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Movie Reviews - 2011 postsFriday September 12, 2014
Movie Review: Red State (2011)
For an hour I was impressed. Unfortunately, this thing lasts an hour and a half.
I didn't pay much attention to "Red State" and its surrounding controversy when it arrived in 2011. Maybe because the controversy arrived and the movie didn't. After so-so reviews at Sundance, writer-director Kevin Smith created his own company, SModcast Pictures, to distribute it. Kinda sorta. "Red State," according to Box Office Mojo, played in five theaters in March, one in August, and one at the end of September. Then it went to VOD. Then it disappeared. Blip.
Part of the problem is the one Philip Roth identified in 1961—the difficulty of making the absurdity of American life credible—but at least in one area Smith doesn't do poorly. He gives us a version of the virulently anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church, but with guns guns guns. He puts us in their church. He forces us to hear their sermon. Then he gets trigger-happy. He dramatizes not only a version of Westboro but a version of Waco. Equal time, I suppose. Doesn't work. Falls flat. Feels false.
Plus, for a movie that makes a homophobic group the enemy, it feels a little homophobic.
A vengeful God
Three teenage boys are hanging out, bored and horny, in a small Southern town. One, Travis (Michael Angarano), late for school, sees a protest by the Five Points Trinity Church and its leader, Rev. Abin Cooper (a stellar Michael Parks), at the funeral of a homosexual kid who was recently murdered. It's Westboro's "God Hates Fags" package with one exception: Five Points Church actually murdered this kid. We find that out later.
One of Travis' friends, Jarod (Kyle Gallner), has found an older woman on the Internet (Melissa Leo) willing to put out. Since boys will be boys, they visit her at her trailer—sidewiping a car en route. There, they drink beer, get undressed, pass out. Drugged. A trap. When Jarod awakes, he's in a covered cage, inside the Five Points Trinity Church, where Abin Cooper begins his sermon.
Cooper talks about the horrors of modern American society and its homosexual agenda. He preaches on Noah and the Flood: how God killed everyone but one family. He mocks softer churches that talk of a loving God. Does the Noah story sound like a loving God, he asks? God, he says, demands fear. Then he and the members of his church, nice, middle-aged folks, reveal a homosexual kid shrinkwrapped to the cross, whom they kill. Then they push him through a trap door and into the basement, where Travis and the third friend, Billy-Ray (Nicholas Braun), are tied up. Then they begin to shrinkwrap Jarod to the cross.
These are intense scenes—the best part of the movie—and Parks completely sells them. He's awful and charismatic and in some sense logical. If you believe in the Flood, why would you believe in a loving God? Jesus' corrective notwithstanding.
The kind of preaching Cooper does is actually in Kevin Smith's wheelhouse. I don't think I've seen a Kevin Smith movie as interesting as Kevin Smith talking. YouTube has tons of these videos. He's a racounteur. So it makes sense he's at his best when he lets one of his characters speechify.
But then we get into the Waco portion of the story. From wacko to Waco.
A vengeful government
Remember the sideswiped car? Turns out the local Sheriff (Stephen Root) was inside, where he was giving head to another guy. Back at the office, cowardly, shaking, he tells his deputy, Pete (Matt Jones, Badger from "Breaking Bad"), to track down the other car. Pete, it turns out, is pretty good at his job. He does it. It's at the Five Points Church, where Pete is in the process of being mollified by Abin Cooper until a gunfight breaks out between one of the parishioners and an escaped Billy-Ray, both of whom buy it. Pete buys it, too, but not before calling in the gunfight to the cowardly gay Sheriff. At which point the cowardly gay Sheriff calls in ATF Agent Joseph Keenan (John Goodman).
Keenan first has to convince his superior to get involved; then he has to convince him to get involved in a measured way. Apparently, the superior, whom, like God, we never see, wants to kill everyone inside—women and children included. It's the story of Noah all over again. But this is about the time my attention began to waver. I didn't buy it. Seemed like bullshit. And why does Keenan have to convince another agent to follow these orders when he doesn't?
It's all scattershot and the body count mounts up. There goes Travis, who gets it in the head—ironically, from the cowardly gay Sheriff. There goes Agent Brooks (Kevin Pollack), who's barely in this thing. He says a couple of witty lines and is gone. Shame. There goes the cowardly gay Sheriff.
We've got one guy left: Can Caleb survive? Do we care? There's an odd scene, or several scenes, between Caleb and Cheyenne (Kerry Bishé), the cute, blonde Five Pointser, who is trying to bargain for the lives of the babies in contradiction to the "blaze of glory" end demanded by Cooper. Both she and Caleb wind up getting killed in cold blood by ATF agents. As always happens. Then the trumpet sounds, announcing the return of God to the world. Or so Cooper believes. It's actually pot growers next door, playing a joke on him with a huge horn, a huge amplifier, and an iPod. (Not a bad bit, but couldn't they hear the automatic weapons fire?) Keenan explains all of this at an inquiry that really isn't an inquiry, where he's both suspended and promoted. It's supposed to be a cynical end but the cynicism is immature. There's nothing subtle about it.
That's always been Smith's problem: a lack of maturity and subtlety. I get it with "Clerks"; Smith was only 24 then. Now he's into his 40s. Time to grow up a bit.
Posted at 06:05 AM on Sep 12, 2014 in category Movie Reviews - 2011
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Movie Review: Dolphin Tale (2011)
My review of "Dolphin Tale 2" will be in The Seattle Times on Friday ...
Picking on "Dolphin Tale" is like picking on the polite kid at school with the combed hair and the shirt buttoned to the top. Only a jerk would do it.
Here I go.
Sawyer Nelson (Nathan Gamble) is a quiet kid in the small, coastal town of Clearwater, Fla. His dad ran off five years ago, his mom (Ashley Judd, everyone's mom now) is a busy nurse, while his favorite cousin, the hunky state swimming champion Kyle (Austin Stowell), has joined the Army to save money to train for the Olympics. Because that's how it's done these days. State swimming champions don't go to college, and Olympic hopefuls don't get funding; they just go off to war in their athletic prime and hope to return whole. Since the movie is about a dolphin without a tail, you kind of know where this subplot is going.
Besides being a Mr. Fix-It in the garage, Sawyer is also dumb. Or at least he's flunking school: Ds and Fs. That's why he has to go to summer school. And that's where he's biking one morning when the Old Jewish Fisherman on the beach ('70s sitcom staple Richard Libertini) tells him to call 911 because a dolphin has washed ashore tangled in ropes and nets. Sawyer, with the trusty Swiss Army knife his cousin gave him ("Family is Forever" inscribed on the side), cuts the worst of the ropes off and talks to the dolphin until a rescue unit arrives. This unit is led by ultra-serious dad, Clay (Harry Connick, Jr.), chatty daughter Hazel (Cozi Zuehlsdorff), and the usual background contingent of buff dudes and fit girls.
Sawyer slowly gets immersed in their world. He shows up uninvited, meets a comic-relief pelican, Rufus, and discovers that the dolphin he rescued, named "Winter" by Hazel, is slowly dying. Ah, but Winter revives when she hears Sawyer's voice! She starts trilling. She starts caring. So Sawyer is allowed to stay.
Except wait, isn't he supposed to be going to summer school? Ah, but his mom decides, after one line of dialogue from Kyle's father (who knows best), that this is a better experience for Sawyer than diagramming stupid old sentences in a classroom.
Except then Winter loses her tail; it was just too damaged by the crab trap. Ah, but with Sawyer's help, she learns to swim side to side rather than up and down!
Except this damages her spine. And the spine is everything. Ah, but at the local VA hospital, where Kyle is recuperating from damaging his leg in one of America's many unnamed wars, Sawyer meets a prosthetist, Dr. Cameron McCarthy (Morgan Freeman, on loan from Bruce Wayne), and convinces him to create a prosthetic for Winter!
Except Winter won't wear the prosthetic. Ah, but ...
And thus the movie stutters along in this episodic manner: from "Except" to "Ah, but!" From handwringing conflict to facile resolution.
