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It's not as if the wall space in my apartment is getting any
bigger, but still, I'm always looking at works of art and murmuring, "I know
just the place for you..." And for the past several years I've been particularly
drawn to works on paper. The mark-making and drawing techniques used can be so
unique from artist to artist. And when I look at drawings, I feel like I can
relate to the artist and really understand how he or she works more than I
sometimes can when looking at a finished painting. Here are a few of those drawings that
inspire me and hold a place in my heart.
He was my first...
MC Escher was the first draftsman I remember being aware of
as an artist. Obviously, I had seen other drawings before, but learning his
name, and looking at a catalog of an artist's work—I'm pretty sure he was my
first. And to a certain extent that is telling about what I hold dear in a
drawing. As in Still Life with Street, I want to see something surprising and unusual in the drawings that I see, and Escher's work is definitely
that, and they also always seem to blur the line between realistic work and fantasy art. There is also his incredible command of the medium. I mean, in each of
his drawings, every line looks so right. The drawing techniques he employs are incredibly well executed. He's moved beyond reality to draw things that are out of this world and can trick the eye into believing, if just for a second, what his fantasy images are depicting. And his precision with his mark-making is extraordinary. The fact that this drawing is a woodcut—incredible!
Just haunting...
The sensitivity and beauty of Female Nude with Green Shawl Seen from Behind takes my breath
away. It is so quiet and introspective from a narrative standpoint, but I also
just love the way the Käthe Kollwitz drew it. The deep luscious green of the
wrap at the figure's hips, the warm shadows around her, the smudges of her
vertebrae and shoulder blades, and the white highlight along her collarbone—it is mesmerizing how
she created something so lovely using so few marks. And I'm especially haunted by the way Kollwitz shows light on the form. Haunted because the delicacy of the glints on the figure's shoulders and the sensitive line of light that brushes her right arm--I don't think I'll ever get there. But I'm grateful to have seen it!
Black and white, meet kaleidoscope...
Charlotte Schulz is one of my favorite artists. The way she
can use charcoal is so incredible. It is like she just breathes it on—the
gradations from light to dark are that subtle. I also love the way she uses and even constructs the
paper she draws on. The fact that she doesn't always create works that parallel, or are in any way
hemmed in by the conventional four corners of a piece of paper is really powerful to me
because it means that she is completely immersed in what she is drawing and doesn't
let surface restrictions limit her work. If she wants something to jut off or fold away, she does it, even if it means altering her surface. And the way she merges different spaces together is mesmerizing and kaleidoscopic as they evolve into one another, becoming fantasy artwork that I could (and have) looked at for hours.
I love looking closely at drawings like these because it seems like the artists
usually reveal something of themselves in them. Drawing magazine does the same thing—deep, thoughtful analysis of
drawings and showcasing artists that I always seem to be surprised and intrigued by.
Whether you want classical practice and drawing techniques or inspiration from the
contemporary draftsmen and -women who are working today, a subscription to Drawing brings them all to you. So
you can start your drawing fantasy list, just like I have. Now if I can only
get my hands on another few walls...
P.S. What did you think of my drawing choices? What drawings would you give pride of place on your walls?
Leave a comment and let me know.
schultz's work blows me away. i like best the immersion into her work and her ability to ignore the four corners...to work outside the box...not to be contained says much to me about her personality...someone i would like to meet...common feelings of stretching and growing and not letting life, age, etc. stand in the way.
Charlotte Schulz is a genius! Thank you for leading me to discovering her amazing works and process of creation.
I'll never forget the Käthe Kollwitz show in Washington, DC years ago. It made a massive impression on me and her work has served as a great inspiration. The picture you chose was a standout in an ocean of black and white (all beautiful), I went to that show probably half a dozen times while it was up and I was awestruck every time I stood in front of the female nude. Great choices!
Escher, Da Vinci, and Durer
Courtney, your choices are fantastic. Beautiful work, you chose. I am currently in a Drawing Class, and my Instructor just brought in a book on Kathe Kollwitz, stating she was her favorite. Then you come along with this article. What a coincidence! Your tender description said it all. I need to subscribe to your Drawing Magazine. Thank you.
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The short version: I spent the summer of 2012 traveling in my hometown and home province like I do when I'm traveling "away."
The long version: I got help. My travel was limited. Limited time-wise to weekends and limited financially by having to rent cars. It was mostly be daytrips for the same reason.
The updated version: Operation Hometown Traveler 2013 is already underway. New adventures will be added as quickly as I can add them!
Through Operational Hometown Traveler, I'll do my best to show Nova Scotians and visitors alike there are lots of fun things to do, see, and eat here. I've often said being a traveler is a matter of perspective. Since I don't get to travel abroad as much as I'd like, I treat my home province like an unexplored destination. Using published travel guides and information from tourism promotion organizations, sourcing through social media, and good ol' fashioned recommendations, I'm seeking out fun, unique things to see in every part of the province.
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Halifax – Capital Region:
Beaches (x5!) and a Nova Scotia surfing safari?
Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History
Finding the Berlin Wall in Nova Scotia
Looking for spirits on the Halifax Ghost Walk
Tall Ships 2012 Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5
Georges Island in Halifax Harbour – so near, so far
Celebrating Bastille Day, le 14 juillet, Halifax-style
Eating around Halifax with Local Tasting Tours
A burger trek to Dartmouth by land and sea
Halifax's Maritime Museum of the Atlantic
Epic Trek #1: To Dartmouth and back
Epic Trek #3: Back to Dartmouth (and back!)
South Shore
Beaches (x5!) and a Nova Scotia surfing safari?
Wine Wednesday: New-to-me Nova Scotia wineries
Finding the Berlin Wall in Nova Scotia
Finding the World's Best Clams in Queens County
Northern Nova Scotia:
Sweet escape: Maple sugar season in northern Nova Scotia
Guest post: Awesome Amherst by L-A
Roadside attractions: Big and tall, little and small
Central Nova Scotia:
Tidal bore rafting: uniquely Nova Scotian
Economy's cheese, animal friends and glorious waterfall
Finding the Berlin Wall in Nova Scotia
Guest post: Edible adventures and strawberry U-Picks in Truro by Kathy
Truro discoveries – food, farmers market, and more Berlin Wall
Not Since Moses – Run across the floor of the ocean
Alien pheasants at the Provincial Wildlife Park
Annapolis Valley:
Wine Wednesday: New-to-me Nova Scotia wineries
Annapolis Valley wine country, Grand Pré's Acadians, and Hall's Harbour
Animal friends at Nova Scotia's farm markets
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We're never averse to borrowing a bon mot or two wherever we find it, especially when it comes from British friend (and TFP travel correspondent) Keith Fletcher.
We were sitting in our living room chatting with him on the phone about a future trans-Atlantic visit and events from our mutual past when he closed with a typical Fletcherian flourish:
"Yes, even nostalgia isn't what it used to be!"
Well, we're not so sure of that, because looking around a room loaded with tchotchkes captured during a lifetime of travel, we realized how every item we've ever collected, while of negligible monetary value, still manages to trigger instant nostalgia for a particular place, a special person, a great adventure and, as such, is priceless.
To us, at least.
Like two black and red graffitied fragments of the Berlin Wall and a couple of tiny model Trabant cars — one in blue ceramic, the other in pea green metal — that will forever transport us back to an epic East German journey in the winter of 1989 and the unexpected hospitality of a Dresden family who welcomed us into their modest home — we were the very first Westerners they had ever seen!
Then there are the pebbles. Several of them, celebrating long-distance walks. Along the River Thames. And across Britain. Plus a more substantial wooden plaque etched with dates, distances, names and some battered boots and bleating sheep.
On another shelf sit pieces of Polish folk art — in leather and glass — from trips to Krakow and Warsaw and the Tatra Mountains. There's also leaded crystal from the early days of the Czech Republic. A hand-colored quirky cartoon of Prague city spires. A carved wooden loving spoon from a Welsh mining village. And models of a double decker bus and a London taxi mingling with an assortment of coffee mugs and a marble statuette of David picked up at Michelangelo's house in Florence.
On the fireplace mantel, our parade of bibelots continues, anchored by a large and fanciful drawing of Bergen Harbor, home base for a fleet of freighters that daily ply the rugged Norwegian coast to Kirkenes — 600 miles north of the Arctic Circle.
Our print, discovered in a Bergen art gallery, duplicates one in the stairwell of our favorite freighter, the M/S Narvik (now decommissioned), that we rode up to the Russian border on several occasions.
Alongside is an exquisitely flowered papier-mache plate born in Kashmir but picked up for a song from an artisan's workshop in northern Sweden … a battered pewter bowl from the Loire Valley … and an Australian vase in brown and yellow Outback hues from Adelaide.
