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12th Annual Polish Film Festival Los Angeles
The 12th Annual Polish Film Festival Los Angeles returns to Los Angeles October 11-20. The opening night gala takes place at the Egyptian theatre (6712 Hollywood Blvd), continues at the Laemmle Sunset5 (8000 Sunset Blvd) and moves to the Armer Theater, California State University, Northridge for a panel and re-screening of "Essential Killing."
The Invitational Opening Night Gala at the Egyptian Theatre. Polish Film festival have several sponsores and supporters, notale among them are: PISF - Polish Film Institute, POLAM Federal Credit Union, Consulate General of Poland in Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs City of Los Angeles, E.L.M.A. (European Languages and Movies in America), International Documentary Association and Cinema Without Borders.
will feature an Awards ceremony and a screening of "Black Thursday" ("Czarny czwartek") by Antoni Krauze
The following Awards will be presented:
The Pola Negri Award to Jon Voight
The Piotr Lazarkiewicz Award for young talent-Marcin Walewski (youthful star of "Venice")
The Hollywood Eagle Feature Award THE MOLE ("Kret") by Rafael Lewandowski (Feature Jurors: George Chakiris, Larry Grobel, Larry Karaszewski, Jason Ritter, Peter Safran)
The Hollywood Eagle Documentary Award
DOWNTOWN by Marta Dzido & Piotr Sliwowski
(Documentary Jurors: Judy Chaikin, Arnold Schwartzman, Ivo Widlak)
The Hollywood Eagle Animation Award
PATHS OF HATE by Damian Nenow
(Animation Jurors: William Goldstein, Ashley Postlewaite, Olaf Wendt)
The festival continues at the Laemmle Sunset.
Poland continues to lead the world in sophisticated animation. Highlights of the several animation programs in this year's festival include.
LAPFF is also showing Damian Nenow's much AWARDed capture motion aerial dogfight "Path Of Hate." The cutting edge animation house, Platage Image constructed a vase 3D model of the Alps, two model pilots and thousands of rivets and screws that were hand deployed.
Andrzej Jobczyk's brilliantly abstract animation "Superstring" ("Superstruna") blends animated and puppeteering in a fascinating mediation on the string theory (the theory of everything)
Jadwiga Kowalska's "The Girl and The Hunter" uses an artful combination of drawn flat animations and effects to tell its fabular story.
The line drawing characters sport gothy faces familiar from Tim Burton and other post modern cartoonists. A girl sits on a rooftop weeping, her tears rolling off the roof onto the town square. Annoyed the hunter commands someone to raise an umbrella to stop her tears. He strides to the forest and kills a deer. Carrying his dead deer home he notices that the girl's incessant weeping is causing a flood. He organizes the townsfolk to bail out the floodwaters, but soon, their town is submerged and they are left stranded on the highest rooftop. The hunter tries, but cannot shoot the weeping girl, the cause of all their problems. She slips under, but he pulls her from the waters, cradling her. She begins to smile. Now the townspeople begin to weep. The water recedes but before they can celebrate a thunderstorm hits.
In Balbina Bruszewska's masterful "Goodness, Beauty And Truth" ("Dobro, piekno i prawda") exquisite combination of black and white etched folon-esque drawings, live action inserts and colored characters collaged in a la Terry Gilliam create an evocative world to tell his moral tale. A traveler from a far off land comes to a big city from a place were people were good and respected each other. Surprised by the evil he finds in the big city, he builds a paper city to remember the good and kind people he had to leave. Carrying the tiny city in a small suitcase to keep it close. One day he discovers the paper city is alive and full of all the things he had imagined. He watches it and remembers. Outside the new world continues in it's soulless way. An old woman murders a cat, his neighbor, a portly robe-incased couch potato, watches seamy live-action sex ads on his TV. In the paper city theatre he watches his favorite play, which replicates his own journey. Hoping to inspire others as the play inspired him, he visits the local theatre managers and proposes they mount the play, "Nowadays people are only interested in evil" (Nazi film footage illustrates the manager's point.) One by one, all the managers turn him down, but the children he meets in the street listen to his story and watch his paper city live, curious to discover that they must defend goodness, beauty And truth.
The Rabbit's Case
Jakub Wronski's enchanting "The Rabbit's Case" is a melancholy story of friendship. A pastel palette and faux naive style brings the anthropomorphic life of the two endearing characters alive. A train track POV the conductor. As the train passes, a fox, smartly dressed in a jacket, pulls a flattened coin off the track and shows his rabbit pal. The rabbit tries to flatten his own, but is terrorized by the speeding train. At home the trembling rabbit suffers an anxiety attack. Even the visit from the doctor and his injection can't help the Rabbit's condition. Soon he's tucked in bed in the mental hospital. His fox roommate sits by his bedside. Taking his motorcycle, pal Fox picks up a sexy Ms. Rabbit and brings her to the hospital. She tries to apply cupping therapy but the quivering bun crawls into her medical cup. Fox takes Rabbit for a walk. A collaged visitation of the Virgin Mary, floating from her wayside shrine, is still not enough to heal the Rabbit's suffering. A whirling newspaper headline urges him to go to an Ashram, The camera speeds overhead to a vast modern seaside city. Fox takes Rabbit on the back of his bike. Before they can reach the town a speeding train cause Rabbit's relapse. As they sit in the rain besides the track the train stops and opens its door. Pal fox drags Rabbit onto a modern high-speed train. As a silken voice intones the train's features, the hand drawn characters lounge in the train surrounded by live action figures. A travel montage shows their round the world adventures, as the pair are superimposed onto a series of live action photos.
Natalia Budzynska's stopped motion-puppetoon "Shivering Trunks" is a fable about envy. A narrator, seemingly a scientist or sociologist describes the action we're watching through hidden cameras. Pafnucek's an imaginary warthog like creature -a roly-poly fur ball with a trunk and horns, looks at himself in the mirror. The morose Paf confuses the faucet with the end of his own trunk. Walking through his toy laden apartment, he sits, pulls out a photo, which "affects him emotionally" and studies the role moles the slip close shaven creature Kalasanty (Kalas). Kalas stands proudly showing off his athletic build and the joyous expression of a successful man. With madness in his eyes, Paf shreds the picture. "It's him or me," he thinks. Grabbing his axe he decides to ice his rival. Roller-skating down the street, followed by surveillance cameras, he races to Kalsasanty's place. But cameras spy on Kalas as well. He, too, looks in the mirror and appears dissatisfied. Kalas' closet is full of rows of furry overalls. He pulls on a false trunk and dresses up as Pafnuceks. The doorbell rings. Pafed out Kalasanty open his door. Paf freezes, his axe in hand. Both are both shocked. A teary poignant moment of recognition and they fall into an embrace of mutual admiration, gushing and blowing each other's trunks. We leave the new chums, on the couch. Just two happy critters.
Marta Pajak's hand-drawn flat animation "Sleepincord" begins with a cord, which doubles and curls around itself. "Taking a line for a walk" as Paul Klee said, the string morphs onto people animals and finally large walking feet. The feet trip and fall. Panning upwards to where the face would be, we see a finely drawn sleeping woman, no longer a string fantasmagoria. She wakes, slumps on the edge of her bed and collapses. Reassembling into a "real etched in woman, she pulls on her stockings. Descending the stairs she strides the busy city streets, passing pedestrians, grocery shops subways. The city becomes a string drawn city. Back to her sleeping face. Starting to roll off the bed two pairs of hands catch her and support her sleeping body. Three mysterious figures lift her, carrying her drooping body around in a shuffling dance. They dunk her face in a bowl of blood. Each time the sleeping woman's face goes under, she surfaces in a pool of water. Meanwhile the figures dress the seemingly dead woman and carry her out the door, trailing blood. Climbing out of the pool, she wanders in a heaven of string figures and sits at a chessboard. The "angels" sit the dead woman on a chair across from her. She wakes and both versions play chess. Everything unravels into morphing loops of string. She comes home and sees the blood, wipes it up, undresses and gets into bed. She stares at us and turns over to face her nude self, wide eyes staring, clutching the chess pieces from her dream, a third version, dresses in the outfit the mysterious people chose, curls up at the bottom of her bed. The mysterious figures sit and smoke and turn back to string, in this graceful, disturbing fantasia.
Feature Highlights include: "Venice"-Director Jan Jakub Kolski ("Pornografia"-Pornography) weaves the imaginative fancies of a sensitive child with the images of war in his handsome World War II feature "Venice" (Wenecja).
DP Arthur Reinhart, ("Tristan and Isolde", "Tomorrow Will Be Better") contributes a lustrous palette and moody compositions. As in his work on Kedzierzawska's briiliant '"Wrony" ("Crows"), Reinhart recaptures the near magical realism of a child's view of the world and adult hardships.
Kolski, whose family have been filmmakers for three generations, spent his formative years in the small village of Popielawy, which inspired many of his more magical realist films, as is this one adapted from three short stories by oft-censored Wlodzimierz Odojewski. Odojewski, a frequent contributer to the émigré magazine Kultura, headed cultural affairs at Radio Free Europe. His novel "Everything Will Be Covered By The Snow", is considered a Polish classic.
It's 1938. Eleven-year-old Marek lives in Warsaw with his cultured, wealthy, adulterous mother Joanna (Magdalena Cielecka) "Warsaw"). His soldier father Roman (Mariusz Bonaszewski) reappears for visits, apparently aware of his wife's philandering. Marek's idée fixe is to visit Venice. Year after year Marek's family have made the pilgrimage to Venice, leaving young Marek at home, until he can "understand and appreciate" the city of marvels.
Boarding in a religious school, like his older brother Wiktor, Marek trains to be a Defender of the Polish homeland. (Patriotism and the Catholic religion are interwoven as in pre-war Poland.) Marek's repetitive prayer, which he leaves wadded into a chink in the wall of the church, states the escapist theme of the film-"I don't want to be here."
