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BRONXWORLD Owen Gartland was born on October 19, 1934 in the Throggs Neck Section of the Bronx into a family of five children. He attended St. Benedict's Grade School, Cardinal Hayes High School Cathedral College and St. Joseph's Seminary. Later, he earned Masters Degrees in Pastoral Counseling and Theology from Iona College. Father Owen K. Gartland was ordained a Roman Catholic priest on May 30, 1959. His first assignment for the Archdiocese of New York was at Our Lady Star of the Sea in Staten Island. He was transfered to Saints Philip and James parish in the Bronx. I looked up to him and followed his advice to attend Cardinal Hayes High School. Later he baptized our daughter Chasan in 1981.
I watch the baseball game
With my father
Freddie of The Long Ashes
Mets versus the Atlanta Braves
And the announcer
Mentions this one player's name
Mackie Sasser
Mackie Sassssser
Maaaackie Saaaasserrrr
This is how Stanish
And the boys
Down in the Valley say it
Mackie SasSirrrr
Down in the Valley
The Bronx Valley
By Coop City
Where Freedom Land
Use to be
Where the wiseguys
Bury bodies
Where once there's
A garbage dump
You can cruise
For a hump
At Eddie Cinders place
Mackie SasSirrrr
Guys like Antaknee Vara
Joe Tarrrrrsia
Ricky Morales
John Casiano
The original rumpus man
My best friend
We talk
Talk Talk
Taulk Tauulk Taaauuulk
Chomping on a mouthful of
Spitting them back out
Using every corner
Of our mouths
It's a memory
Of a time
When all
We think sbout
Is the fun we have
With our friends just
The way we do
Mackie SasSirrrr
Yes Sir
Hey, ever hear of Felipe Alou
FelEEPeh AhllllloooOOUUUUUU
Tough guy Irish illegal aliens, entrenched Italian Mafia crews under Matty "The Horse" Ianello plus street gangs like "The Black Spades" and "Intacrime" (christened by the crazy Pratt twins from the Edenwald Housing Project because, "we're into Crime!") dominate our North Bronx neighborhood. Mongo and his son Johnny Monks run an Italian social club on 214th Street where they control the local numbers, loan sharking and service rackets. Johnny also peddles nicks and dimes of "la babania" (marijuana). Crack does them in the eighties when the boys develop a taste for it.
The Black Spades gang are a problem. They're led out of Evander Child's High School by their prez Ham. The Spades call for a "Get Whitey Day" throughout the city a couple of years in a row and get everyone shook up. Even the newspapers picks up on it. That really bugs me because depending on the situation with a group of Black Americans my skin becomes my sin. In an attack there's no time to break down the Brown in my inner town. Nothing ever pops off in the neighbrhood though because, hell, if you come to the square be ready to kick some ass. Everyone mixes their running buddies in Our world and you really don't now who you're screwing with if you hit someone. So take that noise somewhere else. The Spades eventually branch out into boxing (Mitch "Blood" Green who, in my opinon, gives Mike Tyson a run for the money in their first fight) and Hip Hop's Rainbow Division of rappers and wild stylers (Africa Bambata' s Zulu Nation).
In our neighborhood life is coherent and I can get anything I need from a nuclear warhead to penny candy. That's our little sandbox. We can fight, we can love and we can be free to do whatever we want along the lazy sidestreets that stretch from 211th Street to 233rd bounded by White Plains Road and Laconia Avenue. A perfect square. If the night is right I'll take a long walk along 212th Street and circle around through Paulding Avenue back through 215th Street. But its got to be a right night — a Bronx winter night with the temperature around 43 degrees. It's a ritual to energize myself with the right amount of cold attitude.
I circle the square
A full moon
Lights the neighborhood
From a cloudless
and windless sky
Walking the streets
Shrouded in a blue aura
Little diamond snow beads
The frozen tears
of weeping angels
Illuminate my path
As I tip my hat
To old and departed spirits
There's someone
In every home
In the neighborhood
People who have no qualms
About saying what's
On their mind
Frankie and his family live up on 215th street. Damn, it's a big Irish clan. There must be 12 or 14 of them.
His father looks as tired as mine after a long day of work and sits in this easy chair with a glass of
Rheingold beer watching this pack of kids tear through the house waiting for that right moment when he
Frank teaches me how to skateboard the steep hills of Paulding Avenue, soup up electrical slot car racers and build go carts out of two by fours with baby carriage wheels.
I pass by Herbie and Kevin Carter's house on the way home. Leukemia dogs Herbie. Kevin wants to play in the NBA. His dreams crash and so does he in crack hell. Herbie and Kevin are not related to Fat Carter. In fact we have three Carter families in the neighborhood that aren't related. There's Fat's family, Herbie's and "White" Carter, a tough white boy whose amused he has the same family name as the others,
"Yeah, I'm the White Shadow."
Michael and Johnny live next door. They're from a German Irish family. We decide to build a raft out of an old box spring and float the nearby Bronx River. The "yacht" barely makes the bend under the Gun Hill Road overpass. We end up sinking in three feet of water and getting sick. But what a rush. I get to know how Huck Finn feels Bronx style.
Sonny is the Jim in my 'Rico Finn' life phase. A big old robust brother about thirty three years old living on 211th Street and Holland. He's built like a rock – GI Joe muscles carved from years of construction work.
Sonny fishes us out of the Bronx River and saves Little John, Michael's brother, from going under.
"What the heck you boys doing. Can't you spend your time better than this. Hell, you didn't even build the boat right!"
Sonny sails the Bronx river in his own home built rig when he's fifteen.
In those days they call him Boy. Then Colored. Nigger. As he ages and demands respect just by his presence he's a Negro. Soul brother. Black man. He teaches us all this. But he's sly about it.
"What you boys should be doing is getting ready for the talent show."
Sonny still throws annual talent shows in the lot next door to his building. Neighborhood cultural shows. He's 70 years old now. I win my first competition at 14 and get five bucks by singing Marvin Gaye's Heard It Through The Grapevine acapella.
There are other Puerto Ricans in the neighborhood. Eric lives in the projects by the Gun Hill Road Train Station and Pilar who lives across the street from us. Both of their mothers are Puerto Rican but Eric's father is half black and half white and Pilar's dad is from Spain.
Pilar and Eric are just buck wild. They experiment with sex, drugs and rock and roll starting at St. Philip and James grammar school. We attend school there because the Capucins at Immaculate Conception in our neighborhood parish want to keep their school all white. No problem. Father Gartland in the neighboring parish St. Philip and James is more than happy to have us.
Father Owen Gartland is the bomb. A first generation Irishman who attends Cardinal Hayes High School in the South Bronx as I eventually will. He gets the call from God at 12 but is forever a man's man. I never know sexually abusive priests like is commonly reported today. Father Gartland is a righteous consecrated wolf right out of central casting. A Bronx version of Spencer Tracey in Boy's Town.
