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Sony's only dedicated macro lens for the NEX system seems to be a strange choice. The short focal length for macro is quite unusual. Tokina and Pentax made a 35mm f2.8 macro and Nikon has a 40 mm F2.8 macro. Sony has a similar 30mm macro for the alpha mount and I guess the NEX version is based on the same optical formula. The Pentax and Tokina was most probably co-developed in a same way as the 10-17mm Fisheye zoom. Overall, the short focal length is not very popular among macro lenses. To reach real close-up or even 1:1 macro range these lenses should be really close to the subject, therefore these short lenses are not really up to photographing skittish animals. However, in case of static subjects it can be a cheap alternative. They are good to show a bit more about the environment.
After reading the reviews of the SEL30M35 I was not overall impressed and decided to wait for a longer focal length macro. I really hoped that tamron will release the 60mm f2.0 or the sigma will come up with the 70mm f2.8 macro lens. Not happened and not even rumoured so far. The only macro lens on the horizon is the Zeiss 50mm lens that will most probably be overpriced. In addition, I don't consider Zeiss as an expert of macro photography. Reviews were also not that much impressed by the quality of the Leica DG Makro-Elmarit 2.8/45mm macro lens (MFT system) for the high price. The Olympus 60mm f2.8 macro is a better choice for MFT users in my opinion.
I kept my eyes on this lens but I was hesitating for a long while. Considering it's low price compared to other macro options I recently took the plunge and purchased a SEL30M35 lens. I paid only 229 euro in the local Saturn shop. It's most probably the cheapest macro lens currently on the market. The Sony SAL version for the alpha mount is similarly priced (or even cheaper) but it's more or less the same lens for a different mount. Nikon's 40mm macro comes close, it's listed for 249 euro in the new Brenner catalogue.
After few days of using the lens I was pleasantly surprised and I like this small gem more and more. I also decided to do a more detailed test comparing its performance to other adapted macro lenses. The test material I produced is still growing so I decided to write this review as continuously updated one. Now, after the introduction I will show only few photos to give you an impression about the performance of this lens on a NEX-5 body. These are jpeg pictures with minimal post processing because I don't like to spend too much time at the computer to process my photos. I like to shoot it right. I used the twin-flash adapter with the HVL-F20S flash, which proved to be a perfect company of this lens camera combo.
Below are some pictures that I recently took before I start the more detailed analysis of the lens:
I was hesitating to refer to other tests and reviews or not. Finally, I decided to share also the conclusions of other test sites, because of their better test laboratories/systems, but also to show some conflicting results and maybe to show some usual errors. My biggest grippe of the previous reviews is the lack of tests in the macro range. It's a dedicated macro lens and it should be tested in the close-up and macro range. This was a major motivation to carry out this review. Technical details and specifications you can find on the official Sony page: (http://www.sony.co.uk/product/ddl-fixed-focal-length-lenses/sel-30m35)
Build quality, ergonomics:
This lens has an excellent build quality using some light metal (brass is suggested by other reviewers) and good quality plastic. It has a similar simple but solid feeling as the SEL50F18 has but it's lighter. Most probably it's the lightest macro lens on the market (138g) and the whole camera (NEX-5) is well balanced with this lens and not front heavy. Just to compare, the Tokina 35mm macro is 340g and the Nikon 40mm macro is 235 g. The SAL version of this Sony lens is 150 g and both recent MFT macro lenses are heavier (Leica 45mm macro and the Olympus 60mm f2.8 macro lenses are 225g and 185g, respectively). The lens and camera combo won't fit to your pocket but I don't require this from a macro set up. It will fit to a small bag and you won't feel your shoulder after a photo trip. The lens has a strange hood that is small enough to leave on the lens also during transportation. Both the lens and the hood have a filter thread (plastic) with 49mm diameter that seems to be standard for the E mount. I like the stylish silver color but many photographers would prefer it in black. All other reviews agreed that the build quality is very good. It has an internal focusing system so the front elements won't protrude or rotate during the focusing. It's an advantage if you want to use a polarizer.
The AF is fast and precise in the normal range but getting slower at very close distance. The major problem is that the lens is prone to try to focus on the background and miss the target most of the time. For macro I usually switch to manual focus with focus peeking. It allows a very precise manual focusing. AF is silent which can be good for video (I haven't made any video with this lens yet). Manual focusing is "by wire control", which was strange at the very beginning. You can rotate the focusing ring as you want but you won't see how far you are from the closest distance. You can also use Direct Manual Focus (DMF) function to fine tune the AF.
DistortionNothing to worry about the distortion in field conditions. Maybe for taking photos of your stamp collection SEL30F35 is not the most appropriate lens due to a slight barrel distortion reported by other review sites. Checking my test photo below I really have to search for it. For nature photos it's hardly an issue. (See my test photos as examples):
Bokeh (Out of focus area)
I'm not completely happy with the out of focus area. Sometimes it can be busy, but depending on the applied apertures it can be quite OK. The description of the lens claims rounded blades but actually at higher f stops you can see the heptagonal shape of the iris.
iso200, f18
iso200, f18
iso400 f11
Click on the photos to enlarge them. I'm happy with the bokeh of the first two photos, but in the 3rd photo the highlights are harsh a bit in my opinion.
It's not an issue in my opinion for macro. Photozone reported that "light fall-off is hefty at f/3.5 (~1.6 f-stops) - this will be noticeable in most field images" while Andrew Alexander from slrgear commented that "there's just a hint of it at ƒ/3.5, but the corners are just barely more than a quarter-stop darker than the center, so I think you'll be hard-pressed to notice it." There is a bit of corner shading fully opened but at F8 it's not visible. Most of my macro photos taken at even higher f stops. I guess that bad vignetting reported earlier is due to the lens hood left during the test. I will take photos soon to test this hypothesis.
Below the crops from varios parts of the test panel: top, upper left corner; middle, center; bottom, bottom right corner)
Vignetting (Light fall-off)
I've found most of the contradiction in previous reviews in the description of the sharpness/resolution of the lens. My major problem with their result is that sharpness was never tested in close-up or macro distance. Imatests are usually done at a distance of few meters (10-30 feet). Hardly the working distance of my intended usage of this lens
Photozone was quite strong:
"The center quality is, undoubtedly, excellent if not outstanding but the border and corner quality falls totally apart especially at large aperture settings." "Unfortunately the general performance can be regarded as inadequate for a macro lens." Really? Not one macro or close-up photo was taken during this test. Check the
ridiculous interesting sample
images. Any macro photo? Not a single one. Not surprisingly the verdict is very
bad, 1.5 star out of 5.
The LensRentals.com also performed a detailed Imatest (again, not at macro distance) and their results are slightly different. The numbers can't directly compared between the two test sites due to the different methodology. However, LensRentals compared many lens on NEX7 and checking their resolution table the SEL30F35 performed quite well. Fully opened it's not much behind Sigma 30mm and Sony-Zeiss 24mm (at f/2.8) regarding the center sharpness. Average sharpness (measured at 13 points including the center, 4 corners, 4 sides, and 4 mid points) is also quite acceptable.
Let's see some own results first at close-up range. I built few test columns from Lego and stuck the same tranfer pictures to the middle part and to the corners. There was more light on the left due to the window arrangement in the room:
I think the results are not so bad. Either fully opened or stopped down the resolution looks good even in the corners. As expected though the center is always the sharpest part.
Just for comparison I took some test photos with my sigma 50mm f2.8 macro lens just for comparison and surprisingly the results were much worse.
Just for comparison I took some test photos with my sigma 50mm f2.8 macro lens just for comparison and surprisingly the results were much worse.
