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THE CROSS is a television special that played on the Fox News Channel and Fox TV as part of the Rev. Billy Graham's MY HOPE AMERICA. It was one of the most watched programs of 2013. Beautifully filmed, it has Billy Graham pour out his heartfelt hope that the people of America will find new life in Jesus Christ.
To illustrate the power of the Gospel, the stories of two people are woven throughout the program. One of them is an African America named Lecrae Moore who grew up abused and abusive. He was on the road to perdition taking too many drugs, sleeping around, and beating up people when he heard the Gospel of Jesus Christ and his life was transformed. The other was a woman named Lacey Sturm. Her childhood was so dysfunctional that she wanted to commit suicide until she met Jesus at a church and became a powerful Gospel singer. At the end, Billy Graham comes on to talk about Jesus the His message of salvation.
MY HOPE AMERICA: THE CROSS is one of the most beautifully filmed TV specials. It is compelling, entertaining, winsome, and evangelistic. It received rave reviews from the secular media in spite of its evangelistic content. It is must viewing.
New "Ten Commandments" Series Coming Soon
By Diana Anderson-Tyler, Contributing Writer
The basic cable and satellite channel WGN America is just eight months old, but isn't wasting any time taking on ambitious, original projects. It has just teamed with the renowned Weinstein Company (THE KING'S SOPEECH) to produce a ten-part event series about the Ten Commandments, the first such endeavor since Cecil B. DeMille's classic 1956 epic starring Chalton Heston. Each installment of the series, set to begin filming in March, will focus on one commandment, such as idolatry, theft, or murder, and will be presided over by a different topnotch director.
As Mel Gibson's THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST, Sandra Bullock's THE BLIND SIDE, and this year's THE BIBLE docudrama proved, religious themes perform phenomenally well at the box office and in living rooms across America. For example, THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST exceeded the expectations of critics and skeptics alike by grossing over $600 million during its theatrical release, becoming the highest grossing R-rated movie in the United States. Similarly, the first episode of THE BIBLE was remarkably successful as it was tuned in to by 13.1 million viewers, the largest cable television audience of 2013 to date. In total, the miniseries has been seen by more than 100 million people.
Such indisputable data proves that biblical material and Judeo-Christian values are striking a chord within the hearts and minds of moviegoers and entertainment consumers at large. And, in light of society's growing unfamiliarity with and disinterest in Scripture, the timing of such media couldn't be better.
In THE SCANDAL OF BIBLICAL ILLITERACY: IT'S OUR PROBLEM, the Reverend Albert Mohler writes:
"Fewer than half of all adults can name the four gospels. Many Christians cannot identify more than two or three of the disciples. According to data from the Barna Research Group, 60 percent of Americans can't name even five of the Ten Commandments."
It's worth noting here that Barna Research Group has discovered that one out of every five adults (18%) contend that the Ten Commandments isn't relevant for people living today.
"No wonder people break the Ten Commandments all the time," says George Barna. "They don't know what they are."
While it's certainly worth celebrating the fact that the Ten Commandments series will likely pique viewers' curiosity and perhaps improve biblical literacy, what isn't so certain is whether its underlying ideologies and subtexts will lead people closer to or farther from the truth of the Bible.
Harvey Weinstein, the series' producer and major donor to President Obama, said recently in an interview with Piers Morgan that "Obama's not embarrassing – the country's embarrassing."
In a nation where the Ten Commandments have long symbolized American ideals, it will be interesting to see just how the message of the millennia-old, Mosaic tablets and their eternal, God-breathed principles will be treated by leftist individuals such as Mr. Weinstein.
Editor's Note: Diana Anderson-Tyler is the author of Creation House's Fit for Faith: A Christian Woman's Guide to Total Fitness. Her popular website can be found at www.fit4faith.com, and she is the owner and a coach at CrossFit 925. Diana also can be reached on Twitter.
- Source: Deadline, 11/21/13.
LONE SURVIVOR is an inspiring, gut wrenching true story based on SEAL Team 10's failed mission in Afghanistan on June 28, 2005.
A group of Navy Seals in are brought in for a mission codenamed Operation Red Wings. Marcus Luttrell (Mark Wahlberg) along with three other Navy Seals, Michael, Danny and Matthew are informed of their target, a notorious Taliban leader that is killing American troops. Their mission is to capture or take him out.
A helicopter takes the four men into the mountains and leaves them there. On doing surveillance of the small mountain village where the Taliban leader is thought to be, they discover that the number of armed terrorists they're up against is much larger than they originally thought. To make matters worse, while hiding up in the mountains, they stumble across a goat herder and his two sons. To avoid being found by the enemy, they capture the old man and his two sons to decide their fate. Marcus argues to let them go, and Danny responds that that will compromise the mission and possibly more troop lives. The senior officer decides that the only option is to free the civilians and abort the mission, knowing that as soon as they do so, hundreds of men will swarm their way.
The four men begin their walk to the pickup zone, but the mountains block their communication with home base. With little time and no communication for backup, it's clear they'll have to fight their way home through possibly hundreds of men, or die trying.
LONE SURVIVOR is expertly made and incredibly gripping. From the very beginning, the movie shows who these four men are and what they have to face. The action, though exciting at times, is more brutal than anything else, but generates a reverence for what American servicemen go through when fighting Islamic terrorism. Mark Wahlberg as the real life survivor Marcus Luttrell owns his role. His commitment shows a deep amount of respect for the men who died on the mission. The patriotism, courage, sacrifice, and endless perseverance the men show inspires a deep sense of admiration. Several moral decisions are made in surprising twists where random strangers help and even put their life on the line for the American Seal. There's also a positive reference to God when a soldier loses his gun, finds it, and says, "God's looking out for us."
That said, LONE SURVIVOR is full of vulgar language and the violence is at times overwhelmingly blunt and gruesome. Though likely realistic of the actual battle that took place, the worst of the violence merely shocks the viewer and isn't really necessary to convey the positive themes the filmmakers are trying to convey. Thus, extreme is advised for LONE SURVIVOR.
It is interesting that the MOVIEGUIDE(r) award winning movie ACT OF VALOR featured real military heroes playing all the characters, and they used very little foul language.
ANCHORMAN 2: THE LEGEND CONTINUES is an epic-scaled sequel to the 2004 cult comedy ANCHORMAN: THE ADVENTURES OF RON BURGUNDY. ANCHORMAN 2 has a strong mixed pagan worldview, with seemingly countless innuendoes, vulgarities, and double entendres, but it also contains a lot of goofy fun, with a strong and even touching pro-family, pro-fatherhood message at the end.
The sequel picks up six years after the first movie left off in its depiction of San Diego local news anchorman Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell) and his team of sidekick newsmen (Paul Rudd as a reporter, Steve Carell as the weatherman, and David Koechner as the sports anchor). Ron is now married to Veronica Corningstone (Christina Applegate). They both share a job hosting weekend news in New York City and a 6-year-old son. When their channel's top anchorman retires and offers to hire Veronica as his replacement while firing Ron altogether, Ron orders her to choose between the job and their marriage. When she takes the job, he winds up as a drunken announcer at Sea World back in San Diego.
