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These higher graduation rates mean little with the watered down curriculum that kids skate by on. One cheer at best.
It's going up because the standards for graduation are lower than ever.
The graduation rate means spit compared to the number of HS graduates that require remedial courses to qualify to be a Freshman at a cheap college.
With that educational level they can hopefully accomplish minimum work standards akin to a trained monkey!
I was going to say basically the same thing as the previous posters. The devil is in the details..... My daughter is a teacher and we talk about the horow stories often. Too parents who don't care have created kids who care even less. You can throw all the money you want at education, but if the students have no desire and or are ill prepared on a daily basis, it won't do anything. Too many kids trying to 'find themselves' and I mostly blame their parents for not demanding and supporting excellence, or at least every attempt towards that goal.
Having a high school diploma means nothing if you didn't learn anything for your years in school.
This comes from the same fallacy of people supporting low skilled immigration. Replacing one higher IQ person with a lower IQ person does not create the same economic output.....
The other posts certainly ring true in many respects, particulalry the observation of the impact of students/parents not caring, as noted by Dr. Doom. But at a more macro level, I notice that the upward trend begins at about the same time the "no child left behind" policies began to be implemented. I am sure that is not the only cause for the improvement, and perhaps the impact of those policies is small, but it makes me wonder if they actually did help.
I totally agree. Replacing one person without a high school diploma with one person with a high school diploma means nothing if the second person is not smarter and with better skills!
At least the kids are graduating ;p
Too bad the current educational system is not improving as many schools have begun or already begun to teach to the national or state exams, mostly memorization. If you listen to what and how these new high school graduates say, one wonders how they ever graduated! Are the children really ready for college academic life?
I wonder what portion of this could be attributed to the downturn - when the economy suffers, the jobs that would-be dropouts might have taken have now gone to more educated workers with fewer options. High schoolers don't have other viable options, and so they stay in school.
"Alternatively, Ms. Goldin suggests, the lousy economy of the late 2000's may have led students to stay in school because jobs were so scarce." Does he think people who could potentially drop out really think about these things?
one thing all of this 'accountability' and increased testing has caused is teaching to take the test, not learning. I encountered this years ao when studing for my series 7 broker exam. Knew a lot about the business except for options and since the options portion was a big part of the test, I studied to pass the test, memorizing instead of learning. one problem we face today is that you need a college degree to even get your foot in the door of a financial insitution. I graduated from H.S. six months early and the following monday, started on wall street. didn't go to college unil I was 30. can't do that anymore, so getting an educaion is that much more important, but it seems that the value of that education, at least on a H.S. level has steadly declined.
They reduced the standards, of course it's easier to graduate if reading and writing isn't a requirement and algebra test can be done now using a calculator.
Everything is on internet these days, easier to learn, and schools and colleges unless they go online become outdated and unnecessary.
I'm not surprised. In the school district where I have lived 60 is the lowest passing score, yes 60. Can't grade homework so many students choose not to do homework to improve their subject understanding, and there is a floor of 50 on tests. Yep its darn hard to fail here.
They may have a slip paper called a 'diploma' but they're dumb as bricks. Thanks Department of Education and your $70 billion annual budget. You have been ssooooooooooo effective.
As a high school teacher, I can tell you that part of the reason is that the graduation bar has been lowered by the new trend of online "credit recovery". In this process, after a student fails a course in high school, they are allowed to "recover" the credit by taking an online course with much less rigor.
The argument could be made that NCLB indirectly contributed to the uptick in graduation rate, if one considers that the standards were set so low that, indeed, no child could possibly be left behind. But this is little cause for celebration. As Dr. Doom pointed out, "You can throw all the money you want at education, but if the students have no desire and or are ill prepared on a daily basis, it won't do anything."
The focus on high-stakes testing---teachers as sole architects of their students' scores and the use of those scores in determining teachers' job placement and pay scale---has had a deleterious effect on the notion of personal responsibility, not only for one's education, but also in one's daily life. When the responsibility for the success of a student is placed solely on the shoulders of the teachers or schools, that student---and in particular, his parents---will abdicate their role in the process.