To keep him safe, Marek is sent to his aunt's Weronika' crumbling estate in a small Polish village. Spinster aunts Barbara (Agnieszka Grochowska) and Weronika try to make up for their wayward sister's absentee mothering. Social butterfly Aunt Klaudyna (Julia Kijowska) deposits her daughter Karolina (Julia Chatys) with her governess Lillian (Dana Batulkowa) and returns to the city, where she plays hostess to politicians and the Polish officer class. Headstrong Weronika (Grazyna Blecka-Kolska) is given to healthful runs through the high grasses at dawn, barefoot in her slip.
Joanna and Klaudina come and go at the estate, where Marek, his brother, cousins and local children are home schooled and play their way through the war.
Kolski is an adept at fashioning fragile private worlds of escape. The aristocratic family continues their quasi Chekovian existence, hiking back to the fogged in manor as the chaotic changes of war surround them. Reinhart paints a lazy sun-dappled, or rain washed rural estate, where the bohemian gentry mix harmoniously with their Jewish farmer neighbors. Kolski's richly constructed world, peopled with distinct characters, never loses sight of Marek's inner journey, although a final scene, six years later, confuses.
Marek tries to make sense of the war, the troubling erotic desires of his elders, and the budding sexuality of his older playmates, cousin Karolina (Julia Chatys), Zuzia (Hanna Kuzminska) and servant Frosia (Weronika Asinska) who vie for his time.
Joanna escapes the war through romance. Her visits are the highlights of young Marek's summer. When she packs and leaves abruptly, supposedly to work for the White Cross, her "moral obligation", Marek chases his mother and her "driver" down the road, and watches them make love. Nothing is as it seems.
Discovering their storm-flooded cellar, his aunt's enjoy the mineralized river water, and keep the secret of the flooding from the locals. Dr. Kazimierz Zaruba (Piotr Siwkiewicz) is appalled when the children offer some of the water to the "filthy Jews". They "carry disease." Weronika mocks him, drinking from the same cup. But quisling Zaruba's stock is rising and he will get his revenge. He's useful to the invading Germans.
Marek transforms the flooded cellar into the starry Venice of his dreams. Dressed like a gondolier, he conducts rides in a washtub, and arranges a Venetian Carnival, where costumed relatives listen to his concert pianist aunt performs on a half-submerged piano, until sadistic camera happy Nazi Officer von Rasmus (Bohdan Swiderski), with his pretensions to culture, interrupts their games. Head of a propaganda unit, von Rasmus poses the masked aristocrats for "candid" shots of the odd underground Carnival (Van Rasmus's wife has begged him for photos.) Zaruba leads the Germans to their cellar.
Marek's brother Wiktor joins the resistance, and as a self-styled agent of the Underground State revenges himself on Zaruba.
First time young actors play with the aplomb of the veteran ensemble:
Filip Piotrowicz as Wiktor, Franciszek Serwa as tragic Naumek Perlman, a Jewish violin prodigy shot on the road for refusing to give the German officer his violin, Hanna Kuzminska (young Zuzia) and Katarzyna Oleksiak (Zuzia - age 16) as the sexually curious local girl who grew up with Marek, all give wonderful performances. Grazyna Blecka-Kolska ("Pornografia") who plays Weronica, is Kolski's wife.
"Venice" won Best Artistic Contribution Prize at the 34th Montreal World Film Festival and four Eagles at the 13th Polish Film Awards: Artur Reinhart- "Best Cinematography", Joanna Macha- "Best Set Design", Małgorzata Zacharska-"Best Costumes"and Jacek Hamela for "Best Sound". At the Gdynia Polish Film Festival 2010, "Venice" won individual Awards for cinematography (Arthur Reinhart), art direction (Joanna Macha) and acting debut (Marcin Walewski- also recognized for his role in "Three Minutes.")
"Little Rose"-Jan hKidawa-Blonski's "Little Rose", the gripping Polish post-war intelligence drama failed to make the shortlist for the 2010 Golden Globes Best Foreign film. It would have made mine.
"The Mole"- Polish-French Lewandowski graduated from the French film school Le Femis in 1996. His series of documentary films ("Hearings"," Children of Solidarnosc", "Cela" and "A Shadowed Gaze") focused on the themes of WW ll prisoner camp survivors. He also interviewed over a hundred former prisoners, Resistance fighters and children hidden during the war, for Steven Spielberg's Survivors of the Shoah Audiovisual History Archive Foundation.
Lewandowski carries the theme of history and personal memory into his first narrative feature "The Mole"("Kret").
A founding member of Solidarność in Silesia, Zygmunt (Marian Dziędziel) is a hero of the struggle against totalitarianism. During the New Boleslaw Mine Strike, he was considered a local leader, even urging resistance when others began to back down.
His daughter-in-law Ewa (Magdalena Czerwińska), orphaned when her father was killed in the Strike, has "martyr of the struggle against totalitarianism" status. Feted in an annual commemorative ceremony (which is where Ewa and Zygmunt's son Pawel met) the martyrs receive a special pension from the Polish state.
Seeking justice for her father's death, Eva participates in the third trial of officers involved in the crackdown, where she's treated like the poster child by the media.
Pawel (Borys Szyc) and his father Zygmunt import used clothes from France to Southern Poland. One of their regular customers is furious. Waiting for women's' winter coats for weeks, he rails at them "all you bring is bags of summer clothes". Pawel tries to work it out, promising coats next week without fail. Patriotic Zygmunt dismisses their client as a "fucking Arab".
They travel the roads between the north of France (the Mining Basin of Nord-Pas-de-Calais), a Polish diaspora in France, where mining communities were established in the 1920's and 30's.
Zygmunt's cousin Tadeusz (Sławomir Orzechowski) lives and works in France, returning on occasional trips and sending gifts and money to the family back home. An important figure in the Franco-Polish community, he is about to launch their new Polish Cultural Center. These self-satisfied immigrants idolize their nostalgic memories of Poland but have little knowledge of their complex post Soviet homeland.
On the way back from their selling trip, the radio and TV is abuzz with the latest trials of the officers responsible for the New Boleslaw Mine Massacre. Officer Garbarek, who knows everything, has come forward. The State is about to reveal the name of secret Mole, a Solidarity informant. Zygmunt dismisses it as a circus, a change for old timers to go for each other's throats.
Imagine everyone's shock when the papers and TV are filled Zygmunt's face, outing him as The Mole, The Traitor. Entering the courthouse, Ewa is hounded by the media, who also lay in wait for Zygmunt.
Bombarded by TV Internet and headlines, stunned Pawel follows everything from from their road trip. He refuses to believe the charges and insists that Zygmunt mount a defense to clear his good name. At first, all the witnesses interviewed on the news tell stories of Zygmunt's heroic leadership, but the longer he stays away the more local suspicion mounts.
Loyal Tadeusz drags the depressed Zygmunt to the banquet celebrating the new Polish Community Center. As dancing couples in traditional Polish garb swirl around them, Tadeusz proudly introduces his cousin Zygmunt as a True Hero, a victim of a vicious smear campaign, and the community vows to support his defense, as they once supported him when he was imprisoned for his Solidarity activities.
Tadeusz advises him to stay in France till it blows over. Fearful Zygmunt decides to stay, but not before revealing the family reasons that forced him to become the State's Mole, and ultimately, the betrayer of Solidarity and the striking minors. His guilty secret becomes Pawel's.
Ewa and Pawel compare notes on their cells. Pawel urges him to confront the accusations. "He has to go back and defend himself." Zygmunt knows better, "The Reds want revenge." What Reds? You see them under the bed, Dad. Look forward, not back. Your Poland doesn't exist" argues Pawel who sees things in moral black and white.
But Pawel, like many of his generation, children of the post totalitarian Poland, can't imagine the twisted roots and compromises their elders faced to survive, and the confused loyalties they've maintained.
At home, Pawel's former colleagues and business customers turn against him and his marriage to Ewa is shaken to its roots. An encounter with Secret Police Officer Garbarek shows him the terrors his father faced. By the time the film is over, Pawel has made a choice to protect his family and must live walled off behind his own guilty secret.
The struggles between Zygmunt and Pawel and Eva represent the complex cultural divide between the right and left and the communist and post communist generations regarding the opening of the archives of the communist regime. Although access to these files remains very limited, every public official in Poland is required to sign a "declaration of non-collaboration" with the former secret police. The process, know as "Lustration" is particularly painful and ineffective in Poland, as it ignores the complex Totalitarian state Poland had become.
As Lewandowski said in the film's press notes" By forcing the accused to respond in a simplistic way to what was a very complicated system, "lustration" does not take into account the reasons for which the purported "collaboration" took place. Whether it was the result of communist sympathy or blackmail, this confirmation of "collaboration" generates a summary judgment in the public eye that precludes any search for forgiveness or reconciliation. "
"The Christening" - Marcin Wrona's "The Christening" (Chrzest) begins as a reunion between two old friends- returned soldier Janek (Tomasz Schuchardt) and Michal (Wojciech Zielinski. Michal left his hometown and moved to Warsaw. He seems to have it made, living with beautiful wife Magda (Natalia Rybicka), their newborn son in a luxury high-rise apartment. He's a successful window salesman. From his terrace he surveys countless windows he's installed, as far as the eye can see.
Janek, whose annoying laugh, crude jokes and nervous giggle mark him as lout, arrives at Mikal's home and makes Magda ill at ease. Mikal gets back from work, shows off his life and asks Janek to become his son Adam's godfather. Janek's shocked, "Why?" "Because I know you well" assures old pal Mikal.
