, seemingly within, resonates with dramatic sombre, brooding clouds in the skies above. I attempted to capture something of their quality in the Trees and Sky Exhibition back in 2010, and continue to be excited by dark weather because it seems pregnant with unpredictable possibility.
Suicide and Non-duality?
Rupert Spira, who is also a teacher in non-duality, once wrote a sensitive response to someone who was disturbed by the suicide of Nathan Gill. In it he explains that, "from a materialistic point of view, the body gives rise to the mind and the mind gives rise to consciousness." In this model killing the body does away with the mind and so that is the end of suffering.
There are problems with this conclusion, however, even though it's the way most think in western society. Difficulties arise because research into dying reveals a number of anomalies. People report being visited by dead relatives, and even angels, prior to death. Extant relatives report intuitions at the time close relatives die, even when these occur on other sides of the globe. Sometimes the dead appear in the dreams, as in the case of the man who drowned and appeared in his mother's dream dripping wet, whilst assuring her that he was not suffering. These are not simply old wives tales, or fallacies, they are collaborated by contemporary research carried out by Dr. Robert Fenwick, a British neuroscientist with impeccable credentials.
Rupert Spira, in his response, goes on to explain: 'from a spiritual point of view the body is an appearance in the mind, and the mind is made of pure Consciousness. Therefore, from this point of view, the death of the body is simply a cessation of an appearance in the mind; it is not the end of the mind itself.'
It follows from what Spira writes that in such a model suffering may continue after the death of a body, and that a mind may create a new body, within a new world, in which pain may continue.
The problem with Rupert Spira's answer, even if well intentioned, is that it, ultimately, is rooted in duality. Body and mind are seen as separate, much in the same way that a single cell forms part of the make-up the body of a larger organism, rather than also being seen as an essence which also contains the organism.
To truly unify the life and death dichotomy we need to experience something like the Auguries of Innocence described poetically by William Blake.
'To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.'
It's difficult to describe such an experience in a scientific way, but we can say that Newton's Laws of Motion are accurate within certain contexts, and may be regarded as examples of predictable results anticipated by of Einstein's Theories of Relativity under specific conditions. Within Einsten's Special Theory of Relativity, however, Space-Time is a unified concept, although, when described in Newton's Law of Motion it appears as if Space and Time are discrete, separate, phenomena.
I think we may also claim that bodies, and the worlds they inhabit, may be considered as specific examples of mind precipitated into an apparent local awareness, with its concomitant objects, as a result of a self-reflexive process. The objects that we see, hear, feel, taste, and smell, and which are seen to travel through and decay in time, are no more than specific examples of life's possibilities.
To claim, for them, substance greater than what remains unmanifested in our perception of space-time, is a misunderstanding. Whatever is missing from the manifestation before you is simply the other side of the moon; the limitless sacrificing to awareness a background, so that what appears seems like a universe composed of separate objects, including thoughts, and other bifurcations.
In other words, unmanifest is there simultaneously with the possibility that becomes an object as a perception within Mind. Without unmanifest there is no manifest. All, ultimately, are limitless, timeless, boundlessness.
The apparent you, living within your world as a personal entity is a shadow without substance; your movement, including thoughts and feelings, are specific instances of timeless, limitless, boundlessness, expression.
Does this mean, then, that all instances of suicide are both unavoidable and acceptable?
In my view the answer to this is an emphatic 'no'! Whilst each of us expresses the timeless, limitless, boundlessness, in specific ways – a common way is to understand ourselves as separate from that clarity which perceives and knows our true identity.
Ralph Steadman, a long, close, friend of Hunter S. Thompson sums up the quality of his expression:
"… He told me 25 years ago that he would feel real trapped if he didn't know that he could commit suicide at any moment. I don't know if that is brave or stupid or what, but it was inevitable. I think that the truth of what rings through all his writing is that he meant what he said. If that is entertainment to you, well, that's OK. If you think that it enlightened you, well, that's even better. If you wonder if he's gone to Heaven or Hell, rest assured he will check out them both, find out which one Richard Milhous Nixon went to — and go there. He could never stand being bored. But there must be Football too — and Peacocks …"
Thompson lived his life on the edge of death and, in doing so, probably experienced and knew more of what it means to 'suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune' than most. He experimented with drugs, and alcohol. Ultimately, he experimented with death as if it were the next logical step in the story of his life.
Steadman, and Thompson had designed the cannon that would shoot his ashes into the heavens at Woody Creek some time before his suicide. He once remarked: "I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."
Hari Kunzru wrote, of Thompson whilst reviewing his novel 'The Rum Diary', that, "the true voice of Thompson is revealed to be that of American moralist … one who often makes himself ugly to expose the ugliness he sees around him."
He died as he lived, a martyr to his cause.
George Mikes, in 'Arthur Koestler: The Story of a Friendship', wrote that Koestler more than once said 'that he was not afraid of being dead but was afraid of the process of dying. He did not wish to suffer the indignity of losing control over his body or mind. His suicide was not unexpected among close friends.' Shortly before his suicide, his doctor had discovered a swelling in the groin which indicated a metastasis of the cancer.
It seems, then, that Koestler chose to manage the form of the death of his physical body, and that somehow he had premonitions that he may have to face such a decision.
Koestler was someone of considerable intellectual prowess, who possessed considerable survival skill. He recognised, in his concept of 'a holon', what Blake had articulated in the Auguries of Innocence. No doubt he experienced his death as an expression of the survival of something essential to what had been his life.
Donald Vaughan Sinclair spent his life relieving animals of their suffering, either by helping them to heal or, where this became impossible, by killing them with an overdose of anaesthetic.
It was by this method that he chose to end his own life when those closest to him had all ceased to live. No doubt, he felt that it had been a good party but with the departure of the last guest it had come to an end.
All three of these men chose to die in the spirit that they had lived.