By the end, the major conflicts are three-fold: 1) Will Kyle get out of his funk?; 2) Can Morgan Freeman create a prosthetic Winter will wear?; and 3) Can they save Mr. Clay's aquarium from being shut down? The resolution to this last is particularly facile. The aquarium and land, without government funding, is bought by a rich developer, Philip J. Hordern (Tom Nowicki, looking like Richard Branson), who plans to turn it into seaside resorts. Except the kids do an Andy Hardy number and put on a show that's hugely successful, particularly with amputees, and it melts the developer's heart; and he lets them keep the aquarium and do whatever they want with it. Cue cheers.
"Dolphin Tale," written by Karen Janszen ("Free Willy 2," "Duma") and directed by Charles Martin Smith (my man from "American Graffiti," "Starman," and "The Untouchables"), is based on a true story. Winter exists, the prosthetic exists, she's an inspiration to amputees. So you feel like a shit saying anything bad about it. But the story they've constructed around this true story is steeped in an anodyne 1950s TV sensibility, where fathers know best, women and girls have clumsy enthusiasm, and everything is telegraphed so we won't be worried for long. I imagine the real story is much more interesting.
Posted at 05:43 AM on Sep 08, 2014 in category Movie Reviews - 2011
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Movie Review: Super (2011)
"I've wondered all the time why no one's ever stood up and become a real superhero."
That's Libby (Ellen Page), early in James Gunn's low-budget, Troma-inspired "Super," before she becomes Bolty, girl sidekick and sometime lover (or rapist) to the Crimson Bolt (Rainn Wilson). Anyone not caught up in a fantasy world, of course, knows the answer to this one, and it comes to Libby later in the movie. Too late, it turns out.
She and the Crimson Bolt are storming the palace of drug lord Jacques (Kevin Bacon, in an amused performance), until one of the bad guys shoots them both and they fall in the high grass. By this point, we know they're wearing body armor so we're not worried. And sure enough, Frank Darbo, the Crimson Bolt, groans, shakes his head and begins to get up. He shakes Bolt Girl, who is lying on her side away from him—c'mon, get up—and she rolls on her back and half her face is gone.
That's the answer. That's why no one's ever stood up and become a real superhero. Because bullets don't bounce off.
Credit "Super" for not imagining otherwise. "Kick Ass," which was released a year earlier, and had a bigger budget and bigger stars, pretends a young girl with martial arts moves can take on a roomful of bad guys and not get injured. That movie feigns ironic indifference to the very thing it desperately wants: wish-fulfillment fantasy.
"Super" doesn't. But it's still an odd movie. It still sends mixed messages. It still gives us an improperly sweet ending.
Finger of God
Frank Darbo is a man for whom two good things happened in his life: he pointed out a thief to a cop ("He went in there, Officer!"), and a beautiful girl, Sarah (Liv Tyler), agreed to marry him. He draws pictures of both of these things and puts them on his wall. Then Sarah gets involved with drugs again and Frank is too weak to stop her. Then she leaves him for Jacques, the local, genial drug lord.
Jacques is so genial, in fact, and Frank so grotesquely, huffingly obstinate, it's as if Frank is the villain. Frank goes to the cops, who tell him they can't arrest Jacques for winning the girlfriend battle. Frank goes to Jacques, who remains good-natured even as Frank pounds on his car. But then Jacques' men, including Michael Rooker, pound on Frank.
Why the superhero route? Because Frank comes across a TV show, "Holy Avenger," in which the long-haired pot-bellied hero (Nathan Fillion) uses the power of Christ to defeat villains and keep the same two clean-cut teens on the straight and narrow. Apparently this show is based on some direct-to-video thing called "Bibleman," starring Willie Aames, which is an odd thing to parody—something that's barely made inroads into popular culture. Oh, and Frank also has a dream, or maybe a vision, in which his skull is cut open and his brain touched by the finger of God.
Despite God, his crime-fighting starts poorly. He hangs behind a garbage dumpster for a few days waiting for crime to happen. In his first encounter, a drug dealer pulls his mask down ("No fair! No fair!") and Frank is forced to run. So he returns to the local comic book store, where Libby works, and asks a question: How do superheroes without superpowers get by? Libby shows him Batman, who has a utility belt, and the Green Arrow, who has his arrows, and Frank decides on a weapon: a pipe wrench. He clocks bad guys on the head with it then says his line: DON'T STEAL! DON'T MOLEST KIDS! DON'T DEAL DRUGS!
Is he too distracted? What does fighting crime have to do with rescuing Sarah? He gets further distracted waiting for a movie only to have a middle-aged couple butt in line. He speaks up; they sass back. Then he splits the guy's head open. It's actually kind of funny—the awfulness of what he does—but then Libby, guessing his identity, defends him to him. "I hate when people butt," she says. That's kind of funny, too.
Libby is there to make the wholly unreasonable Frank seem entirely reasonable. She insists on dressing up as his sidekick, all 5' 1" of her, and taking out a smarmy dude who keyed her friend's car. She crashes a glass vase over the dude's head but afterwards reveals doubt about the crime. "Yeah, pretty sure it was him," she says. She rams one bad guy into a wall with Frank's car and revels in his pain:
That's what you get for fucking with the Crimson Bolt and Boltie, cocksucker! Now your legs are gone! Ha ha ha ha ha! .... It's called internal bleeding, fucker!
People cheer.
I assume we're supposed to laugh and be horrified at the same time—that's what I did anyway—I just can't tell if there's more going on or less. The goal of "Super" is to shock us with the consequences of violence, but to what end? To what alternative? And what to make of the sex?
Right, the sex. Libby comes on to Frank. She asks to make out with him. Later, she rapes him. If "no means no," she rapes him. It never would have made it off the page, let alone on screen, if the genders had been reversed, but here it's, I don't know, horrific and funny again. And sexy? A bit.
Plus her action spurs Frank to action, to taking on what he's been putting off. They attack Jacques' place, and Libby sacrifices half her face, and her life, but the Crimson Bolt kills everyone else, and rescues Sarah, who's a virtual prisoner by this point, a near rape victim herself. In a few months, we're told in an afterword, she leaves Frank again to marry a better man. She has four kids with him. These kids call Frank "Uncle Frank"; and Frank, who began the movie with only two good memories, and who was too timid to even buy a rabbit for a pet, now holds his pet rabbit while gazing at a wall full of great memories he's had from the adventures we've just watched, and his voiceover searches for a greater meaning to everything that's happened.
Mixed feelings
Now I guess I'm doing that. I'm searching for greater meaning to everything that happened.
"Super" was written and directed by James Gunn, who also wrote "The Specials," a lame superhero parody from 2000, but is this movie even a superhero parody? I like the scene where, in the mirror, a la Travis Bickle, the Crimson Bolt tries out his signature lines:
- Everybody give up!
- It's me, the Crimson Bolt!
- You just made the biggest mistake of your life!
Before settling on one:
- Shut up, Crime! Here's the Crimson Bolt ... Crime.
But the Crimson Bolt isn't super. He knows no skill like Batman or Green Arrow or Zorro. If anything, the movie feels like a parody of vigilante movies or worm-turns movies than superhero movies. It's a "true life" version of those genres. It reveals, via an imperfect, dangerous hero, the awful violence implicit in our stories. Gunn doesn't clean it up; he doesn't make it easy for us. We are revealed by what we want—even as he sometimes gives us what we want.
Overall "Super" gives us massive mixed feelings. When the Crimson Bolt stabs Jacques to death, he says the following:
You don't butt in line! You don't sell drugs! You don't molest little children! You don't profit off the misery of others! The rules were set a long time ago! They don't CHANGE!
This is wrong twice over:
- The rules do change
- The rule that changes least is the one Frank is engaged in.
Would the movie have been better if it had not played up Jacques' 11th-hour villainy—allowing Sarah, for example, to be nearly raped? If Jacques had remained fairly genial throughout? If Sarah had been watching TV when Frank burst in? Would it have been better without the semi-sweet ending, which allows Frank both epiphany and happiness? His epiphany involves self-sacrifice, in letting Sarah go, which is also how he finds happiness. Fine. But Libby is still dead, dozens have been wasted, and that couple in line still had their heads cracked. It gives us sweet when we needed a little more horror.
