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Every Sunday, Christian churches in the Sioux Center community meet for worship. Students are encouraged to participate in these services. In fact, the college supports this activity by supplying transportation for students from the Campus Center to a number of churches each Sunday.
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Absentee Voting Opens for Montana's 2012 Primary Election;
Counties Mail Record Number of Ballots to State's Identified Absentee Voters
HELENA – Secretary of State and Chief Elections Officer Linda McCulloch on Monday visited the Lewis and Clark County election office to vote an absentee ballot for the 2012 Primary election. Absentee voting opened statewide today with counties mailing nearly 170,000 ballots to identified absentee voters.
|Counties mail nearly 170,000 ballots to identified absentee voters.
"It's a record for the number of absentee ballots being mailed in a Primary," Secretary McCulloch said. "Voting by absentee ballot is convenient, and as secure as voting at the polling place. It's no surprise that an increasing number of Montanans are choosing to vote this way."
The 169,286 absentee ballots being mailed to voters across Montana will reach more than 26% of the state's 638,778 registered voters. Any registered voter may still request an absentee ballot by turning in an application to the county election office before noon, on June 4, the day before the election. Applications are available on the Secretary of State's website at sos.mt.gov.
"It's important to vote in the way that is right for you," Secretary McCulloch said. "Whether you vote by absentee ballot or head to the polls on Election Day, you can be confident that your vote counts. Montana has some of the best run and most secure elections in the nation."
Monday, May 7 marks the close of regular voter registration. Those who are not registered to vote by 5:00 p.m. may still register in person at the county election office during the late registration period. Late registration is available from 8:00 a.m. on May 8 through 8:00 p.m. on June 5.
Voters on the Annual Absentee List automatically receive an absentee ballot for every election in which they are eligible to vote. To remain on the list, voters must complete and return the Annual Address Confirmation Card, which counties mail out in January of each year.
Montanans can check their voter registration status, and see if they are on the Annual Absentee List using the Secretary of State's online elections tool, "My Voter Page." Registered voters can also view a precinct-specific sample ballot for the June 5 Primary, find the location of their polling place, and track the status of their absentee ballot once one has been issued.
"If you love the convenience of voting by absentee ballot, but miss getting an "I Voted" sticker, we have you covered," Secretary McCulloch said. "You can now access a digital "I Voted" sticker from our homepage, and share it on Facebook, Twitter or your website."
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- No easy fix for refugee policy
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- If the Christmas Island tragedy is to tell us anything, it is that there is no easy fix in refugee policy. There is an understandable urge to find someone to blame for the deaths: the 'evil' smugglers for organising the journey from Indonesia; the Australian government for failing to track the vessel and render more timely assistance; the victims for getting on the boat in the first place. Pointing the finger makes a complex disaster appear more comprehensible and helps ease our distress by suggesting that such horrific events can be prevented quick and decisive policy changes. But this is a false promise. There is no easy solution---hard or soft---to Australia's boat people 'problem'.
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- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Life and Social Sciences. Institute for Social Research
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- ABC Drum, 23 November 2010
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|Pre-service training will probably be the most intense period of your Peace Corps service, as you will need to gain the knowledge and experience necessary to successfully serve as a Volunteer in just 10 weeks. While the training period will be extremely busy, it should also be a time of excitement, discovery, and self-fulfillment. The effort and challenges of adapting to a new culture will draw on your reserves of patience and humor but will be handsomely rewarded with a sense of belonging among new friends.
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Training is an essential part of Peace Corps service. The goal is to give you the skills and information you need to live and work effectively in Belize, building upon the experience and expertise you bring to the Peace Corps. We anticipate that you will approach training with an open mind, a desire to learn, and a willingness to become involved. Trainees officially become Volunteers after successful completion of training.
The training program is approximately two months long. During training, you will receive training in language, cross-cultural communication, area studies, development issues, health and personal safety, and technical skills pertinent to your specific assignment. You will also practice new skills as they apply to Belize and meet and work with current Volunteers as a group. Additionally, by living with a host family during training and by taking field trips, you will have a chance to experience local culture and customs on your own.
After you arrive, you will stay at the training center for several weeks. Then you will live with a host family for a few weeks. This experience will bring to life some of the topics covered in training and give you a chance to practice language skills and observe and participate in Belizean culture. Throughout the training program, you will receive technical training and will travel around the country to visit Volunteers involved in work similar to yours. In the last week of training, trainees return to the training center for a few final training sessions and to make preparations to move to their permanent sites.
At the outset of training, the training staff will outline the goals that each trainee has to reach before becoming a Volunteer. Evaluation of your performance during training will be a continual process, characterized by a dialogue between you and the training staff. The training staff will work with you toward the highest possible achievement of training goals by providing you with regular feedback. After successful completion of training, you will be sworn in as a Volunteer and make the final preparations for departure to your site.
Technical Training
Technical training will prepare you to work in Belize by building on the skills you already have and by helping you develop new skills in a manner appropriate to the needs of the country. The Peace Corps staff, Belizean experts, and current Volunteers will conduct the training program. Training places great emphasis on learning how to transfer the skills you have to the community in which you will serve as a Volunteer.
Technical training will include sessions on the general economic and political situation in Belize and strategies for working within such a framework. You will review your technical sector's goals and will meet with the Belizean agencies and organizations that invited the Peace Corps to assist them. You will be supported and evaluated throughout the training to build the confidence and skills you need to undertake your project activities and to be a productive member of your community.
Language Training
Although Belize is in the heart of Central America, it is an English-speaking country. The one language besides English that is used in all parts of the country is Creole, so most trainees are taught the basics of Creole during pre-service training.
Some Belizeans also speak Spanish, Garifuna, or various Mayan languages. If the people in your assigned community speak one of these languages and it becomes apparent that your work and integration into the community could benefit from learning that language, the Peace Corps will provide the necessary instruction.
Cross-Cultural Training
As part of your pre-service training, you will live with a Belizean host family. This experience is designed to ease your transition to life at your site. Families go through an orientation conducted by Peace Corps staff to explain the purpose of pre-service training and to assist them in helping you adapt to living in Belize. Many Volunteers form strong and lasting friendships with their host families.