The same conclusion must be made for Nathan Gill, who saw clearly that his true identity was timeless, limitless, and boundless. As his body fell away he cooperated with the process drawing what had been his earthly identity back into the light of consciousness from which it had emerged.
Depression is a completely different way of being than that experienced by those preparing for sane suicide. It can only exist when experiencing separation, and in which both the world and the body are felt as unbearable burdens. Suicide, in this context, is never the end of the party or a celebration of life, but an attempt to escape living and, as Rupert Spira intuits, must ultimately be doomed to failure.
Psychosis also has its roots in separation. Those suffering delusions, and hallucinations, by definition feel themselves to be separated from any sense of completeness. They believe themselves to be 'evil', or 'sent by a divinity'. Some hear disembodied feelings, or experience unexplained bodily sensations.
Depression and psychosis are expressions of timeless, limitless, boundlessness, but they do not occur in isolation from those witnessing them. They arise in the lives of therapists, welfare officers, nurses, and others, as well as those suffering directly. Working with such symptoms gives many a raison d'être, and may ultimately liberate therapist and patient alike.
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"A miniature horse used by a blind student in the United States is thought to be the first 'guide pony' to attend university," The Daily Telegraph reports. "Cali is the first guide animal for Mona Ramouni, a devout Muslim whose parents - Jordanian immigrants - would not accept a dog into their house. Ramouni, a 30-year-old blind student at Michigan State University, uses Cali, one of a handful of miniature horses in the United States known to be used as guide animals. … While there was some initial concern about whether Cali would make a mess or be a distraction, the tiny brown horse with a shiny black mane is surprisingly tidy and even gets along with the guide dog of one of Ramouni's classmates." A miniature horse is about the size of a large dog but is much stockier and can help support people with mobility issues.
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100-minute film (full movie) directed by Askar Uzabaev.
The original audio of Zhol/Put Boksera has dialogues in or Kazakh, it was produced in Kazakhstan.
It premiered in cinemas or television in 2014.
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Report of Operations 2007-08 - Prevention Services
'Prevention' services describe the measures taken in advance of an emergency aimed at decreasing or eliminating its impact on the community and the environment. Effective prevention activities reduce the requirement to respond to, and recover from, emergency events. CFA's Community Safety staff have provided support, advice and advocacy within the Authority and to external stakeholders on all matters relating to fire prevention and management in the country area of Victoria, including:


text: Yea, he is a real jerk and wants more than he paid for so I may need to take him to court to get the rest of my money. Anyway, Im gathering my receipts to total my investment and I was wondering if a judge would discount my markup on my plants and materials. For example, I purchased boxwoods at my cost of $884.00 and I charged the customer $1,148. When I present my reciept of $884, what should I expect to be compensated for? Or should I not present the receipts and only present my invoice? Hopefully this guy will smell the coffee and settle before I sue his butt. Never had to sue yet in 11 years


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Latest data from the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) economic survey indicate that the UK recession is still very serious and that unemployment can be expected to grow rapidly in 2009 and 2010.
Manufacturing has shown a "worrying deterioration" with exports reaching a 10-year low. There was some slightly better news in that the pace of decline in services appears to be slowing.
David Kern, Chief Economist at the BCC, said that he expected GDP to decline by 3% in 2009 and that all indicators point to further increases in unemployment, with a peak of 3.2m in the third quarter of 2010.
Call for action
Commenting, Director General of the BCC, David Frost, said:
"The Budget is an opportunity for the government to show business that it is doing everything possible to support them.
"It will be business that drives the UK out of recession and for this reason it is vital that they have the freedom to create jobs and wealth.
"Although it is encouraging to see improvement in the service sector, there is more pain to come in this downturn. Manufacturing is still being hammered and exporters see little light at the end of the tunnel. Limiting the damage to our manufacturing base must be a national priority."
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Oslo, Norway (PressExposure) October 03, 2007 -- With the emergence of Tanzanian musician, Ras Nas aka Nasibu Mwanukuzi ([http://www.rasnas.kongoi.com]), on the East African music scene, there is no doubt that the regionâs musical terrain will never be the same. His long awaited CD âDar-Es-Salaamâ due to be released on 3rd November this year, is a follow-up to the debut âCut You Looseâ. The new CD reflects a remarkable and qualitative change in Ras Nasâ music. While âCut You Looseâ was mostly experimental, with âDar-Es-Salaamâ, Ras Nas appears to reach maturity and achieve a distinct identity both as studio and concert artist.
With his mix of reggae, soukous and dub poetry, Ras Nas stands out as a pioneer of a new music style; a style which is yet to be defined. His lyrics are both conscious and entertaining. Ras Nas writes, recites and sings in English and Swahili, the latter being the lingua franca of Africa. In other words, as an artist of sheer originality, he is laying down footsteps for others to follow. This is fresh and welcome news from a region that has hardly produced an artist of international caliber for the past two decades.
The nine tracks in Dar-Es-Salaam CD are all unique as well as potential hits. The title track âDar-Es-Salaamâ is a song that starts with a cool rhumba ballad and shifts to a hot and irresistible seben. It is a revisit to the classic sounds of East and Central Africa but wrapped in the contemporary feel and tempo. On the dance floor the song has proven to be captivating both to the old and the young. The song is a tribute to the city of Dar-Es-Salaam and its mesmerizing beauty. It is in this city that Ras Nas molded his interest in music and poetry in a young age. Other songs include Guantanamo, Zakina, Revelation Times, Dance Rhumba, Aisha, Sina Makosa (a faster version of the mighty Simba wa Nyika), Sweet Rhythms and River Nile (reggae dub poetry).