Posted at 07:08 AM on Sep 11, 2013 in category Movie Reviews - 2011
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Movie Review: The Intouchables (2011)
There's a scene 30 minutes into "The Intouchables," the second-highest-grossing film in French history (after "Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis"), in which a family friend of French aristocrat and paraplegic, Philippe (Francois Cluzet), warns him about his new North African caretaker, Driss (Omar Sy).
By this point in the movie we've seen Driss: 1) barge into the job interview for the caretaker position by pretending to be someone else; 2) proposition Philippe's red-headed assistant, Magalie (Audrey Fleurot) at the job interview; 3) steal a Faberge egg from same; 4) still get the job; 5) object to the most basic elements of the job, such as fitting Philippe with support hose; 6) pour boiling water on Philippe's legs because he has trouble comprehending that Philippe feels nothing below the neck; 7) poke Philippe in the eye with a forkful of food because he's watching Magalie's ass; 8) refuse to give Philippe chocolates (M&Ms), saying "No handy, no candy"; and 9) disparage the artwork Philippe buys.
So by this point, the family, and the family friend, are justifiably concerned. "These street guys," the family friend says at an expensive café, "they have no pity."
"Exactly," Philippe responds. "And that's what I want. No pity."
It's the first true moment in the movie. It's practically the last.
Our asshole
What to make of the appeal of this film? Google "the intouchables" and "magic negro" and you get 1,200 results from critics in America, where the film grossed $10 million. What must the French, with their tendency toward philosophizing, be saying? That Philippe is representative of modern France, a once-strong entity now reduced to wriggling its head helplessly? That the old, crippled France needs younger, more brash immigrants to revive it? That France, made immobile by centuries of crippling civilization, needs to find its brash voice again?
Who are the intouchables of the title? Both men, one assumes: the North African immigrant and the paraplegic. French society doesn't want to touch either. They don't know how to deal with either. If that's the idea, we don't get enough of it in the movie. No one stares awkwardly at Philippe. They tend to react with fear to Driss only when he physically threatens them.
Are we supposed to like Driss? He's an asshole but the movie stacks the decks in his favor. At the job interview, the other applicants, with their degrees and knowledge and empathy, can't answer the actorly question, "What's your motivation?" Money, one says. The men, says another. I like crippled people, says a third. The question is never asked of Driss because we know the answer. He wanted the signature that showed he was looking for a job so he could continue to receive unemployment benefits.
There's a jerk, a businessman, nouveau riche (you know), who parks his sports car in front of Philippe's gated driveway, talking on his cellphone all the while, so Driss strongarms him, threatens him, to the smiles of the servant, Yvonne (Anne Le Ny) inside. Philippe's daughter goes out with a boy with swooshy hair, who dumps her and calls her "a whore," so Driss strongarms him, too. Demands croissant pour la famille tous le matin. The boy is dutiful. He even puts his hair in a barrette as Driss suggests. Driss may be an asshole, but he's our asshole.
We get a bonding scene. One night Philippe wakes in a panic with labored breath, barely able to talk, and Driss put a warm compress on his face and talks him through it. He brings him outside in the night air. They stroll along the Seine. "It's been ages since I've seen Paris at night," Philippe says. Good, sad line. They talk about girls, sex. "How do you …?" Driss asks. "You adapt," Philippe says. "You find pleasure elsewhere." The ears, for example. Odd that he doesn't talk about giving pleasure. He can still do that, yes? The two smoke pot. Philippe barely seems to know what it is, what it does. Assume Philippe is Cluzet's age. That means he was born in 1955. That also means he was 18 in 1973, 21 in 1976. And he doesn't know from pot? Please.
We wind up at Le Deux Magots at dawn and get some of Philippe's backstory. He always liked extreme sports, he says. He liked speed. He went paragliding in heavy winds, crashed, broke his 3rd and 4th vertebrae. Et voila. At the same time his wife contracted an illness and died. "My real handicap," he says, "is living without her." Another nice line.
But at the moment he's corresponding by mail with a woman named Eléonore (Dorothée Bričre), who lives in Dunkirk. He dictates purplish prose to Magalie, who sends off the letters. When Driss listens to the awful dictations, when he finds out this has been going on for six long months, he takes matters into his own hands, as he is wont to do. He snatches one of the letters off the lap of the helpless Philippe, finds Eléonore's number, calls, puts Philippe on. Magalie does nothing. In this moment she's as helpless as Philippe. Of course Philippe loves it. Of course this is what he wanted all along. Photos are then exchanged. (Turns out Eléonore is gorgeous.) A meeting is set up. But Philippe is nervous, too nervous, and leaves just as Eléonore is entering. We see, he doesn't. La tragedie.
The movie keeps doing this. Driss will act the asshole, but he's either our asshole or he's doing something the characters wanted all along. So it's good. We were just too uptight, see? We were paralyzed with inaction. Thank God we hired this asshole. He's making everything right.
Buying into the bullshit
Eventually Driss' own life, in the form of a cousin being enticed and/or harassed by a drug-dealing gang, shows up, and Driss must return to it. This doesn't ring true, either. Driss finally has a good job, with good pay, but he's going to leave it in order to help his family? Really? We see him and his cousin meet the hard-working family matriarch (aunt/mother, respectively) at the train station and carry her bags. I liked that scene. We see Driss talk to the gang members in their black SUV. I didn't like that scene. Because apparently that took care of the problem. Just that.
Meanwhile, Philippe is lapsing. None of the other caretakers work out. They're too polite, no fun, don't get it. When Philippe asks for a massage, the caretaker brings in a dude, for God's sake, rather than two Asian babes who will massage both men while they smoke pot, as Driss had done. And Philippe can't ask for himself. Because while some of Philippe's culture rubbed off on Driss, none of Driss' matter-of-fact brashness rubbed off on Philippe. So in the end, after a bad episode, they have to call Driss back, and he takes Philippe first on a joyride, then on a carride to a seaside town, where they go to lunch. That's where Driss abandons him. Why? Guess. Right. Eléonore. And she and Philippe meet and fall in love. And Yvonne winds up dating one of Philippe's relatives, and Magalie's girlfriend (ah ha!) moves in with her, and we get a final shot of the real Philippe and Driss looking out to sea—because apparently this bullshit is based on a true story—and all is right with the world.
France loved it: $166 million at the box office in 2011. (Perspective: The No. 1 box office hit in France in 2012, "Skyfall," grossed $60 million.) It was nominated for nine Césars, including best film, best director, best original screenplay, and two nominations for best actor. It won one: best actor for Omar Sy. Over Jean Dujardin in "The Artist."
Me, I felt trapped 10 minutes in. I felt paralyzed, helpless, forced to endure the movie's odd form of race fantasy and wish-fulfillment fantasy. Philippe isn't representative of the problems of modern France; the success of "The Intouchables" is. Even France buys into the bullshit.
Posted at 06:51 AM on Apr 08, 2013 in category Movie Reviews - 2011
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Movie Review: The Monk (2011)
For half the movie we're wondering: Is it "the devil is a woman" or is it just the devil? The answer disappoints. Me anyway.
Vincent Cassel plays Capucin Ambrosio, who, as a baby, was left at the doorstep of a monastery in 16th-century Spain. The title graphic, "1595," intrigues on its own when you consider that, for most movies, 1979 is ancient history. (The source material, by the way, is a gothic novel first published in 1796 by Matthew G. Lewis, Esq., who was not yet 20 years old. It's been filmed twice before: in 1972 starring Franco Nero; and in 1990 starring Paul McGann. We get a new version every 20 years, basically.)
Groupie? Snake? Gateway drug?
The movie opens with Ambrosio in the confessional telling a penitent, a man known only as Le Débauché (Sergi Lopez), that "Satan only has the power we give him." Turns out Le Débauché has given Satan much power. He talks of falling, again and again. He talks of sleeping with his niece several times a day. "What an exquisite abyss," he says with wonder in his voice. He seems to be enjoying his confession. Ambrosio is not amused. His eyes get darker and spookier. This is Vincent Cassel, after all.
At this point, Ambrosio is something of a local legend. He is a firmly devout man who is able to communicate his faith, and the glory of God, to others. "His faith is so alive it swept my heart away," says one supplicant, Antonia (Joséphine Japy), who faints after a sermon. We can't help notice she's pretty.
Then we follow several storylines:
- Ambrosio's mentor is dying, and warns of great evil all around.
