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Speaking at the weekly cabinet meeting, Mr Netanyahu said such an event would have "implications" for Syria's stockpile of chemical weapons.
Israel and the US fear the weapons could fall into the hands of radical Islamists fighting Mr Assad or the Lebanese Shia group, Hizbollah.
"We are monitoring developments in Syria, where there are dramatic developments almost daily," the Israeli prime minister said.
"We are co-operating with the US and, together with the international community, are taking the necessary measures to prepare ourselves for the possibility of far-reaching changes in the regime, with implications for the sensitive weapons systems there."
Mr Netanyahu's prediction that the Assad regime – one of Israel's sworn enemies – could be nearing its end came as the United Nations envoy was forced for safety reasons to travel by road to Damascus from neighbouring Lebanon for urgent talks with the Syrian president.
Lakhdar Brahimi, who also represents the Arab League, was reported to have decided against flying to Damascus because of fighting near the airport between government and rebel forces.
A senior Israeli defence official, Amos Gilad, said that Syria's chemical weapons were still in the hands of the government, even though it had lost control of large parts of the country.
But he cautioned against the consequences of Mr Assad being toppled or stepping down, as Western powers and some Arab countries have urged him to do.
"Suppose he (Assad) does leave, there could be chaos ... in the Middle East you never know who will come instead," Mr Gilad told Israel Radio.
"We need to stay level-headed; the entire world is dealing with this. At the moment, chemical weapons are under control. The opposition is not managing to defeat him and he is not defeating the opposition, though more and more parts of Syria are no longer under his control and that is what matters."
Separately, Syrian rebels attacked a base protecting a military industrial compound in the town of al-Safira, near Aleppo, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. Seven rebels were killed in the raid. Elsewhere, rebel forces claimed to have a captured a government military camp on the outskirts of Damascus.

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2009 Films
|Candice Day
|Candice Day
|Candice Day
|Wilma is insanely jealous of Edna--the oldest woman in Ontario by mere minutes. For centenarian Wilma Harrington, birthdays lack a certain pizazz. She plans on getting older or will die trying in this comedic short that shows that second place is just a first place loser.
|5 Heroes
|Eelyn Lee
|Adisa The Visualizer
|Eelyn Lee
|An extremely creative short doc about five Muslim girls from East London. Each girl imagines herself a type of superhero, fearlessly taking on whatever life throws at her. This film is as much about smart filmmaking as it is about the five heroes themselves.
|Nimisha Mukerji, Philip Lyall
|Nimisha Mukerji, Philip Lyall, John Ritchie
|A social network bound by need and friendship delineates the connections between Eva and her online friends Kina and Meg in this Canadian-made dramatic doc. These young women all carry the curse of cystic fibrosis, swords of Damocles hanging over their precious lives. This film is foremost about the encounter Eva has with herself, her her family and friends, and the medical establishment, as she faces a double lung transplant. This intimate film takes a close look at her experience, teaching us a great deal along the way.
|7 Interventions of Filmmaker-in-Residence
|Heather Frise, Katerina Cizek
|Heather Frise, Katerina Cizek
|Gerry Flahive
|Filmmaker Cizek's stint at Toronto's St. Michael's Hospital is the subject here, but what the camera reveals is not only its own power to reveal the world of doctors, nurses, and front-line workers but also its ability to effect change itself, to become an agent of community and healing. Inspired by the famous Challenge for Change program that had such a profound effect on both Fogo and filmmaking, this film honours the NFB's radical practice, carrying interventionist filmmaking into the digital age.
|A Time and a Time
|Sarah Cox
|Sarah Cox
|Sarah Cox
|A history of Bristol over the ages--sort of. Taking visuals from the past one hundred years, the director creates an anachronistic mash-up of history, one that imagines a century of events condensed and spilling into each other. The result is a short film that is at once playful and serious, a meditation on time and place.
|Allyson Mitchell
|Not only does this Country lend itself to catchy titles like this one but it is currently offering filmmakers some inspired approaches. Through stop-action tableau, this film weaves a vivid tapestry, piling on one colorful image after another, remarkably similar to the way we keep covering up our understanding of a war in which we have a major role.
|After Tomorrow
|Emma Sullivan
|Emma Sullivan
|Annalise Davis
|Where is this going, you will wonder, as this film draws us into an apparently sinister plot about a man, a woman, and the violence latent in their relationship. Or is it? that question becomes more meaningful as we witness an uncanny visual representation of a disturbing psychological condition. To say more would be to spoil your surprise, but we highly recommend this very fine dramatic achievement.
|Almost A Legend
|Mia Vuorio-Ringwald
|Terhi Kylliginen
|Once you've heard her story, you'll never forget lyricist Fran Landesman. Know as the poet laureate of lovers and losers, Landesman is at the centre of this doc that tells you a little where the likes of a Bette Midler came from. Indeed, Landesman's lyrics found their way into the voice boxes of Ella, Sarah, and Barbara, so you know she's no slouch. She's also saucy as hell, and so this film really zings with her repartee. If you want a few laughs and a lot of New york, then this is the doc for you.
|Alone in the Abyss
|Claudie Ottawa
|Wapikoni Mobile
|When drugs insidiously enter your life, you end up in the abyss. Yet, life goes on. This film was made through the Wapikoni mobile, a travelling production studio for young people in Aboriginal communities. Young filmmakers learn about camera techniques as they document their daily lives from the inside. The experience gives them an opportunity to break the silence and speak out.
|Nelofer Pazira
|Nelofer Pazira
|Sarah Elton
|Fearless award-winning filmmaker, journalist, author Nelofer Pazira brings us her latest sample of life in the Middle East. Arguably, no one has penetrated the culture of today's Afghanistan more intimately or convincing than she has. The filmmaker set out to capture the tensions of the place, but yet the film ended up in some ways being about the very act of filmmaking--or recording--and they ways the camera changes the behaviour of the very subjects she set out to shoot. This film is as much about storytelling as it is about a country we normally see only through hysterical headlines.
|Maria Beatty
|Claire Menichi
|Jürgen Bruning, Claus Matthes, Maria Beatty, Abel Ferrera
|First a warning: This drama is not for everyone. You know we're not prudes, but if you have an aversion to hot lesbian sex, the questionably fine line between pleasure and pain, superbly crafted filmmaking, and a highly stylized dramatic study of the psycho-sexual dynamics--and appeal--of sadomasochism, then this film is not for you. Still reading? Sure you are. This film is about forbidden love, but shot in a very old-horror film style. You want fetishistic filmmaking, you got it.
|Be My Brother
|Genevieve Clay
|Genevieve Clay
|Genevieve Clay
|This film is an utterly charming, sweet, lovely short about a boy at a bus stop. But this description hardly comes close to capturing the experience of this remarkable slice of someone's charmed, challenged life. Trust us--it'll be smiles all around.
|Berated Woman
|Anya Meksin
|Did you hear the one about the Orthodox Jewish housewife who finds herself strangely attracted to an Aryan Supermom? No? Half an hour after watching this you'll have a will to power.
|Blessings: The Tsoknyi Nangchen Nuns of Tibet
|Victress Hitchcock
|Victress Hitchcock
|In the mountains of Nangchen, a remote nomadic region of Eastern Tibet, 3000 women living in hermitages and monasteries practice an ancient yogic tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. In the summer of 2005, a small group of Western women, led by the renowned Buddhist teacher Tsoknyi Rinpoche III, traveled by Jeep and on horseback into the mountains to meet Nangchen nuns. This is the story of their extraordinary journey.
|Blue-Eyed Mary
|Olivia Newman
|Ryan McGlone
|Ryan McGlone, Veronica Nickel
|This delicately shot short film will challenge your assumptions about desire under the elms. Director Newman manages to tell a fairly complicated story in an astonishingly short amount of time. This is a story about Johanna and Jimmy, and their encounter on one fine summer's day. Like a finely wrought short story, this film will leave you wondering, and we really like that about films.
|Coley Sohn
|Coley Sohn
|Ryan Sage
|Mothers mean well but sometimes they sure do say the darndest things. Here's a film about a Mom who wants to go to the prom way more than her daughter. If she could just channel all that energy towards world peace...
|Brain Clever
|Lulu Keating
|Lulu Keating, Beth Egnatoff
|Lulu Keating
|This surreally hilarious set of English instructions for activating a Chinese flashlight could only have sprung from a lousy translator--and Lulu Keating's gloriously twisted imagination.
|Renee Callahan-St. John
|Renee Callahan-St. John
|FRAMED Film Camp MENTORS: Stephen Dunn, Jacqueline Hynes
|A boy who breaks things finds an egg. To say more would to give away htis gorgeous short story from 2009 FRAMED Film Camp, filmed and edited over five days by high school students.
|The Collection
|Keren Abala
|Keren Abala
|This imaginative short features a curious young girl and a disintegrating paper world. A lovingly animated letter to book lovers everywhere, The Collection stands out for its sophisticated technique yet childlike innocence and charm.
|Jordan Canning
|Jordan Canning, Jody Richardson
|Jordan Canning, Laura Churchill
|This experiment with film narrative is a rich and amusing accomplishment. Neil Butler plays the part of a celebrated pianist who mysteriously faces some digital challenges. An NFB-Cannes short film contestant and a winning tour de force, this film is highly entertaining, smart, and sharp.