Only the center was sharp while the corners were smeary, especially the left side and even stopping down hasn't improved the corners. First I thought it is due to wrong alignment and the right side is just not in the plane of focus, but the left side is also not really sharp. Now, I think it's more due to the bad quality of my cheap adapter. LensRentals explain this phenomenon in details with more examples:
Other optical errors:Not much to write here. The color rendition of this lens is very good if not excellent. There is a bit of chromatic aberration, but I had hard time to find examples among my photos (you can see some CA in the crops of test photos above). Taking photos into the direction of the sun is challenging for most of the lenses, but not much flare I observed in my photos with the nex macro lens. SEL30F35 is not worse than my other lenses. See an example below:
Underexposing the photo helps sometimes. The same subject without any traces of flare:
This is a wonderful small lens fitting perfectly to the NEX-5. It's highly recommended especially considering the current price. It's not for all purpose and not for everybody. I would say it's a speciality lens. Below I collected some potential applications.
Nature macro photos:
Perfect for non-moving or not skittish subjects. Tripod or good lighting system is recommended. My twin-flash adapter is perfect for lighting.
Food photography:
Almost perfect. It could be a faster lens or stabilization would help. Otherwise it's really good:
Not recommended for typical portraits but if you want to include the environment in the photos this lens is a good choice:
Not really a landscape lens.
Street photography:
It has a natural field of view. However, it could have either a better "faster aperture" or optical stabilization to be a perfect lens for street photos. Considering the good low-light capabilities of recent sensor technology, this lens handles most of the situations well. I'm not really a street photographer, hence no samples here.
Putting all this together it's a highly recommended lens. I would say it's a must have lens for the Sony E system. The only thing could be a shop stopper is the upcoming Zeiss 50mm macro lens but be prepared for a higher price tag (I would assume a 4 times higher one).
More sample photos
UpdateI've recently found out that the lens works well together with the VCL-ECF1 fiseye adapter. The angle of view is even wider with this combo, but it keeps the close focus ability of the macro lens. There are some limitations, e.g. you have to stop down the lens and the far away subject are never really sharp, but keeping these in mind you can take fantastic photos:


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iMac problem: won't sleep, makes awful noise instead
Hi all, hoping someone can give me some insight into the problem i'm having, a day of google searching at work hasn't turned up anything.
I have an iMac G5 that's been running fine, until two nights ago when my dog ripped the power cord out of the wall while it was running. I plugged it back in and it was on a delay starting back up, but then ran fine. But when i tried to put it to sleep (I generally never shut it off, just put it to sleep when not using), the 'snoring' light never turned on, the light just turned off completely, and it started making this really loud whirring noise i'd never heard before.
First Aid found no problems, and I'm not sure how to fix this problem. Any advice? There are no external hard drives or printers connected to it.
I'm not sure it will work on a G5, but you can try to reset the SMC. Sometimes that will correct sleep - wake problems.
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The construction project, that will eventually widen FM 60 from a two lane highway to a four lane highway with emergency shoulders, is scheduled to begin soon.
The project which stretches west towards Snook has been in the works for 15 years, and now it will save twice that amount of jobs.
"If we wouldn't have gotten this project in late April, we would have been laying off approximately twenty people," says Big Creek Construction Assistant Director, Wade Miller.
The project not only saved 20 jobs, but filled another 20 positions. Alan Duesterhoft has worked on several construction jobs, and is excited to know he has job security over the next two years on the FM 60 project.
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The FM 60 project costs $7.5 million, and is the first project in the state to receive stimulus funding from the American Recovery Reinvestment Act, which passed in February. Burleson County Judge Mike Sutherland says widening FM 60 will make the road safer for all drivers. It's a project Duesterhoft is proud to be a part of, because now he has the chance to be close to his seven grandchildren.
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However, it looks like HTC will be tweaking the One X camera app a bit with the upcoming Sense 4.1 update for the handset. A member over at XDA forums has managed to get his hands on the leaked camera apk from a Sense 4.5 ROM. Considering that the Android 4.0.4 update for the One X will bring Sense 4.1 with it, I assume he is a bit confused here.
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* Front / rear camera selection is now an icon in the main UI, not hidden at the top of the setup menu
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* Either there's a new Normal scene mode, or more likely Auto has just been renamed Normal
* Aspect and resolution are now combined into a single option, rather than separate options
* Blue instead of green highlight
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90 7.3 7.41. Carne (1991)
Noé's first major film was the 40-minute Carne (1991), produced through his partnership with filmmaker Lucile Hadzihalilovic (La Bouche de Jean-Pierre [1995], L'Ecole [2003]), Les Cinémas de la zone, in 1991. The film, a tale of a horse butcher who takes revenge on a man he mistakenly believes to have raped his autistic daughter, marks not only the first time Noé incorporated on-screen textual warnings, epigrams, and notes into the filmic narrative, but also the first collaboration with actor Philippe Nahon who has appeared in all of Noé's subsequent features. Carne also includes a number of 'shock' elements such as gunshot sound effects, loud martial chords on the soundtrack, and rapid editing that would become major characteristics of his style in the later Seul contre tous (1998).
"Everybody said, no, do a normal movie. Carne was too violent, now you have to calm down, you have to grow up. Why don't you do a genre film?" -Gaspar Noé
Avignon Film Festival: Prix Tournage (Gaspar Noé)
Cannes Film Festival: SACD Award (for Best Short to Gaspar Noé)
Kankku's rating:
301 7.3 7.52. I Stand Alone (1998)
The Butcher (known from Noe's short film Carne) has done some time in jail after beating up the guy who tried to seduce his teenage mentally-handicapped daughter. Now he wants to start a new life. He leaves his daughter in an institution and moves to Lille suburbs with his mistress. She promised him a new butcher shop. She lied. The butcher decides to go back to Paris and find his daughter.
Boston Underground Film Festival: Bunny (Gaspar Noé)
Cannes Film Festival: Mercedes-Benz Award (Gaspar Noé)
Namur International Festival of French-Speaking Film: Golden Bayard (Philippe Nahon)
Sarajevo Film Festival: FIPRESCI Prize (Gaspar Noé)
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival: Best Screenplay (Gaspar Noé)
Kankku's rating:
1356 7.3 7.43. Irreversible (2002)
Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in the underpass. Her boyfriend and ex-lover take matters into their own hands by hiring two criminals to help them find the rapist so that they can exact revenge. A simultaneously beautiful and terrible examination of the destructive nature of cause and effect, and how time destroys everything.
San Diego Film Critics Society Awards: SDFCS Award ( Gaspar Noé)
Stockholm Film Festival: Bronze Horse (Gaspar Noé)
Kankku's rating:
Bruno Dumont
40 6.9 7.14. The Life of Jesus (1997)
A social movie about life nowadays in the north of France. Freddy and his friends are all unemployed. They try to pass away the time by wandering around on their motorcycles and by directing their aggressive feelings towards Arabic immigrants. Freddy is in love with Marie, a cashier at a local supermarket. When she is proposed by Kader, an young Arab man, Freddy and his friends have an idea: they decide to punish Kader for what they call "such a provocation." After they have raped another girl, Marie finally commits to Kader, which seals his fate.
Cannes Film Festival: Golden Camera - Special Mention (Bruno Dumont)
British Film Institute Awards: Sutherland Trophy (Bruno Dumont)
Valencia Festival of Mediterranean Cinema: Golden Palm (Bruno Dumont)
São Paulo International Film Festival: International Jury Award (Bruno Dumont)
European Film Awards: European Discovery of the Year (Bruno Dumont)
Chicago International Film Festival: FIPRESCI Prize (Bruno Dumont)
70 7.1 6.85. Humanité (1999)
In a town near Lille, melancholy police superintendent Pharaon De Winter lives with his mother. An 11-year-old girl has been raped and murdered. Over the next week, De Winter investigates and grieves, his face nearly expressionless. He bikes, he gardens. He accompanies his neighbors, Joseph and Domino, to dinner and to the seaside; he even observes them in vigorous if not rough coitus. For Domino, sex seems her way of connecting. Does she fancy Pharaon? A plowed field, the sea, Pharaon's flowers, the pudenda of Domino and of the ravaged girl - this mix of images of beauty, evil, and possibility assaults Pharaon as he tries to do his job and hold on to his humanity.