Simply put, we have played into the hands of the lowest common denominator.
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Had boiled 1 1/2 dozen eggs to make my BF some pickled eggs, only to discover I had used up all my pickling spice! Made this as written, just a little too clove-y, but excellent for my purpose. Stored the remainder of the mix in a Rubbermaid container in the fridge for the next batch.
Had a hankering for pickles lately and got some little pickling cucumbers from the market. I used this pickling spice as my recipe for making glorious pickles, even though it's February and cold outside. I found the cloves and ginger addition to be just perfect, and wouldn't change anything! Made for "The Herb of the Month Club" February 2010
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I used this to make tonkcats marinated brisket of beef--had to substitute a bunch of ground for whole, so I used guestimating... But while it was very ginger-y and clove-y, it made for an outstanding, from scratch, first time home made corned beef dinner.
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Funeral Practices and Animal Sacrifices in Mongolia at the Uigur Period: Archaeological and Ethno-Historical Study of a 'Kurgan' in the Egyin Gol Valley (Baikal Region)
Crubezy, E., Martin, H., Giscard, P. -H., Batsaikhan, Z., Erdenebaatar, S., Verdier, J. P., Maureille, B., Antiquity
Funeral practices in central Eurasia
Our knowledge of funeral practices among the ancient peoples of central Eurasia comes mainly from written documents (Roux 1963), and also from archaeological findings (Gravilova 1965: Konovalo 1976), including the famous excavations of S.I. Rudenko and M.P. Griaznov (Rudenko 1970) at Pazyryk and those of B.M. Mozolevs'kij (1979) at Tolstaia Moguila. Recently, since excavations have recommenced in the Altai (Polosmak & Van Noten 1995), and as the frontiers of China and Mongolia have opened up, an increasing amount of archaeological evidence has become available.
One direction of research concerns the relationship between man and animal during the last millennia. Funeral practices had a privileged place within this relationship (Roux 1963) because of their collective and ceremonial nature, which found its highest expression in the funeral feast. During these feasts, animal sacrifices often took place on an extensive scale. As late as the middle of the 19th century, Atkinson (1860), present at the funeral of a Kirghiz prince, witnessed the sacrifice of 100 horses and 1000 sheep. Similarly, at Pazyryk, S.I. Rudenko and M.P. Griaznov uncovered in the first kurgan the bodies of 10 horses killed by a thrust from a round, pointed dagger and deposited outside the funeral chamber. These sacrifices reached their greatest extent in the 'royal' kurgan of Arjan, dating from the 8th century BC, where the remains of more than 160 horses, in full harness, were discovered (Bokovenko 1994).
Apart from the actual sacrifices, the relationship between man and animal during these ceremonies could be complex. In the mid 18th century, Gmelin (1751-1752) drew attention to the union of the living and the dead during these feasts, where the horses were sometimes partly eaten and partly buried in the tomb. Any attempt at detailed reconstruction of funeral practices (Roberts 1989; Duday et al. 1990) risks coming up against such elements, almost impossible to interpret in the absence of ethno-historical data. This is the point we develop here, taking for example a kurgan of the 9th century AD, excavated in the valley of Egyin Gol, Mongolia [ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURE 1 OMITTED], by the first expedition (1994) of the France-UNESCO Permanent Archaeological Mission in Mongolia.
The site, archaeological and historical context
The present study is part of an international research project on the origins of the Mongol people, launched by UNESCO at the request of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences. Prospection and soundings were thus carried out in 1994 at various burial sites in the valley of the Egyin Gol river, an affluent of the Selenga, which flows into Lake Baikal [ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURE 1 OMITTED]. Excavations are now being carried out in the 20 km of the Egyin Gol valley upstream from its junction with the Selenga. The most important burial sites are composed of several graves to more than 50 kurgans and they range from to the Bronze Age until the period of Gengis Khan (13th century AD). However, there are some isolated kurgans, most of which seem to belong to the Bronze Age period with the exception of the one discussed here (EG IV-2) which is, for the moment, unique in Mongolia.
