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One could argue that students of these subjects have all the financial incentive they need. Popular perception says that they go into gold-plated careers while those in humanities become starving artists, unhappy teachers or McDonald's employees. This view is, of course, wrong.
In fairness, it can't be easy trying to get people excited about politics in the UK, especially when you've got the likes of David Cameron and Nigel Farage ignoring you like you've just crawled out of Downton Abbey's servant's quarters to feed them dinner.
While the broadcasting establishment may think they are being clever calling out Cameron and becoming the story, they are really cooking up even more voter dissatisfaction. Inclusive government, not inclusive TV debates, is the key.
If just one of the main parties had someone who was a bit normal, able to galvanise, able to connect with the man on the street, able to rise above the other weak willed leaders all around them, they'd walk this election. It's just a shame that the only leader who fits that description is in charge of UKIP.
To be British is to be multicultural and accept inclusion within British society. Furthermore, stronger leadership is needed within communities to undermine extremism and promote change and integration into the wider London community.
Hopefully one day we will hit on the one thing which will cause our art to transcend mere folly and become a flighty dove of pure satire. One day I hope to be as great as Al Murray.
On Monday, the Green Party unveiled their new campaign poster in Westminster, boasting a rich, emerald green where the MP of Brighton Pavillion Caroline Lucas and party leader Natalie Bennett stand, both with beaming smiles and the tagline: What are you afraid of boys? - I like it...
Nigel Farage has been seeking to find the Tory baseline on Europe, but with Cameron completely fluid on policy and willing to veer further and further right, Farage has struggled to land a destructive blow in the past couple of months.
Cameron has concluded that the Greens are powerful and relevant enough to potentially split the left. I disagree with Mr. Cameron on almost everything, but on this we agree. The Greens are now a threatening political force. The sneaky rise of the Greens is over. The Greens have risen.
I hear you marched in your thousands against my religion. Last week, and last month. You marched against immigrants, foreigners, and anyone a shade darker. I will not draw comparisons to Nazi Germany. I will not call you bigots, I will not insult you, and I will not label you. But we do have a problem.
The Green Party have a duty to continue to provide for the nation a fresh, fair and radical alternative to the 'business as usual' establishment, just as media chiefs from the BBC, ITV, SKY et al have a duty to promote and encourage a wide, engaging and relevant debate involving those extended the right to vote and elect.
I'm certain that the only factor in the prime minister's mind when he made this announcement was the issue of fairness - not the tactical consideration that the Greens might take votes from the prime minister's rivals, or the fact that incumbents rarely do well in debates, or that he didn't do fantastically in them last time. I also believe that the whole notion of TV debates during one of the most significant elections in years should indeed hinge on the inclusion of a party commanding less than 10% of the vote in nationwide polling.
The Greens have steam coming out of their ears after Ofcom ruled they are not a 'major' party and therefore will not be included in the televised leader's debates in the run up to the general election.
Despite heavy criticism of Ukip and of their leader, Nigel Farage seems to be gaining in both momentum and popularity. So what is it that makes him appealing? To many he may seem repellent in his beliefs and his manner, but others are drawn to him. If you put politics to one side and simply analyse his communication style you can begin to understand why.
Whatever their reasons for supporting the party I cannot believe that every member is the screaming racists that some commentators would paint. I know people like them, I was one of them once, and painting them as 'swivel eyed loons' only pushes them into a corner.
As long as the public continues to accept the assurances of the rich that we have to suffer so that they don't have to, the bitterness created will continue to create divisions between ethnic and religious communities that should be working together to destroy zero hour contracts and ensure proper funding for the NHS.


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John the Baptizer was a man of Joy because he was a man of true humility! Humility is a powerful weapon when wielded by a soldier of love like John. He was a man who understood that life wasn\'t all about him. He emptied himself willingly and was thus able to reveal Jesus to others. He was the \"best man\" at the wedding. His humility opened a space within him for true joy to take root and set him free! John is a sign of contradiction for this age, drunk on self worship and lost in narcissistic self absorption. John points us along the path to true freedom, a lifestyle of self emptying.\" He must increase and I must decrease\". This emptying leads us to ongoing conversion; becoming a new creation. (2 Cor. 5:17) John is a man to be imitated in both life and death.
The choice is ours. Just as it was with John the Baptizer. He shows us the way to give away our freedom in love - and then find it anew in the One who truly sets us free. (John 8:36). The kingdom of heaven is still being taken by force. The force of love. The Lord is seeking men and women in this hour who will take the kingdom by force like John the Baptizer.
