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I really don't care for ERMS, my daughter has been having so many problems and the principle keeps telling me I have kids too and I'm a parent too. My daughter has been having problems at this school and I have requested a transfer from the district and they don't seem to care either. My daughter has had a lot of kids that are giving her a hard time and saying mean things to her, she even got into a fight that could have been avoid because the staff had a heads up on the prior to it happening. I had requested for the principle several times and was always diverted to the assistant. Once I contacted the district is the only time the principle got involved. There is a lot of fights, drama, kids saying mean things about each other, bullying the list goes on......I would not recommend this school to any parent with kids going to 6-8 grades. This is my daughters first and only year to got to that school, she will not be returning, I will drive 20 miles for her not to go to this school again. Very disappointed parent!
Everyone, this school is great, some of you guys are over reacting, sure theres fight, but thers fight at every school in New Mexico, the teachers here are great and what should teachers do when the other kids do something that wont hurt anyone, just keep suspending them, you guys are all over reacting, overall it is a great school to go to unless your kid likes to get people mad, I went here 6th grade - 8th grade and not once was I picked on or did I fail a class. I got out with a 3.5 average and I was friends with pretty much every body.
My son has gone to this school since last year, and I was told by a co-worker that her grandson went there a couple years ago and there were constant fights breaking out and there were parents that were trying to get the principal out of there. When my son started going there, I could see why. My son was harrassed my classmates in PE class and he accidently touched another student alittle too hard. The PE teacher saw it was an accident but this student went to another teacher & this teacher made sure my son got in trouble. This teacher DIDN'T see what happened but decided to get involved. There is a reason why teachers tell students to talk to the teacher of the class it happened in. This principal allows harrassment & bullying and should be terminated. It just shows how the worst staff members are getting this jobs who don't deserve it. Then they all wonder why they don't get a lot more money. This principal needs to go.
Eagle Ridge middle school. My child was bullied in class, kicked, backpack zippers were ripped off while in class. The principal stated that the teacher never leaves the class but this was allowed to transpire. They did an investigation but were never able to find the culprits say the least of punishing them. All that was done for my child was moved to a different group but at least 1 culprit is still there. The only other school closer to us has a 30-person wait list to transfer. Before our child went there we were warned that 1 of our child's Elementary Teachers warned us about Eagle Ridge but that was a mistake on our part for not having them go to that other school.
My daughter went to Eagle Ridge for 6th, 7th, and 8th grades. The teachers ranged from good to excellent. The orchestra program is top -notch, among the best in the state. The volleyball program is also good. She made great friends here, serious students with high goals. However, the reason I am only giving it two stars is because of the discipline problems. My daughter and her friends said that it was frequently hard to pay attention in class because of all the talking and misbehavior. Occasionally, the entire grade would be punished during lunch because of the actions of a few. There were also several fights. The kids felt like the administration was constantly harassing them about minor dress code violations (like a logo being too big), while turning a blind eye to larger issues, such as the fights and other criminal activity. As a result, we decided to enroll our 6th grader in a charter school instead of sending him to ERMS. I hope ERMS gets the discipline issues sorted out, because there are a lot of great kids and great teachers there who deserve a better environment.
This is okay school. But everyone was transferring their kids to mountain view because we heard that eagle ridge didn't really care about their students and disciplined their kids horribly. And their was way too many fights and the fighters only got lunch detention while some kids got in school suspension (ISS) for talking in class or being out of dress code. This school is just whack. Also my sons English quit while he was in class in the first quarter of the school year.
This is a good school. Teachers are welcoming and do their best to help each child. However the 6th grade teachers can only do so much with so many new students. They do not have a accelerated program for the 6th graders which made this school year VERY boring for my daughter. We are told that there is an accelerated program for the 7th and 8th graders. We can only hope, otherwise we may have to look into charter schools.
We love ERMS!! My daughter became very ill during the middle of the school year, and the entire staff and leadership team rallied behind her to help her out. They are very fair, and the teams are nicely balanced between high expectations and kindness toward the children.
