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Late night streaming on Vudu: The Humbling is an adroit adaptation of Philip Roth's novella. Co-scripted by Buck Henry, who adapted The Graduate and Catch-22 for Mike Nichols. Al Pacino as a morose suicidal actor. Greta Gerwig is his bisexual love interest. Zaniness ensues. Comparisons to Birdman are not misplaced: The Humbling employs fantasy sequences (in a departure from Roth's novella) that dramatize Pacino's scrambled state of mind, including a Birdman-like dream of Pacino locked out of a theater mid-performance. The movie substitutes a more ambiguous ending than the novella's brutal finish, but it's well worth a look. Directed by Barry Levinson of Rain Man and Wag the Dog.
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The HumblingPublished January 27, 2015 Cinema , Current Cinema , Literature Leave a Comment
Tags: Al Pacino, Barry Levninson, Birdman, Buck Henry, Catch-22, Greta Gerwig, Philip Roth, Rain Man, The Graduate, The Humbling, Wag the Dog
Ashes and DiamondsPublished August 3, 2014 Cinema , Literature , Novel , Politics Leave a Comment
Tags: Alpha the Moralist, Andrzej Wajda, Ashes and Diamonds, Communist Poland, Criterion DVD, Czeslaw Milosz, Heinrich Böll, Holy Week, Jerzy Andrzejewski, Northwestern University Press, Orson Welles, Oscar Swan, Penguin paperback, Stefan Szczuka, The Captive Mind, Writers from the Other Europe, Zbigniew Cybulski
The 1948 Polish novel Ashes and Diamonds by Jerzy Andrzejewski (1909-1983) is probably less appreciated today as a literary work in its own right than as the basis for Andrzej Wajda's 1958 film adaptation. The wildly entertaining movie, designated an "Essential Art House" choice in Criterion's DVD catalog, owes more to Orson Welles's baroque cinematic influence than Andrzejewski's blend of socialist realism and tragic irony. Both novel and film are compact (239 pgs./103 mins.), while at the same time reflecting a panoramic near-epic cross-section of Poland's clashing societal and political factions at the close of the Second World War. Neither the novel nor the film have escaped criticism over the years, although for different reasons.
Poet Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004), who defected from Communist Poland in 1951, wrote a scathing smackdown of his former friend Jerzy Andrzejewski in The Captive Mind (1953), the Nobel Prize-winning poet's classic study of writers and intellectuals "adapting" themselves to totalitarian regimes. Milosz—who refers to Andrzejewski pseudonymously as "Alpha, the Moralist"—is especially tough on what he sees as pulled-punches in Ashes and Diamonds (discussed at length in The Captive Mind without mentioning the novel's title). According to Milosz, the novelist was nicknamed "the respectable prostitute" by fellow-writers who saw Andrzejewski as a Stalinist suck-up.
Film director Andrzej Wajda, in a fascinating interview included on the Ashes and Diamonds Criterion DVD, talks candidly of having initially refused to read the novel because of its state-sanctioned popularity in the 1950s. In the notes to a 2007 translation of Andrzejewski's earlier novel, Holy Week, commentator Oscar Swan writes: "The year 1954 found Andrzejewski politically sanitizing a new edition of Ashes and Diamonds, which had become required reading in the schools."
German writer Heinrich Böll (1917-1985), like Milosz a recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, is altogether kinder to Ashes and Diamonds in his introduction written for the 1980 Penguin "Writers from the Other Europe" paperback edition of the novel, and reprinted in the 1997 Northwestern University Press edition. Almost as an aside, Böll notes that "the reader feels" that Andrzejewski "has a sense of kinship" with the novel's "young Socialist and Communist functionaries."
While both the Penguin and NUP editions of Ashes and Diamonds use D. J. Walsh's 1962 British translation (with its battle-hardened Polish adults and nihilistic teenagers alike saying "cheerio" and "bloke" and "rotter" to one another), only the NUP edition includes five pages of previously deleted text. No explanation is given as to whether this was perhaps material removed by censors or, more likely, added in later to placate censors (possibly for the 1954 "sanitized" edition). A long speech by Stefan Szczuka, the sympathetically portrayed Communist Party official marked for assassination by the Polish underground, goes on and on for a mind-numbing two full pages of Soviet-era boilerplate:
For only those truly die who believe in isolation or who serve false truths which are illusory and incompatible with the one great truth of our time. Future generations will only despise them and will blame them or condemn them to oblivion. Those people, however, who have understood the forces of history and who have been in solidarity with their comrades, will discover in the future the praise of soldiers fighting for humanity, for one's own fatherland and for mankind, for the world order.
Wajda sharpened the book's edges by infusing the film with the Catholic iconography of Polish nationalism and by emphasizing the charged performance of Zbigniew Cybulski as the Home Army resistance fighter tasked with assassinating Szczuka. The combined effect was a cleverly coded rebuke to the postwar Soviet control of the country. Although the movie's striking visual metaphors have sometimes been criticized as heavy-handed, the stylistic strategy clearly succeeded in Wajda's intended aim of circumventing Communist Party censorship.
Rosebud 56Published January 15, 2014 Cinema , Literature , Poetry , Short Story , Writing 4 Comments
Tags: Daniel Fuchs, Doug Moe, Jack Lehman, John Tuschen, José Ángel Valente, Madame Sul-Te-Wan, Norbert Blei, Orson Welles, P.S. Mueller, Patricia LeBon Herb, Rick Geary, Robert Zoschke, Rod Clark, Rosebud Magazine, Thomas Christensen, Thomas Fuchs
Rosebud 56 (Winter 2013/14) has arrived and it's as strong an issue as editor Rod Clark has given us in twenty years of Rosebud goodness: From the vibrant nature-fueled Americana of featured Vermont artist Patricia LeBon Herb, to a selection of poetry from postwar Spanish writer José Ángel Valente newly translated by Thomas Christensen. Another must-read highlight is Rod's Voice Over column, "Recuerdos: Guatamala 1976," a harrowing first-person recounting of a notorious Latin American earthquake.
Film lovers will find a treasure trove in issue 56: "Shadows on a Screen," a knowing coming-of-age short story by Thomas Fuchs, son of Hollywood screenwriter Daniel Fuchs (Criss Cross [1949]); Victor A. Walsh's fascinating essay on Nellie Crawford (a.k.a. Madame Sul-Te-Wan), "Breaking the Color Barrier: Hollywood's first African-American actress"; and Jack Lehman's haunting "fictional autobiography," "Orson Welles in Wisconsin."
Also included are a pair of warm reminiscences of two iconic Wisconsin authors: Robert Zoschke's "Norbert Blei (1935-2013): A writer with a capital 'W,'" and Wisconsin State Journal columnist Doug Moe's classic piece on Madison poet John Tuschen (1949-2005), "Poet is a Stranger in His Own Land."
Believe me, I'm only scratching the surface of this issue (cf., P.S. Mueller's illustrated exploration of Baby Boomer obsolescence, "Fader"; Rick Geary's cheerfully sinister Afterwords comic, "My Home Town"). And, sure, let's not forget to mention my short story, "Ty-D-Bol Blue," which I'm delighted to see in print after first appearing online in last summer's Cambridge Book Review.
Nightmare AlleyPublished October 23, 2013 Cinema , Film Noir , Kindle , Literature , Novel Leave a Comment
Tags: Coleen Gray, Edmund Goulding, Film Noir, Helen Walker, Ian Keith, James Avati, James Ellroy, Joan Blondell, Jules Furthman, Lee Garmes, Nick Tosches, Nightmare Alley, Tyrone Power, William Lindsay Gresham
Copyright litigation kept Nightmare Alley (1947) out of circulation and generally unavailable for home viewing until a much-heralded DVD release in 2005. Since then, its reputation has grown from cult favorite to film noir classic. Running nearly two hours with a generous budget and A-list cast, Nightmare Alley is an anomaly for its genre (defined by crime novelist James Ellroy, in his introduction to The Best American Noir of the Century, as "cheap novels and cheap films about cheap people"). Swashbuckling matinee idol Tyrone Power leveraged his stardom to lobby for the starring role as carny con artist Stanton Carlisle, whose sole redemptive quality is his genuine bafflement—"I wonder why I'm like that?"—as to why he's compelled again and again to act on his most ruthless instincts. The sexual heat generated between Tyrone Power and the film's three supporting actresses is combustible and gives Nightmare Alley its strongest jolt of noir cred: ripe-to-bursting Joan Blondell as sideshow mentalist Zeena; Coleen Gray as Molly, a.k.a. Electra, scandalous to county sheriffs because of the tin-foil two-piece she wears in her sparks-a-flying electric-chair act; and, higher up the social ladder where Stanton longs to dwell, the movie's femme fatale, Lilith (Helen Walker), a crooked psychotherapist to the wealthy.