Cannes Film Festival: Best Actress (Séverine Caneele) and Best Actor (Emmanuel Schotté).
Kankku's rating:
84 6.1 5.26. Twentynine Palms (2003)
David, an independent photographer, and Katia, an unemployed woman, leave Los Angeles, en route to the southern California desert, where they search a natural set to use as a backdrop for a magazine photo shoot. They find a motel in the town of Twentynine Palms and spend their days in their sport-utility vehicle, discovering the Joshua Tree Desert, and losing themselves on nameless roads and trails. Frantically making love all the time and almost everywhere, they regularly fight, then kiss and make up, with little else going on in their empty relationship and quite ordinary daily life--until something horrible and hideous brutally puts an end to their trip.
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival: José Luis Guarner Critic's Award - Special Mention (Bruno Dumont).
Kankku's rating:
50 7.3 6.57. Flanders (2006)
Flanders tells the story of Demester, a man whose girlfriend cheats on him out of frustration with his lack of emotion. Demester is then sent to war, in an unnamed Middle Eastern country, where he experiences (and participates in) the horrors of war.
Cannes Film Festival: Grand Prize of Jury (Bruno Dumont)
Yerevan International Film Festival: Jury Special Diploma (Bruno Dumont)
Kankku's rating:
Catherine Breillat
209 6.3 6.58. Fat Girl (2001)
A Ma Soeur! is a provocative and shocking drama about sibling rivalry, family discord and relationships. Elena is 15, beautiful and flirtatious. Her less confident sister, Anais, is 12, and constantly eats. On holiday, Elena meets a young Italian student who is determined to seduce her. Anais is forced to watch in silence, conspiring with the lovers, but harbouring jealousy and similar desires. Their actions, however, have unforeseen tragic consequences for the whole family.
Berlin International Film Festival: Manfred Salzgeber Award (Catherine Breillat)
Cannes Film Festival: France Culture Award (Catherine Breillat)
Chicago International Film Festival: Gold Hugo (Catherine Breillat)
Rotterdam International Film Festival: MovieZone Award (Catherine Breillat)
Kankku's rating:
106 5.2 4.59. Anatomy of Hell (2004)
A man rescues a woman from a suicide attempt in a gay nightclub. Walking the streets together, she propositions him: She'll pay him to visit her at her isolated house for four consecutive nights. There he will silently watch her. He's reluctant, but agrees. As the four nights progress, they become more intimate with each other, and a mutual fascination/revulsion develops. By the end of the four-day "contract", these two total strangers will have had a profound impact on each other.
Philadelphia Film Festival: Jury Award (Catherine Breillat)
Kankku's rating:
135 5.8 5.310. Romance (1999)
Marie is unfulfilled by her relationship with Paul, her narcissistic male model boyfriend who refuses to show her any kind of physical affection, much less make love to her. Frustrated, she decides to take matters into her own hands, and search for intimacy beyond the bounds of traditional sexual limitations, a journey that proves to be both fulfilling and empowering.
Kankku's rating:
François Ozon
28 6.8 6.911. See the Sea (1997)
94 6.7 6.612. Sitcom (1998)
The lives of a seemingly normal bourgeois family are turned upside down after the arrival of an innocent looking pet rat. Their twisted dysfunctional adventures begin with the younger brother's discovery of his homosexuality, the elder sister's suicide attempt and sado-masochist tendencies, and the intrusion of a very free-spirited maid and her husband.
Namur International Festival of French-Speaking Film: Best Actress (Évelyn Dandry)
Best Artistic Contribution (Yorick Lesaux)
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival: Best Actress (Évelyn Dandry)
64 6.9 6.613. Criminal Lovers (1999)
Alice is a bored, spoiled high schooler with a gorgeous body and a sociopathic mind. She persuades one of her suitors, the naive and trusting Luc, to murder another suitor, the handsome, rakish Said.
L.A. Outfest: Outstanding Foreign Narrative Feature (François Ozon)
Málaga International Week of Fantastic Cinema: Best Actress (Natacha Régnier)
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival: Best Screenplay (François Ozon)
Claire Denis
203 6.3 6.114. Trouble Every Day (2001)
Shane and June Brown are an American couple honeymooning in Paris in an effort to nurture their new life together, a life complicated by Shane''s mysterious and frequent visits to a medical clinic where cutting edge studies of the human libido are undertaken. When Shane seeks out a self-exiled expert in the field, he happens upon the doctor''s wife, another victim of the same malady. She has become so dangerous and emotionally paralyzed by the condition that her husband imprisons her by day in their home. It is Shane's chance encounter with this woman that triggers an event so cataclysmic and shocking it might just lead him to rediscover the tranquility he seeks to restore for himself and his new bride.
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Patrice Chereau
119 6.7 6.315. Intimacy (2001)
Jay, a failed musician, walked out of his family and now earns a living as head bartender in a trendy London pub. Every Wednesday afternoon a woman comes to his house for graphic, almost wordless, sex. One day Jay follows her and finds out about the rest of her life (and that her name is Claire). This eventually disrupts their relationship.
Berlin International Film Festival: Blue Angel (Patrice Chéreau), Golden Berlin Bear (Patrice Chéreau) and Silver Berlin Bear (Kerry Fox)
Lumiere Awards, France: Lumiere Award (Patrice Chéreau)
Prix Louis Delluc: Prix Louis Delluc (Patrice Chéreau)
Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival: FIPRESCI Prize (Patrice Chéreau)
Bertrand Bonello
46 5.8 5.316. The Pornographer (2001)
Jacques Laurent made pornographic films in the 1970's and '80's, but had put that aside for 20 years. His artistic ideas, born of the '60's counter-culture, had elevated the entire genre. Older and paunchier, he is now directing a porno again. Jacques's artistry clashes with his financially-troubled producer's ideas about shooting hard-core sex. Jacques has been estranged from his son Joseph for years, since the son first learned the nature of the family business. They are now speaking again. Joseph and his friends want to recapture the idealism of 1968 with a protest. Separated from his wife, Jacques strives for personal renewal with plans to build a new house by himself...
Cannes Film Festival: FIPRESCI Prize (Bertrand Bonello and Jean-Pierre Léaud)
21 7.2 6.517. Tiresia (2003)
Based on the ancient Greek myth of Tiresia, a blind prophet who was both woman and man. Here, Tiresia is a Brazilian transsexual living with her brother in the outskirts of Paris. After she is kidnapped and blinded by a psychopath, she gains the gift of seeing the future.
Acteurs à l'Écran: Best Actor (Thiago Telès)
Marina de Van
159 6.4 6.318. In My Skin (2002)
Leos Carax
107 6 5.919. Pola X (1999)
Pierre, a young man of privilege, whose anonymously-published novel is a hit and who's about to marry his blond cousin, Lucie, abandons all when a dark-haired vagrant tells him her secret late one night in the woods: that she is Isabelle, his sister, abandoned by their father. Pierre breaks off with Lucie and his doting mother, heading for Paris with Isabelle, intent on knowing the dark side of human nature. He begins a novel, sending chapters under a pseudonym to his publisher; his relationship with Isabelle moves beyond the fraternal; and, in winter, the frail Lucie comes to live with them. Family jealousies mount, and Pierre may have discovered despair instead of the truth.
