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- Original Title : Kätilö
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- Year of movie : 2015
- Genres of movie : War, Drama, Romance,
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- Release date of movie : 2015-09-04
- Companies of movie : Solar Films,
- Countries of movie : Finland,
- Language of movie : Deutsch, suomi,
- Durationof movie : 119 Min
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- Actors of movie :Krista Kosonen (Helena), Lauri Tilkanen (Johannes), Pirkka-Pekka Petelius (Jouni), Leea Klemola (Aune), Tommi Korpela (Gödel), Seppo Pääkkönen (Björne), Elina Knihtilä (Heta), Johannes Brotherus (Aleksei)
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Release The Midwife in Best Video Format with movie synopsis "'The Midwife' (fin.'Kätilö') is a romance-drama set during WWII in Finland's Lapland province, a major European battle ground of the war. Based on Katja Kettu's bestselling novel, 'The Midwife' turns on the love affair between a Lapp midwife and a Nazi SS officer set against the backdrop of the Lapland War, which opposed Finnish and Germany armies in 1944-45. The themes in the story are international. It's about conquering love and war, and class boundaries that are broken down." in best video format. Play full The Midwife in HD Quality by clicking the download link.
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Warne had five penalty points put on his licence at Dumfries Justice of the Peace Court, south of Glasgow, on Tuesday, News.com.au reports.
Lawyer Graham Walker, who entered a petition of guilty on behalf of the cricket great, represented Warne, it further reported.
In remarks, Walker described the incident on the A74(M) motorway north of Gretna in September as an error of judgment, the paper reported.
The prosecutor told the court Warne, driving on an Australian licence at the time of the offence, had been caught travelling at 165km/hr, the paper said.
Walker added that Warne is a man who had no previous convictions and no points on his driving licence and travels thousands of miles a year.
In the course of a stellar career, Warne took 708 wickets in 145 Tests for Australia before retiring from international cricket in 2007.
However, Warne, while making a name for himself as a television cricket commentator, has continued to play in Twenty20 events in India and Australia and recently hinted at a possible Test return for the Ashes series in England later this year.
On Monday, he was banned for one match and fined 4500 Australian dollars for an ugly, foul-mouthed clash with West Indies batsman Samuels. (ANI)

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text: Colin gave me flash new camera for my birthday :) So... thought I'd take a picture of our new dining room. We just got these new chairs as we have never had a proper set of dining chairs before. The Sombreros (sp?) are from our Honeymoon (we spent an afternoon South of the border).


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June Branscombe has produced many designs to commemorate Royal events over the years and they are always full of relevant symbolism and meaning. The inspiration for the whole pattern comes from patterns developed in the 1970`s for the Queen Mother after she had `pressed` a gadroon plate on a visit to our Factory here in Derby. June designed a light scatter pattern for the shape which was given to the Queen Mother. Her design for the Royal Baby includes downy feathers of a young cygnet, a rose in bud and a blue Adonis butterfly, all signifying new life. The Butterfly is shown in flight and at rest with its wings tucked up showing the difference in colour of the underside of the wings. The centrepiece of the plate is Prince William`s coronet sitting on top of an arrangement of rose buds tied with ribbon which will be blue as we have been blessed with a Prince. The central inscription is surrounded by a circle of shells taken from Princess Diana`s, Spencer coat of arms
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Photo Hunt #6
I've been wanting to sign up for this photo hunt challenge for at least the last three rounds but have never had the time, but I'm playing this month!
I'll be posting my entries here on this post as I find them.
1. A tower
2. "Main Street"
3. Five
4. A dog or cat
5. Two of a kind
6. A clock
7. A game
8. Something sweet
9. B&W w/selective coloring
10. Your own reflection
11. A mirror image
12. Night image
13. Something homemade
14. Something pink
15. Something romantic
16. A candid shot
17. A portrait
18. A symbol of love
19. A landscape
20. Chocolate


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Holder: decision 'close' on 9/11 trial
Politico reports on November 10, 2010 in an article entitled "Holder: decision 'close' on 9/11 trial," that the administration is on the verge of making a decision about where to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday.
Politico reports:
"We have been working on it and I think we're close to the decision," Holder told reporters during a press availability in connection with a U.S.-Canada meeting at the Justice Department.
"I would hope that whatever the decision is, it would be one that would be judged on the merits," Holder said. "What is best for the case, and for justice in that case will be thing that will guide a decision."
A year ago Holder announced plans to charge Mohammed and other Guantanamo prisoners in Manhattan federal court. After an outcry from officials, including Michael Bloomberg, the White House appeared to abrogate that plan in January. In the Spring, Holder promised a decision within a matter of weeks but soon no timeline was put on it. Many have speculated the White House avoided the issue during the midterm elections.
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We really look forward to lazy, pajama-clad mornings where we mosey about and breakfast happens when it happens. Food begins with some fruit and from there we transition into some reading/lounging with some coffee or freshly squeezed juice in hand. Tummies start to grumble and we finally get to the business of putting a meal on the table. These fluffy whole wheat wonders are awesome 'cause they come together in the few minutes it takes for your griddle to warm, so no need to shake off lounge mode.
One-Bowl Whole Wheat Pancakes
makes 8-10
1 cup whole wheat flour (4.5oz)
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 large pinch of salt
1 cup of buttermilk
1 egg, beaten
+ Butter or oil for griddle
- Warm butter or oil on griddle over low heat.
- Add first three ingredients to bowl and mix together with a whisk.
- Add buttermilk and egg to same bowl and whisk together until flour is completely incorporated. (I sometimes add a few extra tablespoons of buttermilk if it's too thick.)
- Turn heat up to medium.
- Add ¼ cup of batter to griddle and let cook until bubbles form around edge (about 1 minute). Flip to cook other side.
We reserve our pear butter specifically for these occasions, but they also go well with a bit of fruit and honey or a classic dose of maple of syrup.


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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Fairytale beauties...
I came across these awesome images at The Vintage Moth and I just could not resist sharing them.Beautifully illustrated women who live in fairytale land. We can look and appreciate the beauty of these women that were created with great care and perfection but we know in real life they could not keep up with us if they tried. Although, I would wear flowers in my hair if I didn't get crazy lady looks...so instead I will admire these beauties.
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Brain-Machine Interface (BMI) – Part 1
Earlier this week, The Associated Press reported that a paralyzed man remotely controlled a simple robot using only thoughts. (The images shown here are not from that experiment, but from one done three years ago by Honda. More on that later.) The robot was a small, simple device that moved on wheels, was equipped with a camera, and had a laptop computer perched on top. … Continue reading Brain-Machine Interface (BMI) – Part 1