Ron soon loses his Sea World job due to making inappropriate comments on the microphone. He tries to commit suicide by hanging yet fails comically. Just then, a producer from a new 24-hour Cable news channel called Global News Network (GNN) arrives. He hires Ron and his team to do the new channel's graveyard shift.
Ron sees this as a chance to move back to New York and win back Veronica. However, he finds out she has a new lover. He also runs afoul of a young, better anchorman and winds up engaged in a bet that will change his life and the course of American news itself. He bets he can beat the other newsman's viewer ratings, and then wins the bet by "giving the people what they WANT to see, not what they NEED to see."
What they want to see is car chases on the freeway and cute pets running through American flags, as well as lurid stories of outrageous crimes. As Ron takes over the primetime spot and wins some Emmys, he finds his black female producer wants to have an affair with him. Ron suddenly has to choose between the wild trappings of big city success or the simple pleasures of a stable family.
There are many other plot threads running through the ambitious two-hour-plus running time of ANCHORMAN 2. Those who enjoy this kind of comedy may be astounded by the fact that Will Farrell and his director and co-writer, Adam McKay, have written a movie that never falls flat through all the complex antics involved. Artistically, it's an amazing piece of work, with an impressive, unique level of inventiveness.
Better yet, the movie's second half is about Ron learning to be a better husband and father and coworker after suffering a ridiculous accident that leaves him blind. This second half actually takes on a pro-family, pro-marriage, and pro-fatherhood tone. In addition, its satirical points on how pointless and tawdry modern TV news has become makes some valid points without resorting to partisanship. One can hardly disagree with Ron's final words to his viewers, urging them to demand that they are simply told the truth by their newsmen and their politicians.
With so many jokes packed across such a long running time, even the large amount of scatological humor and lewd innuendos are outnumbered by lots of somewhat innocent, goofy humor. However, though many of the movie's crude jokes are silly and ridiculous, they warrant extreme caution. ANCHORMAN 2 also contains plenty of foul language, including some vulgar, scatological language.
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LES MISÉRABLES is a movie version of the beloved musical play of Victor Hugo's novel about an ex-convict whose life is redeemed but is hounded anyway by a legalistic policeman. LES MISÉRABLES is a brilliant adaptation of this inspiring, spiritually uplifting Christian story that beautifully depicts God's transformational powers though the Gospel of Jesus Christ, but it contains some harsh scenes showing the brokenness of humanity without God. Read the full review here and enter the giveaway below!
Weekend Report December 13-15, 2013
Can Dreams Shape Our Lives?
By Roberta Green Ahmanson
How do dreams shape our lives? Christianity began in a culture in many ways similar to our own idolatrous culture and our brothers and sisters down through time have also faced the same question, and responded by allowing Scripture to drench their imagination and dreams.
Those dreams shaped culture for more than a thousand years. So let us take a closer look at the relationship between such dreams and reality.
We become what we worship. Our vision shapes our concrete future. The Bible is very clear on this. Where there is no vision it warns, the people will "cast off restraint" and "perish" (Prov. 28:12). Today we live in a world languishing for lack of genuine prophetic vision, based in reality. This affects our lives, our nations, and our world.
Citizens of Two Countries
God has given us a heavenly vision, the New Jerusalem. Christians in the past understood that they were citizens of two countries—this world and the New Jerusalem. We need to reclaim that vision—for our own sakes and for the sake of the world.
In his commencement address at Kenyon College in 2005, the brilliant novelist David Foster Wallace said: "In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship." Wallace took his life at 46 in 2008.
What we worship makes all the difference in who we are and what we do in the world. When scholars talk about the "de-mystification" of reality in the West, they mean that a materialist worldview has captured our imaginations. God and his vision are dismissed as comforting lies.
But since matter is not the ultimate reality, as the Bible writers knew, we seek other ways to meet a real longing. We work and work to buy more and more things. We deaden the longing inside however we can—with work, sex, drugs, and alcohol.
British singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse, who died from alcohol poisoning at 27, described her inner vision in her hit "Rehab": "The Man said, 'Why do you think you're here?' I said, 'I got no idea, I'm gonna, I'm gonna lose my baby so I always keep a bottle near.'"
Then there are role-playing video games. Asians are among the most dedicated users. Thirty percent of South Koreans under 18 are at risk for Internet addiction.
Imagine a Godly Future
Brandon O'Brian, an editor at Leadership Journal, speaks to the longing of our Korean friends when he writes that the Bible calls us to adopt an imagination "that helps us look beyond our own experience." We must learn to see what God sees, he says—to imagine, as the prophets did, a godly future.
And Jesus goes a step beyond the prophets, O'Brian points out, for he speaks not just of the future, but of the present: "Jesus invites his followers to imagine that the kingdom of God is at hand, and with it have come all those promised reversals . . . . the imagination was Jesus' main target."
The danger for all dream-losers reaches to our very identity. Psalm 135: "The idols of the nations are silver and gold, made by the hands of men . . . . Those who make them will be like them, and so will all who trust in them."
So what is the heavenly vision? What difference does it make in real time? Isaiah pictures a heavenly home where there is no violence, destruction, darkness, slavery, prisons, faint hearts, tears, or death.
Scripture makes it clear that we have dual citizenship: here on earth and in our heavenly home. For example, in Hebrews 11 we are told Abraham was looking for a city whose architect and builder is God. Hebrews 13 says, "For here we do not have an enduring city, but we are looking for the city to come."
Then John, in Revelation 21, confirms what Isaiah prophesied and what Abraham knew. He sees the city we are longing for: "Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth…. And I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband."
Exploring Ancient Churches
Growing up in a Baptist church, I had heard those verses many times, usually in sermons about the rapture and the last days. But it wasn't until much later that I began to see they had real consequences for life right here on earth.
In my travels I have explored many ancient churches, hoping to get in touch with what Christians before me thought, understood, and did.
Before the year 1000, churches often depicted the New Jerusalem on the arch over the altar in glittering mosaic. An example is the 9th-century Santa Praesede in Rome. In other churches, the Last Judgment and Christ in eternal glory were seen above the door as one walked out. Santa Maria Assunta, on the island of Torcello in the Venice Lagoon, displays this image, which also comes from Revelation 21:
And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine upon it, for the glory of God is its light, and its lamp is the Lamb. By its light shall the nations walk; and the kings of the earth shall bring their glory into it.
Accompany me now in your mind's eye to Aachen, Germany, where Charlemagne between 793 and 805 built a whole church as a three-dimensional icon of the New Jerusalem. The church itself is designed to welcome Christ when he returns in glory to judge the living and the dead.
Eighth Day of Resurrection
The building is an octagon, representing the seven days of creation plus the eighth day of resurrection and new life. The ceiling was originally a mosaic, glittering and golden, showing the 24 elders of Revelation bringing their crowns to Christ. An inscription at the base of the dome informs us that all the numbers have meaning.
The chandelier, given by Frederic Barbarossa in the 12th century, represents the wall of Jerusalem, here with eight gates instead of 12 in order to harmonize with the building. But it has 48 candles, 12 iron bars, and 24 golden globes, all multiples of 12.
