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Welcome to the fifth leg of our Librivox World Tour, where we are taking a trip through South America with 10 gems from our catalog.
We are coming from the North into South America, just like the cocoa plant. Chocolate: or An Indian Drinke, our recording of the 17th century book by Antonio Colmenero des Ledesma, sings the praise of the drink of the Gods in a lovely poem at the beginning.
The early men living in The Lost World were probably too busy fighting for survival to sit down and drink chocolate. Read the famous novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, involving dinosaurs and vicious apes, set in Venezuela.
From Venezuela to the forest in Guyana flees Abel, and eventually he takes up residence with an Indian tribe. In a wood that is taboo for them, he finds Rima, and they fall in love, in W. H. Hudson's novel Green Mansions, a Romance of the Tropical Forest.
However, their luck does not last long, and just like in the story of Adam and Eve, the fall comes oh too quickly. A Drama of Exile by Elizabeth Barrett Browning retells the well known biblical story.
Brazilian Tales contains six lovely short stories by various authors, representative of Brazilian literature at the end of the 19th century.
Brazil was also the endpoint of the 1867 expedition through The Andes and the Amazon. James Orton tells about the journey, starting in Ecuador, going through the mountains and the forest, and producing one of the first maps of equatorial America.
A scientific sensation was the rediscovery of Machu Picchu in summer 1911 by Hiram Bingham. Inca Lands gives a detailed description of the expedition into the Highlands of Peru, as well as of the excavation of the ancient city in 1912.
An interesting discovery is made by Capt. Delano off the shores of Chile, where he finds a Spanish slave ship in distress. Offering help to its captain Benito Cereno, he is to find out that not everything is as it seems on the surface in Herman Melville's novel…
Thankfully, slavery is Far Away and Long Ago, just like the childhood of W. H. Hudson, who was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in the 19th century, and recounts his memories of the times in this autobiographical book.
A Victorian gentleman stumbles upon a tropical world on Antarctica. He finds there a highly developed society, but can he cope with a complete reversal of his values, where being poor is good? Have fun with James de Mille's interesting utopian novel A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder.
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North Sea exploration well 41/10a-2 spudded
International Frontier Resources Corporation ("IFR" TSX-V) today announced that its wholly owned U.K. subsidiary Britcana Energy Ltd. is participating in drilling of the exploration well 41/10a-2 on the Lytham prospect located in block 41/10a, production license P1129, located in the southern North Sea sector of the United Kingdom Continental Shelf (UKCS).
The 41/10a-2 is targeting Carboniferous Namurian sandstone and the Haupt and Platten dolomite reservoirs of Permian age. The structure is defined by 3D seismic and is a large four way dip closure interpreted to cover an area of approximately 7,000 acres.
The operator, Lundin Petroleum, has contracted the Global Santa Fe Galaxy II jack-up rig to drill this prospect. Drilling is expected to take approximately one month. The Lytham prospect is the second prospect of three well North Sea exploration program that Britcana is participating in.
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Saturday's Screen Actors Guild Awards gave Hollywood's stars yet another chance to strut their red-carpet style. While the gowns were front and center, the accessories were the make-it-or-break-it final addition to each celebrity's look. From dramatic can't-miss-em diamond earring dazzlers to sexy, barely-there sandals, accessories provided that extra dose of glam to stars such as Naomi Watts, Kate Winslet and Helen Mirren.
SAG Awards 2016: The Best Red Carpet Accessories
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"Maternal Thyroid Deficiency During Pregnancy and Subsequent Neuropsychological Development of the Child" (1999), by James E. Haddow et al.
From 1987 to the late 1990s, James Haddow and his team of researchers at the Foundation for Blood Research in Scarborough, Maine, studied children born to women who had thyroid deficiencies while pregnant with those children. Haddow's team focused the study on newborns who had normal thyroid function at the time of neonatal screening. They tested the intelligence quotient, or IQ, of the children, ages eight to eleven years, and found that all of the children born to thyroid-hormone deficient mothers performed less well than the control group.
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The Development of the Neural Crest and the Migration of Neural Crest Cells (NCCs) in the Embryos of Various Vertebrates
This diagram shows how NCCs migrate differently in rats, birds and amphibians. The arrows represent both chronology of NCCs migration and the differential paths that NCCs follow in different classes of animals. The solid black portion of each illustration represents the neural crest, and the large black dots in (c) and in (f) represent the neural crest cells. The speckled sections that at first form a basin in (a) and then close to form a tube in (f) represent the neural ectoderm. The solid white portions represent the epidermal ectoderm.
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"Formation of Genetically Mosaic Mouse Embryos and Early Development of Lethal (t12/t12)-Normal Mosaics" (1964), by Beatrice Mintz
The paper "Formation of Genetically Mosaic Mouse Embryos and Early Development of Lethal (t12/t12)-Normal Mosaics," by Beatrice Mintz, describes a technique to fuse two mouse embryos into a single embryo. This work was published in the Journal of Experimental Zoology in 1964. When two embryos are correctly joined before the 32-cell stage, the embryo will develop normally and exhibit a mosaic pattern of cells as an adult.
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Better Babies Contests in the United States (1908–1916)
Better babies contests were competitions held in state fairs throughout the US during the early twentieth century in which babies between the ages of 6 and 48 months were judged for their health. In 1908, social activist Mary de Garmo established and held the first better babies contest at the Louisiana State Fair in Shreveport, Louisiana. The contests, mirroring theories established in the US's eugenics movement of the twentieth century, aimed to establish standards for judging infant health.
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Better Babies Contests in the United States (1908–1916)
Better babies contests were competitions held in state fairs throughout the US during the early twentieth century in which babies between the ages of 6 and 48 months were judged for their health. In 1908, social activist Mary de Garmo established and held the first better babies contest at the Louisiana State Fair in Shreveport, Louisiana. The contests, mirroring theories established in the US's eugenics movement of the twentieth century, aimed to establish standards for judging infant health.
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In the Womb: Identical Twins (2009), by National Geographic
National Geographic's documentary In the Womb: Identical Twins focuses on the prenatal development of human identical twins. Director Lorne Townend uses three-dimensional (3D) and four-dimensional (4D) ultrasound imaging and microscopy to depict twin development , genetic and epigenetic variations in the fetuses, and methods of fetal survival in the confines of the womb. Artist renditions of scientific data fill in areas of development inaccessible to the imaging tools.
