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Kone has struck another major deal to supply elevators and escalators for the Hong Kong metro.
It has been selected by MTR Corporation to provide 49 elevators, 79 heavy-duty escalators and four autowalks for the new South Island Line (East) and the Kwun Tong Line Extension projects.
Both railway lines will be completed in 2015 and involve seven new stations. Kone will begin installing its lifts from next year and the work will continue until the end of 2014.
Kone's elevators come equipped with regenerative drives, which convert braking energy into electrical current that can be used by other applications in the stations or to drive other elevators. Regenerative drives can recover up to 35 per cent of an elevator's total energy consumption.
— This is definitely a milestone achievement for Kone in Hong Kong, says Noud Veeger, EVP and Area Director of Kone Asia Pacific.
— I am delighted that our working relationship with MTR continues with these additional projects.
Kone maintains more than 1,000 elevators and escalators in the existing MTR network.
In October, the company agreed to supply 139 elevators and five dumbwaiters to Hong Kong's Express Rail Link project which connects Hong Kong with mainland China's high-speed railway network.
A year ago, Kone won an order to supply 37 elevators, 41 escalators and five autowalks on the West Island Line railway extension in Hong Kong.


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As a day to day Python and iOS developer, I'm using a lot of tools on my Mac, here is a list that could help you too.
fast forward your cherry pick, you propably need help (or avoid git and use mercurial which has normal messages), tower is a nice interface to git.
You probably have understood, I like Jetbrains products, AppCode & PyCharm, there is a Java for Android free community edition of IDEA, what I like too for this editors is the possibility to use the same colors everywhere thanks to Solarized, I'm used to Dark Solarized in XCode, iTerm2, Jetbrains products and Textmate2.
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NASA's Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft to enter the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. It went on to become the first human-made object to reach Jupiter, our solar system's largest planet.
The mission was NASA's first to the outer planets. Pioneer 10 took about 300 photos of Jupiter. Jupiter's powerful gravity propeled Pioneer 10 on a course to Saturn and eventually into interstellar space.
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Despite what many active people think, protein from foods like meat, chicken, eggs, or fish is not an important source of fuel for exercise. While weight lifters and long-distance runners may need a little more protein than the recreational athlete, most of us will get more than enough protein from eating regular meals and a variety of foods.
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Studies have found that runners, particularly female runners, may have low levels of iron. This may be because they eat less meat (which is high in iron), absorb less iron and consume fewer calories. It is important to eat enough iron-rich foods such as dried fruit, spinach, enriched cereals, and low-fat meat.
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Newly single, stalked by a killer, and in desperate need of some chic clown shoes--Bella is one skinny mocha frapp away from total meltdown. When the Fritz Family Carnival makes its annual appearance in Truman, Bella's keen reporter instincts tell her the bright lights hide more than they reveal. Her suspicions are confirmed when one of the stars is murdered. Though the police make an immediate arrest, Bella doubts this case is quite that simple. She needs her crime-solving boyfriend, Luke, more than ever. Problem is, his ex-girlfriend has moved back to town, giving Bella some murderous thoughts of her own. Then again, there's no time for a relationship crisis when Bella's doing her best to derail her father's wedding and stay one step ahead of a killer. Is God sending her a message in all of this madness? With a murderer on the loose and her boyfriend's ex on the prowl, this undercover clown has never had more to juggle--or more to risk.
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SO OVER MY HEAD...that's exactly where Bella Kirkwood finds herself in the third CHARMED LIFE novel.
Before the story even gets going, Bella stumbles across a dead body. For those who have read either of the previous two books in the series, you will know that bad luck has a way of finding Bella. And Bella is the kind of girl who refuses to let that bad luck get the best of her.
But not only is there a dead body in her way, now there's a conniving ex-girlfriend of Luke's in the picture. Ashley and her family have moved back to Truman - and Ashley is ready to resume her spot next to Luke.
So not only is Bella dealing with this, she's watching her new family start to come apart. Her step-father has started his career in professional wrestling, but he's on the road more than he's home. Bella's mother is trying to keep the family together, but is frustrated that Jake isn't around, especially when Bella winds up in trouble again...and again....and again...
Bella sticks her nose into the murder that has happened at the visiting circus. With her friend, Ruthie, (thank you for giving her a bigger role in this novel!) as her loyal sidekick (though there is much discussion between Bella and Ruthie regarding this said role), the two sign up to be temporary clowns. This gives them pretty much all access to the under workings of the circus to solve the murder. Ever-vigilant Luke is never far behind. He is determined to make Bella realize that she has to trust someone, and that Ashley means nothing to him. Oh, and to also rescue her time and time and time again...
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The pension cost shift.
For some strange reason known only to Tribune columnist Eric Zorn, he decided to try and explain how Chicago Public Schools are overfunded.
It's an argument too stupid to even get started on. But at the end of his blog post, Zorn mentions the pension cost swap in passing.
This is a topic worth addressing.
The pension cost swap is Mike Madigan's idea. The state owes the Teacher Retirement System maybe $44 billion dollars. Maybe more.
Because for over fifty years the state either hasn't paid what they owed or used TRS funds to build bridges, roads and, ironically, schools without raising taxes.
That bill must be paid.
One solution would be to restructure the debt, like an overdue mortgage.
Quinn, Madigan and Cullerton have other plans. They want to cut pension benefits to retired teachers and shift the pension cost to local school districts.
The pension cost shift will add a burden to local schools, many of which are already broke. If the cost shift takes place no teacher in Illinois will ever see a raise again.
But based on my conversations with teachers who are currently bargaining contracts across the state, the damage has already been done.
School boards are using just the threat of a cost shift to justify salary freezes and benefit cost increases to employees.
As if things weren't tough enough already.
Barb permalinkJuly 25, 2012 9:00 pm
Let's talk about what Madigan wants to do to teachers that are already retired. I am with the Chicago pension fund but what happens to TRS will happen to CTPF. While TRS retirees still get a 75% support with heatlh insurance, CTPF retirees are down to a 60% support and are scheduled to go lower in January, possibly as low as 40%. Then there is the constant threat from Rahm to cancel our supposedly guaranteed COLAs for 10 years (as if he would ever give those back).