Reviewing Ras Nasâ live radio concert, spring 2007, veteran music journalist with the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, NRK, Arne Berg, put it in this way; âIt was a memorable experience. From heavy dub poetry to exhilarating soukous â rarely has the public in Studio 19 shaken their bodies so thoroughly and seldom have we experienced such a sweaty, happy and smiling audience going home after a show!â
In Dar-Es-Salaam CD, Ras Nas has worked with a number of highly talented artists from nine different countries, a total of 24 of them, among them two renowned artists from Dar-Es-Salaam, bassist Keppy Kiombile and guitarist Norman Bikaka (lead guitar).
Ras Nasâ debut concert was in 1992 in Oslo at the celebration to mark the 99th Anniversary of His Imperial Majesty Selassie I. In the Zodiac sign, this was an event in itself. Since then, Ras Nas has performed for Nelson Mandela, shared the stage with Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, and Lou Reed at the Norwegian Wood Festival and played in a number of festivals.
All in all, 2007 finds Ras Nas in a high gear. In spring, Ras Nas was Artist of the Week at the Norwegian state radio after spending most of autumn/winter in studio, working on âDar-Es-Salaamâ. In August, Ras Nas played at Oslo Mela Festival and in November he is one of the artists at this yearâs Oslo World Music Festival.
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Are We Entering the 'Twilight Era' of Petroleum?
"we are just about to enter the Twilight Era of Petroleum, a time of chronic energy shortages and economic stagnation as well as recurring crisis and conflict....The culture and lifestyles we associate with the heyday of the Petroleum Agelarge, gas-guzzling cars and SUVs, low-density suburban sprawl, strip malls and mega-malls, cross-country driving vacations, and so onwill give way to more constrained patterns of living based on a tight gasoline diet. While Americans will still consume the lion's share of global petroleum stocks on a daily basis, we will have to compete far more vigorously with consumers from other countries, including China and India, for access to an ever-diminishing pool of supply.
"[...]Just how seriously American policymakers view these various energy-related developments is further revealed in another recent event: the first high-profile "war game" featuring an overseas oil crisis. Known as "Oil Shockwave...[the simulation] identified a set of conditions that provide a vivid preview of what we can expect during the Twilight Era of Petroleum:
- Global oil prices exceeding $150 per barrel
- Gasoline prices of $5.00 or more per gallon
- A spike in the consumer price index of more than 12 percent
- A protracted recession
- A decline of over 25 percent in the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index
- A crisis with China over Taiwan
- Increased friction with Saudi Arabia over U.S. policy toward Israel
"Whether we experience these precise conditions cannot be foreseen at this time, but it is incontestable that a slowdown in the global production of petroleum will produce increasingly severe developments of this sort and, in a far tenser, more desperate world, almost certainly threaten resource wars of all sorts; nor will this be a temporary situation from which we can hope to recover quickly. It will be a semi-permanent state of affairs."
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|Kathy Mitchell
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Poetry Readings
Poetry readings begin at 8 p.m., and are free and open to the public. Featured readings are followed by an intermission and then an "open mic" opportunity for local poets to read one of their original poems. For more information, visit carriagehousepoetryseries.blogspot.com.
February 21 – Amanda Berry & Tony Gruenewald
March 5 – Book Launch and Reception for Whatever Happens
March 21 – Donna Baier Stein & David Crews
April 18 – John Amen & Hank Kalet
May 16 – Katherine Soniat
June 17 – Book Launch and Reception for The Only Proof by Nancy Lubarsky
June 20 – Mary-Jane Grandinetti & Deborah Gerrish
July 18 – Laura Boss & Jim Gwyn
August – Summer Hiatus, No Reading
September 19 – Karen Lee Ramos and Daniel Ramos (At age 10, Daniel is the youngest poet to ever read in the Carriage House Series!)
October 17 – Poets' Apocalypse
November 21 – Donna Beaver
December – Winter Hiatus, No Reading
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April 8 – Bobby Belfry and Sarah Donner
May 13 – Jazz with Ethan Wollman Trio and Joe Traina
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Saint Croix Island International Historic Site was established as a national monument on June 8, 1949. The site received its current designation on September 25, 1984.
The management of Saint Croix Island International Historic Site is driven by its mission, which was spelled out in the 1998 General Management Plan:
The National Park Service preserves Saint Croix Island IHS as a monument to the beginning of the United States and Canada. It was here that Pierre Dugua Sieur de Mons with his company of 78 men established a French settlement in 1604-05. In cooperation with Parks Canada, the National Park Service educates the public about that heroic effort, its context, and its consequences.
This section of the website will refer you to many of the documents that help the National Park Service accomplish that mission for inspiration of this and future generations.


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I received this book for free from Publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Never Been Kissed by Molly O'Keefe
Series: The Boys of Bishop #2
Published by Bantam on July 1, 2014
Genres: Contemporary Romance
Pages: 384
Format: eARC
Source: Publisher
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As the daughter of a wealthy politician, Ashley Montgomery has had enough of her parents' expectations for her future and is going her own way, volunteering to work at a refugee camp in Africa. But her act of charity turns dangerous when she takes a boat trip and is abducted by Somali pirates. Enter Brody Baxter, who was a bodyguard for the Montgomery family ten years ago and doesn't think twice about coming to Ashley's rescue. Handsome and tough, Brody has always done what needed to be done. So he swoops in, saves Ashley, and brings her to a place where she can rest and recuperate without the glare of the press and her demanding family: Brody's small hometown of Bishop, Arkansas. But Ashley soon realizes that she's not the only one in need of healing.
Holed up with Ashley in a tiny apartment over his brother's bar in Bishop, Brody is tempted and torn in ways he never anticipated. Beautiful Ashley, vibrant despite her ordeal, fearless enough to love him beyond his wall of self-punishment, is now determined to save him. But with a little faith and a lot of love, they just may find happiness in each others' arms.
Molly O'Keefe is an auto-read for me. I know her stories will always have something "more" and this book is no exception.