Biarritz International Festival of Audiovisual Programming: Golden FIPA (TV Series and Serials: Music,
Scott Walker )
Gijón International Film Festival: Best Actor (Guillaume Depardieu)
Philippe Grandrieux
39 7 6.320. Sombre (1998)
A car, following the Tour de France. Children screaming in front of the puppet show. Women, often prostitutes, trying to scream as they are being strangled. Then he will meet Claire, the virgin who will give herself to him, and perhaps deliver him from his malediction.
Locarno International Film Festival: C.I.C.A.E. Award - Special Mention (Philippe Grandrieux)
32 6.4 6.521. La vie nouvelle (2002)
Grandrieux's work plunges us into every kind of obscurity: moral ambiguity, narrative enigma, literal darkness. La Vie Nouvelle presents four characters in a severely depressed Sarajevo who are caught in a mysterious, death-driven web: the feckless American Seymour (Zach Knighton), his mysterious companion (lover? friend? brother? father?) Roscoe (Marc Barbé), the demonic Mafioso Boyan (Zsolt Nagy), and the prostitute-showgirl who is the exchange-token in all their relationships, Mélania (Anna Mouglalis).
Jean-Claude Brisseau
55 6.1 6.122. Secret Things (2002)
Two young women find themselves struggling to survive in Paris, street-wise Nathalie, a stripper, and naïve Sandrine, a barmaid. Together, they discover that sex can be used to their advantage, and pleasure. Both find positions in the office of a large bank, where bored, under-stimulated, prey are easy pickings. After making their way though several layers of executives at the bank, with destructive, and lucrative, results, they approach Christophe, scion to the bank director. What they don't know is that Christophe is a manipulative voyeur, whose last two lovers set themselves on fire when he rejected them. A connoisseur of high-class orgies, Christophe is only interested in new talent to satisfy the appetites of all whom he controls. In Christophe, the girls have found an opponent who knows all their wiles, and will challenge their simple under-class friendship with levels of jealousy and ecstasy that they have never experienced before. Will they survive?
Cannes Film Festival: France Culture Award (French Cineaste of the Year, Jean-Claude Brisseau)
Jacques Nolot
17 7 6.423. Porn Theater (2002)
A tale set in a decaying Parisian porn theatre, where within its dark confines, male patrons--soldiers, transvestites, married men--regularly engage in anonymous sex acts. In the ticket booth of the theatre, a wise Italian woman serves as benevolent gatekeeper, observing--but never judging--the proceedings occurring under her watchful eyes. One day, one of her regulars engages her in a conversation that leads to an unusual friendship, as these two worldly souls share their common experiences.
L.A. Outfest: Grand Jury Award (Jacques Nolot)
Torino International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival: Best Feature Film (Jacques Nolot)
Valencia Festival of Mediterranean Cinema: Golden Palm (Jacques Nolot)
Alexandre Aja
589 6.7 6.924. High Tension (2003)
Alexia travels with her friend Marie to spend a couple of days with her family in their farm in the country. They arrive late and they are welcomed by Alexia's father. Late in the night, a sadistic and sick killer breaks into the farmhouse, slaughters Alexia's family--including their dog--and kidnaps Alexia. Marie hides from the criminal and tries to help the hysterical and frightened Alexia, chase the maniac, and disclose his identity in the end.
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival: Best Actress (Cécile De France), Best Director (Alexandre Aja), Best Make-Up (Giannetto De Rossi) and Grand Prize of European Fantasy Film in Silver (Alexandre Aja)
Coralie Trinh Thi and Virginie Despentes
237 4.5 4.525. Baise-Moi (2000)
Based on the novel by Virginie Despentes of the same title. Manu and Nadine lose their last tenuous relationship with main-stream society when Manu gets raped and Nadine sees her only friend being shot. After a chance encounter, they embark on an explosive journey of sex and murder. Perhaps as a revenge against men, perhaps as a revolt against bourgeois society, but certainly in a negation - almost joyful in its senseless violence - of all the codes of a society which has excluded, raped and humiliated them. Controversial for its violence and real sex scenes: a vividly nihilist road movie set in France.
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Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury
464 7 6.926. Inside (2007)
Four months before Christmas, Sarah and Matthieu Scarangelo were in a car crash, of which Sarah and her unborn baby were the only survivors. On Christmas Eve, Sarah stays home alone, where she grieves her husband and prepares to go to the hospital the next morning for the delivery. As night falls, a woman knocks on Sarah's door asking to use the phone. When she refuses, the woman reveals that she knows Sarah and tries to force her way in. Sarah calls the police; they inspect the home and determine the woman has left, but promise to keep watch over Sarah through the night. The woman returns and tries to take Sarah's unborn child, but Sarah locks herself in the bathroom. The strange woman torments Sarah through the night and kills all who try help her.
Fangoria Chainsaw Awards: Chainsaw Award (Best Supporting Actress, Béatrice Dalle)
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival: Best Make-Up, Carnet Jove Jury Award (Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo), Citizen Kane Award for Best Directorial Revelation Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo) and Grand Prize of European Fantasy Film in Silver (Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo)
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112 5.6 5.727. Livid (2011)
Olivier Assayas
55 6.1 5.828. Demonlover (2002)
Diane works for a French firm bidding to purchase a Japanese animation outfit. Diane maliciously hatches a plot to take the job of her supervisor Karen. The plan succeeds, but then Diane faces problems when a competing American firm, represented by Elaine, becomes involved. Diane's assistant Elise remains loyal to Karen, and she frustrates Diane's every move. When it comes to light that the one of the concerned parties controls an Internet site which broadcasts actual torture, the plot thickens.
Camerimage: Bronze Frog (Denis Lenoir)
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival: Best Original Soundtrack (Sonic Youth) and José Luis Guarner Critic's Award (Olivier Assayas)
Pascal Laugier
754 7 7.129. Martyrs (2008)
Fifteen years after a horrifying experience of abduction and prolonged torture, Lucie embarks on a bloody quest for revenge against her oppressors. Along with her childhood friend, Anna, who also suffered abuse, she quickly descends, without hope, into madness and her own delusions. Anna, left on her own begins to re-experience what Lucie did when she was only twelve years old.
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival: Grand Prize of European Fantasy Film in Gold (Pascal Laugier) and Grand Prize of European Fantasy Film in Silver (Pascal Laugier)
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Bertrand Blier
3 10 4.930. Les côtelettes (2003)
Well into his sixties, iconoclast director Bertrand Blier continued to provoke Cannes audiences with this absurdist sex comedy in 2003. Les Côtelettes profiles the antics of two aging friends/antagonists who battle for the affections of one's maid. Leonce (Philippe Noiret) and Potier (Michel Bouquet) are polar opposites: the former a liberal member of the bourgeoisie, complete with a well-groomed son and an attractive mistress; the latter, a curmudgeonly right-wing ne'er-do-well who lives to upset the status quo. When Leonce's housekeeper Nacifa (Farida Rahouadj) enters the picture, the two become rivals, each attempting to bed her -- but both find themselves equally drawn to the attractive specter of Death (Catherine Hiegel) that appears before them. Les Côtelettes began life as Blier's stage play before the director committed it to the big screen.