My daughter attended Eagle Ridge and I volunteered on the Parent Advisory Council. I was so impressed by the concern of the administration as they continually tried to better the school and serve the students. The calibre of the teachers was phenomenal. The one instance where we did have problems with a teacher, once parents contacted the principal, the situation was quickly dealt with. I would have no qualms recommending this school this other parents.
I love working at ERMS. The comraderie and support amongst the staff is professional and positive. Expectations are high and we're given the tools and encouragement to achieve those goals. Those two hand in hand is rare.
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Especially liked the chipotle, mayo, apricot preserve spread on this sandwich. Served it as a traditional sandwich instead of open face. Will be making again for sure.
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Quick and delicious meal!
julie64 Posted: 05/04/13
Delish! Didn't have any chipotle chilis so used chipotle chili powder - family raved! Just the right amount of heat. Hubs already asked me to make it again!
daneanp Posted: 05/17/13
These were good but the family didn't like them open-faced. Too messy. Flavor was spot on but next time I'll leave the chicken slices larger and the bacon strips halved vs. crumbled and put a top slice on it. Maybe a little sliced red onion would be good too...
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Made this sandwich for an easy weekend lunch - it truely came together in about 20 minutes from start to finish (including shredding a rotisserie chicken from the store). I served as a traditional sandwich using some leftover whole wheat hamburger buns, but otherwise made no subsitutions. Overall, my husband and I both gobbled our sandwiches, washed them down with ice cold beers and topped off the meal with some fruit - great springtime / summer meal. I would absolutely recommend only doing 2 tbsp (maybe even a bit less) of the preserves as a little sweet goes a long way. I will absolutely be making again; enjoy!
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We really enjoyed this! I felt like it could hold more veggies though.
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These were really good - the chipotle apricot mayo spread really makes the sandwich.
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Taj Gibson hit a layup as time expired in overtime to lead the Chicago Bulls to a 102-100 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois Monday night.
Gibson scored 12 points on just three-of-11 shooting, but hit the biggest shot of the game.
D.J. Augustin came off of the bench to lead the Bulls with 27 points, four rebounds and four assists.
Nick Young hit a jumper with just six seconds left in overtime to set up Gibson's shot. That wasn't the only clutch shot Young knocked down – he also drew a foul while shooting a three and hit all three free throws with four seconds left in regulation to tie the game. Joakim Noah missed a seven-footer at the buzzer and the game went to overtime.
Young finished the game with 31 points on 11-of-23 shooting to go along with five rebounds and five assists.
Pau Gasol poured in 20 points, 19 rebounds, five blocked shots and three steals while Jodie Meeks scored 16 points and dished out seven assists for the Lakers.
Noah had 17 points, 21 rebounds, six assists and two steals and Jimmy Butler scored 13 points, grabbed 11 rebounds, dished out five assists and had four steals.
The Bulls are now 20-20 while the Lakers are just 16-26.
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Albany -- August doesn't just mean warm weather it also mean hundreds of college students headed back to school. Saturday new and old students at A-S-U moved into their dorm rooms. For parents helping their children move-in stirs up a mixture of emotions.
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Students at ASU may feel a little crowded this year, the new freshman class of 675 students will be the largest Freshman class in ASU's history.
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Two weeks ago I wrote about genetic trespass. This week it's chemical trespass. Monsanto makes news again.
An international team of highly respected scientists has just released a stunning report, Roundup and Birth Defects, proving that Monsanto and industry regulators have known for decades that Monsanto's top-selling weedkiller, Roundup, causes birth defects in laboratory animals.
Farmers, Indigenous people and rural communities around the world celebrated the International Day for Biological Diversity last week. But casting a long shadow was the news that big funders and new NGOs are teaming up with the pesticide-biotech giant, Syngenta, in a renewed effort to push genetically engineered rice forward in Bangladesh and the Philippines.
Nicknamed "golden rice," this untested, highly controversial GE crop threatens biodiversity across the region and risks bringing economic and ecological disaster to Asia's farms.
My mom hackles are up. GE toxins are turning up in umbilical cordblood and the blood of pregnant women, according to a study by independent Canadian doctors. And what might be the effect of these toxins on developing fetuses? No one really knows. Let me tell you why this is big news.