More Antipodean memories come from stuffed koalas and kangaroos, CDs of Aussie folk music, a Sydney scene that lights up and plays "Waltzing Matilda" on demand and a beautiful and rather expensive print of a lush rain forest Jabiru bought in an art store in Palm Cove, Northern Oz, to celebrate a wedding … or a special birthday … or an anniversary. Can't quite remember which, but we love it anyway!
One memento stands supreme, however.
It's a silver-plated horseshoe mounted on a plaque and given to us by a dear departed friend, Robin Porter.
Robin was a mounted policeman attached to the royal household where he looked after Burmese, the queen of England's favorite horse. Robin rode with the queen in parades and on state visits and when she exercised Burmese in the grounds of Windsor Castle.
Our horseshoe was worn by Burmese during the Trooping of the Colour on June 14, 1986.
Reminding us of other quadrapeds … and of high Swiss mountain meadows … are three real-deal cowbells bought at an Interlaken farm store. The canals and carnivals of Venice come to life in original art from a talented Toledo artist and travel friend, Tom Durnford. While astride a bannister watching all the in-house action sits Fred, an uncharacteristically large, black Beanie bear hailing from the very hotel in Michigan's U.P. where "Anatomy of a Murder" was filmed 50 years ago.
And so it goes.
Pictures. Mugs. Models. Statuettes. Stuffed animals. Stones. Rocks. And CDs. Knickknacks picked up in a half century of overseas travel, providing us with instant memories and proving our friend all wrong.
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Video:Health Effects of Alcohol Abuse on Womenwith Dr. Ingrid Mathieu
Alcohol abuse affects a woman's health differently than a man's. Watch this About.com video to learn why and interesting statistics concerning the health effects of alcohol abuse on women.See Transcript
Transcript:Health Effects of Alcohol Abuse on Women
Hello, my name is Dr. Ingrid Mathieu. I am a clinical psychologist and today we'll be discussing the health effects of alcohol abuse on women.
Why Women React Differently to Alcohol Abuse
The center for disease control and prevention reports that approximately 8% of women will meet criteria for alcohol dependence at some point in their lives.
Women's drinking patterns are different from men's – especially when it comes to how much and how often they drink.
Women's bodies react differently to alcohol because
- Women typically weigh less than men
- Pound for pound, women have less water in their bodies than men do, and alcohol dissolves in water. So when a man and woman of the same weight drink the same amount of alcohol – the woman's blood alcohol level will be higher – putting her at greater risk for harm.
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By tully | "Boredom at Its Boredest" by Michael Tully December 31, 2007 at 3:35AM
I am in a rather fortunate position when it comes to seeing movies. As a filmmaker, I get to attend festivals; as a film reviewer, I get to attend press screenings; as a New Yorker, I get to experience the world of retrospectives and other rare, inspired treats; and as a movie loving nerd, I can visit the multiplex to get my Hollywood fix. Which is to say that things get complicated when trying to compile an annual "best of the year" list. That's because I've seen at least five new movies in 2007 that I would like to place on this year's list, but since they won't be getting an official theatrical release until 2008 I technically can't do that. On the other side of that coin is the realization that I actually saw many of the best films of this year last year, or the year before that (see: Regular Lovers, Offside, and Syndromes and a Century). Finally, let us not forget about those older films that had never received a theatrical release until 2007 (I'm talking about you, Killer of Sheep). In order to keep from going too crazy, I'm simply going to err on the side of way-more-is-hopefully-better and make a bunch of separate lists to distinguish between all of this year's cinematic goodness. I should also mention that while I stand behind every film on my Top 10 List, it's strange how many of them were this close to flat-out greatness, but something arose that kept me from giving all the way in. Having said that, I still think 2007 was a phenomenal year for movies, and to prove it I'm going to get even dorkier than usual. Are you sitting down? Got a full pot of coffee? Got a full night's rest? Here we go.
Special Jury Award For a Film That Doesn't Belong In a List:
Frownland (Ronald Bronstein, USA)
In 2007, no film electrified, energized, and inspired me more than Ronald Bronstein's Frownland. I would go so far as to call it a work of genius, and I don't use that term lightly. It certainly helps that Bronstein's checklist of inspirational sources reflects my own personal influences in almost every single way, but what makes Bronstein so exceptional is his ability to combine his influences with his own hyper-smart vision and produce something that is wholly distinct and original. This is one of those rare, special works that feels like it couldn't have been made by anyone else. That's because it couldn't have. Frownland is so inspiring it's intimidating.
A Second Viewing Is Necessary to Determine Just How Impressive These Films Are:
There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)
For the first two hours and twenty minutes of Paul Thomas Anderson's breathtakingly majestic horror/western/epic/oil-black comedy, I was prepared to call it The Best Movie Ever Made. And then came that final chapter, "1927," when his masterfully constructed balloon popped like a weak, gaudy fart. To me, that finale was unearned and cartoonishly executed, like an outtake from Boogie Nights or something. I walked out of the theater feeling a tragic sense of disappointment. However, those first two hours cannot be denied, and that is why I am driving to DC tonight to see it at midnight. My hunch is that the climax will be less jarring the second time around. I'm just not convinced that it will work completely for me. If it doesn't, I worry that I'll never be able to preach the glories of There Will Be Blood the way that I want to. But hopefully time and more viewings will reshape my appreciation. (Note: I have just woken up after my second viewing and I am disappointed to say that my reaction wasn't what I had hoped for. Rather than waste more space writing my own murky thoughts, I would like to point you in the direction of Matt Zoller Seitz's incredible PTA/Blood essay, which sums up my feelings more eloquently and exactly than I ever could.)
Zodiac (David Fincher, USA)
As with PTA, I've never been a disciple of David Fincher. So I went into Zodiac not expecting much. Actually, I was expecting less than much. To be honest, I thought I was going to hate it (see my "Biggest Surprise" winner below for another example of how low/no expectations can trigger a pleasant result--screw high expectations!). I knew that this one had a long running time, and I remember checking my phone at one point and thinking, "Whoa, it's only been an hour?" The next thing I remember, the credits were rolling and it felt like twenty minutes had passed. Like the best type of filmmaking, Fincher's anti-procedural establishes its own rhythm, where time unfolds like a drugged-out dream. For me, what makes Zodiac so inventive and revelatory is that, underneath its artistic surface, it's really just an average TV movie-of-the-week. That's why I need to see it a second time before I can decide if the art or TV wins, or if it does, in fact, masterfully ride such an impossibly delicate line.
Best Narrative Features:
1. Once (John Carney, Ireland)
When looking over the list of films that I saw in 2007, I simply cannot deny that John Carney's Once thrilled me more than any other. I realize that the following problem doesn't necessarily have to do with the film itself, yet I cannot ignore the fact that I had the awful curse of far-too-lofty expectations going into it for the first time, which makes my reaction all the more miraculous. For some reason, I didn't get to see it until its official theatrical release in the summer, after having read months upon months of gushing praise about it. By that point, I had built up a level of expectation that was irrational and couldn't possibly be met. And then I finally saw it, by myself, on a lonely, rainy Wednesday afternoon, and I'll be damned if it didn't shatter my impossible-to-meet expectations. While on the surface, Once might appear to be nothing more than a low-budget, sincere love story, I consider it to be a revolutionary addition to the film canon. By using an unpolished production value to his advantage, Carney has reinvented the seemingly exhausted musical genre, giving it a sense of immediacy and intimacy that I never dreamed was impossible. Not to mention the fact that this is actually an anti-romance, where the lovers technically don't fall in love. Or, rather, they do fall in love, but their situation won't allow them to be together. What makes Once such a miraculous achievement is that, at its core, it is contradictory to everything it appears to be on the surface. Yet it retains the feeling of a classic movie romance at the exact same time.
2. Regular Lovers (Phillipe Garrel, France)
I first saw this back in 2005 (then again in 2006, then again in 2007), but since it had an official release this year, it must be included on my list. Philippe Garrel's masterwork carried me away like few films have done this decade, if not ever. While on the surface, it's a hauntingly gorgeous ode to late-1960s Paris and the French New Wave, it is also a profound ode to that sorrowful moment when one realizes that their innocence has slipped away forever (or to quote a lyric from my number one album of the year, The National's Boxer: Another uninnocent, elegant fall/Into the unmagnificent lives of adults). Granted, I would put this film at number two even if we were only considering the unforgettable dance sequence set to The Kinks' "This Time Tomorrow," (good try, but you'll never tarnish this moment for me, Wes Anderson!), but I think the entire film is extraordinary and special and will stand the test of time.
3. Offside (Jafar Panahi, Iran)
I actually saw Jafar Panahi's electrifying, immediate Offside in the fall of 2006 and haven't had a chance to revisit it yet, but it would be unfair for me to leave it off this list. That's because Offside is one of the more alive films of recent memory. Panahi's achievement is that he manages to capture life in modern Iran with fly-on-the-lens specificity while telling a broad, universal story at the exact same time. Add this to your Netflix queue immediately. That is an order.
4. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu, Romania)
Cristian Mungiu's Palme d'Or winner is another major achievement for Romanian cinema, featuring a virtuosic tour-de-force of a supporting performance by Vlad Ivanov. Read my NYFF review here.
5. Great World of Sound (Craig Zobel, USA)
Craig Zobel's excellent debut feature establishes him as one of American cinema's smartest new voices. Great World of Sound is independent filmmaking at its most impressive: inventive, intelligent, and entertaining. The lack of audience for this striking work really disappointed me, because I think it has the ability to impact anyone who watches it. Zobel's movie retains an overriding humanity and sympathy that never devolves into all-out cynicism. Not many directors could pull off this tightrope act. Craig Zobel is a major force to be reckoned with. Thankfully, we'll be reckoning with him for many years to come.
6. This is England (Shane Meadows, UK)
In a year filled with films that contained 90% greatness, only to be tarnished by flashes of "what were they thinking," Shane Meadows' decision to use a Smiths cover at the end of his grittily fantastic portrait of 1980s England almost destroyed my appreciation of it. But even that couldn't ruin the preceding ninety minutes of magic. Thomas Turgoose is the discovery of the year, and everything about the look and feel of this film is, to quote a character, sterling.
7. Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand)
Thank Earth for Apichatpong Weerasethakul, who is delivering a vision unlike any other. Syndromes and a Century is like the first sunny day after a devastating tsunami, in which everyone is simply happy to be alive. I have a pretty low tolerance for pretension, which is why I'm so awed by Weerasethakul, whose works transcend the normal limits of what cinema can do without feeling forced or phony. And, oh yeah, aside from Beau Travail, this might just be the best ending ever.
8. No Country For Old Men (Ethan and Joel Coen, USA)
I've seen this twice, and it stunned me both times. I don't know if it's possible to deliver a more perfect display of genre filmmaking, from the cinematography to the sound design to the editing to the writing to the acting. I doubt the Coen Brothers will ever make a work that transcends genre and escapes its "movie" confines, which is fine with me, but No Country For Old Men is as close to spiritual transcendence as a thriller can get.
9. Into the Wild (Sean Penn, USA)
I was skeptical about how I felt during the first fifteen minutes of Sean Penn's ambitious, heartfelt drama, but at some point I gave in completely. I read someone recently who said that they felt like they could have watched the movie for an entire day and I agree completely. Penn expertly crafts his narrative, to the point where we forget we're watching a movie and are instead taking this journey alongside Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch, who keeps getting better and better). Even the Eddie Vedder plot song concept, which would normally distract me, felt like the right decision to make. Into the Wild has its heart rooted in the sprawling American classics made by the likes of Carroll Ballard, and it confirms Penn's status as one of our country's true mavericks.
10. Rescue Dawn (Werner Herzog, USA)
While Into the Wild felt like one of those epic natural dramas from the 1970s, Rescue Dawn is like a lost classic from the 1980s. Watching Werner Herzog's powerfully acted fictional adaptation of his stellar documentary, Little Dieter Needs to Fly, made me feel like I was a teenager again, watching an R-rated war movie with my dad. I can't tell you how refreshing it is to sit through an entire movie that is unabashedly innocent and contains not one frame of irony. Admittedly, the ending pushes this concept to its limits, but as with This is England, even that wasn't enough to disturb my overall appreciation of Herzog's stellar achievement.
Ten More:
11. The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik, USA)
12. Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy, USA)
13. Quiet City (Aaron Katz, USA)
14. La Vie En Rose (Olivier Dahan)
15. A Mighty Heart (Michael Winterbottom, USA)
16. The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Germany)
17. In Between Days (So Yong Kim, South Korea/Canada)
18. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel, USA)
19. Hannah Takes the Stairs (Joe Swanberg, USA)
20. The Bourne Ultimatum (Paul Greengrass, USA)
Ten More:
21. I Know Who Killed Me (Chris Sivertson, USA)
22. The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson, USA)
23. Romance and Cigarettes (John Turturro, USA)
24. Joshua (George Ratliff, USA)
25. Red Road (Andrea Arnold, UK)
26. Margot at the Wedding (Noah Baumbach, USA)
27. The Host (Bong Joon-ho, South Korea)
28. The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Ken Loach, UK)
29. Blades of Glory (Josh Gordon and Will Speck, USA)
30. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Tim Burton, USA)
Ten More:
30. Them (David Moreau and Xavier Palud, France/Romania)
31. Superbad (Greg Mottola, USA)
32. 28 Weeks Later (Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, UK/Spain)
33. Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, France)
34. Knocked Up (Judd Apatow, USA)
35. Blood Car (Alex Orr, USA)
36. Live-In Maid (Jorge Gaggero, Argentina)
37. Murder Party (Jeremy Saulnier, USA)
38. Tears of the Black Tiger (Wisit Sasanatieng, Thailand)
39. Day Night Day Night (Julia Loktev, USA)
40. Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (Scott Glosserman, USA)
Two More:
41. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Sidney Lumet, USA)
42. Starting Out in the Evening (Andrew Wagner, USA)
Best Documentary Features:
1. The Unforeseen (Laura Dunn, USA)
Laura Dunn's remarkably assured debut made me feel the way I felt when I read The Grapes of Wrath for the first time. I've talked to a lot of people who think this film is naïve and impractical, but that's why I love it so much. While it is reaching for a perhaps unattainable, unrealistic vision of life, at least it's reaching. Dunn's refusal to demonize Gary Bradley is something that most advocates wouldn't allow themselves to do, yet Dunn understands that pointing fingers and attacking one's rivals does nothing to better the situation. I understand that development is necessary and while The Unforeseen doesn't address that problem directly, that doesn't matter to me. I consider it to be one of the most life-affirming films I've seen this decade.
2. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (Seth Gordon, USA)
Seth Gordon clearly struck documentary filmmaking gold after stumbling into this battle between good guy Steve Wiebe and awful guy Billy Mitchell, but his telling of the story is what makes The King of Kong such an awesome thrill ride. I don't know if I've ever loathed a character as much as Billy Mitchell. To hear that they're turning this into a fictional feature seems like the stupidest idea ever. This documentary is the fictional feature.
3. No End in Sight (Charles Ferguson, USA)
Charles Ferguson delivers a treatise with a level of objectivity that even pro-Bush supporters will have a hard time dismissing. The world needs more work like this, which removes its personal emotions and focuses on the facts at hand. Any other way is simply preaching to the choir. How in the hell did this happen? Um, this is how it happened.
4. Lake of Fire (Tony Kaye, USA)
Tony Kaye's sprawling opus is like the abortion debate itself: ugly, messy, emotional, complex, and shocking. While it's impossible to distill the situation into any cohesive unit, and while Kaye's film could perhaps deal with more female voices and middle-of-the-road points-of-view, there is no denying its power. The climax, which follows a young woman as she willingly chooses to remove the life inside her womb, is one of the more devastating scenes of recent memory.
5. Into Great Silence (Philip Groning, Germany)
Ever wondered what it would be like to live in a monastery? Now's your chance to find out! In just over two-and-a-half hours, Philip Groning's quiet, hypnotic portrait of the monks living in the Grand Chartreuse monastery left me feeling more spiritual than a combined eighteen years of going to Catholic mass ever did. I saw this in Rotterdam in 2006, and the theater became like a gallery, with people fluttering in and out. I remained frozen and wide-eyed the entire time.
6. My Kid Could Paint That (Amir Bar-Lev, USA)
Amir Bar-Lev's fascinating film is this year's Capturing the Friedmans or 51 Birch Street, a probing mystery that becomes more complex as it unfolds. I love films that aren't about one thing, that present their material as honestly and directly as possible, allowing their moral dilemmas to grow exponentially. Bar-Lev's film does exactly that without feeling forced or self-indulgent. Only a truly gifted filmmaker could tackle a subject like this with such sensitivity.
7. Kurt Cobain: About a Son (AJ Schnack, USA)
Without showing any video footage, or--discounting the very-very end--any still imagery of Kurt Cobain, AJ Schnack has placed us closer to Cobain than we have ever been. The person that we meet is a seemingly ordinary, deeply conflicted young man, who shares the pain of a generation but never tried to speak for anyone other than himself. After watching this film for the first time, I wanted to sob uncontrollably. Though I would recommend this film on its stylistic inventiveness alone, what makes Kurt Cobain: About a Son so special is it that it throbs with such an aching, tender heart.
8. The Trials of Darryl Hunt (Anne Sundberg and Ricki Stern, USA)
It was tough to choose between this and Anne Sundberg and Ricki Stern's devastating The Devil Came on Horseback, but looking back on them now I actually think The Trials of Darryl Hunt resonated with me even more deeply. Of course, it's impossible to compare these things, but Sundberg and Stern's tense and tautly constructed telling of Darryl Hunt's unspeakably horrific story had me filled with goose bumps, rage, and tears. As with Devil, this should be mandatory viewing for anyone with a pulse.
