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In endtimes, the workings of God and the counterfeits of the enemy manifest side by side. As in the days of Moses, the devil meets the supernatural workings of God with his own signs and wonders. Is deliverance ministry as we know it of God or Satan? This book answers that question.
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Tuesday, 14 January 2014
Those lilies speak for themselves.
Those lilies speak for themselves. Zephyr is a gem of Irish-Alaskan social storytelling.
Words that make me happy. Unsolicited words in a review. I'm to the age where being invisible happens. It's great when someone far removed from my life notices.
While driving to school in Oranmore yesterday (allegedly the most depressing day of the year) a car turning right bumped into my old banger and left me skidding towards an on-coming silver Mercedes. Had I or the SUV that bumped me (in my apparently invisible fourteen year old Toyota Yaris) been driving fast it would have been a three car pile-up. I woke today feeling very happy and rang the woman who hit me to tell her so. Lucky, lucky, lucky.
A few hours later our postman brought me a pack-chig; a brown envelop with handwriting I did not recognize, addressed to me, Ballinderreen Village, Galway. Did I ever tell you how much I like living in a place that has no numbers in my address? It makes shopping on-line quite tricky, but it is so lovely that the postman requires nothing more than my name and my village. I love my postman. His name is Mick. He calls me darling. All I do for him is give him a bottle of wine at Christmas.
This surprise and very welcome review of Zephyr by John Liddy fell onto my hall floor. The review of my book is the last article in the last edition of the literary journal called REViVAL. Condolences and fair winds to all associated with REViVAL, 'tis a pity that it has reached the end of its road. I'd revive you if I could. And, thankfully, I required no reviving yesterday. I'm revved up. Perhaps I'll write a feminist manifesto.
REViVAL, A Literary Journal, Issue 28, October/November/December 2013
Mary Mullen
Salmon Poetry, 2010
On first browsing through these poems with my customary 'getting to know you' routine, I thought that this is a book for women—written by a woman, published by women and with cover art work by a woman. The dedication, at first, is to the poet's mother and then her father. But on closer reading a much wider picture emerges. The feminist viewpoint is present but it is not a feminist manifesto. Poem after poem reveal Mullen's eye for landscape—Alaska and the West of Ireland, backdrops for the poet's deeply personal and private concerns. But the real heroine in this book is the poet's daughter Lily, born in Co Galway with Down syndrome, a special needs child and Mullen, not as mother but as poet, gives us a rare view of Lily's world, one not found in Sunday Supplements.
The book opens with poems about Alaska, Mullen's homeland, which she left behind for a life in Ireland. But she goes back in this opening section and in the first poem we learn that Smelt, a fish that once flourished along the Pacific Northwest from Alaska to British Columbia and as far south as Northern California, is also known as oolichan or hooligan, that the Irish-speaking immigrants working out of Anchorage stayed with a lovely lady Nellie Cronin and built a church in Our Lady of Perpetual Help. It is a gem of Irish-Alaskan social storytelling.
The poem First Response marks the Irish section and is followed with poems about the birth of her daughter Lily a few hours after the signing/of the Good Friday Peace Agreement and each poem hence deals with an aspect of Lily's life. Lilyisms 2006 portrays the funny side of caring for her daughter who says
The postman brings me a pack-chig.
Sometimes boys are ick gusting.
And sometimes I wish I had a dumb bed
so I could sleep up high.
I can read Snow White and the Seven Dovers,
my favourite one is Grumpy. Like my Mum!
And in the very moving Irish Athletes Walk Tall in Shanghai, Mullen pours out her heart in the lines
You are half Alaskan gold, half Connemara marble.
You are soft and full of wily talk,
proud to spell tricky words, puzzled by nuance.
You know when the phone rings it is not for you—
my polar bear ready to spring off melting ice.
I can't stop crying in my own Shanghai.
But you, you, you are Nureyev, leaping.
In Pint of Milk we are treated to the poet's wrath through words of closure directed at somebody who walked away and is no longer part of their lives, in which she plainly says
You are dead: sanded into extinction.
I put a candle on my desk,
and lilies; and made a vow to never
again give you the dignity of a poem.
Those lilies speak for themselves. And as the book comes to a close other references to lemon peels, blackberries and forget-me-nots play vital roles in the completion of poems about male crudity, a longing for company and for Alaska. We are left to ponder the whole of this work in the cark park of the Writer's Retreat in Annaghmakerrig, Co Monaghan, with a legendary note from Bernard Loughlin and the poet thinking
And somewhere in Lourdes, a brave girl
lights a candle for her lake-staring mother.
John Liddy, Madrid 2013
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'a gem of Irish-Alaskan social storytelling.' That about sums up the book and you, Mary. Fantastic! Congrats - well deserved.ReplyDelete
We have a lovely postman too. If I'm not in, or if it's very early, he puts the post in the shed or my car and leaves a note. Over and above!
"Those lilies speak for themselves. Zephyr is a gem" ......ReplyDelete
I am so proud and happy for you, dear friend.. Time for me to re-read that delicious morsel/work of art and scoop up a few copies to send to some friends. What a gift it is, and what a gem of a gift you are, MM.
