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Film Listings: March 5 - 11, 2014
Film listings are edited by Cheryl Eddy. Reviewers are Kimberly Chun, Dennis Harvey, Lynn Rapoport, Sam Stander, and Sara Maria Vizcarrondo. For rep house showtimes, see Rep Clock.
Bethlehem Teenaged Sanfur (Shadi Mar'i) is the younger brother of Ibrahim (Hisham Suliman), a leader in Palestinian militant group al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades. When the latter claims responsibility for a suicide bombing in the center of Jerusalem, the Israelis want Ibrahim dead or in custody, immediately. That ought to be easy enough, since Sanfur is not just a potential freedom fighter himself but also, contrarily, an informant to Israeli Secret Service officer Razi (Tsahi Halevy). Their relationship is complex, to say the least, with an aspect of genuine paternal bonding even as Razi's superiors pressure him to treat the youth as an expendable asset; Sanfur in turn resents the position he's been cornered into. Just how he got there isn't revealed until near the end of this taut thriller, co-written by Palestinian Ali Waked and Israeli director Yuval Adler, and acted with considerable power by non professional leads. Bethlehem isn't quite as strikingly accomplished or ingeniously plotted as the concurrent, similarly themed Omar. But it delivers its own cumulative punch as characters likewise cross ethical and political lines in increasingly desperate efforts at self-preservation that can only end one bleak, bitter way. (1:39) Embarcadero. (Harvey)
The Lunchbox Ila (Nimrat Kaur) is a self-possessed housewife and a great cook, whose husband confuses her for another piece of furniture. She tries to arouse his affections with elaborate lunches she makes and sends through the city's lunchbox delivery service. Like marriage in India, lunchbox delivery has a failure rate of zero, which is what makes aberrations seem like magical occurrences. So when widow Saajan (Irrfan Khan) receives her adoring food, he humbly receives the magical lunches like a revival of the senses. Once Ila realizes her lunchbox is feeding the wrong man she writes a note and Saajan replies — tersely, like a man who hasn't held a conversation in a decade — and the impossible circumstances lend their exchanges a romance that challenges her emotional fidelity and his retreat from society. She confides her husband is cheating. He confides his sympathy for men of lower castes. It's a May/December affair if it's an affair at all — but the chemistry we expect the actors to have in the same room is what fuels our urge to see it; that's a rare and haunting dynamic. Newcomer Kaur is perfect as Ila, a beauty unmarked by her rigorous distaff; her soft features and exhausted expression lend a richness to the troubles she can't share with her similarly stoic mother (Lillete Dubey). Everyone is sacrificing something and poverty seeps into every crack, every life, without exception — their inner lives are their richness. (1:44) Clay. (Vizcarrondo)
Mr. Peabody and Sherman The time-traveling characters from the 1960s animated Rocky and Bullwinkle Show finally get their own feature film, with voices by Modern Family co-stars Ty Burrell and Ariel Winter. (1:30) Four Star, Presidio.
The Rocket When a terrible accident befalls a Laotian family already in a bad situation — they're being displaced from their home thanks to a massive dam-building project — 10-year-old Ahlo (Sitthiphon Disamoe) is blamed, with particular malice coming from his superstitious grandmother, who believes the boy has been cursed since birth. In the squalid relocation camp, Ahlo finds a buddy in Kia (adorbs Loungnam Kaosainam), who lives with her James Brown-obsessed uncle (Thep Phongam), who provides drunken comic relief — but not without a certain sadness, since he's a former soldier still suffering, like Laos itself, from the aftereffects of war. Ahlo may be unlucky, but he's also crafty and fearless, and when he hears about a rocket-building competition offering a much-needed cash prize, he seizes the chance to prove to his family that he's no bad penny. Though The Rocket was made in Laos, it's from Australian writer-director Kim Mordaunt, who frames his simple story with gorgeous photography and an admirable lack of sentimentality. He's also found a winner in first-time actor Disamoe, who's a natural. (1:36) Opera Plaza, Shattuck, Smith Rafael. (Eddy)
Run & Jump San Francisco-born director Steph Green's first feature is a likable seriocomedy about an Irish family trying to adjust to some drastic, unforeseen changes. After suffering a stroke and coming out of a coma, Conor Casey (Edward MacLiam) is a changed man — uncommunicative, sometimes volatile, seldom at all like the beloved husband and father he was. As wife Venetia (Maxine Peake) and their two kids tiptoe around him, they get a houseguest in the form of American neurologist Ted (Will Forte), who's here to study Conor's recovery (or lack thereof) with clinical detachment. The reserved, emotionally withdrawn Yank finds himself drawn into the Caseys' shared warmth, particularly in its current need for a fill-in adult male — opening up to the children and, more riskily, striking romantic sparks with the Mrs. A bit formulaic but a crowd-pleaser nonetheless, the film is perhaps most notable for its winning dramatic turn by Saturday Night Live alum Forte, after another excellent showing in last year's Nebraska. (1:42) Vogue. (Harvey)
300: Rise of An Empire Sequel to the 2006 action fantasy, because yelling "Spartaaaa!" never gets old. (1:43) Balboa, Marina.
Visitors Godfrey Reggio, the man behind the Qatsi Trilogy (1982's Koyaanisqatsi, 1988's Powaqqatsi, 2002's Naqoyqatsi), delivers a new feature-length serving of chicken soup for the soul — this time aimed at a more scopophillic society. A procession of viewers (watching what, it's never revealed) get patient close-ups, giving us time to observe the observers as their expressions change from elation to disappointment, rapture to ennui. The first observer is Triska, the famous gorilla on loan from the Bronx zoo, whose expressions are like a familiar foreign language conveyed by another species. Interpreting Triska begins a process that director Godfrey Reggio renews with every new take, and demands a degree of audience involvement that's not to everyone's taste — the Phillip Glass score throughout is a draw but is another factor for acquired tastes. Discretely we transition to a hollowed out building, an abandoned amusement park, the surface of the moon; in black and white the images have a coolness that undermines their grandeur. A slow moving camera circumnavigates an Louisiana swamp, and in the slits between the cypress roots you see new views of the distant terrain as if through a zoetrope, and the most mundane, ancient landscape is somehow new again. In an ocean of media, how often does a movie do that? (1:27) Embarcadero, Shattuck. (Vizcarrondo)
About Last Night (1:40) Metreon, 1000 Van Ness.