Even with a prestige director in Edmund Goulding, and lurid expressionistic lighting by cinematographer Lee Garmes, Nightmare Alley was not a success. Tyrone Power subsequently returned to more conventional roles, which is a shame, because he's clearly enjoying himself here, especially in the opening carnival scenes, all working-class T-shirt and chewing-gum and an oil-drum's worth of pomade slicking his hair. In his early thirties at the time, Power initially seems beyond the ideal age for the role of Stan Carlisle, who is a youthful twenty-one in the first half of William Lindsay Gresham's 1946 novel. The actor's full-on commitment to the role, however, sells the characterization as handily as Stan's doggedly mastered sleight-of-hand scarf and coin tricks. Power doesn't evince a comparable set of skills in later scenes that are actually keyed closer to the actor's age. Stan's descent into alcoholism feels abrupt and unconvincing, in spite of our having been tipped off and conditioned to expect it. We're meant to see parallels both to the drunken carny shill Pete Krumbein (played with aching pathos by veteran stage and silent film actor Ian Keith), whose death Stan inadvertently brings about earlier in the film, and the specter of the sideshow geek that so forcefully haunts the novel and the movie.
The geek is a severely alcoholic freak-show performer who earns his daily allotment of booze by savagely biting off the heads of live chickens for the amusement of wide-eyed rubes. Nightmare Alley never for a moment lets us forget the addiction-addled beast that presumably resides within each of us. The geek's frenzied delirium tremens screams echo subliminally on the soundtrack as if erupting from Stan's unconscious during several doom-laden moments throughout the movie. Alcohol unleashes monsters in Nightmare Alley. No amount of psychological insight is adequate to quelling or even comprehending our primal depravity. Psychotherapy, like telepathy and spiritualism, is exposed here as just another con game for exploiting human weakness.
William Lindsay Gresham's novel doesn't waste its breath suggesting that alcoholic Pete Krumbein might have benefited from taking "the cure," a plot point added to the movie by ace screenwriter Jules Furthman in all likelihood to soften the story's cynicism. For every pulled punch in the script adaptation of Gresham's still shockingly grim novel (Nick Tosches, in his 2010 intro to the reissued book, goes as far as to suggest that Gresham may have been binge drinking while writing it), there is often a compensating layer of irony or ambiguity. At the film's finish, where viewers usually note a more hopeful outcome than in the novel, our worst expectations are momentarily overturned by a glimmer of rescue—or is it enabling?—in the downward spiral of Stan's now nightmarish life. In our guts we all know what's in store for Stanton Carlisle. His fate was sealed the moment he first set eyes on the geek.
The Last TycoonPublished June 5, 2013 Cinema , Literature , Memoir , Novel 2 Comments
Tags: Baz Luhrmann, David Foster Wallace, Edmund Wilson, Elia Kazan, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Francis Kroll Ring, Harold Pinter, Jack Nicholson, Last Call, Matthew J. Bruccoli, Monroe Stahr, Robert De Niro, Salvador Dali, Sam Spiegel, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Crack-Up, The Great Gatsby, The Last Tycoon, The Love of the Last Tycoon: A Western, The Pale King, Trimalchio: An Early Version of the Great Gatsby, Un Chien Andalou
Inspired on several fronts (seeing Baz Luhrmann's film adaptation of The Great Gatsby; rewatching the 1974 Gatsby; revisiting Elia Kazan's 1976 film of The Last Tycoon), I just finished reading again after many years F. Scott Fitzgerald's posthumous The Last Tycoon, edited by Edmund Wilson and published in 1941. The Last Tycoon is the title by which I still prefer to think of the novel. There's an updated 1993 reconstruction by Fitzgerald scholar Matthew J. Bruccoli which uses what Bruccoli believed was Fitzgerald's choice for the novel's title, The Love of the Last Tycoon: A Western. Fitzgerald originally floated some curious titles for The Great Gatsby, too. How does Trimalchio grab you? By whatever title, The Last Tycoon is a great novel, even in its incomplete form. (A worthy contemporary comparison: David Foster Wallace's unfinished but much-admired novel The Pale King, edited by Michael Pietsch and published in 2011.)
Thirty-five-year-old Hollywood producer Monroe Stahr's obsession with an Englishwoman's resemblance to his late actress wife might at first seem superficially similar to Gatsby. Fitzgerald in his letters and notes about The Last Tycoon, many of which were famously appended to Wilson's reconstructed text, writes:
If one book could ever be "like" another, I should say it is more "like" The Great Gatsby than any other of my books. But I hope it will be entirely different—I hope it will be something new, arouse new emotions, perhaps even a new way of looking at certain phenomena.
Stahr's self-awareness evolves over the course of the narrative and differs significantly from Gatsby's static and deluded nostalgia. This perhaps reflects Fitzgerald's own battle with despair and loss in the years following Gatsby's publication. (See Edmund Wilson's posthumously edited collection of Fitzgerald's autobiographical essays, The Crack-Up.) The Great Depression coincided with Fitzgerald's falling fortunes: money woes, ill-health, his wife Zelda's confinement to a mental hospital, and his career slide into near-obscurity. After living extravagantly as one of the country's highest paid and most famous writers of the 1920s, he was an out-of-print and largely neglected author by the time he was writing his final novel. The romantic obsession at the core of The Last Tycoon is less about nostalgia than Stahr's struggle to micromanage a psychological corner of his life while everything else seems to be spiraling beyond his control. As the novel progresses, it becomes clear that the Hollywood that Stahr once dominated as an autocratic whiz-kid producer is becoming decentralized. "At that time the studios feared mob rule," runs one passage. Stahr's preparation for a meeting with a communist union organizer has a political edge that signaled the author's broadening skills as a satirist and social observer:
Afterwards Stahr told me that he prepared for the meeting by running off the Russian Revolutionary films that he had in his film library at home. He also ran off Doctor Caligari and Salvador Dali's Le Chien Andalou, possibly suspecting that they had a bearing on the matter. He had been startled by the Russian films back in the twenties, and on Wylie White's suggestion he had the script department get him up a two-page "treatment" of the Communist Manifesto.
Monroe Stahr is wonderfully alive in his sometimes cruel complexity (heightened by the novel's occasionally spiteful narrator, a rival producer's daughter secretly in love with Stahr). His confidence is shaken and something new and untested is awakened in him. "I want to show that Stahr left certain harm behind him just as he left good behind him," Fitzgerald writes in another of the supplemental notes. Stahr isn't adverse to change, but he wants change on his own terms, unshackled from the studio's cash-driven bottom line. "For two years we've played it safe," Stahr says at one point to a gathering of suspicious studio heads and money men. "It's time we made a picture that'll lose some money." No dewy-eyed idealist, he adds: "Write it off as good will—this'll bring in new customers."
The Last Tycoon was also a reawakening of Fitzgerald's preternatural talent for writing about romantic infatuation in a manner that manages to embrace clichés while at the same time reinvigorating them:
"I don't want to lose you now," he said. "I don't know what you think of me or whether you think of me at all. As you've probably guessed, my heart's in the grave—" He hesitated, wondering if this was quite true. "—but you're the most attractive woman I've met since I don't know when. I can't stop looking at you. I don't know now exactly the color of your eyes, but they make me sorry for everyone in the world—"
Elia Kazan's 1976 film of The Last Tycoon never quite catches fire, but it's a fascinating attempt nonetheless, in its Harold Pinter script (remarkably faithful to the more polished sections of the novel), and many of the performances, especially Robert De Niro's elusive and darkly internalized portrayal of Monroe Stahr. A notorious flop when released, the movie ended Elia Kazan's directing career. Kazan devotes seventeen painful pages to the making of the film in his 1988 autobiography, A Life. He was dealing with his mother's failing health and, finally, her death, during production. Moreover, there were clashes with producer Sam Spiegel. The film deserves reevaluation. It's never revived or talked about anymore. There's a strong and richly amusing climactic scene with Jack Nicholson as Brimmer, the novel's communist union organizer, playing a spirited match of Ping-Pong with De Niro's Stahr. It's taken nearly verbatim from the novel and it's a highlight of the movie. Kazan's film would make for a great double feature with Last Call, a surprisingly eloquent 2002 Showtime movie based on Francis Kroll Ring's memoir about working for Fitzgerald during his final days in Hollywood writing The Last Tycoon.