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Gastrulation in Mus musculus (common house mouse)
As mice embryos develop, they undergo a stage of development called gastrulation. The hallmark of vertebrate gastrulation is the reorganization of the inner cell mass (ICM) into the three germ layers: ectoderm, mesoderm, and endoderm. Mammalian embryogenesis occurs within organisms; therefore, gastrulation was originally described in species with easily observable embryos. For example, the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis) is the most widely used organism to study gastrulation because the large embryos develop inside a translucent membrane.
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Neural Crest
Early in the process of development, vertebrate embryos develop a fold on the neural plate where the neural and epidermal ectoderms meet, called the neural crest. The neural crest produces neural crest cells (NCCs), which become multiple different cell types and contribute to tissues and organs as an embryo develops. A few of the organs and tissues include peripheral and enteric (gastrointestinal) neurons and glia, pigment cells, cartilage and bone of the cranium and face, and smooth muscle.
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Countdown to Life: The Extraordinary Making of You (2015), by the British Broadcasting Corporation and The Open University
In 2015, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) partnered with The Open University to produce the three-part documentary series, Countdown to Life: The Extraordinary Making of You. Michael Mosley, a British television producer and journalist, hosts the documentary. Along with narrating animated scenes of a growing fetus in the womb, Mosley meets with individuals around the world who experienced mutations that can arise in the womb. Introduced over the course of the three episodes, several people share their personal stories of how their bodies did not develop correctly prior to birth.
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Victor Ambros (1953-)
Victor Ambros is a professor of molecular medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and he discovered the first microRNA (miRNA) in 1993. Ambros researched the genetic control of developmental timing in the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans and he helped describe gene function and regulation during the worm's development and embryogenesis. His discovery of miRNA marked the beginning of research into a form of genetic regulation found throughout diverse life forms from plants to humans. Ambros is a central figure in the miRNA and C.
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Subject: People
Fetus in Fetu
Fetus in fetu is a rare variety of parasitic twins , where the developmentally abnormal parasitic twin is completely encapsulated within the torso of the otherwise normally developed host twin. In the late eighteenth century, German anatomist Johann Friedrich Meckel was the first to described fetus in fetu, which translates to "fetus within fetus." Fetus in fetu is thought to result from the unequal division of the totipotent inner cell mass , the mass of cells that is the ancestral precursor to all cells in the body.
Subject: Theories, Disorders, Reproduction
Stenberg v. Carhart (2000)
In Stenberg v. Carhart, the US Supreme Court ruled on 28 June 2000 that a Nebraska law banning partial birth abortions was unconstitutional. Though the US Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade in 1973 had set a precedent that constitutionally protected abortions, some states established limitations on certain types of abortion procedures. When NebraskaÕs state government criminalized partial birth abortions, physician LeRoy Carhart challenged the constitutionality of the case. Don Stenberg, an Attorney General located in Lincoln, Nebraska, represented the state of Nebraska.
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Johann Friedrich Meckel, the Younger (1781-1833)
Johann Friedrich Meckel studied abnormal animal and human anatomy in nineteenth century Germany in an attempt to explain embryological development. During Meckel's lifetime he catalogued embryonic malformations in multiple treatises. Meckel's focus on malformations led him to develop concepts like primary and secondary malformations, atavism, and recapitulation- all of which influenced the fields of medicine and embryology during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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Cocaine as a Teratogen
Cocaine use by pregnant women has a variety of effects on the embryo and fetus, ranging from various gastro-intestinal and cardiac defects to tissue death from insufficient blood supply. Thus, cocaine has been termed a teratogen, or an agent that causes defects in fetuses during prenatal development. Cocaine is one of the most commonly used drugs in the US and it has a history of both medical and illegal recreational use. It is a drug capable of a wide array of effects on physical and mental health.
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Christiane Nusslein-Volhard (1942- )
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard studied how genes control embryonic development in flies and in fish in Europe during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In the 1970s, Nusslein-Volhard focused her career on studying the genetic control of development in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. In 1988, Nusslein-Volhard identified the first described morphogen, a protein coded by the gene bicoid in flies. In 1995, along with Eric F. Wieschaus and Edward B.
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)
The concept Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) refers to a set of birth defects that occur in children born to mothers who abused alcohol during pregnancy. The alcohol-induced defects include pre- and post-natal growth deficiencies, minor facial abnormalities, and damage to the developing central nervous system (CNS).
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Congenital Rubella Syndrome (CRS)
Congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) can occur in children whose mothers contracted the rubella virus, sometimes called German measles, during pregnancy. Depending on the gestational period when the mother contracts rubella, an infant born with CRS may be unaffected by the virus or it may have severe developmental defects. The most severe effects of the virus on fetal development occur when the mother contracts rubella between conception and the first trimester.
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Elizabeth Dexter Hay (1927–2007)
Elizabeth Dexter Hay studied the cellular processes that affect development of embryos in the US during the mid-twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. In 1974, Hay showed that the extracellular matrix, a collection of structural molecules that surround cells, influences cell behavior. Cell growth, cell migration, and gene expression are influenced by the interaction between cells and their extracellular matrix.
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The Source-Sink Model
The source-sink model, first proposed by biologist Francis Crick in 1970, is a theoretical system for how morphogens distribute themselves across small fields of early embryonic cells. A morphogen is a substance that determines the fate and phenotype of a group of cells through a concentration gradient of itself across that group. Crick's theory has been experimentally confirmed with several morphogens, most notably with the protein bicoid , the first discovered morphogen. The model provides a theoretical structure for the understanding of some features of early embryonic development.
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Possums (1952), by Carl G. Hartman
Possums is a 174-page book consisting of a series of essays written about the Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana), the only living marsupial in the US. The essays were written by Carl Gottfried Hartman, an embryologist at the Carnegie Institute of Washington (CIW), in Baltimore, Maryland, who also worked with another mammal, the rhesus monkey. Possums was published in 1952 by Hartman's alma mater, the University of Texas at Austin (UT). Beginning in 1913, while as a graduate student, and later as an instructor at UT, Hartman captured and raised opossums.
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Corticosteroids' Effect on Fetal Lung Maturation (1972), by Sir Graham Collingwood Liggins and Ross Howie
In a clinical trial from 1969 to 1972, Sir Graham Collingwood Liggins and Ross Howie showed that if doctors treat pregnant women with corticosteroids before those women deliver prematurely, then those women's infants have fewer cases of respiratory distress syndrome than do similarly premature infants of women not treated with corticosteroids. Prior to the study, premature infants born before 32 weeks of gestation often died of respiratory distress syndrome, or the inability to inflate immature lungs.