|Sherry White
|Sherry White
|Jennice Ripley, Rhonda Buckley, Sherry White
|Meghan Greeley and MAry Walsh deliver nothing short of brave and brilliant performances in this superb feature film. This film crackles with a smart, coherent vision of character. Ser in almost timeless rural Newfoundland, the film focuses on a young woman named Mitsy (Greeley), and her tough -loving guardian grandmother, Bride (Walsh). Their relationship is perpetually stained contained, and barely maintained, while Mom (Jane Maggs) has fled the building and the boyfriend (Joel Hynes) should be nobody's promise of a future. A superbly crafted and simple yarn about the struggle to get by, and the transformative possibilities that come from growth and understanding.
|Susan Justin
|A woman get a haircut and more than she bargained in this well-crafted animation. Combining simplicity and sophistication, director Justin strikes gold with the affecting and atmospheric gem.
|Dog = God
|Karen Hines, Lulu Keating
|Karen Hines, Lulu Keating, Kim Beggs
|Karen Hines, Lulu Keating
|You don't have to be dyslexic to believe in the oneness of you and your canine. Palindromically speaking, this funny little love song reminds us to STEP ON NO PETS.
|Down to the Wood
|Kelly Davis
|Kelly Davis
|NIFCO First Time Filmmaker Program
|If this short got any sweeter we'd have to take away your Fruit Loops. Davis's first-time filmmaker's program experiment has produced an utterly charming slice of life, all contained in a barber shop, with young Sammy in the chair. Bravo for this fine piece of work.
|Dream the Life
|Rebecca Rocheford Davies
|Rebecca Rocheford Davies
|Rebecca Rocheford Davies
|This wonderful shot comedy about a badass guy who returns home to shoot a film in his native land down under is irresistibly watchable. Jason's break from Hollywood shakes up not only the locals but his own self-absorbed little life as well. This treat has a highly inventive plot centered on jason's encounter with Mel, an unassuming waitress with a heart of gold. Of all the joints in all of New South Wales, he had to walk into hers.
|Examined Life
|Astra Taylor
|Astra Taylor
|Bill Imperial, Lea Marin, Ron Mann, Silva Basmajian
|Bill Imperial, Lea Marin, Ron Mann, Silva Basmajian DESCRIPTION: A documentary about ideas and the thinkers who come up with them. A veritable hit list of Great Pinheads, the film exposes us to luminaries such as Cornell West, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Slavoi Zizek, and Judith Butler, just to name the top five. Ever wondered what these intellectuals look like? If they spoke the way we wrote? Or what Judith Butler wears? To be sure, the film answers these questions and much more serious ones, too. But lest you think the film is as dry as a day with Derrida, Taylor mixes it up, animates her subjects, and keeps us riveted from beginning to end. When these heads talk, people listen.
|Expansive Grounds (Ein Weites Feld)
|Gerburg Rohde-Dahl
|Gerburg Rohde-Dahl
|Gerburg Rohde-Dahl
|This film is a stunningly unique take on the horrors of the Holocaust. The filmmaker bravely explores her family's own complicity in the Nazi regime while she chronicles the assembling of the huge and conspicuously in-your-German-face memorial in the centre of Berlin--conceived by an American architect and largely driven by a Jew. Not content to leave things at that, she then interviews those who experience the memorial once it has been erected--the uneasy, the defensive, the tormented, the guilty. This film is a fascinating story about many things, the Holocaust being only a part of what's going on here. How does a country remember an event of this scale? And what are the effects of such a confrontation of the past? This film is as much about art and symbols as it is about history and tragedy.
|Fast Forward in Reverse
|Eva Madden
|Eva Madden
|Nickel Independent Film Festival/Wreckhouse Jazz & Blues Festival
|This is our desert-island film, the one we would watch over and over again. St. John's proves that Super Eva really gets this town. Just fasten your seatbelts. Eva's taking you on some hopped up ride.
|Ferron: Girl on a Road
|Gerry Rogers
|Gerry Rogers
|Turning their lens on feminist, peacenik, singer, humanist, BC-based Ferron, the filmmakers of this piece have produced a highly entertaining doc for our viewing pleasure. In these troubled millennial years it's almost startling to hear a public figure speak to eloquently, passionately, and irrefutably about working--singing--for peace, about fighting aggression and challenging the aggressive zeitgeist. Ferron is that woman, and her relentless gentleness will blow you over with a feather.
|Jamie Stone
|Jamie Stone
|Laura Clarke
|What goes up must go down, but does it have to go up again? This film leaves us in sheer whimsy, an animated treat that might leave you breathless.
|Four Feet Up
|Nance Ackerman
|Nane Ackerman
|Annette Clarke
|This film is in many ways a response to this country's promise to eliminate child poverty. So how is it that eight-year old Isaiah is smart and so full of potential and yet part of a family that can barely make ends meet? With sheer bravado and sensitivity, director Ackerman spent two years with Isaiah and his family, involving them fully in this portrait of their struggle to cope in a country that renders them invisible. Deliberately grounded in reality, not sentimentality, this doc gives a very human face to social dysfunction, and prompts us to reflect not only on why change hasn't yet happened but what we can do to ensure it.
|Kaz Phillips
|Kaz Phillips
|Kaz Phillips
|A relentlessly NY City story, this inventive short drama works creatively on several intriguing levels. jane isn't plain but she is working at sobriety, and the effects of therapy and the struggle to stay dry are taking a toll. Sensual and gorgeously shot, at once disturbing and exhilarating, this film weaves in and out of Jane's real and dream worlds, in and out of desire and control. You'll love where this ride takes you.
|Glamour Guts
|Jasmine Oore
|Jasmine Oore
|Bryan Hofbaur, Jasmine Oore
|Best described, this is a short instructional film on how to live glamorously with intestinal disease. More? You want more? It's funny, sweet, and won the CBC Short Film Face-Off award, deservedly so.
|Going to Seed
|Bri Deihl
|Bri Deihl
|Bri Deihl
|T.S. Eliot might be rolling in his grave, but this short cinematic interpretation of his famous poem is a very witty update of J. Alfred Prufrock. Believing that a certain woman is really out of his league, our hapless over-thinking male slips between reality, where insecurity runs riot, and fantasy, where life is more enjoyable. Does he dare to eat a peach, or keep measuring his life in film frames? We grow old, we grow old, just thinking about it.
|Good Morning Kandahar
|Ariel Nasr
|Ariel Nasr
|Annette Clarke, Kent Martin
|What's Canada to Afghanistan and Afghanistan to Canada? This informative doc will blow your mind as it works through the answer to that question. The NFB has taken up a timely probe of how the war is ticking by exploring the challenge of Afghans who have transplanted themselves to Canada.
|The Good News (La Buena Nueva)
|Iker Ganuza
|Andrès Martorell, Helena Taberna
|Iker Ganuza
|This Sanish feature romance is about a priest and his desire to fight the machine. Set in the tortured, civil war-racked 30's, this film is a powerful romantic drama featuring Miguel, the handsome young man of the cloth who takes over a parish in a small town just as the uprising begins. Following the occupation of the village by rebel forces, he must choose whether to side with the colluding church or with the people. He also becomes involved with the beautiful, widowed school teacher, and things really start to heat up. Carpe diem and hasta la vista, baby.
|Grande Dame
|Anita Reilly McGee
|Anita Reilly McGee
|Anita Reilly McGee
|All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players, sure, but no one is quite so grand a dame as Greg Malone invoking the Seven Ages of Man. And so s/he plays his/her part. As the Bard would have said, s/he's got legs and s/he knows how to use them.
|Grown Up Movie Star
|Adriana Maggs
|Adriana Maggs
|Shawn Doyle, Jill Knox-Gosse, Adriana Maggs, Paul Pope
|This feature debut is a rocking tale about a former NHL star, Ray, who is trying to raise two knowing daughters, Ruby and Rose. HIs wife left him for someone else and he has his share of drug charges and a few debts in his wake. Life is tough, and so Ray seeks relief in women and beer, but his open face reveals a roadmap of loneliness. While Ray's desire starts tugging towards men, his daughter begins to experiment with her own sexuality, fearlessly, dangerously. This film really challenges its actors to push boundaries, and there isn't a performance that doesn't take us to the edge.
|Iriz Paabo
|Iriz Paabo
|David Verrall, Michael Fukushima
|Going against convention, animator Iriz Paabo has crafted an abstract-impressionist film about the quintessential Canadian sport. Using former NHL player Eric Nesterenko as her muse, the film brings us an evocative and highly unorthodox look at the national game.
|The Hall
|Stephen Dunn
|Stephen Dunn
|Alex Fox, Kyle Sanderson, Larissa Walkiw, Laura Asselin, Rodrigo Barriuso, Scott Matthews, Stephen Dunn
|This short is about the frustrated attempts of a nice, shy boy who is trying to meet a nice, perplexed girl in the corridor o love. What's stopping them? Why, a giant owl, of course! You'll laugh, you'll shake your head, you'll want to have what the director eats for breakfast.