All this time, Monsanto has based its assertion that crops engineered to contain the bacterial toxin, Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), are harmless on an assumption that the toxin breaks down in the digestive system and so never enters the rest of the body. Regulators have been repeating this to us for over a generation. Now it turns out that the Bt toxin is not only surviving in our guts, but is making its way on into our bloodstreams — and if we're pregnant, into the soon-to-be-babies in our bellies.
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Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal wants, among other things, for the GOP to stop being "the stupid party." Rep. Paul Ryan has concluded that the watchword for the Republican Party needs to be "prudence." Sen. Marco Rubio is the front man for the most tangible aspect of the rebranding effort: getting on the right side of the immigration issue. In the process, he's become something of the de facto point person for the party.
The latest entrant into this effort: House Majority leader Eric Cantor. Cantor recently gave a well-received speech at the American Enterprise Institute (where I am a fellow), titled "Making Life Work." In it, Cantor argued for utterly reasonable conservative solutions that would improve the plight of the working poor and the middle class.
It's all good stuff from a great field. Indeed, while calling them the "fantastic four" might seem hyperbolic - and unfair to a few other politicians left out of the mix - Rubio, Ryan, Jindal and Cantor are a pretty good counterargument to those who think the Republican Party is doomed. Excellent politicians all, three out of four are minorities: a Hispanic, an Indian-American, and a Jew - which sounds like they should be walking into a bar for a joke. The fourth, the Catholic Ryan, routinely wins a working-class district that votes Democratic in presidential elections.
I should note that lately I've written favorably about this rebranding stuff as well. In a nutshell, I've been arguing that the GOP's problems don't stem from a lack of principle, but from a lack of persuasiveness.
My point was not - and is not - that the GOP should abandon its commitment to core conservative principles. If you can't get the swing voters to vote for the existing level of conservatism the GOP is offering, it seems odd to argue that the GOP needs to peddle an even more strident form of conservatism (even if that purer conservatism would yield better policies). If a potential customer says, "The Chevy Impala is too pricey," a good salesman doesn't immediately respond, "OK, can I interest you in a Bentley?"
All that said, I think the push to rebrand the GOP has its own pitfalls.
For starters, "prudence" and "don't be stupid," while excellent prescriptions for how to behave, are not, in themselves, great rallying cries. If you don't believe me, try to get a crowd of the faithful to start chanting "Pru-dence! Pru-dence!" or "We're Not Stupid! We're Not Stupid!"
While this may seem obvious, the fact is that one of the GOP's worst tics is its habit of reading its stage directions out loud. For instance, Republicans often talk about how they're not going to "go negative." George H.W. Bush had such contempt for Bill Clinton's gift for wholesale empathy, he felt the need to proclaim, "Message: I care."
Obviously, Republicans should care about what is best for the country and the voters - and they should demonstrate that concern - but they will never beat liberals at the game of whose heart bleeds the most. As liberal Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne observes, Cantor's rebranding maneuvers the GOP into a contest on Democratic turf: who cares more about workers, the poor, immigrants, etc. As Dionne notes, that's why Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer immediately praised Cantor's remarks.
The reason that game is so perilous for conservatives is not that liberals necessarily care more than conservatives but that they are always willing and eager to prove their concern by cutting a check, even when all we have in the checking account is IOUs and cash on loan from China. Moreover, they are perfectly happy and eager to say that anyone who opposes more check-kiting is greedy or selfish, even if what Democrats are doing is making the problem they seek to solve worse. All too often, liberals act as if government has a monopoly on compassion.
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Voters aren't children, but too many of them have the childish notion that the best policies are those that pander to their immediate desires. The challenge for the GOP is to persuade them to put away childish things.
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Billionaire real estate developer Mark Roski, Jr. wants to transplant the Vikings to Los Angeles, but so far Zygi Wilf isn't listening to what Roski has to say. "They have knocked on our door, but we have declined," said Vikings executive Lester Bagley. "We have not had a meeting or discussion with Roski. All of our updates have come through the league. Our intention is to resolve the issue in Minnesota, but clearly they are out proactively seeking a team and they are the ones that listed the seven teams."
