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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A Perfect DVD
Not only do you get one of the great films of all time, you also get the documentary about the film and its impact on the general public. The film is about a man's priciples to defend a black man who is accused of rape during the Great Depression. The film is also about growing up and facing lifes realities. This work is truly beautiful and has held up every bit as...
Published on June 3 2004 by papaphilly
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Good, but not as great as the book.
This movie was ahead of its time. I really enjoyed the introductory sequence featuring Scout coloring and humming. Gregory Peck was amazing as Atticus Finch, bringing much, but not too much drama to his role. However, I do feel that this movie was overall too dramatic, very unlike the book. It lacked the book's subtle humor, and replaced it with exaggerated dramatic...
Published on Nov. 9 2002
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A Perfect DVD,
papaphilly (Bayonne, NJ) - See all my reviews
Not only do you get one of the great films of all time, you also get the documentary about the film and its impact on the general public. The film is about a man's priciples to defend a black man who is accused of rape during the Great Depression. The film is also about growing up and facing lifes realities. This work is truly beautiful and has held up every bit as good as when it was first released. The film also follows the book very closely and does a wonderfull job of adapting the masterpiece.
The DVD has running commentary from the film makers as well as an exclusive documentary about the film. This project could not been done better. It is part of my personal film library and is truly a great addition.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Something new every time,
James Gallen (St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.) - See all my reviews
This review is from: To Kill a Mockingbird (DVD)
This is another rendition of an American classic. I had seen this movie and read the book in the past, so was there really anything new this time? We watched it as a school project for my daughter. She watched it as a teenager, my wife watched it as a teacher and I watched it as a lawyer and, for tonight, at least, a part-time tutor. We each saw something in it that we had not appreciated before. For me, the courtroom scenes were interesting, but I identified more with Atticus, the father, than Atticus the lawyer. No matter how often you have watched this in the past, you will find something new to admire when you watch it again. Never stop!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars To Kill a Mockingbird is like a sin,
M. Buisman (Amstelveen, The Netherlands) - See all my reviews
'To Kill A Mockingbird' is of course the movie adaptation of Harper Lee's movie with the same title. Gregory Peck is a lawyer in rural Mississippi who is asked to defend a black man accused of raping a white woman.
The movie starts however with a seemingly unrelated event, the lives of Atticus Finch's two children. His daughter is a tomboy and his son is trying to keep her from getting into more trouble. The stumble upon some strange items and look at the house of a strange man called Boo Radley.
Then the movie goes into the court case. It is of course very obvious that the black man is innocent, but this is 1930's South with an all white jury...
Then the two parts of the movie come back together again...
The acting in this movie (in black and white) is superb. I recall that Gregory Pecks perfomance was voted the best of the century. Even the little girl is superb, she even got a nominatation for an oscar. Boo Radley is played by Robert Duvall, though he says next to nothing and is only in the movie for a few minutes. He of course 10 years later would play Tom Hayden in The Godfather. For Star Trek fans: Tom Robinson, the black man accused, is Sisko's Father of DS9
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Its children�s world that evolves with racial prejudice,
Shahzada Gofran (Thailand) - See all my reviews
We shall say "To kill a mockingbird" is a classic of the century that unfolds reality into film with profound simplicity. Its character development along with the approach of realism supersedes many contemporary works of literature and film. The historic flavor of the film creates an impression of a southern community of America during the great depression. Apparently the quintessential theme of the movie is the social stigma and prejudice. We see conflicts between the blacks and whites in the same community where justice has upheld my one of the central character called atticus.
Tom Robinson, a black guy living in the same town called Mayconb was one of the central characters in the movie has been accused of raping a white woman. However, eventually he was convicted as guilty of charge and subjected to unfair justice system by the ignorant majority that have taken part in the jury. But there were other themes that also have significance to its crafts also. Its amazing reality of children's life that is so universal. It created a reality of vividing contention that helps the viewers to understand how the children see and think about the world. It also calls into attention of the activities that children by their vary nature involve in a family. For instance, Scout and Jem who are the central characters have enormous interests in scary yet joyful venture to Boo Radly's house even after being forbidden by their father. It was also important to observe how the children have collected gifts from the tree given by a isolated guy who they never been acquainted with.
The phenomenal curiosity of children is almost inescapable from the viewer's notice in the movie. They were inquisitive in every detail of what has been happening around them. That gives us the idea of their emotional reopens to the world and family relationships. As you will see, if you watch the movie, their father atticuls who has been a significant moral authority to them. He has great influence on how they develop the ideas of people and differences of good and evil that remain in their fantasy world.
The story of the movie has a unique way to tell you about a community and what is going on to its families. It takes us to the journey to reflect on our own childhood fantasy world and the adventures that still remains in our mind a thrill.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Greater perspective required,
M. Eugeni (California, USA) - See all my reviews
Okay, it might feel slow and it can seem dull, but this movie has a heart and soul like almost no other. Life in a pre-Civil Rights Era, deep South town is not exactly an amusement park experience. Children live in the moment, and that's where perspective resides in this story. It's only later that meaning, lessons, and heartache are really processed (narrator provides the nostalgic adult view). Scout is self absorbed like children are, her older brother Jem longs for manhood, and every adult in town seems to realize their father, Atticus Finch, is a uniquely dedicated man. Story is immensely simple, echoing languid mood of a small town, pre-television, pre-suburban isolation, and very much in the midst of ignorance and prejudice. Racism is the issue that stands out in the end, but story is more an exploration of a time and place that most of us will never--and might never hope to--know. What action exists is observed by a mysterious neighbor and a stoic dad (who just might be the good guys). Don't be fooled by the pace; there are joys and hopes to be found in this small Alabama town.
Collector's Edition DVD includes Fearful Symmetry, a wonderfully illuminating documentary about the making of the film and the basis for its story and characters. It starts slow but the messages (some rathy wordy) are poignant. Narration includes many quotes from the book, details that are left out of the movie in effort to translate to screen. For anyone unsure of the value of movie and its story, this feature-length documentary is a wonderful introduction or alternative.
5.0 out of 5 stars TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD [1962] [50th Anniversary Edition] [Super Deluxe Limited Edition DigiBook] [Blu-ray] [UK Release],
Andrew C. Miller - See all my reviews
This review is from: To Kill a Mockingbird [Limited Edition Digibook] [Blu-ray] (Region Free) (Blu-ray)
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD [1962] [50th Anniversary Edition] [Super Deluxe Limited Edition DigiBook] [Blu-ray] [UK Release] Experience one of the most significant milestones in film history like never before with `To Kill A Mockingbird' [50th Anniversary Edition]. Screen legend Gregory Peck stars as courageous Southern lawyer Atticus Finch and the Academy Award� winning performance hailed by the American Film Institute as the Greatest Movie Hero of All Time.