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"Screening for Congenital Hypothyroidism" (1991), by Delbert A. Fisher
In his 1991 article Screening for Congenital Hypothyroidism, Delbert A. Fisher in the US reported on the implementation and impact of mass neonatal screening programs for congenital hypothyroidism (CH) from the early 1970s through 1991. CH is a condition that causes stunted mental and physical development in newborns unless treatment begins within the first three months of the newborn's life. In the early 1970s, regions in Canada and the US had implemented screening programs to diagnose and treat CH as quickly as possible after the infant's birth.
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Julia Barlow Platt's Embryological Observations on Salamanders' Cartilage (1893)
In 1893, Julia Barlow Platt published her research on the origins of cartilage in the developing head of the common mudpuppy (Necturus maculosus) embryo. The mudpuppy is an aquatic salamander commonly used by embryologists because its large embryonic cells and nuclei are easy to see. Platt followed the paths of cells in developing mudpuppy embryos to see how embryonic cells migrated during the formation of the head. With her research, Platt challenged then current theories about germ layers, the types of cells in an early embryo that develop into adult cells.
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Spemann-Mangold Organizer
The Spemann-Mangold organizer, also known as the Spemann organizer, is a cluster of cells in the developing embryo of an amphibian that induces development of the central nervous system. Hilde Mangold was a PhD candidate who conducted the organizer experiment in 1921 under the direction of her graduate advisor, Hans Spemann, at the University of Freiburg in Freiburg, German. The discovery of the Spemann-Mangold organizer introduced the concept of induction in embryonic development.
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Subject: Processes
The Notch Signaling Pathway in Embryogenesis
The Notch signaling pathway is a mechanism in animals by which adjacent cells communicate with each other, conveying spatial information and genetic instructions for the animal's development. All multicellular animals utilize Notch signaling, which contributes to the formation, growth, and development of embryos (embryogenesis). Notch signaling also contributes to the differentiation of embryonic cells into various types of cells into various types of cells, such as neurons.
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Romford have lead cut after Wood Green loss
PUBLISHED: 17:00 17 October 2018
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London Super League: Romford 3 Wood Green 4
Romford saw their lead at the top of the London Super League cut to just a point after a 4-3 defeat at home to Wood Green.
Ian Gallagher (28.04) made a welcome return to the Romford side in the opening contest, where he took on PDC Tour player George Killington.
Gallagher was unlucky to be 2-1 behind as he was finding the treble 20 with ease before legs four and five saw two fine finishes – a 91, followed by a superb 116.
This high-quality game was destined to go all the way, but the decider went the way of Wood Green after Gallagher had a chance to take the spoils.
The second game also went the distance, with Romford's Steve Haggerty (26.01) eventually coming out on top.
John Costigan (24.14) flew out of the traps in match three to take the opening leg with a 76 finish, before going on to triumph in straight legs.
Rob Donat (24.14) also hit the ground running, banging in a maximum en route to a 14-dart first leg which set the tone for a winning display.
Romford were looking poised for the overall victory, but the visitors drew on their vast experience to come back.
Jason Geraghty (23.39) soon found himself two in arrears and though an 80 finish broke throw in the third, it offered only a brief respite as the Romford man lost.
The final two games both required all seven legs. Paul Barham (21.47) was soon embroiled in a match where having throw as of no advantage.
An untimely bust on 140 in the final leg summed up Barham's evening and meant it would all boil down to the final game of the night.
Steve Hardy (25.88) looked to be on the winning pathway with a great 100 finish in leg four followed by an immediate break to leave him one away from the win.
The game, though, went to a decider where Hardy could not quite get the decisive breakthrough as Wood Green came away with the overall win.
Romford will be disappointed to lose having been on the verge of victory,.
However, the team will be looking to return to winning ways in their next fixture when they travel to face Bethnal Green.
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Cradle of Egypt
Cradle Of Egypt game is the fourth installment in the Cradle series and the sequel to the hit puzzle games Cradle of Rome 1-2, and Cradle Of Persia. Journey through five ancient epochs with 100 match-3 levels and build your own Egypt. Starting from a small village, develop your settlement into the most powerful civilization, the cradle of all civilizations! Make matches of three or more similar tiles to collect resources, construct various buildings such as the gorgeous Pyramids of Giza, the Sphinx, and magnificent temples of the ancient civilization.
Cradle Of Egypt features beautiful hand-drawn graphics, great bonuses, challenging mini-games, over 25 trophies, three modes of play and possibility to choose between timed and relaxed modes in Adventure.
Cradle of Egypt
- 100 levels of match-3 gameplay
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God of Light and Love,
I am reminded this week just how quickly life can turn upside down, inside out. I offer my prayer for those whose lives have been scrambled by heartache, accident, worry, or the crushing weight of the every day. Bring them comfort by whatever means they can accept it: a surgeon who stops to listen, a nurse's gentle touch, the smile of a stranger, a letter in a mailbox.
Guide me, I pray, to worry less about my own circumstances and concentrate more on the needs of others. In that mindset, I know that my stresses and strains can be relieved. Help me to remember that it's not my job to fix everything for everyone, but that where my gifts and talents intersect with their particular needs, I pray for the courage and energy to respond.
Thank you, God, for the many ways you have met me where I was: bereft at the bedside of my once-paralyzed dad, in the driver's seat at my wit's end with a non-verbal toddler, in deep conversation beloved friends. There are too many times to count, and for that abundance I am deeply grateful.
I pray for a good night's rest for a friend's injured parent, the stressed out, exhausted mamas in my circle, and for everyone in between.
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John Cenas Divorce War Comes To An End
WWE Superstar John Cena's divorce war has come to an end. According to reports Cena and wife Elizabeth Huberdeau have decides to "bury the hatchet."
Cena filed to end their three year marriage back in May to his high school sweetheart Elizabeth Huberdeau. Huberdeau was apparently caught by surprise and quickly turned the situation ugly and even challenged the couple's prenup.
There were allegations that Cena had been unfaithful during the marriage with a WWE employee.
In a statement to The Miami Herald back in May, Huberdeau's divorce attorney Raymond Rafool spoke on the divorce, "Although it is indeed unfortunate that John Cena decided to divorce his high school sweetheart Liz Cena; particularly, after they have come so far in their lives and in his career together, Liz will and really has no choice but to pursue all of her rights and entitlements."
Everyone seemed to be waiting for things to escalate into a full blown war considering just how much Cena is worth, which is a reportedly $18 million.
When the pro wreslter announced the split in the spring, a source close to the couple said that the divorce would "dwarf the Hogan divorce in nastiness."
