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Platforms withstand harsh climate, earthquakes
A few kilometres off Sakhalin Island stand three huge oil and gas platforms. They can withstand storm-whipped waves 10 metres high in spring and autumn, typhoons in summer and the enormous pressure of ice floes in winter. And they lie in the world's most active earthquake zone.
The first Russian offshore platform, Piltun-A (PA-A) — known as "Molikpaq" after the Inuit word for "big wave" — has an average production rate of 90,000 barrels of oil and 1.7 million cubic metres of gas per day. It started year-round production in December 2008. There are 13 oil production wells, four water injection wells, one gas reinjection well and one waste disposal well on the platform.
At the Lunskoye-A platform, gas is produced from the largest diameter wells ever drilled in Russia. Two new gas production wells were completed in 2010, which brought the total number of wells to seven. The Lun-A gas production rate is up to 51 million cubic metres per day and condensate about 8,000 cubic metres per day.
Piltun-Astokhskoye-B (PA-B) is the biggest offshore platform in the Sakhalin-2 project. Two oil production wells and three water injection wells were drilled in 2010, bringing the number of oil wells at the platform to eight. Two additional water injection wells were drilled in 2011. The platform production capacity per day: oil approximately 70,000 barrels and associated gas 2.8 million cubic metres.
A 300-kilometre under sea pipeline network links the three platforms to an onshore processing facility. From there an onshore system of 1,600 kilometres of pipelines takes the oil and gas to an LNG (liquefied natural gas) plant and oil export terminal, both at the Prigorodnoye complex at Aniva Bay in the south of the island.
Ice-breaking platform legs
PA-B and Lun-A platforms' giant concrete legs — each wider than 20 metres and some 56 metres tall — were built in Vostochny port in Russia in December 2004 and towed to the site on a barge pulled by three tugboats. They are extra thick to help withstand earthquakes and their rounded shape helps ice floes slide around them.
Sometimes sheets of ice edge up platform legs, peel backwards and crash back down on the frozen sea. The pressure of the ice against the four legs can amount to 30,000 tonnes.
A structure used to protect bridges and public buildings from earthquakes was installed in offshore platforms for the first time. Two of Sakhalin-2's platforms are connected to their concrete legs by sliding joints. If an earthquake strikes, the topsides can move independently from the legs in a pendulum motion, preventing damage.
The design can withstand an earthquake measuring 8.0 on the Richter scale — greater than the strongest earthquake expected to occur around the platforms. Such an earthquake may occur on Sakhalin Island perhaps once in 3,000 years. A similar design protects San Francisco's Oakland Bay Bridge and Istanbul's Ataturk Airport.
Installation world record
In 2007, two specially built T-shaped barges, each the size of two football fields, towed the upper parts, or topsides, of the PA-B and Lunskoye-A platforms 3,000 kilometres from the Samsung Heavy Industries shipyard in South Korea where they were built.
The barges sailed into position between already-installed platform legs before being gradually lowered, allowing the topsides to settle on the legs. The PA-B's 28,000-tonne topside makes it almost as heavy as three Eiffel Towers — it set a world record in 2007 for the heaviest topside ever installed this way. The fully assembled platform is as tall as a 30-storey building.
Protecting western gray whales
A small population of western gray whales, a species once thought to be extinct, feed off the coast of Sakhalin Island in the summer months. To protect them, sound levels in the area are monitored and work such as carrying out seismic surveys and pipe laying is suspended when the noise exceeds levels recommended by the Western Gray Whale Advisory Panel.
Buoys with acoustic monitors positioned along the edge of the feeding grounds track sound levels during such work. Other measures to keep disturbance to a minimum include carrying out seismic surveys as soon as ice breaks up before the whales' feeding season, limiting the number of ships in the area, setting speed limits, and using navigation corridors.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) independent scientific review panel works with Sakhalin Energy to study the whales' habits and monitor the impact of offshore operations. In recognition of its western gray whale protection programme, Sakhalin Energy won the 2008 Environmental Project of the Year award from Russia's Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources.


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Frazier and Elizabeth Forward moved on to the quarterfinals after picking up contrasting first round wins in the WPIAL softball playoffs Thursday.
In Class A, the Lady Commodores defeated Vincentian Academy, 3-2, at Hempfield, while EF dropped New Castle, 6-2, in Class AAA at Kennedy Township's Fairhaven Park.
Frazier holds on
At Hempfield, the fourth-seeded Lady Commodores (17-2) took a 2-0 lead, then watched as Vincentian (8-6) scored twice in the bottom of the third inning to tie the game.
Frazier scored what proved to be the winning run in the fifth on an RBI double by winning pitcher Andrea Lash, who threw a four-hitter and gave up two unearned runs.
"I knew that I wanted to get up there and get a nice hit," Lash said. "We needed to start something off that inning, and I wanted to get up there and put it into play."
Alexus Eicher led off the fifth with a single and gave Lash, who also doubled in the first inning, an opportunity with a runner on base. After she fell into a 1-2 hole, Lash slammed a doubled into the left-center field gap to score Eicher with what turned out to be the winning run.
"I knew they had some hitters and they were going to score some runs, but I knew what we had to do and obviously we didn't do it," Frazier coach Paul Harvey said. "You've got to come up with a big hit every now and then, and our 3-4 hitters (Lash and Alexis Livingstone) did, but outside of that we didn't do much."
Frazier had eight hits off losing pitcher Kim Corcoran with Lash leading the way with two doubles. Livingstone also doubled.
Frazier will meet Shenango (15-6) in the quarterfinals. Shenango edged Sto-Rox, 7-6.
EF never threatened
At Fairhaven Park, fourth-seeded EF (17-4) jumped to a 2-0 lead in the first inning and was never threatened by New Castle (8-7).
Winning pitcher Portia McBride collected an RBI single in the fourth to make it 3-1.
New Castle scored a run in the bottom of the fourth inning to make it 3-1 before EF upped the lead to 6-1 with three runs in the sixth.
New Castle scored a run in the bottom of the seventh inning.
McBride gave up six hits and struck out eight batters, including five in a row early in the game. She didn't walk anybody.