The two booze it up, reminisce. Mikal shows off his high-speed car. Janek asks him to hook him up with the Fat Man. "I don't do that anymore", is Mica's terse response. Their shared past of petty crime emerges. The bill for their shared life of petty crime has been sent and soon both will have to pay.
In the week leading up to the christening, Mikal takes Janek to his window factory and offers him a job. Janek has no interest. He expects to resume his criminal activities.
Fat Man's thugs pick Janek up and clue him in. MIkal bought his way out of a drug bust by shopping the gang leader's brothers to the police. MIkal's days are numbered. The only reason he's still alive is the enormous fee he pays them daily.
Janek confronts him. Mikal reveals he's got enough money for several more days and then he's tapped. He has just enough to get through the christening. Mikal's never shares his problems with his loyal wife. She assumes Janek is the reason for Mikals melt down.
At first Janek tries to figure out how to save his boyhood friend.
Mikal has his own agenda. He's setting godfather Janek up to care for his young family. He provokes Magda. "He's handsome, isn't he?" "She's a good, hard-working girl" is his pitch to Janek.
Janek tries to talk the gang out of their revenge plans. "Do you want to pay for him? He chose to squeal. This is his own fault", explains the implacable gangster. Without asking him, Janek's enlisted on a protection call.
A man is tortured and murdered in front of his wife.
His masters raise the stakes on him, reminding him who he owes fealty to.
Janek's expected to finish him off. Sickened, he complies. They leave the woman locked in a freezer, pounding hopelessly on the door, as the boss presses a wad of walk around money into his hands. Janek tosses the blood money and runs, but his leash is tightening.
Wrona's good at moral ambiguity. His understated, bleak view of intimacy adds an interesting wrinkle to a crime story that pushes the violence to the side to focus on relationship and loyalty issues.
On the day of the christening, Wrona rachets up the suspense. In laws gather, platitudes are spoken, promises are made, ambiguous farewells are voiced. The gangsters lurk out side in their car like the furies in a Greek drama. As time runs out, Mikal addresses what it means to provide for his family, and Janek balances between saving his friend and saving his own life.
"The Christening" won Silver Lions Awards for Best Film and for Producers
Leszek Rybarczyk and Marek Rudnicki as well as individual Awards for lead actor Wojciech Zielinski and editor Piotr Kmiecik at the Gdynia Polish Film Festival 2010.
"Joanna" by Felix Falks- World War ll, Warsaw. A well-dressed mother (Joanna Gryga) treats her young daughter to a birthday cake. Anxious, looking over her shoulder, she gives her daughter a bracelet and urges her to finish up. As they are leaving an oily man seated nearby calls her over to the table and begins asking threatening questions. The vigilant mother sends her daughter to the Church to wait for her. Before the SS man can finish his blackmail, Nazi soldiers raid the cafe and arrest her. Roundups of Jews have become a daily occurrence.
The little girl waits in the dimly lit church. Sneaking out at night, she walks the empty streets. Waitress Joanna (Urszula Grabowska) recognizes her and takes her home.
Joanna lives alone in an apartment, waiting to hear if her soldier husband Zbyszek will return or was killed in the war. She works in a cafe.
Róza (Sara Knothe) saw the soldiers; she has a good idea what happened. Comforting young Róza, Joanna feeds her and puts her to bed. and promises to look for her mother.
A friend working at the Town Hall, now the German HQ, promises to help Joanna track her missing "friend" arrested at the Cafe.
Joanna bonds with Róza, hiding her presence from her worried family and the nosy landlady Kaminska (Stanislawa Celinska) and her persistent questions.
Both Kaminska and Joanna's mother (Halina Labonarska) warn her to register another resident in her large apartment. Worried about keeping Róza safe, she stalls. Suspicious Kaminska finds her a buyer for her piano. But pianist Joanna won't give it up. It's her last tie to her missing husband.
They develop a ritual. Róza has a hiding place when people come calling. She's warned to stay away from the window, Maternal Joanna brings her books toys and clothes, things her married sister Ewa (Izabela Kuna), "donates" to her for the orphanage she supposedly works at.
The cafe is shut down. Educated Joanna is out or work. Following a lead about a Post office job, she lands a job as one of the commandant's office washwomen. (She drops a made up name to get in to see Officer Lucjan
(Andrzej Konopka). Canny Lucjan's on to her but hires the pretty applicant anyway.
Joanna's cultured mother is appalled. Joanna's father (Leszek Piskorz) an economist is lucky to keep his job at the railroad. Joanna, who once worked at a museum sighs, "The good times are over."
Joanna's co-worker Mrs. Staszka Kopec (Kinga Preis) also waiting for her soldier husband to reappear, has become someone's mistress. "I have mouths to feed" practical Ewa explains, Her peddler (Jewish?) lover brings clothes and candy for the kids. "You have husband," says the shocked Joanna. "When he returns I'll still be his wife. It's good to have someone to cuddle, to have some fun."
Joanna's choice over lover is forced on her. The Germans search her apartment. Clever Róza hides in the stairwell. The lonely German Major, fascinated by Joanna's French books borrows one. Returning late one night, he discovers the hidden Róza. Joanna offers herself as a bribe, and their relationship begins. When the Major Joachim Paul Assböck is transferred, Joanna's outed by the Underground Court and she's punished for fraternization. Getting Róza to safety, and promising to return to find her, Joanna hikes over the Tatra mountains, probably to the Underground's staging grounds in Zakopane between Poland and Hungary.
Feliks Falk, part of the Cinema of Moral Anxiety movement in the 1970s, is adept at reflecting modern moral choices in his period piece, abetted by
Krzysztof Szpetmanskis sensitive editing. Cinematography by Piotr Sliskowski, production design by Anna Wunderlich, set decoration by Inga Palacz, and costume design by Magdalena Biedrzycka, all contrast Joanna's and Róza's warm temporary nest, with the brutalities of the ongoing wartime situation outside.
Urszula Grabowskafor won a Best Actress Eagle at the 13th Polish Film Awards, as well as a Best Actress Award at the Moscow International Film Festival. "Joanna" also won the Russian Film Critics and the Cinema Clubs Diplomas at the Moscow International Film Festival and Best Director and Best Screenplay Prizes at the last year's Gdynia Polish Film Festival.
"Little Rose"-Inspired by the life of Paweł Jasienica (A.K.A.Leon Lech Beynar) a Polish historian and journalist who was persecuted by the Polish Communist government as a political dissident), Jan Kidawa-Blonski's powerful "Little Rose" details the government's total infiltration of the lives of private citizens-artists and members of the intelligentsia during the Soviet bloc years in Poland. Ironically Beynar, a member of the Polish underground, fought the Nazi's in World War ll, then the Soviets after the war.
Jasienica's wife, inserted into his life by the security services, had informed on her husband and his friends for years, even filing a report on his funeral. Like "The Lives of Others," "Little Rose" is a compelling drama about the pervasive Soviet repression in the satellite countries of the Soviet Block and it's power to deform the lives of its citizens.
Stalin's U.S.S.R. had systematically purged Jews (the trumped up show trials of "The Doctor's Plot" was the most infamous example.) Stalin reputedly said, "Every Jew is a potential spy." In 1967, when Israel defeated Soviet allies Egypt and Syria in the Six Day War, the People's Republic of Poland went after the "Jewish Fifth Column", as an excuse to decapitate the liberal opposition movement. Jewish writers, teachers, professors, party officials and other culturally important figures were expelled from the Communist Party, branded as Zionists and stripped of their citizenship, leading to mass emigrations. Over 20,000 Polish Jews lost their jobs.
Colonel Roman Rozek (Robert Wieckiewicz-''Superprodukcja") of the Security Services is ordered to bring down the respected professor and writer Warczewski (Andrzej Seweryn-"The Reverse", "Schindler's List." "Indochine.") Hoping to label him as a hidden Zionist, Rozek sics his sexy girlfriend Kamila (Magdalena Boczarska) on the unsuspecting prof. At first naive Kamila hopes to please her swaggering lover, ineptly reporting on the older Warczewski (the covert writer of a famous series of reports for Radio Free Europe.)
Rozek is a crude lover, given to boozy encounters. When grateful Rozek rewards Kamila with expensive perfume, it's light years away from Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman's compromised romance in "Notorious." Rozek produces an invoice and asks her to sign, "The People's homeland can be grateful." Fighting for his own survival, it's the most romantic remark he can come up with.
While Rozek trains her in spycraft, Kamila begins to enjoy the romantic attentions of her cultured "boyfriend." Warczewski gives her books (Czeslaw Milosz) and encourages her "writing", unaware that she's penning reports on his life. Bit by bit, Kamila transforms, as her new husband broadens her political awareness. Warczewski's friends are appalled by his romance with the "girl from nowhere" but the couple eventually marries.
"Little Rose" (Kamila's code name), becomes disenchanted with her brutish young lover, but is afraid to stop spying for the Secret Services, continuing to report on her husband and his friends. Rosek, himself persecuted as a "hidden Jew," becomes unhinged with jealousy as Kamila drifts away, enabling his final tragic act, both personal and political.
Director, co-writer Kidawa-Błonski has crafted a fascinating intimate drama set against a historical canvas. The toxic romantic triangle, with all of its guilty contradictions, is well played by the cast. Więckiewicz is riveting as the driven officer haunted by the dangerous game he's playing. Tyro actress Boczarska captures the queasy transformation from slutty party girl to compromised Party spy. Each character in the triangle is fighting for survival in the "Terror" atmosphere of a totalitarian state on the brink of huge transformations.
Kidawa-Błonski weaves archival footage of the 1967-68 with gritty footage from cinematographer Piotr Wojtowicz to recreate a sense of period immediacy.