Five foot eleven, hams for hands, knows how to use them, drop dead gorgeous and can woo the parish ladies. He also adopts different bad kids in the school who he knows are just going through changes at home. Glenn "Little Man" Bowman is one of his boys. Glenn's dad is a pistol and gives him holy hell. Father Gartland takes him under his wing and Glenn becomes a standup guy with a career in the military. Funny dude with much love.
Father Gartland can drink and throws down with my father in the rectory and local bars. When I'm an altar boy he drinks from this huge chalice and I fill it with a good shot of wine with just a drop of water. He's set for the morning after 7 AM Mass and puffs away on 3 packs of Chesterfields a day. He rescues me once from a beating by a neighborhood thug called Milo who jumps me outside school in the eighth grade and redislocates my jaw. My mom first knocks it out of place two years earlier. I head for therectory and within five miutes Father Gartland is out there in his car searching for Milo and his crew. He
sets them straight. Father Gartland does that with other hoods in the neighborhood too. That cat can swing a sermon and left hooks unlike anyone I know until I meet my Uncle Heriberto.
Owen dies from throat cancer but not before he gives away this young woman at her wedding. Many in the parish suspect it's his daughter. A standup guy to the end. Father Owen is trully God's man in my eyes. Much love Owen. You do your job well. At least with me. Luis Chaluisan
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The phrase "gaming headset" is capable of evoking a couple of reactions. It might make your eyes glaze over as you read through the tiny differentiating details from one product to the next, contemplating broken promises of virtual surround sound, crackly microphones or ever-increasing driver sizes that couple boomy bass with ridiculously tinny 'game' modes. For those of us that value the "up close and personal" audio experience however, getting your hands on a new premium-branded headset is a chance to run through favourite games with a fresh approach, listening to the differences and (occasionally) marvelling at whatever subtle nuance each company manages to bring to the table.
In that respect, the arrival of QPAD's QH-85 was met with a suitable level of intrigue last week, not least because this is the first product by the highly-respected manufacturer that we've managed to lay our collective mittens on.
As befits a company aiming to bring premium quality to the table without breaking the bank, the QH-85 is a mid-priced open-cup wired stereo headset with high-end aspirations, and comes complete with enough plugs and connectors to ensure it'll hook up handily to your PC, mobile device, tablet or PS4. The latter option makes for a suitably enticing prospect, with Sony's latest controller handily now piping both game and microphone audio through a solitary 3.5mm jack on its base, meaning both late night sessions with quiet audio and the crappy pack-in PS4 earpiece can be consigned to dustbin of progress.
One headset, multiple purposes then; but is it any good?
- Hi-Fi capable 53mm drivers for supreme audio quality
- 15-25.000 Hz frequency response
- Detachable microphone (quick and easy to plug/unplug for music-only purposes)
- Solid aluminium construction for durability and stability
- Super-soft padded leather headband and velour padding on cups for maximum comfort
- Open cup design for natural Hi-Fi audio with a minimum of sound leakage
- Transducer type: Dynamic Ø53mm
- Operating principle: Open
- Frequency response: 15Hz-25KHz
- Nominal impedance: 60 Ω per system
- Nominal SPL: 92±3dB
- Power handling capacity: 250mW
- Sound coupling to the ear: Circumaural
- Ambient noise attenuation: approx. 10 dBA
- Headband pressure: 5 N
- Weight with microphone and cable: 350g
- Cable length and type: 1m + 2m extension + 10cm iphone
- Connection: Mini stereo jack plug(3.5MM)
- Transducer type: Condenser(back electret)
- Operating principle: Pressure gradient
- Polar Pattern: Cardioid
- Power supply: AB powering
- Supply voltage: 2V
- Current consumption: Max 0.5 mA
- Nominal impedance: ≤2.2 kΩ
- Open circuit voltage at f = 1 kHz 20 mV / Pa
- Frequency response: 100 – 12,000 Hz
- T.H.D: 2% at f = 1 kHz
- Max. SPL: 105dB SPL
- Microphone output: -39±3dB
- Dimensions: Ø6*5mm
- Length mic boom: 150MM(include gooseneck)
- Capsule diameter: Ø6mm
Build Quality, Microphone & Connectivity
From the off, the QPAD packaging oozes quality. All of the components are nicely presented and easily accessible, with a quick note from the designers letting you know their intentions for raising standards above and beyond the boomy or tinny gaming-only headsets. Both Hi-Fi and music are referenced frequently throughout, letting you know in no uncertain terms that the QH-85 isn't going for gimmicks.
With everything laid out on the table, the contents are thus:
- QH-85 headset
- Detachable microphone
- Audio control box & cable
- Twin 3.5mm to single three-ring 3.5mm audio jack for smartphones, tablets and PS4
- 3.5mm extension cable
- Carry case
On picking up the headset, the most immediate sensation is that of physical solidity. That sensation largely stems from the aluminium frame that connects both ear cups with a simple horseshoe shape hinge on either side. It's not as rigid as you might expect however, and the QH-85 is pleasingly pliable when it comes to fitting the unit onto your head. The aluminium band stretches apart and twists without any creaks or groans, and the soft-filled headband cushion, velour padding and light weight make the QH-85 extremely comfortable for every day use. The earcups themselves are large enough to fit over my ears entirely, which eliminates the pressure I'm used to with most other gaming headsets.
Whilst it would have been nice to see a braid, the QH-85's cabling is nevertheless thick and heavy duty, splitting into a seperate microphone and audio jack at the end of its short length. From there you can either connect those cables to the three-ring adaptor and plug straight into a phone or a PS4 controller without any excessive cables to tangle up the sofa, or else connect up the short audio control box cable to add an analogue volume control, mute functionality and mobile phone answer button, or mix and match all of the above with the 3.5mm extension cable to suit whatever purposes you can feasibly devise.
Although the audio control box is a little underwhelming and lightweight in comparison to the rest of the package, the same criticisms can't be levelled at the microphone, which clips into the left earcup with a satisfying thunk. It's the same sort of positional and adjustable little unit we've become accustomed to over the years on headsets of this type; it's clear and precise without any tweaking, with a satisfying level of cable resistance keeping it firmly in place at a chosen distance from your tonsils.
There's little to complain about with any of the QPAD components included here, and although the QH-85 falls a little short of the absolute luxurious build quality that top-end headphones trade-on, there's little else to match the fit and finish within this price range.
Audio Impressions
And thus we get to the crucial part. After reviewing umpteen gaming headsets it's become pretty easy to work out those that are re-branded year after year, settling on simply meeting expectations for their price point without any real progression, and thankfully the QH-85's exude no such adequacy.
The first point to hammer home is that the QH-85's are very much an open-cup design, which may make them unsuitable for public use or in close proximity to anybody that needs silence (your embarrassment levels may vary). Although they may leak a significant level of audio through the grille at the rear of each cup, they sound fabulously open in comparison to the majority of gaming headsets out there – and you may be surprised by the difference that makes.
