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Award-winning director Naomi Kawase initiated a project in response to the devastating earthquake and tsunami which hit the Tohoku region of Japan on 11 March 2011. The result is an anthology of films, all 3 minutes 11 seconds in duration, addressing the theme of home. From Apichatpong Weerasethakula's Monsoon, to Jia Zhang-ke's Alone Together to Naomi Kawase's own contribution Home, this is a deeply personal and moving dedication to the victims of the earthquake and tsunami, and a poignant reminder of the universal significance of home. The film will screen on the one year anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami. –AsiaHouse
Naomi Kawase was born in 1969, at a time when Japanese cinema was thriving with vigorous underground filmmaking, the initial streak in Kawase's own young career. While studying photography at the Osaka School of Visual Arts, she started to make films as part of a workshop: "I focus on that which interests me" (1988), a personal symphony of the city, "The concretization of these things flying around me" (1989), a silent study of the homeless, "Presently (1989), a poetic piece visualising the 4 elements (water, air, fire and earth). After graduating in 1989, she taught for 4 years.
In 1992, she made Embracing, a medium length 16mm feature in which she sets up to find her biological father (Naomi was brought up by her grandparents after her parents' marriage broke up). In 1993, she cast her documentary eye on a striking boy-meets-girl fiction in White Moon. She dedicated her following film Katatsumori (94) to her grandmother. This film and the next one… read more
Spanish director Victor Erice made two of his country's most important and critically lauded films, El Espiritu de la Colmena (The Spirit of the Beehive) (1973) and Sur (The South) (1983). Erice had studied political science before entering the Instituto de Investigaciones y Experiencias Cinematográficas in 1960. Shortly after graduation in 1963, he worked as a film critic and worked on the script for Antonio Eceiza's El Proximo Otoño (Next Autumn) (1963). He also collaborated on Miguel Picazo's Oscuros Sueños de Agosto (Dark Dreams of August) (1967). Influential producer Elías Querejeta provided Erice his first opportunity to direct by assigning him a chance to helm one of three episodes in Los Desafios (The Challenges) (1969). Following his success with El Sur, Erice became a prolific director of television commercials and worked uncredited on numerous other feature films. In 1992, Erice reemerged on the film scene with his dream-like documentary of painter Antonio Lopez's quest for… read more
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While a student at the Beijing Film Academy, Jia would make three short films to hone his skills. The first, a ten minute short documentary on tourists in Tiananmen Square entitled One Day in Beijing, was made in 1994 on self-raised funds. Though Jia has referred to his first directorial effort as inconsequential and "naive", he also described the short day and half shoot as "excitement…difficult to express in words." But it was Jia's second directorial effort, the short film Xiao Shan Going Home (1995), that would bring him to the attention of the film world. It was a film that helped establish Jia's style and thematic interests and, in Jia's words, was a film that "truly marks the beginning of my career as a filmmaker." Xiao Shan would eventually to screen abroad where it won a top prize at the 1997 Hong Kong Independent Short Film & Video Awards. More significantly, the film's success brought Jia in contact with cinematographer Yu Lik-wai and… read more
Apichatpong "Joe" Weerasethakul (Thai: อภิชาติพงศ์ วีระเศรษฐกุล; born July 16, 1970) is a Thai independent film director, screenwriter, and film producer. His feature films include Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, winner of the prestigious 2010 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or prize; Tropical Malady, which won a jury prize at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival; Blissfully Yours, which won the top prize in the Un Certain Regard program at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival; and Syndromes and a Century, which premiered at the 63rd Venice Film Festival and was the first Thai film to be entered in competition there.
Working outside the strict confines of the Thai film studio system, Weerasethakul has directed several features and dozens of short films. Themes reflected in his films (frequently discussed in interviews) include dreams, nature, sexuality (including his own homosexuality), and Western perceptions of Thailand and Asia, and his films… read more
Isaki Lacuesta was born into a family of Basque origins in Girona, Spain, in 1975. After his film studies, he took a course in Audio-visual Communication at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and later a Master Course in Documentary of Creation at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
Lacuesta was defined 'a cineaste with a capital C, and the most promising Spanish cineaste' (Jaime Pena, Buenos Aires Film Festival). He was included by Phaidon Press in the trend-setting book Take 100 – The Future of Film: 100 New Directors,, an overview of the 100 film-makers who will shape the future of film.