The gallery above, held up by 32 stone pillars given by Popes Hadrian and Leo III, is the setting for the throne where Christ may sit to judge the world. Research has found that it is made of marble brought from Jerusalem, perhaps even from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
In the 14th century, Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV added a heaven-like chapel to honor Charlemagne and the relics of the Savior. His inspiration was the 13th-century Sainte Chapelle in Paris, built by the French king, St. Louis, to house the relic of the Crown of Thorns. That chapel, too, embodied the New Jerusalem. in 1521, the Bavarian city of Augsburg faced a housing crisis for its working poor. The Fuggers, Europe's most powerful banking family and Catholics, responded. The Fuggerai, the first low-income housing development in Europe, provides housing for the poor to this day.
Blueprint for the Earthly City
When St. Augustine responded to the 410 sack of Rome with his book The City of God, he reminded believers of their dual citizenship. His vision of the heavenly city became the blueprint for the actual city here on earth for most of the next 800 years. Then other dreams began to take over.
In Mere Christianity C. S. Lewis put it this way:
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next. The Apostles themselves, who set on foot the conversion of the Roman Empire, the great men who built up the Middle Ages, the English Evangelicals who abolished the Slave Trade, all left their mark on earth, precisely because their minds were occupied with Heaven. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. Aim at Heaven and you will get earth "thrown in": aim at earth and you will get neither.
The German philosopher Dietrich von Hildebrand put it another way. Why, he asks, did Christ begin his ministry by making wine for a wedding party in the little Galilean town of Cana? His answer:
[At Cana] we find this divine extravagance, this unlimitedness of charity which reaches to the smallest detail. It is this divine tenderness which excludes no gift from its intention as long as it is a beneficial good to the person . . . At Cana joy was the theme.
An opinion survey in 2010 by Euro RSCG Worldwide found that 67 percent of Americans "felt the recession had served to remind people of what is really important in life. Forty-eight percent said they were actively trying to figure out what made them happy."
Aim at Heaven
Documented longing. The idols are failing. But we know what our brothers and sisters in Naumburg well knew. We become what we worship. Aim at heaven and get earth thrown in. Walk through the cross to glory. Live in glory and make earth its reflection.
Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison described that longing on his 1989 hit album Avalon Sunset:
You brought it to my attention that everything was made in God.
Down through centuries of great writings and paintings
Everything lives in God.
Seen through the architecture of great cathedrals,
Down through the history of time….
Is and was in the beginning and evermore shall be.
When will I ever learn to live in God?
When will I ever learn?
He gives me everything I need and more.
When will I ever learn?
When indeed? From today onward, the rest of your life is before you. What you envision for that future will shape its reality. You become what you worship.
When I graduated from college in 1972, my own vision wasn't clear. I longed for a life of significance. I wanted to make a difference in the world. I wanted to know who I was and what God wanted me to do.
But I was full of fear. However, my longing for God led me through my mistakes, my sins, to a deeper understanding of who I am, of what it means to be a child of God.
I urge us all to stand with our brothers and sisters who, for more than 2000 years, knew what to do on earth because they knew they were headed for heaven.
Reprinted with permission from CENTENNIAL REVIEW, November 2013,
ERIN BETHEA and DREW WATERS Exclusive Interview
Making a Blockbuster Fantasy Epic: Behind the Scenes of THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG
By Tom Snyder, Editor
MOVIEGUIDE® recently got the chance to attend a press conference in Beverly Hills with Director Peter Jackson and some of the cast and crew of Part Two of THE HOBBIT trilogy, THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG.
Among the interesting things MOVIEGUIDE(r) discovered were that two of the actors, Benedict Cumberbatch, who voices Smaug, the evil dragon in the story, and Evangeline Lilly, who plays a compassionate female elf archer, are longtime childhood fans of the novel and Christian writer J.R.R. Tolkien, who also wrote THE LORD OF THE RINGS, the unofficial sequel to THE HOBBIT.
In the following interview, Director Peter Jackson discusses some of his thinking behind the new movie and how it fits into the whole story, which, at the end, will include the three movies already made about the "War of the Ring" that occurs in LORD OF THE RINGS, and three movies based on the events that lead up to THE LORD OF THE RINGS, in THE HOBBIT, which Tolkien published about 18 years before.
THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG is a grand, epic adventure with heart and passion.
Question [To Benedict Cumberbatch]: Can you talk about doing the voice-over? Did you go to New Zealand and did that help you in terms of being with Peter and maybe mingling with the rest of the cast?
Benedict Cumberbatch: Yes, I did go to New Zealand. It was hugely, hugely helpful. I started off with Peter and Fran (Walsh) and Philippa (Boyens), just the three of them and me, which was a privilege in itself, because of how large everything else is on this film, to have their sole attention. We were in the mo-cap stage so it began as a physicalization, both voice and body work, the whole thing. So that's how I discovered him.
Via my dad, who read me the book when I was either six or seven – I've really got to ring him. I keep saying this. I've said this for two days and not found out…. I was younger than eight when I went to school, so it was a bedtime treat at home. That was my first bit of research. Then, I went to the reptile house at the London Zoo and had a look there. It's so beautifully written, the book, and it's so well illustrated in countless editions of the book. Then, with Peter's input and our rehearsals and just playing like a kid really in this incredible freeing volume, as they call the mo-cap stage, meant that we could kind of go anywhere with it. So very, very helpful.
Sadly, I met hardly any of the cast. Rich [Armitage] and I met once. I crossed over with people as they were coming back to do, I think, their third stint. Martin [Freeman], I didn't spend any sort of live time with Martin, which was sad. … We know each other quite well so we kind of second-guessed in a weird way our performances to some degree, I guess. I didn't cross over with anyone. I've had scenes with people I haven't even met yet. So that is bizarre.
Question: If it's Andy Serkis as Gollum, it's easier to understand how he would do a motion capture performance for that, but it's hard to wrap at least my brain around how you do motion capture of this gargantuan creature. How did you even approach that?
Benedict: Well, it's obviously more abstract. It's only going to be a sort of impression of something that's a serpentine reptile who can breathe fire and fly and because I'm a limited biped mammal – sorry about that – but Peter knew that when I auditioned so we work with my sort of my negatives and try to turn them into positives.
One of the ways I did it was to try to squeeze my legs together just forgetting the fact that they were legs, trying to feel that as an elongated body, crawling on the floor on my elbows and using my hands as claws and sort of over-articulating my neck and shoulder to the delight of any physio who was unlucky enough to try and heal me afterward and yeah, just throwing myself at it with a kind of kid-like imagination and their brilliant expert guidance, and it was a really fun way to work. Andy came down to start on second unit, and I said "God, I wish you'd been there" because he's the don, he's the originator and master of that form – art form I should say giving its proper title – and we just sort of laughed afterward. Obviously, you know, he's only done biped mammals, you know, no one's really tried a serpent before, so I don't think he would have been much help at all. (Laughs)
Question: The special effects were incredible of course. For Peter – I'm just curious as to what were the challenges of filming the film with these special effects and for the actors – what was it like working on a special effects movie where not all the effects were there for you to see?