Firing up FIFA 14 on the PS4 was a suitable test for the QH85's ability to reproduce the cavernous echo of a football pitch mixed with the thud of the ball and clang of the woodwork, and boy did it ever sound spectacular. The crowd feels tangibly spacious in comparison to closed-back headsets in the same price range, and I was able to pick out more of the ambient audio and individual crowd voices than I previously knew existed. The phenomenal audio design in DICE's Battlefield 4 was also brilliantly reproduced and frighteningly lifelike (at least, what my minds-eye deems war should sound like anyway), while the squeeking footwork and buzzer-beating shots of NBA 2K14 produced some remarkable results.
With crisp, spacious highs and a mid-range full of clarity, some may feel the QH-85's balanced – but not overwhelming – bass lets the side down a little, but now that I'm adjusted to the subtlety on offer, it's hard to go back to the boomier, overbearing audio of some of its rivals. Tweaking the equaliser on your device will showcase the low-end to its full potential anyway, and when suitably calibrated, music is an absolute joy to listen to on the QH-85.
The same plus points apply here. Listening to Queens of the Stone Age classic …Like Clockwork was a new experience on the QPAD, which produced audio from the majority of tracks that I'd simply not heard before. Bass heavy tracks from the soundtrack to Sidhe's magnificent Shatter sounded suitably alive and driven when necessary, whilst even basic podcast audio exhibited a sense of audio placement that I'd not heard previously. Whether or not that's a positive depends exactly on whom you're listening to.
As you might have gathered from the above, the QH-85's are incredibly impressive for the price point. They shone no matter what setup I threw at them over the past week, whilst the bundled accessories allowed for practically any device with a 3.5mm jack to be used in a manner that suited the situation. By far the largest bonus was in ditching the crummy PlayStation 4 earbud and settling in for some late-night gaming that competed well with the wide-open soundstage I'd normally get from my Onkyo amp, whilst the microphone audio is clear and incoming chat volume mixed loud enough to make it a viable long-term solution for this generation.
The only real downside to using the QH-85 as a dedicated gaming headset is a lack of surround audio, but if that's the price to be paid for this level of quality then to my mind it's a sacrifice worth making. The placement of audio effects in Battlefield 4 was superbly handled even without the rear channels to rely on, and I came to miss them less and less as time wore on.
As an all-rounder then, there's little to compete with the QH-85 in its price range. For a little over £70 at the time of press, you can get your hands on something approaching the levels of high-end stereo headphones, without any of the gimmickry or processing that usually compromises lesser models. There are better headphones out there, but you'll have to pay a heck of a lot more to bring them home, and for that reason alone the QH-85 is a huge, huge bargain, and thoroughly recommended.


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Violet pretty much did not like those Disney characters! We watched the Animal Kingdom parade and she finally slapped the hand of one of the craziest scariest characters of all!
We don't have a picture, but Veronika is afraid of dark places and dark rides, speed is OK, but not dark and loud, like Voyage of the Little Mermaid, Usula was pretty scary. By the last night, she road Pirates of the Carribean! and wasn't afraid!


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We wish we would have
started sooner.
We invite you to learn more about your lien rights.
We've penned thousands of posts just for you.
The short answer: it is rarely if ever a good idea. The longer answer: it depends on who you represent. Please read on for a brief explanation.
After bonding off a mechanics lien, this bond is substituted for the owner's property – it is now the subject of the claim for non-payment instead of the project property. When a lien is bonded off, any proceeds recovered from a claim will come from the surety bond instead of the sale or foreclosure of the property.
But here's another business saying that may not be as well known as the one above, though it's no less true: "Growth EATS Cash." Why? Because business growth doesn't just happen, it needs to be fueled. And the fuel is cash.
But while the nature of their work might be a little different than others, roofers still have to deal with the same construction payment issues that are so common in the industry: slow payment and non-payment.
However, sometimes mistakes happen. Someone forgets to send a notice on a certain project, or someone decides not to send a notice for whatever reason, and then a payment issue crops up further on down the line.
And that begs the question: can you still file a mechanics lien on a project if you did not send a preliminary notice?
In fact, almost 75% of the states have a preliminary notice requirement for subcontractors. This includes most of the busiest states in the country for construction activity, including California (the entire West Coast, really), Florida, and Texas.
Generally, we have found that this confusion is a result of parties that either:
1) don't fully understand how the lien waiver process can be used to benefit both parties; or
2) are forced into a particular waiver situation with which they are uncomfortable.
In the following article, we're going to clear up some of this confusion about exchanging lien waivers.
Sometimes it can be difficult to pinpoint the start date of a construction project, but this problem is solved by a Notice of Commencement. This document formally designates the beginning of a project.
The main purpose of retainage is to ensure that subcontractors satisfactorily and completely finish their work, but by definition retainage is withheld on work satisfactorily performed. Not only is the practice often ineffective at ensuring project completion, but it causes a significant amount of financial problems for subcontractors, and the industry as a whole.
This is a primer to help you understand the differences between the two most common methods that people in the construction business use to send their preliminary notices, Regular Certified Mail and Certified Mail with Return Receipt Requested.
That's because in most cases, California's mechanics lien law requires construction companies to send preliminary notice in order to their maintain lien rights on their projects.
Borrowing Base is the total amount of collateral against which a lender will lend funds to a business. It presents a maximum cap on how much asset-based debt a business can obtain. Typically, each asset category is discounted by a factor related to the riskiness associated with that asset.


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No Compromise
Lo, Bobo, The World Today
The Moscow hostage crisis, when hundreds of theatregoers were held by a group demanding Russian troops leave Chechnya, has raised many questions. Were the anti-terror tactics that led to the gassing and death of many innocent people justified? What role did the media play, and is force the only answer for Chechnya? Above all, what can we learn about our new partners in the Kremlin?
INTERNATIONAL COVERAGE OF the hostage crisis has focused principally on two aspects of this tragic episode. The first was the direct human dimension. The fanaticism of the Chechens, the appalling plight of the hostages, the spectacular counter-terrorist operation, and finally the sight of relatives being denied access and information about their loved ones - all these elements combined to create an extraordinary human drama.
The second, more political, aspect centred on President Vladimir Putin and the implications of the crisis for his personal authority and standing. Has he emerged stronger than ever, the embodiment of the strong but humane leader, or was his carefully nurtured image of smooth political control shattered by the terrorists' seizure of the theatre?
There is a third dimension, however, that has received scant attention: the relationship between the hostage crisis and the state of Russian governance. It is obvious the country has been much transformed since the end of the Soviet Union in December 1991, but we remain vague about the nature and extent of change, where Russia fits in the world, and how it might evolve in the future. The events in Moscow may have been chiefly remarkable for the agonising scene that played out over the four days of October 23-26, but they are also a critical marker of where Russia stands today, both in terms of its own development and in relation to the west.