EG IV-2 is isolated in the centre of a small dry valley, (49 [degrees] 31[minutes]42[seconds]N, 103 [degrees] 19[minutes]47[seconds]E, altitude 920 m), at right-angles to the Egyin Gol river. It revealed a mongoloid woman of middle age, and rather robust build, whose height was probably around 160 cm (Maureille et al. 1994). Her skeleton was determined (Ly-6860) to 1185[+ or -]45 b.p calibrated to between AD 731-964 (maximum probability AD 882, 830, 790). The grave goods were somewhat atypical [ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURE 2 OMITTED] with the possible exception of an earthenware spindle whorl fashioned from a sherd of the bulge of a large vase. The designs on the whorl, incised before firing, suggest an Uigur origin, which does not contradict the dating. …


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Back in 1920, Leon Cadore of the Brooklyn Robins and Joe Oeschger of the Boston Braves battled to a 26-inning, 1-1 tie. It's been said neither was ever the same after that.
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So I go to remote into my machine via RDP tonight and up comes a black screen and the popup error:
Hrmm so I click OK and now all I have is a black screen. Gahhhh. I actually had some serious work to do from home tonight.
A quick search shows that this is no isolated to me...
If you bring up task manager via CTRL SHIFT ESC you get this:
So - I did some research on it and it appears to be a known issue - perhaps fixed in the Svc Pack or sooner if a customer complains ( hint hint ) . Apparently winlogon gets a bit confused and insists on showing me the secure desktop screen.
Anywho - a workaround for now is to do CTRL-ALT-END and choose Logoff.
Luckily I had some text docs unsaved and it gave me a chance to abort the logoff as well.
FYI I also saw this in the evt logs:
Log Name: ApplicationSource: Application ErrorDate: 3/12/2007 9:46:25 PMEvent ID: 1000Task Category: (100)Level: ErrorKeywords: ClassicUser: N/AComputer: mymachineDescription:Faulting application atbroker.exe, version 6.0.6000.16386, time stamp 0x4549aed5, faulting module USER32.dll, version 6.0.6000.16386, time stamp 0x4549bdc9, exception code 0xc0000142, fault offset 0x00008fc7, process id 0x1aac, application start time 0x01c7652a8be56c87.
So I went to look for a .dmp file but can't seem to find drwtsn32.exe anymore -- ahhh its been replaced
says " Dr. Watson, the system failure or "crash" analysis tool, has been replaced in this version of Windows with Problem Reports and Solutions. "
Hrmm, well I'd still like to see a dmp file. Anyone know how I can configure it to create a full one like I used to do in XP?
It looks like it saves some dmps under C:\Users\All Users\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportQueue\Report - but I dont see one for this crash.
I can also see that there is a drwatson.exe - but I have yet to determine its purpose in life. When I launch it, it simply says "no faults detected". If someone can shed some light on that as well, I'd be grateful :)
The exception code in that termiantion dialog can be found in ntstatus.h in the WDK. It translates to STATUS_DLL_INIT_FAILED (Initialization of the dynamic link library %hs failed. The process is terminating abnormally.) My guess is those applications when trying to init user32 as part of their dynamic load-time links, user32 saw it was on secure desktop and freaked and wouldnt load.
Well I dont know about a full dump, but you can require it to create a dump eachtime using the Forcequeue value in WERCON...
Ahh this looks very promising. Ill look at that. thanks!
Hey, thanks for posting this information. Your CTRL-ALT-END workaround did the trick!
I am remoted into my home workstation almost all the time I am not home and have an Internet connection.
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My Vista Ultimate machine developed the same issue recently. The Ctrl-Alt-End workaround was no help i my case I'm afraid. However, as the issue has only started happening in the last 7-10 days I decided to uninstall all updates recently installed... Presto, problem solved !!!
The updates in question are KB933566, KB929123, KB931213, KB905866, KB929762 & KB936825
Hope this helps.
