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I know next to nothing about Japanese anime so I didn't really know what to expect when I went to see Your Name yesterday. What happened is that I absolutely loved it! In fact, it is one of the best films I have ever seen! Mitsuha is a young girl living in a rural and traditional village in the mountains. She is very dissatisfied with her life and longs for the day when she can graduate and move to the big city. One day she wakes up in the body of Taki, a high school boy in Tokyo and he wakes up in her body (it is very amusing for them to discover that they are a different sex). This keeps happening intermittently and it takes them a while to assimilate into each other's world. When they both realize what is happening they begin leaving each other notes for when they return to their own bodies. They also begin affecting each other's lives in positive ways, especially when Mitsuha makes a date for Taki with the girl he likes. Eventually, they stop switching with each other and Taki starts to miss Mitsuha. He tries to contact her and when that fails he decides to look for her. Then there is an incredible twist to the story which I didn't expect but found to be very emotionally satisfying. I cared about these characters so much and it is such a beautiful story about fate and the connections we have with people including people that we haven't even met yet. I laughed out loud many times and I cried during several scenes. The animation is beautiful, especially scenes that take place during the golden hour. It is a lovely film and I can't say enough about it. I definitely recommend it, particularly to people who have never seen an anime film before.
Note: I saw this film dubbed in English but I already have plans to see it in Japanese with English subtitles.


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Guest Blogger Post #30 is the last in what has been a most amazing Month of LOVE series. I think Yankee Doodle Paddy is still humming from all the phenomenal and varied love stories. Tomorrow I will post a debrief of this whole experience and include links to all the love stories (and the music I used in the Snapchat reveals) on one page. However right now it is our last (but not least) author's turn. Eimear is truly one of the nicest ladies in the world. I feel lucky I was able to not only meet her in person but spend nearly the whole day with her and her sweet daughter. I am sure it won't be the last time we are together. We hit it off from the first time we messaged each other on Snapchat and when you read this story you too will see how lovely she is!
Guest Blogger Month
Guest Blogger Month II: Post #29
I feel super blessed that Yankee Doodle Paddy Guest Blogger Month of LOVE series received more submissions than days in February. Hence this is Post #29 and it is a fun one too. The engaging Eric, the fourth man to bravely share his story this month, has a heart pumping tail for you. And no, that wasn't a typo. I said tail, though it is very much like a fairy tale. However, once you start reading you'll see there is a tail in the tale!
Guest Blogger Month: Post #28
Because Guest Blogger Post #28 is so rich with wisdom and deep with thought, I won't delay this intro. But let's just say that Amaris pours her heart out in her LOVE story and you will want to soak it up!
Guest Blogger Month II: Post #27
Guest Blogger Post #27 is by the awesome blogger Cath of Passports and Adventures . Cath was one of my early Snapchat friends. Another Irish living abroad, she and I had the pleasure of meeting when she came to London for a blogger convention. We hit it off instantly and she even joined me on my weekly adventure called Foodie Fieldtrip Friday. So I was delighted when she agreed to participate in the Month of LOVE series and share a very sweet story. It is especially meaningful to me, being that I have a son, and that my favorite book of all time is quoted in the opening line!
Guest Blogger Month II: Post #26
Love KNOWS no bounds. I'll repeat that: LOVE knows NO bounds! By that I mean, all of us can experience it. Young or old, strong or weak, men or women, sick or well, feeling high or at our lowest, it doesn't matter, 'cuz love knows no BOUNDS. If you watch commercials around Valentine's Day they always show this perfectly curated sort of love. Everyone looks pristine and happy, financially secure (of course, so you can buy those diamonds), and healthy. However, often it is when we are none of those "Madison Avenue" creations that we need love the most. Today I am sharing with you two amazing people who have been brave enough to come forward for the Guest Blogger Month of LOVE. For Post #26 I am sharing the love stories of the beautiful Kerry and the lovely Paul. They have both had a rough go in life. They deal with health issues and yet still continue to love. Part of that is because they have been shown love to them. When many in society run to the hills when someone suffers with mental illness or a physical disability, Kerry and Paul have angels in their lives to prove, yes LOVE exists! I will share Kerry's powerful love story first and let Paul reveal his after. And please, please, read these with a tender heart. Because one day surely we too will need one!
Guest Blogger Month II: Post #25
I love Cathi! Or Cathidee as I call her. All my Snapchat friends are referred to by their usernames when I am conversing with Hubby about them. Today's amazing Guest Blogger #25 Cathi lives in Georgia with her Hubby. She is the mom of four fab kids and grandmother to one. I've been so blessed to get to know her and enjoy her kind loving manner. I could listen to her gorgeous accent all day long and her words are always deep and thoughtful, with some humor and sass mixed in for fun! I suggested she submit a love story for the Guest Blogger Month and thankfully she did just that!
Guest Blogger Month II: Post #24
Today I am going to do something a little different. Due to the fact that I have received more LOVE stories for this Guest Blogger Month than actual days in February, I will have to post a couple stories on a single day. This happened last year as well, seeing as I had 33 guest bloggers. However, for today, I wanted to incorporate two bloggers together in one for Post #24. Why? Well for several reasons. Both Katie and Adrian are bloggers themselves and have published these stories on their own blogs. As individuals, they are more alike than different, as they are both people of substance living a purpose driven life helping others. They defo get what LOVE in action means. And since my own blog is called Yankee Doodle Paddy, this post today embodies that. The amazing Katie is from my birth home, the good old USA! And the awesome Adrian is from my soul home, the emerald isle of Ireland! Continue reading


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The importance of dreams and the process of psychotherapy
The role of dreams, and the importance of the analysis of dreams, is given greater or lesser attention in any given psychotherapy process, depending on the school, or schools, of thought which influence how a particular psychotherapist works. Added to this, it is not everyone's natural inclination to bring dreams into the therapy session, and there can be a feeling of resistance or a defensive lack of interest in dreams. Whether dreams play a central role in anyone's therapy process or not, it can't be denied that they are a crucial part of living. Dreams are what and how we think when we are asleep. They relate closely to what and how we think when we are awake, although this is often not clear when we wake from a dream. It is also often the case that on waking from a dream we are filled with a feeling that certainly wasn't there, or wasn't necessarily there, when we went to sleep. Such feelings as fear, anger, sadness, shame, confusion and panic can often accompany the sleeper as he or she emerges from a dream. And so it seems clear that there is something about dreams that relates very closely to who we are as people, and to what is happening now, and what happened in the past. Sometimes we find it difficult to think about our dreams, because unlike our daily thoughts, dreams are not regulated by the same kind of internal control or censorship, and so we may find that our dreams take us to places that we would prefer not to go. For these reasons, although we may struggle to acknowledge it, dreams can play a central role in any therapy that hopes to deepen and enrich our understandings of ourselves.
