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By Hajer Naili
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Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Since the U.S. invasion of Iraq thousands of women and girls have been trafficked for sexual exploitation, finds a report published today by the London-based Social Change Through Education in the Middle East.
Domestic violence, rape and other forms of gender-based violence have become a common practice among the internally displaced persons in Iraq and the large refugee communities in Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and other countries of the Middle East, according to the report.
Iraqi women's vulnerability to trafficking began after the Gulf War in 1991 and the economic sanctions against Saddam Hussein's Baath regime, the study says. In the preceding two decades--from 1979 to 1991--Saddam's regime appeared to foster women's civil participation. Girls were allowed to attend school, which narrowed the literacy gap and provided women more access to high-ranking jobs in government agencies and ministries.
Divorce laws were liberalized, giving women more leeway to exit marriages. In 1980 women gained the right to vote and run for political office.
Two major exceptions to these liberalizations were Iraqi women from Shia Muslim and Kurdish communities who were subject to religious discrimination and highly vulnerable to rape by Saddam Hussein's militias and military personnel, or to being trafficked into Iran, Turkey, Egypt and Sudan, according to a 2010 study from the Norwegian Church Aid quoted by the study.
The 1991 Gulf War led to tough economic sanctions by the international community designed to overthrow Saddam's Baath Party. That brought the country's economy to its knees. Employed women were dismissed from their jobs, freedoms were restricted and girls' school attendance dropped.
These restrictions worsened the exploitation of women in the workplace and led to an alarming increase in prostitution. "A huge number of widowed and single mothers, facing either no income or a monthly salary of just a few dollars, were forced into prostitution to merely survive," the study finds.
Facing financial difficulties, some families pushed daughters into prostitution, sold them to traffickers or forced them into marriage.
Authors tell the story on one young woman, Amira, whose " family was facing financial problems, when a man came to her father with an offer to hire Amira for $200 a month in order to help take care of his wife, who was handicapped. The impoverished family agreed with this tempting offer, but Amira, 17 years old, had no idea what was in store for her. Her work was not restricted to only housework; she had to have sexual intercourse with the son, and friends of, the man who hired her."
Confronted with this lack of security and the absence of punishment for such crimes, the report finds women and girls often confining themselves to their homes out of fear of being raped or kidnapped.
"We are all afraid and I cannot go alone anywhere. Even my older daughters, I fear for them. This is not a normal life we are living anymore," authors quoted a pharmacist in Bagdad.
Professional traffickers are very often women involved in the sex industry, authors say. These traffickers target girls and young women--often in cities or public transportation systems--who have often fled their homes out of fear of abuse, forced marriage or the threat of honor crimes. The traffickers pretend to provide assistance, offering to take the girls to shelters that turn out to be brothels. In other cases, male solicitors and taxi drivers are recruited by trafficking gangs to lure vulnerable young girls.
The report also explores the rise of Syria s mut'a marriages, known also as temporary marriages, which can be allowed among some Shia communities. The practice, with varying degrees of social acceptability, can be abused for trafficking purposes so that a girl or woman is married off on a Friday for an agreed price, and on the following Sunday the couple is divorced.
Research suggests that "the rates at which these mut'a marriages are carried out intensifies in the summer when male tourists visit Syria from the Gulf." Similar practices have also been observed in Lebanon.
Salma, for instance, was forced by her father into a mut'a marriage with her cousin at age 15. After 48 hours, after sexually exploiting her, he abandoned her. Her father refused to take her back. Instead he decided to take her to Syria to find her mother. At the border, her father left, selling her to a stranger who subjected her to a series of rapes and forced her into sex work in a Damascus nightclub for two years. Upon becoming pregnant, she was turned over to the streets of Damascus.
"Although this particular kind of marriage is not explicitly called prostitution, it is in effect sexual exploitation, often forced, as means of either securing livelihood, or generating profit." the report says.
Traffickers tend to target the youngest girls and women, for whom they can get the highest prices. "For virgin girls, the sale price can reach thousands of dollars and in some devastating cases; girls are obliged by their traffickers to undertake painful and dangerous hymen operations in order that they might be re-sold again as virgins."
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Submitted by Janet (4 years ago)
More reading on this topic: Toni Morrison writes of centuries later, black American women are still struggling to teach their children, and especially their girl children to be strong and to feel good about themselves, to know of their African culture, to be proud to be African women, all in a dominant culture that still works against them; that is how long it takes to recover from the horrendous ravages of slavery, including sexual slavery. Andrea O'Reilly's Rocking the Cradle discusses Toni Morrison's ideas of African mothering to show how important Morrison's work is to understanding mothering and grandmothering for any disadvantaged group. O'Reilly's book begins with her own (white) experiences in attempting to be a mother while beginning an academic career, and how many road-blocks she found. She found support in Toni Morrison's ideas for mothering. Her section on African American mothers and grandmothers discussing Toni Morrison's ideas on how slavery still haunts and needs to inform their everyday, all year long, mothering and grandmothering. The attempts to cut off their heritage, and their attempts to keep, revive and teach these is a lesson for everyone today in our apparently global world where only newness matters. Andrea's attempts to strongly be a mother while not sacrificing education and work plans, and all the existing 'ways' that tried to mitigate against that. How does that relate to sex trafficking? In normal times, it is difficult for women to be mothers and have a life outside their homes. If you are trafficked as a teen, the chances of you becoming pregnant are great. When you become a mother, you are useless, and now have no resources and no where to go, no culture to stand by you at all. When this is as frequent as it is today, the mothering side of cultural transmission is cut off, killed; thus, the culture is effectively dead in that area and where the trafficked women are, and is so, possibly for centuries. This is an epidemic that needs to be stopped.