In September 2011, Los pasos dobles was awarded the Concha de Oro for Best Film at the San Sebastian Film Festival. —Festival dei Popoli
BONG Joon-ho studied Sociology at the Yonsei University and graduated from the Korean Film Academy. By 1995 he made three short films Memories in My Frame, White Man and Incoherence. He wrote and directed his first feature, Barking Dogs Never Bite, which won a Fipresci Award at the Hong Kong Film Festival in 2001. His second feature Memories of Murder won the Silver Shell award for the best director in San Sebastian Film Festival in 2003. In 2006 his third feature film, The Host, was selected for the Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival. —london.korean-culture.org
Pedro González-Rubio (b. 1976, Brussels) lived till age 16 in India where he developed a talent for anthropological photography. In Mexico he studied at the Universidad Intercontinental, graduating in media and communications; back in Europe, he studied direction at the London Film School. In 2005 he and fellow student Carlos Armella shot their first documentary, Toro negro, which, among other honors, took the Horizontes Award for Best Latin American Film at San Sebastian. Armella also worked on a second documentary with Rubio, Common Ground (La tierra compartida, 2007), which follows the work of Mexican director Alejandro González Iñarritu during the filming of Babel. As a cameraman he worked on Born Without (Nacido sin, 2007), and he served as director of photography and editor for his feature directorial debut, To the Sea, which took a Tiger Award at the Rotterdam festival. —KVIFF
Director and writer, So Yong Kim was born in Pusan, South Korea and immigrated to the US when she was twelve. She studied painting, performance, and video art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she earned her MFA. She has made several experimental short films including A Bunny Rabbit, shot by renowned cinematographer Christopher Doyle. Kim also produced Bradley Rust Gray's award-winning Icelandic feature, SALT, in 2003. In 2006, Kim was featured as one of the "25 Filmmakers to Watch" in Filmmaker Magazine.
Kim's first feature, In Between Days, was acclaimed by critics and won the Special Jury Prize at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival along with the International Critics' Prize at Berlin. It was also awarded an LA Critics Prize and Best Film and Best Actress Prizes at Buenos Aires. Kino International and the Sundance Channel released the film in North America, and With Cinema released the film in Korea.
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Jonas Mekas was born in 1922 in Semeniskiai, Lithuania. He currently lives and works in New York. In 1944, Jonas Mekas and his brother, Adolfas, were taken by the Nazis and imprisoned in a forced labor camp in Nazi Germany for eight months. After the War, he studied philosophy at the University of Mainz from 1946-48 and at the end of 1949, he emigrated with his brother to the U.S. settling in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in New York. Two weeks after his arrival, he borrowed the money to buy his first Bolex 16-mm camera and began to record moments of his life. He discovered avant-garde film at venues such as Amos Vogel's pioneering cinema 16, and he began screening his own films in 1953. He has been one of the leading figures of American avant-garde filmmaking or the "New American Cinema," as he dubbed it in the late '50s, playing various roles: in 1954, he became editor and chief of Film Culture; in 1958 he began writing his "Movie Journal" column for the Village Voice; in 1962 he co-founded… read more
Kazuhiro Soda (想田 和弘 Sōda?, born 1970 in Tochigi Prefecture) is a Japanese documentary filmmaker based in New York, USA. He has lived in New York since 1993. He is known for his observational style and method of documentary film-making.