Xavier Gens
269 6.1 6.331. Frontier(s)
In Paris, during the riots due to the election of a conservative candidate to the presidency of France, a group of four Muslin small-time criminal teenagers from the periphery; Alex, Tom, Farid, the pregnant Yasmine, and her brother Sami, plan to run away from Paris to Amsterdam with a bag full of robbed money. However, Sami is shot and the group split up, with Alex and Yasmine going to the emergency hospital with Sami while Tom and Farid head to the border with the money. Tom and Farid decide to stop in a bed and breakfast nearby the frontier, and are hosted by Gilberte and Klaudia that offer free room and sex to the newcomers. They call Alex and Yasmine who are fleeing from Paris to join them in the inn. But soon they discover that their hosts are sadistic cannibals of a Nazi family leaded by the deranged patriarch and former SS officer and Nazi war criminal Le Von Geisler who plans to make Yasmine the brood mare for a new Aryan master race.
Franck Richard
35 5.5 4.832. The Pack (2010)
In the middle of a snowy no man's land, Charlotte picks up Max, a hitchhiker; they stop in a truck-stop restaurant, and when Max doesn't come back from the bathroom, Charlotte starts looking for him in vain. She decides to return during the night but gets kidnapped by the bartender, La Spack, who turns out to be Max's mother and needs to feed her kids, 'The pack', a bunch of blood lusting ghouls. Charlotte now faces a terrifying reality: these ghouls are already dead... and hungry. Alone and in the middle of nowhere, she quickly realizes... she's next on the menu!
Benjamin Rocher and Yannic Dahan
168 5.6 5.933. The Horde (2009)
When detective Mathias Rivoallan is found murdered by the gang led by the Nigerian Markudi, detectives Jimenez, Aurore, Ouessem and Tony decide to revenge the death of his friend. The vigilantes plot bloodshed, executing Markudi, his brother Bola (Doudou Masta) and the other gangsters in the abandoned building where they are gathered. However, things go wrong when the watchman arrives and the violent gang subdues the quartet and tortures them. Meanwhile, the lookouts of the gang hear explosions, sirens and the weird sound of the rabble.
Fantasporto: International Fantasy Film Award (for Best Cinematography to Yannic Dahan and Benjamin Rocher) (for Best Screenplay to Arnaud Bordas, Yannic Dahan, Stéphane Moïssakis and Benjamin Rocher)
David Morlet
47 5.8 5.634. Mutants (2009)
A virus has transformed the vast majority of humanity into bloodthirsty, zombie creatures. Marco and Sonia are young couple fleeing the "mutants" and trying to fight their way to a military base. But when Marco himself becomes infected in an attack, the pregnant Sonia must fight the worst enemy—the man she loves.
Mathieu Kassovitz
57 7.3 6.535. Assassin(s)
Fabrice Du Welz
169 6.7 6.236. Calvaire (2004)
A few days before Christmas, a traveling entertainer is stuck at nightfall in a remote forest village after his van breaks down. He finds an inn and gets a room for the night. The next day, he finds himself in a nightmare that may not end.
Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival: Grand Prize of European Fantasy Film in Silver (Fabrice Du Welz) Gérardmer Film Festival: International Critics Award (Fabrice Du Welz), Premiere Award (Fabrice Du Welz), Special Jury Prize (Fabrice Du Welz)
3 7 6.337. Alléluia (2014)
Géla Babluani
167 7.1 7.438. 13 Tzameti (2005)
A poor Georgian immigrant roofer steals a letter containing instructions for a mysterious job with a purportedly large payday. Blindly following the instructions, the young man unwittingly becomes caught in a dark and dangerous game.
European Film Awards: European Discovery of the Year (Géla Babluani)
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival: Best Original Soundtrack (Arnaud Taillefer)
Sundance Film Festival: Grand Jury Prize (World Cinema, Dramatic - Géla Babluani)
Tbilisi International Film Festival: Silver Prometheus (Best Director - Géla Babluani)
Transilvania International Film Festival: Best Cinematography (Tariel Meliava ), FIPRESCI Prize (Géla Babluani)
Venice Film Festival: Luigi De Laurentiis Award (Géla Babluani), Netpac Award (Géla Babluani)
Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani
93 6.3 6.339. Amer (2009)
Three key moments, all of them sensual, define Ana's life. Her carnal search sways between reality and colored fantasies becoming more and more oppressive. A black laced hand prevents her from screaming. The wind lifts her dress and caresses her thighs. A razor blade brushes her skin, where will this chaotic and carnivorous journey leave her?
CPH:PIX Award (New Talent Grand Prix: Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani)
Gérardmer Film Festival: Special Mention (Critics award for Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani)
Montréal Festival of New Cinema: Public's Choice Award (Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani)
Málaga International Week of Fantastic Cinema: Best Director (Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani)
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival: New Visions Award (Discovery Motion Picture Diploma for Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani)
Sweden Fantastic Film Festival: The Blade Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani)
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Posted: 4 years, 5 months ago at Feb 6 7:56
Posted: 4 years, 5 months ago at Feb 6 11:01
Cool list. What about Frontier(s)?
Posted: 4 years, 5 months ago at Feb 6 13:34
Frontier(s) added. Thanks.
Posted: 4 years, 5 months ago at Feb 21 4:07
Love me some Noe
Posted: 4 years, 5 months ago at Feb 21 4:25
Could be considered
Could be considered
Posted: 4 years, 5 months ago at Feb 21 8:33
Nice list. I've only seen three, but have been recommended quite a few by friends...which may tell me exactly what kind of friends I have, come to think of it. Hmmm.
Posted: 4 years, 5 months ago at Feb 21 9:10
Thank you all, now especially nimimerkillinen! The Pack added! I have to admit that The Pack was some kind of 'never heard' for me.. :)
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Posted: 4 years, 5 months ago at Feb 21 10:01
Bruno Dumont's Flanders could also be considered.
Posted: 4 years, 5 months ago at Feb 21 12:51
I also considered that for a long time but wasn't sure, if that belonged to this list. Since there is now another one besides me that thinks Flanders could fit, it is welcome. Haven't seen that yet but I'm looking forward to it very much.
Posted: 4 years, 5 months ago at Feb 21 13:10
excellent list
Posted: 4 years, 5 months ago at Feb 21 18:35
À ma soeur by Catherine Breillat should fit in quite nicely?
Great list!
Great list!
Posted: 4 years, 5 months ago at Feb 21 19:10
Great Job!
Posted: 4 years, 5 months ago at Feb 21 20:08
Cheers you all and gracias Kukkakaali. Fat Girl is now added!
Posted: 4 years, 5 months ago at Feb 21 20:35
There is a documentary about new french horror
Maybe these, though I haven't seen them, so can't suggest with certainty
La Horde
There is a documentary about new french horror
Maybe these, though I haven't seen them, so can't suggest with certainty
La Horde
Posted: 4 years, 5 months ago at Feb 21 21:19
After checking trailers and reading stuff, I put those two in the list. So thanks again nimimerkillinen. I had earlier read about La Horde and considered to put it in the list but Mutants was a new-comer to me.
And thanks for the tip for that documentary. Looking very much forward to it. :)
And thanks for the tip for that documentary. Looking very much forward to it. :)
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Posted: 2 years, 5 months ago at Feb 2 23:33
Hello Everyone,
I was really happy to stumble across this list, found many films that I had not seen from the genre. I am hoping that people will continue to contribute to this. A notable absentee from this list is Amer (2009). A bit slow, but beautifully shot, and in my opinion a must see for any fans of the list above...[Link removed - login to see]
I was really happy to stumble across this list, found many films that I had not seen from the genre. I am hoping that people will continue to contribute to this. A notable absentee from this list is Amer (2009). A bit slow, but beautifully shot, and in my opinion a must see for any fans of the list above...[Link removed - login to see]
Posted: 2 years, 5 months ago at Feb 3 15:40
Thanks for the suggestion. Amer seems definitely interesting and is now added to the list!
Posted: 1 year, 2 months ago at May 3 14:20
Amazing list!
Amazing list!