- A boy in a mask, a burn victim who has lost his parents, Valerio, asks to join the monastery. "I want to withdraw from the world and be closer to God," he says. The other monks are doubtful and fearful; Ambrosio lets him in.
- A nun visiting Ambrosio's confessional drops a note indicating an illicit relationship. She begs understanding but Ambrosio gives her up. "Instead of fleeing punishment," he tells her, "you should yearn for it." She gets it. Pregnant, she's imprisoned by L'abesse (Geraldine Chaplin) until she starves to death. She blames Ambrosio for her fate.
- Antonia is courted by a handsome noble but her mother, Elvire (Catherine Mouchet), haunted by her own past, is doubtful.
We wonder how these stories will come together. Antonia's, in particular, seems to have no relation to Ambrosio's. Until it does.
The mentor dies, the nun dies, Valerio is revealed to be a girl (Deborah Francois of "Les tribulations d'une caissičre"), who wants to be closer, not to God, but to Ambrosio. Is she an early version of a groupie? She asks for a rose from his garden before he sends her away, but as he reaches for it a scorpion bites him and poisons him. Near death, Valerio arrives and … Does she suck the poison out? Does she make love to him? Both? He lives, realizing he's sinned, then sins again. She's less groupie than the snake who has entered his Garden of Eden. But is she the snake?
The world turns dark. A fellow monk, about to finger Ambrosio for his infidelity, is killed by a fallen gargoyle. When Ambrosio investigates on the roof of the monastery, he realizes, as do we, that he's living through a moment he's dreamed about several times. Over the parapet, on the ground, he sees a woman in a red cloak praying in the baking sun. In his dream he reaches for her but can't touch her. Now he does. It's Antonia. She wants him to console her mother, who is dying and haunted by her past. He does. But now he's haunted by his present and Antonia.
Rebuffed, Valerio offers Ambrosio a further temptation: a floral aphrodisiac, or organic date-rape drug, with which to seduce Antonia. He takes it, takes her, and the two of them, naked, are discovered by Elvire, who recognizes the birthmark on Ambrosio's shoulder as the birthmark of the baby she gave up. Ambrosio is her child! And he's sleeping with his sister! But before Elvire can say anything, Ambrosio wakes, walks up to her, and kills her. His mother.
By this point, yeah, I'd lost interest.
Why Satan should stay on the sidelines
While Ambrosio is worth watching in his moral rectitude, he's not at all interesting in his fall—or in how he falls. It's an unfair fight, really. Throughout I kept wondering what sexual release 17th-century monks had. None? How impossible. And to then have Satan gang up on you? Poison you and entice you with beautiful French girls? Speaking for men, we have little shot even if Satan stays on the sidelines. Once he gets into the game, it's over.
The interesting battle, in other words, is internal, not external. The interesting foe is within, not without.
"The Monk" ("Le Moine"), directed by Dominik Moll ("With a Friend Like Harry…"), is beautifully photographed by Patrick Blossier, who juxtaposes the cool monastery with the white-hot, baked surroundings. As always, Vincent Cassel is a force, here mostly held in check. Joséphine Japy has a delicate beauty. But I'm not a fan of gothic anything.
After his trial but before his death, Satan finally appears before Ambrosio. He's Le Débauché, from the beginning, who throws Ambrosio's own words back at him: "Satan only has the power we give him." Then a final deal is struck. Antonia has gone mad (her rapist is her brother who kills their mother) and Ambrosio sells his eternal soul to make her well and happy. One wonders: Is this redemption for Ambrosio, since it's the ultimate sacrifice? Or is it the final step in Ambrosio's fall, since his eternal soul belongs to Satan? At which point, black birds, who pecked at the baby Ambrosio at the doorstep of the monastery, pick at the remains of the grown man, dead in the desert.
So probably the latter.
-- March 10, 2013
Posted at 06:19 AM on Mar 11, 2013 in category Movie Reviews - 2011
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*** You can click my name ▲ at the top of this review (blue text) to visit my profile and learn more, thanks! *** I love mineral makeup and this everyday minerals base is fantastic. The composition is very simple so out are most of the nasty chemicals you can find in other brands. And it does the job! The coverage can be build-up and it still looks very natural. It is also very easy to find your perfect shade as everyday minerals provide sets of 3 different shade tester at mini-price. The shade multi-tasking neutral is great for my fair skin with pink undertones. *** If you found this review helpful, please click the "helpful"-button below the review, thanks! ***
Love this make up!!
Posted by MyDewHerb on Jun 08, 2014
The great thing about mineral make up is that you can gradually build it's coverage, so this powder make up is perfect for me. My skin is regular and I have some sun spots and some blemishes (depends on the day of the month :/..) I love using this for the hot summer says because it will not irritate my skin and it makes the kin feel and look more even and clean. I already purchased my second package :)
worse than Matte base for combined skin type
Posted by OksanaM on Oct 17, 2012
Last time I ordered Matte base of that company, and liked it much more. The only criticism is that it dries combined skin, so you have to moisture your face well beforehand. And as for that foundation, in order to apply it properly, I had to use not regular Kabuki brush, as it took uneven amount of powder, but finishing Kabuki brush (which is rather big and not intended to be used on small areas). Also it doesn't put any cover on my skin (not that I have much to cover, but that is foundation, anyway). So generally, I would stay with Matte base next time.
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Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel ordered a review of the nation's nuclear arsenal Thursday after a cheating scandal and allegations of drug abuse among Air Force missile personnel.
Hagel wants a plan in 60 days to determine the reason for problems in the Air Force, actions to deal with them and accountability for those responsible, said Rear Adm. John Kirby, Hagel's spokesman.
Hagel is confident the safety of the nation's nuclear missiles and bombs has not been compromised, Kirby said. There have been no accidents or breaches of security associated with the scandals, he said.
Of the 499 airmen responsible for the nuclear missile arsenal who have been retested on their duties, 22 failed and 18 have yet to be evaluated, Kirby said.
Hagel has also called for an independent review of nuclear weapons personnel in all the services. Doing so, Kirby said, is a matter of "prudence."
An in-depth review of morale and discipline problems in the nuclear forces is necessary, said Sen. Mark Udall, who chairs a panel on strategic weapons for the Senate Armed Services Committee.
"I remain concerned by the lapses in judgment and discipline displayed by some nuclear missile launch officers in recent months, and I applaud Defense Secretary Hagel's swift and appropriate actions to identify the root causes of those issues," Udall, a Democrat from Colorado.
Last week, top Air Force officials announced that a test-cheating ring had been uncovered at a nuclear missile base in Montana involving 34 launch officers. The investigation determined that some officers were electronically sharing answers on a monthly proficiency test, the Air Force said. The airmen either cheated on the test or knew about it and did nothing to stop or report it.
The test cheaters were uncovered during a separate drug-use investigation that has implicated 11 officers at six bases.
Earlier this month, Hagel visited F.E. Warren Air Force Base, home to the command for intercontinental ballistic missiles. The missile launch sites are scattered across three states. The work of missile-launch officers there can be "lonely" and "unheralded," Kirby said.
STORY: Cheating scandal draws attention to missile crews
The Air Force's nuclear mission has been beset by embarrassing incidents in recent years. In 2008, then-Defense Secretary Robert Gates fired Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne and Gen. Michael Moseley, the chief of staff, after a report found "an erosion of nuclear standards" and poor oversight. The report was commissioned after six nuclear missiles were accidentally transferred cross country, and nuclear warhead fuses were mistakenly shipped to Taiwan.
STORY: Air Force disciplines nuke general for alcohol binge
In October, the Air Force fired the commander of the U.S. land-based nuclear missile force after he engaged in "inappropriate behavior" while leading a U.S. delegation to Russia. Maj. Gen. Michael Carey's behavior was "conduct unbecoming an officer" after his alcohol-fueled binge on a two-day visit to Moscow in July that included a late-night meeting with local women and offensive behavior to his Russian hosts, according to an inspector general's investigation.
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Its Another first: World Cadet Champs Coming To Miami USA
The World Cadet Championships, among the most elite tournament on the planet for judo fighters ages 15 – 17, and the qualifying tourney for the Youth Olympic Games next year in Nanjing, will be held in Miami at the Doral Golf Resort & Spa, Aug. 8-11, marking another "first" for judo in the United States.