Although thinking and theorizing about the analysis of dreams predates Sigmund Freud, he is considered the pioneer in the development of understandings relating to the meaningfulness of dreams. Freud delivered dreams to their rightful place in terms of psychological theory, with his statement that dreams are the "royal road" to the unconscious mind. Dreams, for Freud, represented a portion of human existence which conveys to the waking mind those parts of our lives which we struggle to think about. In Freud's day the emphasis was on repressed impulses, such as sexual and aggressive impulses, which, if we were to think about them during the course of waking life, would cause us to feel shame. In light of this Freud defined dreams as activities of the mind which are primarily about the fulfillment of a wish; to be able to experience, feel and enact something that we otherwise might prohibit in the course of waking life. Although the landscape of psychology has changed considerably since Freud's times, his insights remain invaluable as we continue to think about the activities of the human mind. Current psychotherapeutic work, especially work that is less influenced by Freud's thinking, would tend to give less consideration to the notion that dreams are about one particular purpose, such as wish fulfillment, and that they are an essential meaning-making activity from which we can learn a lot. It is often noted that when we dream, the images and objects in the dream sometimes make little sense to us; it is as if they belong to different and foreign world. The word used most commonly to capture this experience is that of "symbolism". Just as in everyday life we may use a simile or a metaphor to say what something is like by comparing it to something else, so do dreams give us a visual representation which is aimed at revealing to the conscious mind what something is "like". And so the deep dark ocean, the snake, the rising sun, the falling airplane, the unbridled racing horse, represent something of our experience of ourselves within our world, by conveying a sense of what it is like to feel like we feel within ourselves. Very often, and echoing Freud's thoughts, dreams consist of activities, images, desires, fears, memories and thoughts which we struggle to allow ourselves to experience consciously. That which causes too much discomfort to think about can find its way into a dream, where it represents itself in a symbolized form, for us to make meaning out of. Importantly, in terms of the process of psychotherapy as it is thought about currently, this process of making meaning out of a dream's content is not reliant on an "expert analyst" who knows what all the symbols mean and is able to tell the patient what their dream is trying to say. Rather, the process of thinking about dreams is entirely a part of the relationship between therapist and the patient. It exists in the same context of trust, in which the patient, in describing their dream, will be influenced by the extent to which they feel safe enough to talk about the difficult and potentially painful and unsettling dream content. The patient and therapist will then work together, thinking very carefully about the dream. The words used to describe the images in the dream, the images themselves, the atmosphere in the dream, the size and shape of rooms, the position of the sun, the particular colour of the walls, what the patient was wearing, if he or she was present in the dream. All of these and countless more minute details which form part of the universe of each dream will be spoken about in an effort to derive a complete picture of the dream. In the process of trying to understand the dream, the patient and therapist would wonder about what each part of the dream means, for the patient him or herself. With this in mind we are thinking about the "associated" thoughts and memories. This makes me think of that, and that makes me think of that. Through the process of thinking about the associations to the dream we are sometimes able to penetrate the layers of symbolism and get to a clearer sense of the dream's message. Sometimes we are quite fortunate in having experienced a dream which itself seems quite clear, which we can recall clearly, and which we have a very strong feeling about, in terms of what it means for us. Of course it is very often the case that our memories of dreams are vague and confusing, and we are sometimes able to recall nothing more than a single image. That's also part of the process, and usually represents the notion that we are trying to develop a closer relationship with our dreams, but something is making it difficult for us to do so. Some part of us is resisting our knowing about another part of us. Psychoanalytic psychotherapy speaks about this in terms of the role of the defences to keep certain thoughts and feelings in the unconscious, typically because the emergence of such thoughts and feelings into the conscious mind could cause pain, anxiety, shame, and a recollection of memories which we have tried to put away. Freud himself suggested that the resistance to recalling dreams, the resistance to understanding that which we recollect, and even the fact of waking from the dream, bringing the dream to a definitive end, forms a crucial component of what we think about when we think about dreams in the context of psychotherapy. The aim of such work, as I see it, is not only to explore and deepen the meaning which we make of ourselves as we live our lives, but also to free ourselves up, to become able to think about ourselves in a more accepting, compassionate and open way. This process could and often does impact positively on how we relate to ourselves and others in our lives.
What works for you?: A general description of the psychoanalytic approach to psychotherapy
One of the strengths of a practice such as this one is that it consists of six psychotherapists who each have a unique way of thinking about and approaching the work that we do. Psychotherapeutic practice has many many faces, even though there are certain grounding principles which unite the efforts of psychotherapists. But the fact is that even though we all call ourselves psychotherapists, the actual work that we do can be vastly different, and so what happens in each separate space is not only a matter of individual creativity, but also of a choice made by each psychotherapist to follow a particular path based on what we believe to be therapeutically useful. Of course this is directly affected by each person who enters the room, and so the nature and quality of the work done is, in the end of the day, affected by a mutual and reciprocal relationship which develops between therapist and patient. Aside from what happens in the therapist-patient relationship, there is nonetheless the question of "What kind of psychotherapist are you, and does that work for me?" that needs to be thought and talked about when a therapy process begins. With this in mind, and with a view to taking some ownership of the therapy process, I would always encourage people to do a bit of research before entering a process, to explore the forms of therapy that they feel would work for them, and to search for a therapist who engages with these forms of therapy.
The form of therapy that I believe in, and that I offer to the people I work with, is very broadly defined as psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Psychoanalysis, as a form of treatment that has about 150 years of history, is defined in various ways by a number of schools, branching out from classical Freudian thinking. As a method broadly defined, psychoanalytic psychotherapy engages with various levels of depth experience. Firstly, and perhaps most centrally, psychoanalytic psychotherapy concerns the process of drawings links between conscious and unconscious experience; links between the things we know about ourselves, the things we know but don't think about (because it is too painful or anxiety-arousing), and the things we don't know and cannot think about (because it is potentially traumatic). This is why the beginning phase of a psychoanalytic psychotherapy is often focused on asking very detailed and specific questions about history of relationships, family patterns and attachments to the primary people in our lives, as this kind of historical information is an important route to getting to know our unconscious mental life.