Caitlyn Arico had three hits, including a double, and two RBIs for EF. Mc-Kenna Kern also smacked a double.
EF will meet West Allegheny (11-6) in the quarterfinals. West Allegheny defeated Mars, 5-3, in a first-round contest.
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SAN ANTONIO — Northside Independent School District (ISD) recently received a $2,001,682 check for buying 122 Blue Bird propane buses.
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I'm currently making a suit (skit and matching jacket). I've not personally made both jacket and skirt from the same pattern before.
Originally I bought it with just the skirt in mind. I purchased some fabric for it, and shoved it to the back of the pile until I got some more experience and confidence.
The pattern, plus fabric, got unearthed for an upcoming family wedding. I went out and bought some different (but complimentary) fabric for the jacket.
Halfway through sewing them up, two people have both commented with surprise they thought I would use matching fabric.
My ideas were a) each fabric would work well for the designed item in mind b) I'd mix and match them more with my existing wardrobe and c) it would look less formal but still smart.
So - current fashionistas out there, would you mix and compliment your suits or go with matching?
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I think it depends on the use. For a suit for going to court or meeting with opposing counsel, I would wear matching pieces. For a family wedding, a mix-and-match suit seems more appropriate, as it is less formal and more in the celebration spirit.
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To me, the word "suit" means that the skirt and jacket are the same fabric. I see nothing wrong with wearing a skirt and jacket of complimentary fabrics, I just wouldn't call it a suit.
I prefer mixed textiles. Matching skirt and jacket murmurs "lack of imagination" to me. No one ever threw me out of court for wearing a nonmatching suit but the seventh district may be a little more laid back than some of the others around the country. ;)
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A suit of clothing in men's wear is always the same fabric.So it's correct I guess to define a suit as such.But it isn't very interesting and makes you blend into the backround.I think your idea is much more festive and you can be as poshy or fancy as you want for a wedding--it's a celebration.
thanks for all the feedback, nice to know I am not making an unintended fashion faux pax. I now just need to finish the jacket (skirt finally done today) then will be ready to enjoy the wedding!
Matching pieces are more formal (but not "fancy") - and more conservative.
Coordinated is more fun, more modern, more "fashion forward" (but the "style" has been around for quite some time). I have a very conservative suit that is a grey skirt, rose jacket, and knit top that has stripes of each color, plus a lighter and darker grey. But my favorite suit has a print skirt and grey jacket with trim in the same print fabric.
I would sew the jacket and make two skirts, one matching and one complimentary. Jackets take a lot of time and effort to sew. Simple skirts can be whipped out in an afternoon.
------No sewing project is ever a complete success nor a total failure.
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America's Cup World Series Plymouth - Skipper Russell Coutts and crew bounced back strongly to win the first race despite being saddled with two penalties in the pre-start, one for crossing outside of the course boundary and another for a gentle nudge/collision with Dean Barker's boat.
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'Dean said it was a love-tap. Well, I can tell you it wasn't a love tap!' said Coutts when the skippers exchanged post-race banter. 'We lost a bit of control. The wing probably shifted and backed the jib. We flopped onto port (tack) and we were … going to hit them.'
Once again the combination of AC45 wing sailed catamarans and good Plymouth breezes produced top-grade racing. Coutts and crew were able to close up to a seven second deficit at the second leeward mark and then overtake on the next upwind leg. In fact, all three races were classic match racing, with the leader staying between the trailing boat and the next mark, except played out at high speed, with rapid-fire decision making and relentless crew work.
After taking a 1-0 lead Oracle Racing Coutts looked poised to win the match when they led Race 2, but this time Team New Zealand had the advantage upwind and made a passing move on the first upwind leg.
The Kiwi crew would hold on for the win and came from behind a second time to take the third race to win the match. The loss sends Oracle Racing Coutts to the consolation match for third and fourth place, which will be sailed tomorrow afternoon.
'We had our moments, just didn't put it together,' said Coutts. 'We made some key decisions that were wrong. I got that one wrong when we were leading; we probably should've won that race. 'Team New Zealand sailed well and deserved the win, credit to them,' Coutts said.
Earlier in the day, the combination of a faulty sheet jammer and wrong angle into the leeward mark saw the Oracle Racing Spithill crew loose to Team Korea, which won qualifier match number four and eventually advanced to the semifinal round and a pairing with Artemis Racing.
Jimmy Spithill's crew rounded the second windward mark approximately 14 seconds behind Team Korea, but the jib sheet jammer locked shut and the headsail wasn't released. A puff of wind hit the AC45, heeling it hard over.
'We couldn't let the sheet out and couldn't get the bow down,' said Spithill. 'We had to bail out, almost lost it there.'
For Team Korea the win was the second consecutive over an Oracle Racing crew in as they defeated Oracle Racing Coutts in the quarterfinal round of ACWS Cascais.
'They've caused Oracle Racing a few problems now,' Spithill said. 'All credit to them. They sailed better than did.
Oracle Racing Spithill will sail tomorrow against Energy Team of France in the pairing for fifth and sixth place.
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A Parenting Pre-Nup Agreement?
Joseph and I were both very lucky with our respective in-laws. Although we knew that each set did not necessarily agree with our parenting practices, (ironically, they disapproved of different elements, not the same ones) for the most part, they didn't voice those opinions very often. My mother would occasionally ask me a question about an issue, such as did I really plan not to get the MMR shot for the kids? And my dad would do his shake the head thing as he walked through the room and saw me nursing one of my toddlers, but mostly they let us do what we thought was best and just stayed back in case we needed them. That's one of the reasons Joseph and I loved our parents and our in-laws so much.
I fear, however, that I am not going to be able to follow that noble example.
I have some pretty darn strong opinions about parenting. (Okay, that was a vast understatement, but give me a break.) These opinions are based on countless hours of research that I did when I was first becoming a parent. I read voraciously. I talked to people. I went to conferences. I did everything I could and it resulted in some very, very powerful attitudes about how children should be raised--or how they shouldn't be. The idea that these basic principles might not be used with my grandchildren causes me to grind my teeth, grow more gray hair and cause extra wrinkles.