Quick summary
Brody Baxter is a professional bodyguard and was on an assignment when he's contacted by Harrison Montgomery to rescue his sister, Ashley, who's been abducted by Somali pirates. Brody has a history with the family (especially Ashley) and doesn't hesitate. The abduction wasn't pretty and neither was the rescue so when Ashley needs a respite from her high profile family and the world, Brody takes her to his hometown of Bishop, Arkansas to recuperate.
The issues
Ashley's not the only one with family issues. Brody has a fractured relationship with his father and rarely comes back home. His brother, Sean, works hard at trying to be the peacemaker and maintain a relationship with Brody, who he admires and adores but it isn't easy. Brody has some deep rooted issues he's struggling with, one of them being his feelings for Ashley. As for her, she's been in love with him since he first worked for her family.
What I loved, loved, loved
There are so many layers to the story and the characters! There are family dynamics – Ashley's with hers, Brody's with his and Brody's with the Montgomerys – that complicate Brody's ability to accept what Ashley wants to offer. His path to personal freedom was tough, maddening at times, but also incredibly interesting and honest. Each character, including Sean and father Ed, becomes three dimensional through Brody's exploration, giving the story texture and flavor. All of this just makes the relationship that develops between Brody and Ashley much more endearing. She fights hard for him, a reflection of her character and what she brings to the story.
Sean's romance with Cora, a diner owner who at first was a bit prickly with him, is an added bonus. Theirs is an unlikely relationship that is pretty special. I'll leave the details to be discovered as I did.
The bottom line
The writing is just superb! The characters are well crafted and the story complex. Don't let the cover mislead you in thinking this is just another typical romance. It's a contemporary novel of substance that happens to include romance. You'll want to take the time to read this one when you can pause and reflect. O'Keefe never makes it easy and I for one think that's a wonderful thing.
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Who Is Jeff Snyder?
I'm Jeff Snyder, a recruiter, coach, husband, father, entrepreneur, great friend and risk taker. I started playing ice hockey at age 43 and have since skated over 300 hockey games since then.
In my life, I've had to work harder than most people to overcome significant adversity. I know how to set and achieve goals that most people have never had to address. Why so many different pictures shown below? Each photo represents a significant point or event in my life that has surrounded one of the adversity challenges I've had to overcome.
I believe in connecting one's words to their actions in order to build deep, meaningful, trusting relationships. It is my mission to help my clients learn how to connect their natural giftedness with the work they do so they can deliver the best version of themselves in all facets of their lives.
My Futuristic (Visionary) and Strategic strengths help me come up with solutions to problems many people don't even know exist. The Maximizer (one of my top strengths) in me drives everything I do. That means that if you choose to hang out with me, we're going to take Good to Great in your life and we're going to strive for excellence so you can experience the results my current and previous clients have already experienced.
My clients benefit from tapping into my 27+ years of recruiting background and the fact that I've worked hard to align the work I do with my unique personal strengths. I help my clients to do this in their own lives. The work I've done to survey your customer in the business strategically helps me to guide my clients to solutions that work and are proven worldwide to deliver results.
Jeff Snyder's Professional, Educational and Certification Background
Education and experience
I completed a BA in Marketing from the University of Kentucky. Since 1990, as a technology and executive recruiter, I have placed and enhanced the careers of Information Technology, Information Security, Corporate Security, Risk Management, IT Audit, Compliance and Privacy professionals around the globe through SecurityRecruiter.com. This work includes work at the CEO, CIO, CISO, CSO, CTO levels and more.
Significantly Connected
My network is one of largest LinkedIn networks in the world with nearly 30,000 direct connections. I write most weekdays in the Security Recruiter Blog and the Jeff Snyder Coaching Blog.
Coaching Story and Credentials
Around 2997, clients and job candidates challenged me to provide coaching services. I listened and responded by doing research with the business to find out what the business wants, needs and expects from technology and security professionals. I learned about the gaps that commonly exist between technology professionals and what the business really wants, need and expects.
My next step was to acquire training and certifications focused on coaching. I then created Resume Coaching, LinkedIn Coaching and Personal Branding Coaching Coaching services to assist my clients with their Personal Branding and Marketing.
At an even more strategic level, I provide Career Coaching, Career Transition Coaching, Strengths Coaching, Executive Coaching, Leadership Coaching, Emotional Intelligence Coaching and Behavioral Change Coaching Services services backed up by world-class training and certification from The Marshall Goldsmith Group, Executive Coaching University and Multi-Health Systems, Inc.
Everything I have assembled in the realm of coaching has been assembled in response to what the business told me it wants, needs and expects in order for technology and security professionals to advance and to move forward.
How Jeff Snyder Coaching Can Help You
Jeff Snyder is a deeply skilled Resume Writer. He teaches his clients his proprietary Resume Writing Methodology that continues to open interview doors around the globe.
Jeff is a results-backed successful LinkedIn Coach who teaches his clients his LinkedIn Profile Optimization approached focused on helping his clients to drive more talent seeking traffic to their LinkedIn Profiles.
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Jeff has been providing Interview Coaching to his clients and job search candidates since 1990. When you hire Jeff as your Interview Coach, he'll teach you how to deliver a Clean, Clear and Logical interview that matches your Clean, Clear, Logical Resume and your Clean, Clear, Logically built LinkedIn Profile.
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Starting with Strengths Coaching and Emotional Intelligence Coaching, Jeff provides Executive Coaching and Leadership Coaching that helps leaders to understand how to deliver their best performance while building a strategy around issues and behaviors that might have the potential to derail the leader.
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Jeff's clients approach interviews with confidence. They know their superior resume opened the interview door and positioned them ahead of their competitors.
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'Girl Meets Hurricane' - Season 2, Episode 8
After a fun day of shopping for clothes with him, Maya begins to feel closer to Shawn. Just as Shawn starts to consider his role in Maya and Katy's life, Angela turns up out of the blue.
Air Date: June 19, 2015.
Quote from Maya
Angela: I'm married now.
(from outside) Maya: Yay!
Quote from Riley
Riley: Kermit?