|How Are You?
|Martha Burns, Susan Coyne
|Martha Burns, Susan Coyne
|Sonya Di Rienzo
|Is there anything worse than being constantly reminded that you might not be fine, thank you very much? Perhaps being asked if you've finished your thesis yet, or whether you're pregnant comes close. But divorce sure does bring out the most annoying reactions. This wry exercise in manners and mores might make you pause the next time you're tempted to ask someone how she's doing. Noisy inquisitors: heal thyselves.
|How to be Alone
|Andrea Dorfman
|Tanya Davis
|Walter Forsyth
|This film is another collaboration between the talented Andrea Dorfman and Tanya Davis, clearly a celebration of their friendship and mutual respect. Nonetheless, the subject of this thoroughly colorful music video is clearly not about partnership, but it's opposite. Dorfman gloriously celebrates the freedom of aloneness, proving once again that the best revenge is living well.
|How to Say I Love You
|Francesca Sophia, Hayley Stuart
|Hayley Stuart
|Francesca Sophia, Hayley Stuart
|This is about as short and sweet an an irish summer's day. Boy meets girl on a park bench and in eight minutes flat they experience the trajectory of cupid's arrow. Oh, that life were really so full of such promise, such candor, and such cuteness.
|In Between (Entre Deux)
|Nadine Valcin
|Nadine Valcin
|Brigette Boucher
|She is pretty, alone of a while, managing a convenience store, practicing her English; people enter; people exit. Two white guys appear, whispering, sinister...Where is this going? That's precisely the question this witty exercise in suspense and audience expectation raises, and then answers in totally surprising ways.
|Justine Wallace
|Justine Wallace
|Selin Yaman
|A delicate tale of fear and faith that follows 12-year old May as she fights to escape her mother's abusive boyfriend, and rejoins her as an adult, struggling to trust against a tide of doubt. Particularly striking is the use of animation--dark and intensely original.
|Inside Every Moment is Another Moment
|Kacey Morrow
|Kacey Morrow
|Kacey Morrow
|This video was constructed entirely of stills used simultaneously to create a structure that showed the past, present, and future of one day in a man's life. Synchronized to connect across three screens at specified moments, these moments triggered thoughts of alternate realities in an unknown state in time show on six additional screens. Interconnections were found among these different stages in time. Discovering these relationships in daily life, no matter how minor, gives a chance for reflection and redirection in our lives.
|Jacquelyn Carr, Martin Zaharinov
|Michael Beckett
|Martin Zaharinov
|Claire, a precocious yet still innocent pre-teen girl, tries to learn about her absent father by secretly painting his portrait from her imagination. When her Mom finds out about the painting, Claire learns an even bigger secret and takes the first steps on the path to becoming a young woman.
|The Last Dragon Kingdom
|Aine Carey, David Emery
|Aine Carey, David Emery
|How can we embrace change consciously and learn how to balance our needs and desires as we navigate this changing, evolving world? Big question to ask in just seven short minutes, but the filmmakers rise to the challenge admirably. Beautifully shot in the ancient kingdom of Bhutan, this film digs deep and comes up with gold.
|The Last Explorer
|Neil Diamond, Ernest Webb
|Christina Fon, Linda Ludwick, Ernest Webb, Catherine Bainbridge
|Cree filmmaker Diamond embarked on a filmic journey that shadowed that of his Uncle, George Elson, the Cree trapper who guided Mina Hubbard through the dangerous terrain of turn-of-the-century Labrador. This film is particularly fascinating to this province's citizens who know something of those fateful years (1903-05) and their tragic results. Anyone will find this feature doc fascinating, not only for the way it mines archival footage but also for how it opens istory up to unchartered approaches to these events. The whole story simply reeks intrigue and, as with all great romantic narratives, we just can't get enough of it.
|Les Plages d'Agnès (The Beaches of Agnes)
|Agnès Varda
|Agnès Varda
|Agnès Varda
|In conjunction with the MUN Cinema Series, there is no more fitting tribute to the history of women and film than this hymn to the art of directing by one of the greatest and non commercial artists in the business. Less autobiography than pastiche, this film is nonetheless a very personal expression of incomparable women. Beaches is a sweet, lovely, and intelligent reflection on work and life.
|Little Canyon
|Olivia Silver
|Olivia Silver
|Olivia Silver
|Greta's Dad is taking the family across the country, but this is no conventional romance of the road. the family is no longer functioning very well, and a 12-year old's life is feeling pretty gloomy. Shot with aching sensitivity, this short dramatic film was a smart Sundance entry and a UCLA prize winner--for good reason.
|Little Sheep
|Kristina Willemse
|Kristina Willemse
|Hanh Nguyen, Kristina Willemse
|As two young girls play in this poetic film, they encounter intimacy, exploring what belongs, and what is "other" in their search for safety. As the lines between play and danger are blurred, who will be marked and who will be saved?
|L'Ordre Des Choses
|Anne Émond
|Anne Émond
|François Bonneau
|If this were a country western song we'd recognize the genre. But when baby done gone and left him in a decidedly French film, we're moving into the realm of something far more subtle, like existential philosophy. This almost silent study of separation and abandonment perfectly captures that in-between feeling of such experience. We've all probably been there, done that, and torn up the t-shirt, but this smart, short meditation on loneliness brings it all back with an artful longing.
|Love & Savagery
|John N. Smith
|Des Walsh
|Barbara Doran, Lynne Wilson, Kevin Tierney, Tristan Orpen Lynch
|This is an exquisitely shot feature film, romance featuring our own Alla "Republic of Doyle" Hawco and Sarah Greene as the two young protagonists, fated to meet, love, and lust one other on the Irish coast of the 1960's. Newfoundland audiences will recognize an aching familiarity with Irish geography and culture, and the special appeal of all those lilting Gaelic voices. The life altering encounter of the main characters is set against a rugged coast and its rugged people, and a rural sensibility quite removed from the Irish Tiger growling just around the century.
|Lucky Day
|Laura Amante
|Laura Amante
|Sometimes everything is working exactly the way you dreamed it would, and therein lies the problem.
|The Magnificent Molly McBride
|Deanne Foley
|Deanne Foley, Iain MacLeod
|Lynne Wilson
|The Molly, of the magnificently titled, is an 11-year old with all the right gear but not enough moves to do the Irish jugs. Enter Any jones as the neighbourhood burglar. he knows his Irish dancing, and one thing leads to another surprising partnership. Lovingly shot, this film showcases the curly redheaded ability of Julia Kennedy as the magnificent youngster, a curiously fitting match for the graceful power of an Andy Jones, who is always pretty magnificent himself.
|Margaret Mellis: A Life in Colour
|Sue Giovanni
|Sue Giovanni
|Jules Hussey
|This colorful documentary was completed in time to correspond with a major exhibition of Margaret Mellis's work, survivor of the celebrated British-based St. Ives group of the 1930's. Mellis's unique talent generated amazing canvases of bold colour, and reconfigured found objects from the natural world. She was deeply part of her time but in a world dominated by men. Susannah York narrates in dulcet tones, just seductive enough to make us want to run to the nearest art gallery.
|Monsters Incapacitated
|FRAMED Film Camp: Erin Power, Ryan Flynn, Christopher Mullett, Holly Nelson, Jason King, Lindsay Kennedy, Karyn Dwyer
|FRAMED Film Camp MENTORS: Rachel Peters, Stephen Dunn
|Acclaimed animator Rachel Peters and boy wonder Stephen Dunn have boldly led a young group of artists into the world of stop-motion animation. A product of the FRAMED Animation Camp and created over just five days by intrepid first-time animators, this film dares you to check out your own backyard if you want to see where the wild things are. A partnership with For the Love of Learning, an arts-based education centre for resilient youth.
|Mother, Mine
|Susan Everett
|Susan Everett
|Rob Speranza
|This is a virtuoso short film that baits you with its beauty and then traps you with its mnd. This is a totally delicious experiment in suspense, with the audience being as vulnerable to manipulation as the ostensible heroine. Alison is working on tracking down her biological mother after her adoptive mother dies. the rest is a shocking mystery.
|Jennifer Steinman
|Jennifer Steinman
|This formidable documentary opens us up to disparate international views of mothering. Director Steinman spent 17 days travelling in South Africa pursuing her subject, the loss of a child with six grieving US-based women. What's startling here is the degree to which each of her US visitors is encouraged to confront not only her own situation but also that of an entirely different culture, where the personal and the political are so indistinguishable. These women don't really know each other at first, but the journey compels them to encounter each other along the way. That journey isn't easy, but it's so moving and so persuasive that we're begging you to see this.
|Mum's the Word
|Edward Tanasychuk
|Kerri MacDonald
|Jill Knox-Gosse
|This film is a small, well polished gem that features most of our favorite local boys while providing an object lesson in one of Newfoundland's finest rural traditions. Indeed, it is easier for a mummer to be 'lowed in than for a bunch of petty thieves to enter a rich man's kingdom.