American Hustle David O. Russell's American Hustle is like a lot of things you've seen before — put in a blender, so the results are too smooth to feel blatantly derivative, though here and there you taste a little Boogie Nights (1997), Goodfellas (1990), or whatever. Loosely based on the Abscam FBI sting-scandal of the late 1970s and early '80s (an opening title snarks "Some of this actually happened"), Hustle is a screwball crime caper almost entirely populated by petty schemers with big ideas almost certain to blow up in their faces. It's love, or something, at first sight for Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale) and Sydney Prosser (Amy Adams), who meet at a Long Island party circa 1977 and instantly fall for each other — or rather for the idealized selves they've both strained to concoct. He's a none-too-classy but savvy operator who's built up a mini-empire of variably legal businesses; she's a nobody from nowhere who crawled upward and gave herself a bombshell makeover. The hiccup in this slightly tacky yet perfect match is Irving's neglected, crazy wife Rosalyn (Jennifer Lawrence), who's not about to let him go. She's their main problem until they meet Richie DiMaso (Bradley Cooper), an ambitious FBI agent who entraps the two while posing as a client. Their only way out of a long prison haul, he says, is to cooperate in an elaborate Atlantic City redevelopment scheme he's concocted to bring down a slew of Mafioso and presumably corrupt politicians, hustling a beloved Jersey mayor (Jeremy Renner) in the process. Russell's filmmaking is at a peak of populist confidence it would have been hard to imagine before 2010's The Fighter, and the casting here is perfect down to the smallest roles. But beyond all clever plotting, amusing period trappings, and general high energy, the film's ace is its four leads, who ingeniously juggle the caricatured surfaces and pathetic depths of self-identified "winners" primarily driven by profound insecurity. (2:17) Castro, Metreon, 1000 Van Ness, Sundance Kabuki. (Harvey)
Beijing Love Story Writer-director-star Chen Sicheng adapts his 2012 Chinese TV series, adding movie stars Carina Lau and Tony Leung Ka-fai to the cast to up the big-screen wattage. The film follows an array of couples, starting with Chen and real-life wife Shen Yan as a young couple forced to make some hard choices after an unplanned pregnancy. "What's love? It's like a ghost. Everyone's heard of it, nobody's seen it," the reluctant father-to-be's cynical friend tells him. Said friend has been hitched for years; the film's next storyline follows what happens when his wife finds out he's been cheating (as it turns out, she has some secrets of her own). At one point, the action shifts from Beijing to Greece (for the Lau-Leung segment), before returning to the city for a teenage love story involving a cello prodigy who wants to compete on TV, and a boy who can "see auras," among other fanciful talents. Finally, an elderly man embarks on a series of blind dates, looking for a second chance at love, with a twist that's obvious to anyone who's ever seen a rom-com before. By the time this flowery Valentine's card of a movie reaches its melodramatic conclusion, it's abundantly clear that Chen knows his target audience — see: the film's multiple Titanic (1997) references — and that he's a huge fan of the romance genre himself. (2:02) Metreon. (Eddy)
Dallas Buyers Club Dallas Buyers Club is the first all-US feature from Jean-Marc Vallée. He first made a splash in 2005 with C.R.A.Z.Y., which seemed an archetype of the flashy, coming-of-age themed debut feature. Vallée has evolved beyond flashiness, or maybe since C.R.A.Z.Y. he just hasn't had a subject that seemed to call for it. Which is not to say Dallas is entirely sober — its characters partake from the gamut of altering substances, over-the-counter and otherwise. But this is a movie about AIDS, so the purely recreational good times must eventually crash to an end. Which they do pretty quickly. We first meet Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughey) in 1986, a Texas good ol' boy endlessly chasing skirts and partying nonstop. Not feeling quite right, he visits a doctor, who informs him that he is HIV-positive. His response is "I ain't no faggot, motherfucker" — and increased partying that he barely survives. Afterward, he pulls himself together enough to research his options, and bribes a hospital attendant into raiding its trial supply of AZT for him. But Ron also discovers the hard way what many first-generation AIDS patients did — that AZT is itself toxic. He ends up in a Mexican clinic run by a disgraced American physician (Griffin Dunne) who recommends a regime consisting mostly of vitamins and herbal treatments. Ron realizes a commercial opportunity, and finds a business partner in willowy cross-dresser Rayon (Jared Leto). When the authorities keep cracking down on their trade, savvy Ron takes a cue from gay activists in Manhattan and creates a law evading "buyers club" in which members pay monthly dues rather than paying directly for pharmaceutical goods. It's a tale that the scenarists (Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack) and director steep in deep Texan atmospherics, and while it takes itself seriously when and where it ought, Dallas Buyers Club is a movie whose frequent, entertaining jauntiness is based in that most American value: get-rich-quick entrepreneurship. (1:58) Embarcadero, Presidio, Sundance Kabuki. (Harvey)
Endless Love Just about everything about this very, very loose rework of the 1981 Franco Zeffirelli schmaltzathon-slash-cinematic stab at Scott Spencer's well-regarded novel — apart from Alex Pettyfer's infallible chest — is endlessly laughable. The Zeffirelli effort was dedicated to the nation's sexualization of all things Brooke Shields, with an added Reagan-era rebuff of perceived loosey-goosey boomer mores. Mixed messages, certainly, but that was a different time and place, and instead of viewing youthful sexual obsession-cum-romance as an almost-anarchic force of nature, threatening life, limb, and everything we hold dear, this venture defuses much of that dangerous passion and turns it all into a fairly weak broth of watered-down Romeo and Juliet. Here, Jade (Gabriella Wilde) is the privileged, golden-girl bookworm who has no social life — her family, headed by control-freak doctor dad (Bruce Greenwood), has been preoccupied with the care and finally passing of her beloved, cancer-striken brother. Enter hunky po' boy David (Pettyfer), who finds a way into a lonely girl's heart, with, natch, his social savvy and fulsome pecs. Standing in the way of endless love? A great medical internship for Jade and a bossy pants father who worked very hard to get that internship for her. Pfft. Love finds its work-around amid those low stakes, and we're all left marveling at Wilde's posh, coltishly thin limbs and Pettyfer's depthless dimples. (1:44) Metreon. (Chun)
Frozen (1:48) Metreon, 1000 Van Ness, Shattuck.
Gloria The titular figure in Sebastian Lelio's film is a Santiago divorcee and white collar worker (Paulina Garcia) pushing 60, living alone in a condo apartment — well, almost alone, since like Inside Llewyn Davis, this movie involves the frequent, unwanted company of somebody else's cat. (That somebody is an upstairs neighbor whose solo wailings against cruel fate disturb her sleep.) Her two children are grown up and preoccupied with their adult lives. Not quite ready for the glue factory yet, Gloria often goes to a disco for the "older crowd," dancing by herself if she has to, but still hoping for some romantic prospects. She gets them in the form of Rodolfo (Sergio Hernandez), who's more recently divorced but gratifyingly infatuated with her. Unfortunately, he's also let his daughters and ex-wife remain ominously dependent on him, not just financially but in every emotional crisis that affects their apparently crisis-filled lives. The extent to which Gloria lets him into her life is not reciprocated, and she becomes increasingly aware how distant her second-place priority status is whenever Rodolfo's other loved ones snap their fingers. There's not a lot of plot but plenty of incident and insight to this character study, a portrait of a "spinster" that neither slathers on the sentimental uplift or piles on melodramatic victimizations. Instead, Gloria is memorably, satisfyingly just right. (1:50) Opera Plaza. (Harvey)
Gravity "Life in space is impossible," begins Gravity, the latest from Alfonso Cuarón (2006's Children of Men). Egghead Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) is well aware of her precarious situation after a mangled satellite slams into her ship, then proceeds to demolition-derby everything (including the International Space Station) in its path. It's not long before she's utterly, terrifyingly alone, and forced to unearth near-superhuman reserves of physical and mental strength to survive. Bullock's performance would be enough to recommend Gravity, but there's more to praise, like the film's tense pacing, spare-yet-layered script (Cuarón co-wrote with his son, Jonás), and spectacular 3D photography — not to mention George Clooney's warm supporting turn as a career astronaut who loves country music almost as much as he loves telling stories about his misadventures. (1:31) Metreon, 1000 Van Ness, Presidio. (Eddy)
The Great Beauty The latest from Paolo Sorrentino (2008's Il Divo) arrives as a high-profile contender for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, already annointed a masterpiece in some quarters, and duly announcing itself as such in nearly every grandiose, aesthetically engorged moment. Yes, it seems to say, you are in the presence of this auteur's masterpiece. But it's somebody else's, too. The problem isn't just that Fellini got there first, but that there's room for doubt whether Sorrentino's homage actually builds on or simply imitates its model. La Dolce Vita (1960) and 8 1/2 (1963) are themselves swaying, jerry-built monuments, exhileratingly messy and debatably profound. But nothing quite like them had been seen before, and they did define a time of cultural upheaval — when traditional ways of life were being plowed under by a loud, moneyed, heedless modernity that for a while chose Rome as its global capital. Sorrentino announces his intention to out-Fellini Fellini in an opening sequence so strenuously flamboyant it's like a never-ending pirouette performed by a prima dancer with a hernia. There's statuary, a women's choral ensemble, an on-screen audience applauding the director's baffled muse Toni Servillo, standing in for Marcello Mastroianni — all this and more in manic tracking shots and frantic intercutting, as if sheer speed alone could supply contemporary relevancy. Eventually The Great Beauty calms down a bit, but still its reason for being remains vague behind the heavy curtain of "style." (2:22) Opera Plaza. (Harvey)