9. The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan at the Newport Film Festival 1963-1965 (Murray Lerner, USA)
It probably helps that I saw Murray Lerner's film the day after I saw Todd Haynes' fantastical I'm Not There, but the fact remains that this thing confirmed for me what I've always felt about storytelling, whether it be fiction or non-fiction or otherwise: Show, don't tell. By simply presenting Dylan in this incomprehensibly momentous three-year time span, we get all the information we need from his change in clothing and demeanor, as well as the reactions of everyone around him.
10. Billy the Kid (Jennifer Venditti, USA)
First and foremost, Jennifer Venditti's award-winning debut is an incredibly intimate portrait of an adolescent who is like no one else. Yet it also works as a brilliant metaphor for the awful state of adolescence, how the smallest breeze can feel like a tornado, how the most innocent rejection can feel like the end of the world.
Honorable Mentions:
Kamp Katrina (David Redmon and Ashley Sabin, USA)
The Devil Came on Horseback (Anne Sundberg and Ricki Stern, USA)
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song (Jim Brown, USA)
Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story (Chris Sheridan and Patty Kim, USA)
The Monastery: Mr. Vig & The Nun (Pernille Rose Gronkjaer, Denmark)
The Holy Modal Rounders… Bound to Lose (Paul Lovelace and Sam Wainwright Douglas, USA)
Ghosts of Cite Soleil (Asger Leth and Milos Loncarevic, Denmark/USA)
Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten (Julian Temple, UK)
War Dance (Sean Fine and Andrea Nix, USA)
You're Gonna Miss Me (Keven McAlester, USA)
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project (John Landis, USA)
Companeras (Matthew Buzzell and Elizabeth Massie, USA)
Sicko (Michael Moore, USA)
Best Short Film:
By Modern Measure (Matthew Lessner, USA) -- My favorite short film of 2007, Matthew Lessner's By Modern Measure uses beautifully grainy black-and-white film and French New Wave techniques to comment on just how difficult it is to make an honest romantic connection in our commercialized and corny modern world. But there's a sincerity and gravity to the work that makes it more just mere satire and elevates it to greatness. This, my friends, is what short films should be.
Runner Up:
Death to the Tin Man (Ray Tintori, USA) -- I saw this for the first time in Sarasota, where it wowed my pants off. Then I saw it months later, at an NYFF press screening (it played before Go Go Tales), and something very special happened. When it ended, it got a generous round of applause, something I've never experienced with a short in all my years of attending the NYFF.
Best Male Performance:
Daniel Day Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Runners Up:
Thomas Turgoose, This is England
Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford
Viggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises
Frank Langella, Starting Out in the Evening
George Clooney, Michael Clayton
Best Female Performance:
Marion Cotillard, La Vie En Rose
Runners Up:
Anamaria Marinca, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Greta Gerwig, Hannah Takes the Stairs
Kate Dickie, Red Road
Angelina Jolie, A Mighty Heart
Jiseon Kim, In Between Days
Luisa Williams, Day Night Day Night
Best Supporting Male Performance:
Vlad Ivanov, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Runners Up:
Javier Bardem, No Country For Old Men
Kene Holliday, Great World of Sound
Hal Holbrook, Into the Wild
Steve Zahn, Rescue Dawn
Irfan Kahn, A Mighty Heart
Paul Schneider, Live Free or Die
Best Supporting Female Performance:
Catherine Keener, Into the Wild
Runners Up:
Cate Blanchett, I'm Not There
Kelly Macdonald, No Country For Old Men
Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton
Amara Karan, The Darjeeling Limited
Best Ensemble:
No Country For Old Men
Runners Up:
Into the Wild
There Will Be Blood
A Mighty Heart
Best First Film:
Craig Zobel, Great World of Sound
Runners Up:
So Yong Kim, In Between Days
Charles Ferguson, No End in Sight
Seth Gordon, The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
Sarah Polley, Away From Her
Jennifer Venditti, Billy the Kid
Best Director:
Sean Penn, Into the Wild -- Penn poured his wallet and heart and soul and sweat and tears into this ambitious, sprawling celebration of life and nature, and that is why he deserves this award more than anyone else.
Best Opening Credit Sequence:
Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten -- After we've heard Joe Strummer screaming into a studio microphone surrounded by silence, the music kicks in behind him and all one can say is, Motherfuck Yes!!!
Best Ending:
Syndromes and a Century -- Unexpected, glorious, and perfect.
Best Closing Credit Sequence:
Michael Clayton -- When the final shot continued to hold on George Clooney and the credits began to appear, I thought, "This is a tad too clever," yet the sheer visceral impact of it, combined with the stellar execution of the entire film, left me shaken.
Best Monologue:
Kene Holliday, Great World of Sound -- Holliday's "Fuck fair" speech is why acting awards were invented.
Most Heartbreaking Moment:
The Devil Came on Horseback -- In a refugee camp, after giving a humble interview thanking the United States, a teary-eyed old man walks away, hand in pocket, stepping over a puddle, and I felt the suffocated humanity of an entire nation in that seemingly inconsequential action.
Best Shot:
Quiet City -- Charlie and Jamie wait for the G train at Smith/9th St. at dusk.
Best Screenplay (Tie):
Noah Baumbach, Margot at the Wedding -- Nicole Kidman's character is such a cunt in this movie that I had ethical issues giving into it completely--do we really need to see another movie about the wealthy, white, emotionally stunted upper class? That said, Baumbach has really hit a zone with The Squid and the Whale and now this. It's corny to say, but he's managed to marry the best of Wes Anderson and Woody Allen and deliver something individual and personal.
Craig Zobel and George Smith, Great World of Sound -- They should teach screenwriting courses with this text, which is critical but never condescending, hilarious without being sarcastic, and profound without ever being preachy.
Best Cinematography (Tie):
Roger Deakins, No Country For Old Men
Robert Elswit, There Will Be Blood
Best Editing:
Joel and Ethan Coen (aka, Roderick Jaynes), No Country For Old Men
Memorable Moments:
--Louis Garrel watches his friends dance their youth away to "This Time Tomorrow" in Regular Lovers.
--H.W.'s accident in There Will Be Blood.
--The doofus American who tries to walk across Abbey Road on his hands in a Hooters t-shirt and breaks his arm in Sicko.
--The incredible one-take in La Vie En Rose when Edith Piaf's bedroom sorrow magically becomes an on-stage performance.
--Courtney Love calling downstairs to Kurt Cobain at the end of Kurt Cobain: About a Son.
--The weird smoke vent machine in Syndromes and a Century.
--The dog chasing Llewelyn in the water in No Country For Old Men.
--Turner's car driving away at the end of Low And Behold.
--In an otherwise empty music store one day during lunch, an Irish guy teaches a Czechoslovakian girl one of his songs in Once.
--The heartbroken woman's unexpected emotional collapse at the end of Lake of Fire.
--Tilda Swinton closing the bedroom drapes in The Man From London.
--Matt tenderly unlaces Hannah's Chucks in Hannah Takes the Stairs.
--The entirety of Peter Hutton's At Sea.
--The in-studio footage of Roy Orbison, Jeff Lynne, and Tom Petty in Runnin' Down a Dream: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
--David Berman at the Wailing Wall in Silver Jew.
--Lele breaking the news to ruthless gangster Bily that she's begun to date his even more ruthless brother 2Pac instead in Ghosts of Cite Soleil.
Memorable Quotes:
"You wanna shotgun one just to be doin' it?" (Great World of Sound)
"Stuh-ling!" (This is England)
"Iran will fill you full of goals!" (Offside)
"Sometimes people get cut." (I Know Who Killed Me)
Best Undistributed Films (Alphabetical):
At Sea (Peter Hutton, USA)
Audience of One (Michael Jacobs, USA)
The GoodTimesKid (Azazel Jacobs, USA)
Low and Behold (Zach Godshall, USA)
Monkey Warfare (Reginald Harkema, Canada)
Orphans (Ry Russo-Young, USA)
Pretty in the Face (Nate Meyer, USA)
Secret Sunshine (Lee Chang-dong, South Korea)
The Urim And Thummim (Dub Cornett and Jacob Young, USA)
Best Original Song:
"When Your Mind's Made Up" by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, Once -- I'm down with pretty much all of the lovely music written, played, and sung by Hansard and Irglova in Once, but I hope this is the song that will win them an Oscar.
Best Source Song:
"This Time Tomorrow" by The Kinks, Regular Lovers -- Not, I repeat, not The Darjeeling Limited.