|My Name is Anita
|Erin Barnett
|Erin Barnett
|We love Anita and everything about her. She is none other than a fearless champion of HIV/AIDS education activism in Namibia, an African country in which one in four people are afflicted. This filmmaker traveled to interview Anita Isaacs and to tell her story, a hugely empowering one of how a victim became a leader in a movement to educate. Her husband gave her the disease in the first place, a common enough occurrence, but Anita somehow managed to emerge from near death to take on an entire movement. Anita is utterly, understatedly persuasive and you'll never forget her or the power of her mission.
|The Name of the Artist
|Kristina Campbell
|Kristina Campbell
|Kristina Campbell
|In this sunny take on a clever art exhibition we see that the name of the famous artist is hardly a she. Sure, there are women hanging on the walls of museums: about 85% of all of them are nudes. What's in a name? An artist with two X chromosomes just doesn't smell the same. Don't get us started.
|The Necktie (La Noeud Cravate)
|Jean François Lévesque
|Jean François Lévesque
|Michèle Bélanger, Julie Roy, René Chénier
|Another NFB masterpiece, about a man and his discovery of the meaning of life. Valentin works hard, keeps in line, and embodies model citizenship, year after ritualistically predictable year. You might say this brilliantly animated film gives new meaning to the phrase "Dead-end job". But where there's the NFB there's hope, and so it is for Valentin and all of us along for his brilliantly imagined journey.
|One of Those Days
|Hattie Dalton
|Mark Burton
|Kelly Broad, Ed Kelly
|It's Judgement Day and Derek Jacobi is Harold Whitten, a right and proper English gentleman who, with his right proper English wife, is in the queue to meet their Maker. As often happens with bureaucratic rituals, however, there's a slight glitch. Think of all those Monty Python skits about government department or ministries of silly things. British humor doesn't get much blacker than this.
|Sylvie Trouvé
|Sylvie Trouvé
|Michael Fukushima, Maral Mohammadian
|What if a tree branch could tap on a pipe to create a rhythm or shadows could whistle us a tune? The city becomes a beatbox in this whimsical short produced by the NFB's famed Hothouse animation program. The director is part filmmaker part DJ, creating here an urban soundscape taken entirely from city sounds. Montreal never pulsed like it does here, in technicolor and out of control.
|Neely Goniodsky
|Neely Goniodsky
|Michael Fukushima, Maral Mohammadian
|The engines at the NFB's famed Hothouse Animation program keep turning. In this two minute animated wonder, we're introduced to the titular Pearl and the thoughts in her head. Sure Granny might be sitting knitting but unimaginative she is not. A better yearn can't be found, darn it.
|Shahrzad Sharifian
|Shahrzad Sharifian
|This film is a finely wrought observation of the relationship between religion and war. The topic may not be new but the treatment stands out boldly as animator Sharifian uses a Sufi dancer set against a background of the universe to convey her messages about divinity and the order of things.
|Playing the Machines
|Barbara Doran
|Barbara Doran
|Rob Blackie
|We'll bet you five in one you didn't realize how serious video gambling was. This film is a sobering doc about a ubiquitous menace, the VLTs that have spring up all over our province, and world for that matter, like rapidly reproducing androids from outer space. Doran's searing documentary exposes the pernicious dopamine-enhancing properties of those nasty terminals, preying as they do on false hope and all those dreams without a prayer. In humanizing the experience, Doran's doc takes us closer to the users. Who's calling the shots, anyways?
|Poto Mitan
|Mark Schuller, Renee Bergan
|Edwidge Danticat
|Mark Schuller, Renee Bergan
|What do you think of when you think of Haiti? Oppressive tyrannical regimes? Poverty? Racial conflict? A people in need of rescue? This film shows the country through a radically different lens from the one we are used to--the lens of women. Five Haitian women who are working nobly within this tired nation tell us of the way of globalization, with its neoliberal rationalization, is not only gendered but racialized. Haitians are victims yet again of forces bigger than them. But the empowering spirit of these women lies in the power of their collective solidarity. THis film is, above all, an uplifting story about the inevitability of emancipation through struggle and the sheer dogged accomplishment of women's work.
|Pretend Not to See Me
|Katherine Knight
|Katherine Knight
|This film showcases artist Colette Urban's innovate performance art and her decidedly non-urban life. You can't help but be awed by her immaculate attention to her work, whether transforming into a she-bear, dancing with bungee cords, mocking our consumer fetishes, or laughing all the way to the woodpile. It's hard not to see the art in the woman and especially in this film that so gracefully honours her talent.
|Pici Pápi
|Pici Pápi
|Don't blink in fear of missing even a frame of this award-winning short which looks at adult relationships through the eyes of children. The walls are thin in apartment buildings and kids might say the darndest things, but where do you think they hear them in the first place? Don't miss any of this Hungarian delight, especially if you think the neighbours can't hear you.
|R.I.P: A Remix Manifesto
|Brett Gaylor
|Brett Gaylor
|Daniel Cross, Mila Aung-Thwin, Ravida Din, Sally Bochner, Kat Baulu, Germaine Ying Gee Wong
|A feature documentary about copyright and remix culture might not sound particularly interesting, but this pulsating celebration of free and open access is like a primer on how to draw down from the culture. Web activist Brett Gaylor takes us along on an entertaining ride through the boundaries of commercialism. In fact, his participatory mission aims at dissolving those boundaries altogether, so you can no longer tell the dancer from the dance. Fueled by the dazzling audio-technics of uber masher-upper Girl Talk, this manifesto kicks major class action. No self-respecting film festival can afford to ignore it.
|The Real Matriarch
|Rhonda Buckley
|Rhonda Buckley
|What do Barbara Doran, Sara Sexton, Edyth Goodrich, and Lois Brown have in common? They are all indomitable movers and shakers, thinkers and players, mothers and daughters, each a Newfoundlander, each in her own way. Rhonda Buckley's admiring documentary merely scratches the surface of what makes these models of adult girl power so necessary.
|Robes of War (Robe de Guerre)
|Michèle Cournoyer
|Michèle Cournoyer
|Réne Chenier, Michèle Bélanger, Marcel Jean
|This NFB gem has to be experience to be appreciated. Sure, we all know the question: war, what is it good for? But this film speaks to this question through an almost magical transformation technique, in which lines on the screen transmute into both the victims and agents of war. This is a truly inspired, animated fable, almost shocking in its bold analysis.
|Rough Aunties
|South Africa
|Kim Longinotto
|The tough women of the title are totally remarkable for their fearless commitment to the lives of others--specifically, the lives of the neglected children of Durban, South Africa, children caught in the crossfire of hate and vengeance. These impressive women put themselves through hell of a lot, daily confronting rage and tragedy. Ye through this forceful film we come eventually to a much deeper appreciation not only of the complexity of a South African in transition but of the remarkable strength and courage required to build a world that children will inherit.
|Sex Toy Stories
|Anne Deluz, Béatrice Guelpa
|Francine Lusser, Gérard Monier
|The provocative title tells it exactly as it is. This is an inspired and ultimately moving documentary about three different women who are each selling rather unconventional wares. What this remarkable set of stories shows us is just how important it is for women to take control of their own physical pleasure--and teaching their partners what that means. There is nothing prurient, tacky, or silly here. This film gives us all an enlightened education by taking the high road to satisfaction.
|Olga Zikrata
|Olga Zikrata
|Olga Zikrata
|The titular Sitka (Ukrainian for net), is here rendered gorgeously in his cinematic love poem about memory, love and loss and how the three are so beautifully linked. Unconventional in her filmmaking techniques, filmmaker Zikrata demands attention from her audience with images that will stay in the mind long after the last frame.
|Snakes and Ladders
|Lynn Kristmanson
|Lynn Kristmanson
|NIFCO First Time Filmmaker Program
|Kristmanson's first-time filmmaker's experiment is a wonderfully executed re-minting of the boy-meets-girl genre. In this playful deconstruction of the oldest tale there is, we are left to ponder whether fate, destiny or sheer coincidence determine the course of love. It helps if you play fair on the gameboard of life.
|Soaring, Roaring, Diving
|Canada/New Zealand
|Juliet Palmer, Miriam Harris
|Miriam Harris
|Intertwining drawing, Super 8, collage and a host of other techniques, filmmakers Harris and Palmer are here to take you on a journey. And as every traveller knows well, the real journey isn't on the outside but is what happens on the inside. ultimately, this film is about grief and loss and coming out clean on the other side with vision of the South Pacific in between.
|Still Alive
|Cherilyn Papatie
|Wapikoni Mobile
|This short opus celebrates the planting of a forest and how it goes hand in hand with community spirit. This film stands out as a moving parallel with Aboriginal people and their tenacity. Made through Wapikoni Mobile, a travelling production studio for young people in Aboriginal communities. This experiences give them the opportunity to break the silence and speak out.
|Storstad (Big City)
|Rafael Deugenio
|Rafael Deugenio, China Áhlander
|China Áhlander
|A 4-year old preoccupies himself in an apartment with his toys, the television, and his teddy bear, while clouds scud across the sky, traffic ebbs and flows through the windows, and light rises and falls. What's going on? This at-first puzzling little tale is really a fable about the anonymity of urban life. It shrewdly puts the viewer in a voyeuristic--that is, helpless--position. Stay tuned to the news.