Cat People(s): 2 AnniversariesPublished October 28, 2012 Cinema , Film Noir , Music 2 Comments
Tags: Alfred Hitchcock, Annette O'Toole, Bret Easton Ellis, Cat People (1942), Cat People (1982), Citizen Kane, David Bowie, DeWitt Bodeen, Ed Begley Jr., Edmund G. Bansak, Fearing the Dark: The Val Lewton Career, Giorgio Moroder, Jacques Tourneur, John Heard, Lindsay Lohan, Lon Chaney Jr., Malcolm McDowell, Martin Scorsese, Nastassja Kinski, Orson Welles, Paul Schrader, Pauline Kael, Peter Biskind, Raging Bull (1980), RKO, Ruby Dee, Simone Simon, Taxi Driver (1976), The Bagheeta, The Birds, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Wolf Man (1940), Tippi Hedren, Val Lewton, Weird Tales
By Bob Wake
I. Cat People (1942)
The original Cat People (1942), directed by Jacques Tourneur, is both an acknowledged classic of suggestive horror and one of the most famous Hollywood B-movies of all time. First in a series of low-budget RKO fright films produced by Val Lewton, Cat People became a surprise hit that saved the studio from near-bankruptcy following the failure of two iconic films that in their day were costly flops—Citizen Kane (1941) and The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)—directed by the mercurial boy-genius, Orson Welles. Lewton, while unpretentious by Wellesian standards, was no less hungry to make movies.
Cannily, Lewton found a creative path within the system by working fast and cheap. (And finding an economical use for abandoned sets like the ornate staircase from The Magnificent Ambersons that shows up in Cat People.) He'd been a deadline-driven journalist and pulp novelist. And before being offered his own production unit at RKO studios, Lewton worked his way up at MGM as an ambitious story editor and researcher. Cat People's disquieting atmosphere of Old World otherness combined with New World dislocation can be traced in part to the European backgrounds of Lewton, born in 1904 in what is now Ukraine, and Tourneur, born the same year in France. The film evokes a haunted American melting pot of primitive mythologies and new-fangled superstitions (i.e., psychoanalysis) ill-equipped for securing one's safety or survival in a modern impersonal cityscape. It should come as no surprise that after working with Val Lewton, director Jacques Tourneur (along with Cat People cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca) went on to make the influential film noir, Out of the Past (1947), which helped define the genre as doom-laden and populated with psychologically crippled outsiders and social misfits.
Cat People's Irena Dubrovna (played by French actress Simone Simon) is an aspiring fashion designer of Serbian heritage living in New York City. Introspective and melancholic, she believes herself descended from a devil-worshipping were-leopard who survived an Eastern European witch-hunting pogrom in the 16th century. Irena finds herself drawn to the caged leopard in the Central Park Zoo. Her impromptu marriage to a marine engineer (Kent Smith) remains unconsummated because Irena fears that her own unleashed passion will destroy her husband just like, it's implied, her mother may have killed Irena's father in a sexual frenzy when Irena was conceived.
Val Lewton wrote a short story, "The Bagheeta," published some 12 years earlier in Weird Tales magazine, about medieval villagers hunting a black leopard believed to be a were-beast capable of transforming itself into a beautiful woman of taunting, deadly sensuality. Which is to say, a kind of origin myth for Cat People's folkloric equating of arousal with bestiality and bloodlust. The screenplay is credited to DeWitt Bodeen, although Lewton contributed heavily to its thematic construction and rewriting. Biographer Edmund G. Bansak, in his book Fearing the Dark: The Val Lewton Career, points to passages in "The Bagheeta," such as the following, that clearly presage Cat People's distinctive conjuring of fear and eroticized anxiety through the unseen:
Again he rode through the wood. Again he peered right and left for some sign of the beast, fearful always of seeing golden eyes glow at him from the pitch blackness of the night. Every rustle of the wind, every mouse that scampered on its way, flooded his heart with fear, and filled his eyes with the lithe, black bulk of the Bagheeta, stalking toward him on noiseless paws. With all his heart he wished that the beast would materialize, stand before him, allow him opportunities to slash and thrust and ward. Anything, even deep wounds, would be better than this dreadful uncertainty, this darkness haunted by the dark form of the were-beast.
Simone Simon's complex portrayal of shapeshifter Irena Dubrovna is sympathetic in a manner not unlike that of Lon Chaney, Jr.'s bewildered lycanthropist Larry Talbot in The Wolf Man (1940), which had been a recent entry in the long line of lavish Universal studio horror hits that RKO wanted Val Lewton to replicate at a fraction of the cost. No time-consuming elaborate monster make-up for Simone Simon. Instead, characters are stalked by … something. Branches rustle. Shadows loom. Sinister growls echo from the locker room of an indoor swimming pool. Paw prints in the park appear to segue into high-heel shoe indentations.
Concerns that Lewton may have gone too far in substituting shadows and sound effects for in-your-face literal scares caused studio bosses to insist that a leopard be shown during the climactic mauling death of the psychotherapist (Tom Conway) who sexually assaults Irena in his office. Nevertheless, the film's most frightening jump-in-your-seat moment—still effective 70 years later—is the oft-copied sudden lurching into the film frame of a city bus with its air-brakes hissing.
II. Cat People (1982)
The cult status of Paul Schrader's 1982 remake of Cat People rests largely on a couple of tangential aspects of the production. First, the David Bowie/Giorgio Moroder theme song, "Cat People (Putting Out Fire)," endures as a great Bowie track and gained further pop culture permanence with Quentin Tarantino's wildly effective use of the song in a climactic sequence of Inglourious Basterds (2009).
Second, director Paul Schrader's cocaine-fueled obsession with the film's star, Nastassja Kinski, as recounted in Peter Biskind's guilty-pleasure history of 1970s Hollywood, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood, rivals the stories of Alfred Hitchcock's creepy abuse of Tippi Hedren on the set of The Birds (1963). Schrader shot more nudity of Kinski than the actress was comfortable with. He then spitefully added much of it to the film in retaliation for Kinski quitting their turbulant relationship during production. After finishing the movie, she fled to Paris with Schrader in pursuit. Kinski reportedly told him: "Paul, I always fuck my directors. And with you it was difficult."
The 1982 Cat People relocates the story to contemporary New Orleans, where Kinski's character Irena Gallier arrives at the film's opening to be reunited with her brother—a shapeshifting minister played with menacing brio by Malcolm McDowell—whom she hasn't seen since childhood. Unfortunately, before we meet Kinski and McDowell, we're treated to a turgid 6-minute prologue of cat people "mythology." The film never really finds an effective juxtapositional tone between its gruesome modern-day tale of sexual violence and the primal symbolism of the prologue (and a later scene set in the same blood-red dreamscape). A not dissimilar film from the same era, Ken Russell's Altered States (1980), found a way to integrate this kind of Jung-on-acid material so that the border between waking reality and the unconscious seemed radically porous.
There are compensatory pleasures to be found in Schrader's Cat People, to be sure, beginning with its high-toned production design and sensational cast. In addition to Kinski and McDowell, there's John Heard's shy zoologist whose obsession with Irena brings out his inner fetishist; Annette O'Toole as Heard's spurned love interest; Ruby Dee as McDowell's Creole housekeeper; and Ed Begley, Jr. as the affable zoo-employee sidekick whose arm is graphically torn off in a memorable blood-spurting shock moment.
Paul Schrader's films have suffered somewhat unfairly in their critical reception over the years because his reputation as the brilliant screenwriter of two classic Martin Scorsese films—Taxi Driver (1976) and Raging Bull (1980)—has raised unfulfilled and probably unreasonable expectations for his own directorial efforts. Cat People was not a box office success. This resulted in Schrader being pushed out of studio-financed work and toward the rocky shoals of independent filmmaking. (He has grabbed a lot of attention and raised some eyebrows for his latest project, The Canyons, a Kickstarter-funded mock-exploitation film due out next year, with a script by Bret Easton Ellis and starring Lindsay Lohan and porn star James Deen.)
Further complicating any clear-eyed appraisals of Schrader's work is his vaunted renown as a trenchant film critic in his own right, in particular as the author of Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer, a remarkable examination of the "Holy" in the filmmaking styles of the three European directors addressed in the book title. The study grew out of a thesis written at UCLA Film School, where Schrader received an MA after studying theology at Calvin College. He'd fallen under the spell and personal mentorship of famed New Yorker critic Pauline Kael. Because Schrader's intellectual background precedes him, film scholars have sometimes been misled in their desire to find deeper layers of philosophical intent to his movies. (To which one wishes to add: Good luck deconstructing The Canyons.)