Maya: Topanga?
Riley: We're even.
Quote from Shawn
Shawn: I went shopping for girls' clothes and had a good time.
What is happening to me?
Chet Hunter: That's my boy.
Quote from Maya
Shawn: Maya, would it be okay with you if-
Riley: Okay, let it out.
Maya: Yay!
Quote from Maya
Riley: You know, Maya, you can borrow any of my clothes whenever you want.
Maya: Thanks. You can never touch any of this stuff.
Quote from Shawn
Shawn: Katy, I would love to go on a date with you. Thanks for asking.
Katy: You gonna leave me hanging, or what?
Chet Hunter: And finally, trust me. Take a look at the expressions on them two faces.
You know what that is? Hope. Funny thing is, they could use just about exactly as much of it as you can.
Shawn, if that little girl can let her guard down, why can't you?
Chet Hunter: I'll tell you how you're gonna handle it, son. Take a look at that tough little girl's face. Know what she's doing? She's letting her guard down just enough to let you know she cares about you.
So how you gonna handle that? Because you gotta decide right now, what that means to you.
And then, take a look at her screw-ball mother. Do yourself a favor, and notice how she might be wonderful, too.
Quote from Shawn
Shawn: Hey, can I buy you an outfit?
Maya: He's really good at it.
Katy: No. No, you can't buy me anything. We hardly know each other.
Shawn: Oh. You asking me out on a date?
Katy: Yeah.
Shawn: Wait, what? Seriously? Right here, in front of everybody?
Katy: Sure. It'll be real bad for me if you said no.
Riley: Uncle Shawn?
Shawn: Yeah.
Riley: This is like a real important moment in your life.
Shawn: Yeah, I think it is.
Maya: How you gonna handle this, Ace?
Quote from Shawn
Shawn: Have kids, Angela. Put more of you in the world. And then sit in a chair and watch them. Be amazed. We're here to make somebody else happy.
Quote from Angela
Angela: Well, he's calmed down.
Quote from Cory
Cory: Knock knock.
Shawn: Who's there?
Cory: The only person who could change your life from things are going pretty good right now to Argh!
Shawn: The only person who could change my life from things are going pretty good right now to-
Cory: Argh!
Shawn: - who?
Quote from Riley
Riley: It's not me dad, it's you.
Quote from Cory
Cory: Why do they shove cake and we don't shove cake? Riley, is it over between us?
Quote from Angela
Shawn: How long you been married?
Angela: Four years. He's a military man.
Shawn: Why'd you leave me?
Angela: I wasn't ready.
Shawn: And then you were.
Angela: Well, life goes on, Shawn.
You know, I think life puts people in front of us, so we can be prepared for what comes next. I was ready because of you.
Quote from Shawn
Angela: You know, I think about him every day.
Hey, do you still have that thing where, you know, you can feel your dad standing right next to you?
Shawn: I do. He was barely there for me when I was alive. But now that he's gone, I can absolutely depend on him to show up at the most important times of my life.
Quote from Cory
Cory: Awkward.
I now pronounce you awkward.
Quote from Angela
Shawn: Boy, look at you. You're here.
Angela: I need to talk to you.
Shawn: I thought my first girlfriend was gonna be the one to last forever. I wanted Angela-
Katy: Ha! Angela! What kind of name- No, Angela's a fine name. It's my mother's name, actually.
Quote from Shawn
Katy: When Kermit left me-
Shawn: *laughing*
Katy: What?
Shawn: I'm sorry. I just - I didn't - Uh, I never pictured your, uh, ex-husband as a Kermit.
Katy: When Kermit left me-
Shawn: *laughing* I'm not even sorry.
Katy: When he left me-
Shawn: When who left you? Who?
Quote from Cory
Cory: No!
Riley: But my face!
Cory: No!
Riley: But I love you!
Cory: No!
Quote from Auggie
Cory: How's it going in there?
Auggie: It's bad, man. I think she's up to a million dollars.
Quote from Angela
Angela: Hey, can I tell you something right?
Shawn: I wish somebody would.
Angela: (Walks over to the window where Maya's watching) Who's that?
Shawn: That's Maya.
Angela: She has not taken her eyes of you since I walked in.
Shawn: She's somebody I've grown very fond of.
Angela: (knocks on the window) And that's her mother?
Shawn: Katy, yeah. That's her mom.
Angela: Is she the one?
Shawn: What? No.
Angela: Is she the one, Shawn?
Shawn: No. I don't know. What. I don't know her enough to know anything.
Angela: Well, let me tell you what's right. Let what we had make you ready for something.
Life knows what it's doing.
Quote from Shawn
Angela: I really missed you.
Shawn: Yeah? Well, you got a funny way of letting someone know.
Quote from Cory
Cory: Hey, remember in high school when he found your purse?
Remember he got hand-cuffed in the boat house?
That was a good one.
Remember, you and him for a while? Then you went away.
Let me show you what that looked like.
Quote from Cory
Cory: The clothes look nice, Maya, but it's the hope that looks great on you.
Quote from Shawn
Shawn: Hey you. Who's your momma?
Maya: That pretty blonde lady.
Shawn: She does all the heavy lifting. I got to do something fun. So this stuff comes from me and her. Don't ever forget that.
Quote from Maya
Cory: Did you girls do your homework?
Riley: I did excellent work.
Maya: I also did excellent work.
Riley: One of us is completely lying.
Maya: Can you guess who?
Riley: Give them a hint.
Maya: You guys need a hint?
Quote from Angela
Angela: Well, did you hear my dad died?
Shawn: Oh, no. Angela, I'm so sorry.
Angela: Military man, war hero, and he dies fishing.
Shawn: I liked him.
Angela: Oh, he liked you.
Quote from Shawn
Shawn: I travel light. You know, I just need a cup of coffee and a sandwich. Because of that, I've been able to put a little money away.
Cory: How much money?