The first, and most obvious, conclusion from Putin's handling of the crisis is that authority and strength continue to be indispensable qualities in Russian political culture. There was never any possibility that the government would negotiate, and this was a reality understood from the outset by all concerned authorities, hostage takers and the public. A speedy, forceful resolution was therefore not only viewed as a legitimate response, but as the only response.
Equally, there was general recognition and acceptance that a counter-terrorist operation would be very bloody indeed. This meant that the death toll - some one hundred and twenty eight hostages out of a total of around eight hundred and fifty -- was considered an outstanding result, including by some of the hostages who believed they would have all been killed had the authorities not acted so decisively.
The issue goes beyond mere numerical calculation. Even if most - or perhaps all - of the hostages had died, the government's response would still have been seen as the only appropriate one. Clearly, it wanted to save as many civilian lives as possible. But following through on principle - no compromise with terrorists - was always going to be more important than human life.
Lest we forget, we are speaking of a nation whose historical experience has been conditioned by almost unimaginable human suffering and loss. This helps explain, incidentally, why the news that nearly all the hostages had died from gas used by the special forces changed very little. What counted was the outcome, not the means used to achieve it.
One of the most striking images, especially to a western audience, was that of relatives desperately seeking information about the hostages in the days after the assault. Why, it was asked, were they denied the most common decencies when they had already suffered so much? Although the authorities attempted to justify the quarantining of the hostages on security grounds - the fear that some Chechen fighters were masquerading as freed hostages - the real reasons were systemic. …


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Now, the puppy turned out to be the best decision we've made. Our family dog just turned two - and couldn't be a better love.
The hamster? Let's just say, I swear that thing will never die. Like, ever.
So, when it came to the idea of a kitten, two opposing images came to mind. The first, of a cute fluffy bundle of fur, purring lovingly in the nook of our children's necks, while the second? The second conjured terrors of clawed and bloody arms with screaming kids running, as the wild beast climbed and shredded its way to hang at the top of curtains, hissing.
No cat.
Lauren Elizabeth's 7th birthday was yesterday, and when asked, "What's the one thing you want more than anything in the world?" Of course, you knew her answer.
Adam and I exchanged glances, knowing the furthest thing she was getting was a cat...but then this happened. I'm not even kidding.
Of all the years we've lived in this house, of the countless mornings, noons and nights we've played in our yard, the one and ONLY time some random cat decides to come to the back of our house, was literally, the morning of her birthday...
"Don't even think about it", Adam immediately clarified as the rest of us fawned over the helpless wanderer.
Sending texts to neighbors, I couldn't help but melt as the kids decided on a name.
"Not in this house," that's it's name, Adam growled.
The kids and I went in to get a bowl of water and open a can of tuna for the house guest, as my phone buzzed back, saying the cat belonged to a neighbor a few doors down. Her name was, Rose. The cat, not the neighbor.
With a heavy heart, the kids said their goodbyes to Rose, as they lovingly played with her while she finished her breakfast.
I don't know if I'll ever understand the timing or sense of humor that God must have to make such things happen, but at least I know for one day, on one little girl's birthday, He gave her a gift, even one I never thought possible.


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Hi again!
-I got too excited during the week and revealed the news I've been keeping on Facebook. So, I'll reveal it here too. As of this coming Friday, Ray and I will have our own house in Corrimal! I'll be moving into it this Friday, and cannot wait! The house itself is old, but very well taken care of (it's actually a pretty quirky retro house, which suites us quite well!) We're the first tenants in the house (it was previously owned by an elderly lady who then sold it to investors), and we aim to be there for quite a while. The landlords seem really lovely and are happy for us to make changes as long as they're sensible, particularly to the garden. There's an epic veggie garden patch which we're definitely going to utilise, as well as a gazebo bbq area perfect for entertaining! We're also going to be making the garage and attached workshop a project/arts/music area. We'll use this downstairs area for music rehearsals, D&D games, any of Ray's miniature projects and general crafty things. There's so much storage in the house, which will be fantastic, and I even get a little nook/space to have my sewing machines! It's been pretty stressful organising everything so that the moving part has worked out, however I simply cannot wait to be a 5 minute drive away from work, and having my own space close to Wollongong. We'll definitely be welcome for visitors once we're all settled in.
-My workouts haven't really happened over the past week, due to packing and organising the move. However, we're planning to have the Wii set up, so I'll get straight back into my workouts once it's all set up. The advantage of only being 5 minutes away from work (compared to the almost hour-long drive I had to do to get home) is that I'll have no excuse not to do the program as I'll have lots of time in the evenings. Plus, our house backs onto the mountains (rather than the beach), so it's perfect for walks in the morning or evenings too!
-Wedding plans: Wedding plans were a bit quite over the past week, mainly due to organising the move. However, since receiving my tax return and clearing some debts, I've been able to purchase our wedding shoes and we've booked in our honeymoon! We're going on a cruise to Japan, South Korea and China through Celebrity Cruises in September, 2014. We decided to do our honeymoon 5 months after the wedding for a few reasons: it's a better time of year to go to those areas, most cruises to Asia were later in the year anyway, plus it's in school holidays so won't affect our work schedules much. Plus, we're not too fussed about doing a honeymoon right after the wedding-we're happy to wait, and potentially save more up for it! We'll be leaving on our 5 month wedding anniversary (woo!) and will be spending a few days in Tokyo before we head off on the cruise (so I can show Ray around and go to my favourite places!) I seriously cannot wait to go: the last time I went overseas was in 2010 and I miss travelling so much! I've never done a cruise either, so it's going to be great to have accommodation, travel and food all sorted (bar the first few days!) There's a few day trips organised by the cruise that we'd love to do, such as a trip to the Great Wall of China, dinner with a Geisha and many more…so I guess I'll add those to our gift registry/our honeymoon budget 🙂
-Speaking of which, I started our gift registry last week too! We really don't "need" much…there's only a couple of household items. However, we've come up with an idea of letting people "contribute" to things like day trips on our honeymoon (as we're doing our honeymoon 5 months later than the wedding), gift vouchers for restaurants they recommend (as we'll be poor once we're married and probably unable to do fancy date nights), and other bits and pieces. It's been fun looking into those possibilities!
-This week, I've really stressed out about trying to keep everyone happy with decisions I'm making and things which are happening. It's been extremely difficult for me. However, I've been reminded that you cannot change how people think and feel about certain things…and that you can't keep everyone happy. Several good friends this week have told me that what makes them happy is seeing me/us happy….and I am extremely content with everything that's been happening lately. I'm so excited for what's ahead this year and appreciate those who have been so supportive and enthusiastic! 🙂
And that's about it for this week, folks! Next week's post may be a little bit delayed as we most likely won't have internet at our place for a week or so…but I'll do my best!