Cross-cultural and community development training will help you improve your communication skills and understand your role as a facilitator of development. You will be exposed to topics such as community mobilization, conflict resolution, gender and development, nonformal and adult education strategies, and political structures.
Health Training
During pre-service training, you will be given basic medical training and information. You will be expected to practice preventive healthcare and to take responsibility for your own health by adhering to all medical policies. The topics include preventive health measures and minor and major medical issues that you might encounter while in Belize. Nutrition, mental health, safety and security, setting up a safe living compound, and how to avoid HIV/AIDS and other STIs are also covered.
Safety Training
During the safety training sessions, you will learn how to adopt a lifestyle that reduces your risks at home, at work, and during your travels. You will also learn appropriate, effective strategies for coping with unwanted attention and about your individual responsibility for promoting safety throughout your service.
Additional Trainings During Volunteer Service
In its commitment to institutionalize quality training, the Peace Corps has implemented a training system that provides Volunteers with continual opportunities to examine their commitment to Peace Corps service while increasing their technical and cross-cultural skills. During your service, there are usually three training events. The titles and objectives for those trainings are as follows:
- In-service training: Provides an opportunity for Volunteers to upgrade their technical, language, and project development skills while sharing their experiences and reaffirming their commitment after having served for three to six months.
- Midterm conference (done in conjunction with technical sector in-service): Assists Volunteers in reviewing their first year, reassessing their personal and project objectives, and planning for their second year of service.
- Close-of-service conference: Prepares Volunteers for the future after Peace Corps service and reviews their respective projects and personal experiences.
The number, length, and design of these trainings are adapted to country-specific needs and conditions. The key to the training system is that training events are integrated and interrelated, from the pre-departure orientation through the end of your service, and are planned, implemented, and evaluated cooperatively by the training staff, Peace Corps staff, and Volunteers.


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The seventh grade won 30-0. Jay Reagan played extremely well for his first game as an offensive lineman. Marcus Guajardo and Jacob Wyatt both had great games defensively.
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Churg Strauss Syndrome
National Organization for Rare Disorders, Inc.
It is possible that the main title of the report Churg Strauss Syndrome is not the name you expected. Please check the synonyms listing to find the alternate name(s) and disorder subdivision(s) covered by this report.
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- Churg-Strauss vasculitis
General Discussion
Churg-Strauss syndrome is a rare disorder that may affect multiple organ systems, especially the lungs. The disorder is characterized by the abnormal clustering of certain white blood cells (hypereosinophilia) in the blood and tissues, inflammation of blood vessels (vasculitis), and the development of inflammatory nodular lesions called granulomas (granulomatosis). Most affected individuals have a history of allergy. In addition, asthma and other associated lung (pulmonary) abnormalities (i.e., pulmonary infiltrates) often precede the development of the generalized (systemic) symptoms and findings seen in Churg-Strauss syndrome by as little as six months or as much as two decades. Asthma, a chronic respiratory disorder, is characterized by inflammation and narrowing of the lungs' airways, causing difficulties breathing (dyspnea), coughing, the production of a high-pitched whistling sound while breathing (wheezing), and/or other symptoms and findings.
Nonspecific findings associated with Churg-Strauss syndrome typically include flu-like symptoms, such as fever, a general feeling of weakness and fatigue (malaise), loss of appetite (anorexia), weight loss, and muscle pain (myalgia). Additional symptoms and findings may vary depending upon the specific organ systems affected. The nerves outside the central nervous system (peripheral nerves), kidneys, or gastrointestinal tract are often involved. Without appropriate treatment, serious organ damage and potentially life-threatening complications may result. Although the exact cause of Churg-Strauss syndrome is unknown, many researchers indicate that abnormal functioning of the immune system plays an important role.
Supporting Organizations
American Autoimmune & Related Diseases
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This is an abstract of a report from the National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD). A copy of the complete report can be downloaded free from the NORD website for registered users. The complete report contains additional information including symptoms, causes, affected population, related disorders, standard and investigational therapies (if available), and references from medical literature. For a full-text version of this topic, go to www.rarediseases.org and click on Rare Disease Database under "Rare Disease Information".
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For additional information and assistance about rare disorders, please contact the National Organization for Rare Disorders at P.O. Box 1968, Danbury, CT 06813-1968; phone (203) 744-0100; web site www.rarediseases.org or email email@example.com
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Compact, Versatile, High-Performance Router Blade
The Cisco Services Ready Engine (SRE) modules are router blades for the second generation of Cisco Integrated Services Routers (ISR G2) that provide the capability to host Cisco, third-party, and custom applications. A service-ready deployment model enables branch-office applications to be provisioned remotely on the modules at any time.
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This series offers opportunities for new moms to network and hear from speakers who will cover topics such as natural remedies, communicating with your baby, baby-wearing, self-care, breastfeeding, and sleep. All moms and babies are welcome. Please see the attached flyer for further details.
This series is presented by Inspire Health and Wellness Clinic and the Lyle S. Hallman Faculty of Social Work, Manulife Centre for Healthy Living.
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This composite image of the Crab Nebula uses data from three of NASA's Great Observatories. The Chandra X-ray image is shown in light blue, the Hubble Space Telescope optical images are in green and dark blue, and the Spitzer Space Telescope's infrared image is in red. The size of the X-ray image is smaller than the others because the outwardly streaming higher-energy electrons emitting X-ray light radiate away their energy more quickly than the lower-energy electrons emitting optical and infrared light. The neutron star, which has the mass equivalent to the sun crammed into a rapidly spinning ball of neutrons twelve miles across, is the bright white dot in the center of the image.