Now that all of my children are getting old enough that I can eventually see them becoming parents, I worry about this issue more. I don't know that my oldest daughter (26) will ever have children, so I have put that concern aside. I know my youngest daughter will, but am not concerned that she will not follow attachment parenting. She is such a tender-hearted soul that, like me, she can hardly stand to see another child cry. She is already drawn to babies and I see that maternal instinct developing. (She is almost 20.) Moreover, she and I have done a lot of discussing over the years about parenting principles. She understands why I believe in natural childbirth, breastfeeding and family beds. She knows that I will be right there to help her, answer questions, and give her all the support she needs when she becomes a mom someday.
But . . . then there are my sons (17 and 14). The women they choose as wives may not have been raised in homes with attachment parenting principles. They may have learned that a drugged hospital birth is the best way to go, that bottle feeding is a better alternative to breastfeeding, that babies belong in cribs, that kids should learn to "cry it out" and that day care is just as good as staying home with mom. EEEEEEEK. Can you see me pounding my head against the wall at the mere thought of it?! I sure can.
What do I do then? Do I keep my mouth shut and attempt to be the "good" mother-in-law? Or do I try to gently find a way to suggest some options to traditional teaching? (Personally, the idea of moving to a remote island where only attachment parenting natives live sounds good to me. I am sure the boys could find some attractive, pleasant topless girls there, right?)
Of course, I have done my fair share of educating both of my boys about parenting principles. They have heard (ad nauseum, I am sure) why Joseph and I choose everything from home birth to homeschooling. When we are out and see a child that is being treated poorly, we discuss it. They know why we do what we do--and they agree in principle. But they are not the mothers. They are not the ones that will give birth. And, let's admit it, they are not necessarily the ones who will make the parenting decisions. Sure, times are changing and dads have a more and more active role, but if Mama isn't on board with nursing and family beds and all of that, it just isn't going to happen.
So, recently, while attending a fabulous homeschooling conference full of dozens of attachment parenting advocates, I came up with a radical new idea. I think my children should all give their potential spouses a parenting pre-nup to sign. Instead of arranging financial decisions, it would set up an agreement on how to raise the children. (Of course, finding out that it was your mother-in-law's idea might not go over too well.)
What would go in the pre-nup? Well, to be fair, there is a lot that I wouldn't try to influence . . . . I mean, they can live where they want (as long as I get to see the grandchildren on a weekly basis), have any job they want (as long as the position isn't life-threatening), have any religion/no religion (although it sure would be easier if they were secular. . . ) and dress any way they want (just please not the pants that look like they are going to fall off any second . . . ) Okay, okay. I have opinions here but they can be put on the minor concerns list.
If I offend anyone with this list, I apologize up front. Do I truly believe you can be a loving parent and not do these things? Yes. Do I truly believe that these issues are the foundation of being the parents we were meant to be and what our babies were designed for? Yes. Did I tone down each one of these points from what my radical self would have liked to say? You bet.
In the parenting pre-nup, I would want to say that future spouses must be willing to:
1. Accept that the methods they grew up with are not the only ones and that there are alternatives to consider.
2. Learn/read/research about attachment parenting ideals and then discuss it with me or at least some other AP parents.
3. Nurse for at least six months--with all of the loving support and help and encouragement they need from me, La Leche League and other authorities.
4. Consider a natural childbirth. It doesn't have to be at home but at least one that avoids so many of the drugs and medical practices that cause problems and complications.
5. Read about why so many parents choose not to vaccinate their children and then make an informed decision.
6. Read about family beds and why they are so important. Perhaps try sleeping in bed with the baby or putting a crib up against the bed and see how it goes.
7. Realize that a crying baby is not spoiled and that leaving a baby to cry alone is just cruel.
8. Explore options to any kind of physical punishment. Spanking is never the only choice and many believe it is never the right choice either.
9 . Explore different educational options such as homeschooling/unschooling--and completely ignore the idea of preschool.
10. Realize that modern parenting practices are almost always designed for the parents' convenience and not for the babies' needs and, in the long run, following them can cause irreparable damage.
So, what do you think? Will I send my children's potential life partners running out into the night screaming about the Monster Mother-in-Law if I hand this out?
Of course, I won't really hand my kids a pre-nup, but I will encourage them STRONGLY to discuss all of these issues with those they have fallen in love with and see where these future family members stand on them. Just as I want my grandchildren to be raised in loving, nurturing families, I want my children to have happy, long lasting marriages. I don't want to be seen as the interfering, disapproving mother-in-law. I want to be the profoundly wise, sage-like mom. At least I will sound noble!
© 2010, Tamra Orr
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Sparking solar in Texas
Green Mountain Energy Company brings all-solar energy option to Texans
As this series has demonstrated, energy innovation is happening around the world in a wide range of areas, from energy storage and smart grid technologies to renewables, electric vehicles and energy-saving software and services.
But innovation isn't just about inventing new technologies. It's about getting those technologies out into the market. And when it comes to bringing renewable energy options to residential and commercial customers, Texas-based Green Mountain Energy Company was the first to be 100% dedicated to cleaner energy with the electricity market opened to competition in the state in 2002.
Founded in 1997, Green Mountain is the country's longest-serving retailer dedicated to renewable energy, selling all-renewable energy options directly to residents and businesses in competitive markets in Illinois, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Texas, and partnering with utilities in other regulated markets.
In September 2013, Green Mountain became the first company to offer residential customers in Texas an electricity plan powered by 100% solar energy. The company's SolarSPARC™ product (Smart People Accelerating Renewable Change) allows customers to reap the benefits of solar energy without incurring the upfront cost of a solar installation. Furthermore, Green Mountain Energy's innovative program overcomes other barriers that many homeowners face, such as lack of open rooftop space without hindrance of shade or a commitment to sign a long-term, twenty-year solar contract.
Texas has a lot of sunshine, and we plan on making sure it has a lot of solar power customers.Shay Ohrel Sales Director, Green Mountain Energy
"Texas has incredible solar potential, and our customers want and deserve solar options," said Green Mountain's Shay Ohrel. "But not everyone can afford the upfront cost of installing their own system or even has a suitable home for solar panels. SolarSPARC™ gives them a way to be part of the solar revolution."