"Little Rose" won an Eagle (Poland's Oscar) for Best Actor (Robert Wieckiewicz) and the Golden Lions Grand Prize for best film at the
35th Gdynia Polish Film Festival 2010, as well as the Golden Lions- AWARD for Producer Włodzimierz Niderhaus. Sound engineers Wiesław Znyk and Joanna Napieralska won for best sound.
Full schedule below.
BLACK THURSDAY ("Czarny czwartek, Janek Wisniewski padl") 2011, 105 min.
Director Antoni Krauze
Screenplay Michał S. PruskiI, Miroslaw Piepka
Cinematography Jacek Petrycki
Music Michal Lorenc
Art Director Zbigniew Dalecki
Producers Kazimierz Beer, Miroslaw Piepk
Brunon Drywa Michal Kowalski
Stefania Drywa Marta Honzatko
Irena Drywa Marta Kalmus-Jankowska
Lenon Drywa Cezary Rybinski
Wladyslaw Gomolka Wojciech Pszoniak
Zenon Kliszko Piotr Fronczewski
Mieczyslaw Moczar Witold Debicki
Jozef Cyrankiewicz Piotr Garlicki
AWARDS: 2011 Montreal World Film Festival - FIPRESCI PRIZE for a film in the World Competition)
2011 Lagow International Film Festival – Silver Grape Award
2011 Gdynia Polish Film Festival – Special Jury Award
Film reconstruction of the dramatic events of the workers' strike in Gdynia
on Thursday, December 17, 1970. Workers demonstrating against the increase in food prices were brutally pacified by the army and the police (milicja). 18 people were killed and few hundred were injured. A factual of an ordinary family of Brunon Drywa, a shipyard worker, who was shot by policemen on his way to work.
WELCOME TO ACADEMIA 2009, 85 min.
Q & A with director-Producer Elzbieta Szoka, actors Laila Robins and Dan Bakkedahl
Director Kirk Davis
Screenplay Elzbieta Szoka, Kirk Davis
Cinematography David M. Dunlap
Music Chris Hajian
Producer Sam Adelman
Executive Producers Elzbieta Szoka, Joe Bratcher III
Prof. Revis Williams James LeGro
Prof. Valery Villenueva, Jr. Callie Thorne
Sophie Sullivan Jess Weixler
President Roger Weldman Matt Servitto
Prof. Deborah Hansen Laila Robins
Pres. Harold Kronsky Robert Hogan
Prof. Richard Valentine Dan Bakkedahl
Sex and power games go hand in hand in "Welcome to Academia", a dark satire that uses the university as a metaphor for personal and professional relationships. An idealistic graduate student of modern history, on her way to a well deserved diploma, learns the hard way that merit and intellect are not the most important values in the corrupt, indifferent academic environment. The subject of her doctoral thesis, "Aftermath: Yalta, the 20th Century, and Beyond," symbolizes the power structures of her own life. Her doctoral committee, known as the Hydra, represents the three World War Two superpowers, the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union. To make matters worse, her charming thesis advisor abandons her amidst the swirl of departmental politics. Who'll be the new Dean? Will the new President ruin the curriculum and get rid of tenure? And what will happen to our innocent student of modern history, who has to pay a high price in order to get her well-deserved diploma? Will her 'rite of passage' make her end up like her oppressed oppressors?
("Michal Urbaniak. Nowojorczyk z wyboru"), 2009, 56 min.
Director Wieslaw Dabrowski
Screenplay Wieslaw Dabrowski
Cinematography Kamil Dabrowski, Anna Walichnowska
Producer Wieslaw Dabrowsk
Dabrowski's film portrays a man who loved Music. Michal Urbaniak, one of the most eminent jazz artists in the world, talks about his first steps in the Big Apple. As he rides in a taxi through the streets of New York, he visits places where his artistic career took off, clubs he played in, and others he keeps close to his heart. He also talks with world-wide known Musicians and artists he worked with: Don Blackman, Tom Brown, Felton Crews, George Duke, Wojciech Karolak, Tomasz Stanko, Buster Williams, Lenny White.
2011, 67 min.
Director Elzbieta Szoka
Screenplay Elzbieta Szoka
Cinematography Nadia Hallgren
Producer Sam Adelman
In the documentary "Beautiful People", ten members of the longest running traditional Irish Music group in New York City talk about not only their interest in this type of Music but offer a peek inside their lives to try and find what draws them towards this activity. An Asian American that plays the fiddle, a charismatic twenty one-year-old singer/guitarist, an 84-year-old Italian-American accordionist, and a 77-year-old woman that recently graduated from the police academy, exemplify the diversity of the group. Somewhere around 35 to 40 Musicians get together every Tuesday night at a bar called Dempsey's Pub, located on Second Avenue in Manhattan's East Village." Beautiful People" captures the spirit, passion and commitment of this group, and looks to explore the binding element that brings them all together for this unusual common interest.
("Lesne Doly"), 2011, 80 min.
Director Slawomir Kulikowski
Screenplay Slawomir Kazimierczak
Cinematography Mariusz Konopka
Music Partners In Rhyme
Art Director Hanna Orlowska
Producers Slawomir Kulikowski, Pawel Kuligowski
Weronika Teresa Dzielska
Andrzej Ireneusz Czop
Piotr Mariusz Bonaszewski
Monika Hanna Konarowska
Mysterious Man Marek Frackowiak
A young married couple suddenly wins a jackpot. They inherit a manor house in the village of Lesne Doly. They are charmed by life in a small town, and plan to open up a motel in the inherited manor. The idea receives a chilly response from the local residents. The couple disregards all the warnings that they hear. However it doesn't long for the secret of Lesne Doly to come out.
Director C. Jay Cox
Screenplay C. Jay Cox
Cinematography: C. Jay Cox
Producers C. Jay Cox, Adi Spektor, Helen Mcelwain, Michael Medico
Kazik Adi Spektor,
Louis Chip Phillips
Bolek Marek Probosz
Yuri Eugene Alper
Ms. Lindt Helen Mcelwain
Rudevsky Matthew Arkin
Ms. Adderly Aleksandra Kaniak .
Ms. Roblisch Morgan Steinhart
In this accomplished black comedy, a hardened hit man for a mobster must deal with his 'day job' before making a desperate attempt to get to the one man who has eluded him.
STIGMA Q & A with director Janusz Madej
("Pietno"), 2011, 29 min.
Director Janusz Madej
Screenplay Janusz Madej
Cinematography Benji Bakshi
Music Kevin Macleod
Production Design Alessandro Marvelli
Art Director Andrew Jesse Gutierrez
Producers Janusz Madej, Ilya Farfell, Jennifer Bhagwandin
Gabriel Janusz Madej
Father Nolan Frank Mavros
Olympia Michelle Renee Allaire
Widow Rebecca Brooks
Blind Girl Sylvia Panacione
Gabriel is a psychic. He pretends to speak with spirits. Waking from a violent nightmare of a Christ-like figure being crucified, he discovers a wound on his stomach. In the hospital he meets father Nolan, a priest who offers him help. That night he is visited by Olympia, a woman who just heard that she is infertile. He receives a violent vision but he decides not to share this revelation with Olympia. He decides to meet with father Nolan. 33 days later Gabriel's wounds seem to heal. He is visited by Olympia who is now pregnant. Gabriel realizes his visions are coming true and his life is about to change dramatically.
("Jutro mnie tu nie bedzie,") 2010, 28 min.
Director Julia Kolberger
Screenplay Julia Kolberger
Cinematography Jakub Giża
Music Radosław Łukasiewicz
Art Director Julia Junosz-Szaniewska
Producer Julia Groszek,
Marta Julia Kijowska
Ewa, Marta's Mother Dorota Kolak
Grandmother Lidia Korsakówna
Marta's Father Michal Tarkowski
Iwona Małgorzata Buczkowska-Szlenkier
Marta's Lover Piotr Bajor
Ewa's Friend . Maria Mamona
AWARDS: 2011 New York Polish Film Festival – Best Short Film AWARD
2011 International Film and Music Festival Kustendorf – Silver Egg AWARD
2010 Camerimage – Gold Tadpole for Jakub Giza
2010 Gdynia Polish Film Festival – Special AWARD in Young Polish Cinema Competition
Thirty-year-old Marta is tired of living with her strict mother and tries to free herself from their toxic relationship.
REHAB Q & A with director Krzysztof Jankowsk.
("Odwyk"), 2011, 23 min.
Director Krzysztof Jankowsk
Screenplay Krzysztof Jankowsk, Wojciech Solarz, Marcin Cygal
Cinematography Lukasz Zal,
Music Andrzej Izdebski
Producer Krzysztof Jankowsk
Konstanty Ildefons Galczynski Wojciech Solarz
Doctor Wrobel Andrzej Glazer
Minister Baranski Robert Jarociński
Nurse Sliwinski Mateusz Rusi
Director Jacek Różański
Editor Solecki Marcin Makowski
It's the beginning of the 1950's and famous poet Konstanty Ildefons Galczynski faces difficult times.. A seemingly trivial hospital stay in the drug rehab ward of a psychiatric hospital will turn upside down when Doctor Wrobel orders changes in his treatment. Based on true incidents in the life of Galczynski.
("Dolina Issy") 1982, 102 min.
Director Tadeusz Konwicki
Screenplay Tadeusz Konwicki, Czesław Miłosz
Cinematography Jerzy Łukaszewicz
Music Zygmunt Konieczny
Art Director Andrzej Boreski
Producer Ryszard Chutkowski
Magdalena Anna Dymna
Barbara Maria Pakulis
Grandmother Misia Danuta Szaflarska
Helena Ewa Wiśniewska
Grandfather Surkont Edward Dziewoński
Baltazar Krzysztof Gosztyła
Featuring a script co-written by the great Polish poet and novelist Czesław Miłosz (1911-2004), the film evokes a childhood in rural Lithuania between the wars. A country boy, Tomaszek, lives on a rich estate, situated on the Polish border. He realizes that the Issa Valley he lives in is to be torn apart by internal political conflicts and unrests among the mixed population of Poles, Lithuanians, Jews and Russians. He, however, is captivated by a paradise surrounding him, the forest, and his fantasies.