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1939 Film (Stagecoach)
1956 Film (The Searchers)
1962 Film (The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance)
After a relatively long pause from blogging, I decided that I would discuss a genre that, to many of us, is lost in this day and age. The Western genre of film took on many changes throughout it's relatively long life cycle. However, nobody affected the Western genre the same way John Ford did. In fact, if it wasn't for him, the genre would have been dead after the talkies were introduced. He reinvented the genre to the extent that people such as Orson Welles or George Lucas took example from. The Star Wars saga, The Firefly TV show, Serenity and many other space westerns were a direct result of what Ford had contributed to the Western genre. The following analysis provides insight into the evolution of the genre as well as the evolution of the Ford film. Enjoy!
The three feature-length films I have chosen for this analysis were Ford's Stagecoach (1939), The Searchers (1956) and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962). Before I discuss how each film complied and diverged from the classical western film genre, I will discuss the formula, the characters, icons, conventions and the social function of the stereotypical western.
On a general note, the concept of the Western began to grow since the late 19th century. A variety of key elements during that era were, as quoted from West in Early Cinema: After the Beginning, "…immigration, travel and urbanization." The story formula of the western began with the element of immigration in which the protagonist (the immigrant) sets forth to find a new hope or a new frontier to explore. This idea of immigration is the precursor to the element of travel. The exploration brings us forth to the element of urbanization which takes on a more symbolic meaning in the western genre. Urbanization symbolizes the fast paced social and political evolution of the new world. In many instances the symbol of urbanization gives rise to the antagonist (mainly due to political or social injustices) and proposes a dilemma for the protagonist. Ideally, the story has the protagonist become part of the problem and eventually has the central character confront the problem and reign victory over it. As far as the basic convention of the story in the western genre is concerned, the storyline is generally very linear, in other words it has a beginning, middle and an end. More specifically, the stereotypical western follows the Classical Paradigm narrative structure; it starts off with an exposition, a problem arises, followed by the rising action, climax, falling action, final confrontation with problem and finalizes with the solution to the problem.
The Western included three basic sets of characters, the hero, the villain and the community. The stereotypical western hero was a role intended primarily for the male. The hero was personified as a man of few words who resides in the middle of nowhere and is either a cowboy or a gunslinger. This ambiguity and mystery that encompasses the character adds suspense to his persona and ideally makes him a favorite amongst the audience as it is in the audience's best interest to be surprised. The main goal of the hero is either to secure the justice of the community or to protect the community from being destroyed by one-sided political, social and/or economic decisions.The color of white is commonly associated with a character that personifies the messiah as it is representative of light and new beginnings. In the Western, the hero typically wears white clothing (most commonly the cowboy hat). The Western hero is also the epitome of masculinity in which physical strength outweighs the power of intellect. The Western villain is usually one of two characters, either a hired hand to restructure or destroy the social, political, and/or economic order of a community, or a group of rebellious tribesmen (most commonly the Native Americans). No matter which of the two evils the villain happens to be, the most common attributes to the villain are "egotistical self-interest"and revenge. The reasons for the villain's negative intentions are typically shrouded from the audience; this way the western villain is broadcasted as a single-minded individual who has one purpose in his repertoire and that is to destroy all that is good. The villain is also a masculine role because, in classical western theory, the only person or persons that can challenge the western hero is/are men of the same physical strength and attributes of the protagonist. In other words, the hero and the villain are, as I like to call them, identical opposites of each other. Evil is usually symbolized by dark colors. The same can be said about western villains in which, for example, a black cowboy hat or dark colored clothing may symbolize the antagonist. The community is a central character in the western genre as it encompasses the reasons for the villain and hero to exist. The community is typically a collection of different people all living in one town. They are represented as physically weak which grants the invitation of the villain into the town even if the town does not welcome him. Due to the physical weakness of the town compared to the villain, the town welcomes whole-heartedly the hero onto their territory to help them fix the problem. The town usually consists of "sissy" men and physically weak but attractive women. The conflict in the town and the female beauty provides the protagonist with enough reason to help the town.
Many icons appear in Western films. These icons or signatures help the audience members configure each film into a category. As was mentioned before, a prevailing icon in Western film is the juxtaposition of white and black in which white stood for good and black represented evil. The time period is another icon of the Western film. Most Western films took place after the American Civil War and did not surpass the mid-19th century. This time period was also known as the American Old West. The color icon also translates into an icon of racism in these films. Since racism was prevalent during the time periods in which the films took place, it was appropriate to incorporate this icon into the western genre. In other words, people of color were always illustrated as weak or evil such as the Native Americans, African Americans and Mexican Americans. Westerns were filled with action and most notably had fistfights and gunfights at the end of the film to determine who the victor was. As a general rule, the gunfights were purposely dragged on, to increase suspense in the viewer's mind. In times of chase scenes, another staple or icon of the western film genre, the backdrop was often filmed on location and not in the studios. The most notable locations of these backdrops were valleys and deserts located in Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, California and other southwestern states. The idea was to juxtapose the hero with these backdrops as if he was also facing the wilderness to prove his fearlessness and once again remind the audience of his masculinity. The way people dressed functioned as an icon as well. The cowboy or gunslinger typically wore a bib shirt, pressed trousers, a white Stetson hat, gun belt, a revolver or a rifle and boots with spurs. The villain usually wore the same thing, unless he was Native American, in which case they would wear tribal clothing such as buckskins, moccasins, an arrow holster and other equipment. However, the only difference between the two cowboys or gunslingers would have been the color of their clothing. The most notable animal icon in the Western is the steed or hero's or villain's main form of transportation and/or accompaniment. The steed elevated the hero or villain, literally and figuratively, above everyone else which exposed these main characters as figures of authority or power.
The social function of the Western film genre kept on changing since its introduction in the early 20th century. As a general rule, the stereotypical western was a very simple film to watch because it was more about the action in the film as opposed to what was being said in the film. In the early 20th century, as was mentioned before, many people mainly from Europe, moved to the Americas. Many of these immigrants did not speak a word of English and so the Western film was designed around that consideration and made simple. The simplicity of these films helped the immigrants to ease in into the new world and provided them with a temporary refuge. On the other hand, the Western film also instilled new ideals into these newcomers. The Western film genre reflected early American ideology and subliminally conveyed messages to the people in regards to heterosexuality, the alpha male, the passive female, racism and the work ethic.
The film Stagecoach was directed by John Ford and released in 1939. It was the first sound western to be released after several decades of silent westerns. This film was responsible for re-establishing the western genre as an A-list film and thus revived the genre for decades to come. Although a very different Western for the time, the general story formula of Stagecoach remained unchanged in terms of the linearity and the Classical Paradigm narrative. The film had a concrete beginning with an establishing shot of Monument Valley, the venue in which the film would take place in. This was then quickly cut to the sheriff's office in which a telegram notifies the townspeople of an upcoming attack, providing the viewers with the problem. The introduction and gathering of each central character entering the stagecoach served as the rising action. The climax quickly followed as the stagecoach entered the Dry Fork Way station in which a love connection began to unfold between the Ringo Kid (John Wayne) and Dallas (Claire Trevor), thus giving the hero a new impetus to keep the stagecoach safe from an Apache attack. The climax includes a second part which is evident in the stagecoach's second stop at the Apache Wells Outpost. Lucy Mallory (Louise Platt) learns that her husband was wounded and collapses on the floor from shock. It is soon revealed that she was also carrying a baby and goes into labor. This part of the film physically weakens Lucy, but physically and psychologically strengthens and prepares Dallas, Doc Boone (Thomas Mitchell) and most of the other crew for the upcoming Apache attack on their trip to Lordsburg. This literal and symbolic preparation of the crew finalizes the climax with the Apache attack on the stagecoach which brings the story into the falling action and final confrontation phases. After all of the ammo was depleted and all hope seemed to escape the crew from the Apache attack, the sudden arrival of the cavalry unit brings an abrupt end to the attack. In the end, the Ringo Kid finally confronts the Plummer brothers and kills them in a gunfight, gets together with Lucy and walks off into the sunset. Both of the confrontations finalized the film with the solution to the problems introduced at the beginning.
The film began to differentiate from the stereotypical western with the unique set of characters in the film. If we refer to the three major climaxes of the main character, the following information is relayed, "The first stage presents the overall goal of the character, the second illustrates the obstacles that keep the character from achieving that goal, and the third stage is the confrontation of the character with the obstacle and the eventual solution to the problem." To put it simply, the main character, in the end, must exhibit a kind of "baptism" or change to remain the main character in the eyes of the audience. Interestingly enough, and unlike many westerns preceding Stagecoach, the film consisted of three main characters. These three characters were the Ringo Kid, Dallas and Doc Boone.
In the beginning of the film, at the sheriff's office, the telegram introduced the main conflict in the film, the upcoming Apache attack on the frontier. Apart from the main conflict, the Ringo Kid is introduced by the marshal Curley Wilcox (George Bancroft) as an escapee from prison and on the road to avenge the death of his family committed by the Plummer brothers. Even before the audience sees Ringo, the audience is invited into his private conflict and immediately begins to identify him as a central character. Once we meet Ringo we are notified of the two obstacles that would keep him from achieving his goal, the first is his steed galloping away from him and the second is the marshal arresting Ringo and keeping him on the Stagecoach until they reach the next jailhouse. The first conflict is solved almost immediately as he joins the stagecoach crew. The second problem would require Ringo to prove himself in some sort of confrontation in front of the people who see him in a negative eye. The confrontation between the stagecoach crew and the Apaches, gave Ringo the opportunity to prove his goodness and bravery. After the Apaches are defeated, although legally Ringo is still under the penalty of law, morally he has achieved his right to face the Plummer brothers in a final showdown. In one of the quickest gunfights in western film history, Ringo defeats the Plummer brothers and is finally cleansed of his past burdens, becoming a changed man and reinstating his status as one of the main characters.
Dallas was introduced as a prostitute that was being kicked out-of-town by the Ladies Law and Order League. Her main conflict was lack of acceptance amongst her community due to her unorthodox way of life. Her main conflict had her banished from the town of Tonto and essentially gave her access to the stagecoach that was travelling to Lordsburg. At this point Dallas's main goal is clear and that is to start a new way of life. As Dallas enters the second stage of her character development she faces an obstacle of people all commuting to Lordsburg on the stagecoach. Every person on the stagecoach either ignores her existence or does not refer to her as a lady as they do in regards to Lucy. All of this would change once the Ringo Kid becomes part of the crew in which case he sees a different light in Dallas, a positive light and begins to form affection towards her. Ringo's kindness and affection towards Dallas begins to act as a catalyst towards her "baptism" and provides her with a boost of confidence. This confidence would prove to be useful at the Apache Wells Outpost when Lucy goes into labor and Dallas becomes Lucy's and the baby's caretaker. Essentially, by this point, Dallas has faced her biggest conflict since most of the crew begins to see a maternal and positive side to her. However, it would not be until the aftermath between the crew's confrontations with the Apaches that would fully baptize Dallas in which case she garrisons the baby from harm's way understanding that her life may have been at stake. This act of bravery and her association with Ringo at the end of the film makes her part of the cast of main characters.
The final character that may be considered a main character is Doc Boone. His beginnings are very much related to the story surrounding Dallas. The only difference was that Doc Boone was an alcoholic who fails to pay his rent, in which case, the Lady's Law and Order League also decided to banish him from town due to his problems. In search of a new life and with news of a whiskey salesman joining the crew of the stagecoach, Doc Boone becomes part of the crew as well. Doc Boone's major conflict revolves around the concept of acceptance just like Dallas. He simply wanted people to accept him for who he was; however, his addiction to alcohol was keeping him from achieving that goal. Doc Boone's "baptism" occurs at the Apache Wells Outpost station when Lucy goes into labor, in which case, he quickly sobers up and helps Lucy through her labor. The success of the birth brought a new light to Doc Boone. After that moment, most of the crew found a new trust in him. Since that moment he persists to drink but responsibly. His complete transformation would not occur until after the Apache's attack in which case he protected the stagecoach with his life by participating in the gunfight as well.
These three characters exhibited change towards the end of the film, rendering them as main characters. With the exception of the Ringo Kid, Doc Boone and Dallas were atypical western main characters for several reasons. For one thing Dallas was female and female characters are expected to take on a passive role in which they simply exhibited love and support towards the male lead. All of these attributes were evident in Dallas; however, her heroic actions at the outpost station and during the attack showed a more masculine, in terms of confidence and bravery, side to Dallas. Doc Boone was depicted as a wrecked individual, both physically and psychologically, but it was his sudden heroic acts towards the end of the film that rendered him as a strong-willed and brave individual, attributes that are vital for the western main character. Based on this analysis, every other character who did not exhibit these attributes was considered to be part of the community or a cast of helpless or weak individuals. The villain in this film was the Apache tribe lead by their leader named Geronimo. Their danger was evident since the beginning of the film and although the final confrontation included a grand fight sequence, the villain in this film seemed almost unimportant because of the underlying goals of each main character in the film. For this reason, the villain in this film is not typical of the villain in the general western genre.
As far as icons were concerned, many of the typical characteristics that represented western film were evident in the film. For starters, the color white is evident of good and the status of the hero. The Stetson hat that the Ringo kid was wearing was the color white. Dallas was blonde haired. The light color of her hair symbolized her saint like status. At the Apache outpost, Doc Boone unbuttoned his suit to reveal a white shirt, the color of which symbolized hope for Lucy and her baby. In fact, when the Apache confrontation occurs, Doc Boone's suit is completely off only to reveal the entirety of his white shirt which symbolized his bravery during the fight. The issue of racism was also evident in this film in which the Native Americans were viewed as evil and the Mexican Americans were viewed as valueless and weak. The backdrop to the action scene in the film took place in Monument Valley, Arizona a very popular venue for John Ford. The Ringo Kid juxtaposed with the backdrop instilled a kind of grandeur into his image and instantly makes him a favorite amongst the audience. An icon that was not very evident in this film was the animal accompaniment of the hero. This may be explained with the addition of two other main characters and the stagecoach that connected all of the main characters as a form of transportation but also as a key plot device.
The same social function that persisted in the stereotypical western was somewhat evident in this film. To start off, the idea of heterosexuality is very strong in this film as was depicted by the relationship between Hatfield (John Carradine) and Lucy and the relationship between the Ringo Kid and Dallas. These relationships were portrayed as rightful and as models for people to follow. As was mentioned before, the idea of the alpha male and passive female were a bit diluted in this film. In fact the concept of change was a primary point in the film as opposed serving as an unchanged individual. The film's function was to broadcast the idea that it was ok to make mistakes and no matter what gender role you are, the ability to change and learn from the mistakes committed will make you a better individual. Racism was an integral part in the film as it reflected the current time period very well. Segregation was still a huge issue in America during this time and so the film attested to this reality by portraying it in a minimal fashion, small enough not to be noticed the first time.
The Searchers
The film The Searchers was directed by John Ford and released in 1956. The film's story structure began to differ from earlier Ford films. This redefined story structure was not evident until the mid to late portion of the film in which the famous letter scene takes place. The general structure of the film starts off like any other; the establishing shot welcomes the audience to Texas (shot in Monument Valley), introduces Ethan Edwards (John Wayne) as the main character appearing in the distant sunrise, his destination brings us to meet his family and the neighbors of the Edward's family. Initial conflict arises, when Comanche's were being suspected of attacking, killing and abducting homesteaders. Eventually the Edward's family is mostly slaughtered with the exception of Ethan, Marty (Jeffrey Hunter), Debbie (Younger – Lana Wood, Older – Natalie Wood) and Lucy (soon found to be killed) (Pippa Scott). A culmination of men group up to find Debbie, who has been abducted by Comanche chief Scar, and rescue her before anything happens to her. The rising action of the film is essentially the search for Debbie, a journey that takes about five years to complete for mainly Martin and Ethan. However, after Ethan shot and killed Futterman (Peter Mamakos), a man who claimed to know information about Debbie's whereabouts for a price, the film takes a drastic leap about four years since their arrival at the Jorgensen's homestead. In this scene, a letter is handed to Laurie Jorgensen (Vera Miles) to read in regards to Martin's well-being and status. When Laurie begins to read the letter, the film goes through a series of flashbacks, essentially flipping back and forth between present and past. After three flashbacks, the film returns back to the present in which Lucy has finished reading the letter. The sudden lapse between rising action and falling action in the film disrupts the flow of the Classical Paradigm narrative which accentuates order over any other structure. However, after the letter scene, the falling action is concluded with the appearance of a young soldier notifying of hints of Scar's tribe not far from the homestead in which case, Marty takes the lead and eventually finds Debbie (a second time) and rescues her. The film is then concluded with Ethan coming to terms with his hatred for Comanche and accepting Debbie as part of his family once again and the wedding ceremony between Marty and Laurie. The film's story structure becomes rebalanced towards the end as it stops diverging between different time periods which is why it was ok for it to deviate from the Classical Paradigm narrative structure.