Huge congrats, Mary, on a brill review, fantastic. And glad you and the other cars weren't going fast. Enjoy the happiness of those words - created in reaction to your own. xReplyDelete
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A friend of Carson Drew's has been arrested and charged with sending a truck loaded with explosive oranges into the Space Center complex at Cape Kennedy. Knowing that Mr. Billington could not possibly be guilt of sabotage, Nancy and her father rush to the defense of the accused man. During the Drews' investigation Nancy become suspicious of an old spooky mansion that houses fierce African wild animals on its extensive grounds. Soon, she discovers that something besides the training of wild animals is going on at the mysterious estate. Many dangerous moments await Nancy before she proves Mr. Billington's innocence and thwarts the plans of treacherous subversives bent on undermining the U.S. space program.
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Posted on 06/26/2005 1:27:48 PM PDT by FarRockaway
Mr. Thogmartin has told us that, after fifteen years of a patient lying in bed recovering, Terri Schiavo might have fully recovered from any abuse she endured. Miraculously he was also unable to see whether or not this person had, fifteen years ago, a heart attack or not. Of course, Ive never met anyone whose cardiologist was ever unsure, say 24 hours after the incident, that a heart attack had occurred or not. No, in my experience cardiologists can tell you precisely how many nano-seconds the heart attack lasted.
Continuing, the Pinellas medical examiner tells us that a person's brain, which consists of 85% water, can, oh my gosh, shrink when dehydrated for 12 days while simultaneously being starved to death.
Last, he reveals that this excruciating process could leave a person blind, actually subjecting their brain to being killed as a horrible consequence of the rest of them being killed.
Friends, that's all we really know from the autopsy of Terri Schiavo. Theres nothing particularly observably wrong with anything Mr. Thogmartin did. He is simply an observer reporting the present state of the laboratory truths: brain shrunk, brain was killed, person was thirsted to death, fifteen years of living recovery erases much data. He is a scientist performing an observation today on remains which were subjected to most nasty kind of stresses and trying to say something credible about facts a decade and a half in the past. We have been deprived, by the Pasco good ole boy club, of the normative scientific process of peer review neither science nor the law of Moses allows anything to be established without at least two observations of the same phenomena.
So what does this report mean? It means absolutely nothing. All of its substance could have been easily predicted before the report based on publicly known facts and it is the testimony of only one individual it cannot be confirmed or denied.
What does mean something is that these no-brainer findings are being used to perform an acquittal on the national conscience and that is vile. The argument being forwarded by the witlessly evil pontificals is that: because after being thirsted to death her brain shrunk it means that her brain must have been shrunk for all the fifteen years before that. But regardless - proof of brain damage is proof enough that we were perfectly OK to have murdered her. NPR smarmily danced around demanding an apology from Bill Frist who had the audacity to assert that a diagnosis of persistent vegetative state was hard to make.
But now weve got Proof!
Proof of what?
That she was brain damaged and that thirsting people for 12 days shrinks the brain.
But didnt we already know that?
Uh, yes.
But what you dont understand dear reader is that the smear campaign to anesthetize the American conscience to this murder needed some exalted science to say that proof that she was, gasp, blind means it was OK to murder her too. Blind on March 29th 2005 or blind in March 1997? Doesnt matter, shut up.
But the absolutely damning proof is that we can now see that she was brain damaged irrecoverably! The fact that the brain damage was irreversible (yeah when Im dead on an autopsy table and my brain is in a jar, its pretty irreversible too) is equated in the popular press to mean Terri was a total loss like your car when you wreck it. See? She couldnt have been taught the full websters dictionary again so...its OK to have even shot her! That my friends is the smarmy argument being foisted on us by the devil Felos and his apologists. And it is an evil that thinking people must forcefully resist in word and deed. They act as though proof of disability is proof of murderability and they want you to nod your head as if you agree.
Friends, we have to cut to the quick here: this meaningless autopsy is trying to mislead the public mind away from core moral truth which is: it is evil to starve and thirst to death an innocent defenseless injured woman NO MATTER THE EXTENT OF HER DISABILITY. If we begin to make ANY disability worthy of judicial murder ALL DISABILITIES will be under threat of preemptive claim to the authority of judicial murder. They argued before hand that substantial disability was enough to murder her - substantial being a term they defined. They search afterward and announce that substantial disability existed safe knowing they can define substantial up or down as needed. Then they celebrate everyones relief that their moving-target definition was reached. They stamp Terri as worthless, stamp the file closed, pop their champaign and cheer Michael Schiavos cheer, When will that bitch die?
Expensive weasels now pound one another gently on their Brookes Brothers backs comforting each other that they were right all along: whew! She was worthless! Thank God!
But God sits in judgment of them and knows that they were never given power over the life and death of the innocent. The Almighty knows that all men were created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights. Yes - God knows there will be hell to pay.
This is a smear job on the worth of Terri Schiavo and is a failed attempt to exorcise the conscience of all those who cheered her death or who sat meaninglessly by and did nothing. It is just another damnation in the string of evils spewing from the contagion that is Felos-Greer. But we dont fall for it. The smarmy bar boys of the Pasco-Pinellas watering hole cannot convince us of their righteousness. Couch it in as much lawyer-speak as you want; the man on the street knows they committed murder.