Based on Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize winning novel about innocence, strength and conviction and nominated for 8 Academy Awards� and this beloved classic is now digitally re-mastered and fully restored for optimum picture and sound quality and boasts hours of unforgettable bonus features. Watch it and remember why "it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." Narrated by Kim Stanley.
Universal 100th Anniversary Limited Edition Blu-ray packaging includes a stunning 44 page DigiBook with Gregory Peck's script pages, personal letters, storyboards and much more!
Cast: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford, Robert Duvall, John Megna, Alice Ghostley, Brock Peters, Frank Overton, Rosemary Murphy, Ruth White, Estelle Evans, Richard Hale, James K Anderson, Collin Wilcox, William Windom, Paul Fix, Bill Walker, David Crawford, Kim Hamilton, Dan White, Crahan Denton, Steven Charles, Jester Hairston (uncredited) and Kim Stanley (narrator uncredited)
Director: Robert Mulligan
Producer: Alan J. Pakula
Screenplay: Harper Lee and Horton Foote
Composer: Elmer Bernstein
Cinematography: Russell Harlan
Video Resolution: 1080p
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audio: English: 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio; English: DTS Mono; French: DTS Mono; Italian: DTS Mono; German: DTS Mono; Spanish: DTS Mono and Japanese: 2.0 DTS Mono
Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, German, Italian, Cantonese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Icelandic, Mandarin (Traditional), Norwegian and Swedish
Running Time: 124 minutes
Region: All Regions
Number of discs: 1
Studio: Universal Pictures UK
Andrew's Blu-ray Review: 1962 was a rather remarkable year for films featuring stellar performances by young actors. Patty Duke took home a well-deserved Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for her iconic work in `The Miracle Worker,' but Patty Duke's was hardly the only notable performance that year. Duke was joined in the Best Supporting Actress category by another young girl whose performance has entered the annals of the near legendary, namely Mary Badham's beautifully rendered work as Scout in `To Kill A Mockingbird.' There were a slew of other films that featured standout younger performances like `Lolita,' `Sundays and Cybele,' `Cape Fear,' `The Music Man' just to name a few, but no other film that year (and arguably any year) actually captured the viewpoint of children as magically yet realistically as `To Kill A Mockingbird' did. What's perhaps so incredible about this beautifully heartfelt film is how effortlessly it manages to sum up an entire generation's experience of one distinct region of the United States, namely the American South, dealing with all sorts of issues from the epochal (like race relations) to the seemingly picayune (like sibling rivalry and loyalty). While a major subplot of the film casts a rather unseemly light on the American South, the incredibly noble and moral character of the focal children's father, one Atticus Finch [Gregory Peck], an attorney who is hired to defend a black man accused of raping and beating a white girl, gives this film a strong ethical centre which further helps to distinguish it and which adds inestimably to the film's allure.
Harper Lee was a largely unknown quantity when her first (and only) novel "To Kill A Mockingbird" was published in July 1960. Lee had been encouraged by her childhood friend and neighbour Truman Capote (upon whom the character of Dill in the book is based), and Capote wrote a brief blurb on the dust jacket of the first edition hardback espousing Harper Lee's talent. Lee had no great hopes for the book, and in fact the publisher had warned her it probably wouldn't do very well, so she (not to mention the publishers) when the book became something of an overnight sensation.
Similarly, director Robert Mulligan wasn't exactly a household name, either, though he had had the extreme good fortune to have partnered with producer Alan J. Pakula (who would also become a director of some considerable note) and did have a handful of features, as well as a long television career, under his belt. But Mulligan's quiet, deliberate approach turned out to be absolutely perfect for To Kill a Mockingbird, especially with regard to coaxing absolutely realistic performances out the film's central trio of children, Mary Badham as Scout Finch, the six year old from whose viewpoint (and memory) the film is told; Phillip Alford as Jem Finch, Scout's older brother and erstwhile protector; and John Megna as colourful neighbour Dill, who joins the siblings in a series of adventures, many of which revolve around ferreting out information about the Finch's mysterious neighbour, Boo Radley [Robert Duvall]. As the kids' exploits play out, the Finch's father, attorney Atticus, finds himself caught up in simmering racial tensions when a local black man [Brock Peters] is falsely accused of having attacked a white girl [Collin Wilcox]. Mulligan resolutely refuses to ever let the film lapse into melodrama, staging things simply and without sensationalism, and that approach gives the film much of its indelible emotional power.
[In the trivial but fascinating department, `To Kill A Mockingbird' has one of the oddest concatenations of "famous relative syndrome" with regard to its cast and crew of any major motion picture. Just a brief listing includes these gems: Mary Badham [Scout] is the little sister of director John Badham [Saturday Night Fever]; John Megna [Dill] is the half-brother of actress Connie Stevens; director Robert Mulligan was the brother of actor Richard Mulligan [Soap and Empty Nest]; and Estelle Evans (housekeeper Calpurnia) was the sister of actress Esther Rolle ['Maude' and 'Good Times'].
`To Kill A Mockingbird' is a quiet film, and in fact several studios passed on optioning Harper Lee's novel because they couldn't understand what possible allure it could have for audiences. "It's about a lawyer and his two kids," was all studio executives (never the most prescient bunch) could see in the book, obviously missing the profound truths buried in Scout and Jem's world, like the treasures Boo Radley secrets away in the neighbourhood tree cavity. But like a parent whispering to a beloved child, `To Kill a Mockingbird' speaks directly to the heart, never demanding attention, but commanding it nonetheless. If you've never seen this hugely affecting film, you're in for one of the most touching experiences of your cinematic life. If you're a long-time fan, rejoice that it's been revitalised now to rediscover all over again.
Blu-ray Video Quality - Scuttlebutt has it that the world may be ending in the very near future, and there may be further signs of an impending apocalypse, at least for some ardent film fans, with the news that Universal, and the bane of catalogue title collectors seems to have finally woken up and realised how to treat its asset treasures. Now this has happened with the release of `To Kill a Mockingbird' and is presented on Blu-ray with an awesome encoded 1080p transfer in 1.85:1. The film is part of Universal's well publicised 100th Anniversary promotional push to revisit many of its storied films, restoring and re-mastering them for home video release (not all of these legendary films will receive Blu-ray releases, unfortunately). This new Blu-ray has been sourced from high resolution scans of original 35mm source elements and the results are simply gorgeous. The clarity and precision of the image is breath taking at times, with beautifully modulated grey scale, deep, rich blacks and piercing, though never blooming, whites. Though the film and all of the supplements (save for the restoration feature) are in SD, and there are absolutely no compression artefacts to report. The restoration feature, which actually covers a lot of titles, actually spends a few seconds discussing one aspect of Universal's high definition releases which seem to create the biggest controversy: digital noise reduction of grain. In the case of `To Kill a Mockingbird,' there were a number of optical push ins (as opposed to zooms) which magnified grain to a really ugly degree, something shown quite clearly in the restoration feature. Rather than "erase" the grain, which the team of restorers quite clearly state is unthinkable, they used a new algorithm which "averaged" the grain over the entire sequence, including before and after the optical push. The results should please even the most pernickety videophiles. Several scenes which have been murky in previous home video releases have whole new levels of shadow detail on this new Blu-ray. Well done, Universal and please keep up the excellent work.