Psychoanalytic theory maintains that the vast proportion of mental life is unconscious, meaning that there is much that we don't yet know or understand about the Hows and Whys of our thoughts, feelings and behaviour. One of the most fascinating and ongoing experiences that we have during the course of a psychoanalytically-oriented psychotherapy is that of discovery, sometimes shocking discovery, as we become acquainted with parts of ourselves which we did not know about. In this sense the psychoanalytic process is one of developing an awareness of - and relationship with - as yet unknown parts of the self, and doing this within the context of a relationship with the therapist, in which there is enough safety and trust for this development to happen; a feature which of course applies to all forms of psychotherapy. For psychoanalytic psychotherapy, however, there is a strong emphasis placed on the dynamics of the therapist-patient relationship. Here we have the second core aspect of the psychoanalytic process: what happens to you, what happens to me, and what happens in between us in the 50-minute hour.
The basic principle in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, as far as the relationship is concerned, is that our internal world influences how we relate to people, and so the kinds of relationship conflicts and struggles that take place out there in the world are likely to find their way into the therapy, where they play out in the space between therapist and patient. When this transference of feelings, from the outside in, takes place, we have a unique opportunity to examine and reflect on the known and as-yet-unknown thoughts and feelings taking place in you, me, and us. Often this kind of work can cause a lot of anxiety, especially when there is not enough trust in the therapeutic relationship. This is one of the reasons why psychoanalytic psychotherapy emphasizes the importance of long-term, routine, weekly work, that gives absolute respect to the importance of trust and safety as something that develops over time.
Beyond exploring the ongoing here-and-now dynamics of the therapeutic relationship as a vehicle for developing understandings of the self, psychoanalytic psychotherapy places a very strong emphasis on the notion that therapy mimics and replays the developmental process that we all undergo from infancy to adulthood. The idea here is that the deepest level of psychological injury is that which occurs to us when we are most vulnerable, and least developed. Any form of deprivation, neglect, loss, separation or trauma occurring at this level therefore forms a central part of the therapeutic search, and is considered as an experience which disrupts our development. The work of psychoanalytic psychotherapy is to recognize this level of disruption, and provide the patient with a safe enough relationship which can enable these undeveloped parts of the self to grow.
With considerable emphasis being placed on the notion of developmental trauma, psychoanalytic psychotherapy attends to the various ways in which we defend ourselves against the awareness of too much pain and anxiety. Coming to understand our internal defensive processes, and coming to know how these defensive processes play out in our behaviour, thoughts, feelings and relationships, forms a central part of the focus of the work. With this in mind, and considering the emphasis on psychoanalytic work as a developmental process in itself, it is an important feature of the work that it is not too focused on being directive, and on having a specific plan or structure in mind. The work does not involve any particular step-by-step activities, it is not shaped according to a particular framework other than the absolute boundary of same time, same place, every week. as such, it is a very carefully boundaried, but not particularly directed approach. Often patients struggle with this, and it would be an important aspect of the decision to enter therapy that this aspect is known and understood. And so the question "What works for whom?" is absolutely relevant, and is one that we need to ask before entry into therapy, for the sake of feeling ownership of the process, and knowing that you have arrived at the place you intended to arrive at when you walk into the room. The next big question, and one that I might think about in the next newsletter, relates to the actual fit between the person of the patient, and the person of the therapist.


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Maddie Girl sings this to the point that she had become "I scared" about everything. I think that's the problem with some of us sometimes - we're afraid to try new things - such as try out for a design team. That old "I'm not good enough" - "What if I don't get choosen?" lies go through our mind - and keep us from stepping out and trying. How often do we tell our kids - "Try it, You'll like it" or "You'll never know if you don't try" or "You can't win if you don't play"...
Soooo, here is my challenge to you - put all those self defeating lies behind you and step outside your comfort zone - and do something you've been afraid to do. It might even be - submitting your entry for the Scrap Our Stash Design Team. Details are below - don't let them scare you - the requirements are really quite simple and YOU CAN DO IT!
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Unravelling the world of Charles Dickens
Reading a novel by Charles Dickens is like stepping through a portal into a different world; the world of 19th century England and making friends with his characters - estimated to be around 989 across all his novels, writes Nirupama Subramanian, author of Keep The Change on Dicken's 200th birth anniversary.books Updated: Feb 06, 2012 13:26 IST
My first encounter with the world of Charles Dickens was not a pleasant one. Nicholas Nickelby, Dicken's third novel was a prescribed text book in school. I was probably twelve or thirteen when I trudged through what seemed like a dreary tale set partly in a grim boarding school. It was a clever move by the educational authorities since our own institution seemed like a haven of peace and happiness after reading about the terrible conditions at Dotheboy's Hall. The characters, especially Wackford Squeers, the headmaster and Uncle Ralph were savage, cruel or boring and even Nicholas himself did not stir me as the hero of a novel should.
I did not attempt to read any more depressing books and devoted myself to the enjoyable task of completing the Nancy Drew mystery series. It was about a year or two later, when browsing through the enormous bookshelf that used to be called my grandfather's library, that I came upon the novel that would take me back to Dickens. "It was the best of times. It was the worst of times." The opening lines catapulted me into another world, a world that teemed with interesting characters and tumultuous events spanning the two cities of London and Paris. Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, it is not only a ringside account of the French Revolution but also a story of revenge, love and redemption. The Tale of Two cities continues to remain one of the most memorable books I have read.
Reading a novel by Charles Dickens is like stepping through a portal into a different world; the world of 19th century England. This was not the genteel world of the English countryside where the privileged members of the upper classes sipped tea and went for leisurely strolls in the woods. Apart from the Tale of two cities, Dicken's stories were set in the raw reality of the streets and factories of working class London and the gritty towns of an England that was in the early stages of the industrial revolution. Dickens drew from his own life and mined his varied experiences to create the settings and characters for his novels. The Blacking warehouse where he worked as a child, the prison at Marshalsea where his father was imprisoned, his experiences at the law office as a clerk, all feature in his books. There is a ring of authenticity about his works and his characters resonated with the reading public of his time. In fact, several of the characters were based on Dickens acquaintances, friends and family. It is the characters of his stories that make Dicken's novels relevant even today. As a reader comes across a character, there is an immediate stirring of memory, a glint of recognition, you pause and say to yourself, ' I know someone like that'.- A miser like Scrooge, a spendthrift like Micawber who is perennially indebted, a heart breaker like Estella or a cold metallic woman like Miss Murdstone.
Britain marks Charles Dickens bicentenary
Dickens is said to have created around 989 named characters across all his novels. Sometimes, the sheer number of his characters in the story made it difficult to keep track of the plot line. I confess to regrouping myself in the middle of David Copperfield or forgetting what happened to a minor character in another novel. Some critics have felt that many of his characters were flat and uni-dimensional. I have a personal quibble that the women in Dickens's books did not give a good account of themselves; they were mostly passive and decorative or whimsical and destructive. Yet, all characters left an impression that stayed long after the story was through. The writer Tolstoy once remarked "All his characters are my personal friends' They must have become friends of his readers too since Dickens was one of the most popular and successful authors of his time.