Peter Jackson: Well. . . what I tried to do is anytime we were on a green screen stage with a lot of, you know, just bits of set (and) green screen, I would try to bring in the conceptual art (by) Alan Lee or John Howe, or one of the Weta Workshop guys have done. So that we, you know, at least the guys know what is going to be back on the green screen behind them; not all the time, because sometimes I didn't even know myself when we were shooting it. Some of those things you figure out later. I mean look, its ultimately, I mean, other guys (vision) it but it's like, it's the power …the imagination. It's just. . . it's a suspension of disbelief really.
You are, just as the audience, we are asking you to believe in a world that elves and dwarves and dragons and orcs exist. When you're on the stage, you have to also be in that same mind frame. You are in that world, whether it's green or whatever, if there's a tennis ball that's supposed to be Smaug, you're still, it's the same thing, really.
Question: Evangeline, your character is a warrior. Did you do anything like learn to shoot bows and arrows to train? What did you think when you saw yourself on the screen for the first time with this fiery red hair and pointy ears?
Evangeline Lilly: I went through five different types of training. I did weapons training, stunt training, movement training, dialect training, language training. In the weapons training, there were two different weapons. I had double daggers and a bow and arrow. Believe it or not, I used to teach archery to little kids. I think one of the great gifts of CGI and working in the imagination is that you can imagine that you're much more talented than you really are. If you can imagine it, it can appear as so with Peter Jackson's magic CGI brush.
Seeing myself for the first time on screen as an elf, it was a double-edged sword because I'm a real Tolkien geek, and I had dreamed about being an elf since I was a little girl. So there was an incredible amount of satisfaction and dream realization when I first got to see myself as an elf, but I'm also, unfortunately, an actor, which means that I'm very self-critical. It's very hard for me to ever give anything I do a stamp of approval without having the appendices that says all the things I did wrong, and what didn't work. Just the ears and the wig and the actual visual was very, very exciting.
Peter Jackson: I've said this to Evangeline, but I've spent more time in her company when she's wearing the wig and the ears, and when I look at her here, I find it a bit strange. Strange weird hair and the like. Honestly, I'm much more used to hearing her voice and looking around and seeing the red wig and the ears. It's one of the strange things because I never see the actors [in their street clothes]. They walk on set ready to go. They go home at the end of the day, and I'm just not used to any of that stuff. To see them as humans is rather disturbing.
Question: Mr. Jackson, I want to talk to you about making three movies instead of two. Did that allow you to make the second chapter so action-packed? What character benefited the most from that decision?
Peter Jackson: It's an interesting question. I don't think any character benefited from the decision. We didn't really change a lot. We made that decision after we had shot most of the film. It was a decision based on what we had shot, and we just thought we're going to have to somehow cut a lot of this stuff out or we can reshape it. We did some more shooting. We did 10 weeks of shooting this year, as well as pickup shooting for the second and third film. What it does is it allows you to literally let the characters drive the story, because in a novel, the writer of the novel is often the person who narrates the story, who kind of takes you on the journey, and Tolkien's voice is obviously fantastic at doing that. You feel like he's right beside you telling you a bedtime story; but, in the movie, you don't want me onscreen telling you what's happening. So, the difference in a film is that you have to have the story told through the dialogue of the characters, through their actions.
You just want your narrative of the film to be told through either the dialogue that the characters are saying or the actions that they do. That's really why we ended up giving it the sort of depth and explore some of the character depth that we had done in LORD OF THE RINGS. I also was acutely aware that there was going to be, ultimately, when there was going to be this cycle of releasing a movie every year as done, knowing that was six films, I expected JOURNEY (the first HOBBIT movie) to be the beginning and RETURN OF THE KING to be the end, and I did want to have a unity. I didn't want to make THE HOBBIT feel any more simple or any less. I just wanted it to feel like it was the same filmmakers, basically. People always ask about the Evangeline character and why we felt the need to create her. In THE HOBBIT novel, they get captured by the elves, and they escape through the bowels, and there's a memorable part of the book, but the elf king isn't even named. It was only later on that Tolkien decided that he should be Thranduil, and he also decided that he had a son when THE LORD OF THE RINGS was written 18 years later. He created the character of the son of the king. So, you have the material there, but you can't have a scene in a film that's a memorable scene and not have just one person as the elf. We wanted three Elven characters who were all different. That's the thing too is to create characters who have conflict with one another, and who have different agendas. I mean Thranduil, Legolas and Tauriel are all on different flight paths, which makes for more interesting for Fran and I to write the narratives through their eyes.
Question: Richard, can you talk about what you all went through shooting the barrel sequence and was it all worth it now that you've seen the finished product?
Richard Armitage: I think the most dangerous part of filming the barrel sequence was when we were in these little cut-off Flintstones-style barrels which were powered by our feet. It was like dodge-ems, and we were bumping into each other. Yeah, it came together in quite a few different places on the Pelorus River, which was an extremely fast-flowing river with a current. [Laughing] It's the end of the sequence, and it's when we were racing each other to get to the waterfront. It was like being at a theme park for two weeks, and they were dumping tons of water on us and trying to get us to go under the water. I think Martin had the most difficult role in that, because he wasn't in a barrel, and there was an underwater camera, and he would swap out with the stunt guy, and it got quite hair-raising, but I think it was worth it.
Peter Jackson: We had these big V8 water jet things that we built on a circle – it was like a theme park – about as big as this room. We were worried because we thought, how fast can we actually grind, wind the engine up, because we could sort of wind it up at speed and, you know, we'd better be careful because we don't know quite [what's going to happen]. It's going to be unpredictable – and it was. We had stunt guys doing it, round and round, and testing it and everything else. You know, these are actors, they're a little bit fragile. [Laughing] By the end of the first day, the guys were just yelling, "Faster! Faster! Get it faster, faster, faster!" We had it on max, we had the thing going on maximum pretty quickly.
I remember when I was 17-19 years old, I remember the EMPIRE STRIKES BACK big cliffhanger. It was like three years before the next one came out. We're being pretty generous with one year. As a BREAKING BAD fan, I was hanging a long time for that last half season or whatever they call it for BREAKING BAD.
Question: This is a question for Benedict [Cumberbatch]. You were talking about Martin [Freeman] and since he's not here, what do you like about him, and what do you remember about the first time you were working with him? In Sherlock, you two are buddies but in this you're enemies, so please talk about how it was working with him in that way.
Benedict Cumberbatch: Yeah, it's a very different dynamic. Very different. One, I'm in the room with him, and I'm not the flying, psychotic napalm machine. I could be dismissive of him as Dr. Watson as my Sherlock, but they're friends. Very different. What's to like about Martin Freeman? Oh, it's too early in the day to do this, is it? It's tricky. I haven't got my list for the day ready yet. He's very smart, and he's one of the funniest men I've ever met. He's a craftsman, he works incredibly hard and creates authentic characters and moments in drama. He's an inspiration to work with obviously, and I've got nothing but good things to say about Martin.