How can these legislators be so incredibly ignorant to think that any retiree could recoup these types of cuts in income, income that we all worked for decades to secure??? How can they think that health insurance and COLAs are not part of the pension? As emerging reports continue to discuss the increase in poverty in this country, can't these legislators connect the dots and see that what they want to do to retirees will force more and more of us into that category?
We always thought that the state constitution protected us. But that is evidently not the case in Illinois. The state allowed the Chicago pension plan to fall below 60% funded (CPS loved those pension holidays) and now retirees are viewed as The Problem. The state failed to fund TRS on any level but now retirees are The Problem. Somehow, some type of revolution is needed to convince these people who run our state that they must hold themselves accountable and not punish those already retired. Any suggestions?
MiC permalinkJuly 26, 2012 9:48 am
"Because for over fifty years the state either hasn't paid what they owed or used TRS funds to build bridges, roads and, ironically, schools without raising taxes."
I'm going to disagree with this as any politician in office now will tell you that we need roads and bridges and schools too, and your pension just costs too much to afford these important bits of infrastructure. This is a straw-man argument used to divide Illinois voters.
The state largely didn't build bridges, roads or schools with this practice, but instead cut funding to these projects or privatized them or diverted their cost to local tax payers. Toll roads were extended so now we have more miles of tollways Illinois residents have to pay ever increasing fees to drive on. Bridges outside the toll roads were largely left to crumble or wait their turn for federal highway funds. Schools were also left to crumble or have renovations paid for by local tax payer funded referendums. If these referendum passed the cost was transferred to local tax payers, if not, too bad for the students.
What the state did by shirking its responsibility to fund pensions was to keep tax rates artificially low to support a regressive fixed-rate tax structure. A tax structure that is only a handful of states in the US still support. A tax structure that sees a family earning $40,000 pay the same tax rate as a millionaire making $4,000,000. A tax system that is outdated, favors the affluent, and creates a structural deficit in Illinois budget that has resulted underfunding for roads, bridge and schools for decades.
What the state did by shirking its responsibility to people like teachers, firefighters and police officers was also to subsidize corporate profit margins. Those in Springfield were able to divert pension funding to corporate giveaways to businesses making nearly $1 Billion in profits or business that threatened to cut a few hundred jobs at the expense of needed social services if they didn't get their extorted tax breaks – who then cut jobs anyway. To pay for these subsidized profits, necessary and important public sector services were cut and the Illinois taxpayers who filled these jobs were laid off by the thousands.
Don't make the mistake of thinking that pension funds were diverted because Springfield politicians wanted to do something the majority of Illinois residents needed and elected them to do. Springfield politicians diverted the money earned by pension recipients to keep their influential donors' tax rates low and profit margins high and thereby advance their political careers.


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Are your eyes blurry from all the fast-moving images of Olympic athletes? Mine are. Thank goodness the London event is over and the addicted ones can now catch up with our work and sleep. For those who have not had quite enough and are still under the spell of the lingering glow of those gold medals, the library can offer you a less exhausting option.
SoccerIt's Not About the Bra: Play Hard, Play Fair, and Put the Fun Back Into Competitive Sports by Brandi Chastain
Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference by Warren St. John
RunningBorn to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall This may be the closest you will get to ultra-marathoners and Tarahumara runners in Copper Canyon, Mexico. One of the central characters in the book, Caballo Blanco's death was recently in the news.
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki MurakamiHe writes, he runs and he also talks about writing and running in a Spiegel interview.
In the Long Run: A Father, a Son, and Unintentional Lessons in Happiness by Jim AxelrodEndorsed by a former gold medalist, Bernard Lagat, who wrote, "An inspiration to runners and non-runners alike—and a reminder that the love of a family has no finish line."
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Lady Gaga, swathed in a red maxi dress, blue hair and a blazer, swept through Toronto airport yesterday. The blue hair had also made a rather raunchy appearance on Gaga's nether regions the night before at the 2011 MuchMusic Video Awards. The singer's progress towards her space ship was only halted by this little tyke here. We're fans of this girl who looked rather terrified during her encounter with Gaga. This is how we imagine the conversation went.
Lady Gaga: LITTLE MONSTER!
Little Girl: *If I don't look at her directly, maybe she'll disappear*
Lady Gaga: Little monster, It's me, Mamma Monster! Let me cocoon you with the surreal blanket of my love!
Little Girl: *Maybe I'll start backing away slowly*
Lady Gaga: …. We'll change the world one sequin at a time!
Little Girl: *Someone help me*
Lady Gaga: …Don't be a drag, just be a Queen. Like me! To the spaceship!
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The 2012 Olympic silver medalist will go for the gold in Rio.
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Five U.S. women's national team members spoke to youth players in Pennsylvania.
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Originally published on Thu January 1, 2015 4:55 pm
This is part of a series of stories about starting over, profiling people who, by choice or circumstance, reinvented or transformed themselves.
Chapel of the Interlude is a fitting name for a church in the middle of a narrow, winding canyon.
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"Hello. Are you registered to vote in Colorado?"
It's a refrain many in the state have grown to loathe this summer — heard outside their favorite grocery store or shopping mall as signature gatherers race toward an Aug. 4 deadline to put four energy-related measures on the November ballot.
With two of those measures backed by environmentalists, and the other two by industry-supported groups, all of the energy talk is leading to confusion among potential voters.
Originally published on Wed November 27, 2013 12:32 pm
The indoor shooting range at Archery in the Wild in northern Colorado used to be dominated by camouflage and hunters. But on this Saturday morning, the archery range is dotted with ponytails and 7-year-old girls like Y'Jazzmin Christopher.
The popularity of The Hunger Games series is fueling an interest in the sport of archery, particularly among girls. Some sporting equipment outfitters say they've seen a big boost in bow and arrow sales since the film series began in 2012.
Originally published on Tue November 26, 2013 8:45 pm
The 2013 election marked a victory for foes of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in Colorado. Voters in three Front Range communities decided to put limits on the practice.