Holocaust survivors have observed that holocaust denials are like "double killing" because they erase even the memory of the horror. Yet we who remain are responsible for all the more deliberately holding a megaphone before Terri's Blood which cries out from the ground, saying:
You are my witnesses.
And you joined just to post this?
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This **** again?
No, thanks.
Get the net!
I smell ozone.
Someone woke up with one helluva hangover, methinks. How do we hold a megaphone to someone's blood?
5, 4, 3, 2, 1....
Trolls never learn.
Welcome to Free Republic. At least you didn't post a vanity on your first day.
Sad the afflicted with zot-a-mania took the first posts. I like this essay, and damn them for their idiocy of zot.
The ozone is in your case, inter-cranial.
Oh, come on. This one is trying to stir the pot. But sure, whatever you say.
I've read the report.
the global cortical degeneration is clearly stated as being quite old, as is the degeneration of the occipital lobes.
It seems you did not read the report with any care for details.
You also apparently know little about science or medical forensics. Whereas experimental data must be gathered at least three times for a legitimate sample, and the experimental process must be repeated independently at least once to provide any degree of corroboration, this does not mean that more than one mediocal examiner must examine a corpse to determine cause of death - anymore than more than one observer is required to discover that a baseball has shattered a window: A fact is a fact, irrespective of how many observers are involved in its discovery.
Moreover, IF you had read the report, you would be aware that far more than three samples were taken of Mrs. Shiavo's brain... dozens in fact were taken. All samples, when compared to benchmark data from a number of other such corpses in the neuromedical database, confirm the analysis: Global cortical degeneration as a result of hypoxia.
The requirements of Law, Medical Forensics, and Science are well satisfied.
Yet, so it seems, you are not.
This leads me to ponder the likelihood that your appeals to science are a cloak for another, utterly implacable, source of discontent.
So, in all respect, what is your beef, really?
If you have something to say, say it here.
What a pile of cow flop.
How much coffee was in that pot before you poured your mega-mug?
No law is legit that warrants cold-blooded murder. And this was murder.
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The Monticello Flying Club, based in Charlottesville, Va., is a new club that is working with its local flight school for reduced aircraft rental rates and to help build membership.
The club was incorporated on April 22, with five members, said President Mike Vanderweide. "We purchased a Mooney M20F in July, which we are already enjoying flying," he said.
There were many reasons to start the Monticello Flying Club, said Vanderweide. "First, our airport is a commercial airport and while there is general aviation, there really is not a GA community, so one of our goals is to create that community. Second, we were tired of getting checked out on the flight school's complex aircraft only to have them yanked away by the person leasing them back to the school," he said.
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Vanderweide called AOPA a "tremendous help" in forming the club. "I also contacted a number of flying clubs around us to get help," he said. "Finally, I built strong relations with the local flight school, charter service, and the airport operations company to get their buy-in and support."
Vanderweide also made lots of cold phone calls and sent emails introducing himself and asking questions. "Most of what we were doing had already been done by someone else, so there was no reason to reinvent the wheel," he said.
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There are currently six members, with a goal of getting 10 more before looking for the club's next aircraft, said Vanderweide.
Vanderweide said he involved club members when choosing the Mooney. "The trick to selecting an aircraft for us was to have the founding/perspective members identify their mission," he said. "Most of our members wanted a fast, four-seater aircraft for cross-country flights that didn't burn a lot of fuel. The Mooney M20F is the most efficient aircraft for that mission."
"The club paid for the Mooney by having some members pay their full equity share and took out a loan for the rest with club members," said Vanderweide. "We are charging those that did not pay full equity an additional monthly fee and principal contribution to cover the principal and interest on the loan."
The club has different membership levels. A social membership costs $20 to join and $40 a year membership fee. A regular basic membership is a refundable $500 initial principal contribution, plus a refundable $25 per month principal contribution. There is also a non-refundable $75 monthly dues, plus $22.50 monthly loan fee. A regular plus membership is a refundable $6,500 principal contribution, with monthly dues of $75.
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Having a good policy on letting members leave can be something that influences the success of a club, said Vanderweide. "Our club will pay back anyone's contribution with a 90-day advanced warning. Many clubs make members sell their membership to a new member, which can actually scare new members away if they think that it will be very difficult to get out if their financial situation changes," he said. "I know several clubs that have this problem of stuck members wanting to get out and scared potential members not wanting to join."
Flight instruction is not available with the club because the local flight school is very competent and has been very helpful, said Vanderweide. "They are also sending newly minted pilots our way. By not doing private tickets, we are avoiding competing with them for a large portion of their students, keeping our insurance significantly lower, and keeping our maintenance lower by reducing hard landings and bald tires," he said. "This keeps a good relationship and reduces our costs. The only situation where we would offer private ticket instruction would be if the local flight school ceased operation."
Vanderweide offered advice for those in the planning stages of starting a club. "First, you can never make it 'no risk.' At some point, your founding members have to commit to a plane that meets the primary mission, get financing, and take a risk that the rest of the members will follow," he said. "People don't want to join a club that doesn't have a plane."