The program is available now to residential customers in competitive markets in Texas. According to Green Mountain, SolarSPARC™ electricity comes from 100 percent solar energy. Initially, the power will come from solar credits acquired from national projects, but the company is breaking ground on Texas-based solar installations and will eventually incorporate a portion of this Texas-based generation to support SolarSPARC™ customers. The first SolarSPARC™ project is sited alongside the company's wind facility near Big Spring, Texas.
In addition, Green Mountain will contribute $4 per month for each SolarSPARC™ customer towards developing new solar projects in Texas, and customers will receive an annual bill credit for each solar project they help fund. The credit will start at $11 and could amount to $121 per year for customers who participate for 5 years.
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"Most people know about Texas' success with wind power," said Vice President of EDF's Climate and Energy Program, Jim Marston, "but our state is also ranked first in solar energy potential. The cost of solar continues to drop, and companies like Green Mountain are offering creative ways for customers to take part without bearing the upfront investment. A strategic mixture of good policies, creative financing and enthusiastic energy companies will help spur the growth of solar in Texas."
Green Mountain is starting small, but it is committed to grow with demand. "The more customers that sign up for the product, the more solar we'll build," said Ohrel. "Texas has a lot of sunshine, and we plan on making sure it has a lot of solar power customers."
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- What: Green Mountain Energy Company's new SolarSPARC™ energy program offers residential electricity customers in Texas a 100% solar energy plan, supports the development of new solar developments in the state and provides customers with credit for the facilities they help fund.
- Where: Where: Green Mountain Energy (owned by NRG Energy) in Austin, TX
- Why it matters: Texas has remarkable solar energy potential, but upfront costs can prohibit residential customers from installing rooftop systems. The SolarSPARC™ program provides a 100% solar energy plan to customers without the need to own or finance a home installation.
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AHS Ladycats vs. Springtown at Aledo;
Varsity, 6:30 p.m.
JV, 5 p.m.
9th, 5 p.m.
The Weatherford Art Association has issued a "Call-for-Artists" for the 2014 WAA Western Art Show and Sale that will run from Monday, Jan. 13 through Sunday, Feb. 9. Prospectus and entry forms are available at the Firehouse Gallery, 119 Palo Pinto or at weatherfordart.com.
All western themed art works for the show in any media that have not previously been in the show, and have been created within the last three years are eligible for this judged show. Registration dates are Jan. 8-9-10, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Firehouse Gallery in Weatherford. All framed art must be wired for hanging (no saw-toothed hangers). Plexiglass is required for works on paper.
Registration fees for non-members is $15 per entry, limit of three entries, and for members, $10 per entry, limit three entries per artist. Cash awards will be presented at the show reception Friday, Jan. 17 from 6:30 to 8 p.m.
Artist Randy Meador will judge the entries.
WAA is honored to feature Aledo artist, Homer Norris as the special guest artist during the Western Art Show.
Few figures in Parker County are as beloved as Homer Norris. Humble, inquisitive, appreciative-and gifted beyond measure, he is artist and storyteller, archaeologist and explorer, student and teacher. One of 11 children born to a brilliant yet poor Aledo welder, during the bleak days of the Great Depression, Homer roamed the countryside – and found his spirit's nourishment in this land. Drawn to the romantic history of Parker County's artifacts and relics, mesmerized by the loveliness to be found in a simple iris, captivated by the tales told by old-timers, he developed a passion for beauty and formidable love for his home and its people. To this day he gleans joy, solace and awe from this rugged terrain.
AHS Ladycats vs. Springtown at Aledo;
Varsity, 6:30 p.m.
JV, 5 p.m.
9th, 5 p.m.


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Daring storytelling that integrates song and dance is rare. But a few auteurs strive for the elusive formula. Broadway has always prized director-choreographers who could deliver hit musicals with an individual stamp on them — masters such as Jerome Robbins, Bob Fosse, Gower Champion, Michael Bennett and Tommy Tune. Even when an individual project failed, they brought a special excitement to the Great White Way: that Broadway rhythm long celebrated on stage and screen.
Building on the achievements of their predecessors, these theater artists explored subjects that musicals had always avoided and found ways to make dance integral to a show's narrative thrust rather than just a diversion. Moreover, nearly all of them addressed show business itself as a metaphor for the superficial values and obsession with celebrity that plague American society.
Of this distinguished company, Tune is the last man standing, someone who won nine Tony Awards and pretty much owned Broadway in the 1980s. He remains active at age 67 but now thinks of himself, he says, "as an anachronism," dismayed by the conditions under which musicals must currently be created.
"You used to have one driving force behind you," he said between performances of "Doctor Dolittle," which plays two final times today at the Pantages Theatre before moving to the San Diego Civic Auditorium and then the Orange County Performing Arts Center.
"But there aren't any individual producers anymore — they're all committees. Or corporations. When you sit down with them, sometimes you have as many as 12 people at the table and they each voice an opinion. And you watch your work dissolving into shreds, with so many people pecking at it."
Tune finds that the musicals surviving this kind of creative process don't really need the kind of star director-choreographer that used to dominate musicals. Instead, they require people adept at what he calls "that environmental theme-park-ride kind of thing."
"Do you notice that in those shows the audiences lean back in their seats while in the shows that I have always admired they sit on the edge of their seats and lean forward? Audiences don't have to listen now because it's cranked up. They don't have to imagine anything because the staging shows it all. It's a different time.
"I used to call what I did a theater of nuance, and that is like saying 'kindness.' People shrug and say, 'Huh?' "
Although Tune hasn't given up hope, he doesn't believe that Broadway is currently the right place for an innovative name-above-the-title director-choreographer: "That time has passed." But some of the highest-profile inheritors of the great tradition he speaks about refuse to apologize for staging musicals.