The Bruno Dumont Award For Being the Most Bruno Dumontian:
Bruno Dumont, Flandres -- I simply can't ignore Bruno Dumont, and I genuinely stand behind Flandres. He's one of the few filmmakers whose pretension doesn't bother me. I find it laughable and credible at the exact same time.
Biggest Surprise:
The Darjeeling Limited -- Wes Anderson was dead to me before I attended the press screening of Darjeeling at this year's NYFF. But after the short, Hotel Chevalier, something changed and I found myself opening up to him in a way that I hadn't since the Bottle Rocket days. I can't explain why, necessarily. I just feel like Darjeeling was coming from a sincere place and had an air of honesty and intimacy that the past few films didn't come close to capturing. And while I haven't seen it a second time (see the below two categories, for this one could go either way), my hunch is that this movie will become funnier and more layered upon subsequent viewings.
Underwhelming the First Time Around, Overwhelming the Second:
Quiet City -- Don't get me wrong, I quite enjoyed Quiet City the first time around. However, upon second viewing, the film felt flat-out perfect to me, which is why it wins this category. While Aaron Katz's sophomore feature appears to be thin on a superficial glance, it is, in fact, a remarkably mature tone poem that uses restraint and understatement to reach its state of lovely grace.
Overwhelming the First Time Around, Underwhelming the Second (Tie):
Manda Bala -- The first time I saw this I felt like I was watching the smartest movie ever. The second time it felt like the product of a kid with severe ADD, all razzle-dazzle and no substance.
Knocked Up -- Round one was hysterical and believable. Round two was still funny, but preposterous and sitcom-y to the point of embarrassment.
I Don't Get It:
Eastern Promises -- These last two Cronenberg movies have absolutely baffled me. Usually even if I don't agree with the universal consensus regarding a film, I can still at least understand where the supporters are coming from. But watching Eastern Promises, I kept feeling like I was missing something, like a giant piece of the plot had escaped me. I kept thinking, "This can't be it, because if it is this is dumb. This movie is dumb." Afterwards, I received confirmation from the guys I was with that I hadn't missed anything--at least plot-wise. So all it feels like is a sterile, dumb movie to me. I'm sure I am wrong and the advocates are right, but as much as I would really like to "get" these movies, I have some strange allergic reaction to them and they feel sterile and stupid to me.
Were These Movies Really Made and Did I Really Watch Them???:
Southland Tales -- Shame on anyone for calling this film 'smart' and 'intelligent.' Contrary to Ms. Manohla Dargis, and contrary to my own theoretical stance, I would rather watch a well-made genre movie that I've seen a million times than an ambitious failure that tries to be funny and so pathetically isn't. Southland Tales isn't like a bad "Saturday Night Live" sketch. It's like a bad "Mad TV" sketch.
Slipstream -- If you ever wondered what would happen if Oliver Stone directed Inland Empire, this movie brings that terrifying concept to life. While this might sound intriguing to some of you, believe me, it's not.
Bug -- I really wish I'd seen the stage play, but it cannot be denied that watching this with an average middle Maryland audience was an awesomely strange experience.
I Really Wish I'd Liked These More Than I Did:
We Own the Night -- By the end of the movie I had done some readjusting, but for pretty much most of the film I couldn't stop thinking that this was the work of a precocious and talented director trying to mimic his heroes, as opposed to delivering a vision of his very own. In a way, my reaction to We Own the Night is similar to Zodiac, in that both films felt familiar, as if I'd watched them before, but We Own the Night never escapes its familiar world, while Zodiac establishes some weirdly original universe of its very own.
Dans Paris -- I plead guilty to thinking I was about to watch an entirely different type of movie, and since it wasn't what I hoped it was going to be, it left me disappointed. So it's my fault, not Christophe Honore's. That said, aside from the mere presences of Louis Garrel and Romain Duris, I wasn't on board with this at all.
The Man From London -- For the first half hour, I was riding the Bela Tarr ski lift to the top of the mountain, but at some point the power shut down and I was left dangling in the darkness. It happens to the best of them, and this is unfortunately the film where it feels like Bela Tarr has begun to parody himself.
Grindhouse -- I guess this was harmless, but it certainly didn't make me feel exhilarated in any way, shape, or form, and that's what I'd been hoping for.
Thank God I'm Not In Art School Anymore:
I'm Not There -- I'm all for this in theory, but when it comes to execution... um... not so much.
The Worst of the Worst:
Redacted -- Brian De Palma should go to jail for this movie. Your way of expressing your disgust with our presence in Iraq is by contributing to the idiocy? Shame on you.
Captivity -- The world would be a better place if this movie hadn't been made.
Silk -- Snoooooooooooze.
Fados -- I'm sure it didn't help that I was watching this on three hours of sleep with a head-pounding hangover, but I still feel like it completely missed the point by staging its performances in front of an artificial Lisbon backdrop and not the real thing.
The Romance of Astree and Celadon -- I can't put it any other way. This movie is fucking gay.
Look -- Crash meets Hard Candy.
Letdown of the Year:
Beowulf in 3D/IMAX -- Perhaps the fact that I stayed up until five in the morning making "Jolie in 3D!!!" t-shirts makes this my fault, but whatever the case, aside from some awesome action, this movie bored me.
Best Theatrical Experiences:
I Know Who Killed Me (Saturday, November 3, BAM) -- If ever there were an argument for watching movies with an audience, this screening was exhibits A-Z. One for the ages. Read this.
Runners Up:
Troll 2 (Friday, September 7, Landmark Sunshine) -- Did this night really happen? One of those glorious memories that makes me feel like I can die a happy, fulfilled man if and when that fateful day comes.
The Urim and Thummim (Tuesday, April 24, Green Hills Cinema) -- One of the more magical experiences on my film festival journey this year came at the Nashville Film Festival, where I was lucky enough to experience the world premiere of The Urim and Thummim alongside David Redmon, Ashley Sabin, Harmony Korine, and many others. The film itself warrants inclusion on this list, but it was the post-film Q&A that launched it into the stratosphere. Thank God for Nashville, Tennessee!
Norman Mailer Conversation and Double-Feature of Tough Guys Don't Dance and Maidstone (Sunday, July 22, Walter Reade) -- Norman Mailer's final public appearance stands tall as one of my all-time great NYC movie days, but almost better than that was that it gave me my first chance to experience the messterpiece that is Maidstone on the big screen.
Sleeping Dogs Lie (Friday, May 4, Charles Theater) -- Every year, John Waters presents a film of his choosing at the Maryland Film Festival. This year's was a complete revelation for me. I have a hard time believing that Bobcat Goldthwait's film has ever played more perfectly, and I'm thankful that I was there to witness the hilarity.
Satantango (Saturday, February 24, BAM) – Jesse Sweet and I are a two-man Cinemasochist crew, and while we missed our chance to suffer through the granddaddy of them all, Jacques Rivette's Out 1, we did survive Bela Tarr's masterwork. For the next several days, anywhere I walked I felt like I was being trailed by a Steadicam.
Killer of Sheep (Thursday, March 29, IFC Center) -- This midnight impromptu screening with friends was the perfect way to see Charles Burnett's classic for the very first time.
Hannah Takes the Stairs (Sunday, March 11, Paramount Theater) -- It felt like everyone in the world was in the audience for the world premiere of Joe Swanberg's touching little indie-that-could, which remains my favorite night of the 2007 South by Southwest Film Festival.
Best Non-2007 Films That I Discovered in a Theater in 2007:
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Parajanov, Ukraine)
Satantango (Bela Tarr, Hungary)
Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett, USA)
Model (Frederick Wiseman, USA)
Primate (Frederick Wiseman, USA)
A Sense of Loss (Marcel Ophuls, UK)
Loving (Irvin Kershner, USA)
Leave Her to Heaven (John M. Stahl, USA)
Much Yumminess to Look Forward to in 2008 That I Have Already Seen:
Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas, Mexico)
Shotgun Stories (Jeff Nichols, USA)
Pineapple Express (David Gordon Green, USA)
Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant, USA)
Snow Angels (David Gordon Green, USA)
Yeast (Mary Bronstein, USA)
Frontrunners (Caroline Suh, USA)
General Impression of Size and Shape (Alex Karpovsky, USA)
The Adventure (Mike Brune, USA)
Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, France)
A Married Life (Ira Sachs, USA)
Films I Can't Wait to See in 2008:
Pretty Bird (Paul Schneider, USA)
Baghead (Duplass Brothers, USA)
Goliath (Zellner Brothers, USA)
Mister Lonely (Harmony Korine, USA)
Chop Shop (Ramin Bahrani, USA)
Anywhere, USA (Chusy Haney-Jardine, USA)
And last, but certainly not least...
The Wire: Season 5
So, that about does it. If anyone out there has made it this far, I don't know whether to hand you a medal or a dunce cap.