|Nikko Snyder
|Nikko Snyder, Johanna Bundon
|Nikko Snyder, Johanna Bundon
|The Tely 10this ain't. run, don't walk to this intriguing short that'll leave you wondering where the rat race has its finish line.
|Sweet Pickle
|Lois Brown
|Ruth Lawrence
|Baptiste Neis
|Where would our festival be without Lois Brown? This time she brings us nothing less than a glorious musical, featuring Ruth Lawrence as an irrepressible foodie who just can't pass a melon without a good squeeze. How can you keep her down on the farm now that she's seen all the choices the president offers? Beautifully foolish, this film marks an entirely new genre, in a class by itself, of course.
|Tango Lola
|Sami Ben Youssef, Izabela Rieben
|Izabela Rieben
|Diane Duperret, Xavier Ruiz
|This entry is a whimsical animated fantasy involving the titular heroine who dreams she wins the lotto. Life certainly would be more promising. But in the real world of the living room couch, Lola's husband rudely interrupts the fantasy. Does Lola get whatever Lola wants?
|Ten Days
|Christian Sparkes
|Christian Sparkes
|Christian Sparkes, Jordan Canning
|St. john's rarely looks as good as it does here in this energetic and ambitious project from the director/producer team of Christian Sparkes and Jordan Canning. Fitting in at university is one thing but proving yourself to the school wrestling team, your family and yourself, not to mention snagging your dream girl, is something else entirely. The story of how young Donny Fowler goes from zero to (almost) hero will have you cheering by the time the titular ten days are up.
|Nicole Triche
|Nicole Triche
|Not the first time an owl has graced our screens. Director Nicole Triche soars with this experimental short about the persistence of vision.
|Thorns and Silk
|Palestinian Territories/UK
|Paulina Tervo
|Paulina Tervo
|We adore this lively short documentary study by a Finnish journalist of four amazing women who inhabit the West Bank of, er, Palestine. Each is busy working at a job normally taken up by a man, and each speaks eloquently of the challenge of so doing. You want empowerment? We'll show you empowerment.
|Tiger Spirit
|Min Sook Lee
|Min Sook Lee
|Min Sook Lee, Ed Barreveld, Anita Lee
|A fascinating doc about a country we are just starting to understand. The border separating North and South Korea also keeps families from each other, and so it is that many have not seen mothers or brothers or sisters for decades. A formal reunion program exists, but only for the very few, and then for a limited time. This film tracks both the personal toll a divided country has on its citizens, as well as the filmmaker's quest to locate her own ancestral roots.
|The Time of Their Lives
|Jocelyn Cammack
|Hilary Durman
|This is a feature documentary about older women, zooming in on a seniors' home in the pastoral English countryside. But this is no lament about senior care; rather, the film invites us into the lives of several remarkable women who have endured even more than a century of life, and have so much to say to us. These are women who, for the most part, remain alert and engaged with ideas, fight for peace, write poetry, stimulate their rational faculties, and have a great deal to say about men.At one wry, moving, tender and provoking, this film candidly faces the big questions through conversations with some pretty wise golden girls.
|Vive La Rose
|Bruce Alcock
|Bruce Alcock, Luke Murphy, Dan Sousa, Dirk Van de Vondel
|Tina Ouellette, Annette Clarke, Michael Fukushima, Bruce Alcock, Kent Martin, David Verrall
|This film transforms a moving, elegiac Emily Benoit tune into an animated visual tapestry, no easy feat. This gorgeous shot film gives us the privilege of hearing Benoit's unmistakeable voice, accompanied by his inimitable fiddle while feasting on a tableau of evocative images conjured by his lyrics. There is a fiercely beautiful magic at work here, and we are so fortunate to be witness to it.
|Who's Afraid of the Wolf (Kdopak by se vlka bál)
|Czech Republic
|Mária Procházková
|Mária Procházková
|Vratislav Slajer
|We encourage mothers and fathers to take their sons and daughters to see this one. This film is essentially a domestic drama about a family that is torn apart and then reconfigured. Tha daughter at the centre of this drama is a modern-day little red riding hood, but sometime's it's hard to see forest for the trees. A finely wrought story for all ages, this film trips the light at fairy tale fantastic.
|Will You Be Home Tonight? (Reviens-Tu Ce Soir?)
|Genevève Albert
|Genevève Albert
|Genevève Albert
|This provocative film touches on some pretty delicate subjects. A mother and daughter sort of story, this film traces the creeping anxiety of an aging Suzanne, mother to Raphaelle. In turn, the young Raphaelle wonders about her mother's life-enhancement choices. We think you'll be talking about this film long after the credits stop rolling.
|Zig Zag Love
|Gillies MacKinnon
|Mary Morris
|Jane Stevenson, Jane Dauncey
|This drama from BBC Scotland features the outrageously comic Robert Carlyle as Dad to young cancer patient Peter. Ziggy, a pretty young woman with cerebral palsy, becomes the irresistible free-spirited object of Peter's desire. Blocking their blossoming attraction are Ziggy's father and fear itself. The two leads in this remarkable romance are superb, natural, and totally charming. This film is Scottish-fresh and a bit more than a wee bold, and besides, Bob's your Uncle.


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What Did That Westwood Bank Owned Home Sell For At 411 Denslow?
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Invention Could Reduce Flat Panel Display Manufacturing Costs
|By Allan Chen, [email protected]
October 9, 1996
BERKELEY, CA -- A scientist at the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has developed a new "selective ion source" that can improve the semiconductor manufacturing process and decrease the cost of flat-panel displays.
The inventor of the new process is Ka-Ngo Leung, the leader of the Plasma and Ion Source Technology Group in Berkeley Lab's Accelerator and Fusion Research Division. "Although the new technology can help improve the manufacture of conventional silicon-based semiconductors," Leung says "its primary application will be the manufacture of flat-panel displays.
The winners of the race to bring down the cost and reduce the defect rate of these complicated semiconductor-based display devices will reap a huge economic reward, since FPDs are expected eventually to dominate the market for high-resolution displays. There is a considerable amount of research in the U.S., Japan, Germany and elsewhere aimed at developing the technology for inexpensively manufacturing high-quality FPDs.
"Flat-panel displays consist of many pixels. Each pixel turns on and off individually, and is controlled by transistors," says Leung." The transistors are formed from semiconductors consisting of silicon 'doped' with phosphorus or boron."
Semiconductors are the materials from which most integrated circuits such as microprocessors and dynamic random access memories -- the critical components of desktop computers and many other electronic devices -- are made.
One way to dope a layer of silicon with phosphorus, arsenic, or boron ions is to aim a stream of dopant ions into the silicon, a process called ion implantation.
The manufacturing process must ensure that the dopant is pure and as free as possible from unwanted ions. "Conventional implantation might start with a beam of phosphorus or boron scanning the silicon wafer to dope it uniformly. However, flat panel displays start with a panel of glass that is too big to use the conventional method effectively" says Leung.
"So, a technique called ion shower is used. You employ a large beam of phosphorus or boron. You immerse this big panel of glass in the shower. This implants the whole panel with the dopant. To do this you need a big ion source."
"The ion source generates a stream of dopant ions such as phosphorus by starting with a phosphorus-containing gas like phosphine, PH3. However, phosphine is so toxic that it is always sold heavily diluted, often in a mixture of 95 percent hydrogen gas and five percent phosphine. When you put this gas into a conventional ion source, what do you get?" asks Leung. "Most of the ions coming out are hydrogen."
This creates two problems. One is that the energy of the beam is so high that the silicon-coated glass blank is heated too much by the accelerated hydrogen ions (or other unwanted ions in the mixture) causing damage to the glass surface. A second problem is damage caused by the buildup of excessive electrical charges in the plate from the unwanted ions. The damage can be significant enough to warrant throwing out the plate -- an expense that substantially raises the cost of manufacture.
Leung's solution was to develop an ion source technology that uses just enough energy to selectively ionize only the phosphine (or diborine, B2H6, or other gas), but not enough to ionize the hydrogen gas. This eliminates most of the unwanted impurities from the ion stream because they are electrically neutral, and reduces both the excess heating and the charging problem.
The technology also solves another problem. "Conventional ion sources use a tungsten filament to inject the gas containing the dopant with electrons. However the tungsten is an impurity that is easy to ionize, a source of contamination. So we developed a technology to inject electrons without tungsten that instead uses a principle called radiofrequency (RF) induction discharge. We create plasma using RF induction discharge and then inject electrons into the main chamber to ionize the source gas," he says. "The device is called an RF plasma cathode."
Leung also has another invention which consists of an apparatus for creating a large-diameter ion beam from a small-diameter diverging beam. In conjunction with the selective ion source, this invention can be used to generate a beam appropriate for ion implantation of large areas of material such as those used in flat-panel displays.
Developmental work on the selective ion source is supported by a corporate sponsor under a cooperative research and development agreement with DOE.
The mission of the Plasma and Ion Source Technology Group is to develop plasma and ion sources for nuclear and basic energy sciences, (for example, for spallation neutron research), and medical applications such as proton therapy to treat cancer.