Posted: 10 months, 3 weeks ago at Sep 10 4:48
Hi Kankku! Back with another suggestion. Just returned from seeing Alleluia at the Toronto Film Festival and I think this will be a worth while addition to your list.
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Trial boat - the Hallberg Rassy Armorel 42
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For propulsion, 'Armorel' has a Steyr Motors hybrid unit on the shaft. This uses an integral electric motor to drive the boat to 6 knots after which the diesel engine takes over. Once the diesel is running, the electric drive motor becomes a generator and recharges the batteries.
Armorel's propeller has been specially designed by Bruntons and INSEAN to work as an efficient water turbine when under sail. This forces the shaft to rotate, generating all of the power the boat needs whilst at sea without running the engine.
New energy sensors and a new hybrid control system have been developed by Triskel Marine. Known as 'Jason', this oversees the boat's systems and is capable of fully automating most operations. Display and control is on an iPad or similar.
Electrical storage is provided by a new generation of lead acid batteries from Enersys; power conversion is by Mastervolt, and thanks are due to Malo Yachts for their pioneering early work.
About the project:
The primary aim of the HyMar project was to provide reliable and practical information about the effectiveness of marine hybrid propulsion in small craft. Extensive, practical testing of many different design concepts over the last three years has led to the development of a range of innovative technologies.
In 2012, the team consolidated all of the lessons learned in the 13m (43ft) test boat, a Hallberg Rassy 42 Armorel. The final HyMar hybrid system in Armorel is optimised for energy efficiency and is based on design principles that allow any compliant equipment to be used regardless of supplier. ICOMIA provided HyMar with project management, scientific and technical co-ordination and technology foresight.
About the trophy:
The Royal Thames Yacht Club Mansura Trophy is a biennial competition to identify and reward excellence in the design, development and operation of hybrid marine craft. The trophy, inaugurated in 2006, is the most prestigious international maritime award presented for the latest innovative development in hybrid power.
Previous Mansura Trophy winners include the South African Green Motion FastCat 445 sailing catamaran African Cats; the French-manufactured Lagoon Catamarans; Australia's Sydney Solar Sailor; UK EnviroBoat Developments Ltd; the Canadian Tamarack Electric Boat Company's all-electric hybrid 'The Loon'; and American Island Pilot LLC, DSe Hybrid.
HYMAR is managed by the International Council of Marine Industry Associations.
For more information go to: http://www.hymar.org/


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Slumping Ravens fire offensive coordinator CameronBy David Ginsburg
The Associated press | December 11,2012AP FILE Photo
Former Baltimore Ravens offensive coordinator Cam Cameron speaks with quarterback Joe Flacco during a practice session at the teams training camp in Baltimore.OWINGS MILLS, Md. Cam Cameron was fired Monday as offensive coordinator of the Baltimore Ravens, who have lost two straight and are still striving for consistency in the running and passing game.
Cameron ran the Baltimore offense since the start of the 2008 season for coach John Harbaugh. Since that time, the Ravens attack has repeatedly taken a back seat to the teams defense, and this year the offense ranks 18th with 344.4 yards per game.
Jim Caldwell, who was hired as quarterbacks coach before the season, will assume Camerons duties. Caldwell was head coach of the Indianapolis Colts from 2009-11.
Harbaugh didnt give a detailed explanation for the move, which came less than 24 hours after the Ravens lost to the Washington Redskins 31-28 in overtime.
We put 28 points up, so youre not going to say its a reaction to a down offensive performance. Its not that. I think thats really important to point out, Harbaugh said. Its what I believe is best going forward for our offense and for our football team.
Cam was doing a heck of a job here. He was doing a heck of a job here for a long time. Nobody knows that better than me, and nobody has stated that more times. I believe that. I also believe right now at this time, the timing says this is the best thing, and this is what were going to do.
The move comes with the Ravens stuck in their first losing streak since they dropped three in a row in October 2009. Yet Baltimore (9-4) needs only one win to sew up its fifth straight playoff appearance and holds a two-game lead in the AFC North over Cincinnati and Pittsburgh with three games to play.
I dont know that staying pat wouldnt have gotten us there, Harbaugh said. What you try to do is put yourself in the best position possible as you see it to be the best football team you can be and then go compete and go see what you can get accomplished.
Our first goal right now is to secure a playoff berth. Our second goal is to win the AFC North. Thats squarely in our sights. Our next goal is to secure as high a playoff seed as we can. The next goal is to win playoff games, get to the Super Bowl and win that thing. I feel like this is going to give us the best chance to do that.
Caldwell, 57, was quarterbacks coach for Peyton Manning at Indianapolis before taking over as head coach. He will make his NFL debut as an offensive coordinator on Sunday against the Manning and Denver Broncos (10-3).
I had an opportunity to talk with (the offense) and really, in a nutshell, I just tried to make them understand that what were trying to do is get that much better, Caldwell said, holding his index finger and thumb about an inch apart. Thats about it. Thats a difficult task, obviously, trying to get that done in this league. But thats what were shooting for. Its not a system change. Obviously the Ravens offense is the Ravens offense. Its not a philosophical change. John sets the philosophy here of this team and we follow suit.
Although Harbaugh refused to criticize Cameron, the Ravens offense has sputtered at times this season. Baltimore scored touchdowns on three of its first four possessions against the Redskins but managed only seven points after halftime. Fifth-year quarterback Joe Flacco passed for 182 yards and committed two turnovers in the third quarter.
Baltimores running game ranks 17th in the NFL despite the presence of Pro Bowl running back Ray Rice, who has topped the 100-yard rushing mark only three times (compared to six times last year). Rice led the NFL in yards from scrimmage in 2011.
Flacco, meanwhile, has been erratic while operating the no-huddle attack and has showed little improvement from a year ago.
Maybe things will change under Caldwell. Thats Harbaughs hope, anyway.
The move was made because it gives us a chance to be the best we can be. Its just an opportunity to try to get this thing going, he said. We feel like its whats best for the team at this time. So thats why we made the move. Theres nothing more to it than that.
Flacco has committed pivotal turnovers in the last two games, but those defeats can be attributed heavily to the defense. Two weeks ago, the injury-riddled unit couldnt stop Pittsburgh Steelers third-string quarterback Charlie Batch in a 23-20 loss, and the Redskins moved downfield rather easily during a beat-the-clock touchdown drive in the waning minutes of regulation.
Cameron, 51, went 1-15 as head coach of the Miami Dolphins in 2007 before being chosen by Harbaugh to run the Baltimore offense. The Ravens made the playoffs in each of his previous four seasons, and under his direction Flacco became the teams career leader in passing yards, touchdowns and completions.
Harbaugh worked as an assistant coach for Cameron in 1997 at Indiana. After taking over for Brian Billick in Baltimore, one of his first moves was to hire Cameron.
There is a very human side to this. Cam is my friend, he taught me a lot about coaching, and he is an outstanding coach, Harbaugh said. Personally, this is the hardest thing Ive ever had to do as a coach. Cam has been a significant contributor to all of our successes over the past four, almost five, seasons. Deservedly, he is highly-regarded, and we owe thanks to him for what he did for the Ravens.
In other news, Harbaugh said injured linebackers Terrell Suggs (torn right biceps) and Ray Lewis (torn right triceps) could return Sunday. Harbaugh described guard Marshal Yandas sprained right ankle as somewhat serious but not a break.
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- RICHARD'S POOR ALMANACK: On this day in 1878, JOHN TUNSTALL murdered near Lincoln, New Mexico, by the outlaw JESSE EVANS; in 1930, ELM FARM OLLIE first cow to fly in aircraft, first to be milked airborne; 1955, nuke test WASP; '79, snow in Sahara.