("Kawalek lata"), 2010, 24 min.
Director Marta Minorowicz
Screenplay Marta Minorowicz
Cinematography Pawel Chorzepa
Producer Sławomir Pańszczyk
AWARDS: 2011 Vidreres International Short Documentary Film Festival – Nanook Second Prize; 2011 Clermont-Ferrand Filmfest - Grand Prix in Best International Short Film; 2010 DOK Festival, Leipzig - Golden Dove in Best International Short Documentary
The end of summer, the end of holidays. A boy visits his grandfather who lives and works in the mountainous forests. Surrounded by wild nature they try to rebuild their bonds.
("Poza zasiegiem"), 2010, 30 min.
Director Jakub Stożek
Screenplay Jakub Stożek
Cinematography Michal Sosna
Producer Anna Zajaczkowska
AWARDS:.2011 Prizren DOKUFEST, Kosovo - Best International Short Dox
2011 International Documentary Film Festival, Brazil - Grand Prize in the International Short Film Competition
2011 International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Kiev - Special Prize from the Ukrainian Filmmakers' Association
2011 Sundance Film Festival - Honorable Mentions in Short Filmmaking
2010 The International Documentary Film Festival of Mexico City - Award for Best Short Film in the International Competition
2010 Krakow Film Festival - The Golden Dragon for Jakub Stozek in the International Short Film Competition
Karolina and Klaudia are trying to restore family relationships that were destroyed by the adults a long time ago. However, putting this plan into action turns out to be much more difficult than they have imagined.
2010, 8 min. and 15 sec.
Directors Jan Paweł Trzaska, Joaquin del Paso
Screenplay Jan Paweł Trzaska
Cinematography Jan Paweł Trzaska
Music Daniel Zorzano
Producer Kamila Goworek
CAST Szymon Kluz, Rigoberto Rodríguez Gaytan, Saul Duran, Alfonso Rodrigez Gaytan, Julia Gaytan Duran, Szymon Kluz
In the small village of Mixteco, deep in Mexico's Sierra Madre, two young brothers are sent to fetch water for their family. Their journey is filled with misfortunes. The film's impressionistic aesthetic reveals the culture of the Mexican natives in their indigenous environment.
("Smolarze"), 2010, 15 min.
Director Piotr Zlotorowicz
Screenplay Piotr Zlotorowicz
Cinematography Malte Rosenfeld
Producer Joanna Malicka
Every summer, Marek and Janina work as charcoal burners in the Bieszczady Mountains. Far from civilization, in the heart of the mountains, they live according to the rhythm set by the nature. The documentary joins the man and the woman from dawn till dusk, observing the slow passage of time.
("Zgrzyt"), 2011, 14 min.
Director Michal Mroz
Screenplay Michal Mroz
Music Sebastian Szymanski
Animation Michal Mroz
Producers Piotr Furmankiewicz, Mateusz Michalak
About a robot who can't find his place in society. Sonorism of Music and mechanical world.
2010, 10 min.
Director Damian Nenow
Screenplay Damian Nenow
Music Jaroslaw Wojcik
Producer Marcin Kobylecki
3D Graphics Jaroslaw Handrysik, Jakub Jablonski, Rafał Kidziński, Bartłomiej Kik', Bartosz Opatoweicki, Kamil Pohl, Krzysztof Rusinek, lukasz skurczynski, Marcin Stepien, Piotr Suchodolski, Dominik Wawrzyniak
AWARDS: 2011 Comic-Con International Independent Film Festival, San Diego - Best Animated Film Award
2011 Anima Mundi International Film Festival, Brasil - Professional Award for Best Film
2011 Animation Short Film Festival Mundos Digitales, La Coruna, Spaine - Best Animation Short Film Award and Special Prize of the Jury
2011 SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival, Vancouver - Jury Award
2011 Annecy International Animation Film Festival - Special Distinction in Short Film Category
"Paths Of Hate" is a short tale about the demons that slumber deep in the human soul and have the power to push people into the abyss of blind hate, fury and rage.
2010, 90 min.
Director Marek Lechki
Screenplay Marek Lechki
Cinematography Przemyslaw Kaminski
Music Bartek Straburzyński
Art Director Barbara Komosińska
Producer Marek Lechki
Michal Tomasz Kot.
Michal's Father Ryszard Kotys
Zbyszek Tomasz Radawiec
Policeman Janusz Michałowski
Magda, Michal's Wife Karina Kunkiewicz
Nawrocki Jerzy Rogalski
AWARDS: 2011 International Film Festival Tofifest, Torun - Golden Angel
2011 International Film Festival of Uruguay - FIPRESCI Award
2011 Lecce European Film Festival, Italy - Special Jury Priz
2010 Thessaloniki International Film Festival – Best Screenplay Award
2010 Chicago International Film Festival - Gold Plaque in New Directors Competition
2010 Gdynia Polish Film Festival – Awards for Best Directorial Debut and Critics Award
Michal must travel to his hometown, Szczecin, to pick up his boss' car. The trip reminds him of all the reasons why, many years ago, after his mother's death, Michal left Szczecin and escaped from his father. A car accident, in which he kills a homeless man, forces Michal to extend his stay in Szczecin. Out of guilt he starts searching for the homeless man's family. This simple task quickly transforms into an emotional journey into his past. The harder he tries to move on and leave, the deeper he sinks into a world of unfulfilled dreams and ambitions, and unresolved conflicts.
("Dom zly"), 2009, 106 min.
Director Wojciech Smarzowski
Screenplay Lukasz Kosmick & Wojciech Smarzowsk
Cinematography Krzysztof Ptak
Music Mikołaj Trzaska
Art Director Marek Zawierucha
Producers Dariusz Pietrykowski, Andrzej Polec, Anna Iwaszkiewicz
Srodon Arkadiusz Jakubik
Dziabas Marian Dziędziel
Mrs. Dziabas Kinga Preis
Mroz Bartłomiej Topa
Lisowska Katarzyna Cynke
Lisowski Robert Wabich
Tomala Robert Więckiewicz
AWARDS: 2009 Gdynia PFF, Best Director Award for Wojciech Smarzowski, Best Editing Award for Pawel Laskowski, Best Screenplay Award for Lukasz Kosmicki & Wojtek Smarzowski
2009 Warsaw IFF, Audience Award
2010 Camerimage – Silver Frog
Two parallel plots. One night in October 1978, zoo technician Edward Srodon makes an accidental stop at the Dziabas family farmhouse in the remote Bieszczady Mountains. He stays for the night. Initial distrust between hosts and guest are quickly dispelled under the charm of moonlight leading to a warm camaraderie.
On a winter's day in February 1982, during Martial Law in Poland, an investigating team of People's Militia (police) visits a crime scene. Lieutenant Mroz tries to solve a four-year-old multiple murder case.
1943, 124 min.
Director Mervyn Leroy
Screenplay Paul Osborn, Paul H. Rameau (based on book "Madame Curie" by Eve Curie)
Cinematography Joseph Ruttenberg
Music Herbert Stothart
Art Director Cedric Gibbons
Producer Sidney Franklin
Marie Curie-Sklodowska Greer Garson
Pierre Curie Walter Pidgeon
Eugene Curie Henry Travers
Professor Jean Perot Albert Bassermann
David Le Gros Robert Walker
Lord Kelvin C. Aubrey Smith
"Madam Curie" received seven nominations at the 1944 Academy Awards®:
Best Picture, Best Actor and Actress in a Leading Role, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Music and Best Sound Recording.
Maria (Marie Fr.) Sklodowska-Curie (born in Warsaw, Poland, on November 7, 1867) was one of the first woman scientists to win worldwide fame, and indeed, one of the great scientists of this century. She had degrees in mathematics and physics and won two Nobel Prizes, for Physics in 1903 and for Chemistry in 1911. She discovered polonium (so called by Maria in honor of Poland) in the summer of 1898, and radium a few months later.
The film begins in the 1890s while Marie Sklodowska is enrolled at the Sorbonne. She's a poor Polish exchange student with a passion for physics and chemistry. When her professor finds out about her precarious financial situation, he recommends her for a position with the "nervous and impatient" Dr. Pierre Curie and his assistant David. Curie believes that "women and science are incompatible." Marie, who will graduate at the top of her class, quickly proves him wrong. Just as quickly, Pierre falls in love with her and introduces her to his parents. An engagement leads to a wedding, which leads to a partnership, which leads to the discovery of radium. Tragedy will eventually divide the couple, but Marie refuses to let their work die.
("Kret"), 2010, 108 min.
Director Rafael Lewandowski
Screenplay IIwo Kardel, Rafael Lewandowski
Cinematography Piotr Rosolowski
Editor Agnieszka Glinska
Music Jérôme Rebotier .
Production Designer Jerzy Talik
Producers Jacek Kucharski, Marcin Wierzchoslawski
Paweł Borys Szyc
Zygmunt Marian Dziedziel
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Tropical Breakfast
I made this last weekend.
Banana Nut Waffles
-2 Cups of Bisquick
-1-2 tbs of veggie oil
-1 1/3 cup of milk (I think this might be wrong)
-2 eggs
-1/2 of a banana (save the other half for the smoothie)
-1/4 cup of chopped walnuts (or more if you want)
Follow the directions on the Bisquick box to make the waffles, and then puree the banana and add it to the batter. Then add some chopped walnuts. Mix well. Cook in waffle iron until golden brown. Throw some walnuts and banana slices on top for garnish.