Object Names: Crab Nebula, NGC 1952
Image Type: Astronomical
Credit: NASA, ESA, CXC, JPL-Caltech, J. Hester and A. Loll (Arizona State Univ.), R. Gehrz (Univ. Minn.), and STScI
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2004: Actor Christopher Reeve, best known for playing Superman in four movies between 1978 and 1987, dies of cardiac arrest at the age of 52 in Mount Kisco, New York. The actor became a quadriplegic after being thrown from a horse during an equestrian competition on May 27, 1995, and spent much of the last decade of his life lobbying on behalf of people with spinal-cord injuries and for human embryonic stem cell research.


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Congratulations class of 2011!Wednesday, May 11th, 2011 by Helen White
The final days for the class of 2011 are flying by. Congratulations to all. During the last week of classes, I grabbed some photos of the graduating seniors from our lab.
*** Alissa Aron '11 chartered new territory and fearlessly led our lab into the atmosphere. This time last year we were wading into the literature and now we have some great data and several intriguing paths to pursue.
*** Oriana Chegwidden '11 submerged into the murky depths of the Delaware River to understand the changing inputs of petroleum to the Delaware. More mysteries were uncovered than we anticipated, at times making us feel more like detectives than chemists.
*** Louis DeRosa '11 honorary lab member, synthetic organic chemist, fieldworker extraordinaire.


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Dumping your debt: Start with a planMarch 10,2014
While your income can play a role in your debt, its really about how you spend money.
There are ways to get out of debt and remain on financial terra firma.
Its best to start with a plan. No time like the present to get realistic with your financial situation and your goals for the future.
List all your debts, income you can devote to paying them off and the disposable income expenditures you can live without at least until your debt is more manageable.
Now that you have a list, pay off the most expensive debt first. Use more income to pay off the higher-priced credit cards first, making your minimum payment on the lower cost cards if you cant afford more.
Give a call to the lower-cost card companies and inquire about transferring your higher-cost card balances. Usually consolidating your debt can be a plus for many reasons, including lowering your payments and building good credit along the way.
Speaking of building credit, I cant stress how important good credit is and how expensive it is to recover from having bad credit. This is where your financial personality comes in.
The top reasons why people fall into debt are a desire to keep up with the neighbors down the street, or the co-worker who buys a new car every other year, or some parents at school who take a winter vacation to the sunny South every February.
Another reason is the lack of discipline and losing sight of your true desire to be financially secure. Its like being on a diet and the temptation isnt a candy bar but a much bigger-ticket item.
If you cant control your impulse to spend, leave your credit and ATM cards at home. Start paying with cash.
I used to do this when I was younger and learning to spend money. When the cash in my wallet was gone, well, it was gone and I was done.
Theres nothing overly complicated about all this; developing discipline, focusing on the greater picture and planning for tomorrow will help to rein in your spending.
I have met with people barely able to keep their home, people drowning in debt. And I have seen people dig themselves out of debt. It can be done.
Getting real about your situation and beginning to pay it off will give you the confidence to avoid your former monetary habits. Turn the corner on your debt and you will be rewarded for your efforts down the road.
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Dr. John McNeill, who owns the company, said that they are excited to be able to pick up where Christus Spohn Medical Group left off.
"We have been nothing but pleased," McNeill said. "Everybody has been grateful we have been able to come in here and do that."
About 90 days ago, the Christus Spohn Medical Group made the decision that they would no longer be able to run the clinic.
McNeill was one of those who stepped in and made an offer to take it over.
He said that not having the clinic open would have hurt the health of the community here.
"It would have limited health care for a lot of people," he said.
The clinic, now named Twin Fountains Primary Care Clinic of Beeville, will be open the same hours as before. Along with that, three of the doctors, Karole Beasley, Arthur Chin and Frank R. Dehnisch Jr., all practicing family medicine, will remain at the clinic.
For those wondering why the name McNeill sounds familiar, it could be for multiple reasons.
He owns Twin Fountains Medical Clinics not just in Victoria but also in Rockport.
Of course, others may know him because he is the medical director for Angel Care Ambulance. But it may also be because he worked in the hospital emergency room in Beeville in 1998 and 1999.
"I have had a connection to Beeville for several years," he said.
Also in the works is a walk-in clinic where Dr. Chandler's medical practice was.
The building is undergoing an extensive remodel in preparation for its Sept. 3 opening date.
Inside of it will also be occupational medicine including breath alcohol testing, the ability to do Department of Transportation physicals and drug screening along with full-time digital X-rays and lab equipment.
McNeill said that he has been looking at opening the walk-in clinic for well over a year, but the decision to take over what was Beeville Medical Associates came rather quickly.
The transition, he said, has been smooth despite the speed — all within only about 30 days.
"Our goal is to make it a more patient-friendly practice," he said.
Among the numerous improvements will be a new phone system that will make getting hold of someone far easier.
He added that, despite these changes, one thing that will remain the same is their ability to work with the hospital just down the highway.
"We intend to work closely with the existing hospital," he said adding that he can also refer to other medical facilities when necessary.
McNeill had nothing but praise for the medical group's willingness to help in the transition.
"Spohn has been very good to work with," he said. "Throughout the transition, they have been very helpful."
He did have one request to the patients as the doctors open their doors Monday morning and for the next days to come.
"We ask people to be patient with us," he said. "There will be growing pains."
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Rayburn placed second in intermediate international ladies high overall, third in intermediate ladies modified trap, fourth in international ladies skeet, fourth in intermediate ladies whiz bang and fourth in intermediate ladies sporting clays.
Jacob Hahn was first in Lewis Class C whiz bang. Mayfield was fifth in junior boys American trap. Coles and Zachary Cope won the Senior 1 two-man team American skeet and took third in the two- man team in American trap.
The shooters were all presented with belt buckles for their work throughout the year at the 2014 Goliad 4-H awards banquet. Park was presented with the Male Top Gun Award. Rayburn was presented with the Female Top Gun Award and Cayla Hahn was presented with the Leadership and Determination Awards.


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The Way I See It!
I am an Ultra-Conservative, Alpha-Male, True Authentic Leader, Type "C" Personality, who is very active in my community; whether it is donating time, clothes or money for Project Concern or going to Common Council meetings and voicing my opinions. As a blogger, I intend to provide a different viewpoint "The way I see it!" on various world, national and local issues with a few helpful tips & tidbits sprinkled in.