The University of California was awarded patent number 5,517,084 by the Patent Office for Leung's selective ionization invention. Patents are pending for his rf plasma cathode and large diameter ion beam apparatus. The three patents are available for licensing from Berkeley Lab's Technology Transfer Department.
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Let's talk about #2. You may have noticed over the last few weeks, I changed my name from Ideaspark to Interior Design Alchemy. This was a result of an archetype exercise I went through. It revealed that my primary archetype is "alchemist." To be honest, I only knew of alchemy in a scientific context, so when I read up on it's definition, I was floored. According to Dictionary.com, it is "a seemingly magical process of transformation, creation, or combination." I transform spaces by either creating them or combining things in a different way! As Oprah would say, it was an "ah ha" moment for me.
Not only was it incredibly fun, it was also really illuminating. I walked away with a lot more information about who I am and what makes me tick. I genuinely believe that this knowledge will help me be a better designer.
Speaking of transformation, I participated in a photo shoot the other day and boy is it a process! There's a lot of illusion and perspective involved in photography. The image below is of my photographer John Valls doing HIS magic. Wait until you see the transformation of this space!
If you're ready to have your modern, midcentury or contemporary space transformed, head on over to my revamped web site and request a complimentary phone consultation. I'd love to hear about you and what you would make magically disappear from your living room if you could?


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Mix-n-Match Interview: Comedy Shorts Filmmakers/
Filmmakers participating in ATLFF 2014 were asked to select from a number of possible interview questions and answer them as truthfully-yet-entertainingly as possible.
Producer and Actress Tijuana Ricks on... "Human Resources: Sicks Days Aren't A Game"
Complete this sentence: "If you liked _, you'll like my film." Explain why.
Office Space. Like Office Space, we take a peek at the darker side of office politics. We've all worked in those offices where the hierarchy is clear. Bosses can be terrifying but you also totally want to be that.
Is your film for dog people or cat people? Why?
Dog people, for sure. The main characters, Kendra and Perry, are like a bulldog and shih-tzu. Both cuddly and dangerous in their own way. Watch and you will see what I mean.
What's the most challenging part of making a film for you? Do you enjoy that challenge, or is its something to be avoided?
This is my first short I've produced! I now know that we produced this film in a stupid quick turnaround. From idea to editing it was about a month. Calling in every favor I could think of to get awesome locations that fit the script was definitely the most challenging. Luckily, I have great friends who work in fly places! :) Working with Jeff and Ken was a ball though. I'm ready to dive in and do it again.
Of the filmmakers working today, whose talent do you most want to steal?
Cary Joji Fukunaga. His work on True Detective was SICK! I want to crawl into his brain. I want to steal his talent and I want to hang out with him. I'm really looking forward to seeing what he does next.
Describe the moment when you knew you making movies was what you wanted to do.
Sitting in my second meeting with Ken and Jeff, knocking out ideas for the short. It was exciting and I couldn't wait to see our baby grow. Not long after we finished production, I was hatching followups. Totally hooked.
What are your three favorite ways to eat potatoes, and what's your favorite dinosaur?
French fries, scalloped with bacon, cheesy, creamy goodness and garlic mashed. T-Rex. Freakin' fierce and one of my favorite nicknames. ;)
Writer-Directors Rex New & Thia Schuessler (also Actress) on... "Housesitter"
Complete this sentence: "*If you liked INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS, you'll like my film."
Because it's a character study that walks the line between comedy and drama--and it features several cats.
Is your film for dog people or cat people? Why?
CAT PEOPLE! It features 6 cats who actually live in the house where we shot the film.
Of the filmmakers working today, whose talent do you most want to steal?
Rex: David O. Russell, Alexander Payne, Paolo Sorrentino, and Errol Morris.
Thia: Duplass Brothers, Coen Brothers, Jeff Nichols
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text: February 16, 2015 Sausage, Cannellini and Kale Soup February 16, 2015/ Amy Kayne First, I have to give credit to where credit is due. I got this recipe idea from Stacy London who was on the Chew last winter. I loved how the soup incorporated another vegetable in the broth. Although her recipe is a bit healthier, as she uses chicken sausage, and no beer, my version was a crowd pleaser at Super Club and Beer Dinner.5- 6 chicken or pork Italian Sausage links sliced raw (if you like spice, make it Hot Italian Sausage)2 cans cannellini beans, rinsed and drained16 oz low sodium veggie broth16 oz low sodium chicken stock1 cup beer2 cups broccoli with stalk, chopped1 small onion, chopped2 cups chopped kale3 cloves garlic, crushedCrushed red pepper to tasteSalt and Pepper to tasteOlive OilFirst, heat oil on the bottom of a large stock pan at medium/ high heat. Add sausage and brown for 3-5 minutes. Add desired amount of crushed red pepper between ½ - 1 tsp. Remove browned sausage and set aside. Add onions to pan and sauté until translucent. Add broccoli and sauté for another 5 mins. Then deglaze the pan with beer and scrape up all the brown bits on the bottom of the pan. Add veggie broth and chicken stock and simmer for 5 more minutes until the broccoli is fork tender. Now for the fun part, use your emersion blender and blend until smooth for about 5 minutes. This is now your creamy broth without adding cream. Add salt and pepper to taste and more crushed red pepper if needed.Add 2 cans of cannellini beans, garlic, kale and the cooked sausage. Simmer for about 30 minutes and serve. Goes great with your favorite crusty bread or top with croutons.This is almost better the next day so I encourage you to make enough for lunch or leftovers during the week.Enjoy!


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NSN and Sprint hit 2.6 Gbps TD-LTE throughput, beating previous record by 63 percent
Nokia Solutions and Networks has linked up with the US operator Sprint to accomplish a huge leap in TD-LTE network speeds by demonstrating 2.6 gigabits per second (Gbps) throughput over a single sector. Using its commercially available Flexi Multiradio 10 Base Station, NSN's Mountain View facility in California beat the previous 1.6 Gbps record and will be demonstrating the achievement at Mobile World Congress 2014. NSN is also launching a high-capacity Flexi Multiradio System Module for TD-LTE that can deliver up to 5 Gbps of peak throughput from a single site.
Continuing its streak of TD-LTE speed records, NSN has aggregated 120 MHz of Sprint's TDD spectrum to achieve an unprecedented speed of 2.6 Gbps using its innovative Flexi Multiradio 10 Base Station, which is currently used in commercial radio networks around the world.
"Sprint is excited to partner with NSN to enable Sprint Spark and lead the way globally in enabling future mobile broadband innovation," said Stephen Bye, chief technology officer at Sprint. "Combining our unique spectrum assets with TD-LTE-Advanced features and NSN's next generation TD-LTE base station has allowed us to achieve the world's first 2.6 Gbps throughput over TD-LTE."
"With demand for high-speed mobile broadband services growing rapidly around the world, NSN and Sprint are showing how operators can unlock the highest capacity from their TDD spectrum," said Zhang Qi, vice president for TD-LTE at NSN. "At Mobile World Congress, we will demonstrate how the record speed was achieved, proving that TD-LTE technology and the ecosystem are ready for global roll out by any operator with TDD spectrum. With our help, the operators can meet and exceed the expectations of mobile broadband customers."
In a further development, NSN is launching a high-capacity TD-LTE baseband system module for its Flexi Multiradio 10 Base Station product family that can deliver up to 5 Gbps of peak throughput from a single site. The enhanced Flexi Multiradio System Module is the industry's highest capacity TD-LTE baseband. This means that operators can roll out TD-LTE networks with fewer base stations and fewer sites, saving up to 50 percent in capital expenses and operational costs. The module features integrated transport technology, removing the need for additional hardware for connecting to transport networks. IPsec security is also built in, providing a secure tunnel between the base station and core network to protect traffic from eavesdropping, unauthorized access or distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
Featuring the industry's highest processing power, the System Module can run a variety of TD-LTE-Advanced software. These include Transmit Mode 9 (TM9) for high user throughput, Carrier Aggregation, and NSN's Smart Scheduler features, all of which boost site capacity from a single compact unit.
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The Series: The G-Men are playing the 2011 World Champion Cardinals, who got in (like they did in 2011) via the wild card. This is going to be a hard fought NLCS. The Giants are the home team based on winning the division (and a better record) but the G-Men split the season series with the Cardinals 3-3, with a 1-1 split in SF and a 2-2 split in St. Louis. The Cardinals (team BA of .271 and Team ERA of 3.71 are as close to the Giants (team BA of .269 and Team ERA of 3.68) as you can get. The Cards have more HR's (159 to the Giants 103) but less stolen bases (G-men 118 versus Cards 91). Can you say evenly matched?
The question will be momentum and desire. The G-Men are coming off the most emotional comeback in the history of the NLDS, three games down on the road in Cincinnati and winning all three. The Cards came back from 2 runs down in the 9th inning of game 5 to knock out the Nationals (BTW: glad to see it, teaches the Nationals to shut down Strasberg for the playoffs, what horseshit was that?). Will this series go the distance? Hard to say but based on the statistics it looks like a 7 game series to me.