-1/2 can of coconut milk
-1/2 of a banana
-pineaple chunks (however many you like)
Put all the ingredients into a blender and puree until smooth.
that sounds good! i def. may try this.
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/// Seeing Triple Zuckerbergs (Including the Real One) on SNL [NetworkEffect]
Good thing Mark Zuckerberg's got that whole other career going, cause he can't hold a straight face for a millisecond. What he can successfully do is go on " Saturday Night Live " and be a good sport, appearing alongside two men who have played and parodied him: "The Social Network" actor Jesse Eisenberg and SNL's Andy Samberg. Here's the clip from tonight's show: Without Aaron Sorkin writing his dialogue, the real Zuckerberg is lacking in zingers. His review of "The Social Network": "It was… interesting." "That guy's like my evil twin and that's just Andy Samberg," Zuckerberg tells SNL creator Lorne Michaels while being mock-sequestered backstage. "Those guys are such nerds… C'mon, I invented poking." Meanwhile Eisenberg admits, for all the sticklers in the room (and one of them in particular), "I wasn't really 'doing' Mark Zuckerberg; I was interpreting a fictional character in a movie script." Please see the disclosure about Facebook in my ethics statement .
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ELLE Hires Ad Agencies To Rebrand Feminism [Pics]
Three award-winning agencies team up with feminist organizations to drive the message of gender equality home.
Elle UK recently made the decision to fuse feminism and advertising in an attempt to "update" the image of women's rights, treating it as if it were an outdated product in need of a new look. Three feminist organizations were given the resources of three award-winning ad agencies to try and help them improve their image.
The three agencies rallying behind feminism were Brave, Mother, and Wieden+Kennedy. Their job was to try and steer public opinion away from the hairy, man-hating, bra-burning image that is conjured when uttering the word feminism. As Charlotte Raven, founding editor of the Feminist Times puts it:
The puritanical, anti-fun feminist looms large in the media's consciousness, but not in mine. I've never met her, even in the women's groups I attended in the '80s.
Mother London and the Feminist Times showcase a single shocking fact: "On average, British women make up to 15% less than their male colleagues. That pay gap is unlikely to close until 2057." The design was inspired by a protest board and the album cover of "Never Mind the Bollocks" from the Sex Pistols. Their campaign includes an interactive element as well, directing viewrs to MakeThemPay.co.uk, a site where you can estimate how much more or less you make per year than your colleagues of the opposite gender. There is also no reference to the word "feminism" throughout, focusing on the message and not the label.
Image by Phoenix Dark-Knight
Another example of the "rebranding" is a flowchart by Brave and Jinan Younis, in which all roads lead to the realization that you are, in fact, a feminist, even if you answer "no" to the question "Are you a feminist?"
Wieden+Kennedy London collaborated with satirical website Vagenda to create the#ImAWomanAnd campaign. A list of sexist slurs and nicknames are littered across the poster – including "bimbo," "slut," and "thinking man's crumpet." The headline "Sod the Stereotypes" tries to drive home the point that even though these terms may be in common use, they are still a sweeping generalization that does more harm than good.
There were some organizations such as UK Feminista who opted out of the "feminist rebranding," motivated by the belief that feminism has no need for an image update, not to mention the consumerist nature and excessive use of airbrushing in Elle UK that makes their feminist intentions questionable. Proof of this lies in the fact Elle UK rejected a few earlier ideas from Mother and Feminist Times, included a photomontage of different vaginas, aimed at making the reader think twice about getting a Brazilian wax.
This doesn't take away from the intention of the magazine when compared to others that are much less willing to tackle controversial issues. So while it's unlikely feminism actually needs to be rebranded, it's nice to see that it is getting some well-deserved attention in a channel that attracts a lot of eyeballs.


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Flowers in the Attic
This chilly drama chronicles the fate of four siblings confined in their grandparents' attic and abused daily after the children's father dies. As the two older kids grow up, they begin looking for a way to escape their nightmare world.
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Parents need to know that Flowers in the Attic is a drama based on a very popular 1980s pulp novel about a family whose children are locked in an attic by a scary mother and grandmother. Incest is a major theme since the children are a product of it, and the older siblings eventually become intimate, though only kissing is visible. Violence is limited to whipping, slapping, and shoving with a lot of menacing talk about punishments, but since the violence is doled out by adult authority members, it could be extra frightening for young viewers to watch. A few mild four-letter words are used, and the grandmother calls the children many names, including devil's spawn and devil's issue.
- Sexual Content
- Sexual content is limited to kissing, talk, and a scene where two characters lie in bed together with the male character shirtless post-coital, but since the sex in question is between a brother and sister, parents or young viewers may be deeply disturbed.
- Violence
- The violence is rather tame (whipping and lots of talk of whipping, pushing, slapping), but very scary for kids to watch because it's from an adult authority figure, directed at a helpless child.
- Language
- A few words like "hell" and "damn," and lots of hissed-between-the-teeth language about children being "devil's spawn" and born evil.
- Social Behavior
- Since the plot features a family who locks up and then tries to kill the family's children, positive messages are in short supply.
- Consumerism
- Flowers in the Attic is based on a novel, which viewers may want to read after watching the movie. Since the novel is very racy and controversial, parents may not appreciate that.
- Drugs / Tobacco / Alcohol
- At an adult party, there are what looks like wine glasses and drinks on a table; no one acts drunk.
- Age appropriate
- Not an issue
- Depends on your kid and your family
- Not appropriate for kids of the age most likely to want to see it


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"It's a team game," said receiver Kenbrell Thompkins. "Our whole thing is that winning takes care of everything. As long as we're winning, it doesn't matter how many receiving yards or catches we have, we just want to win."
Still, it appears that we've been so spoiled by UC's aerial pyrotechnics over the last few seasons that we are no longer dazzled by a quarterback who is completing 63% of his passes with 10 touchdowns and only 3 interceptions after five games.
In truth, the Bearcat passing attack has been very good, but there is room for improvement.
"We've had our moments where we've been in a good rhythm, but we're nowhere near where we could be," said quarterback Zach Collaros.
"It's not just one thing," said receiver DJ Woods. "It's receivers running the right routes, it's the blocking by the lineman, it's the reads by the quarterback - everybody is a part of it. But it is our job as receivers to get open for Zach and make plays."
They'll get that chance on Saturday at Paul Brown Stadium.
In recent years, the Louisville Cardinals have been uber-aggressive on defense and challenged opponents to beat them with downfield passing plays.
"They have a lot of confidence in their defensive backs," said Woods. "They play a lot of Cover 1, so we have to beat man coverage. It's nothing too special - we have to do the same thing that we did last year and make plays when it's one-on-one."
"They're an attacking defense and they like to play man-to-man coverage," said Collaros. "The thing about man-to-man coverage is that you have to win one-on-one battles. So it's our O-line vs. their defensive ends, and it's our receivers and tight ends vs. their cornerbacks. If you win those matchups, you're going to win the game."
The Bearcats have won three straight in the rivalry and two of Zach's biggest games have come against the Cardinals.
In 2009 in his first college start, Collaros was 15-17 for 253 yards and 3 touchdowns, posting a perfect NFL quarterback rating of 158.3. Last year, he passed for 275 yards and a career-high 5 touchdowns.
"Last year they actually ended up playing a little more zone than we expected," said Collaros. "Especially toward the end of the game because we had burned them a couple of times. So we're not exactly positive what they're going do against us this year, but through their first five games they've played a lot of man-to-man."
"Four quarters of smash-mouth football," said Thompkins. "If you're not expecting to get hit, you're in the wrong sport."
"It's always going to be like that," said Woods. "
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Yay, it's Friday! That means another round of Healthy Vegan Fridays.
Healthy Vegan Friday Recipe Round-Up:
Here were the most popular submissions from last week:
1. What Not to Put in Your Smoothie from My Healthy Chef.
2. Almost Raw Chocolate Hazelnut Cheesecake from The Taste Space:
3. Endless Flavors of Raw Vegan Ice Cream from Happy Healthy 365:
My favorite submissions (I select ones using little to no oil, salt, or added sugars):
1. Most Creative Use of Vegetables – Cucumber and Nori Cups from Made of Stars:
2. Easiest Energy Bar – Almond Apricot Bars from The Healthy Maven:
3. Most Inspiring Salad – Lentil Salad with Avocado and Broccolini from The Apple Diaries:
Honorable Mention: Frozen Greens Cubes for Smoothies from One Small Vegan:
Thank you to everyone who entered or who checked out the recipe submissions. You can add your link or see this week's recipes at the end of this post (just look for the thumbnails).
As we move along in spring here in the United States and get closer to summer, ice creams and smoothies just sound so appealing. Did you know that there is a way to make vegan ice cream that, I dare say, tastes better than its dairy alternative? I'm doing a special post tomorrow with a recipe that will be perfect for Mother's Day or any day, for that matter. Here's a teaser:
Or, if you have my app, Vegan Delish (get it here!), you can find the recipe available right now under the "Desserts" or "New Recipes" categories. Here's a screenshot of the iPad version:
See you tomorrow!


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One thing about the 100 Best list is that a lot of the books at the bottom made it onto the list by the smallest of margins over books that didn't. Submissions were done as 1-10 lists and then were weighted by those placement numbers. So, at #97, The Diamond in the Window (1962) by Jane Langton is a book that could have easily been left off the list with another one taking its place. It's hard to tell sometimes if this means the book is simply less-widely read or if it's one that only appeals to a specific audience. Looking at a few mentions, some readers seem mesmerized by this story, others call it their favorite book of childhood but I thought it was just okay.