Submitted by Janet (4 years ago)
This is abject slavery! Girls and women, formerly while with no life outside of home, were at least almost revered at home. This is one of the worst examples of effects of war, especially a lop-sided war, where the invaders are a wealthy nation that allows contractors and military a kind of freedom that shows complete lack of respect for the nation they have invaded. Life for these women and girls is undoubtedly worse than before that war. This has established a culture that has destroyed the strengths of the existing culture, while not replacing them with a true respect for one another that would enable the development of a true democracy that includes women. Read Kathy Bolcovac's "The Whistleblower" about this problem in Bosnia. It is a very difficult problem to stop once begun, and the United Nations is not yet doing its part to stop it.
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[Journals]: Salmon forced to "sprint" less likely to survive migration
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Sockeye salmon that sprint to spawning grounds through fast-moving waters may be at risk, suggests new research by University of British Columbia scientists.
When salmon encounter turbulent, fast-moving water—such as rapids or areas downstream of dams—they must move upstream using a behavior known as "burst swimming" that is similar to sprinting for humans.
"Days after sockeye passed through extremely fast-moving water, we started to see fish dying only a short distance from their spawning grounds," said Nicholas Burnett, a research biologist at UBC and lead author of the study, published today in Physiology and Biochemical Zoology.
|Previous UBC lab research found that burst swimming requires extra oxygen and energy, creates a buildup of stress metabolites like lactic acid in the blood, and may lead to cardiac collapse or heart attacks. This is the first study to show that excessive burst swimming can impair wild salmon and cause death later on in their migration. This phenomenon is known as "delayed mortality."
Researchers found that fish that chose to burst swim for long periods through the high flows downstream of a dam were more likely to die en route to their spawning grounds, after they passed through the fast flows, than those that chose to swim a bit slower. Burst swimming had a greater impact on female fish, supporting this group's research that shows female salmon are more sensitive to environmental hardships during migration.
"We now understand how this important but energetically costly swimming behavior can impact the survival of sockeye during their upstream migration," said Burnett, who worked on this study as part of his master's research with UBC Professor Scott Hinch and Carleton University Professor Steven Cooke.
"Our work demonstrates how important it is for salmon to have easy access around obstacles in the river."
Researchers tagged fish with accelerometer transmitters, a new tracking technology that records how fast fish swim and how much oxygen they consume.
Tagged fish were released in the high flows downstream of a dam in southwestern British Columbia and tracked as they navigated through a fishway and two lakes to their spawning grounds.
N. J. Burnett, S. G. Hinch, D. C. Braun, M. T. Casselman, C. T. Middleton, S. M. Wilson, and S. J. Cooke, "Burst Swimming in Areas of High Flow: Delayed Consequences of Anaerobiosis in Wild Adult Sockeye Salmon," Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 87(5), September/October 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/677219
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This point struck home to me and perhaps I'm trying to grab a big chunk of the market instead of defining myself and picking out a work-able niche for me.One of the reasons Jose Villa uses film is that the workflow is efficient. It moves a lot of work off his shoulders and onto the lab's shoulders.
Other successful shooters use strobes, even studio strobes, to light an entire ballroom if that's what it takes.
The point I'm trying to make here is that all the highly successful shooters have all designed products for the markets they wanted to serve and found films/tools/methods that fit that are very reliable and repeatable and well defined to fit that very specific market, they did not design their products around the afternoon sun; their market was probably already having weddings there.
I really like the way Jeff Ascough takes images, and I find I like a lot of B&W. And much like London, Vancouver gets a lot of grey days and rain... hence the necessity for higher speed ISOs. I could probably get away with TMAX 400 underexposed at 800, then Ilford Delta 3200 for further... color... well, I'll have to figure that part out.
Still a work in progress!
Yar. I think even my digital gets confused by this lighting. May be best to just stick to B&W for indoors for the most part, or color-corrected digital.If you were getting green, that's most likely not from tungsten lighting but from fluorescents. Not that that fixes your problem...
Btw, I did have a chance to shoot 800Z and it's some great film. I shot an expired roll (2006!!) at 400 ISO and got great results! However, ASA 400 is pretty difficult for natural light in some of the darker areas I shoot.


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And the original point being refuted by myself and others, which you had previously defended, was...
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(I guess the fact that his character was based on the story of Jesus has to do partly with that
There's a big difference between saying that the character was
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Hmm. Quite right. I don't have access to the creators intentions, and as I've never cared for the character I've never bothered with his backstory, but if you say the authors intended their character to be a meld of Moses and Herakles, then I must assume that is correct. Still, no reason to prize authorial intention; there is also a difference between what they deliberately set out to create and what they actually created, and this is where the overbearing cultural influences come in: a character ready-made to become messianic.
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Prague city breaks are not complete without a visit to the many concerts and excellent restaurants in and around the streets of the old city. The romantic city of Prague is situated in the heart of Europe and steeped in history with many monuments paying tribute to the city's past. Prague is a maze of cobbled lanes and churches leading to the fairytale castle towering on the hillside overlooking the city where a cosmopolitan present and a historic past blend perfectly.
The Czech Capital, often known as 'Golden Prague' due to the glittering art and architecture throughout the city, is a popular tourist destination. Stroll over the famous bridges arching across the water of the Vltava River, the city's backbone or admire its most important sites and marvel at the medieval quarters on both banks of the river.
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I'm increasing the rating of this tea since my first try. I've tried this tea with boiling water and water at around 195-200 degrees. I'm liking the boiled version better. No matter how long I steep it, though, I do get a very drying sensation in my mouth from the black tea (From 3 minutes to 3 & 1/2 to 4). I don't sense any kind of creamy texture or taste. I wish I did! How is everyone else getting this rich creaminess?
The vanilla tastes like it's of good quality and adds a nice sweetness, but it's the tea base that confuses me. It's almost thin with a kind of coppery tinge. I really don't know if I should buy a tin of this (even though I don't love it) because I love that it's decaffeinated — black tea at night! [ Any suggestions for awesome flavored desserty decaf teas are welcome! ]
It's a very smooth black tea, especially for Adagio (I've always found their tea to be a bit bitter and drying). The blackberry taste is definitely present. I don't know if I would be able to identify it as blackberry, but it blends with the black tea base very well. The vanilla is detectable in the smoothness of the sip. I can't really taste it otherwise. There is a tiny bit of astringency which adds a nice tartness to the blackberry note. I wonder what a little splash of milk will do to the flavors. Overall, a very fun tea! I might be popping this in my shopping cart in my next Adagio order. Thank you so much, SimplyJenW for a sample.