Upon first glance, the character set in the film is very reminiscent of the character types in stereotypical westerns. Basically, the hero is a lone wanderer or former Confederate soldier who makes a grand entrance into the story in front of a sunrise backdrop. This mise-en-scene highlights the character as important, fearless and forthcoming. In fact his personality is very much reminiscent of the archetype western hero in which case racism plays a huge role. Although racism was nothing unusual in western films, this film delves very deep into the subject matter by introducing a hero-villain relationship unlike any other. For the first time, audiences would begin to see racism as a catalyst of both Scar and Ethan. Racism fueled their thirst for revenge. For example, Scar's sons were killed by white men and so he took retribution by killing the white man and kidnapping the white females to eventually turn into wives for every son he has lost. As a second example, Ethan's mother was killed by Comanche's, ever since that episode, Ethan has held a deep hatred for the Comanche's. Based on these two observations, the hero and villain are essentially nonexistent because they are essentially the same people with the same intentions based on the same reasons. This interconnectivity between the two characters is where the stereotype is broken because, for the first time, the hero is somewhat of a bad person. Other than the main character of Ethan, everyone else seems to fall into the role of the community. The women are viewed as passive, physically weak, worriers and supporters. The women also serve the purpose of providing Ethan and Marty to complete each of their pilgrimages; for Ethan, avenging the death of his mother and avenging the death of Martha Edwards (his one and only love) served as his main purpose for his quest. Marty would be fueled to find Debbie by his duties as an older brother and by his love interest Laurie (even though towards the end she lost hope for the search); this made him determined to search as fast and as thoroughly as possible so he could return to Laurie without a guilty conscience and marry her. It may be speculated that Marty could be considered to be a main character; however, from the beginning of the film and until the end of the film, Marty has been portrayed as naïve and optimistic individual who never had any reason to change as an individual. On the other hand Ethan Edwards had the overarching conflict of searching for Debbie and battling his racism. As a matter of fact, his eventual communion with Marty helped Ethan to change right before he was able to kill Debbie.
This western film included expected icons and some of the icons were never observed before. The most obvious icon in the film is the time period it takes place in such as the mid-19th century. This time period marked great turmoil between the homesteaders and Native Americans in the West. In fact, the film is based on a novel that is based on a true story of a girl named Cynthia Ann Parker who was kidnapped by a Comanche chief and forced to marry him when she became of age. The time period falls within the range of periods for the stereotypical western to have taken place in. The icon of color changed substantially in this film. This time, the hero enters the story while wearing a black Stetson hat. This new image was jarring because it foreshadowed an evil intent hidden within the main character. As was explained previously, the icon of racism was prevalent throughout the film. The icon of majestic backdrops is prevalent throughout most of the film. The film was essentially about a journey in which such backdrops were necessary to convey a sense of danger and suspense as the film went on from beginning, middle and end. The icon of the steed was evident in the beginning of the film most likely to create a false impression of the main character in the eyes of the audience. Usually the steed was a symbol of grandeur, trustworthiness and courage. The latter was true except for sensibleness which we perceived throughout the entire film. In fact, the film concluded with Ethan walking into the sunset as opposed to riding out into the sunset. The idea of not having a steed, symbolically brought Ethan "back to earth" and exemplified him as a changed and "ideally human". This sort of icon was not typical of everyday westerns of the time.
The issue of racism was increasing during the time period that the movie was made. Events such as Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat on the bus, Emmett Till's murder, Brown v. Board of Education and other events began to unfold during this time period. The film represented this movement towards equality by delving into the very act of racism and how it corrupts an individual (Ethan Edwards and Scar in this case). Apart from this underlying social function of the film is the social function of heterosexuality which is represented in every relationship in the film.
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance was a film directed by John Ford and released in 1962. Many aspects of the film defied the conventional western. One of these aspects was the general story formula. The film begins at the aftermath of the conclusion of the story with the arrival of Senator Ransom Stoddard (James Stewart) and his wife Hallie Stoddard (Vera Miles) into the town of Shinbone for a funeral of a friend named Tom Doniphon (John Wayne). After the editors of a local newspaper ask the Senator for an interview in regards to the individual who died, he refuses at first, but then decides to tell the story. Immediately the film backtracks into the past and introduces the audience to the story. The flashback sequence follows the Classical Paradigm narrative throughout most of the film. The story begins with the assault on the crew of passengers by Liberty Valance and his gang. One of the passengers turns out to be a young Stoddard migrating from the east as a student of law. The conflict arises immediately as soon as Stoddard begins to preach the law to Valance who demonstrates that the gun and physical violence outweigh any law in this territory. After the knockout, the film continues with Stoddard being brought into the town of Shinbone into a mom and pop eatery owned by Peter and Nora Ericson. Immediately, Nora and eventually Hallie tend to the wounds of Stoddard in which case he gets revived and forms an immediate attraction to Hallie. After his revival the supposed central character of Tom Doniphan is introduced. As the story continued, Stoddard became acquainted with the town and began to understand more and more about the problems surrounding the town such as the constant threats induced by Valance and his gang. The rising action in the film is Stoddard's determination to educate the town about the history of their country and how law functions. His attempt to strengthen the town was done in hopes of destroying the conflict that is Valance. Apart from Stoddard's duties, Doniphon, a regular local and favorite in the town, decides to enter the rising action by strengthening the lawyer in a physical sense because he knew the only way to defeat Valance was through violent means. The climax is reached after the elections takes place in the town for someone to represent statehood in which case Valance's attempt to force a win from the people of the town backfires due to law induced technicalities. This infuriates Valance and forces him to almost kill Dutton Peabody (the newspaper editor played by Edmond O'Brien) and then has Valance challenge Stoddard to a gunfight. Later that night the falling action arises with the shooting and death of Liberty Valance. The falling action of the film continues on with the immediate guilt that overcomes Stoddard as he is the one who is known to have shot Valance much to everyone's satisfaction. This new conflict that he faces within himself is then resolved towards the end of the film when Doniphon tells Stoddard that he was responsible for the death of Liberty Valance (in an embedded flashback) and encourages Stoddard to continue on his campaign trail. This new revelation brings us to the conclusion of the film in which Stoddard becomes elected to represent the town of Shinbone and eventually becomes governor of the state. However, the conclusion does not end there because Stoddard had a kind of guilt instilled into him in regards to Doniphon's death. Immediately, the story gets back into the present in which he decides to open a practice in the town of Shinbone instead of continuing on his campaign to becoming the President. The double flashback sequences takes away from the actual reality of the story and forces the audience to see Stoddard's perspective of the story. This new take on story telling violated the linearity that was found in most Westerns.
This film took a new direction in terms of character creation. The typical western main character was clearly defined by Doniphon's persona. He was a physically experienced, macho, independent and prejudiced gunslinger. If this film followed the typical western genre formula then Doniphon would have been the man who changed towards the end of the film and would have been kept alive. Instead, we see Doniphon and Valance end up in a "horizontal" position at the end of the film and Stoddard's character in a "vertical" position (standing tall and victorious). This was very unorthodox especially given the fact that for the first time the idea of law prevailed over settling a problem physically. Stoddard, a tall and lanky man, prevailed and changed towards the end of the movie through his patient and calculated behavior. Doniphon, a tall and muscular man, turned to drinking and depression after understanding he had lost the person he loved which assumingly brought about his demise. This was part of the reason I believe that Doniphon played a community role and not a major role in the film. The other reason has to do with him acting as an instructor on how to live in the West for Stoddard. His training provided Stoddard with everything that the lawyer initially never had. Once Stoddard absorbed all of the positive attributes of Tom, he became a greater man, he became a changed individual. For this reason, Stoddard was the main character in the film. The villain in the film represented the stereotypical gunslinger outlaw. There was no backstory behind him; he simply killed for the fun of it. Like in many Ford film's the women, once again, played very submissive roles. To put it simply they served as the love interest of the men and acted as indirect promoters of the men's actions. As far as the rest of the community is concerned, the following Michael Coyne quote explains it pretty well, "Liberty Valance, is a community Western in which the ideal of community darkens and sours irrevocably." In other words, the general community is seen as lazy and incapable of defending for itself no matter the circumstances.
The color icon, as in many Westerns, is also evident in this film but in a different way. The use of color in this film is actually accentuated by the use of lighting in key points of the film. Shadows are decisively used in the attack on Peabody scene and the gun duel between Stoddard and Valance. Shadows highlighted the points of mystery and suspense in the mise-en-scene. During the gun duel, more of the light was used on Valance to signal his vulnerability to being shot. Stoddard on the other hand was veiled by the shadows, thus making him hard to kill. This new use of colors was something that was not evident in many Western's before Ford's time, especially in a black and white picture. Hallie and Stoddard usually wore light colored clothing such as the white apron, signifying them as holy and untouchables. Doniphon and Valance usually wore darker colors signifying their fall or demise. One of the icons that were not very evident in this film was the majestic backdrops usually used in Westerns. This could be explained by the nature of the narrative of the film in which the story is told from the perspective of a memory. Memories could be false at times and so the director, keeping this in mind, shot most of the film in a studio to give it that artificial or false look.
As was mentioned for the previous film, this 1962 film was a work of social commentary as well as a work of art. The Civil Rights movement began to take many positions in the eyes of the government around this time. This marked a time in which words spoke volumes over violence and ultimately brought about change in the coming decades. Although the film did present itself on the more prejudiced side with the disconnection between the whites and the Mexicans and the African Americans, it did serve as a messenger of hope for people in the coming years.
Since the beginning of film history, Western's created a world of refuge and excitement for its viewers. Once John Ford entered the genre, he essentially reinvented it. Ford provided the new genre with a sense of class in which characters experienced conflicts and changed in different and drastic ways. The way he shot the Westerns deviated from the B-list films by creating a new science in the realm of color and cinematography in general. The stories in his Westerns took place in the past but found their way into the present with the ideas and social commentary presented in each film.
If you would like to read up on some of the source material I used for this analysis, refer to the following list:
- Butler Jeremy G., Television: Critical Methods and Application (Alabama: Routledge, 2006)
- Chris Cabin The Searchers: A Critic's Review AMC Filmcritic, 5 Feb. 2006. Web. 3 Feb 2012.
- Darby William John Ford's Westerns: A Thematic Analysis, with a Filmography (North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers, 2006)
- Eckstein Arthur M., Peter Lehman The Searchers: Essays and Reflections on John Ford's Classic Western (Michigan: Wayne State University Press, 2004)
- Grant Barry K. John Ford's Stagecoach(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002)
- Lamar Howard R. The Reader's Encyclopedia of the American West (New York: Harper & Row, 1977)
- McMahon Jennifer L., Steve B. Csaki, The Philosophy of the Western (Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2010)
- Michael James T. Script Analysis for Actors, Directors, and Designers: 4th Edition (Maryland: Elsevier Science, 2009)
- Shapiro Michael J. Methods and Nations: Cultural Governance and the Indigenous Subject (Hawaii: Taylor & Francis, Inc, 2003)
- Tasker Yvonne Action and Adventure Cinema (London: Taylor & Francis, 2004)
- Verhoeff Nanna, West in Early Cinema: After the Beginning (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2006)
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Even though we had days of warning about Hurricane Sandy and were as prepared for it as we could be, for millions this mighty storm took away basic things we rely on and take for granted -electricity, running water and connectivity. It damaged homes and cars and brought the trains to a standstill.
And so finding inspiration in the every day this week, means for me, appreciating how lucky we are:-
Turn on a faucet and get running water.
Pick up our charged phones and be able to make a call.
In Hoboken NJ having access to electricity took on a whole new meaning and the generosity of neighbors made it possible for people without power to recharge and reconnect.
These basics that we rely on, are things I am very grateful for. I'm just sad that it takes a hurricane to remind me and my heart goes out to those who are struggling right now without them.
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Service AdvisorBill has been in the automotive business since 1970. He has worked the parts side as well as the repair side. Bill has specialized in the service side for the last 23 years.
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ASE Certified Master Technician & Undercar SpecialistRick has been an automotive technician for over 25 years.
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Wednesday, 14 August 2013
Learning the Basics (Food)
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I'm still tweaking my own food plan. Some people have suggested that I eat too much fruit, but when I eat less fruit, I tend to want to eat sugary snacks--and fruit is definitely the better choice. So I'm working on that issue. However, people assume I have so much willpower. Really, I don't. I still need sweets--even if it's fruit.
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Thursday, 26 May 2011
Major project was a bit stressful, and the finished piece wasn't quite what I had in mind. I think this was largely down to my inexperience with poly modeling and the kind of quality I wanted to produce. I set my sights fairly high and it seems clear that I still have a lot more to learn. I helped out all the team members when they had problems or came to me with things that needed adjustment. The work was a lot of fun but what I will do next time I think is focus on one environment, and get help from other team members to make characters and props to put into that environment.
I spent a month rigging the characters for animation, and although the animation didn't quite come together, I don't think it was time wasted, because I managed to learn a fair bit about rigging during this time. I do think however, that for the next project I would rather use CAT rigs which we could then simply import into the UDK. I think the next step for me is to get better at modeling and texturing. Over the summer I'm going to redesign an existing character model and practice more modeling and improve my facial sculpting.
The rendering was difficult to approach because like with the modeling, I haven't had much experience rendering high quality lighting. Using the Mental Ray renderer for example, I had to adjust things like gamma because it seemed to fade a lot.
I would still like to do a game project for next year, but I would like to be more prepared for it this time. Rigging I would like to have worked out early on in the project, and I would need help with the backstory for the game project. I was thinking of doing very low poly modeling, Slipgate for example (http://slipgatecentral.livejournal.com/34068.html) and exploring some sort of 3d style. I'm very interested in exploring detailed modeling techniques, Vitaly Bulgarov is one of my favourites (http://www.bulgarov.com/). I would like to focus perhaps on improving one aspect of my 3d work, and a natural choice would be to improve my characters I think, at least this is what I would like to do for next year's projects and indeed make my third and final project more of a success. Thank you very much =)
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I found out my site! I'm headed to the Nafadji village in the southeastern part of Kedougou for the next 2 years. The population is 850, and I'll be living in my own grass roof hut on the village chief's compound. He'll be my new host dad! I'm in a hilly area, and my nearest neighbor is a 20k bike ride away. One of the current volunteers who lives in my region told me that my main safety concern while running outside the village is to watch out for lions and baboons. Should make for some interesting runs!
The site placement reveal is a huge event during training. The anticipation started as soon as we got to the training center a month ago, and many of us had guesses and bets on who was probably going to end up where. The language we were assigned as well as sporadic clues from staff and current volunteers gave us some idea, but no one knew for sure where they were going. Last Thursday, we were all blindfolded and led onto the massive map of Senegal on the basketball court at the training center. We were all placed on the map where our new sites would be, and once we removed the blindfolds we were standing next to our new site neighbors. It was a fun way to reveal where we'll all be for the next couple years.
My site is remote, but I'm very happy with it. The other volunteers in my region seem like a fun group, and my area of the country has a lot of need for a volunteer. The current volunteer in my village is moving to a larger site 30k away, and she told me I have the opportunity to start from scratch in my village. I'm excited to get started!
I leave on Tuesday for my Volunteer Visit, where I'll be staying with a current volunteer in my region for 5 days. I'll be able to visit my site and meet some important people in the village including my host family and local health counterpart.
It feels great to know where I'll be working. I can't wait to swear in on May 13th and become an official volunteer! It'll be nice to settle into my hut and not be living out of a suitcase. I'm excited to meet my village!