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Keywords: John the Baptist, kingdom of God, Taking the Kingdom by force, holiness, living faith, Bible, love, virtue, holiness, humility, Deacon Keith Fournier
CHESAPEAKE, VA (Catholic Online) - A friend recently wrote me asking about a verse in the Gospel of St. Matthew referring to taking the kingdom "by force". The specific text is found in the eleventh chapter:
"Jesus said to the crowds: "Amen, I say to you, among those born of women there has been none greater than John the Baptist; yet the least in the Kingdom of heaven is greater than he. From the days of John the Baptist until now, the Kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent are taking it by force. All the prophets and the law prophesied up to the time of John. And if you are willing to accept it, he is Elijah, the one who is to come. Whoever has ears ought to hear." (Matt. 11:11-15)
The actual phrase is used by Jesus in his affirmation of the character, zeal and ministry of John the Baptizer. My friend asked, "What did Jesus mean?"
The Greek word in the text actually means to take something by force or forcefully.
The "violence" or force which characterized John the Baptizer was not directed against others but against sin, the greatest impediment to progressing in the kingdom or reign of God. He was a man committed to seizing the Kingdom by living a life completely given over to God.
It is that kind of force of love which we are also invited to imitate. We must root sin out of our lives to make room for Jesus Christ. He must increase and we must decrease.
In his reflection on this scripture text, St Josemaria Escriva wrote in Christ is Passing By,
"A Christian can rest completely assured that if he wants to fight, God will take him by the right hand, as we read in today's Mass. It is Jesus the king of peace who says on entering Jerusalem astride a miserable donkey: "The kingdom of heaven has been subjected to violence and the violent are taking it by storm."
This kind of violence is not directed against others. It is a violence used to fight your own weaknesses and miseries, a fortitude which prevents you from camouflaging your own infidelities, a boldness to own up to the faith even when the environment is hostile." (#82)
From the very earliest moments of his life, John the Baptizer showed this kind of fighting spirit, this zeal for the Lord and his kingdom. When Our Lady went to visit her kinswoman Elizabeth she was carrying the Incarnate Word and Elizabeth was carrying John.
The Gospel of Luke tells us: "When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the infant leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit, cried out in a loud voice and said:"Most blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb."
"And how does this happen to me that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For at the moment the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the infant in my womb leaped for joy. Blessed are you who believed that what was spoken to you by the Lord would be fulfilled." And Mary said: "My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord; my spirit rejoices in God my savior." (Luke 1: 41-47)
Living in the first home of the whole human race, his mother's womb, this last Prophet of the Old Testament and First Prophet of the New responded to the arrival of Jesus the Savior with a dance of Joy. St. John the great theologian records in his Gospel where John the Baptizer explained the reason for his joy:
"The one who has the bride is the bridegroom; the best man, who stands and listens for him, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom's voice. So this joy of mine has been made complete. He must increase; I must decrease." (John 1:29 - 30)
John the Baptizer was a man of Joy because he was a man of true humility! Humility is a powerful weapon when wielded by a soldier of love like John.
He was a man who understood that life wasn't all about him. He emptied himself willingly and was thus able to reveal Jesus to others. He was the "best man" at the wedding.
His humility opened a space within him for true joy to take root and set him free! John is a sign of contradiction for this age, drunk on self worship and lost in narcissistic self absorption.
John points us along the path to true freedom, a lifestyle of self emptying." He must increase and I must decrease". This emptying leads us to ongoing conversion; becoming a new creation. (2 Cor. 5:17) John is a man to be imitated in both life and death.
We learn from him to live our lives as joyful penitents; ever aware of our utter dependency on God's grace. It is sin which leads us into slavery and takes away our joy. Only by being freed from its entanglement can we become happy. (See, Romans 6: 6, 7 and Gal. 5:1) John still points to Jesus, in both his birth and his martyr's death.
Two millennia after his illustrious mission as the harbinger of Christ, we readily accept, as we should, his prophetic role in the revelation of God's plan of salvation and the advent of the Gospel. Yet, how might we have seen John if we had been his contemporaries? Would we have so readily accepted him, or might we have rejected him as a fanatic or extremist?
Let's face it: John was peculiar. He dressed like a cave man, ate insects and railed at politicians for their fornication and marital infidelity. He sequestered himself in the desert where he tirelessly initiated converts fleeing the sinful pollution of the cities.
He proclaimed the end if the people failed to repent and he used vivid and mystical imagery. In the popular "media" of the day, he was portrayed as a nut and dangerous fanatic. As our own culture loses its moral compass, many of us are experiencing a similar derision.
By standing apart, boldly calling out evil doers without regard to their prestige or rank, by challenging his own co-religionists, John made himself terribly unpopular. At the end, he publicly and relentlessly criticized the personal behavior of the most powerful politician in Judea, Herod. As a result he was arrested and executed as a traitor.
Today we tend to reject those who similarly publicly decry sin and heresy. Street preachers, prophets and clerics who confront sinful policies, bad behavior and false ideologies are decried as trouble makers, fanatics and dangerous "extremists".