In 2005, Kazuhiro Soda shot Campaign (Senkyo) (2007, 120 minutes), depicting a political campaign in Kawasaki, Japan, by Kazuhiko Yamauchi, an inexperienced candidate officially endorsed by the Japanese Liberal Democratic Party. When completed, it was invited to the forum section of Berlin International Film Festival in 2007. PBS broadcast a 52-minute version, which won the Peabody Award in 2008. The TV version was broadcast under a different title, Campaign! The Kawasaki Candidate as part of the Why Democracy? series, a global media event co-produced by 33 broadcasters around the world, including the BBC, CBC, and NHK. The 120-minute theatrical version won the Best Documentary Award at the Belgrade International Documentary Film Festival in 2008… read more
Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist, who became a highly influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 début album Horses. Called the "Godmother of Punk", she integrated the beat poetry performance style with three-chord rock. Smith's most widely known song is "Because the Night", which was co-written with Bruce Springsteen and reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1978. In 2005, Patti Smith was named a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture, and in 2007, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. —Wikipedia


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Figure 4 plots the Grayback price of a gold dollar during the Civil War. Large movements in Grayback money prices are labeled and associated with important military, fiscal, and political events to determine events important to contemporaries of the Civil War. Grayback prices depreciated following battle defeats at Antietam and Gettysburg/Vicksburg. The gold premium also rose following the passage of the US Conscription/Finance Bill that increased the North's ability to finance the war and draft soldiers. A final breakpoint occurred in late spring 1864 when the Confederate government repudiated one-third of the money supply with a currency reform act. The monetary legislation's positive effect on currency prices was short-lived, however, as the Confederacy cranked up the printing press again in the fall of 1864. Graybacks renewed their depreciation and continued to actively trade until early February 1864. At this point, many Richmond bankers and gold traders packed their wagons and left the besieged capital (Weidenmier, 2002a).
Lerner (1954, 1955, 1956) used the quantity theory of money to analyze the Confederate inflation. The quantity theory of money can be described by the following equation:
where P is the price level, Y is real (i.e., inflation-adjusted) output, and M is money. Equation (1) assumes that people hold some fraction, K, of their nominal income, P*Y, in the form of money. For example, if your income was $10,000 per year and K=1/5, then you would hold $2,000 in the form of money. To study inflation, it is useful to express equation (1) in growth rates, using equation (2):
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Lerner decomposed the influence of changes in money, velocity -- the number of times a dollar bill turns over in a year (mathematically velocity is the inverse of k) -- and real output on the inflation rate -- the rate at which prices rise. Lerner showed that the Confederate money supply increased 11.5 times between January 1861 and October 1864 while commodity prices increased 28 times in the same period (also see Godfrey, 1978). Rising velocity contributed to the runaway price level as people reduced their holdings of money balances and purchased commodities and non-monetary assets. Lerner also inferred from periodic Treasury reports that the South experienced a forty percent fall in real output during the war.
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Hot Tub Cinema is a unique event that enables movie fans to watch their favourite films while relaxing in a hot tub.
Cinemagoers can settle down together in the toasty 40°C water to watch classic films while enjoying tub-side table service from a bar and gourmet cinema-style food stalls.
While Hot Tub Cinema's popular summer events took place in rooftops across London, the winter screenings will take place indoors at Shoreditch's Factory 7.
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It's 2 p.m. and actress Shanley Caswell is fresh off a flight from Los Angeles to Tampa. Sitting in her parent's, Chris and Patricia, Cherokee Park living room, Caswell admits that the Ritz crackers she had mid-flight have done little to quiet her growling stomach.
The 17-year-old is chipper. Her feet, in Converse sneakers, dangle from the sofa as she makes large, animated gestures, gushing about what it was like to work with 1970s icon Angie Dickinson, who plays her grandmother in the Hallmark Channel movie, "Mending Fences."
"When Angie Dickinson talks, it's epic," Caswell says. "Everyone just shuts up and listens. Her voice is so famous. It's that raspy, sultry voice that everyone knows from 'Police Woman.' For an older woman, she just brings it."
And then there's Laura Leighton, of "Melrose Place" fame, who plays Caswell's mother in the movie. The actress, says Caswell, "will laugh until she cries, not at all like her character on 'Melrose Place.'"