Peter Jackson: The one thing about Martin that I think is amazing is he gives you choices. What that means is that every single take he does is different. Is that the same with SHERLOCK as well? [Martin Freeman plays Dr. Watson to Cumberbatch's Sherlock Holmes in a series on PBS.]
Benedict Cumberbatch: It is.
Peter Jackson: He's [Martin] just exploring. He's exploring the whole time. He's not saying, "Okay, I think that one was perfect, I don't need to go anymore than that." The next take he's coming up with a different approach to it, and sometimes a very relatively different approach. Ten years ago, after we wrapped on THE LORD OF THE RINGS shoot with Ian Holm, who obviously plays Bilbo as an older man, and Ian McKellen came up to me and said, "Are you okay with what he does?" I said, "Why?" Ian McKellen is a much more of an actor who has a vision for what the scene needs to be about. He's moving towards that particular goal, and Ian Holm was exploring and experimenting. I said, "You both have great approaches. You're the safe and stable one, I know where you're heading."
I'm getting a lot of choice with Martin playing the younger Bilbo. Coincidentally, it's exactly the same style actor as Ian Holm.
Question: Evangeline, as a huge Tolkien fan, have you found that his work inspires your writing and has your experience working on books informed your acting in any significant way, particularly in this role?
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Co-Screenwriter Philippa Boyens: Women are huge fans of these films. It's wonderful. You know, right from the LORD OF THE RINGS, there was this immediate engagement of women. You know, there's this notion that it's a genre for boys, you know, dungeons and dragons or something like that but you know I'm living proof that that's not true. I've always loved these stories. I think they spoke to me. The characters of THE HOBBIT especially speak to me – Frodo and Bilbo of course – and when you meet these young women, you do the red carpet and everything, things like that, and they talk to you, you understand that that passion for the storytelling that they've received that is going to create a new generation of young writers – young female writers – and I think we're starting to see that now coming through. The way that fantasy is being used and one of the things that women, I think especially enjoy or relate to, is that Professor Tolkien attempted to make these stories real. They feel real, like a history. They read like a history: this exists; and, this was true. Pete is, I think, a genius at making these films feel real. Even though you have a giant fire-breathing dragon, he's a real character – a real being.
COMING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS is a sweet television Christmas movie with heart. COMING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS has a strong Christian, moral worldview with Christian Christmas songs and an emphasis on the importance of family.
Kate and Melanie used to be best friends and the family got along wonderfully. When the two grew up, Kate walked out on Melanie's wedding, confronting her that it was a mistake. After this, the two sisters didn't talk for five years, and the family fell to pieces. Their mother and father, Wendy and Al, split from the stress of their daughters and growing angry. Hearing this news, Kate is broken hearted and decides to try to talk them both out of the split.
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Still in distress about her parents' separation, Kate decides to take action to get them back together. Extreme measures are taken when Kate goes to see Melanie and tell her the news of the split. The two are still hurt from each other, but forgive each other and decide to work on getting the family back. Mike decides to let Kate and Melanie plan their family Christmas at his house, their childhood home, in an attempt to reunite the family.
COMING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS is a sweet Christmas movie. It stresses the importance of Christmas and family. The two females lead actors, Carly McKillip and Britt McKillip, are cute and engaging. However, the plot itself isn't filled with a lot of conflict. There's overt Christian content with some Christian Christmas songs, but also one married couple is broken up. Overall, COMING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS is a sweet, entertaining movie.


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maybe, just maybe, it might help if you took your time and actually formulated youe entire question in a story-like way...you know, make a post longer than 3 sentences, that might help a lot.
Either we already answered your question, or you didn't formulate it right...I'm sorry if I seem blunt, but this is the way I see it..
Indeed. The question was a very general question, and you are expecting a very specific and detailed answer without specifying just exactly what you want. Acting frustrated and confused is not the way to go.
I am not very patient right now, so let me put my words in these terms:
1) What exactly is it you want? The exact motions of these skinny guys, how they do something so powerful? Are you asking if buff guys simply can't exert the amount of power into the birdie like skinny guys can? Are you simply asking for some miracle solution into explaining this. There is no simple miracle solution to anything, if that's what you're asking.
2) You are making a generalization that there aren't any buff guys out there who can put loads of power and speed into their shots, they're just fewer in number. You are quite right that most of the best out there are quite skinny (relative to most athletes), they do have quite some muscle but not much body mass. Badminton is about SPEED, not POWER. Thus, the faster you can swing that racket, the faster your shots. Smashes, therefore, are not POWERFUL, but are FAST. Simply put, the faster you can swing your racket and put the energy into the birdie, the faster your shots. To do that requires fast reflexes and fast-response muscle stitches (or whatever they are called, I'm not quite sure on this part).
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(a) People with good body builds should be hitting shuttles like a train hitting a fly if it was because of finesse? What does that mean? Finesse means skill and detail in performing an action, people with good body builds don't necessarily have the skill. Furthermore, explain the term, "good body build." To have a good body build in every sport is something different. In sumo, you have to be big and strong, as well as nimble. In cross-country, it means to have strong legs and as little excess body mass as possible. In badminton, it means to be able to jump high, swing your arms, hands, and wrist quickly, and also, to be able to have the endurance to keep running quickly and change directions in a split second.
(b) "So, in my opinion," means just that: That is YOUR OPINION. Opinions aren't always correct. That is what you think, but the facts may prove otherwise.
(c) "EXPLANATION of HOW they DO IT." If you are asking for that, you might as well be asking for the meaning of life, a description of love, a lecture on hope. You're basically asking for a million different things, and most of them are intangible and relative, so it's virtually impossible. If you simply keep providing statements as these, there's no point in asking, accept some part of what the other members have been telling you, ask questions based off of their information. For example, when Polar Bear wrote,"The timing or 'finesse' of a persons swing determines this impulse and thus how efficiently momentum is trasferred from the raquet head to the bird." you could have asked, "What are some techniques to shorten the time of energy transfer in order to maximize the momentum transferred? How much of the swing energy should be put into the wrist, how much into the arm? Should I stop my arm motion when I start rotating my wrist?" and other questions as those.
Please stop making answering this question so frustrating. By the way, the shorties are not the only ones capable of hitting the shuttle with "power," there are lots of tall guys out there with "power." You just need to look online and around more.
dont call them monsters. they just have good technique. plus a big muscular guy might have lots of strength, but if he picks up a racket and start smashing, most of his power will be diffused if he does not apply the proper swing.
Never meant any offense with that word, it's more of a exaggerated compliment. When compare two players, short and a tall strong one, I notice that the big guy always do bigger movements than the other player who's only flicking his racket. Normally, doesn't a big swing generate more power than a small one?
Depends. If you can pronate at the end, use finger power, etc, a big swing will have tremendous power because of the last second acceleration of the swing, in addition to the speed of your arm motion. However, if you don't do this stuff, then a big swing will be weaker, because you're not providing that last second "oomph" to the swing. A player who can accelerate their racquet like mad from a short swing is more powerful than a person who puts all of their strength into making a large, arm powered, motion which doesn't actually move their racquet all that fast.
Good players come in different size and shape, all of them would have good badminton strokes and footwork, but what separate the best from the good are their mental strength. So, no point arguing about physical size, what matter most is the substance in between our ears.