John the Baptizer was a simple man, not a member of the elite. He was stirred by conscience and the Holy Spirit to speak bluntly and throw convention to the wind. He paid dearly for it. As Christians we inherit the abundant fruit of his daring and liberating choices. The way he exercised the great gift of his human freedom instructs us in exercising our own.
The Lord desires our human flourishing and happiness. He also wants us to be truly free. He invites us to choose Him over our own selfish pursuits. In that continual choosing we are freed and made new. In Jesus Christ we have been given all that we need to overcome the obstacles which impede us from this recovery and renewal of freedom.
Because of sin, our freedom was fractured. Through grace given by the splint of the Cross it is healed. We are capacitated to choose what is true, to choose the good. In those choices we become the men and women the Lord wants us to become as we are recreated in Christ.
Notice the language with which we discuss eternal life and heaven in Catholic circles. We speak of receiving the receiving the "beatific vision" when we finally stand in His presence and enter into the fullness of communion. The word "beatitude" actually means happiness! Living in the Lord will make us happy. Not only in the life to come, but beginning right here and now in this life.
Too often we associate repentance with some kind of wrong- headed self hatred. To the contrary, for those who have been schooled in its lessons like John the Baptizer, the way of voluntary penitence and conversion becomes the path to true joy.
Saint John Paul II wrote frequently about human freedom. In one of his letters of instruction on the Christian family he wrote these insightful words:
"History is not simply a fixed progression toward what is better - but rather, an event of freedom. Specifically, it is a struggle between freedoms that are in mutual conflict: a conflict between two loves - the love of God to the point of disregarding self and the love of self to the point of disregarding God." (John Paul II, Christian Family in the Modern World, n. 6)
This conflict between two loves, this "event of freedom", is played out on a daily basis. The recurring questions of Eden echo in our personal histories. How will we exercise our own human freedom? At which tree will we make our choices?
Will it be the tree of disobedience, where the first Adam chose against God's invitation to a communion of love, or the tree on Golgotha's hill where the second Adam, the Son of God, brought heaven to earth when He stretched out His arms to embrace all men and women, bearing the consequences of all their wrong choices and setting them free from the law of sin and death? (Romans 8:2) John the Baptizer was one of the freeset of men because he knew the answer.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches us that :
"Freedom is the power, rooted in reason and will, to act or not to act, to do this or that, and so to perform deliberate actions on one's own responsibility. By free will one shapes one's own life. Human freedom is a force for growth and maturity in truth and goodness; it attains its perfection when directed toward God, our beatitude.
"As long as freedom has not bound itself definitively to its ultimate good which is God, there is the possibility of choosing between good and evil, and thus of growing in perfection or of failing and sinning. This freedom characterizes properly human acts. It is the basis of praise or blame, merit or reproach. The more one does what is good, the freer one becomes. There is no true freedom except in the service of what is good and just. The choice to disobey and do evil is an abuse of freedom and leads to "the slavery of sin." (CCC 1731 - 1733).
The choice is ours. Just as it was with John the Baptizer. He shows us the way to give away our freedom in love - and then find it anew in the One who truly sets us free. (John 8:36). The kingdom of heaven is still being taken by force. The force of love. The Lord is seeking men and women in this hour who will take the kingdom by force like John the Baptizer.
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The "Vatileaks" scandal, in which the pope's private papers are alleged to have been pilfered by his own butler, pales in comparison to the scandals of centuries past when popes were accused of violence, nepotism and sexual excesses.
Pope Benedict has angrily charged that "totally gratuitous" accounts in the media "offer an image of the Holy See which does not correspond to reality."
Archbishop Angelo Becciu, the third-ranking official in the world's smallest state, bemoaned the "distorted image" presented of the Vatican and said the internal debates revealed by the documents were perfectly normal in any organisation.
"We are not mummies," he said with the kind of historical allusion that seems to come naturally in the corridors of the world's oldest continually operating institution.
But the allegations have caused a sensation round the world and defied Vatican attempts to play down their importance.
Italian newspapers have devoted pages and pages to the crisis, often with graphics showing the exact layout of the pope's apartment or a bird's-eye view of Vatican City, although written reports have often been highly speculative in the face of the Holy See's deep secrecy.
Although it is rare, leaking confidential documents is nothing new. Secret papers from the First Vatican Council of 1869-1870, which defined the doctrine of papal infallibility, ended up in German newspapers.
A highly sensitive papal commission report approving artificial birth control was leaked in 1967, a year before Pope Paul VI rejected its findings and issued the encyclical Humanae Vitae upholding an earlier ban on contraception.
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"I was not surprised at all when I heard about it," Frank Coppa, a Church historian at St John's University in New York, said about the "Vatileaks" scandal.