Blu-ray Audio Quality - `To Kill A Mockingbird' offers both a 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio surround mix as well as a standard 2.0 DTS mix. This would not seem to be a film especially suited to a surround track, and the good news is the track hasn't been overly "tatted up" to provide a false sense of immersion. The best part of the 5.1 track is the fuller representation of Elmer Bernstein's glorious score, one of the finest scores of the composer's long and legendary career. (I'm on record as having stated that Bronislau Kaper was robbed of an Oscar for his 1962 `Mutiny on the Bounty,' but Leonard Bernstein's `To Kill A Mockingbird' certainly gave him and eventual winner Maurice Jarre for `Lawrence of Arabia' was stiff competition). Ambient sounds occasionally dot the surrounds (the rustle of leaves in that final horrifying Halloween sequence is a notable example), but the mixers have wisely kept things largely front and centre, as they should be. Fidelity is excellent and the soundtrack bears no noticeable signs of age related damage.
Blu-ray Special Features and Extras:
Feature Commentary with Director Robert Mulligan and Producer Alan Pakula: Is incredibly informative, though Alan Pakula can be a little hard to hear at times. The two, who were partners for such a long time, have an easy rapport with each other, and Alan Pakula coaxes a lot of anecdotes out of Robert Mulligan. Highly enjoyable.
Fearful Symmetry [480i] [1:30:13] This feature length documentary is by Charles Kiselyak, and is a loving if unshrinking look back on the cultural milieu from which `To Kill a Mockingbird' sprang. There are copious interviews with several participants in the film, including Gregory Peck, the kids, as well as Robert Mulligan and Alan Pakula. The documentary also gets into some really interesting, if somewhat tangential, subjects like the importance of oral history in the American South.
A Conversation with Gregory Peck [480i] [1:37:37] Is another fantastic, feature length documentary which first finds the actor doing a personal appearance in Boston, answering questions from the audience. The film then follows Gregory Peck on a number of exploits with various family members, as he reminisces about his long and storied career. Some other audience participation interview segments are also included in this really beautifully done piece.
Academy Award Best Actor Acceptance Speech [480i] [1:31] Is a model for all the longwinded, self-important award accepters nowadays.
American Film Institute Life Achievement Award [480i] [10:01] Is a snippet from Gregory Peck's AFI tribute, including a wonderful speech by the actor.
Excerpt from Tribute to Gregory Peck [480i] [10:09] Is from a special Academy tribute to Gregory Peck, including Gregory Peck's four children.
Scout Remembers [480i] [12:01] Is a fun piece featuring Mary Badham remembering her experiences on the film.
Theatrical Trailer [480i] [2:52] Original Theatrical Trailer of the film.
100 Years of Universal: Restoring the Classics [1080p] [9:13] is a promo piece touting Universal's 100th anniversary and their restoration and preservation efforts. The new slate of restorations is covered briefly, including some looks at the restoration efforts. Universal releases are regularly pilloried for over aggressive DNR [Digital Noise reduction], and there's a very interesting segment on this feature addressing that issue that all DNR-phobes really should watch. Other situations like flicker are also addressed. Audio restoration is also covered in this really interesting piece.
U Control: My Scenes offers Cecilia and Anthony Peck narrating different PiP snippets which offer a number of participants like Robert Mulligan, Horton Foote, Mary Badham and Phillip Alford.
Finally, I'm not ashamed to admit I was once again in a flood of tears as `To Kill A Mockingbird' drew to a close as I watched it to prepare for this review. I've seen the film countless times, but viewing it with this stunning Blu-ray disc, it now has the same overwhelming effect on me, certainly a good indication of just how emotionally powerful the film is. How many films can you think of that lose little if any of their emotional resonance upon repeated viewings? `To Kill a Mockingbird' is one of that rare breed of films which seems timeless even as it precisely recreates a very specific time and place. Classic film lovers have come to dread Universal catalogue releases (rightly or wrongly), but `To Kill a Mockingbird' sets a new standard for the studio, one which they hopefully will continue with as their 100th Anniversary Celebration takes centre stage. `To Kill A Mockingbird' instantly jumps to the front of the pack with this best release in 2013, and it comes 100% high praise. So all in all, I am so proud and honoured to now have this beautifully crafted classic film, they I will not tire of watching again and again. Very Highly Recommended!
Andrew C. Miller - Your Ultimate No.1 Film Fan
Le Cinema Paradiso
WARE, United Kingdom
4.0 out of 5 stars Still a classic,
Rick Patterson "P Is Silent" (Calgary) - See all my reviews
This review is from: To Kill a Mockingbird (Legacy Series Edition) (DVD)
Not that anyone could touch the Harper Lee novel, but the movie version--which was pretty much rushed to the big screen within about a year of the release of the book--stands up pretty well.
The choice of black and white format is a good one, obviously, even if this may seem a bit heavy-handed in its symbolism for some.
Gregory Peck is so perfect as Atticus that you will have a hard time trying to remember what else he could possibly look like. Jem and Scout work well too. Whatever happened to the child actors who played them? Who knows? Perhaps it's just as well; they can be Jem and Scout forever. Too bad about the casting for Dill, but you can't have everything, obviously.
Speaking of which, the clipping of the novel by Horton Foote is painful but necessary, considering it would otherwise be longer than The Return of the King, but I do wish that there were more scenes to savor. That's what the novel is for, I suppose.
Things not to love: the music for the scene in which Bob Ewell attacks Jem and Scout. Totally wrong. You might expect Thumper to emerge from the trees (trees? what trees?) but certainly not white trash Mister Ewell. Also, the melodramatics with the hands clutching and grasping at nothing in the same scene are really way over the top. If you are trying to go for drama, don't elicit a laugh. That's just deadly.
Another laugh arrives at what should be the most touching moment of the movie: Scout's recognition of Boo Radley. Unfortunately, it's blocked so Robert Duvall's Boo is literally hidden behind the bedroom door and he emerges like Freddy Krueger. Not very touching at all. Sorry.
But really, all the way around, weighing the flaws against the moments of brilliance, the movie comes out a winner and should be viewed as a separate text from the novel, against which no movie could ever be successfully compared.