I have not read all of Dicken's books. There is Bleak House, Hard Times, Martin Chuzzlewit and a couple of others still on my reading list. At some point of time, I abandoned the pursuit of classics and moved onto to other genres, other authors. Yesterday, while traveling for work in Chennai, I noticed a sign on a building by the side of a road, ' The Old Curiosity Shop' it said. It was perhaps a sign that on the 200th anniversary of Chales Dicken's birth, it would be a good idea to return to some of his novels, to enter his world and make more friends.
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UK / Italy 2015, 124 minutesDir. Luca GuadagninoIn English, Italian with Farsi subtitlesRating: [R16] Sex scenes, violence, drug use, offensive language & nudity.Genres: Drama / Black Comedy
Feat. Tilda Swinton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Ralph Fiennes, Dakota Johnson
"A seriously fun film with a shadier side that's ripe for unpicking when the curtain drops."~Dave Calhoun, Time Out
Aroview: A sensuous, if overly-mannered comedy of manners from the director of I AM LOVE has the Sicilian vacation of a famous rock star and a filmmaker disrupted by the unexpected visit of a former boyfriend/record producer and his daughter.
A loose remake of "La Piscine"(1969), this is indeed a throwback to another era of film-making, with its idealised Euro-locale and punch-drunk bohemianism, where an unusually frisky, slightly insufferable Ralph Fiennes contrasts Swinton's muted siren suffering from laryngitis.
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This one took a while...but was fun to do. Getting the motion right (or as close as I could, to what I wanted) actually took a lot more time than syncing up the mouth.
I like the pull back into the punch, and the punch itself. Bringing his hand back is ok. I think I could improve the finger wag part, and also make it so he doesn't slide around at the end. Next time :)
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Title: "A cognitive theory of religion: biology, anthropomorphism and evolutionary epistemology"
A classic theory of religion dating to the 1600s is consistent with current knowledge. The theory is that religion is an aspect of anthropomorphism (the attribution of human characteristics to nonhuman things and events) and that anthropomorphism is built into human cognition. Scholars including Spinoza, Hume, Feuerbach, Nietzsche, Freud and Tylor have proposed forms of this theory, which now is widely deployed in the cognitive science of religion. Yet its proponents disagree on a central question: how can we explain anthropomorphism itself? Present writers answer with such diverse notions as "projection," "wishful thinking" and "counter-intuitivity." These notions, however, not only differ but also are inconsistent with an evolutionary view of cognition. My answer, in contrast, joins Pascal with Darwin and with disciplines from anthropology and ethology to neurobiology, to hold that anthropomorphism is a byproduct of an evolved perceptual and cognitive strategy. The strategy in question employs the principle of Pascal's Wager: bet first on the possibility that matters most.
Stewart E. Guthrie (Ph.D. Yale 1976) is Prof. Emeritus of Anthropology at Fordham University and a founding member of the Society for the Anthropology of Religion. His fieldwork has been mostly in Japan (e.g., A Japanese New Religion). The central propositions of his 1980 "A cognitive theory of religion" have been widely adopted in cognitive studies of religion: that religion is anthropomorphism; that the latter stems from an evolved perceptual strategy, producing hair-trigger judgments that persons (or their traces) are present; and that viewing things and events as personal provides the most significant and powerful interpretation possible. Guthrie elaborates these ideas in Faces in the Clouds and elsewhere.


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Vance/Wentz - Shanon family c.1800
Looking for information on a VANCE/WENTZ-SHANON family living in Allegheny County around 1800.
Unknown VANCE/WENTZ m.
Elizabeth SHANON5Apr1784-20Apr1856
Jane WENTZ Silvius14Mar1802 - 30Apr1895
Elizabeth VANCE Shickley1810 - aft. 1897
Harry VANCE abt. 1806 - died bef. 1895
Jane's obituary stated that she had been born in "Allegheny City when it was just a very small place" and migrated with her parents over the mountains to Lancaster, PA when she was 4 (1806).Father's name is not known.The move to Lancaster was permanent as the elder Elizabeth, Jane, and Jane's brother-in-law Jacob Shickley all died in Lancaster.
Elizabeth SHANON may have been Irish as Jane gave Ireland as her mother's place of origin in the 1880 census.
VANCE may be an anglicized version of WENTZ but, as Jane married into a PA German family, it could also just as easily be an English name that got Dutchified. Her descendents have noted the name as WENTZ, but her obituary and a Bible record note it as VANCE.
Interested in knowing more about this family that bucked all trends and migrated east!
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The success of the communities we build is highly dependent on good relationships with local people. We make significant investment in these relationships before and during development and we are proud of the outcomes we achieve together.
Last year we reported on what we had been doing at Darlington, Waterbeach and elsewhere. As our strategic sites mature, in 2017 we are able to capture more significant results, with schools and other amenities opening and communities coming alive.
Staff engagement
We encourage our team to play a part in their communities at home and at work, as we know it brings benefits all round.
This year, we have measured and report this investment in time and resource for the first time across our strategic sites. We found that 1,812 hours were spent on non-obligatory initiatives.
Low figures for Newark and Waterbeach as both projects are in early development. We expect figures to rise as each project progresses in development.
Our largest investment has been at Rugby and Alconbury. This is because both Rugby and Alconbury are much further along on their development stages. We expect to increase investment at all our strategic land sites, as each development stage progresses.
For example, our team at Rugby invested around 160 hours in 2017 as a member of St Gabriel's Church of England Academy board of directors where we have an active role in the delivery of the school with the Diocese of Coventry. Over in Alconbury, Rebecca Britton is a school governor at Ermine Street Church Academy and is a board member at Groundwork East, collectively spending over 200 hours helping with key local community activities.
Rebecca Britton hosting the "Secrets of Scaling Up" Event, Alconbury
U&C Non-executives site visit to St Gabriel's Church of England Academy at Houlton
Hours invested by staff into non-obligatory initiatives
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Community activities
We aim to use our capabilities and investment to provide communities with new facilities and lasting improvements to what already exist.
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In 2017, we also published "The History of Rugby Radio Station" in partnership with Aviva, with all proceeds from book sales donated to Warwickshire and Northamptonshire Air Ambulance. From our early community engagement, we understood that the radio masts and the station's history were really important to local people, so we decided that the book would be a good way to ensure that the heritage lived on. Sales of the book have raised around £6,000 for Warwickshire Air Ambulance.