OK OK, then it's a big mix of factors. I got it!
put it simply, compare what happens when you burn barrel of petrol slowly, and when you explode it all at once. explosive force, in a short amount of time, provides a lot of power. i've read somewhere in this forum, that a good smash is 60% technique, 30% muscle, and 10% racquet.
In other words, if you swing hard, but tend to "slice" the shuttle or hit the shuttle in wrong position/time, most of the swing power would go wasted. It takes a lot of practice to get these right. Probably, the shorter guys are practicing more to get better timing and stamina. Also, bigger guys have problem handling fast change in direction of shuttle or shuttle hit directed at their body. These are general observations from my experience, although if bigger guys develop agility, they could become better players.
I am 6 feet or 6 foot 1 and only 140 pounds, people say i look like im 125 pounds but during high school i smashed the hardest, its all in the wrist and technique of how u hit, but right now my wrist is injured
It's not to do with swing. You can hit an incredibly hard smash with virtually no swing.
It is part technique, but once the technique is nailed, someone (Gollum I think) mentioned that it's about explosive power within the muscles. That's why training for bulk means your muscles aren't as effective because they aren't built for it. Hence a leaner, more explosive framework is better.Last edited by UkPlayer; 01-17-2008 at 11:21 AM.
Yes like what has been stated many times before here it is a mix of factors, a big swing is less effective because it takes more time and can in cases use more energy. A compact swing is where you see the power and speed comming from because the motion is fast and explosive which generates the power with this comes your muscles and how they are trained being bulky has its disadvantages being lean/tones has many advantages in badminton and you have to train your muscles to be explosive and able to preform the compact swing that will generate the power as well as having the right technique and using your body, pronation, etc all to your advantage.
A few weeks back I saw a brother and sister who were about 10 to 12 years of age playing some of the most elegant and powerful strokes I had ever seen from such small and slender bodies. Today I chanced to see her play again, in two tightly fought singles sets, against her coach. The coach has a very evil high serve, like those that go up, up, and then drops vertically, but this little girl had no problem with his serve. Her coach is a former singles champion of one of the provinces of China. This little girl just turned 10 this week and she weighs slightly less than 30 kilogram! She also trains under another coach, a former Chinese national squad memberas well as a former Hong Kong ladies singles champion. It happens that both her coaches are my friends, and they told me that this little girl has great potential. In today's coaching session this little girl also served as a co-coach to her coach. She can hit as hard as her coach although she is a bit lacking in experience in allowing her coach to get out of hopeless situations with deception. I did notice that this little girl uses her body like a finely-tuned and highly-sprung spring, using her body core like a Lin Dan. Simply amazing.
So, size alone is of no help.
in badminton taller and longer arms may actually be a negative thing. the whole swinging motion (clear and smashing) is based on the force enduced from the torq of the body. taller and longer arms means the body has to produce more energy to get the racquet to travel through air and hit the bird. also, bigger guys with lots of muscles have extra weight on them, which makes it harder to move around and jump compared to a skinier guy.
now i'm not saying that shirt skinny midgets will have an absolute advantage, but the game of badminton is all about balance. you need the right body mass with your height and the right technique to produce the right amount of explosive energy at the right time, then POW, that's the power transfered from your body to the bird at the point of contact.
another really good analogy is why you don't see so many huge buff marathon runners. well, all those muscle in the chest and arms slows the runners down. sure longer legs and huge leg muscles will give you power, but in the long run, it's that mental sharpness and the body that's shaped to the sport that counts.
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The library had problems. The staff felt stymied. The collection was old and musty. The library had been partially automated, but the computer system (cooked up one weekend by the city's Information Services department) was almost unusable.
This library did have one dedicated group of patrons: seniors, who loved the library's extensive collection of large print books. But as one of the Board members who had interviewed me put it, "One of them dies every week."
Circulation -- library jargon for "the number of library materials checked out" -- was dropping. It had been for over a decade. Few people seemed to know that the city even had a library.
But there were lots of wonderful things, too. I loved the staff. I liked the community. I had ideas, and I was sure they would be well-received.
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It was all pretty heady. Then, some months after I'd been at the helm, one of my senior staff members introduced a small, white-haired lady to me. She was the previous library director.
By this time, of course, I'd heard quite a bit about her. I did notice that she'd apparently gone out of her way not to interfere in any way with my changes.
But on occasion, I realized that it must have been hard for her. She'd spent some 30 years making her mark on the place. In just a handful of months, I'd thrown it all over. What's worse, those changes had worked. For the first time in some 12 years or so, library use was CLIMBING.
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* No matter what you build or establish, your successor can change it. Quickly.
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One day I, too, must hand over the destiny of the library I love to some inexperienced pup. That young idiot (I feel sure) will do things so blind, so stupid, that it will be all I can do to hold my tongue.
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We cannot recommend this hotel highly enough. It was our Christmas family gathering, all 18 of us and our stay was as good as we could have hoped for … and much more. The place itself is fun and funky, the food excellent but what really made the stay so special was the staff. They were friendly,helpful and made us... More
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- The Hundred House is a charming, family run hotel at Norton, Telford, situated in rolling countryside close to Shropshire's beautiful Severn Valley, just ten minutes drive from Ironbridge Gorge and its many museums. Throughout, it has drying herbs and flowers grown in the Inn's own garden hanging from the oak beams. Guests are welcome to browse the garden at their leisure and enjoy the variety of unusual sculptures, statues, archways, roses, trees, herbaceous plants and the large working herb garden with over 100 varieties of herbs, providing seasonal supplies to the kitchen. The distinctive bar and restaurant features mellow brick and stained glass with Jacobean wood paneling and cosy open log fires. The hotel has 9 individually decorated bedrooms, most with 4 poster or half tester beds and chandeliers. The bedrooms contain exquisite, hand-picked antique furniture and en suite bathrooms refurbished in 2011, featuring Victoria & Albert baths and rain showers. Many also have the famous Hundred House swing hanging from the oak beams - you won't forget your stay here in a hurry and is ideal for those who like to 'escape the norm'! This quirky decor helped the Hundred House to win a coveted Cesar award for 'utterly enjoyable mild eccentricity'. The Hotel is owned and run by the Phillips family; Head Chef, Stuart, has held two AA Rosettes for 16 years and earned a Michelin Bib Gourmand for his imaginative cuisine. The Hundred House has a fantastic reputation for excellent food and friendly service, making it favourite destination for many local people. Attached to the hotel is Shropshire's only 17th-Century Tithe Barn. Recently refurbished, it is ideal for weddings, christenings, parties, functions, conferences and meetings. The hotel has dedicated event staff to ensure your event is perfect and the best possible day is had by all. ... more less
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Increasing number of veterans homeless, on aid
New figures show a troubling trend in the number of homeless veterans. Learn more in today's DoD Report.
iPhones, iPads on the way, VA confirms
The Department of Veterans Affairs confirmed Monday that the previously discussed "popular devices" it will soon allow on its network are iPhones and iPads. Allowing the devices to connect will meet a growing demand by VA employees, but will mean accepting some level of security risk, VA's CIO said.