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A fantastically beautiful location directly at the beach of the Firth, under the lighthouse of Friedrichsort, passing ships nearly close enough to touch, soft, relaxing music in the background and a cool drink in the hand: this way we will experience the sunset together on the sandy shores of the Kiel Firth. Right on the dike, on the grounds of the well known restaurant Deichperle the Welcome Party of the Geocaching Days will take place – just like never before at another event. During this exceptional Meet & Greet an informal get-to-know among Geocachers of many nations is set.
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I have a husband, three children with four grandchildren. We live in England but we all holiday in the Algarve as often as we possibly can. We have made many friends there. We chose a property in the Western Algarve because the area is natural and beautiful and the sun shines there around 300 days a year! Our village property stands at the front of the resort with a spectacular sea view from every room. It has a roof terrace with the most amazing view ! It's only a five minute walk to Salema, a small fishing village, with it's clean sandy beach, restaurants and bars. We use the property for a romantic getaway, a family get together and golf/spa breaks. There's something for us all.
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We love the area because it is easy to find and it is not overcrowded. The landscape is natural. The locals are friendly and helpful. Most of the Portuguese speak English. It is peaceful and calming. The local food and wine is excellent. We sometimes eat out, bbq on the balcony or have a local take away. There is a great night life in Lagos and on the Marina. Parking is free and easy. We find we can escape the stress of every day life here and return home fully recharged.
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'your village house is outstanding, best equipped property we had ever been to.'
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Beautiful views and a lovely and well appointed property made of week away very special. We had everything we needed including the weather!
Very helpful owner and local agent who ensured our stay was perfect
Many thanks
At Parque da Floresta, 5 minutes drive from the property, there are 3 putting greens, 4 floodlit tennis courts, a bowling green, a Health & Beauty Spa and Fitness Centre with indoor pool, sauna, jacuzzi and steam room. For younger people there is the Castaways Fun and Games Bar, Floresta Fun Club, Activ8 and Parque Football Academy which are all seasonal.
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PROSPERO AND YOLANDA PALMERIN, PLAINTIFFS,v.BANK OF NEW YORK TRUST CO., ET AL.,DEFENDANTS.
The opinion of the court was delivered by: Dennis L. Beck United States Magistrate Judge
Plaintiffs Prospero and Yolanda Palmerin ("Plaintiffs"), appearing pro se and proceeding in forma pauperis, filed the instant action on January 30, 2012. Plaintiffs essentially challenge the validity of foreclosure on certain real property and name Bank of New York Trust Co., Recontrust CO, NA and Does 1 through 50 as defendants.
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Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2), the court must conduct an initial review of the complaint for sufficiency to state a claim. The court must dismiss a complaint or portion thereof if the court determines that the action is legally "frivolous or malicious," fails to state a claim upon which relief may be granted, or seeks monetary relief from a defendant who is immune from such relief. 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2). If the court determines that the complaint fails to state a claim, leave to amend may be granted to the extent that the deficiencies of the complaint can be cured by amendment.
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Plaintiffs challenge the non-judicial foreclosure of residential property located in Modesto, California. Complaint ¶¶ 3, 20.
According to the complaint, Plaintiffs contend that Defendants placed them in a sub-prime loan and charged excessive fees that stripped the equity from the residential property. Complaint ¶¶ 26-27. Plaintiffs experienced financial hardship and applied for a loan modification through the "Making Home Affordable Program." Defendant Bank of New York Trust Co. denied the application. Complaint ¶ 28.
Defendant Recontrust Co. sent Plaintiffs a Notice of Default on or about April 16, 2010. Complaint ¶ 21. Defendants made "excessive telephone calls during the day and evenings trying to collect the payment." Complaint ¶ 31.
Plaintiffs were unaware that they would not be able to refinance their loan due to negative amortization. Complaint ¶ 33. Defendants represented that negotiations would take place to modify the terms of the subject loan. Complaint ¶ 66. Plaintiffs continued to make payments on the loan. Without making any attempts to modify the loan terms, Defendants issued a Notice of Trustee Sale and foreclosed on the residential property. Complaint ¶ 67.
Plaintiffs assert fourteen separate causes of action: (1) violation of California Civil Code § 2923.6; (2) promissory estoppel; (3) fraud; (4) to set aside the trustee's sale; (5) to void or cancel the trustee's deed upon sale; (6) wrongful foreclosure; (7) breach of contract; (8) breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing; (9) violation of California Business and Professions Code §§ 17200 et seq.; (10) quiet title; (11) slander of title; (12) declaratory relief; (13) violation of the Fair Debt Collections Practice Act, California Civil Code § 1788.17; and (14) violation of California Civil Code § 1572.
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Plaintiffs' first claim alleges violations of California Civil Code section 2923.6 based on Defendants failure to provide a loan modification. Plaintiffs aver that they are willing to execute a loan modification on certain terms and that Defendants are "now contractually bound to accept the loan modification." Complaint ¶¶ 59, 63.
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(a) The Legislature finds and declares that any duty servicers may have to maximize net present value under their pooling and servicing agreements is owed to all parties in a loan pool, . . . and that a servicer acts in the best interests of all parties . . . if it agrees to or implements a loan modification or workout plan for which both of the following apply:
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I finally got my progesterone cream and after only 1 week of using it, I'm back to a 28 day cycle. I swear the very next day after using it for the first time I was more upbeat. I had had a really really bad day the day before and it was actually my husband who reminded me to start using it. I had even reached the point where I had started to do some research on depression and was preparing for opening the discussion with my husband. (He doesn't necessarily agree with taking meds for it). So, I've put that on the back burner for now. My mood's not 100% yet (when will it ever be?) but it's getting better so I figure I will give the cream a chance to work and see what happens. After all, considering I've struggled with weight and infertility for years I bet I've been unbalanced (hormonally *LOL*) for years.
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Is there still a place in our fractured fairy-tale world for the real thing?
Will young girls at least as familiar with the darker shades of Tim Burton's Wonderland, Angelina Jolie's Maleficent and Kristen Stewart's Snow White as with the animated originals embrace a retelling that fleshes out and expands on a classic fairy tale without subverting or deconstructing a single dot or stroke?
Will the children of the Hobbit generation accept a live-action big-screen fairy tale without tacked-on epic battles and computer-generated army hordes, climaxing in nothing more violent than a tightly gripped arm and some fraught words? Is it acceptable for Cinderella to live in a world of color and beauty with nothing more grotesque than a pair of garish dresses, and only commune with ordinary animals, mostly mice and birds?
Can the protagonists of a major Hollywood family film still hope to be born into happy families and enjoy close relationships with loving parents — relationships unshadowed by misunderstanding and oppressive parental expectations, if not by tragedy and misfortune?
Is it conceivable that a heroine might meet a young man who is neither a scoundrel, misfit, buffoon nor uncouth loner: a young man whose sensitivity, courtesy and poise matches her own? Can we gain some insight into the psychology and motivations of an iconic villainess without transmogrifying her into a misunderstood heroine?