The latest in a string of high-profile international events hosted on home soil by USA Judo, the national governing body for the Olympic sport, the world Cadets will come close on the heels of the Grand Prix Miami, the most prestigious tournament yet held in the United States, other than judo competition at the Olympic Games.
Like the Grand Prix Miami held last month, this is the first time the World Cadets have been held in the United States. Also sanctioned by the International Judo Federation and hosted by USA Judo, the Cadet Worlds is specifically for junior athletes (born 1996 through 1998), to compete for ranking points and a share of the $50,000 for making the podium. Nations can only send their top athletes in a division to this tournament.
Upping the ante even further, The World Cadets will be the qualifying tourney for the Youth Olympic Games slated for Nanjing, China, Aug. 16 – 28, in 2014.
"We are fulfilling a necessary goal – to bring the best tournaments in the world to home soil," said Jose H. Rodriguez, USA Judo's CEO. "Our athletes are performing better than ever. Kayla Harrison brought home our first Olympic gold medal from London. Marti Malloy took a bronze medal at the Olympics. Myles Porter and Dartanyon Crockett took a silver and bronze at the Paralympic Games. Having great tournaments is essential to maintaining the momentum."
"This is a very clear mission for us, as great judo nations who consistently produce results host great events. You can't have one without the other," said Lance Nading, President of USA Judo's Board of Directors to international officials arriving for the Grand Prix last month.
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The John Santos Sextet
John Calloway—flute, piano, percussion
Melecio Magdaluyo—saxes
Saul Sierra—bass
Marco Diaz—piano, trumpet
David Flores—drums
John Santos—percussion
Faith and Abstract Improvisation is the theme of this evening's concert, presented in conjunction with Richard Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years, 1953–1966 and Objects of Belief from the Vatican: Art of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas.
The John Santos Sextet's original compositions and arrangements will emphasize the art of musical improvisation and the tremendous leaps of rhythmic and harmonic faith that are required for this style of Afro-Caribbean jazz. Highly expressive and open-ended passages are woven into the music and can be intimately and personally interpreted by the listener. Many decades of experience playing music—and many years of experience playing music together—allow these artists to navigate freely in this way.


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Volunteers Of The Year
Editor's Note: This is the third in a four-part series recognizing recently honored "Volunteers of the Year" through the partner agencies of the United Way of Southern Chautauqua County.
For four years and 400-plus hours, Laura Wurstner has dedicated herself to helping children. Her diligence, dedication, tenacity and energy make her the Court Appointed Special Advocate Volunteer of the Year. A lifetime educator for 33 years, Wurstner has advocated for three children ranging in age from 4 to 13 years old. During this time, she has driven over 4,600 miles to make sure these children have a voice in court.
Program Director Kathy Park said, "Last year after hearing news the state was cutting CASA funding, Laura rallied friends, family, and community members in a letter writing campaign to our local and state representatives. Her dedication to the program is tireless and her professionalism is lauded by attorneys, caseworkers and foster parents."
Wurstner's kind, strong and considerate voice for children embodies the highest level of volunteerism.
Joelle Washer is Family Service of the Chautauqua Region's Volunteer of the Year. Executive Director Jim McElrath said, "Joelle's commitment to Family Service and her passion for success has made her a very effective board president and leader."
Washer headed up the new executive director search at Family Service after the former director, Donna Vanstrom, announced her retirement earlier this year. Besides serving as board president, Washer has served as vice president, Search Committee chair, Nominating Committee chair, and Fund Raising Committee member at Family Service. She also is an extraordinarily talented wine maker.
Known for her pleasant demeanor and infectious smile, Judy Hunt is the Girl Scouts of Western New York's Volunteer of the Year. Judy has served in every Girl Scout service unit position there is, and helps out with Product Sales. Membership Manager Denise Beeles-Johnson said, "Judy is actively involved in making a difference in the community she lives and in the lives of the young girls she works with. She is a true treasure and we're honored to have her."
In November, Hunt took a lead volunteer role at the Juliette Low Camp by Candlelight event at Timbercrest, which made "forever-memories" for some 135 girls and adults.
Whether it's peeling rutabagas, serving spaghetti, or running a board meeting, Tara Eastman puts her caring heart, positive attitude and beautiful smile into everything she does at Joint Neighborhood Project. For these reasons and many more, Eastman is JNP's Volunteer of the Year. Interim director Patty Perlee said, no task is too large or small for Tara to tackle.
"She does everything," said Perlee. "Tara works on all of our fundraisers and finds volunteers to help her out. She also is a huge part of our holiday festivities and was our board president in 2012."
While president of the board at JNP, Eastman worked full time to get her degree to become a full-time pastor, proving that busy people always have time to give back to their community.
The United Way of Southern Chautauqua County has a long history of collaborating with local employers to provide volunteer experiences for their staff.
This can be a one-day experience offsite at a local nonprofit or an ongoing partnership with a specific program. The new website, volunteerwny.org, can be used to manage corporate volunteerism by marketing specific opportunities to staff and then tracking their involvement over time. The site can provide valuable reports for the person coordinating the effort. Companies interested in exploring how to engage employees in corporate social responsibility should contact United Way at 483-1561.


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Makeover Sour Cream Coffee Cake RecipeRead Reviews Be the first to add a review
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 egg
- 4 egg whites
- 2 teaspoons lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon grated lemon peel
- 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1-1/2 cups (12 ounces) reduced-fat sour cream
- 1/4 cup chopped walnuts, toasted
- 2 teaspoons confectioners' sugar
- In a large bowl, beat butter and sugar until crumbly, about 2 minutes. Add egg, then egg whites, beating well after each addition. Stir in the lemon juice, lemon peel and extract. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt; add to butter mixture alternately with sour cream. Fold in walnuts.
- Coat a 10-in. fluted tube pan with cooking spray and dust with flour; add batter. Bake at 350° for 50-60 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack to cool completely. Dust with confectioners' sugar. Yield: 16 servings.
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Reviews for Makeover Sour Cream Coffee Cake
"A very nice coffee cake with light buttery and lemon flavor. I only used 1 cup sugar. It turned out just the way we liked it. Great for family gatherings. Thanks for sharing."
"A great makeover recipe! This is delicious! I used vanilla yogurt in place of the sour cream & cut the sugar by half. I also added 3 cups of chopped apples. The cake itself is moist & delicious. The apples make it even better :) Oh, I used a full cup of walnuts!"
"This isn't a rating; just a question. The recipe description talks about a "full cup of walnuts" but the ingredients list has only 1/4 cup. ?? I sure like the sound of this cake and would love to bake it, but would like to know about the quantity of walnuts, please."
"I want to try this coffee cake but it does not use baking powder. Am I missing the obvious?"
"I substitued Splenda for sugar. I also omitted the lemon juice and lemon rind since we are not fond of lemon. Using Splenda has got to bring down the calorie level somewhat. The cake turn out moist and just fabulous. My husband and I love it."


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Issue 31, February 6, 2013: Charting a Safer Course
Letter from the Editor: Charting a Safer Course
Bringing the Ecological Footprint to Asia
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Enough is Enough »
"Enough should be the central concept in economics," writes Herman Daly, a Global Footprint Network advisor and one of the founders of ecological economics, in the forward to the fascinating new book,
"Enough is Enough: Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources."
The book challenges the dominant thesis of contemporary economics: Growth at any cost. Authors Rob Dietz and Dan O'Neill start from the observation that the world economy, as it is currently run, is causing long-term environmental, societal and economic damage. They go on to map out alternative paths toward a steady-state economy (an economy with stable or mildly fluctuating size), one that prioritizes human well-being above growth and places economic activity squarely within ecological limits. Dietz is editor of Daly News and was the first director of
(Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy); O'Neill is lecturer in ecological economics at the University of Leeds and the chief economist at CASSE.