Eddy and Eleanor Hall live with their Aunt Lily and Uncle Fred (brother and sister) in Concord, Massachusetts in a home that is nothing like the staid, white blocks of their neighbors. Though somewhat down-at-the-heel, their home has turrets and stained glass and, unfortunately, hundreds of dollars in unpaid back taxes. If Aunt Lily can't come up with the money soon, they will all be out in the cold. But there's a chance that there could be a treasure hidden in the house and Eddy and Eleanor are going to have to solve decades old riddles to find it.
I had mixed feelings while reading this book. I don't know if it was the heavy focus on the Transcendentalists of Concord (I am *not* a fan of Thoreau) and their philosophies but the story felt somewhat lecture-y in parts. I also didn't really understand where the magic was supposed to come from. It was implied that people in India can do magic but I don't know why that was. Still, this book was redeemed by having really great characters who were smart, resourceful and emotionally complex. They were ordinary and extraordinary at the same time, if that makes any sense. Anyway, I don't see this book appealing universally to kids today but I'm sure it could still find a few fans.
Verdict: Borrow (it's out of print anyway so you're going to have to find it at a library!)
I'm not sure if I will continue with this series. I wasn't totally in love with the writing or the plot but, then again, the characters were fantastic. Have any of you read the rest of this series? Are the other books worth reading?
Next up is Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Z and I have been reading it together at bedtime for about the last month. I know a few of you are doing the big HP read-along and have recently finished this one so head on over and chat about it on March 15th!
Schedule – March through June
note: dates are not necessarily set in stone – posts may go up a day or two before or after
March 15 – #12 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling (1999) — 3rd in a series
March 31 – #83 Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum (1907) — 3rd in a series
April 15 – #33 Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien (1971)
April 30 – #9 The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (1978)
May 15 – #17 Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh (1964)
May 31 – #38 Frindle by Andrew Clements (1996)
June 15 – #58 Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome (1930) — 1st in a series
June 30 – #100 Love that Dog by Sharon Creech (2001)


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First Aid Beauty was started by Lilli Gordon in 2009. She is a former financial wizard who became one of the cofounders of Fresh (yes, I might be a huge fan of their Lip Treatment), and helped oversee their purchase by LVMH. She later started First Aid Beauty when she found there was a big hole in the skin care industry. And you know what? She was right.
In my mind, this is what First Aid Beauty is. It's the skin care you pull out when your skin has a problem, or to help keep any problems under control. Similar to those lotions I was taught to recommend in my medical training (yes, I was taught to tell parents to use a gentle cleanser like Cetaphil or a super hydrating lotion like Aquaphor or Cetaphil Cream for eczema. Amlactin is great for Keratosis Pilaris), these creams work the same way by first supporting your skin's barrier function. Happy barrier function=happy skin=pretty and glowy skin. I like Glowy Skin.
Except that First Aid Beauty isn't just the same thing as Cetaphil but in a fancier (and more expensive) store. They've updated the formulas by adding great ingredients like Colloidal Oatmeal, Squalane, and Ceramides. So, rather than simply supporting barrier function, they really have created a more advanced product that also soothes, does a better job of moisturizing, etc.
For the next 8 weeks or so I'll be using the new First Aid Beauty Dual Repair collection. Talking to Lilli Gordon about why she created the new product line was like deja vu from my discussions with Amanda, my esthetician. Amanda, Lilli and me are all of the same mind. We think that you don't need to have red and irritated skin to know that your anti-aging skin care is working.
It seems that many people think the only way to tell if it is working (and therefore, you will continue to spend your money) is if you have tingling, a little burn, some redness and maybe even flaking. In truth, that irritation means you have some inflammation in the area. Which causes aging. The irritation has undone any work the cream has actually done to fight aging, and you're probably paying big bucks to make your skin age more quickly. (Which, yes, makes you buy more creams. See how that works?)
If you've read my site for a while, you've probably noticed that I focus a lot of my anti-aging focus on keeping your skin happy. I want to exfoliate, but do it gently. I say to use gentle cleansers. When discussing retinoids I talk a lot about not necessarily using them every night and really paying attention to what your skin can handle. I want to have a lot of moisture, use high SPF broad spectrum UV coverage and just in general protect my skin from damage. So, the First Aid Beauty approach really works for me.
This week I'm going to be finally posting reviews for the First Aid Beauty core collection items that I've used in the past. Mark your calendar for March 12th at 4pm EST, I'll be hanging out on Twitter with Lilli Gordon (OMG!!!), so please come and join us! I've started a First Aid Beauty Pinterest Board, where I'll be adding reviews and some pretty pictures. Soon I'll be reviewing the Dual Repair Line in more detail, so stay tuned!
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The financial terms were never fully disclosed, and Nokia retains a 10% stake in the company. Vertu is a breed apart when it comes to mobile devices. Most recently, Vertu just announced a new Constellation line of devices, packing sapphire crystal for the screen and buttons and other premium materials.
The real experience of owning a Vertu are the services that the company makes available for their exclusive owners. The concierge service is the most visible and renowned. If you ever find yourself in Las Vegas or another high-profile market with a Vertu dealer, ask them about the concierge service, and you will hear stories beyond the common "tickets to a sold out event." The service has a reputation of arranging amazing experiences for those that know how to burn through some money. The service certainly makes up for some technological gaps in the hardware (like EDOF cameras on some models). Those that use the concierge service enough are provided with a dedicated "lifestyle manager."
In addition to the concierge, Vertu offers other services such as City Brief which provides the jet-setter with updates about their surroundings when in a new city. Vertu also provides services for their equipment, data back-up and dedicated tech-support. Being a high-life-style product, Vertu has partnered with premium brands around the world and even arranges for personal security detachments for those that want it or need a rapid response.
We will meet you at the private jet.
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**Decided to document this as well as possible to help people with various jobs in the future*
Dignosis continued on posts below - van is still not running
Things I've written about so far:
- How to remove Eurovan 2.5 Fuel Pump.
- Eurovan 2.5 fuel pump relay location and testing.
- Fuel Pump alternative replacement sources.
- How to hardwire a 16 pin modern diagnostic port to a '93 pre-OBD2 Eurovan.
Was driving along at 55mph, suddenly lost power and engine died. It wouldn't restart, and I couldn't hear the fuel pump running but was at the side of the road. As I was only a few miles from home, I towed it back and started checking it out today.
Power at the fuel pump relay? Yes.
Jump the relay - Power at the pump connector? Yes.
Test the relay connections anyway - Everything good? Yes.
Good ground at the pump? Yes.
Final test of the pump with jumped relay? Nothing.
So I guess the pump just decided to give out with no warning. The screen has a little bit of debris on it, but nothing unusual. There were no warning noises at all, although the van was verrry slow (which I blame on the engine, not the fuel pump).
I do remember the previous owner saying that he had the fuel pump replaced within the last year, but the pump seems to have markings that would suggest a build date of late 2007. Of course I didn't keep the fuel pump from the old van.


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Sexy oceanfront Bayloft unit for sale in Panama's most prominent highrise lifestyle apartment complex: Trump Ocean Club! Enjoy direct, unobstructed ocean views and easy access to the massive pool complex and restauarant area just a short elevator ride from your bayloft unit. This apartment is currently rented out on a 12 month lease, meaning you have a turn key, fully furnished and tenant occupied rental unit generating a nice cashflow!
This Bayloft if priced to sell! Perfect for a pied a terre or a rental property! Apartment includes all appliances, curtains, and furniture! With over 700 square feet, you'll be living LARGE in Trump Ocean Club in this Bayloft unit.


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|Bridgeton, New Jersey. 1936-1942. Seabrook Farms, several thousand acres, where Birdseye Foods are produced
|Chicago, Illinois. April-July, 1941
|[Edwin and Louise Rosskam at work, examining photographs in pan of solution, 1938]
|Elk Basin, Wyo., July 1944 - C.W. Trimble, derrick man for the Noble drilling corp., riding the elevator at a Carter oil co. well
|[Louise Rosskam and others passing dishes at al fresco meal in Puerto Rico]
|[Men and boy with painted faces and costumes serenade people sitting on a porch, Puerto Rico]
|Mister Gringo roman américain
|New York, N.Y. November, 1941. Washington Square
|Preparation of the defense bond sales photo-mural by the Farm Security Administration and installation in Grand Central Terminal, New York, N.Y. 1941
|[President of the Senate of Puerto Rico Luis Muñoz Marin standing and talking with unidentified man in building]
|Provincetown, Massachusetts. 1937-1940. Fishing industry on New England coast
|Puerto Rico, 1944-46
|Puerto Rico reconstruction administration and other (?) co-operative projects. Jan., 1938 and Dec.-Jan. 1941-1942. La Plata project of the PRRA
|Roosevelt, New Jersey, big dreams in a small town and what time did to them
|San Francisco, west coast metropolis
|Selected prints by photojournalist Louise Rosskam and portraits of Rosskam taken by family and friends
|Small towns and countryside in Vermont. July, 1940. Town hall, post office and general store, main street, hotel
|[Standing, left to right, Governor Rexford Guy Tugwell, Coordinator Elmer Elsworth, (i.e. Ellsworth), and Naval Aide (Vernon) De Mars at La Forteleza (i.e. Fortaleza) in San Juan, Puerto Rico, October, 1945]
|Summer recreation and rural scenes, Pennsylvania. June-July, 1941. Preparation for firemen's 4th of July celebration, at State College, which was rained out
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|Twelve million black voices
|Washington, D.C. July, 1941. Scenes in slum area
|Washington, D.C. Nov., 1941. Chevy Chase Ice Palace, an indoor skating rink
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The Auto
parts Industry Association (Asopartes) and the Program "Computers for Schools", from the
Ministry of Information and Communications Technologies, agreed to bring
forward a strategic alliance to help with the massive and appropriation of ICT
and the use of e-waste.
popularization and appropriation of ICTs are part of the Plan Digital Living,
which is promoted by the Minister Diego Molano Vega, and which will contribute
with the Plan Quality Education which being conducted by the Ministry of
well as all Colombians we support the appropriate use of technology and, above
all, help to bring these tools to the most needy, we will contribute to
collective prosperity", said the President of Asopartes, Tulio Zuloaga.
strategic partnership was signed between the Executive Director of the Program Computers
for Schools, Martha Castellanos, and the group president (Tulio Zuloaga), who
committed to get donations of equipment to promote the program among its 1,500
members across the country.