Second, building relationships with neighbors at the airport is key, said Vanderweide. "This is a word-of-mouth business, and if you get a bad reputation or upset people, you will have a hard time getting members or operating well at the field," he said. "Finally, pick good members. Members should be quality over quantity. One bad member can make your other members flee very quickly."


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Grateful Dead: Dick's Picks Vol. 10
Release of Dick's Picks 10 Honors the Hallowed Grateful Dead Tradition of Year End Concerts
One of the Most Acclaimed Performances in the Entire Series, Recorded at One of the Band's Favorite Venues, Winterland Arena
Features the First Rendition of "China Cat Sunflower" the Band Had Played in Three Years
Includes a Bonus Medley from the 12/30/77 Show
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China Cat Sunflower
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Exalted. Dark seas of destiny
Rosalind Shubert
The happy member of the 54 water legion
Twin to Rolf Shubert
Rosalind is the heart of the legion. Her cheer and general upbeat manner will always bring a smile to everyone's faces. She is first to laugh and it is easy to make her laugh.
Like most of the legion her parents died on the front lines and Cylpsis raised her and her brother. She is constantly seen bringing her brother back from a reckless adventure laughing at the things he and supsequently she had to do to get him out of the situation.
Tragedy has not made as much of an impression on the 33 year old twins, though it is not unknown to them. When the two work in tandem or against each other it is almost eerie how they can move without needing to use signals or messengers.


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Baku. 3 April. REPRT.AZ/ Gala Night of the film "Terkedilmish" ("Desolated") screened by the Turkish company "Post Production" was held in Nizami Cinema Center in Baku. Report informs that famous Turkish actors and the film crew attended the Gala Night. Azerbaijani actor Kamran Aghabalayev and actress Konul Naghiyev played main roles in the movie. The film's writer and director id Korhan Ughur and producers are Hakan Ordu, Mustafa Saygın and Alihan Karakul.
The plot of drama film is about the life of a woman who seeks asylum in Turkey and sells her kidney to get rid of poverty, she a refugee of Syrian war. The slogan is: "Somebody's unhappiness makes someone happy and we call it as humanity".
The film will be shown at 174 Cinemas in Turkey. Next presentation of the film will take place in Germany.


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The astrology sign Libra covers September 23rd to October 22nd. Libra is the seventh sign of the zodiac and its ruling planet is Venus. The astrological opposite of Libras are Aries.
Libras are thought to focus on achieving balance in life. Libras are considered social, attractive, diplomatic and non-confrontational. Libras like harmonious surroundings and are happiest when in the company of others. They tend to dislike violence and loudmouths and are loyal friends who are considered good problem-solvers.
Libras are considered part of the intellectual grouping. The Chinese astrology counterpart is the dog. Famous Libras include singer Usher Raymond and actor Michael Douglas.


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Well my chums, what have I been up to so far this week... I have been revising and taking my two OSCE exams at uni for the end of year. I had to write on the flip chart during the skills lab for Dr ABCDE so my notes were... Ok I just stole the flip chart page. I did write it though! So I revised from the giant poster and I still forgot bits of it in the exam. Oh well, feeling a bit frazzled now.
I got a new raised bed that the boyfriend put together for me, good of him. Now I need to buy some compost to go in it, find a good place for it and get planting stuff.
And I made a discovery - when you run out of soy sauce, use two teaspoons of marmite, now you know


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You can improve your personal growth with sports because you learn so many lessons on the field or court.
You need to learn how to work as a team, how to feel supported by others, how to support others, and how to accept winning/losing in a graceful way.
It helps kids became more social and it also helps them build lasting relationships.
As you grow, you take those lessons and you learn from it. It also teaches you the difference between listening and hearing.
Significance of Listening in Sports
For those who are not aware of the fact that hearing is the act of picking up vibrations and turning them into sound bits. Listening happens to be where you can understand those messages into phrases and sentences. You get the message, sort of speak.
With listening you will not only hear someone talking, but you are listening to them and following directions. When it comes to sports, you have to know when to listen to someone and when you should listen to yourself.
You need to learn when to follow instructions and when to give instructions. The key to sports is that it makes you a good leader. A good leader knows when to speak and when to listen.
They know when to get ideas from teammates and when they need to give their team direction. You can improve your personal growth because it teaches you how to be a good leader.
You will lose if are not a good leader. After a couple loses, you see what it takes to bring the team to victory. Also, when you are part of a team you get to know different people. It also teaches you how to deal with certain people.
Basic Needs
If you look at Maslow's hierarchy of needs you have basic needs, safety, social, self esteem, and self actualization. When it comes to sports, you satisfy your basic needs by having a team.
You get the attention and time required to become a good athlete. You also get guidance needed to play the sport.
Then for safety, you are taught how to play the game safely. You may also feel safe in a group to tell others how you feel and come up with your own ideas. There are so many people in a board room who do not speak because they are afraid to be judged.
They don't recommend good ideas because they are afraid. Sports teach you how to let people know your ideas irrespective of being judged.