With Cena poised to become WWE Champion in a week's time, having his much publicized divorce out of the way is welcome news.
The details of the settlement are private.


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Dean's Letter, Spring 2008
College of Architecture
Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design
The practice of architecture like many professions has moved from a position of discrete knowledge, localized influence, and professional responsibilities to one of multiple knowledge bases, global implications, and multi-disciplinary interactions. Fueled by technological change and the imperative for environmental sustainability, this reality has both been formed by educational change and currently provides the challenges for architectural education.
At the conclusion of the fall semester, the faculty met for an all-day All School Review of graduate studio work from the fall semester (undergraduate work will be the subject of the spring All School Review). Each faculty member presented one project from their studio for discussion with a simple goal of seeing how the sequence of studios and topics relate to the goals of the curriculum. Every available space in Givens and Steinberg were used to display the work and my first reaction upon walking into the buildings at 9 a.m. was WOW! While we conceptually understand that amazing work is being done and the final reviews provide an opportunity to see the work and celebrate the effort, it is a different thing to see an entire semester hanging on the walls. Discussions were lively and raised important issues of continuity, appropriate scope, scale, and complexity, and how the studios could build on course work in other areas of the curriculum. A discussion about the 419 studios centered around the topic of housing as an appropriate and important subject for the conclusion of the core sequence. A lengthy and wide-ranging discussion focused on Degree Project and how best it can reflect the highest aspirations of the students, the faculty, and the school. It was a great day, and it set in motion discussions that will continue to help us evolve the curriculum so that it can best address the complex and fluid landscape of environmental design. While this is hard work, a curriculum must be alive, adaptable, and relevant to our professional and institutional contexts.
In addition to the All School Review, we have instigated a review of both undergraduate and graduate core sequences with the goal of developing studio foci and specific learning outcomes. While it has primarily focused on studio courses, it has also brought into the conversation all of the important coursework that happens along side the studio from the history sequence to the technology courses. Some things that have already emerged from this process are refinements to the architecture minor, a new undergraduate minor in Urban Design, and a new process of evaluation for transition from the graduate core into the body of the program. Progress continues with a Sam Fox School committee that is looking at the design of a shared foundation curriculum between art and architecture that would include a new Bachelor of Design degree.
In a recent Harvard Design magazine article by architect and historian Kenneth Frampton entitled The Work of Architecture in the Age of Commodification, Professor Frampton questions:
"... what might we mean, in this fungible age, by such terms as sustainable environmental design or let us say even tradition, in as much as the finest work of any epoch always amounts to a critical reinterpretation of tradition ... To put it more evenhandedly, however: in what way may we modulate some future possible relationship between creativity and homeostasis or, let us say, between human imaginative capacity and the now all-too-evident limitations of the biosphere? This is surely the one question that the contemporary cult of the populist free-market is unable to address."
If the free market is unable to address this problem, then who is? I would suggest that it should be us. Sustainability has become at best a paradigm shift in environmental design and social justice and at worst simply a new marketing strategy for cars, corporations, and institutions. Given the complexity and scope of the issues and the importance of the beneficiary it cannot be left to others to define. We must participate in the dialogue and offer up the tests and research of our disciplines boundaries that help lead the way. It will most certainly require partners from across the university and all of our best efforts.
I would like the school to take up this important discussion with a goal in front of us. I have asked the faculty to look toward the fall of '08 with the idea that the entire school, from first year undergraduate to graduate degree project would develop studios and course work around the issues of sustainability. Much in the way that we saw our city and efforts connected to the city of New Orleans through the Mississippi River in the spring of '07, this effort would help us begin to define the issues of sustainability and how they should be addressed within our school and our university.
The University is the steward of knowledge but also has the responsibility to create new knowledge. The responsibility of the institution to the students, faculty, and community, is to seek new knowledge and make it public. This is the highest form of practice where values are demonstrated and debated, where participation is like that of a citizen where shared responsibility constitutes a foundation of civic life. This demand requires more than one bottom line. It requires passion of mind and compassion of spirit. It often requires a radical humility coupled with a confidence that precedes the idea that it is possible to create new knowledge. It requires work that is always in some way a gift, and it requires generosity of all kinds.
Frampton continues: "On the one hand, then, political consciousness, in the broadest sense, ought to be as much a part of design education as any other component in an architectural curriculum; on the other hand, it is necessary to maintain an ethical dimension in the culture of design itself ... It is a stark prospect and a difficult choice that not everyone in the design professions is equally free to make to the same degree, that is to say, the choice between going with the flow of the market or cultivating a self-conscious resistance along the lines of Ernst Bloch's projected hope, his evocation of the 'not yet.' Certainly living needs, as opposed to desires, demand to be met but surely not in such a way as to ruin the world for generations ..."
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Watch Walton in 3 new clips from Tomb Raider including his exclusive on-set interview and B-Roll footage taken while filming.
Video: 'Tomb Raider' Promotion Interviews
Video: 'Tomb Raider' Promotion Interviews
Walton has been busy promoting his new film Tomb Raider since around mid-February ahead of it's release March 16th. I've went ahead and made a easily accessible YouTube Playlist with all of these promotional interviews that have been posted of Walton discussing the film and his character. You can view those videos below:
"I suppose his vendetta, if there is one, really comes from anger and frustration at the last seven years of his life, at the mundane kind of aspect of his life, which is looking for this tomb, you know? He's wasted his life and has missed his family, looking for this thing that Lara Croft's father had the coordinates for," Goggins said of what drives Vogel in the film. "And you meet him not at the nascent stage of his journey or the apex of his journey, but literally on a Wednesday of the longest week of his life. And he's just exhausted."
He added, "This man is ready to get off of this island, and he will do anything to achieve that end." As for how much of a bad guy Vogel is in the grand scheme of the story, Goggins would only describe Mathias as "a cog in the wheel, and what the audience doesn't know is how big of a player he truly is. And I won't ruin that for you, because I think that you need to see the movie in order to answer that question."
Goggins, by his own admission, is not a gamer nor has he seen the original two Angelina Jolie Tomb Raider movies although he was aware of them. The actor — whose credits include Justified, The Shield, Vice Principals, and The Hateful Eight — explained why he didn't feel the need to familiarize himself with the actual Tomb Raider games once he booked the role.
"I didn't play this game initially, and I certainly didn't play this game once the opportunity came to kind of go and tell this story. Because I knew that everyone else would have done that, and therefore that voice would have been served," Goggins said. "I felt the way I could best contribute to this story is to have someone that wasn't beholden to the mythology of Lara Croft. Someone that looks at the story based on the merits of the story. And I think you need a lot of different voices in order to try to pull something off like this."