I was so excited to see this tea in honor of the Royal Wedding. I'm such a sucker for anything limited edition or a product produced especially for an event. I'm usually not a white tea drinker as I prefer black tea and rooibos blends. This tea has a sweetness that lingers on the tongue long after you've finished the cup. I can't really detect the vanilla or coconut as separate notes, but just a general sweetness. There is also a floral note in the background (not exclusively rosebuds) that blends well with the white tea flavor. Although it's not my favorite, I might have to purchase more of it just because it is delicately tasty and rather different.
This is an interesting tea. I usually don't like plain black tea.. I enjoy black tea that has a pop of vanilla or caramel. Drinking it plain, I kept expecting a bitter or sharper taste, but it's very smooth! I'm tasting mostly a smoky note and I have to say that I don't like smoky teas (perhaps I would if I found a smoky AND creamy, sweet blend). The finish isn't entirely smoke which makes it drinkable. Overall, this is a solid and bold black tea. Normally I don't drink my tea with milk or sugar/sweetener, but I think it might be interesting to experiment.
The scent right out of the pouch is very fruity and very strong. The flavor is a bit difficult to describe. It's fruity and with a little bit of something that tastes like sage. This flavor makes the tea more savory instead of sweet. The finish gives me that interesting fizzy sensation, like I've had a sip of soda. I think that this would be so much better iced, but even then I don't think I'd go crazy for it. Thank you Ottawa Tea for a sample!
I came home from work today and I felt like I needed a cup of tea. I made a bit of Harney & Son's Tower of London Blend (Review on that one later) and then felt like having another. This tea smelled like strong wheat – very rich, roasted and hearty grains. The taste isn't very different from the smell. It's a starchy kind of tea with a whole bunch of toasty flavor. What I dislike is that there is very little dimension to the tea. It's just relatively flat.. toasty, almost like bread.. but not the good kind. I think this would be good if you paired it with some kind of food. On its own, I'm not impressed and a bit underwhelmed. Soba Cha isn't necessarily BAD, it's just uneventful for me.
I agree this is the kind of tea that tastes best when accompanied by food. I've had it many times at Korean restaurants, and it goes well with kimchi and spicy noodles, but I'm not sure if I'd want to drink it by itself. I didn't know Harney's made a version of it…interesting!
It's too late for black tea right now (I've got to get up early tomorrow morning) and I don't want to drink my last bag of Caramel Creme Rooibos. Banana Dulce it is! This isn't my first time drinking this tea. I've had it a few times and must say that I didn't LOVE it right from the start. I messed around with the steep time and for me, around three minutes is best.
Very Long (and unnecessary) Nap: Check.
Pancakes for Dinner: Check.
A Hot Cup of Tea: Check.
I don't do backflips for chamomile, but this blend is very enjoyable for me. The tiny flowers are cute and there are actual shreds of coconut, pieces of (kinda-soft) banana, something that looks like banana dusted in graham cracker, very small bits of rooibos and longer strands of lemongrass.
The taste is comforting. The chamomile flowers give you that VERY distinct chamomile taste, but it's enhanced by the coconut and banana. I'm not sure if the coconut and banana are really strong, but weave themselves softly with the chamomile. My tongue doesn't get a trace of rooibos, to be honest. I'm also not getting a ton of lavender or lemongrass. Strangely, when I sip.. I sense that everything is there, though. It feels FULL – like I've eaten a sachet kept in a sock drawer (without getting the individual components).
No, I don't feel like I've been taken away to a tropical beach nor do I feel like I've eaten a hefty dessert. It's a very different and interesting tea. Floral? Yes. Slightly sweet? Yes. Dessert-like? Not really. Bizarre? You betcha. I'm not scared away by this tea and I might have another cup when I finish writing this tasting note. I really can't put my finger on what this tea is, but it's quite nice for tonight.
This tea looks like creme brûlée from DavidsTea. I love the rooibos and the bright petals. The tea is sweet with that distinct amaretto flavor and a nice bit of peach and apricot (I can't tell the difference between the two), but the fruit portion is quite juicy! This is a great combination. The tea is very rich and actually makes me wonder if I had eaten a very large dessert. Yum! I am not sure if this will be a purchase for me only because I find it slightly similar to the creme brûlée (richness-wise) and I like that one a bit more. I am so glad to have tried this, though. This is a great treat! Thank you so much, Ottawa Tea!
It's rainy today and rain always has me craving tea. Wait, I always crave tea.. but it seems more appropriate to sip on a cup while it's raining. Instead of going for something flavored (the kind of tea I typically drink) — I was in the mood for something a bit different. These leaves are long and wiry. I definitely struggled trying to measure the leaves in my little spoon. The color of the tea wasn't that pretty, in my opinion. It was a dirty yellow, not bright or clean looking like some other oolongs. I'm not sure what I was expecting from this appearance.. maybe something not so great? I was really surprised after the first few sips.The flavor is definitely that familiar oolong taste (no fruit, unfortunately) with a nice honey finish. I've never actually gotten a honey taste from a tea before, so I'm quite glad that I was able to experience this. The honey finish is what bumps this tea up. It lingers in the mouth leaving you wanting more. Quite delicious! I saved the leaves and think I'll treat myself to another steep. Thanks to TeaEqualsBliss for this good cup!
Maybe it's because I'm in the mood for a tart, fruity tea, but this tea is very fitting for this rainy evening. I love the bright lemon flavors! The beginning of the sip is a little bland, but the tart finish is rather enjoyable. It's not a jaw-dropping tea, but I'm very pleased with it tonight. Thanks, TeaEqualsBliss!