Social Needs
It helps you feel comfortable speaking up. Then for social needs, sports let you to feel like you are apart of something. It makes you feel important because you have a role and you need many other people to help you and there are many other people who are depending on you.
Sport teams are a support system. If you get use to being part of a support system you won't feel so awkward in new situations and you will also understand you role in the group easier.
Self Esteem
Teams also help with self esteem. Self esteem is the most important part of the hierarchy. If you don't have self esteem then you can never make it in the world and have fulfillment.
Sports give you self esteem so that you can be secured with who you are. You need to find a way that will make you feel good about yourself and sports is the ticket.
When you win in sports you feel so good about yourself, but if you lose, it can be a little hard to accept. It's the same way when it comes to goal setting.
You will be able to set your goals and then if you fail, from being in sports, you will know how to pick up and accept your defeat, but still reach for better things.


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7.5 out of 10
Eddie Redmayne as Dug
Tom Hiddleston as Lord Nooth
Maisie Williams as Goona
Nick Park as Hognob
Kayvan Novak as Dino
Timothy Spall as Chief Bobnar
Richard Ayoade as Treebor
Selina Griffiths as Magma
Johnny Vegas as Asbo
Mark Williams as Barry
Gina Yashere as Gravelle
Simon Greenall as Eemak
Rob Brydon as Message Bird
Miriam Margolyes as Queen Oofeefa
Directed by Nick Park
The newest bit of masterful fantasy from Aardman Animation (Shaun the Sheep), writer-director Nick Park's paean to soccer — pardon me, football — is clever, engaging and warm, making up in charm what it lacks in originality. Like the best Aardman's work over the years it features clever sight gag after clever sight gag and a few bits of genuine off-the-wall lunacy which will make you question what the people who make these things do on the weekend when no one is looking. And all of it wrapped around a self-effacing Everyman (Redmayne) tackling problems that really are too big for him with plucky can-do-itness in an effort to just enjoy a pleasant life.
Though what exactly a 'pleasant life' means during the Paleolithic period is a bit different from what it means now. Rather than a nice garden and bit of cheese, all these Stone Age cave dwellers want is to catch a nice rabbit for dinner and maybe a dance afterward and not much else. The idea of setting their sights higher, like hunting giant wooly mammoths the way Dug wants to, is ridiculous and asking for trouble. Or it was until they discover that rather than living in the Stone Age they actually live in the Bronze Age after a bunch of snooty armored ruffians arrives to kick them out of their valley to mine it for more bronze.
Lacking a lot of the whimsy of Aardman's best stuff — no wererabbits or robot pants here — Early Man wraps itself up tight in the cliché's of the sports drama though with plenty of room for visual jokes and even the odd bit of wonder. Though initially offering up a fun and potentially gag filled visit to the Stone Age (which is not coincidentally the home of most of Early Man's best stuff), Park and company quickly make a hard left turn into sports movie land when Dug visits the home of the Bronze Age people and discovers that they are obsessed with a game where athletic yaboo's run around kicking a ball past opponents and into a net. A game which Dug himself believes his people invented and which he soon realizes he can use to force the return of their valley if he and his cavemen can just beat the best footballers around in a single winner take all match.
There really are two types of Aardman films. There are the ones which are all about visual splendor and imaginative flights of fancy – where robot dogs can hold an old lady hostage and a bunch of sheep can stand on each other's shoulders to impersonate a farmer — and the ones which aspire to more typically straightforward family-friendly story telling. The kind where a rooster tries to teach chickens to fly or two rats are chased through a London sewer while dealing with class issues. One of these kinds of films is unquestionably better than the other, reveling in pure imagination of the kind that so many children's films don't bother with. The other is more straightforward in its storytelling and mixed in its results; Early Man spends much of time balancing between these two imperatives trying to have it both ways. The result is more good than bad — even in its most straightforward version Aardman can't entirely cover up the lunacy at its core – but is more of a mixed bag than anything the studio has done since Flushed Away.
Redmayne and the rest of the cast are perfectly serviceable but not a lot is asked of them and few seem to be having real fun beyond Hiddleston's villainous Lord Nooth, nor is much asked of them. Word play and over the top delivery has never been a big part of Aardman's bag of tricks. It's no accident that their best films have been focused on mute characters like Gromit or Shaun the Sheep who are purely visual in their joke telling. Nor is it an accident that the best character in Early Man is the very similar Hobnob, Dug's porcine companion, and the best joke revolves around a giant man-eating prehistoric duck.
None of that is to say Early Man isn't fun or worth seeing. When the bar you're being held to is your earlier near-classics there's no reason to expect it to be cleared every time. On the other hand, the fact that the core of the actual story is a generic sports one offers little in the way of that fantasy or originality which has been Aardman's hallmark. Even lacking that though, we're still left with something fun and lighthearted without the crass commercialism and short-attention span gags that fill stuff like The Smurfs and Despicable Me films. Maybe they've passed the innovation crown over to Laika and it's ilk, and maybe that's the way it should be, but there are worse problems to have.
Though if you hate soccer you should definitely stay away.


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Steven Spielberg's requiem to Stanley Kubrick is one of the strangest versions of Pinocchio you're ever likely to see, but its timing (not long after September 11th) was eerie, and I felt very haunted about the fragile state of human existence when I walked out of the cinema that afternoon.