5.0 out of 5 stars In the quest to achieve an impossible feat,
Sebastian Fernandez (Tampa, Florida United States) - See all my reviews
Making justice in a film to the best novel in the twentieth century (determined by vote of librarians across the US) is not an easy task. I would say that although there are a few elements of the novel that get lost in the movie, it is still a great production regardless. That is probably why it was nominated for eight Academy Awards in 1962, including best picture, best actor (Gregory Peck), best actress in a supporting role (Mary Badham), best director (Robert Mulligan), best screenplay, best black and white cinematography, best black and white art direction and best original musical score. The movie won two of the eight awards, best art direction and best actor.
The story revolves around the experiences of Scout, a little girl who is telling a story from her childhood. Her father is assigned as the defense attorney of a black young man falsely accused of raping a white girl. The movie does a good job in disseminating the book's main message: racism is destructive and has no basis to exist in our society. If you consider that the book was written in 1960, this is not a minor point, but on the contrary it is a very powerful statement. The movie also does a great job in portraying the qualities found in the character of Atticus Finch, a father who is raising two kids by himself, after losing his wife, and is doing a splendid job at it. Not only he differs from the norm at the time because he never hits his children, but he also tries not to influence their ideas of what is wrong and right. Instead of promoting hatred in Scout and Jem against the people that are racist and unfair, he tries to teach them tolerance to understand that these individuals are acting mostly out of fear. Throughout the story one can observe how the two siblings go from considering Atticus an old man who could not play football with other dads to seeing him as a hero with outstanding values.
It is hard to decide how to rate a movie that is based on such an incredibly awesome book. First, because it is harder to convey the "child's view" in the movie while this is very clear in the book. Second because there are passages of the book that were left out, and although they are not crucial to the story they give it a certain charm (for example the visit of Jem and Scout to Calpurnia's church). Therefore, if I use the book as a benchmark, the movie should be rated four stars. However, I think it makes more sense to compare the movie with other movies, and in this comparison it is extremely clear that "To Kill a Mockingbird" is as good as it gets, consequently deserving the five stars rating.
5.0 out of 5 stars The Summer We Discovered Life,
Mary F. Sibley (USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: To Kill a Mockingbird (Widescreen) (VHS Tape)
Every so often, as surely as night follows day, a film comes along that manages to transport us from our everyday lives and into a time and place that is recalled through memories of better and in a reversal of fortunes, turbulent times. To Kill A Mockingbird is such a film.
In a Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Harper Lee, the small town of Macomb, Alabama is portrayed in the summer of 1932, during the deepest depression that the United States had ever experienced. Over the course of the next year and a half, events will burrow inside this sleepy southern town and the lives of its residents will be transported by actions, ideas, perceptions and convictions that will influence one and all in ways that will ring true for years to come.
Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck) is a lawyer and widower, raising two small children, Scout (Mary Badham) and her older brother Jem (Phillip Alford). Into their lives enters a visitor, Dill (John Megna) from Meridian, Mississippi, come to spend two weeks with his Aunt Stephanie (Alice Ghostley). Macomb is a town with nothing to do and if there were, no money to spend on it. The stage is being set for a life shattering episode that will not go quietly into that good night.
Childhood holds its fascinations, its myths, its coming of age and through the eyes of the three children, the audience is allowed to peer into the adult world around them as perceived through the minds and souls of innocence that will be all too easily shattered as time whistles down the track. One of the stories woven so masterfully within its covers is the local urban legend of bogeyman, Boo Radley (Robert Duval), who lives on the same block as the Finch family. In a narration, rather like playing telephone, his persona takes on all the familiar attributes of a raving lunatic, a monster out for blood. His aura becomes the end all for Scout, Jem and Dill as they seek to master the mystery surrounding Boo and the ability to live to tell the tale!
Into this world of innocence, a shattering crescendo of complexity wraps itself in the lives of the townspeople in the form of an alleged rape of a white woman, Mayella Violet Ewell (Collin Wilcox) by a black man, Tom Robinson (Brock Peters). Atticus Finch is called upon to act as counsel for Robinson and in doing so, the stage has been set for a dance with race relations and the exemplary lengths that are gone to in order to allow justice to prevail in the face of malcontent.
The performances throughout To Kill A Mockingbird are stunning. Gregory Peck, as the gentleman lawyer, mired in small town attitudes and thoughts that were so representational in the southern gothic sphere, has collected and held a restrained order to his character, and in the process, he has allowed us all to be on the receiving end of hate as conveyed through the actions of small minds and small people. The children, especially Mary Badham, are siblings of more than a movie making venture. They show the absence of preconceived notions, and the guile of beings before the actions of adults can render their world as lost and gone with the shedding of time.
James Anderson as Tom Ewell is the complete representation of oily slime as Mayella's father. He embodies all of the hate and prejudice that continues to be harboured to this day in the souls of those who would attempt to wield their vision of the way things should and ought to be. He has a foul baseness that lingers like a bad rash as he attempts to invoke his arguments through drunken bullying and hatred. Collin Willcox as Mayella is excruciatingly convincing as the bored, housebound white woman who tries to tempt Tom Robinson into kissing her and through her actions sets in motion a rollercoaster of tragedy to come. Her speech to the assembled courtroom is superb and as the audience, you feel her anger and resentment at having to be put in such a position, having to lie to save face and what little position she has in the town. Brock Peters as the aforementioned Robinson is equally sure in the allotted time he spends on the screen. There is a noble demeanor to his bearing, and yet we are aware of the restrictions that blacks were held to in their relationships with whites at the time.
Robert Mulligan, the director and Horton Foote, the screenwriter, have presented us with a look into our pasts and faithfully etched a portrait of quiet and artfully rendered proportions that draw us into the canvas and the lives of those assembled. We have walked a mile in their shoes and been under their skin. Foote worried about being able to do justice to Lee's novel, but he worried for nothing. He has completely evoked an era that now rests behind clouds of dust, blown by the winds of time into oblivion.
The cinematography by Russell Harlan and the set decoration by Oliver Emert carry us back through the courtesy of black and white to a depiction seen only in old photographs and clouding memories of those who lived in those precarious times. Black and white films seem to have had a curse thrust upon them by the younger generation today, as boring and tedious, but through the courtesies extended by Harlan and Emert, we are richer for those perceptions that would harken back throughout the pages of history.
Elmer Bernstein's film score carries us like an old friend and helps us to make our acquaintances with the characters held within this framework. He has achieved much with a simple theme and persuades us that said simplicity is fulfilled with less rather than more.
To Kill A Mockingbird is beautifully haunting and having been made in the 60's, at the height of the Civil Rights movement, it garners our attention to stop and take the time to truly 'see' what the human race is all about and what it can and should be, if taken over the bumps in the road and onto a path of sincere honesty and purpose. No special effects were needed, no huge Hollywood budget, no splashing of a story that had a happy ending for everyone involved. It is an open book into the realities of a world tilting temporarily off its axis, and being brought back on track through the goodness that sits in the hearts, minds and souls of mankind, if given half a chance.