This came up because it was reported that the league wants one team in the L.A. market by next year and eventually two teams. The Saints, Bills, Jaguars, Chargers, Raiders and 49ers have been listed along with the Vikings as candidates to be moved. If the Vikings get their new stadium they will of course be struck from the list. In light of that, I wonder if it was such a brilliant move for Vikings brass to deny speaking to Roski so vehemently. I should think it would be better from a leverage stand-point to look like you're at least considering the possibility of moving. Then again, maybe Zygi is worried that if he threatens to leave, the state will just tell him to get lost. There doesn't seem to be a whole lot of sentiment in Minnesota in favor of a new stadium for the Vikings. Yet we're always hearing how the Vikes are the #1 pro team in the state, much bigger than the Twins, T-Wolves or Wild. Do Minnesota fans deep down just not give a damn about having a pro football team? It almost seems like it.
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The late great Michael Jackson has eerily sung these lines—"Gone too soon…" for the people who passed away too early. Not only were the lyrics applied to the King of Pop's sudden demise, but also to one of his closest friends in the music industry—Whitney Houston. The world was devastated with the unexpected death of the talented singer and superstar.
According to reports, Houston was found lifeless in her room on the fourth floor of Beverley Hilton Hotel. The singer was 48 years old. Whitney died on the night of the Grammy Awards, the big occasion in the music world that she graced with her amazing talent. The unexpected tragic news led many Hollywood stars to share their feelings about Houston.
Mariah Carey, Gloria Estefan, Dolly Parton, Aretha Franklin, Rihanna, Beyonce, Quincy Jones and many other famous celebrities paid tribute and reminisced their precious moments spent with the deceased star.
Whitney has become a legend because of her numerous awards and several albums that catapulted her on top of the music charts all around the world. She was the "golden girl" of the 1980s-1990s and was considered as one of the world's best-selling artists. She was also successful in the silver screen but her life was tarnished with a rocky marriage to Bobby Brown and drug abuse that led to the damages in her voice.
Houston was buried on February 18 and is survived by her daughter Bobbi Christina. Though the hit songs of Whitney may not be as many as the available options for home alarm systems, she has successfully etched her name in the music industry and will forever be remembered as one of the best musical legends.


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Electronic toll collectors.Credit: Wikipedia user Nate
For those who frequently drive on toll roads on the East Coast, getting an E-ZPass saves both time and the need to have a cup holder filled with quarters for the commute to work. The same is true of similar systems, such as TxTag in Texas or FasTrak in California.
All of these, as well more than a dozen other systems in North America, work using radio frequency identification (RFID). The passes communicate with readers at tollbooths, and the readers both debit the passes' prepaid balances and keep a record of when and where the transaction occurred.
However, that recordkeeping raises privacy and security concerns. Police can use electronic toll-collection information to track a person's whereabouts. Divorce lawyers can also use the records in court.
"It's an easy way to show you took the off-ramp to adultery," one divorce lawyer told the Associated Press in 2007.


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Alexis Bellino sat down to talk with What's Up OC about The Real Housewives of Orange County following the reunion shows last week.
When asked whether she would return for the seventh season, Alexis said, "My dress line is so successful, that I am wondering how I can not do a seventh season." This success, despite the fact that the business shares a name with a popular stripper, Alexis Couture.
When not talking about how great her dress line is, Alexis dished on her failed relationship with Peggy. The interviewer asked about rumors that Peggy said she would not return if Alexis was on the show last season. We can't believe Peggy would make that demand. First of all, she's a rookie. Rookie's rarely have that sort of clout, and Peggy's not a dumb girl. Plus, her fight with Alexis isn't that bad. It's no Teresa-Danielle. But for the record, Alexis said she would never make that sort of demands.
So, about her successful dress line. Alexis denied rumors that her dress line was made in Guatemala. The reason? She has no time to travel there because she has children.
For more from Alexis, check out the clip above.