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A remnant of the time when the popes were also temporal rulers over Rome and parts of Italy, the tiny city-state is headquarters for the 1.2-billion-strong Roman Catholic Church, the world's largest. As the Catholic saying goes, "the Church is not a democracy."
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He came from the notorious Borgia family, who have been accused of adultery, rape, incest and murder. Alexander is said to have died from eating a poisoned apple.
Sixtus IV built the Sistine Chapel and the Vatican archives during his 1471-1484 pontificate, but also made six of his nephews cardinals and was involved in a murder plot.
One of the nephews, Julius II, was patron to renowned artists such as Michelangelo and Raphael between 1503 and 1513 and commissioned St Peter's Basilica.
But the budgetary wizardry he used to finance it backfired disastrously. He raised funds by selling indulgences to reduce punishment for sinners, a practice that so shocked Martin Luther that he broke with Rome and launched the Protestant Reformation.
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WhiskyCast is where it all begins. Now in our 9th year, each weekly episode brings you the latest in whisky news, along with the latest events, tasting notes, comments from other listeners, and the weekly "In-Depth" segment features interviews with the people who help make whisky the "water of life".
Canadians take pride in their whisky, but one very special whisky often goes overlooked on store shelves. That's a mistake, though…Alberta Premium was chosen by Jim Murray as his Canadian Whisky of the Year in his 2006 Whisky Bible, and we'll hear from the man who makes it, Master Distiller Jim Rogerson. Also, the recipe for the perfect Mint Julep in time for the Kentucky Derby, honors for two whisky writers and the release of the second edition of Dr. David Wishart's "Whisky Classified", a retirement at The Dalmore, and John Hansell updates us on the spring edition of Malt Advocate magazine.
Links: Alberta Distillers | Whisky Classified | The Dalmore | Woodford Reserve | Malt Advocate
Jeff Topping traveled from Ohio to Scotland to explore his family's heritage, and wound up as the "Wild Scotsman" with his own line of independent bottlings. We'll have his story on this episode, along with Jim Cryle on the special vatting he and fellow retired distiller Ed Dodson put together for this weekend's Spirit of Speyside Festival…a $1000 Kentucky Derby cocktail, and news of layoffs at the Seagram distillery in Indiana…all on this episode of WhiskyCast.
Links: Wild Scotsman | Pernod Ricard | Spirit of Speyside Festival | Highlander Inn | Crown Royal | Woodford Reserve | Bladnoch
There's only one man living who can claim to have managed distilleries in all five of Scotland's whisky-producing regions, and you'll hear his story on this episode of WhiskyCast. Also, Scotland's First Minister weighs in on the dispute over Indian whisky import tariffs, news of a new web site for whisky beginners, Buffalo Trace turns its experiments in bourbon loose on the world, and a gardening tip you'll enjoy…all on this episode of WhiskyCast!
Links: Springbank | Buffalo Trace | World Whiskies Conference | Bladnoch | Wild Scotsman
It's a big weekend in Kentucky, as Maker's Mark celebrates Thoroughbreds & Redheads Weekend. We'll get the details from Master Distiller Dave Pickerell, along with updates on George Dickel and Bulleit whiskies, the events calendar, and the final installment of my interview with whisky writer Jim Murray. In this chapter, Jim talks about maintaining his independence as a journalist, problems with the Whisky Bible web site, and his choice for that one final dram…
Links: Jim Murray's Whisky Bible | Maker's Mark | George Dickel | Bulleit Bourbon | Monk's Cafe | The Macallan | World Whiskies Conference
The biggest WhiskyCast yet! Part two of the Jim Murray interview, along with a roundup of new whiskies from the recent Whisky Live New York. We'll have details of the new Balvenie 17-year-old single malt, new Bunnahabhains, and the first kosher single malt, along with two new amazing blends.
Links: Jim Murray's Whisky Bible | The Balvenie | Bunnahabhain | The Speyside | Duncan Taylor
You may love him…you may hate him…but you've probably got a copy of his Whisky Bible on the shelf. Jim Murray talks about he became the first full-time whisky journalist, as well as how one man can taste thousands of whiskies a year and survive. Also…a Wild Scotsman is a Mad Scotsman these days…and in this special episode on location at New York's Grand Central Station, details on the auction of a Glenfiddich Rare Edition 1937 single malt.
Links: Jim Murray's Whisky Bible | Tartan Week New York | Glenfiddich | Wild Scotsman | Whisky Magazine
No April Fool's Day jokes in this episode…just cask-strength whisky news! The winners of the annual San Francisco World Spirits Competition have been announced, and we have the details. Also, Whisky Magazine's editors are training for the "Islay Triathlon", and we'll find out more from Glenfiddich's Ian Millar about the world's oldest whisky to be auctioned off in New York Tuesday night. Plus…one Glenfiddich single malt is "forbidden fruit" for American whisky drinkers, but that's about to change…
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The numbers are in for 2005, and Scotch distillers had one of the best years on record — despite sales declines in Europe. We'll get the details, along with a charity auction of what may be the world's oldest whisky, new Kentucky Derby releases, and a newcomer to the world of whisky…with a Swedish accent and rave initial reviews for Mackmyra Reserve.