See it and be amazed at what real moviemaking is all about.
5.0 out of 5 stars Killing the mad dog of prejudice,
Rocco Dormarunno (Brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews
This review is from: To Kill a Mockingbird (Widescreen) (VHS Tape)
Midway through this outstanding movie, Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck) defends a black man accused of raping a white woman in an Alabama town during the Depression. As the tensions of the trial reach fever pitch, Atticus is summoned home to protect his family from a rabid dog. The mad dog, an obvious symbol of the madness of prejudice (and the only symbolism in the movie) is killed by just one shot from Finch. This is one of the simple themes of the movie: all you have to do is confront and face bigotry, in order to eliminate it.
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD is undoubtedly one of the most important and most engaging movies of post-WWII America, and a cinematic emblem for the civil rights movement of that era. From the incredible opening credits, complete with Elmer Bernstein's heartbreakingly beautiful score, you know you're in for a great movie. Seen through the eyes of Atticus' tomboy daughter, Scout, the film runs the familiar gamut of a child's world: the scary neighbor; the new kid in town; the first day of school; and the need to be close to a parent. But the aptly named Scout also sees something that most other children do not: the dark world of grown-ups' hate.
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There really is no rule or law governing this. Just common sense, which is not always so common.
Check my comment above. I think there's great value in naming places after people so subsequent generations can get a dose of history and inspiration. I don't want to get ahead of ourselves, but just to use your own example, wouldn't it be wonderful to, some day far, far in the future, to see the Rutgers football stadium named LeGrand Stadium? Little kids in the year 2100 might say, 'Daddy, who was Eric LeGrand?" And parents would have a great little story to tell.
Wow, that's a great quote. See, great minds think alike! If you can confirm it, please post it.
The Brendan Byrne Arena and the Brendan Byrne State Forest are interesting examples. The naming of the arena was really silly, in my opinion. The forest, however, makes some sense in that preservation of the Pinelands is considered my many to be his greatest achievement as governor and will probably be his most lasting legacy (along with the income tax). So naming the forest after him is pretty poignant. There would have been no harm, however, in waiting to rename it. Perhaps they could also name the income tax the "Byrne tax" too, just even things out and paint a fuller picture of his legacy.
Mr. or Mrs. Nonsequitors:
I respectfully disagree. The reason we name places after great people is not so they can "get anything out of it" as you put it. Or at least it's not supposed to be. The reason we name places after people is so that once they're long gone, subsequent generations can be reminded of who they were and what they did. In the neighborhood where I grew up all the streets are named after long dead writers. My street was named after Thoreau. Once I was old enough to read I got curious about who the guy was and read all about him. THAT is why we name places after people. It's very, very worthwhile.
Unfortunately, it's become a way to stroke the egos of people who are still alive, rather than a way to remember them when they're gone. Therein lies the problem.
Well folks, I'm glad you all enjoyed the video...
To describe something as an industry in no way implies that the businesses are all part of the same chain or corporation. I think the word choice made sense.
I don't quite understand your comment. You seem to be taking issue with the statements in the video but then you go on to make precisely the same point I made in the video about alcohol being the more dangerous drug. Very confusing.
Gladly! Try a nice pan seared salmon with a side of pasta with extra virgin olive oil and veggies. Glad I could help.
You're right. No self-respecting Rangers fan has ever misplaced a consonant.
Actually, the bigger mistake I made in that line was saying I actually bought stuff there. I remember buying a pennant once. But mostly I would just ogle the Rangers jerseys hanging in there with massive price tags. I wanted one badly, but they may as well have cost a million dollars. But those memories of badly I wanted one all came to mind when I was there with the Devils jersey.
You made a comparison a point a few others have also made, likening my conversion to someone who moves to another state or city and then starts rooting for their new city's team, thus abandoning their roots.
In that case, yes, I think that fan might cling to their old team as a way of not forgetting where they came from.
That, however, is not an accurate comparison to what happened here. What happened here is the exact opposite - I never moved. I never left New Jersey. The team came to ME. I was already rooting for a team that did not represent where I was from. And now there's one that does.
Again, it's the exact opposite scenario of the one you compared it to.
The Garden does not smell like a sewer. That's as ridiculous as all the Rangers fans I heard outside the Garden calling NJ horrible, unmentionable names.
Mendhambiker you wrote,"sometimes there are LEGITIMATE reasons for switching. "
Here's what I think is my most legitimate reason for switching. I grew up just outside Newark in a neighborhood of ex-Newarkers who had left the city for dead. You didn't go to Newark. No one did. Then as an adult I really grew to love the city. I am rooting for the city. Hard. All of my sports allegiances were based on teams my parents rooted for. Then, once the Devils came here, for the first time I had a real interest in seeing the team succeed as a business venture. The Devils have so much more at stake than the Rangers. The Rangers can lose and fill the Garden forever. But the Devils have had a harder time. Winning can help that. I can create more fans. It fills the seats. Winning helps the guy I buy burger from at Uber Burger keep his job. Winning means more tips for the waitresses at Brick City Bar and Grill. It means the team might be more likely to stay and I'll actually be able to bring my kids to an NHL game once in a while without spending my whole paycheck. So what do I do? Brush all that aside and root for the Rangers because they wear blue shirts and I always liked the team with blue shirts? Forget it. Go Devils.
Wow. If you only knew how incredibly off base that comment is...
Thanks for the post. Let me say that I'm not entirely so sure I can switch either. In putting this video together I was watching videos of the Rangers 1994 run and I was covered in goosepimples. When you root for a team it actually becomes physiological. We'll see how this all plays out at the series goes on, but through Game 1 I was definitely rooting for the Devils.
Also, this is not just something I woke up one day and decided. This has been about 5 years in the makings, a long slow process of watching less Rangers games and watching more Devils games. The move to Newark is what started it. While I hated going to games in the Meadowlands and couldn't even root for a team that played there, I just cannot get around rooting against a team that plays in Newark. II just can't get past that at all. I think that's really what's driving this.
Thanks for the post. I just want to address one small point you made, just to be clear. I don't cover the Devils and have never covered sports. If this were my beat I'd have no business doing a piece like this.
Mr. or Mrs. Wisdom,
The video had a lot of people expressing a lot of sentiment about the end of the shuttle program and your comment was a jarring contrast to that. That is why I joked about your romanticism or lack of it, in assessing the space program.
I agree that that the benefits of manned space flight have largely been eclipsed by technology that allows us to do much of the same work with no risk of life, and more cheaply. But I do think the benefit of manned space flight is just the romanticism you dismiss. How many kids were inspired by the space shuttle program and then became more interested in science as a result? Maybe they don't become astronauts. Maybe they became programmers or chemists. Or maybe they just are inspired to do a bit better in school and become journalists like me. That's what manned space flight does. It has effected entire generations in little tiny unspoken immeasurable ways. Sorry I can't put a price tag on it for you. No one can.