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TEAMS: Vancouver Canucks, Los Angeles Kings
Vancouver Canucks injured left wing Daniel Sedin did not make the trip to Los Angeles for Game 3 of his team's opening-round series with the Los Angeles Kings.Sedin, who suffered a concussion on March 21, did not practice or skate with the team Saturday before they left for California. A former employee of the Canucks said on Twitter that Sedin would not play at all in the opening round of the NHL Playoffs."You know, there is no timeline on these injuries. I can't tell you more," head coach Alan Vigneault told reporters when asked if Sedin could play in Game 4. "He's not skating with the team and he's not coming to L.A. I don't know about reports like that. Again, I can't comment more than what I've been telling you."Vancouver trails Los Angeles 0-2 in the series with the next two games at the Staples Center. Sedin scored 30 goals and recorded 37 assists for the Canucks this season.
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Goodness. Apparently Teen People was planning on running an article on Prussian Blue, the scary twins that sing about "white pride" and crushing on Hitler.
Teen People nixed a story about Hitler-loving teenybopper twins Prussian Blue – amid outrage that the glossy had promised to avoid the words "hate," "supremacist" and "Nazi" in its piece on the racist singing sisters.
A Web-based teaser for the February story originally called the hatemongering duo "aspiring musicians" and compared them to wide-eyed sensations Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.
Cause I'm sure the Olsens sit around playing a video game called "Ethnic Cleansing" and calling people who aren't white "muds."
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Shadows of the Empire by Steve Perry (1996, Bantam)
Shadows of the Empire is unique among Star Wars novels in that I can mention it to anyone with more than a casual interest in Star Wars and they know what I'm talking about, even if they don't read Star Wars books. It's also unique in that not everyone remembers it as a book. Many of the aforementioned folks to whom I mention Shadows will say "I played that game non-stop when I was a kid," or "Those were some really fun comics; Boba Fett is badass," or even, "I collected that entire line of action figures."
Shadows was a multimedia project that included, as mentioned above, a video game, comics, and a line of action figures. There was even a junior novel and a soundtrack. The full-length novel, which I would consider the centerpiece of the project, was written by Steve Perry:
No, not of Journey. This guy:
The book, as I'd wager everyone reading this knows, takes place between Empire and Jedi, and follows Luke, Leia, Chewie, Lando the droids, and a new character, Dash Rendar, filling the vacant "surly smuggler" role. While an attempt is made to rescue Han from Boba Fett's clutches in the early chapters, the primary action of the novel involves the group's entanglement with Prince Xizor (that's Shee-zor, not Zy-sor, as I've often heard). Xizor is the leader of a galaxy-wide criminal empire known as Black Sun, and a competitor with Darth Vader for the Emperor's favor.
Leia eventually falls into Xizor's clutches, and the book culminates in a straightforward "rescue the princess" plot, but, as in the movies, Leia never devolves into a helpless damsel. She does, however, look exactly the same as Carrie Fisher's character from the 1987 B-movie, The Time Guardian.
Shadows is an attempt to explore the previously unexplored year between the latter two installments of the Star Wars trilogy, and it is successful in doing so. Perry gets into Vader's head and gives the reader a feel for the Dark Lord's "weakness" as an imperfect servant of the dark side. We witness Luke's transition from confusion and disillusionment at the end of Empire to the quiet self-assurance he possesses in Jedi.
The exploration of these existing characters is the most effective element of the book, but the new characters are welcome additions. Dash manages to not be too much like Han and Xizor is serviceably evil. Even Xizor's human replica droid assistant, Guri, gets an interesting confrontation with Luke in the novel's climax.
These elements, along with a seamless tonal blend of Empire and Jedi, make Shadows of the Empire a thoroughly enjoyable Star Wars novel, a great gateway into the expanded universe, and all-around recommendable.


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The baseball coach at Coeur d'Alene High School is accused of canceling a sports camp and keeping the money of four people who'd signed up.
The Idaho Attorney General's Office filed a lawsuit against Nicholas Rook Wednesday, asking that he pay a $20,000 fine over four complaints about his private business, Top Guns Development Camps, a training academy for aspiring baseball players.
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Angry Birds want to be Donald Duck
Angry Birds short form content is coming to every connected device as creators Rovio move deeper into becoming an entertainment company in the style of Disney. Yes, Disney. Rovio's head of animation Nick Dorra tod the MIPTV conference in Cannes that the company did not want to be viewed as an EA wannabe but more of a diversified …
One Trick Pony?