Interesting as this bug should not have been introduced in any hotfix\security patch ( if I recall it has been there since RTM )
On another note... it seems a customer opened a case and there is a bug filed on this! :)
But, if there are any customers with a TAM who wants to add their voice of "Fix this!" let me know ...( cant be too safe yaknow ) .
Just an FYI. I had the same problem and I did what you suggested to solve the problem. One thing I noticed is that IE was not running when I got in and before when I was localy logged on it was runnig.. could this be an IE bug?
Thanks for the work around. I was just short of picking up my lazy self and run to office as I had some work to complete, and could not remote in, thanks to the atbroker issue. But, your work around saved the day. Thanks again!
Thanks for the work around. ive recently encountered this problem. The only changes to my machine have been windows updates so I wonder if one have them has introduced the problem or if it was a one off. Anyhow thanks again
i have had alot off error codes that i have recently sent to tech department in regards to atbroker.exe and various windows explorer seizure codes. they have since infrmed in 8 weels a scheduled service pack 1 will be released which is to stabilize compatibilty and explorer issues
Nice one! Saved me from a long cartrip resetting the system :)
Sweet, this helped me out tonight - thanks!
Rock on brother. You saved me.
I see this issue on my Vista Enterprise 64bit system occasionally as well. Seems to mainly happen when I'm using a different OS to RDP into my Vista system. It mostly happens with using RDP in Windows XP, but have also seen it when using rdesktop in Linux. But like everyone else, doesn't always happen.
Another workaround I've used to get your screen back without logging off, is to use another Vista system, RDP in the problem Vista system, log out and you should have your console back.


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|G. Edward Griffin: The Future is Calling - The Future is Calling Part One
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|Written by G. Edward Griffin
|Tuesday, 12 May 2009 14:20
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Under the orchestrating baton of Nicholas Butler, President of Columbia University
and President of the Carnegie Endowment, an organization was formed in 1884 called The
American Historical Association. This then created a series of controlled groups, called
Committees, each of which focused on a particular segment of the overall educational
mission. After these had published their recommendations, the Carnegie Fund created
another controlled group in 1929 called The Commission on the Social Studies, which
attracted to its membership an impressive list of academic personalities, including the
Superintendant of Schools in Washington, D.C., the Director of the American Geological
Society of New York, the President of Radcliff College, the Dean of the Graduate School at
the University of Minnesota, the head of the Institute for the Study of Law at John Hopkins
University, and eleven professors of history at such prestigious institutions as Columbia
University and the Universities of Chicago, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. Other
institutions that provided staff services or facilitated its work in other ways included
Harvard, Stanford, Smith College, and the Universities of Iowa, North Carolina and West
Virginia. The Commission was funding by a $340,000 grant from the Carnegie Corporation
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what has come to be known as progressive education. The self-admitted goal of progressive
educators was – and is – to de-emphasize academic excellence in favor of awareness of
social and political issues. That's the first half. The second half is that those issues must be
presented so as to promote three concepts: (1) National sovereignty is the cause of war and
must be replaced by world government; (2) Personal property should be eliminated because
it leads to selfishness, and (3) people will not assist or cooperate with each other in freedom
so they must be forced to do so by the state. Since those are key features of collectivism, the
unspoken lesson that students learn is that collectivism is good and is the wave of the future.
One of the better known members of the Commission on the Social Studies was
George Counts, Professor of Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. After the
Bolshevik Revolution, Counts travelled to the Soviet Union to witness Communism first
hand and returned with the conviction that the Soviet model was the ideal social system.
After the war, when Stalin's brutality against his own people became widely known and
when Russia resumed an aggressive stance against Western nations, Counts became a critic
of the Soviet regime. His objection, however, was with Stalin's actions and policies, not his
adherence to collectivism, which Counts continued to advocate. His 1932 book, Dare the
School Build a New Social Order,1 not only expressed his personal views, it was a
popularized version of what the Commission hoped to instill into the educational system. He
If property rights are to be diffused in industrial society, natural resources and
all important forms of capital will have to be collectively owned. ... This clearly
means that, if democracy is to survive in the United States, it must abandon its
individualistic affiliations in the sphere of economics. ... Within these limits, as I see
it, our democratic tradition must of necessity evolve and gradually assume an
essentially collectivistic pattern.