Susan Stroman describes a contemporary audience hungry for connection. Graciela Daniele says that the word "musical" no longer suggests light entertainment but a whole range of performance experiences. Kathleen Marshall suggests that America has produced musical theater classics that ought to be brought to the stage as often as plays by Shakespeare. And Matthew Bourne declares that whatever the musical can or can't do in the millennium, the real action for him is in dance.
Dropping in on them in London and New York, you find them eager to take musical theater beyond anybody's expectations, while respecting the artifacts of the past — whether a beloved movie, an unforgettable piece of choreography, a daring play or a body of work ripe for revival. Watch them fly — as long as the daunting conditions for staging musicals don't clip their wings.
Kathleen Marshall The audience at the American Airlines Theatre in New York can't get enough of Harry Connick Jr. in Kathleen Marshall's revival of the 1954 Richard Adler and Jerry Ross musical "The Pajama Game." Making his musical theater debut as Sid Sorokin, the show's lovelorn factory supervisor, Connick sounds like the young Sinatra, adding exciting jazz riffs to such standards as "Hey There" as well as "The World Around Us," a song cut before the original Broadway opening but now restored just for him. However, director-choreographer Marshall must confront the ghost of Bob Fosse in her staging — specifically, his treatment of "Steam Heat," which she calls "probably the most famous piece of musical theater choreography ever created." It's familiar not only from the original stage "Pajama Game" and the subsequent film but performances in the recent compilation-musical "Fosse" on stage and TV. So how do you erase, replace or supplant all that? Marshall starts by delivering exactly what you expect — the iconic Fosse image of two men and a woman slouching in black suits and bowler hats. But as soon as that image and tribute resonates in your consciousness, the men strip to shirt sleeves, the woman to a chorine costume, and Marshall takes the number in her own direction. Her showstopper is "Hernando's Hideaway," which pushes mock-seduction and the stalk-tango about as far as they can go, then switches gears entirely with Connick playing feelthy-piano variations on the tune, launching an invigorating jazz-dance ensemble utterly unlike anything in the original show. A Tony Award winner for choreographing the revival of "Wonderful Town" (which she also directed), Marshall says she rejects what she calls "this crazy expectation that a Broadway show must run for five years in order to be successful and have international companies and national tours that run forever." "Trying to create something like that can be a huge burden — and it also makes it hard to shape shows for individual personalities. When something is going to run for years and years and years, you have to create roles that many, many, many people can play." However, she's happy to be working at a time when the options of director-choreographers and what's considered prime musical theater have changed and expanded. "It's hard to define an era when you're in the middle of it," she says. "But today we have a lot of musical theater auteurs who are initiating and conceptualizing pieces — like Matthew Bourne's 'Swan Lake,' like Susan Stroman's 'Contact,' like Twyla Tharp's 'Movin' Out.' "These pieces may not be in the traditional book-musical mode of Robbins, Fosse, Champion, Bennett or Tune. But they are big, exciting and successful." Twyla Tharp Songs were central to the choreography of Twyla Tharp three decades before she won a Tony for her dance-driven, Billy Joel catalog musical "Movin' Out." In pieces for her own modern dance companies as well as such classical ensembles as the Joffrey Ballet and American Ballet Theatre, she used suites of jazz and pop recordings to accompany idiosyncratic movement that seemed to fuse virtually every kind of dancing, from the academy to the street, in a holistic new style. Inevitably, some of those pieces sank without a trace, but others became instant classics: "Nine Sinatra Songs," for instance, to be performed by Miami City Ballet during its June 30-July 2 engagement at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Although Tharp's "Short Stories" inventively physicalized interpersonal conflict, her periodic flirtations with narrative and character comedy often proved crude ("The Catherine Wheel"), while her most luminous early abstractions ("Sue's Leg") seemed to wed a contemporary sensibility to energies and images drawn from the music. Tharp's latest catalog musical comes at a time when Broadway, the West End and the international touring circuit teem with full-evening pieces celebrating virtually every entertainer from Rod Stewart to Ray Charles — and when the Beatles have inspired the latest Cirque du Soleil extravaganza. In such a landscape, the inimitably cryptic songs of Bob Dylan must seem like the final frontier — and that's where Tharp has headed. On view through March 19 at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre (before Broadway), "The Times They Are A-Changin' " uses Dylan's songs for a Tharpian exploration of generational conflict within a traveling circus. The piece received mixed reviews, at best, and Tharp's Broadway production of "Singin' in the Rain" was never fixed until show doctors took it away from her. But don't count her out: She remains one of the most original choreographic voices on the planet. Tharp declined to be interviewed for this story. Matthew Bourne Onstage at London's Prince Edward Theatre, the entire cast of "Mary Poppins" is singing — and spelling out in some secret sign language — the ultimate Last Word from the 1964 Disney film. But this stage adaptation (now in its second year and opening on Broadway in November) isn't your nanny's "Mary Poppins." No, it manages to deliver the most beloved Sherman brothers songs from the film — creatively re-contextualized — while adding new ones by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe that help support episodes from P.L. Travers' original stories that Disney deemed too dark 42 years ago. The unlikely choreographer and co-director (with Richard Eyre) is none other than Matthew Bourne — the same Matthew Bourne who gave the world male swans in the decidedly provocative "Swan Lake" that won him two Tony Awards and returns to the Ahmanson Theatre on Wednesday in its 10th-anniversary production. He also turned Bizet's "Carmen" into "The Car Man," the story of a bisexual drifter who shakes up a small American town, and adapted Joseph Losey's 1963 film "The Servant" for an experimental class-conscious dance-drama titled "Play Without Words." True, Bourne has choreographed major productions of "Oliver!," "South Pacific" and "My Fair Lady" in his native England. But his role as co-director of "Mary Poppins" allowed him to enrich the project with the same offbeat humor and edge found in his alternately witty and powerful dance dramas. For instance, a nightmarish new scene and song ("Temper, Temper") puts the child-protagonists of the musical on trial for cruelty to their toys — an episode as pointed and scary as the Act 1 