He continued: "And my job, the way that I saw it, to service my director, my studio, and most importantly, my fellow actor, Alicia, and the audience, was to be as authentic and three-dimensional as I could be with the parameters which I was asked to play in. And for me, that didn't necessitate learning this game. It, for me, necessitated learning, for Mathias, what his life had been like up until that point. And I felt like we did that. You know, I think the world of Alicia and I am just blown away by her very realistic interpretation of Lara Croft. And, you know, I'm so grateful I had the chance to tell this story in this way."
Goggins is a huge admirer of his co-star Alicia Vikander, calling her "one of the greatest actors of her generation." He said that "she already had a fan in me, and now she has a friend for life" after making Tomb Raider together: "I genuinely believe that Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, that this new incarnation, this kind of origin story of this very, very, very powerful, powerful woman is, what you'll see is, on screen, is a true reflection of the time that we had, man. I mean, we were in South Africa for almost four and a half months, you know? And when I wasn't working, I mean, I traveled all over Namibia and Mozambique. And just – we worked really hard, and we played really hard, and tried to tell the best story that we could."
Between Marvel's upcoming "Ant-Man and the Wasp" and Warner Bros.' "Tomb Raider" remake, actor Walton Goggins ("Vice Principals," "Justified") has flown more than 100,000 miles in the last year for work.
That makes it challenging for him and his wife, filmmaker Nadia Conners, to take care of their 6-year-old son and find trusted, reliable sitters, tutors and music teachers. They found themselves constantly texting and calling friends for recommendations, and then turning to the internet, which turned up unvetted strangers.
So Goggins created an app, called Villiger, that's intended to be a platform that helps like-minded parents connect, find recommendations and book support for their kids.
"My grandmother brought me up and would always tell me it takes a village to raise a child," Goggins said in a statement. "Now I know what she meant and I am hoping that Villiger will give every parent the village they need to make parenting easier."
The app enables parents to share sitters, set playdates, and find baseball coaches and piano teachers through the friends and neighbors who make up their "village." Users can also receive recommendations, advice, requests and contacts within that network, and the app provides direct booking and payment for a variety of support providers including sitters, tutors, music teachers, housekeepers and more.
"Whether I'm traveling to film scenes in different cities and need support, or if I'm at home and trying to arrange a sitter for a spontaneous date night with Nadia, I can simply launch Villiger and my extended community is there, ready to recommend and book," Goggins said. "No more texting 50 friends during their work hour or dinner time in my frantic search for help."
With undisclosed seed funding from Nir Zohar, president of Wix; Mark Tluszcz, founding partner of VC firm Mangrove Capital; and Stephen Stokols, co-founder and CEO of FreedomPop, Villiger launches its mobile app in public beta today on iOS and Android.
The app has been in the works for about a year and employs 11 people.
Goggins elaborated via email on what Villiger brings to the market, how beta testers have used it in unexpected ways, and how he plans to monetize it.
What apps did you try before deciding to make your own?
There are no other apps in the market that allow parents to connect and recommend/share resources with each other. That's why we decided to build Villiger. Unlike Nextdoor, which is a mass social network, we are a focused trusted recommendation and booking platform:
- You can actually book and pay through Villiger, like TaskRabbit.
- It is not open to random neighbors, but only your village, your trusted network, so this is not a mass local social network.
There are apps for finding sitters, or there are apps for finding a random handyman, etc., but there's no app out there to get a recommended piano teacher for my son. Or ask my parent friends if they know a math tutor for my daughter. Instead, you either Google and sort through strangers, or start texting and calling people to get recommendations.
How has the app worked so far?
So far we have select beta testers on [it]. What has been interesting is that we happened to open the beta at the same time [Independent School Entrance Exam] testing for kids entering middle schools was coming up. We saw a huge surge in people looking for and recommending and booking ISEE tutors, which was an unexpected benefit. We learned that niche support like tutors and coaches is a great use case for our app, especially in L.A.
How do you plan on attracting users to Villiger?
Though marketing, viral inviting and word of mouth. The app works best when you have friends in your village, and we are seeing that the average users invites eight-plus people into his village. We are also partnering with parent groups and bloggers to promote our tool, initially focused on those in L.A.
Source: bizjournals.com
In his exit interview with GQ, Goggins talks about committing hard to those frosted tips and why the race controversy over Season One was "pandering."
In his exit interview with GQ, Goggins talks about committing hardto those frosted tips and why the race controversy over Season One was "pandering."
Walton Goggins has long had one of the most recognizable faces in entertainment, but now he's finally building a name for himself to match. The character actor had back-to-back standout turns in beloved dramas The Shield and Justified, and more recently joined a very exclusive club of people who have survived a Quentin Tarantino movie.
He's also one half of the crass, awful pair of vice principals in HBO's Vice Principals, in which Lee Russell (Goggins) and Neal Gamby (Danny McBride), are enemies-turned-friends with the sole goal of becoming the principal at a small South Carolina high school. Created by Jody Hill and McBride, who also conceived Eastbound and Down, Vice Principals is an often hilarious, often sad character study of two men locked in a ceaseless battle not so much with each other, but with themselves.
The show comes to an end this Sunday after two seasons, which was the plan from the beginning. For fans, and for Goggins, it's a bittersweet ending to a show—and character—that were often deeper and more profound than their reputation would suggest. Goggins took some time out of his schedule (he's currently filming villainous turns in two highly-anticipated blockbusters, Ant-Man and the Wasp and Tomb Raider) to talk about how the loud, fey villain Lee Russell came to be, and how the hell to relate to a character who burns down houses and compulsively lies to his wife.
The show is very funny, I swear.
Let's start at the beginning. How did you get this role, Lee Russell?
I knew David [Gordon Green] from the independent world; I've known him for the better part of 13 years, 14 years. I actually read for Season Four of Eastbound and Down. I walked into this audition and there were literally five comedians from Saturday Night Live and me! I thought, "Well, this is never going to fucking happen." But I was like, "Ah, fuck it. I don't care. Let's go in and let's play." I ultimately did not get the role. It went to [Jason] Sudeikis. And they were wise to do that.
But! Vice Principals came along and they were going back and forth about how they wanted to approach it. They thought about a traditional comedian for Lee, and then David, I think, threw out "Goggins" in the room and they all went, "He's the fucking guy! That's it. It's gotta be Goggins." So Danny reached out while I was doing The Hateful Eight and sent me the script, and I just got it.