They have a hit game (the likes of which have existed before them, but they did it well and got lucky), but not compelling characters. People watch series etc for compelling characters, they need a point of engagement, and frankly I don't see that with the Roxio stable. Go on, name some birds, and tell me its main character traits... Much easier for Disney's lot - Mickey (happy go-lucky, enthusiastic, all-American), Donald (cheeky, often frustrated), you get the idea.
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> Go on, name some birds, and tell me its main character traits...
A funny coincidence: Yesterday I asked my 6-year old son something like this after he had been playing Angry birds in space with his cousin (she had just got the Space version on her iPad), and he had no trouble talking about the characters of various birds and pigs. In fact, the discussion started after he asked me what is my favourite angry bird, and I was like what, aren't they all the same?
I think the trouble is you and I see the phenomenon from an adult perspective, without realizing that the real target audience of this kind of entertainment doesn't need such subtleties. Comparison with Disney is appropriate. Go look at some early Disney cartoons, and the characters in them really are more or less at the same level as the angry birds. All action.
Oh God help me! I was going to ask if anyone can get me off this planet.........
"The Finnish gaming disrupter's Angry Birds characters will soon be on your high street, building activity parks in your suburb, launching an animated series and within two years starring in a feature film, according to creators Rovio."
...........but then I remembered that those homicidal poultry are, allegedly, in space now as well. Where can I hide?
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Perhaps they wanted to do a more relaxed bird game? Except that the name mellow birds is already used.
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Porous ideal, surely
Not killed a biped yet, afaik.
Yeah Cliff, they call Google that too... and good on you attacking an fluffy cartoon character! I just happen to feel little more optimistic about the game, their future prospect, and the undeniable phenomena they have created. Disney also started with initial character.. and it took little longer for them to build the company, without the distribution networks and channels available nowadays. Luck is something every company will need at some stage - how else should you differentiate between competition? I thinks you just hate the game and have some sour grapes for whatever reason. Even if they shut down tomorrow, they have done amazingly well.
They want to be thought of like Disney???
So they want to be thought of as anti-semitic capitalist whores who'll do anything to squeze the last penny from the world's children and their parents? Great role model there guys.
With that much more than they can chew bitten off.......
.....they'll be Donald Ducked soon enough all right.
Imagine, if all Disney had was birds and pigs.
I can accept that kids love Angry Birds. They also love Teletubbies, Beiber, Fraggle Rock and The Muppets.
Maybe everyone popular with kids should be like Disney. I'll finally have my excuse to go live at the bottom of the sea. (in Spongebob World).
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That's for most films anyway. Sometimes, however, a movie comes along that is so powerful and so profound that a writer cannot simply review it. To try to sum up such a movie in 800 words is impossible, for its characters, dialogue, cinematography and message all seem to defy the limits of our collective linguistic capabilities. Some movies really are that powerful.
"Fitna" is not such a film. Written by a harshly-conservative member of the Dutch parliament Geert Wilders, the film was originally released on March 27 on the website liveleak.com. It has since been removed from the original website (apparently for "copyright reasons"), but is available virtually anywhere, including on YouTube. The film's title derives from an Arabic word which can be translated as "disagreement."
Ultimately, "Fitna" is ignorant, misleading at best, inflammatory and insulting at worse (and it is at the latter that the film seems to dwell during the majority of its duration). Just shy of 17 minutes long, the film consists of a number of verses taken from the Qur'an mixed in among fiery speeches by Muslim clerics condemning western values and footage of terrorist attacks. Despite the attention it has received from the international media, "Fitna" is in reality a piecemeal hack-job. I could simply decry the film's sloppy workmanship and call it good.
However, I won't stop there. Behind "Fitna," there is an ideology that is too corrosive to ignore. It's not that "Fitna" really has anything unique to say. Bigots have had a soapbox to stand on since the 1970s and the public has lent them a reluctant ear since Sept. 11 -- we've already heard everything that "Fitna" has to say. Despite its controversial message, the film is neither powerful nor provocative, just distasteful and insulting. However, it has become more and more evident that Wilders and his compatriots will not simply go away. For that reason, it's probably time to call them out: inflammatory, unreflective films will not combat radical Islam, but only heighten current tensions.