transformation scene in Bourne's gloriously untraditional "Nutcracker!" "I find the responsibility of directing and choreographing a musical pretty enormous," Bourne comments. "And there's not usually enough time to do it before you get it on the stage. Approaching 'Poppins,' we all knew that it's one of Disney's most valuable titles. And getting it wrong was not an option." While "Mary Poppins" packs the Prince Edward Theatre, Bourne's New Adventures company is touring England with "Edward Scissorhands," his all-dance adaptation of the 1990 Tim Burton film, using music by Danny Elfman (who composed the film score) and Terry Davies ("Play Without Words"). The show comes to the Ahmanson Theatre in early December. It may be Bourne's most endearing creation, with another soulful no-hands love duet à la "Swan Lake," a charming, inventive topiary ballet inspired by Frederick Ashton and lots of satiric depictions of suburbia. In many ways, it tells the same story as "Mary Poppins": a family and community changed, for better or worse, by a strange, unpredictable outsider. Bourne says he thinks of doing musicals as "a sideline" and New Adventures as the focus of his career. He credits the great musical theater choreographer-directors of the past as inspirations but doesn't identify with them. Instead, like Mary P. and Edward S., he considers himself an outsider, someone who started in British alternative modernism — not show dancing or even ballet. "I came from an odd route, really," he says, "and I feel that's been my saving grace. That strange beginning has helped me connect with more people." In a British dance scene where narrative works tend to be either backdated and balletic or politicized and aimed at a niche public, Bourne's dance dramas can seem unprecedented, especially their way of using well-known source materials (movies, ballet classics, opera) to draw people into a movement theater event so easily accessible and savvy about storytelling that they need no spoonful of sugar to make the medicine go down. Graciela Daniele Tucked behind the Metropolitan Opera House, on Lincoln Center's intimate Mitzi E. Newhouse stage, 10-time Tony nominee Graciela Daniele is directing and choreographing a musical adaptation of Federico García Lorca's classic study of maternal oppression, "The House of Bernarda Alba." The words and music by her longtime collaborator Michael John LaChiusa help restore the sense of poetry to Lorca's play, Daniele says. "In English, the beautiful poetry of Lorca goes out the window, it just doesn't translate very well. So the magnificent score and the lyrics brought the poetry back into the play. It allowed me to underscore what the characters felt inside, using the language of flamenco, the language of the place where Lorca wrote this play." As a director-choreographer, Daniele is best known for ambitious, unorthodox projects that try to expand the musical-theater idiom: the sprawling social history of "Ragtime," for example, and, most recently, the eventful personal-professional history of "Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life." Her range is amazing, from the hidden psychosexual tensions in a tango trio to the epic of American immigration and the evolution of our national culture. In "Bernarda Alba" (still in previews), her source is a play as revered by Spanish-speaking audiences as "Hamlet" is by Anglos. Featuring Phylicia Rashad in the title role, Daniele's production places a 10-member, all-female cast inside a stark, colorless, claustrophobic set and aims for an unsparingly intense style. At first glance, you might not spot her choreographic skills in anything but the impressionistic dance interludes. But a pervasive and sophisticated sense of rhythm unites the spoken, sung and danced components of the work. "Dance is a vocabulary, a language to tell a story," she explains. "It has a rhythm, and therefore when director-choreographers do a piece, even if it doesn't have music, even if it's just a play, they bring an innate sense of rhythm that makes the play fluid and perhaps a little more interesting than people who don't have that music inside their body." Daniele's staging of the ballad "Love, Let Me Sing You" is especially fluid, expanding from a solo to a shared expression of yearning among Alba's daughters. "I'm 66, and I started dancing when I was 6 years old," she says. "I haven't done anything except theater for 60 years. I don't mind doing commercial, light musicals because frankly that's what gives me the money and allows me to do more experimental work. But I want to keep growing, challenging myself, trying things I haven't done before." Susan Stroman If anyone dominates musical theater direction and choreography in the new millennium, it's Susan Stroman, winner of five Tonys and distinctive for the inventive use of props in her dances as well as her ability to build up excitement within a number and then shift gears rhythmically or with the addition of new performers and build it up all over again. (Tommy Tune was a master of that structural ploy before her.) Stroman's 11-minute staging of "I Got Rhythm" in "Crazy for You" displays both talents as well as her love for vintage show music. She's done her share of major revivals and adaptations as well as shows created from the ground up and accompanied by pop recordings. Moreover, she's worked for commercial producers as well as nonprofits and even choreographed for the Martha Graham company and New York City Ballet. She believes that financial constraints on Broadway have led to an emphasis on revivals — "Most producers are unwilling to take a chance with 12 or 13 million dollars" — but they've also forced performers to become more versatile: "The people who do musicals today can sing and dance and act," she says. "They are true triple threats. And that has also something to do with money. Because in the old days you could hire a chorus that just sang and a chorus that just danced. But now you are asked by the producers to cut down the number of actors, say 22 in a big musical, and those people have to do it all. So that's the way people are being trained." She acknowledges that she and her musical theater contemporaries are "standing on the shoulders" of the great Broadway director-choreographers of the past but insists that "the people who are working right now really do have their own ideas, styles and ways of working. And perhaps this period will be thought of in another way. "Listen, it would have been great to have been born in the time of Gershwin and Rodgers and Hammerstein and Berlin, to have worked with them, one on one. But no, I find that my generation is doing musicals for the audience that's out there now. "I think 'Contact' was a success because it had an accessibility about it; it was a contemporary piece that people identified with. 'The Producers' hit at a time when people needed to laugh. Sept. 11 happened shortly afterward, and 'The Producers' became a sort of sanctuary for people to go and forget their troubles as they did at the time of the Depression. "An audience wants something new. So I am working now as an artist inspired by the audience that's around me today." Who could ask for anything more? Lewis Segal is The Times' dance critic.