How much of Lee Russell was written or conceived before you came into it? The weird shirts and the accent itself, and the frosted tips?
The frosted tips were there, and the first thing Danny said to me was, "Listen, you don't have to frost your tips." I said, "Oh yeah. Oh, I'm frosting the fucking tips." The tips will be frosted! Hair that you see and hair that you don't see will have tips frosted. [laughs]
I don't know I really knew Russell until we got on the set the first day. I was full of fear. I just literally wrapped Hateful Eight at 9:30 in the morning and went straight to the airport, got on a plane, landed, got to the house and 11:30 at night. Frosted my tips and woke up at 6:00 the next morning just to become Lee Russell.
How did you approach them as lead characters, Russell and Gamby? Protagonists? They're tonally not heroes, or even antiheroes, for that matter.
I don't think they are. I don't think they are protagonists. We're exploring a side of ourselves or our society that we all know exists without giving the audience many things to cheer about. Unless you can cheer at the truths of how deeply insecure they are, and you can cheer or root for a person once you understand why they are who they are.
When I came into this, I said, "Buddy, there are things here about this guy, once you really kind of get in to him, that are very painful." I don't know that they anticipated it resonating or vibrating on that deeper level with me. I don't know that they fully understood my interpretation of the depth of Lee Russell's pain. Continue Reading →
Is there any chance of a Justified reboot or return? I don't know if there are any reboots in production, but…we've talked about [continuing], and what that would be like. We've had conversations. But, it was such a fulfilling end to that journey, I think it would have to be real special for our showrunner, Graham Yost, to want to do that.
But with him or with Tim [Olyphant], I would be there, in a moment's notice. It's really hard to lay Boyd Crowder down and it's hard to lay down the relationship that I had with Tim's character, Raylan Givens. You know, I even miss saying the name…"Hello, Raylan."
The way you just rolled it off your tongue… such relish, such fire. It meant a lot of different things at different times. It's like, how many meanings does Sam Jackson have for "motherfucker?" It's the same thing for "Raylan Givens."
It would be really hard to improve on the final line, "we dug coal together." Which was such a perfect, poetic end for a show that never tried to be fancy with its storytelling, but got to the heart of this very unique relationship. Absolutely. It wasn't a world that was supposed to be fancy. Raylan doesn't talk very much. He's taciturn by nature, whereas Boyd Crowder is an eloquent, poetic killer. And a charmer.
Speaking of men who aren't that fancy, we start the second and final season of Vice Principals with Lee having finally ascended to the throne at the school. The king! The king of all kings! [laughs] The biggest office in the building.
And he's also remade the school in his image, which is really something. Yes, like America, know what I'm saying? [laughs] I'm joking. Yes, he has remade the school in his image, because you know, he's a narcissist. I'm surprised he didn't put up more mirrors.
I really like the painting [an over-the-top one of Lee that I won't spoil here] that he has in the office. That's one of my favorite production touches. [laughs] Me too man! When they wrote that, I just had no idea what they would really look like, and then they showed them to me for the first time, and I just could not stop laughing. But they only showed me one at a time, because in the story something happens, and there's a new painting installed in the principal's office. And it's even funnier and more perfect than the first one.
How would you describe Lee's sense of style in general? Whimsical. One of a celebration, just a rainbow of joy and happiness. Sarah Trost was our wardrobe designer, and I think it's the first time she ever worked with Danny. And I'll never forget the first day that I met her, and the conversation that ensued, and what she pulled out of her case. As wardrobe designers do, she fundamentally dialed into what Lee was going to be for me. I think Danny would say the same thing about her.
You know, we know a lot of people in the South—both Danny and I, and Jody and David for that matter [Editor's Note: Jody Hill is co-creator, director and executive producer of the show, and David Gordon Green is a director and executive producer on the show; both are frequent collaborators with McBride]—that you don't know whether they're gay or they're straight. You know, they're these effeminate kind of guys in the South that are so lovely, they're so wonderful, and this was kind of an amalgamation of a few of those people that I knew. Continue Reading →


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Watch Out For Spammy Kindle Books
With Amazon's self-publishing tools available to just about anyone with a computer, it is no surprise that there is questionable content in the Kindle store.
David Chernicoff, a blogger at ZDNET discovered a title with links to spam site in a recent eBook that he purchased in the Kindle store for $2.99. He explains more in his post. "At my fiancée's request, I downloaded a wedding related Kindle eBook that focused on something she's interested in. It turned out to be a 10 paragraph common sense list that had very little to do with the topic, but also had a bunch of hotlinks to a 'special bonus for kindle readers' which linked to a scam 'change your life if you read this free document' site with a charge me for a subscription every two weeks' poorly disguised link."
The idea of buying a spammy eBook makes me worry about downloading a virus onto my Kindle. Shouldn't Amazon be more careful with its content?


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Medicine Bow Mountains Comments
tarol - Apr 26, 2010 12:03 am - Voted 10/10Snowy Range
I attached the Snowy Range page
Bill Reed - Apr 26, 2010 7:39 pm - Hasn't votedRe: Snowy Range
Thanks, Tarol. Appreciate the help!
musicman82 - Apr 26, 2010 7:01 pm - Voted 10/10Excellent
Thanks for posting this page - great work! I've added a link on the Wyoming page.
Bill Reed - Apr 26, 2010 7:40 pm - Hasn't votedRe: Excellent
Thanks! Appreciate it!
Bubba Suess - Apr 27, 2010 10:31 am - Voted 10/10Good page.
In the initial information categories, you may want add Wyoming to its location, rather than just Colorado.
Bill Reed - Apr 27, 2010 9:43 pm - Hasn't votedRe: Good page.
Thanks! Haven't been able to figure out how to select 2 states. I'm all ears if you know.
Bubba Suess - Apr 27, 2010 10:41 pm - Voted 10/10Re: Good page.
In the edit mode, when you are selecting a state in the drop down box, hold the ctrl key and click on each of the states. Once you have edited the page, it will appear like this:
Let me know if I can help more.
Bill Reed - Apr 27, 2010 11:19 pm - Hasn't votedRe: Good page.
Tried that with no success. Not sure if I'm doing something wrong or if it's a Mac thing.
Bubba Suess - Apr 28, 2010 12:40 am - Voted 10/10Re: Good page.
Ah. You are on a mac. I am no use to you...
Bill Reed - Apr 28, 2010 2:41 pm - Hasn't votedRe: Good page.
Got it. Did on the PC at work. Thanks!