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"Oh absolutely, if they get comfort from that... more power to them, I think that's wonderful, I don't get anything from that," said Crowell. "The way they do, I'm not impressed. I believe we make our own heaven right here, or hell, and I said, I'm going to come back in an afterlife as a leaf on a tree."
As for Jane, her parents believe that her religious beliefs, or lack thereof, should be up to her.
"They have had many discussions about this, and we've had our discussions too," said her mother. "I think that we just give our view, I always tell Jane that she has to make up her own mind, she has to experience her experiences -- figure it out for herself."
And Jane is doing just that -- trying to figure out for herself the answers to life's difficult questions, like what happens when people die. "Well, usually you kind of go in the earth, but I don't believe that heaven's not really real," she says. "It would be cool if it was real. But there is a possibility that it is real, but I don't think so. "


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Utah bishop urges press to deepen coverage of Pope Francis
The leader of Utah's 300,000 Catholics has a message for reporters: Dig deeper for stories about Pope Francis, his vision for the faith and his impact on his native South America.
Bishop John C. Wester, who oversees the Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City and heads the U.S. bishops' Committee on Communications, delivered the keynote address last week at a conference in Washington, D.C.
Wester urged the gathering of journalists and historians at The Catholic University of America to cover the church as a "movement," reports Carol Zimmermann of Catholic News Service, and encouraged them to examine Latino Catholics and the Argentine pope's influence in South America.
The Utah clergyman, according to CNS, criticized some coverage of the headline-grabbing Francis, pointing to news accounts about the pope's interview in September's America magazine that said the pontiff "isn't interested in talking about abortion, homosexuality or contraception."
No so, said Wester, who, CNS reports, called Francis a "strong, unflinching advocate for life from conception to natural death and ... remains a strong voice that promotes the church's teaching on moral issues related to sexual ethics."
Wester said the pope was "challenging us to maintain a balance, a perspective," according to CNS, in the quest to "change hearts and minds" and advance the "gospel of life."


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I missed a noteworthy item in Saturday's New York Times because I was down in New York for this year's Left Forum (which was terrific, by the way; I hope to be blogging about it here and there in the next couple of days, time permitting). Julia Willebrand, who was tabling next to us for the Union of Radical Political Economics, pointed us to an article about how Obama has failed to take on entrenched interests as he promised to do in the campaign, and to one ridiculous paragraph in it:
Despite Major Plans, Obama Taking Softer Stands
President Obama is well known for bold proposals that have raised expectations, but his administration has shown a tendency for compromise and caution, and even a willingness to capitulate on some early initiatives.
It was inevitable that Mr. Obama's lofty pledge to change the ways of Washington would crash into the realities of governing, including lawmakers anxious to protect their constituents and an army of special-interest lobbyists.
Mr. Obama has not conceded on any major priority. His advisers argue that the concessions to date–on budget items, for instance–are intended to help win the bigger policy fights ahead. But his early willingness to deal or fold has left commentators, and some loyal Democrats, wondering: where's the fight?
And here's how his aides respond:
Mr. Obama's top aides dismiss suggestions that he has shied from confrontation, saying they ignore his achievements, the need to move quickly to address economic woes and the fights he has picked against some big interest groups in Washington, including components of the Democratic base, like organized labor.
See, he has taken on entrenched interests—like organized labor. This response is supposed to satisfy "left commentators and loyal Democrats"? Hmmm…


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Members of the Brewers Association Export Development Program met at the 28th Annual Great American Beer Festival to discuss future activities.
Marcelo Stein who represents Bier & Wein Importadora, the largest importer of specialty beers, including Erdinger, Weihenstephan, and Unibroue, to Brazil presented on the import of beer into Brazil and the expectations for US brands. Mr. Stein imported the US beers displayed at the Brau Brasil 2009 in Sao Paulo earlier this year.
Winston Kwang of Beerstyle Distribution offered insight into the American craft beer portfolio in Singapore and its expansion into Indonesian markets. Mr. Kwang is currently importing beers from Flying Dog into Singapore and also promotes American craft beers at the annual Beerfest Asia in Singapore.
In wrapping up the session, Bob Pease, Vice President of the Brewers Association, outlined plans for a Craft Brewers Pavilion at the 35th Winter Fancy Food Show, which will take place January 17-19, 2010 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. This pavilion would be open to EDP members only, and it represents an opportunity to promote small and independent American craft brewers at a premier domestic food and beverage trade show. Showcasing American craft beer at the Fancy Food show will help the BA and its EDP program meet a number of their goals including promting sales of American craft beer domestically, raising the image of beer and establishing American Craft Beer as a world class brand.


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Bouts of kleptomania caused by stress blamed for Cambridge shoplifting
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A shoplifter blamed bouts of kleptomania brought on by the death of his grandmother for his latest offence.
Sonny Mathews, of Walnut Tree Avenue, Cambridge, pleaded guilty to stealing four pairs of designer Prada sunglasses to value of £886 on March 14, and pizzas and baked beans worth £15 from Milton Road Co-op from July 16 last year.
Cambridge Magistrates' Court heard the 24-year-old returned three of the pairs of sunglasses, but a £269 pair remains outstanding.
Nick Simons, mitigating, said his client suffered from "borderline kleptomania" brought on at times of stress.
He added: "The March offence came immediately after the death of his grandmother, and both offences follow a long term problem with drugs which he has now got to grips with."
Mathews was handed an 18-month community order with supervision from the probation service, and must pay £284 compensation for the lost items.


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- In 2007 PRS (The Performing Rights Society) changed their distribution policy on the way they distributed revenue from public performance (pubs, clubs, cafes, juke boxes etc.). Most Welsh language composers lost around 85% on average of their royalties
- In 2008 PRS changed their policy on the way they apportion revenue from the BBC 'blanket licence' estimated to be worth around £55m per annum. The per minute rate paid for music played on Radio Cymru was halved. The 'blanket licence' deal, also known as a 'collective licence' allows all of the BBC's services (radio, television and on-line) to broadcast any of the music represented by PRS, which, through reciprocal deals with other collecting bodies around the world, more or less means all the music in the world.
- PRS decide how this blanket payment is apportioned to various TV channels and radio stations. Since 2008 the PRS rates are approx.:
BBC Radio 1 – £11.53 per min
BBC Radio 2 – £19.64 per min
BBC Radio 3 – £9.28 per min
BBC Radio 4 – £16.45 per min
BBC Radio 6 Music – £3.43 per min
BBC Asian Network – £6.72 per min
BBC Radio Wales – £0.95 per min
BBC Radio Cymru – £0.49 per min
The rates vary according to usage as the blanket fee is a finite pot. All current rates are on the PRS for Music website www.prsformusic.com
- In 2008 Welsh composers and publishing companies formed an alliance called The Welsh Music Publishers and Composers Alliance (WMPCA) or Y Gynghrair (Cynghrair Cyhoeddwyr a Chyfansoddwyr Cerddoriaeth Cymru) (www.ygynghrair.com ) in order to try and persuade PRS to re-examine their changes to the distribution policies as it was killing the Welsh music industry. There were some marginal successes, including the introduction of the Welsh Analogy line for public performances, but nothing significant compared to what had been lost.
- The WPMCA (Y Gynghrair) is a 'not for profit' company limited by guarantee and has a board of 12 trustees made up from representatives from Welsh publishing companies and independent writers/composers – details on www.ygynghrair.com
- Following a 'strike' of Welsh music on Radio Cymru in December 2011, WMPCA directors forced a meeting with senior BBC and PRS personnel in January 2012 in order to address the concerns of Welsh composers. Numerous meetings were held throughout the year, but the PRS board refused to agree to the various options on the table.