The important point is that fundamental changes in the economic system are
imperative. Whatever service historic capitalism may have rendered in the past, and
they have been many, its days are numbered. With its dedication to the principles of
selfishness, its exaltation of the profit motive, its reliance on the forces of
competition, and its placing of property above human rights,1 it will either have to be
displaced altogether or changed so radically in form and spirit that its identity will
become completely lost.
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The Giants without Barry Bonds?
It's not exactly the Yankees without Mickey Mantle, or the Orioles without Cal Ripken. After all, Barry Bonds has been a Giant for only 11 seasons. He does hold the San Francisco Giants' franchise record with 478 home runs, but remains comfortably behind Willie Mays and Willie McCovey in most of the important batting categories (and with 249 steals, Barry's still 14 behind his father for the No. 1 spot on that list).
On the other hand, when Mantle and ...
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Billionaire Donald Trump has unveiled the designs for his second Scottish golf course.
The plans for an 18-hole course, which he wants to name after his Scottish mother Mary MacLeod, would sit next to his Championship links on the Menie Estate in Aberdeenshire.
The American tycoon paid tribute to the architect Dr Martin Hawtree, who also designed the first course and the world-famous Royal Birkdale.
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Trump said: "Once again Martin Hawtree's design in genius. We have the greatest piece of links land in the world. The unprecedented demand to play our championship course has accelerated our plans to build the second course."
Designer Dr Hawtree said: "The special challenge for me is to ensure that it sits comfortably beside its majestic neighbour, neither outshone by the existing course nor making any attempt to mimic or rival those leviathan qualities."
Many residents on the Menie Estate spoke of their devastation that another course was to be built on the other side of the homes those who have battled Trump's efforts to remove them from the land.
David Milne said: "I think it's despicable they can consider surrounding someone like this and if they continue this kind of treatment then it is an issue."
Sarah Malone, executive vice president for Trump International Golf Links Scotland, said: "We are more committed than ever to creating the greatest golf destination in the world."
Trump is due to return to Scotland in April where he will finalise the layout.
The mogul will then put the plans to Aberdeenshire Council. Unlike the first course, which opened last July, the new layout would lie outside a Site of Special Scientific Interest.
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The old adage says "a picture is worth a thousand words," but just exactly which words is the question. While facial recognition and GPS-enabled cameras have made tagging digital snapshots with names and locations much easier, a team of students from Duke University and the University of South Carolina has developed a smartphone app called TagSense that takes advantage of the range of multiple sensors on a mobile phone to automatically apply a greater variety of tags to photos.
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- Release Date: Jun 27, 2014
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Politically provocative and visually spectacular Snowpiercer - the best action film of 2014, and probably the best film, period.
Snowpiercer sucks you into its strange, brave new world so completely, it leaves you with the all-too-rare sensation that you've just witnessed something you've never seen before...and need to see again.
Sprung from a 1982 French graphic novel and bearing its era's trickle-down tensions, Snowpiercer is a headlong rush into conceptual lunacy — but you'll love it anyway.
The action sequences in the film are spectacular, and there's one in particular that I think is an all-timer, both in the way it's imagined and in the way it's accomplished on film, but this isn't a film about empty sensation. It's a richly realized science-fiction world, and the cast is just tremendous.
Snowpiercer evolves steadily, growing richer with every step and slowly feeding us morsels of information - enriching this ludicrous premise with enough magic and wonder to suspend our disbelief entirely.
Though shocking violence and black humor run through the length of the movie, what comes through most strongly is its pessimistic political conscience; were the movie less earnest, it might seem Verhoeven-esque.