Originally published on Thu October 31, 2013 5:24 am
Voters in communities in Ohio and Colorado will decide measures this coming Tuesday that would ban or limit the practice of hydraulic fracturing. Across the U.S., campaigns questioning the health and safety of fracking for natural gas are heating up. Grace Hood of member station KUNC reports on the effort in Fort Collins, Colorado.
GRACE HOOD, BYLINE: Most look forward to having some downtime over the weekend, but not Kelly Giddens.
Originally published on Fri October 11, 2013 5:25 pm
It's MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Steve Inskeep.
And I'm Renee Montagne.
Let's check in now on some people and places affected by the large-scale federal government shutdown. We go first to Boulder, Colorado. Its home to hundreds of federal research laboratory employees and thousands more university and contract workers, all locked out of federal buildings and labs during the budget impasse.
Originally published on Thu October 3, 2013 12:53 pm
Amid the partial government shutdown, the Small Business Administration will continue only a few programs, including disaster relief loans. That's good news in Colorado, where nearly a thousand businesses were damaged or destroyed by recent flooding. Many more could see sales go down.
Grace Hood of member station KUNC traveled to the small town Lyons to understand the full scope of challenges facing small businesses.
Originally published on Thu September 26, 2013 5:06 am
The heavy floodwaters in Colorado this month caused more than 37,000 gallons of oil to spill into or near rivers, and the state's oil and gas industry is rushing to fix equipment damaged during the storm. It comes at a time when there's growing public concern about the environmental effects of hydraulic fracturing in the state.
Originally published on Tue September 17, 2013 9:38 am
The heavy rain has finally stopped in Colorado, but days of flooding have devastated the most populated region of the state, known as the Front Range. As of this morning, we know that eight people have died, though hundreds have not been heard from, some in very remote areas. Officials estimate 1,500 homes have been destroyed, and thousands more damaged. Grace Hood from member station KUMC reports federal aid is making its way into the state, even as crews assess the damage.
Originally published on Wed September 4, 2013 5:27 pm
The practice of hydraulic fracturing is something typically associated with fields and open land. But it's not uncommon in Colorado and other states for a residential neighborhood to become the site of oil and gas activity.
Originally published on Tue July 16, 2013 12:43 pm
The peak of the summer harvest is approaching, which means that if you have a community supported agriculture share, you may be receiving a daunting amount of fresh produce to cook every week.
Originally published on Fri July 19, 2013 11:40 am
The rambling, funky ride called Banjo Billy's Bus Tours, in Boulder, Colo., is equal parts history, crime stories and comedy. It's all woven together by John Georgis — better known as Banjo Billy — in a playful, "choose your own adventure" style.
"You can either choose a PG tour, or a PG-13 tour, or an R-rated tour," he tells one group of riders. The crowd chooses the R-rated version, but they have to work for it.
"If you want the R-rated tour, you gotta say it like a pirate," Banjo says, drawing a bunch of "arrrrghs" from tour-goers. "R it is!"
Originally published on Sun June 9, 2013 12:58 pm
Sunday marks the one-year anniversary of the High Park fire northwest of Fort Collins, Colo. The blaze consumed 259 homes in the rural area, but so far only 10 households have finished rebuilding a year later.
As Gary and Martha Lemert sort through photographs from the High Park fire, it takes just one before and after shot to convey the complete devastation of their 10-acre property.
All they had left after the fire was a green roof that looked like it had been melted on top of gray rubble. All told, the Lemerts lost eight buildings, including a garage and a guest house.
Originally published on Wed May 1, 2013 9:11 am
Colorado responded to the mass shootings in Aurora, Colo., and Newtown, Conn., by passing new gun control measures last month. That's not sitting well with several gun-related businesses in the Centennial State, where four companies have announced plans to relocate all or some of their operations.
Originally published on Tue April 2, 2013 9:56 pm
An obscure tax code provision crafted for drug dealers is giving state-licensed medical marijuana dispensaries a headache.
In Colorado, federal income tax rates for dispensaries can soar as high as 70 percent because of a tax code section that does not allow businesses to claim certain deductions.
The section is known as 280E, and it was originally written for illegal drug traffickers. But today it's a thorn in the side of licensed dispensary owners like Erica Freeman.


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DENVER – In a last-minute call to rally religious conservatives to vote, Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan warned Sunday night that President Obama is taking the country down a path that threatens the "Judeo-Christian" values upon which the country was founded.
"It's a dangerous path, it's a path that grows government, restricts freedom and liberty, and compromises those values, those Judeo-Christian, Western civilization values that made us such a great and exceptional nation in the first place," Ryan said during an unpublicized teletown hall with members of the Faith & Freedom Coalition.
"He was talking about issues like religious liberty and Obamacare -- topics he has mentioned frequently during the campaign," said Ryan campaign spokesman Michael Steel.
Although Ryan does not often talk about America's past in religious terms, GOP nominee Mitt Romney said in a commencement address to Liberty University earlier this year that Judeo-Christian values are "central to America's rise to global leadership."
Ryan, who frequently rails against an Obama administration requirement that Catholic-affiliated employers such as hospitals and universities include birth control coverage in their employee insurance plans, spoke about the mandate in unusually harsh and personal terms on the call. The rule – part of the Affordable Care Act, or "Obamacare" -- was modified to require that insurance companies pay for the contraceptive coverage, but the change didn't satisfy Ryan and other critics.
"That violates our first, fundamental freedom: freedom of religion, freedom of conscience," Ryan said. "My church is suing the federal government -- Catholic churches, hospitals and charities are now suing the federal government just to maintain and preserve our religious freedoms. We should not have to sue our own government to keep our constitutionally guaranteed freedoms. But that's the way it's going with this administration."