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As if their outfits weren't enough, the Black Eyed Peas have embarrassed themselves in a totally new way. News on the street is that the Black Eyed Peas are being sued by George Clinton of Parliament-Funkadelic fame for sampling his 1979 song "(Not Just) Knee Deep" for remixes of a Peas tune. The suit names Fergie and Will.I.Am, as well as their label, for sampling the Clinton song in a remix of "Shut Up" from their 2003 album "Elephunk," and on a remix featured on the deluxe addition of their 2009 album "The E.N.D." Hmm, maybe the lawsuit will inspire Will.I.Am to write a really dark, moody concept album about dealing with the legal system. Oh, and getting crunk, of course.
Unfortunately for the Fergie and the gang, Clinton alleges that they didn't just use the hook without permission, which would have been a jerk move in and of itself. No, the singer says that when producers tried to obtain rights to use the song in 2009, he expressly turned them down. On top of that, Clinton says his signature was forged on the release form and he has never seen a dime in the form of payment. Let's hope the Peas don't have beef with all of the artists they've sampled, or else they'll be sued approximately 1 billion times. [Photo: Getty Images]


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Hinds CC men's track places well in OxfordApril 22, 2013
RAYMOND – The Hinds Community College men's track and field team competed in the Mississippi Open at Ole Miss over the weekend and finished with high marks in numerous events.
Seth Peace (Brandon) earned a second place finish in the high jump with a leap of 6'4" and Dontavious Wright (Conyers, Ga.) finished runner-up in the 400-meter dash with a time of 47.86 seconds to lead the Eagles.
The 4x100 and 4x400 meter relay teams both posted third place finishes in their respective events.The 4x100 meter relay team of Anthony Williams (Southaven), Jermaine Authorlee (Houston, Texas), Mateo Edward (Panama) and Jermale Mosby (Shelby) finished in 41.76 seconds to earn a third place finish.
The 4x400 meter quartet of Johnny Hulbert (Hermanville), Louis Hemphill (Vaiden), Williams and T'Quan Partlow (Vaiden) scored a third place finish with their time of 3:22.56.Jerodrick Draper (Utica, 48.71 seconds) finished in fifth place in the 400-meter dash, followed by teammates David Carlton (Biloxi, 48.96 seconds) and Michael Newton (Atlanta, Ga., 48.98 seconds), who finished in sixth and seventh place, respectively.
In the 100-meter dash, the trio of Williams (10.73 seconds), Authorlee (10.74 seconds) and Edward (10.93 seconds) came in fifth-seventh places to give the Eagles high marks.Robert Wells (Fayette) and Hemphill each finished in sixth place in their respective events to complete the high finishes on the afternoon for Hinds.
Wells ran the 200-meter dash in 22.15 seconds, while Hemphill finished the 400-meter hurdles in 57.91 seconds.For more on Hinds men's track and field go to www.hindsccsports.com.


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Posted by Andrew S on 08/23/2014
The food, although I'm sure it's wonderful hot, is slow to deliver and arrived cool. Also, the staff was overly zealous in "turning" tables, rushing the diner even in small groups (2 or 4 people) - and even with no other diners waiting! I have given this neighborhood restaurant it's chances, and even with my wife recommending it (through a family to staff relation), I cannot give it a solid review. There are plenty of restaurants to enjoy in the Old Town neighborhood, and I would suggest passing up this one.
Posted by Elf on 12/20/2008
Live in neighborhood for 25 years+ good food but the service is the worst.
Posted by larry on 09/11/2008
came in last weekend...food was great, service was exceptional! i ordered the "famous" baby back ribs and was not dissappointed. best i've had by far in a long time...our server craig kept things rolling and all of us in stitches! definately coming back soon!
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By Johnny email@example.com Fishing season will come early for anglers who don't mind fishing at local reservoirs in cooler weather. The Clayton County Water Authority (CCWA) will begin its 2008 fishing season today by opening three of its reservoirs to anglers -- novices and professionals alike. The Henry County Water and Sewerage Authority (HCWSA) will open two of its reservoirs today, a month earlier than normal. The popularity of fishing on the reservoirs, HCWSA officials say, has continued to increase to the point that they were encouraged to consider expanding the reservoirs' fishing seasons to include March and November, which is also a month later than normal. Participation on the waters has steadily increased, according to Chuck McCarter, HCWSA manager of the reservoirs and land management department. Nearly 1,000 fishing permits were sold last year through HCWSA. "We had been getting requests from some of our repeat customers to open the reservoirs earlier, so they could take advantage of some of the season's ideal conditions," McCarter said. "We hope the extra two months we've added to the season will help draw even more customers to the reservoirs this year." The openings will coincide with the beginning of daylight saving time, which begins on March 9. Officials say, springing forward one hour should afford anglers more daylight hours on the lakes. This year, public fishing in Henry County will be available on the HCWSA Longbranch and Upper Towaliga Reservoirs in Locust Grove. The reservoirs will be open Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, from 7 a.m., to 7 p.m., during the season, in addition to July 4, and the Mondays of Memorial Day and Labor Day. Fishing is not presently available on the Tussahaw Reservoir in Locust Grove. Public fishing will be available on a limited basis during the winter months, following the regular, nine-month fishing season. Fishing will be available on Dec. 12-14; Jan. 9-11, 2009; Jan. 23-25, 2009; Feb. 6-8, 2009; and Feb. 20-22, 2009. Fishing will also be available on Clayton County's Shamrock-Blalock, Shoal Creek, and J.W. Smith reservoirs. The Shamrock-Blalock and J.W. Smith reservoirs will be open from 7 a.m., - 7 p.m. , Wednesdays - Sundays, in March and September. Each reservoir will, otherwise, be open from 7 a.m., - 8 p.m., through October on those same days. Clayton's reservoirs, located in Jonesboro and Hampton, have been increasingly popular spots for recreational fishing since they opened several years ago, according to CCWA spokeswoman Suzanne Brown. To access Henry reservoirs, anglers can obtain permits for $40 at the water authority's headquarters, located at 1695 Ga. Highway 20 West in McDonough, from 8 a.m., to 4:30 p.m. Permits are good for an entire calendar year from the date of purchase. To access Clayton reservoirs, anglers can pay $5 for a day's parking permit or $25 for a season pass at each reservoir. Directions and information on the rules and regulations on fishing the reservoirs is available at the authorities' web sites. - On the net: CCWA: www.ccwa.us HCWSA: www.hcwsa.com
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The survivorship program at Penn is led by a team of nationally recognized experts in the field of cancer survivorship. They include:
Linda A. Jacobs, PhD, RN
Dr. Jacobs is the program director of the Living Well After Cancer Program. She is an experienced oncology and primary care nurse practitioner and researcher in the field of long-term survivorship. She directs the program's clinical and research efforts. She is a national speaker on the topic of long-term survivorship and is actively involved with the Lance Armstrong Foundation, the American Cancer Society, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, and the Oncology Nursing Society.
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Dr. Meadows directs the program's transition program, the Living Well After Childhood Cancer Program, at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). She is former director of the Office of Cancer Survivorship at the National Cancer Institute and a pre-eminent expert in the late effects of cancer treatment. She is also a former member of the Medical Advisory Board of the Lance Armstrong Foundation.
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Dr Palmer is a behavioral scientist who has focused his career on research related to the late effects of cancer treatment and their impact on quality of life. He coordinates the research effort of the survivorship program, working with the multidisciplinary team to develop clinical research studies.
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Dr. Vaughn is a medical oncologist at Penn who focuses on urologic cancers. He is also medical director of the Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute at the University of Pennsylvania . He became interested in long-term survivorship as a result of his experience in treating young men with testicular cancer and wanting to find ways to improve both medical outcome as well as the quality of life of his patients.


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Art, architecture, and music in context in Australia and New Zealand. Examines the interaction of Western and indigenous cultural styles and the influence of local and national conditions on the arts. Readings, journal-keeping, and questions pertaining to site-specific works are required. Major credit: Intercultural Studies. Culture: Music or Art. Liberal Arts.


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Tatia Pilieva's video "First Kiss" presented by WREN studio, a clothing company, has been seen over 55 million times on Youtube since being posted March 10, 2014.
The 3:28 minute video features ten sets of strangers kissing for the first time.
Pilieva, born and raised in the Republic of Georgia, has received an MFA from the school the American Film Institute. She started her career with music videos and experimental short films.
Her first feature film, Forever, was produced by The Art of Elusium and starred Ann Woll and Luke Grimes.
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KIMMEL — Diane M. Bratton, 41, of rural Kimmell, died at 12:10 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 4, 2011, at the Visiting Nurse & Hospice Home, Fort Wayne where she was admitted Nov. 23.
She was born March 22, 1970, in Columbia City, a daughter of Roger T. and Toni G. (Butt) Lemon.