Snowpiercer is its own strange, special thing, a movie that seems to have been sent back to us from some distant alternate future where grandiose summer action movies can also be lovingly crafted, thematically ambitious works of art.
There are surprises and plenty of action. What's good about Snowpiercer is how they all blend together; each element informs the other.
Though the movie is playfully postmodern in its pastiche of styles and its mingling of sincerity and self-consciousness, there is also something solidly old-fashioned about the way it tells its story.
Snowpiercer has been brought to the screen with the kind of solid narrative craftsmanship, carefully drawn characters and — above all — respect for the audience's intelligence rarely encountered in high-concept genre cinema.
Snowpiercer holds its own; it's an unruly but rattling – and ravishing – work of art. On first watch, I wondered if there was anything to scratch beneath the surface – it seemed so straightforward, I worried there wasn't enough there there – so I rewatched it almost right away and was surprised to find it still left me panting.
Without "spoiling" it, it's a film that at least opens up a possibility for change, instead of providing another rote reshuffling of power from the Black Hats back to the White Hats.
Bong, above all, is a world-class visual stylist, and he proves that again here with a few dazzling flourishes, despite Snowpiercer's dismal gray palette and train-bound claustrophobia.
Swinton is delightful in a twisted turn as Wilford's enforcer, a Margaret Thatcherian dragon lady who adores watching her men torture miscreants who have defied the train's No. 1 rule: Know your place.
It's more an instant cult film than a picture with any prayer of reaching millions.
If the name "Gilliam" set off a little tremor of excitement when you heard it that is no accident because, with its combination of startling visuals, a head-spinning storyline and oddball characters that don't always conform to their presumed parameters, Snowpiercer is a film definitely in the vein of the works of the great Terry Gilliam, especially his 1985 landmark "Brazil."
A rare hybrid that perfectly blends the dazzle of a futuristic action thriller with the intellectual substance of an art film.
A slambam sci-fi thriller with a brain, a heart and an artful sense of purpose. You're in for a wild whoosh of a ride.
Don't miss it — this is enormously fun visionary filmmaking, with a witty script and a great international cast.
An upscale, high-concept $40 million futuristic epic by the visionary South Korean director Bong Joon-ho. It's too gruesome to recommend to everyone without reservation, but if you love movies, you can't afford to miss it.
If you don't mind the gore, you can enjoy Snowpiercer as a brutal and imaginative piece of science-fiction filmmaking. [7 & 14 July 2014, p.94]
Now, at last, comes a fun dystopian sci-fi epic — a splattery shambles with a fat dose of social satire and barely a lick of sense. It's Bong Joon-ho's Snowpiercer, which must be seen to be disbelieved.
[Bong Joon-ho] combines a great cast, a gripping idea and a gorgeously grimy retro aesthetic to keep this eerie examination of the train wreck of humanity racing along.
Evans is a revelation here, delivering a haunted performance that his previous work has only suggested he had in him. He gives the film a solid center, allowing others in the cast to explore the extreme.
Snowpiercer is an ambitious piece with a universally comprehensible theme and accessible aesthetics.
The way the allegory works out is not exactly subtle or unexpected, but is strangely moving, despite the gruesomeness that has gone before. All in all, a treat.
It's a film that, in its own peculiar way, forces viewers to question their values and ask themselves how much they're willing to sacrifice for a functioning society, and how much is too much.
Unapologetically long and messy, Snowpiercer offers an unhinged ride that's worth the investment for its mixture of batty personalities, consistently impressive visuals and mad swipes at heavy symbolism jam-packed together.
Snowpiercer is bold and brutal and committed, but no setting, no matter how inventive or beautiful, can compensate for storytelling that strains plausibility even as it batters your senses and sensibilities.
Here's a movie that's jam-packed with bizarre sci-fi concepts, political allegory, a fascinating international cast and some truly over the top set pieces. But for just about everything maniacally cool in the movie, there's a flaw, sometimes a near-fatal one.
Subtlety may not be the film's strong suit, but it creates a richly imagined world, as glitteringly arresting as it is savagely merciless.