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This book has become a favorite of K-12 teachers, university faculty, and corporate consultants. It provides short gaming exercises that illustrate the subtleties of systems thinking. The companion DVD shows the authors introducing and running each of the thirty games. The thirty games are classified by these areas of learning: Systems Thinking, Mental Models, Team Learning, Shared Vision, and Personal Mastery. Each description clearly explains when, how, and why the game is useful. There are explicit instructions for debriefing each exercise as well as a list of all required materials. A summary matrix has been added for a quick glance at all thirty games. When you are in a hurry to find just the right initiative for some part of your course, the matrix will help you find it. Linda Booth Sweeney and Dennis Meadows both have many years of experience in teaching complex concepts. This book reflects their insights. Every game works well and provokes a deep variety of new insights about paradigms, system boundaries, causal-loop diagrams, reference modes, and leverage points. Each of the thirty exercises here was tested and refined many times until it became a reliable source of learning. Some of the games are adapted from classics of the outdoor education field. Others are completely new. But all of them complement readings and lectures to help participants understand intuitively the principles of systems thinking.
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Linda Booth Sweeney, Ed. D., is a researcher and writer dedicated to making the principles of systems thinking and sustainability accessible to children and others. She has worked with Outward Bound, Sloan School of M.I.T., and Schlumberger Excellence in Educational Development, or SEED. She is the author of The Systems Thinking Playbook; When a Butterfly Sneezes: A guide for helping children explore interconnections in our world through favorite stories; Connected Wisdom: Living Stories about Living Systems and numerous academic journals and newsletters. Sweeney lives outside Boston, Massachusetts. More information is available at www.lindaboothsweeney.net. Dennis Meadows is Emeritus Professor of Systems Policy and Social Science Research at the University of New Hampshire, where he was also Director of the Institute for Policy and Social Science Research. In 2009 he received the Japan Prize for his contributions to world peace and sustainable development. He has authored ten books and numerous educational games, which have been translated into more than 15 languages for use around the world. He earned his Ph.D. in Management from MIT, where he previously served on the faculty, and has received four honorary doctorates for his contributions to environmental education.


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As you complete your next TPS report and wallow in the stifling bureaucratic swamp of typical business life, you think… how did it get this way? How did we lose sight of the customer? How did a previously innovative organization succumb to the same evil forces it once fought so hard against?
The insidious poison of fear-based, bureaucratic thinking can infect even the most creative companies. Apple, arguably the most disruptive company in the world, is now showing signs of being bitten by that slithering snake. I experienced this first hand on a recent trip to the Apple Store:
Step 1: Walk in with a smile. Ask to buy an iPhone for each of my kids. Told there's a 30 min wait to see a "specialist". I respond with "Cool, I'll be back in 25 min" (I was at a mall). Next, I'm scolded and told I must wait inside the store. If I left, I'd lose my appointment. "That's our policy".
Step 2: Finally my name is called and I tell my "specialist" that I want two iPhones. Chad says, "We must ring them up separately. That's our policy". He rings up my son's phone first in a slow and cumbersome process that takes nearly 30 minutes and requires a phone call to someone at Apple for "approval".
Step 3: Time to do the whole thing again for my daughter. I had to repeat all my info, social security number, driver's license…the whole bit. At the end of it all, the system informs that Chad must call in for "analyst review".
Step 4: Specialist talks to Verizon. I'm informed that I need to fax a copy of a utility bill to Verizon (apparently to prove I actually live where I do). So even though I just bought one phone, I'm apparently now a credit risk. Keep in mind – I have PERFECT credit. Never missed a bill, and if they looked a tiny bit deeper they'd probably realize I can afford the $40 per month. So now I'm told I need to fax some random document to some random person to check some box. Also now informed I can't get her phone tonight (the equivalent of horror to a 13-year-old girl).
Step 5: I say, "This is insane. Let me talk to the Verizon person." Response: "Sorry, customers are not allowed to speak to them directly. Policy". When noting my frustration, my "specialist" says "Hey… not my problem. Verizon is a separate company. I can do nothing". Funny how I'm buying a phone and service from Apple, but now there is another company's policy that is impacting me and it is "not my problem".
Step 6: I say, "Look… I'm not a credit risk and I just don't have time to fax and come back. How about I prepay the entire contract? Then you have zero issues, right?" Response: "Sorry, our system isn't set up to do that." This type of nonsense goes on for quite some time, with my completely unhelpful and un-empowered "specialist" providing zero value, help, or reason.
Step 7: Another long bureaucratic issue ensues when they refuse to transfer pictures from my son's old phone to his new one. "Legal liability" I'm told. "What if I sign a waiver?" I ask sheepishly. "Sorry sir. Our policy doesn't allow for that." Me: "Are you sure you work for APPLE?!?"
Steve Jobs would have had a heart attack. What happened to the irreverence? What happened to "Think Different?"
If this can happen at Apple, the same cancerous thinking can invade your organization. Your job is to hunt and kill this nonsense. To constantly challenge conventional thinking. To shun idiotic policies. If you're not the one who cleans this up, your competitor (likely a new startup) will be happy to solve it for you. I'd love to tell you more, but I have to go run this by the legal department and then get approval from the Vice President of Finality.
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Yoculan's work was recognized by her peers as she was chosen as the National Coach of the Year five times (1987, 1993, 1998, 2006, 2008) and the SEC Coach of the Year eight times (1986, 1987, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2009). She ended her career with a record of 836-117-7.
Yoculan produced 37 NCAA individual champions, including three-time all-around winner Courtney Kupets, and 58 Gym Dogs with 306 All-America honors.
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An active member of the Athens community, Yoculan donated her time and energy to such entities as United Way, Habitat for Humanity, Athens Regional Medical Center's Breast Health Center and Special Olympics. She won the Atlanta Athletic Club's 2008 W.R. McGriff Award, which honors recipients who exemplify excellence in sports while demonstrating characteristics of an upstanding citizen and role model. Yoculan also was inducted into the prestigious Blue Key National Honor Society in 2008.
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I can't believe that Valentine's Day is right around the corner! And that means it's time to think about your V-Day plan!
In the past few years I have been the event planner for this special day but it all changed this year after I successfully convinced Mrs. YiReservation to become an occasional contributor to my blog:)
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So to celebrate the V-Day, Mrs. YiReservation decided to bake one of my favorite cookies – Red Velvet White Chocolate Chip and boy they turned out RIDICULOUSLY GOOD!