Summer of the CinetherapistPublished August 28, 2012 CBR Press , Cinema , Film Noir , Kindle , Literature Leave a Comment
Tags: Bob Wake, CBR Press, Rosebud Magazine, Summer of the Cinetherapist, Wisconsin People & Ideas
My story "Summer of the Cinetherapist" was a runner-up in the 2011 Wisconsin People & Ideas short story contest and subsequently appeared in Rosebud Magazine (Autumn 2011). Now it's a CBR Press ebook single. And for a limited time it's a free download from Amazon. (Otherwise, 99 cents.) I've outfitted the text with a handful of public domain film stills courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Curious fact: While films and publicity photos typically fall under copyright law, pre-1964 movie trailers often don't, nor do trailer screenshots. Wikimedia, to my surprise and delight, has public domain trailer screenshots from movies that are integral to "Summer of the Cinetherapist," such as The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Mildred Pierce, and Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye. Voilà: an illustrated edition of "Summer of the Cinetherapist." Enjoy!
Rosebud 51Published October 27, 2011 CBR Press , Cinema , Kindle , Literature , Poetry , Short Story Leave a Comment
Tags: Cambridge Book Review Press, Geri Schrab, John Lehman, Kristine Rusch, P.S. Mueller, Redshift: Greenstreem, Rick Geary, Rod Clark, Rosebud 51, Summer of the Cinetherapist, The National Lampoon, The New Yorker
Rosebud 51 is smokin' hot off the press and ready for readers and coffee tables. Order the issue direct from the Rosebud website. Worth owning alone for the cover art and inside illustrations by Wisconsin watercolorist Geri Schrab. But there's so much more: 144 pages of fiction, poetry, and art. "Go Figure" drollery from New Yorker cartoonist and Rosebud regular P. S. Mueller ("The town's electricity is distributed from a large ceramic-looking wire thrusting out of what everyone calls 'the Founder's Rock' in the basement of the old City Hall"). "Afterwords" comic strip from another Rosebud regular and former National Lampoon cartoonist Rick Geary. Editor Rod Clark's "Voice Over" column with a grassroots homage to mowing the lawn ("Now and then I glance up to see a turkey vulture circling high above me. Does he imagine me to be a wounded animal nearing my final gasp?"). Fiction from Rosebud founder and editor-at-large John Lehman, and from Hugo Award-winning writer Kristine Rusch. And let's just say: tons more stuff. Including, dear family and friends, my short story "Summer of the Cinetherapist."
Rosebud readers of issue 51 can also look forward to excerpts from Rod Clark's scarily prophetic sci-fi micro-novel Redshift: Greenstreem, first published in 2000 by Cambridge Book Review Press and now available in a 2011 second printing and as a Kindle ebook. And here's a deal that no one should pass up: Anyone subscribing or re-subscribing to Rosebud can get a copy of Redshift: Greenstreem by putting "I WANT MY RG" on the note with your Paypal order at www.rsbd.net or in a letter with your check to: Rosebud, P.O. Box 459, Cambridge, Wisconsin, 53523.
The Macomber AffairPublished September 2, 2010 Cinema , Literature 1 Comment
Tags: Ernest Hemingway, Gregory Peck, Joan Bennett, The Macomber Affair, The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
So I read a top-notch Hemingway short story this evening, "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber." Even with the big game hunting claptrap, it's sharp nasty fun on the topic of gender politics. ("How should a woman act when she discovers her husband is a bloody coward? She's damn cruel but they're all cruel. They govern, of course, and to govern one has to be cruel sometimes. Still, I've seen enough of their damn terrorism.") I'm deeply bummed to find out a 1947 film based on the story isn't available in any form on video or DVD. The poster for The Macomber Affair says: "GREGORY PECK makes that Hemingway kind of love to JOAN BENNETT." Gotta find this movie …
PushoverPublished August 5, 2010 Cinema 1 Comment
Tags: Anthony Mann, Barbara Stanwyck, Bell Book and Candle, Detour, Dorothy Malone, Double Indemnity, Edgar G. Ulmer, Edward G. Robinson, Fred MacMurray, Hitchcock, Joseph H. Lewis, Kim Novak, Raw Deal, Richard Quine, The Big Combo, Vertigo
It's tempting to make more of Pushover (1954) than this tawdry film noir about a cop (Fred MacMurray) gone bad deserves. After all, many of the very best noirs were wretchedly low-budget affairs. Edgar G. Ulmer's Detour (1945) is the nadir's apex, a weird and compelling masterpiece of aesthetic impoverishment. Other examples are plentiful, from Anthony Mann's Raw Deal (1948) to Joseph H. Lewis's The Big Combo (1955). The climax of The Big Combo, for example, is shrouded in fog to hide an absence of sets. Mann and Lewis were aided immeasurably by the astonishing chiaroscuro camera work of John Alton. Pushover isn't stylistically in this league. Lester White's cinematography overall has the flattened look of 1950s television cop shows. On the other hand, there's an effective and evocative use of rain-slick city (and backlot) streets.
It's equally tempting to make more of the fact that the role of mobster's moll Lona McLane is played by 21-year-old Kim Novak in her film debut. The character, unfortunately, is underwritten with murky motivations. She's eager to ditch her bank robbing boyfriend, but we're never convinced that she could inhabit such a world to begin with, much less lure MacMurray into double-crossing the boyfriend and grabbing his loot. A reluctant femme fatale, in other words, curiously upstaged by the more recognizably "good" woman in the film played with confidence and sensuality by Dorothy Malone. Novak hadn't yet figured out how to make her passivity alluring and mysterious and maddeningly erotic to the collective male psyche. Hitchcock's Vertigo was four years in the future, as was Bell, Book and Candle (directed by Pushover's Richard Quine).
Pushover is Fred MacMurray's film. He's great at portraying a kind of Ron Burgundy denial in the face of disaster, especially when ill-conceived plans begin to crumble and the flop-sweat flows. There's clearly an intended referential link between his role here as corrupt cop Paul Sheridan and his role a decade earlier as corrupt insurance salesman Walter Neff in Billy Wilder's classic 1944 film noir, Double Indemnity. In both films we get to watch MacMurray's rapid slide from disaffected schlub to calculating schlub to murderous schlub, desperately overreaching every step of the way. Double Indemnity was no cheap B-film, however. It was a well-financed top of the bill studio hit with an A-list cast that included Barbara Stanwyck and Edward G. Robinson, both of whom have a field day stealing scenes from Fred MacMurray. But to today's noir-accustomed eyes it's easy to see that MacMurray carries the film by refusing to stray from the genre's narrow hardboiled constraints. MacMurray is Neff. And, in Pushover, ten years older and beginning to crack under the middle-aged weight of quiet desperation, MacMurray is Sheridan.
Sure, Robert Mitchum got played for a sucker by plenty of dames—notably Faith Domergue in Where Danger Lives (1950) and Jean Simmons in Angel Face (1952)—but somehow Mitchum always retained his masculinity and dignity. Not so MacMurray. It's almost as if Neff and Sheridan were being punished for presuming to assert themselves at all. We want to avert our eyes from MacMurray's unseemly demise at the conclusion to Pushover. Not out of sympathy, but rather disdain for his contemptible failure. Television and Disney movies would soon make Fred MacMurray comfortable and wealthy portraying unassertive fathers and harmless eccentrics, characters unencumbered by the kinds of petty aspirations and awkward passions that kept Walter Neff and Paul Sheridan—and America's legions of losers—awake at night.


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Part 4
"Where da ya think ya'll be headin' for, Jake?" The sun was shining from a clear blue sky. All around the signs of summer were to be seen, from the glowing flowers along the road where bees buzzed busily, to the full leafy branches of the trees arching high overhead.
"Ya aim ta go far?"
Jake shrugged his shoulders. His face looked worn and haggard. His eyes rested not on the beauties around him but on the low mound of earth near the now empty cabin and the little cross which marked the last resting place of his beloved Ellen. "I got ta get away, Bob," his voice was dull. "Me an' the young'uns jest got ta get away," he repeated. "Too many memories of . . . her." Jake's voice grew husky.