AllWisdom, you're such a romantic!
If you want to send a message to uj, you can become friends on facebook and do it there. Please don't use these comments to pick arguments with commenters who haven't even chimed in on the post yet.
rusdev: thanks for the comment. What compelled me to do this piece is how strikingly different the governor's reaction was when asked about this compared to the many, many other press conferences at which I've seen him become clearly angry over a certain issue (most for good reasons).
Watching the video of the road rally on a stretch of road I regularly travel (they got off my exit) I could only think those guys could have easily killed me or one of my kids. I frankly found it horrifying to see troopers escorting them.
The governor simply did not seem upset or angry at all and that reaction stunned me. Having lived in NJ for 41 years and covered it for 18, I find when I'm surprised by something it's usually worth exploring and commenting on which is what I try to do with this webcast.

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AFM takes off for Mars
Phoenix, a new NASA mission to Mars that will analyse soil on the red planet in the most detail yet, has taken off from Cape Canaveral. The spacecraft carries several sophisticated instruments, including a new remotely-controlled atomic force microscope (AFM) that can resolve details as small as 200 nm. Results from the spacecraft, expected to land on Mars at the end of May 2008, should tell us whether the planet holds life – or whether it once did.
When it lands on the North Pole of the planet, Phoenix, an international collaboration led by the University of Arizona in the US, will deploy a trenching tool that can dig half a metre into the ground. This is much deeper than the few centimetres achieved in previous missions such as the Mars Rovers and Viking. The spacecraft also carries a weather station and two microscopes – an optical microscope with its own light source and a high-resolution AFM that could also contribute to detecting the presence of water.
"What we are looking for are 'fingerprints' of water in the Martian dust and soil particles," AFM project leader Urs Staufer from the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland told nanotechweb.org. "The texture of particles exposed to water will be different to those generated by rocks just crumbling down. Certain minerals exposed to water are locally attacked, leaving behind etch-pits and the size distribution of particles the AFM finds will also indicate whether fluidic transport occurred."
The new AFM, dubbed FAMARS (First AFM on MARS), has a high resolution and can measure real 3D topography. The instrument contains eight small tips attached to flexible levers. If one of these tips, which will scan the Martian soil during measurements, is damaged during the mission, another will take its place. The instrument's motion will also be damped using internal friction of its suspension system to avoid "mechanical ringing".
During operation, highly energetic ions from outer space can temporarily generate short-cuts (or "latch-ups") inside the instrument's electronic chips, which would cause a current surge that burns the components. To overcome this, the FAMARS scientists will constantly monitor the power lines of the controller using a small circuit that is built from radiation hard material. "As soon as the current gets too high, we switch off the electronics within a fraction of a second," says Staufer.
Another potential problem is the loss of data in temporary registers, adds Staufer. This is overcome by storing the data in three registers at the same time instead of just in one. "It is unlikely that all three cells will get hit by an energetic ion, so the risk of losing data is highly reduced," he explains.
The $420 m Phoenix mission is so-called because it rose from the ashes of two earlier failed Mars missions. Its lander was originally built for the Mars Surveyor mission, planned for 2001 but later cancelled by NASA. Many of its instruments were built or designed for the Mars Polar Lander, which was lost as it entered Mars' atmosphere in 1999.
The team says it is now relaxing for a few days after the successful launch of Phoenix this Saturday atop a Delta II rocket. "We will then continue practicing operations," says Staufer. "This will be a very critical phase where we have to learn how to remotely operate the whole spacecraft."
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Are the Canucks, Blues, and Flames, forming some sort of AHL affiliate swingers club? Sort of!
It's been awhile since we talked about the hockey team in Abbotsford, which makes sense, since they're a Calgary Flames affiliate and this is a Vancouver Canucks blog. But if the Team 1040′s Tom Mayenknecht is correct, it won't be a Flames affiliate for much longer. As has been rumoured for ages, the Canucks are in the process of working out a move that would allow them to set up shop in the Lower Mainland's city in the country.
According to Mayenknecht, as part of a game of musical chairs, the Flames would move the Heat to Utica, leaving Abbotsford for the Canucks, who would then finalize a purchase for the Peoria Rivermen and quickly transform them into the Abbotsford Fraser Rivermen (or, you know, a better name). Meanwhile, the St. Louis Blues would align themselves with the independent Chicago Wolves.
It's a safe bet that this report isn't entirely correct. Blues chief operating officer Bruce Affleck offered a weak denial of the rumour that Peoria was on the way out, but he was strong on one point: "I've had no conversations with the Vancouver Canucks," he told the Peoria Journal Star. "I've had no conversations with the Chicago Wolves."
But he said nothing about the Calgary Flames, who are more than likely the team that will be buying the Peoria Rivermen.
Think about it. What's the sense in buying and moving two franchises when you could save a lot of time and effort by simply moving one? The Blues, Flames and Canucks do appear to be quietly working on this complicated dance number, but if they are, expect the Canucks to take over the operation that's already in Abbotsford rather than purchasing and transporting a whole a new one, while the Flames purchase Peoria and move them to Utica or another market.
(I can't speak to what the Flames might see in New York or how much truth there is to that part of the report. When the Utica rumour hit the Internet a few weeks back, I was told that it was likely based on little more than the offer Utica has been shopping around in hopes of landing an AHL team, not an agreement that's actually been drawn up between them and the Heat. It's possible things have progressed since then, but last I heard, the interest was coming primarily from Utica's end. That's about all I can tell you about Utica — apart from the fact that they don't called hamburgers "steamed hams", which is more of an Albany expression.)
Apart from that, the affiliate juggling Mayenknecht is reporting makes a lot of sense.
It makes sense for the Blues, who are losing money owning the Peoria Rivermen. "(Blues GM) Doug Armstrong and Tom Stillman look at the AHL operation as research and development investment for players," Affleck said. "You lose money there. Very few teams in the AHL make money."
It makes sense for the Canucks, who would likely be one of those very few teams making money if they controlled the affiliate in Abbotsford. Attendance for Heat games has pretty much always subpar, but it's better when the Canucks' prospects come to town. Thus, if the Canucks' prospects were always in town, it's a safe bet that attendance would always be better.
It also makes sense for the Calgary Flames, although you wouldn't think so at first. Their 10-year deal with the city of Abbotsford is, at least on paper, fantastic. If they fail to reap $5.7 million in any given season, Abbotsford taxpayers, not the club's owners, pick up the slack. In other words, while the Blues are feeling the ill effects of an unprofitable franchise, the Flames aren't. Add in the fact that their affiliate is just an hour's flight away and you can understand why they'd be reluctant to just pack up and go.