These crinkled cookies have that amazing soft and moist texture just the way I love. Mrs. YiReservation also kindly made these cookies not overly-sweet so I can happily indulge myself with a few extra pieces. Best of all, these cookies are RED. Who doesn't want to be surrounded by red desserts or treats on this special day!
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- 200g all-purpose flour
- 113g butter (1 stick), in room temperature
- 60g sugar
- 140g white chocolate chips (about ¾ cups) + 40g for garnishing
- 15ml milk
- 1 egg
- 25g cocoa powder
- 2tsp red food coloring
- 2tsp vanilla extract
- 1tsp baking soda
- ½tsp salt
- In a mixing bowl, combine the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt. Lightly mix the dry ingredients and set aside
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- Add the pre-mixed dry ingredients, vanilla extract, and food coloring and mix in low speed until a soft and sticky cookie dough is formed
- On low speech, mix in 140g (3/4 cups) of white chocolate chips
- Tightly cover the dough with aluminum foil and chill in the fridge for at least 2 hours. Can make the dough the night before
- Preheat the oven to 350F (177C). Leave the chilled cookie dough in room temperature for 5-10 minutes or until the dough is soft enough to be shaped. Roll the dough by hand into balls and place the balls on parchment paper covered baking sheets
- Bake on the middle rack for 8 minutes for soft cookies. Add 2 – 3 minutes for crunchier cookies. Take out the baked cookies. Gently flatten each cookie with a tablespoon. Garnish the cookies by stick in 1 – 3 additional white chocolate chips on top of the warm cookies
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Pekudei: A Summary of the Parashah
The work of constructing the Tabernacle is completed; Moses receives the command to anoint its vessels and to anoint Aaron and the priests.
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All that the Lord commanded Moses was created for the sanctuary under the direction of Ithamar, son of Aaron the priest, Bezalel of the tribe of Judah, and Oholiab of the tribe of Dan.
They made garments of distinction for those officiating in the Sanctuary and sacral vestments for Aaron, the High Priest. Aaron's breastplate had twelve stones corresponding to the names of the sons of Israel. His robe was woven with the color of pure blue and had bells of pure gold.
They made tunics and headdresses and decorated turbans of embroidered fine linen for Aaron and his sons. They made the head-plate of pure gold, and inscribed upon it: "Holy to God."
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Thus all the work of the Tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting was completed. Then the Israelites brought the Tabernacle and all that was within it to Moses. When Moses saw that they had performed all the tasks as the Lord had commanded, Moses blessed them.
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: On the first day of the month you shall set up the Tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting, and all that is within it. You shall take the anointing oil and anoint the Tabernacle and all its contents so that it shall be holy.
You shall bring Aaron and his sons forward to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting and wash them with the water. Put the sacral vestments on Aaron and anoint him so that he may serve Me as priest. Then anoint his sons so that they may serve Me as priests. This anointing shall serve them in their everlasting priesthood throughout the generations. This Moses did, just as the Lord had commanded him.
When Moses finished, the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting and the Presence of the Lord filled the Tabernacle. Moses could not enter the Tent of Meeting because the cloud had settled upon it and the Presence of the Lord filled the Tabernacle.
When the cloud lifted from the Tabernacle, the Israelites would set out on their journeys. If the cloud did not lift, they would not set out. For over the Tabernacle a cloud of the Lord rested by day and fire would appear in it by night, before the eyes of all the House of Israel throughout their journeys.
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1) Boost Your Contributions Through Catch-Up Provisions. If you're over 50, as I am, you can contribute $23,000 to your 401(k) in 2013. That's $5,500 more than those under 50. If you're an empty nester, don't have children or single, you should be able to focus on this goal a lot easier than when you were younger. You can also add an additional $1,000 into your individual retirement account (for a total of $6,500 annually just in the IRA).
2) Just Save More. This is simple math. The more you put away, the more the total compounds and the greater the sum at retirement. Combined with delaying retirement until 70 has a real impact. According to a recent study by T. Rowe Price, the mutual fund company, someone retiring at 70 and saving 15 percent annually could boost their retirement income by $10,000 a year. That's for a 55-year-old getting 3% annual inflation adjustments with $450,000 in current savings and a 60% stocks/40% bonds allocation.
Don't want to wait to retire? Consider that you'll be drawing on your nest egg sooner and the money won't last as long.
Also consider that there's a tremendous advantage to starting early. A 22-year-old who invests $100 a month for 10 years — and then stops investing (which I don't recommend) — still has an edge over someone who starts at age 32 (more than $20,000 more) at 7% annual return, according to T. Rowe Price.
The missing factor in all of this? Time. It's generally on your side. The more years you contribute, the better the result.


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"Sliced tart apples are layered with spiced bread crumbs and brown sugar, and topped with butter and applesauce, in this easy baked dessert."
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2 cups
dry bread crumbs
1 cup
brown sugar
1 teaspoon
ground cinnamon, divided
1/4 teaspoon
ground cloves
10 cups
sliced tart apple
1/3 cup
butter, melted
1/3 cup
1 1/2 teaspoons
white sugar
easy to prepare and very delicious. The apples that are used make a big difference. I like Jonathan.
I must have gone wrong somewhere. It was very dry, it never bubbled. Very bland with the primary taste being the breadcrumbs. I would like to try it again as it was easy to make. Any suggestions?
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I made it with granola instead of bread crumbs and it was great.
This was delicious and really easy, even kids can MAKE it!!!
and goes well with custard :)
y family loves this recipe and since i have an apple tree this adds to the variety of things i make. Thank you
it was pretty dry. Not sure if i did something wrong.
I added pecan pieces, topped it with more melted butter (it looked dry), and cooked it longer. Everyone loved it.
Fantastic Recipe. I served it with Vanilla ice cream and caramel sauce. Everyone raved about it.
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Verizon is reporting that its 4G LTE service has been restored following the companies third nationwide network outage. According to company spokesperson Brenda Raney, the 4G issue was resolved overnight. Verizon's 3G network, she explained, operated normally, and calling and texting were unaffected by the outage.