Her formative years were spent in Washington Township, Noble County. She graduated from West Noble High School and Fairfield Vocational Cosmetology School.
On Nov. 2, 1991, she was united in marriage to Brian J. Bratton. They always made their home in rural Kimmell.
She was employed at Tower Ribbon in Topeka for 19 years.
Her memberships include Ormas Baptist Church, Washington Township, Noble County 4-H Club and Noble Nimble Thimbles Quilt Club.
Surviving relatives include her husband, Brian; two children, Thomas James "T.J." Bratton of Logansport and Kelty Lynn Bratton at home; her parents, Roger & Toni Lemon of Kimmell; a brother, Glen (Loreen) Lemon of Kimmell; and her mother-in-law, Connie Bratton of Columbia City.
Her father-in-law, James Bratton, preceded her in death.
The funeral service will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Ormas Baptist Church, 8962 N 300 W, Columbia City with visitation after 9:30 a.m. at the church. The burial will be in Thorn Cemetery, Ormas. The visitation will also be from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Smith & Sons Funeral Home, Columbia City.
Preferred memorials are to the Hospice Home or Ormas Baptist Church.
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Creating beautiful, artful floral arrangements is difficult enough. After all, flowers may be lovely on their own, but it takes talent, creativity and skill to combine them in a way that moves beyond sentimentality toward true elegance. The staff at Sisters Flowers can, indeed, create such arrangements. But here's what else is beautiful and artful about Sisters: their dedication to the community and to ensuring that all couples' wedding days are filled with natural beauty. Since the shop opened in Kirkwood in late 2001 (it is no longer a walk-in storefront; customers order over the Internet, over the phone or in consultation with one of the florists), Sisters has provided magnificent flora to more than 500 weddings and commitment ceremonies. The arrangements go from simple to soaring, accenting a bridal gown or a reception table in the most perfect way possible. Owner Emily Testrake — with help from her son David and daughter Jennifer, plus a handful of amazingly talented floral artists — takes the time and care to understand each client individually, no matter how many weddings she has on the books. Much of Sisters' work is documented on the company's blog (sistersflowers.blogspot.com), which simultaneously provides both an impressive portfolio and a fond recounting of many, many happy days.
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Editorial: Market's success welcomed
Vegetable lovers are happy, and so are plenty of others in the Tri-County.
The Vance County Regional Farmers Market enjoyed a positive first day on Wednesday and is open again this morning. The regular days are Wednesdays and Saturdays.
Having a home for the market should be pivotal to more success. We believe that can be attractive not only to those of us coming to purchase veggies, crafts and more at the market, but also to the vendors.
We've seen them sitting in a car or truck on a cold day, maybe with a tent over the bed of their pickup. They have to get out, the customer has to get out — it is not exactly a user-friendly experience.
The market building takes that variable out of the equation. And it puts more emphasis on the volume of vendors and customers.
• Kerr-Vance Academy has a proud history in the community. Another chapter was written this month when Tyler Bolton, a 2011 graduate, became a professional baseball player.
Bolton was drafted by the Arizona Diamondbacks. Like many young boys with Major League Baseball dreams, Bolton has worked hard at his craft and sought to improve as he moved along the levels.
He helped Kerr-Vance to the state championship in 2010 and a state runner-up finish in 2011. At East Carolina University, he had limited action his first two years before starting 13 games this season and ranking among the Conference USA leaders.
• Our state's red carpet has certainly been rolled out this week in Pinehurst, where the golfing world is watching intently.
Maybe that should be green, brown or some other color carpet actually, based on the tough conditions. But those are good colors for the test, annually dubbed as golf's toughest on the globe.
The course, Pinehurst No. 2, is famous and considered a masterpiece. Somehow, despite that, there's been plenty of tinkering with it over the years to the point it needed a total restoration back to its original look for this year's back-to-back men's and women's Opens.
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A helicopter crashed just after takeoff Tuesday morning near the Space Needle in Seattle, killing two people.
The copter, KOMO-TV's, had just lifted off from KOMO pad about 7:40 a.m. when it crashed. Its blades made one rotation and crashed, apparently on its side.
The Seattle Fire Department said two people were killed.
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As traders lined up on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange to make initial bids for shares of GrubHub, which went public Friday, a floor manager told several employees that he liked the company, but its competitor Seamless had more of a market presence by his home in Long Island. Buoyed by GrubHub's immediate bump on the market–shares opened at $40, well above the $26 list price, and have stayed around $35 for a 35% first-day bump–the employees just grinned.
GrubHub and Seamless are, of course, the same company.
If that's still confusing to many traders and consumers alike, CEO Matt Maloney gets it. "Oh man," he exhales as I retell the situation to him a minute later. But that's GrubHub's decision and part of its strategy–a portfolio approach that will put GrubHub first but hold onto the company's three other brands, Seamless and menu sites MenuPages and Allmenus, for the foreseeable future.
"If traders on the floor of the NYSE love Seamless, then bless them," Mahoney says. "We will put dollars behind both, but we will be as strategic as possible. You can see the branding here, there are Seamless logos everywhere."
Sure enough, there's the Seamless name under GrubHub on the signs and marketing materials around the floor, and it's one of four names on the outside of the New York Stock Exchange. But GrubHub looms large there, and the company's GrubHub to the public now.
"GrubHub is our national brand, so most markets in the U.S. are under GrubHub. Seamless we've really pulled back to Manhattan," Maloney says. That's a shift from immediately following the company's merger, which closed last August as the combined name GrubHub Seamless. GrubHub quietly took the Seamless off its corporate name in February, according to its regulatory S-1 filing.
Seamless had been the older brand, founded in 1999 versus 2004, and it was private-equity backed, first as a subsidiary of Aramark Aramark and then owned directly by its PE owners. GrubHub, Maloney's original company, had almost $85 million in venture funding from firms including Benchmark and DAG Ventures.
Both companies had ambitions to go public independently and win the online takeout space, but gravitated toward different geographies. Seamless has held firmly onto New York City, the country's largest market. But Chicago-based GrubHub was winning almost everywhere else. So the two joined forces, creating a company that combined for $1.3 billion in gross food sales last year (it takes about a 10% cut) and reached 3.4 million different diners for 2013.
So what's in the name? "Part of the decision factor is it's a great ticker–GRUB is awesome," Maloney says. "But Seamless has been here 15 years, and it's really strong in New York, it's a religion. We have no plans to get rid of Seamless. Having multiple brands is great."
That said, GrubHub won't be pushing the Seamless brand in national advertising anymore, the combined company's chief tells Forbes. It had already started to redistribute its marketing spend in 2013, as the company increased the marketing budget for GrubHub by $5.8 million and cut $900,000 in ad dollars for the Seamless brand, according to its S-1.
The menu businesses–and GrubHub owns two because each of its ordering brands had acquired one in 2011–will also remain.
For Maloney, the goal of the public offering and the combined public company is to improve awareness for not just one brand, but the whole category. "We achieved all this size, and most people don't know who we are. This is an opportunity to show the world this massive industry of takeout."
That market opportunity can range in company estimates from $9 billion for online orders overall to the entire take-out and delivery market today, which Maloney would later repeat on CNBC as a $70 billion market to crack.
Maloney says the merger has happened faster than management may have originally thought. Organizational integration and the streamlining of the company's combined customer service operations are completed. "All the back-end teams are done, the only thing left is the technical integration of systems, and we are deeply in the process of that," Maloney says.
Speaking to Forbes in his first interview as a public CEO, Maloney presented a calm, happy face to his excited staff and board members celebrating around him on the floor, with just a hint of the nerves of waiting to go onstage to explain the company live on TV. "The team is taking this very seriously, but there's a lot of excitement."
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ELIZABETHTON — One of the toughest things about playing Elizabethton's girls is their ability to present opponents with problems from so many different areas.
Happy Valley experienced those issues on both ends of the court as the Lady Cyclones powered their way to a 70-44 victory in the semifinals of the District 1-AA girls basketball tournament at Bayless Gym on Monday night.
Elizabethton improved to 24-3 and moved into tonight's championship game against Sullivan East (27-6) at 7 o'clock.
The Lady Patriots earned their first title-game appearance since 2001 with a 74-62 win over Sullivan South.
Kayla Marosites totaled 22 points, eight rebounds and four assists, but the Cyclones provided help up and down the lineup.
"We get contributions that don't normally show up on the stat sheet," said Cyclones' head coach Len Dugger. "It's the 50-50 ball we get, or knocking a ball loose that somebody else gets. We have a lot of kids contributing in mighty ways."
Elizabethton hadn't played in 11 days, partly because of the snow-delayed start of this tournament. Dugger said it showed at times.
"Were we a little rusty, yes we were," said Dugger. "But I like our group. They play hard night in and night out. They gave a lot of effort tonight."
Happy Valley hung around into the early part of the second half, trailing 36-28. But the Cyclones finally broke loose with a 12-0 run.