Alien (1979)
Can't say I really liked this film at first - Ridley Scott is just too manipulative both of his audience and his actors - but watching the non-director's approved "Special Edition" in 2003 was an eye-opener, restoring the missing scene with the ill-fated Captain Dallas (Tom Skerritt) giving the character a much more satisfying "closure" and for me, elevating the film towards the level of a classic which it is generally regarded.
American Graffiti (1973)
Some would say this is George Lucas's best film: certainly his warmest and most nostalgic, with some of his best ensemble cast performances, from the likes of Ron Howard, Richard Dreyfuss, Charles Martin Smith (a dead ringer for the young Lucas), and Harrison Ford - whatever became of him?
Apocalypse Now (1979)
"The best ever film about Vietnam", shot shortly after the end of the conflict itself, is too expensive, too noisy and makes little sense - much like the war itself, some thought. However, nothing that Francis Ford Coppola does is ever dull (or wasn't up till then), and among the film's supporting players - in perhaps his last "obscure" role - was Harrison Ford (as "Colonel Lucas") just after he had finished making a film called Star Wars. I had the good fortune to see the "Redux" version of this film at the Empire Leicester Square, cementing its place as a near-favourite.
Jaws for arachnophobes; one of the best monster movies of recent times, playing on people's widespread fear of spiders, without overly manipulating the audience or turning too nasty. My Mum watched five minutes of this on video, until the scene where a spider leapt straight on the camera lens, and she was gone: a true test of a scary, but fun, film.
Back to the Future (1985)
Battle of Britain (1969)
Ben-Hur (1925)
Big (1988)
Tom Hanks' best performance - relatively early in his career - capturing expertly the personality of a 12-year old in an adult body. There were several Hollywood "body-swap" films at the time for some reason, but this one is by far the best, thanks to a decent script and Penny Marshall's sympathetic direction.
The distinctive opening music by Jerome Moss instantly conveys the atmosphere of the Wild West, and the story's a gripping mixture of Shakespearian feudal tragedy and Cold War allegory, as Gregory Peck inherits an ongoing conflict between the upstanding Tyrrells and the gruff, bullish Hennesseys (Burl Ives is on great form as their boss.)
The Blues Brothers (1980)
Loud, noisy and action-packed - like some of the numbers (with several notable guest appearances by Ray Charles, James Brown, John Lee Hooker, Aretha Franklin, etc.) - this was perhaps the dying gasp of the Hollywood film musical, in very modern clothes. By the time I came to it (decades after first release) it was already a cult item, and a frequent slot at 11pm on Saturday nights. John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd had echoes of Laurel & Hardy or Abbott & Costello about them (although both those comedy pairings were better), and their onetime soulmate Carrie Fisher was at her feistiest (outside of Princess Leia) as a vengeful beautician at the "Curl Up and Dye" Salon.
Chicago (2002)
Rob Marshall's musical high heels and lethal ladies extravaganza, quite faithfully adapted to the screen and heavy with influences of Bob Fosse and Cabaret, which I found nostalgic. It brought Catherine Zeta-Jones her first Oscar, and helped me through a slightly difficult time at the beginning of 2003 with its cheerful cynicism and flambuoyant style. Also the first film I saw at the new Odeon Colchester multiplex.
Every critic features this on a 100 Best list, so I suppose I have to as well. It's more a film that I admire and respect than adore, however. Orson Welles's cinematic tricks are wonderfully inventive (thanks also to Gregg Toland's superb photography), but tricks just the same, more than plot, and Welles himself enjoys being the centre of attention just a little too much. That twist ending is great, but even that was out of compromise between Welles and fellow writer Herman Mankiewicz.
The feature film of the classic TV series followed a fashion for rushing out variably amusing spin-offs of hit comedy shows in the 1970's, and was admittedly a little overstretched in its thin plot (the first third was merely recycling the first TV episode), but the regulars were all present and correct and on good comic form. I've since visited some of the locations used for this film, including the lovely village of Chalfont St. Giles, the Dover Cliffs, and Littleton Church - just outside Shepperton Studios (see pictures).
The Devil Rides Out (1967)
Christopher Lee's favourite Hammer film, cast against type as the dynamic hero battling Satanists, which makes his presence all the more effective with the horror confronted, epitomised by Charles Gray as the smoothly ruthless Mocata. The cast in Terence Fisher's commendably straight-faced drama also included Paul Edington and Sarah Lawson.
One that I first enjoyed on children's TV in the 1970's, then happened to see at the Ipswich Film theatre years later, its humour and its quaintness undiminished.
Time has withered my impression of this Spielberg epic, especially in the light of his subsequent masterwork Schindler's List, but this is still a sumptuous work, a little languid in parts, with the drawn out scenes in an internment camp reminiscent of an episode of Tenko, but the young Christian Bale is excellent as the boy who treats the war as one big adventure - at first - and Spielberg and J.G. Ballard seem as one in terms of the film's imagination.