Caswell has a lot to be effusive about. This movie marks her first big role since leaving Sarasota in 2007 to pursue an acting career in Los Angeles.
Shortly after bidding farewell to her 10th-grade classmates at Riverview High School, Caswell filmed an episode of "Zoey 101," the now-defunct Nickelodeon sitcom starring Britney Spears' kid sister, Jamie Lynn Spears. Caswell followed up the role with a guest spot on another Nickelodeon sitcom, "iCarly."
Between auditions Caswell earned her GED, taking high school classes over the Internet in Los Angeles, where she lives with a family friend whose three children are all Disney or Nickelodeon actors.
"Mending Fences" was Caswell's lucky break. Earlier this year she had tried out for two other Hallmark movies and was turned down for both. However, the casting office kept her audition tapes on file, and when the script for "Mending Fences" surfaced, they offered her a part over the phone, no audition required.
"I was blessed," Caswell says. "The audition process can be so stressful and heartbreaking sometimes."
In the movie she plays Kamilla Faraday, a surly teen in gothic makeup; a role Caswell says wasn't difficult despite her own sunny disposition.
"Kamilla and I are both witty and sarcastic," Caswell says. "I just don't have that teenage angst."
The role required so many layers of black clothing that Caswell needed a team of wardrobe assistants to help strap and tie all her outfits together.
"If you pay attention, you'll notice that my dress looks slightly different in every take," Caswell laughs.
She says graduating from high school a year early paid off on the Hallmark set. The cast worked 12-hour days, five days a week, this winter on a sprawling ranch outside of Los Angeles. Had Caswell not already earned her high school diploma, the crew would have had to work around her school schedule.
Now that filming has wrapped, Caswell is back to her regular routine — audition-callback, audition-callback. The uncertainty of the industry thrills her.
"I could never do the same thing every day," she says. "My older brother is an engineer and I don't know how he does it."
She's currently taking online classes at Santa Monica College, where she's yet to declare a major. She plans to transfer to the University of California next year.
"No matter what I study, I think I'll at least minor in acting," Caswell says. "I love it so much. It's like a mix of education and imagination."
"Mending Fences" airs at 9 p.m., Saturday, July 18, on the Hallmark Channel. The film stars Angie Dickinson, Laura Leighton, David Lee Smith and Sarasota native Shanley Caswell. For more information, visit www.hallmarkchannel.com.
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Time was, movies were made to fit a title and poster presold to regional distributors; now, as investment-protecting Hollywood sticks fearfully to proven release strategies, it increasingly feels as though films are authored by their release date. So, following the B-grade lethargy of August, and with all the serious print critics back from vacation, the period from Labor Day to Thanksgiving is noteworthy for films rolling out off the Venice-Toronto-New York festival circuit and gathering, or not gathering, awards-season word-of-mouth.
Like: The Social Network, David Fincher's docudrama about the making of Facebook—the trailer, scored to a children's-choir cover of "Creep," seems to be shooting for something like zeitgeist opera—opens the New York Film Festival on September 24 and hits theaters on 10/1, while meanwhile NYFF continues through October 10's, closing-night screenings of Sensitive Clint Eastwood's postmortem weepie Hereafter (10/22). Star Matt Damon narrates one of NYFF's docs, too: Inside Job (10/8), Charles (No End in Sight) Ferguson's financial-meltdown recap, with Eliot Spitzer giving talking head; he's also the subject of busy-busy Alex Gibney's Client 9 (11/5), another of the fall's big-name docs (others: Fred Wiseman hangs out in the Boxing Gym [10/22], the Freanomics omnibus [10/1], the fascinating outsider-art-therapy session Marwencol [10/8], Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields [10/27], and whatever Catfish [9/17] is).