"Well, I reckon ya ought ta." Bob nodded in agreement. "Jest send me word when ya's settled down, an' I'll be seein' ya." Bob held out his hand. After a wrenching grasp, Jake turned from the friend of his boyhood toward the wagon and spoke to the horses. With a lurch the wagon began to move off down the trail. The trees waved their green branches as though in farewell while unseen birds sang their goodbyes and a squirrel chattered from a fence post.
Bob stood silently beside his horse in front of the cabin and watched. Two young faces looked out the back of the wagon. Bob lifted his hand in farewell. The children returned the wave until they could no longer see the man who had been as an uncle to them. Bob saw the older one place a protective arm around the smaller form beside him. He swallowed the lump that rose suddenly in his throat. It was always hard to say good bye.
"May the good Lord go with ya, Jake, an' help ya to bear it." Bob's murmured words were the prayer of his heart as he mounted and turned his horse's head homeward, leaving behind the lonely log cabin with its forsaken, but never to be forgotten, grave.
In the fireplace, a log broke, sending a shower of sparks up the chimney. Carson rolled stiffly over. The storm had spent itself, and all was quiet save for the heavy breathing of the sick man in the corner bed. Sally slept on, spent from many sleepless nights of watching, her head leaning against the wall and an old shawl around her shoulders. Ty, still at his post by the bed, never looked less like sleep, Carson thought looking at the young man as he watched with those keen eyes of his, the deep slumber of the man who was his father. For a long while Carson lay there in silence.
The old family Bible lay still on the bed where Sally had placed it. Reverently, carefully Ty picked it up. It was too dim in the corner to read, but he opened it just the same. Would there be any clue in this old Book as to whom he had promised to find? Or was his father, as Sally thought, not right in his mind? Turning quietly so as to have what dim light the fire could cast on the Book, Ty opened its pages. There was an inscription on the first page, but the writing was so faint that in the dim light it was unreadable. Ty knew the Bible had belonged to his mother. For several moments Ty sat unmoving, his thoughts on the mother who had gone away from them all so many years ago. His father had scarcely ever spoken of her. What had she been like? Why wouldn't his father talk of her? What had happened to her? It was all so perplexing. Ty realized that he didn't know for sure if his mother had died or not. He had for years assumed that it was so, but after careful thought, he began to wonder. Every time he or Sally had asked, the father would change the subject and look so old and tired that it was a long time before either child asked again.
Ty turned from these disturbing thoughts to the business at hand. Softly he turned the leaves of the old Book, noticing a pressed flower here and there, an underlined verse now and again, but nothing he could call a clue. Glancing from time to time at the face on ther pillow, he kept up his search.
Carson rose after a while to put a new log on the fire and then lay down again. Ty glanced up at the movement and noticed the wind had died and all was still. Sally slept on undisturbed. What had she had to endure, with him gone and the father so sick? In the morning Ty would have a talk with her. Right now he would continue his vigil and his search for something, anything, that might lead to this missing person. At last his patience was rewarded by a small, delicate piece of folded paper. With hands that trembled slightly, the paper was opened revealing a tiny photograph. The face that looked back at him was that of a young woman. The hat and clothes were enough for Ty to know that the woman was from a city, but which city and who it was, he couldn't say for sure. Ty bent over it, trying in the dim light to study the face.
So absorbed had he become that he didn't notice Carson raise himself up suddenly on one elbow and listen.
Ty jerked his head up, and his hand went instinctively to his holstered gun. Carson had quietly picked up his rifle and held it cocked and ready in his hand.
Silence every where. Ty strained his ears as he placed the family Bible hastily but with caution, making no noise, back on the bed then rose from his seat. A slight rustle outside and the silence was shattered by a sudden sharp crack as of a rifle.

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All the news from Europe relating to the ongoing migration issues and Islamist terrorism plaguing the continent.
Why does Sweden suffer from such a high level of rape?
Man goes on drive-by shooting spree "targeting migrants" in Italian town
Eight migrants shot and stabbed in Calais gang fight
The rise of anti-Semitism in France
Taqiyya: The tactic of deception used by Islamists to conceal their true goals
Britain's Ghettos: The segregated communities of the UK
Man attacked Muslims "after growing angry at rising terrorism" court hears
Is Sweden preparing for an imminent civil war?
Teenage asylum seeker denies being involved in Parsons Green bombing
Asylum seeker stabbed man 50 times at Birmingham tram stop, court hears
Ex-boxer Anthony Small aka Abdul Haq charged with terror offence
Theresa May to allow migrants from Calais into the UK
The UK grooming gangs: How widespread is this problem?
Man plotted terror attack on Big Ben and Heathrow, court hears
Westminster Bridge attacker took steroids days before the attack
Man denies Buckingham Palace terror charge
Taharrush Jinsi: The Middle Eastern rape phenomena that has been imported to Europe
Is mass immigration turning Sweden into a warzone?
Small scale terror attacks are so common in Europe, they don't even make the news.


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How Much Does Colonoscopy Cost
Colonoscopy is a visual examination of the colon with the use of a special device, colonoscope, to check rectal wellness and other GI health concerns. Colonoscopy has helped thousands to detect early signs of colon cancer and other gastrointestinal discomforts. It is important, especially to men, to have colonoscopy over a specific period of time.
How much does colonoscopy cost? To get to an uncertain destination, one might need a map. We'll be providing you a "map" to get the accurate price that might help you prep financially.
Colonoscopy Price
The average colonoscopy price starts from $600 all the way up to $5000. Take note, there are several factors to be considered in calculating the cost. Federal insurance like Medicare and other private insurance company covers expense for colonoscopy up to 100% leaving the consumer pay out-of-the-pocket fees that'll get up to $1000 more or less. Insurance often pays a part or all expenses except for other clinical services claimed by consumer.
The cost of colonoscopy also varies on the health facility and your geographical locate. Prices are highly unpredictable in every state. You can have colonoscopy on private doctor's office or in public facilities like hospital and laboratory clinics.
People in the age bracket of 50 and higher are suggested to have colonoscopy once in every 5 to 10 years. Colonoscopy is good for men and women. Frequent colon check-up is also advisable to early detect colon diseases and other maladies. Persons with a family history of colorectal cancer or adenomas are on the top list of "Must Have Colonoscopy."
Colonoscopy is Financially worth Spending
Others must have thought colonoscopy as an undesirable method of chasing suspicious matter inside the bum. You might get shiver just imagining a snake-like chord with a camera and flash wobbling inside you. Colonoscopy may be a little frightening but it is one of the best methods to make you continue living and not die from colorectal cancer. However, colonoscopy will not guarantee you from being cancer free; instead it will detect illness that'll need quick medical action.
The cost of colonoscopy will depend on your chosen facility and your region. Colonoscopy on private doctor's office is much lesser than in hospitals that offer a wider facility and a menu of clinical services. It also promotes other health services that will inflate the price according to your medical needs.
Healthcare Blue Book has revealed how much does colonoscopy cost with the reasonable estimation they've provided. The typical cost is roughly around $2,187 with biopsy included in the price. But this of course is subject to change upon having medical tests. If polyps and other malignant tissues are found, surgery may be needed that will yeast up the price.
The average colonoscopy price is generally from 0 to $3500. Those insured with Medicare will spend likely 50% to 100% less to the total unless additional medical service is needed. Large deductibles are a total incentive for consumers. Most states have laws mandatory for colonoscopy coverage.
Colonoscopy usually takes 20 minutes or more. Patients are given anesthesia and sedations to relax them while on check-up. Most clinics include the anesthesia and sedation on the total bill and some do not. They may exclude the doctor's fee, lab tests, and facility fee.
According to the statistics made by U.S Cancer Statistics Working Group, the number of people diagnosed with colorectal cancer is 136,199; mostly men, as of 2013 and this may have increased over time whereas, the number of deaths due to colorectal cancer in United States is 51,583. This can be prevented if cancer is early diagnosed.
Insured people commonly pay less than usual compared to patients that are outcast to insurance. Without this benefit, patient will most likely pay for the cost of colonoscopy in an average of $1000 to $3500. Hospital charge for colonoscopy will roughly tune $1500 or more since they operate a larger, serviceable facility.
With the use of sedative or anesthesia, the colon check-up will go relaxing and painless. After a couple or more hours, sedatives will lose its effect resulting patients to feel the pain and discomfort on the bum. If complications persist, such as bleeding and other suspicious symptoms, surgery will be an option. How much does colonoscopy cost?