Growing Up in the 80's
Wow Mandy Waysman after reading your blog post titled "6 Reasons '80s Childhoods Weren't as Great as We Think" I was depressed – for YOU!
Life and Doing Good
As an Alderman I care about elderly constituents and have snow blown or shoveled snow for them around my house and I was doing that before I was an Alderman because it is the right thing to do as a neighbor and as a caring member of society.
An Update On My Hand
So last Monday I was supposed to have the two pins taken out of my finger. The doctor took the x-rays, looked at them and said, "Today is the day! They are coming out!"
Today My Son Ryan Dean Would Have Been 9 Years Old
Years ago I thought with each passing year it would get easier, but it doesn't!
Native Americans Migrated From Europe
Americas' Natives Have European Roots
Saw 1 Randy 0
Warning – if blood and graphic pictures bother you don't look below. Hand photo – where the cut it goes all the way threw and is quashed back together.
Cure for Down syndrome?
From NBC News:
Pictures, Memories and Honors
It was a sad and somber Friday and Saturday going through the pictures of my aunt with my mom and dad for the funeral. We had some smiles and laughs at some of the pictures. We had many tears with most.
In Heaven Now
Mind and Heart In Conflict
I know the right thing to do but it feels like the wrong thing. I asked the vet to check the results and they didn't change. My heart hurts as the time ticks down and I see my family member and know tomorrow she will not be around. We have taken care of her for 18 years and in return she has given us so much love! Time does not heal the heart breaks and another cat will never take her place. She is special, she is loved. She looks fine but we know that is not true.
A Painful Night!
My cat Babez who had the stroke in January stopped eating and going to the litter box so we took her into the vet for tests.
The Joys of Buying a New Dishwasher
So a few years ago during a summer thunderstorm the electric in the house went off and on a few times and after the storm was over my Kenmore Elite Dishwasher (Kitchen Aid) was blinking weird codes.
Lost a Good Friend Today - Simba!
Just like her sister Nala who passed on due to cancer, today we put to sleep Simba.
Today My Son Ryan Would Have Been 8 Years Old
It is a sad day in my life and for my family.
Who Am I?
Well it should not be a shock to anyone that has known me my life or has been following the blog for the last 4+ years that I am an Ultra-Conservative! It is right there in the bio and in the posts I write. I don't hide it whatsoever!
Lost a Good Friend Today - Nala!
Today we had to put to sleep one of my office cats, Nala, that my mother-in-law took over being a great mother to her and her sister Simba. She had cancer. My housecat, Babez, would not accept the two sisters and was very mean towards them.
Observations on So Called Friends Part 1
So as you know I am brutally honest and that is the way I have always been. I don't sugar coat things or walk on eggshells, I will however use tack to get my point across. I backup my opinions with facts, figures and the truth. This is not to say I am perfect or don't make mistakes because I do. I learn from them and grow.
You Cannot Walk in Someone Else's Shoes
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view -- until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." - To Kill a Mockingbird - Atticus Finch
So Embarrassed!
A tad bit of time ago, I received an invitation to a friend of mine, who is a Cudahy Police Officer, retirement party. I was so looking forward to going. So I wrote on the family calendar July 30th.


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Stocks to Watch: Facebook, BMC Software, Apple
NEW YORK -- Facebook
The focus for investors in Facebook's report will be mobile advertising growth as the company transitions to advertising on handsets and tablets.
TheStreet will be live-blogging Facebook's earnings beginning at 3:45 p.m. EDT.
A private-equity group made up of Bain Capital and Golden Gate Capital has emerged as the lead contender to buy BMC Software
Bain and Golden Gate made a binding bid for the business software maker on April 22. The group offer more than a rival group of KKR & Co., TPG Capital and Thoma Bravo, the sources said.
One of the sources told Reuters the offers came in a range of $45 to $50 a share, valuing BMC Software at more than $6.5 billion.
BMC Software closed Tuesday at $45.58.
In the six-part offering, Apple sold debt with maturities starting in 2016 and ending in 2043, according to a regulatory filing. As part of the offering, the iPhone maker will be selling $5.5 billion worth of 10-year fixed debt, which will start trading at 75 basis points above comparable U.S. Treasury debt. Currently, the yield on a 10-year U.S. Treasury is 1.675%.
Apple will also sell $1 billion worth of three-year fixed rate notes, which will start trading at 5 basis points over the 3-month LIBOR rate.
Apple announced the debt offering as part of its massive capital return to shareholders when it reported earnings earlier this month.
Apple Sells $17B in Largest Debt Offering Ever
An acquisition of Dailymotion -- the deal was valued at $300 million -- would have been the biggest deal in the 10-month tenure of Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer, Reuters said.
Visa, Mastercard To Report Wednesday
Wall Street expects Time Warner
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A Darwinian Tale of Survival of The Kindest Friday, January 4thMain Reading RoomWine reception at 6:30pm for pre-registered guests. Program begins at 7pm
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Can science aid us in the pursuit of happiness? UC Berkeley professor Dacher Keltner makes an evolutionary case for the emergence of compassion, tracing the argument to Darwin. He will detail studies about kindness and illustrate how it is the pathway to happiness.
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Steubenville High teens moved to new facility
STEUBENVILLE — Two Steubenville High School teens found delinquent in March of rape were moved from the Jefferson County Juvenile Detention Center to an Ohio Department of Youth Services facility on Monday.
Trent Mays, 17, of Bloomingdale and Ma'Lik Richmond, 16, of Steubenville were found delinquent by visiting Judge Tom Lipps of rape in connection with an incident involving an underage girl on Aug. 11-12. Mays also was found delinquent of a charge of illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material for having a picture of the 16-year-old victim in an outgoing text message on his cell phone.
Their trial lasted four days in March before Lipps announced his verdict.
Lipps sentenced Richmond and Mays to spend at least one year in an Ohio Department of Youth Services facility or until they are 21 years old. He also ordered Mays to spend at least one year in the youth center on the charge of illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material.