Most anticipated of NYFF's subtitled fare is Olivier Assayas's three-part, five-plus hour Carlos (10/15), which will be the definitive film on leftist terrorism in the post-'68 generation, or else disappoint me greatly. (Other topline French fare opening this fall includes Claire Denis's ravishing, intense postcolonial breakdown White Material [11/19], and Enter the Void [9/24], in which Gaspar Noé several-ups Irreversible for hyperstylized sex-n-violence, if that's what you're into.) Assayas will also be the subject of a complete retro at BAM, from 10/9-10/28. (Meanwhile, the NYFF boasts a rep sidebar on the 79-year-old Japanese New Waver Masahiro Shinoda—check out the avant-garde dynamism and pulp propulsiveness of his Criterionized Double Suicide and Samurai Spy, then join to explore the album cuts in this 12-film retro.)
Bypassing the NYFF is Howl (9/24), in which James Franco plays Allen Ginsberg (for course credit?); Franco can also be seen amputating his own arm with a dull knife knife as the real-life pinned mountaineer of Danny Boyle's 127 Hours (which runs 94 minutes and opens 11/5; Franco can compare ordeals with Ryan Reynolds, who is buried alive in Buried on 9/24). In Never Let Me Go (9/15), Mark Romanek tries to bring the coiled mortal anguish of his video for Johnny Cash's "Hurt" to Kazuo Ishiguro's genteel sci-fi gothic bestseller. Carey Mulligan stars; she can also be seen as the conscience of Oliver Stone's Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps (9/24), while fellow new Brit It Girl Gemma Arterton returns, newly hot, to her hometown as the title character of Stephen Frears's Tamara Drewe (10/8). More locally, Tiny Furniture and You Won't Miss Me (both 11/12) portend fascinating careers for the angst-ridden young Manhattanite writer-directors Lena Dunham and Ry Russo-Young, while more masculine, medicated indie angst is on display in Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden's It's Kind of a Funny Story (10/8, from Ned Vizzini's book) and Philip Seymour Hoffman's Jack Goes Boating (9/17, from Bob Glaudini's play). But the king of local neurotics, Woody Allen, shot You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (9/22) in London.
Horror junkies have reason to rejoice every October, and this year, the rest of us do too: My Soul to Take (10/8) is Wes Craven's first writer-director credit in more than a decade, and Saw VII (10/29) purports to be the final installment in the series. (It's in 3D.) Let Me In (10/1) is the inevitable American remake of Swedish vampire hit Let the Right One In; our other favorite violent Swedish cutie of recent vintage, Lisbeth Salander, also returns when The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest closes out the Millennium Trilogy on 10/29. Other genre fare: Unstoppable (11/12), the fifth team-up for Denzel Washington and Tony Scott—they truly are the Russell Crowe and Ridley Scott of our time—boasts a runaway-train premise, suggesting they really did spend the entire Taking of Pelham 123 shoot trying to figure out why the train didn't move; and The Town (9/17), another adaptation of a hyperlocal Boston-based crime bestseller from Gone Baby Gone auteur Ben Affleck, further saluting the influence of The Friends of Eddie Coyle with a moody saga of scarily masked bank robbers. (Repertory counterprogramming: Film Forum's Heist Festival, 10/1-10/21.)


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- roye said...
Consistent with "reverse positioning" understand the REAL Second coming would equate with The Matrix's Anti-Christ, the fake battle of good and evil which will come at the end.
I have spoken on this issue in years past. Understanding how they use the political environment to redefine people's value system, realize anyone who speaks of the old world and its ways will envoke hatred. So when/if the Anti-Christ comes along speaking of reverting back to what liberalism would consider repressed and immoral may be the only hope to salvage the god's favor and keep moving forward rather than begin the 1000 year clock. The fake Second Coming will feed into this political enviornment.
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- Adoina said...
lets follow eachother
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I am so excited to share some exciting new for some of my 2011 couples:) Andy and Alissa, you're CHILLY but cozy winter engagement session was featured on Borrowed & Bleu last month. Make sure to check out the feature here and enjoy reliving your engagement! Ben and Liz, The Budget Savvy Bride graciously...
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Parathyroidectomy is the removal of one or more of the parathyroid glands. The parathyroid glands are usually four in number, although the exact number may vary from three to seven. They are located in the neck in front of the Adam's apple and are closely linked to the thyroid gland. The parathyroid glands regulate the balance of calcium in the body.