Her Morose and lonely after a failed marriage, Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix) drifts through an appealingly futuristic Los Angeles (more skyscrapers, less smog) to his job at a place so hipster-twee it probably will exist someday: beautifulhandwrittenletters.com, where he dictates flowery missives to a computer program that scrawls them onto paper for paying customers. Theodore's scripting of dialogue between happy couples, as most of his clients seem to be, only enhances his sadness, though he's got friends who care about him (in particular, Amy Adams as Amy, a frumpy college chum) and he appears to have zero money woes, since his letter-writing gig funds a fancy apartment equipped with a sweet video-game system. Anyway, women are what gives Theodore trouble — and maybe by extension, writer-director Spike Jonze? — so he seeks out the ultimate gal pal: Samantha, an operating system voiced by Scarlett Johansson in the year's best disembodied performance. Thus begins a most unusual relationship, but not so unusual; Theodore's friends don't take any issue with the fact that his new love is a machine. Hey, in Her's world, everyone's deeply involved with their chatty, helpful, caring, always-available OS — why wouldn't Theo take it to the next level? Inevitably, of course, complications arise. If Her's romantic arc feels rather predictable, the film acquits itself in other ways, including boundlessly clever production-design touches that imagine a world with technology that's (mostly) believably evolved from what exists today. Also, the pants they wear in the future? Must be seen to be believed. (2:00) 1000 Van Ness, SF Center, Sundance Kabuki. (Eddy)
In Secret Zola's much-adapted 1867 novel Thérèse Raquin is the source for this rather tepid period melodrama with Elizabeth Olsen as that character, dumped by the seafaring father she never sees again on the doorstep of a joyless aunt (Jessica Lange). The latter pretty much forces Thérèse to eventually marry her own son, sickly Camille (Tom Felton), and even a move to Paris does little to brighten our heroine's dreary existence. Until, that is, she meets Camille's contrastingly virile office coworker Laurent (Oscar Isaac), with whom she's soon more-or-less graphically doing all the sweaty sexy thangs Zola could only hint at. When their passion becomes more than they can bear maintaining "in secret," they find themselves considering murder as one way out. The original author's clever plot mechanizations create some suspense in the late going. But despite good performances around her, Olsen doesn't make her heroine very interesting, and director-adaptor Charlie Stratton is all too faithful to the depressing nature of this classic tale — visually the film too often seems to be crouching beneath a heavy, damp cloak, proud to be saving on candle wax. (1:47) Metreon. (Harvey)
The Lego Movie (1:41) 1000 Van Ness, Presidio, SF Center.
The Monuments Men The phrase "never judge a book by its cover" goes both ways. On paper, The Monuments Men — inspired by the men who recovered art stolen by the Nazis during World War II, and directed by George Clooney, who co-wrote and stars alongside a sparkling ensemble cast (Cate Blanchett, Matt Damon, John Goodman, Jean Dujardin, Bob Balaban, Hugh "Earl of Grantham" Bonneville, and Bill Fucking Murray) — rules. Onscreen, not so much. After they're recruited to join the cause, the characters fan out across France and Germany following various leads, a structural choice that results in the film's number one problem: it can't settle on a tone. Men can't decide if it wants to be a sentimental war movie (as in an overlong sequence in which Murray's character weeps at the sound of his daughter's recorded voice singing "White Christmas"); a tragic war movie (some of those marquee names die, y'all); a suspenseful war movie (as the men sneak into dangerous territory with Michelangelo on their minds); or a slapstick war comedy (look out for that land mine!) The only consistent element is that the villains are all one-note — and didn't Inglourious Basterds (2009) teach us that nothing elevates a 21st century-made World War II flick like an eccentric bad guy? There's one perfectly executed scene, when reluctant partners Balaban and Murray discover a trove of priceless paintings hidden in plain sight. One scene, out of a two-hour movie, that really works. The rest is a stitched-together pile of earnest intentions that suggests a complete lack of coherent vision. Still love you, Clooney, but you can do better — and this incredible true story deserved way better. (1:58) 1000 Van Ness, SF Center, Sundance Kabuki. (Eddy)
Non-Stop You don't want to get between Liam Neeson and his human shield duties. The Taken franchise has restyled the once-gentle acting giant into the type of weather-beaten, all-business action hero that Harrison Ford once had a lock on. Throw in a bit of the flying-while-addled antihero high jinks last seen in Flight (2012) and that pressured, packed-sardine anxiety that we all suffer during long-distance air travel, and we have a somewhat ludicrous but nonetheless entertaining hybrid that may have you believing that those salty snacks and the seat-kicking kids are the least of your troubles. Neeson's Bill Marks signals the level of his freestyle alcoholism by giving his booze a stir with a toothbrush shortly before putting on his big-boy air marshal pants and boarding his fateful flight. Marks is soon contacted by a psycho who promises, via text, to kill one person at a time on the flight unless $150 million is deposited into a bank account that — surprise — is under the bad-good air marshal's name. The twists and turns — and questions of who to trust, whether it's Marks' vaguely likeable seatmate (Julianne Moore) or his business class flight attendant (Michelle Dockery) — keep the audience on edge and busily guessing, though director Jaume Collet-Serra doesn't quite dispel all the questions that arise as the diabolical scheme plays out and ultimately taxes believability. The fun is all in the getting there, even if the denouement on the tarmac deflates. (1:50) 1000 Van Ness, Presidio, SF Center. (Chun)
Omar Palestine's contender for Best Foreign Language Film is a mighty strong one, with a top-notch script and direction by previous nominee Hany Abu-Assad (2006's Paradise Now). After he's captured following the shooting of an Israeli soldier, the titular freedom fighter (a compelling Adam Bakri) is given an unsavory choice by his handler (Waleed F. Zuaiter): rot in jail for 90 years, or become an informant (or "collaborator") and rat out his co-conspirators. The situation is further complicated by the fact that Omar is in love with Nadia (Leem Lubany, blessed with a thousand-watt smile), the younger sister of his lifelong friend, Tarek (Iyad Hoorani), who planned the attack. Betrayals are imminent, but who will come out ahead, and at what price? Shot with gritty urgency — our hero is constantly on the run, ducking down alleys, scaling walls, scrambling across rooftops, sliding down drainpipes, etc. — Omar brings authenticity to its embattled characters and setting. A true thriller, right up until the last shot. (1:38) Opera Plaza, Smith Rafael. (Eddy)
"Oscar Nominated Short Films 2014: Animated" Five nominees — plus a trio of "highly commended" additional selections — fill this program. If you saw Frozen in the theater, you've seen Get a Horse!, starring old-timey Mickey Mouse and some very modern moviemaking techniques. There's also Room on the Broom, based on a children's book about a kindly witch who's a little too generous when it comes to befriending outcast animals (much to the annoyance of her original companion, a persnickety cat). Simon Pegg narrates, and Gillian Anderson voices the red-headed witch; listen also for Mike Leigh regulars Sally Hawkins and Timothy Spall. Japanese Possessions is based on even older source material: a spooky legend that discarded household objects can gain the power to cause mischief. A good-natured fix-it man ducks into an abandoned house during a rainstorm, only to be confronted with playful parasols, cackling kimono fabric, and a dragon constructed out of kitchen junk. The most artistically striking nominee is Feral, a dialogue-free, impressionistic tale of a foundling who resists attempts to civilize him. But my top pick is another dialogue-free entry: Mr. Hublot, the steampunky tale of an inventor whose regimented life is thrown into disarray when he adopts a stray robot dog, which soon grows into a comically enormous companion. It's cute without being cloying, and the universe it creates around its characters is cleverly detailed, right down to the pictures on Hublot's walls. Embarcadero. (Eddy)
"Oscar Nominated Short Films 2014: Live Action" With the exception of one entry — wryly comedic The Voorman Problem, starring Sherlock's Martin Freeman as a prison doctor who has a most unsettling encounter with an inmate who believes he's a god — children are a unifying theme among this year's live-action nominees. Finnish Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?, the shortest in the bunch, follows a cheerfully sloppy family's frantic morning as they scramble to get themselves to a wedding. Danish Helium skews a little sentimental in its tale of a hospital janitor who makes up stories about a fanciful afterlife (way more fun than heaven) for the benefit of a sickly young patient. Spanish That Wasn't Me focuses on a different kind of youth entirely: a child soldier in an unnamed African nation, whose brutal encounter with a pair of European doctors leads him down an unexpected path. Though it feels more like a sequence lifted from a longer film rather than a self-contained short, French Just Before Losing Everything is the probably the strongest contender here. The tale of a woman (Léa Drucker) who decides to take her two children and leave her dangerously abusive husband, it unfolds with real-time suspense as she visits her supermarket job one last time to deal with mundane stuff (collecting her last paycheck, turning in her uniform) before the trio can flee to safety. If they gave out Oscars for short-film acting, Drucker would be tough to beat; her performance balances steely determination and extreme fear in equally hefty doses. Embarcadero. (Eddy).