Steven Fyfe: Helping vets whose 'shoes I used to be in'
Since 2009, Steven Fyfe has been a transition patient advocate at the D.C. Veterans Affairs Medical Center. His job is to help seriously ill or injured vets when they return from active duty.
OMB in search of more money saving ideas
The White House today launched the 2011 version of the SAVE award. Employees can submit ideas starting through July 29. Over the past two years, feds offered more than 56,000 potential money-saving ideas.
Best practices of open source at agencies
Your agency is getting some help when it comes to future open source collaboration projects.
Time running out to fix GI Bill payments
Lawmakers continue to work on legislation that will guarantee veterans attending private colleges will have the same tuition payouts until they graduate.
VA pays vets' family caregivers who complete training
The Veterans Affairs Department is sending out $430,000 to nearly 200 family caregivers of veterans.
Tuesday Federal Newscast - July 5, 2011
The latest news affecting federal workers and government contractors. Find out what you need to know to start your day.
VA picks 15 vendors for $12B IT contract
The agency will buy a broad range of technology services from eight large and seven veteran-owned small businesses under the T4 contract. The deal is a multiple-award IDIQ contract that will last five years.
Inside look at DoD-VA interagency relations
In Debra Filippi's 34 years of work in the federal government she served as the Director of the DoD/VA Interagency program office.
VA sets Oct. 1 as smartphone approval day
Agency CIO Roger Baker said he plans to let employees use mobile devices on the VA network starting in fiscal 2012. He's leaning toward the bring-your-own-device approach, but details still need to be finalized. Baker said VA also will update its mobile computing policy.
Collaborative website combines vets' resources
The National Resource Directory is allowing agencies to share information with members of the military. Koby Langley from DoD tells Federal News Radio how the collaboration works.
VA outlines key procurement initiatives
Jan Frye, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Acquisition and Logistics, Department of Veterans Affairs, discusses the VA's key procurement initiatives.
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OPM promotes new thinking about federal pay
OPM Director John Berry said the administration is trying to be "responsible and professional" when it comes to changing the bonus and pay structure. He said agencies should take a step back and make sure they are using these programs effectively and promoting the best employees.
Duckworth resigns from VA post
Tammy Duckworth submitted her resignation from the Department of Veterans Affairs.
VA, DoD to test initial joint e-health record in July
Agency officials will meet in June to approve the rollout of the first piece of an integrated and interoperable electronic health record for soldiers and veterans. VA and DoD also are creating a centralized database that will be located in DISA's data centers.
DoD, VA choose e-health GUI
The Defense Department and Veteran's Affairs have chosen its "mainline" interface for their joint e-health record.
Agencies having trouble analyzing service contracts
GAO found many agencies will fall short of the June 30 deadline to determine if they are using service contractors appropriately.
VA's Baker to chair e-health advisory board
The Defense and Veterans Affairs departments have agreed to use commercial, open source software to develop a joint electronic health record. VA CIO Roger Baker will head the advisory board.
Million Veteran Program consolidates vets' health data
Veterans Affairs' Dr. Ronald Przygodzki explains on the program will further the science of genomics.


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For a thousand years, the community tradition of singing in parts has sustained, inspired and united the people of Wales in good times and in times of hardship and uncertainty.
The Welsh Choir of Southern California believes in the power of music to restore our faith in life, in ourselves, and in each other.
Through concerts and recordings of sacred and secular words by Welsh poets and musicians, we seek to strengthen the human spirit and bring joy to audiences not only in Southern California, but around the world.
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BUSINESS EDUCATION BUILDING - Pasco, Washington
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Budget: $5,000,000
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Project Description: This project was a major renovation of the previously existing 14,548 square foot facility and is a model project for promoting the benefits of green buildings as well as a Washington State standard for Major Renovations. Original planning for the facility began in 2005 with the submittal of the 'Project Proposal Request'; in 2006 the pre-design was completed; and in May of 2008 the project was awarded to Chervenell Construction. Construction began in June of 2008 and was completed in August of 2009. This project will be the first on the CBC Campus to meet USGBC's LEED Silver Status, which exceeded that benchmark and was awarded Gold Certification. The Real Estate & Construction Review recognized the environmental success of this project and voted this project as one of the best new green projects in the Northwest for 2009. Sustainable features include: solar water heating system, high energy efficiency, natural daylighting, 50% water usage reduction, indoor air quality control, use of regional materials, and maximizing surrounding open space. This building is located in the core of the Columbia Basin College Campus and offers both formal and informal learning environments. The facility will be constructed out of CMU, wood framing, and metal roofing and now houses the Business Education, Criminal Justice, and Paralegal Departments for the College. PDF>


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Kristen StewartTwilightWhich blockbuster fantasy star just got voted least sexy actress?Trent MooreThursday, February 21, 2013 - 2:18pm The voters have spoken, and a famous fantasy actress has taken the crown as the least sexy leading lady out there.
Kristen StewartRobert PattinsonTwilight: Breaking Dawn Part 210+ mins of new Breaking Dawn 2 clips filled with vampy intrigue Trent MooreFriday, November 2, 2012 - 11:05am We're just a few weeks away from the release of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2, and a ton of new footage has made it out into the wild showing all sorts of vampiric intrigue among the Cullens.
Kristen StewartTwilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2Bella shows off her vampy strength in new Breaking Dawn 2 clip Trent MooreFriday, October 26, 2012 - 9:47am A new clip from the final installment in the Twilight saga has been released, showing off Bella (Kristen Stewart) as she demonstrates her vampy super-powers in Breaking Dawn 2. So does she win that arm-wrestling match?
EndingKristen StewartTwilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2Kristen Stewart promises 'really weird' Breaking Dawn 2 ending Trent MooreThursday, September 13, 2012 - 9:49am We'd already heard that the eagerly anticipated finale to the long-running Twilight saga was taking some liberties from the books, and now series star Kristen Stewart has chimed in on the matter. According to her, things are about to get "really weird."
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Breaking Dawn Part 2Kristen StewartRobert PattinsonTaylor LautnerEdward and Jacob are broody as ever in 2 new Breaking Dawn 2 picsKrystal ClarkThursday, April 26, 2012 - 2:20pm The final installment of The Twilight Saga is upon us. The franchise, which debuted in 2008, will come to a close with this fall's Breaking Dawn—Part 2. To kick-off the insane marketing campaign, Summit Entertainment has released two photos featuring Edward, Bella and the forever scorned, Jacob Black.
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The Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK), the formal name of the Khmer Rouge, came into power on April 17, 1975 after successfully defeating General Lon Nol's army. (The Khmer Rouge kept the CPK a secret) Pol Pot was the evident leader of this new party, although he kept himself hidden from the Cambodian people at this time. On that day the Khmer soldiers marched into the streets of Phnom Penh declaring their victory of the previous government. In doing this they were also making clear that they were the new power to be reckoned with. The Khmer Rouge killed nearly killed two million people on their "quest" to turn Cambodia into a communist country based on peasant society.