Colonoscopy is a Real Deal
With all the given facts, we can now precisely assume the average colonoscopy price. It will harshly cost from $0 to $4,000. The price is still subject to your location, to your health facility, pre-assumed additional fees, and doctor's fee. The price will increase if malignant tissues are found and needed to be surgically removed and treated.
With insurance, the price will be deducted 50% to 100%. Patients will pay for other expenses not covered with the insurance plan. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) guarantees no-charge for colonoscopy.
Look for the nearest clinic or hospital on your area and ask for quotation. Consultation is often practical so that doctors and physicians can give helpful counsels with alternatives, symptoms, prevention, and treatment.
Health is no doubt wealth. It takes a lot of spending to have an outstanding wellness. Colonoscopy can be said worthy to pay as it is only done once every 5 to 10 years. It is essential for cancer-prone patients to detect early signs of colon cancer and prevent it as soon as possible. Cancer, as one of the most lethal disease, will violently ruin everyone's life. Taking paces to prevent it today is paramount. As cliché as it can be, the old mantra will always be practical: healthy lifestyle, wise diet, and proper exercise will give you a blissful tomorrow.


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Elementary School
Vigorously Academic
Rehoboth Christian Elementary School excels academically. Our student to teacher ratio is 22 / 1 and we are blessed with an outstanding volunteer and college student aide program which allows us to offer many tutoring and small group instruction opportunities. Along with the core curriculum, each student receives special instruction from a qualified teacher in Navajo Language, Art, Music, and Physical Education. Some highlights include:
· Title 1 Services - Reading and Math support for students in need.
· Standardized Testing - NWEA testing for grades 3 - 5
Beautifully Diverse
We honor the heritage of our students by exploring and celebrating the many different nationalities and ethnicities represented in our school! Our Elementary Rehoboth Creed states, "at our school we are each different, but we are one in Jesus." We respect each other and honor the gifts that God has given each of us.
· Heritage Week - exploring and celebrating the many different nationalities and ethnicities represented in our school!
· Many different churches and denominations are represented in our student body.
· We are diverse in our God given gifts and abilities. We strive to develop those gifts in each other.
Thoroughly Christian
Our dedicated staff love Jesus and desire to pass on the hope that Jesus gives to each child who enters our doors. We discipline in love, applying Biblical boundaries set up by the school. We teach forgiveness and reconciliation as active components to healing relationships. Highlights include:
· Daily Devotions and Prayer - Each day we begin and end the day reflecting on and speaking to our God.
· Weekly Chapels - Worship and praise through singing, prayer and stories bring us together weekly with a common purpose.
· Faith Integration - "...Every subject belongs to God" from the Elementary Rehoboth Creed, reflects our commitment to integrate our faith into every subject that is taught on a daily basis.
· Wonder - Through Bible instruction children are taught to wonder about the awesomeness of God. Scripture memorization helps us write His words in our hearts.
· Commitment - children are challenged to commit their lives to Jesus and to build a foundation of knowledge and a life of service by hearing about and participating in opportunities to serve others.
Community is woven into the fabric of the Rehoboth Christian Elementary School. Growing together, sharing our joys and hurts, makes us one big family. Concrete ways we show this include:
· Reading Buddies - Older classes pair up with a younger class to read together in pairs focusing on instilling the love of and the practice of reading.
· Multiage Classes - Our combination classes (4/5 currently) are purposely created to heighten the sense of community within our classrooms.
· Counseling - A ½ time elementary counselor helps children develop healthy relationship skills and offers support in difficult times.
Respect for Native Culture
Rehoboth Christian Elementary School embraces all cultures especially the Native American peoples whom the schools mission was founded on. We are committed to teach and learn the language and customs which we hope will broaden our understanding and respect for all people. We do this by:
· Code Talker Library - Our Navajo Code Talker Media Center displays many artifacts telling the story of the heroism of the Navajo Code Talkers. Students are challenged to learn the Navajo code which was used during World War II.


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It's been a good week for chastising evangelical atheism. First, there was the free-will symposium which allowed us to wonder about the obsessions of the atheists and religionists tempestuating this non-issue in their teapot. Second, we have a Columbia University philosopher gently taking down The Atheists Guide to Reality: Enjoying Life without Illusions by Alex Rosenberg. Finally, we have another Columbia philosopher less gently taking down A Universe from Nothing: Why There is Something Rather than Nothing by Lawrence Krauss.
The take-downs have been occasioned by a peculiar kind of belief: the faith that science has explained everything, there are no mysteries, and there is nothing intractable left to ponder. While I greatly admire science and have few problems with what some derisively call scientism, I recognize there is much science hasn't solved and may never solve.
This is not, of course, a warrant for the supernatural. As John Wilkins explained in this superb post, beliefs should be warranted. Science has provided us with a pretty good warrant to date and it's only getting better. But as the Columbia philosophers recognize, a good warrant is different from an absolute or complete warrant.
Here is Philip Kitcher on Rosenberg's book:
The evangelical scientism of "The Atheist's Guide" rests on three principal ideas. The facts of microphysics determine everything under the sun (beyond it, too); Darwinian natural selection explains human behavior; and brilliant work in the still-young brain sciences shows us as we really are. Physics, in other words, is "the whole truth about reality"; we should achieve "a thoroughly Darwinian understanding of humans"; and neuroscience makes the abandonment of illusions "inescapable." Morality, purpose and the quaint conceit of an enduring self all have to go.
The conclusions are premature. Although microphysics can help illuminate the chemical bond and the periodic table, very little physics and chemistry can actually be done with its fundamental concepts and methods, and using it to explain life, human behavior or human society is a greater challenge still. Many informed scholars doubt the possibility, even in principle, of understanding, say, economic transactions as complex interactions of subatomic particles. Rosenberg's cheerful Darwinizing is no more convincing than his imperialist physics, and his tales about the evolutionary origins of everything from our penchant for narratives to our supposed dispositions to be nice to one another are throwbacks to the sociobiology of an earlier era, unfettered by methodological cautions that students of human evolution have learned: much of Rosenberg's book is evolutionary psychology on stilts. Similarly, the neuroscientific discussions serenely extrapolate from what has been carefully demonstrated for the sea slug to conclusions about Homo sapiens.
And here is David Albert on Krauss' book:
Lawrence M. Krauss, a well-known cosmologist and prolific popular-science writer, apparently means to announce to the world, in this new book, that the laws of quantum mechanics have in them the makings of a thoroughly scientific and adamantly secular explanation of why there is something rather than nothing. Period. Case closed. End of story. I kid you not. Look at the subtitle. Look at how Richard Dawkins sums it up in his afterword: "Even the last remaining trump card of the theologian, 'Why is there something rather than nothing?,' shrivels up before your eyes as you read these pages. If 'On the Origin of Species' was biology's deadliest blow to supernaturalism, we may come to see 'A Universe From Nothing' as the equivalent from cosmology. The title means exactly what it says. And what it says is devastating."
Well, let's see. There are lots of different sorts of conversations one might want to have about a claim like that: conversations, say, about what it is to explain something, and about what it is to be a law of nature, and about what it is to be a physical thing. But since the space I have is limited, let me put those niceties aside and try to be quick, and crude, and concrete.
Following Albert's quick, crude, and concrete demonstration that Krauss hasn't explained the origins of everything, he concludes with this:
And I guess it ought to be mentioned, quite apart from the question of whether anything Krauss says turns out to be true or false, that the whole business of approaching the struggle with religion as if it were a card game, or a horse race, or some kind of battle of wits, just feels all wrong — or it does, at any rate, to me. When I was growing up, where I was growing up, there was a critique of religion according to which religion was cruel, and a lie, and a mechanism of enslavement, and something full of loathing and contempt for everything essentially human. Maybe that was true and maybe it wasn't, but it had to do with important things — it had to do, that is, with history, and with suffering, and with the hope of a better world — and it seems like a pity, and more than a pity, and worse than a pity, with all that in the back of one's head, to think that all that gets offered to us now, by guys like these, in books like this, is the pale, small, silly, nerdy accusation that religion is, I don't know, dumb.
Because the philosophers here have struck the right chords and are on key, it brings to mind a juxtaposition: I can't help but think that evangelical atheists, for all their scientific learning, are tone-deaf and atonal. This seems to be what happens when humility and wonder aren't taken seriously. Our approaches to the cosmos and life should be positivist (sensu lato) and polyvalent.


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Do you have a feeling that there is something wrong with your male health? You feel like you don't have the same stamina anymore, or perhaps even problems with your erectile function?