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New Zealand: New Zealand so far on the ODI series batted well. But the bowling was below par on the 2nd ODI which result them losing the match by 8 wickets even after defending a total of 260 runs. Kane Williamson, Ross Taylor, Brandon McCullum, Martin Guptill all seems to be in really good form. McCullum played some explosive innings in both the matches while Williamson and Taylor each came out with centuries in 1st and 2nd ODI matches. Guptill also contributed on the win on 1st ODI. They haven't yet needed the service of Nathan McCullum, James Franklin which shows the depth of the New Zealand batting lineup. Bowling has not been that much of trouble to the English batting lineup. Mitchell McClenaghan bowled extremely well in the 1st ODI to pick up 4 wickets. But he was wicketless on the 2nd ODI. James Franklin though haven't been that much successful with the bat so far but was quite successful with the ball picking up three wickets on the 1st One day match. Kyle Mills though picket up 2 wickets on 1st ODI went on to give away 43 runs in just 6.3 overs on the 2nd match without picking up any wicket. So the bowlers will have to fire up as well if they are to win the ODI series.
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Susan Wakefield, the chairwoman of ecumenical development for the Church Women United of Johnson County, said the idea of living peacefully together depends on having a cooperative perspective.
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I'm so glad you felt as moved as I did watching the slide show. The pictures taken from the top of the tower are just stunning. Also the candles in the snow. What could be more beautiful?
About volunteering to set out the candles at Antietam---
Last year, my first Luminary, I asked at the Visitors Center if they needed any help. The answer was that there is a waiting list of several years for the priviliege. This year some 1,200 volunteers worked all day, members of civic groups such as Sharpsburg Elementary School PTA, Boonsboro High School NHS, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Frederick County CW RT. You get the idea. (I copied those names from the printed program, not from memory.) First they set out the candles in those magnificent straight lines. Then, starting around 3:00, they begin lighting them. The spectators have to wait outside the park until the job is done.
Your sister in Frederick may be a member of one of the volunteer groups. Or knows someone who is. With that connection, you might be able to be a "volunteer" volunteer, slip in the side door. Last year I chatted for a moment with a volunteer from North Carolina who was visiting her sister, so yes, it can be done.
Wear warm clothes, it gets mighty cold out there on those open fields, especially if there is any breeze.
If you decide to come down from the Nutmeg State, let me know. Maybe I can link up with you and your sister, and we can all be surprised at what we really look like.
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Five years after he started collecting donations for needy families, Bobby Brunner is still going strong.
The York City activist, who founded Neighbors Helping Neighbors in 2009 after a fire displaced 61 families from their homes on Chestnut Street, will host two giveaways in May.
Brunner has regularly hosted giveaways for the past five years, but it's been a few months since he hosted a big one.
"I'm ready for it," he said.
Local businesses, educational institutions, other nonprofits and regular people give goods to Brunner, who collects and distributes them to the public.
For example, he's got trucks full of furniture donated by York College and local hotels.
Many of the group's benefactors continue to be fire victims, Brunner said.
The next giveaway open to the public is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. Saturday, May 10, in conjunction with a customer appreciation day hosted by several businesses in the 600 block of East Market Street.
Brunner said he'll have lots of children's toys and clothing to give away.
Then, on Saturday, May 17, Neighbors Helping Neighbors will be at the United Way, 800 E. King St. That giveaway will be held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Brunner said.
Brunner said he's looking for medical professionals to volunteer their services at the events.
And he's always looking for donations of goods that people can use.
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Rolling newsletter: Should the Stars have interest in Brad Boyes or Jiri Hudler?
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Q: Hi Mike!
In your most recent newsletter, you mentioned in passing Brad Boyes as one of the few top-end scorers available in free agency.
Obviously, Boyes is coming off one of his worst statistical seasons of his career, just 23 points in 65 games _ a far cry from the 43 goal season he put together with the Blues back in 2007-2008. When I see Brad Boyes, I see a guy in a similar situation as Michael Ryder was. He's lost in the system in Buffalo (much like how Ryder just could not succeed with the depth in Boston) and it has caused his performance to suffer. And since this is a business, it will have caused his value to go down.
He's coming off a $4 million paycheck for last season, and I wouldn't think it out of the realm to grab this guy for a similar contract to Michael Ryder.
In the blog I contribute to, Brad Boyes was chief among the potential free agents I noticed. Why take the chance to trade for a guy like Rick Nash when it will cost an arm and a leg, when there's a proven goal scorer still in his prime who's going to be sitting on the market come July 1st? With players like Foligno and Tropp well on their way to cracking the NHL for the Sabres, and with Boyes' gross under-performance, I'd be more than surprised, dare I say shocked, if Buffalo gave him another contract.
Just my two cents.
I think i'll be a champion for Brad Boyes until he's signed by the Dallas Stars or grabbed by another team. I see a low-risk, potentially top-six guy in Boyes, just like Ryder.
So what is your opinion on Brad Boyes as a target for the Dallas Stars?
(And because he just came to mind, but I don't feel like making you read another paragraph of statistics, how about Jiri Hudler if he decides to go for free agency? Much less likely than Boyes, though. Detroit might want to keep Hudler around).
Thanks for your time Mike,
Andrew M.
HEIKA: Hey Andrew,
I have always liked Brad Boyes, and my first reason is one that I tend to believe in for every player _ he was an exceptional playoff performer in his early career. If you look at guys who raised their game at the lower level, you will see a history of pretty good NHL players. It's not always true, but it shows a drive to want to be the best when the games are most important.
I believe Boyes has that in his history.
The problem now is that this is an area where most people criticize him. Blues fans tired of his seeming lack of intensity. Sabres fans felt he was just "meh." I agree with you that the Sabres did not use him well. They had him in the bottom six a lot and didn't really showcase him on the power play, and that's not the way to get the most out of Boyes.
But that leads to the question of whether the Stars can use him in a way that they could get the most out of him. If the Stars feel they need a change at the top and move Mike Ribeiro, Brenden Morrow or both, then Boyes would be a great alternative. I emphasize that I have no inside info that the Stars would move either Morrow or Ribeiro (or that they can), only that if they are looking for a shakeup, those two would be candidates. The moves would be made with the thought that a change of scenery would be good for everyone. You would likely see jumps for Morrow and Ribeiro with fresh starts, and you would definitely get the best from Boyes, because (like you said with Ryder) he is hungry for big minutes and a lot of responsibility.