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The Shriner
The Shriner's were in San Antonio this year for their annual convention. They've been doing all sorts of things all weekend and ended their visit today with a parade past The Alamo and through downtown.
I saw this man sitting on a stool and it just looked so icon to me with his surroundings and that bright red hat that I couldn't resist a shot.
Staffer Tom Reel was assigned to cover it, but I decided to tag along. I kind of need the distraction right now. There's a full slideshow over at MySA.com (with a ton of Tom's pics and my own) it's not active yet or otherwise I'd provide a link.
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Phoning Home
Phoning Home is a side scrolling game prototype I made as challenge for myself after I had finished my work on The Ball.
The goal was to create a playable game prototype in a maximum of 4 weeks – this included everything from a general gameplay concept to code and assets such as meshes and most textures (some were made by fellow Unreal community members).
The simple initial idea:
- steer a flying character through a labyrinth of tunnels in a huge cave
- solve puzzles of increasing difficulty
- eventually escape the cave to return to your home planet
Gameplay mechanics are simple as well:
- pick up, carry and use objects to keep buttons pressed, block paths or build simple structures
- use a shockwave-like attack to destroy breakable objects such as barriers to open new paths
During the development of the prototype it became clear to me that I could possibly turn this simple challenge into a game. However, due to starting my job at Lionhead Studios I had to abandon that project eventually and leave it in its current prototype stage :(