Bill Reed - Apr 30, 2010 8:38 pm - Hasn't votedRe: Nice page!
Mucho thanks!! It took some time for sure, but I learned quite a bit from it. Doing the research revealed some things I wasn't aware of and scanning my old slides made me realize how much time I'd spent in various parts of the range over the years. Can't wait to get back!
Arthur Digbee - May 4, 2010 5:02 pm - Voted 10/10Great!
I'm pondering an early season trip to the Snowy Range in a couple weeks. Can anybody hazard a guess about conditions in the "lower" areas? (9000-10,000 feet)
Bill Reed - May 4, 2010 9:13 pm - Hasn't votedRe: Great!
Thanks, Arthur.
Can you be more specific about where you're thinking of going in the Range. 9,000 to 10,000 is kind of low in the Snowies. Generally the area I would consider to be the Snowy Range runs between 10 and 11,000 feet.
Bill Reed - May 5, 2010 8:32 am - Hasn't votedRe: Nice Bill
Thanks for checking it out!
Bob Sihler - May 5, 2010 12:56 pm - Voted 10/10Nice, Bill
I checked this page out a day or two after you posted it and thought it was a great job. It's nice to see it on the front page.
Bill Reed - May 5, 2010 3:00 pm - Hasn't votedRe: Nice, Bill
Thanks alot, Bob. I know it's a range you have some familiarity with!
Gareth - May 2, 2012 5:41 pm - Voted 10/10Photo
I happened acrossed a nice photo (697547) taken within the Rawah Wilderness which seemes to not be attached to anything but the "Photo of the Hour" album. It might make a nice addition to the Rawah Wilderness section of this page. It appears to have been taken along the trail leading up to the saddle above Blue Lake (west of Cameron Peak).
Bill Reed - May 2, 2012 8:53 pm - Hasn't votedRe: Photo
Yeah, I would agree. Looks like just below Blue Lake Pass on the north side. Apparently I've seen it before because I voted on it. I'll see if I can find a place to plug it in.
Thanks for the heads up!


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Why Picture Books Are Important by Andrea Davis Pinkney
The Question by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Picture Books,
Why, do we need you?
Oh, Picture Books,
we need you because
you are
the safest harbors,
the quilts,
the songs,
the names and faces
that grace us with whimsical winks,
twinkling from pages that flip,
and invite us to join the ride.
We giggle when you call, Come, child, fly!
That is why
we need every bit of your word-picture power.
Oh, Picture Books,
we need your escape.
We crave your colors,
your stories,
your comfort-hugs
that sweep us up
in sweet reading embraces.
Picture Books,
oh, oh ? only you can do the magic trick
that makes the world's worries vanish,
at the very same time,
pulls a bouquet from a hat
whose crown is deep with seeds
that speak especially to me.
That is why, Picture Books,
to be!
About Andrea Pinkney
Andrea Davis Pinkney is the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of many books for children, including her most recent, A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of The Snowy Day. Her books have been awarded multiple Coretta Scott King Award citations, Jane Addams Children's Literature Honors, NAACP Image Award nominations, the Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor, and several Parenting Publication Gold Medals. Andrea was named one of the "25 Most Influential People in Our Children's Lives" by Children's Health Magazine. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, illustrator Brian Pinkney, and their children.
Literacy Activity
November 14 – Music
Picture books are specifically and technically crafted. Due to the concise and simple nature of the genre, word choice and structure is extremely important. (from Picture Book Month Teacher's Guide: Why Picture Books Belong in Our Classrooms by Marcie Colleen, 2013).
Create a classroom library of picture books about music, musicians, poems and poetry. Read aloud a picture book from the collection on a regular basis. Have students write their favorite songs and tell them to draw pictures or images they see in their minds when they read or when they sing the songs.
Suggested reading:
Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane by Carole Boston Weatherford illustrated by,Sean Qualls
Ben's Trumpet Paperback by Rachel Isadora
For the Love of Music: The Remarkable Story of Maria Anna Mozart by Elizabeth Rusch, illustrated by Lou Fancher and Steve Johnson
The Philharmonic Gets Dressed by Karla Kuskin, illustrated by Marc Simont
M Is for Music by Kathleen Krull, illustrated by Stacy Innerst
Be sure to download the Picture Book Month Teacher's Guide: Why Picture Books Belong in Our Classroom for more engaging ideas and activities to bring picture books into the ELA, Math, Science, and Social Studies curriculum!
Be sure to download the Picture Book Month Teacher's Guide: Why Picture Books Belong in Our Classroom for more engaging ideas and activities to bring picture books into the ELA, Math, Science, and Social Studies curriculum!


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text: Three MFAC Books Selected as Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2019 Publisher Weekly has just announced its 2019 Best Book List. Two MFAC faculty books and one alum book have been selected for the Best Middle Grade Book List and Best Young Adult Book List for 2019. MFAC faculty and National Book Award Finalist Laurel Snyder's My Jasper June has found its place on Publisher Weekly's Best Middle Grade Books of 2019. My Jasper June is one of two children's books Synder has published this year, the other a picture book titled Hungry Jim illustrated as a tribute to Chuck Groenink. My Jasper June been compared to Kathrine Paterson's Bridge to Terabithia as its timeless themes of grief, friendship, and the magic of childhood are ever strong in this novel for young readers. MFAC faculty and National Book Award Finalist Anne Ursu's The Lost Girl has already garnered three starred reviews this year alongside the honor of being placed on Publisher Weekly's Best Middle Grade of 2019. The Lost Girl is one of two titles being adapted into an hour-long TV series produced by Drew Barrymore under Flower Films Production Company. MFAC 17' alumna Blair Thornburgh's newest YA novel Ordinary Girls has already received numerous starred reviews this year and has now found its place on Publisher Weekly's Best Young Adult Books of 2019. Ordinary Girls is Thornburgh's second YA novel and is a contemporary spin on Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. Ordinary Girls is one of two books Thornburgh has published for children this year. Her picture book Skulls! was released in July. Her second picture book Second Banana is set for publication in fall 2020. Hamline's MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults Program (MFAC) has garnered incredible press this year with numerous faculty, alumni, and student publications finding their place as Best Books and finalists for the Kirkus Prize and the National Book Award! The program's community continues to gain attention as faculty and graduates continue to write nationally acclaimed books for young people.


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Source: CNN
(CNN) A North Carolina man was sentenced Wednesday to three terms of life in prison for shooting and killing three of his neighbors, all Muslim students, in the college town of Chapel Hill in 2015.