Yesterday's outage marks the third 4G service interruption to hit Verizon customers this month. The first event, which occurred early in the month took roughly a day to be resolved, while the second, which happened just over a week ago was, was fixed in a few hours. Each time the network went down, users took to Verizon's community support forums to their fellow customers updates on the problem.
Following each outage, Verizon confirmed that service had been interrupted and restored following an incident, however, exactly what the incident was in each instance is not mentioned. It's not as though Verizon's 4G problems only started creeping up recently either. In April, the company's LTE network went down for more than a day. That network failure also happened to coincide with the release of Verizon's Motorola Thunderbolt, the company's first 4G LT-enabled phone.
Verizon recently launched its 4G LTE version of Samsung's Galaxy Nexus, which most assuredly saw many people jumping onto Big Red's network, and could serve as an explanation for yesterday's outage, but without any confirmation from Verizon, that's all merely speculation. Here's hoping that Verizon's network has a better go at it in 2012.


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By John Goodspeed : March 13, 2012 : Updated: March 14, 2012 4:29pm
Photo By Frazer Harrison/Getty ImagesMusician Ray Price poses backstage during day 1 of Stagecoach: California's Country Music Festival 2010 held at The Empire Polo Club on April 24, 2010 in Indio, California.
Trailblazing country music singer Ray Price says he was never afraid to take a chance.
"I'd rather be sorry for something I've done than something I didn't do," he said in an interview.
So he never looked back after adding orchestral strings to country-fried fiddle and creating enemies — and more fans — in the late 1960s with such pop-flavored songs as "Danny Boy" and "For the Good Times."
Accompanied by a string section, Price will sing those songs and signature tunes such as "Crazy Arms" and "Night Life" when he takes the stage at 7:30 p.m. Satur-day at the Majestic Theatre.
His son, vocalist and guitarist Cliff Price, will warm up the crowd.
"I took a real beating back then in Nashville for using strings," Price said. "But I'm a string man. I used them for years.
"I think it's a way of improving the songs. Strings are as close to the human voice as you can get, and they're beautiful."
Price, who turned 86 in January, cut his first song in 1949 and went on to be one of country music's pioneers across eight decades — carrying the torch of traditional country after the death of his friend Hank Williams, adding his trademark four/four shuffle, being vilified for taking country in a pop direction and defying major record labels and contemporary country radio stations by continuing to record and tour on his own after they figured he was washed up.
Twenty years after most people retire, Price is still going strong with 20-plus dates on his concert calendar so far this year.
His vocals are still rich and vibrant.
"Like any instrument, the more you play it the better you get," he said.
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Teenage driver injured after car overturns on High Bickington road
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A TEENAGE driver was treated at the scene of a crash after her car rolled on its side blocking a road in High Bickington early this morning.
Devon and Cornwall Police crew control received a call from another motorist at 5.45am alerting them to the crash which happened on the B3217.
The 19-year-old driver of the silver Peugeot 206 was treated by ambulance crew for minor injuries. She did not need to be taken to hospital.
A spokesman for Devon and Cornwall Police said: "Highways were called to put grit down because oil had spilled onto the road.
"The car was recovered because it couldn't be driven. There is no indication of how the accident happened."
The road was clear and open by 7.45am.


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Just released Get Altitude v.1.2 with (voice-)search support.
Really love concept for Get Altitude. Can we make the GPA work though? And can we see names of peaks and ranges? I'd pay for those features.
Just released Get Altitude v.1.2 with (voice-)search support.
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#3 by max on November 28, 2010 - 2:34 pm
Do you mean GPS coordinates of your current position? The button is only highlighted once the App could get a location fix. This may take some seconds. If GPS is disabled it uses your GSM location.
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Tracking Chilly Temps Today, Freeze TonightApril 10th, 2012 at 5:32 am by Ken Brewer under Weather
TODAY: Colder air from Canada will continue to slide into the state. Temperatures are starting off in the 30s and 40s, and will only climb into the upper 40s and low to mid 50s this afternoon. We should see a chilly wind to go along with that, along with a mix of sun & clouds.
THIS EVENING: Colder air will send temperatures tumbling into the low 40s and 30s during the evening.
FROST AND FREEZE LIKELY TONIGHT: Temperatures will drop into the low 30s and upper 20s tonight. With mainly clear skies and light wind, frost and freeze conditions are likely. Protect sensitive plants and vegetation.
WEDNESDAY: After a frosty start, it will stay cool again Wednesday. Highs will only reach the low to mid 50s.
EXTENDED OUTLOOK: Milder air will return by Friday. I took out rain chances for Friday but we could see scattered rain and thunderstorms this weekend through the middle of next week.


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some help please with peanut butter cookies.
Hello all:
I am looking for some help with my peanut butter cookie making.
I am using a standard peanut butter cookie recipe from my mixer book.
Roll them in small balls, and lightly squish with a fork. Bake at 375F for 10 minutes.
My problem is that then spread too much making them too big and you can't even see the fork imprints.
Ideally, I would like my cookies to be smaller, thicker, and be able to see the fork marks.
If you need more info (recipe) I will reply.
Thanks for any help
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A Logan High School athlete has been diagnosed with AML leukemia and fundraisers have been established to help with his medical expenses.
Freshman Sklyer Miller was a starter on the LHS freshman football team and a member of the weight lifting team. He is a also member of the Logan High School Prayer Club and Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) and was selected as student of the month last fall.
"Skyler is an outstanding moral and ethical young man," John E. Godby, LHS Prayer Club sponsor, said. "He is in Cabell-Huntington Hospital taking chemotherapy treatments and will be there for several weeks."
The Logan High School Prayer Club is taking orders for a tee shirt that says, "Wildcats 4 Skyler" on the front. The shirt is white with an orange ribbon inserted in place of the "l" in Wildcats. Orange is the color of the leukemia ribbon in the fight against this type of cancer.
Anyone who would like to assist the family by purchasing a tee shirt can call Logan High at 304-752-6606 or after school hours, Godby at 304-752-7774, to place an order.
Tee shirts are $10. Donations are also welcome.