The Khmer Rouge government was able to keep their identity a secret so that none of the citizens knew who was running the country. The government was simply referred to as Angkar by the Khmer soldiers. The horrible mistreatment of the Cambodian people lasted until 1979. The end to this horrible period in time could have a lot to do with Vietnam. In 1977 the Khmer government began military attacks on Vietnam. These attacks drove Vietnam forces into Cambodia to fight back. This fighting between the Khmer Rouge and Vietnam lasted for two years. In 1979 Vietnam overthrew the Khmer Rouge regime and liberated those who survived the "Pol Pot Era."
Source: Chandler, David P. The Land and People of Cambodia. U.S.A.: HarperCollins Publishers, 1991.
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The endangered population of Caribou living north of Prince George and south of Dawson Creek got some help from the provincial government this week.
Environment Minister Terry Lake and Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations Minister Steve Thomson announced Thursday that "90 per cent of identified high-elevation winter caribou habitat across the South Peace area will be protected to support the recovery of Northern Caribou." The new protection added to previous reserves covers a total footprint of about 400,000 hectares.
The announcement came after considerable scientific research, First Nations consultation, and dialogue with industry about their land use plans in that sensitive area.
"Habitat fragmentation and alteration from industrial development is believed to be the ultimate cause of Northern Caribou population declines in the South Peace," said government officials.
The industry-free zone will include large tracts of the Graham, Moberly, Burnt Pine, Kennedy Siding, Scott, Narraway and Quintette herd ranges.
There are an estimated 1,100 of the rare animals left in the South Peace. The plan unveiled on Thursday aims to boost the population by another 100 within the next three generational cycles. The data indicated the herd would dwindle to only 800 in the next two decades if no plan were implemented.
Elsewhere in B.C. and Alberta a total of about 17,000 caribou live. Other pocket herds have, like the South Peace herd, shrunk to small populations to the alarm of many stakeholders.
The plan commits government to population recovery work as well as land use protections, and also allows for a First Nations harvest. It also sets out measures to help the herd "in lower-elevation winter caribou habitat to minimize habitat fragmentation and support long-term habitat conditions," the two ministers said.


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افسانه اکامبرو جادوی سیاه
The North American scientist Charles H. Hapgood, a dedicated
archeologist, revealed in 1973
the results of his laborious study of an extraordinary collection of
32,000 artifacts, the property of the German collector Waldemar
Julsrud. The collection is composed of
ceramics, carved wooden objects, and engraved stones all from the
region around Acambaro, in central Mexico (15). Looking at the
color reproductions of many of these
objects, one notes that the images of human beings do not
resemble the inhabitants of the region in particular or the American
Indian in general; and the animal images seem to
be fantastic, though some species of extinct animals can be
discerned. We see oriental, negroid, and aryan human types, and
we see, among the identifiable prehistoric animals
, anthropoids, anteaters, crabs, horses, camels, crocodiles, and
various species of dinosaur, including the stegasaurus,
corinthosaurus, tyranosaurus, plesiosaurus
, brontosaurus, and pelicosaurus (Fig. 30, 31, 32, and 33 - see
bottom of this page).
For over twenty years archeologists thought these pieces were
fakes. In support of this hypothesis they pointed out that 1) never
before had so many pieces been found in so
small an area; 2) never before had such delicate and fragile objects
been preserved underground in such pristinity; 3) the objects made
reference to unknown cultures; 4)
the absence of patina and the accumulation of saltpeter was
inexplicable, and 5) the depiction of dinosaurs was further proof
that the etchings were phony. The suggestion
that the pieces were of recent manufacture, and that the person
who manufactured them was Odilon Tinajero, a resident of
Acambaro, who had sold specimens to the
collection with the assurance that they were unearthed by him and
his family. But doubts remained: the collection contained pieces
that demonstrated considerable
knowledge on some themes, such as the customs and legends of
the Indian people, and rare and exotic extinct animals; many also
showed extraordinary artistic ability. But Odilon
Tinajeros scarcely knew how to read and write and like the rest of
his family had never exhibited any talent for things artistic.
Hapgood enlisted the services of a famous expert
in the detection of falsifications. It had already been established
that the pieces had been fired in an open oven, and given the sheer
quantity of pieces that existed, this oven
would have had to have been kept going day and night over a long
period of time which would in turn have required copious firewood.
The investigations carried out by the expert, the municipal
authorities, and by a local professor, however, conclude that: 1)
Odilon Tinajero did not own an oven; 2) no one had seen smoke
that might reveal the functioning of such an oven, and 3) there was
not sufficient in the area to permit the
firing of the thousands of specimens. Beyond this, Odilon Tinajero
was selling the pieces at a price which would not have covered the
investment needed to fabricate them
. Hapgood turned to laboratory analysis in order to try to verify the
age of the pieces. The analysis - using radiocarbon dating and the
thermoluminescent method - certified that the pieces were old. The
first method gave an age of 6,400 to 3,500 years, and the second,
for some pieces, an age of 4,500 years. Thus was Hapgood able to
demonstrate the archeological value of this incredible collection,
ending a long period of doubt and incredulity.
Among Hapgood's conclusions is the notion that the extinct animals
and the age of the pieces suggest that the culture of Acambaro
predates all others known in America, and that Acambaro culture
had an influence on all later cultures. He also thinks that they nay
have had a cult of reptiles, evidence of which appears in the
collection. He does not argue for the coexistence of extinct animals
and man in Acambaro. On this point Hapgood is correct: I think that
on the basis of this collection the coexistence of prehistoric animals
and the makers of the pieces cannot be postulated and that in all
probability the age of the pieces is not greater than that given out
in the laboratory report. I believe that this collection provides still
more proof of cultural mestizaje between the artifacts of the
gliptolithic era and the era of Acambaro man. Acambaro man must
have had an oral tradition, and by way of his ancestors he heard of
a world in which both man and prehistoric animals lived. This
information was probably obtained by his ancestors through some
gliptolithic objects, although it is possible that the information was
imparted directly from generation to generation since, as we saw in
Chapter One, while the splendor of the gliptolithic humanity came
to an end, the human genu did not. The cultural mestizaje seen in
the pieces from Acambaro can be seen in the alteration of the true
morphologies of some men and animals, through the particular
filter of the men who created the objects.
(15) Charles H. Hapgood: Mystery in Acambaro. An account of the ceramic collection of the late Waldemar Julsrud in Acambaro, GTO., Mexico. Printed by Griswold Offset Printing, Inc. Brattlebaro, Vermont 1973.


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Food and Drink - Berlin
Last Updated: 7th Jun 2012
No matter where you travel in Europe you will find local specialities and when it comes to food, the local favorite in Berlin is the curry wurst. 'Currywurst' is simply a sliced sausage with tomato and curry powder. Street stalls are all over the city and often go by such names a 'Check Point Curry'. Like the rest of Germany many menus feature pork products with chicken, dumplings and loads of potatoes cooked in a variety of ways. The city also lends its name to the jelly-filled doughnut known throughout Germany as a 'Berliner'.
Like the rest of Germany beer is an important part of the culture with the most widely available being Berliner Pilsner. You're more like to find yourself sipping on a cocktail or dropping a shot or two if you head out to a bar or club.
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