- In August 2012 the WMPCA decided to invoke the 'GEMA categories' and set out to withdraw two of the categories of rights held in a musical composition, from PRS. (GEMA is the German version of PRS and following an European ruling on a case in Germany, 7 categories of rights in a composition were established, and any could be assigned or re-assigned).
- The WMPCA decided to withdraw the broadcasting and televising rights from PRS. According to PRS's constitution, this required three months notice. Welsh composers and publishing companies were therefore required to sign and send a re-assignment letter to PRS by the end of September 2012, in order for the re-assignment to take place at the end of the calendar year (as noted in PRS's constitution).
- 297 composers and 34 publishing companies signed, and also re-assigned their broadcast and televising rights to Eos, the new agency formed by WMPCA to act as a broadcast rights agency.
- Eos is also a 'not for profit' company limited by guarantee and has a board of 9 trustees made up from representatives from Welsh publishing companies and independent writers/composers. 5 of the trustees are also directors of WMPCA and 5 out of the 9 trustees are independent writers/composers. This is in accordance with CISAC's rules for collecting societies world wide (www.cisac.org )
- On January 1st 2013 the re-assignment of the broadcasting (radio) and televising (television) rights came into force, and so Eos was now responsible for negotiating these rights on behalf of its members for all broadcasters in the UK. Eos and S4C came to an agreement on a 12 month 'blanket licence' before the end of Dec 2012.
- So far the BBC and Eos have not come to an agreement.
- What is being discussed between Eos and the BBC?
- Eos is discussing a 'blanket licence' for the use of the 30,000 or so works (or songs) it represents for all of the BBC's radio stations and television channels, not just Radio Cymru. However, Radio Cymru is the greatest user of this material, followed by Radio Wales, but there is also significant historical usage on other BBC services.
- On-Line usage has not been re-assigned and is not part of these discussions.
- The 30,000 or so works include songs in Welsh, English and other languages as well as instrumental works.
- The blanket licence being discussed is for a 12 month, non precedential trial period only.
- A per minute rate for Radio Cymru or any other station or TV channel cannot be calculated until Eos receives the usage data from the BBC every 3 months. Eos will then apportion the blanket fee in the same way as the PRS does. Eos intends to match the current PRS per min rates for most of the BBC's services but intends to give more status to the Nations radio stations, and hopefully increase the per min rate for Radio Cymru and Radio Wales.
- At the moment the BBC is offering a blanket fee of around a ¼ of what the Asian Network blanket fee would be, based on current per min rates.
- Eos is not looking for parity with the Asian Network, only a fair rate for the music.
Eos – The Broadcasting Rights Agency
'Eos' (Nightingale) is the name given to the new broadcasting rights agency.
The agency is owned by WMPCA but will have its own management board.
Amongst many proposals, (including endless acronyms!) 'Eos' stood out from the rest. It is client, internet & media friendly and easy to remember in any language. It has creative marketing qualities too; the nightingale song is tuneful, sings night and day and migrates to other countries… attributes similar to the agency's long term, ambitious and open minded vision. Also, many poets and singers used 'Eos' as part of their stage names, therefore it has Welsh, as well as global, relevance.
(Welsh / Cymraeg)
Eos – Yr Asiantaeth Hawliau Darlledu
'Eos' yw enw'r asiantaeth hawliau darlledu newydd.
Mae'r asiantaeth yn berchen i'r Gynghrair, ond a bwrdd rheoli ei hun. Manylion i ddilyn.
Ymysg yr holl gynigion, roedd 'Eos' yn enw llawer mwy diddorol a thrawiadol na'r holl acronymau diflas. Mae'n enw addas iawn i gynrychioli ein haelodau yn ogystal â defnydd ar-lein a chyfryngol, a chofiadwy mewn unrhyw iaith. Mae'n greadigol mewn ystyr marchnata hefyd, mae'r aderyn ei hun a chân soniarus, yn canu dydd a nos ac yn mudo o wlad i wlad… nodweddion tebyg iawn i weledigaeth hir dymor, uchelgeisiol a meddwl agored yr asiantaeth. Hefyd, roedd ambell i fardd yn defnyddio 'Eos' fel ffug enw, a chantorion yn eu defnyddio fel rhan o enw llwyfan, felly mae perthnasedd Cymreig yn ogystal â rhyngwladol iddo hefyd.


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Even though they've now been released, the three men who comprise the so-called "West Memphis Three" are still getting support from Eddie Vedder and the rest of Pearl Jam. The three men were convicted in the slayings of three Cub scouts nearly two decades ago, but were recently released — after spending 18 years behind […] [Read More]


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A new mural welcomes guests to the athletic training center on campus and showcases Geneseo's long tradition of athletics. It is one of 14 areas on campus that have new murals of photographs, signage and other enhancements.
When you walk into a Geneseo athletic facility, hockey Head Coach Chris Schultz '97 and Director of Intercollegiate Athletics and Recreation Michael Mooney want everyone to know that the college has a long, deep tradition of successful athletics.
Big, bright and powerful action shots and images that convey what it's like to be part of a team at Geneseo adorn several doors and walls of Merritt Athletic Center and other sporting hot spots.
First up was the hockey mural that welcomes all who enter the doors to the Ira S. Wilson ice arena. Since then, athletics and several other college leaders have collaborated with Director of Design and College Publications Brian Bennett to add more, scouting best locations and identifying outstanding images for banners in a total of 14 areas so far, including Schrader Gym, the Alumni Pool and the ice arena.
Projects underway include a new welcome sign for the ice arena and window graphics and exterior signage for Schrader Gym.
The photographic banners and wraps help showcase Geneseo's facilities, aid in student-athlete recruitment, and develop pride for students and players, says Mooney.
"Most individuals like to look at photos which improve the team spirit and excitement surrounding the program," he says. "The items dress up the appearance of the facility and make it more attractive to the prospective student-athletes, present student-athletes, fans and the supporters of the program."


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Japan is not the best market for Windows Phone. According to Kantar's figures for the month of May, the market share for Windows Phone on Japanese shores was almost 1.4 percent, with iOS being on top with 51.1 percent. In an effort to increase it presence in the country, the company has organized an event -- Nokia Con -- where they will showcase several Windows Phone handsets so that users could get some hand-on experience of the operating system.
It's a great effort to let people know what Windows Phone can do, especially after the launch of the Windows Phone 8.1 operating system. The devices powered by the new OS are widely available across the globe. There's no word about the devices which will be on display, but there's a likelihood that Nokia Lumia 930 as well as the budget-friendly Lumia 630/635 may hit the stage.
To visit the event, you must register for it, as there are limited number of seats available. You can check out this link to try your luck if you're in Japan, but at the time of writing this, the capacity was full. It strange the capacity was set to just 60 seats, but it could be due to the fact that Windows Phone is not very popular in the region.


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KINGSPORT — Eastman Chemical Co. posted lower earnings in the first quarter of 2012, while sales revenue was slightly higher in the period due to higher selling prices.
The Kingsport-based company posted net income of $158 million or $1.12 per diluted share in the first three months of the year vs. $240 million or $1.66 per share in the year-ago period.
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It's been a while since my last installment of Nailing It, hasn't it? My bad. I don't know why I thought my scatterbrained self could handle a regular feature. Anyway, Angela is sporting a new shade, and I'm excited to share – because it's one of my fall favorites.
If you pay attention to the trend reports, you know that purple reigns this season…and Parlez-Vous OPI is a prime example. This smoky violet had me at bonjour, and it seems that Angela is equally smitten.
La Collection De France from OPI incudes the aforementioned purty purple, along with eleven other stunning shades.
I'm off to NYC today for Fashion Week – so, in preparation, I painted my piggies in Louvre Me Louvre Me Not (left), a rich royal purple.
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