Philomena Judi Dench gives this twist on a real-life scandal heart, soul, and a nuanced, everyday heft. Her ideal, ironic foil is Steve Coogan, playing an upper-crusty irreverent snob of an investigative journalist. Judging by her tidy exterior, Dench's title character is a perfectly ordinary Irish working-class senior, but she's haunted by the past, which comes tumbling out one day to her daughter: As an unwed teenager, she gave birth to a son at a convent. She was forced to work there, unpaid; as supposed penance, the baby was essentially sold to a rich American couple against her consent. Her yarn reaches disgraced reporter Martin Sixsmith (Coogan), who initially turns his nose up at the tale's piddling "human interest" angle, but slowly gets drawn in by the unexpected twists and turns of the story — and likely the possibility of taking down some evil nuns — as well as seemingly naive Philomena herself, with her delight in trash culture, frank talk about sex, and simple desire to see her son and know that he thought, once in a while, of her. It turns out Philomena's own sad narrative has as many improbable turnarounds as one of the cheesy romance novels she favors, and though this unexpected twosome's quest for the truth is strenuously reworked to conform to the contours of buddy movie-road trip arc that we're all too familiar with, director Stephen Frears' warm, light-handed take on the gentle class struggles going on between the writer and his subject about who's in control of the story makes up for Philomena's determined quest for mass appeal. (1:35) Embarcadero, Sundance Kabuki. (Chun)
Pompeii There's not a single original idea in Resident Evil series prolonger Paul W.S. Anderson's take on the legendary volcanic eruption, but what did you expect? Among its cast, only Kiefer Sutherland (as a lasciviously evil Roman senator) seems to be enjoying himself, camping it up alongside deeply serious young leads Emily Browning and Kit Harington. The mop-topped Game of Thrones stud doesn't expand his brooding act beyond what we've seen him do in Westeros — though it's likely he expanded his workout routine, what with all the muscular emoting he gets to do in the gladiator ring. The tissue-thin plot involves forbidden romance, revenge, a couple of swipes at big-city corruption, and male bonding 'twixt Harington and Lost's Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, who brings a certain amount of gravitas to his one-dimensional slave character. But the film's most interesting player is giant Mount Vesuvius, which grumbles in the background as it readies for its big scene — reassuring the audience that deadly chunks will eventually spew all over this mediocre movie and hasten its necessary conclusion. (1:45) 1000 Van Ness, SF Center. (Eddy)
Ride Along By sheer dint of his ability to push his verbosity and non-threatening physicality into that nerd zone between smart and clueless, intelligent and irritating, Kevin Hart may be poised to become Hollywood's new comedy MVP. In the case of Ride Along, it helps that Ice Cube has comic talents, too — proven in the Friday movies as well as in 2012's 21 Jump Street — as the straight man who can actually scowl and smile at the same time. Together, in Ride Along, they bring the featherweight pleasures of Rush Hour-style odd-couple chortles. Hart is Ben, a gamer geek and school security guard shooting to become the most wrinkly student at the police academy. He looks up to hardened, street-smart cop James (Cube), brother of his new fiancée, Angela (Tika Sumpter). Naturally, instead of simply blessing the nuptials, the tough guy decides to haze the shut-in, disabusing him of any illusions he might have of being his equal. More-than-equal talents like Laurence Fishburne and John Leguizamo are pretty much wasted here — apart from Fishburne's ultra lite impression of Matrix man Morpheus — but if you don't expect much more than the chuckles eked out of Ride Along's commercials, you won't be too disappointed by this nontaxing journey. (1:40) Metreon. (Chun)
RoboCop Truly, there was no need to remake 1987's RoboCop, Paul Verhoeven's smart, biting sci-fi classic that deploys heaps of stealth satire beneath its ultraviolent imagery. But the inevitable do-over is here, and while it doesn't improve on what came before, it's not a total lost cause, either. Thank Brazilian filmmaker José Padilha, whose thrilling Elite Squad films touch on similar themes of corruption (within police, political, and media realms), and some inspired casting, including Samuel L. Jackson as the uber-conservative host of a futuristic talk show. Though the suit that restores life to fallen Detroit cop Alex Murphy is, naturally, a CG wonder, the guy inside the armor — played by The Killing's Joel Kinnaman — is less dynamic. In fact, none of the characters, even those portrayed by actors far more lively than Kinnaman (Michael Keaton, Gary Oldman, Jackie Earle Haley), are developed beyond the bare minimum required to serve RoboCop's plot, a mixed-message glob of dirty cops, money-grubbing corporations, the military-industrial complex, and a few too many "Is he a man...or a machine?" moments. But in its favor: Though it's PG-13 (boo), it's also shot in 2D (yay). (1:50) Metreon, 1000 Van Ness. (Eddy)
7 Boxes If Paraguayan cinema can make such a splash with wheelbarrow chases, one wonders what Outer Mongolia can do with dolly races. Despite its determinedly lo-fi look and feel — US reality TV looks downright slick in comparison — and some very camp acting, 7 Boxes demands respect, like the scruffy street urchins it champions, for its will to cobble together movie magic out of gritty, street-level material. The scene is Asunción's municipal marketplace. Fascinated by the pirated DVD crime dramas playing out on the screens around him, wheelbarrow delivery boy Victor (Celso Franco) is determined to get a camera of his own — attached, of course, to a way-too-expensive phone. It seems far out of reach, until butchers offer him a US $100 bill to cart seven mysterious boxes away until the coast is clear. The meat purveyors' regular cart-pusher Nelson (Victor Sosa Traverzi) is desperate to get those boxes — and get paid — instead, and Victor has to depend on his mouthy, spunky friend Liz (Lali Gonzalez) to help him out, as they grapple with cops and robbers, attempt to collect, and uncover the boxes' nasty secrets. Like charismatic leads Ferreira and Gonzalez, 7 Boxes is full of promise. Directors Juan Carlos Maneglia and Tana Schembori pour considerable energy into 7 Boxes' somewhat absurd wheelbarrow high jinks and attempt to humanize their characters while capturing some of the multicultural, screen-laden complexity of anarchic 21st-century urban life in Paraguay. Detracting from the cause are some of the more OTT, unintentionally laughable performances, gratuitous narrative twists, and the alternately jerky and fluid video work — which, appropriately enough, looks to be shot from a phone and, in spite of the moviemakers' moments of bravura editing and inventive swings in and out of the marketplace labyrinth, never manages to rise above the unlovely. (1:45) Roxie. (Chun)
Stalingrad Behold, Russia's highest-grossing blockbuster of all time, which presents (in 3D IMAX) a very small story contained within the enormous titular World War II battle, previously dramatized by the West in 2001's Enemy at the Gates. Stalingrad begins in the aftermath of the 2011 Japanese earthquake, in which an aid worker tells stories to a group of trapped German tourists as they await rescue. Seems the man's mother, a Russian teenager during the Battle of Stalingrad, met five Red Army soldiers who bonded while fighting the invading Nazis, and helped her survive while all kinda, sorta, falling for her at the same time. There are plenty of lavish battle scenes for war-movie buffs — likely the only people who will seek out this film during its limited US run, and it is interesting to see a WW2 tale with zero American perspective or involvement — but the film is earnest to a fault, with plot holes that may or may not be a result of cultural and language barriers. And speaking of the plot: isn't the bloody, epic tale of Stalingrad compelling enough without awkward romance(s) shoehorned in? Eliminate that, and you eliminate the need for that ham-fisted frame story, too. (2:15) Metreon. (Eddy)