The film preaches resolutely to the choir, and cinephiles in sync with the film's politics may still blanch at how snugly their interests are courted.
The film features plenty of elements that seem familiar from previous cinematic dystopian visions — class warfare, decrepit living, a feeling of terminal velocity — yet you can't help but admire director Bong Joon-ho's high-wire act.
In superlative previous films like "The Host" and "Mother," Bong elevated, then transcended, the humble genres of the monster movie and the murder mystery by refashioning them into exquisitely heart-wrenching human drama. Disappointingly, then, his alchemical touch is absent here. Snowpiercer warms the heart, but doesn't penetrate it.
Even as dystopian dramas go, the picture is arid and lusterless in its more serious moments and unpleasantly kitschy when it tries to soar over the top.
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Mixed: 27 out of 172
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Jul 7, 2014I'm quite shocked seeing this movie receives such a good response from film critics-it's insanely bad, unbelievable illogical with plot holesI'm quite shocked seeing this movie receives such a good response from film critics-it's insanely bad, unbelievable illogical with plot holes appearing in almost every scene. For example main character, our hero is having some difficult time eating protein blocks made of roach (we never see growing roach department however) but later in the movie we discover that his former eating habits include cannibalism and eating little babies?! Yes the guy who once ate babies now cries like a baby because he has to eat roach and start whole revolution because of it..that's how ridiculously dumb this movie is.There is one Terminator guy that can't get killed no matter what they do to him,Tilda Swinton get stabbed in her leg just to continue walking in the next scene like nothing happened- list of errors and stupidities could go on forever.Screenwriters couldn't even decide how cold is outside:very cold at the beginning (remember how the rebel guy lost his arm?),not so cold at the end...and where on Earth little kid finds suitable fur for him? I don't give it 0 because of some fine actors work and production values but this is complete rubbish.… Full Review »
Jun 27, 2014Ditto on being shocked at good reviews. Snowpiercer is not worth your money. The dialogue seems to have been written by grade school children,Ditto on being shocked at good reviews. Snowpiercer is not worth your money. The dialogue seems to have been written by grade school children, which doesn't leave much room for quality acting. The characters are Brazil / Gilliam campy but not as interesting (partly due to the awful dialogue). Also, the plot is recycled from already recycled dystopias and is very predictable. Ok, are you here for action then? Well, you can basically just throw away the fighting scenes, which also seem recycled from other, better Korean films. Do we really need another axe-fight scene? Do we really need another dystopian film of this type and quality? The plot holes are mind-blowing even if you suspend disbelief, the acting is poor, the characters are random and disposable, and the plot is as dumb as a couch. The movie seems like a live action manga remake of the worst kind.… Full Review »
Jun 28, 2014No idea why this film is getting so many insanely positive reviews. Way too many plot aspects that did not tie together, the unnecessaryNo idea why this film is getting so many insanely positive reviews. Way too many plot aspects that did not tie together, the unnecessary addition of woo and supernatural elements that did nothing to advanced the story and a lot of suspect acting. Good idea for a film, poorly executed. Script seemed like it wasn't even edited. Strange.… Full Review »


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People who put a leash on their children are disgusting!! vent
I agree. I have a friend who's son does that also and a few times he has run into the street even after being scolded. It is for their own safety and while I hope I don't have to use one, she is a single mom and doing the best she can. She is only looking out for her child.
Though most children could probably benefit more from discipline for running off than being leashed, KWIM?
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Forgive me, but I feel that leashes are meant for dogs, not children. I've seen them in the stores and it absolutely turns my stomach to think people buy those and put them on their kids. That's just me though.
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Felicidad is the leader of this community bank. She is currently the bank's president. Her business is sewing 'polleras' (traditional skirts) in her own home. She also sells products in a neighborhood store. She has been in this business for 25 years. Her loan will be used to order foodstuffs wholesale such as noodles, sugar, rice, cookies and soft drinks. Felicidad is married to Félix who works from home as a mechanic.