On the Cardinals side look out for Carlos Beltran (simple awesome, we should have kept him), Allen Craig, Matt Carpenter, David Freese, Descalso (perhaps the MVP of the Cardinals NLDS series) and Matt Holliday. Kozma, the new shortstop replacing Furcal, is a pistol and was batting .383 after one month in the majors. He is hot people. Finally, ignore Yadier Molina at your peril. He might be the best catcher in baseball short of Buster. Pitching might be a weakness. But Lohse (16 wins and a 2.86 ERA), Wainwright (14 wins and a 3.94 ERA – he can be had BTW), Lynn (18 wins and a 3.78 ERA and a revitalized Chris Carpenter (just back from surgery) are going to be tough. The closer for the Cardinals (Motte) has 42 saves and is one of the save leaders of the NL.
The Positives: Buster Posey. Period. Buster is best player in baseball right now (.338 BA, .408 OBA, 24 dingers, and 103 RBI's) and the for sure MVP (and the Willie Mac award winner and maybe the comeback player of the year after the injury in 2011) and without him we are ten games back and not in the playoffs at all. That Grand Slam run in Game 5 in Cincinnati was chilling. I thought that I was watching Robert Redford in the Natural hit the lights with Lightening boy.
Behind Buster (in all ways, including in the batting order) is the Reverend Hunter Pence, who is the emotional heart of the team after his magic in Cincinnati to rally the troops with his intensity. He also plays a dynamite right field. For the first time I don't miss Nate's arm out there. The Gigantes are a veteran team (Angel Pagan, Marco Scutero, Xavier Nady) with a deep and skilled bench (Arias, Sanchez, Ryan Theriot, Aubrey Huff as a pinch hitter) and a strong bullpen (Casilla, Romo, Kontos, Affeldt and Lopez) and quality pitching (more about that below).
I talked about the Brandon's (Belt and Crawford) in the last blog but I can't say enough about these young men. Anyone who saw the picture of Crawford hanging over the rail at Candlestick when he was five years old and looking totally focused knows that this guy bleeds orange and black. They are going to be mainstays of the G-Men for years to come. Crawford is a human highlight reel who plays the best defense at short we have seen at AT&T since Omar was here. Belt is as good defensively at first as Crawford is at short, and Belt is a better hitter with more power (I think that he has both Giants splash hits this year, I was there for the last one) and is fearless, as anyone watching him go over the rail for a foul ball in game 1 of NLDS knows. He has found his groove and can now turn on the inside fastball. I expect that we will see Belt being seriously considered for the third spot in the batting order in a year or two. He is that good.
And don't forget Bruce Bochy. Bochy has been masterful this year with position changes, double switches, using the bullpen carefully, keeping players rested and making the right moves at the right time (although I must admit I got a little concerned in Game 4 of the NLDS when we were down to one player on the bench and Romo had to bat for himself - for the first time this year).
The Questions: Once again, the Panda and the starting pitchers. Pablo is overweight and looking tired. He swings at balls three feet off the plate (but occasionally connects for a ripping home run, like the one that went into the river in Cincinnati). His defense is OK but Arias is better and Pablo does have brain farts now and then. The starting pitchers are all gassed. You can see it. Now the goal is to get six innings out of the pitchers and turn to the bullpen. Putting Lincecum in the pen to relieve Zito worked like a charm but I expect that Timmy will get a start in the NCLS and Zito will be on the bench. Will they be revitalized for the NLCS? I certainly hope so and expect so.
We are going to see Bumgarner and Vogelsong in the first two games. Bumgarner needs to focus (he is young but is growing up quickly and, hopefully, his recrd of pitching well at home will continue) and this is Vogelsong's time – he has lived his entire life for this moment.
The Negatives: There are very few. Panda's weight, fatigue in the bullpen (is Affeldt's finger OK?) and Mota. LEAVE MOTA OFF THE ROSTER! He may have cost us the first two games at home in the losses to the Reds and I shudder every time I see him come out of the bullpen. Watching two losing games at home (including the 9-0 loss to the Reds) was gut wrenching. Is AT&T a negative? The G-men seem to play better on the road than at home but then again all 5 NLDS games were won by the road team. Maybe they are just too tight.
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Historically entertaining
To say that this small town has a rich history in an understatement. A former aluminum-mining town, Benton has become a diverse and charming community in Central Arkansas. Well aware of its important role in the state's history and eager to preserve and showcase this role, Benton keeps the old-fashioned in fashion. It's no wonder that antiquers from all over the region flock to Benton for some of the best shopping in the state.
Water, water everywhere!
Outdoor fun in every season is what The Natural State is all about, and Benton is a great place to play in the water. Fishermen will love the rich diversity of the Saline River and can expect to find everything from walleye to rock bass to crappie beneath its surface. If scenery is what you seek, look no further than Sunset Lake, a great place to fish from the pier or just sit and watch the sunset, hence the name! For a vigorous workout or just pure kid fun, come on over to Benton's new Riverside Park, a sports and aquatic complex with everything you need to keep the mind, the body and the kids fit and happy.


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Maestro: One Improviser to Rule Them All!
A comedy elimination showdown. Many competitors enter but only one will emerge as the "Maestro"
Doors Open @ 7:30pm, Show Starts @ 8:00pm
A king or queen to rule the stage! In this exciting format, improvisors compete to escape elimination and be crowned the evening's Maestro. Actors perform in a barrage of scenes and songs for the audience's delight and approval. Will they succeed or join the ranks of the eliminated? Come laugh and cheer to see who will be this month's Maestro!
Are there ID or minimum age requirements to enter the event?
There are no minimum age requirements for attendees. Typically shows are within a PG-13 rating. Our performances are improvised so the content is largely determined by the audience and the suggestions you give. We don't avoid "blue" humor but we try to be a little more creative with off-color suggestions than the obvious.
What are my transportation/parking options for getting to and from the event?
Street parking is available on Union and N Jay street by our Theatre. Parking is available in the lot behind Perecca's as well as other public lots within a short walk of the theatre. The lot directly across from us is reserved for the Rossi & Ditorro Funeral Home NOT AVAILABLE for parking. DO NOT park in the lot by JoJo's Auto Service or you will be towed. Find our more and see a detailed map of parking options available around us here.
How can I contact the organizer with any questions?
You can reach us at firstname.lastname@example.com with general inquiries or email@example.com with specific questions about the show times and details. You can also call us at 518-577-6726.
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His eyes blinked open, or he blinked his eyes open. Whatever, they opened. He hadn't expected to blink like that but then again he hadn't thought much about how it would happen only that he believed it would. He figured at some point along the way he was probably the only one. He could almost laugh about that now.
He swung his legs around, put his feet on the floor and sat there in the dark until his eyes adjusted to the faint light coming in from around the door. He looked down at his feet and realized that he had no idea where his shoes had gone; or who might have them. The same thought crossed his mind about his clothes. He waited another minute, contemplating the shoes and clothes issue, and with his pupils now fully open thought to himself, I ought to be cold but I am surprisingly comfortable considering the fact that I'm sitting naked on a stone bench in God knows where.
He stood up. That felt good, he thought. He was elated. How interesting to feel that way just standing. He looked again at his feet and then at his hands and arms. He felt his chest and his sides, bent down and rubbed his legs, ran his hands over his head. Nothing broken, all parts in working order, ribs intact, joints loose, even his hair in fine shape, considering.
Well, better get to it, he thought. He reached back and picked up the thin blanket that had been covering him when he was flat on the bench. He swung it around and wrapped himself in it. He thought, I cannot wait to see the look on her face when she sees me for the first time. He didn't have to imagine that look though; he could see it in his mind's eye. That was going to be another interesting part of all this. He had had his doubts, just like anyone else would have, but he now knew that doubt would no longer apply to him. He hoped it would no longer apply to her, but that was her choice. It would be the same choice all of them would have to consider from now on. I did my part, he thought.
He turned around to adjust the blanket and when he turned back there was no door, just an opening to the day. Light streamed in. Nice morning. He laughed and thought, They will all be nice from now on. She wasn't there now but he knew she would be when he got back. At this point he needed to take a long walk, fill his lungs with some fresh air, find some shoes and clothes and a mirror. In the state he was in he didn't worry about somebody recognizing him. Not right away. That would come later he hoped. He stepped through the frame and into the sunshine. He stretched. Saw no one around. Smiled. He walked straight out and after a few hundred yards he smelled fresh baked bread coming from somewhere beyond the tree line. What time was it really? He began to wonder just how early it might be. Too early for a glass of wine?


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70+ mpg Trident Iceni supercar
Are you an environmentalist buy don't like looking like one? Do you think that if you drive a Prius, you will be dismissed as a hippy? Well English carmaker Trident may finally have a solution. Trident has been trying to get its Iceni sports car on the road for almost a decade now, and the last time it made news at TopSpeed was two years ago. So, it sounds like the project may be dead in the water, right? In a statement today, Trident says that the new Iceni is about to go into production, and this time its gone green.