Parathyroidectomy is usually done to treat hyperparathyroidism (abnormal over-functioning of the parathyroid glands).
Parathyroidectomy should only be done when other non-operative methods have failed to control the patient's hyperparathyroidism.
Parathyroidectomy is an operation done most commonly by a general surgeon, or occasionally by an otolaryngologist, in the operating room of a hospital. The operation begins when the anesthesiologist anesthetizes or puts the patient to sleep. The surgeon makes an incision in the front of the neck where a tight-fitting necklace would rest. All of the parathyroid glands are identified. The surgeon then identifies the gland or glands with the disease and confirms the diagnosis by sending a piece of the gland(s) to the pathology department for immediate microscopic examination. The glands are then removed and the incision is closed and a dressing is placed over the incision.
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When President John F. Kennedy gave his inaugural speech over 50 years ago, he asked Americans to do something they had never been asked to do before. "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."
When the country did ask that question, Kennedy replied with the formation of the Peace Corps.
By May of 1961, Kennedy was sending letters of appreciation to the thousands of enthusiastic volunteers who responded. Now 50 years old, the Peace Corps remains one of the few programs out of the New Frontier days of Kennedy that still draws thousands of volunteers to communities around the world to make life at least a little bit better for the people they serve. The secondary benefit of serving in the Peace Corps, according to most volunteers, is that it made life richer for the people who served.
"In those days, in the 1960s, young people were more idealistic that the generation before them," said Nick Schmader of Warwick, who found himself in Liberia in 1968. "One of the first things you learn is that there are other cultures where people have less regard for the individual and more of a sense of community than we were used to. In America, individualism is highly valued. In West Africa, the people have a stronger sense of community."
Schmader was a design engineer and teacher for much of his career before he retired last year. He went to Liberia to train seventh and eighth graders in math and science.
"It was pretty obvious that they were poor compared to American standards but they did not regard themselves as poor or ignorant," said Schmader. "As I became more knowledgeable of them, I realized that they welcomed us and they want to learn what we knew but they would pick and choose what they liked about our culture and retain their own culture and traditions. But they really appreciated the efforts we made for them."
For Schmader and other Peace Corps veterans, the program represents a legacy of service that has become a significant part of America's history and positive image abroad.
"And that is still a good thing because it brings people together," said Schmader. "Regardless of what people think of American foreign policy, people from different parts of the world do not judge Americans on the basis of our government. They do not regard the American people as enemies."
One of the things that Schmader has wondered about was the way the Peace Corps has remained above politics in this country and abroad.
"Back in the 1960s, young people were very much against the war in Vietnam and were very vocal about it, including the kids in the Peace Corps," said Schmader. "They organized protests against the war, and I'm sure that didn't please Nixon and other people who were for the war but he never did anything to hurt the Peace Corps. I think that had something to do with the fact that almost all of the people in Washington had a son or daughter or a nephew in the Peace Corps but probably because they realized the value of it."
The value of the program continues, but theses days you are as likely to meet an idealist who is significantly older than the original volunteers.
The program was 22 years old and Susan Connelly was 66 when she volunteered to go to Liberia. After a career in nursing, much of it spent at Kent Hospital, Connelly trained nurses in Africa, just before the deadly plague of AIDS spread across the continent.
"Back then, when I pricked my fingertip, I worried about hepatitis," she said. "There were no high-tech machines or medicine there. I had to remember back to the 1930s in America to use in Liberia. All of their medical equipment was outdated. Being able to remember all those things we knew was very helpful."
That's why Connelly continues to encourage older Americans to look into volunteering. If you are physically fit and motivated, there is a good chance the Peace Corps can find something for you to do.
"At first I thought I might be too old, but I learned that many older people are encouraged to volunteer and have skills and experience that is very valuable in poorer countries," said Connelly.