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Zerlina Maxwell said men can prevent rape and recounts for Salon the nightmare that followed thereafter..
If you want to know why we need to educate men not to be sexually aggressive, look no further than what happened when Zerlina Maxwell went on television to say that we need to educate men how not to be sexually aggressive.
Maxwell was on Fox's "Hannity" this week to discuss guns, rape and college students. The issues have been especially hot button in recent days, after Democratic Colorado state Sen. Evie Hudak delivered a tone-deaf response to a rape survivor, saying that "Statistics are not on your side even if you had a gun. And, chances are that if you would have had a gun, then he would have been able to get that from you and possibly use it against you."


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Why hasn't there been more of a fuss over the absence of any UK tax payments by Vodafone on the £84bn proceeds from the sale of its 45% stake in Verizon Wireless?
Well my understanding is that Vodafone does not believe any tax would have been payable, even if the assets had been held in the UK, and not via a Dutch holding company.
That is because the last Labour government's 2002 Finance Act introduced an exemption from tax on capital gains from "substantial shareholdings" held by companies.
Of course in Vodafone's view, if MPs on the Public Accounts Committee wants to blame someone for the absence of revenues for the Exchequer from the eye-wateringly huge deal, they should direct their criticism at Gordon Brown, chancellor at the time.
That is another tax bonanza for Vodafone, on top of the sweetheart deal struck by David Hartnett of HMRC.
SME's the target for HMRC
HMRC would rather collect the taxes it believes are due by collecting from SME accounts.
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) raked in GBP565m (USD905.4m) last year from its compliance investigations into small and medium sized businesses.
Figures analysed by accountancy firm UHY Hacker Young show that HMRC's targeted investigations yielded 31 % more in additional revenue in 2012-13 than the £434M collected in 2011-12.
In his 2010 Spending Review, Chancellor George Osborne challenged HMRC to secure an extra £7bn a year in tax revenues from compliance activity. With an ambitious target set by the Chancellor to bring in billions of pounds through additional compliance, HMRC is desperate to squeeze as much money as they can from businesses who may owe tax."
With far smaller budgets than larger businesses, SMEs are often less likely to have accountants to manage their finances, making them prone to mistakes when filling in returns and therefore an easy target for HMRC. That also means they are in a weaker position to negotiate over allegations of underpaid tax than a big business.
The media has focussed a great deal of attention on the tax affairs of large corporations. HMRC's crackdown on SMEs has not attracted much attention. SMEs must therefore be especially "aware of the risks they face if their tax affairs are not in order, because SMEs are increasingly on HMRC's radar – as the ever-growing yield from their activities proves.
"Everybody should pay their fair share of tax" George Osborne.
Talk is cheap as they say, but Osborne's rhetoric is proving expensive for many of UK's small business owners who are increasingly paying an unfair burden of tax while the rich and powerful get away almost scot free.
What is apparent is that by setting ambitious targets for an increasingly aggressive HMRC the Chancellor has achieved some success.
Why not put the same effort and amount of resources into reducing government spending and improving efficiency, surely that is in the UK's best long term interest!
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Police on scene of Glenview State Bank (GSB) on south Arlington Heights Road, just north of Golf Road.
Arlington Heights police responded about 10:16 AM Friday of a bank robbery at the Glenview State Bank, 1808 South Arlington Heights Road mw 25-30 5'11" – 6'2″ thin build, light brown stubble wearing a dark Navy North Face puffy down jacket, light blue jeans, and a dark or unknown color baseball cap. The offender fled to the "back of the building."
The offender put $600-$700 US cash in his jacket.
On further investigation, the offender is reported to have fled from a vehicle parked in an apartment complex, just north of the shopping center where the GSB and Jewel-Osco are located. The vehicle is reported to be a van or taller vehicle, possibly blue or green or dark in color. The vehicle headed northbound on Arlington Heights Road.
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Darcie and Cooper got Married!!
It was a wonderful day and beautifully personalized wedding. Darcie and Cooper poured their heart, and soul into the decor and schedule for their big day.
As I mentioned in their engagement session post, I knew Cooper and Darcie Before they booked me for their wedding, Darcie better than Cooper. Darcie has always been incredibly intentional. She invests in people well, in her friends, and that was evident in the structure of their wedding day. Neither Darcie nor Cooper are from Abbotsford (Darcie from Boston Bar and Cooper from Saskatchewan) and they spent so much intentional time with their guests and people who came to celebrate this big step with them. It was beautiful to watch and be a part of.
The passage that they picked for their included Ecclesiastes 4:12. "And if one can overpower him who is alone, two can resist him. A cord of three strands is not quickly torn apart." And that is my prayer for them. That they would be continually woven with Christ an intentional part of their marriage and growth together for many many years to come!