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Tullibardine Distillery in the Scottish Highlands is making up for lost time after reopening in 2003, and we'll get an update from veteran distillery manager John Black. In the news, a new "pillaged malt" is being sold for charity, along with a rare whisky that raised $30,000 for the Himalayan Trust, and master blender Richard Paterson heads off on a worldwide mission to promote Glasgow's 2014 Commonwealth Games bid.
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- TRRT April 1-7 | Online Edition
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Illinois Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon invites the public to visit their website and the first edition of the Rural Counties Newsletter (http://www2.illinois.gov/ltgov/Documents/GRAC%20agendas/Rural%20Counties%20Newsletter%20-%20Fall%202011.pdf) provided by the Office of Lieutenant Governor.
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• School and District Efficiency Survey: Simon's Classrooms First Commission wants to hear your ideas on how to improve efficiency and learning at school districts statewide (http://www2.illinois.gov/ltgov/Pages/CFCPublicComment.aspx).
• Governor Quinn Launches $78 Million Initiative to Support Small and Start-Up Businesses — IL DCEO
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WD's got one in their series named for german scheisse-pr0n: Caviar GP [techreport.com]. 4W idle, capacities up to 1TB.
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Job interviewers often avoid asking questions about candidates' areas of expertise out of fear of "discriminating." What's wrong with discrimination? asks Mikita Brottman.
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Whole Night at Bedford Whole Foods raises over $500
The evening of Tuesday, December 23 was a special time at Bedford Whole Foods and for the Bedford Food Pantry. Many patrons enjoyed in-store activities and a fabulous sale, and we benefited to the tune of 1% of their purchases. This fun event raised over $500 for the Food Pantry. A big shout out to our fine supporters and Bedford Whole Foods!
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LAS VEGAS - Polaroid, best known for their instant cameras, has launched the world's first Android-powered compact interchangeable lens camera with the iM1836.
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LAS VEGAS - LG has unveiled a 100-inch laser TV, which features smart capabilities, at the eve of International CES (formerly known as Consumer Electronics Show) 2013.
LAS VEGAS - Digital Life managed to get a brief hands-on with Fujifilm's latest cameras, X100S and X20, during a press conference at the International CES (formerly known as Consumer Electronic Show) 2013.
Sony finally joins the quad-core processor party with its new Sony Xperia Z, which was just announced at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Digital Life got a quick hands-on with the Android 4.1 smartphone, which comes with LTE support.
Bigger, sharper and smarter - that was Samsung's war cry at this year's pre CES event, as it unveiled several televisions with new and improved technologies, to woo consumers this year.
LAS VEGAS - Lenovo announced a strong line-up of Windows 8 touchscreen devices the day before the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, including an ultrabook convertible, the ThinkPad Helix, a 27-inch table PC, the IdeaCentre Horizon, and a mini ultrabook, IdeaPad Yoga 11S.
LAS VEGAS - The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) might only start on Wednesday (Singapore time) but graphics card maker Nvidia has fired the first salvo by surprising everyone with its new handheld gaming device called Project Shield.
LAS VEGAS (AFP) - Videogames are moving further into the Internet cloud with new devices and services unveiled at the big Consumer Electronics Show this week.
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"I always compare filmmaking to cooking. Shooting is like buying the groceries. You buy all kinds of ingredients and the better ingredients you get, the better chance you have of making the movie you want."—Ang Lee, from Speaking in Images
Speaking in Images offers an engaging and rare collection of interviews with the directors who have changed the face of Chinese and international cinema. Michael Berry's discussions with such directors as Ang Lee ( Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), Zhang Yimou ( Hero), Chen Kaige ( Farewell My Concubine), Stanley Kwan ( Lan Yu), Tsai Ming-Liang ( Vive l'Amour), Edward Yang ( Yi Yi), and Hou Hsiao-hsien ( Flowers of Shanghai) offer an eclectic and comprehensive portrait of contemporary Chinese cinema.
In interviews that capture each filmmaker's unique vision, the subjects discuss their formative years, the ideas and influences that shaped their work, film aesthetics, battles with censors and studios, the mingling of commercial and art film, and the future of Chinese cinema in a transnational context. Berry's introduction to the collection provides an overview of Chinese cinema in the second half of the twentieth century, placing the directors and their work in a wider historical and cultural context.
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Speaking in Images, by Michael Berry, is engaging... It is refreshing to read artists talk about their work and medium.
[ Speaking in Images] should be required reading for anyone seeking to understand the complexities and power of contemporary Chinese Film.