A gunman killed his brother. Now Farris Barakat is on an American journey.
Craig Hicks pleaded guilty earlier Wednesday in a Durham County courtroom to three counts of first-degree murder for the killings of Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23; Barakat's wife, Yusor Mohammad, 21; and her sister, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, 19.
He also pleaded guilty to discharging a firearm into an occupied dwelling, for which he was sentenced to an additional 64 to 89 months.
Police said Hicks shot the three in February 2015 at an apartment near the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Police said the shooting appeared to stem from a parking dispute.
Suggested reading
A Million Muslims Detained in China and Who Speaks for the 1.6 Billion Muslims?
Who Speaks for the Flesh and Blood 1.6 Billion Breathing Muslim Souls?
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Much like the other Wilder work I've seen recently, including The Apartment and last month's Some Like It Hot, I admit there is no good reason for me having never seen 1954's Sabrina. But, unlike my misguided prejudice towards Wilder's comedies and a conservative father leading me away from questionable cross-dressing, Sabrina's omission makes sense to me. My earliest memory is not of this one at all, but the 1995 remake by Sydney Pollack, starring Harrison Ford, Julia Ormond and Greg Kinnear. When trailers and commercials started popping up, I remember, seemingly, every adult female in my life swooning, including a sister and my mother. Given this time in my life, just brisking in my teens, I can only guess how uninterested I was in romance and "chick flicks." Honestly, if you asked me my favorite film in 1995 – and still one of my favorites – I would've replied David Fincher's Se7en. Adult-themed for a boy not even in high school, mature for a young man in a friend group still playing with action figures, but a movie that one can believe a kid gravitating to horror might like. Gruesome, unsettling and, to tell the truth, a movie that gave me nightmares for weeks afterward. (I slept in my dad's room for the duration.) Subsequently, and very off-topic, I was deeply entranced with that film for years; daring myself to watch it alone on VHS to overcome my fears. I can note no other film for teaching me how to control my base emotions better – well, until The Exorcist: Director's Cut came along, but that's a story for another day. Anyway, back to the point: would you expect a punk kid – or wannabe punk kid, chain-wallet and all – on a steady diet of horror and action to even give a fuck about Sabrina?
And that's the one in color. I wasn't averse to black & white; some of my favorite films growing up were b&w, including Psycho. But, consider for a second: I don't care about Harrison Ford falling in love with the help (I'd rather watch him race Nazis to historical treasure and swing a whip, anyway), would I care about Humphrey Bogart? I'm not even completely sure I had seen a Bogart film by that time. I knew who he was; a gargantuan star of yesteryear, parodied in Warner Bros cartoons and brought back to life through the miracle of computer-generated imagery. Billy Wilder's Sabrina was not on my radar. And there it remained, several rungs down on "the work of the masters;" no one ever said, "See Sabrina!" at the same time he/she said, "See Seven Samurai!," "See The Godfather!," "See Casablanca!," "See Jaws!," "See On the Waterfront!"
It. Just. Did. Not. Register.
Part of me is glad I waited until I was an adult, with several relationships under my belt, with an idea of the world, class structure and how working for a corporation can be. That autobiographical shorthand allowed me to experience Sabrina for its story and characters, without having to translate it to the whims of a child. How does a complex emotion like loving someone you're not sure loves you back translate to Blink-182 and X-Games? (god, I hate me.) How do you go from feeling so intently about someone for a lifetime to knowing that isn't for you? What understanding of life would I share with Linus Larrabee or Sabrina Fairchild? Nothing was lost in these years preparing me for a film like Sabrina.
Sublime. Light. Funny. Romantic. Beautiful. Warm. That's how I felt watching it. If there were better-looking women than Audrey Hepburn in the history of Hollywood, I certainly forgot about them for two hours. William Holden is atypically cast as the womanizing playboy, David, whose older brother, Linus (Bogart) – the undertaker – oversees the family corporate empire in New York. David is fun, living each day as his last. Linus is focused on work, dead serious and regimented. On the Larrabees' estate, of course, is the help, including chauffeur, Thomas Fairchild and his daughter, Sabrina. Admiring David from afar her whole life – from outside the garage or from a tree – Sabrina is infatuated with him. She even goes so far as to attempt suicide via carbon monoxide asphyxiation, after hearing that his affections have been won by another in a long line of revolving PYTs. Rescued by a well-meaning Linus, returning a car to the garage, the two spark up a respectful understanding: she has something to live for, even if it isn't David. Leaving the next day for Paris, Sabrina is to become a woman of culture, kitchen skills and manners befitting those in the employ of the Larrabees. Upon her return, she has changed: gone is the ponytail, replaced with Hepburn's signature cut; gone are the clothes of a girl, replaced with the figure-hugging chic dress of a woman of the world.
Having blossomed, Sabrina is now able to pique David's interest immediately. In one of the funniest scenes in the film, David happens upon her waiting to be picked up at the train station. He gives her a ride, all the while trying to place where he knows her from. I can't sell it well enough to convey how light and engaging this sequence is, as David finally realizes who he is driving on their arrival at his own house. I dare anyone to not fall in love with Hepburn after this scene, if they haven't already.
What follows is The Chase from David, all the while having been betrothed to a rich girl whose family means good business for Linus' designs for a merger. Linus runs interference to protect said business interests and tame David's wandering eye. But, in doing so, Linus falls for Sabrina. (Awkwardly, on their first "date," he keeps reminding her that "it's all in the family." Kind of disturbing, when you think about it.)
Along the journey of this gradual love affair, the film has some interesting points to make about the chasm between the classes; the fear, the taboo of "a rich man running off with the help." The Lord and Lady of the Manor, the Elder Larrabees, make no secret of how against the prospect they are. Linus too, at least at first, seems to be only "handling" Sabrina to keep David from making a huge mistake.
The other side of it is, of course, the older man/younger woman scenario. Bogart, as the aging bachelor who has lost years to being so focused on his business, does not expect to feel the way he eventually does about Hepburn. She, in turn, never saw him as a romantic interest; he was seemingly always nice to her, but nothing more than background to her infatuation with his younger brother. Neither are prepared for the emotional windfall. Sabrina, especially, is not prepared for the growing up; she thought she had it all figured out after Paris.
This film is supremely romantic. I mean it. If you have a heart, it will swell six times in size. It's also not overly sentimental or saccharin, at least in my opinion. It's beautiful Old Hollywood; the fantasy of the ugly duckling blooming into a grand swan, of Cinderella, of the lower class being admitted into the Circle. If you're a cynic, maybe you'll get less out of it.
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