Even before Susan Connelly arrived in Liberia, a coup led by Samuel Doe, a sergeant in the Army, had taken over the country and, in spite of his acceptance by Washington policymakers, his governance eventually laid the grounds for a protracted cycle of rebellion that culminated in civil war. For the first time, Susan Connelly worried.
"I was afraid I wouldn't get out of the country," she said.
After a long and bloody struggle, democracy and peace have returned to the country and, for the first time in a long time, Connelly became optimistic about the future of the friends she left behind in 1985. Genuinely, democratic elections have been held and a Liberian woman, who had spent much time in America, was elected president. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is widely believed to be the beginning of a new age of peace and progress there.
"She seems to be doing a great job," said Connelly.
Since 1961, more than 200,000 Americans have served in the Peace Corps, working in 139 countries. While there have been times that the Peace Corps has been removed from countries, many countries who are otherwise not fans of American politics still invite the Peace Corps into their countries. In fact, the program only goes where they are invited.
When the Peace Corps was invited to Botswana, Francine Connelly (Susan's daughter) volunteered to go there to assist their efforts in combating AIDS.
"The Peace Corps left Botswana in 1990, but it has been asked to come back since," said Francine. "For the most part, we are very welcome there, and I met a lot of older people who are about being taught by the Peace Corps. The chief of a village we worked in was trained by the volunteers."
Francine and her husband, Andy DeLong, went to Botswana together. Both are trained social workers and their assignment was to help the people cope with the fallout of the AIDS epidemic. Francine said one out of four people in the country are infected with the HIV virus.
"Our job was to educate the people about prevention and to develop their life skills and capacity to deal with life," she said. "So many kids have lost their parents to AIDS, and those orphans need all the help they can get."
Francine and Andy also helped the women of the villages to become more self-sufficient and taught them ways to support themselves by making pottery and jewelry as a source of income. The idea of making Botswana technically savvy is still further down the road. In spite of massive improvements in the infrastructure of Botswana in the wake of discovering a rich lode of diamonds in that country, parts of the country are still without basic amenities.
"We had electricity for about three or four hours a day," said Francine. "We had no running water. We had radio and we got our news from the BBC."
Francine said it is essential for America to continue to support the Peace Corps.
"It is so important to Americans on the ground in other countries, without guns, having that one-on-one contact with other people," she said. "I feel we were very effective and I think we left a good legacy, and if one or two people in Botswana don't get AIDS because of what we did, it would be worth it."
Sadly, not all Peace Corps tours of duty end well. According to Peace Corps sources, more than 239 people have died in the service since 1961, and part of the ceremonies held in Washington, D.C. last week was a memorial procession to honor those who died. Most of them were killed in accidents, but some died by more violent means. In 1999, they calculated that 3.1 per 10,000 died, or 1.9 per 100, had been victims of violent assault. Even then, few of the attacks have been politically motivated and the program said alcohol, crime and other universal social problems were the root causes.
But you will rarely meet anyone who volunteered who will say that the time in the Peace Corps was wasted. Providence school teacher and Cranston resident George McFadden was in South Korea from 1971 to 1974. When he applied for the Corps, he knew he didn't want to be a farmer and signed up to teach English as a second language in Korea.
"The Korean people were very good at reading and translating English then but they had very little experience speaking it," said McFadden. "They wanted to improve their speech in English."
McFadden said he was surprised at how primitive the country still was in 1971.
"Even people in the city had no hot water and had outhouses," he said. "There was very little and very slow railroad service and roads and almost no one had a car or a television. It was still a basically agricultural economy."
When he headed for the rural area of Korea where he would be teaching, things were even more primitive.
"The village I went to had one road and it was dirt," he said. "For water, they had a communal pump in the center of the village that they all used."
McFadden left the program convinced that it was one of the greatest exports America has produced.
"Back then, Korea had no real freedom of the press or speech," he said. "They didn't have much of anything, but they never complained and they appreciated everything they learned from us…When I finally went back to visit, I couldn't find the old school I taught in. The village was all built up and the streets were paved. They used to be farmers, but now they produce electronics, heavy industry, cars and ships and they have a real democracy."