Stranger by the Lake Franck (Pierre Deladonchamps) is an attractive young French guy spending his summer days hanging at the local gay beach, where he strikes up a platonic friendship with chunky older loner Henri (Patrick d'Assumcao). Still, the latter is obviously hurt when Franck practically gets whiplash neck swiveling at the sight of Michel (Christophe Paou), an old-school gay fantasy figure — think Sam Elliott in 1976's Lifeguard, complete with Marlboro Man 'stache and twinkling baby blues. No one else seems to be paying attention when Franck sees his lust object frolicking in the surf with an apparent boyfriend, one that doesn't surface again after some playful "dunking" gets rather less playful. Eventually the police come around in the form of Inspector Damroder (Jerome Chappatte), but Franck stays mum — he isn't sure what exactly he saw. Or maybe it's that he's quite sure he's happy how things turned out, now that sex-on-wheels Michel is his sorta kinda boyfriend. You have to suspend considerable disbelief to accept that our protagonist would risk potentially serious danger for what seems pretty much a glorified fuck-buddy situation. But Alain Guiraudie's meticulously schematic thriller- which limits all action to the terrain between parking lot and shore, keeping us almost wholly ignorant of the characters' regular lives — repays that leap with an absorbing, ingenious structural rigor. Stranger is Hitchcockian, all right, even if the "Master of Suspense" might applaud its technique while blushing at its blunt homoeroticism. (1:37) Roxie. (Harvey)
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Tim's Vermeer "I'm not a painter," admits Tim Jenison at the start of Tim's Vermeer. He is, however, an inventor, a technology whiz specializing in video engineering, a self-made multimillionaire, and possessed of astonishing amounts of determination and focus. Add a bone-dry sense of humor and he's the perfect documentary subject for magicians and noted skeptics Penn & Teller, who capture his multi-year quest to "paint a Vermeer." Inspired by artist David Hockney's book Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters, Jenison became interested in the theory that 17th century painters used lenses and mirrors, or a camera obscura, to help create their remarkably realistic works. He was especially taken with Vermeer, feeling a "geek kinship" with someone who was able to apply paint to canvas and make it look like a video image. It took some trial-and-error, but Jenison soon figured out a way that would allow him — someone who barely knew how to hold a brush — to transform an old photograph into a strikingly Vermeer-like oil painting. He decides to recreate The Music Lesson (1662-65), using only materials Vermeer would have had access to, and working from an exact replica of the room in Vermeer's house where the painting was made. A few slow moments aside ("This project is a lot like watching paint dry," Jenison jokes), Tim's Vermeer is otherwise briskly propelled by the insatiable curiosity of the man at its center. And Jenison's finished work offers a clear challenge to anyone who subscribes to the modern notion that "art and technology should never meet." Why shouldn't they, when the end results are so sublime? (1:20) Balboa, Embarcadero, Sundance Kabuki. (Eddy)
12 Years a Slave Pop culture's engagement with slavery has always been uneasy. Landmark 1977 miniseries Roots set ratings records, but the prestigious production capped off a decade that had seen some more questionable endeavors, including 1975 exploitation flick Mandingo — often cited by Quentin Tarantino as one of his favorite films; it was a clear influence on his 2012 revenge fantasy Django Unchained, which approached its subject matter in a manner that paid homage to the Westerns it riffed on: with guns blazing. By contrast, Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave is nuanced and steeped in realism. Though it does contain scenes of violence (deliberately captured in long takes by regular McQueen collaborator Sean Bobbitt, whose cinematography is one of the film's many stylistic achievements), the film emphasizes the horrors of "the peculiar institution" by repeatedly showing how accepted and ingrained it was. Slave is based on the true story of Solomon Northup, an African American man who was sold into slavery in 1841 and survived to pen a wrenching account of his experiences. He's portrayed here by the powerful Chiwetel Ejiofor. Other standout performances come courtesy of McQueen favorite Michael Fassbender (as Epps, a plantation owner who exacerbates what's clearly an unwell mind with copious amounts of booze) and newcomer Lupita Nyong'o, as a slave who attracts Epps' cruel attentions. (2:14) Embarcadero, Four Star, Marina, Vogue. (Eddy)
The Wind Rises Hayao Miyazaki announced that Oscar nominee The Wind Rises would be his final film before retiring — though he later amended that declaration, as he's fond of doing, so who knows. At any rate, it'd be a shame if this was the Japanese animation master's final film before retirement; not only does it lack the whimsy of his signature efforts (2001's Spirited Away, 1997's Princess Mononoke), it's been overshadowed by controversy — not entirely surprising, since it's about the life of Jiro Horikoshi, who designed war planes (built by slave labor) in World War II-era Japan. Surprisingly, a pacifist message is established early on; as a young boy, his mother tells him, "Fighting is never justified," and in a dream, Italian engineer Giovanni Caproni assures him "Airplanes are not tools for war." But that statement doesn't last long; Caproni visits Jiro in his dreams as his career takes him from Japan to Germany, where he warns the owlish young designer that "aircraft are destined to become tools for slaughter and destruction." You don't say. A melodramatic romantic subplot injects itself into all the plane-talk on occasion, but — despite all that political hullabaloo — The Wind Rises is more tedious than anything else. (2:06) Embarcadero, Sundance Kabuki. (Eddy)
The Wolf of Wall Street Three hours long and breathless from start to finish, Martin Scorsese's tale of greed, stock-market fraud, and epic drug consumption has a lot going on — and the whole thing hinges on a bravado, breakneck performance by latter-day Scorsese muse Leonardo DiCaprio. As real-life sleaze Jordan Belfort (upon whose memoir the film is based), he distills all of his golden DiCaprio-ness into a loathsome yet maddeningly likable character who figures out early in his career that being rich is way better than being poor, and that being fucked-up is, likewise, much preferable to being sober. The film also boasts keen supporting turns from Jonah Hill (as Belfort's crass, corrupt second-in-command), Matthew McConaughey (who has what amounts to a cameo — albeit a supremely memorable one — as Belfort's coke-worshiping mentor), Jean Dujardin (as a slick Swiss banker), and newcomer Margot Robbie (as Belfort's cunning trophy wife). But this is primarily the Leo and Marty Show, and is easily their most entertaining episode to date. Still, don't look for an Oscar sweep: Scorsese just hauled huge for 2011's Hugo, and DiCaprio's flashy turn will likely be passed over by voters more keen on honoring subtler work in a shorter film. (2:59) 1000 Van Ness, SF Center, Sundance Kabuki. (Eddy) *


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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — In my last column, I wrote that Tesla Motors Inc. would have to go back to the federal government for more loans next year to stay afloat, given the state of the company's finances.