Shawn: (pointing at all the clothes he just bought Maya) Uh, that much. Right there. And now it's all gone.
Quote from Angela
Angela: Hi.
Shawn: Angela.
Quote from Cory
Cory: Yeah, this might be my favorite day ever.
Quote from Shawn
Shawn: I'm not going to sit in one of these daddy chairs and wait for a kid to spend my money.
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Holdings for the study of British and American literature are extensive, beginning with comprehensive reference works, complete runs of major and secondary periodicals, and circulating copies of works by authors and poets covered in the English Department's graduate curriculum, as well as extensive holdings of other writers beyond those covered in formal instruction.
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The strengths of Special Collections lie primarily in British and American literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Collections of the period 1750 to 1900 were formed around the Michael Sadleir Collection of Nineteenth-Century British Fiction, which numbers today nearly 18,000 volumes and is considered the finest in the world. Women writers of the period are well represented, and American writers who published simultaneously in England--such as Melville--are also found in the collection. Related to the Sadleir Collection is another world-class collection: British and American Children's Books, whose strength lies particularly in the period up to 1840.
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The Reading Room/Library houses the most extensive archive on Asians and Pacific Islanders in the nation. With its holding of over 5,000 books and monographs, 30 Asian Pacific ethnic and regional newspapers, over 300 community and campus newsletters, and 5,000 pamphlets, it serves as a valuable resource for scholars and students seeking information on Asian Pacific Americans. In support of the Asian American Studies research and teaching program at UCLA, the library also develops indexed bibliographies, electronic reference aids, and other valuable reference guides. In collaboration with UCLA's University Research Library, the Center has established special collections that will preserve and provide access to rare, hard-to-find materials donated by members of the Asian Pacific community in Southern California. The Asian American Movement Archive Collection, Japanese American Research Project, the Chinese American Archives, and the Korean American Research Project Archives are examples of the valuable materials donated by and available to the community.
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Each year, the Center sponsors and co-sponsors lectures, seminars, and conferences and hosts visiting professors, post-doctoral scholars, and other visiting researchers. A widely respected journal, Viator, is edited and published annually by CMRS, as is a graduate-student journal, Comitatus. A variety of books and monographs have also been published under the Center's aegis.
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The UCLA Center for Modern and Contemporary Studies promotes humanistic research and provides a forum for scholarship concerned with 19th- and 20th-century society and culture. It sponsors small seminars, mid-size workshops, larger public lectures, conferences and various special events. The Center houses the UC Transnational & Transcolonial Studies Multicampus Research Group, an interdisciplinary community of scholars in the humanities and the social sciences from throughout the University of California system.
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The Center, a member of the UCLA Humanities Consortium, provides a forum for the discussion of central issues in the field of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century studies. It organizes academic programs, bringing together scholars from the area, the nation, and the world, with the goal of encouraging research in the period from 1600 to 1800. It seeks to enlarge the Clark's holdings in this period in order to enhance research opportunities. Its publications program is dedicated to making the results of its conferences known to the larger scholarly public. It provides resident fellowships and scholarships to support research in early modern studies and other areas central to the Clark's collections.
Center for the Study of Women
The UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW) is a nationally recognized center for research on women and gender. Established in 1984, it is the only unit of its kind in the University of California system, and it draws on the energies of 245 faculty from 10 UCLA professional schools and 34 departments. By bringing together scholars with similar interests, CSW has played an important role in the intellectual life of UCLA. Through its conferences, seminars and administration of grants, CSW has enabled feminist scholars to exchange ideas and secure funding. CSW works in conjunction with the UCLA Women's Studies Program to develop curriculum and promote feminist learning among both undergraduate and graduate students. Together, the Center for the Study of Women and the Women's Studies Program constitute an important platform for women's concerns in Southern California. The UCLA Center for the Study of Women contributes to the advancement of women by expanding and sharing knowledge.
Chicano Studies Research Center
The research collection assembled by the Chicano Studies Research Center Library at UCLA is considered among the most important national and international research collections on the Chicano experience. In addition to a definitive collection of Chicano-related research guides and directories, the library holdings consist of monographs; serials; pamphlets and clippings; dissertations and theses; journal articles; as well as maps, films, videotapes, tape recordings, slides, and serveral important archival collections. Of special note are library holdings that include monolingual and bilingual English and Spanish newspapers and journals published throughout the southwestern United States beginning in the late nineteenth century.
Electronic Literature Organization
The Electronic Literature Organization was established in 1999 to promote and facilitate the writing, publishing, and reading of electronic literature. Electronic Literature Organization programs support new forms of literature that utilize the capabilities emerging technologies to advance the state of the art for the benefit of present and future generations of readers. Since its formation, the Electronic Literature Organization has taken great strides in creating programs designed to assist writers and publishers in bringing their literary works to a wider, global readership and also to provide them with the infrastructure necessary to reach one another. The Electronic Literature Directory is a unique and valuable resource for readers and writers of digital texts. It provides an extensive database of listings for electronic works, their authors, and their publishers. The descriptive entries cover poetry, fiction, drama, and nonfiction that makes significant use of electronic techniques or enhancements.
Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies
The UCLA Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies Library and Media Center was established in 1969 to provide specialized reference and information services on the experiences of people of African descent. The most notable holdings in the library include: the sixteen-volume Black Women in the United States History collection, The Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, selected volumes of The Schomburg Library Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers sixteen-volume bibliography, Crisis magazine (1916-present), the sixty-volume UCLA Oral History Program collection, the Journal of Negro History (1916-present), and the Bibliographic Guide to Black Studies (1975-present). The library also has an extensive vertical file based on the Lexicon of African American Subject Headings, audiocassette tapes of campus and regional lectures, special web-based Bunche Center library-generated pathfinders and bibliographies, and the only regional print collection of major national African American newspapers.
Hammer Poetry Series
Organized and hosted by Stephen Yenser, poet and professor at UCLA, this series brings nationally and internationally renowned poets to the Museum for readings from their own work.
Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts
The UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts is one of the finest university collections of graphic arts in the country. The Grunwald Center's holdings consist of over 35,000 works of art on paper including prints, drawings, photographs, and artists' books from the Renaissance to the present. Among the artists represented are Albrecht Dürer, Ishikawa Toyonobu, George Cruikshank, Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, Barbara Morgan, Jasper Johns, June Wayne, and Carlos Almaraz. A primary resource for teaching and research, the Grunwald Center serves UCLA students, faculty, and the public and is available for scholarly study by appointment; call 310.443.7078.
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
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J. Paul Getty Center
The Research Library's Special Collections houses rare and unique materials, supported by the secondary resources of the library, that enable scholars and other advanced researchers to conduct primary research in all fields relevant to the visual arts. Its holdings range in date from the late 14th century to the present. Its geographic coverage, while strongest in Western European materials, includes significant holdings in Central and Eastern Europe, with selective strengths in North and Latin America, particularly of the 20th century. Special Collections contains rare books and archival materials as well as rare photographs, prints and drawings for the study of the visual arts and culture. Included are artists' journals and sketchbooks, albums, architectural drawings, art and architectural treatises, early guidebooks, emblem books, festival books, prints, and drawings.


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"From Everyday Food. You can leave out the almonds and dried apricots, or substitute other types of nuts and dried fruit, such as cashews or peanuts and mango or pineapple. I haven't tried it yet, but I think scallions would be nice to stand in for the sweet onion, and I would probably add some fresh cilantro."
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- 2 (6 -8 ounce) salmon fillets, skinless
- coarse salt
- ground pepper
- 1⁄4 cup rice vinegar
- 3 tablespoons toasted sesame oil
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 1⁄2 head napa cabbage, shredded, about 4 cups
- 1 head red cabbage, shredded, about 4 cups
- 2 large carrots, shredded
- 1⁄4 cup sweet onion, finely chopped
- 1⁄2 cup toasted almond, sliced or chopped
- 1⁄2 cup dried apricot, coarsely chopped
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Well, it's that time once again. Time for the big summer movies; the big summer blockbusters in theaters and the big summer DVDs in the mail.
What's that? You've never heard of the big summer DVD releases?
That's because there are none. Distributors want you to leave your house and spend more time in the theaters. So the summer DVD releases are a bunch of crap.
The following five movies are the best I could do with the slim pickings that were offered.
But first a short poem
We've got Espionage, History,
Sci-fi and Mystery.
One movie gives Batman a son.
We've got Kristen Bell, Clooney,
Damon, Costner.
But screw me,
If you're looking for good films.
There's ONE.
To the reviews…
First up… the good
Veronica Mars (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Directed by Rob Thomas
Written by Rob Thomas & Diane Ruggiero
Starring Kristen Bell, Jason Dohring, Krysten Ritter, Ryan Hansen, Francis Capra, Percy Daggs III, Chris Lowell, Tina Majorino & Enrico Colantoni
This is the perfect Veronica Mars movie. Kristen Bell was amazing as the young title character in the TV series and she's even better as the grown up version. All of the usual suspects are back and there are tons of cool cameos from old favorites and a few surprises. I loved this film. It was the perfect Veronica Mars movie.
I fell in love with Veronica Mars quickly when I watched the first episode on Netflix and then I watched all the episodes in one weekend. By the end of the run I was singing the theme song. "A long time ago. we used to be friends…" I'm so happy they made the movie.
I didn't realize how much I missed these people. Especially the exquisitely beautiful slice of honey in the title role. I can't say the things I liked about the movie on the blog without giving away the mysteries and the surprises. It's a mystery… and there are surprises.
Veronica Mars was a young detective in high school (A lot of people died under mysterious circumstances in her hometown). But if you don't know Veronica, go watch the Veronica Mars TV series first. This movie was made for fans of the show. In order to fully enjoy it you have to become a fan… wait several years and then watch this movie. It is awesome.
Everybody sing. "We used to be friends… A long time ago… We used to be friends…"
Rent it (But start at the beginning. The show is really good)
Next up a remake…
RoboCop (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Columbia Pictures)
Directed by José Padilha
Written by Joshua Zetumer Based on Characters by by Edward Neumeier & Michael Miner
Starring Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman, Michael Keaton, Samuel L. Jackson, Abbie Cornish, Jackie Earle Haley & Michael K. Williams
RoboCop is a decent enough remake that pays homage to the first film with dialogue from the original movie sprinkled throughout like little nuggets of nostalgia. The problem comes in when the characters say anything else. Those few lines are the best writing in the film.
The dialogue is crappy. While RoboCop is still a great story, (we knew that going in) and there is some great casting choices with Keaton, Oldman and Jackson, even the scenes that feature these powerhouse actors are flimsy, hokey and mostly unnecessary.
Samuel L. Jackson seems so superfluous, it even looks like his scenes were added in post-production. He's barely part of the story. Like an afterthought.
The writing of this remake left a lot to be desired. As with all of these sci-fi classic reboots, there is the much needed updated special effects and the modernization of the futuristic tech. What we thought was futuristic back in the 80's is laughable today.
But in the end, there was no other reason for an update. The original RoboCop is dated, yes, but it is still a great film. The new RoboCop just can't compete.
Skip it (Move along, citizen. There's nothing to see here. Move along)
Next some old school international espionage…
3 Days to Kill (Relativity Media)
Directed by McG
Written by Luc Besson with Adi Hasak
Starring Kevin Costner, Amber Heard, Hailee Steinfeld & Connie Nielsen
First off, the title is misleading. The movie is billed as some kind of "Taken" scenario except with Kevin Costner instead of Liam Neeson. Spoiler Alert! There is no kidnapping. There is no clock. There is no immediacy. The trailer is a lie.