Speaking in Images is an excellent, even essential resource for anyone interested in the past, present, and future of these three important Chinese film industries.
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It supports bookmark,bookssave,quickly remember.
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2.《Treasure Island》
3.《Uncle Tom's Cabin》
4.《The Adventure of Tom Sawyer》
5.《a tale of two cities》
6.《The Unbearable Lightness of Being》
7.《The Sorrows of Young Werther》
8.《The Three Musketeers》
9.《Gone with the wind》
10.《Robinson Crusoe》
11.《Gulliver's Travels》
12.《Jane Eyre》
13.《Around the World in Eighty Days》
15.《A Mongolian Tale》
16.《Gulliver's Travels》
17.《Tess of the D'urbervilles》
18.《The Woman in White》
19.《Herman Melville》
20.《Notre Dame De Paris》
21.《Pride and Prejudice》
22.《The Count of Monte Cristo》
23.《Anna Karenina》
25.《War And Peace》
26.《The Miserable World》
28.《Alice in Wonderland》
29.《A Christmas Carol》
31.《The Call of the Wild》
32.《The Time Machine》
33.《The Thorn Birds》
34.《The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn》
35.《Aesop's Fables》
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Place additional textures to /sdcard/.cr3/textures/ -- to be used as tiled page backgrounds.
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We believe that this eBook reader is what you're looking for.
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Cool Reader: http://sourceforge.net/projects/crengine/
GNU General Public License: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/
Cool Reader
Pages or scroll view. Page flipping animation.
Table of contents, bookmarks, text search.
Bookmarks on text fragments (comments or corrections) - useful for proof reading.
Export of bookmarks to text file.
Built-in file browser, quick recent books access.
Online catalogs (OPDS) support.
LitRes online book store support.
Text to Speech (TTS) support.
Hyphenation dictionaries;
Most complete FB2 format support: styles, tables, footnotes.
Additional fonts support (place .ttf to /sdcard/fonts/)
Support for Chinese, Japanese, Korean languages; autodetection of TXT file encoding (GBK, Shift_JIS, BIG5, EUC_KR).
Day and night profiles (two sets of colors, background, backlight levels).
Brightness adjustments by flick on left edge of screen.
Background texture (stretched or tiled) or solid color.
Paperbook-like page turning animation or "sliding page" animation.
Dictionary support (ColorDict, GoldenDict, Fora Dictionary, Aard Dictionary).
Customizable tap zone and key actions.
Autoscroll (automatic page flipping) - start using menu/goto/autoscroll or assign action Autoscroll on key or tap zone; Change speed using volume keys or bottom-right and bottom-left tap zones; stop - tap any other tap zone or key.
Can read books from zip archives.
Automatic reformatting of .txt files (autodetect headings etc.)
Styles can be customised in wide range using external CSS.
Select text using double tap (optional).
Similar to FBReader, Aldiko, AlReader, Nook, Laputa, Moon+ reader.
Place additional textures to /sdcard/.cr3/textures/ -- to be used as tiled page backgrounds.
Place additional textures to /sdcard/.cr3/backgrounds/ -- to be used as stretched page backgrounds.
(/cr3/ directory can also be used instead of /.cr3/, and internal SD or internal storage instead of /sdcard/)
CoolReader requires following permissions:
WAKE_LOCK - to control screen backlight
WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE - to access SD card
INTERNET - to use online catalogs
CoolReader is free, open source (GPL), multiplatform project.
Project homepage on SourceForge is http://sourceforge.net/projects/crengine/
To donate this project, you can buy Cool Reader Gold ($10), Silver ($3) or Bronze ($1) Donation package from Market
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For more convenient library view install our Bookshelf plugin https://www.google.com/url?q=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.fbreader.plugin.library
Main book formats: ePub (ePub3 is partially supported), Kindle azw3 (mobipocket), fb2(.zip).
Other supported formats: RTF, doc (MS Word), html, plain text.
Supported via free plugins: PDF (https://www.google.com/url?q=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.geometerplus.fbreader.plugin.pdf), DjVu (https://www.google.com/url?q=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.geometerplus.fbreader.plugin.djvu)
FBReader supports synchronisation of your library and/or reading positions with FBReader book network (https://books.fbreader.org/), a Google Drive™ based cloud service. Synchronisation is disabled by default, go to preferences dialog to enable it and configure parameter.
FBReader is fast, highly customizable. Can use external TrueType/OpenType fonts and custom backgrounds. Screen brightness can be changed during reading (slide finger up/down along the left screen edge). Supports different day/night color schemes.
Supports YotaPhone Always-On Display functionality (can display text on both LCD and eInk screens).
Includes a browser/downloader for network ebook catalogs/stores. Several popular English, French, Russian, Chinese and Polish libraries are included. Custom OPDS catalogs are supported too.