Kenneth Branagh's Cinderella is such a gallant anachronism, such a grandly unreconstructed throwback, that it offers, without ever raising its voice, a ringing cross-examination of our whole era of dark, gritty fairy-tale revisionism. These stories have been around for centuries, the film seems to say. Are you sure they will be improved by making the heroines oppressed by society or their parents, making the male love interests the moral or cultural inferiors of the heroines, adding battle scenes and so forth?
I'll be honest: I wouldn't mind seeing some revisionism in Cinderella's story. I would like the heroine to be a more active agent in her own story. The film, though, brushes this aside: Never mind what you would do with it; this is the story. Isn't this a good story, worth telling just as it is?
And you know what? It is. As told by Branagh and screenwriter Chris Weitz (About a Boy), the tale of a much-abused "cinder girl" and a high-minded prince who fall in love at the ball is as magical and romantic as you remember it being the first time you saw the Disney cartoon.
In fact, this telling is considerably better than the Disney cartoon, which, classic though it is, has notable flaws. Until now I would have said that the definitive screen Cinderella was the 1965 Rodgers and Hammerstein TV musical starring Lesley Ann Warren, but Branagh's film surpasses it.
The heroine of the Disney cartoon had very little personality — less than Snow White or Sleeping Beauty — and Prince Charming had none at all. In this telling, both Ella (Downton Abbey's Lily James) and the Prince (Game of Thrones' Richard Madden) are substantial, thoughtful characters, and it is easy to imagine each falling in love with the other.
The Disney cartoon opens, after a brief summary introduction, with orphaned Cinderella already a servant to her cruel stepmother and stepsisters. This version opens with the beatitude of Ella's family of origin, with Hayley Atwell (Marvel's Peggy Carter) and Ben Chaplin (The New World) as her doting parents.
Early scenes linger on this idyllic happy household, the foundation for the gracious, buoyant person Ella becomes. Even after losing her mother, Ella's bond with her father is the light of their lives, and she is joyous for him when, years later, he thinks to remarry.
Gracefully eliding the problem of Ella's father not recognizing how his new wife — played with just a touch of tragedy by a grandly haughty Cate Blanchett — torments his daughter, the new film has Ella's father die while traveling on business right after the wedding. The scene in which Ella bids her father farewell for the last time borrows from Beauty and the Beast: While Ella's vain, stupid stepsisters (Holliday Grainger and Sophie McShera) beg their stepfather for luxuries and trinkets, Ella's sentimental request is touching in its filial devotion.
Branagh doesn't paper over Ella's heartbreak at losing her mother as a girl and her father as a young lady. These tragedies put into perspective the indignities she endures from her cruel stepfamily; she's suffered worse.
Branagh has said he wanted to make Cinderella a movie in which "kindness was a superpower," and, indeed, Ella's goodness and inner strength allow her to accept her humiliations with equanimity, not because she's weak, but because questions of status and privilege mean little to her. "Kindness and bravery," the virtues commended to Ella by her dying mother, make for a less fashionable theme than self-esteem and following one's dreams, but as Stephanie Zacherek notes in her Village Voice review, it's a theme directed outward, toward the wider world, not inward toward oneself.
Crucially, this Cinderella includes a key device that Disney included in Snow White and Sleeping Beauty but omitted in Cinderella amid all the talking-animal slapstick: a chance early meeting between the heroine and the prince. This Meet Cute — which Branagh films as a sort of equestrian dance, with both on horseback cantering in circles about each other — allows each to make an impression on the other, establishing a connection that offers their big moment at the ball a bit of context.
The character of the Prince is among Cinderella's most subversively non-subversive elements. Far from being ridiculous and preening (like the princes in Enchanted and The Princess and the Frog, among others), he's humble. To Ella, who knows he's from the palace but doesn't know who he is, he describes himself self-deprecatingly as "an apprentice still learning his trade."
He's what Hans in Frozen could have been had it not been for a late editorial decision to turn him into a bad guy: an actual Prince Charming. Imagine that.
Helena Bonham Carter is an arch delight as Ella's fairy godmother, bringing a blitheness a bit closer in spirit to her Queen Elizabeth in The King's Speech than to a benevolent cousin of Bellatrix Lestrange. Blanchett makes the stepmother a ruthless but long-suffering woman in the difficult position of living in the shadow of a sainted woman to whom her husband's heart always belonged, and of whom their dazzling, virtuous daughter is a constant reminder.
Special-effects set pieces are limited to the two famous transformation scenes bookending the ball — restraint that only makes those two sequences more magical, not to mention entertaining. The most memorable effect, though, doesn't rely on computers or whimsical sight gags; it's James' Ella making her big entrance at the ball, floating down the marble staircase in that sweeping blue gown.
There is one respect in which Cinderella falls short of the Disney cartoon: in the absence of even a token role for religion. The cartoon ended with Cinderella and Prince Charming on the stairs of a cathedral, running for the royal carriage with rice flying after a church wedding.
The new film includes, in addition to the implied wedding at the end, a) the second marriage of Ella's father, b) three separate incidents of a major character being bereaved of a parent, and c) the coronation of the heir to the throne (an event that even Frozen depicted in a Scandinavian stave cathedral with a bishop presiding).
Yet in this Cinderella all six of these major life events take place with no hint of a church or a clergyman. The theme of faith, treated vaguely in the Disney cartoon, becomes even more diffuse here, with Ella and her mother each confiding to the other, "I believe in everything."
That includes fairy godmothers, here imagined as surrogate guardian angels that everyone apparently has but which few ever see. No. A fairy godmother is a fairy whom your parents invited to witness your christening, like the three fairies in Sleeping Beauty (at least, it's a christening in the fairy tale by Charles Perrault).
Yet the moral climax of Cinderella is not her triumph over her cruel stepfamily, nor her happy union with the Prince, but something more elevated and distinctively Christian, and straight out of the text of Perrault. When was the last time you saw a Hollywood family film, or any kind of Hollywood film, in which the very last words spoken from the protagonist to her enemies are words of forgiveness?
P.S. Cinderella is preceded by a Frozen-themed short, Frozen Fever, which, despite my ambivalence to Frozen, I fully expected to enjoy. (After all, animated shorts generally outshine the features they're attached to.) I'm disappointed to report that this is a superfluous return to Arendelle, the main point of which seems to be to sell many plush toys of the tiny, living snowmen that appear by the handful whenever Elsa sneezes. (Yes, really.)
Steven D. Greydanus is the Register's film critic and creator of Decent Films.
He is studying for the permanent diaconate for the Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey.
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Caveat Spectator: Deaths of parents; depictions of cruelty and abusive treatment (no violence). Fine family viewing.
I have to disagree with Mr. Greydaunus on a two points regarding his comment to JME.