Those finances include four consecutive quarters of widening net losses, four consecutive quarters of larger operating deficits and a balance sheet that was in the red at the end of the third quarter. Read: Tesla will need more loans to stay afloat in 2013.
Why California pushes electric cars
California's ever-stricter emissions regulations are prompting auto makers including Chrysler to sell vehicles that are unprofitable and likely to attract few buyers on their own, Mike Ramsey reports.
Apart from access to public money, the company does have another financing option: Sell more of its stock to the public and use those proceeds to fund operations, after losing $233 million in the 12 months ended in September.
Indeed, Tesla TSLA, +2.35% has been quite successful in raising money from investors. In early October, it raised about $195 million in a follow-on offering executed and underwritten by Goldman Sachs, selling 6.93 million shares at $28.25 each.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. GS, +1.09% you might recall, was one of the investment banks that sold mortgage securities to private investors and governments around the globe in the last decade. Within several years, those securities turned out to be worth only a fraction of what they had paid Goldman.
The same fate likely awaits the buyers of the Tesla shares in that offering, the registration document for which was notable for four reasons.
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First, Tesla ended the period in which it made the filing with a balance sheet that was in the red. It was the first time in at least four quarters that the company ended operations with more liabilities than assets. That fact wasn't known to investors in the follow-on, of course, until weeks later when the company reported third-quarter results in November.
In other words, without the proceeds from the offering, Tesla would be facing the prospect of two consecutive quarters with a balance sheet that for many businesses would be a prelude to a bankruptcy filing.
The second thing notable about Tesla's filing was how it was similar to the initial filing that daily-deals firm Groupon Inc. GRPN, -1.46% made in June 2011, before its own IPO five months later.
At the time of those two respective filings, both Tesla and Groupon had balance sheets that showed neither had created any net equity value for their shareholders.
In the case of Tesla, its shareholder equity stood at a negative $27.9 million at the end of the third quarter. At the start of the year, shareholder equity had been $224 million. So Tesla had managed to raise $195 million from investors after spending the prior nine months wiping out about $250 million in shareholder equity.
As with the negative total for the balance sheet as a whole, the negative value for shareholder equity in the third quarter wasn't publicly known until after the offering. As Groupon once could do, before its stock collapsed, Tesla has been able to raise hundreds of millions of dollars despite posting consistent operating losses.


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This past week the project to place at least one flower on the estimated 40,000 graves in Carbon and Emery counties has moved to a new level, both in the making of the flowers and the placing of them on graves.
On Wednesday, the drive exceeded its goals for flowers made by the two communities.
It's now estimated that as many as 1,300 people have been involved in the making of the plastic flowers for graves over the last couple of months. Now some of them, along with other volunteers, are placing flowers throughout this week on graves, just in time for Memorial Day.
Many of the outlying cemeteries have already been decorated and many more will be done by sundown on Saturday.
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Harley Museum displays rare artifacts and some ideas that didn't stick
Harley-Davidson Servicar with a hobby horse on the back for a 1950s American Legion parade. Photos courtesy Harley-Davidson Media
A new collection of rare and one-of-a-kind Harley creations from the 108 years of the company's existence opened on June 11 at the Harley-Davidson Museum in Milwaukee. Called "Collection X: Weird, Wild Wonders of the Harley-Davidson Museum," the exhibit will feature odd prototypes that were created as concepts but never manufactured or sold, along with other WTFery from the H-D archives. Most of the concepts featured early 20th century motors made by Harley-Davidson for everything from generators and lawn mowers to snowmobiles, air boats and airplane engines. Thousands of old photographs, riding apparel, goggles, belts, and other accessories are also on display. Some of the rare one-offs include:
The Cyclone Motor-Sled, "Pop's Trolley." This 10-foot-long canvas-covered spruce sled is one example of the many uses found for Harley-Davidson motors over the years. The motor-sled was sold as a kit by the Mead Ice Yacht Co. of Chicago in the Thirties, and this prototype was powered by a 1925 H-D JDCB 74-cubic-inch V-Twin. $38.50 bought the entire sled, except for the countershaft, propeller and engine. Some sleds were powered by Harley-Davidson motorcycle engines from the owners' motorcycles that weren't being used in the winter.
1913 General Electric transformer from Milwaukee's Juneau Avenue factory – This eight-foot-tall, 8,000-pound electrical transformer helped power the Harley-Davidson factory (now corporate headquarters) in Milwaukee from 1913 through the 1990s. Until this year, the transformer was still being used as backup power. Visitors to the exhibit will see the nearly century-old transformer next to a photo from the day it was delivered in 1913 to the factory from General Electric's generator production facility in Schenectady, New York. For many years, Harley-Davidson was the largest individual user of electrical power in Milwaukee and the only company in the city to have an electrical furnace.
Harley-Davidson-produced LR-64 Rocket. Manufactured by H-D for the U.S. Navy at their York, Pennsylvania, assembly plant, the LR-64 was used to power drones during military training exercises. Harley produced more than 5,000 of these rockets between the mid-Sixties and the Nineties.
1927 airplane engine based on a Harley JD V-twin. This looks very similar to the 1928 Wilson Miller airplane powered by a Harley-Davidson engine on display at Wheels Through Time Museum in Maggie Valley, North Carolina.
1916 Harley-propelled "Red's Motor Boat" Ice Boat
1913 "motor bob" snowmobile based on an H-D engine.
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COTTAGE GROVE, Ore. - In 1931, the Oregon National Guard Unit in Cottage Grove decided it needed a new facility. The community agreed and taxed themselves by passing a bond measure for $15,000 dollars.
"It was a pretty sizable investment from the community in 1931, with the depression and everything." says Richard Meyer, Cottage Grove City Manager.
However, Cottage Grove citizens knew just how important a building like this would be for the community, and for the last 80 years the Cottage Grove Armory has been a part of that community.
"Everything here in the building, all the wood and materials are locally produced except for the tiles in the basement," Meyer said.
In 2009, the historic building hit a bump in the time line: The local National Guard unit moved to a newer facility in Springfield and put the Cottage Grove Armory up for sale.
"What better opportunity we have to take a historic piece of downtown and bring people back into downtown for a concert or a dance or a chamber banquet or anything like that." Meyer told KVAL News.
As soon as the opportunity presented itself, the city of Cottage Grove jumped on the chance to purchase the building.
They used the community's original investment into the armory as a bargaining point: he asking price was $760,000; the city only paid $395,000.
A recent appraisal for the building put its worth at more than $1.2 million.
This functional piece of history, however, is in need of a little TLC before it becomes a community hub.
The electrical work and plumbing need to be replaced - and it has been without heat for 2 years.
"Probably the most expensive piece that we are going to be working on is the windows. There are 138 windows in this building," Meyer said.
While repairs are necessary, one necessity is preservation. "We want to highlight the role that it did play and what it was in honor of those people that left from here and served from here from our community," Meyer said.
As the work goes on, the city is taking ideas from the community about the best possible uses for this historic building keeping it useful for another generation. "It's a spectacular building, we've already had requests from people to use it and we haven't even fixed it yet," Meyer said.
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Doris and Donald Hawes of Warwick Ave., Warwick, announces the engagement of her daughter, Michelle Hawes, to Jacob Messier, son of Gene and Melanie Messier of Naughton Ave., Warwick. The bride-to-be is a graduate of Warwick Veteran Memorial High School Educational Resource Group.