Alternatively you can download books manually and put them into /sdcard/Books catalog on your device.
FBReader is integrated with external dictionaries. Supports ColorDict, all Slovoed dictionaries (by Paragon Software), Fora Dictionary, FreeDictionary.org, LEO dictionary.
Localized for 29 languages. Includes hyphenation patterns for 24 languages. Open-source (GPL).
Aldiko Book Reader
★The leading eBook application for the Android platform
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Differences between the Aldiko Book Reader Premium and the Aldiko Book Reader Free are: the Aldiko Book Reader Premium has highlights (for EPUB files), notes (for EPUB files), book cover editing and home widget features, gets faster update and does not contain advertisements.
Features of the Aldiko Book Reader Free:
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✔ Support eBooks from public libraries.
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✔ Other cool features not to miss: global-text search in a book, dictionary, add your own favorite catalogs (OPDS support) and many more
Aldiko Book Reader works on Android phones and tablets with Android version 2.3 or above.
eReader Prestigio Book reader
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Prestigio eReader provides a user with direct access to more than 1000 000 ebooks in 25 languages, with more than 48,000 free e-books. Choose a book on "your shelf" and get on with your incredible reading adventure. This program for reading electronic books is one of the hottest applications on Google Play as it supports a lot of text formats and a huge base of free and paid ebooks. Now you can get a lot of books for free download.
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Journalist honors the men of 'Hero Street'
Journalist recounts the stories of a tiny Mexican community that sent 57 soldiers to war.
Carlos Harrison first heard the words "Hero Street" when he worked at People en Español. An editor asked if he'd heard of the place and said off-handedly, "We should do a story on it someday."
The story — about a dusty block and a half in Silvis, Illinois, from which 22 Mexican families sent 57 of their children off to fight in World War II and Korea — never got written for People en Español. But the idea of immigrants who were shunned by their country despite volunteering to serve it stayed with Harrison, a former Miami Herald reporter. When he finally started researching the subject — he learned eight of the soldiers had been killed in the wars — he found little record of it.
"I was fascinated by everything I read," he says, adding that he realized this was part of a bigger story about the battle for civil rights in the United States. "It's every immigrant's story."
The result is The Ghosts of Hero Street: How One Small Mexican-American Community Gave So Much in World War II and Korea (Berkley, $26.95), about which Harrison will talk Friday at Books & Books in Coral Gables. He tracked down survivors and pored over military records. Families who had kept letters and photos and keepsakes shared them willingly. He learned two of the men who died were paratroopers; another fought in the Battle of the Bulge. Another died building the Burma Road, another on the beach at Anzio.
The Ghosts of Hero Street was recently named by the Los Angeles Times as one of the top 25 essential books for Memorial Day, on the list at No. 6, two slots ahead of Catch-22.
The ranking makes Harrison laugh. Hero Street is a great story, he says, but "I don't think I should be ranked ahead of Joseph Heller!"
Have you always been interested in military history?
I had read Hiroshima, Catch-22. I've read a lot of fiction and nonfiction, but I wasn't necessarily someone attracted to the story of soldiers or military history. I'm attracted to a great story that reveals something about people and about the way people treat each other, the things people will do, both good and bad. I felt like this just went beyond the activity of fighting. It said something about all of us as a nation and a people and as human beings.
What was living on Hero Street like?
The people had been invited here by the railroads; they fled the Mexican revolution and got to the border and got 10 bucks and a ride to where the work was. They were forced to live in railroad box cars without electricity. They carved this place out of the woods. They weren't allowed to live near the whites in town, so they were given the box cars by the railway company. They had to put two of them together to make a church. People who grew up there remember snow swirling through the cracks in the wall. They told me, "If you had to go to the outhouse you made sure you went before you went to bed — it was so cold."
What was it like for the survivors to return home after their service?
When the survivors came home, they went to the local VFW and had a couple of beers, and said, "Hey, we're veterans, can we join?" and the guy there said, "No, you're Mexican." They saw the civil rights movement occurring. They came home from the war and said, "We bled side by side on the battlefields." But they weren't allowed to be buried in many white cemeteries. They were allowed to fight in white units but not allowed to speak Spanish. ... So much of our history was shaped by World War II. It changed us into a superpower, changed history for the world. And these guys coming home had their own piece of the civil rights battle to fight. They expected to be treated fairly. And there are more stories like that out there, with every immigrant group that came here. Now it's playing out in Afghanistan and Iran.
What was the hardest thing about researching the book?
It took five years to write it. Reaching people who knew the soldiers was hard. We're losing our veterans from World War II. ... I was working on the book for two years when I found one of the men I was looking for. He lived in Hollywood, Florida! I picked up the phone and called him, and his daughter answered the phone and said, "Oh, no, he died two months ago." A pilot and a bombardier told me great stories in such detail it made me question whether I would have the courage to do what they did. ... But they didn't survive to see the book printed.