3 Days to Kill is about an old CIA operative who finds out he is dying of brain cancer and has three months to live. The title, 3 Days to Kill, comes from the fact that he visits his daughter and estranged wife in Paris. He wants to reconnect before he dies. The wife takes off on a business trip. Leaving him with the girl. So… he and his daughter have… three days to kill. But of course some old CIA business interferes and adventure ensues.
It's a good story. The dialogue is awful and the direction is uneven but the story is interesting (Luc Besson has a good mind for action). But the biggest problems with 3 Days to Kill are the poorly written female characters. They are horrible.
I'm done with two-dimensional women in movies. There are three female leads in the movie: The mother, the daughter and his CIA handler. They are badly written and annoying. The mother whines and is oblivious. The daughter whines and is obnoxious while the handler is some sort of sexy psychopath. I don't even know what's going on there. (Amber Heard is awful but she's sexy so I guess that's supposed to be enough).
It's a bad movie but it is still an interesting story, as he tracks down the terrorists and tries to reconnect with his daughter while coughing up blood and hallucinating and passing out at the worst moments (always the worst moments), it is fun to watch. And on the other side, the best things are the minor characters. The secondary characters are very real. Luc Besson puts so much effort into building these rich and dynamic minor characters that it makes the main characters and their flatness even more maddening.
Watch 3 Days to Kill for the colorful characters Kevin Costner comes across in his travels and for Costner's fine performance despite the bad dialogue. But…
Skip It if you're as tired of poorly written women as I am. And I am.
Next up animation…
Son of Batman (Warner Home Video)
Directed by Ethan Spaulding
Written by James Robinson & Joe R. Lansdale Based on Batman and Son by Grant Morrison and Andy Kubert
Starring Jason O'Mara, Stuart Allan, Morena Baccarin, Giancarlo Esposito, Xander Berkeley, Thomas Gibson & David McCallum
The kid is annoying.
There are some good fights and action sequences but everyone flies around like Yoda in Attack of the Clones. It is distracting. In live-action movies that's fine but in cartoons it just makes all the characters seem lighter than air. Like they have no weight. (w/o the force)
The story is kind of cool though. Batman finds out he has a son by Talia al Ghul who has been raised by the League of Assassins and her father Raj. So, Batman has to teach the kid not to kill people as the two try to avenge the boy's granddad's death and save the city.
All I have to say is the kid is annoying.
Skip it.
Now some history…
The Monuments Men (Columbia Pictures, 20th Century Fox)
Directed by George Clooney
Written by George Clooney & Grant Heslov Based on The Monuments Men by Robert M. Edsel
Starring George Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, John Goodman, Jean Dujardin, Bob Balaban, Hugh Bonneville & Cate Blanchett
The Monuments Men has a great cast. It really does. Most of these people couldn't turn in a bad performance if they were trying. And It's also a good story. An important story. A story about saving famous artwork from the nazis. I just didn't like the direction.
The Monuments Men is an epic story that spans several countries and several years but George Clooney has the story spread out so much that it loses its narrative focus.
The Monuments Men plays like a collection of loosely related scenes. And except for the ending, which is pretty cool, it is, literally, all over the place. Not Clooney's best work.
A historically important story, sure. A good story, yes. Great cast, absolutely. But because the characters spend most of their time in different countries. There was too much going on and it doesn't make for a good movie. It is not a good movie.
Skip it. A couple of good scenes, some history and great actors but not a good movie.
and lastly… Vampires that don't sparkle (It is now a requirement that they tell you they don't sparkle. Thanks Meyer)
Vampire Academy (The Weinstein Company)
Directed by Mark Waters
Written by Daniel Waters Based on Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
Starring Zoey Deutch, Lucy Fry, Danila Kozlovsky, Gabriel Byrne, Dominic Sherwood, Olga Kurylenko & Sarah Hyland
Vampire Academy is so very bad… it is almost good. It almost makes it to the other side of bad and back around to enjoyable bad. But the movie spends more time trying to be cute than it needs to. It talks down to its audience so severely that it's annoying.
And Vampire Academy, at its core, is a misguided cross between Twilight and Harry Potter. Vampire Academy may have made a good book but there is just too much explaining. So much back story before anything happens. And they rush through it.
The characters have to speed through pages and pages of exposition and then the writer adds these hokey sitcom jokes on the end of each speech. The guy directed Mean Girls. And I loved Mean Girls. But it was good because it was written by Tina Fey and that's it.
But there are still some fun parts to the movie. Sarah Hyland is a surprise highlight to the story. She plays a nerdy vampire with just enough awkwardness and comic relief to make her likeable. And of course Sarah Hyland is a great comedic actor.
And Gabriel Byrne and Joely Richardson are good. But other than that, there is very little to like about Vampire Academy. The music choices are awkward and mishandled. The acting is awful and, like I said, the dialogue is mostly long explanations and bad jokes.
Yet underneath all the bad I could tell there was a fun story about young vampires at school that was so poorly directed and so badly scripted that anything good from the novel was lost in all the crappy crappiness. I really wanted to hate it enough to like it. I didn't.
Skip it (but honestly it's almost so bad that it's kind of good)
So to recap…
There were two movies about heartless killing machines trying to reconnect with their family, RoboCop and 3 Days to Kill. Both with a few cool action scenes but both with horrible writing and dialogue.
There were two movies about famous detectives having family problems of their own, Son of Batman and Veronica Mars. One of them a fun and exciting romp down memory lane and the other one a new memory I'd like to forget. (the kid is annoying)
And there were two movies about a group of friends trying to preserve and survive their brush with history, The Monuments Men and Vampire Academy. Neither one of them very good but only one of them based on a true story. (I'll let you figure out which one)
And that's five.
Okay that was actually six but Son of Batman was sort of a freebie.
Now if only we could convince them to release some good DVDs for June.
But don't worry, if they don't, I'll dig up something cool, maybe even something foreign.
See you on the couch,
– Mel