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SONOITA, Ariz. Authorities say a sports utility vehicle crammed with 22 people rolled over in a remote area near Tucson, Ariz., killing 10 and injuring the others.
Arizona Department of Public Safety Joy Craig said Sunday there was no rear seat in the Ford Excursion and most of the passengers were ejected when the SUV crashed just before midnight Saturday. She says all the victims are believed to be undocumented aliens from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and perhaps Mexico.
She said, "They stack live people, as many as they can, like stacking wood."
The dozen who were injured were taken to hospitals.
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To promote this idea, a company called HUVrTech has appeared seemingly out of nowhere, with a video showing several celebrities trying out the hoverboard for the first time. Okay, so it's clearly not real, but they did do a pretty decent job with the special effects. Christopher Lloyd pulls up in a disappointingly stock looking DeLorean, and hands the HUVr board to Tony Hawk who then goes for a ride. The board appears to be controlled by a smartphone app, and features a built-in stabilization system similar to a Segway. This means that even a novice like musician Moby has no problem flying around on the thing on the first try.
Just who is behind what appears to be a viral marketing campaign isn't clear, but a few clues are being discovered. Mashable says that the website Funny or Die is behind it all, while Andy Baio posted a Tweet saying that the "MIT researcher" seen in one of the videos is actually an actor called Nelson Cheng. Still, none of that explains exactly what the viral campaign is promoting.


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Trump wants lawmakers to 'move fast' on taxes
Nonprofit Offers DACA Recipients Microloans For Status RenewalsSteve King , a Republican congressman, said: "The Trump base is blown up, destroyed, irreparable, and disillusioned beyond fix ". Christian added after reading that citizenship could be on the table, "I really pray something good happens".
British Airways flight security scare forces evacuation in ParisHe said passengers have remained calm despite the situation. "Every single person and every single item of baggage was searched". The flight had been scheduled to land in Heathrow at 7:45am local time, but is now expected at 11:05am.
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Kelli + Reemal | Engagement Session
What are you supposed to write when a session leaves you with out words.
This is Kelli & Reemal. Reemal recently proposed to Kelli under neath the CN Tower in Toronto, and it just so happens to be the location of their very first date too!! At the beginning of our session this evening – Kelli tried telling me how she though she wasn't photogenic. Kelli – your photos say otherwise!!!
I have known Kelli for a long time, as her and my older sister have been friends since they were in their early teens. I was so excited & honoured when she contacted me asking me to photograph this new chapter for her and Reemal! I cant wait for their Indian Wedding in June 2012!
This is quite possibly one of my most favourite sessions that I have ever done to date.
{ Feel free to leave comments as I always love hearing feedback from you all!! }