E.T. The Extra Terrestrial (1982)
Apathy and partial jealousy prevented me from seeing this film on its first release. As the Empire Strikes Back blog will explan, I'd turned away from the cinema, and the notion that this was an even bigger film than Star Wars also prompted a certain amount of antipathy. Curiosity and the skill of Steven Spielberg's direction won me over in time however (the video release didn't come along until as late as 1987.) Despite a certain amount of cloying sentiment and parts of the film that lag, it is by and large a classic of entertainment, and so simple yet so grand in its concept. I finally got round to seeing E.T. in the cinema in 2002 - a partially revamped "Special Edition" which thankfully didn't change too much, and helped blow away the blues of the Queen Mother's death at the time.
Eroica (2003)
It doesn't seem to me that there's been a really good film about my favourite classical composer, Ludwig Van Beethoven: Immortal Beloved had a stab at it, but dwelt on speculation and the women in Beethoven's life, although Gary Oldman gave a good account of himself. But this BBC film is perhaps the closest it has come so far to a decent biopic. The real star is the 3rd ("Eroica") Symphony itself, played in its entirety throughout the film.
Etre et Avoir (2002)
A beautiful French documentary about a small country pre school, all about the joys of early learning and the first building blocks of life. One typically charming moment is where a pet tortoise crawls slowly through the classroom while the snow rages outside. I can see why teacher friends took up the profession after seeing this film.
Evita (1996)
After 20 years waiting for a film adaptation of Tim Rice and Andrew Lord Webber's hit stage musical, Alan Parker did a more than creditable job, and even more surprisingly he etched out a suitably spirited star performance from Madonna, in perhaps her one and only film to effectively unite her talents as both actress and singer. This was also the most recent case of a full blown cinematic opera, and the wall-to-wall music (in Dolby Digital sound) made for a full-blown cinematic experience - together with a trailer for the 1997 Star Wars Special Editions, it's one I remember vividly. I'd often wondered what it would be like to do a film about an ordinary everyday man taking his own personal revenge on the world around him (especially during the 1980's.) Michael Douglas's "D-Fens" wasn't quite that "ordinary", as plot details later reveal him to be psychologically disturbed as well as unemployed, but it was a compelling performance in a wry black comedy action drama, where he rampages across urban LA pursued by Robert Duvall's retiring detective (on his last day of course). "I'm the bad guy?", Douglas ironically asks as he and Duvall showdown at the end. I borrowed some of Douglas's look for a similar character I played in a stage play, Nasty Neighbours in 1995.
Flash Gordon (1980)
This is a cult favourite, and although hardly in the same league as Star Wars (George Lucas himself tried and failed to secure the rights to Flash Gordon years before), it has many exuberant elements such as Max Von Sydow's majestically evil Ming the Merciless, a young Timothy Dalton as dashing Prince Barin, the stunning Ornella Muti as Ming's daughter, and a sountrack by Queen. Brian Blessed thinks it's the greatest film ever made (so a friend tells me), and you can't can blame him, as he gives such a hearty performance as Vultan. Director Mike Hodges was brought into this typically overblown Dino de Laurentiis production of a comic strip - and that's exactly how he chose to make it.
From Beyond the Grave (1973)
One of my favoruite Peter Cushing films, even though he's mainly a linking device as a sleazy antiques dealer to a series of dubious customers who await grizzly ends to their ill-gotten gains, in what I think is the best of Amicus's horror compilations. Among the stories were David Warner and Ian Ogilvy compelled to commit murder by ghosts hidden within the antiques, Ian Carmichael and Margaret Leighton hamming it up in the comedy segment, and both Donald Pleasence and his daughter Angela in a macabre little tale of murder with Ian Bannen and Diana Dors.Galaxy Quest (1999)
A wonderful fusion of spoof and homage to Star Trek, as Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver and Alan Rickman play former TV sci-fi actors now reduced to doing the convention circuit, until they are hurled into a real life Galaxy Quest and have to call upon the strengths of the characters they played. Anyone who's been to a few sci-fi conventions or sat through a few episodes of Star Trek will recognise the jokes.
Gallipoli (1981)
The first video rental I saw (courtesy of my Dad) in the mid-80's was this rambling but powerful - if anti-British - war drama about two friends cajoling each other into joining up to fight the Turks at Gallipoli in World War I. The final image of youth lost on the battlefield (to the music of Albinoni's Adagio) is as heart-rending as they come.
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
The first Gremlins had something of a 1980's feel to it, with some of Spielberg's sentiment tinged with darkness and Joe Dante's enthusiasm for horror pastiche: the sequel choose not to top it, but instead piled on a whole series of in-jokes and a typically surreal moment when the Gremlins get into the projection room (or the video machine, depending on your viewing media), done in a general healthy atmosphere of 1990's niceness. Composer Jerry Goldsmith even puts in an appearance, and the credits are presided over by Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig and (mostly) Daffy Duck!