Over at Alconbury, we invested in our Green Skills initiative to provide skills and employment projects for long-term unemployed people with access to jobs on site and in the local area. The team created the allotments for new residents, and 100 per cent went on to employment with the local A14 Delivery Group. Our "Top Secret" initiative, which provides ongoing support for a project engaging young people in historical research, creative expression, promotion and event management, worked with two local schools, local heritage groups and the neighbouring US Air Force base, reaching around 1,000 people.
With the first residents soon to join us at Houlton and the school opening in 2018, we have been busy transforming the former radio station site at Rugby into a vibrant community with The Tuning Fork cafe, community barn and Visitor Centre already open. Maintaining our focus on community and local businesses we have also invested in Swynford Stores – a shop selling everyday essentials at Alconbury, and run by Adrian and Samantha Wardman, who run the community store in neighbouring Abbots Ripton. The store opened in July and will evolve with the community to provide the right goods at the most useful opening hours, and additional services such as a satellite post office.
In September, a year on from the first arrivals on site, Community Development Worker Steph Burton hosted Alconbury Weald's first residents forum. After a breakfast stroll along the new cycleway and an update on site development, residents discussed future community facilities and social events, and fed back on existing services. There was great enthusiasm for new landscaping and play areas, and a strong sense of pride and community in maintaining the quality of development delivered. Plans for the future include an Allotment Association and regular forums that could pave the way for a new Parish Council.
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With the school in place, The Tuning Fork, The Barn and the Visitor Centre, Houlton already has a community feel and is just the right place for young families such as ours.
Malcolm Hancock and Johanne Thomas with Warwickshire and Northamptonshire's Air Ambulance crew.
Our Green Skills team celebrating delivery of the allotments at Alconbury
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The Urban&Civic team is encouraged to contribute its time to charitable activities. In 2017 we saw more volunteering than ever and, as in previous years, cyclists led the charge. Colleagues on bikes raised money for a range of charities. David Wood and Oluwole Ogunleye completed The London to Brighton Challenge (on a tandem) for the British Heart Foundation. Joining them was Frances Chan, who rode solo.
Others ran to raise money. Phil Partridge completed the Berlin Marathon in September and raised around £1,000 for Prostate Cancer UK. A Catesby team of David Morris, Myron Osborne, Ed Barrett and Phil Partridge joined over 200 professionals from across the property and construction industry at the inaugural LandAid Midlands 10K in Longbridge, Birmingham, in September. LandAid seeks to end youth homelessness and the money raised will help support local charity St Basils to convert an empty property into a home for 18 young people at risk of homelessness.
Not everyone felt the need to get out of breath to help. Richard Hepworth remains a fundraiser and Trustee of St Teresa's Hospice in Darlington and was Chair of their Development Committee this year. Under his watch, the hospice recently completed a new ten bedroom in-patient unit. Heather Williams volunteered as a minute secretary to LandAid, covering the Board and Finance and Audit Committee. We support all our colleagues' charitable endeavours and we are immensely proud of their achievements.
David Wood and Oluwole Ogunleye approaching the finish line.


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Homeless or at Risk of Becoming Homeless
What to do if you think you might be homeless or at risk of becoming homeless
If you think you might be homeless or at risk of becoming homeless, you should make contact with the Housing Advice Team as soon as possible. You may wish to contact us via a support worker or agency of your choice such as CAB/Whabac (Worcester Housing & Benefit Advice Centre).
The Housing Advice Team provide a high quality, customer focused service to people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless to empower them to make informed choices about their housing options.
We believe that homelessness can be prevented in the majority, if not all, cases. There is a range of ways in which we can do this, and there are different housing options available to you in the City.
The most important thing is don't leave it too late!
The sooner you act, the better chances you have of keeping your home or getting the help and support that need for your situation.
Complete the Housing Assessment Form ONLY if you are homeless now or likely to become homeless in the near future e.g. if you have been served notice to leave by your current housing provider. On completion of the form a housing officer will contact you.
If you lack a local connection to Worcester City, the level of assistance we will be able to offer may be limited and as such you should approach your own local authority in the first instance. To check if your home address is in the Worcester City area please use the Local Authority Lookup.
It is also important to contact the service as early as possible during the day if you have nowhere to stay. If you cannot be seen in office hours and cannot wait until the next working day, please call the Out Of Hours number 01562 733178 for assistance
The Housing Options Officer will work with you to try and prevent your homelessness or get the help and support you need given your situation. For further information please read the Homeless or at Risk of Becoming Homeless Leaflet.
Please be aware that thousands of people apply as homeless and for housing every year, the demand for housing is more than the available supply and to help you a home which meets your needs it is really important that you work closely with us, provide information when requested and have patience whilst we make our assessment.
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This application asks the Council to consider what duties we owe to you and what powers the law makes available to us to assist in housing you.
In making our decision, we need to consider the following:
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We suggest that you seek free independent housing advice regarding this from agencies such as CAB/Whabac or Worcestershire Advice Network.
Worcestershire Advice Network website deliver advice and information services across the county. Their services are free, independent, impartial and confidential. Worcestershire Advice Network is a partnership between; Five Worcestershire Citizen Advice bureaux as well as South Worcestershire DIAL and North Worcestershire DIAL who provide information and advice to disabled people and others on all aspects of living with a disability.
- To access the advice or information you need: Click on the subject area you need help with and follow the link to Adviceguide for self help advice and information
- If you cannot find what you are looking for: Complete the online form. They will get back to you within three working days.
- You may like to discuss your problem. The let's talk connects you to one of their trained volunteers. They will offer information and options to help you resolve your issues.
This link will take you to pages on the Shelter website which will explain what all of these terms mean, and also explain exactly what you can expect if you make a homeless application to us or any other local authority.
If we consider that you are eligible, that you are homeless and you have a priority need we will offer you emergency temporary accommodation whilst your homeless application is investigated in further detail.
If following further investigations we accept a duty to house you permanently your Housing Officer will work with you to help you secure accommodation suitable for your needs, which may be a private rented tenancy, supported accommodation or a social housing tenancy.
If following further investigations we do not accept a duty to house you we still have a duty to provide you with advice and assistance to help you secure accommodation in the private sector and, in some circumstances, temporary accommodation for a short period of time.
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1. There are more fluids than anyone ever told you about, I'm serious. Blood, sweat, tears, breast milk, snot, fecal matter. There. I said it. Gross right?! Your welcome.
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5. Your relatives and friends are going to give you more unsolicited advice than you ever thought possible. Know they usually mean well. Hang on to only the tidbits you think you might find helpful and ignore the rest of it—what worked for them may not be for you.
6. Get help with meals. Accept any and all donations of food. Ask for help in this arena if you need it. People love to help parents of newborns, this is an awesome way for them to do so.