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I'm tasked with taking about 50 old VB6 functions and subroutines and translating them to C#. They're all pretty straightforward and I find that the majority of the work is manual editing - taking an expression like
Dim rtb As Integer
and typing
int rtb = 0;
It occurred to me that there might be some way to automate this using Regular Expressions in Visual Studio's Quick Replace dialog. The idea would be to replace all instances of the first expression, where "rtb' would be some sort of wildcard, with the second expression inserting that wildcard value in indicated spot. But I don't know regex very well so it wasn't obvious to me.
Could someone please tell me if this is do-able and indicate the correct syntax for Visual Studio's version of regex?
Edit: I tried two online converters, Telerik and DeveloperFusion. I pasted in
Dim FF As Integer
Dim rc As Variant
Dim rtb As Integer
and in both cases got the same error: -- line 1 col 1: EOF expected
Interestingly, if I manually type the code in they seem to work fine. I tried pasting from Visual Basic, Visual Studio and from Notepad. I tried adding leading or trailing spaces and adding a leading crlf with no effect except that the indicated line and column were always the first non-blank line.


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The Good Dinosaur
A film that has some promising elements and which often seems as if it is on the verge of evolving into something wonderful but never…
A film that has some promising elements and which often seems as if it is on the verge of evolving into something wonderful but never…
The Danish Girl lacks an immediacy and vibrancy, as well as a genuine sense of emotional connection.
"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens…
Patrice Leconte's "Monsieur Hire" is a tragedy about loneliness and erotomania, told about two solitary people who have nothing else in common. It involves a…
A report from the 2015 Los Cabos International Film Festival.
An AFI Fest 2015 report on "The Big Short" and the Q&A that followed with the filmmakers and stars.
Matt Zoller Seitz reviews and reflects upon Jesse Eisenberg's New Yorker piece about film critics.
An article about Spike Lee's Honorary Oscar at the 2015 AMPAS Governors Awards.
FFC Jana Monji on the multi-platform, three-day broadcast event Big Blue Live.
FFC Jana Monji on the specific cultural details within "The Assassin."
A report on the press conference for Spike Lee's "Chi-Raq."
A review of Kliph Nesteroff's book "The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels and the History of American Comedy."
* This filmography is not intended to be a comprehensive list of this artist's work. Instead it reflects the films this person has been involved with that have been reviewed on this site.
Nighthawks at the cinema; Rebecca Parrish on "Radical Grace"; Suicide harder to read than murder; John Carpenter on "Vampires"; "Sicario" not yet a reality.
A video interview with "Sicario" stars Benicio Del Toro, Emily Blunt and Josh Brolin.
A report on the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's upcoming grants banquet on August 13th.
The movie questionnaire and 2015 reviews of RogerEbert.com editor Brian Tallerico.
A Cannes report on new films by Denis Villenueve and Zhang-ke Jia.
Ben Kenigsberg goes looking for alternative fare at Cannes—and finds Hollywood wannabes.
Lists from our critics and contributors on the best of 2014.
Rocket Raccoon makes a comeback; Why Some Movies Shouldn't Be Explained; Fear of a Minority Superhero; Christian Indies of 2014; Profane response to net neutrality.
Hollywood is actually regressing on Latino issues. As the industry continues to make progress in its depiction of black America, what we need now is a Spanish Harlem Renaissance.
Marie writes: Now this is really neat. It made TIME's top 25 best blogs for 2012 and with good reason. Behold artist and photographer Gustaf Mantel's Tumblr blog "If we don't, remember me" - a collection of animated GIFs based on classic films. Only part of the image moves and in a single loop; they're sometimes called cinemagraphs. The results can be surprisingly moving. They also can't be embedded so you have to watch them on his blog. I already picked my favorite. :-)
After duds "Jimmy P." and "Grand Central," the Coen brothers' "Inside Llewyn Davis" saves the day for Barbara Scharres.
Dedicated to all those who lost family members prematurely, and to two students -- one struggling with addiction, and the other who lost her father.
This is grief. The silence that comes with a loved one's death is like no normal silence. It is in our culture that we respond to this stillness with stillness upon stillness. We try to think of death as that leap into some great beyond, perhaps finally letting our loved one's fluorescent inner radiance free. In the process, those loved ones take with them the air from within our lungs. So, in coping, we respond to their perceived new freedom by restricting ourselves with strict boundaries. And, as we cope with loss, we find relief in reunions. Time begins to jump around as we sit in the moment in front of us, leaping between moments in the past, frightened by the cloud in the future. The reunions open old happy memories that help turn that searing, salty burn of the tears into a blankety warmth. But, in our culture, the reunions often end quickly, leaving us alone in the darkness, unable to sleep. This is grief. And, this is what I observed in the first half hour of Susanne Bier's soft-spoken "Things we Lost in the Fire" (2007).
Marie writes: Next door, across a long narrow drive and beyond the row of cedar hedges which run parallel to it, there resides an elementary school dating back to 1965, along with an assortment of newer playground equipment rendered in bright, solid primary colors...I'm sure you know the sort I mean...
This prickly film haunts me. I am now older than James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Jimi Hendrix, and Malcolm X. I am at that age where the infinite world of my childhood bedroom is now replaced by a complicated mass of interwoven needs, wants, and concerns. The soundtrack of my youth is a summer of wind blowing through fragile leaves, with katydids buzzing along. The rattling taps of rain on our roof has now given way to the plastic clicking of this keyboard and various other mechanical monsters. Under it all is an ongoing hiss of noise. I also sometimes fall into that trap of looking at today through the telescope of an idealized yesterday; that outlook is a slick valley that is difficult to climb out of and easy to slide back into. Jack Nicholson in Sean Penn's"The Pledge" (2001) is likewise watching the world change. More than that, he is watching his world slip away from him.