"Your assistance in this goodwill project will be greatly appreciated," Godby said.
Also selling t-shirts to support Skyler is the New Life Freewill Baptist Church.
The t-shirts are orange, a color designated for leukemia, with the message on the front saying "Step back and watch this." The back will have Skyler's name and football number.
All sizes will be available up to 5X. The cost is $10 for sizes up to Large, and $2 for each size up. To order, contact Johnathan Click at 304-688-9531.


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I'm happy to announce the availability of annotated wireframes for the Digital Newsroom portion of the Populous Project. The functionality, as eloquently described by Gary Kebbel at the Center for Future Civic Media Conference, is being able to "edit from the beach." I'll never forget that description because it elegantly describes the core of what […] more »
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This is the first half of a two-part series on the financial challenges facing college newspapers, and what they can do to embrace the future. There was an interesting article in the Chronicle of Higher Education today about the financial state of student newspapers. This is a topic of particular interest for me (I was […] more »


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The Secretary of State's Office released tallies from all 39 counties, and Clark ranked dead last in terms of the percentage of registered voters who voted in the Aug. 7 primary.
Of 234,411 registered voters in the county, 71,882 turned in ballots, giving Clark the title of Most Apathetic with a turnout of 30.66 percent.
Clark County Auditor Greg Kimsey prefers the adjective "disengaged" over "apathetic" to describe voters who don't vote.
He offered a few theories Wednesday as to why turnout in primary elections is persistently low in Clark County.
Between 50,000 and 60,000 residents work in Oregon and may feel less connected to Washington politics, even though they live here, he said.
Also, Clark residents are in what Kimsey called the "Portland media shadow," and Portland TV news and radio stations rarely report on Washington elections.
He said the last-place ranking isn't uncommon, at least in primary elections. Clark also finished last in the 2008 primary; that year, the state average turnout was 42.6 percent and Clark, with a turnout of 37.9 percent, was the only county with a turnout lower than 40 percent.
In even-numbered-year primary elections, when state legislative candidates are on the ballot, Clark's turnout has ranked no higher than 35th dating to 2004.
"We are near the bottom, always," Kimsey said.
In the Aug. 7 primary, Jefferson County had the highest turnout (57.03 percent of registered voters), followed by Island (52.31 percent), San Juan (51.44 percent), Wahkiakum (51.98 percent), Pacific (50 percent) and Lincoln (48.98 percent) counties.
The state average voter turnout was 37.11 percent.
The state's most populous counties, King and Pierce, had turnouts of 36.77 percent and 36.02 percent, respectively.
Joining Clark in the cellar were Douglas (32.41 percent), Franklin (33.35 percent), Klickitat (33.86 percent), Snohomish (33.33 percent) and Yakima (32.42 percent) counties.
Kimsey expects county voters will be more engaged in November's general election; presidential elections bring out the most voters.
In the 2008 general election, for example, voter turnout in Clark County was 85.31 percent, exceeding the state average of 84.61 percent.
As another reason for Clark's low turnout, Kimsey pointed out that Oregon has its primary elections in May, and there weren't reminders on Portland news stations about Washington's Aug. 7 primary.
Since the general election falls on the same day in every state, Clark County residents are more likely to be aware of the election, Kimsey said.
Even the Portland media shadow doesn't completely explain Clark's low turnout. Other counties in the shadow include Cowlitz, which had a voter turnout of 34.67 percent, and Skamania, which had a turnout of 36.06 percent.
Kimsey said his office did receive calls from voters frustrated about the lack of a statewide voter's pamphlet. The Secretary of State's Office had the information online, and Clark County's pamphlet included information only about local races.
For the Nov. 6 general election, a joint pamphlet will be printed that will include state and local information.
The conversion to vote-by-mail doesn't seem to have affected turnout in primary and general elections, Kimsey said. It has increased participation in special elections in the spring and winter, however.
Kimsey still hears from people who complain about voting by mail. They receive their ballot, then forget about it.
"I think that is one of the valid criticisms of vote-by-mail," Kimsey said. "I can see where people can get that ballot, tuck it away, figure they will get to it later and then forget about it until after the election occurs."
And voting by mail takes the energy of an election day and diffuses it over a two-week period, he said.
On the other hand, "by putting a ballot in people's homes, it makes it pretty darn easy for people to vote," Kimsey said.
All counties in the state have vote-by-mail.
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The movie Belle has been in our Blu-ray collection for a year now. I finally got curious enough to take it home and watch it. I'm glad I did. I learned enough from the movie to want to know the facts.
Dido Elizabeth Lindsay, also known as Belle, was the great niece of William Murray, the First Earl of Mansfield and the Lord Chief Justice. Her father was a naval officer and her mother was a slave in the West Indies. When she was just a girl her mother passed away so her father came and got her and entrusted her to his uncle. Belle became a companion to her cousin, Lady Elizabeth Murray, who was living in her uncle's home, also because her mother had passed away. Belle lived in the Lord Chief Justice's home for 3 decades. According to most sources (including the movie), she had a generous allowance, spent time with the family but did not eat with them. There was even talk that she was accepted as a member of the family. According to Blackpast.org (An online reference Guide to African American History) and the movie, Belle, Dido's presence might have had some influence on the way the Earl, the highest ranking judge in Great Britain, ruled in 2 of his cases. In the Somerset Case Mansfield ruled that English law did not sanction slavery and in the Zong Massacre Case he ruled for the insurer who refused to pay a ship's captain for cargo lost when they purposely threw a number of slaves overboard.
The movie certainly made use of their poetic license. In the movie Dido received an inheritance from her father as well as an unlikely love story. There is speculation that her relationship with her uncle's family was very close. She did receive a small inheritance from the judge and his wife along with her freedom papers. She married John Davinier, a French gentleman's steward, the year her uncle past away. She and John had 3 children and lived a comfortable life.