The Iceni uses a 550 hp 6.6-liter V8 to propel 3256 lbs. The catch here is the engine is a turbo diesel, which can be run on biodiesel without conversion or harming the warranty. Trident's green mind is also adding "torque multiplication" technology in the car. It claims that with this new system, the Iceni can achieve 68.9 mpg when driving at a constant 70 mph in track tests and 108 mpg at 30 mph. Trident also promises more than 200 mph top speed and 0-60 mph in 3.7 seconds, in a car that costs £75,000 (about $140,000, but there has not yet been announced plans for the U.S.)
Does all this sound too good to be true? Absolutely. Trident is still looking for investors. But this may finally be the right time for a fuel efficient supercar. Besides, Trident has stuck around so long it deserves a chance to get the Iceni on the road. Now all they have to do is start making driving gloves out of hemp.
Source: Channel 4
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Wow! With 550hp and runs for 70mpg+ that's great.


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British Churches
Holyhead, Disgwylfa Chapel, Pews at the rear of the Hall
Holyhead, Disgwylfa Chapel, Pulpit and Ceiling
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Churches in Britain and Ireland.
High resolution old and contemporary photographs of Disgwylfa Chapel Interior in Holyhead (Caergybi) in Anglesey (Sir Fôn) North Wales.
Holyhead, Disgwylfa Chapel Front and Sides
Sadly, Disgwylfa Chapel on London Road in Holyhead, was demolished in 2009.
Before Disgwylfa Chapel was demolished, Mr Keith Rowlands - who had worshipped here as a child - went inside and took some photographs. I am indebted to him for sharing them with us.
The magnificent organ was a memorial to those who had lost their lives in the Great War, and afterwards the Second World War.
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Holyhead, Disgwylfa Chapel Organ, Pulpit and view of the side Pews from upstairs
Holyhead, Disgwylfa Chapel, Deacons Area
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Holyhead, Disgwylfa Chapel, The Deacons Room
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Holyhead, Disgwylfa Chapel, War Memorial for those lost on Land and at Sea
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text: Yesterday was the perfect fall day here in Boston! I got an early start, thanks to Chris having to be up early for his first official NU practice! By 9:30am, I was en route to grab a few friends and head on a little apple picking adventure! I had heard about Honey Pot Hill Orchard from the principal at our school...he raved about the apple cider donuts and I was SOLD. It is about 30 miles outside of the city in Stow. I was craving something "fall-y" to do so 30 miles wasn't a huge deal for me! We all love apple picking...but let's be honest, we're really going for EVERYTHING else aren't we? The hot cider, the sugary donuts, the pumpkins, the cliche "apple picking photos"...which I obviously took. I'm also not above a solid hayride either! Everything that "apple picking" entails is just an all-around good time and Honey Pot Hill is definitely a rockin' place this time of year! Luckily, we got there on the early side because by the time we were finished filling our medium-sized bag with macintosh and cortland apples, the parking lot was STACKED! The farm stand is where they sell the pumpkins, hot/cold cider, and more importantly, the donuts...and it is about a 10 minute walk from the "pick your own" section. We decided to drive and luckily got a parking spot right up front! I HIGHLY recommend waiting in line to get the apple cider sugar donuts for $4.50/half dozen. YOU GUYS....they were so warm and melt-in-your-mouth good! Side note: Chris told me to only bring one singular donut home for him...yea right! I got a half dozen and he's the happiest husband around. If you plan on visiting Honey Pot Hill, I cosign that motion...just plan on visiting the orchard/farm stand as early as possible on the weekend. When we were leaving around noon, the line was INSANE to park and also to pick apples. With that said, I'm sooo glad I took the time to go...it was definitely the perfect fall morning for me!


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We're going straight to the teams in our shops for this series and asking them to share their most memorable experiences. Up this month, Heather from our Birmingham, Alabama, store explains the delicate task—and eventual triumph—of finding the perfect pair of jeans for her mother. We'll let her take it from here.
When it comes to clothing, my mom is very hard to please. She has particular tastes and is not afraid to tell you when something looks awful (I should know, having been on the receiving end of some of this honesty). Much of this feeling comes from her belief that her body is not the right shape. So many women hold this belief—more than I would've ever imagined before I started my time at Madewell. She's never once experienced that "I slipped it on and it fit perfectly" scenario that she imagines so many other women must experience. For my mother, a tailor is almost always involved and the process is complicated, to say the least.
A few weeks ago she paid me a visit and we made a stop at Madewell. While I was showing her around, I suggested that she try on our denim. She gave me a skeptical side-glance that conveyed an emphatic "no" without embarrassing me in front of the team. My fellow teammates (who know nothing of her lifelong clothing nightmare) enthusiastically encouraged her to try on the new High Risers we had just received the day before. I grabbed two sizes for her and pushed her into the fitting room. I grabbed several T-shirts from the floor and flung them in behind her. I closed the curtain and may or may not have taken a breath until she stepped out. Maybe it was the fresh source of encouragement from my coworkers but, whatever it was, she looked stunning.
There's a specific state of shock that many women go into when they find a great-fitting pair of jeans, and this moment played out much the same. Disbelief and sheer joy. Is it the mirror? Is it just me? A good day? She's my mother, so I know it wasn't a fleeting moment because, ever since, she's been wearing those jeans daily.
Want a little victory moment yourself? Check out our newest styles in our Denim Bar, here.
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Upon successful completion of the Financial Literacy courses, Learners earn the title of "Financial Fellow." Financial Fellows then have the opportunity to apply for other MFF financial learning and investing programs.
Morgan Franklin Fellowship is a nonprofit foundation. Our mission is to teach financial literacy with the goal of inspiring current and future generation to improve the financial well-being for themselves, their families and their communities.
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A documentary based on people in Los Angeles with their short interviews regarding how they think of LA.
People were randomly asked to do interviews on the streets and their inputs are collaged to shape this whole documentary. Questions are "What do you think about LA?" and "What would you do if you can change one thing in LA?" The footages are shot mostly in downtown, Hollywood, and Santa Monica to catch the overall mood and lifestyles of the city.


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In Conversation: Jakub Jankowski
On commissioning, the writing process and the future of new music in Australia.
You've recently been commissioned by Musica Viva to write two new works, including your octet for the Music Viva Festival, performed by the Goldner and Elias string quartets. How did this relationship come about and what has the experience been like working with the musicians you've been commissioned to write for?
My relationship with Musica Viva began as something of a surprise. Carl Vine discovered some of my music and upon finding out that I was a cellist, contacted me with the invitation to write two new works: a string octet for Musica Viva's 2017 Festival and a cello sonata for the 2017 International Concert Season.
I feel very honoured as a young composer to be able to write for and work with some of the leading musicians of the international chamber music scene at such an early stage of my career.
It was a complete joy to work with the Goldner String Quartet and the Elias String Quartet as they brought my string octet to life at this year's Musica Viva Festival. The total dedication of all the players to my music and their sympathy with my musical intentions was incredibly inspiring. Their professionalism in rehearsal was very impressive and I was amazed at how well these two quartets - who had never played together before - were able to immediately synchronise so well as an octet.
What does your writing process look like when you're working to a commission? Is it different from your approach when you're working on your own projects?
I feel as though every piece I work on has a unique writing process, regardless of whether it's a commissioned work or part of a collaborative project. There's always a different musical focus in every new piece, and my interests are always leading me into new musical territory. For instance, my last two commissioned works were conceived very differently and required me to find very different solutions in writing them. I generally suspect that if what I'm doing feels too familiar, I'm probably not on the right track.
How does your background as a cellist inform your works and compositional process?
The compositional process for me is a somewhat mysterious one and I'm not altogether sure to what degree my background as a cellist informs how and what I write. However, I'm sure that a composer's musical fingerprint is greatly shaped by their main instrument - for instance, Olivier Messiaen's music would be completely different if he wasn't an organist.
It seems to me that my approaches to ensemble writing are very much informed by my background in performing as a cellist in chamber groups and orchestras. From a practical perspective, I often use the cello as a compositional tool to test out and generate musical material, especially when I'm writing for cello/strings.
Do you have a fondness for writing for any particular type of ensemble? Why?
I can't say for sure because there are so many types of ensembles I haven't had the chance to write for yet.
As a cellist, I suppose I'm most comfortable in writing for strings, as I'm very familiar with the strengths, limitations and all the subtle tone colours available. However, I equally like writing for mixed ensembles, traditional chamber groups and large ensembles. Every instrumental configuration comes with its own joys and challenges, and each presents unique compositional obstacles to overcome.
What do you think about the current state of new music in Australia? Do you think the future is looking bright for young composers and performers?
I think there are a lot of fantastic new music ensembles and organisations in Australia which are constantly reaching out to their respective audiences and which offer great opportunities for young composers and performers. It's very inspiring to see plenty of young composers and performers start up their own new music ensembles and curate their own concerts. The future is always uncertain, but I believe there will always be an audience for composers and performers of new music who are deeply immersed in - and tirelessly committed to - what they're doing.
Finally, what advice do you have for fellow young composers who are taking the first steps in getting their work out there?
My advice would be to keep writing, and to take any chance you can to get your music out and into the hands of performers. I think working regularly with players, and hearing and seeing how your music works live in concert is the most effective way of learning and improving compositional 'craft'. But one must not forget that the music will not be performed if it isn't written. So get writing.