Yes, but is it Art? Marcell Duchamp's famous "Fountain" aka urinal
Have you ever been hit so hard that you've been left in a permanent daze? I'm speaking of a defining event that, in a matter of moments, changes everything for you, permanently. Maybe it's a collision. Maybe a life event like a tragedy or a divorce. You're at the epicenter of the calamity. The destruction hits you right between the eyes. And while you make sense of what hit you, if you ever do, your loved ones bear the brunt of the hurricane that you become. Like a set of ripples, it realigns everything you do. Peter Weir's "Fearless" 1993 shows us the effect of a plane crash, and tells us that when we get hit with such cataclysms, no single way resolves the trauma.
The Grand Poobah writes: I saw this stag in the Michigan woods near our country place, where I am still working on my memoir. (click to enlarge)
Something strange happened to me while watching the recent Benicio del Toro movie "The Wolfman." I suddenly realized I wasn't being scared in the very least. Nada. Like Dr. Chilton once said referring to Hannibal Lecter in "Silence of the Lambs" "my pulse never got above 80".
Despite the movie's constant and frantic attempts to scare the audience with surprising and loud growls, with beheadings and half-eaten corpses, nothing worked, I've a hard time understanding why.
Is it my attitude towards the genre?
Q. You wrote: "It's like the dilemma of the 10 hot dogs and eight buns: You can never come out even at the end." Well, of course you can come out even: Four packs of wienies and five packs of buns yields 40 hot dogs.
At MSN Movies, Richard T. Jameson and Kathleen Murphy continue their tradition of conjuring indelible cinematic moments of the previous year -- made all the more indelible by their luminous descriptions of them. A few samples, from some terrific movies, and some not-so-terrific ones:
• In "The Edge of Heaven," a brown ribbon of road glowing under the last shrinking patch of blue in a lowering, end-of-day sky ...
• "In Bruges": The twinkle and the glower: First views of the "Belgian s---hole" by, respectively, Ken (Brendan Gleeson) and Ray (Colin Farrell) ...
• In "Revolutionary Road," April stands in milky light with her back to us, gazing out her picture window as blood pools at her feet. Hats off to Douglas Sirk . ...
• As a hospital explodes in the background, a nurse sporting an obscene mask of white, black and red greasepaint totters in the street, gazing into the camera as though daring us not to get off on the way the Joker plays in "The Dark Knight" ...
• "I was a guard!" -- the courtroom profession that instantly defines the literal and moral limits of Hanna Schmitz's (Kate Winslet) imagination, and perhaps a nation's, in "The Reader" ...
• In "Che," the most romanticized revolutionary ever (Benicio Del Toro) staggers up a steep wooded hillside, wheezing with asthma. ...
• A scene of pastoral skinny-dipping suddenly turns cold and black with the threat of death, and in "Tell No One," nothing afterward is as it seems. ...
• Wendy (the superb Michelle Williams) gazes helplessly from the backseat of a cop car as her tethered golden Lab recedes from view -- the first in a cascade of losses in "Wendy and Lucy."...
• "The Happening": Mark Wahlberg delivering a monologue to a houseplant, just in case ...
• "Let the Right One In": At snowy evening, a man making his way home passes out of a tunnel, and the dark little creature Eli drops on him as if from above the screen itself. ...
• "Burn After Reading": Chad Feldheimer's last grin (Brad Pitt, sublime) ...
Many more here.
Care to contribute some of your favorite movie-moments from the past year?
"The war is over. The revolution has just begun." -- Che Guevara (Benicio Del Toro), after Cuban guerillas have overthrown Batista's dictatorial regime on New Year's Day, 1959, in "Che"
Even without titles or credits, the running time of the gorgeous digital print of Steven Soderberg's "Che" that screened at the Toronto Film Festival was listed as 261minutes (that's four hours and 21 minutes for those of you without calculators). The working title for the epic was "Guerilla," then "Che," and despite Benicio Del Toro's fully-lived performance as Che Guevara, a more suitable title might be "Revolutions." Because this doesn't feel so much like a biopic as a documentary portrait of the recipes for political revolutions, successful and failed, in Cuba and Bolivia. The titles may rhyme, but nobody's going to mistake "Che" for "Ray."
Director Laurent Cantet accepts the Palme d'Or, surrounded by his cast.
For the first time in 21 years, a French film has taken the top prize at the Cannes film festival, and in a rarity for Cannes, the Palme d'Or was awarded unanimously. The prize could have easily been named "The Golden Apple" rather than the The Golden Palm since it went to "The Class" ("Entre Les Murs"), the Laurent Cantet film about a young teacher who tries to reach his class of primarily immigrant children in a school on the outskirts of Paris. Confronted with their apathy and sometimes outright hostility, he questions them in a Socratic fashion until they begin to ask themselves if perhaps an education might be relevant to them. This film moved me to tears and so of course I thought that, in the grand tradition of Cannes, it had no chance of winning the top prize.
View image De Niro in "Casino." Las Vegas is a Hollywood movie.
From my piece on Sin City in the Movies at MSN Movies: The world has other gambling meccas -- Monte Carlo, Atlantic City, Reno -- but none as storied or mythologized as Las Vegas, an American dream-zone strategically located in the arid wasteland between Hoover Dam and Hollywood. The neon oasis is a concrete mirage: The closer you get, the more real the place becomes, but when you reach out to grab it, it slips through your fingers anyway. A surreal amalgamation of landmarks historical and imagined (Egypt, New York, Camelot), it rises out of shimmering heat and dust, a dazzling C.B. DeMille monument to profligate waste and the proposition that anything can be purchased or accomplished for a price.
Vegas is a Hollywood movie made corporeal, a surreal experience built on sand, powered by electricity, riches and promises of desires fulfilled. The electricity comes from the dam, the money comes from the odds that always favor the house, the desires come from the human heart (as well as a bit lower and to the right). But how sinful can sin be in a place called Sin City, where everything sinful in the outside world is overtly or tacitly permitted?