First fathers have just as much influence as mothers, maybe even more, on a daughter's self image esp. regarding modesty. A father is the first man in his daughter's life and reflects to her the image of God the Father. She will determine her self -worth, her dignity, her modesty, her husband, all based on her father's love and action or inaction, approval or disapproval of what she is exposed to or chooses to expose herself to. I base that on personal experience as well as studies and links by Christians and non-Christians which talk about this. All you have to do is Google- Fathers influence on daughter's modesty.
Secondly the matter of how low or how much cleavage is shown in this movie or any movie for that matter is of importance. We are living in a culture in which just about everything is sexualized and mixed messages rule the day. We tell our Christian daughters be modest and at the same time applaud even briefly immodestly dressed women/characters. We tell our daughters modesty is a virtue to strive for but can be compromised for the sake of kindness, niceness, sweetness, politeness etc…) As Catholics we hold up our Mother Mary, who is the epitome of modesty, as the example for all girls and women to follow. And yet this virtue we try so hard to teach our daughters along with chastity and purity are constantly being trashed by this world, esp. the media today. Unknowingly we help them when we encourage our girls to look up to these princess role models who in the end, albeit may have kind hearts, do not point to Jesus and reflect women of grace. In the end I totally believe God cares about what we all wear and if it glorifies Him, leading others to Him and His Truths. Image is everything. It is a reflection of who we are and want to be. As parents we need to decide which image we want our children, who were created to be true Princess's and Princes of God, to project. Keeping in mind that we are made in God's Image, not Disney!
Steven Greydanus' review of Disney's Cinderella brings forth the truth, goodness and beauty contained in the film. I would especially like to highlight his opening overview of the modern cinematic culture of what he terms "dark fairy tale revisionism", which he defines as the practice of taking traditional fairy tales and retelling them under darker light that includes more complex tragedy, increased violence and other grotesque features. He says that Cinderella is not like this, but rather true to the story of the original creator. I touch on this point for the purpose of showcasing that Cinderella is skillfully developed because it does not conform to the distorted cinematic practice of today's culture.
Greydanus remarks that while he appreciates the film's authenticity, he would like to see the heroine "more active in her own story." I disagree with this point. I don't desire her to be more active because I think what Greydanus perceives as Cinderella's passive role (for example, silently suffering the loss of her parents at a young age or enduring the cruel servitude imposed by her step family) are all instances where she is in fact exemplifying virtuous behavior. Her dignity as a woman is showcased by her silent and humble struggle to die to herself and like Our Lady, ponder her sufferings in her heart.
Overall, the film is inspiring and truth-filled. While Greydanus states that he wishes the film were more outspokenly Christian, I believe that the underlying Christian attitudes of self-sacrifice, charity, universal mortification, humility and forgiveness are adequate. The values, while not bluntly communicated as Christian, are still implicitly there and will serve the function of striking the hearts of all viewers and stirring their minds to contemplate the higher truth of what they have just viewed.
I totally agree that anything that does not smack of relativism is to be celebrated.
As for Father Barron, in this age of Pope Francis, Michael Voris, Cardinal Burke and some milquetoasts high profile U.S. cardinals, I find his childlike wonder to be one of the best reasons for listening to him. Some think he paints too rosy a picture when relativism and poor catechesis has made so many lose all awe of God, but I think a very charitable attitude towards people is going to be far more beneficial than the vinegar and brimstone that others want to have returned to scare the faithful.
Branagh, knowingly or not, is in love with the charitable and child like (though infinitely wise) Christianity that has produced the greatest cultures of history. This Christian love takes romantic love to a divine place and that is why people are drawn to these stories. We're wired for it supernaturally.
Thank you so much again!
God bless.
Yay! I REALLY wanted to see this, but I was worried after watching 'Malificent' that this movie was going to be the same sort of 'no one is the bad guy…except men' crud…glad to hear that it's not. :)
Thanks for your kind words!
Meanwhile, I've just discovered the following from the very awesome Father Robert Barron:
Kenneth Branagh's Very Christian Cinderella
SDG, you make a great series of points and my mother would applaud you since she'd point out that I made some sweeping generalizations in a rather dogmatic manner, without substantiating fully.
Citing Kenneth's body of work, as well as many others, I note how many of them do not care to opine on Christian values and yet their stories show a dependency on values 'written on the heart' as you so noted. I do not think that they deliberately 'steal' them, but I think that there is a veil of ignorance that they do so.
Thank you for humbling me. My mother would most certainly approve of your clear response and your tolerance of my overly broad comments.
What I failed to note is my gratitude to God that God WILL judge with mercy many who might not know when they followed the natural law. It gives me great hope to have read Saints Faustina, BErnadette and Therese enthusiastically testifying to their confidence that God will let their prayers for souls serve as intercession, despite their considering themselves so very humble and imperfect. It's been a great encouragement to me to continue to pray my rosary and write my own flawed praise of God, despite my own paucity of piety. :-)
God bless and keep reviewing, you bring gems.
"What I find immensely amusing is that we have blocked the ten commandments from being praised by any major source of education or communication, apart from Christian places of worship.
Because of this, people are being forced to decide what is right and wrong, according to their personal preference.
This is self-idolatry, but I'll not belabor that point."
I'm not sure that squares with Romans 2:14–16:
When Gentiles who have not the law do by nature what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. They show that what the law requires is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or perhaps excuse them on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.
This of course is not to deny that the story of Cinderella comes to us in a form shaped by Christian culture, or that Branagh, as a native of England, stands in a broadly Christian cultural tradition.
But I don't think we need to accuse his film of some kind of convoluted existential theft because the six major events I noted above all take place offscreen, with no onscreen ecclesiastical presence.
What I find immensely amusing is that we have blocked the ten commandments from being praised by any major source of education or communication, apart from Christian places of worship.
Because of this, people are being forced to decide what is right and wrong, according to their personal preference.
This is self-idolatry, but I'll not belabor that point.
What is hilarious is the absolutely convoluted and interminable effort needed to replace those 10 simple commandments in order to even attempt a modicum of the order and success for humanity. You can see the political correct policies and warnings pile up higher than the tower of babel…with an equal amount of dissonance.
This film appears to be unaware that it is most admiring the principle tenets of Christianity, traditional family, forgiveness, divine love and God's mercy and justice.
That Branagh fails to see that he is borrowing from our ancient faith is both sad and immeasurably encouraging. God does not solve the world's malaise with neon signs, but with a whisper to the heart.
Branagh may find himself discovering Gregorian chant and Aquinas before he knows it, in the process being dumbfounded to see how well it enchants AND fits.
God bless, thank you for this.
It's a miracle : a fairy tale movie that finally avoids this : https://vimeo.com/61120378 (NSFW language).
So I stumbled across a Boston Globe op-ed piece (a very short one) entitled "In 'Cinderella,' victimhood is a virtue." The author points out that Cinderella not leaving her step-family (spoiler!) merely because she "cherished the house" seems a flimsy reason, and says that not every situation is worth enduring. As much as I understand part of the point the author makes, I still think that she misses (or misunderstands) the most important point of the movie…but I'm not sure what the proper response to such an argument would be. What are your thoughts on it?