Lipps said he believed the actions of Mays were more "egregious" and ordered the sentences be consecutive, meaning Mays will serve a minimum of two years.
Juvenile court probation officers transported Mays and Richmond to the Scioto Juvenile Correctional Facility in Delaware on Monday. It is a receiving center for the Department of Youth Services, where assessments of juveniles are conducted in determining where they will be permanently placed and for prioritizing rehabilitation needs.
Lipps at sentencing told the parents of the defendants to contact the state Department of Youth Services in helping determine which facility the teens will be sent.
He said the Paint Creek Light House Youth Center, a privately run Department of Youth Services facility in Bainbridge, has excellent programs for juvenile sex offenders. He said a judge must give permission for a teen to be sent there and he is willing to give such permission.
Mays and Richmond also face sex offender reporting requirements but Lipps said he wont make a decision on that until both teens are about to be released. He ordered the Department of Youth Services to provide sex-offender rehabilitation treatment.
The teens face a maximum reporting requirement of notifying the sheriff where they live every 90 days for life. There are less serious reporting requirements of twice a year for 20 years or once a year for 10 years.


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James Gilkeson
James H. Gilkeson, Ph.D., CFA, is associate professor of finance at University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida.
Areas of Expertise: interest rate risk management, embedded options
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Jim Gilkeson, CFA, is an associate professor in the department of finance at the University of Central Florida (UCF). He earned his Ph.D. in business administration (finance) from Duke University and also holds an MSM (MBA) with a concentration in finance from Georgia Tech and a B.S. in computer science from Duke.
Dr. Gilkeson joined the UCF faculty in the fall of 1994. During the 1996-1997 academic year, he was on leave from UCF while serving as a member of the Risk Analysis Division of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (U.S. Treasury Department). In September 2000, he earned the right to use the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.
Dr. Gilkeson has published numerous articles in a variety of academic and professional journals, including the Journal of Banking and Finance, the Journal of Financial Services Research, Economics Letters, The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, The Journal of Investing, the Journal of Financial Planning, Psychology and Marketing, the Journal of Business Research, the Journal of Financial Education, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Economic Review, Mortgage Banking, the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review and the AAII Journal. He has served as a consultant, analyst, and expert witness for numerous private clients, including the CFA Institute.
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Portfolio Strategies »
Many certificates of deposit (CDs) are offering higher yields than Treasuries with similar maturities, and they meet investors' need for safety.
December 2010 | Journal
Fixed-Income Strategies »
In Today's Investment Environment, Bank CDs Deserve a Fresh Look
With rising bond default rates and the lowest Treasury yields in more than a generation, investors would be wise to reconsider long-term bank time deposits as a way to earn safe returns in excess of money market yields.
February 2003 | Journal
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Unusual Investments: A Look at Viatical Settlements
Feature: Viatical settlements--investments in the life insurance policies of the terminally ill--have received considerable publicity because of high potential returns, but they are complex and difficult to analyze.
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I learn from my daughter's teacher
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Angela loses her virginity.
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He margins for a discount on a massage.
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Drawn to each other, always searching.
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Jessy invites Kelly and Emma to spend spring break with her in her new apartment.
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He had a fantasy. She was his willing partner.
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I have been asked out by a girl only once in my life. This is how it went.
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An evening of surprises.
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Wife's night out
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My wife takes pity on a lonely widower and with my encouragement becomes his lover
It is well over a quarter of a century now since I first got to know Frank. He and his wife, Jenny were very kind to us when we moved in next door with a young family, and Jenny would often babysit if we wanted to go out for the evening. Sadly, Jenny died five years ago after a long illness, just ten months before Frank's seventy-fifth birthday.However, Frank felt that she would still want him...Read On
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Alex is exposed on the beach and more
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A couple's lament, sheer passion runs wild…
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I awoke with a bursting bladder.
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Rob propositions Victoria once more. Will she go home or put in for a little overtime?
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Having thought about it for years, Nancy takes her first bold step.
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Andrea's adolescent craving for the babysitter takes an unexpected turn.
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Lucy's POV on 'the unexpected awakening'
Experience told Lucy that clichés are regularly used as a poor substitute for fact. Was she promiscuous, for example, because she had father issues? Was it perhaps that she thought it would help people to like her? Or was she the typical middle-class girl trying to show that she was, as sung in the 90's Britpop classic 'Common People', quite 'cool'? These clichés had all been used by friends...Read On
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Horny wife shares a naughty phone call with her lover while her husband sleeps beside her.
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Sandy is enjoying herself, and Mary goes along.
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The shy Horst is forced to go to Panama on a business trip, where he meets Leila
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Anthony is persuaded to cross-dress
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Derek meets his boss's wife at a formal event
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Older women are attracted to young business man.
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Our life of voyeurism leads to my middle age wife experiencing an nocturnal orgasm.
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Caine, Hall
Hall Caine 1853-1931
(Full name Thomas Henry Hall Caine) English novelist, autobiographer, critic, and playwright.
A prolific and commercially successful author in his time, Caine wrote melodramatic and moralistic novels. In his work his main purpose was to champion a strict sense of moral standards that he felt were lacking in early-twentieth-century England. Considered didactic, sensational, and pretentious, his work is virtually ignored today.
Biographical Information
Caine was born on May 14, 1853, in Runcorn, Cheshire, England. Several years of his childhood were spent on the Isle of Man, which became the primary setting of his later fiction. At the age of fourteen, he left home to study architecture in Liverpool. In 1878 he delivered a lecture at the Free Library in Liverpool on Dante Gabriel Rossetti, which inspired a friendship with the poet. This relationship resulted in Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, a memoir of Rossetti's final years. Caine worked as a journalist for the Liverpool Mercury, and the paper later serialized his first novel, A Shadow of a Crime, in 1885. After modest success with his first few works of fiction, he quit his job and returned to the Isle of Man to write full-time. In 1887 his novel The Deemster became his first bestseller. After several more commercially successful novels and dramatic interpretations of his fiction, he became a well-known cultural figure in early-twentieth-century England. From 1901 to 1908 he was a Liberal member of Parliament. During World War I he worked as a correspondent for the New York Times and wrote a series of articles urging America to join the war. For these patriotic efforts, he was knighted. On August 31, 1931, Caine died at Greeba Castle, his home on the Isle of Man.