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O le ala ile pule o le tautua
Service is one of the key values found in the Pasifika Values within the Pasifika Education Plan 2013–2017. In Samoan culture, this value of service is reflected in the very well known proverbial expression — o le ala ile pule o le tautua — the pathway to leadership/authority is through service.
Samoans believe that if they are taught from an early age to serve their home communities and extended families, then they will be awarded leadership opportunities when they come of age. This can be seen in chiefly titles that are often bestowed on individuals on behalf of their home communities and extended families in elaborate title investiture ceremonies on the Samoan mainland. These titles are then registered with the Land and Titles Court, and titles are specifically tied to land that families have lived on for generations that they are entitled to inherit.
What is tautua?
As a concept of leadership, tautua is more than an attitude amongst Samoans; it is a value that is highly prized, and brings prestige to a family because it is a duty and obligation carried out to honour one's family or aiga.
What can we learn about service and its pathway to leadership? Can Samoans transfer this concept of tautua, or service, into other leadership contexts? Are other Pasifika cultures and non-Pasifika communities able to transfer a Samoan view of leadership into their working contexts? I believe they can.
This blog post is an attempt to analyse the construction of the pathways to leadership by observing three stages that must be practised. It is based on:
- my own upbringing as a Samoan New Zealander
- my observations of fa'aSamoa in extended family situations in New Zealand, Australia, and Samoa
- my participation in the Ekalesia Fa'apotopotoga Kerisiano Samoa (EFKS) church in Grey Lynn, Auckland, the first Samoan church established in Aotearoa in 1963, where I currently serve and lead as a Sunday School teacher, musician, choral leader and deacon.
Sphere 1: Serve to serve — (0 years to 24 years)
As young children, Samoans are taught to honour, respect, and uphold the values of the family. They serve by completing chores that are assigned to them by older siblings and other older individuals who are afforded respect and who also hold senior positions of responsibility in the family. In traditional contexts in Samoa, children would be expected to serve senior family members and guests at all meals, keep the house clean, act as messenger and courier for correspondence between houses in the village, ensure that they are on call for anything that needs to be completed before the sun sets.
In diasporic contexts (contexts where pockets of people of the same ethnicity are scattered about in other host countries), Samoans can still practise and maintain these customs associated with service in their extended family, church community, and in social club gatherings such as sports clubs or hobby groups. So, despite the contexts changing, the values provide the foundation that moves with these modern times.
Children learn the value of service; how we serve and why it is important to serve.
Being able to serve in this way means that children learn how to contribute and become part of a working system of society.


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I'm so pleased to bring you an new author from Tirgearr Publishing. Charlene Raddon writes historical romances – and we all know how hot cowboys are these days. She packs 'em in. Welcome, Charlene to Romance with SASS!
Hello. I'm thrilled today to be on Romance with SASS. I enjoyed the interview and hope you enjoy learning about me.
Let's start with the quick questions to do just that!
1. What's your biggest joy as a writer? Hearing someone say they enjoy my book.
2. What's the craziest plot you never wrote? Probably Taming Jenna. I asked a friend for a new story idea and she told me to write about a woman who has to find a man but can only identify him by a scar on his bottom. Sounded just crazy enough to me to get my juices flowing and Taming Jenna was the result.
Gotta love friends like that! I don't suppose you're going to tell us how he got that scar are you…pretty please?
3. Do your characters speak to you? Yes, they do. Sometimes they write the book as much as me. Sometimes they rewrite what I've written, the naughty critters.
4. What inspires your stories most often? Some intriguing bit of history or character trait.
5. Tell me three things on your bucket list. See the rest of the world. Hit the NY best seller list. Clean out my basement.
6. Do you mentor other authors and if so, how? I would be glad to mentor other authors by reading their work and offering suggestions.
7. If you could live someplace else, where would it be and why? Oregon. I just love that state, the ocean side, of course. I've spent a lot of time there and some of my best memories are of those trips. Besides, the state is gorgeous.
8. Tell us something unexpected about yourself. I don't know how unexpected it would be, but I'm consistently doubting myself, my abilities, my goals.
9. Pooches or kitties? Cats, all the way. Love 'em. I think each of my books except one has a cat in it.
Ahchoo! I'm allergic to cats! I'm with you on the natural beauty of Oregon. My husband and I have talked about retiring there. Now, on to the book!
Deserted by her father at the tender age of seven, Jenna Leigh-Whittington had taught herself to ride, shoot, brawl…and steer clear of the opposite sex. But now, in a lonely Utah canyon, the Pinkerton agent has drawn her gun on a rugged stranger—only to discover that, far from the dangerous outlaw she'd been tracking, he is Branch McCauley, hired gun…and the most irresistible rascal ever to tempt and torment a woman!
If there's one thing McCauley trusts less than a female, it's a female who packs a six-gun. But what a woman! Vowing to bring the sensuous hellcat to heel, McCauley has no inkling that their passionate battle of wills has just begun. Taming Jenna will be the most seductive—and satisfying—job he's ever taken on.
Wow, sounds like a challenge most men would die for. How about an excerpt?
Jenna scowled as she studied the man by the flickering glare of his campfire. He had the right build and appeared close to thirty, Mendoza's age. But something didn't fit.
The Denver police chief had described her quarry as a spoiled aristocrat, too busy wooing Lady Luck and every other female to be much of a train robber, let alone a killer. But the rogue in front of Jenna looked too lean and hard to be spoiled, too wary and aloof to be a ladies' man.
To Jenna he seemed the perfect gunslinger: cold, tough, and ready to spring. Like a big yellow cougar perched on a ledge. Or a rattler, tightly coiled. Either way, his bite would be deadly.
In spite of the cool night breeze, sweat oozed from her pores. She couldn't forget that lightning draw. Why had she come here? How had she expected to take an outlaw Pinkerton's other agents had failed to bring in? No, she refused to think that way. She was every bit as capable as any man to capture Mendoza. She had to believe that, the same way she had to do what she'd set out to do. Only one question remained: Was this Mendoza or not?
"Who are you, mister?"
"Who am I? Hell, who are you? "
Blast! Did no male exist in this empty wilderness who wasn't so taken with himself that he couldn't cooperate for a change?
She took a calming breath. A body could catch more flies with honey than vinegar, old Charley Long Bow used to say. Jenna figured flies might fancy the hairy creature facing her, so she decided to try being friendly. "Listen, I smelled your coffee and hoped you might spare a cup, is all. You can understand me being a mite leery of walking into a stranger's camp without knowing who I'm hooking up with."
Firelight glinted on the man's straight white teeth as his whiskers parted in a cold smile. "Don't recall inviting company, but I'll play your game. Name's Branch McCauley. Now it's your turn."
His smile unnerved her. It held no humor, only a lethal sort of grimness that cannoned her stomach into her throat and made her wish she'd wired William Pinkerton for instructions instead of going off half-cocked this way. "I'm Jim…Jim White," she lied.
"All right, Jim, how about some honesty? You come here looking for me?"
"I'm not looking for anyone named Branch McCauley. If that's who you are, you've nothing to worry about."
The wide, innocent eyes McCauley studied held honesty. He relaxed. "In that case…be glad to pour you some coffee." He reached for the battered graniteware pot. His visitor's next words froze him in a half-stoop: "I'd feel more welcome if you'd set aside your gun first."
Cool as Montana sleet, McCauley straightened, hand poised above his holster. "Reckon you would. Wouldn't do much for my sense of well-being, though."
So much for trying to be friendly, Jenna thought. What now? She clenched her knees together to still their shaking and swallowed the fear knotted in her throat.
"Look." McCauley shifted his weight to one leg. "Why don't you put your gun away and have a sit? Could be I might know something about the hombre you're hunting.
Hombre. Sounded Spanish. Like Mendoza. It must be him. She had to get his gun away from him. Surprise seemed the best means. She squeezed the trigger of the .44 Starr. The bullet kicked dirt onto the man's scuffed boots. He jumped and let out a yelp as though she'd set his feet afire.
"Dammit, kid, going up against me won't get you anything but a six-foot hole in the ground."
"Shut up and toss over your gun or I'll turn them boots into sieves. 'Course, my sights might be a bit off." She raised the muzzle toward his groin.
"You made your point," he growled as he unbuckled his gun belt and tossed it over.
Instead of the fancy weapon she had expected a gunslinger to own, an ordinary, six-gun lay at her feet. No ivory handle or engraved barrel. Only an ordinary .44 Peacemaker, crafted and worn for one reason—to kill. The thought did funny things to her innards.
"All right," she said, getting back to business. "You aren't going to like this, mister, but I don't know any other way to be sure who you are. Drop them trousers to your ankles."
"Do what?"
What? You quit there? I've got to have the rest! Get Taming Jenna right now by clicking here.
I'm glad you could stop by with your wonderful book, Charlene. Readers can find out more about your work on Charlene's website.


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My Last Week
This week is my last week here at Hyde Park Source, sad times! I have had a really good time here, I will definatley try to carry on volunteering.
We had another good session at Killingbeck, we are going to go to The Beck youth center next week as we want to also be working with the young people who go to the center.
Also we finally finished Wythers, we have picked the litter and painted the fences! (This point makes me happy).
As I promised here are photographs of what we have done over the past few weeks at Killingbeck, Rosebank Rangers and Wythers.
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My name is Becky and I am currently in my second year at
Leeds Met studying Youth Work and Community Development. As part of my degree I
am doing a placement here at Hyde Park Source (HPS).