UPDATED 10/16: Here are brief reviews of all the Chicago Film Festival movies we have seen, in alphabetical order, written by Bill Stamets and Roger Ebert. More will be added as we view them. For a full CIFF schedule, go to www.chicagofilmfestival.com or call (312) 332-FILM.


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Really?/ You are delusional! You don't know what real games are. The Great games NEVER come to any Apple platform. Do you think you are going to play Guild Wars 2 on an ipad? Dream on! How about any New games...? Nope! Real Games are reserved for XBox and PC's. Apple is again left in the ditch. Puny app games? Might as well play FREE online games... but wait... That takes Flash! Apple does not like Flash! You do not know what REAL games are. You are just playing CHEAP apps, which are NOT real GAMES. Get a Clue!
Right on Skippy! Cheese Dickety games ARE Apple Forte! If they had to play real games that require some skill, well, they would NOT download any crappy apps disguised as games. Apps as games are for children! 'nuff said!
Does anyone know of a notebook or tablet PC that can run games like, say, Battlefield3 or Max Payne3 ?
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REAL games cost $60 dollars+ Not $1.00! Trying to play off apps vs REAL games... So pathetic!!!
Is it possible to "lag ahead"?
@Skippy - the traditional "gaming" market is taking a nose dive. People want to play games, but the casual gamer doesn't want to put in the time to figure out complicated console games like dedicated gamers do. They game to be entertained and be distracted. They want to play games wherever they are if only for 5 minutes to kill some time. The iPad Mini is a great form factor for convenience gaming, in my opinion much better than the iPad for traditional controller style games. And frankly the vast majority of people couldn't care less if Guild Wars 2 came to the iPad or not. But people will buy Angry Birds Star Wars until the cows come home.
iPad games certainly don't provide the engrossing experience that console games do, but the commitment by companies like EA to mobile gaming and sales numbers for mobile gaming speak for themselves.
Ha Ha!! I spent more on my video cards, than what an ipad mini costs!!! Game on!!
@Andrew - So you play LOW level games and are PROUD of that? Low SKILL level, or do you like to beat up on children. FIVE MINUTES of GAMING... Really? You are NO Gamer. If you set your sights low... you will NEVER be dissappointed!!! Try something challenging, and bring your skill level up. You are playing KIDS games on a KID'S computer!!! Your foot is in your mouth.
The last really great computer game I played was Advent aka Adventure. Is it available on iOS?
And if you don't know what Advent is, then you are lost in a little maze of twisting passages.
Skippy and Pete, is this your first time at the WSJ? EA and every other AAA publisher are following the money to mobile and tablet. You would know that if you actually read the Wall Street Journal.
The article stated that the new iPad mini is "...not particularly heavy, at .68 lbs." Actually, it's particularly *light*, lighter, in fact, than all of its smaller-screened would-be rivals. The iPad mini is almost as light as plain e-ink readers.
The article then asserted that, "...the iPad's chip and graphic specs, to date, haven't been screamingly good enough to offer anything like the PS3 or Xbox 360 experience." I think that Firemonkeys, the developer of the high-end and very realistic Real Racing HD game for the iPad would probably disagree with that assessment...
Another tablet maker has emerged with the recent launch of performance-priced Android tablets with some features that are pretty impressive -- one is called the Novo 7 Flame priced at $189 - it's a 7 Inch tablet that gives the $249 Nexus 7 & the new $330 Mini iPad some competition -- the Novo 7 Flame has 16GB, Android 4.1 and Google Play(400k+ Apps), a high resolution 1280x800 screen, Micro-SD for easy portable storage, HDMI to view movies and media downloads on a TV, Two Cameras - a 5 MegaPixel camera with AF & Flash, and a 2 MegaPixel Webcam; plus great connection - Bluetooth, Ethernet, WiFi and an option for 3G... The tablet is made by Ainol Electronics - whom received "Best Tablet of the Year" - runner up status at CNET/Consumer Electronics Show 2012 -- And the company also has two new 10-inch tablets coming out soon with high resolution screens -- one a Dual Core processor with a 1280x800 IPS display for $220; and a powerful Quad Core with a stunning 1920x1200 Liquid Crystal display (like Apple's Retina screen) for around $260 -- all offer a pretty nice deals and are available at a site called TabletSprint-- this site also has a few other well-priced 3G-Built-In Android tablets as well.
I take issue with this: "But compared to other tablets its size, the iPad Mini, with its dual-core A5 chip, packs a punch greater than nearly all rival Android tablets of similar dimensions."
The A5 dual core chip, the processor for the iPad costs $14. The Tegra 3 quad core processor, for a less expensive tablet (i.e. Apple's profit margin is huge), the Nexus 7, is a faster chip, costing $25. For more of this punch, let's look at RAM. Nexus 7 has 1GB of RAM. The A5 chip usually comes with 512MB of RAM. Perhaps Apple's changed this? I'm not seeing a greater punch anywhere, so how are you?
Nexus 7 FTW! I'm a apple fan but this is disappointing.
For someone who hasn't even held or used the device, this is clearly biased towards apple products.
As always, Apple have seen the gap in the market and lead the way.
@Duncan - Burger King and McDonalds both have a dollar menu, and make money off of it. You are trying to compare Puny app games to QUALITY games. Will EA and other game companies compete in this arena? They sure will. They will put their "B" Team on it with little coding, and minimal investment. If you want a good meal...Don't eat off the dollar menu. Continue to buy your games off the dollar menu, and keep fooling yourself with the LOW quality.
This article is clearly written by someone who is an Apple fan and not a gamer. As someone who has been gaming since the Atari 2600, I think it's pretty obvious that tablets are inferior devices for gaming because of the graphical and processor limitations but mostly because of the touch UI (that quote about the iPad mini being the perfect game controller was ridiculous). There's no way, at least not now and in the near future to replicate the precision of analogue sticks and tactile buttons with a touchscreen.