Sorry, my friend, it is a part of getting older! But the good news is, you can get some of that lost stamina back. But, you will have to work a little for it, else it will be gone forever.
Check out this article, you are going to get a couple of advice on how to get your stamina back.
Getting Started
It is a very good decision you have made that you want to get started improving your male health. Now it is just about getting started and figure out what to do.
Your primary focus with your male health improvement is to get started improving your testosterone levels.
Your testosterone is the most important hormone in the male body and is responsible for your functions as a man. So when you start to do something about levels it will give you a lot of benefits.
All Begins With Your Diet
When you want to improve your male health and get your stamina back it all starts with your diet. You must make sure you are getting the right nutrients, that can help you to produce more testosterone.
You must also make sure to get some good antioxidants that can cleanse your body get rid of toxins and free radicals.
All these important nutrients to do so, are coming from your diet in the form of proteins, vitamins, minerals. But also ingredients like zinc, and good HDL cholesterol.
Male Health Diet vs, Low-Calorie Diets
It is important to stress out that a diet to improve your male health is not quite the same as a low-calorie diet for weight loss.
So, if your spouse is trying to set you up on one of her salad diets, then kindly reject her and tell that you need proteins with your diet.
A male health diet is a lot about giving your body the nutrients it needs to recover and to produce testosterone. The nutrients include proteins, zinc, vitamins, minerals, L-Arginine and a little of the good HDL cholesterol.
Lifting Weights or Something You Like
Getting started working out in a gym, lifting weights and combining with some cardio is one of the best things you can do to raise your testosterone levels and get your male health back.
But if you don't like gyms, there are other effective ways you can train as well. You can consider getting started with Cross Fitness, it is an excellent way to build lean muscles and improve your cardiovascular system.
If that is not something you like either, then get together with a couple of friends and do some bike riding or hiking. Most important is that you get started doing something.
At Least Twice a Week
There are many different ways you can train your muscles. As a minimum, you must aim to go to the gym at least twice a week.
If you are very busy you can get started with the slow fitness protocol, where you are lifting very heavy twice a week for only twenty minutes.
If you have more time and want to spend some more time working out, I highly recommend you a full body workout program three times weekly. It is just what you need to get in shape.
What is Most Important
So, remember, dieting and exercising are the two most important factors to take care of when you want to improve your male health. But there are a few more things you must take into consideration when you want to improve your male health.
Make sure to get plenty of sleep, the best is if you can wake up by yourself in the mornings.
Also, try to eliminate as much stress as possible. It is not exactly something that will boost your testosterone levels. So, get rid of it. Stress kind of makes you submissive to other people, like if you have a boss. Here try to work on improving your alpha male status.
What About Supplements?
When it comes to male health supplements there are a couple of options available. First of all, you must be a little careful when choosing because not all supplements are what they are supposed to be.
To make things easier for you, we have 3 recommendation you can look at to see which one suit you the most.
Vital Khai
Vital Khai is a completely new approach to male health and taking supplements in general. Here you are getting smaller capsules in a container that you swallow. After that, you will obtain an almost instant effect and improve your libido and stamina.
Vital Khai is a good option if you feel you must have a backup plan in the case something goes wrong with your stamina. It is the perfect supplement to carry with you and use if you are about to enjoy sexual intercourse.
Spartagen XT
Spartagen has been around for quite some time now and gives you a couple of proven ingredients that will help you to improve your libido, stamina, and sexual health all-around.
Spartagen XT will both improve your erections and boost your testosterone levels. It is a very handy male health improvement supplement.
Male Extra
Male Extra's main focus is to help you with your erections and staying power. It will give you a couple of ingredients that will improve your blood flow to your erectile function and improve your libido and stamina.
Male Extra is worth taking a closer look at, currently, this male enhancement supplement has been serving more than 150.000 men.
That's It
We hope that you find these tips useful and highly recommend you to get started as soon as possible. The faster you move the earlier are you going to see some good results from your effort.


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We do like girls with no makeup, for the long term that is
|makeup vs no makeup, that is the question
So I was having dinner the other day where this article about makeup popped up. In a nutshell, the writer of the article complains that while majority of us men always say that we prefer girls with natural beauty, our actions does not really reflect our words. Quoting a study done by an online dating site called Zoosk, which found that girls who wore makeup in their profile picture were more likely to be chosen by guys, the author claims that actions speak louder than words, and we guys don't really mean what we say.
Confused, that was the word she used to describe guys, although by the end of the article everything got pretty confusing as well. She was quoting a bunch of guys about what makeup they prefer, then switching to whether men really knows what makeup is (while including her own experience about how guys doesn't notice your mascara, which kinda contradicts her earlier point about guys picking girls with more makeup) and then ending with the statement that women don't dress up for men, and how girls who radiates happiness are the ones who attract the most attention to them.
The last sentence almost sounded to me like the author was trying to console herself by saying that, which in my opinion has strayed so far away from her first argument. But that's not the point of this post. What I originally intended for this post is to attempt to hypothesize the findings of Zoosk, and perhaps clear the air about what us guys really think, since the friend who shared this article with the guys on the table had the same sentiments as the author of the article. That us guys don't really mean what we say, that we are lying in a way.
Well, to clarify, I have to admit that us guys are indeed attracted to girls with makeup. I mean that's the whole point right? Wearing makeup definitely makes you prettier in a way. It conceals the things that makes you ugly, like pimples and eyebags, while enlarging the things that make you look pretty, like your eyes and lips. It's like wearing a formal suit to work versus wearing a t-shirt to work, like the difference between wearing slippers and leather shoes. Makeup gives off a better first impression, like guys who decide to comb their hair.
I think that the keyword here is first impression. Let me caps lock and bold that for you. FIRST IMPRESSION. That's really different from long term dating.
I've tried online dating sites before and to be honest, when you're only given a profile picture and very little info about someone you don't know, you tend to make judgement on what you have, which is most of the time based on their looks. And time and time again, research has found how good looking people tend to get better things in life, and the Zoosk study is just an extension to this phenomena called the "halo effect". That we tend to make decisions based on someone's looks.
In a way, the Zoosk study is nothing but a first impression test. If you do it the other way round, I think you would still find the same results. That guys who use photoshop, style their hair, sport their abs and wear better clothes will tend to get picked more than those who do not. So even some girls may say that personality matters more, looks play a huge part as well.
Then why do guys say that they want natural beauty then, I hear you say.
Well, in essence it's not much different than what I said earlier about how good looking people tend to get more stuff I guess. While makeup helps to give good first impression, us guys are not dumb. We do realize that makeup is only temporary, and that by the end of the day, it does not reflect someone's real looks. We want something permanent, which in the case of looks, is something we call the natural beauty. We want a beauty that stays even the makeup comes off. I can tell you that even the girls who wore makeup were more likely to be picked on Zoosk, how many of those relationships from that will really last?
Sure, us guys may sound really selfish when you put it like that, but isn't this how all of us human function? When it comes to relationship, we all want something that lasts. So us guys are not really confused when we say we prefer natural beauty. It's just us saying what we want in the long term.
The only lesson that you should be taking away from the Zoosk study is that when taking a picture, be it for an online dating site or a job interview, make sure you look good.
Of course, whether girls really makeup for guys is an entire different matter all together, and I'm not interested in debating that. I just have one question though, if all the guys on earth were to die tomorrow, meaning that you won't see a guy at all, would you still put on makeup as usual then?


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WELLINGTON — Can Wellington's ongoing adversarial relationships with prominent developers be remedied through a revision of the village charter?
That's a question that the chairman of Wellington's charter review task force at least wants to explore as the panel embarks this summer on a yearlong process to recommend changes to the charter that the Village Council and then Wellington voters must ultimately approve.
The task force began running through the charter Wednesday, taking each section at a time and discussing any items the members felt merited consideration. [Read more on that in today's Post.]
Chairman Ken Adams suggested the "legislative intent" section of the charter could be revised in some way to help influence the future of development in Wellington and alleviate notorious battles with developers, such as Mark Bellissimo, through an emphasis on public-private partnerships.
"Personally I'm very concerned with the headlines lately in the paper," Adams said. "I think there's something we can do here to help alleviate that."
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C. It is intended that this charter and the incorporation of the Wellington area will serve to preserve and protect the distinctive characteristics of the individual communities within the boundaries of the Village of Wellington.
D. It is the intent of this charter and the incorporation of the Wellington area that land development costs for infrastructure improvements associated with new land development shall be paid for by the developer of said land or the ultimate owners or users of said land.