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Choi Siwon Extends Congratulations to Miss Universe and Invites Her to Super Show 7
Update 4:46 p.m. KST:
Miss Universe 2015 Pia Wurtzbach has replied to Choi Siwon's message. She left a comment on the photo he posted to his Instagram, writing, "Wow thank you �de42 Really appreciate it! Hello!"
Original article:
After it was revealed that Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach – a.k.a. Miss Universe 2015 – is a big fan of Super Junior and especially Choi Siwon, many fans wondered how the man himself would react. Well, wonder no more! Choi Siwon has sent his congratulations via social media.
On December 27, Choi Siwon posted a photo of himself with actor Adrien Brody. Along with the photo, he wrote, "Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach �de42 Heartfelt congratulations on your Miss Universe 2015 Award, and please be my guest for next SUPERSHOW! Looking forward to seeing you shining the world :^)."
Leeteuk also previously extended his congratulations to Pia Wurtzbach, who not by coincidence wore a sapphire blue gown to the ceremony.
What do you think of Choi Siwon's personal invitation? Will ELF see Pia Wurtzbach at Super Show 7?
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Hillary Clinton has been involved in so many scandals over the decades, it is becoming increasingly difficult to keep track of them all.
Benghazi, the Clinton Foundation, emails — they all relate to only the latest scandals in which the former first lady and current presidential candidate is involved. To that, add earlier scandals such as Whitewater, the death of Vince Foster and cattle futures … and we've only just scratched the surface of Hillary's possible malfeasance.
Now we can add some more information. According to GOP strategist Roger Stone in his forthcoming book, "The Clintons' War on Women," Hillary covered up Bill Clinton's rapes and other sexual misadventures with underage girls.
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Stone stands by his research and the shocking details revealed in his book, which described the depravity of a past president and the ruthlessness of a possible future president.
In an interview with WND's Myra Adams, Stone pointed out that his book was meticulously sourced and the information he revealed came from many named journalists as well as the women who were "sexually assaulted" by Bill and "psychologically assaulted" by Hillary.
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"Hillary as advocate for women is a joke," said Stone in the interview. "The Clintons' activities have not only included Bill's physical rape of women, but also Hillary's degradation and psychological rape of women whom Bill has assaulted.
"Hillary, it will be seen, authorized the heavy-handed private detectives who terrorize Bill's victims into silence. Behind the scenes, she calls them 'sluts,' 'whores' and 'b****es,' blaming and shaming them for the unwanted physical attentions and violence of Bill. This is the 'advocate' for women and girls?"
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When it comes to attacking politicians, Stone, a professed libertarian, doesn't play favorites.
He also authored "The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ," a New York Times bestseller, and, on the other side of the ideological spectrum, "Jeb and the Bush Crime Family," scheduled for a January 2016 publication.
Stone was at one time a political adviser for Donald Trump until Trump fired him.
Stone still supports the current Republican front-runner for president because he believes Trump is "the one man with the financial independence and guts to take down the Clinton-Bush duopoly in which both parties give us the exact same failed policies while they loot a broken political system running on special-interest money while the system is rigged against the average citizen."
Here are a few additional details regarding the upcoming release (H/T WND):
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"The Clintons' War on Women" is due out on Oct. 13 and could potentially devastate Hillary Clinton and end her run for the presidency.
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To add resources DevExtreme ASP.NET MVC Controls require to your project, follow these steps:
Open your project in Visual Studio. See Environment and Requirements for information on supported Visual Studio versions.
Right-click your project in the Solution Explorer window and select Add DevExtreme to the Project on the menu.
In the invoked dialog box, click OK.
Wait a few seconds while DevExtreme and its dependencies are being added. This process is logged in the Output window.
ASP.NET Core MVC only. Follow the instructions from the DevExtreme_Readme.html file.
Now DevExtreme ASP.NET MVC Controls are set up for your project. If any issues appear during the process, address them by following the messages in the Output window. After that, repeat the steps above starting with step 2.
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Similarly, you can upgrade the resources in your project after installing DevExtreme of a higher version. Below are the steps for you to follow.
Launch Visual Studio and open the project that contains DevExtreme resources to be upgraded.
Right-click this project in the Solution Explorer window and select Upgrade DevExtreme Resources on the menu.
In the appeared dialog box, click OK.
Wait a few seconds while DevExtreme resources are being upgraded. The log of this process is available in the Output window.


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I went all out and had some me time at the craft desk yesterday afternoon! Did I really have time for it? Probably not! Did I enjoy every moment?! Definitely!
Sometimes I forget what got me started on this little card making journey of mine. I get all wrapped up with DT work (which I thoroughly enjoy, else I wouldn't do it) or with commissions (sometimes working to a particular specification can become a little tedious after a while) that I often don't have time to do just what I want to do.
Yesterday afternoon, that all changed. I decided I wanted to play with my little Distress Inks, create a background and add some cute Christmas characters to them for some little notecards.
Here's what I did!
For the snowman card I began by inking up some Neenah cardstock with Mustard Seed, Peacock Feathers and Tumbled Glass Distress Inks to create an Aurora Borealis look to the sky (the Mustard Seed and Peacock Feathers make the most delicious green). I then added some white embossing paste through a stencil and added fineee, fineee glitter to the snowflakes before the embossing paste dried (hard to see the glitter in the pictures but it's a really lovely effect IRL.
Funny story. The glitter I used was so fine it was like dust and it was lingering in the air once I had flicked the excess from the card. It was lingering in the air so much so, that when I went to blow my nose.. my snot was glittery. I kid you not!
Then for the next step I stamped, coloured, paper pieced and 3D'd up my little snowman from Paper Smooches - Freezy Fellas. I coloured him with my Cool Greys and some oranges for his nose, and then went to town with my patterned papers for his hat, scarf and buttons. I used patterns from Echo Park Winter Wishes pack. I used a sentiment from the Freezy Fellas set which I also stamped onto some more patterned paper and added to the night sky.
As for those little trees, I used the Yeti, Set, Go set from Lawn Fawn which has only recently come out and I am in LOVE with it!!
I also used the same set with the coordinating dies for my next card.
This time I began by stamping the snowflakes from the Yeti, Set Go set onto my Neenah cardstock before adding some Violet Pearl embossing powder (again, another detail that my crap photography fails to pick up) over the top and heat setting. I then went in with the same three colours of Distress Ink as before but went over the Mustard Seed with the Peacock Feathers multiple times to get that wonderful green colour just above my hills.
I stamped, coloured, paper pieced and 3D'd my little yeti (LOVE him) before adding him to the little scene with the hills (I inked the edges of those with Tumbled Glass DI) and trees from the set.
I stamped a sentiment from the set onto some more Echo Park patterned paper before adhering everything down with dimensionals and silicone glue.
Ahhh. :)
Two little notecards, perfect for Christmas which I thoroughly enjoyed making with no restraints to work to. Wonderful.
Thank you for looking. xo


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My name is Kathryn Dueck, I am a mobile certified custom picture framer and am the owner/operator of James Art Studio, a business that specializes in custom framing and conservation framing. I work with my clients to choose a design that both works with art and with your decor. I have worked with clients to frame those pieces which are near and dear to their hearts such as a wishbone, needlework, petit point, hand made prints, posters, jerseys, paper art, oils, pastels, charcoal, certificates, acrylics etc.
Below is a highlight of one of my service calls:
I had the privilege of getting to know Lyn Besse McGinnis (she is a singer and songwriter http://www.lynbm.com) and she entrusted me with the framing of the artwork titled "Veil of Tamar" plus the framing of her release CD "Veil of Tamar" and the jacket.
We started with the piece of Art first. I suggested that we go with frames that were intricate in design to be reflect of the depth of culture of Tamar's time (Biblical). We started with the outside moulding which worked but we felt that it was not enough – it brought out some of the image. I suggested an inside moulding (frame) that should be white. We tried various options but the one we chose drew your eye into the piece and the design added layers to the culture – Veil of Tamar – added layers – hidden.
The combination was breathtaking.
The CD was dressed with handmade paper with the lyrics of the song printed on it plus the same moulding that was used on the portrait of the "Veil of Tamar". This use of the same moulding ties these two pieces together but also allows them to stand on their own.


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