That being said, there is a huge market for the mindless, repetitive, time-killing games that are Apple's bread and butter, which is fine. Microsoft and Sony want a piece of this market too.
However, as a gamer who does care about quality, I've yet to play a single mobile game which would come close to the quality in terms of graphics and play control of a first generation Nintendo or Sega game, much less an Xbox 360, PS3, or PC game. The reason is the hardware.
why would you ever compare a tablet to a PS3 or Xbox 360? The article lost all credibility with that one comment. It's like comparing a bike to a car.
In addition, not even as a gamer, I've never played a mobile game, they're idiotic. The only games I play on my phone are ports of older games, like ones for SNES and PSX. Those are games with actual plots. The fact that you can play those older games on a phone or tablet is proof that mobile game developers are overblown. Mindless time wasters you can play on the go? Sure. Actual games? What an Apple fanboy.
what game it is changing? ther are many smaller tablets before iPad mini.
How the heck is the mini supposed to change mobile gaming when its not even capable of playing new graphic intense games properly with its 2 year old processor?? The bigger iPad will be the mobile game changer. All Apple has to do is release a bluetooth gaming controller and that will make gaming official on the iOS platform.
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Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millennium Girl 3DS
- Publisher: Atlus
- Release Date: Oct 1, 2013
- Summary: Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millennium Girl is a first-person, map-making dungeon crawler for the Nintendo 3DS.
- Developer: Atlus
- Genre(s): Role-Playing
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Mixed: 5 out of 41
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Sep 23, 2013Again, there's absolutely nothing here that'll derail your enjoyment of the series if you've enjoyed Etrian Odyssey for quite some time. And you're not likely to find a more perfect jumping on point if you have yet to experience the series.
Sep 23, 2013As I said before, The Millennium Girl offers a fantastic opportunity for new players to dip their toes into Etrian Odyssey, as it provides the familiar sorts of characters we have grown to love in JRPGs while keeping intact the extremely strong foundations of the original game.
Oct 7, 2013Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millennium Girl is a fairly solid game. While the early going can be a bit rough since money might be more spent on healing than buying new weapons and armor, the game's mechanics and Story Mode's story elements still make for a fairly sold game. This is one that newcomers and veterans alike should enjoy.
Sep 23, 2013Etrian Odyssey Untold largely succeeds at marrying the series' gameplay with a more narrative-driven adventure, creating a unique take on the traditional Etrian Odyssey formula, while the Classic mode ensures that longtime fans will not be alienated by the game's new direction.
Sep 30, 2013The original Etrian Odyssey is remade with refined customization, enchanting visuals, and an intriguing story.
Sep 27, 2013Etrian Odyssey has never needed deeper or more developed plot, and the new parts of Millenium Girl are the least interesting ones. If you've played past games, there's little reason to jump into this latest entry — exploration is a lot less enticing when it's terrain you've already mapped before.
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Jan 13, 2014This game is very similar to EO:4... but that is a good thing! I highly enjoyed this game, and for someone brand new to the series (first gameThis game is very similar to EO:4... but that is a good thing! I highly enjoyed this game, and for someone brand new to the series (first game was EO:4), I was glad to see another game in this series release on the 3DS. First person + RPG + variety of team dynamics = enormous win.… Expand
Oct 4, 2013A fantastic retelling of the original Etrian Odyssey. A lot of the newer features from Etrian Odyssey IV return here, and make the experienceA fantastic retelling of the original Etrian Odyssey. A lot of the newer features from Etrian Odyssey IV return here, and make the experience much more enjoyable. The Story mode adds an incentive to replay this journey even if you already have before.… Expand
Apr 26, 2014While I find the story mode to have annoying characters and an intrusive story, the classic mode is top notch! Maybe it's not as good as EO4,While I find the story mode to have annoying characters and an intrusive story, the classic mode is top notch! Maybe it's not as good as EO4, because of the unnecessary third difficulty setting, but it's a fantastic game in its own right. Now...if only the 6th stratum wasn't so dang scary.… Expand
Jul 30, 2014Again, now another one of my top 3DS games. After completing the story in approximately 45 hours over the span of 4 months (march~july) andAgain, now another one of my top 3DS games. After completing the story in approximately 45 hours over the span of 4 months (march~july) and spending a lot more with quests and extra "post-game things" to do (no spoilers~), I have to thoroughly admit that this game is something that all RPG fans should play! Now, is it as good as EOIV? Let's see the goods and bads before comparing the two.
The Goods: Etrian Odyssey Untold is a freshened, remade version of the first game, which was released around 6/7 years ago (2007). It has a story mode, and the story mode serves as the main mode that etrian players will play. The classic mode is still there for people who want to use their own crew for fighting....and stuff. So, down to the story mode - it's surprisingly great. I found the premise of the story to be a bit niche, but the way they presented it was really spectacular, and the scripting was as good as ever, convincing me to continue to play it until the end. It was really emotional towards the end and I have to applaud Atlus for being able to shake my iron soul. The graphics are as good as ever for a 3DS game, and the 3D effect is really well implemented, as always. The character designs are really nice, and the backgrounds are really detailed and well drawn. The music was something from another planet. Yuzo Koshiro really did a splendid job remastering the songs from the first game into an orchestrated/live version of it for this game. I never turned the volume down or turned off the BGM throughout the whole time, and actually kept it at max volume while keeping the others down. You see, there are FOEs (strong bosses that roam the labyrinth) that cruise around, keeping you scared and alert, and they are really programmed well this game. The puzzles that you have to solve to avoid fighting them is really well designed, and some of the later stratums require a lot of thinking to avoid these nasty fights. The fighting system is as good as ever, with the inclusion of Grimoire Stones, which from what I know..are stones that contain enemy's (or human) skills that can be used if the weapon type is the same as the user......which can be confusing, but you'll learn more about it ingame~. The dungeons are wonderful as ever, the feeling you get from mapping is splendid, and the 3 difficulties you get from the beginning of the game are great for beginners and veterans (I chose the standard diff, fyi). The bosses are really tough, most of the time, and things get really intense, again, towards the end of the game. Definitely worth the effort of grinding~
The Neutral: It's good that voice acting has been implemented more, but it may be nicer if more things were spoken. I felt that they only spoke 1 or 2 important lines in central parts of the story, and not really talking much in other "branches" of the story that I also felt were somewhat important. Again, although it's something that has never occurred in the franchise, I have always thought that a city hub would be nice (one that you could explore), but it seems you'll be stuck with menus for this game as well, which isn't exactly a problem. Another neutral thing is the grinding at the start of the game. You're really going to have to spend a bit of time (although it's easier in this game) grinding for a while to get a decent load of cash and skills/levels. The game is also a tad bit to the boring side for the first 10-20 hours, and after that - things really get awesome and super intense! (especially the story, but you'll have to wait it out for a while)
The Bad: There isn't really much here that I can say...though there is one thing I can think of. It'd be nice if the game had more than 1 slot for saving, because after finishing story mode, I wanted to try Classic mode but I didn't want to delete my old file, so it kinda creates a problem for people like me who want to try out everything that's featured in the game without deleting anything.