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Assuming your reasoning is correct (and it's not), the manufacturer makes $1500 profit on the design and manufacture of the cable, while the dealer takes in $2000 to handle the box to the client.
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Exeter City and Torquay United settle for a point as penalties dominate Devon derby
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Alan Gow's penalty kick seven minutes from time levelled the scores at 1-1 and earned Exeter City a point in the npower League Two Devon derby at Plainmoor last night.
The Scot struck what in truth was a deserved equaliser for the Grecians, who spent the second half camped inside the half of their close rivals.CLICK for a full picture gallery from the match
Rene Howe had opened the scoring for Torquay with a penalty of his own on 15 minutes, in a half in which the Gulls were marginally the better team. But, with Exeter chasing a club record-equalling sixth straight away win, they did enough after half-time to warrant at least a point for their grand efforts.
When the team sheets arrived, there were more than a few eyebrows raised at Exeter's XI. Guillem Bauza was handed a first start since the Johnstone's Paint Trophy clash with Aldershot Town on September 4. The Spaniard was joined in the side by Kevin Amankwaah and Tommy Doherty.
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Gow, Matt Oakley and Jimmy Keohane were the men to give way and all three were on a strong Grecians' bench. Perhaps the manager's thinking was to win it from the bench during the second half.
Torquay made the one change and that saw Billy Bodin come into the side. Danny Stevens dropped to the bench.
With Exeter kicking towards their massed ranks behind the goal, it was they who threatened first. Bauza dragged a shot wide from 18 yards but referee Craig Pawson strangely awarded a corner-kick.
Torquay were quick to respond, with Nathan Craig delivering a fine cross, but Ryan Jarvis glanced his header wide of goal.
Lee Mansell tried his luck from distance and the ball took a deflection before looping narrowly over the crossbar.
Exeter suffered an early blow when John O'Flynn limped off after a hefty tackle by Damon Lathrope left him floored. Keohane was given an earlier than expected call to action.
The early stages were very frenetic, with little football played on a bog of a pitch. But the game burst into life when Craig's deep cross was aimed towards Howe and Exeter's Amankwaah was deemed to have handled.
Bennett received a booking for his protestations and Howe stepped up to plant the ball into the top right-hand corner for his 12th goal of the campaign.
Craig then tested Krysiak with a wicked in-swinging free-kick from 25 yards, which the Pole tipped over the bar, before Exeter put together their first decent move. That ended with Steve Tully firing wide with his left foot from the edge of the penalty box.
Howe was causing all sorts of problems to Exeter's central defenders with his strength, but it was Keohane who was next to go close for Exeter. Bauza and Tully combined well to fashion an opening for the young Irishman, but he dragged a good chance wide with his left foot from 15 yards.
Torquay were presented with a decent free-kick opportunity after Arron Davies felled Jarvis. It was perfect range for Kevin Nicholson and Nathan Craig, but Craig's attempt was somewhat disappointing and well wide of goal.
Out of nothing, Bauza had a good chance for City after breaking the Gulls' offside trap, but he took too long to decide what to do and was eventually tackled.
Exeter, who had conceded only one goal in their previous three games, looked vulnerable at the back and ,after Nicholson's cross had been flapped by Krysiak straight to Craig, the young Welshman cut inside and on to his left foot before firing his shot high over the bar.
All of Torquay's play was going through Howe and he shrugged off Amankwaah with ease before teeing up Bodin. However, the youngster did not get enough on his attempted chip and Krysiak saved easily.
Torquay were easily dealing with Exeter's weak attacking threat. The Grecians needed a lot more from their attackers, Bauza and Davies in particular, who were well off the pace. There was no doubt that City were missing the energy and work-rate of O'Flynn.
Howe caught the eye for the Gulls in the first half, but it was a pretty solid all-round performance from Martin Ling's side. Defensively, they looked assured and goalkeeper Martin Poke barely got his hands dirty, while they had the most potent attacking threat in the form of Howe.
It was no great surprise to see Gow come on for the second half, nor that it was Bauza who made way.
The Scot was straight in the thick of the action, but the problem now for the Grecians was that when the ball came into the box there was no one there.
Torquay, meanwhile, were quietly going about their business. The hustled and knocked Exeter off their stride and, when they had the ball, they used it well. When they played the ball wide to Nicholson, he crossed for Howe, whose volley was saved by Krysiak.
Paul Tisdale's final throw of the dice was to replace the poor Davies with Oakley and, gradually, the Grecians began to take control of matters.
Gow curled inches wide after good work by Oakley before Gow almost fashioned an opening after some breathtaking skill along the goal-line that bamboozled the Gulls' defence. Brian Saah saw the danger, though, and conceded a corner. Jarvis was replaced by Niall Thompson on 63 minutes, but it was all Exeter at this stage.
Gow was off target again with a curling shot from 20 yards, but still, Exeter lacked men in the penalty box.
Keohane almost brought Exeter level with a beautiful deft flick, but Poke got across his goal to make a superb save. However, the equaliser Exeter deserved came on 83 minutes.
Gow's trickery got him free inside the box, where he was brought down by Joe Oastler. The Scot took the penalty and put it in an identical spot to Howe in the first half.
With their 1,500 supporters in good voice, Exeter looked the more likely to win it, but home substitute Stevens thought he should have had a penalty when he went down inside the box in stoppage time.
Gow then dragged a shot wide as Exeter countered but, in the end, both sides had to settle for a point.
Torquay United (4-2-3-1): Poke; Oastler, Saah, Downes, Nicholson; Mansell, Lathrope; Bodin (Stevens 78), Jarvis (Thompson 63), Craig; Howe. Substitutes (not used): Rice (gk), MacDonald, Easton, Cruise, Yeoman.
Goal: Howe (pen) 15.
Booking: Saah.
Exeter City (4-4-2): Krysiak; Tully, Coles, Baldwin, Woodman; Tully, Doherty, Bennett, Davies (Oakley 56); Bauza (Gow h-t), O'Flynn (Keohane 9). Substitutes (not used): Evans (gk), Moore-Taylor, Reid, Anderson.
Goal: Gow (pen) 83.
Bookings: Bennett, Tully.
Referee: C Pawson (South Yorkshire).
Attendance: 4,476.
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Agree w/you on the1's I've used. Just a FYI the hemp lotion made my skin red and sting. I'm not sensitive to anything usually, but I had a big intense skin reaction to it. jumped in shower. had to get it off
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Except that its not just Obama. As far as I'm concerned, both he and practically all of Congress are full of shit. Yeah, I might share more conservative values than liberal ones, but that honestly isn't the issue here. What is the issue is that both of them are fucking us over and need to be removed! Republi-can't, Democrap, whatever, all they care about is making their wallets bigger at the expense of the people. Not trying to sound like Comrade Communism here, but still, that's just my two cents.


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As many of you know, a new national grant announced this past Monday will fund extended school days for ten school districts in five states. (Read more about the grant here [1].)
This pilot merits our serious attention: 1.) to learn more 2.) to advocate for the camp experience as viable in the education of the whole-child and 3.) to take the opportunity to engage in the conversation. I am also encouraged by the words [2] of Education Secretary Arne Duncan:
The goal here is not more time, the goal here is more learning.
I hope that means it is about learning, not more skill and drill.
Being ready to learn is just as important, if not more, than being taught. What do children need in order to learn? They need authentic connections in order to make learning relevant, experiential opportunities to engage their natural curiosity and make learning fun, and safe environments to take risks, make mistakes, and grow. These things have been inherent in camp experiences for over 150 years, and I am pleased to see the opportunity for them to be used in a classroom — but a traditional classroom is not the only learning environment.