In the middle of two 3-pointers from Kayla Marosites, Megan Pietrowski scored a pair of buckets during the run. Pietrowski scored all 10 of her points in the second half.
"She came out and fumbled it around two or three times and got a little down," said Dugger. "We talked to her at halftime, and she came out and worked hard in the paint."
Marosites was her usual effective self, and she gave point guard Sarah Bradley credit for lifting the team to a better second half.
"She pumps us up a lot," said Marosites. "She told us to come out and play hard in the third quarter."
Kelci Marosites added 12 points for the Cyclones.
Happy Valley got 15 points from Mackenzie Blankenship. Kalee Johnson finished with eight points and five blocked shots.
Sullivan East 74
Sullivan South 62
It looked like the Lady Patriots were going to run South out of the gym, but after Coach Tori Haile was slapped with a technical the Rebels found a second wind.
They charged back from a 35-18 second-quarter deficit to tie the game at 42-42 in the third quarter. However, East got back in a rhythm thanks to consistent 3-point shooting and pulled away.
"I never felt like we were going to lose," said Lady Patriots' head coach Allan Aubrey. "I felt like we would make plays down the stretch. South played really well in the third quarter, but I always felt like we would make the next play."
Brandy Watkins sparked the win, finishing with 27 points.
"She's an all-conference player, and there's a reason why," said Aubrey. "I thought she played great. She's tough. She knows how to play the game. I thought her and Jamison (Shaffer) were the keys."
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Obama Fights Having Power Over Sequester Cuts
Obama Fights Having Power Over Sequester Cuts
G.O.P. Drafts Plan to Give Obama Discretion on Cuts
WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans are preparing to counter increasingly dire warnings from President Obama about the impact of automatic budget cuts with a plan to give the administration more flexibility in instituting $85 billion in cuts, a proposal they say could protect the most vital programs while shifting more of the political fallout to the White House.
Actually, as the chief executive, Obama already has this power. Which is why Congressional 'earmarks' are so popular. Without them, the President has very wide latitude about where the money Congress allocates gets spent.
The plan is vigorously opposed by the administration, which said Monday that it would do little to soften the blow to military and domestic programs…
Which is also very telling. Naturally, Obama doesn't want to be revealed as the man behind the curtain who will be ultimately responsible for whatever terrible consequences come from reducing our growth in spending by 1%.
Cuts that he will try to make as painful as possible, so that no one ever suggests making any reductions to government spending ever again.
Seeking to shift responsibility for the cuts to Mr. Obama and to defang attacks by the White House, Republicans were expected to unveil legislation on Tuesday that they said would mitigate some of the biggest concerns. The measure would let agencies and departments cull programs that were long ago proved to be ineffective, and would make sure critical federal functions like air traffic control and meat inspection were spared.
But White House budget officials are leery. If Congress grants the White House the authority to protect air traffic controllers, Border Patrol agents and national parks, the administration's carefully devised high-pressure campaign that has been mounting for weeks could deflate.
Moreover, the White House would take on the responsibility of deciding which programs to protect and which to expose — and the political consequences that go with that…
And we can't have Obama ever take responsibility. After all, he is just a figure head. Our 'celebrity in chief.' 'King Kardashian.'
Jay Carney, the White House spokesman, dismissed the Republican plan, saying that no amount of flexibility could mitigate the damage of the automatic cuts. He said such changes could help only "on the margins." White House officials fear that the legislation would give lawmakers the false sense that they had voted to take the sting out of cuts that will hurt no matter what flexibility the administration has…
Once again, these 'cuts' are just one penny on the dollar. And they are not even cuts, but just a reduction in the rate of increase. In fact, the federal government will still spend a lot more money in 2013 than we did in 2012, even after adjusting for inflation.
Meanwhile, as usual, Obama is talking out of the other side of his mouth in public
Buy them books and buy them books... but these liberals idiots, the low information voters .. all they do is eat the teacher.
They never learn, they are gulible usefull idiots to the Obama regime.
More Troll BS reverse upside-down twists on the Constitution.
The President only signs bills created and passed by Congress.
He can submit as many ideas as he can think of … Butt …
he can only pass what is given him by the rules of the Constitution.
Republicans can tell him he has power to be the dictator, but
he doesn't really have the power other than to sign a Congressional
bill or no.
Smug Mug is a low-information idiot.
Brn is hilarious. I'm starting to think he is really Stephen Colbert, with the idiot ideas and links he comes up with. He'd just be too damn dumb (oh, wait a minute, a "low information" nutcase) if he really believed all the shit he brings to Thoughts.
The new terminology for conservatives like bernice is "low-intelligence" voter…..
Yes. He seems to be a disciple of Frank Luntz, a GOP writer that puts twists on everything we've seen the past years; so he's practicing creative writing. The idea is to take a weakness of your own and twist it on someone else. I saw much of the same coming out of South Carolina a few years ago, following Fox, Limbaugh, and Breitbart. Some of Brn's stuff is pure paranoid schizo; amazing how a person gets through a day with that blarney running through his head. No estimation that he'll ever admit to Constitutional law procedure in government until the 'black guy' goes.
I have always pitied the conservative…..I mean, low-intelligence voter. It must be terrible going through life always looking over your shoulder……Always being depressed. I really feel sorry for them…..NOT!!!!
Actually, as the chief executive, Obama already has this power. Which is why Congressional 'earmarks' are so popular. Without them, the President has very wide latitude about where the money Congress allocates gets spent.
You talk through your ass bernice……..When he acts on something, it is treason. When he doesn't, because he doesn't have the authority, he is criticized. Nobody really cares because you guys are so hypocritical.
And we can't have Obama ever take responsibility. After all, he is just a figure head. Our 'celebrity in chief.' 'King Kardashian.'
Hey, you guys have Chuck Norris and Clint Eastwood and Lynyrd Skynyrd and Donald Trump. Are you embarrassed by the list of celebrities that endorse your agenda?
Right, only a low-intelligence voter would have an inane response like that bernice. Kind of re-enforces the phrase "low-intelligence voter", huh!


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So far so good. But this way I only get them running left to right, but rotating the whole group of objects doesnt work. Is the only way to go placing it piece by piece? There is no way I'll get them perfectly lined up. Is there something similar to the road tool?


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Starting on Jan. 1, 2015, Great Clips will begin a creative campaign to target male customers through new TV commercials with the character of "Ralphpunzel."
In an effort to reach Millennial males—the focal demographic for Great Clips—the spots will run during the most-watched college football bowl games and the College Football Playoff semifinals New Year's Day 2015 as well as the championship game Jan. 12, 2015. About 70% of Great Clips' customers are men.
This professional system fuses beauty and science, creating an easy-to-use, three-stage therapy process for hair regrowth for men. It is free of formaldehyde, sulfates and parabens. Consisting of a shampoo, treatment, and conditioner, it naturally blocks the enzyme that causes 95% of hair loss in men. The user shampoos his hair, then applies the treatment, leaving it on for five minutes, then rinses. The final stage is to condition, which helps restore shiny, soft, thick and healthy hair. Visit www.zenagen.com.
Sport Clips Haircuts—the leading men's and boys' haircare franchise in the United States—recently celebrated its 20th anniversary during its 2013 National Huddle at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas.
FaceLube offers a High-Performance Three-Step System of men's facial products that features an antiaging cleaner, a caviar-complex treatment with natural biopeptides and a protectant with proprietary collagen-producing ingredients. The line features natural ingredients and is not tested on animals.
Earlier this month, an interesting natural-skincare line for men was introduced that caught my immediate attention.
Other than I'm a guy who is always looking for great skin care, the reasons? 1.) A hero of mine—nine-time Olympic gold-medalist swimmer Mark Spitz—is behind it; and 2.) His partners are the co-owners at one of my favorite natural-skincare companies, derma e Natural Bodycare—Linda Miles and David Stearn.


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In this exclusive clip from VH1 Storytellers: Jason Mraz, Mraz performs "Lucky" as a duet. His partner's strong vocals accompany his soft mellow voice that croons to the sound of the guitar. Not quite the tearjerker as "I Won't Give Up," but a stellar performance nonetheless. Mraz sings, "Lucky to be in love with my best friend." We love sweet love songs that show appreciation for one's significant other. And when the band plays the instruments without any singing– it's heavenly! Jason Mraz gets five stars for this live ode to a lover/best friend.
In a change of pace from the more melancholy love songs, Mraz sings really fast (it's almost as if he's speed talking) in his performance of "You Fckn Did It." He shows off his impeccable skills on the guitar by jamming out for a minute before jumping back into the lyrics of the song. Watch for yourself the awesomeness that is Jason Mraz.
If you missed the show tonight you can watch the entire episode of VH1 Storytellers: Jason Mraz on VH1.com.


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