More, more and more »
The Chatham House produced this
elegant and interactive visualization of the new political economy of natural resources
, based on a new report called "Resources Futures." It shows interdependencies among nations (with a focus on crops, meat and dairy, timber, fossil fuels and metal) and allows users to compare the changes in trade flows between 2000 with 2010, with some projections into the future. It also provides a compelling snapshot of a few of the social and political consequences of natural resource shortages and supply disruptions. The projections of population and consumption growth over the coming decades threaten to amplify these risks—or in the words of Chatham House researchers, "the spectre of resource insecurity has come back with a vengeance." The "Resources Futures" report can be downloaded
Was ist der Okologishe Fussabdruck? (What is your Ecological Footprint?) »
Students of Fair Future, a German organization dedicated to spreading the word about sustainability,
completed an educational tour of more than 1000 high schools
across Germany where they engaged over 500,000 students in discussions about sustainability and their Ecological Footprint. The youth challenged their teenage audiences to strive toward one planet living, with the question-and-answer, "What would happen if the entire Earth's population lived and consumed like Germans? We would need nearly three Earths." The average Ecological Footprint in Germany equals 5.1 global hectares (gha), while the average across the globe is 2.7 gha. The high-definition multimedia presentation used in the tour was produced with the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, Oxfam Germany and Federation of Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND).
"Getting out of debt" »
This is the title of an article published in
UNESCO's journal "A World of Science,"
referring to the ecological debt of the nations that border the Mediterranean Sea. All 24 nations have become ecological debtors. This is one of many alarming findings of Global Footprint Network's
Mediterranean Ecological Footprint Trends report
, launched at a conference in Venice, organized jointly with UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture. The situation deteriorated much faster in the Mediterranean than the global average, with the region's Ecological Footprint increasing from 2.1 to 3.1 global hectares (gha) per person. You can
download the article here, on pages 24-27
Blue Planet Prize program airs on Japanese TV »
Blue Planet Prize winners
Drs. Mathis Wackernagel, William Rees and Thomas Lovejoy were featured in a program that aired January 11 on
in Japan. They discussed the current state of the world and ways in which we can move toward the world we need in order to flourish within the ecological limits.
The program will also air February 8.
Farming and the Ecological Footprint »
Former Global Footprint Network intern Niccolò Passeri had an article,
"The influence of farming technique on cropland: A new approach for the Ecological Footprint,"
accepted by the journal Ecological Indicators, to be published this June. The paper investigates the influence of different farming techniques on Ecological Footprint results and proposes a new approach for the evaluation of farming performance. Research and Science team members Michael Borucke and Elias Lazarus are included as authors. Passeri is now a Ph.D. student in the Department of Agriculture, Forest, Nature and Energy, at the University of Tuscia.
Ecological Footprint in Swiss media »
The Ecological Footprint was covered positively in two mainstream Swiss media outlets,
Tages Woche
Neue Zürcher Zeitung
. The former discusses ecological limits and economic growth. The latter outlet is considered "the New York Times" of Switzerland and the op-ed wonders about policies that may result from consideration of Ecological Footprint trends.
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County lawmakers pass emergency resolution, but …
MAYVILLE – Pandemonium reigned on the floor of the Legislature Wednesday, with legislators at times not knowing on what they were voting.
An emergency resolution was brought before legislators during the regularly scheduled meeting. The resolution, from State Sen. Catharine Young, R-Olean, and Assemblyman Andrew Goodell, R-Chautauqua County, called to amend the tax law, in relation to allocation of revenue from the hotel and motel taxes in Chautauqua County. Additionally, it called to amend the tax law relating to increasing hotel and motel taxes in the county in relation to extending the expiration of such provisions.
The resolution would allow money from the state's 2 percent bed tax to be used for the purpose of maintaining and enhancing the lakes of Chautauqua County.
Legislators received a copy of the emergency resolution just prior to their meeting, some having less than 30 minutes to review the legislation. In order for the resolution to be considered for discussion by legislators, 17 votes were needed to bring it to the floor. However, when a vote was taken, only 13 legislators voted in favor. Although there were not enough votes to bring the resolution up for discussion, Legislative Chairman Jay Gould, R-Ashville, allowed County Attorney Steve Abdella to explain the resolution, which then opened the floor to a discussion.
Due to the short amount of time they had to review the legislation, several legislators stated they felt uncomfortable passing the resolution, comparing it to how state legislators passed the NY SAFE Act in January.
"My main issue is, I just don't know enough about (the resolution) to understand the impact, whether it's intentional or unintentional, what are the consequences of the change in the language?" said George Borrello, R-Irving. "This is a renewed piece of legislation. If you change the language in a renewed piece of legislation, that changes the intent. I did not have nearly enough time to evaluate it and get the professional counsel that we need to understand the ramifications."
Legislators questioned whether money from the bed tax, which would amount to more than $500,000, could be used for all of the county's lakes and watersheds, or whether it could be used only for Chautauqua Lake. They also called for the resolution to be tabled until the next meeting. However, because the resolution was not technically on the floor of the Legislature, it could not be tabled. Additionally, the resolution could not wait for the next meeting, because state legislators were on a deadline prior to the County Legislature's June meeting.
A vote was then taken to see if enough legislators would be able to attend a special meeting for next Wednesday. Legislators then again tried to table the resolution, which still had not been brought to the floor. Larry Barmore, R-Gerry, placed a phone call to Goodell for additional information, transferring the phone to Abdella, at which point the Legislature took a five-minute recess.
When the Legislature returned, it chose to not allow Abdella to relay his conversation with Goodell. Instead, it took a series of votes, which had many legislators questioning for what they were even voting. Out of the confusion, legislators then had 18 votes to finally bring the resolution to the floor for discussion. It also voted to hold a special meeting for the purpose of discussing the resolution further next Wednesday. It voted to vote on the resolution, and then voted in favor of passing the resolution, accepting around $510,000 from the state to be used for the county's lakes.
Voting in favor of the resolution were Bob Duff, R-Sheridan; John Runkle, R-Stockton; Rob Stewart, R-Ellington; Tom Erlandson, D-Frewsburg; Barmore, Mark Tarbrake, R-Ellicott; Lori Cornell, D-Jamestown; Robert Whitney, D-James-town; Charles Nazzaro, D-Jamestown; Vince Horrigan, R-Bemus Point; PJ Wendel, R-Lakewood; Gould; Fred Croscut, R-Sherman; David Himelein, R-Findley Lake; John Hemmer, R-Westfield; and Thomas DeJoe, D-Brocton.
Opposed were Borrello; William Coughlin, D-Fredonia; Paula DeJoy, D-Jamestown; Shaun Heenan, D-Dunkirk; Timothy Hoyer, D-Jamestown; Victoria James, D-Jamestown; Rod Rogers, G-Forestville; and Bob Scudder, R-Fredonia. Keith Ahlstrom, D-Dunkirk was absent from the meeting.
According to Goodell, who spoke with the OBSRRVER following Wednesday's meeting, the change in the language of the resolution was meant to be a positive one for the county.
"We made it clear exactly what the original purpose of the law was," Goodell said. "That was focusing on maintaining and enhancing Chautauqua Lake, Lake Erie, Findley Lake, Cassadaga Lake and the other lakes. The entire purpose of the entire law is to help maintain and enhance our tourism industry."
He said, if the county passes the resolution, it is up to legislators to decide how funds should be used.
"The original legislation and the revised legislation stated that the actual allocation is to be made by the county government, through the county budget process," Goodell said. "That reflects our respect for the need for local legislators to exercise discretion and flexibility to respond to the unique needs of the county, as they may change from time to time."
Although the Legislature did pass the resolution, it is still planning to hold a special meeting May 29 to further discuss the resolution and determine if it will keep or rescind it.


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LAKE PLACID – Trails accessing the southern portion of the McKenzie Mountain Wilderness will be closed on Saturday to allow for safe removal of plane wreckage, the state Department of Environmental Conservation announced Tuesday.
The plane crashed on a knob near Big Burn Mountain on Thursday, Feb. 21, after a failed attempt to land at the Lake Placid Airport, during which its crew couldn't get the runway lights to turn on, according to pilot Frank Dombroski.
The plane crash site is roughly a mile from Whiteface Inn Road, west of Lake Placid.
Fifty-four-year-old Michael Oster, 58-year-old Jeff O'Connor and 51-year-old Dombroski, all from Westfield, N.J., survived the crash without any serious injuries. They were rescued by forest rangers early the next morning.