Felicidad stands out as a responsible member of her community bank who is always punctual in making her loan repayments. She leads her bank in an organized way, requesting her fellow members to be responsible with their loans and make their repayments on time. She has been the bank's president for several loan cycles.
La Sra. Felicidad Es la líder del banco comunal, actualmente toma el cargo D. presidenta se dedica a la costura D. polleras en su mismo domicilio y a la venta D. otros productos en tienda D. barrio, cuenta con esta actividad hace 25 años, el préstamo será destinado a los pedidos D. víveres por mayor como fideos, azucar, arroz, galletas y refrescos. Casada con el señor Félix, que trabaja como mecánico en el mismo domicilio.
En su banco comunal se ha destacado como una persona responsable y puntual en sus pagos, también dirige D. manera ordenada a su banca pidiendo a sus compañeras responsabilidad con el crédito y puntualidad en los pagos. Asimismo ha sido la presidenta durante varios ciclos.
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This programme provides you with a broad understanding of the theories and practices of dance movement therapy necessary for safe and effective clinical work, and enables you to practise as a dance movement therapist.
Your learning is underpinned by the principles and practices of psychodynamic psychotherapy within the social, political and multicultural context of mental health care and educational settings. Study is informed by contemporary dance practice, Laban Movement Analysis (LMA) and somatic bodywork.
Through theoretical studies, movement observation studies, dance practice workshops, clinical work and experiential learning, you integrate cognitive understanding and practical experience with a developing awareness of self and other.
The nature of the therapeutic relationship is explored in depth through movement and dance and you have the opportunity to put your learning into practice through at least 90 days of supervised placements. This gives you the opportunity to relate your practical experience to your theoretical studies.
You are encouraged to develop your own dance/movement practice and to situate your work in relation to your development as a therapist, to contemporary dance and movement practice. You're required to be in personal therapy throughout the programme.
On graduation you are eligible to become a registered professional member of the Association for Dance Movement Psychotherapy (ADMP UK).
The MA in Dance Movement Psychotherapy programme is made up of 240 credits and provides you with a broad understanding of the theories and practices of Dance Movement Psychotherapy necessary for safe and effective clinical work as a Dance Movement Psychotherapist. It aims to enhance your self-knowledge and interpersonal relationships and to promote your psychodynamic understanding of individuals, groups and society; working with questions of difference, equality and diversity.
Your learning is underpinned by the principles and practices of psychodynamic psychotherapy within the social, political and multicultural context of mental health care and educational settings, and informed by contemporary dance practice and Laban Movement Analysis (LMA).On successful completion of the MA you will be able to apply to the Association of Dance Movement Psychotherapists UK for registration.
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What Jesus' encounters with women teach us about God, life, and gender
"Jesus absolutely treated women differently than the prevailing religious authorities of his time," author Mary Demuth says.
"Jesus absolutely treated women differently than the prevailing religious authorities of his time," author Mary Demuth says.
Jesus was not the first Christian; he was a faithful practicing Jewish person. According to one Catholic historian, forgetting this fact has severe consequences.
Pro-spanking Christians don't actually read the Bible as literally as they think. If they did, they wouldn't be defending their views on Twitter. They'd be complaining to the warden.
A battle over the Bible always seems to be brewing among Christians. But one scholar has a new message: stop trying to defend it!
Rev. James Martin, editor-at-large for "America" magazine, says his recent trip to the Middle East revealed surprising new truths about Jesus that many have not previously considered.
Former head of worldwide Anglican Communion shares what he believes are the four essentials for being a Christian. But he claims to have no agenda for sorting "who's in" and "who's out."
One of the most prolific and influential Bible scholars of the modern era challenges Christians to offer a "sneaky whisper" in the face of power.
One of the most formidable figures in the world of Christian thought weighs in on hot topics such as natural disasters, homosexuality, and whether he thinks Christians can believe in Darwinian evolution.
The world's leading New Testament scholar has written a controversial new book on the Bible that promises to both please and rankle Christians of almost every persuasion.
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