What do you take away from working on this book?
My father had the same position on a B-17 bomber — tailgunner — as one of the guys from Hero Street. As I learned about it, it helped me appreciate what that generation was called upon to do. The wife of the bombardier on that plane said he had nightmares the rest of his life of trying to save this other man on the plane. He would wake up screaming trying to pull out this guy who was stuck in the bomb turret but couldn't get him out before the plane exploded. ... In the last chapter, she said, "They called it a great war. It wasn't. There is no such thing. You have to tell this story so they'll never do it again."
Connie Ogle is the Miami Herald's book editor.
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A local college will reportedly enroll a teenager this year.
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Polar Plungers Jumping in for Good Cause
A number of participants will brave the snow and cold this weekend by jumping in for a cause.
Culture Association Headquarters Moving to NIU
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Association for Black Culture Centers will move its headquarters to Northern Illinois University's DeKalb campus this July.
Knox College Honors Alumni
Top Peace Corps Schools Include Five In Illinois
CHICAGO (AP) — The Peace Corps says five Illinois colleges are on an annual list of top volunteer-producing schools.
Knox College International Fair Impresses Visitors
A campus wide International Fair took place yesterday on the campus of Knox College for the 34th time in school history.. as capacity crowds joined together to experience culture from around the world.
Knox College International Fair This Weekend
The 34th annual International Fair will take place this Saturday at Knox College in Galesburg.
Social Protest Breaks Out at Knox College MLK Events
In the height of MLK day ceremonies at Knox College in Galesburg, a public protest halted visitors from leaving during the conclusion of the presentation.
Citizens to Celebrate MLK Day in Galesburg
Martin Luther King Day is approaching quickly, and citizens in Galesburg will have the opportunity to celebrate the work and life of Dr. King with a number of local events.
Important Funding for Local Jazz Festival
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From left are U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., Bronze Star recipient Jim Keefe, Brig. Gen. Carolyn J. Protzmann, Commander of the New Hampshire Air National Guard, and Cmdr. David Kenney, Navy Commanding Officer VTU-0109 at the Navy Operational Support Center in Manchester. COURTESY
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The last two springs, Hays High School has held baseball supremacy in the Western Athletic Conference.
LARNED - The Larned High School and Hoisington baseball teams split a doubleheader on Tuesday.
The Great Bend High School softball doubleheader today at the City of Great Bend Sports Complex against Western Athletic Conference foe Hays will begin at 5:30 p.m. instead of 4, which was originally scheduled. The Lady Panthers are coming off a pair of WAC victories at Dodge City, making them 12-0 overall, 4-0 in conference play.
It will be the Western Athletic Conference baseball opener for Great Bend High School on Thursday.
DODGE CITY - Stephanie Morrison got the Great Bend High School softball team's offense started against Dodge City on Tuesday at Legends Park.
Entering the midway point of the high school softball season, the Great Bend Lady Panthers sit at 10-0.
Mitch Kottas' web gem in left field was a diamond in the rough Friday night during Great Bend High School's official home-opening baseball doubleheader at the new City of Great Bend Sports Complex.
SALINA - The Great Bend High School girls' swim team placed third at the Salina Invitational on Friday.
Great Bend High School's powerful offense was out in force in a non-conference softball doubleheader against Scott City on Friday.
WICHITA - Great Bend High School had some all-star performances on Friday at the Shocker Pre-State Challenge at Cessna Stadium on the Wichita State University campus.
A portion of the Great Bend High School track and field team is competing today on the second day of the Shocker Pre-State Challenge at Wichita State University's Cessna Stadium.
The Great Bend High School baseball team hasn't been able to enjoy settling into the new City of Great Bend Sports Complex.
ST. JOHN - St. John's Dean Wade has earned three consecutive high school basketball titles heading to Kansas State University.
The Hoisington Cardinal wrestling team continues to have news worthy announcements about its staff and team members. This past week the team learned that High School Assistant and Middle School Head Coach Anthony Leiker was named Middle School Coach of the year by the Kansas Wrestling Coaches Association.
MANHATTAN – The championship matchup between defending Class 2A state champion St. John High School and arch-rival Central Plains was an old-fashioned street battle – brother-against-brother.
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MANHATTAN – When Central Plains' offense misfired, the Oilers relied on aggressive defense to capture their second consecutive Class 2A basketball championship.
MANHATTAN – Defending Class 2A girls state basketball champion Central Plains got a rematch with Moundridge.
MANHATTAN – Central Plains roared past No. 2 ranked Olpe 69-44 Friday to spoil the Eagles' unbeaten season and qualify for the Class 2A state basketball championship.
MANHATTAN - Defending Class 2A state champion St. John is playing a familiar foe – Central Plains High School – for its third consecutive state basketball championship.
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