Over at the ever-cynical Canucks Army, Thomas Drance used these perfectly reasonable facts to fuel his skepticism about this report. "Why exactly would the Flames willingly move their risk-free AHL affilliate from the Fraser Valley to New York state?" he asked.
It's a good question, but there are plenty of answers. Here are four that start with the same letter: pride, public relations, pressure, and proximity.
The Heat aren't working in Abbotsford. Despite four years in the market, their profits are declining annually. Taxpayers have now paid $3.58 million to the club and counting. Furthermore, if attendance numbers were going to increase, it really should have happened with the NHL in a lockout and the Heat coming off their best season ever. Instead, things have gotten worse. That's embarrassing.
Sure, the Flames could gleefully ignore this and let the wound sit open while Abbotsford bleeds for them, but then they'd find themselves in a situation where they're effectively shrugging their shoulders as they bleed a small town dry through subsidies. That's just terrible public relations for an NHL franchise, especially a franchise based in notoriously conservative Alberta. It only gets worse coming on the heels of Daryl Katz and the Oilers' public money grabs in Edmonton. Do you really want to be compared to that odious situation?
No, the Flames aren't nearly as comfortable running a lame-duck organization and suckling taxpayer teat like a greedy piglet as you'd think.
Plus, there is pressure from other groups at play here. Even if the Flames could laugh it up and sit back, there are members of the local community that have to continue to operate a franchise in an area growing increasingly frustrated with everyone involved. We already know the city council wants this desperately. When asked if he'd like the Canucks' affiliate in town, Abbotsford mayor Bruce Banman likened it to winning the lottery.
And outside of Abbotsford, the AHL, who is trying to run a legitimate professional sports league that doesn't, you know, ruin communities, will take a big P.R. hit the longer this drags on as well.
Don't count out the AHL's interests here. They've struggled in recent years to establish themselves in the West. The Heat really are out in the middle of nowhere for what essentially amounts to a bus league. But the league is working on it, and if they can work alongside the NHL in their current attempt to realign their divisions and link teams in the same time zone, the American Hockey League might be able to grow a bona fide Western division (as opposed to one that has the Toronto Marlies in it, absurdly). The AHL is in flux right now, as always, and not just with the musical chairs Mayenknecht is reporting. Turning an untenable situation in Abbotsford into a profitable hub in the West is in the best interests of the whole brand, and they're likely to do what they can to urge this move towards fruition.
But the Heat's isolation is problematic for the Flames as well. While Abbotsford's proximity to Calgary may be convenient for the big club, it's terribly inconvenient for little ones. Consider that, while most of the other AHL teams are bussing from place to place, no longer than 8 hours, and returning to their own beds and significant others most nights, the Heat's players are travelling about 100 days a year. Their nutrition suffers, their sleep suffers, their relationships suffer (and these are young people, remember), and they don't get nearly as much practice and improvement time as other clubs. The AHL is a developmental league, and running a franchise on an island is counterintuitive in a lot of ways.
This is a problem the Canucks will be forced to deal with as well, and one I would hope they've considered. Unless the AHL really does make some in-roads into growing the league out West — which is difficult to do with the WHL hoarding the best nearby markets like Seattle, Portland, and even Victoria — the Canucks' kids will feel this isolation too. The upside here, of course, is that the Canucks' brass are just 45 minutes up the road.
Granted, the Flames may not just generously step aside so Francesco Aquilini can waltz in and make money hand over fist, especially since they aren't exactly best buds with the Canucks. For that reason, it's still probably going to take a little grease for Calgary to roll out.
But from the sounds of it, it will be a whole lot easier than you'd think. Nothing is official yet, but if I were a betting man, I'd say that the Canucks' prospects will be looking for living quarters near Abbotsford's King Road shortly after their season wraps up.
Even though I would be really sad to see the team that introduced me to the fantastic game of hockey leave the valley, this idea has always made a lot of sense to me.
On top of that, if it does all come together, we would have the awesomeness that is Eddie Lack live and in person, and not just via twitter. That alone is worth the price of admission, which hopefully won't increase to much if the nucks farm team does arrive in town this summer/fall.
Wow, the Vancouver Giants must hate this idea!
I can see myself driving out to catch Nicklas Jensen and Eddie Lack in action. It's just a no-brainer in terms of consumer dollars. Can you imagine how much attendance the Canuck's farm team would get from Minor hockey related endorsements alone?
OMG, the pihlet teat comment was hilarious.
Sidenote. The additional travel requirement in the West for an AHL team will be foremost on Canucks managements minds. Let's not kid ourselves. This is a team who brought in witch doctors, nutritionists, work closely with the NHL every year to mitigate the scheduling. They know what it's like, you can bet their witch/sleep doctor, nutritionists and other out of the box practitioner will be doing double duty in the Vancouver area with both teams.
It would have made way too much sense for the Canucks to have put their affiliate in Victoria to replace the Salmon Kings a couple of years back. An AHL team in Victoria, combined with the Heat in Abbotsford, would have placed 2 AHL teams in the west, and both teams could have split the travel subsidy presently paid by Abbotsford to teams coming out west for games.
AHL teams could have flown in and played 2 games against the Heat & 2 games in Victoria in 1 trip over the space of a week; there would have been a natural rivalry between Abbotsford & Victoria; Canuck fans on the island would have had easy access to quality professional hockey; and lastly, Canuck fans on the mainland could take an over-priced ferry ride to an AHL game in Victoria and still spend less money than going to a Canuck game.
Not to mention that having an AHL team in Victoria pick up part of the travel subsidy would have likely had a positive impact on the hit on Abbotsford taxpayers.
Totally win/win/win/win
I've been to a lot of Victoria Royals WHL games, and I've never seen less than 4,000 in the stands. If there were an AHL team, especially the Canucks farm team, the 7,000 capacity would be sold out in season ticket sales. That could easily start the buzz to fund a new stadium in Nanaimo and bring in another farm team for a Western NHL team, and Voila! the AHL west is on a roll.
Frankly, I see no reason not to have the AHL Victoria Orcas as the farm team for the Canucks right now. Clearly there is something I don't understand. The bumpf about "Stadium too small" is not convincing to me. I suspect local politics.
I don't understand why minor league hockey is not split into smaller regional leagues like it is in baseball. It's in the interest of *all* the Western teams to have a league farther west so that the teams can all play against one another, not to have like 85% of the teams in upstate New York. There's no need for eastern and western minor league teams to play against each other ever, except maybe in a cute Memorial Cup-type dealie for each league winner at the end of the season.
A concern I have about the Canucks' minor league affiliate being right in the home market, though, is the exposure of the young guys to NHL-style media and fans right away. While Manitoba Moose fans would go to cheer on their AHL team first and foremost (and wax poetic about the days of Mike Eagles and Fredrik Olausson), fans of the Abbotsford Millionaires (or whoever) will be going to watch individual Canuck prospects, meaning they'll be freaking out HFBoards-style every time a higher-profile Jensen type fails to register 15 goals in a period, booing prospects for not running an NHL-caliber power play, etc. The local media will have a lot more attention on the prospects as well. I don't know what Toronto's experience has been like in this respect, perhaps the fans are more reasonable than I'm giving them credit for.