First, there is absolutely nothing redeeming about the film on a cinematographic level. Opening with the "Arab Dance" from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite, I can't tell if the overall intention of "Fitna" is to go for scare tactics or just sheer melodramatics. As Tchaikovsky drones in the background, Wilders unveils the first of the five verses used throughout the film.
The film immediately jumps to footage from Sept. 11 followed by footage from the March 11, 2004 train bombings in Madrid. As the smoke settles, a Muslim cleric appears on the screen and declares, "Allah is happy when non-Muslims get killed."
The film goes on in this manner for 17 minutes. Wilder's goal is obvious -- to underscore that the Qur'an is an inherently violent book and Islam an inherently violent religion -- and he makes a concerted effort to do so. Perhaps I am biased in my opinion, but I can't help but believe that Wilder ultimately falls short of his goal. As the movie jumps from one verse to another, the viewer's mind isn't really drawn to what is being said, but to what is being shown. Images of dead bodies, explosions, and radical speeches dominate the film more so than any depiction of actual Muslim practices. The imagery is certainly shocking (as the film's introduction warns), but the images are mostly of low quality, which becomes more and more distracting as the film wears on.
After about seven minutes of this, Wilder's already shaky method falls flat apart. The material is rather disconnected, often having little if anything to do with one another or the verses. And yet, we get the feeling that we've seen this all before -- it just seems like a recap of the past few years' headlines. And sure enough, Wilders ends the main part of the film with a slideshow of headlines cut from Danish newspapers -- and they only become more and more irritating as the film meanders among its own fearmongering.
In the last five minutes of the film, Wilders reintroduces Tchaikovsky, but now he has shifted his argument from the inherent violence of Islam (note the sarcasm) to the impending invasion of Europe by Islam (more sarcasm). Wilders really seems to believe that such an invasion is not only about to begin, but that it is occurring already. As statistics showing the growth of the Muslim community in the Netherlands and Europe dominate the foreground, a video of public executions plays in the background. It's apparent: A conquest of Europe is underway and a brutal, Islamic dictatorship is inevitable. Which would be unfortunate, since Europe has never produced any of its own brutal dictators. Right?
After watching the film, I'm inclined to just shake off its absurdity. Do people actually take this man seriously? Unfortunately, they seem to -- Wilders has more than enough crazy (funny how that's not normally used literally) fans in the Netherlands and on the Internet. Yet, it seems much of this anti-Islamic passion is the same xenophobia that has haunted the West since the Ottoman Empire began creeping in on the Balkans 700 years ago.
I will grant "Fitna" that radical Islamic groups such as Al-Qaeda pose a serious threat to the West and the Middle East. Any ideology that focuses so intently on conflict with another offers only destruction and paralyzing hatred. However, if Wilders and his supporters wish to argue that Islam is exclusively responsible for such an ideology, he is grossly mistaken. Give me a night, some melodramatic music and a video-editing program and I can produce an equally disturbing program chock-full of Bible verses that demonstates the horror of Christianity. Give me two nights, some rap-metal, and President Anderson's college papers, and I'll prove to you that last summer's repainting of the president's house is actually part of a grand communist conspiracy to overthrow the Northfield City Council.
The point here is that one of Wilders' many sins is that of misrepresentation. You cannot judge an entire religion based on the actions of radical fundamentalists. What if we judged Christianity based solely on the Crusades. Not very fair, is it? Somehow it seems unfair to categorize a religion that emphasizes charitable giving (yes, that would be Islam) as inherently cruel or violent.
It's interesting to note though that initial reaction to "Fitna" in the Islamic world was relatively mute. The film, afterall, doesn't present anything new; instead, it's the same knee-jerk reactions against Islam that we have increasingly seen in the United States and Europe since 2001.
The great irony here is that "Fitna" and its counterparts are protesting a supposedly hateful religion and yet they are as hateful and bigoted as they claim Islam to be. So what is "Fitna"? For starts, it's probably not going to make any appearance at Cannes any time soon. At a little bit longer than fifteen minutes, the movie provokes some hard questions about the changing face of religion in Western society and the global community. Ultimately, however, I found "Fitna" to be bigoted, ignorant, and hardly constructive. But then again, I really wasn't expecting anything else.