McFadden doesn't take the credit for progress in Korea, but he does deserve some credit for helping them learn the language that helped them move into a global economy.
"Back then, when any westerner walked down the street, people would say, 'American! American!' Now, when they see a westerner they say, in excellent English, to Germans or Russians or anyone else, 'Where are you from?'"
And, said McFadden, they really don't mind when you say "America."
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Beautiful painting with a touch of Italian style. Congratulations on your sale, Guido.
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Guido, you are a masterful artist, and after seeing and appreciating all of your works, I am a true believer in your artistic talents and great eye for the masterpiece category! Very beautiful and the perspective and depth are awesome!
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WOW all of your painting are beautiful...but this one is pure joy to the heart!
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Bellissimi dipinti da un estremo all'altro, il suo colirido è exclente sua magnifica composizione, la mia più profonda carta da un lavoro di ottima qualità. Bravo! Yanire
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WOW WONDERFUL!!! Love the light in this piece!! Guido!! Congrats on the sale!! :^)
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Colorful, manigificient, love the compsiton and your rich palette, dear arttriend, Blessin for you and yours, Yaniré
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excellent...i can feel, smell the wonderful produce............thanks so much; you are on wach likt now & this is a FAV for sure.........fondly, jude....thank you again.....like it so much & you are so good !!
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Absolutely beautiful...love the light effects. You are very talented!
Silicon Valley, CA - United States
Beautiful painting, Guido! Your great art really enriches life:-D!!! Amazing!!!
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Your art is so full of life. I can only dream of painting something as beautiful as this some day! Thanks for the inspiration! Adele
Brookeville, MD - United States
I love the riot of greens and pinks and reds against the warm golds, Guido!!!!! How I would love to be in this magic place!!!
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Guido...this is favoloso...very talented work...I love the feeling of warmth and sunshine permeating the painting
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Hi ! Guido , Congratulation on your sale ! Great painting ! What is your goal of the Fine Art ? Please advise your comment . Thanks again ! Blessings to you and your family too ! Cheung King Man
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When will he call for a vote in the Senate? Why are so many Senators, including Al Franken, unwilling to take a stand on gun control? Who are the Cowards on this issue? Looks to me it is the ones on the left. Posted 298 days ago. stickhaulerI joined the Army! They let me use an AR-15 that WOULD shoot full auto. Then, when I bought my civilian clone of an AR rifle, our government trusted me well enough to allow me to buy it. But now, because of your demand that "no civilian" needs to own such a rifle, you really think that means anything to me? Afraid not, Bubba! Posted 298 days ago. thegreekIt is called standing up for my beliefs and proving my case with conviction. Something that you have failed to do. All you do is declare that no one needs these items.!! Posted 298 days ago. BeRightWhen will Harry Reid start the gun control debate in the Senate? When will he call for a vote in the Senate? Why are so many Senators, including Al Franken, unwilling to take a stand on gun control? 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I read some of these ads and expect that between bouts of surfing, bushwalking, kayaking, diving, hobby farming, playing sport, following ones hobby and generally enjoying a carefree life, one is 'fitting-in' the demands of the kitchen and one employment obligations.
Anyone who knows kitchen, the kitchens that make most of their food that is, will attest that there's very little time for other pursuits and days off are often spend recovering from long bouts of work. In fact, I don't know of any kitchen staff working in busy environments who have time for that work-life balance that we hear so often recited.
The reality is that in rural locations, if you have a job in a restaurant or café it means that the place is one of the rare businesses that is busy. This remarkable in its own right, that a country business is defying national trends and managing to swim against the tide that many regional areas are suffering. The irony then is that you'll be working very hard and often harder than your city cousins because the business cannot afford to hire as many staff. This then has a knock-on effect on your time off, meaning you'll more than likely be doing extra shifts when it gets busier or if someone is sick or on holidays.
So, although working in the country definitely has its benefits (after all its what I have chosen to do so I'm speaking from experience here) it's not all meandering down country lanes foraging for Death-Caps you know!