The other thing I haven't wrapped my head around (mostly because I haven't tried) is why full-on franchise purchases and relocations need to happen here. AHL affiliates get passed around NHL teams like crabs. They rotate every couple of years anyway. What's different this time round that necessitates actual wheeling and dealing between the NHL teams? (Can we get Peoria for Ballard?)


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SUFFOLK will be led out of its "shameful" education slump by the schools of Ipswich - that's the message from the town's MP.
Ben Gummer was speaking after a visit to the town by Her Majesty's Chief Inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw, head of Ofsted.
Sir Michael was meeting with a cohort of town headteachers at Copleston High School to talk about the changes Ofsted is making to help headteachers and the challenges they face in raising standards.
Mr Gummer, who organised the visit, said the session had proved very useful for everyone involved.
He said: "You cannot say anything else other than the results that we have had through are shameful and no excuse is good enough.
"Of course there are reasons, many reasons, but you can't make excuses for it because every time we do that we are failing a year group.
"So the question is how do we turn it around - that's why I am pleased to show Sir Michael two schools in Ipswich; St Mark's, which is an 'outstanding' school and as you go around it is patently outstanding. Then I took him to Copleston, which I think probably wasn't performing to its full potential a few years ago but under Shaun Common is doing amazing things and this is a school that's on the up and that's why I was so pleased to take him here.
"He recognised both those judgements of those schools. We've got a very strong set of leaders in Ipswich and they are determined to lead the county out of the place that it is at the moment and I am completely confident they will.
"Can we turn this around? Yes - I know we can and I know we'll be led by Ipswich."
Sir Michael, who took up his past a year ago, said the quality of leadership and teaching was key to driving progress and that parents and the county council had to play their part.
He said: "The results are pretty poor and the local authority has got to look to itself to see what they can do to support heads and challenge heads to do better than they are doing at the moment. All heads throughout England face the same challenges. The challenges here are the same as any other part of England but if you look at the demographics in Suffolk, if you look at the numbers of children on free school meals, it's not as challenging as elsewhere in other parts of the country which are doing better. Therefore Suffolk needs to look at the reasons why standards aren't as high as they should be."
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Our MP needs to consider that this situation is made worse from larger and larger immigration from the EU - a status and position he openly supports. The School system needs investment and less meddling from self important politicians.
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Low educational standards is indicative of the general poor infrastructure in Suffolk. A self-fulfilling prophecy of carrot munching yokels.
Monday, January 28, 2013
Mr Gummer a very large percentage of kids don't speak English. I think you need to look at the bigger picture young man. Maybe visit more than 2 schools.
Monday, January 28, 2013
Ben Gummer is on here everyday campaigning about something or other, but nothing ever changes.
Monday, January 28, 2013
Ben gummer has got this spot on the schools are letting the children down it is great that mr gummer is working so hard to get this bad school back to top form now well done mr gummer top work.
Monday, January 28, 2013
Mr Gummer should have a good look at his own Govt's cuts in public spending which has meant local authorities have had to pass on those cuts to schools. Let's take nothing away from the work done at St Mark's and Copleston but one is a voluntary aided RC school and the other is an Academy. Conveniently Mr Gummer's choice of schools to visit are examples of what happens when there is an inbalance of resources. The Tories understand the advantages of the 'best education money can buy' because that's the system they came through.
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Voluma Injections Help Lift the Cheeks giving a Smooth and Natural Result
In the vast majority of patients, you should not feel unevenness or bumps a day after your injections of Voluma. You may have mild swelling and some light massage in encouraged. However, if you have market asymmetry, pain or bumps, you need to contact your injector to discuss your issue as this is atypical. In general, Voluma injections are virtually painless (aside from a small prick of the needle entering the skin - and even this is generally numbed with anesthetic cream or ice prior to injection). Additionally, the Juvederm XC is now mixed pre-packaged with lidocaine with help with ease of injection. While some fillers do swell after they are injected, Voluma has low hydrophilic potential, meaning that it does not absorb fluid and does not swell as much as other fillers. So, usually what you see immediately after you are injection is what your result will look like. If you are still having issues, I would suggest following up with your injector and if you are not satisfied, I would seek out a well qualified injector or board certified plastic surgeon.
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Swelling, bruising, and tenderness can occur after treatment
While swelling, bruising, and tenderness can occur, there are a few things you can do before your next treatment to reduce and camouflage after-treatment bruising like avoiding any blood thinners before treatment and using topical Arnica gel and oral tablets to help with recovery.
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If you are unhappy with your injecting physician's care, please make sure your find another surgeon or dermatologist in the future who has significant experience with Voluma. As Voluma is a new filler manufactured by Allergan, most injectors' experiences are limited. I would seek out a plastic surgeon in your area who has extensive experience with injecting cheek fillers and typically performs many facial surgeries, as he/she is thus more likely to be familiar with the anatomy in that area, which can be variable even from one side of the face to the other. I would also ask for a plastic surgeon who took the Allergan Expert Hands-on training course specific for Voluma injection.
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With my patients, I like to use the mantra that if it bothers you, it bothers me, so do not hesitate to come see me. I'm sure your physician is in the same boat, so do not hesitate to go see them.
Normal aftercare for filler injections can include massage and icing, again this depends on the technique your physician used to inject. Voluma in particular is not terribly hydrophilic, which means if there is edema surrounding it, it should go away and will not likely be volume that is retained by the filler.
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An open-ended story is an invitation to see your own situation from a fresh perspective. Unlike conventional stories, there is no specific point or moral or lesson to take away. It can be enjoyed for itself, or converted figuratively to help interpret an actual situation in a new way. In this sense, it is not an intellectual exercise, rather just an opportunity to see if any ideas resonate.
You may interpret it in your own way. Further, as time and conditions change, an individual may see a different aspect from one reading to the next. And if this type of thing doesn't interest you or nothing resonates, just pass on by.
The Centipede
Once a centipede was asked how he could operate all of his numerous feet in such an orderly manner without getting them confused. The centipede shook his head, shrugged, and said that he had never given it a thought. From that time on, the centipede became unable to move, the legs all got in the way of one another. Only when there was a loud noise that frightened him could he move as before. The rest of the time he stumbled.
Here are a couple of points to chew on:
When does thought get in the way?
What is the appropriate use?
What other methods of cognition are available and how can they be developed?
The entries in this blog often follow the line that "Thinking helps", but thinking is only part of it.
A different type of thinking limitation, cultural conditioning, is illustrated in the story: Tewa Initiation and Clifford Geertz