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8. Sleep. Yeah, yeah, you've heard it before. But this is a serious one with major consequences—which is why you've heard this line a hundred times. Sleep whenever you can, however you can. For months the only way my little guy would sleep was on me, so I threw him in the sling on my front and would fall asleep sitting upright on the couch with him. See? Anytime. Anywhere. Get creative and make it your second most important job to keeping your little alive. I mean it.
9. Your relationships may become strained. Ahem, your relationships will become strained. See #8 up there? Sleep deprivation and its affects are FOR REAL. While you may normally be a happy-go-lucky kind of gal, a lack of sleep can turn you into a real-life zombie with anger issues. Say sorry, a lot. Then try to get some sleep.
10. It WILL get better. Those early days are the dark ages. SO hard yet, truthfully, filled with so much love. Then the sleep deprivation sets in and it can get seriously rough. It.Gets.Better. Hang in there mama. Truthfully, I didn't understand why people even procreated until my son was over a year old, it was that hard.
11. Ok, so I know I said "10 Things" but this last one is a bonus and SO important. Find a tribe of new mamas that are IN IT and not afraid to talk about the trials and tribulations honestly. Reach out. Make play dates. Go to the new mama support group at the Wenatchee Public Library. Being home with your child can feel isolating, but you're not alone, there are so many people out there to share this journey with. Benefits: friendship, community, perspective. Drawbacks: none. Do it!
My son is a happy, healthy, almost two-year-old now and I feel beyond blessed—like I never thought I could love being a mama this much. No matter what this parenthood journey brings you, no matter how hard it gets, it WILL get better. Hang in there. You've got this mama.


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Today, he is also responsible for the customer service as Managing Director of the advertising agency and has always a direct link to the customers thus for 15 years. As a marketing consultant of KfW he knows exactly with the wishes of the advertisers. He advises companies such as DuPont, Marantz Europe, BASF, Guinness and the Lower Saxony ministries. Agency information: at the advertising agency the three!, the recently its 15th anniversary celebrated, take care in addition to Managing Director Volker wide k. twelve full-time staff and a well-organized pool of specialists and freelancers to the customers.
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Khaya Vista looked out over a sea of shacks, and that is why it was named Khaya Vista. Also, it was situated right there in the township of Khayalitsha. Like The Phalex in Alexandra, it was a 20-storey tower with eighteen luxury apartments, each with its own balcony garden and pool.
"You can actually see the cableway," said Frikkie. He was looking through the tripod-mounted telescope in the direction of Devil's Peak and the mountain. Then he switched his focus to the shanties and RDP hovels below, and began to examine township life in detail.
"Hey, I've just seen a guy taking a crap in a cardboard box!"
"Fascinating," said Plug from his floating lounger. "A shoe box?"
"Bigger than that. Christ, but this sun is hot!"
He turned aside, stepped into the water, and let his sweaty bulk sink.
"Yah, this is too much," said Plug, and he rolled off the lounger into instant relief.
They were drying themselves in the shade when a babe came out to check on their wellbeing.
"This is rum weather," said Plug. "Two Daiquiris, please. And don't forget to have your shirts off when the guests arrive."
The guests he was referring to were the Chinese billionaire and his entourage. They were expected to land their jet in the next hour, and then they would be brought directly to Khaya Vista.
"You don't think 50 is a bit steep?"
"Hell, no," said Plug. "We can drop to 45, but anything under that would be insulting, like implying he was a cheap skate, or didn't have the bucks to afford the classiest penthouse on the Cape Flats. Remember, this guy paid 20 million Euros for a castle in Germany, and for that replica of the Versailles in Florida he coughed up a cool $95 million. This is small change."
"Do you know anything else about him?" asked Frikkie. "I mean, what's he doing here, anyway?"
"It's a kind of bizarre story. He came to Africa for the first time about three months ago, partly on safari, but mainly looking for business opportunities. He liked the look of Cape Town, and when he was doing the tourist thing, he was taken up to Rhodes Memorial, and it blew his mind. They must have fed him a bit of a history lesson and now he is the number one fan of Cecil John Rhodes. He has this fantasy in his head, and he sees himself as a heroic entrepreneur about to colonize and exploit the whole of Africa on behalf of the Chinese Empire."
"Sounds a regular asshole," said Frikkie. "Maybe we should up the price to 60?"
Plug adjusted the climate on the patio and introduced the scent of lemon blossom to mask the stench of Khayalitsha, which was wafting up in the summer heat. Frikkie began playing with a touch pad, getting the cameras to zoom in and out of life down at ground zero and display it on the overhead screen. He found a group of men standing around half an oil drum raised off the ground on cement blocks.
"Can you go in closer?" asked Plug. "Shit, man, look at all that meat! They must have cleaned out somebody's freezer in Bishops Court. And look what that character is swigging like it's beer. That's Chivas Regal, for God's sake!"
"This is cool, hey?" said Frikkie. "This is what we must sell this Chinese punk. From here he can look north and dream of stealing Africa's riches, and at the same time he can look down and perv on uncut reality."
"Uncut reality? I like that," said Plug. "That's what we're giving him, and that is what he must pay for."
Seeing men busy with a braai had made Frikkie peckish, and he picked up the patio phone and asked for refills and some snacks.
It wasn't long before two black babes arrived, one with the drinks, the other bearing a platter of canapés and asparagus and dips. They were comely babes, wearing traditional bead necklaces and grass skirts, and that was about it. They gave the two men plenty of opportunity to fondle them with their eyes, and then they withdrew.
Frikkie went out into the sun again and stood at the balcony rail contemplating the tens of thousands of ramshackle structures stretching into the distance. When he returned to the cool shade of the patio he looked distracted, as if he was listening to something stealthily gnawing its way into his head.
"It's a pity," he said, sipping his cocktail. "You know, it's a real pity we can't sell all this stinking poverty to someone. I mean, there must be some way of packaging it. You know, like the way the bankers were able to package debt and sell it on to other bankers, who in turn repackaged it and sold it to yet more banker wankers. I mean, if you can sell something as crazy as debt, you should be able to sell poverty?"
Plug was still enjoying the pleasure of remembering the comeliness of the catering staff, and it took him a few moments to process Frikkie's words and register their content.
"Frikkie, my mate, are you suffering from sun stroke, or is this a stroke of genius? If the latter, then we are going to have to do some serious work on it. Debt has value because the creditor can charge the debtor interest. If the debtor doesn't pay, the creditor seizes the goods and sells them. Take a look down there and tell me what you can sell. A cardboard box with some shit in it?"