Major Works
Caine's work is characterized by strident moralizing and sensational, often melodramatic, plots. Most of his fiction is set in the Isle of Man, his home for most of his life. In The Christian a stubborn young girl embraces religious fervor because of the charming attentions of a compelling clergyman. Set on the Isle of Man in the eighteenth century, The Deemster chronicles the fall and redemption of a young killer condemned to live in exile for many years to pay for his crime. Told over three volumes, its themes are often compared to those of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables. The plot of his most ambitious novel, The Eternal City, spans seven decades. Set in Rome, the novel follows the parallel careers of two men: the political Rossi and the spiritual Roma. The Eternal City was the first million-selling novel in England and influenced early film makers such as D. W. Griffith.
Critical Reception
Although astoundingly popular with the reading public during his lifetime, in recent years Caine's work has been assessed as melodramatic, didactic, and dull. Critics often bemoan the lack of humor and perspective in his fiction and drama. Stylistically, his work is perceived as inferior for its crude plot devices, superficial characterizations, and heavy-handed approach. Some scholars, such as Max Beerbohm, blame Caine's self-centered nature and lust for publicity for his lackluster literary efforts. These negative assessments have done much to diminish Caine's reputation and his place amongst early-twentieth-century English authors.
Principal Works
Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (memoirs) 1882
Cobwebs of Criticism (criticism) 1883
The Shadow of a Crime (novel) 1885
She's All the World to Me (novel) 1885
The Deemster (novel) 1887
Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (criticism) 1887
A Son of Hagar (novel) 1887
The Bondman: A New Saga (novel) 1889
Yan, The Icelander; or, Home Sweet Home (drama) 1900
The Scapegoat (novel) 1891
The Bondman (drama) 1892
Capt'n Davey's Honeymoon, The Last Confession, The Blind Mother (short stories) 1892
The Manxman (novel) 1894
The Christian (novel) 1897
The Eternal City (novel) 1901
The Prodigal Son (novel) 1904
Drink: A Love Story on a Great Question (novel) 1906
The Fatal Error (drama) 1908
My Story (autobiography) 1909
The White Prophet (novel) 1909
The Woman Thou Gavest Me (novel) 1913
The Iron Hand (drama) 1916
The Prime Minister (drama) 1916
The Master of Man (novel) 1921
The Woman of Knockaloe: A Parable (novel) 1923
The Nation (essay date 1909)
SOURCE: A review of My Story, by Hall Caine, Vol. 88, No. 2280, 1909, pp. 256-57.
[In the following review, the critic offers a favorable assessment of Caine's autobiography.]
It is a curious commentary on the literary life that the one chapter of Hall Caine's memoirs [My Story] to rouse wide discussion in England was the account of his income at the beginning of his career. One would never guess, from this discussion of pounds and pence, that the heart of the book was an intimate story of Rossetti's life in that muffled house at No. 16 Cheyne Walk and of his two incursions into the country for health. These memoirs, in fact, are merely the outcome, as Mr. Caine states in his introduction, of a desire to enlarge the little volume of recollections of Rossetti published immediately after the poet's death. Mr. Caine was a young clerk in Liverpool when he first attracted Rossetti's attention by a printed lecture in support of the morals of Rossetti's verse—just then a tender point with the author. A brisk correspondence ensued, chiefly on literary topics, half of which we shall no doubt have in print some day. For Rossetti's letters are preserved and make a bulk of writing greater than all his published works. Then the younger man went to live with the elder and was at his side through all the trying months until Rossetti's death.
There is little that is new in the picture of Rossetti as we now get it. He was ailing in body, suffering from his chloral habit, convinced of a general conspiracy against him, a melancholy recluse, yet still showing on occasions those flashes of intellectual power that...
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William Morton Payne (essay date 1913)
A review of The Woman Thou Gavest Me in The Dial, Vol. LV, No. 657, November 1, 1913, pp. 358-61.
[In the excerpt below, Payne derides Caine's novels as "slimy emotionalism, spiced as it is with bits of description as salacious as he dares to make them."]
Mr. Hall Caine requires nearly six hundred pages in which to tell the story of Mary O'Neill, the heroine of The Woman Thou Gavest Me. One hundred would have sufficed for all the story he has to tell, but the greater number permits him to slobber over his theme in the unrestrained and nauseating fashion that somehow seems to secure him a large following of readers. He draws his support from that subterranean or submerged public that is an eternal mystery to the critical intelligence, the public that is swayed by crude emotionalism, and upon which it seems possible to inflict any form of literary atrocity without incurring its resentment. Here is a book that will probably prove a "best seller," along with the lucubrations of Miss Corelli, Mr. Wright, and Mr. Chambers, and yet a book so offensive to anyone having the rudiments of good literary taste that its popular acceptance presents a problem in psychology that would have baffled even the comprehensive sympathies of William James. In its essence, the story seems to be a plea for the sanctity of illicit love, a brief for adultery, and an argument against the salutary laws by which church and state protect the marriage...
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P. Morton Shand (essay date 1926)
SOURCE: "Sir Hall Caine and the Greatest Public," in The London Mercury, Vol. XIV, No. 80, June, 1926, pp. 156-69.
[In the following essay, Shand discusses the defining characteristics of Caine's fiction.]
It is often one of the most baffling tasks for criticism to discover wherein lies the wider appeal of a book, and especially of those modern novels which, though they sell in hundreds of thousands, are usually considered rank outlaws from the province of fine literature. The problem, if not altogether new, is as recent as the coming of age of that vast body of potential readers enfranchised by the passing of the Education Acts. There have been many "popular"...
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John Steuart (essay date 1931)
SOURCE: "Sir Hall Caine," in The Bookman, Vol. LXXI, No. 483, December, 1931, pp. 166-67.