A section of the Jackrabbit Trail between Whiteface Inn Road in Lake Placid and the McKenzie Pond Road near Saranac Lake will be closed. The Haystack Mountain Trail on state Route 86 in Ray Brook will also be closed.
Those who plan to ski the Jackrabbit Trail are encouraged to use other sections of the trail or the nearby Moose Pond Trail off state Route 3 northeast of Saranac Lake.
Forest rangers and environmental conservation officers will be stationed at the trailheads for these trails during the closure.
A helicopter will be used to lift the plane wreckage off the mountain and set it down at a nearby location.
Due to the extent of the damage, pieces of the plane could fall off while the plane is being removed, necessitating the trail closures.
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Darwinists maintain that "there is no need to dot the 'i's and cross the 't's" in order to prove evolution and that "all the world already believes in evolution," and that this is therefore enough to prove the validity of the theory. In order to corroborate their claims, they suggest that there is nobody in the world's greatest universities who does not know about and support evolution.
It is true that evolution is espoused in the great universities of the world, taught in almost all countries and known to the entire world. The reason for that is EVOLUTION IS PROTECTED UNDER NATIONAL LAWS UNDER IMPOSITION FROM THE DARWINIST DICTATORSHIP and that opponents of evolution ARE SILENCED by this sinister dictatorial system.
Some of the scientists removed from their posts simply for questioning for evolution
Evolution is of course known across the world, and people are forced to support it as a result of this unpleasing imposition. People have to appear to support this theory if they are not to lose their jobs and careers. The administrations of the world's most eminent universities make support for evolution a precondition in teaching. Because of this pressure, everyone from the first person in the world's top 500 universities to the last knows about evolution and has to appear to support it.
This Darwinist dictatorship that has taken control of all official institutions, management units, education systems and press and broadcasting organizations has been using various media institutions for the last 150 years to convince people that the evolution deception is true. It has kept 300 million fossils proving Creation carefully hidden away, spread Darwinist frauds across the world in a highly organized manner and sought to give the impression that science corroborates evolution. The Darwinist dictatorship keeps evolution in the public eye through despotism and fraud. That is the sole reason why evolution is taught in schools and insistently defended in the world's best-known scientific journals despite being an utter fraud.
For comprehensive articles about the Darwinist dictatorship, see: http://darwinistdictatorship.com/
The way that all of Europe has become acquainted with Atlas of Creation and the declaration of the fact that living creatures have remained unchanged for millions of years and that evolution is devoid of any scientific worth have led to a major change of belief among the people of Europe. Independent polls conducted by well-known publishing institutions in different European countries have revealed a major drop in the numbers of people believing in Darwinism and that belief in Allah now dominates Europe. >>
In order to create, God has no need to design
It's important that the word "design" be properly understood. That God has created a flawless design does not mean that He first made a plan and then followed it. God, the Lord of the Earth and the heavens, needs no "designs" in order to create. God is exalted above all such deficiencies. His planning and creation take place at the same instant.
Whenever God wills a thing to come about, it is enough for Him just to say, "Be!"
As verses of the Qur'an tell us:
His command when He desires a thing is just to say to it, "Be!" and it is. (Qur'an, 36: 82)
[God is] the Originator of the heavens and Earth.
When He decides on something, He just says to it, "Be!" and it is. (Qur'an, 2: 117)


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Lately I have been focusing on optimizing Fennec startup on a delightfully inadequate platform: Windows Mobile. More on fascinating startup, performance problems and solutions later. As a result I have been doing relatively little static analysis stuff.
The main reason for taking a break is that I feel that I went from having no way to do any analysis to having production-quality tools for analysis and rewriting. I finally have a chance to move on from developing tools to using them in everyday development. The main puzzle piece that needs completion is GCC 4.5 support in Dehydra. We are feature-complete on 4.5, just need to stabilize once the trunk stabilizes.
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A number of other people did some cool stuff in the meantime. First and foremost: Joshua Cranmer has ventured into the land of Pork and is publishing a guide to doing refactoring tools on this blog (part 1, part 2, part 3). This is cool, because until now, there were no Pork docs and nothing I write could ever match Joshua's documenting talents. Thanks a bunch, Joshua.
I have also received my first-ever bugfix patches to Elsa. Previously, I've received miscellaneous build fixes, etc, but these are the first patches that involved somebody pounding their head against the wall until they figured out why things were crashing or not accepting valid C++ code.
Introducing Dan Witte
Dan is the new static analysis go-to person. So far he facilitated an explosion of static analysis ideas (they are tracked in bug 430328). A lot of these can be expressed as <10line Dehydra analyses, so they are excellent introductory projects. If you are dying to start analyzing code, but don't know where to begin, look in that bug. Dan has written an interesting analysis to do with finding accidental temporaries due to C++'s "wonderful" implicit conversions/etc (expect to see a blog post on that). He is also working on the holy grail of Mozilla static analysis: a full callgraph. It's a little embarrassing that we don't have that yet, but it's hard and once we do have it, a whole new world of analyses will be possible.
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The government can't get the website for the health insurance exchanges right and has to bring in a private company to fix it. So the government can't do something right, but the private sector can? What a revelation! Maybe we should let private companies handle all health care?
— Kevin C Shadden
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Obama is in the business of fixing problems, but Republicans are in the business of creating obstacles.
— Chris Reising
Obamacare critics
The administration says Obamacare is more than the glitches on the website. Yes, Obamacare is indeed more than a website. It is a tax increase and a pay reducer. It is a job killer and a benefits destroyer.
And the biggest irony is that it is anything but "affordable," because it takes so much money away from me, through insurance deductibles and co-pays, that having the coverage is essentially worthless.
— Douglas Miller
We've had no change in our health coverage or cost at all. The only people making this law difficult to understand and enforce are the conservatives who want to see Obama fail at everything.
— Bill Cain
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This isn't just a matter of too much traffic for a website. There is the issue of programming and the complexity of connecting many databases on different systems.
It's going to take six months at least to rectify the problem, if all database systems can be connected.
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The root of the problem is not the software but simply the complexity of this law, which no lawmaker completely read or understood. More than 10,000 pages of regulations make it nearly impossible to automate the system.
Let's rename the law from Affordable Care Act to something more appropriate.
— Harish Gopalakrishna
Letters to the editor:
"You are OK. ... I got you." These were President Obama's words near the end of his recent speech on health care to the woman behind him who looked like she was about to pass out. We learned later that she is pregnant and diabetic, and that she had been able to get health care insurance because of the Affordable Care Act.
Here was the president of United States, turning away from the cameras, to put his arm around a woman who was about to fall. It is so symbolic of what he's trying to do for the least among us. He's ready to catch us when we fall. That's the kind of person he is. That's what the Affordable Care Act is all about.
Rita Bourke; Nashville
The nightmare that is the HealthCare.gov website is nothing less than a technological Hurricane Katrina. Unlike a natural disaster, though, this one was man-made and could have been prevented.
Calling any government office has always been a challenge, usually requiring long waits and having to choose poorly defined options. Once you make your way through to a live person, you're often greeted with impatience.
We have a right to ask: If the government can't get this right, how can it get the rest of the health care law right? Something as simple as opening the site to people alphabetically over several weeks could have made a big difference.
As a retired longtime manager of information technology, I know it didn't have to be this way. At least these people aren't building airplanes.
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I purchased a Venue DI from eBay a couple months ago and have had some consistent problem with levels. For a while I didn't know if it was something I was doing or maybe settings on my mixer. But I recently used the DI through someone else's PA and it did the same thing.
So, I have the gain set somewhere between 1 and 2. And I can see on the DI itself that the signal is registering with only one green light, so the level there is fine. And the gain on the mixer is only halfway or so. Yet at least 4 or 5 times at every single gig the mixer will cut out because the level keeps spiking. Like I said, I wasn't sure for the longest time if it was something I was doing. But I recently played through someone else's gear and it quickly got to the point that I had to unplug it because it was overdriving the channel. The boost was not on so it wasn't that. I really love the DI and don't want to get rid of it so I guess I need to know what my options are.