The first Woody Allen film that I got round to seeing, and it's a clever mixture of wit and pathos (although Crimes and Misdemeanours was even cleverer.) The cast included Carrie Fisher, Barbara Hershey, Diane Wiest, Max Von Sydow, and of course, Mia Farrow, and Allen himself, who's on great form, and also as director selects some great music (mostly jazz). Need I say more? It also showed me for the first time that Michael Caine can really act when the right script comes along. The scene where he tells Hershey he loves her, and senses an element of reciprocation, is easily identifiable.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1955)
The original and best version of Jack Finney's Body Snatchers short story, with Kevin McCarthy conveying a gripping portrait of gradually mounting terror as he sees all that he knows around him transformed into cold-hearted strangers inhabited by aliens. Director Don Siegel creates the maximum amount of horror and suspense with the least amount of gore or special effects. A "happy" ending of sorts was added by the studio but frowned upon by most fans, although poor Kevin surely deserved some sort of recompense after all his rushing around; come the 1978 remake, he was still warning the citizens of San Francisco of the oncoming danger.
This is one of the most terrifying films ever made. Though the plot is crazy, it's too scary not to believe it couldn't happen - especially with all that we now know about Communist infiltration and attempts at brainwashing during the Cold War. Frank Sinatra is the traumatized Korean War veteran who can't understand why he so idolizes fellow veteran Laurence Harvey - a war "hero" who is prepared to kill indiscrimately at the merest gentle request from the true villain of the piece, Angela Lansbury. Jonathan Demme directed a variable remake updating the story for the Iraq War, but there's no way he could have topped the sinister atmosphere John Frankenheimer created for the original.
One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)
Back in the 1970s like most kids I was brought up in the cinema on a regular diet of Disney films, most of which were the classics from the 1940s. This one resembled a 1940s classic too, except that to my later surprise, I found that it was a much more recent entry in the Disney canon. The moment when a crook accidentally grabs hold of a cat's neck instead of a wine bottle delighted me at the time, I remember. I also secretly enjoyed Stephen Herek's live action remake (he of Bill & Ted fame) in 1996 with Glenn Close, Jeff Daniels and Joely Richardson, with Hugh Laurie and Simon Williams as Laurel & Hardy-style crooks.
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)The great Lon Chaney in probably the most famous of all his many cinematic rogues, and the best (Andrew Lloyd withstanding) of all the adaptations of Gaston Leroux's novel. The scene where the Phantom's hideous face under the mask is revealed still packs a hell of a punch. Imagine how it felt for audiences in 1925.
Poltergeist 3 (1988)
Seven Days to Noon (1950)
2046 (2004)
A futuristic paean to nostalgia and lost memories by Wong Kar Wai (his first American road movie My Blueberry Nights was a less successful but nonetheless interesting variation on the subject.) The title refers to the year when Hong Kong will complete its transfer from the UK over to China, so it's a suitably melancholic time to reflect on past and future. The Sars virus broke out in Hong Kong at the time, abandoning the original production, so Wai rejigged it into a sequel to his previous film In the Mood for Love, with Tony Leung as a womanising but reclusive writer who pens his futuristic 2046 novel. A film better for general atmosphere than overall content, and it also has a great soundtrack CD that I often play.


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New York Knicks coach Derek Fisher spoke highly of foward/center Andrea Bargnani after coaching him for the first time this week.
New York Knicks coach Derek Fisher spoke highly of foward/center Andrea Bargnani after coaching him for the first time this week, according to Ian Begley of ESPN.
In a preseason game Wednesday, Bargnani went 3-for-7 from the field and grabbed five rebounds during 19 minutes on the floor.
"Andrea's activity was good. He was versatile, just like I'd always observed from a distance," Fisher said. "He can shoot the basketball, he can put it down; he's a matchup problem for other teams when he's playing the frontcourt at the 4, the 5."
Wednesday's preseason opener was Bargnani's first game action since he suffered an elbow injury in January that ended his season. He was acquired by New York in summer 2013 with the goal of adding a scorer to complement Carmelo Anthony.
Before his injury, Bargnani was recording 13.3 points and 5.3 rebounds in 29.9 minutes per game. Prior to his injury the team was 15-27, and without him the Knicks went 21-18.
"It was good to be back on the court after 10 months. I was happy to be able to play with my teammates," Bargnani said.
"I know it is my last year...I've had bad injuries for [the last] three years, I wasn't able to play...My main thing is try to stay healthy and try to help the team win as much as possible."
Bargnani, selected from Italy in the first-round of the 2006 draft by the Toronto Raptors, enters the final year of a five-year, $50 million contract.
He will likely share minutes in the front court with Jason Smith and Amar'e Stoudemire, whom he started ahead of on Wednesday night.
The Knicks ended last season 37-45, finishing third in the Eastern Conference's Atlantic Division, missing the playoffs.
New York has six preseason games remaining between Oct. 11 and Oct. 24. It begins the regular season on Oct. 29, when the Knicks host the Chicago Bulls.


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A state ruling invalidating some of the 2,000 signatures collected by a committee trying to change the way Carroll governs itself did notreally have an impact on the nearly 23-year push for charter government, backers of the proposal say.
The ruling, issued earlier this month by the Maryland State Board of Elections, said that by failing to have voters indicate their birth date and the date on which they signed the petition, the Committee for Charter Government would have to begin again.
But while the state may be saying that the committee has to startfrom scratch, the committee itself decided in May to delay putting the question in front of Carroll voters until at least November 1993.