So, in that scenario, this move would make a ton of sense. Boyes made $4 million last season in Buffalo, but will probably not get anywhere close to that as a UFA after posting 8 goals and 15 assists for 23 points in 65 games (like you said). But he just turned 30, and he probably has great value for the next team that takes him. Plus, he would probably be willing to sign a one- or two-year deal like Ryder.
Boyes is right-handed and can play center, which would give you a right-handed faceoff man, which is needed. However, he is a 47 percent faceoff guy in his career and is trending down. Again, with the right coaching and a boost in motivation, those numbers could probably be resurrected.
The problem I have is keeping all of your top six forwards and then simply adding Boyes. If that's the case, I'm not that excited. I really think the Stars need to leave an opening for one and maybe two of the top six to come from within. I think players like Matt Fraser, Alex Chiasson, Reilly Smith, Austin Smith and Scott Glennie deserve a real opportunity to play important minutes in the NHL. Tons of other teams are putting kids in key positions and living with the warts. It's time for the Stars to do the same thing.
I like Boyes, and I think he could be a great add if the Stars are making drastic changes. But if the choice is between Boyes and one of the kids in Austin (or a rotation of the kids in Austin), then I'll take the latter.
But I do believe you're right that Boyes can be a good player in the right situation with the right motivation.
As for Hudler, he's fine, but I think Detroit gets the most out of him. I fear he would be like Daniel Cleary on another team _ just another guy.


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That calm has not extended to Gaza, which is run by the militant Islamic Hamas movement. As Obama began his program Thursday, Israeli police said militants in Gaza had fired two rockets at the southern town of Sderot.
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According to the Tennessee Highway Patrol, 21 year-old Isaiah Bradley Thompson was driving in the southbound lane of highway 321 heading northbound.
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|Lipids are important structural components of cell membranes and have profound effect on membrane fluidity. Lipid profiling and lipidomics have captured increased attention due to the well-recognized roles of lipids in numerous human diseases. Investigating lipid profiles not only provides insights into the specific roles of lipid molecular species in health and diseases, but can also help in identifying potential preventive or therapeutic biomarkers. Cataract, the loss of transparency of eye lens, is a disease of protein aggregation. There are several factors contributing to the stability in protein conformation. Age-related changes in lipid composition could be a contributing factor for altered protein-lipid interaction leading to protein aggregation and cataract. Keeping this in view, in the present study, fatty acid profiling from different age groups of lenses was carried out, using a freshwater catfish as the model. Total lipids were extracted from lenses of three different age groups of fishes (young, adult, and aged) and fatty acid methyl esters (FAME) were prepared and FAME analysis was carried out using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. The results showed that three fatty acids viz. heneicosylic acid (C21), docosahexaenoic acid (C22:6), nervonic acid (C24:1) which were not present in the adult lens, appeared in the aged lens. On the other hand, eicosenoic acid (C20:1) present in the adult lens was found to be absent in the aged lens. The appearance or disappearance of these fatty acids can possibly serve as biomarkers of aging lens which is the most vulnerable stage for cataract development.
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But the angel said to them,
"Do not be afraid; for behold,
I bring you good news of great joy
which will be for all the people; Luke 2:10
Joy to the world! the Lord is come;
Let earth receive her King.
Let ev'ry heart prepare Him room,
And heav'n and nature sing,
And heav'n and nature sing,
And heav'n and heav'n and nature sing.
2 Joy to the earth! the Savior reigns;
Let men their songs employ;
While fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains
Repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat, repeat the sounding joy.
3 No more let sins and sorrows grow,
Nor thorns infest the ground;
He comes to make His blessings flow
Far as the curse is found,
Far as the curse is found,
Far as, far as the curse is found.
4 He rules the world with truth and grace,
And makes the nations prove
The glories of His righteousness,
And wonders of His love,
And wonders of His love,
And wonders, and wonders of His love
The Lord has made known His salvation;
He has revealed His righteousness
in the sight of the nations. Psalm 98:2
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There are at least three notable, semi-recent films wherein kids who haven't even hit puberty enter the work force as hard-scrabble, selfish monsters, thus putting decent humanity to shame. Ursula Meier's Sister is the latest, but the trend began even before the Economic Catastrofuck, with Ramin Bahrani's 2007 Iron Triangle-set Chop Shop. The other is Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's The Kid With the Bike, whose gamine takes up with local dealers. If Sister can't be written off as a direct Kid ripoff—only a year separates the two films' Cannes debuts—it at least feels impossible without the Dardennes in general. That's a mild shame. Meier's previous film, one of the roughly 20,000 films entitled Home, was a surreal ditty that distinguished itself with a bold voice. Sister is Dardenne-lite, which is fine: Being reminiscent of two of cinema's most reliable makers isn't the worst quality to have.
Meier's own young pup is Simon (Kacey Mottet Klein), an adolescent stationed in a Swiss Alps resort, stealing skiing supplies from the rich and selling it back to them. His is not a brilliant operation: He lives hand-to-mouth, helping to buttress the meager salary of Louise (Léa Seydoux, expanding her limited arsenal of emotions once again), his guardian and sister—or so we're told (hint, hint). Like Home, Sister turns on a twist, but where the previous one shocked Home into a different tone entirely, the one here, though more galling, fails to send the film too off course. Sister traces the klepto, increasingly self-destructive Simon as he alienates his three parental surrogates, the others being a British cook at the resort (Martin Compston) and a wealthy tourist (Gillian Anderson).
Though what transpires is clearly Dardennes-indebted, it's worth noting that Meier deviates in two key ways. Unlike them, Meier isn't interested in making a "moral tale." Sister is more a portrait than well-chiseled drama, and one lacking the rough, naturalistic handheld that immediately identifies the Dardennes' work as their own. Cinematographer Agnès Godard, best known as Claire Denis' co-conspirator, makes imagery primary. Despite working in digital for the first time, she always ensures there's something interesting going on visually, even if it's little more than the unusual angle at which a ski lift crosses the frame.
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Blueblood entitlement's on the dinner menu in "The Riot Club"
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"An Honest Liar" tackles truths, lies and consequences
Camera work in "'71" deserves same praise as its star
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