[In the following essay, Steuart reminisces about his relationship with Caine and assesses the author's place in contemporary English literature.]
When I first knew him Hall Caine was already in the full blaze of his remarkable popularity; that is to say, he was the most popular novelist-of the day. For a little while Miss Marie Corelli was a hot rival; but her rivalry, if exciting and spectacular, was brief. With readers in general Meredith was not in the running; nor was Hardy, at any rate until Tess unexpectedly boomed; and that was but a single success out of a series of...
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Malcolm Elwin (essay date 1939)
SOURCE: "Chapter Nine Best Sellers: Hall Caine and Others," in Old Gods Falling, The Macmillan Company, 1939, pp. 290-328.
[In the following excerpt, Elwin derides Caine's work for its "morbid gloom, sentimentality, and sanctimony."]
Symons's definition of symbolism, "a representation which does not aim at being a reproduction," could easily be distorted into Haggard's working axiom that impossibility does not matter, "provided it is made to appear possible." George Moore's pro-Zola campaign in the 'eighties, and the trend of Hardy's work, suggested an imminent adoption of realism in fiction, but the banning of Zola placed realism definitely beyond...
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N. N. Feltes (essay date 1993)
SOURCE: "The Process of Literary Capital in the 1890's: Caine, Corelli, and Bennett," in Literary Capital and the Late Victorian Novel, The University of Wisconsin Press, 1993, pp. 103-39.
[In the following essay, Feltes places Caine within the literary context of early twentieth-century English romance authors.]
[Despite the] empirical details of publishing history and literary ideology, the meanings of these materials clearly do not reside in them, there for the picking; their "meaning," … is dialectical, symptomatic of determinate historical processes. From time to time, following Bourdieu, I have introduced "objectivist" generalizations,...
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Further Reading
Allen, Vivien. Hall Caine: Portrait of a Victorian Romancer. Sheffield: Academic Press, 1997, 449 p.
Chronicles Caine's life and career.
MacCarthy, Desmond. "Rossetti and Hall Caine." In Portraits, pp. 226-33. London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1949.
Describes the friendship of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Caine.
Additional coverage of Caine's life and career is contained in the following source published by the Gale Group: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 122.
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In fact, that holds true to pretty much everything about the visuals, and that isn't really much of a surprise, given who Tarsem is and the team he has re-assembled: it's mostly the same creative team behind last year's Immortals, and whatever criticisms we can make of that film (and there are many of them), "it looks bad" sure as hell isn't one of them; Mirror Mirror is, across the board, an improvement. Ishioka's costumes, of course, and Tom Foden's production design has a flair for Disneyesque watercolor unreality that has been given physical depth and grounding, and Jille Azis and Paul Hotte's set decoration is full of gleefully overworked touches and lavish detail. The film waltzes right up to the border between hugely imaginative and garish, swirling its mile-wide dresses about in luxurious arcs as it does so, and perches just exactly on the right side of that border, and looks every inch like a real-live (or at least, reasonably well-CGI'd) version of some old book of fairy stories that you haven't seen since you were five or six years old, with gold leaf everywhere, and super-saturated colors sometimes serving as the daintiest of grace notes (in fact, for all its opulence, the film mostly limits itself to a reasonably narrow band of colors), and sometimes, particularly in the end, when the heroes have won and it's time to celebrate, like a retina-scarring orgasm of every bright color in the spectrum. It is a film that goes so far as to credit, among the main crew heads, a color designer (I didn't think to write the gentleman's name down, and I cannot find it online), which is all the proof we need to know that Tarsem had a clear idea in mind of how important bold yet disciplined use of color was going to be in the overall scheme of things.
And it's not just spectacle for the sake of it, either (a criticism that can and has been made of Tarsem's The Fall, though I'd still lay down my life in defense of that movie): all those colors are used to mark the development of the narrative and of the characters within it - the particular balance of gold and blue ends up being a nice visual shortcut to establish whether the hero or villain is in control at any given point. Though spectacle is nice too, and one of the utmost pleasures of Mirror Mirror lies in keeping track of all the niceties of detail and variety of styles in the costumes, ranging from a sleek black and blue swordfighting outfit to a masked ball full of stylistic animal costumes, and pleasure, wherever it comes, is worth having.
It's good that the movie looks so good; film being a visual medium and all, it's entirely fair to say that a huge part of the "point" of Mirror Mirror lies in creating a physically plausible version of an illustrated storybook. A+ all around on that count. It's especially good, because the story the film tells is just not quite there - not "bad", in the way that Immortals was actively bad in between all the gonzo costumes and luxurious 3-D swoops through immaculately fussy sets (Mirror Mirror is, I am happy to say, in glorious 2-D). What we've got here is a comic, slangy update of the Snow White legend, told largely from the perspective of the Wicked Queen, played with bored, self-indulgent nastiness by Julia Roberts, in an unabashed star turn that is far and away more watchable than anything she's done since Duplicity, getting some gentle digs in at the actress's advancing age while reiterating that she's a hell of a lot more fun to watch than the pretty pseudo-Audrey Hepburn starring opposite her, Lily Collins as the feisty, cloistered Snow White. It's a snarky, post-feminist version of the tale, in which Snow White fights with the handsome Prince Alcott (Armie Hammer) rather than falling in love with him, in which the seven dwarfs are a band of morally grey wise-asses, and in which the virginal princess has to take charge to win the day rather than let the prince ride to the rescue; but for all that, it's not hardly Shrek, wallowing in smug, self-congratulatory irony, with only one or two overtly "hip" moments that collapse into a pile of bitter tears - the really intensely awful moments from the trailers ("Snow White. Snow What? Snow Way!", "Say hello to my little friends") have somehow managed to avoid being in the film proper, suggesting that, like the people advertising Tangled, the people marketing Mirror Mirror are actively rooting for their film to fail.