In this
year,the program Computers for Schools seeks to provide education to 7,800 offices,
libraries and cultural centers with technological terminals. The goal is to
bring 89,000 computers (including laptops) for boys and girls, located in
different regions of the country.The
program, which celebrated 10 years of operation, has reached 6 million school
users, and has managed 4,400 tonnes of electronic waste, thus allowing
protecting the environment.
social content of Computers for Schools is a major concern for us", said
Zuloaga, also he said that the sector is committed to corporate social
responsibility policies.
In this year, Computers for Schools has finalized strategic alliances
with business groups as Andi, SAC, Acoset, Fenalco, Analdex, and Asopartes, to
support the most needy rural school community. This year, the ICT Ministry
Program will train 12,000 teachers in educational appropriation of technology,
to replicate this knowledge among their students.
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Put your iPod in the trash. Throw away your Zune (that's a joke… you don't really own one, do you?). Detroit Pistons center Dale Davis is set to dominate the mp3 player market with the launch of "BlingTune," which he describes as "an MP3 and radio encased in a jewelry piece." Davis says BlingTunes will mostly be marketed to an urban audience "because it's jewelry." Solid. Here's more from the Bling Daddy, courtesy of Justin Rogers over at Full Court Press:
"Just looking at the emergence of what iPod did and the market in general, if you look at a product like BlingTune, all it is, it's a little more flashy, it's a little more hip. It goes in line with more of an urban product because it's jewelry. And by the built-in market already being there with MP3s and iPods, we thought it would be a good idea to kind of attack that market, the urban market. It's an MP3 piece for the urban market."
We're anxiously awaiting official pricing and release details. I already have my little niece penciled in to get one for Xmas this year, and, heck, probably grandma too. For more info, including specs and photos of the BlingTune, visit the official BlingTune website.


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Michigan college offers homeschool scholarship
Today we've added a new listing under colleges that offer homeschool scholarships. The Beth Anderson Memorial Home School Scholarship is available to students attending Montcalm Community College in Sidney, Michigan. Five $500 scholarships are available to homeschool graduates who demonstrate academic achievement and community service. To see our complete list of college scholarships available exclusively for homeschoolers, click here.
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A Polish man who ran over one of Britain's best young divers and then left him for dead in the road, was jailed today for five years.
Lukasz Banasik, then 23, had no driving licence or insurance when he crashed into Olympic-standard sportsman Gavin Hustler-Brown in Southampton.
Farm labourer Banasik, was driving with passenger Rafal Potiopa. He was travelling at a speed of between 45-50mph, along a 30mph road, when Mr Hustler-Brown crossed the carriageway on 28 April, 2007. Banasik admitted causing death by dangerous driving at an earlier hearing.


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Digital Nations - Godsticks Release Self-titled EP
Listen to a Song from their soon to be released, Self Titled EP!
Get it at iTunes OR Get it at Amazon
Godsticks are a unique 3-piece progressive-rock band from South Wales, UK, combining the vocal/guitar/piano talents of Darran Charles, the bass talents of Jason Marsh, and the expertise of long-time session-drummer Steve Roberts.
Their love of various musical styles including prog-rock, fusion, rock, and pop have been melded together to create their own style one that has been described as progressive rock fused with a heavy funk.
Initially a cover band performing complex progressive music, Godsticks began to immerse themselves in writing new material and developing their own unique song formats borne out of a desire to create song arrangements they wanted to hear, but that were never present in the music of their influences.
"Creative, ambitious, well played; it's what we should all aspire to artistically" Mick Taylor, Editor (Guitarist Magazine)
Lots of inventive turns of phrase, clever arpeggios, and other little touches combine with the jazzish grooves and hooky melodies to keep things interesting. Barry Cleveland, (Guitar Player Magazine)


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Looks good. I wish I had a Supra for sure...though looking at the 60' times of 2.2x on the faster end of the spectrum for your trap speed the race from a dig seems off since its much easier to get a 1.8 on an Sti then a 2.2 on a Supra. I might be wrong, since I've never driven a Supra, but still...Originally posted by KnightRider2K
BPU Supras trap about 117, healthy ones can do 119. I've actually seen a couple do 120 and 121 but these are extremely out of the ordinary. BPU of course consists of intake, exhaust, downpipe, and BoostCutController. For me these items cost about $600 in total. I didn't opt for an electronic boost controller which is not only overpriced IMO but often underperforms a manual ball and spring device. Here's a decent chart for expected Supra trap speeds to rwhp http://www.moreboost.org/track_times...ed Performance
Good luck guys.


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PEEKSKILL, N.Y. – Spectra will present its proposal for the AIM project to the Peekskill Common Council on Monday, Aug. 4 at 7 p.m. at Peekskill City Hall.
Spectra will discuss plans for the natural gas pipeline it wants to place under the Hudson River and through Northern Westchester.
For more information on the Common Council Meeting click here .


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Since the beginning of 20th century the world more than ever witnesses great improvement in women costumes. Prior before now, women costumes were very thick, bulky and constricting. Given the above the seductive power hidden in women's body by nature was not discovered. Besides, the bulky nature of women costumes then was not hygienic given the physiology of women. However, 20th century can be said to be the dawning of new era in women costumes. The need to perfect women costumes has made designers to go into intensive research and they have succeeded in changing the world of women in the area of their costume. Women costumes is now becoming sexy.
There are a number of sexy costumes on sale in the market today. These costumes come in various designs. Every design is meant to bring the natural beauty of women. Some are designed to draw attention to vital parts of a woman where her seductive and attractive power lies. These sexy costumes revolutionise fashion in the twentieth century. Women are becoming more and more attractive and appealing when the put on sexy costumes.
In the lingerie market the advent of modern technology has made it possible for designer to overcome the short comings of the old style lingerie which was heavy and restricting. Sexy underwear is now fashioned with lace, ribbon, leather and silk material. These materials help to bring out the natural contours of a woman making her to be more appealing to her partner. Sexy lingerie helps both men and women who are into romantic relationship to boost up their love life. You can make you choice from the variety of sexy costumes and lingerie on sale. The following are just few out of many sexy costumes on sale now.
Baby doll: this is usually made of silk, nylon or sheer material. This is small gown with loose flying tail. It has a built in bra in the shape of a cup.
Bustier: this is a sexy strapless bra that drops down to the waist. It has a garter straps attached to it.
Camisole: camisole is short top that reaches to the waist. Camisole can make one to look attractive especially when it is worn without bra. It draws attention to women's breast.
Corset: this type of sexy lingerie tightens the waist and brings up the breast. It helps to bring the shape of a woman and also point to the breast.
Thongs and G-string panties: thong is sexy underwear that covers only the vulva without the buttock being covered. The only difference between G-string is that unlike thong G-String covers a small portion of the bottom with a stretchable string.
Push up bra: as the name suggest is a type of bra that elevates the breast so that the size will come out fully.
There are more to this lists I just mention few.
Sexy lingerie has a number of advantages other than the ones mention above. Wearing sexy underwear and costumes help you to keep yourself attractive to your partner and it is a gentle way of inviting your partner to enjoy the sweetness of your body.
You can purchase your sexy underwear in the market or through the internet. Wholesale lingerie is also available in the internet. The price of wholesale lingerie is reduced. There are also some dealers that will help you ship your goods if you purchase lingerie wholesale.
Mark Fang
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The Utah Symphony continues its seasonlong presentation of the complete symphonies of Carl Nielsen. This week brings Symphony No. 3, nicknamed "Sinfonia espansiva."
"The Third is a very special symphony to me," said music director Thierry Fischer. "[Nielsen] was incredibly sad and totally depressed. … He was putting his sadness in writing, and this is the first time you have this depth [from him]." Fischer said a highlight for concertgoers will be the symphony's second movement, in which soprano Melissa Heath and baritone Shea Owens will sing wordless melodies. "I like to believe that the two singers represent Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden," he said. "It says a lot about the element of the human voice."


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|Effective: Summer 2015
|4.5 Unit(s)
|Advisory: Advisory: Not open to students with credit in ART 13.
|Grade Type: Letter Grade, the student may select Pass/No Pass
|Not Repeatable.
|FHGE: Non-GE Transferable: CSU/UC
|4 hours lecture, 1.5 hours laboratory. (66 hours total per quarter)
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|This course is a comprehensive overview of the visual culture of Islamic peoples from the seventh through the 21st centuries. We will examine painting, objects, and architecture to better understand the rich cultural heritage of this world religion.
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|Gorden, Matthew S., Islam, New York; Oxford University Press, 2002.
Robert Hillenbrand. Islamic Art and Architecture, Thames and Hudson, London, 1999.
Although the Gordon text is older, it is still an excellent resource for introductory courses in this subject.
The Hillenbrand text is old, however, it is still an excellent (and very affordable) text for our students.
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Paco's Gift History
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text: Welcome to the world of the Bang Bang Pegboard, where life just became a little more simple. This wall-mounted shelving system, by George & Willy, is good for busy moms on the go wishing they had an adjustable shelving solution, the handyman of the house looking for easy storage options, or kids and/or teens who need added incentive to keep their toys and clothes off the floor in an organized manner (you're welcome parents!). Continue reading