VS EOIV and Overall: Compared to EOIV, I'd say this is a better game to start with, but notice that it's definitely more difficult than EOIV - especially with endgame bosses and the last few stratums being very very difficult to beat and navigate through (and map). Although EOIV has the wonderful world system ("Lands") and Untold lacks it, I'd say that Untold still holds pretty well with EOIV. Of the two though, I'd say I like EOIV more by only a small percentage. I truly had a great experience with EO Untold, and hopefully this review can sway you (hopefully and RPG fan) to have the wonderful experience that I had whilst playing this game~
Gameplay: 10/10
Story: 9/10
Music: 10/10
Presentation: 9/10
Length/PostGame: 9/10
Overall: 9/10… Expand
Nov 15, 2013To start, this was my first experience with first-person dungeon crawling, and that also implies i haven't played any of this game'sTo start, this was my first experience with first-person dungeon crawling, and that also implies i haven't played any of this game's predecessors, so my critique is on this game and this game alone. It was a lot of fun and i loved the map making, which is supposedly a big part of the series. I think the combat skill tree system wasn't that hard to grasp, and i like how character stats only showed up when purchasing items, so it was overall simple. I wish the combat was a little more engaging, however. It kind of reminded me of digimon dusk and dawn's combat, because the characters were doing amazing things but all you saw was bursts of fire and squares shaking as they took damage. I wasn't expecting pokemon X and Y grade combat graphics, but I feel, especially since the story had fixed players they could model, they could have made a few general animations for when they attacked, even if they were simple like what the enemy monsters did. I like the first person, but it felt weird to have a main character that felt apart of me and separate from me at the same time. The dialogue options didn't normally change the story, but allowed a little humour here and there. However, i couldn't fully feel like it was me adventuring with the others, but rather me controlling the main character. When i get this feeling, i don't wish i had more control. I wish the main character had more character of his own. Finally, the grimuar stones (probably spelled that wrong, though) were a nice feature that was apparently new, but i think they could have simplified it. If i forgot to edit my stones after a few trips back from the forest, i would suddenly find 20 or more new stones and feel overwhelmed. Perhaps they could have made it so i could extract skills individually and recycle ones i didn't want to level up skills i wanted to keep, that way my only question was which skills i wanted, not which stone i wanted to make. Overall, love the experience… Expand
Mar 21, 2015The remake of the first game in the series improves on many aspects, adds some new elements and areas and adds a story and differentThe remake of the first game in the series improves on many aspects, adds some new elements and areas and adds a story and different difficulties.
What remains negative, is a bad, uncomfortable dungeon-design, a limited inventory, many craftable items that nobody in the story-party can use and a stupid auto-battle-ai, that attacks randomly and doesnt let the user set up any scripts.
Speaking in scores, i would haven rated the original game with 70 points, while i rate the remake with 78 points… Expand
Nov 11, 2013Extremely similar to EO:4, which obviously isn't a bad thing, but I'd say this is the weaker of the two. No overworld maps like in 4, and tooExtremely similar to EO:4, which obviously isn't a bad thing, but I'd say this is the weaker of the two. No overworld maps like in 4, and too much of a same old feeling if you've come off finishing EO:4 last year.
Its a good game. I just don't think I'll ever be compelled to finish it. 20 hours at this price before losing interest for another game isn't bad.… Expand
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"Nice little hotel with friendly owner. Very clean rooms, with attention to detail. Great breakfast. Overall very good and in a great locatio..."
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The Cavalier is a Georgian town house,500yds from York Minster. Warm welcome from Natalie and Guy who live onsite and are happy to help you at anytime. Set close to the City Walls, in the heart of York, it provides a superb central location for exploring the city – Minster, Museums and Jorvik centre which are all on the doorstep.
The Cavalier is privately owned and operated with garage parking and parking bays. Wi-Fi Internet access available throughout the building. Easy access to both the Rail Station and major routes to the East coast, the Moors and Dales and also the A1/M1. Non-smoking, en-suite accommodation, with fresh full English breakfast (vegans and vegetarians by request). Parking is included, either in reserved bays or garages. We also have a secure motorbike and cycle store. The Cavalier has ten elegant bedrooms (including two large family rooms), 80% of which are en-suite. For those without private facilities there are bathrooms very nearby on the landings. Room prices include full English breakfast, VAT and parking, with colour TV, CD/Radio/Alarm clocks, free tea and coffee, complimentary toiletries, fresh towels and hairdryer. Iron and ironing board, wine glasses, hair straightener, extra towels and toiletries all available on request. Fresh flowers, paintings and personal touches in abundance make it the perfect place to relax, unwind and instantly feel at home. Natalie and Guy are happy to help you with your itineraries, travel plans, restaurant and taxi bookings.
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