The great Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu's post-WWII work returns again and again to his interest in domestic drama and the sometimes strained relationship between old and young, traditional and modern. His final film and second photographed in color was An Autumn Afternoon (1962). Like his 1948 masterpiece Late Spring, this final work presents the growing pressure a widower feels to locate for his daughter a husband to marry. Ozu's style was one of exacting commitment to framing scenes symmetrically with a stationary camera set up on the floor (the "tatami shot"). The graceful simplicity of his films further their overall richness while neither excluding humor nor giving in to empty sentimentality. His poignant films capture the essence of the love between family members even when that love becomes interwoven within changing social roles, expectations and values. His films evoke both the melancholy and lament of an older generation's realization that modernism, consumerism and technology had become a staple part of post-war Japan.
I've been binge-watching the series Justified of late. Born from a story by Elmore Leonard and starring actor Timothy Olyphant (Deadwood), Justified's strength as a show is in the writing and the strong performances from Olyphant and the other cast members. It's not a show that possesses the kind of dramatic depth of The Wire, Mad Men or Orange is the New Black but what it lacks in narrative complexity and sociological dimension, it makes up for in sheer entertainment value. Set in the backwoods of Kentucky where organized crime and drug dealing is rampant, the straight-talking, quick-shooting U.S. Marshall Raylan Givens finds his commitment to law enforcement at odds with both his scheming father and the various drug-dealing factions that battle for turf in Harlan County.
The films of French director Olivier Assayas are incredibly varied and lack any kind of unifying style or theme. He's tackled family dynamics with Summer Hours, romantic growing pains and revolutionary politics with Something in the Air, historical biography with Carlos, and biting satire with Irma Vep. His newest film, Clouds of Sils Maria, is a delightful exploration of personal anxieties confronted when art and life coalesce around an actress struggling to embrace time's inescapability as she plunges into unsettling psychic and emotional territory. The fantastic Juliet Binoche nails the aging actress' anxiety about returning to the play that launched her career. This time around, she's cast as the older character, a woman she doesn't feel that she can play with sincerity even as her young assistant, played by an excellent Kristin Stewart, encourages her to broaden her perspectives on both the play and in life. The title references the setting of the film, a bucolic location in the Alps where clouds slither about the mountain passes like a snake.
It's another installment of Liked That, Try This, where we match movies with similar styles, themes, or intersecting approaches to movie-making. Here goes...
Domestic Dramas--
Liked The Royal Tenenbaums try Fanny and Alexander
Liked Late Spring try Yi Yi
Liked Savages try You Can Count on Me
Summer Romances--
Liked Summer with Monika try A Summer's Tale
American Literature--
Liked To Kill A Mocking Bird try The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
Film Noir--
Liked Double Indemnity try The Killers
Liked The Third Man try Odd Man Out
Coming of Age--
Liked Boyhood try King of the Hill
Liked Fish Tank try L'enfance Nue
Liked Ratcatcher try The Long Day Closes
Science Fiction--
Liked Interstellar try Solaris
Fans of soccer/football will definitely want to check out the ESPN 30 for 30 documentary Soccer Stories, a fascinating collection of eight short films detailing the rich history of the sport. The most notable of the films is titled Hillsborough, an investigation behind the the tragic death of over 90 people during a match in a British stadium. Not only does the film shine a light on the likely causes of the disaster but it also exposes the callous cover-up and myth-making led by the local police, tabloid media and political elites, all of whom placed the blame for the catastrophe on the fans.
The Tour de France is off and running and if you're a bicycling enthusiast you'll you want to check out our collection of documentaries, including:The Armstrong LieSlaying the BadgerYell for CadelHell on WheelsFixationBicycle Dreams: The Race Across AmericaVive le Tour
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One doesn't merely watch an Andrei Tarkovsky film, they experience them. They are haunting, enigmatic poems that explore the kinds of questions plumbed by philosophers and theologians. There is nothing commercial nor common place about these slowly paced, gorgeously shot works of art that eschew specific meanings while meditating on the nature of existence, memory and the immaterial. Even among his peers, his creative vision and technical prowess were considered unmatched in their power to evoke and mystify. His movie-making heroes acknowledged his greatness throughout his short life with Ingmar Bergman saying, "When film is not a document, it is dream. That is why Tarkovsky is the greatest of them all. He moves with such naturalness in the room of dreams. He doesn't explain. What should he explain anyhow? He is a spectator, capable of staging his visions in the most unwieldy but, in a way, the most willing of media. All my life I have hammered on the doors of the rooms in which he moves so naturally."
Of his films, Stalker is my favorite and likely his most accessible for those unfamiliar with his style. The look of this film is almost indescribable. You simply have to see it to fully appreciate the level of artistry (all done without a Hollywood budget no less). Three men venture into the Zone, a quarantined area (ostensibly set in The Soviet Union) where a meteor had crashed. It has been rumored that the zone holds supernatural powers to grant individuals their special requests. A stalker, those who smuggle people into this no-go area, ventures deep into the heart of the unknown with two other characters, a writer and a professor, both of whom have different reasons for wanting to engage with the mysteries of the zone. Writer Geoff Dyer loved this film so much that he wrote an entire book about it called Zona.
Ana Lily Amirpour, the director of A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, describes her debut film as an "Iranian Vampire Spaghetti Western." It's the perfect description of this slowly paced, moody film in which a vampire roams the streets of Bad City, preying on its most unseemly citizens. I would guess that Amirpour has been heavily influenced by Jim Jarmusch and David Lynch, and though she's still honing her director skills, I would recommend this film to fans of Jarmusch and Lynch.
Close-Up is a masterpiece of both poetry and philosophy. Movies like this don't come around but a couple of times a decade and when this 1990 film was released in the West to much acclaim, it made its Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, an international star. It's a tremendously moving film that mixes together fictional elements and scripted moments with real people playing versions of themselves as they reenact scenes from a bizarre, true event.
Kiarostami's film functions as a meditation on cinema's verisimilitude and its power to blur binaries like true/false and fiction/documentary. Viewers will find it difficult to parse out what is true and what was constructed by Kiaraostami because of the inventive way he threads artifice into a depiction of the actual event, infusing it with universal themes in a sympathetic way. One of the most beguiling, radically ingenious films of the last century, Close-Up is widely considered one of cinema's most important in pushing the art form forward.
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