"(Project Director Mike) O'Dell said there was a possibility for the number of equestrian uses to double, doubling the intensity and density of the equestrian preserve — Do we have any ability here to influence that happening in the best possible place for that to happen?" Adams said, referencing recent media coverage of the village's long-term planning efforts.
Adams proposed adding language to the charter to "incentivize" where developers invest their resources, such as through creating "opportunity zones" for business development not just for equestrian areas but in other places, like Wellington's older shopping centers.
The task force seemed receptive to the concept Adams was presenting but wasn't sold that they should be the ones recommending that.
"A lot of your ideas are great, but many of them can be done through ordinances rather than at this level, which is kind of like the constitution," explained Village Attorney Laurie Cohen, who serves as the staff liaison for the task force.
Vice-Chairwoman Michelle McGovern said she preferred keeping the charter in "broad-enough terms."
"I feel pretty strongly about the fact that the constitution of our village, the charter of our village, is set in terms that helps the council of that time to work within it," McGovern said. "I want to be careful not to individualize too much based on what's happening right now, because this might not be happening in 10 years."
After much discussion among the task force, the members seemed to agree to leave Section 2 alone — but it's possible the topic of development could come up again as they continue to move through the charter in the months ahead.


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Stern pinball game just stopped working. I check the 43VDC test point TP5 and found no voltage. Fuse was blown and when I replace it it blew immediately. Rectifier board was pretty beat so I purchase a new one. Plugged it in a blew the fuse for 43VDC. Found the coil for the clacker was shorted so I unplugged it and the game started right up. Started play the game and after a couple games it reset in the middle of a game. I opened the back and could see the MPU board go through selftest and start back up. This continued to happen intermittently. I started monitoring voltages with a DMM and noticed I got an AC reading on the 43 VDC. I got an oscilloscope and looked and I see a lot of ripple on some of the DC voltages. Looks like what you would see after a bridge rectifier but before it had been regulated. Is that normal? Wondering if it is filtered and regulated by the solenoid board?
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The BNP Paribas Open is over and I for one could not be happier. Of the 2 spring hard court events, I have always preferred the Miami event, for the simple reason that 2 of my favourite players play this event, while they do not play the tournament now being touted as the Fifth Slam.
It was not too long ago that the Sony Open was touted as the Fifth Slam. A few million dollars thrown around, a new stadium facility, a sushi restaurant, and bloggers and journalists alike telling us every day just how beautiful Indian Wells is has made this tournament, previously a blip on the landscape, now being shouted from the rooftops as the Fifth Slam. Frankly, when you can't do anything to have the 2 of the best female players ever to come out of the United States to play your tournament, then you are not the Fifth Slam. There is a quote attributed to Shakespeare that goes "The lady doth protest too much, methinks". For the entire 2 weeks of the BNP Open, the message that was being delivered was just how awesome this tournament is. We get it. Your tournament is fantastic. That does not, however, take away from the fact that while everyone was exceptionally happy for Flavia's win over Radwanska, the tournament does seem to lose a bit of its luster each year with the continued non-parrticpation of either of the Williams Sisters at this event.
In addition to the fact that neither Williams Sister was a part of the event, the event never seems to bring out memorable tennis from the women. The last time the women's final was filled with any sense of anticipation was the 2012 final between Sharapova and Azarenka. Last year's blowout by Sharapova over Wozniacki and this year's win by Pennetta over an injured Radwanska brought the tournament to a bit of anti-climatic finish on the women's side.
The women's draw has now been completed, and with the exception of the placing of the qualifiers in the draw, there are some blockbuster matches scheduled to be in the draw. If you, like me, forgot to do your WTA Bracket Challenge, remember to go the WTA website and fill out your bracket challenge. Master Ace has looked at the draw for Miami and below are his thoughts on what could happen.
Thanks Karen. The Miami draw was done on Sunday March 16 and it features the return of Serena Williams, who will be going for her 7th title and Venus Williams, who is turning back the clock like a certain person on the ATP tour but not getting much press as him. Between the Williams Sisters, Venus has played the better tennis in 2014 capturing the title in Dubai, where she extended her winning streak to 15. However, Serena has a knack for jump starting her season in Miami. Also, in the draw, is Flavia Pennetta, who won Indian Wells. Will Pennetta be able to win Indian Wells and Miami? The last person to achieve that feat was Kim Clijsters in 2005. What made that feat more interesting is Clijsters won 14 matches as she was coming back on the tour from wrist injury.
Serena Williams as the No. 1 seed is on the top half of the draw, while Na Li, the Indian Wells' semifinalist anchors the bottom half as the No. 2 seed. Li did not play well at Indian Wells so making the semifinals was a good accomplishment and most people believe that Li may play better in Miami. Agnieszka Radwanska is the 3rd seed here but is word that she may withdraw as she got injured practicing a day before the final at Indian Wells. In the top half of that quarter, we have V Williams, Simona Halep and Dominika Cibulkova where only one player may potentially survive to the quarterfinals. If we get the Halep vs V Williams in third round, it will be interesting to see how Halep will fare against V Williams' power and athleticism. Another daunting task for the players is they will have to play in humid conditions unlike Indian Wells where the conditions were dry.
Q1: S Williams vs Kerber
Q2: Sharapova vs Pennetta
Q3: V Williams vs Bouchard
Q4: Stephens vs Li
S1: S Williams vs Sharapova
S2: V Williams vs Li
F: S Williams vs Li
W: S Williams
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Apparently ESPN, that paragon of sports broadcasting has a poll on its website asking if Serena Williams deserves to be No. 1. I don't know even know where to start with the questions that this poll raises in me. If not Serena, who? Let us look at the top 10 and their performance over the last 52 weeks and then we can say, with a straight face that someone else other than Serena Williams deserves to be No.1.
Of the other 9 women who currently occupy the top 10, only Azarenka won a Grand Slam within the last 52 weeks. Sharapova was a non-starter for most of the events that she played last year, finishing the year with 2 titles. Petra Kvitova did her usual no-show for most of the year and Simona Halep, even though I love her and her game, was the anti-Serena, winning titles in many International events without, for the most part, facing a top 10 player. Sara Errani, less said the better. Na Li, she was MIA for most of 2013, showing up now and again. She finished the year with a title in Shenzhen, her only title of the season. If not Serena, then who does ESPN think should be No.1. Would be good if they had asked us for recommendations.
WTA Big 3
The WTA Tour has been riding on the shoulders of 3 women since 2012. These 3 women have brought life to a Tour that was in the death throes of the Wozniacki Era. Day to day, tournament to tournament, Grand Slam to Grand Slam, 3 women have shown what competition is. They have fought hard, played hard, thrown barbs at each other and competed with a ferocity that has not been seen in a long time. Since 2012, they have won almost every Grand Slam, barring Bartoli's win at Wimbledon last year. This year, the WTA Big 3 have been plagued by injuries. Sharapova's shoulder injury seems to have reoccurred. Azarenka is having serious foot problems, failing to defend her Australian Open title and losing in her opening round match against Lauren Davis. Azarenka has now withdrawn from the Sony Open event in Miami. Serena Williams, who lost in the fourth round of the Australian Open, lost in the semifinals to Alize Cornet in Dubai. Serena makes her return to the Tour at the Sony Open as the top seed. One can only hope that her back is feeling much better.
In as much as people talk about the Big 4 in men's tennis, it would have been good if folks also spoke about the Big 3 in women's tennis. 3 women who together have brought about relevancy to women's tennis. The Spin hopes that all 3 women will regain full strength once again.


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I am closing my Foodie Film Festival with another classic from my archives. Kimchi. Voting (finally, finally, finally) begins in the Project Food Blog video round on Monday and my entire film festival was designed to keep you interested in food videos during the down time between last challenge and the voting on this challenge.
Today I have the Korean staple kimchi. As this video, hopefully, proves– there is nothing too difficult about making kimchi. It may have an exotic allure, but it comes together quickly and I was really impressed with how well mine turned out!
Like I said this is a re-run. This is not my entry in this competition. Sippity Sup's video entry for Project Food Blog can be seen here. I hope you will watch it and also hope you take the time to view as many of the 47 other video entries as you can. As I am sure the contestants will attest, videos can be a lot of work. A lot of fun, but a lot of work. All that work deserves your support and encouragement. So watch and enjoy every single one. Offer your thoughts. Take the time to vote for ALL the videos you like best. Because, no matter how the voting goes I am hoping some of these bloggers will be excited and empowered to start adding more video to their blogs– making us all winners.


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