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- relics transferred to Tournai in the mid-11th century
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I'm not sure when Barry is going to get the message that talking to Boehner is useless. Boehner is done. Boehner is toast. Barry can urge Boehner all he wants, but what Barry really needs to be doing is talking to the Republicans who feel snubbed by, for example, meetings like this, while they are cheered on by the folks back home in their safe seats. So Barry can urge Boehner to pass a spending bill, and Boehner can tell Barry that he likes his leadership post, and then they can all play pinochle.


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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (May 26, 2012) – The U.S. men's team of David Smith (Denver, Colo.) and Skylar del Sol (Elizabeth, Colo.) reached the semifinals of the NORCECA Beach Volleyball Tour on Saturday in Toluca, Mexico.
The U.S. pair was 2-0 in the double elimination tournament when it fell Saturday to Cuba's Karell Piña and Sergio Gonzalez, 21-18, 21-14. Smith and del Sol came back in consolation to defeat Simon Fecteau-Boutin and Michael Plantinga of Canada 2, 21-15, 14-21, 16-14.
On Sunday, Smith and del Sol will face the Mexico-1 team of Lombardo Ontiveros and Juan Virgen in the semifinals. The other semifinal will see Piña and Gonzalez play Puerto Rico 1's Erick Haddock and Roberto Rodriguez.
The first event of the 2012 Jose Cuervo Pro Beach Volleyball Series will conclude Sunday as top seeds on both the men's and women's sides appear headed for showdowns in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
On the women's side, the No. 1-seeded team of Lauren Fendrick (Redondo Beach, Calif.) and Brooke Hanson (Ventura, Calif.) is also undefeated and will go against fourth-seeded Jennifer Fopma (Bellflower, Calif.) and Brooke Sweat (Fort Meyers, Fla.) on Sunday for a shot at the semifinals.
The No. 2 ranked women's team of Jenny Kropp (Hawthorne, Calif.) and Whitney Pavlik (Laguna Hills, Calif.) will play No. 3 Nicole Branagh (Torrance, Calif.) and Tyra Turner (Fort Myers Beach, Florida) to try for the other women's semifinal position.
Pepperdine's Summer Ross (San Diego, Calif.) and Kim Hill (Portland, Ore.), seeded 27th, scored the biggest upset of the day when they defeated No. 6 Kristen Batt (Venice, Fla.) and Tealle Hunkus (Girard, Ohio) in the first round, 21-18, 21-19.
The collegiate duo then upset No. 22 Marcela Gamarra (Miami, Fla.) and Brittany Tiegs (Stuart, Fla.), 17-21, 21-17, 15-11.
Branagh and Turner, ended the run with a 21-17, 21-19 victory over Ross and Hill, who then fell to Diane Copenhagen and Michelle Moriarty in the consolation bracket, 22-20, 14-21, 15-13. Ross and Hill finished tied for ninth.
In the men's bracket, the No. 1-seeded team of John Hyden (Sherman Oaks, Calif.) and Sean Scott (Redondo Beach, Calif.) is undefeated after three rounds and will take on No. 5 Billy Allen (Fallbrook, Calif.) and Russ Marchewka (San Diego, Calif.) on Sunday for the chance to move into the semifinals.
The No. 2-seeded men's team of Brad Keenan (Santa Ana, Calif.) and John Mayer (Culver City, Calif.) is also undefeated and will play No. 6 Adrian Carambula (Miami Beach, Fla.) and Braidy Halverson (Grass Valley, Calif.) on Sunday for a semifinal berth.
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Del Tredici: 75th Birthday Celebrations in US with World and NY Premieres(February 2012)
World premiere of new wind quintet, Belgian Bliss, along with celebratory birthday concerts in New York
American composer David Del Tredici celebrates his 75th birthday in March 2012 with several performances of his music that span his career, including the world premieres of three new chamber and instrumental works.
In recent years, the composer has devoted his energy towards chamber music, creating such works as Magyar Madness (2006) and String Quartet No. 2 (2011). His latest contribution is Belgian Bliss (2011), to be premiered by the Dorian Wind Quintet in Mount Vernon, Illinois as part of the Cedarhurst Chamber Music Series on February 19, 2012, and again at Bethel Woods in New York on April 20. Del Tredici calls the new quintet "a 20-minute fantasy on the Mendelssohn Wedding March," inspired by the marriage of a personal friend. Belgian Bliss was commissioned by and dedicated to the Dorian Wind Quintet. This commission has been made possible by the Chamber Music America Commissioning Program, with funding generously provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, and the Chamber Music America Endowment Fund.
Continuing the birthday celebrations are two special events in New York. The first, March 15, at Symphony Space, features soprano Courtenay Budd with the composer on piano, as they present his song cycles Miz Inez Sez (1996-98) and Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter (1998/2001). The second event, April 12, at Le Poisson Rouge, offers the world premiere of a solo trombone piece Felix Variations (2011), the New York premiere of String Quartet No. 2 (2011) to be performed by the Orion String Quartet, and A Field Manual (2008) to be performed by the Fireworks Ensemble. In addition, Del Tredici will perform with Marc Peloquin on March 23 in a four-hand piano recital featuring a variety of works. Finally, Haddock's Eyes (1985) will be performed March 25 and 26 at Brooklyn's Galapagos Art Space by OPERAtion Brooklyn in partnership with Opera on Tap and American Opera Projects.
Additional 2012 highlights include a performance of Final Alice (1974-75), one of Del Tredici's monumental works themed after the Alice in Wonderland series, at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, March 1 and 3, with long-time champion Leonard Slatkin. The composer's signature atonal piece for soprano and ensemble, Syzygy (1966), will be on display as part of the month-long American Mavericks Festival, presented by the San Francisco Symphony in March 2012 in San Francisco, Ann Arbor and New York. In the summer of 2012, his String Quartet No. 2 is performed again by the Orion String Quartet at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, a co-commissioner of the work.
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We are seeing a lot of older hairstyles coming back in trend just like this one by adding a little color to your fringe. It was widely popular in the late 90's early 2000's where we saw plenty of reds or other various flashy colors added in such a random manner through out the fringe or bangs. This gorgeous messy bob really looks lovely going from a short layered back leaving the fringes long and colorful it really gives it a cool and rebellious style.


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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (16 votes).
In short: First ever race, great day out, thoroughly enjoyable. Roll on 2011Date of review: August 9, 2010
In short: Friendly family atmosphere!Date of review: August 8, 2010
In short: First race I have ever run and this was the perfect startDate of review: August 10, 2009
In short: 17:24 Not bad for my second 5k, truely fantastic courseIn full: Fantastic place to run, nice people and one of the best races i have run.Date of review: September 3, 2007
In short: Great race for all abilities with good PB potential. Weather uninspiring but it stopped raining for race. Managed sub 23 min PB and beat the dog.Date of review: August 30, 2006
In short: The rain and slippy surface may well have spoilt a PB race.In full: Some decent prizes for the first 3.Date of review: August 22, 2006
In short: Enter early next year as this race will get bigger !In full: Perfect event for me as have had several years away from racing due to injury so appreciated the limited numbers and numerous non-club runners.Nice easy run as flat, very well organised and excellent marshalling.Organisers should be proud and we may even get some sunshine next year.Date of review: August 17, 2006
In short: Great race, well organised, flat course. I will be back next year.In full: Well marshalled, enjoyable 2 lap run of Gloucester park. Finishing on the athletics track. A good mix of abilities present. Medal for all finishers.The dull weather on the day allowed me to get a decent PB for my first 5k race.Date of review: August 17, 2006
In short: Big race of all abilities, with a nice easy route.Date of review: August 14, 2006
In short: Good race , but a bit fast as alot of club runners and i am a beginner and got caught up in the speed of the first lap,hence was aiming for 25min and done 27.!Date of review: August 13, 2006
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Greetings everyone. Happy Easter to those celebrating!
Please stop in and share what is in your cup today, throughout the day. Also please answer the topic of the day!
Friday/Saturday we discussed inanimate passions besides TEA? You can still vote and discuss this topic!
The itsy bitsy spider went in the teapot spout. Out poured the tea, and washed the spider out. Fun topic, what would you do, one of your fave teas, scoop out the spider and sip away?
What about in general, some "added element" to your brew, what to do?
We are all looking forward to sharing this Teaday with everyone ... and the little spider too! Bottoms up.