"No, man, you've got me wrong," said Frikkie. "I'm not talking about the non-existent assets of the poor. I'm talking about the needs of the poor. You know this carbon trading bullshit? The rich pay the leaders of poor countries to keep their citizens poor and not consume resources, so the rich can continue leading an unsustainable lifestyle. We need to come up with a crafty scheme like that."
The image Plug had been ogling was now totally erased and Frikkie waited patiently while his partner cranked up his cerebral machinery.
"Mmm. Definitely not sunstroke. How to turn the needs of the poor into a saleable commodity: that's the question, is it? Then we need to describe and quantify those needs. If we assume that poor people all over the world aspire to live like a middle class American, we must ask what it would cost to get a shack dweller up to speed. A decent house, a car, private education for the kids, private health care, and all that stuff. Let's say it would take a million dollars per household, multiplied by a billion households. That gives us a thousand trillion dollars to fix the problem."
"That's a shitload of money," said Frikkie. "Imagine the prosperity that would be generated if that amount was injected into the world economy. But where would it come from?"
"Take a pill and be happy," said Plug. "You just print the stuff, the way the US does to fund its growing deficit, and you leave succeeding generations to sort out the annoying repercussions. No sweat."
"Okay, that sounds cool," said Frikkie. "So the money is available; now we must work out the details. Let's say we want to build a hundred thousand nice, comfortable houses for all the Khayalitsha indigents down there. How would it work?"
"Well, let's see." Plug found his cigarette box and pen, and began to make some calculations. "It should be possible to put up a properly built, modestly proportioned, 3-bedroomed house, fully furnished and with all mod cons, for a million rand. Agreed? Right, now 100 thousand houses at a million apiece, gives you a hundred billion rand.
Not a bad project, hey? Imagine landing a R100 billion job."
"Yah, and imagine what a monumental fuckup it would be if it wasn't run properly. You would have to keep the government out of this as far as possible."
"That goes without saying," agreed Plug. "If we are talking about selling global poverty, this would have to be administered by an international organisation like the United Nations, and there would have to be proper planning and tendering procedures. And whoever is awarded the contract would be obliged to make use of local labour as far as possible."
"What if there are not enough skilled artisans to do the work?"
"That would just be another need up for sale," said Plug. "Training colleges would have to be set up all over the place. In fact, it would mean overhauling and extending the entire education system."
"The more I think about this, the more I like it," said Frikkie. "Just by turning poverty into a commodity, poor developing countries suddenly convert their liabilities into assets. Overnight, a sprawling squatter camp becomes a gold mine. Get caught shitting in a shoebox, and you will become the instant celebrity who launched a hundred thousand flush toilets."
"Frikkie, I'm beginning to think you might have come up with an idea so revolutionary it could change the course of human history. And its great strength lies in its universal appeal. Even the all-powerful one percent who are content with the status quo would get behind this project. It would not be long before they began to grasp the implications of unlocking such a vast amount of potential wealth."
The men at the braai had disappeared and Frikkie went in search of more uncut reality. He found two women bent over 20-litre paint drums overflowing with soapsuds.
"Look at this," he said. "This is a perfect example of how poverty traps people in a hand to mouth existence. These women will spend five hours doing their washing, carrying buckets of water, breaking their backs and ruining their hands, when a middle class housewife can get the same amount of work done by using her automatic washing machine and allotting just fifteen minutes to the task. Being poor makes one highly inefficient at even the most basic of daily chores."
"And it's almost impossible to free themselves," said Plug. "Billions of people all over the world are condemned to subsist like this, because our mental processes have evolved too slowly to cope with the explosion of scientific discoveries and technological applications. You could say, on a certain level, we are still too pernicious and odious a species to get our brains working for the common good."
"That's for sure," said Frikkie. "It's in our nature not to help anyone if we can't see how it would be to our advantage. You know, I once asked my father why he never gave a cent to beggars or vagrants. And you know what he said to me? He said he wouldn't piss on a bergie if he was on fire."
"That's a gem!" said Plug. "Your father was a true philosopher and a poet. "That aphorism perfectly sums up the selfish and mean-spirited attitude held by the one percent in their dealings with the rest of humanity. It's just such a misanthropic outlook that keeps the masses stuck in poverty, unable to extricate themselves, short of a little help from the rich. The only way out is to persuade the wealthy elite that they can make a lot more money by moving people out of poverty than by leaving them where they are. That is why this idea of yours is so brilliant."
"Yes," said Frikkie, trying not to sound self-important. "It didn't come to me in a flash, like some ideas do. No, it kind of crept up on me, and when I turned around there it was. But listen, it's one thing to have some inspiration, and another thing to turn it into bucks. How are we going to make sure we are rewarded for developing such a powerful concept?"
"We will have to be careful. As with many other milestones in human development, it could be said that this is just common sense, and all we are doing is pointing out the obvious, and the commodification of poverty was about to happen anyway, and had nothing to do with Frikkie Welgemoed and Plug Davis. Bastards! It takes a Copernicus, or a Darwin, or an Einstein to point out the obvious. I think we are going to have to set up … Ah, the Chinks must be on their way."
A topless babe had appeared and was shaking her knockers at them to get their attention.
Frikkie got the entrance foyer onto the screen in time to see the arrival of their client and his buddies. The tycoon was tall and well built, and looked more like a Japanese rugby player than a Chinese businessman. He wore a pith helmet and a safari suit, and was animated and cracking jokes, and clearly having a good time.
"Looks alright," said Frikkie. "Kind of reminds me of Jackie Chan."
"This is our man," said Plug. "Sixty million it is. Let's go and greet him as the elevator doors open, and welcome him to his new home in Africa."


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Interviewed by Jayne Ormerod
1. Okay, inquiring minds want to know…why a writer? Certainly not for the fame and fortune…or maybe it is?
Heh heh! Well, I'm still hoping for fame and fortune … but mostly, I just love words, and I love using them to make characters exist. And in the romance genre, there's the pleasure of making their dreams come true.
2. When did you first put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard) to create your classic and cozy characters?
In fourth grade, I was writing my own "script" for the old gothic soap opera, Dark Shadows. I had people screaming and fainting and falling in love on every page. Wish I could see it now!
3. Do you have a set writing schedule?
I still have a part-time job and a family, so it's A) when I can and B) when I can motivate myself. My self-discipline is … inconsistent.
4. Is there a certain routine, food/drink, or location that summons forth the muses for you?
Starbucks is my "office" away from home. It doesn't have the distractions of home, and although I know I could go online there, I pretend I can't, so I don't. (I'm considering claiming my iced tea receipts on my next tax return. But I know better than to claim Starbucks as a dependent.)
5. What do you do when not writing?
Watch movies with my husband and son. Drink tea and listen to music with my daughter. Pet and scold our two dogs. And read as much as I can!