I am also encouraged by the words [3] of Ami Prichard, president of a teachers union in Colorado that has already been working with expanded learning hours:
If we can provide kids with a longer day that allows them to have electives, explore arts, become critical thinkers, as well as learn basics, we're all better off . . . This is not more of the same but something additional.
To that point, we must be involved, which includes understanding the action steps we can take as advocates for children and youth:
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- We must share and build with schools when it comes to effective teaching and learning. Over the past ten years or so we have added great knowledge to our 150 years of experience. We have learned a lot about successful camp-school partnerships [5]and how to actively engage students during a school year. We have also learned a lot about keeping kids from the summer learning slump by incorporating just 30 minutes of reading time into their day through ACA's Explore 30 Camp Reading Program [6]. We must share this data as it relates to desired outcomes and translate what we've learned to the needs identified.
- We must engage and participate in the solution. We must network, write, call, and seek out opportunities to contribute to the discussion. Young people need our voices to be heard.
That said, there will always be a unique love for the camp experience. Lastly, I find encouragement in the words [2] of student Olivia Nevadomski, who will soon have extended school days. While she does not mind extra hours during the school year, she did have this to say about school in the summertime:
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Glitter, ribbons and lots of curls. Thats how they showed spirit.
Seven high school bands from Jefferson and St. Lawrence counties played popular modern and classic songs with tubas, clarinets and trumpets at the Jefferson County Fair band competition on Tuesday.
Represented at the competition at the Alex. T. Duffy Fairgrounds were Gouverneur Central, Heuvelton Central, Ogdensburg Free Academy, Lisbon Central and Morristown Central from St. Lawrence County, and General Brown Central and Thousand Islands Central from Jefferson County.
Every year, St. Lawrence County brings down the most bands, said fair secretary and competition announcer George A. Turner.
He said the fair, now in its 196th year, invites schools from Jefferson, Lewis, St. Lawrence and Oswego counties, but some schools do not have marching bands or stop their season after July 4.
Id love to have 15 to 20 bands here, Mr. Turner said. Its also for the public to see where their tax dollars are going.
This year, the competition officials decided to give medals to school mascots who showed the most spirit. This years first place went to the Ogdensburg Free Academy Blue Devil.
The last few years weve been doing this, we noticed they do a lot of hard work, Mr. Turner said.
Thousand Islands Central won first place in Class C, with 71.8 points. Heuvelton Central won first place in Class B, with 80.05 points.
Derek A. Fenton, 17, the Heuvelton drum major, ran down to pick up the trophy for his band. He also won first place in the drum major category.
Dressed in purple-sequined suspenders and a bow tie that he picked himself, Mr. Fenton said it was his first show at the fair.
I loved the excitement of the crowd and how people reacted when you give them the show, he said.
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Putting it all together was probably the hardest, Mr. Fenton said. Im very proud of my band. They came a long way.
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- Mark Plus said...
Eh, that obfuscation again. In practice, atheism promotes an agenda analogous to veganism's. Vegans don't just not believe in eating and exploiting animals; the vegan firebrands go further to argue for the advantages of their life style, and against the evils of its opposite, because carnivory poisons everything.
In other words, atheism implies the criticism of religion much like veganism implies the criticism of animal exploitation.
- August 29, 2010 at 12:36 PM
- Wes Widner said...
It may not be. Formally anyway. But I still don't have enough faith to believe in it.
- August 29, 2010 at 12:58 PM
- Ray said...
It's definitely a cult of somesort. Atheists are not able to think for themselves. They repeat the same things over and over as they try to intimidate those who disagree with them by calling them names and by mocking them and making fun of them.
- August 29, 2010 at 1:40 PM
- Lvka said...
It's a religion with 0 gods, and with a very brief statement of faith (i.e., 'there is no God').
I know that as former Protestants you were indoctrinated to believe that the term (i.e., 'religion') is 'bad', and that Christianity is "not a religion", etc. but I think you have to outgrow that stage: Christianity is very much a religion - and so is atheism! (The former has many denominations, and so does the latter, but that's a different thing altogether).
Old habbits die hard, I guess..
- August 29, 2010 at 1:59 PM
- clamat said...
Too few freethinkers responding. C'mon, choir, sing it with me: Atheism is a religion the way "bald" is a hair color.
- August 29, 2010 at 3:29 PM
- clamat said...
Wrong again.
Atheist Statement of Non-faith: "After careful consideration, I see no convincing evidence of a god, either physical or philosophical. Until such evidence is forthcoming, I will assume there is no god, and live my life accordingly.
- August 29, 2010 at 3:33 PM
- Lvka said...
It's just the way I view it, that's all. (As a mathematician, I have an inclination towards uniformity and generalizations).
- August 29, 2010 at 4:23 PM
- Dude, I'm Free said...
A "cult"? Lol! I am not in any cult. I escaped the cult of the christianities less than an year ago. When you finally wake up you will realize that your statements are not accurate.
- August 29, 2010 at 8:22 PM
- Gandolf said...
Atheism is a religion ,like interest in Rugby ,football , baseball ,Netball ,community crime watch , save the dolphins and whales is religion also.
- August 29, 2010 at 9:51 PM
- Michael said...
Lvka, since you're a mathematician, consider it in terms of set theory/propositional logic. Let a be the proposition, "A deity exists." Then ~a denotes its negation "No deities exist." If theism is S = {a}, atheism is the empty set {}, NOT the set T = {~a}.
- August 30, 2010 at 10:54 AM
- Lvka said...
Sounds meaningless to me. The empty set (0), as well as the set that contains the empty set ({0}) are both sets. The set that has "a", as well as the set that has "~a" are also both sets. Each way you turn it, the conclusion stays the same. (Just like zero is also a number).
- August 30, 2010 at 8:47 PM
- The Other BG said...
Lvka, I'm with you. Also a mathematician, I have a hard time convincing people that, in the absence of any evidence whatsoever for or against the existence of something, the "default" is not to assign a low probability of that existence, but instead to refuse to assign a probability at all. I don't want to argue semantics, but a purely scientific viewpoint would lead to a perspective closer to agnosticism than to atheism (though I admit those definitions aren't always well-defined).
- September 2, 2010 at 11:32 AM
- Steven said...
The Other BG:
I don't want to argue semantics, but a purely scientific viewpoint would lead to a perspective closer to agnosticism than to atheism (though I admit those definitions aren't always well-defined).
Then you haven't been paying attention. John calls himself an agnostic atheist, and that description is accurate for me as well, and it is actually a fairly accurate description of the vast majority of atheists, even the great boogeyman Dawkins has said as much.
I do not say that there is no God or that than can be no God. What I do say is that all religions make enough claims that are either too incredible to be believed, outright falsified, or just too improbable/implausible based on what we know about human psychology, sociology, and general science to allow us to conclude that they are highly likely to be wrong (even in the unlikely event that a god in some form really does exist). Atheism does indeed tend towards agnosticism, but we have no qualms with also pointing out that it is highly likely that your religion is wrong regardless of whether or not there is a god.
- September 3, 2010 at 3:53 PM


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Third party integration is simple with the VB-M700F because it's ONVIF version 1.02 conformant. Compatibility with this standard protocol, as well as WebView - Canon's network camera protocol, enables the user to create a system which best meets their needs, with equipment from different manufacturers and third party recording software. It also simplifies the work of system integrators by expanding the ability to use third party recording software. This XML based standard systematizes the protocols of settings for camera, control and information acquisition. Among the functions supported are camera search by WS-Discovery, authentication by WS-Security, RTP streaming of video (JPEG, H.264), audio (G.711), events (including PTZ and Camera status) and Multicast. Network settings, camera system parameters, rebooting external IO control and preset home settings are also supported. In addition, SSL communication and setting of intelligent functions are also possible.
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