There are 52 Fridays a year, on average. Every single Friday, several movies open. The studios try to spread them out and avoid too many movies targeting the same audiences on the same opening weekends, so they look at what other movies are opening in a given season and look for a Friday that will optimize their reach to their audience.
I assure you Hollywood studios are not targeting Friday the 13th for sinister reasons.
I have not seen the movie and I doubt that I will go to watch it. It happens that last month and this month there was Friday 13th. Last month Nintendo released several games and new devices on that day, this month they release this movie "Cinderella" There is no accident that they pick this day and this should be enough warning for us. Do your own research.
I admit when I first saw the film, I felt that this film didn't seem worth it if they weren't going to do something different with the material. Don't get me wrong though, I did appreciate the prospect of a straight-forward adaptation over the highly-revisionist nonsense we've been getting so far. But as even you admit, I wouldn't have minded seeing a little revision to it. However, you make a very strong argument for it. I admit I only vaguely recall the original animated film Cinderella, so I didn't immediately get, as you pointed out, that here Cinderella and her Prince Charming have much more depth than they did in that film. I at least that their romance is the traditional Disney staple of "I've just met you, but I love you so let's get married" and is given more room to develop properly. I also thought that final act of forgiveness was a deeply Christian moment despite the film's decided lack of Christian imagery. So, it's got that going for it.
I'm not sure how I feel about nitpicking the nature of Fairy godmothers as being fairies invited to oversee a Christening rather than surrogate guardian angels. Why can't they be like that anyway? The Fair Folk don't like to be questioned.
As for Frozen Fever, I thought it was cute, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. (To be clear, I liked Frozen, but not how it ended.) As a frequent sufferer of colds, I could kind of feel for Elsa as she slowly but surely gets sick. Been there, done that.
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Not to worry. Self-mutilation is the kind of thing I would almost never forget to omit from my content advisory.
Caroline—I haven't seen the film yet, but I doubt it. That's from Grimm's version; there's nothing of the sort in Perrault, and Perrault has always been Disney's preferred source. Rereading the two, though, I do see a couple of elements borrowed from Grimm's opening section in Steven's description (the mother's deathbed words and the departure of the father), as well as a softening of the father from his depiction in either version.
I find it interesting and rather disappointing when reviewers compare classic methods of story telling with the presentation they think should be done today. The butchering of the original Grimm's Fairy Tales to aclime to today's sensibilities was bad enough, now they go after 75 year old cartoons. Past presentations provide valuable insights into thought and how it evolves over time. True, parents have to take a little more time to explain things but that is also a good thing. We have disposed of McGuffy Readers to the detriement of learning literature, must we do the same for entertainment? SDG has made a good analysis of the non-cartoon fairy tale. It would be instructive to show how much has changed to this form of entertainment.
Sounds like a good film! The princes in early Disney classics were regrettably boring, blonde, and robotic; I'd love to see a Cinderella in which the good characters have as much personality as the bad guys (or girls). However, inquiring minds must know: in keeping with its non revisionist theme, does the stepmother cut off the toes and heels of the stepsisters' feet to fit the shoe, and do birds pluck out her eyes? Those original fairy tales could be frightening and (pun intended) grim.
I would love some comment on how this version compares to the older Drew Barrymore movie, "Ever After" which I liked well enough. That one seemed partly traditional and partly revisionist as I recall.
I don't count inches of cleavage or minutes of screen time. For that, you can try resources like Movie Guide or Screen It.
For what it's worth, I saw Cinderella with my two younger daughters (6 and 11), and wouldn't hesitate to watch it with them again.
On the other hand, my children and I have also repeatedly enjoyed the delightful documentary Babies, which includes sequences depicting Himba mothers in the Namib desert in Africa who are mostly naked, as is quite proper in their milieu. So perhaps we are coming from very different places on this issue.
It would be easy to point out that Cinderella's attire is also quite proper to her vaguely 19th century milieu. However, I can see where this could be an uncomfortable stance for someone concerned with the propriety of fashions today.
Ultimately, my daughters' sensibilities on their own fashion choices will be shaped above all by their mother. At least, it's worked out so far (our oldest is 20).
In my experience, a vigilant concern with strict modesty can be just as much a potential problem as laxity. In Islamic culture it leads to the burqa; for an example of what it can look like in Catholic culture, read my blog post "Don't have a cow, man!"
From some photos and a trailer I've seen it looks like Cinderella's dresses are low-cut and show off her cleavage. Is this throughout the film or only on a couple of occasions? I'm not sure I'd like my young daughter thinking that is an appropriate way to dress.
Thanks for this review. We have stayed away from theaters for the past twenty years, finding the dark and sinister tones unappealing and boring in their repetition. Yes, we've missed good films in the process. Maybe this is a film to inspire buying tickets…and your reviews are a way to steer our way to worthwhile films.


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Here's what's going on in tech on Friday…
—Amazon is buying Whole Foods for almost $14 billion. There's no word yet if Amazon will include Whole Foods merchandise in its Amazon Fresh food delivery service, but there's no doubt that the deal will have ramifications for online and traditional retailers.
–One of Amazon's top rivals, Wal-Mart, also did a deal today, as it said it will acquire men's clothing company Bonobos for $310 million.
–The European Union is reportedly going to fine Google for abusing its position in the internet search market. The fine could top the $1.11 billion the EU levied against Intel back in 2009.
—Apple hires two executives from Sony to help spearhead its video-programming and TV show efforts.
—Netflix backtracks and says it will never outgrow the fight for net neutrality after comments from Chief Executive Reed Hastings in which he said its company has largely outgrown the concept.
–Tablet wars? Microsoft says the iPad Pro wouldn't exist were it not for the Mircrosoft Surface tablet.
–Investors aren't showing much faith in Snap, as the Snapchat company's shares have fallen to just above their $17 IPO price.
Photo: The Whole Foods Blossom Hill store in San Jose. The high-end grocery store chain has agreed to sell itself to Amazon for $13.7 billion in cash. (Courtesy: Whole Foods Market).


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Several Indian sportspersons were felicitated at the Sports Ilustrated awards ceremony in Mumbai. Bollywood was around as usual, bringing in the glamour quotient and reminding us just how good relations are between the sporting world and showbusiness.
The event, on Tuesday, saw many sportspersons including Sachin Tendulkar and Sania Mirza, being felicitated for bringing laurels to the country.
Along with the award, Tendulkar was also presented a miniature gold bat in recognition of his double century, the first ever double-ton in One Day International (ODI) cricket against South Africa on February 24.
Olympic gold medallist shooter Abhinav Bindra was also felicitated with an award. Sania Mirza, who is recovering from a wrist injury, was presented with an award and a miniature gold tennis ball for her recent performance.
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