6. I imagine you've been reading all of your life (all great writers have.) What was your favorite book as a child?
Just one? I read Heidi repeatedly, as well as a little-known sequel, Heidi's Children. Later on, there were the gothic romances based on that soap I mentioned before, Dark Shadows. And there was another gothic author, Virginia Coffman, who I totally fell in love with. She wrote engaging stories with a nice smattering of humor – she may have introduced me to the idea of a writer having a "voice."
7. Do you re-read books? If so, which one have you re-read the most?
Not much these days, because I don't have time to read as many books as I'd like to the first time! But as a teen, I read Virginia Coffman's "Lucifer Cove" series repeatedly. It involved an exclusive resort just outside of San Francisco, run by this unassuming-but-handsome man who was … uh … the devil. I did have a bent for dark-ish fantasy, didn't I?
8. But there is more to life than reading, writing (and arithmetic)…what is your most memorable adventure in your life?
<<I think this is the point where Barbara Walters would ask you if you were a tree, what kind would you be, but I'll skip that and throw a softball…>>
My 21-year (and counting) marriage to my husband.
9. If you were on American Idol, what song would you sing to WOW! the judges?
Nothing showy. Either a '70s ballad like Elton John's "Your Song" … or if I got brave, maybe a Frank Sinatra-type standard – but done very simply!
10. Last question…movie rights…who will play your two main characters when Hollywood comes knocking on your door?
My hero is Fred, Scrooge's nephew from "A Christmas Carol," brought to life, so Hugh Jackman would be great! My heroine? I'm thinking Jenna Fischer from "The Office."
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Please help us set up for the 2017 Mesquite Festival of Lights!
We'll meet at 4 p.m., Nov. 13, in the tent at the CasaBlanca Resort to arrange our display. Volunteers must be able to lift and carry items.
Please RSVP below if you can help!
- November 13, 2017 at 4pm – 7pm
CasaBlanca Resort
950 W Mesquite Blvd
Mesquite, NV 89027
United States
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Many years hubby and I talk about wanting to see ALL THE MOVIES up for the Oscars BEFORE the actual award show. It never happens. Sometimes we may see one or two but never ALL. Sometimes its not our fault because the movies come and go and we can't always find them any more to see even IF we wanted to.
This year just may be our year!! (Or at least my year..ha!)
Two weeks ago I went to Les Miserables with a friend. I don't think hubby had much desire to see that one b/c of the fact that it is a musical and there is about 99.9% singing. I liked it. I loved Hugh Jackman and his character but I didn't care for Russell Crowe's singing and "emotions" during his parts. (I would be a great review critic huh? ) Good movie...overall winner?? Ehh?
TOTALLY forgot....(Sorry Nicole)....My 15 yr. old daughter reminded me that we both read the book "Silver Lining Playbook" then we went to see the movie last weekend! Wow! I have been to the movies more in the past couple of weeks than in the last year or two put together! BOOK was AMAZING...super fast read and good, good good...Movie starred Jennifer Lawerence and Bradley Cooper...both were good in their roles but, in general the BOOK out shined the movie by A LOT...as books usually do. So movie would be about a B-.
Last night we saw:
Zero Dark Thirty is not going to be for everyone. It paints a grim and often disorienting picture, and while you may root for the characters you won't become attached to them – there just isn't enough of of them on screen. Even the main character of Maya is distant and hard to relate to, but that's the point. The world of Zero Dark Thirty is real – or at least a fictionalized look at a very real world.
The movie takes place over several years and features quick glimpses of events and relationships that are never given time to bloom on camera. There is a definite end goal that the movie is hurtling towards, which means characters are introduced and forgotten once their job is completed. That puts the film back on Maya, who as a character has no friends or life beyond her work. There are moments when it is hard to connect with anyone in the film, which makes Zero Dark Thirty a bit more like a documentary than a movie. It is a fascinating, albeit somewhat cold and aloof film.
Source: Read more: http://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/zero-dark-thirty-review-a-choose-your-own-morality-adventure/#ixzz2HlIYh7WD
My review: Some will love it (like we did) and some will dislike many parts of it. There are a few torture scenes that are kind of hard to digest...nothing major don't worry...but, still it makes your stomach twirl. It was intense. Thought provoking. My heart was pumping and my hands were sweating during most of it. The theater was silent ....I think every one was really "taking it all in"....I know I came away thinking amazing thoughts about our country.
My problems at my job? My stressors of life? People getting excited over the latest greatest toy? What is that all about? These people...the CIA, the SEALS, the Undercover Agents who risk their lives DAILY and for YEARS to make our life better~safer~THEY ARE THE ONES WHO should be thanked DAILY. GIVEN RAISES. APPRECIATED. I know this movie depicts only a small part of what is really happening and some of it didn't even happen probably. But I also know a lot more probably happened then we will ever be made aware of. And how ever, they did it....they found and killed Bin Laden...a terrorist.
If you are on the fence about seeing this movie I would jump off that fence and go see it immediately! I don't think you will be disappointed.
Today's MOVIE: LINCOLN!
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WTF?!?! … 01 October 2011
Mainstream Media reaches new low; "Gold backed by nothing – US Dollar backed by the government" [VIDEO] … WTF?!?!
Tony Blair considered 'persona no grata' – described as being Israeli Diplomat, rendering his role as impartial mediator untenable … WTF?!?! [what took them so f***ing long??]
Broken Nation: UK is the worst place to live in Europe for quality of life, behind PIIGS economies such as Spain, Ireland and Italy … WTF?!?!
Prophets Of Doom: 12 Shocking Quotes From Insiders About The Horrific Economic Crisis That Is Almost Here … WTF?!?!
Common food preservative promotes cancer cells and destroys healthy ones … WTF?!?!
HMRC drops Bank of England for RBS … WTF?!?!
£50,000 price tag for 'face time' with Prime Minister: 70
people City figures and industrialists ass kissers parasites willing to pay … WTF?!?!
Mayor Bloomberg gives his verdict on what is wrong with America: You … WTF?!?!
Lifestyle 'is better in Poland than Britain': Less crime and violence – and it's cheaper too … WTF?!?!
The Conservative Party has become reliant on the financial sector for more than half its annual income … WTF?!?!
George Osborne the Angel of Austerity Measures … the Bullingdon and the night Rothschild was revived by his butler … WTF?!?!
Britain is still overwhelmingly white, Christian and robustly heterosexual, despite what the
Ministry of Propaganda BBC wants us to believe … WTF?!?!
Supermarket giant Tesco sues Police for £3m following riots, using Victorian legislation: Police warn they can not afford it … WTF?!?!
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