What the film ends up being, in fact, is a very straightforward little fable that throws poppy, modern attitude into the very straight-laced world of a Grimm fairy tale, and kudos to writers Melisa Wallack and Jason Keller for letting themselves play things so square as that, even if the mixture ends up separating rather badly. It is a harmless screenplay, and that is enough to get Mirror Mirror a pass, whereas Immortals simply sucked too hard to overlook it; for the totality of Tarsem's vision, aided by all the wonderful people who helped him bring it together, is just too damn delicious to write the whole thing off on account of it not being either clever or funny in its redressing of fairy tale tropes, and on account of nobody in the cast besides Roberts (and Nathan Lane, as her toady, in a few of his scenes, and Mare Winningham, who barely gets any screentime as the kindly head of the castle kitchen) really has any idea of what they're doing or why. And the concluding Bollywood pastiche is bright and kinetic, and set to a ludicrously earwormy song, whose hook is the phrase "I believe", repeated 12 times ("believe" is a totemistic word throughout the movie"). The visuals are nowhere near as ambitious as they are in either The Fall or The Cell, Tarsem's two reigning masterpieces, but as sheer eye-candy goes, Mirror Mirror is unlikely to be passed or even given a real run for its money in the rest of 2012. That's not the best reason to endorse a movie, of course, but for some of us, it's just enough.
14 comments:
- Colin said...
Navigated to your blog. Saw the poster for Mirror Mirror. Said to my girlfriend, "Oh, this is gonna be good." She glanced at my screen, paused The X-Files on Netflix and said, "Read it out loud." Made it three whole paragraphs before we realized you weren't just setting up the world's biggest "But..."
That's how certain we both were it was going to be terrible.
- Tim said...
I was pretty certain of it, myself; the fact that it's not really at all the movie that was being advertised helps a lot.
If you want some good ol' fashioned Antagony snark, the very next thing I write about (probably on Saturday) is going to be Nights in Rodanthe.
- Christopher Neeson said...
Immortals was one of the most poorly designed movies of 2011, and I was frankly shocked to see so many people praise its visuals. The Minotaur was far and away one of the worst-designed creatures of the year, and Olympus looked terribly lazy.
I found Mirror Mirror to have a very cheap, stagey look, less storybook and more like a desperate, gaudy approximation but I've never found Tarsem's visuals to be particularly compelling so I am clearly not so fit to judge.
- Christopher Neeson said...
And even though the film does not have some of the worst scenes from the trailer, it still has:
1) Armie Hammer acting like a dog, which plays like a bad improv exercise to break the ice.
2) The Prince's remark when he tries to dissuade Snow White from fighting alone, which feels out of place, as if the movie thinks it's breaking the post-Alice in Wonderland stereotypes.
3) Julia Roberts getting bird shit spread across her face.
- JenSmall said...
I agree that the script was only so-so, but just as a reference, I took my 7 year old son and our neighbor's 5 year old daughter, and had a fantastic time. Although it's rated PG, it TOTALLY played to the G-rated set. Only a few scary scenes, totally manageable. And Mommy got to look at the beautiful, beautiful costumes! So if you go into it as a kids' movie it works much better.
- M.C. said...
"a criticism that can and has been made of Tarsem's The Fall, though I'd still lay down my life in defense of that movie"
Out of curiosity, Tim, just how good does a movie have to be before you'd lay down your life defending it? I feel an urgent need to go out and rent The Fall now.
- Rebecca said...
Everyone should have an urgent need to see The Fall. I now have an urgent need to see The Fall and I have already seen it.
- RickR said...
I haven't seen a Tarsem movie since "The Cell", which I despised. It's weird mix of fastidious Kabuki theatre tableau wedded to a gritty hunt-for-a-serial-killer plot was beyond silly (and pretentious).
Knowing that, would anyone recommend "The Fall" to me? Or should I pass?
- Tim said...
I'm definitely not objective enough about Tarsem to do this conversation any good, though I will say this: The Fall and The Cell aren't much like each other at all, except that whatever plot they have is mostly an excuse for imagery. Even the visual style isn't really the same.
Also, I wouldn't just lay my life down for a movie because it's good. Not all of them need my effusiveness - Play Time, for example, is one of my all-time favorites, but it's a canonised masterpiece. The Fall, though, just seems to need my help. And it seems to be a movie that inspires weirdly intense passion among the people who admire it, anyway.
- Colin said...
The visual styles of The Fall and The Cell are similar enough that, when I saw The Fall not having any idea who Tarsem was, I said, "This reminds me of The Cell."
- Rebecca said...
I'm not a huge fan of The Cell either. I didn't hate it, but I can see where RickR is coming from. The Fall is much more based in reality, in that the fantasy imagery that everyone loves comes from a story that is being told to a child as opposed to coming from a magical hallucination machine. The Cell is a sci-fi horror and The Fall is a drama with pretty pictures.
As for the visuals, I can see several similarities between the two. Not entirely, but especially toward the end of The Cell. I think it's after they reverse the signal to JLo. That part reminds me of parts of The Fall. So really, comparing the two is a question of what exactly you didn't like about The Cell.
- javi75 said...
When I first saw one of the tv-spots for this thing, with the courtier people dancing to some pop song in a castle, I swear to god I thought they were re-releasing "Ella Enchanted" or something.
- JD said...
When I saw the preview in theaters, I assumed this would get the Right-Aligned Poster of Disapproval. And when I saw the Left-Aligned Poster of approval, I thought "Man, if it's at all worthwhile, then that must've been some terrible marketing, like, Tangled-bad. But if they keep the jokes from the previews, it can't possibly be 'can't miss,' just a 'it's worth the price of admission' rating."
And lo and behold, I got the trifecta: Marketing slam, Tangled comparison, and a 6/10 (positive) rating.
- Shalen said...
I hated this film. It has the kind of feminist outlook thought up by the males in marketing who probably invented the phrase girl power, and the heroine is vapid and uninteresting, and great Cthulhu, Armie Hammer. It plays like someone saw Snow White: A Tale Of Terror and said, 'Hey, wouldn't that be great if we cut off its balls and doused it in glitter?'
Now I'll have to go watch that again to get the taste out of my brain.


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